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Episode 110 · Octourber · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, folks, and welcome on in TM Banter.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: We're back at it again.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_02: What a time to be alive.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_02: It's just a great day.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, tough weekend for Trojan football, but exciting weekend for the Trojan marching band and to catch you up on all the happenings, everything that's been going on day in, day out, all weekend long.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_02: Please welcome to the stage.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_02: The incomparable Mr.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: Dante Douglas.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, Dante.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_02: How are you feeling?
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: How's your uh how's your travelness?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: How are you feeling?
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: What did I call it?
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: I called it to Marie the other day, um October.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: October?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, because I've just been on the road all October.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I've been October.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's tough.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh a little tongue twister.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it's a red ribbon week at my kids' school.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: So I challenge you.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: Say that five times fast without saying red ribbon, red ribbon.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's a toughie.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you've been on the road, but now you're you know, now you're free and clear until bowl season.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: I am.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's all on you.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's all on me now.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: Uh the frigid cold.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: So uh I'm gonna bring I'm gonna bring out here.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: Let's let's go ahead and bring the guys out.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: Say good morning, uh, Brett and Casey.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: Say hi to the world.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Hi to the world.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_02: Nice man, Casey, your voice sounds great.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_02: What are you using?
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_06: Are we doing this now?
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_06: Is it yeah?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Is this the microphone that Brett got you?
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_06: The the unnecessary purchase, yes.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it sounds Casey.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_06: It sounds unnecessary.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_06: This sounds oh, oh, when I get back to my setup next week and we're gonna run an A-B test, and I'm not gonna tell anybody which one I'm using, and no one will know.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, well no, we'll know, because it's it's gonna what do I have?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be like uh here we go.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like, hey everybody, how you doing?
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: And then we'll we'll raz you, we'll give you a hard time for that.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_06: Uh riveting mic talk to start us off after October.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: October, October.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: So you've been on yeah, you've been on the road because what we went, it was homecoming, which was wild.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Then Penn State, and then the bye.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: You were on now.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: This is your fault.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: You were on the road for the bye.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_02: I was that's between that's between you and yourself and you.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_02: And then boom, yeah, you've been gone every weekend.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_02: Holy smokies, man.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's pretty all the same kind of travel, all the red eye travel, like all the same kind of travel.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: Do you like like is that your preferred mode?
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: The red eye normal, or do you just do it because it makes sense East Coast?
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what's your what's your vibe?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: It has its pros and cons.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: And uh this trip made it kind of more of a con because of how we had to get there, and that's that long layover in the wee hours of the morning, versus leaving, getting to the airport, short layover, getting there.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: This one had that long stretch just in the morning, like at the airport.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what made this one on the way home.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: No, this is on the way there.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, oh, that's right.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you guys you flew in to midway, and then had about three hours or so there.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_02: And the flight was delayed, I saw.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_02: Five hours.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_02: There it is.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_02: Five hours, yeah.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_02: You know what though?
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: I would have parked on the floor, and man, I would have crashed hard on the floor.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I'm aware of it.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I was doing part five, so I wasn't crashing nothing.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, the drill, yeah.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_02: Nice, nice, yeah.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_02: Good love it, love it.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, I was wondering how, but then you you got there.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_02: So tell me about your your adventures in Milwaukee.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_02: So you all get there.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_02: I see all the you all went on a what was it, a brewery tour?
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: Where'd you go?
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we went on a uh, you know, the locals set us up.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: Chris Norton set us up on a brewery tour.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my first ever, so that was cool.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: I've never been on a brewery tour.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_02: How was what'd you really?
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_02: What'd you learn?
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: How they make beer.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's the answer.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's it.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: But this whole story, their tradition of how they did it, and you know, these, I guess it's two brothers, they started it, you know, kind of just brought it out in their apartment.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: And here they are with a huge business.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: So it was cool.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I had some cheese curds.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we were talking about this.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_02: How were the cheese curds in Wisconsin?
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: They were great.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just enough grease on the fingers after eating it.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: It was were they fried?
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then they had some fried fish though after the after the fact they are good.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: They're I guess they're known for their beer battered fish or whatever, but they did it in a vegan style with um hearts of palm.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it was really good.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_02: Hearts of palm.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: Is good?
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_02: Tastes like fish.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_02: It tastes just like fish.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I want to try that.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um, have I told you my my southern fish fry story?
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: If I told you this, no, I was it wasn't a f I was uh, where was I?
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_02: I was at the Spoleto Music Festival, that's South Carolina, right?
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_02: I think.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I was there with my buddy, uh, and we were in between shows and we were we're just starving.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_02: We're like, let's get some, you know, every there's all these fish places, let's get some, just let's get some fish, right?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_02: And so we walk, and there was a door, just a long, there's a building and just a door.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_02: And it just said fish.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_02: And so I go in there, and it's this long narrow hallway, and you kind of like walk down it, and then it opens up, and then there's a guy with the fryer and the stuff.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_02: And I walk in, he's like, How many you want?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_02: And that was it.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: That's the question.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: How many pieces of fish?
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_02: And how many hush puppies?
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_02: And I think so I'm like, uh, what do people normally get?
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, he's like, I don't know, you tell me how hungry you are.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, okay, I guess two.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, like three?
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, better.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_02: And so we just, and it was like the the best fish ever.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_02: The hush puppy.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: We got as many hush puppies as pieces of fish.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, can I get an extra hush puppy?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, You gonna pay for it?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, Do I have to?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, I'll give it to you.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_02: So we it was it was a good, it was a grand old time in South Carolina.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: This sound like classic stand talk, just food stand talk.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's not a restaurant, it's just food stands.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: No, there were no chairs.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_02: It was like I did, I wanted to ask him just to be a sh a brat, like, where uh where do we eat this?
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_02: And just tell him, get out my shop, you know, get out of here.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_02: But that it was cool.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: It was it was big, like if you took a stand and just like shoved it in a hallway, that's essentially what it was.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_02: It was great, it was really fun.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_02: So you did the brewery tour, and then that probably ate up a good chunk of your day.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_02: And then did you see do any sightseeing or just go rack out after that?
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the sightseeing was me going to buy a tie when I first got there.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Happens.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't make the trip.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: It did not.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm on the plane, I'm like, yeah, I got everything.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oops, I know where I'm going as soon as we land.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Luckily, it was a coles, like we were in downtown, so kind of you know convenient.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it was a coles or a couple of blocks up the road.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: So you got me a tie.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: So that was so last year, Nebraska was the shoes mismatched.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_02: Miss Mismatched this type the tie.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: What if I I've forgotten a belt.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um have that, have several belts because of that very reason.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh, the white shirt.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: I've done that too, and that's a that's a pain.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's never fun.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um and here's a weird one underwear.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, okay, well, we gotta figure this out, otherwise we're gonna we're gonna be real crusty dusty at the end of this one.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh okay, so cold, that's the sightseeing.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_02: And then game day.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_02: So I know we we managed, I saw some photos of of this rally at this pub.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: Was it just pandemonium?
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_02: What happened?
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_02: What went down?
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, so we uh game day, we leave um and we head up, we're following the buses until we get to Madison, and then we break off.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's Troy and Eric and I.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: We break off, we go park.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so we we go and walk the route, like okay, we're parking here, buses parking, you know, we do the thing.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so we go to this, the uh Jordan's Big Ten bar, and it's not as packed, a lot of space.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: We're like, okay, we can do this.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: He said, We're marching here, you know.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: The Wisconsin band does it all the time.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: So we're like, okay, this will be cool.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: Not the same when we got back.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_00: I bet.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Was it packed?
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: It was packed, it felt like a nightclub.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_02: Did you even go inside or did you stay in the parking lot?
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: So they had like an offshoot of the building that was connected inside of a gated area.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and so we went into there.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, Oh, he told us earlier when you come in, they'll park the sea, it'll be great.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: The party of the sea was this big, yeah, because it was so many people.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: So our two lines condensed to one, and then you just got this one line in, and it was pandemonium.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: So we got through tribute, fight on, and then I played in the stone.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: And while that's happening, Ben's looking at me, he was like, We gotta get out of here.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, This is wild.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Okay, let's do it.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: So that ended, and we just catered it out because it was it was just it was a lot.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Nice, nice.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, chaos, and so we were the their tubers were outside while we were in because they tubas actually did this twice.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: They came in earlier before we did our walkthrough, and then they came in again.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: And fun fact for them, they have to carry um, they have to put bell covers on their tubas because things get tossed inside the bells when they do these things.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: I see.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, nice.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_02: That that did that happen to us where we get in some local Wisconsin.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: No, we didn't that didn't happen to us at all.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's why they wear bell covers.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: And they wear them anywhere except for halftime because it happens in the stands, it happens everywhere.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_02: This just this is what they do in Wisconsin, they just throw stuff in the tubas.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, man, you guys got bell covers.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh when he came over, he was like, long story short, we just have to because people toss inside of them.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, dang, that's wild.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: Wild so beer tubas, I guess.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, fine.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: But it was fun.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: So we tried it and it just didn't work, and we had to get up out of there.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, it is yeah, yeah.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: You know, things happen.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: All right, so then you bailed, you get into the stadium, uh, you get set up, and then I've heard lore.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Set up that took probably the longest time of the whole day.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh, did it really?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: I think we got what 92 seats.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: So on paper, it looks fantastic.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, not the case in the stand.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, just oh my.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm assuming their seat count has to be like a kid's seat count, like a this small of a tushy.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, the kids were packed in it, like and there was no space around you that you could there was no space for me, no ladder.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just standing literally on a active step way and calling, and my microphone is people's heads, and I'm two, and it's just the greatest football environment ever, I guess.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_02: Sounds like uh sounds like um oh, what was that like?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: Michigan was like that.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_02: We were just we were we were shoulder to shoulder, and then every seat around us had humans in it, you know.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Rutgers was not like that.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: We had lots of elbow room in Rutgers.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_06: On the broadcast uh before the kickoff, they showed uh the Trojan marching band, and I made a comment, man, they got Dante on the ground.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_06: So it looked, it looked tight from from TV.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: It was we made it happen, but it was one of those things, like, okay, we'll figure it out.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: We had to set up then when the trombones came up, and once we got the last section in, it was like, Oh, we have to so I Chris, like, you know, what are you thinking?
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: What can we do?
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: He was like, Well, let's try stacking the drums, and that helped create some different room, but it was it's it was a time took a while to figure out, yeah.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Trombones up front usually helps.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we ended up moving them down front, giving them the slide space, but even that that was an active way.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: So people either had to duck under them or between my hands, the slides, it was just the great chaos that was needed for a football.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, it's it's all it's all crazy.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_02: Golly, a few years ago as Arizona State, we're in the parking lot in Chris goes, we don't have enough seats because I had like done my seat.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, what are you talking about?
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: And it was something like that where we had like 92 seats and we needed like 130, 40, something like that, because we had a sophomore class.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh no.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: And then luckily, I think the two rows behind us, they didn't sell anything, or maybe want like one seat.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: So Louie's like like typing stuff up and like moving people around.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's like cool, man, thanks.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's like we'll get it done.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: We'll get it done.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: We're behind the scenes that people don't realize that has to happen.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: I know it's crazy, it's crazy.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um what was their environment?
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: What was the stadium like?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's very um calm for the most part.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, interesting.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like we didn't, we didn't, and we didn't get a part of their the rowdiness until the end because we were away from the student section.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: But the uh outside of the students, there was some like there was the sprinkle of fans.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't like just big, you know, Penn State vibe or Oregon State vibe or the other places vibe.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: It was they were sprinkled in this area that we were in, but it was the after part.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: But during the pregame, you know, they played the whole fight song, like they did play the whole thing.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: Our whole thing.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: Some people do this, yeah.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Some people do the snippets, they did, they did it.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: They did they did all verse all uh courses and verses, so that was cool.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um great band, good to see them in person, you know.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, especially when you get to see a still uh a college band that is still doing all high step.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: Oh neat.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: That is cool, you know.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of people are only doing it during pregame.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Now I'm nerding out.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, go for it.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Get it.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so a lot of people still just keep the high step and pregame and then went to roll step inside of halftime, but Wisconsin is still Wisconsin, you know.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, nice.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so it was cool.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_02: Is there pre their pregame show?
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: Is it because what Chris was telling me like they like come?
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_02: He said it's like our Saturday morning game day routine as they're coming in.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_02: Was that what it was?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Or or yeah, they're still doing the whole tunnel thing.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: They it takes a while for them to get to the field, the state, Ohio State, Michigan, anybody who has that tunnel, yeah.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it helps.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: And they did that, and it like it's really cool, little setup, you know.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was it was just cool to see, you know, just nerding out, like, oh band.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, band stuff.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: Did you get a chance to talk to Corey at all when you were there?
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got a chance to talk to all three of them at some point, you know.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: But we are so engaged in our game, I have to talk to them in between plays, and then they say, Okay, see you later.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, but all three of them came over.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: The DOB Scott um came over as well at some point, so they all came over and it was cool.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's fun.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, those are that's where you throw you throw Ben Chua on the uh on the step.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I didn't think he was he was Benning Chua, he was everywhere, you know.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: Ben is always on his feet somewhere.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's why I got I got I keep an air tag on him so I know where he is.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: He always seems to know where I am.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: I part I think he chip, I think he uh microchipped me at some point in time.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, well, but tough loss, what a bummer, what a doozy.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, how did it uh how did it feel?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_02: And what was it like in Perk?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_02: Because I was just watching on TV, like what in the hell is going on?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: But and that's the reaction, it it happens in the moment.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's almost surreal, like man, my Alva sacked multiple times, you know, interceptions.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: You can just feel that it wasn't the team that we've seen that gave it, you know, that shut up the whiteout, you know, that just wasn't the same team, you know.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: So like I told the band afterwards, you know, they'll figure it out.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: We stuck with them to the end because it got crazy at the end, they did not give up.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: Even that last drive, I mean, they were they were going.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: So that changed the pace for us.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like we couldn't get through, you know, five seconds of anything.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you say go and boom, boom, boom, tweet.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so that pace changed, and so the the band stuck with it.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: And on top of that, the protocol that's happening with me and the uh you know, egress, and so all this is so the pandemonium as a director is kicking in right now because they're trying to control traffic, the game is still going, like everything is happening, and it's it's the best part of the job, in my opinion.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like the on the job, in the thing, doing it at the moment is when it, when it when you can, when you put to the test.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's uh but in the moment it was sad as it was happening, and it was just like, oh, we're gonna lose.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is not good.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: No, yeah, and you know what this means.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: What am I gonna say after the game?
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I do.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: This is what starts to happen.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: You start rent, you start racking your brain, like, what am I gonna say?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_02: Because you want to say, you know, you want to like say something insightful, right?
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_02: You know, but uh also it's like, well, well, dang, man.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what am I supposed to do?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, aye, aye, aye.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: Well, but you you made it back in one piece.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: We did, we did, we did.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh all told.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Even even the last Odyssey we had to do because it was so much traffic, we had to, we didn't want to risk the helmets getting snatched up.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was just that kind of environment.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: So we just put the drums on the bus and everything, and we just went back to the hotel and just did everything there.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we was ahead of schedule, so it worked out great.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm sure it wasn't as comfortable for the students.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they'll kind of give us their feedback in the meeting today, what that feels like.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it was just something we had to do to just get out of the environment.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't too chaotic, but it was just the safest thing to do in the moment.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that made well, you know, and that that makes sense.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: They gotta kind of, you know, things like that happen, and you gotta just, you know, go with it, roll with it, and uh and figure it out.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: Because how far was the drive?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: Ended up being like an hour 10.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: It just in yeah, it's fine, whatever.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_02: In uniform and stuff, that'd be all right.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, but we made it back in.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_06: If I had a nickel for every time I had to get on the bus in uniform to get out of the stadium after a loss, uh, I certainly wouldn't be working here anymore.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_02: That's a lot of nickels.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Great history.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_06: It's quite a lot of nickels.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_06: That's a lot of nickels.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_06: All right.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_06: Uh it's a it's a grow, it's a classic TMV experience.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's probably any band, right?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_02: Bands that travel.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Bands that travel, yeah.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: I guess you could always, you know, hop off at the first buckies you see, and uh yeah, but I I thought it was just cooler, just well, not cooler for maybe a wrong word, but we get back to the hotel.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: We're not rushing, we're in the parking lot.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: If you're a woodwind, you can kind of do your thing, get your meal, go to your room.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was just all the things that was it just laid out perfect.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: Rock on, rock on, brother.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome back, welcome back to the land.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_02: We're here for the big week.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: The big week.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Ohio State.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: Big show coming up.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um a fun, a fun collab show.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_02: Halloween Spooktacular featuring uh the cat in the hat.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: Whoa.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we had the premiere yesterday, red carpet premiere.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: I saw some of the photos.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: It looks, it looked like a hell of a time.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: It was a lot of fun.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um I well it yeah, it's you know, Hollywood's a funny thing, you know.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: It was a good time though.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: We uh because I I I had my spider senses went off, right?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: Because I we I went and did the walkthrough, had it all plotted out, easy gig.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: Then so we do that, and then in the days leading up to it, like I'd send them, okay, here's our they're like on me, like, where's we need the roster, want the roster because we want to get dietary, all this stuff, so I get it straightened out.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_02: I get it to them, like, all right, here it is, you're good to go.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: They're like, Great, thanks.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um and then I followed up with like a by the way, here's I've indicated in there who's the driver's whatever.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_02: And then it was like radio silence.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: And then I asked another question, radio silence.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, okay.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: I know they're gonna do hopefully what they said they're gonna do.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, but this to me sounds like they're passing me off to somebody, and I'm not gonna know who that is until we get there.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: So then that was exactly correct.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: That's exactly what happened.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, which, you know, it was fine, like things going.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_02: But we so I ended up getting there after the band.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: And I think they were anticipating me being there before the band, even though I told them, like, hey, it's probably the same time, but it's different.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like, they'll probably be earlier.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm coming from farther.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: And so the band got there, and then they had asked me when I was getting there, but then the person they passed me off to thought that I was the band and the band was me.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, no, no, no, no, we're separate.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: So they're like, oh crap, let's go get the band.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_02: And then they didn't have the food for them ready to go.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_02: So they're like a lot of that inner gig piggledy piggledy.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um how did Jeff put it?
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_02: He texted me, he's like, Everything sucks, there's too many cooks.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: So he said, I was like, sorry, Jeff, we'll get it figured out.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: So they got they ended up bringing pizza by, had the food, they let them cut out and go into like the the event space for a little bit for like 15, 20-ish minutes, it seemed like something like that.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: So they could go see all the the shenanigans and all the stuff that was going on.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_02: They had a ton of stuff, they had a ton of games, ton of food, uh, ton of activities for kids and stuff to be doing.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: And I was there with Jess and the kids.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: And anyone who has kids knows that when you arrive to something at 12, that means you have to eat.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: So we spent about 45 minutes of like the hour and it 20-ish minutes the kids had to do stuff just uh finding food and then sitting and eating that food.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: So if you ever wonder, folks, what it's like having children, you know, young, you know, band students and you're out there.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: You want to have kids.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: This is what happens, you know, just be prepared.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um so then we I think we went down the slide and then at some point I had to leave and go fetch up the band and do the gig part.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: But the gig part was fun.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_02: We we ran in we played uptown funk people were dancing around and then we marched over to the red carpet and Giancarlo Esposito marched alongside with us which was really uh which was really cool that was cool that was really cool like I turn around I look and there he is like you know and I'm like nice and then uh originally they wanted us on the red carpet to play but then so many people were late to the red carpet that it was like jam-packed so we just went and I feel bad these poor press people like trying to do their interview and it's like Tusk ripping right you know behind the cameras and like literally playing at the red carpet which was pretty silly it was a lot of fun but they loved it and then we marched in and they were like yeah march in people will follow you you know play a song maybe two and then get on your way well we marched in there was like five people in the theater so then we played we played the the song from the film and then we played the Rihanna medley and then Heartbreaker and then Sunshine and it was during sunshine I sent the tubas up the stairs and then like right near the end one of the people they're going, you know it's it's hard for people to find their seats the tubas in the aisles I go yeah they're coming back now.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: We're done and then we did Tower Power we did tusk again so we did like a full blown set um inside which was a lot of fun uh to just jam people still entering the theater at that moment?
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yep they're all coming in so it's like we were the and then this theater this screening theater is like um they have the screen but it's a pretty sizable stage set up in front of the screen because then uh we finish we march out the cool thing is the tickets they had for this originally the the students were going to watch in another theater because this one was going to be full but they didn't have they came and watched in with us.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: So then we were in there and then the students came in we were all in the back row all together which was great um and then they had they had the CEO of Warner come up they had the director and the producer come up and speak a little bit that the cast come up so then Bill Hader was up there and he introduced the movie and said you know he's embarrassing his daughters and all this stuff and then we watched the movie.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: It was a lot of fun nice it was great.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: They didn't have our full list of everyone's names though.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: That's that was the big bummer um on the um on the credits it does have you know shake it off performed by the USC Trojan marching band which was really cool uh but they didn't have the orchestra either so I wonder if they're still because there's still two weeks from it coming out um and when I screened the movie over the summer it didn't have any credits it was you know something else so I'm holding I'm holding out hope because they did ask me for a list of people and what to put in there but it was uh no it was great it was cool event very exciting um neat to be on the lot because we were like on the brownstone street the New York looking street lot where they you know film stuff and um hopefully the students like the movie and it was easy fun gig and yeah hopefully it was great we'll I guess we'll find out later the tubas did not get cat in the hats though that's the bummer they they uh they forgot to order the extra two I'm like sorry tubas we'll have to get them their own cat in the hat hat someday shucks Amazon it is Amazon it is well they looked like they didn't listen they weren't branded they were I think they were just Amazon hats we'll find them uh but no it was it was a lot of fun and then at the end the kids took so long to go into the bathroom that when we walked out Bill Hader and his family were still there so I asked the kiddos I'm like hey do you want to say hi and tell the guy who did the voice of the cat and the hat that he did a good job and they're like yeah all right he's right there and then they look at him or Declan goes I want to see him first and I show him and Declan looks at him he goes I don't want to and I'm like and then Erlen's like yeah I don't want to we're like sure like it's pretty cool he seems really nice he's just there because he was waiting for his car like we were just waiting like you know and uh like are you sure he's right he's like it's and Erlen goes okay I want to I'm like all right come on over excuse me Bill hi my daughter just wants to and she's like you were really good in the movie and he's like oh you know I can't do a Bill Hader voice you know he's like oh thank you and um and he's talking I go hi I'm you know I'm I'm Jacob I'm the director of the marching man and his daughter was like you were the band guy the band was awesome like she was peaked about the band and I'm like what was your favorite song and she was cute she goes you know the the 24 karat magic song you played so uptown fun I was like nice thank you she at least knew it was Bruno Mars I'll give her credit um but then I was airline like yeah this is my cool dad this is my cool dad no she's like dad oh my gosh uh that I and I you know I'm like you know thanks for uh doing whatever you're doing uh to help us with our show he's like what am I doing I'm like ah you'll find out he's like okay when the gig is just a gig you're gonna show up and you're gonna do the do the thing yeah that's how it goes though I get it I get I've same thing happens to me you know when it's so funny uh but he was really nice he was nice to the kids and I told uh I let him know that Jeff said he loved them in super bad and uh his daughter said the trumpets were her favorite part of of the song so it was a quick little quick little couple minute thing and then we went to leave and I went to go and the security guys no no you can't go this way I'm like okay okay okay and so I go we go which way do we go he's like that way I'm like okay we'll go that way and we're going but there was no he said go that way now look and there's no like path I mean there was but it was like not clear so I walk up to this lady and I didn't really I wasn't trying to be funny.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_02: I go how do we escape this place and this job for whatever reason she thought this was the bee's knees she's like out around this corner I'm like okay all right and then that was it and it was it was kind of neat it was it was interesting how they get it all sorted out terrible uh like the gate logistics were rough because it's you can imagine a studio get like it's the st the kiosk right but they're checking everybody's IDs and so it's like everyone gets there like this hundreds of people coming in and like they have to look at everyone's ID and if it's every adult in the car.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: So like with us we had to give them me and Jessica's ID.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: So but we were ready.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_02: We had the IDs ready but it was a lot of fun.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_02: That's a lot of a lot of studio inside baseball I also thought Brett you can tell me my assumption would be at a at a premiere like this that it's like um industry practice to stay through the credits like I would think that's what you would do to like be polite because all the people are there.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely yes um that's what I thought that is not what happened.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_05: Maybe it was the people that had kids that just wanted to get out maybe I think so um but yeah that's very disrespectful to everyone who worked on the movie.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah I will say though I think the screening for the crew was later that night so they did the world premiere and this was all like the cast was there.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Lauren was there, the composer I went and said hi to him and he was very excited.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_02: He didn't remember who I was at first until he saw the SC.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: Luckily I had a red and white striped USC polo shirt so it all came together.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_02: Said hi to him.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah it uh it was mostly it seemed like mostly like press influencer folks like it didn't it didn't seem like there was a lot of crew like it was a very excitable it was a very young crowd is what it seemed like so maybe that's what it was Brett I don't know and then people just started dipping uh but granted a lot of folks hung out there was a lot of like you know you know like post concert kind of stuff right out in the lobby and John Carlo he was hanging out he was in like some conversation with somebody and I wanted to go say hi to him and thank him for marching with the band but it seemed real whatever this convo was it was heavy I'm like no and he's scary in movies I'm like I'm not talking to him he'll eat me talk to Gus Fring.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah like every movie he's the heavy he's the bad guy I'm like uh uh uh not gonna do it not gonna get chewed out today not in front of my kids when your character follows you throughout your life no but it was it was a neat weekend and then women's basketball won their exposition uh they won their game so uh it's a good time good times all around all right we're here always busy always busy always busy okay well that's that's the weekend recap so now we uh we get to our beat our fun activity for the day case my man you hooked us up with a concept so tee it off brother what do you got for us all right well so it was uh this comes to us from a Trojan marching band alum who is also a member of our playing alumni band Henry and all of us know Henry uh at homecoming he hit me with this and you know it was a very Henry moment for those of you that know him uh I say this with all love.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_06: I'm there trombone Henry he was here yeah he's in the alumni band oh my gosh I haven't seen him that's fun yeah I know it's it's so he he he's he has a couple years ago he moved back so he's back in LA now uh he I'm there we're doing homecoming check-in everything's hectic everything's crazy I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off and he just in his very unique way out of the blue hits me with this prompt just unprompted we had we had said hi maybe 30 minutes earlier before the alumni band stepped out they're coming back to put their instruments away and he just bam hits me with it so did he give any warning that he was going to say this thing to you or he just approached you yeah cold out of the blue again with like I love this about him it was the most Henry thing he could have done in that moment as I'm like frantically trying to do credentials.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_06: All right this is quite the tee off case what is it what did he say so he hit me with if you're stuck on a desert island okay for the for the rest of your life yeah uh what what four music albums do you have with you for the rest for the rest of your life uh now there there was a lot of discussion in the back channel about whether or not we're doing four albums or one artist so I'll give everybody the option you either pick four albums you want or the entire discography of a single artist to have with you but that again that's it for the rest of time uh on a desert island by yourself until until you meet your end.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_06: And that's what you got.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_06: This is this is the prompt.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_02: Beautiful who wants to go first Kenneth go first.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_06: Not me not me.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_06: No doubt no's goes.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_04: I think yeah Brett you go first.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_04: Why do I have to go first?
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_02: Because I'm gonna be the most boring no actually I don't know I like you can just say the Beatles and we can move on I'm not gonna say the Beatles why do you think that I don't know you like the Beatles I do like the Beatles but they're not my I mean I would not my desert island band everyone kind of likes the Beatles right like if I were stuck and I opened like Tom Hanks style and I opened the box and there was all the Beatles stuff in there I mean I'd listen to it.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_05: It's not what I would pick but I'd you know I'd take it you know anyway go ahead Brett what you got um I think this is I'm not sure I'm not sure if this is a super hipster pick or a super mainstream pick but um I would say my desert island band would be Radiohead that's a hipster pick.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_05: No one great pick all they're kind of they're kind of mainstream too in some I mean a main a mainstream hipster pick.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_05: It's not like I'm picking some band from obscure band out of the ether but um I mean there you just their music you can listen to over and over and hear new things.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_05: There's lots of different styles to the music the funny thing is I didn't really get into Radiohead until we worked with him on the Grammys and um you know sorry little little name drop there a little little editor roll the clip you know I didn't really get into Radiohead until I was a featured performer on their Grammys performance.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_05: You know it was the it was the tusk of a new generation I guess it it might be a bad idea because it's a lot of kind of uh sad depressing music for a Desert Island by yourself.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah but uh yeah uh that that's my pick um yeah not mainstream at all very hipster I guess yeah I mean yeah sure very delightful okay cool picks man I like radiohead I can listen I can crank out some radio head Dante you want to go next or you want me to go next you could choose I can I can go all right um if I was on an island I'll probably go with all of Michael's discography it's a great pick it has all the things you know to Brett's point it will be some things in there especially when he started becoming more uh in tune with this the world it can get kind of like sad at at some point but then there's also the discography where he jumps into disco it's upbeat like there's all these things um so I would have to go with Michael like it's it's a lot of music there and to that point like Brett was saying you're it's something if you're uh stuck with it there's so much music that's in his music you'll end up hearing something different every single time every single time what's um do you have like do you have a favorite album of his uh thriller is probably is it's just what it is.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah it's really good.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_02: Super safe yeah no one's not not an argument there it's just what it is.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean because it it has a lot of a bleed to it it has the disco vibe still happening in there um and so it's it's right middle ground where he's coming out and going into himself and coming in contact with uh other producers, you know Quincy and all those folks and so it starts to change from the Motown to this whole other sound.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a good bleed within the album.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah and if you get if you do his whole discography you know then it's like I think you get to include the Jackson 5.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_02: I think you get all of it you get all of it.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's that's great.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_02: That's fantastic.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_02: Good pick good pick.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_02: A plus Dante A plus to you uh what's your uh gold star here's one I got quite here's I I gotta follow up what's your least favorite Michael Jackson song is it Ben no there are some things like on his later albums that I'm not too in tune with they're all good music but it's like it does get heady like invincible in all those albums they get really deep and heady and you gotta really it's not the don't stop till you get enough is not the party Michael it's kind of like hey this place is kind of messed up right now and even the stuff like just leave me alone like all that stuff it gets really like oh wow he's mad yeah yeah nice all right well cool man good pick I love Michael Jackson and we're doing a Michael Jackson show at the end of the year oh yeah we got actually we got a lot of Michael coming up because we got we got a dash of Michael in this one I rehearsed the hell out of this dance routine on Friday as you share it nice I was man we had as a brief aside I was gonna go out and have them do some drill work some mechanics we did not we did not um because we ended up I rehearsed some parts of the music and then I started reading down sweating these new members through some rock charts um and then I'm like all right you want to do you want to do this or more and they just wanted to keep playing stuff and so we just we just kept playing stuff down and then I worked the dance routine for a while and then we ended up I ended up letting them go like 10 minutes early or something like that.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: So good nice basketball band prep.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go yeah it was a lot of it was a lot of the stuff and it was interesting to hear it was like um you know I what did I call I did a heartbreaker in there like stuff they should know like that is gonna come up and I could like some of the older members were not catching it right and I'm like hey hey hey you all gotta know you gotta know these charts they come up so make sure you learn them and read them down and be ready to go.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_06: So all right cool all right KC what you got so I don't want to be the odd man out doing four albums instead of a discography do it I'm gonna do four albums.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_02: Oh classic me I said don't do that and I'm like I'm gonna do exactly what you wanted me to do.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_06: Well you know we in the spirit of that as the game master of the scenario I'm gonna do both I'm gonna do both uh the the answer I gave to Henry at the time is the answer I'll give right now.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_06: My four albums so I don't know if you all know this about me and music uh for those of you listening at home I take a very romantic with a capital R as an era approach to music where I'm I'm listening to music to amplify my current mood.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_06: I don't like if I I can't if I'm sad I can't put on happy music and become happy if I'm sad I want to listen to sad music to amplify that current emotion that's how I that's how I roll.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_06: So I can't I have to have a good mix of things on this desert island or I'm gonna go insane.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_06: So we got Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon that's number one that's got a great mix of of like melancholy I don't want to go into full sad remember because I'm on a desert island forever.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_06: The second one has got to be uh there's a performance on Spotify I can't remember the the the players the pianist and the singer of Schubert's Winterizer that I had to study here at USC in classical music history.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_06: That one uh the third one has got to be it was a toss up between uh the Daft Punk albums but I'm definitely gonna go with um uh Interstellar 5555 which is Discovery but it's it's uh set to a video set to music video it's a it's a slightly different that's my number three and then my number four is a new edition uh it's Tool fear inoculum so there's there's there's all kinds of emotion across those four that's gonna get me through the forever times uh but we we're not here for that we're here for the I have to make one decision so throw it take all that ball it up into a ball throw it out the window because the the one artist that I'm gonna take to the desert island for the whole discography uh because it's got such a varied mix and crucially there's no lyrics because if there were lyrics I'd go insane listening to the same words forever uh is Daft Punk.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_06: If I had the whole Daft Punk discography I think I'd be good.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_02: I think this would become Lord of the Flies and I would I would take you down to just stop listening to Daft Punk over and over again.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_06: We're we're alone we're each of us is alone on our own island you're not gonna have to hear it.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_05: What if what if it's just around the world on on repeat the entire time just them sitting there it's not though it's not though it's the whole discography.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: That's a I mean it's a bold choice Casey it's bold I like it there's a lot of same same so I would worry about your sanity you know are we talking daft punk?
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah same same yes uh I I disagree the genre is electronic and the medium is electronic does not mean that they're the same you're right I think but I do yeah right okay there's a lot of looping in there I think the words there is a lot of looping the words is what brings the variation right you know like the second verse might have some nuggets of truth in there that'd change change your perspective on this desert island situation perhaps but I've made my choice I've made my bed and we're and we're sticking to it just follow up question casey is your desert island in the Caribbean or in the Pacific?
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_02: Where are you at?
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_06: I I don't actually think it's on this planet where where is it some some somewhere the moon of Saturn perhaps or Jupiter Titan perhaps Titan Jeff and I go way back with Titan.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh boy Casey you are you're just in an enigma wrapped in a quagmire my man such such a delight that's what they say that's what they say you you managed to get yourself you know stranded on a desert island in a in an alternate dimension fantastic okay all right I'm gonna can I follow I'll follow the prompt casey because it's what you wanted can I can I follow your prompt absolutely I'd I'd be I'd be delighted so four albums Henry would be delighted.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_02: One of the albums for Henry I'm gonna tell you right now one of the albums is a cop out and I know Brett's gonna give me grief about it and I don't care he's gonna have to deal with it right uh so the first album I'm gonna say and this was a this was a toughie um is Sugar Ray's title album Sugar Ray.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_05: It was I was just gonna do that no matter what but yeah.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's not the one you were going to boo me about by the way oh sorry well actually we'll boo sugar ray then Don't boo sugar, don't boo sugar really USC alumnus, right?
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yes, Martin McGrath.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um I well, I don't remember, but uh sorry, not not their title album.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_02: It's the album from 99, it's 1459, that album.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um and the reason I picked that album, it has all like the singles everybody knows on it.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_02: This was the first CD.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: CD's kids were discs, compact discs, um with music on them.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh this was the first CD I ever bought for myself.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like I got into music and I'm like, I'm at the Kmart and I bought this album, Sugar Rays.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_02: Kmart.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_02: Kmart.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_02: Kmart.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_02: I still have this CD, it is somewhere.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: I have it somewhere.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I need to find it.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have the album, the the box anymore, though I got rid of the box.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_02: But I have it.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_02: I should find it.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_06: Can I uh jet in with a brief aside about Kmart?
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, please.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_06: Uh in my travels on the World Wide Web, I have happened to chance upon the recordings of every attention Kmart shoppers from the 1970s through the 2000s.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_06: Uh I should send that your way.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_06: It's it's fascinating.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_06: Please do.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_06: It's a fascinating piece of music history from the jingles perspective.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, send that along.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds like we'll do Don't Don't Don't Ly Don't have a say that's cool.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_02: It sounds fun.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_02: It sounds fun.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_02: Attention, Kmart Choppers.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_02: Or uh Aging Pee Mr.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_02: Herman, Mr.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_02: Pee-wee Herman.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_02: You know, that's uh there's a deep cut.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, the album 1459, cool album.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_02: When we were at a Town and Gown benefit a couple years ago, I think pre-pandemic, and Mark McGrath was the guest artist, him and his guitar player.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_02: And Dante, I about lost my mind.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'm at the table, I'm like, oh my god, it's Sugar Ray.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_02: And like Rana, they're all like, who?
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, it's Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_02: He played a bad guy in the Scooby-Doo movie.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_02: He was possessed by a demon.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_02: It just was great.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_02: So I was very excited.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_02: So there's that album.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um, the other album, Casey, for you is uh Lincoln Park's Hybrid Theory from 2000.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: Uh 26 years ago.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_02: As a matter of fact, um, we I played this album for my kids this Saturday as we were driving around.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and Declan really liked it.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_02: He was in, so Let's go! Got ourselves an emo kid.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, here's an interesting album.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_02: This is uh by the band Queen, their sixth studio album, News of the World.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and this is the album that We Are the Champions and We Will Rock You came out on.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_02: And uh they they're oftentimes there there's like a weird switcheroo with those songs where when We Will Rock You finishes, they didn't put the time like the dead air between the two tracks.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_02: And so We Will Rock You finishes and then We Are the Champion starts right away.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_02: So they are often played together on radio, and so this album is important to me because we had this.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: I listened to it all the time, but this is where like my I learned that my dad knew this like lore of rock and roll.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then Queen.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_02: If I picked an artist, it would be a toss-up between Queen or Elton John on the desert island, which one of them I was gonna kind of be lost with.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_02: And speaking of Elton John, here's the cop-out, Brett.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_02: Are you ready?
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_02: It's Elton John's uh 1970 to 2002 Greatest Hits album.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, that is a cop-out.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's a cop out.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um it is a cop-out.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_06: I disagree.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_06: Greatest hits are an album that is sold in stores, it's valid.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but only to make money.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, only to make more money.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_05: There wasn't it's they're not a concept in and of themselves.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_02: But this this album, um my grandparents had this album.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_02: It was in their car.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, all the discs were in the six-disc changer.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you ever remember those days, right?
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_02: The song would finish and you had to wait a minute for it to like figure its life out.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_02: Spin the discs around.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_06: Um my friend in elementary school, his family had a a suburb, uh, Chevy suburban that had a 12-disc changer.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_06: Wells?
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_06: It was 12.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_06: That's it was insane.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, these billionaires, we gotta bring them down.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_02: This cannot stand.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_02: This is that is too much power for one person to handle.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_06: There was a remote control and everything.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_06: It was, it was it was high times.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_02: That's great.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_02: That's really cool.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_02: I wish I had a 12 disc changer.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_02: If only I had bottomless music available at my fingertips, like your friends did in their their Chevy Suburban the mid to late 90s, early 2000s.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but no, this album, my my grandmother had this, and um whenever the the songs would play, she would ask me, like, what are the lyrics saying?
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_02: What's how is the how is this music different than the other music?
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like, she was big on because I had expressed interest in being a musician, and she was convinced that I was gonna be the next Elton John.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so I didn't do that.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_02: But um, whatever I wanted to get into, she was on like when I told her I wanted to be an actor, she's like, Okay, act scared, cry right now.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like, she was just that that intent.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_02: She was really cool.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_02: But we would listen to that album all the time.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then I do they did give it to me eventually.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_02: They're like, You since you're the one who seems to like this, you you can have it, you take it.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_02: So uh that's a nice keepsake for my grandparents.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_02: So those are for you, Casey.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_02: Favorite.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_02: Those are my four albums.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_02: Very the all of those albums had a major impact on my on my youth and childhood and blazing my trail to today.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_02: So it would it would give me something to ponder as I sat on my Caribbean island um sipping coffee.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_02: Great choice.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, great choice of island, great choice.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, I've been Hawaii's nice, but I I'll still have not gone.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_02: Still have not gone.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_02: You should go.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_02: Go with Brett.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_02: You should make Brett take you.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_02: Brett take Dante Donovan.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_00: I was asking him questions.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: I was asking him questions.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, let's go.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_05: I would because I would be I would be in the Pacific.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_05: Sorry, Jake.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, don't be sorry.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's valid.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_02: Um but I I just love Jamaica.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_02: Every time I'm there, it's just the weather's great.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's it's fun being on the island, so I don't know.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_02: That's where I'd like to go.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_02: That that I that Atlantic coast, the Caribbean is neat.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_02: And maybe a pirate will come and save me off the island.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_02: Just like in the movies.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_02: So there we go.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_02: Good good prom, Casey.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_06: Good choice.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_06: All all props and hat tip to TMB alum Henry.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_06: There you go.
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_02: Henry Viper, man.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_06: Well, we weren't gonna say last names, but here we did.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_06: We went in it.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, Henry.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_02: But now you have Piper.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_02: Henry, co-section leader with Tara.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, great, great pair of section leaders did wonderful, wonderful culture work with the bones.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_02: So uh fantastic pair of pair of folks to work with.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_02: Uh all right, well, everybody, um, this has been TM Banter week.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_02: What which episode is this for us, Brett?
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_02: Is this 10, 11?
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_02: I think this is 10.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_02: We should have done something special.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_02: We'll do something special at episode uh 50, 100.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_06: Can we get a 10 episode, a 10-week retrospective in five minutes from from Jake and Dante?
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_05: No, roll the credits.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, roll the credits.
• 51:18
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• 51:25
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