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Episode 105 · The Band That Never Sleeps: Rutgers Recap · Trojan Marching Banter: The Official Podcast of The Spirit of Troy

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, folks.
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome in TM Banter Week Five.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Or is it because we just got back from Rutgers and we've got a special guest with us here today?
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Say hi to Elise, everybody.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, all my favorite people.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: How are we?
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: This beautiful Monday morning.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: This beautiful Monday morning.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: Elise, how are you?
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: How are you doing?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: I'm great.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's just uh it's a good day.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_02: It's not 112 degrees outside.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_02: And we won a game.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: We did win a game.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of weather, um, so you're you're down in Orange County.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm up in the San Gabriel Valley.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a little, the sun's out now.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a little foggy this morning.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: What what's the weather like down there?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: How are things behind the orange curtain?
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, all is well here.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's sunny and perfect out.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: It's a you know, 75 and sunny, like we like it.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like every day in Southern California, you know.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: Well, not recently.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_02: It's been hotter than Hades out.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but now it's coming back.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: We have what's the game this weekend?
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like a casual 85 sunny 230 kickoff.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Is it?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but the game is we're what?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's 4 30, right?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: 4 30.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: So it'll be cooling down.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it'll get easier as the day goes on.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: So um over the alumni side.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, is that what side?
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: You sit on the south side?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: Where are your seats?
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_02: I don't.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_02: I my seats are wherever I can buy really good tickets that day.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Five minutes game.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_02: However, I am going with a friend who's coming all the way from Texas for this game.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to the Chapman family, whom I love.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_02: She was one of my college roommates.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_02: And um, we will be sitting in their seats, which I believe are on the north side.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_02: We'll see.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: North is good because that's the side the band faces.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: True.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: True.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And then you get you get all the all the hype of the music coming your way.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: Which is my main goal for the game, let's be honest.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's for you know, it's mine too.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, how are the kids?
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: How's life?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Kids are great, life's good, just a lot of sports going on.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: We uh had our very own football game this weekend, and uh my son scored a touchdown, so that was exciting stuff.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: How old is he?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he's seven.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is a flag football.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_02: Flag football.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: So he he was the wide receiver tight end.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: What where where was he?
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he was the wide receiver, caught and ran all the way for a touchdown.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: No way.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: How many yards?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: How far did he go?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, well, it's a small field, so it was probably 10 yards.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_02: But it looked really far, not like our hundred yards that we had in our game this weekend.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Got it, sure, sure.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: But that's awesome.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: Flag football, my nephew does flag football, and uh, I think he's the tallest kid on the team.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: So they made him quarterback because he can just see over everyone, and then he just kind of like meh, and then just tosses the ball over to the the other kids, and then they just win.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: They win all the time, which is I mean, at seven, seven years old.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_02: If you just run down the line, most of the time you can score a touchdown.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Is that it?
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: You just get you get out to the line and just book it, boogie on down.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: Turn and go, turn and go.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Turn and go.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_02: Well, hey, um blink and greedy if you're listening, just for you know, this weekend.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just turn and go.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: I love a good run up the middle, though.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's something about somebody jamming up the middle and then breaking through and just is pretty fun too, you know.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_02: I love I love watching a good long run for a touchdown.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's fun.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_02: How was the weekend?
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_02: You're back?
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_02: When did you get back?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_02: Are you awake?
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_02: What's going on?
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm awake.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: We got back uh Sunday evening.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: I got, you know, I got back in time to go and uh have dinner with the kids.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I think we got to my in-laws' house about four o'clock, and so we had or a little before five.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: So we had time to like do dinner, hang out, and then get the kids home reasonable time for bed.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: But we uh we red-eyed out, which was a grand a brand new adventure, a grand experiment, uh, if you will, because in previous trips, the last couple of years, we've or in the Big Ten, we've tried early Friday morning.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like we'll do an early morning flight.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: But you figure if it's a seven, six o'clock flight, that means call time for us is what, two, three a.m.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: And we just struggled with students sleeping in and trying to get all of that organized.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's just there's not a lot going on at that time of day.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a little tricky.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_02: If someone sleeps in, do you call them and try and get them or do you just like buy, leave them, they're out?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: We well, with these smaller bands, like it it kind of depends on who they are and what they play.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but generally we we still even try to get them on because we've paid for it, right?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: We've paid for the flight, we've paid for the hotel.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like, hey, like we've spent all this money, get up and get here.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: And it's um it's been, you know, maybe one or two people um per trip that have that struggle, but then inevitably, like they make it, they figure it out, or we'll leave and then they'll call and then they'll get dropped off at the airport and we'll catch them there, you know.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: And how was um so you get to the airport, so red eye, so you're getting there evening-ish?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: We did.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: So call time was seven.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: So we did rehearsal Thursday night.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Call time was 7 p.m.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: We got there and uh we had plenty of time.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was an 1115 flight.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think we were there at 7:30, starting to get checked in, and it was a nightmare to get checked into this flight.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um why?
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: What happened?
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'll tell you the luggage, the instruments.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: So we we were checking bags, and they had a group thing for us, but again, this is you know eight at night, whatever it is.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: They had one guy, was one guy on the computer, and then one guy they they knew you guys were coming, right?
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: Of course they did, and our and you know, we had a go-ahead there who um who goes and picks so we already had boarding passes are printed, those are all ready to go.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: We just have to check the bags, and so he starts, and then we look and he processed I think it was three people in 10 minutes.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, so you're like, We'll see you tomorrow.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll average 18 an hour at this rate.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um and like Ben and I are looking at each other, like, oh my gosh, what are we gonna do?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because we're like, we're now in it, like, what are we gonna do?
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: And so we see a kiosk, and we're like, I wonder.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: And we figured out well, like we'd scan a boarding pass and the kiosk would like bring up it would bring up a notification that says, Hey, you're in a group, sorry, you can't do this.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: But there was a button at the bottom that said, Hey, are you a VIP special person?
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, you are.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah, sure, why not?
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Push the button and then boom, Yahtzee, whoever, like whichever chunk of people were under that confirmation number, they would all come up.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we figured out there we could print and pay for boarding or for luggage tags for that person.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, oh, cool, we'll get this person checked in.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then we figured out we could do like three or four people at a time at the kiosk, and we're like, nice, now we're cooking with gas.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_02: The problem So you basically worked for the airline when you got there.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: I did, I did, but then the issue was it would print all behind the counter.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: So the one guy back to our friend who had the easy job of just putting the bags on the conveyor belt.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now he's getting like, we've got Bria and me each doing a machine, doing like four or five kids at a time, and then it's like just now it's pandemonium back there.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then his shift ended.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: So this other lady came over to pick up for him, and like nobody's putting them on the conveyor belt.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: There's just instruments getting piled up, and he's like, What are we supposed to do with these?
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I think you put them over there.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it was it was wild.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we got it done.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: I think poor Bria, she got trapped because she her her she was the one paying for like the bags the other guy was doing at the end, and she didn't get to the gate until five minutes after boarding had started.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Bria, we love you, Bria.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, she she did it.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but then on the way back, similar, not as bad, but similar on the way back.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: They at least had a plan.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I think everybody got through maybe a good 20-30 minutes before boarding started.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so everyone had time to for myself who gets to the airport real early, that's very stressful.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was crazy.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it was only exacerbated because we had we had a pep rally that Friday.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like in my mind, I'm thinking there's a lot of ways this can go wrong.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: But once we got there, it worked per like we got to the airport, the flight was half an hour early.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: We got to the hotel at about 9:30.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: Then the students didn't need to get back on the bus until 11.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: Some of them had the room, some of them didn't.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: So they were just hanging out.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: The hotel had breakfast for us.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: So all of that, like that that ended up being fine.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then when we got to we got to Times Square a little bit late, but it was fine because we had built in a buffer.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: So everything was a rally was the day you got there.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I didn't realize that.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, and this rally was epic.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: I saw photos of it.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: Instagram, Facebook, TV, like it was on national news.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me about that.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, who picked it up?
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on a minute.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get let's get our uh our national news guy in here.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pull Brett and KC in here.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: Brett, like, where where did this rally get picked up?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: Who where did you sports illustrated, I think, picked it up?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_03: I saw Sports Illustrated, I saw Fox Sports, um I saw it everywhere.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um at least on social media.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_03: So I thought I'd uh see pretty big sports.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_04: CBS Sports had it on their Instagram.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: No way.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, it was crazy.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: It was really fun.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've never been in New York, never been to Times Square, and so I get there, and you know what?
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: It looked just like it did in the movies.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: There were tall screens.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know what I should have done, Brett?
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: I should have we should have recreated like the opening of Captain America or the ending of it, you know, where he's in Times Square in the future and he's spinning around, doesn't know where he is, what he's doing.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: We should have done that with like Dominic with the drum agreement.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Next time.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Next time.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: We'll get it.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we'll play Rutgers again, right?
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then maybe this is the new, this is the new Union Square.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's a Times Square in New York, you know?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, I like that.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll take the whole, maybe this'll be the full this will be the new full band trip.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: We'll take everyone to Rutgers.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think, Brett?
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: How do you feel?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yes, because it's a great rally, and also because it's probably gonna be a pretty easy game.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_03: So no offense, Rutgers.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_03: I mean I mean this game wasn't easy.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Wasn't as easy as it should have been.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: But the the rally to not to not get away from it, yeah, it was national news.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: There were tons of people, like just oodles and oodles of people out there.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm looking at photos right now, and like there, I mean, there's an epic photo of you, Jake, just like vibing.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, doing great.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: We had a I thought actually there was a lot of Rutgers alumni there too.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: A few of them were dancing.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, some Rutgers alums.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was uh I saw Dr.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Bartner's grandson, Troy, he was there.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of band alums, but I think that's why these rallies and these away games are so great.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and why I'm excited about the Big Ten, because these are folks who they're living and working in New York or wherever they are, and they probably never think they'll get an opportunity to see the band in person.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And they get to, you know, it's like they get a chance to uh see the band up close and experience it without having to travel all the way to Los Angeles for a game, which is pretty cool.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty fun.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't know if there's like much more of an epic venue than Times Square.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like that's pretty cool.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't think so.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: It it was, I mean, there were people everywhere, it was just crawling with people, and then I lined up the drums, like we had the ladder, and I set the drums up where they are where they are, and they started warming up, and just the mob formed around them just immediately.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_02: And so then we I mean imagine like there's got to be a good amount of people who are just walking through Times Square, and they're like, Oh, what's that?
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: There were a cast of characters.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: There was a the a Beyonce came by, the naked cowboy was there.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um the giant laboo-boo.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: There was a giant laboo-boo, yeah.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: A cut there were like three massive gorillas.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, some King Kongs, yeah.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, there were there was it it gave like a like a vibe of Fremont Street in Las Vegas, um, but without uh it just not as enclosed, it was just wide open.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: It was the wide open air.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's like Fremont Street and the Groman Chinese kind of mashed together.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was pretty fun though.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: Band played great.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: We actually had a visitor, um, one of the drum majors from Rutgers came out to watch watch the band play and and introduce himself and meet us.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, he was he was a little he was sweet.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: We're talking, and he goes, Yeah, well, I appreciate you all coming out.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: You'll have fun.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you're gonna win the game.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I, me trying to be like a good teacher, I'm like, no, don't be down on yourself.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: Stand behind your team.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you never know on any on any given Saturday.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, then I'm watching the game and I'm like, man, if I jinxed us, I'm gonna be mad at myself.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_02: I would have 100% blamed you.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I listen, I I would have just I would have just stayed in New Jersey.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'd have been like, I belong here now.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: This is where I stay.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_02: You now are part of the Rutgers band.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and just stay there.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: They're Matt.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: They're the band was huge.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: The Rutgers band was pretty fantastically large.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: So that was pretty cool.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: How many people you think?
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: 400, maybe.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think, Brett?
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: Seem like 400 or more.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: That seems about right.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they're they're a big band.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_03: And we they had a big contingent come and visit the band for us for a while.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_03: They did, yeah.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um okay, so you're so game day.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: You're there, there's 400 of their band.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: And then, like, at least from TV, it looked like you were in the clouds.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: We were.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um tell me about this spot.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_02: We were in the clouds.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna be well frustrated.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, let me um, you know, and I know some I know a lot of folks get like, you know, they get on the internet and they're up in arms, you know, keyboard warring, like, how dare they put the band up there?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say, I appreciate the sportsmanship.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate the we're not gonna give the visiting band any advantage.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna help them out at all.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do everything we can to maintain our home field advantage.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, it didn't matter.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's a compliment to me when they're like, That's what I was gonna say, right?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: They're intimidated.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're we're so afraid of you.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we're we would put you outside of the stadium if we could.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that to me, that to me is fun.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: But the irony of it all, because I want to say my gut tells me that these decisions, like these are booth decisions, right?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like these are like guys, like the the producers of the game are like really worried about the impact of the visiting band.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so they put us up there.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: And what they don't realize is that they've put us at eye level with the press box, which is also at ear level.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: So the people who actually are getting the loudest experience of us are the people in the press box.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's ripping right across to their face, and so you could feel it at least.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like they'd be doing some commercial, I don't know, something about New Jersey.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: They love New Jersey there at Rutgers, by the way.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: Everything it was Jersey this, Jersey that.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um how do they how do they show their love for New Jersey?
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Literally every commercial, like, or everything.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was like, here's here's this ad for, you know, I I don't even know what.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like in Jersey strong, Jersey important, New Jersey's the place to be.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they did a whole cheer.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: If you're from central New Jersey, stand up and wave.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you're from northern New Jersey, southern New Jersey, they did a whole like Sopranos hype video.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was like the opening of Sopranos, but all like Rutgers, New Jersey stuff.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe like they knew LA was coming out, so they were pulling every Hollywood thing they could pull out just to try and impress you guys.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: I think they are really geeked about being in and from New Jersey.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and listen, I'm I'm not gonna lie, I was a little bit romanced by it.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, this is awesome.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: I I I was like, lean in, just lean into it, you know.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: The equivalent would be if we go to Wisconsin and it's like they're just throwing out cheese curd and and free beers the whole game.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: Stop New Jersey!
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, New Jersey.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was fun.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the game, I will say this, there was a lot of like the the the logistics and the movements and the stuff that we did.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Rutgers did a really good job at setting us up for success.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was really um, it was really easy.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we we parked our parking spot, it was easy to get to.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: It was right next to a nice grassy hill in the shade, and then right next to a parking lot.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: So we could very easily like get off, get dressed, you know, um, get all the get all the cases put away, and then line up in this open parking lot and then make our way to the alumni association tailgate.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: We went there, a lot of fun.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the USCAA, um, hosting the weekender gathering there, or they the huddle, the Trojan huddles they call them.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, that was a lot of fun, very claustrophobic, which is my favorite.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: I just love it when it's just all this people everywhere, and um, we did that.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: They can't breathe, and it's just literally, and it was where they were, it was gravel ground.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, you can imagine the song leaders trying to like spin and stuff, get a little extra whipping around.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's terrifying.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, doing stunts and like kicking up dust.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, this is fun, this is a lot of fun.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then we went out back to the main road, and then that road dead ended in into the uh stadium.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say this this road they put us down took us right down what do they call it?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: Rutgers Boulevard.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: What did they call that, Brett?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it was the boardwalk.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: The board, that's right, the boardwalk.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: And they had food trucks and vendors and they had a live band playing, and they just basically marched us through the Rutgers carnival into the stadium, and they were shocked.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, You're here, and then they were excited.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of Rutgers fans taking pictures of the band passing by.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that was pretty cool.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: If we had to do that in Oregon, no, thank you.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: That would be uh that would be terrifying.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like the game felt very electric in the beginning.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh started, at least on TV.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_02: It was like it, I don't know, it had that vibe going.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: Did you feel it?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: It a lot of their energy was driven by the video board.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um it it just there, there's a lot of traditions and things that they do that are kind of like like the the band did its pregame show, but then the hype video and and all the stuff to follow was very much like it was driven by their because the band was on the field.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're one of these bands that makes like a tunnel for the team running out.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: So you're right, there was this like big, massive, loud, enveloping environment at the beginning, but gosh, Elise, when their team was coming, they played um ACDC for those about to rock.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Those about to rock that song, because it's got cannon blasts in it.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: They have a cannon and fireworks, but it took their team, I'm gonna say two minutes to come out of the tunnel, which is a long time.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was forever.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then it's like just a camera shot into this dark tunnel, and you just see the football players just slowly walking, like looking really intense while we're all listening to this slow plotting buildup of for those about to rock.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: But then fireworks and stuff.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Brett.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: My favorite part was the when you we first got the shot of the players going down the tunnel.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: You got the officials, so it was like a really like stylized shot of the officials kind of slowly walking down the the tunnel.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was wild.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: It was uh they like the brand new New Jersey walking down the tunnel, those officials.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, they yeah, exactly.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: And those of you know, whatever, those officials.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have I've beef officiating at this game.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: We can't get fined but talking bad about them, so we can.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: We can't good gravy.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: How many uh anyway, let's not, let's just not go down that rabbit hole.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, let's just go with this.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: We won.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: We would we did win.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but gosh, it took forever, but yeah, the energy was fun, but then I think once uh the game got underway, like all of that, a lot of that hype from the audience kind of like wasn't there.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like they they would cheer for their big plays, right?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: But it it that energy, that electricity didn't maintain.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: It just it was that moment, and then there would be things periodically.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: The third quarter break was kind of fun, but um yeah, it was it was neat, it was nice.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: I would say it was a nice experience in their stadium.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: It was very nice.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, it it seemed nice.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um, what was your favorite part of the game for the band?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I think the Rutgers band visiting, that was fun.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think that was neat for them.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: What did I really like?
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know what was fun?
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the drummer alumni came over and some other and some tenor, and they brought they brought snacks for their friends currently in the band.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: And that's neat.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's always fun.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: Do I wish someone would come and bring New York snacks?
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: What did they bring?
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: They brought hot dogs.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: They brought New Jersey pretzels or hot dogs or what have you.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the drummer alumni brought me a hot dog.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: How was your New York or New Jersey hot dog?
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: My New Jersey My New Jersey hot dog was fantastic.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: No alum has ever brought me a treat at halftime during an away game.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: And and a big shout out.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was Kenny, Phillip, and Ethan, recent drumline alums, brought me this.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Steamy, soft buned, hot dog, Jersey dog.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: And it was, it hit.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: It hit the spot.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's what I needed to get through the second half of the game.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: So that was a lot of fun.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: Did you have a New York dog while you were there?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know what, at least I did have a New York hot dog.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: As you know, I I think I mentioned this before.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I don't know.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to say, but I've never been to New York before.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Never.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: You've never been to New York.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: I've been to the state.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: So let me there.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: I've been to Buffalo for a wedding many years ago and uh saw Niagara Falls.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I did like the upstate stuff.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: Went to the the alleged birthplace of uh Buffalo wings, right?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: We did that kind of thing.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I'd never been to Manhattan, New York City, any of the boroughs.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: I had never done that.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so I had all I had a litany, a list of things to accomplish uh while we were there.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um in driving it initially was food.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: That was the big thing.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I had four goals.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Goal number one, these are, and this is the priority list, by the way.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: And number one was a slice, a New York slice.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um to ten, how did it, how did it match up?
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_02: What did you how did you?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: We'll circle back.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: Let me give you the list.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was a slice, it was a dog from a cart, it was a bacon, egg, and cheese from a bodega, and then a New York bagel, right?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna tell you right now, I did not get a bagel.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: I've had New York bagels before, though.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like I've had friends from New York bring them to places where I was, so it's like, you know, it's okay.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: I did not get a bacon, egg, and cheese because I did not find a bodega that I liked that had the look I was looking for.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: So I did have a slice and I did have a New York hot dog.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_02: And what what how do you feel about them?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll tell you what, that New York slice, I like you you see them in the movies, like I know about them.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you get it, it's on the paper plate.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: You either you either dab the grease off or you drip it on the plate, right?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: You fold the pizza, right?
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: I knew what I needed to do in order, and I knew I had to keep walking, keep moving, eat the slice on the go, right?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but what I forgot was that you go in there and you go, give me a slice, and they throw it in the oven.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot that they did this, but the crispy bottom, the hot cheese and the pepperoni, I was just, I was beside myself.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: That slice of pizza was so good.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: It hit, it checked all the boxes.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna say this right now 10 at 10 at 10 times out of 10, I will choose a New York slice over a Chicago deep dish.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: 10 out of 10.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: 10 out of 10 every time.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: I will take New York slice over a Chicago deep dish.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've I've now experienced it.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm drawing the line in the sand.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you're being real quiet about your New York hot dog, though.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: Another, another favorite of mine.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_02: Please.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: The hot dog was not good.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: The dog, I again, and maybe I didn't dress it up, right?
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: I went there, went to the cart.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: The guy was sitting there, like on his phone.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hey, can I get a dog?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, sure.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: You want this one or the jumbo?
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, just the regular one.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, what do you want on it?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, just mustard.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: I would have gotten sauerkraut too, but Jessica's not a fan.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: We were sharing, right?
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: And uh dog with mustard.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: And then he's like, whatever it costs.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, I didn't have cash, so he was upset with me for using a credit card, which is part of the experience.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I was happy about that.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted a New Yorker to get mad at me.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I needed to be a good one.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Wanted to be yelled at by a New Yorker.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he didn't yell, but it was a very disapproving, like, held up the credit card.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, you know, very long breath.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: And then I ate it, and it was like the skin, the the casing was snappy, which is cool.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: But um, it was just not it was not that good.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like the bun was a little dry.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was later in the day, though, you know, and um I wasn't a fan, but the dog in New Jersey was great.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll say it.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: I think a New Jersey hot dog beats a New York hot dog.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think it does.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_02: You might have some angry people out there now.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: They'll have to find their way to California to talk to me about it.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: They want to figure it out, but it was fun.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_02: You spend your whole day in New York, you eat all your food.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: Do you do you see any sights or you're just dating?
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: No, we so we finished the rally at two.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so by 2:30, like stuff is put away, and Jessica and I were mobile.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: And so I had a whole list of things I wanted to do.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we went, we went to a pub, hung out a little bit there to kind of cool off and and get our plan together.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: Then we went to Central Park, went and saw the Bethesda Fountain, we saw the Beethoven statue, we did some stuff there.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Then from the park, we hopped on the subway.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the R train, made our way south to the 9-11 Memorial.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: We did the Staten Island Ferry, and then we came back, went back up north, did some uh gift shopping for the kiddos, went to Rockefeller Plaza to see that to see 30 Rock.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: 30 Rock, very big, very large building, very cool to see.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: Rockefeller Plaza, a lot smaller in person than I thought it was.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Did you go ice skating?
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking, I'm like, how do they all fit in there?
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: How do they ice skating?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's so small.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: How does it what do they do?
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: And then from there, um, we had dinner nearby.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, we ate dinner at the same pub.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: We started, so we bookended it in the same place.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, is your pub like something hardy?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_02: What were you eating?
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, uh this Irish pub, you'd think we'd be eating um, you know, fish and chips or bangers and mash, you know.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: And we had um Korean appetizers.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: We had a go shoejong, popcorn shrimp, and uh a curry, uh what was it?
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: It was curry French fries.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: So they called it.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Because New York was just surprising you food-wise all over the place.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: All over the place.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: But the the fries were good.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: It was like uh, what did they call it?
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: They called it an Irish spice bag.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: And so it was fries like chips, like fish and chip chips with bell peppers and onions with like curry spices on them.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: So it was really, it was good.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: It was very spicy.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: The two things were spicy.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: But where we made, where we our fatal mistake was we go to Penn Station to get back to New Jersey, get on a train, um, and we got there about 11.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, what else got there about 11 was the Madison Square Garden Harry Styles concert just finished, and all of these teeny boppers and all of these, as Mrs.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: Vogel said, it was a lot of short skirts and high boots walking around Penn Station, and it was pandemonium.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we went down, looked around, said, Nope.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: We went back up, got a lift, and and made our way back to that could be the most terrifying story I've ever heard about New York.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: A Harry Styles concert and you walking in there at the same time.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: It was wild.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: And it was like, and clearly, like everyone knew what they were doing, where they were going.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, because you know, it's like everyone's going into these different trains, and it's like everyone's just cross all over each other, and we're just like, and we realized the train to New Jersey didn't leave until midnight, and we're like, all right, we're not, we're not waiting an hour.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go and uh we'll just take a car.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: And so that was our our fun New York sightseeing adventure.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: It was a grand old time.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: We got I got a lot of stuff in between, you know, in like a seven and a half hour, not even a six and a half hour window, we got all that stuff in, which I thought was pretty much.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_02: So okay, so we go to New York, we conquer Rutgers, we're back.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_02: Rate rate this trip for me.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_02: Band trip, give me a give me a rating.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: For me, I, you know, I think I'd give it a nine if if it wasn't because the rally was that day, like if we had left Thursday afternoon and had it like had an extra hotel day, um, I think that would have that would have pushed it to like a nine, nine, nine and a half to ten kind of a trip, right?
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: But because basically it's like I was awake all day Thursday, kind of took a nap on the plane, and then stepped into all of this madness.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say it's like a nine, eight and a half.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's a pretty good trip though.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's a great trip.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of all the logistics were like everything did what it was supposed to do, is just the baggage.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: That was really the only hang up.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: But other than that, like we were early everywhere we had to go.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: The crowds were not, it was just, it was, it was a phenomenal trip.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I'm excited for the other trips because they're also doing red eyes, but they're not doing rallies on Friday.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: So for them, it's like they'll be able to get there and just kind of like veg out on Friday and then be fresh and prepped for Saturday.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: So but the B block, the the side topic.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, Elise, what did you prepare for us today?
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I've got a list of USC related questions for you guys to answer.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm hoping all three of you can answer a few questions for me.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: Rip it, grip it and rip it.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see what we got.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_02: So all three of you guys have been around USC for a pretty long time now.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_02: What is it about USC that still gives you guys chills?
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_03: Brett.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um I think when I hear the drums start on Tribute to Troy, I how many millions of times I've heard it, I still get goosebumps.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: Casey.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_04: It's kids on our right.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_04: I said it in Streamathon 2, I said it streamathon three when we did the the tier list.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's kids.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_04: Every time.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: I some I'm gonna go I'm gonna go outside of the band paradigm.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um what still gives me what still gives me chills is the um it's entering the Coliseum on a on a bright sunny day.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: Because it harkens back to my first game, and it was an early game, and I remember marching out of the tunnel and just seeing this, you know, this mass of cardinal and gold.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm sure it'll happen this weekend, but yeah, coming out of the tunnel for the first time on game day and kind of seeing all this big stuff.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm usually there early, so I usually go down by myself before we run the tunnel, and it's still a special moment every game to get down there and and see what's going on and get excited.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I just got chills.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: You talking about that game day, very, very introspective.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_02: Question two.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_02: All right, do the football players and coaches ever talk to you guys about the band and who on the football team is the biggest band fan?
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're like on game day, yeah.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_02: Or anytime, really.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_02: Any jock rally, game day, anytime.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so we, you know, we interact with the team when we do.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I'll answer first since I asked the follow-up question.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: But I think uh some of the the fun interactions.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: I well, I'll I'll I'll answer your second question first.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think Jaden Mayava is the biggest band fan because he just, whether it's a jock rally or like he just finds himself within the band.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think he played cymbals the other day.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's held a football to pretend it's a trumpet.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like he just kind of gets in there and like really gets gets in with the band.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: So those those interactions are cool.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, obviously, like I run into coaches here or there, you know, I'll catch him in the tunnel around the game.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I one thing I if I ever see Lincoln walking, I'll always do something like, oh my God, is that Lincoln Riley?
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: I do that to him every time.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm sure he loves it.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm sure he appreciates that very much.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: He has to.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then he sees and he sees it's me, and I'm sure he's like, This guy, this guy never stops being annoying.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, no, it's it's seeing them.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: We don't really see them on game day until post-game.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so you hope for a big win because then we get more interactions with them.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: Here's something I did see last week, or not last the week prior at the um the Louisiana game, we had that that huge special teams, uh, what was it, a field goal or a kickoff or a punt return for a touchdown.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: And that was a huge play.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: And the coach, one of the coaches was just going absolute bananas on the sideline, and he was in and amongst the song leaders.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: And so he either did like a big shoulder bump or a big chest bump with one of the song leaders because they were just so freaking fired up.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, so it's yeah, it's those moments, it's those celebratory moments are the end of the game where we really get to see him a lot.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: But they're you know, very appreciative, very complimentary.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: But it's for me, it's more fun when they interact with the band students directly, like taking selfies, snatching up their instruments, picking them up.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like those are fun, those are fun things.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think you have more interactions with the team than I do.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um, my my biggest interaction that I always have was with Katie Ryan, their uh their information director, or the I don't even know is her official title, but shout out to Katie.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Katie.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_03: Um my colleague over there with football.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she's cool.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_03: Um I I I mostly see with the football players interact with us on social media.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_03: So I like those guys, the guys that uh actually pay attention to our social media.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_02: And Casey.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna throw a curveball.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_04: I got it.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_04: I got it.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_04: I got a curveball.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_04: I'm the alumni coordinator.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna give an alumnus perspective.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_04: Uh of my time, I think one of the standout band fans in the football team was Zach Banner.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Zach Banner, famously 20 in the on the 2017 team, um the Rose Bowl team.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_04: Or the Washing the Washington butt fumble.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_04: I remember very clearly seeing that from the from the away game stands.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and Zach, we had a very we had an interesting interaction his last year.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_04: Because I was, you know, I was in, it was, I was my I was definitely a TA at this point.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I'd been in the band a long time.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_04: Zach had been on the football team for a long time.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_04: He was on his like it was either his fifth or sixth year due to injury and stuff.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_04: So we had, I'd seen him around bandcamp football interactions for many years.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_04: And he remembered me and had seen the same.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_04: So we were, you know, during Tusk when the band and the football team crashed together, we had those great photos from this year.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_04: Editor pull those up.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_04: Uh he came over to me specifically and it was like, you're still here.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_04: And I said, so are you.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_04: And uh as long as they as long as as long as he pays me, and I pointed it at Dr.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_04: Partner.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_04: And he he made some comment about uh uh you gotta you gotta renegotiate your contract for more pay.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_04: And it was it was just it was a real funny experience.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_04: And you know, that's that's the that's the kind of football players that you always remember.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: Love it.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_02: Big Ten, guys.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_02: So we're heading deeper into Big Ten play now.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_02: Does the energy feel different when we're playing like all I mean, fairly new conference opponents?
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me about that because I wasn't around, you know, for Big Ten.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_02: So what is it like?
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, I'll let Brett answer.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um, fans are actually kind of excited and happy to see us when we travel, which is nice.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I've been saying they're so happy to see us because they don't know us yet.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um back in the Pac-12, everybody knew us and eventually didn't like us.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's been cool.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_00: The energy is a little different, like especially these first couple of years, like even like every game kind of feels like a bowl game because that's when I was used to seeing these people, right?
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but what's been neat, kind of again, going on the road and traveling, has been seeing the different traditions and what the similarities are.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: Because in the Pac-12, so many of like each individual school's whatever was very unique.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like every school was very, very, very different.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: Where in the Big Ten, like you can see there's like a common, there's a DNA there.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like you can you can see these connections and the similarities between the schools.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: And the thing that's really neat is um there's not a lot of advertising.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like uh, I mean, you probably remember this from Notre Dame, but like they don't ever do like video ads or there's not ads for stuff inside the stadium, like it's very much you're here.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: Michigan is that way, yeah, pure.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: And Rutgers, I don't I think maybe a couple of like sponsored, but it was still like about the school, it'd be like, here's a faculty profile sponsored by like a local New Jersey business versus like you know, the the major ad uh situation we're in at the Coliseum or even the Rose Bowl.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of neat to see that difference.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_04: It they're annoying.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_04: It's so annoying.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_04: It's annoying that they're so nice because it makes it hard for me to be mad at them all the time.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_04: Because like, you know, that's the best part.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_04: You in the Pac 12, you roll into a city you've never been, you're wearing your USC gear, and everyone's mad at you, and you're mad at them, and it's great.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_04: And that's that that we're we're a we're an organization like performing ensemble fueled by incoming hatred.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_04: That's what gives me the fire to play high notes.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_04: And gosh, it's so annoying that they're nice.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Hope that's the answer you were looking for, Elise.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_02: That's exactly what I was looking for.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I got one more for you guys.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_02: So everyone knows you guys at USC, right?
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_02: You're you know, band drugs.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_02: You guys all everyone knows you on campus.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_02: What is something people don't know about you that you wish that they did?
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, Casey, you go first.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: I want to learn about you.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_04: We sure we want me to go first?
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's gonna be some like weirdo nerdy thing.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: I know it.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, let's let's all take five while he talks.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_04: Listen, all right, I'll give you the reader's digest version.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_04: So it was it was on my uh profile on the band website for a while, uh, but I have since given up on my dream of achieving the rank of platinum in competitive Overwatch, uh, the video game.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_04: Uh that that as a support main on Lucio.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_04: Uh my skating, my rollerblading Brazilian DJ and I uh we're never gonna make it to platinum.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_04: I have that dream is dead, uh, and everything's terrible now.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_03: This is a video game.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm gonna need a little bit more explanation on this.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_04: This is the video game overwatch.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_04: It's a it's a hero shooter uh where you play a uh a roster of superheroes, let's call them.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_04: And uh and my guy, uh Lucio is uh is a support, so he my job is to heal and buff the team while they go and win the game.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_04: Uh and and sadly, um just I'm just not cut out for it.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_04: I see.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_04: I guess I'm just too old.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_04: The kids are too twitchy now.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_04: They've got too much they've got too much reaction.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_04: They can flick they can flick heads real quick.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_04: And I just can't keep up.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_04: I'm too old.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_04: Too old to begin the training.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, you beat me.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna do it.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: You beat me to it.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Brett, what's something people don't know about you?
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I think m many people, uh at least around the band, don't know that I have another job that I do.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: I know this.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_03: You do know this.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I work in construction safety for the family company, AJ Paddleford and Son Incorporated.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_03: Paddleford.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_03: We uh we are a big builder of supermarkets mostly around and storage facilities around Southern California.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_03: But yesterday I got I just got back last night from Arizona, where we have three jobs.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_03: I instead of coming home from New York, I flew to Phoenix once near Tucson, which is a little bit of a drive, but uh yeah, I made it back last night.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: And you uh your company built the Vaughns in Avalon on Catalina Island, is that right?
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_03: That is correct.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_03: I went over there once a month for a while to go check the progress.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_03: We we consolidated the Vonses in Avalon, because there were two that we they made into one that's set back toward um the miniature golf course behind there.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_03: We built that um little Vons, and uh I think it's been pretty successful for the island.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_03: It's a great very hard logistically, by the way.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure all the stuff over the island.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_03: Were you not easy?
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: Were your arms tired paddling over all the wood and drywall and such?
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um hey, uh Brett, I have a construction question.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: What's the most com like, because you're the safety guy, what's the most common like thing that you have, like the most common behavior you have to correct?
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's I mean, it's gonna sound boring, but it's mostly people not wearing their hard hats and safety vests around the site.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_03: And they say, well, there's nobody working above me, or I don't see any vehicles around me that could run into me.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_03: And that's exactly when that happens.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have to click that?
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_01: Or you get to whip.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, no.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_03: So I sure get I could I could borrow one from Jake, but then they'd really hate me.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_03: They don't really love me as it is walking onto site, you know.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: Um, but they'd really hate me if I was out there like uh like the school, uh school monitor, uh hall monitor at school.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure these these grizzled contractors and construction workers see you come in.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, this guy.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_03: It's yeah, well, cause especially, you know, coming into it.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_03: I was, you know, the I'm the boss's kid originally that walk onto site and they're like, look at this little little Lord Flaunteroi here with his with his hard hat on and his safety vest.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_03: Look how cute he is.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and he's trying to tell me what to do, and I've been doing this for 30 years and I've never gotten hurt.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_03: So But to be fair to them, I was the worst person um in construction safety when I was actually working out on site.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_03: I I once fell 15 feet off a scaffolding uh right onto my butt.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I felt fine.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_03: I it may have damaged the car though that was right next to the scaffolding and just shaved off the the rear view mirror or side view mirror.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um so uh I come into this saying that I've done everything.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: You've fallen farther than I have.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_03: You had a big fall?
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I fell off the ladder at Salute to Troy a couple years ago.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: That was only the ladder.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: Lincoln Riley wasn't there to help me up.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: He wasn't.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: He wasn't there to help you on the cause.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: He helped me.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, my fall was only uh which ladder?
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was the six-foot ladder, I think.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, about it, you were like halfway down, right?
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like four feet, maybe three feet.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: I was only one step down.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: I really my foot, my my my um, I took one step with my right foot to the first step, and that's where my knee gave out.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_00: But my other foot, my left foot was still on the top.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I was for all intents and purposes, eight or six feet up in the air.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: So you beefed it.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I jumped.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: When I felt so I was it started to go and everybody, everybody around the ladder was now trying to like now everyone's trying to like grab me or grab the ladder.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: So like the two people holding it, like they feel me start to walk.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: So now they're like yanking the ladder around.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: Ben's like reaching trying to grab me.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so with that many people like trying to like write, and then I'm trying to do my own balance, and I'm like, if I just fall, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hurt these people.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I used my good foot and I just jumped away from them.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: And then Lincoln Riley came over and is like, hey man, are you okay?
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then I was very embarrassed and ran.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_02: I'll fall off the ladder if Lincoln Riley will come help me out.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I ran right back up the ladder, and then the uh the team doctor came over and a bunch of public safety officers, and they're like, Hey, why don't you come down?
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let us look at you.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, leave me aloud, don't talk to me.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was great, it was a lot of fun.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_03: And this is all happening.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think did you say this is all happening backstage at Sutatro?
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, meanwhile.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_03: While stuff is happening on stage, yeah.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, don't look at me.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_00: Too ready.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: And like I'm like doing the band, and it was it was fun.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: But everyone knows that story.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like everyone saw me just disappear off the ladder.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, something you may not know about me, Elise, is I'm a very good water skier.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: People probably know.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_01: Water skier.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very good at water skiing.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I in my summers, we went to my grandparents' house, I spent my whole summers on skis.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my thing, like my brother was big into wakeboarding and jumping and doing that, and I would do the slalom ski.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I would get out there on this ski and just rip back and forth.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I've got pictures where I'm like, I'm so I'm leaned over so far in a turn that my shoulder is like six or three inches above the water.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like I'm just have you ever got to show this off in front of Mrs.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_02: Vogel?
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: A couple of times.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think so.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: Not the sl the maybe not the slalom thing.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta find there's every time I tend to be on the water now, like it's like we're with somebody else, and maybe they have a wakeboard.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I can wakeboard, you know, I can get up and do it.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_00: I just I don't jump, I just ride.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, or if they've got like a pair of ski, like dup two skis, I'll do it.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, ooh, here's where I showed off.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you this.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: In Jamaica, a couple of years ago, we were our 10-year anniversary.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: We were out there and we were at a sandals and they have like stuff for you to do, right?
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: And they had water skiing.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, these guys, they're out there smoking their cigarettes on the ski boat, dragging tourists around.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like they, this is not exciting for them.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I come out, me, you know, just me being me, being a cocky butthead, and I walk out, I'm like, hey, can I go skiing?
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, you get three tries to get up, and then once you get up, you get three laps, and then you're done.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, all right, cool.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_00: And so then I put on the life vest, you're like, You don't want to take your shirt off?
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, I'm good.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_00: And they're uh they're like, or your hat or your glasses.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, I'll be fine.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's good.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so then get out there waist deep in the water, start, get up on the skis, zipping around, do the three laps on the third lap.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: I whip myself around up to the sand and just walk out onto the sand, pick up the skis.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, thanks guys, I'll see you later.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then just add my day, you know.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, what just happened?
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, this guy knows how to water ski.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, you know.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, I'm I'm two ski, like the problem with one ski.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you have you ever done this, this the single water ski thing.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yes, very unsuccessfully.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's really hard because so it's so much um force on your arms at start because the one it's so narrow, right?
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so I haven't done that single ski thing in a long time because the last few times I've tried it's someone else's ski, I couldn't get up on the I couldn't get up out of the water because it was just, you know, too much.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um not as strong as I used to be uh when I was a young kid.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_00: But occasionally, like if I get on two skis or a wakeboard, I can get out there and just have a grand old time, cruise around.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_02: Love it.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_00: So there you go.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_02: Now I know so much about you guys.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: What's something people don't know about Elise?
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_02: Something people don't know about me.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_02: I am an avid equestrian.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: I knew this.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen pictures of you with horses.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_02: So I ride every week, and my like ultimate end-all dream is to go ride traveler.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_02: So you're listening.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_02: That yeah.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, that's probably a lot easier to make happen than we could we could bridge that gap with Joanne, you know, we can make that happen.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I I have grown up around horses, and um I ride every week.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh my my main man, Miguel.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Miguel, my horse.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: Nice, Miguel the horse.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_00: So, hey, now we got a stream-a-thon idea.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_00: Elise teaches Jake how to ride a horse.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_02: Elise teaches Jake how to ride traveler.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there we go.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think, Brent?
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_00: How's that sound?
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and then I had I had English writing lessons, by the way, Elise.
• 49:43
  unknown: What?
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, in your butt and everything.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it was only when I was a kid.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_03: And I think uh what when I was a kid, I was like, this is fun.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_03: And then we got to the part where we get to clean the horse at the end and pick the poop out of their hooves.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, you know, I'm good.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: That was it for you.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_03: You don't want to you don't like muck in the stalls.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's not for you.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_03: No, not not particularly, no.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: There.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's writing itself.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, hey, folks, this has been uh this has been a fun day.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_00: This has been our first round of Jake and Elise in the mornings as part of TM Banter.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_00: So let us know what you think.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: Do you want to see more Elise?
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I want to see more Elise.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_00: I like talking to Elise.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh tune in, so uh subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, get up on the website.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_00: The website is cool because uh there's ways to donate to the band travel fund.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: It lists the episodes there, but also there's a place where you could put questions and we have one question uh from a band student, trumpet section, a second year named Kenneth Lopez, and the question's for me.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_00: And he asked, What is your favorite rock chart?
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: Is it Country Girl?
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, Kenneth, it just might be.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_00: It just might be one of my favorites, uh, Country Girl.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I I think my favorite favorite if I had to, I think it's just Tusk.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_00: I love Tusk.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_00: Do you all like Tusk?
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_00: Who does it?
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's great, it's a lot of fun.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_00: But get in there, but at least since you're here, tell us um the restaurant.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_00: You've got some game day stuff going on at the restaurant, right?
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: What do you got going on?
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_02: So we're doing USC football watch parties for anyone who can't make the game or for all these away games, especially.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um Vila's El Ranchito in Seal Beach.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_02: We've got five dollar draft beers, ten dollar nachos, guacamole, and we have a fight on margarita.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_02: Um, the caveat is you have to say fight on to get the deals, or we're not giving them to you.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, I'm coming.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: This Penn State or Wisconsin, I'm gonna come to that game watch.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know what?
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, maybe we'll have to do we'll have to say, like, hey, come watch the game with the band director at a Vila Zel Ranchito.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_01: Love it.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_00: You think that'd be a big draw, Brett?
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_00: You think anyone would care?
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think so for sure.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_00: Phew.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: Charge admission, yeah.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: Charge it.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: Can I charge admission to pay for my$5 draft beers?
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_00: Just a little under the table.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, cool.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_00: So get on down there.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_00: Get down down to Seal Beach.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's fun.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: The your location's right by the water, which I think's really cool.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: That's really cool.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you can go for a walk on the beach, have a beer, watch USC win.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, good times, good times.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_00: Well, folks, this has been a lot of fun.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for tuning in.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next time and fight them on.