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The One Prepping for WGI 2024 Colorguard Champs (AKA where are the mini donuts and roasted nuts)
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This week we are all about WGI Colorguard CHampionships 2024. We have guest host Bobbey Biddle from Showday designs helping us announce the collaboration with Showday at WGI Championships where we will be live broadcasting the podcast with plenty of hosts. All this, plus news, Water we doing, and more. Don’t miss this WGI prep!!
Guest Host:
Bobbey Biddle - @showdaydesigns & @bobbey107
Meet our Hosts
Jackie Brown - @spintronixguard
Stephen McCarrick - @stephenmccarick
Cindy Barry - @leandermomma
Nicole Younger - @o2bnpjs & @thecookoutcg
Trevor Bailey - @t_pain151
Trish O’Shea - @trishdish1002
Beth Beccone - @bether7189
Chris Rutt - @wildhornbrass1
Cynthia Bernard - @cynthiabern
Ashlee Amos - @famousamossss_
Theo Harrison - @harrisontheo07
Stephanie Click - @stephanieclick
Whitney Stone - @dancerwhit
Justin Surface - @J_dex07
Ashley Tran - @itsashleytran
Jack Goudreau - @goudreau_
Bill Woodward - @remoking100
Emily Nee - @tch.makes.art
Ricardo Robinson-Shinall - @ricardorrobinson
Callie Quire - @cnquire
Austin Hall - @Austin_hall10
Music provided by leydamusic.com Follow him @josh.leyda
Avatars provided by @tch.makes.art
Featuring
Lexi Duda - Host for On A Water Break In Rhinestones - The Stories of the Twirlers @lexi_duda
Thank you also to @guardcloset
#marchingband #colorguard #dci #podcast #onawaterbreak #wgi #drumline
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Transcript
Introduction & WGI 2024 Preview
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Hey everyone, we are back for another exciting week of rehearsals and this week we are talking everything that's about to be coming up at the WGI 2024 championships. We also get to find out what made Ricardo say. I love that you love your children, okay?
00:00:18
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but everybody's child has been working hard. And why Ashley said... Yeah, she was in a group called the Daily Debutants out of, I think it's Wisconsin, and their thing is like Irish, so she was like the little leprechaun in their parade court group. All this and more, so get out on the field and we will see you back on the sidelines for this week's episode of On A Waterbreak. Eight off the Met and go. Welcome to On A Waterbreak.
00:00:48
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podcast where we talk everything marching arts.
Listener Engagement & Topics for Discussion
00:00:53
Speaker
Everyone, bring it in. It's time for a water break. Welcome to another episode of season two.
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of On A Water Break, the podcast where we talk about everything you and your friends are talking about at rehearsal on a water break. I'm Jackie Brown. We have made it to WGI week. If you are listening to this the week it comes out, you are probably on your way to Dayton, in Dayton, waiting for Dayton to begin, or you're an avid listener and you just want to hear us be absolutely ridiculous. So either way, we have it all for you this week.
00:01:30
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I want to get to who's on the sidelines this week immediately because we have so much excitement going on for rehearsal today. Ricardo, oh my gosh, those daily waterings you've been giving us.
00:01:41
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Bonjour. Yeah, this has been really fun, just ranting off the top of my head, but I'm going to tell everyone, if you have something that you want me to rip off of, please email us at onawaterbreak at gmail.com. Send us messages at onawaterbreakpodcast, all those things. I will try to get to them and I will rant with you because I'm pretty sure that I feel the same way that most of you do out there about a lot of things.
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All right.
Plans for WGI Collaborations
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Well, Trish is working on some exciting news for our WGI appearance I hear. I am. I've been reaching out to a bunch of people, seeing if they're going to, you know, be willing to meet up with us at the show day designs table and chat a little WGI and we'll see how it all turns out. I am so excited. That was like one of the things that I actually miss from like the COVID days was doing live shows.
00:02:38
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You know, doing these like live interviews and stuff on. I'm so excited. This is going to be fantastic. Ashley, your first trip to Dayton as a spectator is happening this year. Is that what I hear? Yes. I haven't been to Dayton since 2019, since before COVID. So I feel like I don't know what I'm doing because, you know, when you're performing, you go and like, everything's already done for you. And I'm like, okay, I need a ticket. I'm sorry. What?
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I have to pay to go to this thing and we're driving. Girl, don't even talk to me about long drives. I'm driving all the way from Southern Missouri.
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Yeah, I think ours is like eight. My dad's coming with me, so it'll be daddy-daughter trip. My son's coming. We'll have a whole family get together. It'll be great.
Canadian Roundtable Reflections
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Cynthia, oh my gosh, that Canadian roundtable. Yeah, it was so cool. It was really, really cool. It's funny always for me to do those things with my fellow Canadians, which I never, ever speak in English to, but.
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I was just glad and I think that anyone that wants to sit down and talk every year, every season, there's something special and different about any experiences. So I guess that's what the roundtable was about. But if you want to have some sort of conversation with me, go on waterbury at gmail.com and I will be.
00:03:58
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happily talking to you on Lost in Translation, yeah. But yeah, that was a great, great roundtable with friends and I, and I'm just so happy people get to know the groups a little bit more before Dayton. Yeah, and these roundtable structures have been so great. We've had several really good ones just in the last few weeks, and anybody who hasn't listened yet, go back. Go back. Check those out, because seriously, they're so good, and they get you prepped for Dayton. Speaking of prepped for Dayton, Stephanie, you must be doing so much prep
WGI Coverage & Scheduling Challenges
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right now. Don't you have a kid over there?
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I actually have two kids that are marching in Dayton, one in each week. So my daughter is in Altamaria. They're independent open. So I'm flying up. I'll be there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday with her, and then fly back Monday, Tuesday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday in Houston, then fly back to Dayton, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday for my son. Backing up those airline miles.
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I am. But let me tell you that watching them as a parent is more nerve-wracking than any group I've ever taken. I am literally on the edge of my seat. The poor lady that sat next to me in Atlanta, I like grabbed her leg. I didn't even know who she was. So if you sit by me, just know like I'm like this the whole time.
00:05:16
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Is it terrible that reminds me of my second date with my husband? We went to a football game and something happened and it scared me and I grabbed his leg and he was just like, don't touch me. I don't know you that well yet. I know. I apologize when it was over. I was like, I am so sorry. I'm so sorry. I only have one kid performing today. I'm in my own personal space from here on.
00:05:39
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All right, so those who haven't seen it yet, we have partnered with Showday Designs, which if you haven't heard of them, just BT Dubs, they make incredible flags and costumes. I think they were one of the most popular costume designers we've sold on our site. I'm just throwing that in there for you guys.
00:05:57
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We'll have a recording area in the Show Day Design's tent at WGI, in the tent with the Show Day Design's booth at WGI Championships. We're going to be conducting live interviews. We're going to be talking to designers, performers, directors, everybody who's there that we can. We're going to have some giveaways going on. We're going to, we have stuff from Show Day to Giveaway, Guard Closet, Style Plus, who's been a faithful sponsor through all of this and so much more.
00:06:24
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Who is excited about this? Oh, we're going to Dayton. Yeah, woo. It's finally here. I'm excited. Yes, and such a great company. I'm excited. So we are all about the Color Guard Championships this week because it's WGI, but there is some news that we just, we need to do the news before we get there. So let's get into that.
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All right, let's just start with our biggest story this
Cadets Drum Corps Bankruptcy
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week. Trish, come on. Okay, so this week, actually April 2nd, the cadets have officially announced that they are filing bankruptcy and they are no longer able to operate.
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as a drum corps or anything of that nature. Obviously many you know a lot of people have heard about the lawsuits and that's cited in the article as well that the contingency to file bankruptcy was that if they have to not you know operate as a performing arts entity ever again or else they'll have they'll be responsible
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you know, for some of the lawsuit stuff. So it's a really sad day. For those of you who know, I live in North Jersey. I'm probably less than 10 miles from Garfield, New Jersey, which is where it all started. I always wanted to be a cadet. There were a lot of reasons why I weren't, but I always wanted to be because it was so close here. A lot of people that I was marching
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winter guard with at the time we're in cadets so it kind of hits home a little bit for me i have a lot of friends that are alums posted up all over facebook that you know how sad they are about it we all kind of knew the state was coming but now it's in black and white that it's here and it's just incredibly sad that there will not be the cadets will not be at pci championships or any events you know you know for the foreseeable future and
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You know, I just hope my wish, and this is why I wanted to report on this story, and my hope and my wish is that they could just ride off into the sunset, you know, without any more drama, without any more negativity, that we can appreciate everything that they've done for this activity and all the championships that they won, but not even the championships. I mean, we all remember when they came back, what was that, 2018 after everything broke? And they had that memorable performance at DCI East. We all saw the video.
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somebody at the gate recording the crowd as they were performing. I mean there's so many memorable moments we can think about and I just hope that and I've been seeing stuff pop up on Facebook and whatever on the post you know well this is because of this and this is because of that this is because of
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Let's not go there. Let's just let it ride off into the sunset. We'll always have the memories. I wish all the alumni well. I wish that there's a way for them. I know they do their alumni events in the fall. They're right over here near me. I hope that is enough for them going forward, that they can still do that. I hope there's a way that we can just
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remember them. And I hope there's ways that we can create for, you know, I don't know how to do it, but you know, I hope that they're, I hope that it's, you know, significantly after the positive memories exactly. Yeah.
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I love it that's one of I love like the that idea of just like putting this whole positive spin and on the memories of them because they really have been through so much and like I we were talking a little bit before the show about how each one of us has been touched by the cadets and like as an organization whether we wanted to be a part of them we just wanted to watch them or or what but
00:10:17
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like just seeing all of the stuff that has been posted to Facebook alone from alumni and from fans over the over the last few days is it's heart wrenching. It's heart wrenching to see that because they've touched so many people. One thing that I was really
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impressed with was how the other drum corps addressed the situation with the cadets and the individual drum corps saying goodbye to the cadets, which I thought was really touching in some of the manners that they did that because we will all miss them. When you're a drum corps and you have somebody like the cadets, we're all better.
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you need those groups that are there at the top because they're pushing you to be better. So we need those types of groups to stay. But I just thought it was just really classy how some of the other long-standing drum corps just didn't pretend like it didn't happen but really said a formal goodbye. And I just thought it was a very respectful way for them to address it as well. You know, it's kind of interesting because the fact that I
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grew up in the 90s and the early 2000s when the cadets were just really on their game. And I always wanted to march cadets. I always wanted to be in April Gilligan's Color Guard, and I tell her that to this day every time I see her. But everybody that I was taught by was a cadet, everybody. So, you know, we all have those, that family bond, even if you didn't march there, you're somehow connected to it. And it's just, it's a sad day. So they were
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a huge part in shaping the way that I do things and I know a lot of other people do things and they're going to be missed. Cynthia, how far has the cadets reach gone? Have they been super influential in Canada just as a core and as their style? I think any of the founding organization has been very, I mean,
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influential for anyone around the world. But for us, it's a group that a lot of Quebecers went to march. So either it's because of how close it is and was one of the closest successful world-class organizations. So we do have a couple of Quebecers that were
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morning the situation also. And recorder is right. For us, it's the same thing. I had staff at Marsha Cadets. I had drummers at Marsha Cadets because it's closer. It did hit home too.
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just saying the same thing that Tris said. Go in positivity and all the theories and all the bad wording should go at least non-public so we can focus on all the goods that they've done and how gracefully they tried to finish everything, their story, right?
00:13:07
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All right. Well, let's move on to our next news story, which is from Ashley.
Tributes to Influential Figures in Marching Arts
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Hey. Hey. So my news story is, we got some sad news this week. It's just not too uplifting so far. The arranger and composer, musician, I'm going to butcher his last name. So I apologize. John J. Tattingors. Yeah.
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Well, he passed away. He was the arranger and composer for Ohio State and he graduated there with a degree in music and he arranged for them for more than 40 years. So that's like probably a long tradition of theirs and like probably a big part of their culture that they've just lost. So our condolences are with them and hopefully they can find someone else to bring his, his work back to life.
00:13:59
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for the years coming forward. Christian from Guard Closet was talking about this. She played a lot of arrangements by him when she was at Penn State. This is somebody who's touched a lot of people who are in the music industry all over, in the marching band industry in particular. The article says he's written for Penn State Blue Band, Purdue's All-American Marching Band, and the University of Washington Husky Band as well.
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It was a far reach. It also says, yeah, he's reached all over. And it's funny, it says in the fall of 1965, the band director at Ohio State. So while John was still in the band, the band director Charles Spahn asked John to arrange the song for a halftime show and he didn't, he did it in four hours and the band performed his arrangement for the first time.
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that same fall during a halftime against Illinois. So it's
Upcoming Auditions & Opportunities
00:15:01
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crazy. They say bad things always happen in threes. I don't know. Ricardo, do you have something more happy for our news story? Well, first of all, we're talking about bad things happening in threes. So my article has to deal with the city of Baltimore. So I want to first acknowledge the people that lost their lives and the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster last week.
00:15:24
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But coming from a more positive note to change this around, all of you musicians going just off your instruments because the Baltimore Ravens marching band is holding auditions this weekend. I hope that you get this podcast.
00:15:40
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before it happens, but on April the 6th, the Baltimore Ravens Marching Band, which is the largest marching organization in the NFL, will be having their auditions at Owings Mills High School, which is in Owings Mills, Maryland. And they have music and marching auditions that have started. The entire article and schedule for the day is up on FoxBaltimore.com.
00:16:05
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But this band does great things. Not only do they do the Baltimore Ravens games, but they often take the band out and promote the city of Baltimore and the Ravens by doing parades, band festivals. They have been at the pro football Hall of Fame parade. They've done the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. They've done President Bush's inaugural parade. Listen, this is like an NFL team with their own marching band.
00:16:32
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Like, that is like the dream. And listen, people at the Baltimore Ravens Marching Band, if you decide to have a color guard, there are several of us on here that will definitely step in. I knew that when you're here.
00:16:46
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I'm an hour away. We will team up and it will be the fiercest color guard that you have had. But all you musicians out there, get your horns dusted off, go and audition. I mean, this is just cool. A pro NFL football team with their own marching band. I love it. We also had their band director on our podcast.
00:17:07
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. And by that interview, because there was a really fun episode. That was fun. That was a good episode. Speaking of auditions, I heard about an awesome one today. Disney is having auditions for their color guard in the boo to you.
00:17:27
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Parade. Super excited. One of my students was looking at it and asking me about it today and I was like, hey, let's go do this. You'd have to live in the Orlando area in order to be a part of it, but they are looking for flag performers.
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I have a couple of kids that are going to audition. I'm very excited for them. Do it. I'm so, so excited. I have a friend who did it for years and he was like, I was messaging him. I was like, my student has all these questions and like, oh, it's great. It's an awesome experience. And if you can snag that one, I think auditions are being, audition applications are being accepted through April 8th. So.
00:18:02
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go search that up on Disney auditions. My husband and I went to the Halloween party in 2019 I guess it was right before COVID and we didn't know that they had a color guard that came through but I mean we're parade people so we were right there at the front.
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And they came through and they were actually doing work. Like I was, I'm sure I have it on video somewhere on my phone, but I was so impressed because it wasn't just like, you know, something or whatever. Like it was some real work. So there's body underneath there throwing things in the air. So good.
00:18:39
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As someone who lives in Florida, who does color guard around here, I mean, you know, there are a ton of color guards, like amazing color guards in the Orlando area. I mean, they're pulling from people, you know, like Michael James has written for those.
00:18:55
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Kevin Breiner is one of the active choreographers for those sissy braids. I mean, they are doing the work, honey. It ain't just grade, slam, up, down, comb. They are swirling, girl. They are swirling. Yes. And that's what I'm hoping people know is if you think you're just going to walk up and down, you're going to be at right shoulder for however long, quarter mile. That ain't this job.
00:19:19
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It's so good, the whole length of the parade. It's, and people were going wild.
April Fools in the Marching Arts
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It was awesome. I was, I mean, I was dying, but it was really great. Well, Michael James, speaking of these amazing instructors and designers, he's going to be on our podcast when we get to WGI. So, uh, oh my God, one of my fav. He sure is. I'm so excited about that.
00:19:45
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Let's recap our favorite marching arts posts relating to the April Fool's. There was so much this year. It was over the top. Who did you guys like their April Fool's jokes? I'm laughing because I walked into class and okay, first of all, I was a few minutes late for school. Nobody judged me. I lived far away from the school. I have to drive across the sea. It's okay.
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But my kids were like devastated because they love Phantom Regiment and they know I'm a Cavalier. And one of my kids who wants to be a Phantom at came up and was like, Ricky, I don't know if you know this or not, but.
00:20:25
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The Phantom Regiment is changing their colors to green. And I was like, baby, what's today? And she was like, it's Monday. I said, no love, what's the date? She said, April the first, I said, which means that it is April Fool's Day, fool.
00:20:45
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They were so invested in it though. I thought it was the cutest thing, the cutest thing. They were distraught over this post that Bana Reginald was changing their colors and they were going to be green. It didn't help that the Cabbies published those red uniforms.
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They actually looked really good. They did actually. Yeah, they really did. I was all for the pet, matching pet costumes. I've never taken my dog with me, but what if I was?
00:21:17
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I was looking at this and I was like, there's going to be some people that will be legit upset that this is not for real. I am one of those people because I saw that post and I was ordering costumes. I was on the website ready to order costumes for both of my dogs. They were going to be cuted up.
00:21:37
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Oh, yeah. The number of babies I see at competitions wearing the costume of their color guard. I feel like the dog thing would go over well, especially like in the world. Oh, for sure. We used to do that when I was in Mississippi at pedal when Yana and I were Yana Broome and I were teach together.
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Her daughter, Scarlett, was a baby. And we would always have a costume made for Scarlett that matches the Color Guard costume. So at state championships, we were pushing her around in the stroller, and she matched the Color Guard hoodies. So, you know, I would absolutely do it with my puppies. Did you guys see the Blue Stars one that they did a show announcement for the Minions on ice? They were doing like an ice skating marching show about the Minions. I did not see that one. Oh, it was so funny. That was pretty good.
00:22:25
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talking about the uh talking about like cores getting away from their traditional uniforms they're wearing like minions costumes practically all right we had our own we had our own little uh april fool's joke on from on a water break jeremy thought it would be funny to to say oh my gosh dayton flooded where are we gonna have championships that sends people into heart attacks there were some people who were super legit man panic attacks
00:22:54
Speaker
All right, well, we need to get back out on the floor right now so we can polish this show up for WGI. But when we come back, Bobby Biddle from Show Day Designs is going to be joining us. So don't go far. Don't take any extra long bathroom breaks. Just get out there, do your reps, and come right back to our water break.
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00:24:35
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So we have an amazing guest host joining on with us for this second segment of our show. He is the right hand human over at Show Day Designs. Color Guard designer and instructor currently, also a band director. So I'm sure we'll hear more about that in just a moment. And he also happens to be the executive director of the Miss Philadelphia Scholarship Organization. Please welcome to the water break, Bobby Biddle.
00:25:06
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Hi, friends. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on. I'm so excited to actually see you face to face, not just be like a signature on an email.
00:25:15
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Exactly. So true. So if you've listened to our show before, hopefully know what's coming up next is we're going to do your 32 count life story. I'm ready. I think I'm ready. Well, I'm excited too. We're going to give you eight off the mat for free. And then you just jump right in. You get 32 counts, which is about 30 seconds. Tell us your entire life story from birth to today. However, you want to throw it all together. Okay.
00:25:46
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Well, I am Bobby Biddle. I'm originally from Delaware, that very small state in the Mid-Atlantic. I grew up performing Color Guard at the University of Delaware Visual Arts Production Company. I marched in Apex. I marched in the Black Watch. I am the director of the Miss Philadelphia Scholarship Program. I work at Show Day Designs. And I'm currently the director of the marching band at Plymouth White Marsh High School in the Philadelphia area and also their indoor Color Guard.
00:26:16
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I also work with Jeremy for Philadelphia Pride 365. Yeah, I think I kind of did it. So I have a question just right off the bat. Have you ever heard of free time? Right. Well, right. Exactly.
00:26:31
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Tonight, my students, my drumline and my color guard students have their friends and family, but I raced home to jump on for this. There's some free time, but, you know, the idle hands of the devil's workshop, I guess, so. Well, now that you're here, I want to chat with everybody about what we're going to do in Dayton this week because
00:26:52
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Seriously, this is epic. We've been planning it for so long. Bobby, can you tell us about some of the people that Show Day is going to have in the booth for us to talk to on the pod? Well, I do think that that's still a work in progress. I do think that people are still figuring out their schedules. I am told that you all sort of have it, I think, more figured out than we do with some of your own ideas for guests. But I do want to say that
00:27:19
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I'm excited that those of you that know Joe Heinegger, he's one of those sort of undercover, secret, like brainiac, brilliant designers in the entire activity. He doesn't insist upon himself. He just lets his talent speak for himself. But those of us that know Joe know that Joe is a power player in the design world. So it's exciting that we're this year a gold level sponsor for WGI.
00:27:45
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And of course, this idea of partnering with on a water break just felt so natural. And why not bring some attention to our own booth and bring some great guests onto your program. So we do have some clients of ours at Norwin High School, independent world out of the Pittsburgh area. I believe they're going to be on the Magnolia Project. They're independent open. They're in the Midwest. Milford High School in Ohio, a scholastic world.
00:28:13
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the Black Watch, uh, independent world out of South Jersey, also out of South Jersey, AMP Winter Guard, of course we all know AMP and love AMP. So I think that that's an example of probably a few of the guests that we're looking forward to featuring on the podcast at World Championships.
00:28:28
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I'm so excited. So, so, so excited about this. We want everybody who can just come stop by and be part of the show, be a part of the audience, enjoy this fun. We're just going to be having like the whole throw out the whole WGI championships on a water break. So it's going to be amazing. And can I also throw in
00:28:47
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If Blessed Sacrament wanted to stop by, I would not complain. Just throwing that up. All right, it is time to dive a little bit deeper into who we are excited to see live and dating this week. Let's each start with our top pick. And if you have a second one, that's cool too. We don't have to be, you know, sticklers about this. Ricardo.
00:29:08
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Oh my god. This is hard because there are so many people that I am very excited to see. I mean I live in Florida so I see I saw a lot of great color guard last weekend at our state championships at the FFCC championships over in Daytona Beach but I'm excited to see some groups outside of Florida. I'm really excited to see Paramount
00:29:33
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in person just because what they do is amazing. And I will be interviewing Rick Subol and Andrea Forish for this podcast next week, so.
00:29:47
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I'm excited to see what they're going to do. I am really excited to see my Cavalier brother and former boss, Danny Wiles, Avon High School. First of all, I was planning on doing that song next year for my group and then I got a video of them doing it and I'm mad about it. But when I saw it, I was like, I can't be mad because this is beautiful.
00:30:08
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It's just everybody. I am such a color guard nerd, and there are so many groups that I'm just gonna be in the gym, in the arena, sorry, not the gym, the arena, ready to see. Lexis, I'm excited to see my group eclipse in person, because I've never seen them in person through the show, other than just at rehearsals when I've been there. There's so many people. So I'm gonna be cheering for everybody. Everybody, that's it.
00:30:33
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I know you always have the dish. Who are you excited for? Nobody here on this podcast is going to be surprised at my answer whatsoever. Anybody that sat with me at any of the East Coast regionals will know my answer by heart. In late January, I saw this color guard at a local show and I said this is the best scholastic egg guard I've seen since
00:30:54
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The last time I said that in 2012 when I watched Somerville High School at this very same show in West Orange, I said, this is the best scholastic egg guard I've seen since insert the prior one, Arlington High School.
00:31:10
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is my surprise favor or you must see them. You must make it happen and get there to see them. I spoke to Burke cousins this week about potentially coming on the podcast with us live at the show day designs table. He's working on it. He's
00:31:28
Speaker
No pressure, right? He's in the zone right now. He's trying to figure it all out. I told him, I know you'll be busy until Saturday. He's kind of putting on the carbon cap when I say that right now, but I don't really think he needs to. I think this is a special program.
00:31:46
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I said it from the first time I saw it in January, the way that they take the whole Lucy Borden thing, they tie you in with hurt by Christina Aguilera, how I hurt myself by hurting you, and the introduction of the first flag with the exchange. I could go on all day, but that is, I'm trying to figure it out. I land Thursday night in Cincinnati,
00:32:07
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I'm trying to figure out if I can make it in time to Kentucky to see their prelims run. Like I am obsessed with this show and this color guard and I really hope and I really think this is their year. It's going to be so much fun to see what they do with it, Stephanie. So obviously I want to see my own kid, but if you haven't checked out Alta Maria yet, you need to check it out. It's really a fantastic show. One of my favorites, I saw it in Atlanta a few weeks ago, also got to see Paramount live.
00:32:35
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Twice. Incredible. Avon is my favorite show but the one that has not been mentioned yet that I've always been a fan but for when I saw this in Atlanta for finals I was like oh this is next-level fan now is Etude. Absolutely just a beautiful show to watch.
00:32:57
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Beautiful. Yes, they're always beautiful. They are, yes. And just, there is just something about this show this year. It is just so easy on the eyes and it's just, you know, you can just watch it for the pure enjoyment and you just, like your whole body goes soft. You're just so relaxed watching it. But don't, don't sleep on A2 this year. I think it's the best one that they've done.
00:33:25
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I love those soft, beautiful shows. Just knowing that Color Guard is so pure and gorgeous and being able to bring that out, Ashley. So I can't really think of one specific group, but I am so excited to watch the Scholastic World Guards. They are absolutely my favorite category to watch because
00:33:50
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It's like these kids are what, 12 to 18. And the things that they're doing is equivalent to the things that independent world, which is mostly 18 and over, they're doing the same exact things. And some of them are doing it better. So yeah, but I think I'm most I always look forward to seeing Miami's Berg.
00:34:17
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because Heather Graham works with them and she's always been kind of like an idol to me in the color guard world because she started as a twirler, I started as a twirler, so I feel like we're like connected. I like to think we are. Yes.
00:34:34
Speaker
We haven't had Heather Graham on the show yet, have we? We need, Heather Graham, we need to get you down. I interviewed her on the Spintronics podcast, on a previous podcast that I used to host for Spintronics, and it was fantastic talking to her. I feel like we connected on a whole other level. She's incredible.
00:34:49
Speaker
I did not know that she was a bullet for alert, but that makes so much sense now. When you watch the work that she writes, she wasn't yet. I see it. Yeah, she was in a group called the Daily Debutants out of, I think it's Wisconsin, and their thing is like Irish, so she was like the little leprechaun in their parade court group.
00:35:22
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She puts a profile picture of her. She's like she's four and she's yeah, it's like every single day she changes it.
00:35:30
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Yes, I love it. Well, Heather, Graham, you are a celebrity and we are all obsessed with you. So make sure you come stop by the booth of WGI. We're gonna have some fun. Bobby, what are you looking forward to? Yeah, so obviously our clients, our show day design clients are good.
00:35:48
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I will say, yeah, hooray. A couple that I haven't seen that I'm excited to see, we work with Tampa Independent out of Florida. LaVout, I think they're out of Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri. All of the Origins teams, they're always just put forward such polished, great programs.
00:36:12
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I'm always cheering on Team Canada. Cynthia and I go way back. We're all buddies. And so I'm always so impressed and proud with the unique perspective they bring to our activity. So I'm excited to see all of Team Canada. And I'm always rooting for our local team. So we're based in Philadelphia. So those New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware teams, I'm always rooting for them. So I'm pretty excited to see all of those groups.
00:36:43
Speaker
Can I also throw something in about origins? I, when we went to WGI with Spintronics in 2022, you know, we
00:36:51
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We were going for the experience of it and we had such a great time with it. And when we showed up, the first group that was like, oh my gosh, we're so glad you guys are here was Origins. They like- It's so nice. They came out of the woodwork to like welcome us and make us feel like we were, we belonged and we were excited to be there and they were excited to have us there. And like, seriously, every Origins group, they were like so nice and they were so welcoming and open and like, it was just great. It was great. It was an awesome experience.
00:37:20
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Cynthia, who are you excited about?
00:37:23
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Well, our producer said we should only say one, and I'm not calling out. We all said more than one, but everyone knows that I'm a nerd. No, I said you can say more than one. I mixed in. I said, yeah, don't listen to Jeremy. I feel like the most very predictable, but I'm glad that Trish said an eight class, because I think everyone that goes to WGI should try to go other places than UD Arena. Just putting out there, like no group in particular, if you can.
00:37:52
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Oh girl, I'm going to be floating to A-Class and Open Class because all the kids deserve the praise. Oh, go. And they're great. I love Nutter Center in particular. It's just good to see kids perform, not just in the UD arena.
00:38:09
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Obviously the Canada crew that are going to be performing, and if you listen to the roundtable, on Thursday you can make it all. There's one at like 10.30ish, there's one at 5.30ish, and then there's one at 6.30ish, and they're all at 15 minutes of distance of one another, so you can make it all.
00:38:28
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But that's where I feel like I land being predictable. I like being uneased, if that's a word. So I cannot wait to see Onyx. Everyone knows that I'm a big, big, big Onyx fan. I've always been an Onyx fan. I've always been a fan of anything that is kind of different and uneasy.
00:38:47
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If you don't understand it, I like it. It's just the way I am. And this past week, I think Michael Lenz talked about how he changed the tune of the note, if you've seen, because it does make people uneasy. That note.
00:39:02
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and it got, I think, lowered a little bit so it gets less uneasy, but it is. If you've watched, there's a bunch of shows that just popped on YouTube, but if you've watched it at the end, you are, I don't know how to, you're uneasy. I don't think I can say, like it doesn't feel, I'm kind of worried that my daughter by like half of the show is gonna be crying when we want to walk out, and I'm gonna be like the bad mom being like, no, you sit down and you go through this. It's gonna be a life experience.
00:39:31
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her dad is not gonna be happy about that but anyway so i want to see them i want to see that and i want to see fentasia in person too i don't know if we've talked about this here but they're doing the show about gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel gabriel
00:39:56
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Cynthia's not speaking in her native tongue, so it's okay.
00:40:14
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Fantasia is doing a show about Gabriel Hernandez. I'm not gonna be able to say his name, but the little boy that went through horrible, horrible shorts. Gabriel Hernandez, yes. Merci, Bobby. There was like a Netflix documentary or a documentary about him, yeah.
00:40:30
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Yeah and and it's been some people have been like not agreeing with the subject or agreeing with the subject or having opinions and but the director I think had had he put out there on on Instagram why that was an inspiration and and the story behind it and why they're doing this and
00:40:50
Speaker
And I think it's really, really interesting. So yet again, I like to be uneased. So I cannot wait to see in person. I think, Ricardo, are they local-ish to you? Have you seen them live? Which group? I'm sorry. Mentasia. No, that's in California, babe. I live on the other coast. I don't know. I'm in Canada. There's like 12... America's the law in April. I live on one extent and then on the other one. I know.
00:41:17
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People know me. It's okay, baby. I don't know Canadian geography either. I know, not one bit. Well, that's good. Anyway, so if you can see it, I cannot wait to see them. I'm already, I've already mentioned it, but I'm really excited for Blessed Zach. Those of you who- Can we, can we please, please talk about it. Please talk about Zach.
00:41:38
Speaker
They're amazing. Go for it. I haven't watched it yet. No, I haven't watched it yet. I don't know. I just excited about SAC. What I was going to say is that this is why I'm a history buff. Christian and I saw it live. It's like living history. Tell me. Tell me. I haven't seen it yet.
00:41:57
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So, Trisha and I got, I know Trisha and I got to see it live, Jeremy, too, I believe, at WGI East. And my personal takeaway, well, first of all, the music is just, I mean, it's all that great Bernstein stuff, which is really hard to get the rights to, so kudos to them. It is quite an experience.
00:42:21
Speaker
But I think the thing that I'm most impressed by, and I always think this when I see, let's say, the Blue Devils, I'm so impressed by the professionalism of the performer. And that just is so mind blowing. I think that, and not every group and every performer always has a perfect run, but you believe them. You believe them when they take the floor and you're like, I know this is gonna be something special. And of course, they just always give us iconic productions.
00:42:49
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Trish, I turn it over to you. You've been watching them for ages.
00:42:53
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Honestly, honestly, this was gonna lead me to my second can't miss moment in Dayton. I really can't wait to see for, I mean, for the first time in a long time, I really can't wait to see how this whole independent world thing is gonna play out. Because honestly, I mean, we're all talking about SAC. I personally think it is SACs here, but then you have a little known, little known fact, Fusion actually really beat SAC in East Prelance.
00:43:24
Speaker
Yes, there was a penalty that got involved there. So now, confusion topped them. Where does Paramount fit into that mix? You know, you have A2, like Stephanie mentioned earlier, then you have Onyx, then you have Fantasia, then you have-
00:43:40
Speaker
yeah it could really it could be really really interesting for the first time in a long time it's not like last year that's i've said it before the top three i could have interchanged either way but this year there's not like i could have seen prime winning last year i could have seen i was happy about what i love that show but you could have seen sack you could have seen
00:43:59
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This year, it's like you just don't know. It could change every day. It could be prelims, one set, semis, finals. Stephanie, it honestly could. This year, it really could. That's what makes it exciting though, when you don't know who's going to win and you're excited to see all these different groups. That to me, I would much rather be in my seat going, oh my God, these kids are amazing. It could go either way than to walk into it
00:44:25
Speaker
a night where it's like, oh, well, this is gonna go to them, hands down. That's boring. The performance of the night, performance of the night. And if the judges do what they're supposed to do, they're judging that night. So it can go either way. So whoever has the best show, whoever catches hard and on tape, that's who it's gonna go to. And on tape, I love it. And on tape. Everybody should die.
00:44:53
Speaker
Everybody needs to try to go to all the venues to see as many of these teams as you can while you are there at WGI. It's just it's so great to be able to support them all. We are going to be at these venues looking for people to talk to. So if you see one of us, I know do we all have backpacks? I know some of us have backpacks.
00:45:13
Speaker
I'm going to be podcasts ready to go. So do you see me and you want to talk? Let's go. Our backpacks with the logo on a water break logo, stop us and be like, Hey, I want to be on the show. And then we will. I know Ashley's got one because she was sending pictures of hers rhinestone to the group chat.
00:45:36
Speaker
We were talking about on Easter Sunday, I was like, I think I have some extra rhinestones. And it worked out to be like the perfect colors. And I had just the right amount. I was like, this was meant to be totally different. I'm very jealous of these rhinestone backpacks. Ashley, I told you that in the group chat. I expect one for Ricardo Robinson Day, which is April the 5th.
00:45:59
Speaker
For those of you who live in Florida, it is an official day. Look for that post, but I want one for her wedding today. That is my Sunday activity. I have cleared my calendar on Sunday and pulled out all the old dance rhinestones. And so there might be two rhinestone backpacks, but I saw yours and was like, my heart.
00:46:21
Speaker
I am such a bling girl. So thank you for that inspiration. You're gonna be like peeling them off of old costumes. I love it. All right, you guys, let's get back out on the floor. We've got a couple more reps to do before we are dating ready. And then we'll be back on our water break in just a minute.
00:46:51
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Hey everyone, it's Jeremy, and here are your announcements coming from the box. You wanna drink up on a water break lost in translation with Cynthia Bernard, uncover the glitz and glamour of twirlers with on a water break in rhinestones hosted by Lexi Duda, get the insider scoop from the stands with on a water break from the stands with Cindy Berry, aka Leander Mama, and join the band family in on a water break family style with Stephanie Klik, plus much, much more to come.
00:47:21
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00:47:51
Speaker
Okay, everyone, it is that time in the week where we go off against something that is bugging us in the marching arts world. We call it, what are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? Okay, listen, I know that I've been doing my daily waterings, but here, what are we doing? We are at the end of the season.
00:48:19
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I love that you love your children, okay? But everybody's child has been working hard. Do not go into the gym to see these final performances that these kids have spent months working on and only clap for your child, okay? Here we in.
00:48:42
Speaker
We won't talk politics. I did not agree with a lot of Bush's things, but no child left behind applies here. No child should be left behind in Color Guard. All of these kids have worked hard. All of these instructors have put their hearts out on the line.
00:48:59
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clap for everything that is good that you see at a championship performance. Do not hold your claps just for your child. It ain't gonna give them more points, girl. The judges are not judging by your claps, but the kids are responding to their hard work and they are responding and performing to the energy that you get there. Give them all the praise.
00:49:25
Speaker
What are we doing? Do not clap only for your kids. Clap for all the kids. That's it. Period. End of story. I'm done. Trish. Okay. What are we doing with these insane airplane fees to get out to Dayton? I'm flying into Cincinnati. I got a really good break, but I looked at, since I'm off this week, I was like,
00:49:48
Speaker
Maybe I could change it and fly directly into Dayton. Maybe I could, I'm going, I live, I work like half an hour from Newark airport and I'm flying out of LaGuardia, which is in, you know, New York. And I was like, what, you know, I was looking today, I was like, maybe I could change it. Maybe I can like, you know, maybe things.
00:50:07
Speaker
Like $500 from Newark to Dayton or Newark to Cincinnati. I'm like, you got to be kidding me. How are you people getting your kids? I'm bringing kids out next year. Like, how are we doing this? And I've heard people talk about the bus. The cost of the bus. Oh, my God. Well, I'm flying into Cincinnati. But yeah, I think that's what's going to have to happen. That's what I'm doing. What are we doing with these air flight, air fees? Oh, my gosh. I'm driving. It's insane. I'm driving. It's insane.
00:50:35
Speaker
It's going to be like 12 hours, but I'm just going to drive it. Yeah, it's crazy. Stephanie, what are we doing? What are we doing with these parents that have never been to Dayton before? And all of a sudden, they're our floor crew.
00:50:50
Speaker
Make sure if all of a sudden you don't have your best friend's guard from down the road that's going to help you on and off the floor in Dayton and it's all of a sudden it's mama and daddy and little sister that you got to do that at home before you get on your expensive flight to Dayton. Practice run. You got to do that practice run with aunt Glenda and mama and daddy that have never done it before. Aunt Glenda.
00:51:20
Speaker
out the wrong door. She is going to be doing a horizontal timeline and you're a vertical. So if you are not using the same people, your friends from down the street, and you got a whole brand new set of people, what are you doing? You're doing some practice runs on and off the floor with your friends. I am cackling right now at Linda and her vertical timeline and drove you on a horizontal.
00:51:46
Speaker
If y'all don't do a practice move, do you know it? It's gonna be a hurt. Get a little bit out there and practice, honey. She has to do her role. Yeah, that's right. If you just wrote the first Anna Waterbreak merch t-shirt, it's A-Y-I-1.
00:52:03
Speaker
So just so all of our listeners know, there is a Facebook group to help with this problem. Get on it. It's called the WGI Directors and Instructors for Floor Help. Get you another guard who needs help, who's not performing at the same time as you. Help each other out. That's seriously, that saved us. That's amazing. We had a friend of mine. I had no idea. Yeah. That's amazing.
00:52:30
Speaker
Wow. My friend Michael Turner brought his Tennessee kids out and they helped us with our floor and it changed the entire experience. I think if we hadn't had that help, it wouldn't have worked. So yeah, get out there, get on that group and find somebody. Ashley, what are we doing? So mine is an actual question. What are we doing? I've heard people call WGI, but they also call it Debbie. But I've heard that calling Debbie is offensive.
00:53:00
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Can someone elaborate?
00:53:03
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It's Debbie! I never heard of that offensive, ever! It's weird, I don't like it. It's weird, I don't like it. It's all, I think it's cute. Debbie's not invited. Debbie's not invited. Cynthia! Cynthia, would it be, would it be devila, devila?
00:53:35
Speaker
These are the same people that when they used to have the WGI South Brunswick Regional hated when they called it SOBRO. I've never known it as a thing that's SOBRO. Oh, I totally called it SOBRO. So I have a friend who makes a joke about this every year and he said, he says, I've been to WGI like 20 times and I have never met this Debbie person.
00:53:57
Speaker
Debbie's not there. She's not invited. Debbie is there. She is always there. You just gotta know Debbie. Debbie GI. I guess it's one of those things if you don't know, you just don't know. Sorry, Bobby. Bobby, what are we doing? I feel like being on the side of it that you're on, you have so many of these. Well,
00:54:18
Speaker
Well, I'm going to be a little bit corny. Will you all bear with me? What are we doing to help all of these incredible people that you plan to interview in our booth showed a design clients? I mean, what are we doing? Help, help us to help you to help them, please. But I will say,
00:54:40
Speaker
on a more serious note what are we doing about being unorganized at a show with your planning with your transportation maybe that seems very broad that may be the sort of band director in me but what are we doing with like
00:54:56
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not knowing whether we're coming or going. We haven't planned enough time to get from point A to point B. I'm not here for that. And I feel like Ricardo is not here for it either. I have an Excel spreadsheet for everything. I have an Excel spreadsheet for my poop schedule every day.
00:55:13
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Yeah. Thank you, Ricardo. Oh my God. You just thought about it. Like directors, you need your own schedule on top of like, you need your kid's schedule, but you need a director's schedule because there's so many stuff as a director, but like, Ricardo, you're right. You need a minute to go to the bathroom as a director. You also have to plan. What are you doing without having an Excel spreadsheet for everything? And you have to plan. What are you doing if you're not? You have to check in. That's not part of something you do with kids.
00:55:39
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You have to plan for every mishap. You have the first competition my team went to this year. The school district busted and show up. The equipment van broke down. The we went to the wrong school because it was a school district that had two high schools. You have to plan for everything. And because I was overorganized, there was enough time to make it happen. So what are we doing with not being overly planned? I guess that's what I would say.
00:56:11
Speaker
That's a good one. That's a good one. Gotta make that happen. Cynthia, what are we doing? If I'm allowed, I have two. The first one is the eyebrows are raised. Maybe I'm not allowed, but I'm taking it.
00:56:23
Speaker
What are we doing with shared rehearsal space? Watch out for your music. Be friends. Be friends of friends because we are all in the same boat. So there are groups that everyone know will play their music out of everyone's ear and that won't stop. And there are other groups that are like, no, you play your music louder than mine because
00:56:45
Speaker
it's gonna get my kids on top of their feet and stuff so just be nice and and be careful with your music and don't it's basic things like if tarps are back to back put your radio to the wall instead of towards the speaker towards the other thing about like shared WGI warm up like rehearsal spots rehearsal spots yeah yeah because there's a lot of those right and
00:57:09
Speaker
There's tennis courts. All the tennis courts, and they're good. They're good spaces in general. Just be careful, be friends between each other. And I don't even think some of the people, it's not because they're competitive. It's just because they're so into it with your own kids, right? So be careful with that. And the other thing, and then maybe it's going to be another debate like Debbie is, but You Got It is not a way to support.
00:57:35
Speaker
Oh, big eyebrows. Oh my God. Can I share? Can I share? Can I share real quick? I think a lot of people maybe on the call know the name Matt Hurley. Maybe that's why. He's on the other side of a wall over there, by the way. But he has this opinion of you got it. No, you don't have it. You don't got it.
00:57:59
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You ain't got it, girl. And put it in your hands, you ain't got it. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. The floor got it. But I have that statement in the back of my head. So, Cynthia, continue. Yeah. So, my thing, it's a little bit like Matt. It's the, you got it is the, you ain't got it. And that's why it's not something. And I will go back to what Ricardo said. Clap. When I was a director, I would say clap for efforts, not just for sex. So, there was a lot of S's in this.
00:58:28
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So if someone don't got- I'm putting that on the T-shirt. If people don't got it, don't say you got it, clap for them. Do you know what I mean?
00:58:39
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Cause you got it is not a, is not a phrase that is necessarily cute. And I don't think that a lot of people, it's just, I even say it sometimes and I'm like stopping my own cell phone. Like, can you please? So yeah, we don't say you got it at the beginning of the season, but girl, it's championships and the end of times. Now, if you, if you don't got it, girl, you ain't got it. Hey, you ain't got it. Hey, Jackie. Time to get it.
00:59:03
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Jackie Jackie could I be so bold for just a quick second as the guest host
00:59:10
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And hey, I'm going to say it and I'm going to cut out. What are we doing with the extra long purr, clap, slay, work, honey? I was just going to say that. Oh my God. I was just going to say that. All right, so then I turn it over to Trish. Are we top-top purring everybody this year? Stephanie, I'm looking at you and the state of Texas right now. I know. Why can we not just go, the stars at night? And the fans.
00:59:36
Speaker
That's the end. Girl, I tried last year to figure it out. I don't even know what was going on. I don't know what was happening. And I want to tap, and I want to be a part of the magic. But listen, our chants are too long. It's too much. We're going to do our thing. And then that's it. You get eight counts, and you're out. Eight counts from the mat, and you're out.
00:59:55
Speaker
It's too much. And then I went, I went to Georgia and I went to the Atlanta finals. And then that was a whole other thing that was like 47 counts of a clap. And I was like, Oh my God, it has to stop. You know, your timing penalty. Too long. Too much, too much. And here I'm in a group on a WGI group on Facebook where Indiana guard directors were trying to coordinate with how they could get
01:00:22
Speaker
something going for their Indiana groups, like what Texas has at WGI. And it was like, just stop, don't do it. We had the team Florida thing that we're supposed to be doing. And I'm like, listen, if this is more than eight counts, we're gonna stop. And in the Northeast, we don't care. We just don't care. Just get on the floor and do your thing. We all need to adopt that.
01:00:51
Speaker
I think that's going to be a daily watering this week. Look for that one. It could be. All right. I guess it is time to jump into our gush and goes. And this week we are going to be gushing and going at some of our favorite things in Dayton, Ohio for WGI championships. Great job, everyone. Set your equipment down. Gush and go.
01:01:14
Speaker
All right, Ricardo, why don't you jump off on this one? Listen, I don't know this, but my husband is actually from Dayton, Ohio. So in all of the years that I was coming to Dayton and all this stuff, my husband and I, our paths were crossing in different ways. So I get to experience WGI as both a family trip and a color guard trip.
01:01:39
Speaker
So I'm gonna tell everyone, especially those of you who are in percussion world after this podcast airs, if you were in Troy, Ohio, go to Agave and Rye and have some of their crazy taco creations. I'm talking about these people put mac and cheese, they put all sorts of crazy things that you would never think that works on a taco, but it works on a taco.
01:02:03
Speaker
and it is great. Last year when I took my kids to WGI for the first time, we actually stayed in Troy, Ohio because I knew the neighborhood that the hotel was in. We were going to be close to family and I took all of my kids to agave and ride for tacos after we got there and the kids are still talking about it to this day. We want to go back to Dayton, Ohio and go to Troy, Ohio to have tacos
01:02:28
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at Agave and Rye. So that's what I'm most excited about. I didn't get them at Christmas on my Christmas trip because it was too busy crazy, but I'm going immediately on Wednesday night after my flight lands.
01:02:41
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Okay. So probably many of you have brought your team there, but I can't miss a date and it's the spaghetti warehouse. It is the food is great. They do really good deals for the color guards that go there. Um, you could go by, you know, you could go just with friends or you could bring your whole team. You know, you have to call, make a reservation, but it is
01:03:02
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and you always see groups there and everybody's all like, some of the teams are like dressed up because it's like their big night out, but it's a great experience and don't miss it. Make reservations, probably. Yeah, every time I brought a team there, just call and make reservations.
01:03:19
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Stephanie. Well, keeping on food, if you want a good breakfast, you got to go to the greasy spoon of Bob Evans. We don't have those down here. We don't have those in Texas. And let me tell you, it is one of those places, probably the health department should probably shut it down, but it is so good. It is so good. And it is a good Southern, just Southern little breakfast. It looks like it's in a barn kind of thing, but that's my, so my gosh, is that. And my goal is,
01:03:49
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I have been going to WGI since 1990 and I am just wondering, and maybe one of y'all knows, if the construction is done at that exit to get off for UD Arena. How has it been going for 35 years? We have been doing the construction. It is my hope this year that that construction is finally done.
01:04:10
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I'm dating twice a year, Stephanie, and it will never be done. I mean, I didn't know that I've ever even seen a worker, like from the 90s. Like it's just barrels and all of that. So, so my Bob Evans and I'm just, I'm even just, let me see a worker. Let me see a worker.
01:04:33
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I don't, I think the only thing I'm like, well, not the only thing. I'm really just excited to go watch Color Guard and enjoy it because I haven't been to that many shows this year, like in person, but like I've had a rehearsal every weekend. Like for my kids, we're just doing like local, local circuit. It's our first year. So we are.
01:04:55
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certainly not anywhere close for WGI. But after rehearsal, we would get to rehearsal and then I come home and I see the mini East power regionals on flow marching or the East regionals on flow marching. I'm like, oh, I can watch more color guard. So I leave color guard rehearsal and then come home and then watch more color guard. So I'm excited to see it all in person. That is what I'm saying. I think I am.
01:05:25
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I am gushing about the kindness of people from the Midwest that when I am as a Mid-Atlantic Philadelphian, I am not used to, good morning, how are you? How y'all doing? I'm not used to that. So I'm gushing about it and I'm sharing it with our listeners because
01:05:49
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It can be jarring. Those of you from the South, that is in your bloodstream, but it's not what we're used to. I don't know how it is in Canada since, yeah, it seems like you all are very much like New Englanders.
01:06:05
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So I'm gushing about how wonderful the lady at the local Dunkin Donuts is. I'm gushing about how kind the gentleman is at the desk at the hotel. So I'm gushing and I'm asking our listeners to go with kindness and go with thank yous and good mornings and hellos.
01:06:27
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Thank you for your time. I know this is a busy weekend, so thank you for all that you're doing, the volunteers in the arena and all of the performance spaces. So that's what I'm gushing and going about.
01:06:41
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Cynthia the Jeremy's gonna find me annoying but apparently there's gonna be friendship bracelet this year I am so excited we're making and I said to my kids on Wednesday night the Canadians are we're all staying at the same hotel we're gonna have a friendship bracelet night where we're gonna make bracelets and I think if one person gives me a bracelet I will cry my eyes out
01:07:06
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I have one for you. My elementary cadet color guard is making braces for me to train at WGI. So when you guys come to the booth, this show day design booth, to get your interview with us, I'm going to have braces that were made by my little babies. Oh my God.
01:07:23
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And I think what is so touching for me is that we don't, like Bobby said, we're kind of all wanting to experience it, but we're all stressed out because we all have a place to go, right? And this makes us stop and talk for a second to someone or sometimes you don't have the time, but switching a bracelet is just enough.
01:07:44
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And on that note, on Friday night, the A-Class finals is an event to be at because world-class kids are not performing. The stadium is full, and it's a great moment. If you're a fan of a performer whatsoever, but of a world-class performer, they're most of the time all there, and stopping them and seeing how great they are, and we'll prime and pump it out for Saturday night.
01:08:10
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So, yeah, for each of what I said, I'm going to have them and I'm bringing back the... I had a tradition where I had maple candies and I was just giving maple candies to whoever wanted. So if you want a maple candy and you cross me, I will have those. And yeah, just stop, take a second and say hi. Do you know what we're giving out? Trace of Putin. Putin! That's a lie. That's a lie. There's some Canada. Let's go.
01:08:34
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Yeah, we used to do that as cabs. I would bring all this stuff to make poutines on finals at DCA. My three favorite food groups. Potatoes, cheese, and gravy. And gravy. Mm-hmm. Here for it. You need to go to Bob Evans. Yes, yes. You get all three of them. Bob Evans has all.
01:08:55
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Yeah, Bobby is doing this because this is one of the things that you may not know, but ask a Quebecer. It's one of the funniest thing to ask wherever restaurant and say, can you please give me fried gravy and cheese and see what comes out? Because I mean, a billion time out of a billion. It's not a poutine, but you're right. It's it's along the way. I have a gush and go more of a request.
01:09:18
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for anybody who's listening, or for any of you guys too, if you want to, is to go and DM me on Instagram. And I need some advice about having little ones and being pregnant at WGI. Where's all the bathrooms? Where can I fill my water bottle up 18 times? How old is your kid? He is two and a half.
01:09:42
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All right, so with what Bobby said about how nice people are, if you go to UD and you look like you're a mom of a young kid, they're going to open doors for you. Like I have a picture of Baba giving a bottle of Saha who's six weeks old, like laying on popcorn bags.
01:09:59
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behind the campaign. Like, they're really, really nice. I will take that baby anytime. I will hold that baby. You go, you do your thing. You do whatever. I will hold that baby. I'm a little more worried about being pregnant because I gotta also like juggle that too.
01:10:22
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I was pregnant with my, my son was a June baby. And so obviously I was like eight months pregnant at WGI with him, very pregnant. And they'll let you go behind any kind of barrier because I mean, you're looking pregnant. So nobody's gonna tell a pregnant woman you can't go in this bathroom that's supposed to be only for the judges. Like they're gonna let you go. That is the kindness of the people that are working there.
01:10:46
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And that goes back to what I was saying, the workers, the concession workers, that a lot of them, some of them are WGI specific people, but some of them are facility volunteers, they're UD Arena employees, actually. So I would lean into that if you need a moment. Look, Jackie, I'm gonna have the extra special badges. If you need to sit in the comfy red cushion seats, come find me, I can help you out.
01:11:16
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Even the parking people roll down your window and say, I'm pregnant. They're not going to put you in the back. They're going to usher you up to the front. They just are. They're so nice. They really are pretty genuinely humble. Since they're so nice, can we talk to them about bringing back the donuts?
01:11:34
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I love donuts. Where are the nuts? Where are the almonds or whatever they were? I know. Oh my God. Yeah. Does anybody remember the mini donuts? Please tell me somebody remembers the mini donuts. I do too. I remember those. Yeah. I remember them.
01:11:50
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Can that be the title? Where are the nuts and the... My boyfriend is every year, every year when WJ comes around, he's trying to think of a way that he could get like a mini donut concession like outside the arena. He'd make a fortune. Yeah. Hey, it's called gush and go, not gush and stay. Let's go.
01:12:18
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Thank you for a great rehearsal this week. Thank you to all of our hosts, Ricardo, Trish, Stephanie, Ashley, Bobby, and Cynthia. Thank you, Bobby. Where can we find you and show day on social media? Oh, well, first of all, thank you all for having me. It's such a pleasure. I've been listening for weeks and months and you guys do such an incredible job, which is the only reason why we would even agree to partner.
01:12:45
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with on a water break and all of you incredible hosts. So we are www.showdaydesigns.com on the World Wide Web. On Instagram, we are show, I think it's at showdaydesigns. Someone might have to double check. Jeremy, if you could put up a chyron, that would be great.
01:13:08
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But more importantly, as Jackie's been saying, come see us in Dayton. We're actually going to be there for both weekends. A larger weekend, next weekend with all of you, with the On A Water Break podcast. But we will actually have a bit of a presence on percussion weekend. We have some incredible percussion wins clients that we're happy to and proud to be partners with. So look for us there. But thank you again for having me tonight.
01:13:38
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And I'm so looking forward to meeting so many of you next week. And hey, let's turn up in the show day designs on a water break. Boo. Woo hoo. Yeah. One more thing. Ricardo and I, I feel like are going to really turn it up though. I think that's where the show is. Hey! You know it, baby.
01:14:01
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01:14:21
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01:14:49
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And until next time, thanks for tuning in.