The Council Episode 08 | That's a Wrap

In this, our final episode of the season, The Council remembers the season with clips, practices the virtue of gratitude with the first ever Number One Listener Prize and baptizes imaginations with accessibly pretentious shenanigans.  

Many thanks to you, our tens of listeners. We look forward to seeing you next season. 

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We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org.

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SPEAKER_01 0:02

In this final episode of The Council, we wrap up the school year with all accessibility and no pretension. We give the first ever most loyal listener award, the executive producers crash the podcast, and we look back on the highlights of the year. It's all coming up on the council. Welcome back to the Academy Podcast. Uh it is back. We're we're it's us again after the takeover of the last episode. Um also although, although, which was, by the way, fantastic. If you have not listened to the takeover, it was unbelievably well done. Um but also there's a little bit of something going on here, Eric, is Eric has been He's agitated. There's something and I tell you, I am agitated. Something is afoot. Yes, I am agitated. Uh and what I think it is, is I when I walked to our illustrious studio, the the millions of dollars that we put into our studio. Yeah. Here, um, I did notice that the executive producers are on campus. Yeah. So I now Eric's agitation has me a little nervous. Do you honestly? I don't I'm not sure. Just because they are on campus makes me nervous. Well, clearly you've got Okay. Yeah. All right. Look, after last time and the girls and the flowers and the gifts. Of which we have none, by the way. Right. Now I brought something up to them. Oh, and and they brought themselves? No Well, they I I just said that, hey, you know, you don't do that for us. And it it was a pretty bad meeting. No doubt. So you guys So we have the leftovers here. I've got a bag of something that used to be it's a tissue bag. Something was in the tissue, but no longer is that I guess I guess gifts are um not in the offering for everyone. It was a fun it was but I'm wondering what you guys when they told you about what about that you weren't coming in. Because they just told me the morning of. I didn't know anything. Nobody told me nothing. We were all in the dark, I think. Lindy gave the gifts? Yes.

unknown 2:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

She came in beforehand. What about podcasting and suggests gift giving? I I don't Right. I've uh It's a good question. It's clearly a statement as much against us as it is for the ladies.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

Right. Right. If you give one set of people something and you don't give another set of people something. It's a message. You're sending a message. It's a clear message. By not sending a message, you're sending a message. Right, right, right. We've been grinding this thing out for a decade.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Oh, easily. The girls do it once, they get five gifts each. Hold on. Has a podcast? It's been around for a decade.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

I think. Yeah, because they're one of the very original ones. Had Charity Khan on it. Back in uh like pre-Keria. Yeah, that was that was that I mean, yeah, yeah, it was a decade ago.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

We used to record these in the WoW Room.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

The WOW room. The Wow Room. Mr. Wow Room. Remember when we all fit fit in the WoW room? All the faculty used to fit in the wow room. Great. Wow, we all fit. And there were there was space left over. I kind of missed the WoW Room. It was uh it was a delightful something. No heat, no air. No, no heat. It was whatever the temperature was. Yeah. So guys. Oh no, no, no. Sorry, sorry, I was just saying transition. No, no, I'm just trying to keep it. Here it comes. I'm in year-end. Year-end wrap-up. Well, the other thing is old Father Carr over here has some hands to Glad. Apparently. He's got to get out of here at some point. Right. Some lame excuse about a nonspecific church event. Nonspecific.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

We just can't remember what nonspecific church event.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Right. Uh relative to a nonspecific church calendar time. And apparently you've got to go, whatever, do things for this. I do.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

I do. For the first time.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Oh no. See. Here we go. Oh, there are things.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Wow. What? Eric, your agitation paid off. What do you mean? Look, here are the executive producers. Yeah, it must have. It must have. Exactly. Executive producers have just crashed snacks. With snacks and gifts. And guess.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

No. No way. And shirts. What? A t-shirt. Tens of listeners.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

We have a t-shirt. We have a t-shirt. The Academy podcast. Tens of listeners. Wow. This is amazing. Eric, take your mic over so we can hear it. Eric, take back everything you've said about the executive. No, I've not said all the things that I've done. Oh no, I don't know. No, no, no. Yeah, it feels like we should start the podcast. No, we can't because you have to leave soon. But Eric, it was I I think you should say some sorry to them. Some kind of statement. Yeah, that we That what? That this was in fact amazing, and you believed in them the whole time that they would make things right for the podcast. Yeah. That's it. That's what you wanted to tell them, wasn't it? Yeah. Yep. Yeah. But you said it. So it wasn't a big deal. Look, you're wearing Karma's actually wearing it. She looks amazing. Yeah. It's fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Thank you all for all of the work that you've put into the podcast this year. Um, the conversation starters have been really great. I know people have been enjoying listening to them. I've enjoyed sending them to my sister and getting to talk about them each week and um for the council. So thank you all for all of the thought and time that you've put into the executive. That's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

Thank you, executive producers. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you, Lindy. Thank you. I haven't seen corn. I I don't know the last time I saw corn nuts.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

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SPEAKER_03 6:22

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SPEAKER_02 6:24

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SPEAKER_01 6:30

Melted Ice Pop Bubbly. I have not seen that one.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

I never got to do uh a live read of a sponsor. That weird. I did your own.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

You're gonna do one today.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

No. There is one. We have the sponsor today.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Yeah. Last week, I thought the I thought the takeover last week did an amazing job doing Nathan's voice for his version of it. I thought they did spot on. That was pretty, yeah, it was pretty spot on. Yeah. I thought it went well. I thought my favorite part, Eric, of the podcast with the takeover was your um massive goof at Grandparents' Day. It was fine. When you set several kinds of music going at the same time, you set your Metallica to go with it. It was fine. It was fine. Everything worked out. I heard a Justice for All story. A Justice for All was the text of the Grandparents' story.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

It was a great opener on that song.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

It was just uh background music, and it was like classical piano stuff, is what I chose. So that had just been playing in the background, and so when started up, yeah, it it got out of control. But hey, you know what? We handled it. You did handle it. Oh waffle cones? Only the best bit of the cone. Well, that's absolutely right. The bottom the very bottom of the cone is the best bit. Absolutely. Is that a sweet tea? Can I have that sweet tea? It's unsweet. Unsweet? It's no sugar. Still fine. But the leaf is pure. It's real brood tea. Not unreal brood tea. This is wild. It is. Look at these shirts. These shirts are amazing. I'm gonna wear mine every day. I cannot believe how cool this shirt is. Right. Beneath or on top of the vest. You'll find out. Okay. So how do we come back from that? How do we get back on that plane? Yeah, get us get us transitioned, Eric. What's the professional? Well, I guess we could Well, what do you guys want to do? So I've got some clips. You'd well, you did throw shade at me at that last one, the last uh episode of the Yeah. In the ladies episode? Yeah. My my need for a commercial break. Which I which is what the the the highest level podcasts do. So I think we should do our commercial break. And then let's jump in because that's that's the tradition of the thing. That's not what we do. We don't do that anymore. Okay. That's that's an old trend. Podcasts don't do that anymore. That's not true. That's why I gave you the stinger. The the second that I every the two seconds I get to listen to a podcast are the two seconds that it's always the commercial. Everyone stops and says, hey guys, just a minute in between the still happens. Trevor Burrus, Jr. You know how popular the podcast is by how many commercials it has before you actually get to any content. Trevor Burrus, Jr. We we we are now a top-tier podcast, which means we have to have um I mean top tier mediocre as well. We've gotten top-tier mediocre Yes. That's of course that's what a top-tier mediocre. In the mediocre category we're top tier. We're top-tier mediocre. Yeah. Top tier. We're not the top in top tier mediocre. If you're top, we're they were close.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

You have an option to pay monthly subscription fees to get out of the ads. That's top podcasting yet. We're not there yet. Those are everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

We don't want to put that on our and those ads get inserted automatically. Yep. Okay. So you you have to AI, but we're not gonna Yeah. We'll get there. What are we even doing? We could have AI do this podcast for us. I've heard that. We could what are we even doing? I could just train it on your voices. Yeah. And then just talk to you guys. Yeah, we could go, I don't know, we could be at PubDub right now. Right. Having happy hour instead of this. But before you go glad hands, we could this is what we could have been doing.

SPEAKER_02 10:24

Uh see ya. I'm out.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

All right, Eric, you'll do that. You got this. You know, you could do a live call-in show with it AI. I think you could finally have it your live AI. But also the I mean the real thing is in the crisis of our times, how does any listener know that's not already what we're doing? That right. That could be already what is and has been happening. Yeah. You don't know. Yeah. You don't. What would be the what would be the tell? How would you know? At this point, right. There's no way to know. Right. You just have to trust me. And yeah. And you you can't trust anybody. I've heard that. Yeah. It's a problem. Yeah. So are we doing this live read or what? Okay. All right. We'll do the live read. Um, let's see. Let's hear the stinger. Is there a stinger? No, I said let's do the speaking of AI stingers. The stingers. These are not Josh. This is your this is your uh Josh. This is your studio. No, this is your studio band. I get studios from amazing people. I have a network that I've kind of gotten into with uh singer-songwriter. The Dixie Chicks from last week was pretty great. It wasn't the Dixie Chicks. Yeah. Um, let me see. Gosh, you guys. I appreciate Natalie doing that stinger for you. You wouldn't say who it was, but I'm glad to say it out loud. Okay. It was Natalie from the Chicks. Oh, little Bob Marley.

SPEAKER_05 11:52

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unknown 12:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

You got a reggae band, you've got a country band. That's quite a network. People submit. Uh if you want to submit uh live read stinger music, uh email me at the podcast at the academyok.org. Outstanding. Thank you. I'm in I'm intrigued to see who's sponsoring us this week. So this week I was approached by uh athletics again. It's a lot of paper. Even though we've Oh dear. Don't worry about it. What are you worried about? I I know, I know, I know. But I thought it made sense. Um and you'll see see why. So uh anyway, we've got um everyone's got a line in it. Oh. Now, Andrew, don't say don't read anything. Okay. Uh don't ruin. Don't read anything. They ruined my Did you guys hear that they ruined my live read last week? Uh I think it was right for them to pause it and what the what? I think that I think Jen's, what is even happening? It wasn't Katie's right? Yeah. No. They were never finished. They were right to to to figure out what was going on. Um also you didn't say Katie was intimidating. You said the other two were intimidating. Are you not intimidated by Katie? No, strangely not. No, I don't, but I mean, possibly. I could be. Like if she w gave me a stern look. There's some she can do it. I mean, I can see that. It's in her bag. You just she doesn't pull it out very often, but once she goes to her bag, it's it's over. Okay. Uh live read guys. Let's let's let's do it. Uh Nathan.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

Okay. Here's a message from the Academy Athletics Department. So we all know that summers are long, sometimes brutal. Especially when you have to entertain your precious children. Track down babysitters and your life becomes slightly miserable. I have got a really great solution for cheap child care over the hot summer months. Stick them in one of our summer camps. Also, if you want to prepare your child for a professional career in athletics in any sport, with a guarantee from the athletics department that you won't pay a dime for college. Father Carr.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

This is a wildly inappropriate and very much inaccurate representation of what our athletics department is actually doing and will do with their summer camp programming, not to mention that there is no guarantee of scholarships.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Okay. I was just trying to get the gist of what they wrote in their script.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

There's nothing for it, Chence. Gents. We'll have to bring in Ben Patterson, Coach P to his boys. I was just about to say that. To tell us the real deal. Benny P. Let's come get in here. Ben. Hello everyone. Super awesome to be here. I'm Ben Patterson, Assistant Athletics Director at the Academy. This summer, you can sign your child up for a summer athletic camp of every sport that the Academy has to offer. From the hard word to the outfield to the putting green, and everything in between. Your children can learn the necessary skills of every sport that they could ever want to learn from so they can grow their athletic career. It's super fun and learn so much. Be on the lookout for the chance to sign up your student athlete for the best athletics camps this side of the Mississippi. More information coming soon. Don't strike out on this opportunity. Start the summer with a grand slam. Go Griffin Athletic! Alright, guys, I'll see you later, right? Thanks, Ben. Bye. Bye. Um, thanks, Ben. Bye, Coach P. He came all the way down to South Campus. He's a good guy. Yeah, yeah. He's great. He really is a good guy. He he is. He is our number one of our tens of listeners. I 100% number one of our channels. Josh, it's so funny that you bring that up. Yeah. Okay, but real quick, let me finish this call. Yeah, we got finished the live. I told Ben that, you know, here I just wanted to make sure that this got out because it is important. So summer camps this summer, they've got tons of them. So you're saying summer camps, there are camps this summer. Camps this summer for athletic camps. Not to be confused with the summer camps offered in the way that's a different time. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to clarify that. So we've got uh uh some of the sports can start as early as third grade, learning what it means to be a Christ-centered student athlete that embodies virtue and competition. And for every sport, though, they can start learning the necessary skills to pursue excellence in their favorite sport this summer. So be on the lookout for the chance to sign your student athlete up. You won't want to miss out on this incredible opportunity to grow your child's athletic skills. So thank you, Athletics Department. And you know, uh sign up. Sign up. Sign up. Free babysitting or child care? Child care. It's not free. You you have to pay for it. The childcare is free. You're paying for the camp, but the childcare is free. That's it. That's exactly what it is. Exactly. That is such a helpful framework. Yeah, right. Uh and and the guaranteed college scholarship is implied. Oh, and that is what I mean. It's a retroactive. Oh, but I did correct. But I did correct. We corrected that because of my own volition spontaneously. Yes. My own minds. A little carried away.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

Whatever it takes.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Okay, so uh what you were saying, Josh. So you so you would you say that Ben Patterson is our number one. I don't think there's any doubt about it. What about you guys? Yeah, I mean every week. I don't have a list. I mean, I don't even listen to the phone. If I did, he'd be on it. Ever since he got he is his first year, and he was the very first morning we put out a podcast, he listened to it. No, as a matter of fact, he went back and listened to previous episodes. What? Even the bunker. I don't know. I don't know how far he went back, but he he got enough. And so every Tuesday morning. We've all had enough. Every Tuesday morning he listens to the podcast in the like in the morning. It's when he's out running or walking at 6 a.m. And um and then he'll and every morning, uh Tuesday morning I come in, he's like, Great job on the podcast. Really liked it. This is very encouraging. I get fist bumps all the time. He he loves it. So I've never gotten a fist bump even from the executive producers. But definitely not that. No, no, no, no, no. They they don't yeah, I don't think that you can count on ever getting a fist bump from an executive producers. But Ben Patterson? Ben Patterson is always solid there for a fistbum.

SPEAKER_02 19:44

That's it. Right. Benny fist bump P. He's really studied us. I I mean he's really trying to figure us out. Yeah. Yeah. It's remarkable. A student of the school.

unknown 19:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Yeah. He's as close to figuring out as any of us. Yeah. Yeah. Seriously. I've been here 20 years. I don't know. He I don't I don't even know if I've started trying. No. Yeah. No. Thank you. And he really is like he's just a genuinely nice guy. He's a good dude. He's the guy, he's sitting in the right seat on the bus. Yep. For sure. Right. Right. Um Patterson. All that to lead up to, and it's just funny that you brought that up because we are doing our first of the podcast ever, but I figure we can do this every year. Yeah, why not? The number one loyal listener of the year award. Oh, that's funny. Okay. Right. Why not make it a competition? Yep. It's not a competition. It's absolutely a competition. No, no, no, no, no, no. Why not make it a competition? We just did an athletics library. Right. This is a competition. Right. But it's not about who wins or loses, Josh. I mean, we're going to name who wins. Yeah. That's it is about who wins or something. Sounds like it's about who wins. No, it's got nothing to do with how you play the game. It's wins and losses. Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

Nathan just looked at me like Can you honestly tell who's listened most often and for the longest.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

No, no. You have to go by like interaction. By fist vibes by number of fist bumps and stuff like that. So if yeah, if you um I mean we'll have to make a rubric for next year, probably. Right. Just so this doesn't. It's a guarantee there's going to be a lot of people that are gonna be able to do that. We'll get emails. Once the word gets out. We'll get emails. You know, he might be able to get the website. And that can be on the rubric. How many emails? Right. How many emails complaining about the last year's winner will tell us exactly who's actually listening?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Yeah. Yeah. Or we could just sell it. Without saying anything.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Right. Yeah. As long as we didn't have that. We'll be a view of the yeah. The the Academy first listener award sponsored by the first sponsor award. Right. Yeah. Okay. Well, in honor of Benjamin Patterson, coach P Ben Fistbump Patterson. Mm-hmm. The BFP. The BFP. Here we go. Thank you, Ben. Here's a little special something for you.

SPEAKER_06 22:13

He's most loyal. He's most loyal. He's our number one. Our number one. Our number one. Most loyal listener. Ben it peeps. Oh yes. Oh yes, Ben it pee. Benny Pete. It's Ben it P. Coach Pete. Benjamin Patterson. Our number one loyal listener of the year.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

Thank you, Ben, for uh for everything.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

That's gotta be a first. We've never had a song dedicated to a single staff member. No. In our ten years. Not staffing. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

It could be anyone. He just happens to be a good thing. It could be our Irish listener. At one point we had an Irish listener. So it could be Irish. It was a German guy. It was a German guy, Johan. Johan. Johan. Johann Sebastian. Fri Frickle 9. What's his name? But he left. Yes, yes. He's a good thing. I don't believe it. Okay. Well, uh, I'm sorry I didn't prepare that clip because I probably should. We should probably go back and you know listen to some of those. Anyway. So thanks, Ben. Are we truly out of international listeners? No, we've got international. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We're big time.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

Yeah, I didn't want to. Tens. Big time. I was almost sad right there.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Yeah. No, no, no, no. No. We're we've got, yeah. We're, you know. We fluctuated to I mean, we almost got to where we because when can you say hundreds? When there are hundreds. Well, no, but like is it like more than a hundred. Like two hundred? Yeah, that would be hundreds. That would technically technically. Over a hundred. Over a hundred. Okay. Just under two hundred. So we There you go. That'd be a hundred and one. Yep. Right. So we came close, I think, after the Christmas episode. But and then we didn't. It's fallen off. Yeah. It's fine. Oh, and we peak at Christmas. That's right. Where that's the place we should be.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Our biggest episode ever was fewer than 200.

SPEAKER_01 24:37

Yeah. What are we doing? Hey, you know, this is um, you know, uh this is just what we do it for the ch children.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

That's who's listening to it. It's the children. Oh, and I've also heard it from the girls. They're like, how many listens do we have? Because I and this was Jennifer Stahl. She's like, I was with some moms of the academy, and they were like, oh, that was the best episode ever. Yeah. I was like, oh, come on, you probably exaggerate. I don't think there's any doubt that it was far superior to the drivel we're putting out.

unknown 25:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

Well, come on, guys. That's pretty good. That's not simply self-deprecation. It's it's an honest assessment of where we're at.

unknown 25:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Okay. I I'm not saying it's the producer, but Andrew is opening up a bag of snacks. Kid Cod. I think that was and there it is. It's great. It's fine. I don't care this time. I don't care about audio fidelity this time. Let's fix that in post. Fix it in post. The EPs gave it to me. I feel like they want me to eat it. Yes, they do. They weren't chewing on online. That was very nice of them. Yeah, it was very nice of them. So uh I got some feedback on like what clips do you want to hear? Uh-huh. What do what what do people want to hear? So we're doing a lazy nineties sitcom clip show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Trevor Burrus In the technological milieu of the nineties sitcom, you couldn't access those clips on your own. No. The only access to them was if they replayed them in the show. So it kind of breaks down a little bit in our time. Yeah. Because you can just go back and listen to those. I mean, if you like it, you could as many times as you want. But the work but the work that Eric's done finally would be to find it for you so you didn't have to go back and find your favorite clips. That's right. Right. It's the curation. Right, right, right. No one's going to go back to it. Curated. I also the two, it's just fun to kind of bring it up again and talk about it. So this first one is high on the list of uh of requests and just people bring it up. Uh was Andrew's take on uh albums. So here we go. Hello. Andrew Black is back. Back in black. I've never heard that. Back in black. Back in black? This is the first time I've ever heard anyone say that. That's really that's amazing. No. Then we're the first to we're the first to rhyme. It's never occurred to anyone else. Have you ever listened to that album? Uh I I think I've heard that song. You've heard the song, but not the entire album. Not the entire album. You don't have the whole story behind the I'm I'm in the generation that doesn't listen to albums. Oh, that's true. Why would you do that to your singles? Why don't you correct singles? I I don't have the time. Trevor Burrus, Jr. Why aren't you against the machine? I think the albums are in some sense a product of the machine. No. No, no, no, no, no. I mean not exclusive, but they're good things. I'm not trying to understand. I'm not throwing all albums under the bus. I'm saying the infrastructure that allows for albums to exist is industrial. Right. If we're thinking about a machine proper, right. You don't have an album if you don't have. It's a post-industrial artifact. That's true. All right. So you stand. I just stand by all that. Why I don't have to stand by it. It's just obviously the case. Wow. It's not a value judgment. It's just a historical claim. It's verifiable or unverifiable. It's a verifiable history. There are no valueless historical claims. I'm not making a moral judgment. Sorry. I'll modify my. It's not a moral judgment. I'm not saying b albums are bad, therefore albums are bad. I'm saying look in look in the history books and you'll find this to be the case. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

You laugh. Like revisionist history books, those can be a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Is it because it's fine. Okay. Yeah. It's fine. It's normal. Because they're electronically recorded? Do you do you don't feel like anyone ever put together a collection of songs until after the Industrial Revolution? Or are you saying because they are digitally recorded and now available? What are the requisite characteristics of album for Andrew Black? Aaron Ross Powell Well, in the context we were discussing a metallic is it Metallica?

SPEAKER_01 29:11

An ACDs. I'm sorry. I told you I didn't listen to it. There's a big difference between the two. Okay. In the context we were talking about, the album meant album in its sort of 20th century sense. I think there are albums in the 19th century, but they mean something entirely different.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

Aaron Ross Powell What's that different thing that they mean?

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Well, like uh Wordsworth has a poem called Lines Written in a Child's Album. He's not talking about He was talking about ACDC's children's album. Yeah.

unknown 29:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

So it's it's the invention of sound recording as being at least taking place within an industrial context. Okay. Right? Yeah. I'm not crazy. I mean I might be crazy, but it's not for this reason. It just kinda yeah. A lot of people had uh opinions. Yep. Okay. Yeah. So does it matter that the first gramophone was entirely mechanical in the sense that you you cut it it when it ran, it ran on the needle and the vibration. There was no you know, electronic tape, there was no MP3 version. Is that does it change anything? Sure, it changes a lot of things. It's probably a superior technology. Yeah. Yeah. In many ways. Being more material. Aaron Ross Powell Why don't we do our podcast on vinyl? Analoged? Yeah. Why don't we do analog podcast? Trevor Burrus We have an uh uh all I'm asking for is a live call-in show and an analog podcast. A radio show, really, is what you want to do. No, I want a live podcast show. Um Nathan. Would you go ahead and approve um a tape machine? No, I want to multiple. No, no, not a tape machine. No, no, no. That's not how I want I don't want magnetic. Real to real multi-track uh tape machine. Okay. Is this a budget requirement? Yes. Because yeah, it's probably gonna be $75,000. Staff development can cover it. Giving society? Are you not Are you not gladding enough hands to pull this off?

SPEAKER_02 31:20

Capital campaign Well, just silent phase took over.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Yeah, just take a slip a couple seventy-five thousand dollars in there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:30

Who's gonna know that? That's Carmen says it's only money. Is that how much? They they are they are very expensive. Watch talk offline. We know a guy. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know who you're talking about. Then yeah. Then what are we what are we even doing?

SPEAKER_02 31:45

I what is how is electricity less material than pieces of tape?

SPEAKER_01 31:53

What? We'll do it by candlelight.

SPEAKER_02 31:56

I said, how is electricity less material than pieces of tape?

SPEAKER_01 32:00

Less no, the process itself is more material process.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

Oh, the okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

And I'm not an expert. You played a clip, started asking me a bunch of questions about it. That's what's great about the the clip show. I don't claim any kind of expertise here, but I am making a verifiable historical clip. Well, this this next one was also a huge favorite, fan favorite. I wonder who's this who's under the gun now, guys. Okay. Well, let's find out. This is actually uh Nathan when you weren't here and the discussion of your conversation starter came up. Yeah, so as I am uh want to do at this point, I I have a notebook open before me and there's a list of there's a list of questions. Most of the questions I had honestly were for were for Nate. I it's unfortunate that he's absent. I yeah. His uh his uh I mean he set the gold standard with the uh requiem for a polyphonic wormhole.

SPEAKER_03 32:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

The title alone. Okay, well, in in all fairness, so Nate never provides a title or description. What? I worked for hours on those. This is and he and so I was like, I'm like, okay, uh Lindy, what do you think? Uh Requiem for a polyphonic wormhole? You know, it's enticing. I okay, so what would okay, you've listened to it? I have a coup a couple of times. What would you title it? Requiem for a polyphonic wormhole. Um it would I mean that's I don't want to quit. I'm not this isn't about what I would call Yeah. Um okay. So yeah, so requiem, yeah. Yeah, so most of my questions for him, uh you know, but I don't see he's not here. Uh what would we just sort of real quick, so just to give the context, if you didn't hear it, here's a little taste of that part where Nathan references. You've got it.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

I do, but he has it. All right, let's I need a you need a refresher. I need a refresher.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Hold on, I'll find my note. Right.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

How do you tell the Christian story of godly grief? Well, it is a story found within beauty. And the answer is you shove it into the woodwind section. Trees tell the story of godly grief. Brass is there to carry the trees. Uh and sure, have the bases come in first with requiem. And then trick that thing out with a polyphonic wormhole. There it is.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Right there. Yeah. So that was the context. That's what that was great. Pretty self-explanatory. So at the end of that no doubt. Yeah, no doubt. You do have your questions, Andrew? I have we we have them now. We could ask them at least one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you can only. Um Yeah, it was, but that's what stuck out to me the most. Because sometimes like if I if the title's up to me, like I don't really when I'm editing it, I don't think in terms of gra anyway. So it's just little things stick out to me, and I was just like, Requiem for podcasts. I want to know why you badger me for title and description, but apparently I'm the only one who does that. No, no, no. No, I did that. Andrew does it. No, too many hands to glad that you can't highlight. It's like if I'm always on the way to something. If we get if I just get the audio recording from Nate, I'm happy. And I'll come up with Lindy and I can do something out. Oh, you both sit down. I know what that you would have a good title in mind. You're great at titles. You're great at titles. Well, thanks for coming in there. But um so you and Lindy, you both you're s you sit there, you play, you both listen intently to the episode. No. And then you say, okay, what do you think? She does that. What do you think of this title? She thinks of it. By the time I send it to her to review, I'm not listening to it again. Well, but I've heard it enough. Sure. And I and uh yeah, and I give it a shot just to say, okay, we could call it this. And Lindy comes up with some good stuff, but hey, you know, it's it's fine. It's beautiful. Yeah. Even song happening as we speak. Happening right now. Yeah. So there's that. I th I think I I mean I we don't have to ask. I don't have to ask him. I think we should ask him. He wasn't here. Yeah. Tell me about the what the flutes. Are they in the piece or are they not in the piece? And what but they took the flutes out. They took the flu. And what what does that indicate that the flutes aren't there?

SPEAKER_02 37:03

Uh flutes ruin any opportunity. That's a dark way to say it. Sure. Huh. For a brooding spirit. They're too bright an instrument. Okay. And so Mozart, knowing this, cancels flutes. Take the flutes out. And there's a lot in the woodwind section.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Shoves it in.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Shoves it. Shoves it in. Right. Shoves it.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Okay, because I thought the flutes were being shoved in the woods. Into the woodwinds? Now that would be something.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

They're not part of the polyphonic. They're not part of the polyphonic. But they're at the bottom. Right. Do you know what flutes don't, Ruben? Sure shot by the Beastie Boys. Uh uh. That is a Beastie Boys. I didn't think of that. Andrew is a late 80s, early 90s rap group. They had albums. Sure shot Check Your Head is The whole album. Check your head, by the way. Yeah. The machine produced an unbelievable album. Yeah. Sure. My understanding of flutes is entirely classical in the sense that I know flutes are, correct me if this is wrong, flutes are uh associated with a Dionysian, whereas the liar is associated is associated with Apollo. So and flutes are highly suspicious within the classical world because they are too emotional. Right.

unknown 38:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:34

Mike D Mike D notes. Mike D does not have a problem with it. There's too many. Yeah. I think I think with the flute, there's too many notes that it can play. I think too versatile. Really like if we want to kind of get pre-technology. Sure. Like, you know, maybe like, you know, you ever see the people with the um with a long saw and and they've they've got a bow. They've laid the saw. Yeah. It sounds amazing. Yeah. So lunch. I'm with you, Andrew. Get rid of the flute. I'm just again, historically verifiable claim. Right. I'm agreeing with you. Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Although the Greeks would have made a moral claim about the flute. Right. Right. We could melt them down. We could melt them down. All the flutes. All the flutes. It would just burn up, wouldn't they? Unless they're metal. I guess we could have a metal flute. I'm thinking of our wooden recorder. Yeah, you don't want a non-metal flute. I don't think that's going to work out very well. Yeah. So we just got one more clip. It's better be Josh's fan. No, not really. Oh well, I thought we were working our way around the help. Josh is just shameless. That's right. Nor do I have anything substantial to say. So there's no there's no reason to reproach it. There's really not much, you know, to to kind of do. But this is just kind of a There are no wormholes in my eyes. No. There's no there there. No. And the thing is that if you used that, nobody would bat an eye. No. Nobody would bat an eye, right? It's not it, it's not the it's not my shtick. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't fit. Yeah, it wouldn't fit. It would be like it would be like David trying on Saul's armor. It just it's just not the ring. No, wow. I can't bear up under Stones and a slingshot. No. Right. Yeah. I'm a simple guy. I just need a slingshot in stones.

unknown 40:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

All right. So people have asked about like this live read business. Like where did this where did this come from? Why did you start doing it? So this is why. We need advertisers, Eric. Okay. And we we are willing to read them ourselves. We'll we'll read the copy ourselves. If you want to support the podcast, we are into reading the copy ourselves. It it could be so much fun. Okay. For us to share our ideas about all that. Well, why don't we just could you you know just make one up and we'll just see how it goes. Well, yeah, I'm not the kind of guy who just I I like to have things written down in front of me. I don't like to fly under the seat of my pants. I really want to be able to do it. Well, we we've got a kind of proof of concept, okay? So I'm just gonna come up with something. Okay. Come up with an advertisement. All right. Um Harry's Tattoo Parlor. Come on down, you get a tattoo, and he'll tune up your Harley while you wait. Harry. Harry's Tattoo Parlor. Just mention Academy Podcast and um So we're now the Academy Podcast sponsored by Harry's Tattoo Parlor. It was just a cycle repair. Well, uh tattoo parlor. Yeah, uh tune up your Harley while you or something like uh get a permanent thing while we discuss permanent things. Yeah. Well, if anybody knows me, they know I'm an entrepreneur and I'm always looking for the next buck. I just every I just see dollar signs relentlessly everywhere. Right. Right. And I knew that given our status of having tens of listeners, there's a hundred percent people are out there just clamoring to make sure standing in line to get their names read and to be the sponsor of this podcast. Yeah. I I thought that was evident, I thought that was clear, and so and if only um Steven Taylor would allow us to actually take real sponsors. Have we asked? Wait, what? Have we asked? Because he said no. Yeah, he'll never allow that, right? Why not? Oh, yeah. There's got to be something about like uh having parent people who have businesses, right? I mean, isn't it doesn't that get messy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We we we don't have to worry about any of that. We we got a lawyer who can figure all that out. Let's just do it until we get in trouble. That's the way you you know Steven's got something on his spreadsheet. So he's got like six screens in uh on his desk in his office. Yeah. One of those six screens has a spreadsheet, and on that spreadsheet it says sponsorship for podcast. And it's all in the black. Like it's a plus sign, it's a giant plus sign with several significant figures behind that dollar sign. I I can't imagine Steven saying no to something like that. All right, well, I'll bring it up. Thank you. See what's see what he says. Let's make sure and we we will take sponsor I meant it. We'll we'll take any sponsor. I mean, and uh uh listeners out there, all ten of you. All tens of you. Um if you I mean you you've seen or you've heard uh how what we can do with a live the r the the range that we have. Right, right. We can sell we can sell uh we can sell anything. Sell anything, yeah, anything. So okay. Well we could sell a ketchup. No, I just We could s uh just a pound strong assertion. That's just reeling from the strength of that assertion. Do you not That's a power do you not agree?

SPEAKER_02 44:08

You could sell anything.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

Yeah, I don't know. I also thought of Tommy Boy.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

Thank you. I you could get it. Probably shouldn't do that much.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

Spade and Farley. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

I remember the sign up. Leave that one there. Yeah. Um so anyway, yeah. So that's uh that's all I have um on the cleverness of that is the juxtaposition, the the nearness of the word tattoo and hairy together. The image by itself. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Harry's tattoo. Harry's tattoo. Harry's tattoo. Just powerful. Um there powerful ideas. There is, in fact, somewhere out there a Harry's tattoo. There must have at least one. Maybe that's how we do it. Maybe we start there. Yeah, we just email them. Yep. We reach out or reach out. Yeah. Eric. Well, of course. Maybe they will decide retroactively to have sponsored us all year. Right.

unknown 45:07

Right.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

A repast. That would actually be a good way to approach Stephen Taylor. Mm-hmm. Look, look, here's a check. Okay, that's what I'm saying. To cover this past year. Stephen would take the check. Harry's tattoo. I liked your backward-looking subjunctive conditional. Sure. There. That was well played. I'm I'm always looking backward. No doubt. Really? Tell me about that. No, that's it. To a time before the machine made albums. Yeah, but I'll tell you, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

It's underperforming.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

We should probably stuff with that.

SPEAKER_03 45:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:49

Well, so is this it? So what's the future hold for the podcast? We have one we have one week of school left. So that's one more. And I think that's Nathan's last five-minute reading. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is it. This is it. This was one that'll come on. Your five-minute is it. That's it. Yeah. Oh, so this is the last one. Until the fall? Well, I'm thinking that um yeah, we have some ideas to as we kind of get closer to school starting, um, that we can kind of so uh stay tuned for that. Early August, I think. Maybe we'll have some fun things to do.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

I may have heard one of these.

SPEAKER_01 46:25

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you where did you get your Well, I don't know. Okay. There's a lot Yeah, there's there's definitely Yeah, so we have some some things. But then yeah, we'll be back next fall with the same format of uh the conversation starters and then the council. We'll we're coming back. And then the takeover will be the most popular one again. Right. But w they're so they want um a takeover at the end of semester one and semester two.

unknown 46:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

Which I think is great.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

We'll cut this if you don't I always cut things. Like the pressure it's about to create. I have heard video cameras are joining us. What? Because we need clips of us discussing real issues on the website.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

So not only cameras, but also real issues. Right. Real issues.

SPEAKER_02 47:27

Of of live feedback from listeners. Or distinctives about the academy, ways that we think differently about certain subjects. Like albums, flutes.

SPEAKER_01 47:41

Those were some hot takes today, I thought. Yeah. I think we might get a rating of some sort that may cost us some listeners. It was pretty edgy today. I thought it was pretty edgy today. It was pretty edgy, but it will but it sounds like it might get edgier next season. Yeah. Oh, oh yeah. There's always a chance for that. Um always pushing the boundaries on the Academy Podcast. Right. Yeah. And yes, yeah, the the the topic of, you know, throwing up a few GoPros in here just uh just to have because I think it would be fun to to experience a little bit of uh what goes on in here. Uh we've got a beautiful studio. Oh that's true. People don't know. I want to wear the GoPro while I do it. I don't want to I don't yeah, I want the link to all the wear GoPro because people can actually be looking here.

SPEAKER_02 48:25

The Josh view.

SPEAKER_01 48:25

Yeah, that's POV. You can choose your view. Choose your own view.

SPEAKER_02 48:31

Yeah, you can just that's what I want to do. There's four links to the podcast. Right. Yeah, right under a different names.

SPEAKER_01 48:39

Mine's always just looking at the floor. Yeah. My shoes. Yeah. I'm always staring at my shoes. My shoes. All right. One final piece of business, Josh. Do you what do you see? I see Elvis has been mangled. Mangled. Oh no. Mangled and uh they dressed him up. And they dressed him in uh He's in a toga. Toga. Yeah. Okay. So that was donated to me. By Elvis himself? No. Oh. By uh I'm not gonna say who. By a sponsor. By Harry? Basically. Was it Harry? It was ba so yeah, basically somebody who said, Hey, uh I'll get you this for the uh podcast studio because I was saying, oh, it'd be so cool to get um uh that's in you know uh because so so next year uh uh I want to get some Twilight posters. Yep, Twilight posters makes sense that makes a lot of sense, yeah, and other fun, just fun stuff. Just things you can find in the downstairs sounds like yeah. So it looks like Elvis is ruined. No, now that I see it looks like he's just sitting down. No, yes, exactly. He's not supposed to look at it. He's just taking a season. He's not supposed to do that. That's a heavy guitar. Holding that guitar is it's a lot. So he just sat down. This is on you, Josh. The buck stops with you. This happened at South Campus. Things got unruly. It's fine, I get it. No, that's what I'm trying to welcome to South Campus. So I want, yeah. So are you gonna replace that or what? South campus, where our classes are wild. Wild. And uh no, I don't plan on replacing that no. In many ways, our studio decor lived and died with the king. Yeah. I your own personal property is your own life. No, it wasn't it was it's on it's a podcast's property. No, it's on the door outside that we're we're not responsible for accidents. Okay, well, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm I'll just buy a new one on my company card and I'll tell Business Office Done, yeah, put it on Josh's uh budget.

SPEAKER_03 50:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:38

Uh I got no problem with that. Christina won't approve it, but I got no problem with that. Oh, she will.

unknown 50:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 50:46

Eric started agitated. Eric started agitated. No, the perfect bookend to this podcast is Eric Agitated. And we should probably finish with that. Thanks for the season, dear listeners, all tens of you, and to our number one fan, Ben P.

SPEAKER_02 51:02

Benny P.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

Benny P coach coach coachy P. Uh thanks, Ben. Thanks, executive producers. Thanks, women of the takeover. Well done. Thanks for listening. Thanks for putting up with us in our pretentious accessibility. Set that one. Maintaining our pretentious accessibility. Thank you, listeners. Uh we'll see you. Thanks for listening. As always, we want to hear what you think. Email us at podcast at theacademyok.org. It's our last episode, but we'll be back next school year. And maybe you'll hear from us over the summer. You never know. Listen to us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to find.