In this episode Phil Wall and Brooks Berry contemplate the virtues of the silence that characterized practice, and much of life, while playing for Fletcher Arritt at Fork Union. From the meditative warmup routine to the contemplative bus rides, Coach Arritt's unconventional coaching methods encouraged introspection and transformation. They also discuss the importance of context, intimacy, and authenticity in storytelling and the challenge of bringing some of Coach Arritt’s counterculture philosophies to the big screen.

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