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On this episode, I got the honor of interviewing my last brass caption head I had in the activity while I was at The Blue Knights, Keith Tye! Keith has done and still continues to do so much in the activity, so we had a lot to talk about in this one! Keith marched with the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps in 2011, and then from there going to march with Carolina Crown from 2013-2016. His teaching career began right away in 2017 with The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, and then he became the assistant and eventual brass caption head for The Blue Knights from 2018-2022, and most recently he was the brass caption head for The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps for their 75th anniversary show and will return on staff for the 2024 season. I got to be a big nerd in this episode asking about everything Carolina Crown from 2013-2016, talking growing pains during the first couple years in the activity, how teaching came into the picture and how it’s changed Keith’s life and finally wrapping up with a discussion on where DCI is today!! It’s been a while since we’ve had a long interview like this, but I promise you it’s worth every second to watch!!! 

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• 0:00-Intro
• 2:03- How Keith Got Started
• 10:50- The Beast That is Indiana Marching Band
• 16:20- Rookie Year Keith
• 22:40- The Transition Back to High School After Drum Corps
• 28:28- How Keith Got to Carolina Crown
• 32:50- How 2013 Carolina Crown Made the Impossible Relevant 
• 37:35- The Blue Devils Move DIFFERENT
• 39:15- Growing Pains During Year 2
• 41:30- Stay Focused in First 
• 47:25- Winning DCI at 18
• 50:28- Taking the Impossible Out of This World in 2014
• 1:04:38- Why Keith Came Back in 2015
• 1:08:46- A Step Up in 2015
• 1:12:20- Breaking Down the Inferno Ballad
• 1:15:26- We Both Nerd Out About Tuning Sequences 
• 1:17:47- Finals Week 2015 for Carolina Crown
• 1:24:58- Coming Back Hungry in 2016
• 1:29:29- What Made the Ageout Year Special 
• 1:36:25- Keith Looking Back on His Performance Career in DCI
• 1:39:50- How Keith Knew He Wanted to Teach
• 1:44:02- Becoming a Brass Caption Head at 24
• 1:53:17- Getting Through COVID in 2020
• 2:00:28- How a Brass Staff is Put Together
• 2:03:18- Keith’s Audition Tips
• 2:12:36- The “Why I Do This” Moment for Teaching
• 2:16:15- Talking About The State of DCI

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Garageband didn't let me record my silly intro today so :(

Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast!

On this episode, we had three people on the podcast AGAIN and we did our very first in person interview!! I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friends Nathan Hargis and David Seanor who both marched Spirit of Atlanta in 2018 as seat partners while David did SOA 2017-2019. With it being the first in person episode, we had some hiccups happen which you’ll probably see in the video, but we still had an amazing time having this conversation! We talked about mistakes we all made as rookies, Nathan and David’s beautiful time as seat partners which included some bus box talk and we wrapped talking about where the activity is now and what we think of it.

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• 0:00-Intro
• 1:40- Jumping Into How The Boys Got To Band
• 6:10- Hey Rookie, Welcome to Drum Corps
• 10:25- Home Show Dome Show
• 13:20- 2017+ Learning Things Rookie Year
• 17:10- Nathan’s Wall Story
• 18:45- SD Card Goodnight+ Vets David and Nathan looked up to
• 19:55-2018 SOA!
• 22:25- Seat Partner Story
• 22:50- Back to 2018
• 26:38- The Fight For Saturday Night
• 27:40: Free Day Stories
• 30:48- Nathan and David’s beautiful time as seat partners
• 32:32- And We’re Back
• 33:20- GOAT Bus Box
• 35:30- Show of the Summer
• 36:08- Onto 2019
• 38:52- Neon Underground
• 43:10- Nathan’s Rookie Mistake
• 44:50- Reflecting Back
• 46:55- Talking About The Activity Now
• 51:15- Video Cuts out + Wrap Up

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast!

On this episode, we had THREE people on the podcast, and we only did an HOUR?!?! Riley returned for this one as my co-host, and Josh Sanchez came on the show as the new guest. Josh marched Tuba for 3 years with me at the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps from 2016-2018. Josh had to get to a gig right after this interview, so we were on a little time crunch but we had an amazing conversation nonetheless! We've had a couple people on now to talk about OC 16 and 18, so since Josh was the first 2017 member to come on we dove into that year more than the others. We also had a short but very interesting conversation at the end on if we believe DCI can survive the way it's headed. 

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-  0:00- 3 People On The Pod?!?!
-  1:30- He Does it ALL folks
-  3:40- How Music Came Into Josh’s Life
-  5:00- Getting Into Marching
-  7:40- Burnt Toast??
-  15:10- What Brought Josh Back
-  17:15- Getting to OC16 
-  21:00- First Summer Away
-  23:00- The Vets WE Looked Up To
-  27:00- Wrap-Up 2016
-  30:15- Back on Board for 2017
-  32:15- Remembering the 2017 Season
-  42:50- The 2018 Season That Almost Wasn’t 
-  46:30- How we all knew we were gonna be ok in 18
-  49:20- OC18 Tour
-  58:10- The End of OC
-  1:01:35- Will This Activity Survive?
-  1:06:00- Reflection Time

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No fun intro this week im sorry :(

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- 0:00- Intro with SOME Football Talk
- 5:06- Band Talk Begins
- 8:48- First Audition
- 13:07- First Summer
- 15:05- Advice for Young Marchers
- 18:30- Open Class for the Casuals
- 21:50- Ye designed Guardians 2018??
- 24:10- Uniform talk
- 26:15- 2018 Show talk
- 28:30- Open Class Talk
- 36:43- How we get to BK 2019
- 39:28- Audition tips for Anxiety
- 40:30- 2019 Audition Stories
- 48:00- Early 2019 stories
- 53:20- What made 19 special
- 57:50- Quick football talk
- 58:43- Back to Band+ COVID
- 1:03:00- How Joey came back to DCI in 22
- 1:06:20- Joey comes to camp with Jeff
- 1:09:20- How Carolina Crown comes into the picture
- 1:15:00- Crown Offseason Program
- 1:16:33- West Coast vs East Coast Groups
- 1:18:00- Top 5 Drum Corps Experience
- 1:20:20- Matt Harold
- 1:23:15- NightBeat?¿
- 1:25:25- 2022 Show Talk
- 1:35:10- Takeaways from 2022
- 1:36:25- On to BD 2023
- 1:41:20- Joey’s a Soloist??
- 1:50:30- MY favorite moment in BD 23
- 1:55:40- Mindset on a BD Tour
- 1:59:00- What makes the Blue Devils so different?
- 2:05:20- When you got a chip in your bag
- 2:08:32- That’s a W…let’s eat one
- 2:10:45- Reflection Time

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus podcast! 

On this weeks episode, it was one the most chaotic episodes of all time with one of my best friends and fraternity big Austin Barry. Austin marched Music City Drum and Bugle Corps in 2014, Mandarins 2015, Cavaliers in 2018-2019 and finally Blue Devils 2020 and 21 (R.I.P the homie) I loved getting to do this episode though because Austin has been someone I’ve looked up to since the day I started at Middle Tennessee State University in 2019, so coming back 4 years later to have this conversation that we’ve had so many times over the years was special. We talked about so many different things in episode and we bounced around years just talking about advice for young marchers wanting to do DCI, all of the challenges Austin faced throughout his career and even what we both think about the state of DCI today!!


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- 0:00- Intro
 -4:43- How did we get here?
-13:55- First Audition+ being away from home for the first time
- 26:00- Advice to young marchers
- 29:00- Meathead Talk
- 31:20- Mandarins 2015
- 40:20- West Coast v East Coast
- 41:50- All American Marching Band Experience
- 47:30- 2017 Audition Story
- 54:55- 2018 Comeback Story+ so many side topics
- 1:12:35- Cavaliers 2018
- 1:14:40- 2018 Show Explained
- 1:22:12- Cavaliers 2019
- 1:27:08- Tradition Talk
- 1:31:20- Big 3 preview
- 1:34:20- Back to Cavaliers 2019
- 1:42:40- 2020
- 1:45:00- Reflection

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus podcast! For those who don't know, my name is Jeffrey Reckis and I am the host of this show! 

On this weeks episode, I got to catch up with my best friend Dylan Rider who marched from 2014-2021, so we had a LOT to talk about. From the early struggles in his rookie year to eventually playing one of the most coveted solos in DCI history at Lucas Oil in 2021, we got into every story you could imagine!

This episode truly meant the world to me because Dylan was always somebody I looked up to when I started marching, and eventually he became my best friend in the activity. 

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus podcast! For those who don't know, my name is Jeffrey Reckis and I am the host of this show! 

On this weeks episode, I had an amazing conversation and took a stroll down memory lane with my first ever seat partner in drum corps, Riley Fitzpatrick.  This was so much fun and I promise you guys are going to love this episode because there are so many good stories we talk about and there's just so much good that I felt came out of the conversation.  

We talked about everything ranging from our time at the Oregon Crusaders together in 2016 and 2018, stress on an individual in the activity, our beautiful mess of a San Antonio free day in 2016 and even how we were able to come back and do something special in 2018.

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus podcast! For those who don't know, my name is Jeffrey Reckis and I am the host of this show! On this weeks episode, I had on my older brother Jason Reckis to discuss his experience and the wild journey through his 5 year Drum Corps career.

This only PART 2!!! This last hour and some change is talking about the 3 years from 2014-2016 with the Boston Crusaders. Lots of truly awesome stories in this last part that I hope you all enjoy because I got goose bumps bringing these old memories back to life!

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Welcome back to the Meet The Bus podcast! For those who don't know, my name is Jeffrey Reckis and I am the host of this show! On this weeks episode, I had on my older brother Jason Reckis to discuss his experience and the wild journey through his 5 year Drum Corps career.

This only PART 1!!! This first hour is talking about getting into the activity and the first 2 years of Jason's career at Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps, and how he ended up with the Boston Crusaders.