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Send us Fan Mail Welcome in everybody to THE LAST EPISODE for The Summer Series Edition of the Meet The Bus Podcast! This final episode wraps up on one of the best DCI seasons I’ve seen in a while. 2024 was a summer that put the activity back on the map in my opinion as so many groups put their best shows to date on the field, and it’s got me in high spirits about what’s to come for the future of...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome in everybody to The Summer Series Edition of the Meet The Bus Podcast!  In today's episode, we're keeping it short and sweet. I got word from a good friend from my time at Blue Knights, Juan Rutiaga, that he volunteered for the week during Texas Tour and put some videos together of the corps. I also sat down for a fun conversation with Joey Teixeira where we reca...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome in everybody to The Summer Series Edition of the Meet The Bus Podcast!  We are back again for a PACKED episode of drum corps, so I hope you got your popcorn ready!  For today's episode, I started by recapping the beginning of the 2024 DCI Season, and where groups are stacking up in the rankings as we head into the San Antonio Regional. We then kick it to some early to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome in everybody to The Summer Series Edition of the Meet The Bus Podcast!  We're starting something new again with this one! I've talked about this idea of doing a summer series throughout the 2024 DCI Season, so finally after some moving, more moving and starting a new job I got the chance to pick the mic back up and talk some drum corps! I know I'm a little l...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! This week, we decided to call a quick audible and change up the regularly scheduled program to talk about some new partnerships that have been created recently with DCI. There has been a lot of negative news for Drum Corps International in the last couple years whether it's COVID or multiple groups having to fold whether it's for...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! In this weeks episode, we continue introducing the members who we will be following for the 2024 DCI season in our summer series! This episode, we had Alberto Paulino on who's been a Mellophone player with Pacific Crest since 2022 and will be with them again this summer! We got to talk about so many awesome things within this activity...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! This week, we are starting to introduce the people who will be apart of the performer summer series for this upcoming 2024 DCI Season. In this episode, I got the chance to meet and talk with Clark Fitzgerald who's been a trumpet player for the Spirit of Atlanta since 2020. This was the first episode where we had a member on who has no...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome Back to The Meet The Bus Podcast! For this week episode, we aren't hearing from the member or staff prospective....so who are we talking about? We're hearing from the people that give you all your profile pictures that have your sick action shots in them, and they promote your corps online and make them look really cool.....THE MEDIA TEAM. I got to learn so much...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! In this weeks episode, I had the pleasure of having one of my favorite teachers I've ever had in the marching arts world, Dan Hoffman! Dan marched the Boston Crusaders on Tuba from 2012-2015 and taught me on the Oregon Crusaders visual team from 2016-2018, and most recently just wrapped up his time on the Madison Scouts Vis Staff whic...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus! I said when I made the 1st one that I would make it a regular thing so here we are!! On this buy stop, I take a look back at 20 episodes, introduce a new series idea for the summer and see all the corps we’ve talked about and who’s left! The link for the interview interest form is below! I really hope you guys enjoy this episode! If you do, don&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! I'm going to try my best these next couple months before the summer starts to keep getting content to you guys every single week cause that's what this channel has been about since the start!! This week, we are finally back with Episode 20 and I got to bring on another old friend of mine, Julia Robles. I marched with her in 2016...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! Disclaimer: For the first time in this podcasts history, I forgot to check the audio source before starting the recording, so unfortunately it's labtop audio from me this episode :(   In this weeks episode, I got the chance to sit down with another member who will be on the road for the 2024 season this summer, Matthew Iida! Matthew i...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! In this weeks episode, I had so much fun getting to sit down with Matthew Ezeh and talk all things drum corps with him. Ezeh is currently out in LA working for Warner Chappell, but in this episode we talked about his short time in DCA with Alliance, we rehashed some old memories of the 2017 season with the Oregon Crusaders and then we just...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! In this weeks episode, we had our first guard guest on the podcast and we had a BLAST!! We had Ben Smith on for this one, and it was so fun getting to hear from a guest who's still active in DCI and just the marching world in general. We had a lot to talk about right away with Ben's first summer being the 2021 COVID Season with C...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! In this episode, I got the chance to have an incredible conversation with someone who actually taught me during my first ever band camp! This week, we got Andrew Reader on the podcast and what an episode it was. We got to cover everything from his performing career as a Tuba player with the Colts and Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! On this episode, I got the chance to sit down with one of my section leaders in 2019 with the Blue Knights, Nick Martinez! He marched trumpet with Horizon Drum and Bugle Corps in 2016 and then went on to march with Blue Knights from 2017-2021. We got to cover everything from the experience he had in Soundsport that got him prepared for the...

Send us Fan Mail #dci #carolinacrown #drumcorps #band  Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! On this episode, I got the chance to sit down with someone I've known for awhile now, but I never got the opportunity to pick his brain about his time activity so we did it today! I had on Taylor Womack and what a story he has. Taylor marched mellophone for Carolina Crown from 2014-2016, came back...

Send us Fan Mail #dci #drumcorps #colts #blueknights   Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! On this episode, I got the opportunity to interview one of my very good friends Zach Adams!! We are back in person for this episode and what a blast it was! Zach marched with the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps from 2016-2019 on trumpet and also marched Freedom Percussion on cymbals in 2018. We’ve been clos...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! In this episode, I had a blast getting to talk one of my best friends, Nick Hmeljak! Nick marched trumpet for the Troopers in 2019 and the Blue Devils in 2022, and we also taught high school band together in 2021. Nick has one of the strangest journeys in DCI that I've ever heard, so you're going to have to listen to this one bec...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we had on the new CEO of Drum Corps International, Nathan Boudreaux! With Nate just starting the position last week, this was more of an introduction episode for him, so we got into Nate's background and what he learned throughout his time in the sports industry. We also talked about how the CEO position for DCI came into the picture and what the community ca...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast! 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail #dci #drumcorps #marchingband 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...

Send us Fan Mail No fun intro this week im sorry :( IG: https://www.instagram.com/meetthebus/ JOEY GO PRO: https://youtu.be/vphwyIVR8RA?si=S169v9HEYHu2DShP   SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS :) - 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 Guardian...

Send us Fan Mail 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 h...