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Drum Corps AF39: [Insert Creative Title Here]DrumCorpsAF 39 - [Insert Creative Title Here] - Fossil Chops, Sage Lee, special guest Jeffery Reckis, and the DrumCorpsAF community give us their thoughts and hot takes about the entirety of the 2024 drum corps season.We want to hear YOUR voices - call our submission line at 913-390-3190 and leave your best 2-3 minute take. You can use your real name or a pseudonym, and don’t forget to leave us a review on iTunes.Drum Corps AF is an irreverent podcast about drum corps and the marching arts. We love the activity, but we...
2024-09-182h 01
Meet The BusMTB Summer Series | Episode 4 - BAC Prelims Rehearsal, Military Park, Semifinals Vlog + Finals RecapSend us a textWelcome 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 Drum Corps International. I made sure to include as much as...
2024-08-231h 19Meet The BusMTB Summer Series | Episode 3 - Texas Tour W/BK, ATL Recap, Rankings + Show Thoughts, DCI FinalsSend us a textWelcome 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 recapped the Atlanta Regional as well as our overall thoughts on the shows and rankings.Lastly, I AM GOING TO BE I...
2024-08-021h 25Meet The BusMTB Summer Series | Episode 2 - Early DCI 2024 Show Clips, San Antonio, Member + Staff InterviewsSend us a textWelcome 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 tour content from 2 DIFFERENT SHOWS!! I got the opportunity to get some coverage from the DCI Muncie show that st...
2024-07-192h 28Meet The BusMTB Summer Series | Episode 1 - DCI 2024 Spring Training, Mandarins + Blue Devils Send Off + More!Send us a textWelcome 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 late to the party, so I'm gonna try my best to catch back up with everyone else!In this first episode, I...
2024-07-071h 17Meet The BusEpisode 25: Talking New DCI Partnerships! (feat. Riley Fitzpatrick)Send us a textWelcome 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 a season or some have had to completely fold up, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to talk about the exciting future...
2024-05-091h 13Meet The BusEpisode 24: We The Champions (feat. Alberto Paulino)Send us a textWelcome 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 that have happened the last two seasons along with all of the incredible things that PC has also accomplished in '22 and '23. Alberto also...
2024-04-251h 48Meet The BusEpisode 23: Definitely Not Allentown (feat. Clark Fitzgerald)Send us a textWelcome 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 not marched pre-covid years, so it was really interesting to see the perspective of someone who's only been apart of this new...
2024-04-181h 07Meet The BusEpisode 22: Behind The Lens (feat. Sam Mohler)Send us a textWelcome 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 in this episode from my guest, Sam Mohler. We got to cover his wild performing career which made him become a drum major...
2024-04-112h 20Meet The BusEpisode 21: For All The Divas (feat. Dan Hoffman)Send us a textWelcome 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 which he was on from 2019-2022. I've been so excited for this specific episode to happen since I started this podcast because Dan is...
2024-04-053h 02Meet The BusBuy Stop #2: Looking Back At 20 Episodes and Looking To Something NewSend us a textWelcome 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't forget to like this episode, subscribe, comment down below what...
2024-03-2127 minMeet The BusEpisode 20: TGI Saturdays (feat. Julia Robles)Send us a textWelcome 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 and 2017 at the Oregon Crusaders and she went on to perform with some great groups in Phantom Regiment and Santa...
2024-03-142h 57Meet The BusEpisode 19: Brass is Brass is Brass (feat. Matthew Iida)Send us a textWelcome 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 is the founder of the rising social media page DrumCorpsLink, so we talked a good amount about where that started from and you can f...
2024-02-282h 14Meet The BusEpisode 18: Never Been Cut (feat. Matthew Ezeh)Send us a textWelcome 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 talked all about his time with The Cavaliers as a member and his time on the brass staff. I...
2024-02-152h 10
On A Water BreakThe One with Terry Sanders & Meet the Bus PodcastThis week we continue celebrating Black History Month with an interview with the talented Terry Sanders, WGI Judge, Designer, & Educator. We also talk to Jeffrey Reckis from the Meet the Bus Podcast. All this, News, and more on this week’s episode of On A Water Break!Guest Clinician:Terry Sanders - @tls_penjadeJeffrey Reckie - @meetthebusMeet our HostsJackie Brown - @spintronixguardStephen McCarrick - @stephenmccarickCindy Barry - @leandermommaNicole Younger - @o2bnpjs & @thecookoutcgTrevor Bailey...
2024-02-091h 30Meet The BusEpisode 17: Everyone Works Hard, Not Everyone Works Smart (feat. Delanie Nestor)Welcome back to the Meet The Bus Podcast!In this weeks episode, I had the opportunity to sit down and have an incredible conversation with one of my good friends from my years with the Oregon Crusaders, Delanie Nestor! This was without a doubt the most unique episode so far that's come out of this podcast, and after you listen to the episode you'll know why. We get very real about our time with OC and the challenges that came with that experience over the years, but we also celebrate the good that came out of it...
2024-02-071h 39Meet The BusEpisode 16: POLE Hit or PULL Hit? (feat. Ben Smith)Send us a textWelcome 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 Carolina Crown, so we dove right into that and what that experience was like. I also...
2024-01-311h 45Meet The BusEpisode 15: Music Is The Moments (feat. Andrew Reader)Send us a textWelcome 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 his now teaching career as a Low Brass Tech with The Troopers! There are so many awesome stories in this...
2024-01-243h 04Meet The BusEpisode 14: Alright, I'm Gonna Draw A Line (feat. Nick Martinez)Send us a textWelcome 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 rest of his career with the Blue Knights to how the activity changed by the time he was all done in 2021...
2024-01-172h 07Meet The BusEpisode 13: From Zero to HIM (feat. Taylor Womack)Send us a text#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 to Crown to be on tour admin staff in 2017, took a year off in 2018 and came back to teach on M...
2023-12-202h 31Meet The BusEpisode 12: Be The Story (feat. Zach Adams)Send us a text#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 close for a long time with going to high school and college together for a little bit...
2023-12-061h 42Meet The BusEpisode 11: Doomsday (feat. Nick Hmeljak)Send us a textWelcome 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 because it's truly unlike anyone else who's been on the show so far. There was so many laughs in this episode, so...
2023-11-221h 36Meet The BusEpisode 10: Interviewing The New CEO of DCI (feat. Nathan Boudreaux)Send us a textOn 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 can look forward to going into 2024. I'm so excited about the future of DCI after this interview and I hope you guys feel the same way!
2023-11-1533 minMeet The BusEpisode 9: Oh Yeah? Watch This (feat. Keith Tye)Send us a textWelcome 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 to march with Carolina Crown from 2013-2016. His teaching career began right...
2023-11-082h 24Meet The BusEpisode 8: Knock Knock (feat. Nathan Hargis and David Seanor)Send us a textGarageband 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 vi...
2023-10-2657 minMeet The BusEpisode 7: Three Trees In A Pod (feat. Riley Fitzpatrick and Josh Sanchez)Send us a text#dci #drumcorps #marchingbandWelcome 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...
2023-10-181h 08
Meet The BusEpisode 6: Play Through The Whistle (feat. Joey Teixeira)Send us a textNo 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 Guardians 2018??- 24:10- Uniform talk- 26:15- 2018 Show talk- 28:30- Open C...
2023-10-112h 18
Meet The BusEpisode 5: Waddup Dudes?! (feat. Austin Barry)Send us a textWelcome 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 hav...
2023-10-041h 51
Meet The BusEpisode 4: Still Bros Right? (feat. Dylan Rider)Send us a textWelcome 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!
2023-09-272h 33
Meet The BusEpisode 3: Is Anybody Sitting Here? (feat. Riley Fitzpatrick)Send us a textWelcome 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 th...
2023-09-191h 50
Meet The BusEpisode 2: Brotherly Love Part 2 (feat. Jason Reckis)Send us a textWelcome 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...
2023-09-121h 21
Meet The BusEpisode 2: Brotherly Love Part 1 (feat. Jason Reckis)Send us a textWelcome 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.
2023-09-1257 min