Episodes

  • the beast from the east: sherry poteet
    Mar 8 2025

    to know her is to love and admire her. sherry yaps with us about her experiences as a legendary band director, why she loves working with middle schoolers, her passion to uplift and empower young educators, bob's burgers, blue bell, and more.

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    2 hrs and 25 mins
  • more championships than lebron and it isn't close: luke mcmillan
    Mar 1 2025

    he's the king of small school marching band productions, and he has the hair to back it up. we sat down with luke mcmillan to talk about his creative process, barry hurt, chili's, how many lab bands unt actually has, and more!

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    2 hrs and 34 mins
  • he’s never been to the brewery! a yapfest with zach sims
    Feb 22 2025

    he's beauty and he's grace. he's zach sims! and he's never even been to the spoetzl brewery. we yapped with zach about his pug obsession, plucking piano strings in lila cockrell, his humble beginnings, and how much better he is because of his wife, whitney.

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    2 hrs and 41 mins
  • put a ring on it: married to/on the job
    Feb 14 2025

    happy valentine's day!!! we literally recorded this in the car, and yes, it sounds like we recorded it in the car.


    in this episode, we discuss our relationship and how we make it work at work. we get vulnerable and talk about a few of the challenges we have faced together, but we also declare the best rom com of all time.


    listen to this one with your sweetheart ❤️

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • brian "stone cold" sours
    Feb 12 2025

    he's the wrestler of band. and a legend in his own right.

    we yapped with brian about his background, his career, and how it has culminated into this unbelievable year: finalist at state marching contest, featured small school band at the midwest clinic, AND the tmea 2a honor band. aside from that, we discussed 90s wrestling, chicago pizza, and took his dairy queen order (he's a heath man).

    you can catch tenaha's honor band performance on friday, february 14, 2025 at 1pm in lila cockrell. see you there!

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    2 hrs and 18 mins
  • marc nichelson has a public service announcement: stop adding an s to the end of china spring
    Feb 8 2025

    did you know that marc nichelson used to mow and stripe his band practice field himself? now you do!


    we sat down with marc to discuss his career, the charm of small schools, his first selmer c*, space jam, beetleborgs, and how folks are insistent on adding that extra s to china spring.

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    2 hrs and 34 mins
  • process over product: pls go to jon schriver's tmea clinic
    Feb 1 2025

    jon schriver met up with us to discuss his meteoric rise as a band director, burger-n-wok, legends of the hidden temple, his love for d&d, ska, and more. be sure to attend his tmea program spotlight clinic/concert on 2/13/25 at 11:30am in the hemisfair ballroom 1 and 2 (next door to dr. tim!!) featuring the cameron yoe hs band.

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • is there a dairy queen? conversations with jesus perez
    Jan 25 2025

    there's a lot of yapping in this one! we sat down with jesus perez and got his take on teaching in a small school environment, the dallas cowboys, the defunct sandy lake amusement park, and took his taco order. will the world ever be able to tell jesus and jose apart? we may never know.

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    1 hr and 38 mins