A school that started behind an ink shop is bound to collect legends. We open the yearbook of memory and flip through the pages that actually stuck: a choir rehearsal that turned into a comedy sketch, a student who staged a whole-school farewell photo, and teachers whose theatrical quirks now look different in the rearview. The tone swings from goofy nostalgia to hard questions—how do you tell eccentric from unsafe, and what happens when a campus normalizes “that’s just how they are” long past the point of comfort?
We also trace a bigger shift: the building that once echoed with band warmups and choral harmonies now hums with esports rigs. We’re not here to dunk on gaming; strategy, teamwork, and reflex are real skills. But we push on the trade-offs. What do students lose when ensemble rooms go silent? Can a modern school champion both stage lights and LED screens? We talk about pathways where arts and gaming feed each other—music tech meeting game audio, theater performance meeting motion capture, visual art meeting environment design—without abandoning the core joy of making something together in real space.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your alma mater shaped you more than you admitted—or if a campus can honor its creative roots while chasing the future—this one will hit home. Come for the stories, stay for the questions about community, boundaries, and what a school owes its kids when the vibe gets weird. If this episode sparks a memory, share it with a friend, subscribe for more candid debriefs, and leave a quick review to tell us what your school got right—and what you wish it had kept.
Episode Transcript
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the
Blake Cunningham Delirium.
Today we have a very specialguest.
SPEAKER_00 (00:13):
Hello.
SPEAKER_02 (00:14):
And this is just a quick episode.
We just wanted to get a quickepisode out, and we wanted to
tell you some stories about ourthe s the K through 12 school
that we attended.
The K through through 12 schoolthat we attended was a arts
(00:36):
slash music slash performingarts school.
I won't say the name of it, butyou could you could probably
look it up and figure it out ifyou wanted to.
SPEAKER_00 (00:49):
You can probably guess the kind of people that
went there.
SPEAKER_02 (00:52):
You can guess the kind of people that went there
and umly one teacher that I knowof so far is a convicted
pedophile.
SPEAKER_00 (01:06):
So So far.
SPEAKER_02 (01:08):
So far.
There are many potential subssuspects and probably many more
in custody.
But let's let's take it back tothe beginning.
Let's take it back to where itall began because the roots of
(01:29):
the school, the school actuallystarted in a ink a printer shop.
In in the back of an ink shop iswhere the school started.
And they they only had threeteachers.
They had a um music teacher, alanguage arts teacher, and a
(01:49):
special ed teacher.
unknown (01:51):
Are you being for real?
SPEAKER_02 (01:53):
Yeah, I'm being for real.
So that's kind of the origins ofthe school.
It was very small, veryefficient, and it focused
primarily on things like music,arts, and special ed.
So that being said.
(02:14):
That being said, there are anumber of characters and
personalities that arrived fromthe school for instance there
was this There was this kidnamed, let's just say his name
(02:36):
was Levy.
Like Leafy.
His name was Leaf Leafy.
And he was this kid and he worelike all green army suits all
the time, and one time he and hedrank monster energy, and one
time he came in and he showedme.
He's like, Oh, this is a pin fora grenade.
(02:59):
It was like, where's thegrenade?
Anyway, there was another kid.
Um there's actually these therewas this set of Arabian twins.
SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Bro.
SPEAKER_02 (03:18):
And they ended up becoming weld underwater
welders.
Or they were either underwaterwelders.
SPEAKER_00 (03:25):
They're underwater welders.
SPEAKER_02 (03:26):
They're either underwater welders or underwater
basket weavers.
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
Bro.
SPEAKER_02 (03:31):
I'm not sure.
They became one of those things.
Um there was this kid that wasprobably on some sort of I I
guess he was probably not on Idon't know.
(03:51):
Yeah, he was on the spectrum, Iguess.
Um let's just say for the sakeof this, his name was Eric.
And all I know real like hereally liked Ed, Ed, and Eddie.
And um The The one thing that Iremember about him, and I'm not
(04:15):
saying this in a negative light,because this made me laugh
really hard, is that we were inqu I was in fifth grade and we
were in choir class and we hadbeen singing the song Let It Go
from the hit movie Frozen.
For about three months we hadbeen rehearsing the song Let It
(04:38):
Go from the movie Frozen.
And so, you know, our our ourchoir teacher brought us up to
the piano and we were just goingthrough the motions singing Let
It Go, Let It Go, can't hold itback anymore.
And then this kid Eric that wasyou know uh on some the the
(05:08):
spectrum he said This soundslike the song from the movie
Frozen.
SPEAKER_00 (05:16):
And wasn't it literally like the night of the
concert?
SPEAKER_02 (05:19):
And it was like the night of the concert.
He just realized that it was thesong from the movie Frozen.
It yeah, it's funnier in my headevery time.
SPEAKER_00 (05:29):
I think it's funny.
SPEAKER_02 (05:31):
Um let me think.
What's a character?
SPEAKER_00 (05:42):
Chevin Chevin?
Both of them.
SPEAKER_02 (05:48):
Oh Chevin the boy one she really liked Blake's
hair.
And the boyish one.
They were both kind of boyish indifferent ways.
SPEAKER_00 (06:07):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (06:09):
And um yeah, that that person liked my hair and
was touching it umunconsensually.
SPEAKER_00 (06:26):
But Blake's having some flashbacks right now.
SPEAKER_02 (06:29):
But I but I forg but I forgive and forget.
But not really.
Um let me think of morecharacters.
Um more characters.
SPEAKER_00 (06:50):
The other seven had a P fetish.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
Had a P fetish.
SPEAKER_02 (06:58):
Um we had a lockdown because a student wrote
something on a bathroom stall.
I'm not even sure if I shouldsay what they wrote on the
(07:19):
bathroom stall because it wasvery bad, but we all we know is
that a student was there the daybefore and they weren't there
the day after.
SPEAKER_00 (07:34):
No, but it is confirmed that the student that
did it still goes to the school.
SPEAKER_02 (07:38):
But the student that did it still goes to the school.
They never told us they nevertold us who who wrote the
threat.
You could actually probably findthis event in on the internet.
I know it was in our local newsreview.
Other characters.
(08:39):
So, um teachers.
The teachers were weird, butthey weren't like that.
(09:07):
Um I had like a French danceteacher when I was like in
fourth grade.
SPEAKER_00 (09:24):
What was what's the abbreviated name?
SPEAKER_02 (09:27):
I don't I actually don't remember what her name
was.
SPEAKER_00 (09:30):
Oh.
Um Did you learn to dance good?
SPEAKER_02 (09:35):
Not really.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
I wish Concord, like Er.
I wish it didn't like.
SPEAKER_02 (09:47):
That was a that was like a code name.
SPEAKER_00 (09:49):
I meant Fawnford.
SPEAKER_02 (09:51):
I meant Tron board.
SPEAKER_00 (09:56):
Oh.
I wish they didn't like becausethey used to be a performing art
school, like singing, likechoir, theater, art, band, and
now instead of that they got ridof the band program and the
choir and the theater.
They're a gaming school now.
(10:17):
This past year they made aswitch and now they specialize
in gaming.
SPEAKER_02 (10:22):
It's a gaming school.
SPEAKER_00 (10:25):
Yeah, they no longer offer band and choir, it's just
gaming.
They still do art though.
SPEAKER_02 (10:37):
Yeah.
I remember this one kid.
His name was like Ma RonBlossom.
SPEAKER_00 (10:53):
Bro! Stop!
SPEAKER_02 (10:56):
And like he was weird, and he like would be
like, Where's my hug at?
SPEAKER_00 (11:00):
He wasn't where my hug at.
SPEAKER_02 (11:02):
He's like, Where's my hug?
He's like, Can I have a hug?
I just need a hug today.
SPEAKER_00 (11:06):
And this is the thing that always gets me is he
went to the school forseriously, like, not even two
months.
And his last day he had toleave.
He had to leave to go like moveout, move in with his uncle, I
think.
SPEAKER_02 (11:19):
He had to leave to go do math, wasn't he?
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
No.
Um, he left and he made thewhole school take a picture with
him.
Like, he had the whole entirehigh school go in a room and
take a picture with him.
I probably still have thepicture.
SPEAKER_02 (11:35):
And he cried and he wore and he wore tights.
You're moving the microphone.
SPEAKER_00 (11:41):
Okay.
SPEAKER_02 (11:42):
You're messing up the quality.
SPEAKER_00 (11:44):
I want to find the photo.
SPEAKER_02 (11:45):
You can't show the audio.
SPEAKER_00 (11:46):
I know, but I want to find it.
SPEAKER_02 (11:52):
You see what I'm working with.
SPEAKER_00 (11:54):
I didn't even do anything.
SPEAKER_02 (12:04):
Anyway, um, other things.
Well, not to not to go back tothe beginning, but the convict
the teacher that was a convicteduh pedophile read us ghost
stories on Halloween, and he waslike really convincing.
SPEAKER_00 (12:28):
How is he not suspected super?
SPEAKER_02 (12:31):
Yeah, it was like very uh it was like evil
maniacal laughs and like he wasa frickin' weirdo.
He was a weirdo, but you passedit off as like ex eccentric.
It's just like a dark, like hejust like reads too much Harry
Potter.
SPEAKER_00 (12:48):
That's what everyone thought.
SPEAKER_02 (12:50):
I mean, let's he literally dressed up as
Professor Snape.
Snape, Snape?
SPEAKER_00 (12:56):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (12:57):
Fro uh for Halloween.
If that does isn't a deadgiveaway, I don't know what else
would be.
I thought this was gonna be funor funny, but it's just like
infuriating.
SPEAKER_00 (13:14):
It's why?
SPEAKER_02 (13:16):
Uh these people, they they make me upset.
And the worst part, you know,they p these people they
probably talk about us this way.
SPEAKER_00 (13:24):
I know.
SPEAKER_02 (13:25):
They're like, oh, remember those two?
Remember that guy, remember thatgal.
SPEAKER_00 (13:32):
Yeah, people don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (13:33):
They probably say worse things about us than we
say about them.
SPEAKER_00 (13:40):
It's like I don't know.
If any specific names or eventslight up in this podcast, it's
it's all just chance.
SPEAKER_02 (13:49):
It's just by chan it's just by chance, not by
choice.
SPEAKER_00 (13:53):
It's not true.
Just so you know.
Oh my gosh, I need to find thisfor a minute.
SPEAKER_02 (13:58):
I want a silly I wanna find a silly band so bad.
I want to silly band.
SPEAKER_00 (14:03):
I found one recently.
SPEAKER_02 (14:05):
Do you know what like a go-go is?
SPEAKER_00 (14:08):
Was that like a Beyblade?
SPEAKER_02 (14:10):
It's like it's like you flick You like line them up
and flick them at each other.
SPEAKER_00 (14:17):
Yes, I know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_02 (14:19):
I used to have some of those.
I love them so much.
Oh my gosh, where's the photo?
That they sound Yes, I found it.
SPEAKER_00 (14:32):
Well, why do you look so why you're you're
standing next to like theladies?
SPEAKER_02 (14:37):
I'm clearly the best looking person.
SPEAKER_00 (14:40):
You look crazy.
SPEAKER_02 (14:42):
Do you I wasn't trying to take it seriously.
SPEAKER_00 (14:44):
I didn't want to Neither was I.
I look super cute.
SPEAKER_02 (14:50):
Where's my hug at?
SPEAKER_00 (14:52):
His hug is right there.
I should with faisha.
SPEAKER_02 (14:57):
I should do I should post that photo with like a no,
I should post that photo on myInstagram with like a text
bubble on my mouth that sayswhere's my hug at?
SPEAKER_00 (15:08):
Stop! I'm about to post this photo.
I really want to.
SPEAKER_02 (15:12):
We should get like as many people as we can to post
this photo at once and put likehashtag Where's my hug at?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (15:22):
Oh my gosh.
That's seriously a picture withthe whole high school.
SPEAKER_02 (15:39):
What time is it?
SPEAKER_00 (15:40):
1151.
I'm low-key scared to like, areyou actually gonna release this?
SPEAKER_02 (15:44):
Yes.
Alright.
Well, I have to release it nowbecause okay.
That's the end.
Um check out Bully Cunningham onSpotify, B-L-A-K-E,
C-U-N-N-I-N-G-H A M.
Now.
Yes.
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