June 4, 2025 • 45 mins
Back on the Big Moe Podcast, this week Big Moe Barrett and Andy Nagel talk with Director of Innovation and Curriculum Erin Brandyberry. The also talk to Man of Moeller Conner Vaughan '27 and his mission trip to Tanzania.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
W m O and the Moula Broadcasting that probably was that.
The Big Mo Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The Big Mo Podcast is brought to you by Pharma
twenty four, crassp and Electric and reve Landscaping and now
your host's Andie Nagel and Big.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Mo Barrett Hot Hot summertime. Andy, It's the Big Mo Podcast.
And I love this weather.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is awesome. Cicada web this is crazy.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah, when when that heat, when that bars, that sun
comes out and that temperature creaked up, these cicadas are
going nuts on his campus.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I have to tell you a funny story, and it's
relative to cicadas. So my wife said, I don't think
I told you this because you've been busy, very busy.
We'll talk about that in a minute. But my wife said,
two nights ago, hey, your brother and sister.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
In law called. They want to do a bike ride.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Now you see me, I'm not what you would describe
as your prototypical bike rider.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh yeah, we have a beat tights on. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We all we have are like these beach cruisers. You
ever seeing those things? That's all we have. So they said,
we're going to start in We're going to start in
Milford and we're going to bike the loved One. Now
as the crow flies, it's not that's not far like
seems yeah right, it's it's but basically Krimchech Stadium is
right in the middle. So I'm like, no, that's fine.
(01:21):
I said, we don't really have bikes to go on
a bike trail. But we were taking my daughter and
my son and so we got to Milford and it
wasn't hot yet, but it was probably in the upper
seventies and we're biking and I think we were a
mile into it, and I said, loved one's got to
be right.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We got to be close to love them.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And my brother yells out something like six more miles,
and I said, you've got to be kidding me. Long
story short, we biked ten miles. It's ten miles because
it's one weeks and does it ten miles one way?
Here's the problem. We got to love one. We passed
Krampcheck Stadium, which was awesome. We took a pit stop
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at Crampcheck Stadium, so we get all the way to
love One. Now, these avid bike riders are going to
think that I'm very soft, right, but I have a
beach cruiser and I'm not exactly the best in shape.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Here we flip flops.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Correct, It wasn't anticipating like an intense bike ride.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is the tor from correct.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We get to love one and let's have some lunch.
And I thought we would have my oldest son meet
us there, picked the bikes up. He's not coming. Guess what.
We got a bike back and I buy twenty miles. Wow,
in two and a half hours something like that, three
hours with lunch and everything out. I could not feel
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my legs yesterday like twenty miles. And now nobody told
oh Andy, nobody said hey, do you want to buy
twenty miles today?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
They said, hey, you want to?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You want a bike ride?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right? They said you want to? Said you went to
take a nice little bike.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Ride with nice little bike ride.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Twenty miles to workout. Unbelievable. And then you got guys
like John Buckley, ninety eight grad who bikes every day
and he probably does ten of those trip. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but he's at the right bike to do it. I
know that for a fact. Now he does have a
beach cruiser. It was unbelievable. But the cicadas were deafening.
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I mean, you're under bike the whole way up there?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Did they hit you?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I had a couple hit me. So if the bike
ride wasn't enough, it was the sun. The Cicada's flying
all over the place.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
But and Graham left you hanging.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Graham left me hanging.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To watch it. Oh, for sure. I was mortified. When
they said we got to bike this thing back. Halfway back,
the thought entered my mind, I'm not gonna make it.
I barely made it back to Krimcheck Stadium. I said,
I don't think I could finish this thing.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, and I know you don't, I bube. But that's
why there's a lot of those bars and restaurants.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
One hundred percent correct.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And I found out there's a lot of because we
had a couple of bikes that had some issues along
the way, and they got these little bike shops that
you can stop and it will rest stops along the way.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's it's beautiful, yes, I will say that.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Not for twenty miles, not for a ten mile one way.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It would have been perfectly beautiful with a tenth of
a mile drive and I would have been fine with that.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Maybe two and a half miles up, two and a
half miles back.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh, here's the worst part.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
My brother. He didn't tell me this until we're on
our way back. He had a motorized bike, so he
didn't even go twenty miles.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He's just cruising.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No about to tell you what he did doing the
way back because he knew I was struggling. He knew
I was struggling. He came up and grabbed my arm
and said, just chillax for a little bit, and just
literally towed me along for about five minutes. But it
was crazy, Uh be able to Sicadas were off the charts.
Hey Moler baseball with a big win. Yes, boy was ugly.
(04:54):
It was an ugly win. I think there were both sides.
I think it was like six or seven airs in
the game. It batters a ugly game. But you know
what good teams is. They always say win those ugly games.
And they did advance. I thought they might play on
Tanji again, but Lakota West bested or in Tanji Liberty
last night. So now tonight at five o'clock, the men
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of Moeler and Lakota West again. They always meet, no
matter what the sport is, for a chance to go
another step closer to a state championship.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And that's what happens when you get especially in West.
You know, you get one pitcher, they can shut down
that team. Now let's see what West has coming back.
We know who we have coming back in Big Z.
But yeah, just to you know, looking at the first
inning the way it went and Connor Feer kind of
got out of some craziness in you there. Now, I
did not go hit batter, walk, and then they just
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they got a runner tied up and he gets a
groundball to end the inning. Then we score five in
an ugly inning where they're starting pitcher doesn't even finish
the inning. They go to a relief pitcher. We score five,
and you're thinking, okay, this is it, and they may
come back and score four on you know, just hit
batters and walks and wild pitches and hits and just
not a a and hopefully this is the one they
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got out of their system. They blushed it. They can
beat West. This is where they lost last year in
that regional finals to Mason and then it's on to
the final four.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Brother, And it's just weird to think Moeller Lakota West
Regional final. I mean, every year in football for a
number of years. That's what it was in football, and
the greatest story of the whole game yesterday was a
young man who I don't know if you've ever even
met him. He's a relief pitcher, I think one of
the Brailan Connell Braybray.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
We did a story. If you would listen to the
This Week in Molar Baseball that I host with Coach Held,
you would have heard about Brail and Connell's story.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Cut freshman year, yes, cut sophomore year, cut junior year
in a huge district is that district final whatever?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
What was last night was regional semis.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Regional semifinal game, Yes, to a young man who has
cut his freshman, sophomoregan, junior year. He goes in, gets
it out, then he gets rolls a double play, ended
ending of bases loaded rally that they had And just
so incredibly proud of Browln who's now a grad officially
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of Moeller. What that kid has overcome and the adversity
he's faced and he shut the door in the adversity.
So incredibly proud and a great story.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It is a refreshing story in the fact that life
is gonna throw you hammers man, and this generation of
student athletes. They take the easy way out. If I
don't start, if I don't make the team, I'll just
go to a different school. It is so throwaway society
where this guy he gets cut three years and he says, gosh,
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darn it, gonna I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make it.
I'm gonna work my butt off, And just a fantastic story.
And you don't see these stories enough anymore because people
just jump to the next team. You know, there's none
of that hard work instilled.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And to add another layer to that, I was at
his grad party last week and he said he's had
a great experience, but he wishes he could feel like
he was a more part of the team because he's
he's one of the last guys out of the bullpen.
He's a left hander and he got limited innings. He
had a big appearance in Vegas to secure win for
Moler out there. But other than that, kind of a
guy behind the scenes and that was just a that
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was what.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Friday or Saturday is. Grad party.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Thanks forward a few days and now he's one of
the dudes that he was on helping propel this team
on a big stage to the next level. So just
great stuff, incredible stuff. Andy, a great show we have
coming up with. We're gonna be talking about a service
opportunity to Tanzania. We have Aaron brandy Berry who works
here at Big Mo along with Connor Vaughan, a young
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man of Moeler in the green room. But you are
incredibly busy. We all are, but you namely because this
is your big weekend, this is your super Bowl. We
have bourbon and cigars coming up on Friday night, and
we also have.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
A pallethora everybody. I don't know what that means. Palletha.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It means a lot eighty reunions on Once you move
to the West Side, you kind of get a little
more dumb. Trust me, I was born everything. Yes, and
then you go on Saturday a ton of reunions.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
How busy have you been?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, it's everybody while and throwing the fact that my
wife and I get sick over the weekend and I'm
still battling that on the back end of that. So
I'll be good by Friday. But people are just signing
up left and right. I mean we're at two twenty
five right now. We want to try to push it
to at least three hundred for Friday night and need
everybody to say it a little prayer for the weather.
(09:44):
It doesn't look promising, but it's going to be scattered.
You know, once that weather hits that river, it tends
to break up. So we're hoping that.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And it's rain or shine. So even if it rains,
as we have the ac we have a huge i
call it a circus tent coming as well, so the
rain will have very little impact for the fun that
will be.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, I'm working on right now, trying to put together
a kind of a run of show. Bart and I
will do a we'll record a big mo podcast that
we'll play next week based on this. We got Tommy
Wattle coming in and want to get him on the show.
Obviously talked to Coach Hell. He's going to be there
because they played tonight, so if they win, I'd like
(10:23):
to get him on the show with the final four
for next weekend. You know, you got a bunch of
eighty five guys, Tom Gregory and Mark weehe.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Greg Hudson called, he said he'll be there.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
He's in, So yeah, just trying to line up some
people there to do some interviews and then we'll have music,
food by Montgomery in and plenty of bourbon. Man we
got a bunch.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thanks a Bishop's Quarter for all of that as well.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, and it's just going to be a great night,
a lot of Mollar camaraderie. I'm seeing a lot of
new faces that we haven't seen in a while, so
that's awesome, and we're really trying to push it out.
It's a Molar family. You know, if you're a past parent,
a past brother, sister or not sister, past brother, cousin, uncle, grandfather,
you know, once you're in the Molar family, you're always
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part of the Molar family. So sorry, ladies, it is
a guy's event, but it's going to be a fun
night and hopefully we continue.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Had a couple say, man, that's not fair. No, no,
you have your fashion show.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
All it's right, Mom's club, your fashion show is that's right.
So we have that and then we have seven reunions
on Saturday. There's a couple reunions that punted to the fall,
which will take care of the big wouldn't be in
the fiftieth by nineteen seventy five class, there will be
in the fall. But we have seven reunions coming on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That way is a zone coverage in terms of us
attending all the events you can, Andy or Jason myself
can't be at all of them at one time, so
we are blocking and tackling, and we'll have representatives at
each of the reunion events on Saturday, which is cool
because there was a time early in my career, not
(11:59):
long ago, where I had to make an appearance in
every single one of them and that's just too much stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And like I said, we're one of the I think
few schools that actually help these classes coordinate, organize, and
plan their reunion. You know, ultimately it's their reunion, and
the success of their reunion is on their their classmates
and their class as.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
We have to remind guys that.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
We do and that's this is a little not our reunion, buddy.
This is a little subtle dig out there to uh
you know. And there's great numbers like the class of
nineteen eighty just John Myers doing Jason that at one point,
I think they're over eighty people that are signed up
and there they got Friday nights, Saturday night, they're doing stuff.
(12:42):
On Sunday, they're going to the Reds game thanks to
Mike Souter and Brenton and all that for the Reds.
But the class of eighties killing it. The class of
twenty ten is killing it. Class of sixty five has
a good turnout. They're going to do their sixty year
reunion here at school, so it'll be a fun week.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I always tell people that the reunions are what you
make them. Yes, I mean you can if you put
the work in, it will pay in dividends. I mean,
you will have a remarkable time if you you can
go do a reunion with four guys, and that'll be great.
But I'm telling you, the more guys that you have,
the more fun, the more memories, the more recall all
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the things that happened when you're in high school. So
kudos to those classes that have really because it is
a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It is.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I mean, if you want to, yeah, and stay in
because guys are guys staying in front of them, staying
on them. And so kudos to those classes you mentioned
that have done it and done it very well.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Class of nineteen seventy as well. I can't got to
give them credit. Is you know, like I said, there's
a bunch.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You always need to It works best when there's about
three or four guys and they really take turns with
the responsibilities or they assign responsibilities.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Hey, I got this group of guys.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I got this group of guys and they meet occasionally
throughout the year with the UH with this weekend being
their turn.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, and you know, just tee it up for next year.
The sixes and ones, the classes that ended in six
and one, you know, start thinking about it. At least
Sudden Door we're going to meet this summer. So she's
gonna basically spearhead and kind of take over the heavy
listing of lifting of the reunions. Obviously I'll be there
and our whole team will be there to support, but
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the lease is gonna kind of run with that, and
we're just kind of looking to to change some responsibilities
within our team. I think Kelly, Kelly Simmons is going
to be the point person for the golf outing next year,
and that's coming up, you know, June twenty seventh, so
I'll those plug in for that. We need numbers. We
need numbers, So I'll be working on the lists of
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past golfers and getting them the sign.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Ups, sothing we can promote This Friday absolutely, Yeah, for sure.
Hey again we're talking Tanzany today. I'm excited to talk
about this. I at some point, I don't know if
it will be this summer or the following summer, will
certainly be the embracing this opportunity that's been extended to
me to make the trip to Tanzy And I don't
know if it will be this summer or the following summer,
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but this peaks my interest. Very excited about this, and
we're going to be talking to Connor Vaughan and Aaron
Brandyberry about this opportunity when we come back. You're listening
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Speaker 4 (16:53):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
In fact, we should start right out of the gay
by introducing Aaron Brandyberry.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Who is Aaron?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What is your official title? I think I know what
it is, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I'm the Director of Innovation and Curriculum.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It sounds like a big deal, you.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Know, it's it's all really but I just play one
on TV.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
All she does is just she's the calendar approver for
the spaces in the hub. No, it's much more intensive.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Wow, this since the advent of this innovation hub becomes
is now the advent of an expanded curriculum that you know,
you have to think about in this real world learning
that we're that we teach our guys and it's just
it's awesome. I mean a huge responsibility. So kudos.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
What I really think is cool about the hub, and
this transitions into our conversation today is really learning. Everyone
learns best by doing specifically dudes, specifically dudes, but it's
true for us chicks.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I like what Marshall always said, you could take and
this isn't holistic. You got to be careful because well
it's not true with Mike, but you can take a book,
throw it in front of a young girl. My daughters
want an example and they will learn. Guys are different.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We talk about the whole doctor brook Banks, real learning philosophy.
Talk a little bit about that and how that plays
into what happens in this space that we're in now.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Absolutely so, our real learning philosophy is all based on
research about how young men learn best. So the real
is relational generally speaking, bear it to your point. Women
have a tendency to play the game of school. They're
they're going to learn just despite you. They're going to learn,
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whereas boys have a tendency to want to make sure
that you care about them first, and then they can
care about that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
They will tell you that though't no, of course it.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
So that's the real it's really really emphasizing relationship e
being experiential. So that's where that we learn by doing
right and so lecturing not not going to do it right.
I want to see that it's practical. I want to
experience it and then I understand it a little bit
more and then I'll do it better the next time.
(19:04):
The A is authentic, So I want why why do
I care?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Right?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Like, why does this make sense to me? How am
I going to use this in the future? Otherwise what's
the point?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
And there's another part of that that I like because
that exactly one hundred percent. But guys, dudes know when
something's not authentic. They're very intelligent high eques. They know
when you're throwing so as they call it shade their way,
they understand like what's authentic and what's not. So that's
a big part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Well, and I think to that point is this generation,
they question a lot more than like when we were
growing up, the teachers were like a bunch of sheep,
here's a B and C. Okay, I'll do it. But
now it's like here's a B. Well why is A
this way? And B is this way?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
You get those questions, you know, and absolutely, and I
think that's what molar is so wonderful about, is really
encouraging those critical questions and and saying, yeah, ask me why.
And I think that's a really important thing. If you
don't stop to say, well, why, why is it the
way that it is, like why do I know what?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I know?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
You're missing out on a lot. And I think that's
really really cool. Thing about the Hub is we wrap
all of the real learning philosophy. And because we were
able to build something new, we were able to build
it very strategically so that all of our courses and
the space itself really encourage real learning. So very project based,
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very authentic, very informed by what students want to do
and are interested in and the problems that they are
interested in solving. And I think that's the premise of
how I like to work, is what problems are you
interested in solving? How can we figure out the lens
to solve them through.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
That's a good it is. You're good.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
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Marcial break. When we come back, we're going to talk
about how that all is played out here at Molar
and what is happening. We got Connor Vaughan in studio.
He's in the greenroom reading Montgomery and Ribs right now.
Look look at him in there. He's got Montgomery and
Sauce all over his face. Connor Vaughan coming up next
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On LW The Flamethrower of Molar High School, w MOOE
and the Molar Broadcasting Network. We have Connor Vaughan in
the studio now and this is pretty cool, Aaron, because
we are have an opportunity for our guys here at
school to experience what many would consider a bucket list opportunity,
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but not just from an opportunity to go travel somewhere,
but a service opportunity as well.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But kind of tee it up, Aaron, what we got
going on?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So absolutely, we just wrapped up talking about why experiential
learning is so important and that's where the life changes
truly truly happen. And of course here more with the innovation,
hope we do a great job of doing that in house,
but my first love was actually doing it out in
the world. And that's why I'm really excited to have
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Connor with me to talk about one of his own experiences,
personal experiences out in the real world, if you will,
having that life changing experience and wanting to bring it
to a remarkable men of more.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Connor, welcome to the BMPs. This is your first time
on the show, of your.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Second second I was with you here with my dad last.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Year, so you're a veteran at this now sort of.
I guess you could say that you look a little
older than the last time you were in here. I
know that for sure. That was your freshman year, wasn't
it correct. Yeah, So, Connor, we are talking about Tanzania,
an opportunity for our guys to make a service trip
to Tanzania. You have been to Tanzania yourself, doing exactly
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what we're putting together. Now, before we get into kind
of what the opportunity is for our guys, what was
that like for you? We talked about it before on
a show. What was that like, that experience of putting
others before yourself, going across literally across the world to
serve the community over there in Tanzania and kind of
(24:33):
explain what you did.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
So I definitely feel like I knew about the molar
philosophy of the real learning, but I didn't really see
it in action until I actually went. I knew the
ideas behind of being experiential and all that, but I
didn't really I drive it home to me when I
actually went to Africa.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
So you know what, I didn't set you up right?
Your father is an anesthesiologist at one of the local
hospitals here in town.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You see health, you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
See health, you gotta give props to you see health, right,
we gotta send them a bill. Now, he just gave
them a promo for you see health. And your dad
has done many many different what do they call those?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
And what he does it's really just a medical mission,
medical focus around teaching because there's not enough anesteciologists there.
Great residency program but really only like two guys to
teach it locally.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So and he's never and he's been doing this for years,
but you never got a chance to go with him
until last year.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now I set you up correctly, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Thank you so obviously, So I had had this past
experience of like knowing what my dad did, but I
really didn't get the chance to experience it myself. And honestly,
going there is like now when I went, I now
understood why my dad loved it so much, because he
gave to back to people what God had given him
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and his talents, his gifts. And I had now had
the opportunity to share that with others through great resources
smallers given me.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You always hear people.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
We always preach here about serving others and doing that,
and I think by and large, ninety nine point nine
percent of our guys are all in on that. But
until you physically do it, until you physically put somebody
else ahead of you, until because there's a little you
got to step outside your comfort zone. You're not heading
over to Sycamore to dunkin Donuts, You're going across the world.
There's a lot of anxiety with that. There's some vulnerability
(26:24):
with that. Talk about the emotions you had before you
went on this trip and what that was like emotionally
for you.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
It was kind of that nervous, excited feeling that like
say you're like a track runner and like it's like
about to be your event, and like you're hall hyped up, like, oh,
I want to go the best time, let's go. I
got this. It was kind of that adrenaline rush sort
of feeling like pretty much most of the flight there
and yeah, I fell asleep because it's like twenty seven
hour journey. Yeah, and then once I got there, it
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was it was very different in terms of the culture obviously,
but it was I want encourage people to say, like,
I can't go over there because like I'm not gonna
know anything. There are some actually very surprising similarities out there,
like in terms of like just a simple one is
like they have so many different types of cuisine out there.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
For food, like.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
How the US is a bunch of immigrants, Well, Tanzany
had the spice trade back in the time ago, and
a bunch of other people who have come in for
support the community. Like I'd say, one of the best
restaurants there is a Korean places, like the guy just
moved there to help share his talents with them there.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
That's awesome, that's really cool. So the work to get
over there.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
There was a lot Oh yeah, right, I mean, and
then talk about what you did over there, which I
and I'm talking specifically about the soccer Like you went
over there. Your dad did his mission work too, but
you had a job to do over there as well.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
So while my dad was in the during the week
when he was in the hospital, I kind of just
helped out wherever needed in the community. Father Peter Siamu
was kind of set me up with every service project
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Day.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
The first two days I worked at a newly established
nursing school. Then you need help catalog in their library
and organizing it that way, and then the next and
then the next day I went to a stenter for
street children called Armani, which is the Swahili word for hope.
Swahilia is the local language of Tanzania. If I'm sure
no one knows that, but I live in the people
that go Andy.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Andy. You live over in the west side of town.
You got to have a little bit of a culture
shock too when you go west. Talk if you could,
about what you want? Why do you what happened on
this trip that you that you wanted to share this
experience with the Moeller students? What called you? What did
what did was that? What was that feeling that you
have that you said, I want to come back. I
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want to talk to the leadership at Mohler and I
want to provide the same opportunity that I had last
year for guys in twenty twenty six. What called you
do that?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
So I feel like in terms of the cultural shock
is definitely a big thing, like what people would see
themselves middle class is probably one of the richest people
in the local Moshi community in Tanzania, and I feel
like knowing that difference in terms of like how well
off you are compared to what is considered well off
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there in terms of like barely scraping by here. Another
thing is that I feel like people will stereotype Africa
just having like the Serengetti, the Khanjara Mountains and other
great you do it like that, And I'm not taking
anything away from that by saying that, but people need
to realize like how struggling these communities are. It's like
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it's really just a tragedy that like they can't get by,
barely get by without their natural resources, with like a
couple exceptions.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But yeah, I mean, your dad shared a story with
me that speaking Andy jump in. But your dad shared
a story that really spoke to me about the time
that there was a I don't want what he's called
like a trader or a guy that was on the
street selling something. And it wasn't about you trying to
(30:02):
low ball the price. There was there was a respect
that your dad wanted to teach you about, talk about
that if you could.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So the scene was that this guy was this guy
makes like art out of bananaales. It's actually interesting how
they do that. They like burn it and then like
they've molded together with water almost like paper mache. So
the cultural respect there is like you want to like
almost bargain the price with them, but so like they'll
set it high and like trying to get like I
don't know, like sixty to forty percent of the price,
(30:32):
and then you're supposed to like say like, oh, I
want this much for it as a sign of like
that you care for their time they put to make
in this product. Well I didn't know that, and I
got mad because I was like, well, we're well off,
we can It's like this is like two dollars we're
arguing here in terms of like the exchange rate back.
It just didn't make sense to me, was like why,
like this guy really needs the money, but now I
(30:53):
know that cultural thing, and it's like that's another difference
people need to know. It was like this guy that
probably hiked days just to go to the public waterfall,
like a couple miles out, just to make it just
barely get like I don't know, a couple slices of
bread for his daily living.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
I think one of the things Connor's talking about is
what I think is so powerful and so impactful about
this kind of immersive experience is that that eye opening,
inner cultural experience where you are asked to really understand
things through a different lens than your own. And that's
(31:35):
really where to kind of circle back a little bit,
that's where that that great aha really really happens. That's
where that's where growth happens. That's where, oh, now I
know what I know, and now I understand why why
they know what they know. That's where that's where learning happens.
That's where the life change.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
This is one of those things where you have to
be there to know it. I'm having trouble explaining it
because it's like it's that feeling I don't really know
how to describe with like the aha moment almost it's
like this is kind of like, oh wow, wow, it's
really the global call.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
It's a humbling experience, I'm sure, learning experience, and it's
one where you bring back you know what Christ has
taught us, to go out in the world and take
care of those people that are lesser than us and
to grab them and bring them along with you. And
I think doing that and taking the more people you
can do that and then they come back and start
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spreading that. I mean, that's what it's all about. Man.
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Stuff goes all back to the two much as given,
much as expected.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That's right, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Eron would talk about if you could, the opportunity for
our guys and a little more detail about this trip
coming up next.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Absolutely so with with Connor and doctor Vaughan's leadership and support,
we are offering a new Tanzania Service Immersion travel program
educational travel program for the summer of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
So this is.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
A wonderful, wonderful experience to allow our about twelve of
our remarkable men to travel to Tanzania to spend the
first part of that experience really in service and immersed
in the local community. Kind of reference to a couple
of different opportunities that he had the experience to do
(33:24):
to last summer, and we're building on that with a
couple of additional experiences. So not only will students be
able to spend a day offering a soccer camp, also
building a or a digging a well, so there will
be some some physical labor. And that's you know, I
think we have a tendency to take for granted that's
life changing.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It is life life changing.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Absolutely, and it's not for a person's for community, correct, right,
it's it's it's so much bigger than the you know,
the shovel poll.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Right, is the difference of walking ten miles every day
just to get clean water.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
People might be asking where is Tanzany. It's in East Africa.
Tanzania is known for its natural beauty, including another opportunity,
Mount Kilimajaro and the Serengetti National Park. These natural wonders
combined with the facts that Tanzania is regarded as one
of the safest countries in Africa, which brings up a question.
People think East Africa Tanzania, I'm not going down there.
(34:22):
It's not safe. Reality is it? It is very safe? Yeah,
talk about that.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Is what people don't realize this is because of all
the colonialism, and there's disadvantages of that, but one of
the key advantages most of the countries in the East
Agrifa at least speak English as a second language, so
don't worry about communicating with the locals in terms just
like you'll know they'll know that you are a tourist clearly,
but they'll also know like to like welcome you. That's
(34:50):
one of the key things in their culture. So it's
just like a great welcoming. It's almost like a group
hug in tansitya where they always put themselves first, no
matter if like tourists local, if it's it's like even
if like a person is like the superior, like like
the un nervous school or a business, they'll like still
welcome their clients into their house.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Community of equals. May twenty six, Now these dates are
a little bit. It could differ a day or two.
I don't think it's been nailed down specifically yet. But
May twenty six is that's still the date.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
That's that's the target date. It's flexible one or two
days just based on flight prices, but that's the that's
what we're going with we want to get in and
out before the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So that's a big that's a big view over there. Yeah,
so think about this. You arrive in on a short
flight right over in Cansonia, start off with a daily
mass and breakfast at the retreat Center. You then spend
a couple of days with some service opportunities as well.
You're going to be walking around Moshi as well, the
cathedral there, You're going to be at one of the
(35:58):
retreat Center guest house. You'll be working with a secondary
school there, I think Don Bosco.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, they also have a seminary attached with that school,
like just across the street. And one of those days
we will be doing a service project with the seminarians that.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Is fantastic and it also includes So there's service for sure.
This is a service immersion trip, but there's opportunity as well.
Jungle not jungle, what's the word I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Forari Safari tours, jungle not too far Safari tours. And
you'll be hiking the mal Kilmanjaro as well. How cool
was that?
Speaker 6 (36:36):
I did that the first time I did today. Hike
past the fight, the first checkpoint going up to Malindi
Crater and you see every layer of the habitats and
the climate zones up there. So you start at the
bottom of like the normal tensity and climate of kind
of a hot but it's dry heat, and then you
go all the way up to the top where it's alpine.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I heard it's pretty spiritual type. Yes, climbing them and
jar that's what's very spared.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
How long How long is the hike up and how
long is the hike back?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
It's a day hike. I I don't remember off the
top of my head how long it was, but I
think I started at nine in the morning and got
done by.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Three going up, just one going up one way and
coming back.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
But that was what I was taking my time because
I was really enjoying it. So I think like it
could be a little bit faster than that.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, so like three hours up and three hours back.
You're saying sort of ballpark something like that? Was it
was it difficult?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Not really, not at all.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
So you could handle it, bear, I could handle the altitude.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Probably the hardest thing was just the altitude.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Uh is there anything with our listeners? Miss Brandon Barry,
is there anything you any message, anything like if anybody
was interested in this, anything where donations or anything like
that to help fund to trip, anything like that, who
a day contact and who they talked to.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
So from a Moler perspective, I'm the primary point of contact.
So for students who are interested or parents of of
are men of molar who are interested in participating, they
can contact me to actually apply. There's a there's a
brief application, and then there will be a deposit to
actually guarantee your spot in the program, because we do
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hope that it's a high demand program. But it's also
timed so that if for whatever reason, students we're not
able to participate in a motorm service opportunity because this
is during the summer, we open it up to a
different group, a different group of students.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
And what are you looking at as your max group size?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Twelve students? And that's that's largely because transportation is a
little bit of a different beast right there, right and
I think that having smaller groups allows for that much
more of an immersive and culturally close experience. The current
price of looking at about fifty four one hundred dollars
(38:54):
that could go down. It ultimately depends on what the
airfare rate is going to be, and that's why we're
shooting for those dates to get ahead of the World Cup,
where prices go up if folks are not able to participate.
This is planned to be an ongoing and sustainable program,
So if the summer of twenty twenty six is not,
(39:16):
you know, feasible, we can look at future opportunities, and
of course we're always looking for support for students who
One of my big goals is that cost is not
the reason that a student doesn't have an opportunity to
participate in either this experience or any other of the
dynamic experiences that Moler offers.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Connor, thank you for taking a lead on this, and
of course to your dad. I've developed a great relationship
with your dad what he does just here in Cincinnati,
but now across the globe, and what you're doing here
at Muller and being a leader in this. It wouldn't
happen without you, So thank you so much for everything
you've done. Thank you for your time, absolutely Arin. What
can people do that are interested? Where can they go
(39:56):
to get more information? Can they email you?
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Where they do for current families there isn't from about
the trip on the educational travel tile within mo campus.
And of course you can email me directly. My email
is E. Brandy Berry b R A N d Y
B E r r Y at Moller dot Org.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Here's a little Swahili music for you, Connor. Can you
name this song?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I would a little one the Jungle Bookers Disney.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Of course you would. I'll be in Disney in about
three weeks. Can you name this song?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Connor?
Speaker 6 (40:25):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Probably does this sound like what you were listening to?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Some similar music to what I experienced when I was
in Safari.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's awesome, Connor, Thank you so much. Miss brandy Berry,
thank you so much. As well, get a hold of
Aaron and you can be off and running on your
way to Tanzania. Beautiful part of the world and a
great opportunity for our men of Molar. Eddie Dago and
I will be back to wrap it up more in depth.
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the Great Show Andy. How about that trip to Tanzania?
I mean it's I want to see you on the
side of.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
It was so fun? Did the question I asked?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Was?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
You kept asking? It's one hundred percent? How long is it?
Speaker 1 (42:28):
I'm worried about my knees. Is it easy?
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Is it easy?
Speaker 3 (42:32):
I was asking for everybody else, but most importantly for me,
I was a little concerned about it. I'm not worried
about the safety of it. I've been I've done research,
I know all about it. I'm confident that's I'm not
worried about that at all. I am slightly worried about
how this guy, if he can't do a twenty mile
bike ride from Milford to love one, how I'm going
to be handling, handling Mount Kilmanjar.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
And digging wells and.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Digging wells and well that part of it they want
me documenting, so hopefully have a camera.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
That's right, That's right.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
But what a great opportunity for our guys here more.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
I just think that opportunity and then you know, we've
talked about it briefly, but that mode term, if people
don't understand it. You know, when we went on the
backside of our Christmas break, Mohler is actually taking that
first week. We will not be in class, but everybody
has an opportunity to participate in what they're calling mode term,
(43:27):
and it's it's immersive type situations, it's real learning. And
we have trips all over the country. We have trips
here locally that these students will be involved in in learning.
And that's and that's just adding that curriculum.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
You and I had these opportunities.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
That awesome and just you know, talking to Aaron about
the hub and I tell people all the time as
we walk them around school. As a fourteen year old
walking in, you have no idea what you want to
do in your life. I mean, heck, I'm fifty five
and still trying to figure it out. But when you
walk in the Hub and you see design and build,
(44:04):
you see a broadcast studio, you see an investment hub,
you see an unbelievable art room, now it's like, yeah,
I can see myself hosting a podcast. I can see
myself working a camera at an NFL.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Game, opening a portfolio up, and things like that.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Just now, the opportunities are real and tangible, and it
just gives these guys a jumpstart, you know, right away
their freshman year of what peaks their interest. And I
think Muller does a great job of, you know, fostering
that and then you know, fanning the flame, so to speak,
and you know when they graduate from here, they pretty
(44:42):
much have a good idea what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Very true.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Stoke for this weekend, Andy Nagel. It's gonna be a
lot of fun. It's a lot of work, but it's
gonna be a lot of fun. We want the work
to be meaningful, So show up on Friday and if
you have a reunion on Saturday. Not too late to
sign up for that as well.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Walk Up's Welcome, walk.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Ups Welcome, be a part of the Molar fan that again,
I've said it a million times, this is a great
entry point back into Molar. You'll love it, You'll have
a great time, and I guarantee you'll be signed up
for the next year's event as well. For Andy Nagel,
Aaron Brandyberry, our guests and the show. Connor Bond. This
is Big Mo, Barrett. Good luck to the Meta Molar
(45:20):
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And I love this weather.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is awesome. Cicada web this is crazy.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah, when when that heat, when that bars, that sun
comes out and that temperature creaked up, these cicadas are
going nuts on his campus.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I have to tell you a funny story, and it's
relative to cicadas. So my wife said, I don't think
I told you this because you've been busy, very busy.
We'll talk about that in a minute. But my wife said,
two nights ago, hey, your brother and sister.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
In law called. They want to do a bike ride.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Now you see me, I'm not what you would describe
as your prototypical bike rider.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Oh yeah, we have a beat tights on. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
We all we have are like these beach cruisers. You
ever seeing those things? That's all we have. So they said,
we're going to start in We're going to start in
Milford and we're going to bike the loved One. Now
as the crow flies, it's not that's not far like
seems yeah right, it's it's but basically Krimchech Stadium is
right in the middle. So I'm like, no, that's fine.
(01:21):
I said, we don't really have bikes to go on
a bike trail. But we were taking my daughter and
my son and so we got to Milford and it
wasn't hot yet, but it was probably in the upper
seventies and we're biking and I think we were a
mile into it, and I said, loved one's got to
be right.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We got to be close to love them.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And my brother yells out something like six more miles,
and I said, you've got to be kidding me. Long
story short, we biked ten miles. It's ten miles because
it's one weeks and does it ten miles one way?
Here's the problem. We got to love one. We passed
Krampcheck Stadium, which was awesome. We took a pit stop
(02:05):
at Crampcheck Stadium, so we get all the way to
love One. Now, these avid bike riders are going to
think that I'm very soft, right, but I have a
beach cruiser and I'm not exactly the best in shape.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Here we flip flops.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Correct, It wasn't anticipating like an intense bike ride.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is the tor from correct.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We get to love one and let's have some lunch.
And I thought we would have my oldest son meet
us there, picked the bikes up. He's not coming. Guess what.
We got a bike back and I buy twenty miles. Wow,
in two and a half hours something like that, three
hours with lunch and everything out. I could not feel
(02:46):
my legs yesterday like twenty miles. And now nobody told
oh Andy, nobody said hey, do you want to buy
twenty miles today?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
They said, hey, you want to?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You want a bike ride?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right? They said you want to? Said you went to
take a nice little bike.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Ride with nice little bike ride.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Twenty miles to workout. Unbelievable. And then you got guys
like John Buckley, ninety eight grad who bikes every day
and he probably does ten of those trip. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but he's at the right bike to do it. I
know that for a fact. Now he does have a
beach cruiser. It was unbelievable. But the cicadas were deafening.
(03:25):
I mean, you're under bike the whole way up there?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Did they hit you?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I had a couple hit me. So if the bike
ride wasn't enough, it was the sun. The Cicada's flying
all over the place.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
But and Graham left you hanging.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Graham left me hanging.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To watch it. Oh, for sure. I was mortified. When
they said we got to bike this thing back. Halfway back,
the thought entered my mind, I'm not gonna make it.
I barely made it back to Krimcheck Stadium. I said,
I don't think I could finish this thing.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah, and I know you don't, I bube. But that's
why there's a lot of those bars and restaurants.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
One hundred percent correct.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And I found out there's a lot of because we
had a couple of bikes that had some issues along
the way, and they got these little bike shops that
you can stop and it will rest stops along the way.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's it's beautiful, yes, I will say that.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Not for twenty miles, not for a ten mile one way.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It would have been perfectly beautiful with a tenth of
a mile drive and I would have been fine with that.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Maybe two and a half miles up, two and a
half miles back.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh, here's the worst part.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
My brother. He didn't tell me this until we're on
our way back. He had a motorized bike, so he
didn't even go twenty miles.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He's just cruising.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No about to tell you what he did doing the
way back because he knew I was struggling. He knew
I was struggling. He came up and grabbed my arm
and said, just chillax for a little bit, and just
literally towed me along for about five minutes. But it
was crazy, Uh be able to Sicadas were off the charts.
Hey Moler baseball with a big win. Yes, boy was ugly.
(04:54):
It was an ugly win. I think there were both sides.
I think it was like six or seven airs in
the game. It batters a ugly game. But you know
what good teams is. They always say win those ugly games.
And they did advance. I thought they might play on
Tanji again, but Lakota West bested or in Tanji Liberty
last night. So now tonight at five o'clock, the men
(05:16):
of Moeler and Lakota West again. They always meet, no
matter what the sport is, for a chance to go
another step closer to a state championship.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
And that's what happens when you get especially in West.
You know, you get one pitcher, they can shut down
that team. Now let's see what West has coming back.
We know who we have coming back in Big Z.
But yeah, just to you know, looking at the first
inning the way it went and Connor Feer kind of
got out of some craziness in you there. Now, I
did not go hit batter, walk, and then they just
(05:48):
they got a runner tied up and he gets a
groundball to end the inning. Then we score five in
an ugly inning where they're starting pitcher doesn't even finish
the inning. They go to a relief pitcher. We score five,
and you're thinking, okay, this is it, and they may
come back and score four on you know, just hit
batters and walks and wild pitches and hits and just
not a a and hopefully this is the one they
(06:10):
got out of their system. They blushed it. They can
beat West. This is where they lost last year in
that regional finals to Mason and then it's on to
the final four.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Brother, And it's just weird to think Moeller Lakota West
Regional final. I mean, every year in football for a
number of years. That's what it was in football, and
the greatest story of the whole game yesterday was a
young man who I don't know if you've ever even
met him. He's a relief pitcher, I think one of
the Brailan Connell Braybray.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
We did a story. If you would listen to the
This Week in Molar Baseball that I host with Coach Held,
you would have heard about Brail and Connell's story.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Cut freshman year, yes, cut sophomore year, cut junior year
in a huge district is that district final whatever?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
What was last night was regional semis.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Regional semifinal game, Yes, to a young man who has
cut his freshman, sophomoregan, junior year. He goes in, gets
it out, then he gets rolls a double play, ended
ending of bases loaded rally that they had And just
so incredibly proud of Browln who's now a grad officially
(07:18):
of Moeller. What that kid has overcome and the adversity
he's faced and he shut the door in the adversity.
So incredibly proud and a great story.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It is a refreshing story in the fact that life
is gonna throw you hammers man, and this generation of
student athletes. They take the easy way out. If I
don't start, if I don't make the team, I'll just
go to a different school. It is so throwaway society
where this guy he gets cut three years and he says, gosh,
(07:49):
darn it, gonna I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make it.
I'm gonna work my butt off, And just a fantastic story.
And you don't see these stories enough anymore because people
just jump to the next team. You know, there's none
of that hard work instilled.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
And to add another layer to that, I was at
his grad party last week and he said he's had
a great experience, but he wishes he could feel like
he was a more part of the team because he's
he's one of the last guys out of the bullpen.
He's a left hander and he got limited innings. He
had a big appearance in Vegas to secure win for
Moler out there. But other than that, kind of a
guy behind the scenes and that was just a that
(08:26):
was what.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Friday or Saturday is. Grad party.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Thanks forward a few days and now he's one of
the dudes that he was on helping propel this team
on a big stage to the next level. So just
great stuff, incredible stuff. Andy, a great show we have
coming up with. We're gonna be talking about a service
opportunity to Tanzania. We have Aaron brandy Berry who works
here at Big Mo along with Connor Vaughan, a young
(08:52):
man of Moeler in the green room. But you are
incredibly busy. We all are, but you namely because this
is your big weekend, this is your super Bowl. We
have bourbon and cigars coming up on Friday night, and
we also have.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
A pallethora everybody. I don't know what that means. Palletha.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It means a lot eighty reunions on Once you move
to the West Side, you kind of get a little
more dumb. Trust me, I was born everything. Yes, and
then you go on Saturday a ton of reunions.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
How busy have you been?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah, it's everybody while and throwing the fact that my
wife and I get sick over the weekend and I'm
still battling that on the back end of that. So
I'll be good by Friday. But people are just signing
up left and right. I mean we're at two twenty
five right now. We want to try to push it
to at least three hundred for Friday night and need
everybody to say it a little prayer for the weather.
(09:44):
It doesn't look promising, but it's going to be scattered.
You know, once that weather hits that river, it tends
to break up. So we're hoping that.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
And it's rain or shine. So even if it rains,
as we have the ac we have a huge i
call it a circus tent coming as well, so the
rain will have very little impact for the fun that
will be.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yeah, I'm working on right now, trying to put together
a kind of a run of show. Bart and I
will do a we'll record a big mo podcast that
we'll play next week based on this. We got Tommy
Wattle coming in and want to get him on the show.
Obviously talked to Coach Hell. He's going to be there
because they played tonight, so if they win, I'd like
(10:23):
to get him on the show with the final four
for next weekend. You know, you got a bunch of
eighty five guys, Tom Gregory and Mark weehe.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Greg Hudson called, he said he'll be there.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
He's in, So yeah, just trying to line up some
people there to do some interviews and then we'll have music,
food by Montgomery in and plenty of bourbon. Man we
got a bunch.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thanks a Bishop's Quarter for all of that as well.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, and it's just going to be a great night,
a lot of Mollar camaraderie. I'm seeing a lot of
new faces that we haven't seen in a while, so
that's awesome, and we're really trying to push it out.
It's a Molar family. You know, if you're a past parent,
a past brother, sister or not sister, past brother, cousin, uncle, grandfather,
you know, once you're in the Molar family, you're always
(11:08):
part of the Molar family. So sorry, ladies, it is
a guy's event, but it's going to be a fun
night and hopefully we continue.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Had a couple say, man, that's not fair. No, no,
you have your fashion show.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
All it's right, Mom's club, your fashion show is that's right.
So we have that and then we have seven reunions
on Saturday. There's a couple reunions that punted to the fall,
which will take care of the big wouldn't be in
the fiftieth by nineteen seventy five class, there will be
in the fall. But we have seven reunions coming on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That way is a zone coverage in terms of us
attending all the events you can, Andy or Jason myself
can't be at all of them at one time, so
we are blocking and tackling, and we'll have representatives at
each of the reunion events on Saturday, which is cool
because there was a time early in my career, not
(11:59):
long ago, where I had to make an appearance in
every single one of them and that's just too much stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And like I said, we're one of the I think
few schools that actually help these classes coordinate, organize, and
plan their reunion. You know, ultimately it's their reunion, and
the success of their reunion is on their their classmates
and their class as.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
We have to remind guys that.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
We do and that's this is a little not our reunion, buddy.
This is a little subtle dig out there to uh
you know. And there's great numbers like the class of
nineteen eighty just John Myers doing Jason that at one point,
I think they're over eighty people that are signed up
and there they got Friday nights, Saturday night, they're doing stuff.
(12:42):
On Sunday, they're going to the Reds game thanks to
Mike Souter and Brenton and all that for the Reds.
But the class of eighties killing it. The class of
twenty ten is killing it. Class of sixty five has
a good turnout. They're going to do their sixty year
reunion here at school, so it'll be a fun week.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I always tell people that the reunions are what you
make them. Yes, I mean you can if you put
the work in, it will pay in dividends. I mean,
you will have a remarkable time if you you can
go do a reunion with four guys, and that'll be great.
But I'm telling you, the more guys that you have,
the more fun, the more memories, the more recall all
(13:22):
the things that happened when you're in high school. So
kudos to those classes that have really because it is
a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It is.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I mean, if you want to, yeah, and stay in
because guys are guys staying in front of them, staying
on them. And so kudos to those classes you mentioned
that have done it and done it very well.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Class of nineteen seventy as well. I can't got to
give them credit. Is you know, like I said, there's
a bunch.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You always need to It works best when there's about
three or four guys and they really take turns with
the responsibilities or they assign responsibilities.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Hey, I got this group of guys.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I got this group of guys and they meet occasionally
throughout the year with the UH with this weekend being
their turn.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, and you know, just tee it up for next year.
The sixes and ones, the classes that ended in six
and one, you know, start thinking about it. At least
Sudden Door we're going to meet this summer. So she's
gonna basically spearhead and kind of take over the heavy
listing of lifting of the reunions. Obviously I'll be there
and our whole team will be there to support, but
(14:24):
the lease is gonna kind of run with that, and
we're just kind of looking to to change some responsibilities
within our team. I think Kelly, Kelly Simmons is going
to be the point person for the golf outing next year,
and that's coming up, you know, June twenty seventh, so
I'll those plug in for that. We need numbers. We
need numbers, So I'll be working on the lists of
(14:45):
past golfers and getting them the sign.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Ups, sothing we can promote This Friday absolutely, Yeah, for sure.
Hey again we're talking Tanzany today. I'm excited to talk
about this. I at some point, I don't know if
it will be this summer or the following summer, will
certainly be the embracing this opportunity that's been extended to
me to make the trip to Tanzy And I don't
know if it will be this summer or the following summer,
(15:08):
but this peaks my interest. Very excited about this, and
we're going to be talking to Connor Vaughan and Aaron
Brandyberry about this opportunity when we come back. You're listening
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Speaker 4 (16:53):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
In fact, we should start right out of the gay
by introducing Aaron Brandyberry.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Who is Aaron?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What is your official title? I think I know what
it is, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I'm the Director of Innovation and Curriculum.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It sounds like a big deal, you.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Know, it's it's all really but I just play one
on TV.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
All she does is just she's the calendar approver for
the spaces in the hub. No, it's much more intensive.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Wow, this since the advent of this innovation hub becomes
is now the advent of an expanded curriculum that you know,
you have to think about in this real world learning
that we're that we teach our guys and it's just
it's awesome. I mean a huge responsibility. So kudos.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
What I really think is cool about the hub, and
this transitions into our conversation today is really learning. Everyone
learns best by doing specifically dudes, specifically dudes, but it's
true for us chicks.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I like what Marshall always said, you could take and
this isn't holistic. You got to be careful because well
it's not true with Mike, but you can take a book,
throw it in front of a young girl. My daughters
want an example and they will learn. Guys are different.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
We talk about the whole doctor brook Banks, real learning philosophy.
Talk a little bit about that and how that plays
into what happens in this space that we're in now.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Absolutely so, our real learning philosophy is all based on
research about how young men learn best. So the real
is relational generally speaking, bear it to your point. Women
have a tendency to play the game of school. They're
they're going to learn just despite you. They're going to learn,
(18:34):
whereas boys have a tendency to want to make sure
that you care about them first, and then they can
care about that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
They will tell you that though't no, of course it.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
So that's the real it's really really emphasizing relationship e
being experiential. So that's where that we learn by doing
right and so lecturing not not going to do it right.
I want to see that it's practical. I want to
experience it and then I understand it a little bit
more and then I'll do it better the next time.
(19:04):
The A is authentic, So I want why why do
I care?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Right?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Like, why does this make sense to me? How am
I going to use this in the future? Otherwise what's
the point?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
And there's another part of that that I like because
that exactly one hundred percent. But guys, dudes know when
something's not authentic. They're very intelligent high eques. They know
when you're throwing so as they call it shade their way,
they understand like what's authentic and what's not. So that's
a big part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Well, and I think to that point is this generation,
they question a lot more than like when we were
growing up, the teachers were like a bunch of sheep,
here's a B and C. Okay, I'll do it. But
now it's like here's a B. Well why is A
this way? And B is this way?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
You get those questions, you know, and absolutely, and I
think that's what molar is so wonderful about, is really
encouraging those critical questions and and saying, yeah, ask me why.
And I think that's a really important thing. If you
don't stop to say, well, why, why is it the
way that it is, like why do I know what?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I know?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
You're missing out on a lot. And I think that's
really really cool. Thing about the Hub is we wrap
all of the real learning philosophy. And because we were
able to build something new, we were able to build
it very strategically so that all of our courses and
the space itself really encourage real learning. So very project based,
(20:36):
very authentic, very informed by what students want to do
and are interested in and the problems that they are
interested in solving. And I think that's the premise of
how I like to work, is what problems are you
interested in solving? How can we figure out the lens
to solve them through.
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On LW The Flamethrower of Molar High School, w MOOE
and the Molar Broadcasting Network. We have Connor Vaughan in
the studio now and this is pretty cool, Aaron, because
we are have an opportunity for our guys here at
school to experience what many would consider a bucket list opportunity,
(23:02):
but not just from an opportunity to go travel somewhere,
but a service opportunity as well.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But kind of tee it up, Aaron, what we got
going on?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So absolutely, we just wrapped up talking about why experiential
learning is so important and that's where the life changes
truly truly happen. And of course here more with the innovation,
hope we do a great job of doing that in house,
but my first love was actually doing it out in
the world. And that's why I'm really excited to have
(23:31):
Connor with me to talk about one of his own experiences,
personal experiences out in the real world, if you will,
having that life changing experience and wanting to bring it
to a remarkable men of more.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Connor, welcome to the BMPs. This is your first time
on the show, of your.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Second second I was with you here with my dad last.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Year, so you're a veteran at this now sort of.
I guess you could say that you look a little
older than the last time you were in here. I
know that for sure. That was your freshman year, wasn't
it correct. Yeah, So, Connor, we are talking about Tanzania,
an opportunity for our guys to make a service trip
to Tanzania. You have been to Tanzania yourself, doing exactly
(24:12):
what we're putting together. Now, before we get into kind
of what the opportunity is for our guys, what was
that like for you? We talked about it before on
a show. What was that like, that experience of putting
others before yourself, going across literally across the world to
serve the community over there in Tanzania and kind of
(24:33):
explain what you did.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
So I definitely feel like I knew about the molar
philosophy of the real learning, but I didn't really see
it in action until I actually went. I knew the
ideas behind of being experiential and all that, but I
didn't really I drive it home to me when I
actually went to Africa.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
So you know what, I didn't set you up right?
Your father is an anesthesiologist at one of the local
hospitals here in town.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You see health, you.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
See health, you gotta give props to you see health, right,
we gotta send them a bill. Now, he just gave
them a promo for you see health. And your dad
has done many many different what do they call those?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
And what he does it's really just a medical mission,
medical focus around teaching because there's not enough anesteciologists there.
Great residency program but really only like two guys to
teach it locally.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So and he's never and he's been doing this for years,
but you never got a chance to go with him
until last year.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now I set you up correctly, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Thank you so obviously, So I had had this past
experience of like knowing what my dad did, but I
really didn't get the chance to experience it myself. And honestly,
going there is like now when I went, I now
understood why my dad loved it so much, because he
gave to back to people what God had given him
(25:53):
and his talents, his gifts. And I had now had
the opportunity to share that with others through great resources
smallers given me.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You always hear people.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
We always preach here about serving others and doing that,
and I think by and large, ninety nine point nine
percent of our guys are all in on that. But
until you physically do it, until you physically put somebody
else ahead of you, until because there's a little you
got to step outside your comfort zone. You're not heading
over to Sycamore to dunkin Donuts, You're going across the world.
There's a lot of anxiety with that. There's some vulnerability
(26:24):
with that. Talk about the emotions you had before you
went on this trip and what that was like emotionally
for you.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
It was kind of that nervous, excited feeling that like
say you're like a track runner and like it's like
about to be your event, and like you're hall hyped up, like, oh,
I want to go the best time, let's go. I
got this. It was kind of that adrenaline rush sort
of feeling like pretty much most of the flight there
and yeah, I fell asleep because it's like twenty seven
hour journey. Yeah, and then once I got there, it
(26:54):
was it was very different in terms of the culture obviously,
but it was I want encourage people to say, like,
I can't go over there because like I'm not gonna
know anything. There are some actually very surprising similarities out there,
like in terms of like just a simple one is
like they have so many different types of cuisine out there.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
For food, like.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
How the US is a bunch of immigrants, Well, Tanzany
had the spice trade back in the time ago, and
a bunch of other people who have come in for
support the community. Like I'd say, one of the best
restaurants there is a Korean places, like the guy just
moved there to help share his talents with them there.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
That's awesome, that's really cool. So the work to get
over there.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
There was a lot Oh yeah, right, I mean, and
then talk about what you did over there, which I
and I'm talking specifically about the soccer Like you went
over there. Your dad did his mission work too, but
you had a job to do over there as well.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
So while my dad was in the during the week
when he was in the hospital, I kind of just
helped out wherever needed in the community. Father Peter Siamu
was kind of set me up with every service project
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Day.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
The first two days I worked at a newly established
nursing school. Then you need help catalog in their library
and organizing it that way, and then the next and
then the next day I went to a stenter for
street children called Armani, which is the Swahili word for hope.
Swahilia is the local language of Tanzania. If I'm sure
no one knows that, but I live in the people
that go Andy.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Andy. You live over in the west side of town.
You got to have a little bit of a culture
shock too when you go west. Talk if you could,
about what you want? Why do you what happened on
this trip that you that you wanted to share this
experience with the Moeller students? What called you? What did
what did was that? What was that feeling that you
have that you said, I want to come back. I
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want to talk to the leadership at Mohler and I
want to provide the same opportunity that I had last
year for guys in twenty twenty six. What called you
do that?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
So I feel like in terms of the cultural shock
is definitely a big thing, like what people would see
themselves middle class is probably one of the richest people
in the local Moshi community in Tanzania, and I feel
like knowing that difference in terms of like how well
off you are compared to what is considered well off
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there in terms of like barely scraping by here. Another
thing is that I feel like people will stereotype Africa
just having like the Serengetti, the Khanjara Mountains and other
great you do it like that, And I'm not taking
anything away from that by saying that, but people need
to realize like how struggling these communities are. It's like
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it's really just a tragedy that like they can't get by,
barely get by without their natural resources, with like a
couple exceptions.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
But yeah, I mean, your dad shared a story with
me that speaking Andy jump in. But your dad shared
a story that really spoke to me about the time
that there was a I don't want what he's called
like a trader or a guy that was on the
street selling something. And it wasn't about you trying to
(30:02):
low ball the price. There was there was a respect
that your dad wanted to teach you about, talk about
that if you could.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
So the scene was that this guy was this guy
makes like art out of bananaales. It's actually interesting how
they do that. They like burn it and then like
they've molded together with water almost like paper mache. So
the cultural respect there is like you want to like
almost bargain the price with them, but so like they'll
set it high and like trying to get like I
don't know, like sixty to forty percent of the price,
(30:32):
and then you're supposed to like say like, oh, I
want this much for it as a sign of like
that you care for their time they put to make
in this product. Well I didn't know that, and I
got mad because I was like, well, we're well off,
we can It's like this is like two dollars we're
arguing here in terms of like the exchange rate back.
It just didn't make sense to me, was like why,
like this guy really needs the money, but now I
(30:53):
know that cultural thing, and it's like that's another difference
people need to know. It was like this guy that
probably hiked days just to go to the public waterfall,
like a couple miles out, just to make it just
barely get like I don't know, a couple slices of
bread for his daily living.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
I think one of the things Connor's talking about is
what I think is so powerful and so impactful about
this kind of immersive experience is that that eye opening,
inner cultural experience where you are asked to really understand
things through a different lens than your own. And that's
(31:35):
really where to kind of circle back a little bit,
that's where that that great aha really really happens. That's
where that's where growth happens. That's where, oh, now I
know what I know, and now I understand why why
they know what they know. That's where that's where learning happens.
That's where the life change.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
This is one of those things where you have to
be there to know it. I'm having trouble explaining it
because it's like it's that feeling I don't really know
how to describe with like the aha moment almost it's
like this is kind of like, oh wow, wow, it's
really the global call.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
It's a humbling experience, I'm sure, learning experience, and it's
one where you bring back you know what Christ has
taught us, to go out in the world and take
care of those people that are lesser than us and
to grab them and bring them along with you. And
I think doing that and taking the more people you
can do that and then they come back and start
(32:31):
spreading that. I mean, that's what it's all about. Man.
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Stuff goes all back to the two much as given,
much as expected.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That's right, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Eron would talk about if you could, the opportunity for
our guys and a little more detail about this trip
coming up next.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Absolutely so with with Connor and doctor Vaughan's leadership and support,
we are offering a new Tanzania Service Immersion travel program
educational travel program for the summer of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
So this is.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
A wonderful, wonderful experience to allow our about twelve of
our remarkable men to travel to Tanzania to spend the
first part of that experience really in service and immersed
in the local community. Kind of reference to a couple
of different opportunities that he had the experience to do
(33:24):
to last summer, and we're building on that with a
couple of additional experiences. So not only will students be
able to spend a day offering a soccer camp, also
building a or a digging a well, so there will
be some some physical labor. And that's you know, I
think we have a tendency to take for granted that's
life changing.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It is life life changing.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Absolutely, and it's not for a person's for community, correct, right,
it's it's it's so much bigger than the you know,
the shovel poll.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Right, is the difference of walking ten miles every day
just to get clean water.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
People might be asking where is Tanzany. It's in East Africa.
Tanzania is known for its natural beauty, including another opportunity,
Mount Kilimajaro and the Serengetti National Park. These natural wonders
combined with the facts that Tanzania is regarded as one
of the safest countries in Africa, which brings up a question.
People think East Africa Tanzania, I'm not going down there.
(34:22):
It's not safe. Reality is it? It is very safe? Yeah,
talk about that.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Is what people don't realize this is because of all
the colonialism, and there's disadvantages of that, but one of
the key advantages most of the countries in the East
Agrifa at least speak English as a second language, so
don't worry about communicating with the locals in terms just
like you'll know they'll know that you are a tourist clearly,
but they'll also know like to like welcome you. That's
(34:50):
one of the key things in their culture. So it's
just like a great welcoming. It's almost like a group
hug in tansitya where they always put themselves first, no
matter if like tourists local, if it's it's like even
if like a person is like the superior, like like
the un nervous school or a business, they'll like still
welcome their clients into their house.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Community of equals. May twenty six, Now these dates are
a little bit. It could differ a day or two.
I don't think it's been nailed down specifically yet. But
May twenty six is that's still the date.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
That's that's the target date. It's flexible one or two
days just based on flight prices, but that's the that's
what we're going with we want to get in and
out before the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So that's a big that's a big view over there. Yeah,
so think about this. You arrive in on a short
flight right over in Cansonia, start off with a daily
mass and breakfast at the retreat Center. You then spend
a couple of days with some service opportunities as well.
You're going to be walking around Moshi as well, the
cathedral there, You're going to be at one of the
(35:58):
retreat Center guest house. You'll be working with a secondary
school there, I think Don Bosco.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, they also have a seminary attached with that school,
like just across the street. And one of those days
we will be doing a service project with the seminarians that.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Is fantastic and it also includes So there's service for sure.
This is a service immersion trip, but there's opportunity as well.
Jungle not jungle, what's the word I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Forari Safari tours, jungle not too far Safari tours. And
you'll be hiking the mal Kilmanjaro as well. How cool
was that?
Speaker 6 (36:36):
I did that the first time I did today. Hike
past the fight, the first checkpoint going up to Malindi
Crater and you see every layer of the habitats and
the climate zones up there. So you start at the
bottom of like the normal tensity and climate of kind
of a hot but it's dry heat, and then you
go all the way up to the top where it's alpine.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I heard it's pretty spiritual type. Yes, climbing them and
jar that's what's very spared.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
How long How long is the hike up and how
long is the hike back?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
It's a day hike. I I don't remember off the
top of my head how long it was, but I
think I started at nine in the morning and got
done by.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Three going up, just one going up one way and
coming back.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
But that was what I was taking my time because
I was really enjoying it. So I think like it
could be a little bit faster than that.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, so like three hours up and three hours back.
You're saying sort of ballpark something like that? Was it
was it difficult?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Not really, not at all.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
So you could handle it, bear, I could handle the altitude.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Probably the hardest thing was just the altitude.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Uh is there anything with our listeners? Miss Brandon Barry,
is there anything you any message, anything like if anybody
was interested in this, anything where donations or anything like
that to help fund to trip, anything like that, who
a day contact and who they talked to.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
So from a Moler perspective, I'm the primary point of contact.
So for students who are interested or parents of of
are men of molar who are interested in participating, they
can contact me to actually apply. There's a there's a
brief application, and then there will be a deposit to
actually guarantee your spot in the program, because we do
(38:14):
hope that it's a high demand program. But it's also
timed so that if for whatever reason, students we're not
able to participate in a motorm service opportunity because this
is during the summer, we open it up to a
different group, a different group of students.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
And what are you looking at as your max group size?
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Twelve students? And that's that's largely because transportation is a
little bit of a different beast right there, right and
I think that having smaller groups allows for that much
more of an immersive and culturally close experience. The current
price of looking at about fifty four one hundred dollars
(38:54):
that could go down. It ultimately depends on what the
airfare rate is going to be, and that's why we're
shooting for those dates to get ahead of the World Cup,
where prices go up if folks are not able to participate.
This is planned to be an ongoing and sustainable program,
So if the summer of twenty twenty six is not,
(39:16):
you know, feasible, we can look at future opportunities, and
of course we're always looking for support for students who
One of my big goals is that cost is not
the reason that a student doesn't have an opportunity to
participate in either this experience or any other of the
dynamic experiences that Moler offers.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Connor, thank you for taking a lead on this, and
of course to your dad. I've developed a great relationship
with your dad what he does just here in Cincinnati,
but now across the globe, and what you're doing here
at Muller and being a leader in this. It wouldn't
happen without you, So thank you so much for everything
you've done. Thank you for your time, absolutely Arin. What
can people do that are interested? Where can they go
(39:56):
to get more information? Can they email you?
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Where they do for current families there isn't from about
the trip on the educational travel tile within mo campus.
And of course you can email me directly. My email
is E. Brandy Berry b R A N d Y
B E r r Y at Moller dot Org.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Here's a little Swahili music for you, Connor. Can you
name this song?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
I would a little one the Jungle Bookers Disney.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Of course you would. I'll be in Disney in about
three weeks. Can you name this song?
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Connor?
Speaker 6 (40:25):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Probably does this sound like what you were listening to?
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Some similar music to what I experienced when I was
in Safari.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's awesome, Connor, Thank you so much. Miss brandy Berry,
thank you so much. As well, get a hold of
Aaron and you can be off and running on your
way to Tanzania. Beautiful part of the world and a
great opportunity for our men of Molar. Eddie Dago and
I will be back to wrap it up more in depth.
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the Great Show Andy. How about that trip to Tanzania?
I mean it's I want to see you on the
side of.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
It was so fun? Did the question I asked?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Was?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
You kept asking? It's one hundred percent? How long is it?
Speaker 1 (42:28):
I'm worried about my knees. Is it easy?
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Is it easy?
Speaker 3 (42:32):
I was asking for everybody else, but most importantly for me,
I was a little concerned about it. I'm not worried
about the safety of it. I've been I've done research,
I know all about it. I'm confident that's I'm not
worried about that at all. I am slightly worried about
how this guy, if he can't do a twenty mile
bike ride from Milford to love one, how I'm going
to be handling, handling Mount Kilmanjar.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
And digging wells and.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Digging wells and well that part of it they want
me documenting, so hopefully have a camera.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
That's right, That's right.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
But what a great opportunity for our guys here more.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
I just think that opportunity and then you know, we've
talked about it briefly, but that mode term, if people
don't understand it. You know, when we went on the
backside of our Christmas break, Mohler is actually taking that
first week. We will not be in class, but everybody
has an opportunity to participate in what they're calling mode term,
(43:27):
and it's it's immersive type situations, it's real learning. And
we have trips all over the country. We have trips
here locally that these students will be involved in in learning.
And that's and that's just adding that curriculum.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
You and I had these opportunities.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
That awesome and just you know, talking to Aaron about
the hub and I tell people all the time as
we walk them around school. As a fourteen year old
walking in, you have no idea what you want to
do in your life. I mean, heck, I'm fifty five
and still trying to figure it out. But when you
walk in the Hub and you see design and build,
(44:04):
you see a broadcast studio, you see an investment hub,
you see an unbelievable art room, now it's like, yeah,
I can see myself hosting a podcast. I can see
myself working a camera at an NFL.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Game, opening a portfolio up, and things like that.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Just now, the opportunities are real and tangible, and it
just gives these guys a jumpstart, you know, right away
their freshman year of what peaks their interest. And I
think Muller does a great job of, you know, fostering
that and then you know, fanning the flame, so to speak,
and you know when they graduate from here, they pretty
(44:42):
much have a good idea what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Very true.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Stoke for this weekend, Andy Nagel. It's gonna be a
lot of fun. It's a lot of work, but it's
gonna be a lot of fun. We want the work
to be meaningful, So show up on Friday and if
you have a reunion on Saturday. Not too late to
sign up for that as well.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Walk Up's Welcome, walk.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Ups Welcome, be a part of the Molar fan that again,
I've said it a million times, this is a great
entry point back into Molar. You'll love it, You'll have
a great time, and I guarantee you'll be signed up
for the next year's event as well. For Andy Nagel,
Aaron Brandyberry, our guests and the show. Connor Bond. This
is Big Mo, Barrett. Good luck to the Meta Molar
(45:20):
Tonight up at Wright State, five o'clock, first pitch against
Lakota West. Hopefully they will then advance to the final
four of the OHCA Baseball Tournament. On Big Mo, aary
the best coverage of high school sports and beyond. It's
the Mollar Broadcasting Network and the Big Mo Podcast on
w MOOE and the Moor Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Go Big Mo.
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