September 3, 2025 • 50 mins
It's the BMP with Andy Nagel and Big Moe Barrett
This week we talk to Louise Hoelker, President Jason Niehaus, and '74 David Ashbrock
It's a huuuuuuge BMP this week
This week we talk to Louise Hoelker, President Jason Niehaus, and '74 David Ashbrock
It's a huuuuuuge BMP this week
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
WMOE and the MOLA Broadcasting That probably was that The
Big Mo Podcast. The Big Mo Podcast is brought to
you by Craftsman Electric and Revey Landscaping and now your
hosts Andy Nagle and Big Mo Barrett Andi Dangle.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's another rendition of the Big Blue Podcast on this
September fourth, third, fourth.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm not sure what today Wednesday, the third.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Today is the third. It is September third, Yes, and
I'm excited because we are just about one week away
from a trip down to Broadway, Nashville, the home of
Johnny Cash, the Man in Black. We are going to
be loading up the bus heading down ahead of the
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football team and heading down to Nashville. And you got
a good number of guys. I was shocked how many
guys we have going to Nashville or pushing their name.
You got their names in front of you, read their name.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We're pushing thirty people here.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
We got Matt Benjamin class eighty five, Mark Black class
of seventy nine, Nick Bergdorf class of eighty five, Chris
Carpenter class of two thousand, Richard Chambers class of sixty five,
Eric Clapp ninety five, Andre Collins ninety four, Brian Cunningham
eighty five, Pat currn O four, Jim Elfers an old
faculty Alumabi Jim, how about Jim's coming down? Jason Fessler
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class of ninety five, Matt Pharaoh eight, Eric Frucktemeier, big
baseball guy, class of ninety seven, Sean Henry, who's kind
of put this thing together, him and Jason Fessler. Sean
Henry class of eighty three, Mike Kerrman, class of seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
How many are there? Bunch?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We got a bunch.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We got to no be more added. And let's make
a note of this because it's not just for alumni.
It's for the Mohler family. Jason, Niehouse President and I
were talking about that this morning. It's everybody. It's past parents,
it's alumni, it's brothers, it's sisters, it's Anybody's welcome to
a ten hour event in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Correct it just kind of correct?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yes, if you're coming down to Nashville, be sure uh
to check us out. Get on the website. We'll be
at x Golf in Franklin. It's an indoor simulator, slash bar, pub,
all that good stuff. We'll be there six to nine
and then BC I think, are you still putting together
a post party?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's going to be something we shield as we fly
there because we're working on a meeting spot for the
post party. I guess you might want to stay down
on Broadway. It's a little bit of a drive from Franklin,
but not too bad. It's not almost like Field thirdle
of downtown. That's right, I told.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And then football on Friday the twelfth, we'll be tailgating
at Christian Christ Presbyterian Academy CPA.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Game starts at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Central time, another defending state champion.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Correct, and then believe we'll be tailgating there.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So we invite everybody that's coming down to Nashville to
seek us out.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Student run business.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
We tease that yesterday they put together an unbelievable logo
for this Nashville T shirt.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So it's exciting, It's gonna be fun. We got a
big show for you. Loise Holker is going to be
coming on talking about the Raffle. But I'm really excited
as well about David Ashbrock. Yes, talking about this space
that we are in now, the w MOE Studios. We
got to squeeze them in because shortly after you and
I are going to be loading up heading down to
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Nashville with Joe lean On wur On Woe and the
Molar Broadcasting Network will be right back.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
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Speaker 3 (04:45):
Go to Mala dot org, partickets.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Not Gonna Big mot podcast and Andy we have a
special guest in the studio again. She's a four time
ASK guest. When I think of Louise Holker, I feel
like we got to play some music for Louise coming
back from a break. Because when I think when I
think of Louise Holker, I think of this song from
(05:23):
Katy Perry. I think this is apropos. You agree, and.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
We give her the mic and we just sit back,
just sit back.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We let her mics and we let her roar. Let's Louise.
You've heard this song before, haven't you.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Let me see?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You just chaired the big mixer.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Perry.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Here, we gotta you gotta hear the hook.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
This is Louise Holker. Here, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The walkout for Louise.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This is here, it is.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Exactly I've got the fire.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
If I tell't so, we're talking a.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Tiger for mo Raffle. You let me tell the Molar
Universe were less than a week away from opening this
baby up and selling tickets for Molar High School, and
somebody's going to win ten thousand dollars. We jacked up
the prices here, so your odds are pre probably better
than this power ball thing going on. I'm just saying,
(06:36):
so we take well maybe maybe slightly, but anyway, so
we're less than a week away kicking it off with
the deans and the houses. This is a huge house competition,
huge competition for the boys to win food, our legendary
all senior all you can eat Montgomery in parking spots
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for the next year, and you know, maybe another incentive,
but I can't talk about that right now. Anyway, So,
but the money money comes to Molar High School to
help Molar High School do all that we do here,
help guys get in here, help expand our real learning
for boys, giving them the opportunity for the broadcast studio,
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the pitch room, all that unbelievable stuff, campus ministry. It
helps everything here at Molar High School. And so but
at the same time, you can help those boys individually.
So if you know a guy who's here at Molar freshman, sophomore, senior, junior,
get onto the website. You're gonna see the website blasted
out throughout the Molar universe next Monday the eighth, and
(07:45):
you're gonna find your guy. So, if any Nagel is
your little great nephew, you're in type in Andy's name
and you're gonna buy tickets to credit.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I didn't even know it.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yeah, you get credit. You don't even know it. So
so look for those messages on social media. Look for
the links from people that you know a moler, your
aunt's uncles, cousins, grand cousins, great grand cousins, whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now this runs for a week or two.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Actually it's a short little raffle. So we kick off
on the eighth and the raffle will officially end at
midnight on September twenty fifth, so it's about seventeen days.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was cutting their here. So several years ago we
did a incentive where certain people would shave their head
if a house reached us. So I can't remember the
details of it. Do we have anything fun like that?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Well, I can't talk about that. I'm in discussions with
school leadership right now about that, so I can't. I
can't talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Andy Nagel is not on the list, but.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
In discussion, we're in discussions. We're in discussions, but we're yeah,
we're in discussions with some fun stuff. But we're about
a week out.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So I can there a bone. No, I cannot right
let me let me for the listeners, Louise. This people,
this is unbelievable. And we talked about the power ball
and joke about that.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But in a two week span, and it keeps growing
every year.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Get tired. How much did you raise last year?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
North of four fifty, four hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Dollars the students here. It really is an amazing thing.
So if I look a little sleep deprived the next
two weeks, you'll know why.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And your goal, your goal is it.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Is really four fifty again north of that with a
stretch of stretch of five hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yep, five hundred, half a million dollars coming to more
or high school. And and I I always throw this
out there. The first student, if any students listener, is
first student that approaches me gets my money.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
That's right. And you know what that happens gain people.
The kids don't approach the staff, they don't they don't
approach their teachers.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Speak for yourself years.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Boy, and you know it's all about you know, if
a student has a goal of X amount of dollars
to get that parking spot, help him do it right, parents, Like,
don't just say okay, well here's you know, help him
do it like it's all digital. People just forward these
emails onto people the site. Just flood flood your family.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And make a purchase online. It's not a it's not
the old raffle ticket paper we do have.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
We do have old raffle tickets for for people who
want those, and all those Soul tickets are entered into
the digital raffle and entered into the Boy's digital amount.
So we know we keep track of everything, but everything
is digital nowadays. So look for that next Monday eighth.
We're going to kick it off probably about by nine
(10:42):
a m. The site will be open. We expect to
just you know, what do they say when when servers
break down? Servers are going to break the crash.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
They're going to crash the service. And we always were
the last couple of years that I've been here, we've
always drawn that Winterer live correct well on like a
Facebook live.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Didn't that last year?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think I make that pho if we do hair though,
if we do the winners, Sorry, sorry to talk while
you're interrupting. If we do a hair gig. The president
of Moulor High School just walked in. I liked it.
I think. Sorry.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
The discussion no I'm just joking.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We're talking about raffle incentives, Jason the House, and I
think you should shave your head, not I.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Mean come back.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Years ago. Time it's gone, Jason House, are you man
enough to accept the challenge if if Louise ends up
working this out where you will? Well, who was that company?
We had super cuts or somebody came in and they
shaved my head?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
And Brandt's group, Yes, that are supportive of the raffles.
So let's talk about all our raffle sponsors too. You'll
see them, I hope. I don't forget anybody coreto Silver
Spring House, Chick fil A, Kenlood, our friend Garth and
Brandt with Sports Club, Fritz at Italian Net, and the
Gurbuses at Buffalo Wings and Wings, in addition to our
(12:06):
school sponsors like pro Lak and Beacon. So we're so
thankful for all our sponsors that help push this and
help us with our incentives for the boys.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Turn her mic off for seconds. Answer the question, Jason
the House, are you going to step up if so
cold to shave your head or do I have to
call Alex and Kendall And.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Well, you know, I was just going to go to that.
You may want to consult with Kendall and my oldest
Mackenzie on what they would tell you is, Barrett, there's
not much left there to shave.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There's not a lot, but a big would look good.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Don't hijack this, Barrett. How many times do I say
this to you?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I thought we turned her mic down for a minute. Jason,
Are you excited about the raffle? Your first experience of
the raffle? Are you excited about it?
Speaker 8 (12:51):
I can't wait. Actually it is the first. No, I
came in on the tail end of it last year,
but this is the first, and.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Certainly sell raffle tickets.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
As you know, I did not sell raffle tickets as
a student. That was not a thing.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Kids that like I would have sent a message to
their parents said your kid, kid has not sold raffle tickets.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Yeah, no, that that was not a part of uh
of of our of our process.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And so we missed opportunity back there this week.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Well, I wasn't here, Barrett. We were not here to
do this.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We weren't working who we are now.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
But yeah, September eighth, kickoff at nine a m website
will be live, parents, students, Moller universe. You'll get all
this putting.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Jason on kind of like the old E b N
where they put them on a billboard wild Man marker.
We'll put Jason on the roof.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
You get on the roof.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We need half a million dollars. You know that's a.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Great idea, Barrett. How about we put.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
You up in a roof Jason tended up on the
roof for a week. How about that?
Speaker 8 (13:46):
Absolutely? You know what. The only thing that's going to
be coming off of that roof is Barrett. It'll be
about one year in or one hour in. You'll just
see him flying.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Uh. You know if that gets me off the roof
from mellion dollars, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Half a million for the menimor. This is what it's
all about. To support our education here. It's the most
important thing we do.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's a lot of work, Louise. I don't like to
say nice things about you publicly, but I will. It's
a tremendous amount of work that you and Betsy and
then the team puts into that. But well it is
as you.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
See, Ady reminds not just me, the mentor teacher's house,
team's school leadership, They do a lot to get the
guys rallied up so that they can support each other
and win some incentives at the same time, but really
helped the school. So that's the most important thing.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
What I did get to experience last year was the
lunch at Montgomery and as a result of the Gregory
there and.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Senior lunch, we do that in January, so we want
as many seniors as possible to get to that Montgomery
and level. So more com September eighth, ten, Am be there.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
This is your song? Absolutely when I think of Luise Oprah,
this is what I think of it. This should be
your ring tune on my phone.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I think I might?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Okay, love you?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Am I wrong? Andy?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You're a right spot on?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you. We got Jason Eahause in the studio talking
a little bit more about that trip we have coming
up to celebrate our alumni and more. And David Ashbrock
also appearing the forty time Emmy Award winning producer Director Filmmaker.
He'll be on the show as well, talking about the
magic that he's performing inside this very space we occupy.
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Speaker 8 (15:55):
The Mueller High School soccer team is back and ready
for another run for state. Join us Saturday as your
Crusaders travel to a very distant Sycamore High School. Kickoff
is at two pm. Bring your spirit, wear your blue
and gold, and let's pack the stands to support our team.
Go big Mo, get the latest on w MOOE and
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the Molar Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Back in a Big Mo podcast and Andy Wee. Louise,
she loves this podcast more than anybody in this bility,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I've said it before.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Our team is fantastic in everything they do in Betsy
and Louise in that special vine.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You can still here. She's in the green room right now.
You can still hear through the.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Doors walking out with a slabber ribs courtesy of Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
In and the print support Tom Gregory.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But they do fantastic stuff in that office. And you know,
raising four hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand dollars
in a two week span.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It'll be bad. Maybe should ask for a raise. Now
would be a good time because we are bringing on
the president of Mueller High School, Jason n House. I said, Jason,
give me your walk in song to the podcast, because
I don't know, maybe Luke Combe. So I went to
the number one song of Luke Combe's Jason, Welcome to
the Big MO podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Call me.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Good to be here, Barrett. You know, and don't let
the title of that song be any indication of what
my years were like here at Muller High School.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's awesome, that's so cool.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
It was just coincidence.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Jason, are you ready to talk a little Nashville? How
about cool? Is this because you've been to Columbus was
I was not a part of that when you were
with Andy, but you and I went to Denver. We
have plans I think Andy to go to Cleveland here
in the next few months. I think Texas is on
the radar as well. But we will be in well,
we will be in Nashville. And Andy read at the
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top of the show all the names and what was
it like.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Fifteen, we're pushing thirty right now. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Knew. I didn't know we even had thirty guys in there.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
We have seventy five that live in and around Nashville area,
and I've had some guys reach out to me. I
can't make it to that, but I want to be
part of this group. So, you know, after we leave
these cities, Barrett and you guys started this, which is awesome,
is uh, you know, we kind of introduced these guys
together and then they they take it to the next level.
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They continue to get together, you know, whether it's a
personal relationship the Denver chapter just had a golf outing
a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Or business.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
There's been a lot of business relationships formed, you know,
from from Molar Molar and Molar.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And the success of the Denver one. That would be
crystal clear on this. It's important to have a a
bell cow or a director at or whatever you want
to call it. And Jeff Dornoff and Denver certainly is
that a guy that great. Oh he's unbelievable. Jason. He
just he owns it. He's so out of this school.
He organizes. It's really hands off from internally. From our perspective,
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he runs with you. So the success is very much
predicated on the leadership in those cities. So we have
all these names, Henry, Sean, Henry earlier, Jason.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
You know, I will at our JEC though, just real
quickly to recognize both and Andy and Barrett for your work.
You know, one of the things that I recognize when
I'm out on these regional trips are just how connected
our alumni feel to MOLAR. And I think that that
is a true testament to what it is that we're
producing here each and every day. I mean, the you know,
what we're putting out on social media where individuals get
to really feel and experience what it is that's going
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on within these walls. And Andy, your your reach out
to your newsletters that just give so much content, allows
individuals to truly feel as though they're in the know
as to what's going on and to be excited about
the extraordinary things that are happening here. And so all
of these regional trips are really a product of the
work that's being done here by the two of you.
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Allows us to get out and make more meaningful connections
with these alums. And so yeah, I'm really excited now
to head on down to Tennessee and Nashville and perhaps
the country a country song is is even more perfect
for where we're heading.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But I was going to say real quick, the cool
thing about this trip and then the trip in Cleveland
is we kind of doing it in conjunction with the
football team. So we got this event and then we
have the tailgate the football game the next day. So
you know, like you said at the top of the show, Barrett,
if you're coming down early, you know, come on out,
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click on that link and come to this event at
x Ex Golf on Thursday from six to nine.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
We were talking a little bit about that, Barrett and
I in the office this morning. You know, it's not
just about alums. It's about individuals. You could even be
current parents to be connected with some of our alums
in the in the market, certainly alums who have students
here currently and are traveling down to watch their son
play in the game, you know, to to come out
on that evening to really just share in the full
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in the in the family spirit. You know who we
are as being. You know, a Marianus community is really
something that we want to encourage as well too.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
It's powerful. I mean, everybody talks about that Molar brand
and that Molar brand's intentional and it's things like this
and Andy with your leadership in these regional events, which
is very very cool.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You're right there with me, brother, Don't don't give me
all the credit.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Your hand man.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Swing the bat, uh you Jason, I know, really enjoyed
talking to these alumni because you've always you've really driven
home and we've talked about it on the show before
how everybody has their own personal story. This is one
of those events where you, as president of the school,
can hear those personal stories because your story is you
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told them. And I've heard you say this is different
than Andy Nagles versus anybody else who went to school here, right,
So how important is that from you from a leadership perspective?
Is you start to plan that roadmap moving forward?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Now, what helps me understand what is your connection? As
I said, everybody here has a unique experience at Molar
that makes Molar theirs and that that's your Molar story.
And so to understand where you're plugged into Molar allows
me the opportunity to really lean in and share the
extraordinary things that are going on within that particular segment
of Molar High School. There's not one program here at
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Molar that is not being enhanced, that is not going
next level of excellence that that I can think of,
and so to truly have the opportunity to share what
it is that that that these young men are experiencing.
And the young men are on Cairos. Now, I don't
know what you know, one hundred and sixty, you know,
or I don't even know what number it is. Barrett,
your son is a part of that nervous I was.
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I was on Cairos one the first one. I was
in the first class.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
If the second one, you would have thought they would
have said it the words you know, I've seen enough.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
This was a bad idea. It's really great.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, and just you know, so everything that's happening and evolving,
it's just getting you know, it's just getting better. You know,
Individuals will will say, boy, you know, the physical space
has changed, and we've talked about this quite a bit
UH on previous podcasts. A physical space has changed, you know,
is it's still the same Molar And I will say,
you know, the roots of Molar are the same. The
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only difference is they've grown deeper, you know, and the
branches if it's spread wider, and so what what these
students are experiencing, you know, it's the same thing. It's
just more enhanced.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
The the imprint you know that is being left and
these young men is deeper, probably than what I experienced
here in ninety three.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
One thing I love that, I'd love that you said,
Andy and Jason, you're all on board. And I think
if there's anything we need to do collectively better is
that's get more people on campus. This morning, you hit
Steve Meetle here, who is awesome.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Eighty four eighty four grad had the opportunity of spending
a little time with him. And I know this, and
I've shared this with Andy. You know all of the time,
if you come back on campus, I don't care what
I'm doing, I don't care what I'm in interrupt me,
you know, I want the opportunity to welcome each of
our alums.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's awesome home, you know. And that's just not Wordsmith.
I've seen you do that. I've seen you do that.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I've interrupted several meetings. I feel terrible, but he does
give him the FaceTime and it's it's important. It's our
alums feel like, man, there's somebody at the top that
cares about me, and it just you know, it's just
awesome to see. So I thank you for that. You
know what I really want to see next week. I
want to see this guy, this big dude swing that
golf club and one of them simulators.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Here what I will share Friday Friday, you know, Friday
afternoon around three thirty.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I just want to put on this. This is this
Friday people.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I need.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
I need everybody in the Try State area to clear.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
The roads, run lock or clear the roads.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I I will be in in the McClusky truck pulling
marv over to Dell High.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And let me give you a little pro tip. You're
going to find out when you're driving that thing. You
were going to quickly find out who loves Mueller, and
you're going to find out who doesn't like Muller when you're.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Driving going to get either your number one or.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
I've shared with Bear. One of the things I might
be asking McCluskey to do is to tint these windows
a little darker, because I do have to remember I'm
driving the McClusky truck. I am representing Muller High School.
And while I do think that we are number one,
letting other individuals out on the road know that their
number one is probably not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You might have some you're heading to the west side,
you might have some people thinking I'm driving that thing,
and you don't want some pop shots.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Going going down seventy one.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's awesome, Jason. I'm excited for next week. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. Thirty some guys. That's crazy,
great job, and it takes work to get that. And
there's probably more. We have walk ups that happen all
the time as well.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
When I think Luke Comzo, you can't go wrong with
Oklahoma one of my favorites. I'm glad you reminded me
about Luke comes This is a good one. Have you
seen the movie Twist or the new one? I have
not seen thee Jason, I have pretty impressive, a great movie.
The first one is a little wonky, a little kind
of pretend. This one is a pretty this is legit.
You have grandkids out you're watching like Scooby Doo.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Scooby doos a classic brother and you know, I'm I'm
good my grandkids to watch those old classic Tom and Jerry's.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
They're the best Looney tunes.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
So next week Tennessee will be there.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
We'll be rocking in Nashville. We can't wait. Hook up
with Andy dagele yours truly or even Jason. Get your
name on the rsv P list. Speaking of legends, legend goats,
David Ashbrock is coming up next talking about the new
studio space here at w MOE. As we speak on
this podcast, he's working on transitions. Behind your head, Jason,
(27:05):
that makes us look like ESPN. Very cool. We'll be
back in just a moment. Best Coupboads of Mueller High
School resides right here, pillar to post, wall to wall.
It's WWE and the Muller Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Tyler jos on let's catch the got it down Crusaders.
Barnes goes back, Oh, yes, pickoff.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Caleb cole Hal of Code Number Line goes back to pass.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He's under pressed.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh they got him, and I think that's Christian Harris.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Football is back on Friday, as your Muller Crusaders look
to get back on track against the Trinity Shamrocks. Pregame
begins at six point thirty on Friday night at Mount
Saint Joe on w MOE The Muller Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
It's time to cheer on your Molar Crusaders cross country
team as they hit the trails for the twenty twenty
five season this Saturday at eleven am. It's the Mason
Invitational in Mason, Ohio. They have been training hard all summer.
Now it's time to show what it takes to be
a man of Moller. Cheer on the Crusaders and let's
make some noise. Go Big Moo, Run fast, finish strong
(28:26):
on w MOE and The Moment Broadcasting Network. Not going
to Big More Podcast. Big Mo beared along with Andy
Nagel and Andy we have the Goat in the studio.
(28:46):
I'm excited about this and I gotta tell you, David Ashbrock,
class of seventy four, your LinkedIn profile looks like something
that just came out of Hollywood. That's a good I
think you're holding an Emmy. It looks like you're holding
an Emmy. You're holding one of how many just forty county.
That's a good shot.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
At you.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You look like you just walked out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It's interesting you say that, because I may have been
in Los Angeles, I could have been in New York.
So for nine years, seven years as a chairman, I
was on the National Awards Committee. After having served the
regional chapters as president and trustee and trying to, you know,
run the whole Emmy process here regionally, I was invited
(29:29):
by the National Group to be on the National Awards Committee.
And after two years and they said, well, we'd like
you to be the chairman. And so that photo was
probably taken at the News and Documentary Awards, as my
guess in New York. However, many years ago when I
was the chairman, so I had to make a couple
of remarks. It's mostly a behind the scenes job, and
a grueling job, and a demanding job. And I can't
(29:51):
tell you it was volunteer and I felt like I
was putting in thirty forty hours a week.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
I did have a department.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Just vote Tuesday and I begin the call from somebody
in one of the soaps that's trying to lobby us
to create a new awards category so that they can
get and here's another great story about that. If you
remember Henry Winkler, remember the Fons he was so Henry
Winkler was the president of the University of Cincinnati for
a while. Henry Winkler The Fawns had finished some acting
(30:21):
and he owned the rights end to Hollywood Squares and
he called the New York office and he says, hey,
I'd like to find out what the eligibility process is
to make sure that we get the right people credited,
because we're going to enter our show and the New
Hollywood Squares and the Emmy Awards this year. They said,
we don't know. You have to call the awards chairman.
So they called me and said, hey, can you go?
(30:43):
Can you call Henry? So I had Henry Winkler The
Fawns his phone number, and I called Henry Winkler a
great story, and I answered him his question. He couldn't
have been nicer. He could not have been nicer, wonderful.
At the awards ceremony about two months later, I saw Henry,
got to shake his hand and we exchanged a few
niceties about it. They didn't win the category, But he couldn't.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Have been nicer.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
But I had his phone number.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So when Henry.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Winkler, the UC president, I had done some stories for
UC and we were featuring him and all of his
contributions to UC in society and you name it. And
he was about to celebrate his birthday. So I was
doing this interview and we wrapped this interview, we finished
the piece.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But about two months.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Later he was going to celebrate his birthday and I thought, wow,
he could be ninety. I thought, I'm going to call
Henry Winkler the Fawns and asked him to call Henry
Winkler the President on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.
And the Fawns actually called Henry Winkler, and they enjoyed
this moment because Henry Winkler the President used to get
(31:48):
all kinds of grief he was president. When Happy Days
was on the air, He'd go to the airport and
people would call him the fawns. No, no, I'm the
president of the University of Cincinnati. I'm not that actor.
But Henry Winkler, the Fonds couldn't have been nicer to
call Henry Winkler the President on the occasions.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Your only miss which you did not record any of this.
How cool? Of a station. Would that have been.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Exactly but he I'm telling you both, wonderful gentlemen. They
share the name, they got to have chaps and all
that stuff. But it was wonderful. So that was just
one thing I got to do as running the ARTYQ.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
You've done more than just a couple of things. Television producer, director, editor,
project manager, forty plus time Emmy Award winning and many
of those categories. And now you're here. You talked to
a minute ago about all that volunteer time you put
in like a full time job. Yeah, and that brings
you here to more and much of the same capacity
(32:45):
of volunteer hours. But what you've done in this space
while we were earlier in the show, I'm looking up
at the monitors and you're working on transitions now kind
of I would think the fun part. I mean, but
you did some heavy lifting to get us to where
we are now. Talk about obviously a seventy four grad
but how you got walked into this role that you
are in now here at more work.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
So I guess maybe ten say ten twelve months ago,
maybe a little longer. Gavin Gray called me. He says, hey,
we're in a new technology wing. We're going to put
a TV studio in and we just need some help
and guides. We'd like your input on what you think
we ought to be able to do with it. So
I visited with Gavin. It was probably before Christmas last year,
(33:29):
and I thought I looked around and said, boy, there
is so much potential here. And Gavin, by the way,
is not a tremendous job. He's a great problem solver.
He's a guy that says, what's the challenge and how
am I going to make it happen with the limited
resources I have? Right, And he's really excellent at that,
really excellent at that, and he just goes about his business.
(33:49):
But he wanted some input.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
So and you have a little you have a little
bit of history, do it a little little bit.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
It's a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
So I put the survey together to evaluate what he
thought worked, didn't work, what he thought the needs were
to meet the curricula and the like. And after that survey,
we kind of agreed on some direction we ought to take.
And then he said that there was some grant moneies
that were available and I wanted me to help him
spend that money, which I did, and So it was
a fifty thousand dollars grant that was available through the
(34:19):
Sycamore School System through the state of Ohio, and we
identified some areas where there was a lot of deficiency
in some areas where we thought that we could really
get this thing up and running. Along with that was
not just some equipment, right and all the items that
have to make it all work, but to make it
a space that felt more like a laboratory instead of
a closet, right, a place where a bunch of cables
(34:43):
and a bunch of things patched together and only one
guy knew how it worked. And that's not a crack
on Gavin in any way, shape or form, because he's
really good at making stuff work with limited resources. And
let's face it, high schools oftentimes have limited resources. It's
not endless, right. So after we decided what we were
going to purchase, we decided how we were going to
(35:05):
implement it, and also considered what's the workflow going to be,
how are you going to teach these kids, and is
going to be software based or hardware based? And it's
my opinion that the kids are going to get exposed
in college to both. They need to be able to
use production tools that are software based, but production tools
that they might see in a real studio in a
television truck, so that they can understand both workflows. Then
(35:27):
how are we going to make all this work really
efficiently with cameras in the studio, remote cameras at the
Merry statue, for example, at the baseball field, wherever these
cameras can come back, at the gymnasium, the performing arts center,
all these cameras coming back to the central location. And
(35:48):
how can we produce efficient work? Teach kids what the
workflow is, how you can produce television and efficient ways.
Let's talk for you play back and graphics and replay everything,
and let's.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Kind of tea up a little bit because people think, Wow,
this guy knows what we're talking about. You've done this
similar And I think if Chris Collins were a studio
and so talk a little bit about your experience in
doing exactly what we are doing here in this space.
Speaker 7 (36:12):
So you know, some people take one tech. They want
to be a writer, they want to be a storyteller,
they want to be Steven Spielberg, they want to be
they just had this very myopic, silo approach to what
they want in their career.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I was never that way.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
I thought, of course, I never wanted to be on camera, right,
that's not my'st. But whatever I can do behind the scenes,
I'm all about that, you know, whether I'm a producer
or director, an editor, or a project manager or mixing
audio or doing lighting, whatever it might be. The more
hats you can wear, the better off you are, even
as a producer, because if you don't understand how to
do it as a producer, you know how, you're going
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to be the best in your class, and you have
to be an overachiever, et cetera. So throughout my career,
while I may have had an assignment an job, eventually
I wore lots of different hats and got exposed to
so many different genres. You know that I got pretty
well versed after forty forty however, me years has been
(37:12):
now gone forty seven years. But the more you know,
the better off you are, the more you can contribute,
the more effective you can be at being a television professional.
So while I might have been doing some programming, content producing, directing, editing,
the whole backside, the technology side, is something that's terribly
important because he can't do it without technology, right. You
(37:34):
need cameras, you need switchers, you need graphics, you need replay,
you need all the conglomeration of things that come together
to make it all happen. And so I kind of
annoyed some engineering people, I think sometimes because I once
in a while overstepped my bounds and walked in their territory.
I always believe that if you over engineer the space
(37:55):
you're working in to begin with, you're better off. You
don't just cobble it together and help people figure it out.
You've got to make sure that you think through all
of the ergonomic process, because when you do so, the
user is fine that it's so much easier for them
to step in because maybe they haven't maybe they aren't
technically minded there. They may be left brain, right brain,
(38:15):
whatever it might be.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
If I can come.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Into the space and use it because somebody else thought
it through.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
The space is so much better off.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
So I did that.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We're control and at the high school, how important that's
most terribly important, terribly important.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
Yeah, So I would do that at XIX. I would
do that for people that knew I had those skills.
I devised edit facilities and and and inserted myself in
the engineering side of control rooms and our studios and
sets and all sorts of things. And sometimes I was
a news director's job, and I said, I'm the production manager.
I got a lot to say about that too, because
we have to use it and execute it at the.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
High school level.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
You know, these kids are gosh, they're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
years old, But like all of us, don't, we see
that everybody has learned things at much younger age because
the exposure, the sponges that they become, and technology has
enabled all this information to get out to everybody. So
if you think about if somebody wants to be a professional,
and they realize that when they're fourteen and they want
(39:11):
to be ready to be a media expert, they've got
from fourteen to say age twenty two when they graduate college.
They got to get an awful lot of experience before
they get there. And so what you found is that
it used to be people that had facilities got the work. Well,
now all these facilities exist at universities because ESPN has
(39:33):
built this process whereby they expect universities to create content.
UC has not just one control room and nippered. They've
got a second control room at CCM, where I graduated from.
I convinced them five, six, seven years ago that they
needed to be in this space because ESPN is going
to expect it eventually.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
You better do it now so you.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Don't play catch up.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Let's do it before they pull the trigger and you're
ready to go. And they're producing linear games all the time,
you see, right, And so if the kids from Mohler
want to go to UC, they better understand how all
that's going to work, because they'll get bowled over if
they go in without any any real hands on experience
at the college level, they will be forgotten about and
(40:18):
they'll say, well, maybe this is a good choice for
me for a career. I think I better be a plumber.
I better be something else.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
This guy's retired and today I think you said two
thirty or three o'clock he's heading down to Great American Ballpark.
He's still doing producing work as part of the Blue
Jays broadcast team. Like you can't turn it off, can't?
Speaker 7 (40:37):
No, I really can.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
I mean, you know it's David talk about we had
Tim benad on that that's going to be on the
halftime show, and I asked him the same question because
he's back at Molar kind of in a volunteer helping role.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Okay, what talk to the.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Alumni directly that listen to this show and how important
it is to give back to this high school, whether
it's time treasures.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
It's interesting you say time talent treasure because oftentimes the
people that get recognized and this is no slam of
the people with treasure, right, correct, But sometimes time and
talent is just as important as the treasure, right, Yes,
Because I'm willing to make my cash donations as modest
as they might be, but I'm more than happy to
give my my talent and my time because without that,
(41:27):
you got to have all of it for it to work.
I think people who are driven, people who are self motivated,
people that.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Are type A.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
That go one hundred miles an hour, They're always looking
for something to do. They want to They don't. I
don't fish, Yeah, you don't. I don't golf. I don't
do any of that stuff. When I spend my spare time,
it's doing stuff like this. Coming to malor spend. It
took us ninety hours this summer to get all this
stuff installed, just to get it up to the to
(41:59):
the level it currently is. And that was myself, working
very closely with Gavin. We'd come in here every day
for weeks, you know, rewiring everything, running cable, getting machines configured,
and it's to me, it's terribly important. I think people
sometimes get distracted with their lives and they got kids,
and they've got other life. They got golfing and fishing
(42:22):
to do, and they don't realize how important it is.
But you know, everybody will look back in their lives
and say, who was it that affected me in such
a way that kind of created a path for me. Well,
for me, Dan Ledford was the guy at Moler. You know,
I had some experience through my church and through some
(42:43):
activities because my dad was in the radio and television business.
He was also a singer, so he would sing in
the church choir and he could be mixing sound while
he was so I was mixing sound in the sixth grade.
I kind of knew I was going to get in
this world. But when I hit Mohler, Dan Ladford I
think saw potential in me, and just like he did
(43:03):
many people, he pushed people to be the best they
can be. And he drove them and he asked them
to perform, and he asked them to give up spare
time to be part of plays and rallies and all
that stuff. And that's what I did when I'm here
at Molar. So am I doing that for Dan? Was sure?
I mean everybody, like I said, everybody has a mentor
somewhere in their lives and their career. And Dan was
(43:28):
one for me at Moler. And I created so much
opportunity here for myself to make me prepared when I
went to CCM. And that's why you give back. You know,
football players, basketball players, people that may be in student government,
you know, come back make a difference. I think people
will be shocked in this technology center alone. I mean
(43:48):
there's a ticker board outside the room we're talking about.
We're seeing the stock market ticker on there. So kids
can understand at such a young age that you better
know how to spend your money. You got to be
learn a little personal finance, and you know, you might
also learn something about about investment and all sorts of
other things. You know that that will make you a
(44:10):
more prepared adult. Anyway, it's you can go on and
on and on about the opportunities there are, not to mention,
we all like to be a little competitive. We want
more to be the best things right. Absolutely, we don't
want to be second or third. Competition's important.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Well, I know there's a lot of work still ahead,
and I'm so confident having you here that you're going
to get us to where we need to be. And
I wish there was something more I could say other
than thank you, thank you what you've done. Andy and
I are getting dinged up all these alumni going, do
you know what he's doing there? We know, we see
him every day. What you're doing is amazing. It is
(44:46):
simply remarkable. And I know I speak for the kids
that have not yet experienced it and those who will
and saying thank you as well.
Speaker 7 (44:54):
And I hope that we can get to this. I'll
call this phase one. So phase two maybe to make
the some of the technologies, just to crack it up
just a little bit here and there. But another phase
is going to be to create scenery in the space,
because right now I see a blue block wall and
a window and some little acoustic dividers that are faking
his scenery. Right, So we'd like to make that look
(45:15):
a little more professional. So when you see that, you
can be proud of that and say, wow, that's that's
Molar Studio. So we'll keep pushing for all that too.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
I can't here absolutely, but I like you better than
you see. I'll tell me a sees the podcast real good.
That's the goat. David Ashbrock class is seventy four. I
want to thank him for joining us on the show.
Andy NAGOI be and I will be back to kind
of wrap up some local things happening around Big Mo.
(45:43):
You're listening to the best coverage of Molar High School
Pillar in the post. It's the Big Mo Podcast on
w MOE and the Bowlders Broadcasting Network. Get ready, Molar Nation.
The twenty twenty five Molar High School golf team is
swinging into action this week Saturday the sixth at Finley,
Ohio Country Club. Come out and support our talented golfers
(46:04):
as they represent the Blue and Gold with pride and precision.
It's going to be a great day on the links
as a team competes against some of the best in
the state of Ohio. Get all the coverage right here
on wm OE and the Moller Broadcasting Network. Pretty impressive,
(46:34):
Andy Nagel. They have a guy like that with the
experience of David Ashbrock, it's amazing. He's just a incredibly
talented alum. I gotta turn your mic up.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Yeah, he's you know, I got to know David planning
their fifty year reunion, him and Bob Schneedel and what
he did for that fifty He's just an artist, man,
he is just.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Really artist, story teller, all those things.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
He's awesome. And you know what we were talking about.
He has given so much of his time back to
Molar High School to make this and to continue to
grow this portion of the curriculum. I am so excited
just talking off air what what his plans are and
(47:28):
how they're going to coincide with with Molar. But it's
just it's neat to see a lums give back. I
love I love it. We talk about it all the time. Man,
just just come back. If you can give us an hour,
if you can give us whatever, just give back.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
It's it's it's so sir. It really is inspiring on
so many levels. And we had a lot of stuff
going on. By the way, you can check David Ashbrock
he's got a website out d isn't David Dashbrock dot com.
Very cool website. Check out his portfolio and everything he's done,
and he'll be adding to that when he gets pleted here.
I don't think we'll ever be completed here more. I
(48:02):
think he's just going to keep building, building building. It's
pretty special. A lot of things going on, Andy Nagel,
As you mentioned the football game Friday. I think the
soccer team I think plays tonight if I'm not mistaken
against LaSala. A lot of things at Xavier, and I
think the younger teams will be here tonight. The JB
(48:24):
teams I think actually play here. Just a lot of
stuff going on here.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
Yeah, I mean, you know you have cross country football,
golf and soccer or fall sports are well underway and
getting that going. And you know the theater, the Page
to Stage is coming out. I believe that is next week.
I think the seventeenth, and I may be wrong on that,
but you can go to Muller dot org and get
(48:49):
all those events. You know, we have class reunions coming out.
You know the class of seventy five is celebrating our
fifty year reunion on September twentieth in the class ninety
five is celebrating her thirty year reunion on same night.
So just a whole lot of activity going on here
at the Big mo.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
What do we say? What do you always say? Pillar
to posts?
Speaker 3 (49:11):
If you say pillar to put, then it's it's a lot, man,
it is.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
It's a lot of a lot of good stuff. So
you can email Andy Nagle for some additional information a
Nagle at Mollar dot org. You can also light me
up Biko and at Mollar nobody ever emails me because
they text me, text me, dm me your private message
whatever platform that is.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
But I will get us.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Don't leave us a voicemail on the Mollar published phone number.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
I don't even have a phone in my office, a
physical phone.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Mine actually gets transferred to my email. So somebody leaves
me a voicemail, it's afforded to my email. You still
just give me on social media, Andy Dangle, thank you
so much. Another great show. Great talking to David Ashbrock
and serving before him, we had Lazy Holker and Jason Niehouse.
Want to thank them for joining us as always. And
(50:04):
we'll get a gift certificate to Montgomery in and the
Prince of Port for appearing on the Big MO podcast.
He's Andy Nagel. I'm Big Mo, Barrett. Thanks for listening
to the Big Mo Podcast on WOE and the Molard
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's another rendition of the Big Blue Podcast on this
September fourth, third, fourth.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm not sure what today Wednesday, the third.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Today is the third. It is September third, Yes, and
I'm excited because we are just about one week away
from a trip down to Broadway, Nashville, the home of
Johnny Cash, the Man in Black. We are going to
be loading up the bus heading down ahead of the
(00:47):
football team and heading down to Nashville. And you got
a good number of guys. I was shocked how many
guys we have going to Nashville or pushing their name.
You got their names in front of you, read their name.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
We're pushing thirty people here.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
We got Matt Benjamin class eighty five, Mark Black class
of seventy nine, Nick Bergdorf class of eighty five, Chris
Carpenter class of two thousand, Richard Chambers class of sixty five,
Eric Clapp ninety five, Andre Collins ninety four, Brian Cunningham
eighty five, Pat currn O four, Jim Elfers an old
faculty Alumabi Jim, how about Jim's coming down? Jason Fessler
(01:24):
class of ninety five, Matt Pharaoh eight, Eric Frucktemeier, big
baseball guy, class of ninety seven, Sean Henry, who's kind
of put this thing together, him and Jason Fessler. Sean
Henry class of eighty three, Mike Kerrman, class of seventh.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
How many are there? Bunch?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We got a bunch.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We got to no be more added. And let's make
a note of this because it's not just for alumni.
It's for the Mohler family. Jason, Niehouse President and I
were talking about that this morning. It's everybody. It's past parents,
it's alumni, it's brothers, it's sisters, it's Anybody's welcome to
a ten hour event in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Correct it just kind of correct?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yes, if you're coming down to Nashville, be sure uh
to check us out. Get on the website. We'll be
at x Golf in Franklin. It's an indoor simulator, slash bar, pub,
all that good stuff. We'll be there six to nine
and then BC I think, are you still putting together
a post party?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's going to be something we shield as we fly
there because we're working on a meeting spot for the
post party. I guess you might want to stay down
on Broadway. It's a little bit of a drive from Franklin,
but not too bad. It's not almost like Field thirdle
of downtown. That's right, I told.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And then football on Friday the twelfth, we'll be tailgating
at Christian Christ Presbyterian Academy CPA.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Game starts at six o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Central time, another defending state champion.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Correct, and then believe we'll be tailgating there.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So we invite everybody that's coming down to Nashville to
seek us out.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Student run business.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
We tease that yesterday they put together an unbelievable logo
for this Nashville T shirt.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So it's exciting, It's gonna be fun. We got a
big show for you. Loise Holker is going to be
coming on talking about the Raffle. But I'm really excited
as well about David Ashbrock. Yes, talking about this space
that we are in now, the w MOE Studios. We
got to squeeze them in because shortly after you and
I are going to be loading up heading down to
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Molar Broadcasting Network will be right back.
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Speaker 3 (04:45):
Go to Mala dot org, partickets.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Not Gonna Big mot podcast and Andy we have a
special guest in the studio again. She's a four time
ASK guest. When I think of Louise Holker, I feel
like we got to play some music for Louise coming
back from a break. Because when I think when I
think of Louise Holker, I think of this song from
(05:23):
Katy Perry. I think this is apropos. You agree, and.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
We give her the mic and we just sit back,
just sit back.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We let her mics and we let her roar. Let's Louise.
You've heard this song before, haven't you.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Let me see?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You just chaired the big mixer.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
Perry.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Here, we gotta you gotta hear the hook.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
This is Louise Holker. Here, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The walkout for Louise.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This is here, it is.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Exactly I've got the fire.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
If I tell't so, we're talking a.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Tiger for mo Raffle. You let me tell the Molar
Universe were less than a week away from opening this
baby up and selling tickets for Molar High School, and
somebody's going to win ten thousand dollars. We jacked up
the prices here, so your odds are pre probably better
than this power ball thing going on. I'm just saying,
(06:36):
so we take well maybe maybe slightly, but anyway, so
we're less than a week away kicking it off with
the deans and the houses. This is a huge house competition,
huge competition for the boys to win food, our legendary
all senior all you can eat Montgomery in parking spots
(06:59):
for the next year, and you know, maybe another incentive,
but I can't talk about that right now. Anyway, So,
but the money money comes to Molar High School to
help Molar High School do all that we do here,
help guys get in here, help expand our real learning
for boys, giving them the opportunity for the broadcast studio,
(07:20):
the pitch room, all that unbelievable stuff, campus ministry. It
helps everything here at Molar High School. And so but
at the same time, you can help those boys individually.
So if you know a guy who's here at Molar freshman, sophomore, senior, junior,
get onto the website. You're gonna see the website blasted
out throughout the Molar universe next Monday the eighth, and
(07:45):
you're gonna find your guy. So, if any Nagel is
your little great nephew, you're in type in Andy's name
and you're gonna buy tickets to credit.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I didn't even know it.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yeah, you get credit. You don't even know it. So
so look for those messages on social media. Look for
the links from people that you know a moler, your
aunt's uncles, cousins, grand cousins, great grand cousins, whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now this runs for a week or two.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Actually it's a short little raffle. So we kick off
on the eighth and the raffle will officially end at
midnight on September twenty fifth, so it's about seventeen days.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was cutting their here. So several years ago we
did a incentive where certain people would shave their head
if a house reached us. So I can't remember the
details of it. Do we have anything fun like that?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Well, I can't talk about that. I'm in discussions with
school leadership right now about that, so I can't. I
can't talk about that.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Andy Nagel is not on the list, but.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
In discussion, we're in discussions. We're in discussions, but we're yeah,
we're in discussions with some fun stuff. But we're about
a week out.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
So I can there a bone. No, I cannot right
let me let me for the listeners, Louise. This people,
this is unbelievable. And we talked about the power ball
and joke about that.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But in a two week span, and it keeps growing
every year.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Get tired. How much did you raise last year?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
North of four fifty, four hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Dollars the students here. It really is an amazing thing.
So if I look a little sleep deprived the next
two weeks, you'll know why.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And your goal, your goal is it.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Is really four fifty again north of that with a
stretch of stretch of five hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yep, five hundred, half a million dollars coming to more
or high school. And and I I always throw this
out there. The first student, if any students listener, is
first student that approaches me gets my money.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
That's right. And you know what that happens gain people.
The kids don't approach the staff, they don't they don't
approach their teachers.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Speak for yourself years.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Boy, and you know it's all about you know, if
a student has a goal of X amount of dollars
to get that parking spot, help him do it right, parents, Like,
don't just say okay, well here's you know, help him
do it like it's all digital. People just forward these
emails onto people the site. Just flood flood your family.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And make a purchase online. It's not a it's not
the old raffle ticket paper we do have.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
We do have old raffle tickets for for people who
want those, and all those Soul tickets are entered into
the digital raffle and entered into the Boy's digital amount.
So we know we keep track of everything, but everything
is digital nowadays. So look for that next Monday eighth.
We're going to kick it off probably about by nine
(10:42):
a m. The site will be open. We expect to
just you know, what do they say when when servers
break down? Servers are going to break the crash.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
They're going to crash the service. And we always were
the last couple of years that I've been here, we've
always drawn that Winterer live correct well on like a
Facebook live.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Didn't that last year?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think I make that pho if we do hair though,
if we do the winners, Sorry, sorry to talk while
you're interrupting. If we do a hair gig. The president
of Moulor High School just walked in. I liked it.
I think. Sorry.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
The discussion no I'm just joking.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We're talking about raffle incentives, Jason the House, and I
think you should shave your head, not I.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Mean come back.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Years ago. Time it's gone, Jason House, are you man
enough to accept the challenge if if Louise ends up
working this out where you will? Well, who was that company?
We had super cuts or somebody came in and they
shaved my head?
Speaker 6 (11:44):
And Brandt's group, Yes, that are supportive of the raffles.
So let's talk about all our raffle sponsors too. You'll
see them, I hope. I don't forget anybody coreto Silver
Spring House, Chick fil A, Kenlood, our friend Garth and
Brandt with Sports Club, Fritz at Italian Net, and the
Gurbuses at Buffalo Wings and Wings, in addition to our
(12:06):
school sponsors like pro Lak and Beacon. So we're so
thankful for all our sponsors that help push this and
help us with our incentives for the boys.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Turn her mic off for seconds. Answer the question, Jason
the House, are you going to step up if so
cold to shave your head or do I have to
call Alex and Kendall And.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Well, you know, I was just going to go to that.
You may want to consult with Kendall and my oldest
Mackenzie on what they would tell you is, Barrett, there's
not much left there to shave.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
There's not a lot, but a big would look good.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Don't hijack this, Barrett. How many times do I say
this to you?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I thought we turned her mic down for a minute. Jason,
Are you excited about the raffle? Your first experience of
the raffle? Are you excited about it?
Speaker 8 (12:51):
I can't wait. Actually it is the first. No, I
came in on the tail end of it last year,
but this is the first, and.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Certainly sell raffle tickets.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
As you know, I did not sell raffle tickets as
a student. That was not a thing.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Kids that like I would have sent a message to
their parents said your kid, kid has not sold raffle tickets.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
Yeah, no, that that was not a part of uh
of of our of our process.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And so we missed opportunity back there this week.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Well, I wasn't here, Barrett. We were not here to
do this.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
We weren't working who we are now.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
But yeah, September eighth, kickoff at nine a m website
will be live, parents, students, Moller universe. You'll get all
this putting.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Jason on kind of like the old E b N
where they put them on a billboard wild Man marker.
We'll put Jason on the roof.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
You get on the roof.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We need half a million dollars. You know that's a.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Great idea, Barrett. How about we put.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
You up in a roof Jason tended up on the
roof for a week. How about that?
Speaker 8 (13:46):
Absolutely? You know what. The only thing that's going to
be coming off of that roof is Barrett. It'll be
about one year in or one hour in. You'll just
see him flying.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Uh. You know if that gets me off the roof
from mellion dollars, let's do it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Half a million for the menimor. This is what it's
all about. To support our education here. It's the most
important thing we do.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's a lot of work, Louise. I don't like to
say nice things about you publicly, but I will. It's
a tremendous amount of work that you and Betsy and
then the team puts into that. But well it is
as you.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
See, Ady reminds not just me, the mentor teacher's house,
team's school leadership, They do a lot to get the
guys rallied up so that they can support each other
and win some incentives at the same time, but really
helped the school. So that's the most important thing.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
What I did get to experience last year was the
lunch at Montgomery and as a result of the Gregory
there and.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Senior lunch, we do that in January, so we want
as many seniors as possible to get to that Montgomery
and level. So more com September eighth, ten, Am be there.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
This is your song? Absolutely when I think of Luise Oprah,
this is what I think of it. This should be
your ring tune on my phone.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I think I might?
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Okay, love you?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Am I wrong? Andy?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You're a right spot on?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you. We got Jason Eahause in the studio talking
a little bit more about that trip we have coming
up to celebrate our alumni and more. And David Ashbrock
also appearing the forty time Emmy Award winning producer Director Filmmaker.
He'll be on the show as well, talking about the
magic that he's performing inside this very space we occupy.
(15:26):
Now it's the Big Low Podcast, So W Moe and
the more Broadcasting Network to come here.
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Speaker 8 (15:55):
The Mueller High School soccer team is back and ready
for another run for state. Join us Saturday as your
Crusaders travel to a very distant Sycamore High School. Kickoff
is at two pm. Bring your spirit, wear your blue
and gold, and let's pack the stands to support our team.
Go big Mo, get the latest on w MOOE and
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the Molar Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Back in a Big Mo podcast and Andy Wee. Louise,
she loves this podcast more than anybody in this bility,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I've said it before.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Our team is fantastic in everything they do in Betsy
and Louise in that special vine.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You can still here. She's in the green room right now.
You can still hear through the.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Doors walking out with a slabber ribs courtesy of Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
In and the print support Tom Gregory.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But they do fantastic stuff in that office. And you know,
raising four hundred and fifty to five hundred thousand dollars
in a two week span.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It'll be bad. Maybe should ask for a raise. Now
would be a good time because we are bringing on
the president of Mueller High School, Jason n House. I said, Jason,
give me your walk in song to the podcast, because
I don't know, maybe Luke Combe. So I went to
the number one song of Luke Combe's Jason, Welcome to
the Big MO podcast.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Call me.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Good to be here, Barrett. You know, and don't let
the title of that song be any indication of what
my years were like here at Muller High School.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's awesome, that's so cool.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
It was just coincidence.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Jason, are you ready to talk a little Nashville? How
about cool? Is this because you've been to Columbus was
I was not a part of that when you were
with Andy, but you and I went to Denver. We
have plans I think Andy to go to Cleveland here
in the next few months. I think Texas is on
the radar as well. But we will be in well,
we will be in Nashville. And Andy read at the
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top of the show all the names and what was
it like.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Fifteen, we're pushing thirty right now. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Knew. I didn't know we even had thirty guys in there.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
We have seventy five that live in and around Nashville area,
and I've had some guys reach out to me. I
can't make it to that, but I want to be
part of this group. So, you know, after we leave
these cities, Barrett and you guys started this, which is awesome,
is uh, you know, we kind of introduced these guys
together and then they they take it to the next level.
(18:28):
They continue to get together, you know, whether it's a
personal relationship the Denver chapter just had a golf outing
a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Or business.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
There's been a lot of business relationships formed, you know,
from from Molar Molar and Molar.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
And the success of the Denver one. That would be
crystal clear on this. It's important to have a a
bell cow or a director at or whatever you want
to call it. And Jeff Dornoff and Denver certainly is
that a guy that great. Oh he's unbelievable. Jason. He
just he owns it. He's so out of this school.
He organizes. It's really hands off from internally. From our perspective,
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he runs with you. So the success is very much
predicated on the leadership in those cities. So we have
all these names, Henry, Sean, Henry earlier, Jason.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
You know, I will at our JEC though, just real
quickly to recognize both and Andy and Barrett for your work.
You know, one of the things that I recognize when
I'm out on these regional trips are just how connected
our alumni feel to MOLAR. And I think that that
is a true testament to what it is that we're
producing here each and every day. I mean, the you know,
what we're putting out on social media where individuals get
to really feel and experience what it is that's going
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on within these walls. And Andy, your your reach out
to your newsletters that just give so much content, allows
individuals to truly feel as though they're in the know
as to what's going on and to be excited about
the extraordinary things that are happening here. And so all
of these regional trips are really a product of the
work that's being done here by the two of you.
(20:01):
Allows us to get out and make more meaningful connections
with these alums. And so yeah, I'm really excited now
to head on down to Tennessee and Nashville and perhaps
the country a country song is is even more perfect
for where we're heading.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But I was going to say real quick, the cool
thing about this trip and then the trip in Cleveland
is we kind of doing it in conjunction with the
football team. So we got this event and then we
have the tailgate the football game the next day. So
you know, like you said at the top of the show, Barrett,
if you're coming down early, you know, come on out,
(20:37):
click on that link and come to this event at
x Ex Golf on Thursday from six to nine.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
We were talking a little bit about that, Barrett and
I in the office this morning. You know, it's not
just about alums. It's about individuals. You could even be
current parents to be connected with some of our alums
in the in the market, certainly alums who have students
here currently and are traveling down to watch their son
play in the game, you know, to to come out
on that evening to really just share in the full
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in the in the family spirit. You know who we
are as being. You know, a Marianus community is really
something that we want to encourage as well too.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
It's powerful. I mean, everybody talks about that Molar brand
and that Molar brand's intentional and it's things like this
and Andy with your leadership in these regional events, which
is very very cool.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You're right there with me, brother, Don't don't give me
all the credit.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Your hand man.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Swing the bat, uh you Jason, I know, really enjoyed
talking to these alumni because you've always you've really driven
home and we've talked about it on the show before
how everybody has their own personal story. This is one
of those events where you, as president of the school,
can hear those personal stories because your story is you
(21:52):
told them. And I've heard you say this is different
than Andy Nagles versus anybody else who went to school here, right,
So how important is that from you from a leadership perspective?
Is you start to plan that roadmap moving forward?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Now, what helps me understand what is your connection? As
I said, everybody here has a unique experience at Molar
that makes Molar theirs and that that's your Molar story.
And so to understand where you're plugged into Molar allows
me the opportunity to really lean in and share the
extraordinary things that are going on within that particular segment
of Molar High School. There's not one program here at
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Molar that is not being enhanced, that is not going
next level of excellence that that I can think of,
and so to truly have the opportunity to share what
it is that that that these young men are experiencing.
And the young men are on Cairos. Now, I don't
know what you know, one hundred and sixty, you know,
or I don't even know what number it is. Barrett,
your son is a part of that nervous I was.
(22:50):
I was on Cairos one the first one. I was
in the first class.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
If the second one, you would have thought they would
have said it the words you know, I've seen enough.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
This was a bad idea. It's really great.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Yeah, and just you know, so everything that's happening and evolving,
it's just getting you know, it's just getting better. You know,
Individuals will will say, boy, you know, the physical space
has changed, and we've talked about this quite a bit
UH on previous podcasts. A physical space has changed, you know,
is it's still the same Molar And I will say,
you know, the roots of Molar are the same. The
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only difference is they've grown deeper, you know, and the
branches if it's spread wider, and so what what these
students are experiencing, you know, it's the same thing. It's
just more enhanced.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
The the imprint you know that is being left and
these young men is deeper, probably than what I experienced
here in ninety three.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
One thing I love that, I'd love that you said,
Andy and Jason, you're all on board. And I think
if there's anything we need to do collectively better is
that's get more people on campus. This morning, you hit
Steve Meetle here, who is awesome.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Eighty four eighty four grad had the opportunity of spending
a little time with him. And I know this, and
I've shared this with Andy. You know all of the time,
if you come back on campus, I don't care what
I'm doing, I don't care what I'm in interrupt me,
you know, I want the opportunity to welcome each of
our alums.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It's awesome home, you know. And that's just not Wordsmith.
I've seen you do that. I've seen you do that.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
I've interrupted several meetings. I feel terrible, but he does
give him the FaceTime and it's it's important. It's our
alums feel like, man, there's somebody at the top that
cares about me, and it just you know, it's just
awesome to see. So I thank you for that. You
know what I really want to see next week. I
want to see this guy, this big dude swing that
golf club and one of them simulators.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Here what I will share Friday Friday, you know, Friday
afternoon around three thirty.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I just want to put on this. This is this
Friday people.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I need.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
I need everybody in the Try State area to clear.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
The roads, run lock or clear the roads.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I I will be in in the McClusky truck pulling
marv over to Dell High.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And let me give you a little pro tip. You're
going to find out when you're driving that thing. You
were going to quickly find out who loves Mueller, and
you're going to find out who doesn't like Muller when you're.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Driving going to get either your number one or.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
I've shared with Bear. One of the things I might
be asking McCluskey to do is to tint these windows
a little darker, because I do have to remember I'm
driving the McClusky truck. I am representing Muller High School.
And while I do think that we are number one,
letting other individuals out on the road know that their
number one is probably not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You might have some you're heading to the west side,
you might have some people thinking I'm driving that thing,
and you don't want some pop shots.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Going going down seventy one.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's awesome, Jason. I'm excited for next week. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. Thirty some guys. That's crazy,
great job, and it takes work to get that. And
there's probably more. We have walk ups that happen all
the time as well.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
When I think Luke Comzo, you can't go wrong with
Oklahoma one of my favorites. I'm glad you reminded me
about Luke comes This is a good one. Have you
seen the movie Twist or the new one? I have
not seen thee Jason, I have pretty impressive, a great movie.
The first one is a little wonky, a little kind
of pretend. This one is a pretty this is legit.
You have grandkids out you're watching like Scooby Doo.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Scooby doos a classic brother and you know, I'm I'm
good my grandkids to watch those old classic Tom and Jerry's.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
They're the best Looney tunes.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
So next week Tennessee will be there.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
We'll be rocking in Nashville. We can't wait. Hook up
with Andy dagele yours truly or even Jason. Get your
name on the rsv P list. Speaking of legends, legend goats,
David Ashbrock is coming up next talking about the new
studio space here at w MOE. As we speak on
this podcast, he's working on transitions. Behind your head, Jason,
(27:05):
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back in just a moment. Best Coupboads of Mueller High
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Speaker 3 (27:28):
Tyler jos on let's catch the got it down Crusaders.
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Speaker 8 (27:37):
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Speaker 2 (27:42):
Oh they got him, and I think that's Christian Harris.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
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to get back on track against the Trinity Shamrocks. Pregame
begins at six point thirty on Friday night at Mount
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Speaker 2 (28:03):
It's time to cheer on your Molar Crusaders cross country
team as they hit the trails for the twenty twenty
five season this Saturday at eleven am. It's the Mason
Invitational in Mason, Ohio. They have been training hard all summer.
Now it's time to show what it takes to be
a man of Moller. Cheer on the Crusaders and let's
make some noise. Go Big Moo, Run fast, finish strong
(28:26):
on w MOE and The Moment Broadcasting Network. Not going
to Big More Podcast. Big Mo beared along with Andy
Nagel and Andy we have the Goat in the studio.
(28:46):
I'm excited about this and I gotta tell you, David Ashbrock,
class of seventy four, your LinkedIn profile looks like something
that just came out of Hollywood. That's a good I
think you're holding an Emmy. It looks like you're holding
an Emmy. You're holding one of how many just forty county.
That's a good shot.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
At you.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You look like you just walked out of Los Angeles.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It's interesting you say that, because I may have been
in Los Angeles, I could have been in New York.
So for nine years, seven years as a chairman, I
was on the National Awards Committee. After having served the
regional chapters as president and trustee and trying to, you know,
run the whole Emmy process here regionally, I was invited
(29:29):
by the National Group to be on the National Awards Committee.
And after two years and they said, well, we'd like
you to be the chairman. And so that photo was
probably taken at the News and Documentary Awards, as my
guess in New York. However, many years ago when I
was the chairman, so I had to make a couple
of remarks. It's mostly a behind the scenes job, and
a grueling job, and a demanding job. And I can't
(29:51):
tell you it was volunteer and I felt like I
was putting in thirty forty hours a week.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
I did have a department.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Just vote Tuesday and I begin the call from somebody
in one of the soaps that's trying to lobby us
to create a new awards category so that they can
get and here's another great story about that. If you
remember Henry Winkler, remember the Fons he was so Henry
Winkler was the president of the University of Cincinnati for
a while. Henry Winkler The Fawns had finished some acting
(30:21):
and he owned the rights end to Hollywood Squares and
he called the New York office and he says, hey,
I'd like to find out what the eligibility process is
to make sure that we get the right people credited,
because we're going to enter our show and the New
Hollywood Squares and the Emmy Awards this year. They said,
we don't know. You have to call the awards chairman.
So they called me and said, hey, can you go?
(30:43):
Can you call Henry? So I had Henry Winkler The
Fawns his phone number, and I called Henry Winkler a
great story, and I answered him his question. He couldn't
have been nicer. He could not have been nicer, wonderful.
At the awards ceremony about two months later, I saw Henry,
got to shake his hand and we exchanged a few
niceties about it. They didn't win the category, But he couldn't.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Have been nicer.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
But I had his phone number.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So when Henry.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Winkler, the UC president, I had done some stories for
UC and we were featuring him and all of his
contributions to UC in society and you name it. And
he was about to celebrate his birthday. So I was
doing this interview and we wrapped this interview, we finished
the piece.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But about two months.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
Later he was going to celebrate his birthday and I thought, wow,
he could be ninety. I thought, I'm going to call
Henry Winkler the Fawns and asked him to call Henry
Winkler the President on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday.
And the Fawns actually called Henry Winkler, and they enjoyed
this moment because Henry Winkler the President used to get
(31:48):
all kinds of grief he was president. When Happy Days
was on the air, He'd go to the airport and
people would call him the fawns. No, no, I'm the
president of the University of Cincinnati. I'm not that actor.
But Henry Winkler, the Fonds couldn't have been nicer to
call Henry Winkler the President on the occasions.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Your only miss which you did not record any of this.
How cool? Of a station. Would that have been.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Exactly but he I'm telling you both, wonderful gentlemen. They
share the name, they got to have chaps and all
that stuff. But it was wonderful. So that was just
one thing I got to do as running the ARTYQ.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
You've done more than just a couple of things. Television producer, director, editor,
project manager, forty plus time Emmy Award winning and many
of those categories. And now you're here. You talked to
a minute ago about all that volunteer time you put
in like a full time job. Yeah, and that brings
you here to more and much of the same capacity
(32:45):
of volunteer hours. But what you've done in this space
while we were earlier in the show, I'm looking up
at the monitors and you're working on transitions now kind
of I would think the fun part. I mean, but
you did some heavy lifting to get us to where
we are now. Talk about obviously a seventy four grad
but how you got walked into this role that you
are in now here at more work.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
So I guess maybe ten say ten twelve months ago,
maybe a little longer. Gavin Gray called me. He says, hey,
we're in a new technology wing. We're going to put
a TV studio in and we just need some help
and guides. We'd like your input on what you think
we ought to be able to do with it. So
I visited with Gavin. It was probably before Christmas last year,
(33:29):
and I thought I looked around and said, boy, there
is so much potential here. And Gavin, by the way,
is not a tremendous job. He's a great problem solver.
He's a guy that says, what's the challenge and how
am I going to make it happen with the limited
resources I have? Right, And he's really excellent at that,
really excellent at that, and he just goes about his business.
(33:49):
But he wanted some input.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
So and you have a little you have a little
bit of history, do it a little little bit.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
It's a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
So I put the survey together to evaluate what he
thought worked, didn't work, what he thought the needs were
to meet the curricula and the like. And after that survey,
we kind of agreed on some direction we ought to take.
And then he said that there was some grant moneies
that were available and I wanted me to help him
spend that money, which I did, and So it was
a fifty thousand dollars grant that was available through the
(34:19):
Sycamore School System through the state of Ohio, and we
identified some areas where there was a lot of deficiency
in some areas where we thought that we could really
get this thing up and running. Along with that was
not just some equipment, right and all the items that
have to make it all work, but to make it
a space that felt more like a laboratory instead of
a closet, right, a place where a bunch of cables
(34:43):
and a bunch of things patched together and only one
guy knew how it worked. And that's not a crack
on Gavin in any way, shape or form, because he's
really good at making stuff work with limited resources. And
let's face it, high schools oftentimes have limited resources. It's
not endless, right. So after we decided what we were
going to purchase, we decided how we were going to
(35:05):
implement it, and also considered what's the workflow going to be,
how are you going to teach these kids, and is
going to be software based or hardware based? And it's
my opinion that the kids are going to get exposed
in college to both. They need to be able to
use production tools that are software based, but production tools
that they might see in a real studio in a
television truck, so that they can understand both workflows. Then
(35:27):
how are we going to make all this work really
efficiently with cameras in the studio, remote cameras at the
Merry statue, for example, at the baseball field, wherever these
cameras can come back, at the gymnasium, the performing arts center,
all these cameras coming back to the central location. And
(35:48):
how can we produce efficient work? Teach kids what the
workflow is, how you can produce television and efficient ways.
Let's talk for you play back and graphics and replay everything,
and let's.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Kind of tea up a little bit because people think, Wow,
this guy knows what we're talking about. You've done this
similar And I think if Chris Collins were a studio
and so talk a little bit about your experience in
doing exactly what we are doing here in this space.
Speaker 7 (36:12):
So you know, some people take one tech. They want
to be a writer, they want to be a storyteller,
they want to be Steven Spielberg, they want to be
they just had this very myopic, silo approach to what
they want in their career.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I was never that way.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
I thought, of course, I never wanted to be on camera, right,
that's not my'st. But whatever I can do behind the scenes,
I'm all about that, you know, whether I'm a producer
or director, an editor, or a project manager or mixing
audio or doing lighting, whatever it might be. The more
hats you can wear, the better off you are, even
as a producer, because if you don't understand how to
do it as a producer, you know how, you're going
(36:51):
to be the best in your class, and you have
to be an overachiever, et cetera. So throughout my career,
while I may have had an assignment an job, eventually
I wore lots of different hats and got exposed to
so many different genres. You know that I got pretty
well versed after forty forty however, me years has been
(37:12):
now gone forty seven years. But the more you know,
the better off you are, the more you can contribute,
the more effective you can be at being a television professional.
So while I might have been doing some programming, content producing, directing, editing,
the whole backside, the technology side, is something that's terribly
important because he can't do it without technology, right. You
(37:34):
need cameras, you need switchers, you need graphics, you need replay,
you need all the conglomeration of things that come together
to make it all happen. And so I kind of
annoyed some engineering people, I think sometimes because I once
in a while overstepped my bounds and walked in their territory.
I always believe that if you over engineer the space
(37:55):
you're working in to begin with, you're better off. You
don't just cobble it together and help people figure it out.
You've got to make sure that you think through all
of the ergonomic process, because when you do so, the
user is fine that it's so much easier for them
to step in because maybe they haven't maybe they aren't
technically minded there. They may be left brain, right brain,
(38:15):
whatever it might be.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
If I can come.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Into the space and use it because somebody else thought
it through.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
The space is so much better off.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
So I did that.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
We're control and at the high school, how important that's
most terribly important, terribly important.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
Yeah, So I would do that at XIX. I would
do that for people that knew I had those skills.
I devised edit facilities and and and inserted myself in
the engineering side of control rooms and our studios and
sets and all sorts of things. And sometimes I was
a news director's job, and I said, I'm the production manager.
I got a lot to say about that too, because
we have to use it and execute it at the.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
High school level.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
You know, these kids are gosh, they're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
years old, But like all of us, don't, we see
that everybody has learned things at much younger age because
the exposure, the sponges that they become, and technology has
enabled all this information to get out to everybody. So
if you think about if somebody wants to be a professional,
and they realize that when they're fourteen and they want
(39:11):
to be ready to be a media expert, they've got
from fourteen to say age twenty two when they graduate college.
They got to get an awful lot of experience before
they get there. And so what you found is that
it used to be people that had facilities got the work. Well,
now all these facilities exist at universities because ESPN has
(39:33):
built this process whereby they expect universities to create content.
UC has not just one control room and nippered. They've
got a second control room at CCM, where I graduated from.
I convinced them five, six, seven years ago that they
needed to be in this space because ESPN is going
to expect it eventually.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
You better do it now so you.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Don't play catch up.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Let's do it before they pull the trigger and you're
ready to go. And they're producing linear games all the time,
you see, right, And so if the kids from Mohler
want to go to UC, they better understand how all
that's going to work, because they'll get bowled over if
they go in without any any real hands on experience
at the college level, they will be forgotten about and
(40:18):
they'll say, well, maybe this is a good choice for
me for a career. I think I better be a plumber.
I better be something else.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
This guy's retired and today I think you said two
thirty or three o'clock he's heading down to Great American Ballpark.
He's still doing producing work as part of the Blue
Jays broadcast team. Like you can't turn it off, can't?
Speaker 7 (40:37):
No, I really can.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
I mean, you know it's David talk about we had
Tim benad on that that's going to be on the
halftime show, and I asked him the same question because
he's back at Molar kind of in a volunteer helping role.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Okay, what talk to the.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Alumni directly that listen to this show and how important
it is to give back to this high school, whether
it's time treasures.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
It's interesting you say time talent treasure because oftentimes the
people that get recognized and this is no slam of
the people with treasure, right, correct, But sometimes time and
talent is just as important as the treasure, right, Yes,
Because I'm willing to make my cash donations as modest
as they might be, but I'm more than happy to
give my my talent and my time because without that,
(41:27):
you got to have all of it for it to work.
I think people who are driven, people who are self motivated,
people that.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Are type A.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
That go one hundred miles an hour, They're always looking
for something to do. They want to They don't. I
don't fish, Yeah, you don't. I don't golf. I don't
do any of that stuff. When I spend my spare time,
it's doing stuff like this. Coming to malor spend. It
took us ninety hours this summer to get all this
stuff installed, just to get it up to the to
(41:59):
the level it currently is. And that was myself, working
very closely with Gavin. We'd come in here every day
for weeks, you know, rewiring everything, running cable, getting machines configured,
and it's to me, it's terribly important. I think people
sometimes get distracted with their lives and they got kids,
and they've got other life. They got golfing and fishing
(42:22):
to do, and they don't realize how important it is.
But you know, everybody will look back in their lives
and say, who was it that affected me in such
a way that kind of created a path for me. Well,
for me, Dan Ledford was the guy at Moler. You know,
I had some experience through my church and through some
(42:43):
activities because my dad was in the radio and television business.
He was also a singer, so he would sing in
the church choir and he could be mixing sound while
he was so I was mixing sound in the sixth grade.
I kind of knew I was going to get in
this world. But when I hit Mohler, Dan Ladford I
think saw potential in me, and just like he did
(43:03):
many people, he pushed people to be the best they
can be. And he drove them and he asked them
to perform, and he asked them to give up spare
time to be part of plays and rallies and all
that stuff. And that's what I did when I'm here
at Molar. So am I doing that for Dan? Was sure?
I mean everybody, like I said, everybody has a mentor
somewhere in their lives and their career. And Dan was
(43:28):
one for me at Moler. And I created so much
opportunity here for myself to make me prepared when I
went to CCM. And that's why you give back. You know,
football players, basketball players, people that may be in student government,
you know, come back make a difference. I think people
will be shocked in this technology center alone. I mean
(43:48):
there's a ticker board outside the room we're talking about.
We're seeing the stock market ticker on there. So kids
can understand at such a young age that you better
know how to spend your money. You got to be
learn a little personal finance, and you know, you might
also learn something about about investment and all sorts of
other things. You know that that will make you a
(44:10):
more prepared adult. Anyway, it's you can go on and
on and on about the opportunities there are, not to mention,
we all like to be a little competitive. We want
more to be the best things right. Absolutely, we don't
want to be second or third. Competition's important.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Well, I know there's a lot of work still ahead,
and I'm so confident having you here that you're going
to get us to where we need to be. And
I wish there was something more I could say other
than thank you, thank you what you've done. Andy and
I are getting dinged up all these alumni going, do
you know what he's doing there? We know, we see
him every day. What you're doing is amazing. It is
(44:46):
simply remarkable. And I know I speak for the kids
that have not yet experienced it and those who will
and saying thank you as well.
Speaker 7 (44:54):
And I hope that we can get to this. I'll
call this phase one. So phase two maybe to make
the some of the technologies, just to crack it up
just a little bit here and there. But another phase
is going to be to create scenery in the space,
because right now I see a blue block wall and
a window and some little acoustic dividers that are faking
his scenery. Right, So we'd like to make that look
(45:15):
a little more professional. So when you see that, you
can be proud of that and say, wow, that's that's
Molar Studio. So we'll keep pushing for all that too.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
I can't here absolutely, but I like you better than
you see. I'll tell me a sees the podcast real good.
That's the goat. David Ashbrock class is seventy four. I
want to thank him for joining us on the show.
Andy NAGOI be and I will be back to kind
of wrap up some local things happening around Big Mo.
(45:43):
You're listening to the best coverage of Molar High School
Pillar in the post. It's the Big Mo Podcast on
w MOE and the Bowlders Broadcasting Network. Get ready, Molar Nation.
The twenty twenty five Molar High School golf team is
swinging into action this week Saturday the sixth at Finley,
Ohio Country Club. Come out and support our talented golfers
(46:04):
as they represent the Blue and Gold with pride and precision.
It's going to be a great day on the links
as a team competes against some of the best in
the state of Ohio. Get all the coverage right here
on wm OE and the Moller Broadcasting Network. Pretty impressive,
(46:34):
Andy Nagel. They have a guy like that with the
experience of David Ashbrock, it's amazing. He's just a incredibly
talented alum. I gotta turn your mic up.
Speaker 4 (46:49):
Yeah, he's you know, I got to know David planning
their fifty year reunion, him and Bob Schneedel and what
he did for that fifty He's just an artist, man,
he is just.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Really artist, story teller, all those things.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
He's awesome. And you know what we were talking about.
He has given so much of his time back to
Molar High School to make this and to continue to
grow this portion of the curriculum. I am so excited
just talking off air what what his plans are and
(47:28):
how they're going to coincide with with Molar. But it's
just it's neat to see a lums give back. I
love I love it. We talk about it all the time. Man,
just just come back. If you can give us an hour,
if you can give us whatever, just give back.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
It's it's it's so sir. It really is inspiring on
so many levels. And we had a lot of stuff
going on. By the way, you can check David Ashbrock
he's got a website out d isn't David Dashbrock dot com.
Very cool website. Check out his portfolio and everything he's done,
and he'll be adding to that when he gets pleted here.
I don't think we'll ever be completed here more. I
(48:02):
think he's just going to keep building, building building. It's
pretty special. A lot of things going on, Andy Nagel,
As you mentioned the football game Friday. I think the
soccer team I think plays tonight if I'm not mistaken
against LaSala. A lot of things at Xavier, and I
think the younger teams will be here tonight. The JB
(48:24):
teams I think actually play here. Just a lot of
stuff going on here.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
Yeah, I mean, you know you have cross country football,
golf and soccer or fall sports are well underway and
getting that going. And you know the theater, the Page
to Stage is coming out. I believe that is next week.
I think the seventeenth, and I may be wrong on that,
but you can go to Muller dot org and get
(48:49):
all those events. You know, we have class reunions coming out.
You know the class of seventy five is celebrating our
fifty year reunion on September twentieth in the class ninety
five is celebrating her thirty year reunion on same night.
So just a whole lot of activity going on here
at the Big mo.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
What do we say? What do you always say? Pillar
to posts?
Speaker 3 (49:11):
If you say pillar to put, then it's it's a lot, man,
it is.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
It's a lot of a lot of good stuff. So
you can email Andy Nagle for some additional information a
Nagle at Mollar dot org. You can also light me
up Biko and at Mollar nobody ever emails me because
they text me, text me, dm me your private message
whatever platform that is.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
But I will get us.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Don't leave us a voicemail on the Mollar published phone number.
Speaker 3 (49:40):
I don't even have a phone in my office, a
physical phone.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Mine actually gets transferred to my email. So somebody leaves
me a voicemail, it's afforded to my email. You still
just give me on social media, Andy Dangle, thank you
so much. Another great show. Great talking to David Ashbrock
and serving before him, we had Lazy Holker and Jason Niehouse.
Want to thank them for joining us as always. And
(50:04):
we'll get a gift certificate to Montgomery in and the
Prince of Port for appearing on the Big MO podcast.
He's Andy Nagel. I'm Big Mo, Barrett. Thanks for listening
to the Big Mo Podcast on WOE and the Molard
Broadcasting Network.
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