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Speaker 1: The March in one hundred, How fam you turned discipline

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Speaker 1: into dominance?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back now.

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Speaker 1: It ass to another episode of the most anticipated podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Black Effect podcast network, especially in February, entitled

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Speaker 1: I Didn't Know Maybe you didn't either, And I'm B Dotts,

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Speaker 1: the PA announcer. Fam You ratlers five home games a year.

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Speaker 1: We got Club Bragg Rock, and you can argue a

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Speaker 1: bigger draw on Saturdays than the football team is the

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Speaker 1: band man. They march and play to the stadium. They

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Speaker 1: do a fifteen minute pregame performance. They play in the stands.

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Speaker 1: During the game, they do they have time performance, they

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Speaker 1: go back in the stands and play some more, and

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Speaker 1: then they do a fifteen minute fifth quarter. If there

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Speaker 1: was another band that was brave enough to challenge them

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Speaker 1: and come to brag, and if it wasn't, they'll just

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Speaker 1: played for fifteen minutes for the fan and then they

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Speaker 1: march back to the band ruin.

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Speaker 2: It is phenomenal to see.

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Speaker 1: Now, my homie Trevor, he a fourth generation Rattler and

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Speaker 1: he just sort of turned into a brother to me.

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Speaker 1: But his blood brother is actually one of the drum

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Speaker 1: majors for the Magnificent Seven that were fam You call

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Speaker 1: a drum majors that my boy, ty Lloyd. So before

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Speaker 1: we get into this episode, I'm gonna give you three

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Speaker 1: of the most useless.

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Speaker 2: Facts you'll never need in life about black bands.

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Speaker 1: Your first useless facts the number one hundred in the

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Speaker 1: March and one hundred. It ain't about size, but they

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Speaker 1: got over three hundred instrumentalists.

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Speaker 2: It's about standards. Your second useless facts.

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Speaker 1: Most modern halftime shows are built off systems created at

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Speaker 1: an HBCU. And your third useless fact, Black excellence didn't

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Speaker 1: become influential by accident. It was engineered. Now for today's episode,

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Speaker 1: do you know how fam used band came to be?

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Speaker 1: Because I didn't I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I

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Speaker 1: didn't show.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't.

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Speaker 2: I didn't show.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't I didn't.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen twenty six, Carter G.

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Speaker 1: Woodson created Negro History Week because he understood something most

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Speaker 1: people still miss. If you don't build your own systems,

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Speaker 1: you'll always be begging to be remembered by somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Now fast forward twenty years nineteen forty six, Florida A

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Speaker 1: and M University, a man named William P.

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Speaker 2: Foster.

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Speaker 1: He took a position most people would have treated as

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Speaker 1: a job, but him, he treated it as his calling.

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Speaker 1: He created the March in one hundred, not just a band,

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Speaker 1: an infrastructure of excellence. Every detail mattered, how you stood,

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Speaker 1: how you march, how you sounded, how you held your instruments.

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Speaker 1: So doctor Foster new song. The way you practice when

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Speaker 1: the stands are empty is the way you'll perform when

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Speaker 1: they fool. The standard was the standard, and the standard

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Speaker 1: didn't band for crowds or cameras or comfort. Ain't nothing

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Speaker 1: comfortable about being in the band. If you've ever seen them,

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Speaker 1: you know practice is not a suggestion. I still don't

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Speaker 1: know how they be humping with them tubas. But here's

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Speaker 1: what made it revolutionary. See before the Marching one hundred,

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Speaker 1: fans mostly walked in a straight line.

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Speaker 2: And play the notes. You've seen the bands show up, march, play,

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Speaker 2: go home.

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Speaker 1: After the Marching one hunter, precision became the performance, discipline

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Speaker 1: became the culture. Presentation became power. The halftime show became

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Speaker 1: the shows. To this day, some folks just come to

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Speaker 1: the game for the halftime show. Don't know what happened

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Speaker 1: at the start of the third quarter. They already heading

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Speaker 1: to the exits. When Beyonce won to honor HBCU culture

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Speaker 1: at Coachello. She didn't study USC or Ohio State. She

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Speaker 1: studied the Marching one Hunter. But they wrote the playbook.

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Speaker 1: And here's the part that I didn't know that excellence

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Speaker 1: wasn't about music. It was about building Black systems that

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Speaker 1: could not be ignored. No one had to include the

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Speaker 1: Marching one Hunt. They said the bar so high, everybody

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Speaker 1: else had the rise to it. That's what infrastructure looks like.

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Speaker 1: You don't ask for a seat at the table. You

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Speaker 1: build a table that's so impressive that everyone else asks

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Speaker 1: the city at yours, like Charlemagne did with the Black

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Speaker 1: Profect podcast network. You see to check our heartcut listen

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Speaker 1: a century after Carterig Woods in carb space for Black History,

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Speaker 1: The Marching one hundred show what happens when black institutions

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Speaker 1: control the standard, not just the narrative. And that's why

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Speaker 1: this fits our season's theme, one hundred years of Knowing Better.

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Speaker 1: The Marching one hundred didn't chase validation. They build something

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Speaker 1: so excellent that the world recognized around it. And that's

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Speaker 1: the hidden truth of black history. When we design the system,

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Speaker 1: the system works, and I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I