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Sunday, April 19th, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Tune in with Ava Perrine & co-host, Khamaré Shields, Station Manager of DESU Radio/WDSU "The Hive", as we welcome back to the planet our returning special guests:
Dr. David Tolley, a Grammy Nominated composer, professor of Music Industry Studies at Delaware State University and the advisor to the Theater Club for DSU: Hornets on Stage. Dr. Tolley also recently composed music for an off-Broadway production entitled Mr. Puppy.
And Raymer Castillo Jr. aka “Ray the Reporter”, a Freshman in Mass Communications at Delaware State University with a concentration in Digital Media Production, and a member of the Third Eye View Podcast Crew.
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SPEAKER_05Hello and welcome. You've crash landed on Planet Ava here on Indomix Radio. I'm Ava Perrine, and with me today is my ever-ready co-host.
SPEAKER_02What's going on, everyone? It's your boy, Kamari Shields, aka the Total Package. That might be the first time you're hearing this name, I promise. It will not be the last.
SPEAKER_05Kamari, here we are. The semester is is uh chugging right along. Yes, it is. We're getting close to the end of it. Yep, yep, yep. And we've got the fam with us today.
SPEAKER_01Yes, we do. Can everyone please introduce themselves? Hey, y'all. You probably already know me. Uh I'm Remember Castillo, aka Ray, the reporter. Wow, Ray, you sound a little bit down today. Uh no, no, no, I'm not down. You know, you know. It's early in the morning. Oh, is it? Yeah, yeah. Is it? Yes, I think it is. It might just be early in the morning.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_01It happens to us. And also, we have.
SPEAKER_04Hey, I will do a little kamari for you. Hey, this is Dr. Cholly here. I'm the director of the music industry program, and this is not going to be the last time you ever hear about me. You know what? I want you to keep that.
SPEAKER_02I want you to use that from now on.
SPEAKER_01I'm not even mad at it. He can post you.
SPEAKER_05Well, especially for a musical theater guy and all that, a composer of note distinguished professor. Thank you very much, David Zolly.
SPEAKER_01Composer of notes, also a hard name as well. Composer of notes.
SPEAKER_05Well, yeah, composer of notes. That was a nice little plug, wasn't it? You're not too asleep then there, right? I'm not too asleep. And by the way, Grace said it's uh real early. It's 10 o'clock in the morning. That's real early.
SPEAKER_01Ask him what time you're on to sleep last night. Ask what time you went to sleep at night. Three? Really? Well, everybody here does. That's when I went to bed. See, look, come on.
SPEAKER_05And uh night before last, I guess was Wednesday, Thursday, uh, 4 a.m. was my time. Getting prepped for classes and all that. So MassCom life, you know? MassCom is what we do, and we are perky even at 10, the early 10 a.m.
SPEAKER_02MassCom and Visual Performance Arts, which is the reason why we're here today. So Dr. Tolly recently came back from sabbatical because he worked on an off-Broadway production known as Mr. Puppy, which he composed all the music for. Is that correct, sir? Yes, that's sir. So, how was that with uh the production for that? What did you get the turnout you guys were expecting for the play?
SPEAKER_04Uh yeah, we uh were at the AMT Theater right on 45th Street, right next to the theater that had Moulin Rouge, that won the 10 Tonies. Um bigger theater than ours, but uh we were right next to it. And uh yeah, it was uh packed every night. And it ran for a couple weeks, six days a week, and uh with matinees. And uh we were really surprised that we had a lot of grandmothers and you know, bringing their grandchildren. It's really it's my only show that I've written um for younger audiences. In fact, they don't call it children's theater anymore, they call it theater for young audiences, T Y A. And um so a lot of parents and uh grandparents were there, but they kind of liked it more than some of the kids.
SPEAKER_05Well, that happens sometimes, doesn't it? They have a little bit maybe more of an appreciation for, and maybe if there are some jokes, maybe the the the younger persons uh don't quite get yet, because of course it it was written by an adult kind of thing. So that was last summer, correct? That that uh the um yeah, the opening for Mr. Puppy. Right. And then so since then you have uh decided to adapt it for uh the DSU crowd, and so that's uh that's coming up. Tell us about that.
SPEAKER_04Um yeah, so the they decided uh I'm the um faculty advisor for Hornets on Stage, which is their theater group, and uh they didn't have a show to do. Um, and so I said, Well, you know, what do you guys want to do and this semester since we didn't do one last uh semester due I mean last year due to budgets? So uh they said, Can we do puppy? I said, Well, if you want to, so that's what they've been rehearsing.
SPEAKER_02The funny thing about Hornets on Stage is being the current theater group is actually a group I was a part of previously when Dr. Tali and I were working together when we were doing Romeo and Juliet, um, right before the director at the time, uh, may she rest in peace, Dr. Shirley Brown. When she was the head of the theater department, we were doing a lot of stuff together, and then COVID happened, and so we had to reposition how we were doing the show. So it transitioned from being on stage show to us trying to do a movie. We still have all the original audios and stuff, correct?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. I mean, Kamara, you were awesome an actor. And your host over here, Ava Perine, she was an incredible nurse. Yes, she was. She had the second most number of lines in that script. Shakespeare's script is her, and she knew them all.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. You know, it's interesting as we've been talking about the different things that we've gotten involved with on campus, and I've been in a considerable number of productions, off and on, in little parts here and there, and all of that. And I have to actually thank, maybe thank is not exactly the word, the uh Kamari, because he was one of the handful of students who actually got me involved in that. Um, and so uh remind me how that came about, Kamari.
SPEAKER_02So, what had happened was when we were trying to figure out the different dynamics of who was going to help produce it with Dr. Tolly, it was myself, it was Jordan Smith, it was Raven Konder, and it was Ibube Meduka. Um, we were basically the newer setter directors working with Dr. Brown, Dr. Tali, so we could try and gather everyone so we could still put it on the way we wanted to. Right. And we needed a new part for the nurse because the original person who did it, Leah, had just previously graduated, and timing schedule wasn't allowing her to come back and do it with us. So we were thinking, okay, who could play the nurse? Specifically because of the energy we wanted. And it ended up becoming where, oh, Miss Perrin could do it. This is perfect for her, it matches her type of energy. So then you kind of told it the best on the previous show. Once we told Dr. Tolly that, he reached out to you. Uh-huh. And then after getting you like three times, once he confirmed, okay, you're really gonna do it, then you realize we had to learn it in Elizabethan English and then try and walk the scene out. And so the last mad then. Yeah, she was not as far as too much. I can imagine, I can imagine. But then it culminated in there was a full day we got to shoot a ballroom scene in the Schwartz Theater that is downtown, which DSU acquired from the Wesley Acquisition now being downtown DSU. Right. And I remember that day, it was it was a while because it was a night scene, right? And we had to set up the lights and everyone had to be in costume. And I don't think we were mic'd up, we were using mostly boom mics, but the dance choreography was coordinated by Raven, and everyone was just working in a dynamic, and that's that was a big one, and then we did the two major fight scenes here, right outside uh the EH building, which those were fun days shooting, so I miss it.
SPEAKER_05Well, speaking of uh in costume, we really should thank again. Uh, what's the professor's name who's in charge of that? Um, I put you on the spot, didn't I? And myself. From the fashion department? Yeah, yeah. Uh, and she's wonderful. And we just want to say at least thank you again to them because those costumes were fabulous. They managed to pull those together. The students um who were sewing and carrying on like mad and fitting us all and so forth. So that was that was really very cool.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I mean, it was amazing. I mean, she um she's at a different school now, but um she I didn't even know we had a fashion department in quite honestly, and because you know we were gonna do this on stage, and then we go, well, let's do it as a movie, and then you know it we just went with whatever was happening. Yeah, and so I said, Well, where are we gonna get costumes? And then I found out that we had a department. Yeah, and whenever we met her, and we had we talked on the phone a lot. She's a sweetheart, and she has a super long name, so begins with a D. I know that. And uh anyway, she even did a couple all-nighters for us. She finished some of the costumes, they finished every single costume for that show. So I really gotta commend them. And everybody was fitted to the nine.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I knew how much it that work took.
SPEAKER_05You know, um, there are a lot of different programs that are a part of our university that we they don't get it, they don't get any love, uh kind of deal. And sometimes the students say, Oh, I didn't know we had that. And fashion comes under actually the College of Ag, Ag Technology and what is that? Sciences? Oh goodness. Um might be because of the the thing they had yesterday. Agriculture, sciences, and technology, right? And so Dr. Sharice Winstead is the dean of uh of that uh college. So shout out to uh Dr. Winstead and company, uh, because they are some kind of awesome.
SPEAKER_02We also want to shout out uh Dr. Mike Casson as well, because they are always connected.
SPEAKER_05Well, they're they're husband and wife. I call them the power couple. Uh yeah, yeah. You didn't know that? Oh, bless you. So, yeah, Dr. Well, Sharice is of course Dr. Cassen, but uh when she first, you know, was in the department teaching chemistry and so forth, she was Winstead before they got married, and so she's kept that as you know, professionally. So, yeah. Shout out to the power couple on the campus.
SPEAKER_02That's awesome. Well, since we're talking about it loosely, she did speak yesterday at the beginning of the AI summit that both. Well, they were hosting it yesterday. Yes, that you, myself, and Ray got to attend to, at least for the beginning part of the day. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So, Ray, what did you think about the summit for what you were able to pay attention to? Um, I thought it was a lot interesting. I I loved how like academic it was. You know, I I love like any like academic event like that where we just talk about you know like like you know, advancements in technology and stuff. Um I appreciate a lot of like the um like the acknowledgement of like AI and its flaws, like like acknowledging like like the hallucinating and stuff like that. I appreciate that they're they're also like straightforward, like, hey, you know, it's an issue, but you know, we have we have ways of you know working around it. And um I also like seeing uh all the students come up in like all their like um little projects and stuff like that. There's one uh group who had a this like 3D printing like um company and this whole plan set out, and it was very impressive to see actually. And how do you plan to implement AI into it? Because there was like this like this uh judge panel and they judge like all like the AI like pitches and stuff. It's actually really interesting, you know.
SPEAKER_05Oh, that's awesome.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05So was that your first sort of real informational like conference?
SPEAKER_01Almost opportunity with AI. On a very random note, though, at the back of the conference, they had something called DSU juice. I just thought that was kind of funny. That was because of the catering, yeah. The DSU juice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was it was a is not an alcoholic drink because remember, there were kids there. Yeah, yeah. But no, they'll sometimes come up with like some fun name for some of the array of spread, which shout out to Sudexo for you know being the university's vendor for that. That was wonderful.
SPEAKER_05I mean, when I came through Sedexo Magic, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I had AI juice. Yeah, they should have had AI juice, bro. I would have been great.
SPEAKER_05I'm crying.
SPEAKER_01I would have drank.
SPEAKER_05Well, I tell you what, I, you know, I was only able to be there. Yesterday was kind of busy. Every day seems like it's busy now. Um but um I had to sit in on a senior capstone, and then I had classes, but I was able to pop in for maybe like 20 minutes or so in the morning, and uh Kamari and uh Cutton Ray Ray saved me a seat. And one of the things that I was I've been hyped about it ever since, and I was telling my classes because you know, we talk about AI, AI, and maybe chat GPT, you know, but really what is all of that? You know, and people, oh, so terrible, they're gonna take all the jobs. Um, and then the woman who's oh gosh, who was the speaker, uh the the presenter, she was fabulous. And so I would love to have her on our show if we can get a hold of her via Zoom or something.
SPEAKER_02That would be Bethany Nonami, aka Auntie AI. Oh, she's super fabulous.
SPEAKER_05And when she told her story, her background, and everything. But one of the things I really loved that was my key takeaway, was that there are so many types of AI platforms, and that you can use them. They each have sort of like a specialty that you can use, and then you can use them sort of like as a as an AI salad. You know, this thing will chat with this thing, and this thing is a specialty, and you can use this thing to help get this stuff done. And I was I was oh, okay, now I understand. Now, quite naturally, not being a seriously techie person in my head, but I grasped the concept and I'm really hyped about it. Um, and speaking of which, uh the night before our fabulous uh Public Relations Student Society of America, PRSSA chapter, uh was being honored uh upstate along with the University of Delaware PRSSA chapter, these graduating seniors. And so the uh bless them, the um PRSA, Lord have mercy, the uh Public Relations Society of America, right? So they were hosting it and you know they've been pulling the two groups together. So I went up to Middletown and uh was sitting there, you know, just I was being participatory, but not because it was like, oh my goodness, I gotta get home pretty soon. I only had a little time. Um, but one of the things uh happened is I met a woman who and the names I this is terrible not having people's names in front of me. But anyway, the woman who is the director of communications with Widener University, and she was saying that Widener now has uh a major, they're doing an AI major and an AI minor already, and that's they're whipping that into shape to start in the fall. And so I suggested to her, I said, let's talk. Um, because although this isn't really my lane, um, it would be great if DSU could do some sort of a collaboration with them, since I know we're not getting ready to have an AI anything at this moment, uh, kind of deal, but it would be kind of cool if we could connect and some of our students could take some of their classes or something, or at least be aware uh that these are uh uh resources.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely. So let's actually backpedal a little bit because the week prior, we also had a very busy week for those of us here at the station uh midway point. So, Jay, if you're just tuning in now, you're listening to Planet AV, you're on uh in the mixed radio with Professor Marine, myself, Dr. David Tolly, and Ray the reporter. Um, so the week prior, um, thanks to not only uh Miss Alicia Parker, uh Dr. Lori Crawford and everyone, we got the chance to go see the Wiz at the National Theater in DC. Yay and that was a that was a fun experience that uh we all got to go see. Uh Doc, was this the first time you were able to see the whiz or is this your was this your first time seeing this company uh perform it?
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, it's the first time I've seen this traveling uh Broadway company do it. But we actually did the whiz here at DSU. Really? Yeah. Quite a few years ago. So what was your favorite part of the production that we saw the other day? Um that's a great question. I think the two ladies, um, you would know. I mentioned that too. Um they were awesome voices, incredible voices. And uh, I mean, they just filled the house when they sang.
SPEAKER_02You mean the ones who played uh Glinda and uh Evelyn? There you go. Right there. See?
SPEAKER_05There were some powerhouse voices. They say paint off the walls.
SPEAKER_04But the costumes are really good. Costumes were great. The choreography was really inventive, like how they did uh Yellow Brick Road. As the drum majors, yes! That was that was great. I love I love that's what I love about music theater. It's telling a story. Right. Boys love stories. But think about it, they're using all the arts to tell the stories. Yes, I love the music.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I know the other thing that you and our Miss D E S U Radio, Karen Malty, was really loving because where our seats were, some would consider them the nosebleeds, but it was really good for us because we could look down. We could look down straight into the music pit. And I know y'all were talking back and forth about that, where you're able to see their kind of orchestral arrangements for that. But the funny thing is, where Nathan, myself, and uh Zire Woods, aka Flag Eye Zy were sitting, we were able actually to peek onto the adjacent here, and we could see the person kind of running some of like the lights and the slideshow elements of it. And we're all like, that's actually really cool. But it's luckily we know that because if you're not paying attention, you wouldn't have seen it. Miss Marine, what was one of your favorite parts of the production?
SPEAKER_05I'm not quite sure I had a favorite part. Well, I um and let me let me back that up. One of my favorites was when I realized that the dancers were the yellow brick roads. Yeah. That was uh because I was sitting over there kind of by myself.
SPEAKER_01I felt like I was like, oh, everybody else was over there.
SPEAKER_05There I was. And so I really had all I could do was focus, right? And have it. You had Radio Station fam Jamie, Jane Comer over there with you, though. They weren't talking to me though. Well, they were into you know, into their own little world of because they were dancing along with it and directing and everything and and so forth. And I think the young lady who was sitting next to me didn't know me at all, kind of deal. I wasn't mad, you know. I'm just sitting there.
SPEAKER_01How could she not know you? Like you're famous, right? Aren't you famous? How would she not know you?
SPEAKER_05I doubt that. No, what do you mean?
SPEAKER_01Are you our famous?
SPEAKER_05Well, anyway, so when I figured out that the dancers were, I said, oh my god, they're the yellow brick road. Because I was a little disappointed. I was like, so I'm thinking, you know, when you're going to a production, right? And you have your fit in your mind a set of how they're gonna do it, how are they gonna depict the yellow brick road? Because when I saw on the stage, it wasn't painted or anything like that. And then when I you know I was looking at their costumes and they came out a couple times, and I said, Oh my god, they're the yellow brick road. So I think that was really my fave. I also liked the um the way they depicted the the uh tornado. I was just I was just gonna say the dancers for the tornado, oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02That was the second best dance sequence in the show. The best one to me was when you enter Oz and the multiple like musical genres they did before we meet the wizard. I'm like, I really like everything they did there.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, it was highly creative. I did have one little little critique, and it I wasn't sure. I I wasn't sure that it was just because I didn't know what did what I was looking at or hearing, but the the audio was a little bit when the those really, really strong singers were hitting those high notes, it kind of like hurt my ears a little bit. And I thought to myself, I didn't know what they could have done differently, but uh that was that was the one thing that I I sort of like would have dinged him on.
SPEAKER_04That ha you know that happens a lot with traveling shows because the engineer a lot of times he does a great job, but he doesn't really know the theater. Sometimes he might crank it a little bit more than what the the house should really be at. But uh I still thought they did a great job.
SPEAKER_02Not to mention the fact that with a lot of singers who tend to belt out, your voice will hit a certain frequency, which for some people is fine, but for certain people who are sensitive to certain noises, it will kind of be jarring and things like that. It's something that Dr. Tolly tries to make sure with like mixing and mastering, which he talks about. It's something you want to be very, very technical on so that way the whole sound is as complete as you can have it.
SPEAKER_05Well, I guess that sort of takes us back to old school stagecraft though. Um, because back in the day when I was learning uh theater and so forth, I had a uh a New York trained um act a woman who had been a New York trained actress as my drama teacher in high school. And Polly Bruhl did not play. She was like, we didn't do microphones and all of that. You had to be able to project your voice to the back of the theater so that no matter who it was, they could really hear you. You had to enunciate and all of that. And of course, now we've incorporated modern day technology because you know sometimes people's voices are um n not of a uh what is it, what's the range when I'm talking about the not very not like very boisterous.
SPEAKER_02Some people are softer, very softer and speak, and you have to teach 'em diaphragm. Yeah. Project out and they need to hear you three buildings over.
SPEAKER_05Right. So now we have technology to assist with that. So I guess now that we've got to deal with that mix, it is something different.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Speaking of being in the mix, it is about that time of the show where we do everyone's favorite segment. What's in your headphones? AKA Playlist of the Week. So starting off, we want to give a shout out to the captain of the ship for both in the mix radio and the R Report magazine, Mr. Patrick Gloucester. Patrick. And also a quick shout out to a quick shout out to Commissioner Smack, the Indie Plug. Because without her, the show would not be named. Alright, so the way this works is we ask all our guests who come on what's in their headphones, whether it be musical, regular music, lo-fi, or even documentaries. We wouldn't know what's playing. So, Dr. Tolly, what's in your headphones right now? Nothing.
SPEAKER_05You know what?
SPEAKER_04We're in a headphones. You realize that? Yeah, you're in my headphones. But you know, you'd be amazed. I do music so much that when I travel long distance, I love silence. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_03Because actually it's that silence.
SPEAKER_04Mozart said that was the best part of music between the notes.
SPEAKER_05So when you do listen, what do you like to listen to? When you're trying to relax or you're trying to get inspired, what what's what is that?
SPEAKER_04Um most recently, it's really hard to nail me down because I like any jazz, I love classical, uh, I love hip hop.
SPEAKER_05No, what are you listening to?
SPEAKER_04Who have you listened to recently that you kind of like specific as far as Zimmer go? Yeah. Orchestral scores.
SPEAKER_05I don't know Hans Zimmer. Tell us something about him.
SPEAKER_04You wouldn't know Hansimmer. Tell us. Okay, he's done a ton of scores. I mean, and um, you know, Gladiator, driving Mistazi. Driving Mistazi is what put him on the map. Really? Yeah, because it it and um uh basically he's from Germany and uh he's incredibly gifted. I mean, he wasn't like a schooled musician that had degrees and all this stuff, but he has grade ear. And he had a certain kind of sound. And he has um a certain you know, he was introducing tech tech along with traditional orchestral stuff. And um you know, a lot of the directors and producers really in LA really caught onto that. And boy, he's done a ton of films.
SPEAKER_05Nice. Did you ever have a chance to meet him by any chance?
SPEAKER_04I didn't meet him, I met a lot of the people that worked with him.
SPEAKER_01I'm pretty sure he did like the the tenant soundtrack. Oh, yeah, I think he didn't. Yeah, he didn't. I love the soundtrack for that film. Yeah, I I did mention about like the silence thing. That's it reminds me, one of my favorite uh Frank Ocean songs off of Blonde, the final song, um Future Free. One of the best moments of it, like in between two like the verses, there's just silence. It's like four minutes of complete silence. That's like one of the best parts of the whole album, actually. But yeah, speaking of which, uh I've been listening to a lot of older Frank Ocean, of course, because uh I've been planning to do like a little like a documentary series on Blonde itself and like the history of it and like how what the what the songs that mean. Besides that, though, of course, I've listened to a lot of the Spider-Verse soundtrack because there's been like new stuff information about uh beyond the Spider-Verse came out. So I want you to listen up on it. I like not not a lot of people get give credit to the soundtrack, though. Those phones have like incredible soundtracks, they do, especially like the first one. The first one's like the most like like late 2010s, like it has juice for all that. Like it's like like late 2010 soundtrack ever. I think it's like it's perfect for the period of time it came out in.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm so just so you know, as a group, we're taking a trip when it drops next year, next summer. We're gonna go see that. Yeah, everybody has to see that. If you're a human being, you have to see that. So it's it's a movie called Beyond the Spider-Verse. Uh-huh. It is the third one in the Miles Morales Spider-Man trilogy that Sony's been putting out for the last couple of years. Right. It is a staple of animation, so you would really enjoy it.
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's animated. Yes, okay.
SPEAKER_02They did a lot of work there where on top of the regular CGI models, uh-huh, they made it where it looks like direct comic panels because of the animation techniques it did. Well, I could talk crazy.
SPEAKER_01Actually, I I feel I feel like that's not just like a staple of animation. I feel like it's kind of like a staple of like Gen Z culture. Like if you want to understand Gen Z, I kind of think you need to watch those films. I wouldn't say I wouldn't say that. I actually, it's kind of like uh it's kind of like like Back in the Future for like um Boomers. It's like Back in the Future was in the 90s, where it's like I mean A's, but it's like where this film's such a like a cultural staple. Like if you want to understand a generation, you have to watch that. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02You know what? You saying it that way, I will give you that. I will definitely give it to you that way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I feel like every generation kind of had though, you have like a staple film, or like that film defines the whole generation. That's just me.
SPEAKER_05That's just me like to agree with that. But in any case, um, one of the things I do like is that um Ray, you're a little bit of a sleeper. Um, in that you, you know, you're sitting here, you too, we're talking, and you had to wake up a little bit and all of that, and then suddenly we're talking about the music, and you totally evolved. You just I live I loved a lot of music. You came out um and the way you expressed it as well. So there's definitely some deep thinking up in there. Bless you, cut and rape.
SPEAKER_01I hope there is. I hope there is. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_05Well, I mean, I'm not surprised. I mean, I've been around you now for a good year, pretty much, but still, it's always it's always a pleasant thing when uh when people that you know when you get to see another side of them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I thought that it's like pleasant just to like you know let it out, you know. It's like not like that, but you know, did the like to express those things. Absolutely. Absolutely. What have you been listening to though?
SPEAKER_05Well, I tell you what, this morning, for example, um I I was listening to Ray Charles. Oh, yeah. And so uh the whole uh whoa! Ray Charles fantastic! Right, right, right. And so um the nighttime is the right time. And I will tell you the reason that that I went there is that um, you know, I guess we've all been talking about family and so forth, and I got to reminiscing the other day about sitting in my grandmother's kitchen. That's sitting when my dad would cook, I'd be in the kitchen with him, and I'd be he was teaching me to be his little prep cook. Uh what do you call him? Uh chef. And so I was the onion peeler and chopper and all of that good stuff. And then with my grandmother, who was his mom, I would sit in the kitchen with her, uh, endless hours, uh, and we would chit-chat while she was cooking. And uh, but my grandmother would also, she played cards too. And so they get to slamming cards, playing whist, and uh the Ray Charles Oh, at least wasn't spades. That would be, well, no, they didn't do spades. Uh that that wasn't until way later, uh kind of deal. But um uh Ray Charles would be on invariably, and that would be one of the big time jams. And so it just uh it made me gravitate toward that this week. And indeed, on my way to campus today.
SPEAKER_02Gotcha.
SPEAKER_05And oh, by the way, I did find the card for uh our my good friend, my new good friend, uh at Widener University. Her name is Mary Allen, and she's the executive director of communications at Widener, so I'm gonna be checking out Mary. Hey girl, how is all of you?
SPEAKER_02We definitely have to tap in with her later.
SPEAKER_05Yep, yep. So Kamari.
SPEAKER_02Before I get to my playlist, I do want to actually give a compliment to Ray because the other night, um, for one of our people for Third Eye View, Paige went on and did the showcase with the K-pop dance group here, DSU known as Red Cap. Nice, nice. So when we finished up, we wanted to take her out to dinner as well as uh Jonah Clark, who officially just got torn in as part of the drum line for the approaching storm. Oh nice! Shout out to them. Yeah, Napoleon Dynamite, shout out to the thing to get him there. So when we went out, Ray brought somebody with him, and I we were all like, Who did you read with him? He's like, Oh, that's my brother. And when I say his brother, you're going to love him, because we're gonna have an episode with him on, he just he lit up with the conversation because I'm actually just talking to him, just you know, hey, new person, I gotta be the adult in the room. Let's see how this goes. Uh-huh. And the way he was talking about what he's passionate about, but also the way he was talking up his brother. I'm like, no, this dude is perfect. Oh, yeah. They did the even over the weekend, uh, he and well, Brad, why don't you talk about what Chuck did real quick?
SPEAKER_01All right, I didn't know I was gonna talk about it because you know. So, shout out uh Victor, Big Vic, you know my brother, you know.
SPEAKER_06Um Big Vic, all right now.
SPEAKER_01Hey, hey, off the top of them, you know. But yeah, uh, me and him actually went to like a car show for with one of our favorite um automotive uh journalists. He was um he was there as well. Um and we record some content. We took the mics out, you know, I borrowed the mics for Kamari, shout out Kamari, the goat. Um, we took the mics out, you know, we record some content. And while a lot of it kind of got lost, like corruption, stuff like that, you know, um didn't go out perfectly. But the stuff we did get was actually really good. I actually had him do do a couple like um hosting bits, have him do like little interviews and stuff. Nice. He was great at it. He was like, you know, he was like, he was ready for the job essentially. It felt like he was like he was born for it, you know? Okay, yeah, and so that kind of showed me like, hey, this guy could actually do a lot of great, you know, nice interviewing stuff, you know, actually a lot of mass com stuff. I think it would be great around here. And yeah, we've been talking about him doing a podcast as well, with me and him doing a podcast with like uh RCR, which is like our like the our like he's my like um I think I say men's not saying mentor, like he's like my influence. He's like he got me into like journalism. Like Mr. Regler, yeah. He's like he's up in uh PA, he does like uh auto reviews and stuff. Nice. I talked to him personally about getting him on a pod. He'd he really chill about it. He's like driving down here and stuff. Uh-huh. Like he's really enthusiastic about it. I'm really like you know, really excited about that. You know, getting a podcast with the man that you know starred my whole career. You know, I was like, if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even be here, you know? Oh wow, that's yeah.
SPEAKER_05That's nice, fam.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, that was a good weekend.
SPEAKER_05That was super duper.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so I know we're almost over time, so I'm gonna be quick with my list. Uh, playlist wide, I've been listening to Jordan Lucas because he recently dropped the deluxe album of his ADHD 2 project. Uh that was really good. But one of the things I have been listening to on repeat is Arlum Rogerio, Matt Ruggerio, who recently put out his Burn the Bookmark EP. Nice. Um, I'm actually trying to see if he can come on and do a proper interview for Planet Ava because he's one of my friends I've had growing up, where I shout him out all the time along with like Eli J, Kenny Avenue, Vintage, just because they're my friends, and my job as a radio personality, I'm gonna put you out in the ether. I'm gonna make sure you get put on so that way when we have time, hey, they can come through and give us the same love. Right. But with that said, we are currently all out of time for this episode. We do want to give a shout out to our guy in the chair, Mr. Nathan, going aka T Talks Melody. He has a sounding nice and all right today on this very, very warm AP. Because Nathan's getting ready to walk. Yeah, Nathan's about the graduate. Yep. But we are all out of time, but this has always been a great conversation. Yep, yep. But as always, tags. Where can people find you? Where can people tap in with you?
SPEAKER_04They can probably find me in my office or the studio, uh DSU. And uh I'm there a lot. So I was there until three in the morning last night. So basically in the EH.
SPEAKER_05I I also just quickly want to give a little bit more of an acknowledgement of our good friend and colleague and mentor and all of that, Dr. David Taley. He is um a Grammy nominee, he's a long a composer of note worldwide. So we're sitting here in the presence of greatness. I know he's he's he's pretty much a modest fellow, but uh David Taley is is on point. So just wanted to say that.
SPEAKER_01He's the doc for a reason. Yep, yep. Right? Uh like usual, I can find me at Ray underscore Ray underscore dreams on Instagram, posting card content and stuff like that. But recently you can find me actually at a uh Ray Camaro on Substack posting some articles on there, some little pieces and stuff, you know, for little like digestible reading, you know, a little short stuff. But yeah. That and didn't one of your articles get published for the R report that's of course, yeah, yeah. Check me out on the R report for uh I think in May it's coming out, yeah, around here. I actually just got sent the article itself. Looks great, turned out great. Nice love it the uh the interview I did, the wonderful lady. She uh this whole thing. I don't I don't want to spoil it. Just read the article, read the article, okay? There we go. Look out for the R report in your local books and alien.
SPEAKER_02All right. You can find me at GamerGod514 at Instagram. I'll be updating all my stuff later on to match my total package branding. You can follow my production page at Total Package Entertainment on Instagram and Facebook. For Professor Parine, you can find her at Ava 0821 on Instagram, Plana Ava on Facebook, Reckless Abandoned Productions on Instagram. All stuff will be updated later to be Reckless Abandoned across the board. We're also working on a LinkedIn page for her so that way y'all can tap in and see what we're working on for that. Um, but with that said, once again, thank you to Nathan Going, our guy in the chair. Thank you, Dr. Tolly. Thank you, Ray. Thank you, Mr. Ring, for having us on. As always. And thanks everyone just for hanging out with us today.
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