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maybe, you know, racing around the country and chasing competitive, you know, all these different things, but just something that can just kind of give somebody an entryway to an activity and kind of create this love of what we all love, right? and uh and we're excited that literally just kind of now going you know completed 26 years of this as an organization and and for that aspect to be going strong and we little ones all the way down to age five um and they can be up up into uh uh the the end of middle school years and um this is something that's super endearing and it's just an example of what's right If you've ever had a chance to go to a WGAZ event and see the Academy Youth Guard or any of the other youth guards in that kind of that division, if you will, where you've got little ones involved, like it's their first time stepping out on that big, scary floor and with an audience.

And we're so excited to be that kind of first experience for a lot of younger ones, because we talk about this with the drum corps side of things, whether it's Lucas Oil Stadium and, you know, thousands, thousands of people, or it's You know, once again, these youngsters stepping onto a maybe a high school camp, you know, into a gymnasium and being able to perform the feeling of, you know, stepping into that arena, if you will, onto the performance stage.

It's such a special thing.

And to be a part of that kind of those firsts that that's a really, really something that's very near and dear to us for sure.

So, and then by the end of the summer, you, you end up in Indianapolis and that's where you have your final, your final performances.

Yeah, whatever that second full weekend, second week in August, which is a little bit later this next year, it'll be going into that 12th, 13th, 14th dates in August this year.

But yeah, we make our way to Indianapolis ultimately at Lucas Oil Stadium.

And we always talk about those red letters, right? Just knowing that that's our finish line and the goal and what we strive for.

So it's really centrally located.

Second, you know, it has that beautiful location itself with the convention center right next to St. John's Church, that beautiful Gothic church, and then also right connected to Lucas Oil Stadium.

And it just made for such a retreat-like experience, the whole kind of group there together.

And, you know, they got a lot of hotels.

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One of the things I was so struck by in 2024, you mentioned the silence.

And I've had the strange privilege of actually sitting in Lucas Oil Stadium a number of times in my life in total silence.

And it's kind of bizarre that a football stadium for me is also a bit of a sanctuary.

And I did notice that stage.

It was kind of on the mainstream for getting down here to the Lucas Oil Stadium.

There was quite a gathering for... that entertainment.

Do you think that's going to become more popular? We're going to get some more of those stages around? Maybe, you know, I mean, I

And I did notice that stage.

It was kind of on the mainstream for getting down here to the Lucas Oil Stadium.

There was quite a gathering for that entertainment.

Do you think that's going to become more popular? Are we going to get some more of those stages around?

More serious assault and weapon charges against Brown were dropped.

Brown was supposed to be here in Indianapolis with Usher in a concert at Lucas Oil Stadium this weekend, but it is now canceled.

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And so they took this coach bus down to Indianapolis for the Nationals.

You know, there were 71,000 high school students in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium for this FFA event, this national conference that they were having.

It was a really big deal.

The entire city was shut down.

On the other side, look, Matt Stafford passed for 222 yards, two scores, but it wasn't enough for There's a lot of sloppy play and penalties and things that are, I think, dogging the Rams, and that really was on display in that.

The Titans knocked off the Colts 26-20 out at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The Steelers, a big one.

For the Steelers, 26-19 and Aaron Rodgers.