RT Thorp
Kevin Stoker 0:00
Welcome to Inside. JMS, a podcast featuring the faculty and staff of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism Media Studies. I'm Kevin Stoker, and I'm here with my co host, Dr Dave Nourse,
Dave Nourse 0:12
Kevin, it's a pleasure to be next to you. Thanks.
Kevin Stoker 0:14
Thanks. Well, we have a great guest today. We have Ryan Thorpe, or as we know him, RT. And RT is kind of our production specialist, studio guy. I mean, I think we have him doing a little bit of everything throughout. He's a little bit of a media engineer. He oversees camera checkout. RT. When did you kind of first get inspired to go into video production, broadcasting.
RT Thorp 0:44
Well. So this is a story that I've I've told many times, but for me, it started in 2007 I took some time off. I started as a music major here in the percussion studio 2005 and then by 2007 I was kind of, you know, deciding that wasn't really for me, you know. So I just took some time off and didn't really know what I was going to do. Honestly, I wasn't sure if I was going to come back to college at all and then, but, you know, I was, you know, listening to the radio at the times 2007 I still do actively listen to the radio, but that's another story. But I was listening to the radio, and the station that I listened to is local rock station, and a host who was on he would have contests like all afternoon drive people and or hosts, and his thing is he would invite the winners in sometimes to come check out the studio and hang out with him. I won two of these, so the first one, I got to go check it out. Thought it was really cool. Second time, he actually remembered me, and he threw me a microphone. So, like, I stayed way longer than I expected to, and got to be on on the air for the first time ever. And afterwards, I was just like, that was really cool. How do I do this forever? Like I want to do that forever? That was awesome. And then a little bit of research, I figured out that it was going to school for broadcasting. So where, where's the best place to go for that? Here in Las Vegas, and that was here in our in our school. So I got back into school later in 2008 I was inspired by my former wife to get back into school, because she was That was when she was about to transfer over to UNLV and yeah, so I came, came back and got started doing everything over here. Started mostly with my gen ed classes, just to kind of get those out of the way. And then really focused on the production classes and broadcasting classes, journalism classes, really, probably by about 2010 so that was all over here in Greenspun Hall
Kevin Stoker 2:50
Yeah. So tell me a little more about the percussionist stuff. When did you start playing drums?
RT Thorp 2:58
Started playing when I was nine. So I'm going on 30 years next year. So that's, that's, that's pretty cool. Yeah, my so, 1996 there was a movie that came out. It was the directorial debut of a Mr. Tom Hanks. It was a movie called that thing you do, yeah? Great band called The called the wonders, or the O needers, as they're known at the beginning, because it's one durs o n e ders, but the O needers doesn't works like Nourse, just got to be the wonders. But the main character that they're following, they're following the entire band, but the main character they're following is the drummer. And my mom and I went to go see that in 96 and I, you know, I loved that movie, and I was like, I want to be like shades. I want to be, I want to be like shades Patterson, that was the drummer's name. And my mom saw that. I was, like, really into it. And before then, I was already kind of picking up pins and chopsticks and, like, you know, tapping on things. So there was already something kind of there. And then, like, seeing a drummer, and it's like, yeah, that's, that's what I want to do. So not too long after that, my mom got me into drum lessons.
Kevin Stoker 4:07
That's exciting, yeah? So tell me about your drum drumming adventure.
RT Thorp 4:12
Yeah, man, that was a, that's that that feels like a whole another life ago, yeah, for me, like I was, you know, I was, I was lucky enough to like play, play around a lot when I was 16, like I was, I was playing in bars when I was 16 from time to time, not a lot, but I was and just didn't say anything, and I wasn't drinking or anything. So I would just come in play the show, and then I'd leave right afterwards. But then, you know, starting bands. I was in bands with, like, in high school and everything. So that was always, always really fun. And I was in high school drum line, high school band and everything, and, yeah, so that was, that was, you know, all of that time. And then after, after a couple years, after college started. Started my own band, which was called a sinners confession for a long time, and we were playing shows practically non stop for the first several years. And then after a while, it just kind of fizzled out. You know, life caught up to us. I had graduated from from here with my degree, I was starting to work professionally and broadcasting, and it wasn't, you know, so much into drumming as much anymore, still into it, still love it, still have a great love for it, but just didn't have the, didn't have the time for it, you know, and I found, found a career doing something else
Kevin Stoker 5:31
When do you play now? Do you kind of have a the, does it kind of serve more of a kind of calming influence, or what is what?
RT Thorp 5:42
Yeah, you know, yeah, just playing whenever I can. Just, you know, I was, you know, my drums aren't fully set up at all times, but when I, when I do have them, it's nice to be able to go sit down and just just play, you know, just, just own the throne the way I used to,
Kevin Stoker 5:57
Yeah, yeah.
Dave Nourse 5:59
RT you have a you've got a great story. Because you started at UNLV. You weren't necessarily a JMS student. You kind of took some time to figure it out. You found your home at JMS. I met you when you were the president of our radio station, back when it was known as the rebel. Yes, you know, you were essentially the second president of, kind of this iteration of KUNV HD2, and you know, I know that you said you still listen to the radio. You think about kind of where you were then, where you are now. You're back at UNLV. Tell us a little bit about your professional journey. You leave UNLV, you go to work for some of the television stations in town. You end up coming back. Tell us about what that experience was like. What did you do and then kind of, how did that lead you back here?
RT Thorp 6:45
So after I graduated, I was pretty lucky to almost step right into channel eight, KLAS, the local CBS affiliate here, over there, I was actually the same position that I have here production specialist, but over there, it was a little bit different. It was, you know, running cameras during the live productions, running teleprompter that might be, you know, doing audio things like that, all the way up to like, you know, directing and tding, like, kind of, kind of all those things. So I was doing that, but I was really just mostly running cameras, doing audio prompter and all that stuff. After a few months, they needed somebody to step up and be an editor. So I threw my my hat in the ring, and they, they immediately promoted me, and I was up to, you know, full time pretty much right away. So that was, that was pretty great, because I started off, you know, part time, which was kind of difficult, you know, 26 at the time. So, you know, having only a part time job after I just graduated college was, like I said, difficult. Fortunately, I didn't have my kids yet. They were still a long way off, but, well, maybe not that long off, but still, you know, I was able to find, you know, find a career and get started, get my get, you know, my foot in the door, and, yeah, when they needed, you know, somebody to do more work, I, you know, put my hat out there, and they taught me how to be an editor for them. I'd already had plenty of editing experience here, going to school and everything. But this is on a different program. It's a program called edious, which is a, you know, just a completely different editing software. So, yeah, I got to know edious, and I was, you know, editing their news. And yeah, and I was, I did that for just about four years. And it was, it was great. It had its, had its times. You know, we had a lot of major breaking news that was happening at the time. You know, throughout, throughout my time, excuse me. And then, you know, by 2017 I wasn't really a big fan of the culture there anymore. And that's a big thing that, you know, we definitely talk about nowadays with, you know, when we're, when you're getting hired or hiring, you know, having, having a good, you know, work culture. And I didn't really feel like we had that over it over at channel eight, I don't really, couldn't really pinpoint as to why I felt that way. It just didn't feel that way. And plus, I had also gotten, you know, I was also maybe a little bit jaded at the time, because I'd also gotten passed up for a few few promotions that I felt I should have been able to get, especially one in particular where the manager told me he's like, I'm not gonna bring you in. We're gonna bring back the person who left because they don't like the job that they left for, and we are going to pretend like they never left, and like I was literally like, what, what, like, what. So yeah, and I got a call on my in 2016 I had gotten a call on my honeymoon, asking me to come into work that day I was in Hawaii, so it was like some management issues that I was really, really having some issues with. So yeah, so by early 2017 I decided, you know this, this place wasn't really for me. So I left on Inauguration Day 27 17. So yeah, if you remember Inauguration Day 2017 I decided I didn't want to work there in news anymore. But yeah, so from then on, I, you know, I didn't really know what to do. I had, you know, we were kind of going off the savings for it a little bit. And there was a a job fair here on campus for alumni and current students and everything. So I just thought, Well, hey, I'm alumni. I'll go check out the job fair. So went, checked out the job fair, found a few prospects, not really in broadcasting or anything like that. And then I was leaving, I was like, Hey, let me go say hi to people. Say hi to my old friend that said hi to Dave. I said hi to the Frank, or former general manager of KU NV, and just kind of telling them what was going on. And I went to go talk to Jennifer ream, the executive producer with UNLV TV. And she said was like, Hey, if you're in between things, I have some budget. I can, I can pay you a little bit. So I was like, that'd be, that'd be wonderful. So I got, got in kind of part time. And then after a few weeks by, and that was in March by, by April, she said, You know what, I'm gonna find it in the budget to pay you full time. I was like, great. Love that. That's awesome. And that was about soon after, or not too long later, is when I met you, Kevin and you, you saw my worth, and eventually you were able to bump me up into a real contract that gave me some more, some more permanence, and some, you know, benefits, very, very helpful, because right at that time, that was when I had my son, Geo, so yeah, We definitely needed, definitely needed the needed that stuff. So that's, that's how I, how I kind of ended up here. Just showed, showed my worth, and and continued, you know, be a part of everything that we do here, and be there for the students as much as possible. And, and that's, that's how I, that's how we ended up here, is you saw, you saw what I was doing for all the students here. And so you're the one who gave me that, that real contract, that actually gave me a job here.
Kevin Stoker 12:06
Well, I, you know, what stands out to me, that I remember most about RT is when we got Fox five donated their set to us. You know, we didn't have any anybody, we didn't have an engineer. I didn't know what we were doing, what we're doing that's right, and so we get it all hauled over here, yeah, and who's gonna set it up? Well, RT took it on himself to set that up. I came in here at night, I think even on weekend, I think I saw you working on that set.
RT Thorp 12:36
Yeah it was, it was a hell of a puzzle.
Kevin Stoker 12:39
Well, that's what sold me. You were willing to go the extra mile to get that set set up, and now we have that great set.
RT Thorp 12:46
Yea. So that was Yeah, donated at the tail end of 2019 from from Fox 5. So I was began working here in 2017 and then my, my ex wife, had gotten pregnant with our with our daughter, Ava. So by 2019 it was like, Hey, I kind of need a second job, second kid, right? So then I got my job, working over at Fox five as a director. They call it a technical producer, but that's just that their technical name for it, but it's a show director. So yeah, I was a TP over there, and was was doing everything. And then they, they were saying, like, Hey, we're gonna be getting rid of the set. This is the plan. So I raised, raised my hand in a production meeting. I said, What are we doing with the old set? And they were like, We don't know yet. We're probably just gonna demolish it. Was like, well, UNLV has one of your old sets. Could we maybe have this one too? And that's, that's how that whole thing got started, because I was working there, and I just happened to be in the meeting when they were like, Hey, we're going to be getting rid of it. It's like, curious here. Yeah, yeah. I just, kind of, I just raised my hand because, like I said, we, we had had their previous set that they had gotten rid of, for that set that they were about to get rid of. And then I was like, Well, hey, let's move let's break that one down. That one's much older. This one's a bit more modernized. So let's do that. And the production crew over at Fox five, we were responsible for taking the entire thing apart and, well, they weren't responsible for putting it back together. So that's why it all got left on me right time. By the time, it was a time to build the thing.
Kevin Stoker 14:19
Well, I really appreciate all your work on that.
Dave Nourse 14:21
I was curious as I'm thinking about your time as a musician, and then your time working in live production. And you still work in live production, obviously, but you kind of exercise the same skill set with both. I mean, one, you know, one you're performing, obviously, but in a live environment. And the other one, it's like you're responsible for making sure the production not only looks good, but is executed as technically flawless as possible. And you've got this great tattoo, but you've had a philosophy even before that "Don't freak out. Figure it out." Does that come from being a musician? Does that come from being in live production? Is a little bit of both?
RT Thorp 15:01
It's a little bit of both. So it really comes from, mostly from live production, because that's my that's my number one rule of live production is, don't freak out, figure it out, because my number two rule is something that I'm not actually going to say, but it has something to do with number two and, but, yeah, don't freak out, figure it out. That's my philosophy, and it's something that I use for basically, kind of anything, like when I was, you know, when I'm having trouble with any things like, Hey, don't freak out. Just figure out what's the next best move to make. And, yeah, it was originally related to to live production and everything, because there you literally don't have time to freak out. You have to figure it out if you're live and in the moment, there's no other thing that you can do other than figure out what you're going to do. You know, that doesn't mean it's everything solved. That means you just know what your contingency plan is, right? So that's, that's really kind of what it comes from, and, and, yeah, like, I have a big philosophy also that drummers make pretty good directors and broadcast professionals. And I say that because I'm a drummer. I've been playing drums for damn near 30 years, and we've actually, I've met so many people in the broadcast world working here in Las Vegas, a lot of them happen to be drummers in some sort of way. So it's just, like, very, very coincidental. I kind of really wish I could do, like, an academic study on this, because it's like, maybe there's something there. But we had a student a few semesters ago who who left being a blue man in the Blue Man Group to pursue this and and it was awesome, because he came to me, he was non traditional, a little bit older, and he's like, his name is Kirk, and he asked, hey. RT, like, I really want to learn directing. And TD, ing, really well. Like, take me under your wing. And I'm like, that's, that's really awesome. All right, cool, blue man. All right, let's do this, man. So I showed him everything that I possibly could, and he took to it really, really well, which just went more to my philosophy, hey, drummers are pretty good at this. Because Blue men, blue men, they're it's all about playing drums. So yeah, and, and how you said it's like using those same skill sets across the board is very, very, you know very, very much what I'm doing as a, as you know, a director, because there's so many different things that I have to look at. And drumming is all about multi discipline, or, excuse me, multi limb disciplines. And like, being able to, like, manage all of that stuff while listening to the singer, while listening to the guitar player, while listening to the bass player, mostly the bass player, that's the same thing for me. I gotta, as a director, I gotta be sure that my TD, my technical director is hitting the is making those cuts for me. Make sure the audio is sounding good, and make sure graphics are going up and they're spelled properly, all of these things. So yeah, they just, like, I said, at least to my philosophy that drummers are pretty good at broadcasting. So yeah, and yeah. And, you know, just don't freak out. Figure it out. Because, like, like, you know, it's like a performance. If you're up on stage in the middle of a performance and you know, something goes wrong. Hey, you can't really freak out. You're in front of however many people up on stage. So yeah, don't forget,
Kevin Stoker 18:11
Dave, maybe you and I, when we do our recruiting, need to go to the band and start recruiting drummers. I
Dave Nourse 18:17
think that is, I think that is a very, very wise strategy, my friend, our team, you teach a bunch of classes for us. You teach journalism 325, video production and journalism two, studio G, which is 424, and you started teaching a brand new class for us this semester, sports and entertainment production, which I think is journalism 321, 321, so you teach a lot. You've obviously worked with a lot of students over your time being here, I have two questions for you. One is, did you ever see yourself as a teacher? Because you certainly are one now. And number two, what is kind of your teaching philosophy? What can somebody expect if they walk into your classroom?
RT Thorp 19:01
So, weirdly enough, I have always kind of thought of myself as a teacher, because when I was a music major, I was actually on the music education track, so that was kind of always, always the plan. But looking back, like I have a I have a really good friend from high school who he's a high school band director in somewhere outside of Salt Lake City, just one of the one of the suburb towns, and he, he does a great job. I love everything that that Daniel does, and everything that, like I see him posting on on Facebook all the time, and Instagram so like, he's he's doing great work. But I just think, in hindsight, had I gone through with that, man, I just be miserable, like I really would have been. So, yeah, so that's, you know, that's, that's, you know, why I'm really that I'm glad at what I'm doing, but I had always wanted to be a teacher, so that that spark was always kind of there for me. I. So, yeah, so I definitely see myself as a teacher now, because this is all I all I've been doing. And like, I view myself as I did I counted in in Canvas a few weeks ago. I believe this is including summer semesters that I've taught. This is the 19th semester that I've that I've been teaching. So that's like, wow, that's, that's, that's a lot. But, like, my philosophy is, is bring, bringing in the real world, like I have years and years and years of real world experience, broadcasting, making, video content of all sorts, editing, doing all sorts of different things. So that's what I bring to the classes as much as I as much as I possibly can and no, I don't know everything, right? There are so many other experts out there. So, like, we utilize, you know, good, solid videos from like, you know, people tutorial videos from people who have, like, really gone through a lot of different scenarios and things like that. Because, you know, like I said, I don't know everything, but I know a lot you know, enough to enough to make our our students, you know, feel very, very comfortable with what they're doing. But, yeah, utilizing other external sources to help show Hey, this is how you could possibly do this, or you could possibly do it this way, or you could possibly do it this way. So, yeah, so I like bringing in the real world, because not everybody's going to do something the same way, right? So that's why I say in class, everybody has, you know, everybody has their own flavor. So you might edit this video this way, and you might use this B roll to help tell the story, or you might use this sound bite to help tell the story. That doesn't mean your story is wrong and your story is right, it's just different ways of telling the story. So that's that's something that I that I definitely bring to them, especially with journalism 325, and studio G, also studio G, they're doing a Live, a live production on on Thursdays. And we, it's a small but mighty group of eight students, but they're they're doing some really good, high quality content, so I'm really, really impressed. And they're doing it live. They're doing an actual live production that it's going to YouTube. So we're not able to broadcast it to an actual transmitter site to actually be, you know, on TV, TV, but you can get YouTube on your TV, and you could still watch our newscast. So it's like the same thing. So yeah, they're, they're doing a Live, a live newscast. And it's very, very impressive that these students are able to do this. You know, after five weeks of just kind of training, getting ready, Week Six is when we go live. And then it's week to week to week to week for the next nine ish weeks, because there's always Thanksgiving, right? So that that that keeps us from being able to do a Thursday show, but, yeah, but they're able to to to produce their their stories. They're able to find stories, produce them, and execute a live newscast weekly, which is very, very impressive. And people don't get that like that is, that is like at other institutions, they don't get that so being as real world as possible, and letting them know it's like, if you were doing this professionally, you might, you know, do this show, and then, okay, then there's another five o'clock show a little bit later, and maybe, maybe a seven o'clock show all before, you know, reporters and anything goes home, but the directors and the production crew, you know, they're just going from show to show to show to show, and that's the reality of it. So that's, that's definitely what I what I try to bring, bring to the table is all as much real world experiences as I possibly can.
Kevin Stoker 23:32
In the last few years, you've added a new wrinkle. You went you've entered graduate school.
RT Thorp 23:38
I have, I have, so, yeah, so I, yeah, I'm in my third semester, so second year of grad school right now, it's, you know, tough keeping up with, with everything, just, not just that, but like with all the responsibilities that we have here. It's, it's tough, but, you know, it's, it's a great challenge to have, you know, and, yeah, studying, yeah, going, going to grad school here for Journalism, Media Studies. So back right here, back in my program, which I know you guys love having alumni come, come through the program, but it's kind of like what I was actually just talking about with studio G, like my main, my main thesis is talking about how broadcast is dying. So many times you hear people say, broadcast is dying. People don't watch TV anymore. People don't do that. People don't watch broadcast TV. It's like, Yeah, but that's the way that you're viewing it, right? Broadcast isn't dying. It's evolving. Right? Like I just said with studio G we don't, we don't broadcast to an actual TV channel, right? But we do broadcast it. It's streaming. Yes, it's a live stream. I'm not going to not call it that, but that live stream is being broadcast to YouTube, which you can download youtube, or, you know, any sort of other apps. Ours is particularly YouTube. You can download that and boom, now you can watch our newscast on your TV, just like you would be watching any other newscast through a broadcast station. Not only that, it has a further net, right? We have students that are from Washington, we have students that are from California, students that are from all over the country. They can share the link, and now their family is still watching the show in real time. So the broadcast net is generally considered only within a local viewing area or local listening area when it comes into radio. But I think broadcast is truly evolving in a way that it's a much broader net, a much broader cast, as I jokingly call this the broadest cast, really, because, I mean, you can, you can have people watching in other countries, potentially, right? So that means your broadcast has a much, much wider net, much, much more. Brad, so yeah,
Dave Nourse 25:56
our team, we've heard a lot about kind of your professional journey. Heard a little bit about your philosophy in the classroom and your experience as a grad student. Tell us about your kids. What do you like to do when you're
RT Thorp 26:08
not at work? Well, when, when I'm with my kids, you know, I don't, don't get a lot, don't get a lot of time with them, unfortunately. But when I'm with them, man, they, they have my all, like, they get 1,000% of me where my son is having a little bit of trouble with his math. He's in, he's in third grade right now. My daughter's in first Geo and Ava. And so he's having a little bit of trouble with his math. So whenever I'm talking with him on the phone, like I'm, you know, running him through some multiplication tables. He's on the he's on the fours right now, and he's getting pretty good. And so when, when they're with me this weekend, I'm going to work on some some some math with him, work on some reading with my daughter. But other than that, we like to go to the park. We go to the indoor play places. And now it's like, it's nice enough outside that we can go hang out outside for a while. We have a dog, Cleo, who, you know, we take, we take to the, take to the park. So we just, we just hang out. And I've, kind of, I've kind of resigned myself to realizing that spending time with my kids doesn't have to be expensive, right? It's, you know, let's, let's, you know, make some sandwiches together and go to the park, you know, let's, let's go walk the dog. Let's, let's go hiking up at Mount Charleston, right? So, you know, rather than spending a bunch of money to, I mean, they don't, they don't care, you know, they don't care it's, it's the time, it's the time together that they, that they cherish the most, because they're, they're eight and six, like they don't. They don't care if it's, you know, super, super expensive, super fancy. Like, they they just want to do things together. So yeah, so we do, we do as much. I think we're going to try to go hiking this weekend. We wanted to go last weekend, but we just couldn't make it. So we try to go this weekend.
Kevin Stoker 27:57
Well, typically, at the end of these podcasts, RT, we asked the question. What didn't we ask You that we should have asked you?
RT Thorp 28:07
Well, you asked me a little bit about 321 but I didn't really get into it, because that's the new class. Have a lot of cool things on the on the horizon for journalism, 321 that's the live sports, live sports live sports and entertainment production class, brand new class, 13 students are in it, which we were shocked. There was like, Hey, we got 13 in this brand new experiment class, like it is, it is, for all intents and purposes, an experiment. They are really excited. We've had some great guest speakers. We had Trayvon Barnes, who is he a professional drone pilot, and he was cool enough to actually do short little fly through with us, to show us like, how he does a production, a drone production, small scale drone production. And we've also had Todd Fisher in, who's his mother is, oh, what's her name? Oh, Debbie Reynolds, that's right, yeah, his mother was Debbie Reynolds, and his sister was Carrie Fisher, who you may know as Princess Leia. So yeah, he was a great, a great resource to have come in because he knows so much about movie history, and he has his own production company that does all sorts of different productions when we were at so he had come in, and he was actually lucky. We were lucky enough to have him invite us to his home, where he has a museum with all of his mothers and his sisters memorabilia and all kinds of different old school cameras. We got to actually hand crank Charlie Chaplin's old hand crank camera, like Charlie Chaplin's camera. It was awesome. And, yeah, I got to see Princess Leah's, her on screen Phaser, like her, like and her scripts from from the movies and everything it was. It was amazing. But we also got to see his his production facility. Which he has built into a diesel truck that he can take anywhere over the country. And he was showing us some of the things that he's done. And this one was a little bit dated, but he's doing some some remastering work on a concert that he did live streams to IMAX theaters for and it was a concert musician named her. She did a big concert sometime in the pandemic at, I think it was SoFi stadium and, or maybe not, but some somewhere, somewhere in LA and he did the broadcast from that concert to ImEx theaters around the country, so that people can still be a part of of her music, and be a part of the concert, and just all be, you know, kind of together during the during the pandemic. So like, he has this amazing facility. We got to see his production switcher and all of his all of the everything that he has. So that was just an awesome resource. So yeah, in that class, like, I'm bringing in, you know, professionals of all kinds, but we're also doing, right? It's not just analyzing, but we're also doing I say that because I just learned more about Bloom's Taxonomy last week in one of my grad classes. Sounds like a grad student, but yeah. So not just analyzing, but also doing and experimenting. We're this. We're actually taking over the entirety of a production for a UNLV volleyball game, and the students are super excited about it. I'm really excited about it. We did this kind of as an experiment a couple of years ago where we took over the production of a lady rebels basketball game, and that wasn't for a class or anything. But now that I have this class and I have my crew of 13, we're doing it again, baby. So yeah, so we're going to be going the day before, during our class time, to actually be hands on with all the equipment. Then the next day, Thursday, we're going to be doing that game for us versus the Lobos, the New Mexico Lobos. And it's going to be, it's going to be a great time, because it's a true broadcast. And when I say that, it's like, yes, it's live streaming on the on the Mountain West network. So anybody who's watching the Mountain West network October 16 can watch that game, but it's also being broadcast on the Silver State sports entertainment network. The s, s s e n rolls right off the tongue, but yeah, so, so it'll actually be on TV. So that's, that's our local Fox affiliate, 5.2 for for digital TV. And yeah, it's actually being, it's an actual broadcast as well as the live stream broadcast as well. So really, really excited to be doing this. And then, you know, more guest speakers. We have somebody from VgK, somebody from UFC, coming, a entrepreneur who started his own company, who recently graduated from our from our program, and we're also going to be working with a a an acting class, where the actors are going to be doing their their scenes, and the students are going to be capturing their scenes From the different angles and and doing a live, live switch, live cut, as if they're, you know, doing, or as if you're watching a play right on TV or something like that. So that's kind of the goal with that. But it's, it's all about, you know, being able to do all the things and and see, see how, how these things are done, right? And and just the way that, just the way, the same way that we do it here, with our, you know, our multiple cameras, and with our with our microphones here, and everything that's, it's scalability, right? There's small scale productions and there's larger scale productions, and that's one of the big things that I'm talking about in that class, is because this is a relatively small scale, we have three cameras, right? But still relatively small scale. Or you can have four cameras at a at the Cox pavilion, which is a much larger, much larger venue, much different place, and that's what it's going to be for the for the volleyball game. So yeah, and yeah. So that that class has a lot of really cool things on the horizon. We're also working with percussion studio, so I'm back working with those guys and percussion with this class, because they have a lot of live streaming that they do, and they just don't really have the know how. They know how to play the instruments. They don't know how to stream it. Well, I know how to do both, so I'm working with them.
Kevin Stoker 34:13
There you go. Yeah, well. RT, thanks for spending time with us. Man, this fascinating.
Dave Nourse 34:19
This is great. RT, thank you so much.
