"This is your time. Their time -- is done. It's over."

-Herb Brooks, Coach, 1980 Gold-Medal Winning Hockey Team

"...But it'll probably be their time again next week, just to be clear."

-Producer Marc

We've spent a lot of time on the podcast with the sports folks, but now it's time to turn our attention to the theater. And what better time to do that than right now, as we anticipate the debut of South Christian's version of Seussical, showing from March 5-7 in our fantastic Auditorium! (You can purchase your tickets here.)

Because the writer of the show notes is also the Auditorium Manager and has a full plate this week getting ready for the show, we're going to keep the notes short this week. So suffice it to say that in this episode we have - for the first time ever on the podcast - mystery guests, not just a mystery guest. Curt Copeland tells a story about going to the theater for a broadway show with his wife, only to try to leave at intermission because he thought the show was done (My favorite detail: his claim that he got "spruced up" for his trip to the theater by "putting on a shirt"), while VK displays a sort of surprising level of knowledge about and affection for Les Miserables. Also there's some inside baseball between Joel and mystery guest 7.5 about Premiere League soccer, leading many to wonder why we aren't just talking about Baseball. This is America, after all.

Don't forget to send in your comments to rtbo@schs.org for your chance to get some sweet sponsor swag or perhaps one of those signed 8x10 glossy promo photos of the hosts, which we're sure are soon to be the most in-demand podcast glossy promo photos ever produced by a largely unknown high school podcast!

RTBO HIGHLY PAID, DEEPLY SKILLED & COMPLETELY PROFESSIONAL CREW

Hosts: Curt Copeland & Joel VandeKoppel

Honorary Executive Producer & Show Founder: Mark Van Stee

Strikingly Handsome Executive Editor, Managing Producer, SFX Coordinator, Staff Writer, Music Director & Host of Award-Winning Producer Notes Segment: Marc Vander Maas

Executive Producer, Official Show Disciplinarian, and Crisis Communications Manager for When The Show Gets Too Embarrassing for the School: Aaron Meckes

Instagram Coordinator and Director of the RTBO Institute for the Advancement of Poultry Science and Technology: Dr. Gabby Miller (M.S. in Sauce Integration & Chicken Strip Dynamics, Baylor University)

Director, RTBO Foundation: Sandy Dobbs

Stylist, Fashion Coordinator, Swag Manager, and Guy Who Gets Blamed For The Coupon Codes Even Though It’s Not Really His Fault: Taylor Johnson

Art Director and Image Coordination: Morgan Ball

Official Hunting Guide, Inspiration for the novella A River Runs Through It (probably), and Bringer of Juice: Bruce Huttenga

Bald but Still Respected: David Kool

Washington Correspondent: Teresa VanderSchaff

Finance Director Frantically Trying to Cover the Immense Cost of All The Coupon Codes: Maelia Post

GET TO DA CHOPPA: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Official Totally Awesome Mid-80s BMX Bike-based Sports Drama: Rad

Director of Transportation and Facilities Manager: “Big Hands” Mike Wolthuis

Seriously, have you seen this dude? He’s really tall: Todd Schrotenboer

Drama Coordinator: Reba Ezell

Drama Supplier, Professional Elephant: Malachi VandeStreek

You know it’s another action packed episode of Roll The Balls Out, Right? Like, you’re coming to expect this on a weekly basis at this point? Is this thing on?

Yes. Yes it is.

This week’s mystery guest is a member of the species Homo sapiens, breathes air, has athletic links, and I think we can all agree without knowing a single thing more about him or her that given the opportunity they would turn VK into a real-life version of that old “Best Volleyball Blocks Ever with Scott Sterling” sketch (love that man) that everyone should enjoy on YouTube at some point in their life.

Wait, you haven’t seen the Scott Sterling thing? Really? Seriously, go to YouTube and search for it. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.

[Patiently waits; Chuckles at “WELCOME TO THE HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT BETWEEN SCOTT STERLING’S FACE, AND EVERYTHING ELSE!”]

Oh good, you’re back.

In keeping with our well established podcast tradition we have Stee Stories, the weekly segment in which we honor the memory of Mark Van Stee (our beloved late colleague and the originator of our show title); we also welcome back RTBO Instagram Coordinator and Resident Chicken Finger Quality Analyst at the RTBO Institute for the Advancement of Poultry Science and Technology Dr. Gabby Miller (who sports a Master of Science in Sauce Integration & Chicken Strip Dynamics from Baylor University) to comment on the massive Raising Cane’s scandal currently engulfing the show (we have to note that VandeKopple's lumping together of Cane's and Wendy's is basically indefensible); and Producer Marc really brings the juice with his super smooth upgraded version of the Producer Notes segment in which he reveals RTBO’s plans for continued podcast domination of the North African coastal region.

[HASHTAG SCOTT STERLING]

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RTBO HIGHLY PAID, DEEPLY SKILLED & COMPLETELY PROFESSIONAL CREW

Hosts: Curt Copeland & Joel VandeKopple

Honorary Executive Producer & Show Founder: Mark Van Stee

Strikingly Handsome Executive Editor, Managing Producer, SFX Coordinator, Staff Writer, Script Supervisor, Music Director & Host of Award-Winning Producer Notes Segment: Marc Vander Maas

Executive Producer, Official Show Disciplinarian, and Crisis Communications Manager for When The Show Gets Too Embarrassing for the School: Aaron Meckes

Instagram Coordinator and Director of the RTBO Institute for the Advancement of Poultry Science and Technology: Dr. Gabby Miller (M.S. in Sauce Integration & Chicken Strip Dynamics, Baylor University)

Director, RTBO Foundation: Sandy Dobbs

Stylist, Fashion Coordinator, Swag Manager, and Guy Who Gets Blamed For The Coupon Codes Even Though It’s Not Really His Fault: Taylor Johnson

Art Director and Image Coordination: Morgan Ball

Official Hunting Guide, Guy We’d Trust To Protect Us From The Predator, and Bringer of Juice: Bruce Huttenga

Bald but Still Respected: David Kool

Washington Correspondent: Teresa VanderSchaff

Finance Director Frantically Trying to Cover the Immense Cost of All The Coupon Codes: Maelia Post

GET TO DA CHOPPA: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Official Totally Awesome Mid-80s BMX Bike-based Sports Drama: Rad

Director of Transportation and Facilities Manager: “Big Hands” Mike Wolthuis

Tallest Man in Gaines Township, Michigan: Todd Schrotenboer

It's another heart-pounding episode of Roll The Balls Out, this time brought to you by Todd's Tapes, a great local business that apparently has a website but VandeKopple fails to mention what that website is during his "excellent" ad read, so we'll mention it here: toddstapes.com.

ANYHOO, other stuff happens on this episode beside an ad that doesn't tell you how to contact the vendor. There's the standard previous show highlights, an SC Food Service shoutout (yum), and our latest mystery guest - this time, a former SC student and soccer player who currently attends Calvin University. (This of course leads to more shade thrown at Hope by the incredibly erudite, insightful and handsome Calvin grads who graciously allow former Hope student Copeland to be on the show.) As usual, the conversation kind of goes off the rails - although, speaking of rails, our guest reveals that given their choice, their Winter Olympic sport would be luge, or maybe ski jumping, which are both awesome. The guest also gives what may go down in history as the single worst shout-out ever attempted, one so bad that it required Producer Marc to step in and make what may go down in history as the smoothest, most seamless cover-up edit ever attempted.

In other news, VK has decided to pick a fight with Producer Marc, and he's going to learn a hard lesson about getting on the bad side of the person who 1) controls the sound effects and 2) writes the episode descriptions.