Speaker 1: 0:00

This episode sponsored by KidBiz and the Biz. To learn more, visit kidbizusacom and Kathy L Wall State Farm Agency. Learn more at kathylwallcom. And Stuart Arango Oral Surgery. Learn more at saoralsurgencecom. ["skotsman"]. Welcome to the Bubble Lounge. I'm Martha Jackson, and joining me today are the Highland Park Scotsmen, just in time for the first playoff game. You've seen them on the field. You've probably noticed their pants. You've seen them carrying the flags down the field. You've seen their funny skits at the pep rallies, but you will never believe how grueling their job really is, from the extremely intense tryout process to the time commitment these boys put in each week to make the pep rallies happen. And I am so excited to introduce you to this team of boys because nothing is out there. They've never done an interview, they've never shared the behind the scenes and what it takes to be a Scotsman. Thank you all so much for being here today. Let's go around the table and introduce yourself.

Speaker 3: 1:00

Thank you, Hi. My name is Davis Cosman.

Speaker 2: 1:04

I'm Billy Shearer.

Speaker 4: 1:05

I'm AC Hickman. Thanks for having us. I'm.

Speaker 5: 1:08

Lee Schleyhuber.

Speaker 1: 1:09

Well, the way that I really got to know you guys this year was at the very first game of the season and we did a quick video of you simply just introducing yourselves. But I mean, it has gone viral. It has over 175,000 views, tons of saves, tons of shares. Why do you guys think this has been so popular?

Speaker 3: 1:28

Yeah, that's a yeah. I've watched that video. My mom sent it to me and she's like wow, it's like blowing up. I really don't know. I think it was like I said, like we're all seniors.

Speaker 1: 1:39

I don't know why I said that it just kind of stuck. People did think that was funny for some reason.

Speaker 2: 1:45

Yeah, I want to say like a week after, I had both my bosses DM it to me on Instagram, which was really weird, and they said Billy, question mark, exclamation point. And they also sent me a screenshot of something that was in the comments, one of them saying why does it look like y'all's mom stressed you, which was hilarious. I mean good shirt, but yeah, I got no clue why it blew up. I mean, I was a little confused but I was like 175k views.

Speaker 4: 2:09

To be honest, I think it was the pants. I think it was the pants Me too. That's my theory.

Speaker 5: 2:13

Yeah, I think a lot of people don't even know what we are, so people probably just watch it and we're confused with the whole outfit.

Speaker 1: 2:20

Yeah well, there was some pretty funny comments, like you said. So tying in with what you just said is there's not a lot of information about the Scotsman out there. I was trying to look and just get a little bit of background in history and see how you guys started and when you started, and I can't find anything. So basically, we're having the first ever exclusive behind the scenes interview with the Scotsman. They're going to tell us what it's all about, so tell us how did it start?

Speaker 5: 2:46

Yeah, so I guess Scotsman is kind of like a hidden tradition. I think it started you can correct me if I'm wrong it was sort of like a male cheerleader thing at the very start and then it kind of morphed into running pepper alleys, running the flags and kind of like a fun gig, rather than on the cheerleader aspect of it.

Speaker 2: 3:07

Yeah, I have a friend whose older sister went to Highland Park in the early 2010s and she said that's about whenever it started. Could be wrong on that, but I want to say Scotsman started around 2013, 2012. Yeah, it's not too long of a tradition, but it's definitely a heavy one. I mean, if you're at Highland Park, if you're a high schooler, if you're like the moment you get into freshman year, you know all the Scotsman. I mean, I'll be out and about and I see someone wearing the Scotsman shirt and I don't know. It's still kind of a little surreal. I think it's funny. But yeah, it's a long tradition and the fact that it's a big one at HP, but it hasn't been around for a long time.

Speaker 1: 3:48

I've seen a dad out there I don't know his name he's a football dad and a lacrosse dad and I see him wear the pants sometimes and I'm just dying to ask him if he was a Scotsman or how did he get a hold of these pants?

Speaker 5: 3:58

I mean I'm sure he was. I've had people stop me Because on Fridays we get to go off campus for lunch every day but we're wearing our Scotsman stuff and occasionally have the guy nudge me and say he was a former Scotsman back in the day.

Speaker 1: 4:09

Oh, that's fun.

Speaker 5: 4:10

So they're around.

Speaker 2: 4:11

You get a couple of weird looks from me wearing those pants out there, I'll go to. Chipotle, which is a little I mean it's on Greenville or whatever and I have people just give me a thousand yard stare from. Oh it's a little embarrassing wearing those out. But I mean, if you're in the HP, yeah, people know what you're wearing.

Speaker 1: 4:26

Yeah, if you know, you know right. Yeah, exactly. Well, so I want to know what exactly does it take to be a Scotsman? What happened during the tryout process?

Speaker 3: 4:35

Yeah, I mean it's like a really long process. That's why we were talking about this earlier. When we go kind of out of HP and we're at these restaurants and Lee hinted at it. I think why that video blew up is no one really knows what a Scotsman is and so, like those pants are just crazy and it's like it's a long story to explain because you're not really just like a male cheerleader, you're like a spirit leader, like you lead the pep rallies, and so I mean the trial process is crazy. It was, I mean I bet everyone else can talk about it. We were so nervous because half of it is like a big interview with, like the admin, the board of HP and all these people. And then the second part is just like you make a video and the whole school, so 2,200 students watch it and vote on you.

Speaker 1: 5:18

So it's not in person, Like the bells try out in front of a big group of people live. It's not like us.

Speaker 4: 5:23

It was One of the part is so that's a teacher interview, and so, basically, you walk into a room there's like 20 administrators spread out and you stand up at the front, you have to read something and test your speaking skills and then they just ask you a bunch of questions by yourself.

Speaker 1: 5:38

It almost sounds like you're on trial.

Speaker 4: 5:40

It kind of is You're standing there and they're all sitting down and you're sitting there like kind of don't know what to do and you're not prepared for the questions whatsoever.

Speaker 5: 5:47

So it's just kind of like on the spot, whatever you think of you've got to say yeah, it's almost like they're trying to get you to be nervous, because I remember me and AC it was after baseball and we walked over and I didn't really know what to do. So you walk in and you give like one of the Scotsman pepper alley speeches and I'm talking like 30 teachers and they ask you questions randomly throughout the room. So you're kind of like looking around and their questions like one of them was like what's a character trait a teacher would describe you as? And give me a time where you've exemplified that trait, and I was like I don't know.

Speaker 5: 6:18

I hope like smart, I guess, but no, it's crazy. It's definitely a nerve wracking time, yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:25

And so, like for a month, I want to say, yeah, you get about a month to film a two minute video and that's what the student body sees and then that's how they vote for you. So obviously you want to be funny and you put your heart in that video and I got pepper sprayed for mine. It was really stupid. It's committing, but yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:43

I was off campus that day. If you want to talk about nerve wracking, you get text from your friends Because all the Scotsmen they go into a room together, all the people who were running, and you watch the videos together. And then in first period every other class watches the videos and so you're texting your friends like did anyone laugh at my video? And you get a couple of nos here and there and you're like, oh great, like sweet, I'm not going to get voted, but yeah. And then I want to say it's that Friday at like 4 PM and then, like at 3 50, my heart was just pounding for like the next 10 minutes, I mean. But it's a nerve wracking experience, that trial process.

Speaker 1: 7:15

It sounds like it. Well, you mentioned that you got pepper sprayed, and I guess that was your way of standing out amongst the crowd. What did the rest of you guys do to set yourself apart?

Speaker 5: 7:24

Well, you want to go around here and dance Sure. I think we all have some good ones.

Speaker 3: 7:27

Yeah, so I can start. Yeah, billy, his video was great. He got pepper sprayed. My sister's a sophomore and so she was watching. She was telling me she thought that was really funny my video. I jumped in like a lake. There was like dogs in it and I forget the rest of the stuff, like I ate a bunch of food in it. It was really random. It wasn't like pepper spray because I don't think I could go to that lane, but it was kind of someone just you know a little kind of procrastinated a little, so it was kind of last minute. I put something along that.

Speaker 4: 8:00

I don't know if you know what Super Smash Bros is, but basically in my video I picked up for my friends and we had like a kind of like it was a choose your character kind of thing, and Then we went and we fought Jesuit.

Speaker 5: 8:11

So yeah, so my video is kind of similar to that. So my whole, my whole video is like oh no that. You know the bagpipe kid has been kidnapped by Jesuit kids and I got to go save them and the person that told me it was like when this lunchletting named moon Rhea. I don't, you know, everyone loves her, and she was the one that told me. So then I went on this whole like expedition to go find the bagpipe kid and I, you know, I had two of my friends dressed up in suits as Jesuit guys and tried to make them seem as as unmasculine as possible and just try to make jokes about that, and it was successful. So, yeah, that was my video.

Speaker 1: 8:47

Well, I would love to see these videos sometime.

Speaker 1: 8:50

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Speaker 3: 12:07

You're sorry. Yeah, okay, you go for it.

Speaker 5: 12:09

I mean I think it's, it's super cool, you know, like I know it goes back to when I was like a freshman in software, like Billy said, like you know to the guys looked up to on the baseball team, will Carlisle, luke, vendig or Scotsman, I thought it was like the coolest thing in the world. And you know, it's just kind of cool to be a Scotsman now. You know, with the flag running and you know running the pepper allies and stuff, it's kind of cool to you know to run the whole thing and you know speak on the mic and kind of serve as like a, like a symbol of the school and the school spirit. So for me it's definitely just, you know, having that leadership position.

Speaker 4: 12:40

Yeah, for me. It's for me it's the pepper allies, because like I was never really like a good public speaker, so it's kind of like, why did Scotsman? Because it's kind of like a challenge for me. And so now I've noticed like I'm so much more comfortable like speaking in front of crowds, so I mean that's my favorite thing now. It's made me a better public speaker.

Speaker 2: 12:56

I kind of like being rushed. Like you have a pep rally every Friday, essentially, and then you have it like your Thursday game or you have your off week, your bi-week, whatever. But you have that one week and I'd say you got to get that skit in by Tuesday for that Friday and it has to be good. If it's a dud You're gonna know and you're gonna get embarrassed in front of the entire student body. So you got like three days to come up with a good skit. And then obviously Saturday, sunday You're way too lazy to do that. So that Monday you got a grind and I mean it kind of reminds me like the, I mean the creation of like a South Park episode. You get one week to do it and like that's how they make their episodes. That's how Scotsman is essentially. We have like less than a week to create Amazing skit every single week, a lot of pressure, but that's kind of what I like. Yeah, I like that aspect of Scotsman.

Speaker 3: 13:42

Yeah, wow, I mean. So when I was in soccer freshman year, there was this Goalie Clay, so he was a senior and he was a Scotsman and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever. And this kid would pick on me every single day because he thought I was just kind of like, he thought I was, you know, maybe because I told him I like dude, scotsman's so cool and he's like you may have what it takes, and so he'd make fun of me a lot. And I just remember like the first pep rally and we all talked about this is we woke up, we slept over, we can get into that more, but we like do this tradition where we sleep over the night before one of our houses.

Speaker 3: 14:14

So we woke up like 6 30, got breakfast, did the pep rally, went through school, then had a game and like we didn't get home till 12 30. And it was crazy. And by the end of the day we were back in the gym. So it started there and ended there. It was just crazy how long the day was and it was just. It's so thrilling just to go from thing to thing with Scotsman and pep rally to the game. It's just awesome.

Speaker 5: 14:37

Another thing I will mention I want Billy said is yeah, it's definitely people kind of overlook. You know it is sort of hard work, you know you have to plan a skit and you have to, you know, get into the games and fill up the water jugs, Like I guess that's not really hard, like an hour, hour and a half before, but like yeah, you got to create.

Speaker 5: 14:53

You know people expect you to be kind of like Saturday night live. You know you got to. You got to create these really funny skits and games. And it's just kind of challenging sometimes to you know, please, all grades and all you know, different groups of people. But I feel like we've done a pretty good job, I hope, yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:07

I mean, sometimes you walk in a second period of class and everyone's like giving you a thousand yards there, like I said earlier, and it's really annoying. Or like you'll see people in the halls and like one of your buddies sees you and he's like, oh, that's the guy who made that terrible skit this morning. Like oh my gosh, we had this one skit that was just a total dud and it was hard.

Speaker 5: 15:26

It was, it was.

Speaker 2: 15:28

It was hard to walk the halls with my head up and like, wear that scotsman shirt.

Speaker 5: 15:32

Like I wanted to put a hoodie on. It was like we just lost the Super Bowl. Yeah, I think I think on to that.

Speaker 4: 15:38

I mean, I feel like every pep rally it's like you don't hear about anyone else that performs. It's like if we didn't do good, they're like oh, that was either good or that was super bad.

Speaker 3: 15:46

And you don't? You don't hear people go like oh, the bells weren't that good? No, the scots were so bad, so I remember that as skin, I mean I'll take ownership. It's kind of like my idea. We just last minute threw it together and I remember we just looked up and no one's laughing at us and you can't hide in school. You're wearing like flat pants.

Speaker 5: 16:06

Talk about the good skits.

Speaker 1: 16:11

Well, you know, so much of what you're talking about is the pep rally, and I mean you really do carry it and you make or break it, like you're saying, um, but my daughter, who graduated just this past May, was saying this morning, when I was talking around the phone about you guys. She says, well, a lot of what they used to do in the preparation isn't allowed anymore and they've had to kind of change their format a bit. Can you fill us in more about that?

Speaker 4: 16:32

So basically the old format is that give you an open mic on um, just like you'd go out there and you just talk. You like joke about people.

Speaker 1: 16:39

Oh, that sounds dangerous.

Speaker 4: 16:41

At some points they even very dangerous At some points that even make people, like some girls, like start to cry. Yeah. So but now the format has changed to where we have to write a whole script for it. We turn that in, they approve it, then we record ourselves talking and then, um, they play that on the speakers in the gym. So basically all we're doing on the gym is we're walking around like acting, like we're talking and doing stuff for the skit.

Speaker 2: 17:03

Yeah, and then, uh, a lot of people that come up to us in the halls and like, why didn't you do a skit this Friday? Cause that's like the big thing, we've had one so far and we could have one this Friday. And that's like we make a script, we record the audios. Those are our best, uh, those are our best performances out there and they're like why didn't you do a skit? And you know, it's just, we're like limited to how many skits we get per year.

Speaker 2: 17:25

And the game, uh, the game aspect, that's like what our pepper always usually have been, as we do like a game and it's kind of hard to like craft that into something that's going to be as funny as a skit. But going back to like 2020, I think that was the last year every single pepper alley they had a skit. So if you go ask someone, um, who graduated that year, they're going to say, yeah, the Scotsman were like hilarious, because, but I can't sit here and imagine having to make a skit every single week, cause just making a skit for this Friday is taking us what, like half a month, maybe a little bit longer, and it is like it's hard. And even just making those games is hard. But like I mean looking at it, I'm kind of grateful that we don't have a skit every single Friday, or else I wouldn't be passing my classes.

Speaker 1: 18:08

It's a lot of, it's a big time dedication.

Speaker 5: 18:10

Yeah, it's a long process for sure and like you know, like making the skit, I'm sure it's kind of morphed into like a much harder process Cause you know before I get you could definitely get away with a lot of other stuff, cause you know the point in the skit is you want to. You know there's jokes, you know within your grade, you know people you know make funny tick talks or you know or do something funny and you kind of joke about it and you know everyone knows. But like, definitely, like when you like, and especially this year and last year, like they like you got to send it to the AP and they review the whole thing and like you gotta kind of get it to where it's not going to hurt anybody's feelings or anything. You gotta kind of hide the jokes within the skit. You gotta disguise it.

Speaker 1: 18:48

Well, we've talked a lot about the pep rallies. Obviously, you put a lot of time and dedication into that, a lot of creativity. But I see you guys in the field every single week and wow, that is such a physical job that you guys are doing. I don't think everyone quite appreciates it so much. And the cheerleaders, when they were on the show they were talking about how they tried to do it, how hard it was to run carrying that heavy flag and like keep the pace and everything. So do you guys do any other sports? Obviously, track would probably be a benefit.

Speaker 2: 19:15

Yeah, so I mean I play a sport or I do as well. I wouldn't say you play powerlifting, but yeah, so I'm in powerlifting, which isn't really an athletic sport, remember, it comes to running. But I'm also training for a career path which, like, requires the ability to run. So I've been running about five miles every single day and there's been a big debate of who's the most athletic Scotsman and I got put in the last. I was pretty upset about that. So this last game I've kicked it into high gear dead, dead, sprint 100 yards just to put that guy who was in last to show remain unnamed about 10 yards back, and it worked amazingly. So I mean, there are some of us who shine in other sports, but after you trip twice on the field it's a little hard to say that you have been another sport.

Speaker 3: 20:06

Oh, yeah, so the Scotsman. There's five of us, there's four here.

Speaker 1: 20:10

We're missing one, we're missing one.

Speaker 4: 20:12

That's the one.

Speaker 3: 20:13

Billy's talking about. But yeah, so the sport I play is I play lacrosse and I used to play soccer and it definitely helps, just like both those like running sports and it's kind of nice. You know, I'm a Unlike the guy who tripped, I'm not super gassed after I'm able to do if we score back to back. There was, oh my, y'all probably remember this the first thing we ever did as Gossman was the Buddy Bowl, which is where the it's like the special needs kids get together with the football or Bell's partner and they play football. There's a touchdown every single play. So we're running like to 100 or 50 each.

Speaker 5: 20:48

Yeah, y'all remember that that was, that was, that was. Oh, I remember that we were gassed. That was rough. Yeah, there is a, there is a touchdown every play. And we started we were going to the 100. And we were like I, you know we're gonna have to we got to the 50.

Speaker 4: 21:00

We started going about 20 yard length. I mean, it's just touchdown, touchdown touchdown and we're just drenched.

Speaker 5: 21:05

But I play baseball as well as AC. You know I like to consider myself an athlete, so hopefully, hopefully, running the flag isn't too too hard on me, but I would say, definitely playing sports. In Scotsman it's hard to kind of manage the time, but for me at least, you know, my sports takes over my Scotsman priorities. You know I still want to do both, but I I really. You know I've been playing baseball my whole life, so that's kind of my my thing.

Speaker 4: 21:32

Yeah, sometimes they both conflict also, like we have to. Sometimes we take off practice early cause we have to get on the bus for the away games and so our coach is like, doesn't make him too happy that we have to leave. But I mean we're just like hey, I mean we got have to.

Speaker 2: 21:44

And I think something that's kind of looked over is I mean, it's, you're only doing a dead sprint. What 200 yards? If we're going 100, 100. Like in that Marcus game we had about 50, 50 something. So we were running like I think like seven times, something like that. It was ridiculous. And then that next day I had like a heavy squat session. And after that, after that Friday of doing dead sprints, 200 yards seven times in less than like two hours, your legs are dead the next day and I mean that's not something that people even think about, cause you're just running the flag, but now those sprints they get to you. So yeah, you definitely got to be athletic.

Speaker 5: 22:17

I for sure get sore sometimes when they often has a field day. I have to run a lot, so gosh yeah.

Speaker 1: 22:23

Well, something we like to do on the podcast is we love to hear funny stories and it's all of. You have a really good sense of humor and you're out on the field all the time. I'm sure that you've seen funny things and experienced funny things. But I want to start with this one. I heard that you all lost the sign.

Speaker 2: 22:41

Oh, and the SMU game. You all is crazy. It was a joke.

Speaker 1: 22:47

There's got to be a really good story behind that, because how can you lose a gigantic sign that the football team bust through?

Speaker 5: 22:55

That's a great question.

Speaker 1: 22:56

I don't know either.

Speaker 5: 22:57

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 22:58

Originally so bad.

Speaker 4: 23:00

Originally we actually thought, someone stole it.

Speaker 5: 23:03

Someone stole the run out flag.

Speaker 4: 23:05

We brought it back to the school and we were like, nope, someone stole it down, our fault. And then all of a sudden, smu calls and they're like, oh, we have it. So the one that's not here, charlie Thomson, he goes over to go get it and he finds half of it.

Speaker 1: 23:17

Oh no.

Speaker 4: 23:18

So we're like, huh, how about to?

Speaker 3: 23:19

do this, yeah, so basically after that big Jesuit game at SMU, we grab all the flags. I guess I swear none of us remember I guess we left it there. But we had to walk almost like half a mile around the stadium and back and then up and down because we couldn't find our bus.

Speaker 3: 23:35

And once we finally got on our bus we go to we have this cheer closet in the gym. We put everything up, we locked the door, so we're like, ok, everything's in there. And then the next game. When we can't find it, we're like, ok, then there's no way we lost it. And then Miss Barnes, the cheer director, calls us and says it's at SMU. So we send like he said, we send Chuck over and we get a text on a group chat and it says boys, good news, bad news, I found half of the flag.

Speaker 5: 24:03

Sounds like bad news to me.

Speaker 3: 24:04

That's just bad news, chuck, but yeah, we still don't know where it is to this day.

Speaker 5: 24:10

I think we're going to repay it somehow or figure that out, because it's definitely our fault. On the funny story mark, I kind of have one, so we do sleepovers every Thursday and they're pretty fun. So we were at Billy's house. Actually we always have a meal and his mom actually made spaghetti bolognese and he was insane. I just had to mention that. But he has this huge slingshot and this was. I mean we probably should have been in bed by now. It was probably 12, 30.

Speaker 5: 24:38

I mean we have to be up at 6.30. But we were like all right, leaga, or I guess it was me I went out there and they were shooting slingshot foam footballs and it doesn't seem like it hurts, but that thing goes fast. We were just launching them at each other. I don't think y'all hit me. So then we rotated and finally Chuck goes out there. Oh my gosh, and I mean Billy, he's a strong kid. He just pulls back, boom and just hits him right in the thigh. He wasn't hurt when we were all on the ground crying, laughing that slingshot is from Grant Kipp.

Speaker 2: 25:10

He was a Scottishman back in the day. He gave it to me and he gave it to me and he was like, yeah, you can use these for t-shirts. Just go out there, sling your t-shirts to the crowd. They love it. And we're like, oh, ok, we'll just give them the front row. And I see on it it says can you reach 95 miles per hour? And I was like no, I can't.

Speaker 1: 25:25

And then?

Speaker 2: 25:25

we launched one at Chuck and so we bring it to a game and we do the first shirt and we launched it. It's like the very top band section. Oh my gosh, it was crazy it was hilarious. Yeah no, the slingshot's a lot of fun, but yeah, no, that night, oh my gosh, my neighbors were mad actually because we were making so much noise hitting that fence what else?

Speaker 1: 25:47

I'm sure there's more.

Speaker 5: 25:49

Scratch and tradition I just thought of. This is kinda unknown but they used to be something the legend of the scotsman van and they used to take it to games and all that stuff and I think it went through like four years of scotsman. But there's a visit, the famous van. They take it everywhere but I don't know where the van went. I think you know if there had some repairs on it but smu, with the, with the? Yeah, I don't know, but the vans gone, but that was like a pretty cool tradition.

Speaker 4: 26:15

So uh, this, this was not a good one. So we take off uh, that's me game and we're turning right in front of the judge with student section and they're doing without their doing. Us really try to like mess with them and kind of talk to a little bit we will be. Didn't realize until we got back to the sideline. Was, uh, they're doing?

Speaker 5: 26:33

uh, one of us fell right in front of the student sex right that is the worst possible place you could have fallen smack dab in the middle of right and they are.

Speaker 3: 26:42

They were crazy, my yes, so lee and I, uh, we're leading, so it was a big game and we just had a huge touch down. Like I think I'd like put us up for some of those like a big or like that. I would put us up by two, like was I seen the game? And so we're running by the student section return and so it's a pocket. So just like we're doing like the what happened kind of like we're throwing our hands up and looking at the student section and lee and I, just we look at each other.

Speaker 3: 27:05

Could you start getting booed like crazy is like all jesuit and urselin, just like these three thousand kids are just doing us and we get back.

Speaker 5: 27:14

We figured out what I was fell on stumbles one of them stumbling behind and we're like no. Coach paul was the first to welcome us back oh my gosh yeah well, what we all do.

Speaker 1: 27:28

Once football season ends, what's next?

Speaker 4: 27:30

that's a great question in the spring we have two more pepper allies. I mean like that, right now it's every friday, so it's like bang, bang, bang, gotta get stuff done. But uh, I mean will go to some basketball games. Actually, an email that they want to come down to stand on the floor to be there. I guess from the big games of how that's going to work.

Speaker 2: 27:47

But yeah, uh, I think we have one christmas pet. Probably could be wrong. I remember the bells dressing up in something christmasy and post on the instagram, uh. So I think we have a christmas pet, probably, but I mean I mean that is not a lot the scott's and you after football season I mean we have basketball, as you said but all of us I mean all of us, for we have sports that will go play, uh and the fall, and then, uh, early winter and yeah, as I said, uh, the spring to, and so I mean once that, uh, I would say it's like march, once the next year, scott's men get like voted, then they kind of take over and we get phased out. So I mean we got like what for more purpose, and then we're just about done. We gotta teach him.

Speaker 5: 28:28

Teach him the ropes it's gonna be kind of weird. You know, like every week you plan a pep rally, you have to sleep over. On thursday you have the pepper. I mean, you have the pepper, alley the game and it's just, it's gonna be weird. I think we're gonna have a lot of free time but you know, I think it's time in the spring for us to kind of lock in on our sports and, uh, you know, on our colleges and stuff and takes.

Speaker 2: 28:45

Take it seriously, I mean obviously we're hoping for a deep playoff run. That's the goal. So I mean we we want like ten more pep rallies, uh. So yeah, the I mean the further we go, the more time we're gonna have, uh, scott's, and so that's obviously something to look forward to and uh, I mean this playoff games are so much fun, so I'm really excited for this right and then hope that hopefully next week so, um, yeah, it'll be great time.

Speaker 1: 29:10

Well, I can tell this experience has really brought you guys together. There is a lot of comodery here. I can tell you guys have really bonded. Tell us more about that.

Speaker 4: 29:18

Well before Scott's been. I mean, like we obviously all knew each other but we weren't really like very close. So like over the time, like the sleepovers on Thursday having to plan together, it's really like created kind of like a brotherhood here.

Speaker 5: 29:30

Yeah, for sure. I mean we definitely all weren't good friends. You know it's kind of just. You know the people that won different friend groups and all that. But you know we've spent a lot of good time together. You know we've definitely had some funny moments and you know I'm so thankful for this whole thing to bring us all together.

Speaker 3: 29:46

Yeah, no it's. I mean, like he kind of just said, we're all from like different areas almost of the school, like different friend groups, so it was awesome how close I got to know these guys. I want to change the thing.

Speaker 1: 29:56

It's a great season. It's kind of like a fraternity of sorts. Yeah, it is, it's like a high school fraternity.

Speaker 3: 30:02

That's not a bad way to think about it. I mean yeah.

Speaker 1: 30:05

Well, for anyone that's listening that might be interested in becoming a Scotsman, what do they need to do?

Speaker 2: 30:10

For the video process. I mean, if you aren't known like, if you have any doubt to like not, if you think like, oh, maybe I won't win, I seriously urge you to not try to buy into like inside jokes and said hit the broad, hit like jokes. That's going to hit every single student at HP because obviously the freshman, the sophomores and the juniors vote. So if you really want to be a Scotsman I think that's how I want to I didn't have any inside jokes, I was kind of a sleeper pick and yeah. So that's like. My one tip of advice is, if you think, if you have any doubt in your head of like, oh, I'm not going to win, then just really nail in that video, because if you have a good video, you're going to win, there's no doubt. And then I have one more bit of advice.

Speaker 2: 30:53

Scotsman is a grind. It takes a lot of time out of your week, your schedule. So before you run really way, if this is something you want to do, I highly recommend it. Like, this is an amazing time, I love this, it is so much fun, but it takes a lot of time out of your schedule. So if you're taking 7 APs next year, you're playing varsity baseball. You're trying to go to the D1 level and it's cutting into that time. Really, before you run, think about if this is something that you could have time to do. That's my biggest piece of advice.

Speaker 5: 31:24

The thing I'll say is, if there's any youngins out there listening, I'll tell you this has been the most fun semester of my life. It's so great to just be with all of y'all and just producing at the pep rallies and running flags at the game, watching the game on the field and there's a lot of criticism, for sure, and people try to bring you down a little bit. I wouldn't trade this for the world and I highly recommend anyone who's willing to run Maybe it's scared of talking from the mic or just scared of producing video in front of everybody. Definitely do it. It's so much fun. If you win, you'll have the guys before you help you and you definitely won't regret it.

Speaker 4: 32:07

The first step of the trial process is coming up here shortly, I guess in January or February. Basically, you've got to get three teacher recommendations and then you have to fill out this whole form to ask questions about yourself how would you be a good Scotsman, what would you contribute? Things like that. They'll probably announce that on the announcements, if anyone's interested.

Speaker 3: 32:29

Yeah, my only piece of advice is, like AC just said, they'll announce it. On the announcements They'll be a Google form or an email. Don't worry, you don't have to do anything there. As far as Billy said, with the video, just try to make your video reach the whole school, not just your friend group. Don't procrastinate your video. Try to do it early and then, as far as everything else, just be nice to everyone. Don't make any enemies in high school. It'll help you later in life and people will vote for you.

Speaker 4: 32:57

Adding on to that, I think the most important thing with making the video because obviously that's the main part You've got to get all the students to vote on you is what a lot of people will try and do is they'll try and just put a bunch of random funny clips in. The whole thing really doesn't make sense. What I did is I just made a really good storyline and then, as you go on, you can make it funny. I think it's important to have a story in your video, yeah, and just for sure.

Speaker 5: 33:21

If you're a freshman sophomore, just start making friends in the hallway, being nice, because you're going to be counting on those people to vote for you and all that.

Speaker 1: 33:30

Guys, you shared such excellent advice, great stories. It's been such a treat having you here. Let's just tell everyone how they should come out to the game tomorrow night.

Speaker 5: 33:39

They should definitely come. We have the playoffs. Arlington is going down, parker's going to be running all over the field scoring tutties. Please, come, please, come, support.

Speaker 3: 33:48

It's that Highlander, just come out, let's go.

Speaker 4: 33:50

It's got to be the loudest game we've had. I think the weather's going to be good too, yeah you'll have to pull up.

Speaker 5: 33:55

You can watch us do the famous running of the flag after the 50 points we score.

Speaker 1: 34:01

And hopefully no one falls down this time. We're not falling this time.

Speaker 5: 34:04

We 99% guarantee that no one will fall.

Speaker 3: 34:07

That's awesome.

Speaker 1: 34:09

I'll include a link of how to buy tickets for tomorrow night's game at 7pm at Highlander Stadium. Well, guys, thank you so much for taking the time out of your extremely busy schedule, now that we know exactly how you spend your time.

Speaker 2: 34:19

We really appreciate you coming in today.

Speaker 5: 34:21

Thank you so much for having us. That's awesome.

Speaker 1: 34:23

That's been another episode of the Bubble Lounge. I'm Martha Jackson and we'll catch you next time.

Speaker 4: 34:27

Go Scots.