The Blake Cunningham Delirium
Don’t be serious, let’s gets delirious🫨
The Blake Cunningham Delirium
EP 21 DO NOT LISTEN!
A school that started behind an ink shop is bound to collect legends. We open the yearbook of memory and flip through the pages that actually stuck: a choir rehearsal that turned into a comedy sketch, a student who staged a whole-school farewell photo, and teachers whose theatrical quirks now look different in the rearview. The tone swings from goofy nostalgia to hard questions—how do you tell eccentric from unsafe, and what happens when a campus normalizes “that’s just how they are” long past the point of comfort?
We also trace a bigger shift: the building that once echoed with band warmups and choral harmonies now hums with esports rigs. We’re not here to dunk on gaming; strategy, teamwork, and reflex are real skills. But we push on the trade-offs. What do students lose when ensemble rooms go silent? Can a modern school champion both stage lights and LED screens? We talk about pathways where arts and gaming feed each other—music tech meeting game audio, theater performance meeting motion capture, visual art meeting environment design—without abandoning the core joy of making something together in real space.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your alma mater shaped you more than you admitted—or if a campus can honor its creative roots while chasing the future—this one will hit home. Come for the stories, stay for the questions about community, boundaries, and what a school owes its kids when the vibe gets weird. If this episode sparks a memory, share it with a friend, subscribe for more candid debriefs, and leave a quick review to tell us what your school got right—and what you wish it had kept.
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Blake Cunningham Delirium. Today we have a very special guest.
SPEAKER_00:Hello.
SPEAKER_02:And this is just a quick episode. We just wanted to get a quick episode out, and we wanted to tell you some stories about our the s the K through 12 school that we attended. The K through through 12 school that we attended was a arts slash music slash performing arts school. I won't say the name of it, but you could you could probably look it up and figure it out if you wanted to.
SPEAKER_00:You can probably guess the kind of people that went there.
SPEAKER_02:You can guess the kind of people that went there and umly one teacher that I know of so far is a convicted pedophile.
SPEAKER_00:So So far.
SPEAKER_02:So far. There are many potential subs suspects and probably many more in custody. But let's let's take it back to the beginning. Let's take it back to where it all began because the roots of the school, the school actually started in a ink a printer shop. In in the back of an ink shop is where the school started. And they they only had three teachers. They had a um music teacher, a language arts teacher, and a special ed teacher.
unknown:Are you being for real?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm being for real. So that's kind of the origins of the school. It was very small, very efficient, and it focused primarily on things like music, arts, and special ed. So that being said. That being said, there are a number of characters and personalities that arrived from the school for instance there was this There was this kid named, let's just say his name was Levy. Like Leafy. His name was Leaf Leafy. And he was this kid and he wore like all green army suits all the time, and one time he and he drank monster energy, and one time he came in and he showed me. He's like, Oh, this is a pin for a grenade. It was like, where's the grenade? Anyway, there was another kid. Um there's actually these there was this set of Arabian twins.
SPEAKER_00:Bro.
SPEAKER_02:And they ended up becoming weld underwater welders. Or they were either underwater welders.
SPEAKER_00:They're underwater welders.
SPEAKER_02:They're either underwater welders or underwater basket weavers.
SPEAKER_00:Bro.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not sure. They became one of those things. Um there was this kid that was probably on some sort of I I guess he was probably not on I don't know. Yeah, he was on the spectrum, I guess. Um let's just say for the sake of this, his name was Eric. And all I know real like he really liked Ed, Ed, and Eddie. And um The The one thing that I remember about him, and I'm not saying this in a negative light, because this made me laugh really hard, is that we were in qu I was in fifth grade and we were in choir class and we had been singing the song Let It Go from the hit movie Frozen. For about three months we had been rehearsing the song Let It Go from the movie Frozen. And so, you know, our our our choir teacher brought us up to the piano and we were just going through the motions singing Let It Go, Let It Go, can't hold it back anymore. And then this kid Eric that was you know uh on some the the spectrum he said This sounds like the song from the movie Frozen.
SPEAKER_00:And wasn't it literally like the night of the concert?
SPEAKER_02:And it was like the night of the concert. He just realized that it was the song from the movie Frozen. It yeah, it's funnier in my head every time.
SPEAKER_00:I think it's funny.
SPEAKER_02:Um let me think. What's a character?
SPEAKER_00:Chevin Chevin? Both of them.
SPEAKER_02:Oh Chevin the boy one she really liked Blake's hair. And the boyish one. They were both kind of boyish in different ways.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And um yeah, that that person liked my hair and was touching it um unconsensually.
SPEAKER_00:But Blake's having some flashbacks right now.
SPEAKER_02:But I but I forg but I forgive and forget. But not really. Um let me think of more characters. Um more characters.
SPEAKER_00:The other seven had a P fetish.
SPEAKER_01:Had a P fetish.
SPEAKER_02:Um we had a lockdown because a student wrote something on a bathroom stall. I'm not even sure if I should say what they wrote on the bathroom stall because it was very bad, but we all we know is that a student was there the day before and they weren't there the day after.
SPEAKER_00:No, but it is confirmed that the student that did it still goes to the school.
SPEAKER_02:But the student that did it still goes to the school. They never told us they never told us who who wrote the threat. You could actually probably find this event in on the internet. I know it was in our local news review. Other characters. So, um teachers. The teachers were weird, but they weren't like that. Um I had like a French dance teacher when I was like in fourth grade.
SPEAKER_00:What was what's the abbreviated name?
SPEAKER_02:I don't I actually don't remember what her name was.
SPEAKER_00:Oh. Um Did you learn to dance good?
SPEAKER_02:Not really.
SPEAKER_00:I wish Concord, like Er. I wish it didn't like.
SPEAKER_02:That was a that was like a code name.
SPEAKER_00:I meant Fawnford.
SPEAKER_02:I meant Tron board.
SPEAKER_00:Oh. I wish they didn't like because they used to be a performing art school, like singing, like choir, theater, art, band, and now instead of that they got rid of the band program and the choir and the theater. They're a gaming school now. This past year they made a switch and now they specialize in gaming.
SPEAKER_02:It's a gaming school.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they no longer offer band and choir, it's just gaming. They still do art though.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I remember this one kid. His name was like Ma Ron Blossom.
SPEAKER_00:Bro! Stop!
SPEAKER_02:And like he was weird, and he like would be like, Where's my hug at?
SPEAKER_00:He wasn't where my hug at.
SPEAKER_02:He's like, Where's my hug? He's like, Can I have a hug? I just need a hug today.
SPEAKER_00:And this is the thing that always gets me is he went to the school for seriously, like, not even two months. And his last day he had to leave. He had to leave to go like move out, move in with his uncle, I think.
SPEAKER_02:He had to leave to go do math, wasn't he?
SPEAKER_00:No. Um, he left and he made the whole school take a picture with him. Like, he had the whole entire high school go in a room and take a picture with him. I probably still have the picture.
SPEAKER_02:And he cried and he wore and he wore tights. You're moving the microphone.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:You're messing up the quality.
SPEAKER_00:I want to find the photo.
SPEAKER_02:You can't show the audio.
SPEAKER_00:I know, but I want to find it.
SPEAKER_02:You see what I'm working with.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't even do anything.
SPEAKER_02:Anyway, um, other things. Well, not to not to go back to the beginning, but the convict the teacher that was a convicted uh pedophile read us ghost stories on Halloween, and he was like really convincing.
SPEAKER_00:How is he not suspected super?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it was like very uh it was like evil maniacal laughs and like he was a frickin' weirdo. He was a weirdo, but you passed it off as like ex eccentric. It's just like a dark, like he just like reads too much Harry Potter.
SPEAKER_00:That's what everyone thought.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, let's he literally dressed up as Professor Snape. Snape, Snape?
SPEAKER_00:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Fro uh for Halloween. If that does isn't a dead giveaway, I don't know what else would be. I thought this was gonna be fun or funny, but it's just like infuriating.
SPEAKER_00:It's why?
SPEAKER_02:Uh these people, they they make me upset. And the worst part, you know, they p these people they probably talk about us this way.
SPEAKER_00:I know.
SPEAKER_02:They're like, oh, remember those two? Remember that guy, remember that gal.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, people don't know.
SPEAKER_02:They probably say worse things about us than we say about them.
SPEAKER_00:It's like I don't know. If any specific names or events light up in this podcast, it's it's all just chance.
SPEAKER_02:It's just by chan it's just by chance, not by choice.
SPEAKER_00:It's not true. Just so you know. Oh my gosh, I need to find this for a minute.
SPEAKER_02:I want a silly I wanna find a silly band so bad. I want to silly band.
SPEAKER_00:I found one recently.
SPEAKER_02:Do you know what like a go-go is?
SPEAKER_00:Was that like a Beyblade?
SPEAKER_02:It's like it's like you flick You like line them up and flick them at each other.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, I know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_02:I used to have some of those. I love them so much. Oh my gosh, where's the photo? That they sound Yes, I found it.
SPEAKER_00:Well, why do you look so why you're you're standing next to like the ladies?
SPEAKER_02:I'm clearly the best looking person.
SPEAKER_00:You look crazy.
SPEAKER_02:Do you I wasn't trying to take it seriously.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't want to Neither was I. I look super cute.
SPEAKER_02:Where's my hug at?
SPEAKER_00:His hug is right there. I should with faisha.
SPEAKER_02:I should do I should post that photo with like a no, I should post that photo on my Instagram with like a text bubble on my mouth that says where's my hug at?
SPEAKER_00:Stop! I'm about to post this photo. I really want to.
SPEAKER_02:We should get like as many people as we can to post this photo at once and put like hashtag Where's my hug at? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my gosh. That's seriously a picture with the whole high school.
SPEAKER_02:What time is it?
SPEAKER_00:1151. I'm low-key scared to like, are you actually gonna release this?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Alright. Well, I have to release it now because okay. That's the end. Um check out Bully Cunningham on Spotify, B-L-A-K-E, C-U-N-N-I-N-G-H A M. Now. Yes.