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Becker recalls one announcer approaching him and saying, “Hey, no one knew about you guys. You put your university on the map,” a compliment that left him feeling proud.

“You start to think about, ‘Hey, how do we get more live entertainment so that the people in that part of the Valley don’t always have to drive 45 minutes to an hour to go to a concert?’” said Kevin Demoff, president of the Rams.

In Washington, home to the biggest swath of employees whose agencies have been gutted by tech mogul Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, a sea of people swarmed the National Mall, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Musk and Trump have got to go!”

“There was already a lot of punk enthusiasts here in Fullerton starting with our mayor at the time, and from there it was just kind of on the talks of ‘Hey, we should have a punk exhibit, all these great bands came from Fullerton’ … a lot of our board members were previously in the punk rock scene in their younger days, so everyone was just really excited to highlight and showcase that,” Collard said.

“He was like, ‘Hey, do you guys do this?’