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ASD1's High School Principals, with a sprinkle of Aerospace
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Discover the journey of our ACTC aerospace students as they soar to the national competition. Teacher James Davis and team captain Brayden Hall offer an exclusive peek into their meticulous prep work and strategic prowess. Meanwhile, the three principals from Anderson School District 1 - Robby Roach from Palmetto, Adam Lanford from Powdersville, and Wren's Kyle Whitfield - join us, sprinkling in a mix of educational insights and hometown pride.
The shortest basketball tournament ever constructed settles bragging rights, and the principals give us their thoughts on student-proposed new electives and rules, plus give their entertainment and food recommendations!
A fun way to close out the school year!
Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. I'm John Boone, the boss. Lady's here, holly, say hi. Sorry, I didn't have it we have a million guests in the studio which is a good thing, Exactly so I apologize.
Speaker 1:But thanks for saying hi. We've got all three principals of Anderson School, district 1 high schools here tonight Should be fun Robbie Roach from Palmetto, adam Lanford from Powdersville and Kyle Whitfield from Wren, and we'll get to them shortly, but first we kick off the show with our aerospace people because they've been doing well. Holly, you're going to be proud of these people. They're going to nationals and their teacher, james Davis, is here. And James, go ahead and introduce some folks to us and tell us how you'll be competing.
Speaker 4:Okay, sure, last year we only had four members, this year we had seven and we did have two teams that we combined our resources to have one. But we have Brayden Hall as team captain from Honeyapath and Andrew Neff, and there's Nora Boswinkel she's not here and Kursh Patel and Kush Patel and Audrey Reese and Samuel Reese. Those are our team members. Basically, we had to build I say we, I couldn't touch the rocket at all, but they had to design and build their own rocket that could go 820 feet, exactly carrying a hen's egg, and of course it couldn't break. It had to go up and be back down on the ground between 43 and 46 seconds and we tested probably 30 different launches.
Speaker 4:But by the time the judge came out, we get three chances. We get the best two out of three, and one of them was actually 821 feet, so just one foot off, and the time was within a tenth of a second. So with that score, zero is perfect, but 22 is what we got. The cutoff for the top 100 teams was around 33, so we had 22. So we're well in there. I don't know exactly how close in there, but now we're invited to Nationals, which is on May 18th, but more information can be found on rocketcontestorg and our big sponsors, of course, is the ACTC and Champion Aerospace out of Pickens also sponsored us this year.
Speaker 1:So, guys, step up to the mic. Tell us about how you prepare for this competition and just what it's like. State your name.
Speaker 5:This is Braden team captain, Pretty much how we prepare for this year. We made a lot of mistakes over the last year.
Speaker 5:So we pretty much had the idea do not replicate any of those that we already made. Our final rocket last year, which our current rocket has a pretty similar design, worked almost flawlessly. So we kind of had the philosophy kind of make it similar, don't make it exact. Follow the same procedures we had done before. Go out and test as much as we can go ahead and try to get our qualification as close as possible before the final qualifying date. Just pretty much be ready before everyone else.
Speaker 1:Well, that seemed to work out. So how long does it take to, you know, make all these adjustments to get it even close to what you're supposed to have for competition?
Speaker 5:To make the rocket alone. We probably build that about two days if we really put time to it. But to get the adjustments usually it takes us between to get it honed in about two, three weeks because we were usually launching about only once a week, only once a week. So we had to. While we launched at a separate RC field. At the field we would have to do some micro adjustments and we have to wait to get back to do some major adjustments. So about it took two to three weeks to hone in completely on our qualification.
Speaker 1:Cool, anybody else? You got questions here. Principals, all of the interested in this. They're shooting rockets. For goodness sakes, air weather, all that stuff has to be taken into account.
Speaker 5:That's going to be taken into the house could be about yeah, um, yeah, depending on the air, we can usually say if the air is thin, it's for some reason going to go lower, um, because it doesn't have as much air to kind of push it up. Uh, depending on how cold or how hot it is, if it's hotter, it's going to take longer to come down with the parachute. It's colder, it's usually going to come down just a hair quicker. So you have to factor everything weather, elevation, even daylight.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's interesting. And where's the Nationals at?
Speaker 4:It is 40 miles east of Washington. It's called Plains Virginia.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, and that's coming up when.
Speaker 5:Second week of May, may 18th.
Speaker 1:May 18th. May 18th. Okay, yeah, All right cool.
Speaker 5:Will you be flying your rocket up there? It?
Speaker 8:feels big enough. Yeah, okay, are we going to excuse the absence.
Speaker 7:Mr Whitfield, will you be excusing their absences If they win? Yeah, only if you win, yeah, otherwise unexcused Only if you win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, otherwise no excuse. So if you do now, I know there's a world thing you can go to after this Do you have to win-win or do you have to place, or whatever what's qualifications to get to go to London?
Speaker 4:My understanding is the first place team goes to London.
Speaker 4:Okay, there are 11 other prizes that we're eligible for in a first through 10th, and since we're also the first time finalist, where there's a, there's another prize for the best first time finalist. And keep in mind you said when, but when we get up there you don't get any more practices, you actually get. You get one shot out of a hundred teams and you gotta be in the top 25. Wow, so that's one shot. And that means if the wind's blowing harder when you launch, when your predecessors or whatever are, then it's going to be a little bit tougher. So I'm hedging my bets a little bit just in case we have issues. And last year, I think 20% of the teams, because of the winds or whatever, got disqualified on their launches. So, number one, I'm hoping that we don't get disqualified because we get that one launch to get into the top 25. And after that, if we're in the top 25, that would be pretty awesome.
Speaker 1:That would be. That's awesome. Well, thanks guys. Best of luck to you. I appreciate you coming by and telling us what you're doing here on the radio station and we'll all be rooting for you. No pressure at all, I mean, just one launch and you know for all the marbles. But good luck, Thank you. All right, that's our aerospace team. We want to thank our Space Force.
Speaker 2:Champion Aerospace for the donation to help these students go on.
Speaker 1:Yes, help them go on this trip. Hopefully they get to go to London. That'd be really cool.
Speaker 2:Yes, we get to go to London. Yeah, that's not me but Holly manages to get on all these trips.
Speaker 1:Some of them Perks of the job, yeah.
Speaker 2:Some of them.
Speaker 1:Hardly ever see her around here. She's always off to some other country, somewhere celebrating. Yeah, never goes on our trips, though she's yet to go on a media broadcast.
Speaker 2:I will next year.
Speaker 1:We've won nationals three times. She hasn't been there.
Speaker 6:Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you. We didn't win this year, though Last year, but you know, all right, let's shift gears, let's move on to these high schools here, and let's start with Palmetto. This is in. No, you know, there's no order here, guys, it's just.
Speaker 7:It feels like there is, but we'll go with that they understand, we know Whitfield's last.
Speaker 1:But, robbie, tell us about your year at Palmetto. Just brag on your school a little bit. What's going on and what's going to be coming up next year?
Speaker 6:It's been a good year. We feel like we've made a lot of progress with the Solution Tree, you know, professional learning communities process. We got recognized as a model school. That's a big deal for us, Something we've been working on for a while. We also a couple of us got, I guess, accepted to present at SREB in Nashville, so that's always a fun time. Enjoy going to Nashville, and myself and Dr Jones and Mr Imparati will be presenting there. Talking about collaborative teams. Yeah, Dr Will Jones, that is correct. He has completed his work for the PhD.
Speaker 7:That's not surprising but impressive.
Speaker 6:He is an impressive guy, all right.
Speaker 1:What else is going on?
Speaker 6:Well, other than that, I mean we've had limited success athletically. You know, we did win the state in cheerleading, but otherwise we've.
Speaker 1:That's not nice. That's not nice. Well, I mean.
Speaker 6:I'm. It's not nice, that's not nice.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I'm just being real, that's right.
Speaker 6:You know, these guys are pretty competitive too. So you know, we try to. That's why you're sitting between them, yeah we try to hang with them and in some cases we don't. So you know I put the pressure on the coaches. Let's pick it up. We need to hang with these guys.
Speaker 1:A little bit of a different region next year to play in. Of course Powdersville will be in the same.
Speaker 6:Powdersville are going to be in there with the private schools. Powdersville is kind of like a private school anyway.
Speaker 7:Here we go.
Speaker 6:That'll work for them, but it's going to be a little tougher for us.
Speaker 1:But seriously, though, this whole District 1 is just exploding everywhere. I mean Rens and 4A Powers of Fire right behind, but Palmetto is really growing too. I mean all you have to do is drive around and see where they're shoehorning all these houses around here, to know that Palmetto is going to be running out of room soon too.
Speaker 6:Yeah, there's definitely a lot of growth're. We're out of room when it comes to classrooms. Um, yeah, you know, looking at next year's schedule and everything we'll, we'll be moving some people around, I'll study how I may be, uh, in a different room every, every period, and that kind of thing are you dropping like?
Speaker 7:is this news to people like? This is breaking news. No, it's not breaking news we always like breaking news we're're going to be moving teachers, by the way, that's always fun to do randomly.
Speaker 6:We're not doing that. We just happen to have some new teachers we're adding, so got to find places for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how full is the middle school over there, by the way? Well, they just built a brand new one, I know. That's why I was wondering how full it is already, I think there's openings.
Speaker 10:I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I don't think all their classrooms are full.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, okay, what else? Do we leave out here.
Speaker 6:Anything going on building-wise over there. Well, we are in the process of kind of updating some locker rooms, weight room stuff, you know, again to compete with the two highly competitive high schools that are in our district. We've got to kick our game up a little bit. We've got that under, I guess, the planning stages right now Probably won't start working on it until right after football season, because we'll need all that space, you know, to get us through football season Right.
Speaker 1:All right, holly, you got anything to add here?
Speaker 2:No, you guys finished up your ball field right. You had baseball that was finished this year. We did, we did Two-year project. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6:It took a long time, but the baseball field turned out really good and I don't know, if you follow Facebook, but I mean, apparently it's a whole lot nicer than Wren's. But you know, I think Kyle's in the works of you know getting things up to par over there with Wren baseball now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he needs to do that, but it is. It is a nice looking field.
Speaker 10:Nice high fence out there. Yeah, it turned out good fence out there.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it turned out good. Let me put it this way we didn't exceed um 18 months past any of the deadlines. Oh okay, that's good, it's always a silver lining yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so good things happening at uh palmetto high school. You have any uh new hires coming in, uh sports wise or anything that we can look forward to next year, because I know these other guys have some.
Speaker 6:Well, I mean, you know, we have our football staff coming into the second year, so we're pretty excited about that. We have some fantastic people on staff for football. Thanks to Powdersville High for training one of them very well, coach Ryan Norton's been an amazing addition to our staff, our teaching staff and our coaching staff, so we're pretty excited to see where that goes as it continues to grow.
Speaker 1:And I will tell you this when I was over there for a few games in the fall it seems that he's interjecting a little more excitement. There was more excitement over there than there normally was. A lot more people at the games getting involved and really looking forward to kind of like a new era kind of thing going over there at Palmetto.
Speaker 6:Yeah, we definitely have that enthusiasm going in our favor. Other than that, we really haven't made any changes coaching-wise. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we're going to take a quick time out. When we come back we'll talk about that. Private school Powdersville.
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Speaker 1:Welcome back to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. We're here with all three Anderson School District 1 principals. Just heard from Robbie Roach from Palmetto. We'll hear from Kyle Whitfield in just a few.
Speaker 7:Right now let's talk to the uh state basketball champion principal this year two years ago we didn't win the region, but we were able to win state.
Speaker 1:That's pretty good for us that's what you that's what you need to do. You got to win the big one I know two out of three. Well, you got the one that they were ripped off in that one game anyway.
Speaker 7:I have no comment on anything that occurred to any place.
Speaker 1:That was boy Wren has got the refs in their pocket.
Speaker 8:We don't cry at Wren High School.
Speaker 3:No comment regarding that 6.6 seconds.
Speaker 7:Yeah, the actual laps time.
Speaker 1:I will say this though, and we'll get to Wren in a second but your kids really, as far as fans go at games, they bring it. I mean, ren's student section brings it at games. We've got to get that better. Powder field, dr Lance.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I mean being a former member of the Ren High School student section some years ago. It's an established tradition that they do really well with.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 7:Patterson's working to establish our own right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it was an interesting season as we just start with basketball, because we cover most of the home games and just to see that it just really kind of evolved. And it was very similar to Ren's season before that, where it was like it wasn't a whole lot of excitement, thought it would be a good team and then just kept winning, and just kept winning, just kept winning and then all of a sudden, boom, you got a state championship. Obviously, that had to make you really proud.
Speaker 7:Absolutely 100%. It was a great experience. You know it's my third year on campus and we've been the bridesmaid a few times in sports and everything We've been, you know, in our band programs, finished up second in the state a couple of years. So we're like, okay, let's get over that hurdle and finally we're able to get over that hump with our basketball teams. That was really exciting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the year before, of course, football was right there too, that's right. But now, with this big change, this 4A, 3a change, you're still going to play Wren, but it's not the huge rivalry that it has been.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I'm sure it'll still be a pretty good rivalry.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, it's not for the region.
Speaker 7:Right, so it's not yeah.
Speaker 1:But as far as the backyard little brother things, that everybody brings up that has become such a great rivalry. And I say that because the kids in the school you know they're talking about it all the time. That's right, and I say that because the kids in the school you know they're talking about it all the time. It's not just out on the field, it's like they love the competition and the back and forth going on there. So tell us, besides basketball, what all has been happening at Poundersville this year.
Speaker 7:Yeah, it's been a great year. I mean, we were able to really work through a lot of fun things. We didn't get the model school award. We got sent back to try again, so we're going to do that. We're pretty excited with where all our scores landed. I'm drawing a complete blank right now, mr Boone, forgive me. When you get old, like me, you'll understand.
Speaker 1:I know I'm much older than you.
Speaker 7:But we had all that going on. The fall was a great fall, a lot of good work. Our kids are really getting into our flex time and our win time and what's going on. We had two incredible shows From our fine arts department this year. First, really getting that reestablished, two Fall and spring shows. They're both incredible. Chorus was out of Superior with Distinction Band, superior with Distinction Three region championships so far in the spring, hoping for a fourth and maybe a fifth tonight. So we'll be hosting From March 1. Until last week we hosted 58 events at the high school Across all the things that happened. Just a lot of good things Going on and just really ready to take that next step.
Speaker 7:As you mentioned, 4a Wren's gone, which is really ready to take that next step. You know, as, like you mentioned, 4a, you know Wren's gone, which is really upsetting to us. We hate. You know, whenever the Hurricanes come to town, you're really excited to play and them and the Daniel Lyons kind of garner a little extra attention. But, you know, excited to take this next step and run into, you know, some new schools and currently expanding our stadium.
Speaker 7:So, that's been a fun project trying to add a few more seats.
Speaker 1:I heard that's up to 1,000 seats, right? Is it like 600 on one side, 400 on the other? No, it's more than that.
Speaker 7:I think we're adding about 800 on the home side and about 600 on the wayside.
Speaker 8:It's about 1,400 and change Just slightly smaller than Michigan. Yeah, slightly, it's a big house.
Speaker 7:Basically if you took Clemson and Carolina and doubled them it would basically be what we'd be able to see at any given event.
Speaker 1:So it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 7:So, yeah, just really trying to get that to a better spot.
Speaker 2:And realistically the stadium is not that old.
Speaker 7:No, it's not Well, I mean, if you think about it, the original school was built for 800, and we're in year 13 at 1100. So right on pace, right on pace, so it was built, you know for us, and y'all had an addition as well.
Speaker 7:We did. We had a wing added that opened in 2020. So 10 years in, we had to add a new wing, and then we just completed an outfit of our old weight room and made it a wrestling room. So now our wrestling team has a dedicated space, which we're really excited about. Big kudos to the PowerShell High School Athletic Booster Club stepping up to meet us to really get that project rolling.
Speaker 7:So I'm really excited where that is. It opens up our armory for more just direct training, because the wrestling team's not practicing in there. And they've got their own space and I tell the coach this all the time I love them, but they're kind of dirty and kind of smelly. Them having just their own space is really exciting for us as a school. So they've got a dedicated space and I think that's kind of pushed the other two schools to kind of do something about that. So I want to tell them you're welcome for that. So it. So I want to tell them you're welcome for that, but it's definitely been a good year We've got. You know, there's not a better school in the state of South Carolina than the Patterson High School.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 7:There it is. I can't think of one. I can't think of one. No comment.
Speaker 1:When you think about what's on the horizon anything next year that's going to be new at the high school.
Speaker 7:Absolutely. I think the biggest thing is we're expanding our dual enrollment offerings. So we've partnered with Tri-County Tech and they've been a great partner of ours for years, but we're really expanding our offerings with Anderson University where we'll have some on-site Our teachers teaching dual enrollment courses on-site in our schedule, which we're really, really excited about it.
Speaker 8:Y'all were doing kind of the US history. What are you adding?
Speaker 7:So, yeah, so we were piling US history last year. We had 54 students involved last year. This current year, We'll be adding English as well, as we'll be adding AP. Bless me, we'll be adding stats as well as probability statistics. So adding those two things to the course offerings on top of what AP is already offering. We're adding a couple AP courses as well. Physics is an option for the coming year, we added environmental this past year and then so we're really, really excited to just give more opportunities for kids to. You know, there's multiple paths for them to choose and pick what's best for them and for them to take their next step, whatever that may be.
Speaker 1:That's awesome and, Robbie, feel free to chime in because I forgot to ask you that question.
Speaker 6:So if you have anything to add about what Palmetto is adding, please yeah we're doing the same kind of thing with Anderson University and we'll be offering English, math and Spanish as dual enrollment courses. Pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2:Is that like Spanish three or four?
Speaker 6:It's kind of like a Spanish four Four.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 6:Good.
Speaker 2:Very cool.
Speaker 1:Good, good, and you do have at least one coaching change that you know of. You'll have a new women's basketball coach, we will. But a well-known person, right.
Speaker 7:It's kind of one of those guys from the community Coach Mike Anderson's coming on board. He's been the assistant for the boys coach and really want to step up. And you know, coach Langston did an incredible job for us as our girls basketball coach and this is just helping us take that next step and really, you know, see what's beyond, so really excited to see how that goes. He's in our building all the time. He's always working at wind time. He's subbing for us. He's in our building all the time. He's always working at wind time, he's subbing for us. He's just around and you know, he's probably forgot more basketball than Mr Whitfield's ever known, which isn't a lot, but it is something. Excuse me, dr Whitfield, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 1:Yes. Dr, Lanford yes, yeah, and he's always the guy that's been really good to us with setting up our broadcasts and all that he's. What do you need? What do you need? I'll get it for you. So great to see him getting that opportunity. All right, we're going to take another quick time out here and we'll come and talk to Dr Whitfield in just a second Wren High School up next You're listening to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
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Speaker 1:Welcome back to Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. We're here with all the Anderson School District 1 principals. By the way, zach will be joining us in a few minutes to talk sports. I know he has some views on the NFL draft which we'll talk about with some about some Clemson players etc. That's coming up in a few. Right now it's Dr Whitfield. Let's talk about Wren High School. What do you have to brag about this year? That's Wren.
Speaker 7:Collegiate Academy. That's right, I'm just.
Speaker 8:I'm humbled to be sitting next to these two gentlemen, just sharing this time with them. Yeah, we, I mean to just speak on the district. I mean it's a wonderful district and these guys do an amazing job and we believe it or not, there's a lot of banter but we, you know, talk and have a good relationship and you know, share ideas and tell each other that's a dumb idea and you know they may have saved Wren High School from making some dumb decisions once upon a time. But you know W rent is a. It's a wonderful place. You know we're doing, um, some good things.
Speaker 8:Uh, I think a lot of times, like you said, we've done, we've had a lot of success uh, athletically over the past couple of years. Um, that you know the my predecessor, Dr Young, if he's listening, could you know, couldn't, couldn't do, but you know we've had some really good coaches. I think you know I was telling you off air. You know one of the most successful things I think we have, a part of the REN community, is the REN Youth Association. So a lot of those kids have played and have kind of come up, you know, some homegrown talent and allowed us to have some success athletically. And you know we one of the things that you know taking over as principal you know we really tried to focus on the academics too and you know the demographics of Wren has kind of changed. You know it's always been a really good school and you know we've had to kind of look and we've you know it's always been a you know a really good school and you know we've we've had to kind of look in and think of things differently to kind of reach the needs of all our students and we spent this this year trying to figure out how do we get our kids to be more competitive on things, like you know, our AP kids are doing really well, but, like on the intercourse test.
Speaker 8:So me and a couple of the other administrators have been going around to our ESE classes and talking about the importance of that test and how do we, you know, challenge kids to do better. We kind of started in an incentive program where you know they're rewarded for for getting a C or higher. You know, because that helps us on the report card. And I spent the last couple of weeks because we're approaching those, those dates to to go in those classrooms and talk to those students and you, because we're approaching those, those dates, to to go in those classrooms and talk to those students and, um, you know we're hoping that that makes a different.
Speaker 8:You know, academically, because that's kind of how we're measured from the outside academically on the report card and um, you know, trying to trying to be competitive in that manner. Um, you know we also talked about the big jump to 4a athletically, you know we feel pretty good about it In our region. You know I'm a Westside grad so this is kind of tough, you know, for me. I might have to wear a half-Wren, half-Westside jersey.
Speaker 2:Ooh goodness goodness, goodness. I don't think that's good.
Speaker 8:No it would be all-Wren.
Speaker 7:I'm a Wren graduate and I wouldn't be caught dead in blue and gold. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 8:But I mean we feel good about the region. I mean Westside will obviously be our biggest challenge football-wise. They're coming off a state championship. They've got an incredible group of kids over there. But we've got a lot of confidence in Coach Freight in his second year, just like when you hired Ryan Norton Robbie. You know Freight is a ring guy, you know he was two years as our defensive coordinator and we feel like you know he's the right man and moving the program in the right direction. So the rest of the region we feel good about. We've got Fountain Inn, we've got Lawrence, emerald and Southside, but I think definitely Westside and Wren will be the most competitive in that region.
Speaker 2:How about some expansion over there? I don't think you guys are doing any expanding, are you?
Speaker 8:We'd like to. They were referring to some facility upgrades that may have, you know, been mentioned on social media, but we are looking at renovating our boys' and girls' locker room, basketball locker rooms. The district's been very generous to kind of help us out in that regard, because they are I mean, they're very dated. You know, if you want to come over and go on tour with me, they were the same as when Dr Lanford was a student there. There might be some graffiti still on the wall from when he was a student there.
Speaker 7:When I got cut from ninth grade basketball, shout out Coach Joy, I just it was the end for me. So there probably is some graffiti. You vandalized the locker room.
Speaker 8:I appreciate that. But we're renovating that. We're also looking at doing some stuff to our baseball concessions just to make it a little more functional over there. Those are the big you know items going into next year. But I mean we are, you know, growing very rapidly, just like the other schools. We're the largest that Wren's been since you know, palmetto was or, excuse me, powdersville was opened and you know we're looking at being over 1,300 potentially next year. We've grown by about 75 to 100 kids a year. So you know we're running out of space too.
Speaker 2:Everybody's knocking down the doors to be in Anderson 1 somewhere in one of your schools. Absolutely.
Speaker 8:It's a great district, it's a great place. I mean just speaking as a dad, outside of being an educator. I mean I wanted to be in anderson one, you know, so my kids could, should you know, go to to anderson one school.
Speaker 2:So both academically and athletically absolutely, and the arts and arts are important for sure, miss harrell.
Speaker 7:Yes, absolutely speaking of miss harrell's daughter, was one of the stars of our spring show, did an incredible job. Of course, she was.
Speaker 8:What program was she in?
Speaker 2:She was in the play.
Speaker 8:Awesome In the musical. What was the musical, matilda, did you go? Dr Patrick, absolutely.
Speaker 5:It was incredible.
Speaker 2:Matilda.
Speaker 7:I was there on the Sunday afternoon. Was she Matilda?
Speaker 2:No, she did not want to be Matilda she, she did not want to be Matilda. She wanted to be the funny mother.
Speaker 7:And she did an incredible job. She has good inspiration.
Speaker 2:Very very funny. That's what she wants, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:But yes, the arts are very important.
Speaker 8:I was picking on you, but yeah, I mean it's regardless of what you look at and you're someone you'd be hard pressed not to find.
Speaker 1:You know successful programs, that's right, yeah, yeah, very cool, um, and you have a coaching change in basketball as well yeah, so Pam McGowans has been coaching for the past, uh, eight years.
Speaker 8:She took over from Lynn Hicks, who was a legend in her own right. You know, hall of fame South Carolina. You know, hall of fame coach, and, um, I think Pam is, uh will find her place in the Hall of Fame too. I mean, she's had an incredible tenure, you know, taking our girls to state two years in a row and unfortunately, we faced a generational talent in Joyce.
Speaker 8:Edwards. I mean, she's number two in the country for a reason, but our girls she's done a marvelous job with the girls and and there's, there's a posting right now where we're, you know, looking for the you know, uh, obviously some big shoes to fill. We're looking for the right, right person to uh continue that that tradition of excellence in that and the girls program.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Uh, let's go quickly to the phone lines. We have Zach, a Wren grad, on there. Zach, are you there?
Speaker 9:I'm here.
Speaker 1:There you are. Holly had her fingers crossed that she hit the right button. Good to hear from you. How are you, man?
Speaker 9:Man, I'm doing good. How are you?
Speaker 1:OK, all right, we've got all three principals in here today from all the District 1 schools.
Speaker 9:Yeah, I heard the one from Palmetto talking about upgrade. Some kind of upgrade looks a little bit better than rin. You know talking about. You know talking a little bit baseball field definitely does.
Speaker 1:I mean it's true?
Speaker 9:yeah, I'm just wondering what their trophy case looks oh my gosh state championships. Just just just wondering. But, but, um, but no, uh, um, but no, really not a whole lot going on in the sports world. As far as the NFL draft goes, that's really the only time I watch the NFL, unless the Jaguars are on, because I mean the Panthers ain't worth really watching.
Speaker 1:Well, now you've got to root for the Eagles.
Speaker 9:No, I don't have to root for the Eagles.
Speaker 1:Yes you do. Come on, Will Shipley, Jeremiah Trotter.
Speaker 9:Well, I mean, I'm a Trotter fan, but I'm really not a Will Shipley fan.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 9:I just hope for y'all he can hold on to the ball on the one-yard line. Zach's in a bad mood today the ball on the one yard line.
Speaker 1:Hmm, Um so you know so but uh, he does seem he does seem salty today Mr Struck a nerve talking about that raggedy baseball field.
Speaker 6:All right, bro, okay.
Speaker 9:You good, you good, yeah, you. I think I think that ran, I think that ran baseball field probably been there since my great-great-grandmother was a baby. But no, you're all right, man, you're okay. But yeah, I mean, I want to see them do good, I want to see them succeed, obviously because they're from Clemson. But it's really my biggest thing on the NFL draft the Falcons sign Kirk Cousins his big old deal and then take Michael Penix with what? The fourth overall pick.
Speaker 1:Eighth yeah.
Speaker 9:Fourth overall pick.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 9:But I guess you're going to do kind of an Aaron Rodgers Gordon Love thing there.
Speaker 1:I guess so, but Penix is already like almost 30 years old, it seems like. Isn't he like 24 or something? Yeah, he's old. So he's going to sit around for a couple more years at least, because Cousins is guaranteed.
Speaker 9:I think he had two season-ending injuries during his whole college career or something. I know he had one season-ending injury, but he's real injury-prone too. But we'll see. I mean we'll. You know, it's all about these, you know, fourth, fifth, third-round pick guys that always seem to shine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right. You know so but we'll you know like Jordan Love.
Speaker 9:I had never heard of Jordan Love and I know he was third overall, but you can see what he's done, you know.
Speaker 1:And nobody liked that for the first few years when he was sitting behind Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, now he's got his chance.
Speaker 9:We'll see. It always makes out for a fun first couple of weeks in the NFL season, so we'll see what happens. And then you know nothing better than seeing LeBron James lose in the NBA playoffs, you know.
Speaker 6:Stomping his feet all around. Hey, we're in agreement on that one, yeah.
Speaker 9:But you know, like I said, really not much to talk about. I've got a notification on my phone that Clemson football season kicks off four months from today. There, you go. I just hope that they're ready to at least keep it within 30 with Georgia there you go. You know me that's coming from a diehard Clemson fan, I know.
Speaker 9:If that offense you ain't going to be able to turn the ball over against Georgia and keep it within 30 points. I mean because Georgia was still good last year but they wasn't the Georgia that was from two years ago and then the year before that. I mean you know, things can happen. I mean that's why you have the spring practices, that's why you have the fall camps, that's why you have practice every day, that's why Dad both kept saying in the office I mean, holly was at the games, she watched the same team. I did.
Speaker 1:She doesn't really watch the games.
Speaker 2:I do watch the games.
Speaker 1:Her deal is tailgating okay.
Speaker 2:Some seasons are more for tailgating.
Speaker 1:She doesn't even know there's a game going on.
Speaker 2:Some seasons are more for tailgating.
Speaker 9:But you know I mean Clemson. Anybody can be in a disagreement or agreement with me. Clemson would have been sniffing the playoff last year if they had held on to the ball in almost all those games. They lost to Duke because of turnovers. They lost to Miami because of Will Shipley's fumble on the one-yard line. That would have put them up 10 points I think, maybe even two touchdowns. It's like Dabo said in one of his press conferences last year we're doing it in practice. We just can't put it all out on the field.
Speaker 9:Yeah, I mean you know, it's just we'll see what happens. It's going to be exciting. I'm excited about it. It's getting closer and closer and closer.
Speaker 1:Four months.
Speaker 9:Me and a friend was talking today that we go to all the Wren high school football games together.
Speaker 8:That's right, that's right, brother games together, and that's right.
Speaker 9:That's right, brother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so uh the wren high school football games. Not probably the real. That's the wren principal right there.
Speaker 9:So oh, I talked to whiff but, um, we go to all of them and of course, blake and kayla, my friends. They're, uh, me and blake's been friends since, uh, fourth grade and him, him and Tiffany actually went to church together. So he knew Tiffany growing up, me and him basically grew up together. They're diehard South Carolina fans. So I get them on Friday nights. We agree on Friday nights, we disagree on Saturdays. There you go. So I was texting them today and I said I hate the offseason of football because we don't see y'all. I mean Friday mornings it pops up we're meeting for supper tonight before the game and then we always sit in the same place.
Speaker 9:We sat in the same place for man. I graduated in 2013. So after that, because I was in March, probably from what? Last 10 years, 10, 11 years I've sat there Same place 35-yard line, closest to the scoreboard.
Speaker 1:It'll be here soon enough.
Speaker 9:Yeah, and I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait until the Braves win the World Series.
Speaker 1:Well, you may have to wait a while there. They can't get out of the first round.
Speaker 9:Well, I know. Well at least they get to celebrate with a World Series ring and don't get a ring for winning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah yeah, oh, my Look at the time. All right, Zach, get out of here, take it easy.
Speaker 9:Yes, sir, you too, Y'all have a good one.
Speaker 1:All right, bye-bye. By the way, dr Whitfield, does Wren have a new football field or not, or is that one of the rumors.
Speaker 8:We still have the Jack King field.
Speaker 1:I mean the actual field. Yeah, it's been redone.
Speaker 8:Oh, I mean, we put a lot of money into the turf. It looks amazing.
Speaker 1:I mean it's turf, it's not grass.
Speaker 8:Yeah, that's what I meant grass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's turf, it's not grass. Yeah, that's what I meant grass, it's not field turf. See, I haven't been over there and kids are telling me, oh yeah they're putting down turf over there.
Speaker 8:That's lies. We, what we? What do you mean?
Speaker 1:We had some help, like I don't ever get any help All right, I just had to, because you had mentioned rumors, and so I just had to clear that up.
Speaker 8:It does look good. It needed it, yeah, and we put rye down. You know the winter grass so it was very green and looked amazing. Shout out to Scott Drayton.
Speaker 1:Well, at least your soccer team hasn't been scoring many goals, so they are not ripping it up too much.
Speaker 8:They. Unfortunately that did not occur.
Speaker 1:But all right, Moving along to the much anticipated part of the show what the students want and what the principals can give let's. We've got a few things in here. I'm not going to go over all of them, but some are particular to specific schools.
Speaker 6:one for palmetto the students want strawberry milk back no there you go the answer to what had you had strawberry milk several students have asked for strawberry milk what'd you do to the strawberry milk? I don't ever remember strawberry milk being there, since I've been principal, that's a general practice.
Speaker 8:Yeah, oh well, maybe so oh.
Speaker 6:I mean, I've heard, there's a shortage of strawberry milk across the nation, so we really can't address that as a school administration.
Speaker 2:Kyle Adam, do y'all have strawberry milk?
Speaker 7:They don't know, we don't, we have, we have.
Speaker 8:Powdersville has like what do you have a Starbucks?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they probably have goat milk and everything else in there. It's like almond milk, that's right.
Speaker 8:Some frappuccinos.
Speaker 7:And.
Speaker 1:But that I had to mention that because even today, when they knew you were coming on, robbie, they actually don't forget. Ask them about the strawberry milk.
Speaker 6:We want strawberry milk. I didn't even realize it was an issue, but like I said, there's a nationwide shortage because of the bat soup flu a few years ago. I mean, we've just never recovered. We've never been able to catch up with the production of strawberry milk nationwide.
Speaker 2:Well, at least you have an answer, maybe there'll be a fable that comes out with that.
Speaker 1:Some students want to be able to leave for lunch now. We had bhp on last week and they have no restaurants near them whatsoever. But again, if you're in powdersville you have 60 000 restaurants near your school. Palmetto has a few and uh ren well, maybe not they can go to real pizza.
Speaker 6:Ren would have 1300 people at canes corner yeah, exactly, or southern oaks, but uh, would that, dr lanford.
Speaker 1:Would that ever be a possibility for them to leave campus? Absolutely not there we go.
Speaker 7:There's your answer, guys yeah, there's too much liability in that yeah, of course and they're already late as it is much less. Oh oh, let me go pick. Well, the line was long and I didn't make it back to class. Too bad, so sad I concur, that's a horrible idea. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And here's another one for Robbie and the rest of you. I know we'll chime in because we talked about this earlier, but there at least three or four students that want to wear pajamas all the time.
Speaker 6:And my response to them typically is if you want to wear your pajamas, go to Walmart. This ain't Walmart there you go, it's not Walmart.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 7:How do you define pajamas though?
Speaker 1:That's such a the way they make things nowadays.
Speaker 7:It's hard to define any kind of yeah, it is, I feel like the onesie would be okay, the onesie.
Speaker 6:Yeah, onesie, a onesie a dragon onesie would be fine, the union jack with the flap on the back in some ways that may be.
Speaker 1:You know more, um, easily to dress, easy to dress code, than some of the other stuff. Um, let's see, some people are saying, uh, they should get more excuses for absences if they're getting good grades.
Speaker 7:No.
Speaker 1:Like they should only be unexcused.
Speaker 8:if they need to be there, do you get more days?
Speaker 1:off if you do a good job at work. Oh, there you go. That's a good point, very good point.
Speaker 7:Part of the job is showing up and being there and doing the thing at the time the grind, dr Lanford, absolutely right.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's another pajamas. There's another strawberry milk.
Speaker 7:They're getting after you, Mr Ray.
Speaker 1:All right, I think this is primarily a Wren thing that there's problems in the parking lot. People are stealing parking spaces. There's not a good flow with getting out of there. There's too many wrecks in the parking lot.
Speaker 8:What's going on with parking at Wren? I would say there's a strong correlation with parking lots in general and student drivers. So I own one at Wren High School that's in the parking lot and he's not the best driver. But I mean I would say that the biggest issue is we're growing and we have a finite amount of parking spaces. So I mean eventually we will have to address that. They can park at Pattersville. We're full.
Speaker 1:Here's an interesting one and this is from a good student of mine the exam rule. Of course you have the exemption rule if they have a grade of an A or whatever they say. You should lower that a little bit to like 85, with no more than five unexcused absences, because some people they just don't take tests well and if they're doing really well and they're showing up every day, they feel like they should get a little more leeway with exempting exams.
Speaker 6:Hey, just for context before I answer this, since you said it was from a good student of yours, can I assume that the strawberry milk and pajamas questions?
Speaker 1:were from bad students. No, not necessarily, but this is a very academic minded. Oh, ok, let's put it that way Lower the bar.
Speaker 7:I think I'd say do the opposite. I'd argue we take away exam exemptions altogether, because are we preparing kids for the next step If they're making A's and they're planning to go to four-year and they have exams sitting behind that and we're not offering those exams? I think we should do the opposite and have everybody take exams.
Speaker 1:That's just my personal opinion, that's powder's role, ladies, and gentlemen, yeah, that's powder's role.
Speaker 6:That's a great answer. We do need to kick the rigor up everywhere.
Speaker 7:I think we step it up a notch and everybody takes their exam. Well, in college it's not going to happen that Right that you know there students for the next step and they're trying to go to four-year university or two-year university and they're making A's across the board, which is usually correlating. Then why would we not have them sit for a final, a cumulative final, to kind of prep that? And so they're flexing that muscle, doing that work in the high school so they can take that next step? So the pressure's not on what you think about APs, you think about ESEs. That's the only time.
Speaker 8:A lot of them even take finals and that is that preparing kids for the next step so I could argue the other direction, but I know how that would go with our community. They'd be really excited about it. Dr whitfield, it's tough to argue against that I mean.
Speaker 1:I mean, all right, I concur back.
Speaker 6:Hey, something we rarely say you're right, adam in the three years we've known each other I think that's the second.
Speaker 1:There is the topic of school lunches themselves getting better food for school lunches. Yeah we agree. How's that going?
Speaker 7:Listen, it's one of those things where that's not necessarily in our purview, but you've got to think about it from a context of regulation and what's being cooked and what's allowed to be cooked. Unfortunately, our captors don't do a ton of straight cooking because of all the constraints within the meals. And then also you're talking about a cost perspective. It's just not something that's in the cards, but I would agree Bring the deep fryers back.
Speaker 8:Yeah, bring the deep fryers back.
Speaker 7:There you go, hey the old grill that were in high school would, yeah, bring the deep fires back.
Speaker 6:Hey, the old grill at Wren High School used to be those hot ham and cheese sandwiches Top of the line. The orange chicken is very popular at Palmetto High. Well, the other day they threw a little extra spin in there. Some sweet Thai chili chicken.
Speaker 7:Yeah, that was next level Wing Day is a great day.
Speaker 12:Taco Tuesday Taco Tuesday is a hit, sounds good I mean you know they've done a good.
Speaker 7:Our cafeteria staff does an incredible job with what they have.
Speaker 2:Well, and ultimately it's not your guys' decision, Right. I mean that's a district office decision.
Speaker 6:We do all love our food service employees, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do a phenomenal job, that's right.
Speaker 1:One student actually said I hate prison food so much.
Speaker 6:Anyway, hey, and that student may get to experience it at some point, know if they really hate it or not knowing that, student, you may be right um, let's see we agree with you.
Speaker 8:We, any chance we get to you know, push things to the district office I would encourage them to contact um dr seth young.
Speaker 2:Yes, do we need to give his cell phone?
Speaker 8:out.
Speaker 2:He was here a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it was.
Speaker 1:You should have him back to for rebuttal, let's see. One funny thing is there were several requests to start school later and there are other requests to end school earlier, so but yet you know we can answer that one. We hate late arrival and early release as it is here at the Career Center. What are you guys' thoughts on the times of school? And obviously, again, you're not going to change that without a big thing happening, but what are your thoughts?
Speaker 6:I think a lot of times you know traffic's going to dictate that and you know what's going on with the elementaries, in the middles, and you know sometimes, like the menu it's out of our hands, we kind of have to do things to best accommodate what else is happening. So there could be changes coming.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, and finally, a few of the electives that they would like to see in school being at nap time.
Speaker 7:I would argue somewhere. Students are already doing that.
Speaker 1:Yes, they kind of do it within their other classes. It's like a double duty.
Speaker 6:I had one doing it during an EOC yesterday.
Speaker 8:I had to go wake them up. I had to go wake them up.
Speaker 3:Then they could see you're hiring.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how about?
Speaker 6:MMA, I don't know her.
Speaker 1:Let's see, is that a?
Speaker 7:Patterson question.
Speaker 1:Do you like MMA?
Speaker 7:You know, as part of our WIM program we had pursued and looked at some of that stuff.
Speaker 9:But I think the liability and the training and the whole hand to hand combat thing creates some issues good a video game elective.
Speaker 1:You know you can learn skills with video games.
Speaker 8:You have some of that over here. We do that's the most popular win class.
Speaker 7:We have right now our eSports and our video games Fencing.
Speaker 1:There might be some liability there.
Speaker 8:Let's give kids swords. Is that like putting up fences? We need some new fences. Yeah, installing they can come down to my house and have that class there.
Speaker 1:There is American Ninja Warrior class. We talked about this with the BHP people.
Speaker 2:You know Mary was open and receptive to that actually That'd be a good PE class, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1:Put up a jungle gym and then have them, you know, compete on the show. We're all in favor of.
Speaker 6:Mary doing the pilot on that, and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 7:We'll see what happens at BHP, Then we'll follow up. We'll circle back if you will.
Speaker 2:Maybe she might be able to do the course. Oh, she would do the course, without a doubt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, we've got one more thing left to do. We're going to get everybody's keep this in the back of your mind. We're going to get everybody's recommendations. We do this with our guests every year now and it's actually turned out pretty cool. We'll have each of you give an entertainment recommendation something that you're reading or streaming or binging, watching TV movies, anything like that and a food recommendation, whether it be something, that recipe that you have, or a restaurant you like, or a dish at that restaurant. That's the way we're going to wrap up the show, and I will tell you, holly, guess where I went last weekend. I went to Earl Street. You did.
Speaker 5:Did you do the brunch?
Speaker 1:No, I had dinner, but I had the salmon and my wife had the mahi shrimp and grits Outstanding Just outstanding.
Speaker 6:Did either of you try the collards?
Speaker 1:I did not no.
Speaker 6:The collards are amazing. Well, now I know the jerk chicken.
Speaker 1:Everything was good, and one thing I really like about there was that the portion size was perfect. I like going to a restaurant where you don't feel like you're stuffing yourself and you don't feel like you've got room left over. It was like perfect size and it tasted great and the atmosphere is great. I like where it's all open and everything, and so Mary hit a home run on that one. So before we get to those recommendations, we have to settle something on the basketball court behind me, because um and robbie's going to join in too, because we can't leave him out. But lanford and whitfield were going back and forth about this whole basketball thing. We won two out of three we won the state championship.
Speaker 7:We did congratulate them on their region championship.
Speaker 1:Well, you just got a little bigger trophy, that's all.
Speaker 8:At the board meeting. I'm pretty sure your coach was recognized as.
Speaker 1:Palmetto, yes, as Palmetto the.
Speaker 8:Palmetto, yes, you're not getting any recognition.
Speaker 7:No big shout out to Coach Austin Anderson. He's head basketball coach of state champions and Palmetto High Teacher of the Year. Yeah, what is up with that guy?
Speaker 10:He won an award last year too, didn't he win that Channel 4 thing? Yeah, golden Apple, golden Apple.
Speaker 7:And he was a media broadcasting student.
Speaker 8:Correct. Do you know why he's so successful?
Speaker 1:Why? I want to know. He's a Wren graduate. He's a Wren graduate. Oh, here we go, yeah.
Speaker 7:In spite of his Ren graduate. He has done well. He's just winning everything.
Speaker 1:But well, yeah, congratulations to him, though he's a great guy. So we want to have a little competition here. You'll find on the floor there are three pieces of tape. There's a one-point line, a two-point line and a three-point line. Now I'm going to ask you a general knowledge question. If you get it right, uh, you get to take a shot, and we're not going to spend all night on this, we're only going to do it for a few minutes, but somebody's going to win this little basketball competition. Okay, it's not easy to shoot on that thing. It's, uh, it's not not very soft rim that's not regulation, no, it's not um, maybe for holly but but
Speaker 1:not for the rest of us. Okay, so we're going to start with Dr Whitfield here, since he's closest to the field of play. A lot of pressure, all right, and you get to choose. If you get the question right, you get to choose which line you're going to shoot from. Well, actually, okay, we'll give you one warm-up shot so you can kind of get the range and then you take the shot. Okay, all right, and we'll give you one warm-up shot so you can kind of get the range and then you take the shot. Okay, all right, and we'll work this around a couple of times and see who can win the competition, because we have to have a basketball champion here. No more talking back and forth, all right. So let's see if I can actually get to the page with the questions. Not that I have enough paper, got a few trees here. These are bad questions. Name a current judge of American Idol.
Speaker 8:Ooh, ooh, simon Cowell, no.
Speaker 1:Robbie.
Speaker 6:Lou Bryan.
Speaker 1:There you go. Okay, come on up here, you get to shoot a warm-up shot and then the ball's over there. There's a one-point line, right behind me.
Speaker 7:The other two schools are busy participating in athletics, not watching them.
Speaker 1:That's why we're giving Robbie a chance here.
Speaker 8:I'm a voice guy.
Speaker 1:He's going from the three-point line and he is a little bit short.
Speaker 3:Plenty of air under that one.
Speaker 1:Okay, oh, that was your warm-up shot. Plenty of air under that one. Okay, oh, that was your warm-up shot. So now he knows the range he's dribbling.
Speaker 7:He's going back to that three-point line. He's at the three-point line. He's got it. Now it's up. Oh, that was close, much better.
Speaker 1:Take another one. I'll give you three shots, because we don't have time for ours. Build him a new gym. We've. Let's give him one more, one more. No, he doesn't keep getting shots.
Speaker 8:No, I said he gets three shots. He lost. There's clearly favoritism. You don't have to shoot from that line. I'm waiting for team takes.
Speaker 14:And you're listening to Mindful.
Speaker 1:I hit a button as I turned around, sorry.
Speaker 6:Okay, I'll go to this one so did you make it.
Speaker 7:I missed it from the one point rather than go for the three, all right.
Speaker 1:So Robbie Roach with the early lead.
Speaker 8:Who are the other two judges? I literally have no clue Lionel Richie and.
Speaker 1:Katy Perry. Katy Perry is getting ready to leave, but she is a judge right now. All right. The question goes to Dr Lanford now, how many Mission Impossible movies are there? Five.
Speaker 10:No, he was confident, anybody else?
Speaker 1:want to chime in.
Speaker 8:Yeah, there were three that started out, and then I think there's been three after that, so I'm going to go with six.
Speaker 1:No, there's actually one more that just got released this past summer.
Speaker 2:Seven.
Speaker 7:Seven.
Speaker 3:And there's one more that's.
Speaker 1:Oh man, take it easy, I'm trying to help you. You just hit me in the head with a ball.
Speaker 6:All right, that's assault man, I just assaulted him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was assault. Thank goodness I decided to use the Nerf ball, not the pickleball or something. Let's see who. Robbie, who is the most recent actor to play James Bond.
Speaker 8:Oh, I could get that one. Can I steal?
Speaker 6:Pierce Brosnan?
Speaker 2:No, he was a good one though. Yeah, I think you can steal.
Speaker 8:This would be Daniel Craig.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 1:Whitfield, whitfield, you get a warm-up.
Speaker 7:You remind me of Daniel Craig.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm going to read it out for you All right, whitfield, you get a warm-up shot plus three shots from wherever you want to be.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 1:So here we go, mr. Roach is making the pass Robbie Roach trying to keep his one-nothing lead.
Speaker 10:Three-point attempt is now going off the rim.
Speaker 1:Another one. All right, here comes another one Another one, all right, here comes another one. Oh, hit the light these guys are destroying the studio right now, all right.
Speaker 7:And third shot is, oh, a little long.
Speaker 1:All right, he gets one more, though, because one was a warm-up. He missed the one point.
Speaker 7:He just missed it from less than two feet. All right, Robbie Roach is still in the lead.
Speaker 1:This is great Lanford's been shut out so far.
Speaker 3:So let's see if we can get him on the board.
Speaker 7:I know these guys got to go, so hopefully we can. Does this count to Carlisle Point? It's Coach Yarbrough, are you listening?
Speaker 1:Does this count? Okay, what was the name? Dr Lanford? What was the name of the meme that emerged in the weeks leading up to the release of the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies?
Speaker 7:What was the meme name that came out? That was a combination of those two movies.
Speaker 1:I think I know that Barbie-heimer.
Speaker 7:All right, I'm going to give it to you, barbenheimer, that's close enough.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. Let's see if you can get some points on the board. I got to get two points.
Speaker 7:I got to get two points to win. Robbie Roach is tossing a shutout. I'm going to try the three-pointer too, just because we're all here.
Speaker 8:Throw it as hard as you can at it.
Speaker 1:Well, the first shot is a practice, so okay, now he's got the range.
Speaker 8:You can't see it, but he's going with the granny shot approach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he is the old Rick. Barry I got Okay, two more.
Speaker 3:Oh, got one more.
Speaker 1:Got one more chance. Oh, he's going for it, he's going for it. There it is. Oh, lanford with the three. Well, they all had a chance, so I guess that's it right.
Speaker 13:That's it. I mean, we're out of time, so really we have a champion.
Speaker 1:So Powderfield wins the championship. Probably should have counted, it went under him, but hey he went in. So Powderfield wins Palmetto second, wren third. Last, so I'll tell the kids tomorrow in this great basketball tournament what happened, exactly how that works, where all of two shots were made. All right, let's get these recommendations real quick. State games yeah, let's get these recommendations real quick. State games yeah, let's get these recommendations real quick.
Speaker 8:Dr Whitfield, what do you have entertainment-wise for people to check out? I guess book-wise. One of my favorite authors is David Grand Lost City of Z Killers of the Flower Moon. He's got a new book out that I've been reading called the um, oh my gosh, the wager. Okay, it's uh after a british ship that was kind of like wrecked and they were, you know, uh, shipwrecked and kind of about that. Their their story cool. So yeah, it's a wager, the wager yeah okay, david grand, okay, cool um robbie what?
Speaker 6:you got. I would would recommend Full Swing on Netflix. It's a series about kind of chronicling the experience of some professional golfers.
Speaker 1:Really interesting, cool Dr Lanford.
Speaker 7:Something I've really been into is the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. John Ortberg great book. Just trying to you know, in our lives we get into a lot that really just trying to put things in perspective about what's most important, you'd be not John Ortberg. John Mark Comer got the wrong guy in my head and so I would. That's been really happened to me as I've read it recently.
Speaker 1:Cool, cool, the Ruthless. Yeah, all right Now your food recommendations or restaurants, or whatever, dr Whitfield.
Speaker 8:All right, so you talked about downtown Anderson.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 8:All right. So I'm going to give you a breakfast recommendation.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 8:And I'm pretty sure it's owned by the same people as some of Joe's, but it's Mr River's Breakfast Joint. Really, and they're known for their frittatas.
Speaker 7:Really, what's a frittata?
Speaker 8:I figured you would know what it is, being the Powder's Hill principle, but it's kind of like an omelet. But it's not flipped over, it's just like circular.
Speaker 1:It's like a quiche. So it's like an egg pizza.
Speaker 8:No, it's not baked, it's like you cook an omelet.
Speaker 2:It's thin. Yes, it's like thin it's like a crepe.
Speaker 1:No, Not the really thin pancakes.
Speaker 8:All right, so that's again the name of the place. Was what Mr River's Breakfast Joint, All right.
Speaker 2:And does it matter what type of frittata, or do they just have one?
Speaker 8:It varies.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you pick different things Each week. I think.
Speaker 8:I don't think it's daily, but I think each week it varies. But I'm a big breakfast guy. I love, on the weekends going out for breakfast. Okay, because we, you know, we're not like the career center we got kids as soon as we get there.
Speaker 6:So wow um robbie, what you got I'm gonna suggest, um, the scuffle town food truck park. This is over in simpsonville. I was trying to go to a mexican restaurant one and it was packed. And I looked over and there's all these food trucks. I'm like when did this happen? Anyway, there's multiple food trucks. I went to one called Uprooted had a Colombian style hot dog and it was amazing. Wow, what does that?
Speaker 7:mean, is that Colombian style? Is that like?
Speaker 6:from Colombia, South Carolina? No, it was from Colombia. Oh, Colombia Not. Columbia so it was like a deep fried hot dog that you know had like some peppers and some spicy salsa and stuff like that on it, and it was really good though.
Speaker 2:Is that off of Woodruff Road, on the backside of Scumptown?
Speaker 6:No, it's actually in the closer part of Simpsonville. You know, simpsonville kind of is a big spread, but it's over off of Fairview kind of where the Target and all those things are, but it's right beside the Audi, so you're kind of going on down before you get to 385. Scuffletown Food Truck Park. All right?
Speaker 1:Dr Lanford.
Speaker 7:Listen, it's a simple thing. We're in Anderson, so I'm going to go with El Taco. That's the letter. El taco, it's, uh, my man, sergio, at the front doing his thing. It's a a quick order um fresh right next to arnold's, right there.
Speaker 2:Uh, I did, and that they you know, we heard that from somebody else who said that I forget they are, and great people what do you order?
Speaker 7:uh, so I get, I get el gordo. So, if so, if you know, if you know it, if you know your Spanish, you know what that means. If you know me, it makes perfect sense. But that's a quesadilla with a, it's got some carnitas some some steak, some chicken, as well as some beans, some fritos, some rice and then melted cheese and then queso. So it's incredible.
Speaker 7:And then and they, it's like I said, it's cooked you order at the counter, they, they cook it. They have fresh salsa there for you. Great, I mean, it is top of the line.
Speaker 1:So that'd be my that'd be my advice. All good advice will be added to our. We're going to make a whole big website about this in one of these days. We keep talking about it but we've gotten so many great recommendations. Thank you, all three of you guys, for being here tonight closing out the school year. Congratulations on making it another year.
Speaker 1:Thank you all for what you do and a very successful year for all three of the schools Robbie Roach, adam Lanford, kyle Whitfield with us tonight from Palmetto, powdersville and Wren and we thank you for tuning in. The podcast, of course, comes out in a couple of days. You can tell people to listen if they weren't able to listen tonight. And that's our last show of the year.
Speaker 2:That's it, we're done.
Speaker 1:Is Colt coming up? Yeah, he's coming up at the same show as last week, so if you like disco, that's coming up next on the station.
Speaker 7:Mr Roach is actually a huge disco guy Doing a little twirl right now.