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The Boone Show - S5 E5 - Mill Town Players' Will Ragland and SC Comicon Jr.'s Rob Young
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Ever wondered how a community bounces back after a storm wreaks havoc, or what bonds a town together during power outages? Join us on The Boone Show with charismatic guests Rob Young from Borderlands Comics and Games and Pelzer Mayor Will Ragland, the brilliant mind behind the Milltown Players. Discover the heartwarming stories of community spirit during recent blackouts and how Pelzer's resilience shines despite setbacks like losing a handicap-accessible kayak launch. Get a sneak peek into upcoming events, especially the buzz around the much-anticipated Comic-Con Jr. event, where Rob will be showcasing his vibrant comic world.
Feeling the holiday excitement? Tune in as we share the magic of historic restorations and the return of the beloved Pelzer Light People, a whimsical Christmas tradition involving handcrafted light suits. From the friendly rivalry of Pelzer and Williamston's holiday festivities to the chaotic charm of tree-lighting ceremonies, we celebrate the quirks that define our community's festive season.
The stage is set for an exciting theater season with everything from swamp-set whimsical plays to thrilling mystery productions. Theater buffs won't want to miss the Honky Tonk Christmas concert or the thrilling adaptation of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None."
Sports enthusiasts get an update on college and high school football, with reflections on Clemson's season and potential showdowns.
And for those craving more pop culture, dive into the excitement of Comic-Con with stories of legendary guests and mesmerizing cosplay. Stay entertained and informed with The Boone Show, your go-to for dynamic community updates and event previews.
Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Happy to be with you. We've got some great guests today and a normal great co-host, my boss. I get paid to say that, but Holly is here and our guests tonight are a couple of icons in the entertainment industry and veterans on our show yes, in the upstate, and this is the the time that we have them on, because they've got a lot going on.
Speaker 1:And uh, rob young is here and he's uh from borderlands comics and games. Some people know him from that and if you know him from that, you know him from the and if you know him from that, you know him from the other stuff, which is the Comic-Cons, and we have the Comic-Con Jr coming up this weekend. So welcome again to the show.
Speaker 1:Thanks for having me, it's always great to have you, he's always entertaining. And speaking of entertaining, will Ragland is here too, and he, of course, is the Pelzer Mayor and the Executive Artistic Director of Milltown Players.
Speaker 5:You say it so well.
Speaker 1:Milltown Players.
Speaker 5:Milltown Players your home for quality, affordable entertainment.
Speaker 3:Listen to that voice. I know it. I could listen to him all day.
Speaker 1:Listen to that voice Ten years Milltown Players. Yes, sir, it's been ten long years.
Speaker 5:They've done a great job.
Speaker 1:And we'll talk a lot about that, in fact Will. We'll start out with you. The question we ask everybody after the storm is how they're doing, and how did Pelzer do, and how's Pelzer recovering, and all that stuff.
Speaker 5:You know, I think Pelzer made out pretty lucky compared to others in the upstate and beyond. We got our power back pretty quickly. It seemed that we got ours back a little bit quicker than others around us. So I feel very blessed. You know, the historic auditorium is over 100 years old. We were very worried about it but fortunately there's no tall trees around it so we had a big pine tree fall on it, the power line that came to the auditorium. I still have a Leland Cypress in my backyard but we have rented some equipment and our guys are out there every day getting the trees up from public property and putting it by the road, getting ready for the pickup coming up from the county and contractors that they are hiring. So we could have fared a lot worse. So we're counting our blessings for sure. You know that river we're on the Saluda River and it's never flooded like that before. It dumped a lot of sand on our lower boat ramp area and also the kayak launch. It actually took the kayak launch with it of the kayak launch.
Speaker 6:It actually took the kayak launch with it, the handicap access, kayak launch.
Speaker 5:The place where they put in is gone.
Speaker 3:It went over the dam and it's down the river somewhere and you've not recovered it at this point. No, no, we have not. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5:But again counting our blessings.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 1:When you say you have A Leland Cypress, I take it you had more than one before.
Speaker 5:That's right, I'm pretending that just one in my mind I have a Leland Cypress.
Speaker 3:We lost eight in our backyard. There you go Eight Leland Cypresses in our backyard. It's probably a good thing because they're getting diseases. They are, that's right. It's time to pick something else, a different. Evergreen, you always think the good out of things will.
Speaker 1:I know I try something else, a different, evergreen good out of things. Well, I know, I try, I try. Yeah, that's great. Um, while we're on the subject, how'd you do rob we, uh?
Speaker 4:I mean, I guess, like a lot of people, we lost power for I guess it was five, six days or something, and um sell as well yes, we didn't have cell service, even see a cell tower.
Speaker 4:I'm sure the tower lost power, um, and the shop was same way five days, um. But you know, you look at Western North Carolina and I agree with what Will said. I mean we are just so fortunate. It's terrifying. I mean I'm from North Carolina so that kind of part of the country is home for me and it's wild. Wild to see what happened, but kind of inspirational to see how just regular folks have made such a dramatic difference, including people that aren't even from here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know flying in and doing things. You know I said I was so impressed at the neighborhoods because we didn't have power for almost six or seven days.
Speaker 3:And I go outside and the kids are playing outside Right Like they're playing with balls, and they're grouping together and playing games at night with glow sticks and you know like the old days, oh my gosh, it was so incredible and I just literally sat there and watched the kids play because it was beautiful outside and it was incredible for them to be able to get together and talk and do things together.
Speaker 5:It was, it was great Someone told me I didn't know we had this many kids and do things together. It was great. Someone told me I didn't know we had this many kids in.
Speaker 1:Pelzer, isn't that funny.
Speaker 5:They've all been, they've been inside, but we were preparing for our last show and so we were actually rehearsing in the dark. We brought in battery-operated lights and we were building our sets outside, and it was amazing to see the contractors that Duke Energy hired coming in from all over the place and they all came at once and showed up right there, because the auditorium parking lot is the biggest and easiest to get to. So they used our parking lot as the staging area for their work and they were there every day, every night and just nonstop until it was done it was amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, were they allowed to park on the church part of the?
Speaker 7:Sorry Will.
Speaker 2:You'll have to ask Too soon. Too soon, you'll have to answer.
Speaker 3:Too soon, too soon.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. Tell us about what's going on in Pelzer. Put the parentheses around the storm for a minute and tell us what's going on with progress and some of the events that are coming up.
Speaker 5:Sure, you know, we recently, this past year, restored the infield of Bill Hopkins Field, our historic baseball field. It's been there for at least 100 years and that was a big deal, a big source of pride. We had some money from the county and money from the state. As you probably know, we don't have any property taxes in the town of Pelzer so we had some help to restore that infield and the second it was done the very next day kids were out there playing. So we have seen more use of that field than we have in the past at least a decade. And we decided to partner. It was an idea of the Pelzer Masonic Lodge to partner with us to have a fall festival. Now the town of Pelzer has not thrown a fall festival, at least in 10 years, and so we're partnering with them for a free event this coming Saturday at the Bill Hopkins Field right there on Highway 20. And they're calling it the Jack-o'-lantern Jamboree. Isn't that funny at the Jack-o'-lantern Jamboree, isn't that funny?
Speaker 6:It's going to be, this Saturday.
Speaker 5:October the 26th, free admission, live music, food trucks, vendors, kidzone pumpkin decorating contest and a chili cook-off by the Masonic Lodge. I tried to get them to do a fart contest afterwards but they said maybe not this year and it starts at 10 am and it lasts until 4 pm. So 10 am to 4 pm this Saturday. Jack-o'-lantern jamboree.
Speaker 3:Let me know if you have that contest next year. Do you want to judge? Well, I might enter.
Speaker 4:We'll just see, we'll see how it's going.
Speaker 5:It could be a pungent competition.
Speaker 1:Yes, indeed, All right, but that's this Saturday and 10 to 4.
Speaker 5:You got it.
Speaker 1:So head on out to the ball fields. That's great that they have that festival there. Anything else you can tell us about as far as progress building businesses, anything like that? Far as progress building businesses, anything like that.
Speaker 5:I would love to tell you all about that old drugstore at the corner of Courtney Street and Lebby Street. Everyone knows that old drugstore and the family has been working on it for probably two and a half years now and they're getting very close to opening this fall and they're going to start as a coffee shop. It is two sisters and they've been doing this for years and they do a great job. But it's going to grow into a cafe, which we're very excited about. But it's a family the Walters family working on this and Callie Walters lives in town and even serves on our planning commission and it's a piece of history. They've been restoring it and it's going to start out as a coffee shop and I can't wait for that to happen.
Speaker 5:And, as you know, we're also still working on those historic restoration projects of the old hospital and the community building. I actually got a text today from the historic consultant. He's looking at paint chips that he has taken off of the community building to see what color it used to be, and so it's going to be like a cream color with some hunter green trim and a silver metal roof. That building they believe of course it was originally a skating rink, possibly back in the 1890s, which makes it, according to him, the oldest freestanding skating rink left in the state.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow.
Speaker 5:So we're excited about that, and we recently presented architectural plans for the restoration of the old hospital, which will be our future town hall. Very cool, yeah, I saw the pictures of that in hospital, which will be our future town hall.
Speaker 3:Very cool yeah, I saw the pictures of that in the paper or online.
Speaker 1:somewhere I saw them. It looks really nice really nice.
Speaker 1:We're going to switch the schedule a little bit here because Will's got to leave a little early. So we're going to save Rob a little bit and we're going to keep going with Will here. Tell us about, well, first Christmas. I know it's still a little bit, and we're going to keep going will here, uh, tell us about, well, first christmas. I know it's still a little bit away, but are we going to get lit again this christmas? I need to know, I need to know, oh, lord he in case you're all wondering what he just asked.
Speaker 5:he's talking about the world-famous original Pelzer-like people and yes, of course they will be back out and they will be getting lit in Pelzer. I don't have their schedule yet, but they have been touring the upstate every year and visiting retirement centers and other places and hospitals for children. And it's an upstate tradition since the early 90s and we're very proud to keep it going. And these are the original Pelzer Light people, the original.
Speaker 3:Or at least the offspring of the original Pelzer Light person, because not anybody can just do this. You have to kind of no. It's almost like a Pelzer mafia.
Speaker 5:And if you try, they will find you on their golf carts and take you down.
Speaker 1:Well, didn't you try? You've tried, right.
Speaker 5:I did, but they invited me, Okay, you have to be invited, Right right. And you have to make your own light suit by hand. There's a certain way to do it, and if you do it wrong, you may not be invited back Exactly.
Speaker 3:And if you do it wrong, you may not be invited back.
Speaker 5:Exactly, it involves a lot of safety pins I wore I think it was 2020, I made mine out of a jumpsuit and I was wearing 600. Christmas lights just on the front.
Speaker 3:Is there a minimum? You can't sit down on them, you know Right. Is there a minimal, like you have to have between 500 and 1,000?
Speaker 5:There's not a quota, but, as always, more is more.
Speaker 1:More is more, yes, and of course, pelser West Pelser will have the nighttime parade again, or we?
Speaker 5:could just call it the Pelser Parade, that's fine.
Speaker 1:That's okay, we can do that. It's going to be one of the first Saturdays in December and you know that you have now had that effect on Williamston, as they are having a night parade this year as well. Well, you know.
Speaker 5:Williamston, you know you've got to hand it to them. I mean, what do they say?
Speaker 1:Flattery is the what is it the sincerest form of what Imitation? That's it Imitation.
Speaker 5:Sincerest form of flattery.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 5:That's right, and they've done a great job of stealing all of our great ideas. But I did put my foot down when they wanted to have people dress up in lights. I said, listen, that's ours, and so I think, they dressed up as snowflakes or something silly like that. I'm sure it looked great, but they're doing a great job. They've got a lot of great people over in Williamston. They've got money to spend. They've got Envision Williamston. They've got taxes.
Speaker 6:They have everything we wish we had and more.
Speaker 5:But we're Poe and we're proud dang it in Pelzer South.
Speaker 1:Kakalaki. So two nighttime parades. Hopefully they're not on the same night.
Speaker 5:That would not be right. That almost happened. I think it was last year. I was like hold up we can't be doing this.
Speaker 3:So when is your parade? Because theirs is December 1st.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think I wish you. I want to say ours is the 7th, Okay.
Speaker 1:That would make sense. It's always the first Saturday, right?
Speaker 5:They do this great thing Winter Wonderland, they spray a bunch of fake snow on your face. And then Rocky Burgess gets out there at the tree lighting ceremony with his phone and it never turns on Never works. He talks about that when he comes on too. It's the running joke.
Speaker 1:We love it. It's like Christmas vacation.
Speaker 5:Listen, I'd be disappointed if it did work, that's right. You know, I was like come on, it wouldn't be the same. You've got tradition there, give us the countdown and then mess up.
Speaker 3:And please, as technology savvy as he is, let that be the tradition, and every year he gets so bent out of shape.
Speaker 5:Christmas is a giving time. It's a time of forgiveness. So please screw up. We expect it. Give us the opportunity to give you some Christmas grace for your mistakes.
Speaker 1:Come on. He said after the first time he's going to do all this different stuff and put all these different things in.
Speaker 5:When you've got a thousand people with cell phones filming it standing around the tree, that's true, I mean you've got to give them a break.
Speaker 4:The tree gets shy. That's true I mean you've got to give them a break. Well, the tree gets shy.
Speaker 3:That's right, oh yeah Right. So many people feel scared, but I will say every other town around here has some kind of a fake tree they put up.
Speaker 5:Right. We planted a tree, we have a Christmas tree that's in the ground and growing, and whenever the wind blows over all the other fake Christmas trees, I just have to chuckle and say, well, ours doesn't blow over, because it's real, okay.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that.
Speaker 5:One other little fact about Pelzer, and it's a little tree because you know we couldn't afford a big one.
Speaker 2:Charlie Brown. So give me about 10 years, this will look great All right, moving right along.
Speaker 1:Let's shift gears. Talk about the Milltown Players we mentioned. They've been around for 10 years. It's the 11th season.
Speaker 7:Yes, it's been a long, long time.
Speaker 1:Yes, you just finished the show, which is a pretty popular comedy. We did it was awesome.
Speaker 5:Yes, we had the best time with the Sugar Bean Sisters. It was such a weird play, which is why I loved it. It had some great one-liners. It was set in a Florida swamp and I've got nothing to spoil because it's over. At the end of it, the final sister boards a spaceship.
Speaker 3:Oh my.
Speaker 5:God. And it's taking it out into the universe and I got to build a boarding ramp that we lowered and was all lit up. Oh cool From the side of the stage and she climbed up it and we closed, closed it and we're playing 2001 space odyssey. Everybody was cheering like clemson to just score a touchdown, you know. But the best part is they thought it was over. And then it's the old one too. You hit him with the second thing. And what? Do you use a drone?
Speaker 5:oh, we had a remote control drone flying saucer in the background along the sky. You know, connected with a sound, so when it's like you hear this, it just flies. It was a double whammy. That's cool, it's like. Clemson scoring a touchdown and going for two, yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1:That is incredible.
Speaker 5:And a Palmetto student was back there on crew operating the drone. So she created the magic. It was pretty awesome.
Speaker 3:How cool is that. That's great. Not surprised, though. Will Just not surprised.
Speaker 4:The day the swamp stood still. That's right.
Speaker 1:That's the thing about the sets are always amazing. They are, we go for it.
Speaker 5:I Sets are always amazing. They are. We're crazy, we go for it, I love it. I mean our obsession with detail and getting it right and research and you know you've done it right. When people just walk up to the stage and just stare at it for a long time and point and take pictures and talk about what they see and they just can't believe it, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Very cool. So then you've got the Honky Tonk Christmas A Honky Tonk, christmas A Honky Tonk.
Speaker 5:Christmas I'm sorry, a Honky Tonk Christmas. This is a themed concert. People love our themed concerts, especially at Christmas, and so we have put together some really talented local country singers and a live band and we're going to have a big old barn Honky Tonk set and we're doing all of these classic Christmas tunes. There's no dialogue, it's not a review, it's just a concert, and we spend a lot of time curating these set lists so that we think that our audiences will get the most out of it. And there's a lot of classic country. There's some newer stuff and it's exactly what our audiences love that we give them at Christmas, and so we're very excited about that, excited to jump into rehearsals and release that cast list. It's going to be lots of fun.
Speaker 1:All right and keeping the variety going, then you've got an Agatha Christie.
Speaker 5:I think her friends called her Agatha.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure, possibly. And then there were none.
Speaker 5:Let me tell you, we've never done a mystery before, really, and when I looked this up I was like, ooh, it's a dark thriller and one of her most famous I think it's the most famous mystery that she ever wrote the book that is. And we're so excited about this one, I thought let's try something different and new, and auditions are December the 7th and we're getting a lot of response from upstate actors who are signing up to audition for slots, and so if anybody out there is interested in being in an Agatha Christie dark thriller, oh man, now's your chance. That's going to be in February.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did have a question about auditions because somebody had asked me to ask you. But are they open for people that don't have experience to try out as?
Speaker 5:well, absolutely. We so often will cast a wide variety of actors with varying degrees of experience, and I have cast people with no experience before and lead roles because I knew they could do it. And that's one of the many exciting things about community theater is that it is for and by your community, and so our auditions are open to anybody who wants to try it out. And you never know, you might get a part or you might not, and so keep on trying and see what happens. And if we do precast a role, we always include that in the audition notice to say you know, here are the available roles and this role has already been cast. And sometimes we do that if it's something special or we want to feature a special actor who's worked with us a long time, and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as you are upfront about it at the beginning.
Speaker 1:Do you have these announcements posted on your website or anywhere?
Speaker 5:We do it's? If you get our website, which is just milltownplayersorg, there's an auditions page and the most recent information is posted there.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, all right, then you've got some more music coming up in the spring. Yes, sir Wave.
Speaker 5:Yeah, motown, but you skipped one part of the concert series.
Speaker 1:Oh, the concert series, okay, separately.
Speaker 5:It is a crooners concert called Come Fly With Me. I love the music of Frank Sinatra and all those guys back then. I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time, so we thought we'd try it out in mid-March to see how it took with our audiences. I think it will do well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, certainly, and then Motown.
Speaker 5:Motown, we're calling it Heat Wave. You know, we've done this very successful themed concert called Under the Boardwalk, which is, of course, beach music, and every time folks say this is awesome, how about a Motown show? I mean over and over and over. So finally we're giving them exactly what they want with a full-blown Motown concert in April Nice.
Speaker 1:And then the Odd.
Speaker 5:Couple, the Odd Couple another classic, and that was a choice based on a survey. We put out a big old survey to our patrons and that was one that they picked they wanted to see for the comedies. And of course Neil Simon, probably his most famous comedy, and I've got my good buddy, reed Halverson, who's great at Neil Simon, to direct that in June. It's going to be a lot of fun. And then South Pacific. Let me tell you I am most excited about that one. That's our giant summer musical. That show has not been done around here in a long time. I've never seen it performed around here and I think now is the time.
Speaker 5:Our people love the big classic American musicals because they're classic for a reason because they're so daggum good. No one writes musicals today the way they used to, the kind of tunes that stay with you in your head over and over and over. Back then a famous musical would come out and the record, the album, would be like the number one album in the country, even with pop music. You know they would buy it. Things like Fiddler on the Roof, you know that sort of thing, the Music man. So we're excited about that. And then, of course, in August we're bringing back a local Elvis impersonator, austin Irby from Honeyapath. He is so good.
Speaker 3:He is so good.
Speaker 5:And our people love him. He does this full time nationally and he did our Christmas show last year we called it Blue Christmas where he sang a bunch of Elvis Christmas tunes.
Speaker 3:It was incredible.
Speaker 5:And then this time we thought, okay, I've got this set for South Pacific, how about we do something having to do with Aloha from Hawaii or Blue Hawaii? And so we're taking those songs and creating something that we're calling Rock-A-Hula, rock-a-hula, rock-rock-a-hula. Put on your grass skirts and your coconut bras and come on down to Pelzer.
Speaker 1:All right, so tell people how they can get tickets, and you have a lot of different season ticket type things as well.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah, we have the best deal you can find anywhere. I challenge you to find a better deal. Two things that we specialize in quality and affordability. That's been our mission from day one. We're going to stick to it, even to our own detriment we don't even care. So we give you the best show we possibly know how and for the cheapest ticket we possibly can and right now it's only $16 and $14 for seniors and students and military and season tickets have been on sale for a while now.
Speaker 5:You can get a good deal if you want to see them all. We've already had a couple shows already, but we don't sell all the single tickets at once. We wait. So, for example, when a Honky Tonk Christmas opens on, that opening night is when the single tickets for and Then there Were None will go on sale. But if people want to go ahead and get their seats now for the rest of the season, they can. Middletownplayersorg. Our phone number is easy to remember 947-8000. 947-8000. 947-8000. 947-8000, right? Or you can just show up and talk to Crystal with a K in the box office and she will hook you up for quality, affordable entertainment.
Speaker 1:Oh, that sounds great.
Speaker 3:You do a great job he's so entertaining.
Speaker 5:I'm stupid.
Speaker 1:Well, you've got to be in that field.
Speaker 2:He's a stupidest creator, you've got to be crazy to do it right, that's right.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:For $14 and $16.
Speaker 5:Well, let me tell you if you think that's expensive, you're crazy, because locally produced plays in Greenville right now oh my, I went to see the last one at Greenville Theater $50.
Speaker 3:And Juliet.
Speaker 5:I saw that at the Peace Center for 90 bucks.
Speaker 3:That was a dag.
Speaker 5:It was worth 90 bucks. I'm talking about locally produced shows, right when it's a nonprofit theater. As you know, it's tough, because I believe that community theater can be transformative and that everyone should be able to experience it. And so that's why we do what we do, so that we are economically accessible to anybody. If they want to see a show, they can Like. Your meal that you eat before or after our show will be more expensive than your ticket, right.
Speaker 1:That's true, all right, we're going to take a quick timeout, will? You can stay with us as long as you'd like to Be part of the conversation. I know you've got another meeting to get to and we'll talk to Rob coming up and of course, we have to sour the day with talking to.
Speaker 6:Zach about.
Speaker 1:Clemson football because he has a contract with this show.
Speaker 3:It should be a good conversation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for once. I mean, the last time we talked to him was like after the Georgia game.
Speaker 3:Let's just forget about that game.
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Speaker 1:We're back. We are back. Yeah, I said it and then I said it again Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio, will Raglin, of course, giving you all the ins and outs of the Milltown players in the midst of season number 11. Time flies so much. I remember when he was teaching over palmetto oh yeah and I taught my son over there that's what got him interested in doing drama and such and then had this wild idea to start milltown players. And now, 10 years later, it's crazy, madeline Madeline.
Speaker 3:when she was little she used to do their little summer camps. It's just incredible what they have developed and what they've done. If you haven't had a chance to go see it, every show that I've ever seen has been incredible and you either laugh through it or you enjoy it, or people singing through it. It's just well, well worth it. And you know he used to be even cheaper.
Speaker 4:They just had to go up because, because everything else has gone up yeah, I think I want to go to that motel show.
Speaker 3:I'm telling you, other shows are great. Everything that we've seen there is top notch, super, super great.
Speaker 1:It's incredible yeah, but I want to see the uh, the agatha, agatha I did it again, I know, agatha christie, the eggs, the eggs I want to see the eggs, not the Texas A&M eggs. What, what? You pushed the wrong button, puggles. I think he's on, you think he's on. Let's go to the phone line. Zach, are you there? Sorry, I'm here. All right, I'm sorry. The youngster over there is back in the studio.
Speaker 7:It brings back memories of years ago. Um, how you doing, buddy doing good, man doing good. Hey, I just want to say something before I get started you talking about uh being sour during the moment? Yeah, here we go. I do listen, by the way dang I forgot it's hey, clemson football's a lot better talk about them, phillies baseball right, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right about that you know, but it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're running out of time, but seriously, I mean, the last time we talked to you was after the Georgia game, I think, and now you haven't lost since then and finally it's like the switch went on and the offense started producing. And explain to me what happened.
Speaker 7:I believe, in all honesty, clemson walked into that game. I said Clemson was going to win because that's just how much confidence I have in Dabas when he gets his team ready, and that's just how much confidence I have in Clemson. I mean, you know, I just thought maybe they were just going to come in because all everybody thought about was Waipo Dix, the former quarterback at Auburn and Oregon grew up and I figured Cade was going to grow up and I think, personally, clemson walked into that game knowing they were going to lose and I think Cade was intimidated, I think the offensive line was intimidated and I think it ticked a bunch of people off because I mean, kade said in one of his post game uh, interviews he said, man, be honest with you, it ticked me off and uh, I've never lost a game like that, never lost a game like that. And I mean you see what, what it can do. But the thing is it's got to keep going and it seems like they're getting better and better every week. I mean cage making better decisions.
Speaker 7:You know he he made a terrible, terrible mistake in the interception on saturday but that's going to happen. I mean, I remember freshman phenom trevor lawrence spiking the ball on fourth down and dabo chewed him up one side, down the other. It's going, things like that are going to happen. But if you're going to win championships, you've got to beat elite teams and georgia, as we've seen, saturday night, is elite. I'm nervous, especially about the virginia tech game. I'm nervous about the pit game. Um, you know, because they're undefeated. They're on the road. Kate has showed he can play well on the road, but he's got to keep it consistent and we'll see. I I mean South Carolina's looking good, south Carolina's looking good. They come in and caused us not to make the playoffs, you know, two years ago.
Speaker 7:We had a Clemson had a what a 40-something game win streak at home and South Carolina was the last team I thought would end that streak and they did. And I mean, you know, and then last year clemson calls them not to go to a bowl game, you know, and, and anybody can be beaten any given saturday, that's right, there's still some games, especially this year, it's has been so unpredictable, uh.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you guys got the, you got the buy this week. And then even louisville, uh, I mean that game with miami was unbelievable, the back and forth in that game, but they can put up some points. And then of course, pitt, which has gotten clemson in the past, uh, and then you know um who else you got there. Then you got, oh, virginia tech. That's who I was leaving out. You never know because are you on the road for that one?
Speaker 7:Yes, yeah, yeah, you get to hear.
Speaker 1:Sandman, though that's pretty cool. And then, of course, the Citadel is always very, very tough.
Speaker 7:Yeah, especially against teams down towards the coast.
Speaker 1:They always like to beat teams down towards the coast, but seriously, you never know this year, so they just got to keep it going and you know the good thing about them lately is that you've you've gotten more confidence in them and with that offense because even the other day when they got behind early, it's like you didn't feel like this was going to snowball anymore. It's like you knew they had enough offense. They come back and they wound up blowing them out. So so the attitude has totally changed around the program.
Speaker 7:Holly, have you ever been to Virginia Tech?
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, chicken Hill. I was on Chicken Hill when we tailgated.
Speaker 7:I have always wanted to go. That was on my road trip list this year, but things happened and I talked to the boss and she said only one this year and I chose Luke Vars. So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1:Why'd you do that?
Speaker 7:I'm hoping to go to the South Carolina game this year, so I'm saving up for South Carolina and that's the best atmosphere in college football. I mean to be honest with you, that's a very, very good atmosphere is the Clemson-Carolina game.
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 7:But to switch things from college to high school, wren's looking good. Wren is looking very good. You know they lost to a TL Hanna team. Tl Hanna seems to have their number the past few years, but we make our mistakes when we play TL Hanna. But down the stretch it's going to be tough.
Speaker 1:They should beat Southside this week, then it's Westside. That's for the region.
Speaker 7:Yeah, westside will be for the region and then they'll play, of course, emerald, because it was during a storm and of course they'll play Emerald. But Westside looks like it's going to be for the region and I've never been to Westside. Has Westside lost?
Speaker 1:No, they have not, they're undefeated.
Speaker 7:They lost. I believe it was the opening game last year to BHP, I think it was, and they have not lost since.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 7:So I'm looking forward to that. I've talked to a contractor at work. His son plays for Wren and they're kind of going into that game like I said about Clemson and Georgia intimidated. They don't think they have a chance. High school is like college. I know it's two different leagues, but anybody can be beaten any given time any given time. So that's what's making this college football 12 team play off a lot of fun.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah.
Speaker 7:Because can a two-loss team get in? Can a three-loss team get in? You know, I mean it's just Clemson. I think, personally, clemson's got to win out to get in, because they lost at the beginning of the year. So that loss of course don't mean as much as it would have with a 14 playoff Right Right, but it's especially who they lost to because, like you said, Georgia's restored themselves, restored order with their big win.
Speaker 7:You know you were. Well, you were talking about anybody can be beaten and about how it's shaped. But look at Alabama.
Speaker 3:I was going to say and look when it happened the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 7:Right, and then Tennessee, tennessee, usually putting up 50, 60 points a game. They're putting up only like 20. You know so, but we'll see. I'm looking forward to it. It should be good. It should be good, it should be fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's good to have that uncertainty. It makes it a lot more fun.
Speaker 7:Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 1:Who are you pulling for in the World Series before I get out of here? I don't know. You know I'm one of those. I like good baseball. These are two very good baseball teams just looking for some good games. Now rob over, here is a big dodgers fan. Yeah, tried to true blue, so we know who he's rooting for I would I?
Speaker 7:I want that. I can't stand the yankees. I don't like the yankees, but I really wanted freddie friedman's only world series to be with the braves. But if I've got to pick somebody to pull for, I'm gonna pull for uh, the dodgers yeah, the yankees don't need another championship.
Speaker 4:No, they don't, and Freddie can limp around and get another one.
Speaker 7:If you come out and say you're pulling for the Dodgers because they're in the National League, like my dad likes to do, you pull for your conference. That's like pulling for the devil because he's in the Bible.
Speaker 4:That's a good one. It's on me.
Speaker 7:Well, listen, listen, I will let y'all go. I don't want to take up too much more of your time if you cuss me out before I come on the air. But y'all take care, hey, and if you know anybody, mr Boone, with a parking pass to the South Carolina game, I got you.
Speaker 3:I got you. Zach, again, I got you.
Speaker 1:Do you know where it is. It's the only reason why he stays on the show is to get these parking passes, you believe?
Speaker 7:so.
Speaker 3:I believe, so you text me.
Speaker 7:Okay, I will, I'll leave you unread. Yeah, I know, I know you will.
Speaker 1:She does it to me all the time. Hey, y'all, take care, all right, I'll talk to y'all next time and go tigers, all right. Thank you, zach howard, our resident clemson slash red fan. He's a nut, but he's, he's fun to have on um. You know, holly, that metallica is doing a concert at virginia tech's stadium on their next tour, as kind of you know, because of the fact that Enter Sandman is their big entrance music.
Speaker 6:That's really awesome.
Speaker 1:Because they're going to all the giant stadiums but then they're going to Virginia Tech to do a concert for them.
Speaker 3:It's a beautiful campus.
Speaker 1:It looks like it I've seen the pictures.
Speaker 3:It's just gorgeous.
Speaker 4:It's funny, my son was at that Wake Forest game.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Me and a couple of his buddies rode up. They sat on the 30-yard line about I think he said 15 rows from the field for like $60.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow.
Speaker 4:I said how'd you do that? I didn't ask, I was like whatever, Good job.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Enjoy your game, I don't know how you pulled that off. The Wake Forest fans have given up.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, I think so All right, we're working on a stadium too. That's my hometown. Yeah, I'm from Winston-Salem. Krispy Kreme.
Speaker 4:Home of Krispy Kreme.
Speaker 3:You can go to the stadium and get Krispy Kreme donuts in the stadium. Remember that, madeline. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:She just woke up. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Whatever you said, I'll tell you what I saw there. That's completely off topic, but at Wake Forest in the late 80s I went to a exhibition tennis tournament there and the three people in the tournament that you would know who were kids they were like 17, 18, were Michael Chang, andre Agassi and Pete Sampras Wow, oh, my At Wake. It was pretty fun, and the next year Chang came back and won the event at might have been 16, maybe 17. And a few months later, won the French Open.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow.
Speaker 4:That's when he upset Yvonne Lindahl and beat Stefan.
Speaker 1:Edberg in the final Crazy, and there really hasn't been too many male tennis players since then that have done a whole lot. That seemed to be the glory era it really was.
Speaker 4:We also had courier too, and there's a real famous story. Jim courier told where he, sampras and agassi were on a golf course together playing golf, and this lady came over and she wanted to talk to all of them, take their pictures, and he said, ma'am, I you know we were all okay players, but if you want to talk to the best tennis player within 1,000 miles, you should probably go talk to the lady over there with the baby carriage, because it was Agassi's wife, steffi Graf. Yeah, and he was really cool, he went. You should probably go talk to her.
Speaker 6:She won like 24 Grand Slams.
Speaker 1:You should probably go talk to Steph.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was a pretty fun story.
Speaker 1:I always kind of wondered what happened to their kids. Or kid, or kid how many kids do they have? But you figure they had some great athletic genes.
Speaker 3:You know they have to Between Steph and.
Speaker 4:Andre she was amazing. You know she won a Grand Slammer last year when she retired, so it's not like she couldn't have kept going Right.
Speaker 3:And their kids got to be adults or real close to it, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're really. They've kept their life pretty quiet.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they've been very private about it, which is kind of stuffy right, she's not a very out there person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, anyway, we didn't come here to talk about tennis, but but I always will. There you go. But Rob Young, of course, is the guy that puts together with his wonderful wife, michelle, absolutely Puts together the Comic-Cons. And this week is the Comic-Con Junior, the smaller version, and it happens this coming Sunday at the Greenville Convention Center. So what do we got planned for this year's show?
Speaker 4:I should probably get together and put that together, shouldn't I?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you're running out of time.
Speaker 4:It's getting a little tight. Michelle's probably got it. Yeah, she's done something, I think.
Speaker 3:I'm sure she has. Yeah, you need to bring her one time with you. Yeah, we always have it on when she's busy, just comes, she doesn't have to talk.
Speaker 1:No, this isn't media stuff, this is just a conversation.
Speaker 4:I think she'll do great. That's honestly what I think.
Speaker 3:This is how to start. Is on this.
Speaker 4:We'll get her to do it. We'll get her to do it for April.
Speaker 3:Great, I'll tell her I need her for moral support.
Speaker 4:There you go, it's all right. Surprised, you're. Okay, we got this. So this year we have a pretty big guest list because the one-day show it's about 40,000 square feet, so size-wise it's still pretty big. It's not nearly as big as the big one because that's pushing 200,000 square feet, but we do have guests. So this year we have joe godet, who is, uh, five nights at freddy's, among a lot of other stuff too.
Speaker 4:Eric roberts uh, you know, dark knight, best of the best. But something people don't realize is he's the only american to play the master on doctor, who to play the big bad guy? Because when it was on fox they ran a short thing on fox back in the 90s he was the master. So that's kind of cool Wrestler-wise. We've got Hacksaw, jim Duggan, we've got Lex Luger, but the big one is we have the big red machine, kane Kane, the mayor, and he is a super nice guy. We had him gosh maybe three years ago and he came in to help us out. We were supposed to have the Hardy Boys and we were supposed to have the Hardy Boys and we were supposed to have Rebby and their daughter, or Matt's daughter, and they got booked for an event in I believe it's in Canada for TNA Wrestling, and so they'll be there this weekend and super happy for them. They're really nice people. So Kane was just super cool, said he'd help us out and fill in, and boy, what an awesome fill in right.
Speaker 4:And then, from a comic standpoint, we have Wilfredo Torres, who's an incredible artist, worked for Marvel, dc, worked on the adaptation of Superman 78, the Christopher Reeve stuff and his art's incredible Kelly Yates, kind of the Doctor who artist. Anybody who's been to met Kelly Dan Fraggle will be there. And not only is he a big comic artist he helped found Image with Rob Liefeld and all those guys but he's also a storyboard artist for the Doom Patrol TV show. I believe he was directing the Little Mermaid cartoon, so he's done a lot of really neat stuff. It's a little different. He's a really fun guy to talk to. Bill Goyer, who works for Archie, actually is local and he's been writing and drawing for Archie, I think it's 30 years.
Speaker 4:Oh wow, and really great guy, super laid back, really good folks. So, on top of vendors coming from all over, we're going to do free trick-or-treating. Kids 12 and under are free period. It's not per paying adult, it's just 12 and under free. In the conversation we just want to keep it easy for folks.
Speaker 3:And the kids need to come dressed up.
Speaker 4:They can.
Speaker 3:They can.
Speaker 4:They can if they want to Just bring their bags. We'll have candy. We'll have little signs on the vendors that are participating in trick-or-treat that's not for everybody, but most of them do and tickets are $15. Speaking of keeping it inexpensive, we feel like that's super cheap for an event that's 40,000 square feet. I mean, you can spend all day in there.
Speaker 1:How much bigger is it now? Has it grown over last year?
Speaker 4:Yeah, there's definitely more guests. It's kind of funny. I know it sounds cheesy and it's probably not the best business choice, but we have kept this the exact same size and the same layout that we did for our first show.
Speaker 7:Okay.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow. So Junior is a little love letter to that first show.
Speaker 1:Nice, nice. And you spoke of the kids, and I was reading somewhere that there seems to be a trend in the comic book industry towards kids. Now there's more marketing towards them not like it's all there, but more marketing towards them than there had been in a while?
Speaker 4:Sure, I think it's. So the terms we use are floppies and trades right. So the trades are what you see in the library and floppies is what we think of as a traditional comic right, something that's only 20, 25 pages, whereas the trade is the thicker book that maybe has 100, 150 pages. Young graphic novels is a huge market. Dog man may be the best-selling graphic novel in America. Every time it comes out it's over a million copies, I think, or it pushes toward that, and I mean we order full displays like we're a Barnes, noble or something, and they all sell. So yeah, I think it is in some ways. I think it's with the realization that all of this electronics isn't necessarily healthy. Sometimes Folks are trying to push their kids to read more to what we were saying about being outside, so we're trying to get them to read more books. So I think it's definitely something that's working.
Speaker 1:Well, that's cool. I also read in the same article did a little research on Comic-Cons and how they're put together. But another marketing thing that they're trying, and maybe some of the bigger ones I was just wondering what your opinion was, as maybe not for Comic-Con Junior but for the big Comic-Con is Easter eggs and some types of fan interaction and stuff like that Surprise. Have you thought about those kind of things?
Speaker 4:So one of the things I feel like is people should know what they're getting. And you know you're paying your money to go to an event and I don't want it to be. I don't know what's going to be there. So I don't like that model. I want you to understand what you're paying for and I get it. And some people like it.
Speaker 4:Like mystery boxes are a big thing. People love buying mystery boxes because it's fun. It's that gambling aspect of it. But it's just like when Whatnot came out back during COVID, I was called multiple times by people from that company before they launched, trying to get us on whatnot, because they were watching our Facebook Lives, apparently, and really liked how we did it, because we were doing these Facebook Live sales during COVID and I said you guys run an auction model and that's just not what I want to do, because I feel like if somebody during COVID and they've got some extra money and they're sitting at home, they spend too much money, it's almost like they're going to blame us right, I didn't get what I wanted or get out of the hobby, and that's not what I wanted.
Speaker 4:So we, you know, there's things like that where you just have a difference of a of how you want to do. It doesn't mean what they're doing is wrong, right, it's not. You're not comfortable with.
Speaker 1:It seems like everybody uses san diego as the the big, uh comic con.
Speaker 4:Right, that's the one that kind of tries to model after well in, I mean do you go out to all these big ones? I've been out to San Diego We've been fortunate enough to be panelists out there and do panels for different things, and it is uncomfortable. The number of people I can't really get across what it's like. It's more people than Death Valley.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, wow.
Speaker 4:Right, like when you really start talking, that's 90,000 people yeah. There's that, most it's more than that. Yeah, um, it's, it's awkward and I, for me, I don't know that that's the experience we would ever want, but, granted, we, we struggle with the logistics in our facility. Now, right, we, we, we can't get much bigger. Um, but for those, you've also got like NBC setting up and ABC setting up and movie studios setting up, and it's really not about comics and affordable entertainment, it's about them pushing whatever project they're trying to push.
Speaker 4:The movies and all that.
Speaker 1:And I don't blame them.
Speaker 3:I mean, they're out there in Hollywood. We're all making money. It's a great event.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and we appreciate the ability to go when we do, but for us that model doesn't work for what we do. So I guess it's just different. You know what I mean. It's just more of a fun thing locally than what they do, but it is a crazy spectacle, I'm telling you. When you go it's wild they will buy out areas behind hotels facing it and they'll wrap like we think of wrapping a car.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw pictures.
Speaker 4:I saw pictures they wrap hotels. It's crazy but it's wild. I mean, it's an experience to do and anybody that thinks it would be fun it's worth doing once. Like some of those things like would you do it again?
Speaker 4:so I've had people go like it's a little much, but I'm glad I did it. Like one year we were there and they had a giant head of the tick you know that funny show, yeah, oh, and the antenna were moving and bobbing and the eyes I mean it was crazy. I don't know what they spent on that, but it was pretty fun.
Speaker 3:We actually had a Clemson game down in Atlanta one of the first seasons a long time ago. Gosh, my son, who's 25 now, was teeny, tiny, he was probably seven or eight and we walked into Atlanta and they were having a Comic Con and it was amazing.
Speaker 4:Dragon Con. Dragon Con is what it was, dragon Con. It was set up there.
Speaker 3:And it was incredible to see the number of participants and the people that were in it, which is a little different.
Speaker 4:Yes, it is. That is the best cosplay in America.
Speaker 3:Dragon Con. It's Dragon Con For sure, really A hundred percent.
Speaker 4:Yeah, every show I've ever been to, the best cosplay is at Drive-In. Yeah, I know a lot of people that just go there for that just for cosplay? Yeah, that is a fantastic show and it's a very different show.
Speaker 3:And you don't dabble into that.
Speaker 4:I don't cosplay, no, my wife got me to dress up as Hellboy one year for a Halloween party at the store. You can find those pictures on Borderlands Facebook, I'm sure. So she managed to get me to do it one time and I was like that's great. So I did it. I don't have to do anymore that was it yeah, I'm not. I've never been a dress-up person, but my gosh, we have some people that come that do such amazing jobs that I end up getting selfies with them.
Speaker 1:So because they're so awesome, yeah, yeah they're so awesome it's the number one place to go people watching is at the. Comic-cons and you're right, some of the work people put into their costumes. It's amazing. It's incredible, absolutely amazing. Okay, so how do people get tickets? And there's one thing about parking that Michelle's been pushing to make sure everybody understands, yeah, so there's a couple things.
Speaker 4:Make sure you bring a credit card. The building is not taking cash for parking. Parking is like $10. I mean, literally it has been $5 for. I don't know, 20 years $10 is totally reasonable, especially if you go downtown or travel at all, absolutely, we had to pay $75 to park in Chicago one time when we were up there.
Speaker 4:But yeah, $10. Bring your credit card to do that. Show up early the advice I can always give people. For heaven's sake, show up early. Would you rather wait on a thing before it opens or after it's opened? That's the advice I always give and tickets can be bought at fccomicconcom. Swing by the shop and buy them. If you buy them now, we can give you your wristband. So you can just hop right in or buy them at the door.
Speaker 4:I mean it's moving pretty quick and it's not the size of the other show, so it's fine People can get in okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, let's talk about the store for a minute. What's going on? Tell us about some of the big trends that are down there and what you do at the store. We haven't really talked about this the last couple of times you've been on, but you've got all kinds of things happening there.
Speaker 3:There's games. There's all kinds of games.
Speaker 4:We were just really fortunate we had. So there's games like Magic and Pokemon that people are familiar with. There's also a Star Wars card game. It's brand new. The third set's going to be coming out soon.
Speaker 4:We have pre-release for that on November 1st, where you get kind of a teaser and a special event. But we just had a they call it a planetary qualifier. This past Saturday Only 20 stores in North America were allowed to have one and we were just blessed and fortunate because we're not normally the scale that this was going to be. We don't normally run card events that big, so they trusted us scale that this was going to be. We don't normally run card events that big, so they trusted us. Almost 100 people came and traveled from North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida to come play. It ran like butter. We were super happy with how the event ran and it did really well and got a bunch of good reviews.
Speaker 4:So a lot of things like that are going on. We've got some Dungeons Dragons stuff coming up also on November 1st. A Pokemon meetup on November 3rd. There's a Trick or Treat Magic, the Gathering Dusk Morn event this Friday starting at 6. So a lot of gaming things like that going on in the shop. The game space is always open. It's always first come, first serve.
Speaker 4:Folks can come play, we don't charge. We want you to come hang out and fellowship with your friends and maybe make some new ones if you're lucky. So yeah, and once again, where are you located? 410 south pleasantburg, right across the street from waffle house, because we like that place yeah, it's always open tech area yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're a bunch of nerds, so we like that, yeah um, okay, and, like you said, you can get tickets there too, right yeah, tickets at the. Yeah yeah, we're a bunch of nerds, so we like that. Yeah, yeah, okay, and, like you said, you can get tickets there too, right, yeah get tickets at the shop, We'll actually give you your wristbands.
Speaker 4:Buy them online. Pick them up at Will Call. Got a lot of options. We want to make it easy.
Speaker 1:All right, and again, that's SC. Comic-con Junior this weekend, open from 11 to 6 at the Convention Center in Greenville. We'll be there. The Platypuls will be there dressed as Beetlejuice Awesome and we'll have maybe some of our other people that are there dressed up as well. It's always fun to go to Comic-Con Always a good time. I did want to point out Rob for people that don't know Rob, he's a person that that gives a lot, and I know you don't like talking about it, but, but I'm asking you to mention a few things because, um, you do support several causes every year with some events that you have, and we also spent a good amount of time helping those that need to help out of the storm. If you could share some of that for us.
Speaker 4:Yeah, for the con. We give a lot of tickets to VetTix, so it's thousands of dollars in tickets that we do with them, and so if you're a veteran, log on to VetTix, get registered with them, and when tickets go up, it usually ends up being a raffle and so folks go in and enter the raffle and they can get free tickets that way. God, what was it? It was the Thursday after the storm and the Saturday, local Q was amazing in Greenville. They helped us put together lunches, sold them. You know, they sourced everything. They baked the bread for us and then bought meat, sliced it, and then we built 100 sandwiches thursday morning and saturday morning, um, and made box lunches, uh, and just gave them away.
Speaker 1:So it's tough, yeah it's tough yeah, it is tough yeah, he's, he's a good guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's a good guy um and I'm sure that's just the touch of things that he does. Oh yeah, he, yeah. He does all kinds of things, right.
Speaker 4:Well, I want to point out that I had multiple employees tell me that they refused to be paid.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, Wow, that's kind of cool, good folks.
Speaker 1:Well, you're rubbing off on them, that's right, that's what a good leader you know, that's great to hear. That's great to hear. That's great to hear. Okay, we're at the end of the show where we do the recommendations from the guests. Now, last year, rob, you told me the book Prepare, I believe, was the name of it.
Speaker 6:Yes.
Speaker 1:And I just got the book.
Speaker 6:Did you get it?
Speaker 1:I haven't started reading it yet, but I just got. It Seemed very timely to get a book like that. But what can you give us this year? Something entertainment, wise to watch listen to read.
Speaker 4:So it depends on what you like, but Jack Carr just came out with a book about the Beirut bombing.
Speaker 1:Yes, I think I saw that somewhere.
Speaker 4:Jack.
Speaker 1:Carr has done a bunch of books really good books really good really good fiction books Chris Pratt and a bunch of books really good books, really good fiction books.
Speaker 4:Chris Pratt and Terminal List was him. But this is a historical book. I was supposed to go down to meet him in Atlanta, but he was there on Hurricane Weekend and so I stayed home, take care of the house and everybody. But they were also in the museum down there mailed us the books, got them signed by everybody. It was really cool, but that is a book I would recommend if you like history. I think that's a uh. That's something we can all get more educated about.
Speaker 1:For sure, some good things about that, and, of course, a food, uh recommendation place to eat or come on, I just well I got two.
Speaker 4:I just mentioned local q? Um, but also if you haven't been to Miles Pizza.
Speaker 3:How many times Madeline? Do I talk about Miles Pizza? Where's that? It's right down from the shop on Pleasantburg oh my gosh, it's so good.
Speaker 4:They are the nicest folks.
Speaker 3:Their cheese is amazing.
Speaker 4:Get the cheese bread and then go run Because it is unbelievable, you're going to eat more than you should.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, the cheese bread's amazing, but the pizza is overwhelmingly topping-wise. The sauce is fantastic. Very good choice.
Speaker 4:Both of them. Can I throw one more out? Sure, because it's right down the street from my house. Dacusville pizza is really good too. Okay, I love.
Speaker 3:Dacusville pizza, I've never been there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh my gosh, there's a first. Holly hasn't been somewhere. It's like everyone that's brought up, she's like oh yeah, I love that place.
Speaker 4:I'm like how do you?
Speaker 3:It's like I love to eat out and I've moved.
Speaker 4:So we live out in. Dacusville I never even had that Yep, sweet people.
Speaker 1:Thank you, rob, for being here. We get you on every six months. We talk about the comic book stuff. I've learned a lot from you, from someone who came from nowhere, but my boys are into it big time. They play in D&D groups and other game groups and all that. I'm sure they'll be at Comic-Con as well. But appreciate you taking time from a very busy schedule. He actually moved some things so he could come in to our show. Do you believe that?
Speaker 3:No, I do believe that Love seeing you guys.
Speaker 4:man, it's great to see you too. I was going to be upset if I missed you.
Speaker 1:It's always great to have you every six months, as I said, and to you and Michelle, all the best with the Comic-Con this weekend and of course, we'll talk to you before the big one in the spring?
Speaker 4:Absolutely, she's going to be here.
Speaker 1:Yes, sccomicconcom, get your tickets. And our thanks again to Will Ragland for being here and all the fun that he shared. You should be full of entertainment ideas now for things to do over the next several months, and we'll be back with you at some point as well, but for now, you can always get this on Spotify as a podcast, so don't forget to tell your friends. It's the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Thanks for listening.