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The Boone Show S5 E9 - Principal's Perspective: Dr. Kyle Whitfield, Wren High School
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What makes a high school truly special isn't just academic achievement or athletic success—it's creating complete citizens ready for the world beyond the classroom. In this candid conversation with Dr. Kyle Whitfield, Principal of Wren High School, we uncover the complex realities of modern education leadership and the profound rewards that make it worthwhile.
Dr. Whitfield shares his perspective on witnessing the complete educational journey of students, from uncertain freshmen to confident graduates. "Being able to see the finished product, getting them across stage—that's pretty special," he reflects, anticipating the unique experience of handing his own son a diploma next year. This dual role as both principal and parent provides Whitfield with an intimate understanding of education's impact from multiple angles.
The conversation takes a serious turn as Whitfield addresses the looming teacher shortage crisis facing schools nationwide. With veteran educators retiring and fewer young people entering the profession, he advocates for meaningful changes to attract and retain quality teachers. "It's becoming more difficult to find science and math teachers because it's so much more lucrative to go into STEM fields outside of education," Whitfield explains, highlighting the need for competitive compensation and improved benefits.
We also explore how today's students require different engagement strategies than previous generations. With attention spans shaped by social media and constant connectivity, educators must continuously reinvent their approaches. Whitfield emphasizes the reflective nature of effective teaching: "Is this effective? Is this engaging?" These questions drive innovation in classrooms at Wren High School, where tradition meets forward-thinking educational practices.
Perhaps most touching is Whitfield's insight into how school communities respond to tragedy. When discussing students who experienced serious accidents, he reveals how the Wren community rallied together, demonstrating the special connection between school and community that defines great educational environments.
If you're curious about the challenges and triumphs in today's educational landscape, or simply want to understand what drives dedicated school leaders, this episode offers a refreshingly honest look behind the principal's office door. Subscribe now and join the conversation about shaping tomorrow's leaders!
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Hey, hello everybody. Welcome to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Glad to have you along with us. I'm John Boone. The boss lady is here, holly Harrell.
Speaker 2:Hello. Two weeks in a row, that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're starting a streak, and our very special guest here tonight is the principal of Wren High School, dr Kyle Whitfield.
Speaker 3:How are you Doing great. Thank you all both for having me on the show today.
Speaker 2:Well, one thing we know when we start having the principals on is it's near the end of the school year.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is. We always do. Kind of a summary of the school year. You're the first one this year, so everybody's got to live up to how you perform on the show today.
Speaker 3:That's a tough standard.
Speaker 1:Now you remember last year when you were here, you lost the basketball thing.
Speaker 3:I know it's not one of my proudest moments, for sure, yeah, I think he's been bragging about it all year.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know he has.
Speaker 1:But, we've got to get him on the schedule and Robbie Roach will be here in a couple weeks and we've got our District 2 people that we've got to get on there. My show producer scheduler needs to pick it up a little bit. I'm working on it to pick it up a little bit.
Speaker 2:I'm working on it. I'm working on it. They hadn't responded. I swear I sent it out as soon as you told me last week to get those pencils on.
Speaker 1:I told her to do something. That's so weird, anyway, and Kyle was right on it.
Speaker 2:Like he is on it, he's like I'll take 415.
Speaker 1:Boom, he got it. There we go, we got it, we. And I want to tell people we usually forget about this, but there are phone lines here If anybody's listening and wants to get in on the action.
Speaker 2:I actually turned on the ringer, holly so they can't, so I can hear it.
Speaker 1:So if you're looking the other way, you'll be rudely interrupted.
Speaker 2:Did you see? I went over there to try to find it and pull it closer so at least I can watch it. But you've got the ringer on.
Speaker 1:But Zach, or at least I think I do, zach, uh will be along later on and uh, you can give us a call. 864-847-3509. 864-847-3509, we're live on mypulseradiocom and the tune in app every week here at four o'clock at the career Center. Okay, so, dr Whitfield, you still, you still like that ring to that. I mean, you put in a lot of work to get that.
Speaker 3:That's why I have so much gray hair.
Speaker 1:I think the first time you were on a few years ago, you were just finishing that up, and has it? Has it been everything you wanted to be so far? Have you? Have you been a great educational leader?
Speaker 3:I'm certainly trying. I remember Mr Benneker, who I think very highly of, who's living the dream down in Charleston. True.
Speaker 3:But I remember him telling me that his hardest job he ever had was a high school principal, assistant superintendent, superintendent, I mean, it's just like any. I mean, we all have challenging days, but it's definitely worth it. It's very rewarding. Rewarding days, yeah, absolutely. And I think being at high school is pretty special, because I actually did middle school for the first half of my tenure in education. I think being in high school and being able to see the finished product, getting them across stage and being a part of that's pretty special. And I'll actually not only be principal next year, I'll be a dad of a senior and so, like I'll probably, be, probably next time if you have me this time next year, I might be crying because he'll, you know, be down to the wire for him, but I mean to to be able to see him walk across stage, hand his diploma, maybe give him a hug and you know, um, that's.
Speaker 2:I think it'll be a pretty, pretty special event you know and it's not that you're just creating that high school graduate right, you're getting the academics, are doing those things, but you're making that whole kid, that whole person that comes out. So you look at the civic organizations, the sporting events. You know all the things that come along with cooperating in high school teamwork and all of those things. You're doing that as well. So you're seeing where that kid's going, not just academic wise, but just as a whole student and hopefully a productive citizen of our United States. You know, and that's rewarding as well, to see them progress as a ninth grader to where they come up to be a senior and see how much growth they have there too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's kind of cool and sometimes see them do the opposite.
Speaker 4:You know, but I mean, which was? What have I done wrong? I?
Speaker 3:mean, that was me in high school. You know I've got, I've always had a heart for the kids that don't always do the right thing and you know being able to coach them in those moments and say this is pretty dumb. But you know, we're going to be here to help, if you'll let us, we're going to be here to help.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 3:You know, guide you to making some better choices.
Speaker 2:Give it those second chances, or sometimes third and fourth chances. Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Now you have what? Two, three kids.
Speaker 3:You have what? Two, three kids? Yeah, I've got two boys. So, yeah, I've got a junior at the high school with me and I'll have a middle schooler next year. He'll be in sixth grade, so he'll be with Ms Alford across the street and you know his son, his oldest, is with us. Oh really he's in biomedical. Is that?
Speaker 2:Ms Minton, I think so.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure it's Miss Minton. They're all good teachers. I know, yeah, I know he loves the program and he's.
Speaker 1:He's a lot smarter than me, so y'all would have probably denied me access if I was a guy with a PhD.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but yeah, he's, he's doing well, he likes it over here.
Speaker 1:Good, well, tell us about your year a little bit, some of the memorable moments you know, some maybe some initiatives you've started over there this year. I know I see Wren just about every year gets gets an award at the end of it for being one of the best schools around. So just give us kind of a run through of some of the memorable things that have happened this year.
Speaker 3:So, as far as initiatives, like I'm I've always, I think all of us in this room probably have similar personalities in a sense that we're competitive and want to want to do the best that when we're given given the chance. And so one of our goals was to, you know, speaking at the end of the year when you get your report card, you know we want to maintain in the excellent range and we're always trying to, you know, have the highest report card rating among rating among high schools in our district. But we've won Palmetto Silver the past few years, which is great, but it's been a long time since we've had a high school in our district win Palmetto Gold, which was pretty tough because you've got to. There's four. I'm not trying to bore you, but there's four areas that the state looks at. They look at your academic achievement, which is your EOC scores. They look at graduation rate and they look at college and career readiness, which you guys have a huge part in that helping us. So our success is also y'all's success in that regard.
Speaker 3:But the area where we've got to, you know, kind of grow and challenge we've challenged our students and our teachers is an end of course test. We've challenged our students and our teachers is an end of course test, and so we've tried to just not only make students aware of their huge responsibility and doing their best in those end of course tests. You know algebra one, english two, u S, history and biology but you know, trying to encourage them to get a C or higher, because every student that's that scores proficiency a C or higher is going to help us get towards winning Palmetto gold, and so we've. You know we've tried to do some creative things with. You know incentivizing students, rewarding students for doing well, and that's been a big initiative last year and continuing it into this year too, because you know our students can, can, can do that if they apply themselves, and you know it's you all know trying to motivate teenagers is not.
Speaker 3:You know, if we all had a solution for that, we'd probably go around you know the globe speaking about how to do that. But you know that's that's. That's been a huge, you know, initiative this year. Beyond that, I mean, we, you know, like you said earlier, we're always trying to make our students well around. You know, like you said earlier, we're always trying to make our students well-rounded.
Speaker 3:You know we've had a lot of success in fine arts. You know kids going to. You know state competitions and doing well. And you know athletics and we've had a lot of success this year. And you know my AD and I always joke.
Speaker 3:There's this at the end of the year, the year it's called the Carlyle Cup. So they take the schools that have the most success in each classification you're awarded the Carlyle Cup. Well, stan's first year he won the Carlyle Cup and each year I give him a hard time like are we going to win it again? And pushing our sports programs to compete at that level. It's just everywhere you look at a place like Wren, we got such good students, teachers. It's a great community and you know, really, that tradition of excellence there is. It can be, you know, both a challenge to live up to, but also I think it good to hold our, our school to that level so that we don't get content with status quo well, the move to 4a certainly didn't slow you down it's been a lot tougher, I mean I'm not, I mean basketball.
Speaker 1:The final four again, yep um, would you get volleyball championship no, no, not tell me you tell me, because I'm all over it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we had a lot of success in volleyball. But I mean 4A is so much. I mean it's very competitive.
Speaker 2:And all that was reconfigured this year.
Speaker 3:Every two years. Every two years, right yeah, every two years they look at your enrollment and the way things are trending with the high school league. I mean.
Speaker 3:I think there's a good chance we're going to move back down to 3A because it looks like they're going to probably restructure it the way it was for years with your big 16, they used to call it your dormants and whatnot and from there, as they kind of reclass down, I think there's a good chance we'd be back in 3A, which we had a lot of success in. We've had success when we won state championship in football. We were in 4 of success in, and we've had success in when we won state championship in football. We're in 4A. You know we beat Myrtle Beach to do that. So we've had success in both avenues. It's just. It's just a lot, a lot more competitive.
Speaker 2:It's tough, it can be tough, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1:I did get a list from Mr Wren Austin Tripp about some of the students that have signed at some colleges around and that's pretty impressive. You've got people going to Wofford and USC and Columbia International, baba's going to Furman, yep Lander and Colin McCaffrey who I didn't realize was the cousin of Christian McCaffrey, that is correct Going to Erskine to play baseball. So again and he also notes on here Cheer got fourth place at the States. They were the upper state champs this year. It's not bad for a 4A.
Speaker 3:We won a lot of region championships. We're having a lot of success in the spring too. I think we'll continue that trajectory. It's always good when you having a lot of success in the spring too, so I think we'll continue that trajectory.
Speaker 2:But, um, but yeah, I mean we, uh, it's always good when you, you know, have kids getting their college paid for through sports and and you know, even though, even though I like to win as well, I think being in that top five in everything, or real close to that, that's huge, because some people are really good at one thing, but to be really good out at a lot of things, that's.
Speaker 1:Competitive in everything.
Speaker 2:Yes, and that's kind of where not just Wren but the Anderson 1 school district, the Anderson 2, they all kind of fit, both districts kind of fit in that, and Wren High School is right at the top of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, very proud of all our across the board teachers, coaches, parents I mean, parents are a huge part of this too, sure you've got to have that support Yep.
Speaker 1:I did want to ask you a tough situation earlier this year with Isaac Wigington. That's tough for a school to go through. Of course, for those that may not know, he's in a serious car accident, almost died and has a long way back.
Speaker 2:From the fall yeah, back from the fall, yeah, yeah In the fall.
Speaker 1:And I just wanted to know how do you navigate that as a principal? Because there's a lot of things going on, a lot of reactions and emotions from kids. He was pretty well known, well liked with the football team, et cetera, and then you know, we see just the day we saw him in his outfit for prom, looking good, looking great and it was just such a major lift, that's gotta be a lift for everybody just to see him out there.
Speaker 1:So if you could just take me through, you know quickly how how you navigate those tough, tough situations.
Speaker 3:I mean there, there, there, I mean that's, there's no easy way to obviously uh, navigate those. I, even going back to Houston, my first year is my first year, first day on the job, with, with students and teachers in the building, um, you know, and, and uh, and it was just it's, it's tough. And you know, even with Houston, his I mean they we go to church together. I've known you know his mom, jennifer, you know the whole family for a long time and you know, with Isaac, you know I've known Isaac I mean he's right around the same age as my son. They play sports together.
Speaker 3:You know I know the family really well and so, you know, just trying to be, you know, as supportive as possible for him, you know, and going up to the hospital and you know our school and community has really, you know, poured out love and you know we've been able to raise money at homecoming during both we have two spirit weeks throughout, we have one kind of during basketball season and be able to donate not just for Isaac but also for Ariel Terhune as well, who was, you know, and you know the great thing about her is, you know, she was able to come back to our senior meeting this past week and she was at prom too. So you know I reached out to her mom and over the weekend I was like it's so great to see Ariel there. And you know I'm a very religious person, so I mean, I think you know, through those situations, just relying on God's, you know love and guidance and you know a lot of prayer and you know, as a leader is one thing you know, and then you, but as a parent, you know, you can only imagine how tough it's been for you know, those families, those parents, and just trying to pray for them, love on them and any chance we get. And we've been able to talk. You know Angie is his mom. We've been able to talk a lot about you know what's graduation going to look like, because we want him to be a part of that, because he, you know, obviously he deserves that experience Exactly, and so does Ariel.
Speaker 3:Ariel, absolutely, yeah, yeah, and she will be. So you know just, I think that you know. The word I keep coming back to is just being supportive in any way we can.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you the students you know they take the cue from leadership because they have been great in these situations. Oh, I know the way they've come through with the visits, with the cards, with the balloons and flowers and money support, raising the money. It's tough to raise money nowadays but they get behind these the love for these students and they work harder than ever to to make it happen.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of cool to see it.
Speaker 1:That's a tribute to you as well. I mean that you can have students that really take the cue from there and want to really do something good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's. I mean it's also the community, though I don't think you find that necessarily in every community.
Speaker 3:The rent community is pretty special and I mean that's one, you know, realization. I came to, you know, almost 10 years ago when I came to rent as an assistant principal. It's just a special place, you know. And you know almost 10 years ago when I when I came to rent as an assistant principal. It's just a, it's a special place, you know, and you know people that graduate from there want to stay there. They want their kids to go there and and when something happens good, good or bad, you know, in the community they they you know, really do show up and love and support.
Speaker 2:So yeah, the celebration is there, but also the support is there, so it's very cool.
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Speaker 1:Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Glad you're with us as we talk to Dr Kyle Whitfield from Wren High School and coming up at 4.30,. We've got Zach hopefully calling in, but in the meantime we've got plenty more to talk about Before we get on to the ridiculous part of the show, which is just some fun stuff. We get the serious stuff out of the way here. I just wanted to get from you just your idea of where education is going. I mean, you're a master's in educational leadership, so and obviously you kind of relate. Well, you spoke about how it's different motivating kids nowadays and all that. I was just wondering from your perspective especially you know you're a religious man, I should come into this as well, I would imagine. But your views, philosophy on where education is going, where it needs to go, maybe some things that need to change, that have been done for 100 years, that need to be changed? I was just curious to see what your thoughts on that were.
Speaker 3:That could get me in a lot of trouble. So I think, I mean, I've got a lot of views. I think you know that obviously this is maybe I hope you guys agree I think we would that this is probably a calling for most people. You know doing this and you know. I think you know doing this and you know it's, I think you know, from a state level. You know I'd like to see more support. You know, maybe monetary, monetarily. I think you know we're teachers work incredibly hard and it's good to see that even at the district level, they're committing to raise this across the board for educators because they need it.
Speaker 3:They're, you know, committing to to raise this across the board for for educators, because they need it. I mean, it's um, you know, lord knows they, they, you know, if it's up to me they'd be paid a lot more, but I think I think daughter, young, and the leadership of the district office for taking that on um, so I think you know that needs to happen. There's also some some promising legislation going through the state about, you know um, teacher sick bank, you know, trying to give teachers unencumbered time before the start of school because I think that's important for them to have time to prepare. So I do think there's legislation going through that is promising.
Speaker 3:Certification stuff too, Yep making it easier, you know, not so cumbersome, to get recertified, much more like what you know my wife's in the medical profession kind of what they have to do. It's not quite as rigorous as what teachers have to do, for sure, but you know, I think the other thing that does kind of worry me is, you know and this kind of goes I'm not going to bore you with my dissertation because y'all would go to sleep and so would your audience but I mean we are going to be faced with a teacher shortage. As you know, these generations I mean just looking at my building sometimes it's scarier the number of teachers who could probably retire in the next five years, and they're difference makers.
Speaker 3:You know, they make the place better. And then you know praying that we get those type of people you know to replace them with. And so you know, I think addressing and making the field in general more attractive to young folks is what we have to do, Because you know we, you know like it's becoming more and more difficult to find science and math teachers because it's so much more lucrative to go into STEM fields outside of education. I mean, it's so we've got to, you know, like I said, address monetarily that that part of it. And two, because there's some certification areas that are going to be more and more challenging, you know, to find.
Speaker 2:You know, and maybe not even just the paycheck at the end of the day, but the benefits that come along with that Right. I mean we used to. I mean, when I started I don't know where you're at, but when I started, you know we had the 28 years. I knew that in 28 years I could retire, and that's kind of where I'm sitting at. Well, now that has changed.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, before I came there was Terry. Yeah, you know. So there were some benefits to becoming a teacher, even if it wasn't the pay there, but you had those outlying benefits. Sure. And I think that's changing and I think that needs to be a focus that we need to look at it. If the, if, the if, the benefits of a salary line isn't there, maybe there's some other things we can do, because we all know that our teachers work much more than their normal 40 hours yes.
Speaker 2:I mean. And whether it be coming to football games or watching the plays, or just coming out to support your kids in anything they do, extracurricular activity all of that the money's not there for that. That is where the calling comes in. So, not only are you teaching what you like or what you majored in, but you're also trying to figure out a way to almost entertain, engage in an entertaining way to keep that focus, and I can't imagine being in an academic course like English and math and science and history.
Speaker 2:At least you know like John can hear he can. He can do a hands on portion where where we look at that with the kids. It's difficult in those academic courses and you got to have those.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so Shakespeare is not engaging, not to me. But you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean it becomes. I know you got to look at all that, yeah.
Speaker 2:It becomes more difficult for those particular academic teachers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and kids. You know, I think probably when I was in school, my teacher said this generation, blah, blah, blah. I mean I think that just inherently happens, but you know it's. I mean these kids are different. They have to be, you have to reach them differently, you have to be engaged differently. And so you know, I think one of the most powerful things teachers can do is be reflective and constantly looking and saying you know, is this, is this effective, is this engaging? And you know that's, you know the attention span because of cell phones and social media. I mean, I think you know it's, it's, it's definitely a different different different generation, but I mean they've got a lot to offer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't stand up there and give 45 minute lectures anymore and expect anything. It's really down to about 15 minutes tops before you can get them to do something else. And and you're right, Cause even in this class, which most people would think would be fun, it's still hard to motivate kids. I've told Holly it's the hardest thing about the job is continually racking our brains to figure out what's going to work nowadays. It's so different because they're so overstimulated by everything else.
Speaker 2:So now we've got to come up with creative solutions to find those teachers, whether it be a calling, or whether it be monetary or whatever it is that drives that person time off, whatever it is, we've got to figure out a way Our generation has got to figure out a way to continue to have teachers because, I mean, that's a necessity.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We don't have a choice.
Speaker 3:Now it was pretty cool Like we had this career fair this past week. Yeah, we don't have a choice. Now it was pretty cool Like we had this career fair this past week. Weston Scruggs and my other guidance counselors kind of put work into this and it was great to see our district office there Like, yeah, carol Brooks, brayden, wilson, who's also going to be assistant principal for us next year.
Speaker 3:And then Don, they were all there, you know, at the job fair trying to recruit prospective teachers. So I thought that was really neat to even have our district step up and say we need it, yeah, and I mean, out of all the booths, I mean they were incredible booths there. I mean they did a really good job just from an aesthetic standpoint and just, you know, positive things for students to think about. And they had a lot of traffic over there, good.
Speaker 2:Well, good.
Speaker 1:Good Good. By the way, Zach is not calling in. He's getting an MRI. Oh no, and that's all he told me.
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Speaker 1:Oh boy, the things you hear between when we're not on the air. Boy, I'm going to have to sign an NDA or something around here. Welcome back to the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. Our special guest, dr Kyle Whitfield, the Wren High School principal.
Speaker 1:Not president, I don't have anything politics like that, but uh, anyway, uh, now we get to the ridiculousness of the show. We have two things we got going on here. We have our usual questions for the principal and then our other segment is we're going to see how good, uh, dr whitfield is at delivering the news okay, I've got uh three news stories for him to read. He hasn't seen the script at all so he can't prepare, and we'll see how he does it's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1:That's part of our class here and we want him to experience a little part of our program. So we'll get to that in a minute. But we do have questions from various sources, people that know you students just random questions all thrown in. So if you want to get to know Dr Whitfield, you will know him pretty well after these questions. Okay, we play 20 questions and you can pass on a question if you want to. You don't have to feel like you have to answer every question.
Speaker 3:I can plead the fifth.
Speaker 2:Yes, but then we're going to talk about it when the show's in between.
Speaker 1:I mean that's a given. Yeah, We'll talk about it in between. In between. And someday I'll write a book about it. Okay, here we go. If you could go back to high school for a day, what would you do first?
Speaker 3:Oh, I mean, I was not a great high school student and, shamelessly, I didn't always go to class. So I think the first thing I would do is go to class. So I think this may shock you, but there's a strong correlation between your attendance and your grade, so I would be a regular attendee in class.
Speaker 2:All right, good answer, good answer.
Speaker 1:What's the funniest thing you've witnessed happen in the hallways this year?
Speaker 3:There's a strange tradition. Y'all are going to feel not very highly of us over at REN and this started long before me, but there's this strange tradition of making fun of people that fall in the hallways. People would go back on video and try to find video evidence of it, maybe play it at faculty meetings or whatever. So I think you know that's that is pretty funny, so we might have done that a few times yeah really.
Speaker 1:I remember I fell down the hallway once came around the corner. They had just gotten done mopping wiped out first thing on a Monday morning. It was a great way to start the week.
Speaker 2:Ours is when we have a fire drill.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:You. What I didn't fall down no but you made a spectacle in your classroom with your kids. It was hysterical.
Speaker 1:That was at the Alice drill.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was the Alice drill, fire drills, that's boring.
Speaker 1:Okay, alice, drill, you get to do a lot more. Uh, here's a good. Here's a good one for you. If the school had a mascot for teachers, what would it be?
Speaker 3:oh, wow, um, that's actually an interesting question because we, we, uh, we, we will have a mascot going into next year. We've got the costume and they're going are you allowed to say what it is, because I've always wondered what a hurricane yeah, so we've actually put it out on social media and stuff and we're working through finalizing the students that will be in the costume. But it's hard to find a hurricane costume.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a tornado would be easy, but a hurricane no.
Speaker 3:So we went with kind of like what Miami and Iowa State has done, and so we went with a Wren bird, yes, so yeah. And so he's a ferocious looking. You know, and for anybody that's listening, we're not replacing the Golden Hurricanes. We will forever be the Wren Golden Hurricanes. It's just. It was hard to like, you know, from an aesthetic standpoint, have a mascot that embodies a hurricane.
Speaker 2:So this is a mean-looking bird. It is.
Speaker 1:I'll show you a picture of it when we get a second Muscular bird. So if your teachers, though, were to, if you would have a mascot that represented the teachers rather than the students, I was hoping I could deflect from that through that story Well you can choose to pass you can pass because you did answer something for it. You're right, you've got some politician in you there, just deflect. What's the most unusual request you've gotten from a student?
Speaker 3:Oh wow, unusual, it would be hard for me to in this time frame come up with. But I will say that students get very, very creative with their requests and they might bend the truth a little bit sometimes with the stories behind things. I'm sure you never get that?
Speaker 2:No, absolutely.
Speaker 3:But I think the prototypical my dog ate my homework I mean, they've gotten a lot more creative than that.
Speaker 1:Can't do that anymore, because it's all digital.
Speaker 3:That's right. Yeah, that's true, but I'm sorry I can't come up with just a one off the top of my head it's all right, but I imagine, yeah, there are some creative ones.
Speaker 1:That's funny. They still try to use that excuse and blame it on the computer or something, and I'm like computer doesn't lie, it's either there, it's not. Um, how do you unwind after a long day of meetings and managing this school?
Speaker 3:When I'm not at Uber after school driving my kids around, because some afternoons are predicated on that. I love music. I'm involved in my church musically, I love to read and then I've always enjoyed going to the gym, taking aggression out in there so that you know that manifest and I lose my job, you know, at Ren, but those have always kind of been, you know, three of my bigger hobbies.
Speaker 2:So on a Saturday morning when you have nothing else to do, you have no sports, nothing to do with your kids, it's just a family. You're home one week and what would y'all do?
Speaker 3:whatever my wife tells me to do there you go. Good answer, I don't need anything else yeah, no, I mean, we, we love doing stuff outside like we, you know we've all got bikes. Well, you know, we we ride like the doodle trail or swamp rabbit, you know stuff like that, but yeah, that's cool, very cool this past saturday. We're looking're looking at couches because that's what my wife wanted to do.
Speaker 1:That's exciting. Yeah, that was a blast. Yeah, well, that kind of answers. Another one of the questions further down was what's your favorite outdoor activity? I know you like to get outdoors a lot ride bikes, hike and all that.
Speaker 3:Fish.
Speaker 1:Where do you like to hike at?
Speaker 3:We've done a lot of trails, you know, uh, we've done a lot of trails. Um, you know, we've gone to uh, to lula falls. Is is a pretty good one. Um, there's, there's some kind of like in the long creek area, what, uh past westminster, if you're familiar. Um, so, um, but yeah, I love to fish too. My dad took, took me fishing growing up and lake fishing pretty much yeah, yeah, yeah I'll go out with him sometimes and you know sometimes my father-in-law.
Speaker 1:I can only tolerate him in increments there you go all right, um, what's the best piece of advice you've ever gotten from a teacher or staff member?
Speaker 3:uh, probably listen more, like, I think, my personality. By nature. I just want to be a problem solver, like, come in, all right, here's all right, here's the solution. All right, now move on to the next one. I think I just want to be a problem solver, like, come in, all right, here's a solution. All right, now move on to the next one. I think sometimes people just want to be heard, and I'm not. That's the area I'm growing, you know, just listening and you know, maybe not trying to provide a solution, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, you like music. There's a couple of music ones on here. We'll hit one here. What's your guilty pleasure? Song that you'd never tell anyone you like, uh, song wise, that's tough. Are you swifty or something?
Speaker 3:no, not really yeah, um, I mean, so you know probably some I love, like anything guitar like I like, just you know, clapton, blues, john mayer, I think you know today's, so um, but I do listen just by nature because I help a lot with music at my church. When I'm listening to music it's a lot of times learning a new song or whatever you know to prepare for that. But I love anything, like you know, blues, bass, guitar driven.
Speaker 1:So but not really. It's only a slight deflection well, I mean more.
Speaker 3:I mean I'll listen to the stuff that, like morgan wall, I know, like his listen. Luke, I went to a luke collins concert, you know, with my wife not too long ago, so I do.
Speaker 1:You know I'm not a robot, by any means you know, you know there's a john mayer channel on sirius xm which. Have you heard that? I don't, yeah, I don't have serious, but you probably like that a lot of his style of music and a lot of his music obviously. Uh, let's see here ah, what's? What's one trend at school you just don't understand at all uh, probably the uh senior assassins are familiar with that yeah, I don't like that either. Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, and I'll go to the, because I go to the um, the ymca and anderson, so there's some rain kids there, but there's a lot of I mean, and I'll go to the cause. I go to the um, the YMCA in Anderson, so there's some rain kids there, but there's a lot of handy kids and they'll be on the treadmill or whatever with a swimming on. I'm like yeah. I would've been made fun of for wearing that in high school.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I agree with you on that. Yep, I totally agree. I agree too, and so we can all agree.
Speaker 3:Robbie Roach would really agree with that oh yes, so we're in all agreement that that's not cool, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:It really is, it's ridiculous and the whole thing. They don't even follow their own rules and yeah, it's a mess. Yeah, it's a mess. They can find other things to do, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, now I just sound like the old get off long guy. Um, let's see what's your favorite lunch at work, whether it be in the cafeteria or otherwise. If I brought my sro in here tj burgess this you could have an entire show on making our lunches, addressing some, some things there. But um, we need to get dr young in here and ask him. You know that question too. But uh, taco. Taco Tuesday is always good. It's hard to go wrong with tacos. And then Asian Chicken Day would be up there too.
Speaker 2:So now, do you bring your lunch to school or do you eat in the cafeteria?
Speaker 3:Both, both. Yeah, it depends on the day, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Tuesday's in the cafeteria.
Speaker 3:Taco Tuesday is and the nachos are on Tuesday as well. They rotate.
Speaker 2:Okay, All right.
Speaker 1:A couple more. We won't do all 20. But what was your?
Speaker 3:senior superlative in high school. Surprisingly, it was most talkative.
Speaker 2:I would not be surprised.
Speaker 1:You think so?
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:You're a good talker.
Speaker 2:You are.
Speaker 3:You are, yes, most talkative I used to get in trouble in class for not being able to restrain my mouth at times when he showed up right when he showed up I made the most of when I was there yeah, vocally made the time memorable.
Speaker 1:Uh, detention or lunch duty, um which one do you want to cover?
Speaker 3:um, I mean, I've had to do both, so we don't really do detentions, that's true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just you know. But.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm at lunch duty every day, so it's like a.
Speaker 2:What's the worst duty Like what's the like I do. I don't mind standing out here and doing this, but I hate being in that parking lot Because. I feel like you're so disconnected from the kids you can't talk to them. And then if it's pouring, Well, and that too, yes, I would agree with you.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you don't have like an awning or something like I don't, I mean you know you do the best you can with your umbrella, that's.
Speaker 2:It's pretty monsoon and coming in sideways at you like Forrest. Gump Right, exactly, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1:Here's another either or Dress code or spirit day chaos.
Speaker 3:I don't like dealing with dress code. I'd rather deal with spirit day, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1:I don't mind a little chaos. It's a little more definable, I guess, on spirit days than getting dress code nowadays.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Do you have a song that reminds you of high school? It's probably not school appropriate, I remember. So I went to West side and the year I was graduating, you guys familiar with Nelly the rapper his first album was country grammar. Yes, and like you could ride through the parking lot and then not hear it, and then suddenly hear it again and then pull down next row. Oh, there's Nelly again, so like that first album probably reminds me of my senior year more than anything else.
Speaker 1:That's funny what any particular song off that album?
Speaker 3:so his, his most popular one, was called Country it was the name of the album that was Country Gamer.
Speaker 1:Because you had wasn't Hot in here on there I think that was on there, yeah.
Speaker 3:And what's the other one that you? Wrote all the time Air Force Ones.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. That was a big album. I remember all that. Did you have a?
Speaker 1:question Holly.
Speaker 2:Well, I was going to say did you always want to be like?
Speaker 3:okay, I was going to say did you always want to be like? Ok, I'm going through high school, I'm sitting in 11th grade English and I'm going to be a teacher when I grow up? No, and I think when I started teaching in Anderson Five, which was my home district, the looks I got from some of my teachers like we're getting desperate for help.
Speaker 3:No, I mean so. I had a lot of growing up I needed to do in maturing. I didn't go to school right out of high school, I just you know I need to figure some things out. And uh, I originally went to school to, to go into the ministry Correct and then I, from there, I just you know what better ministry field than to go into teaching? So, um, but yeah, there is uh in high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't you weren't going to be a teacher, no all right.
Speaker 1:Last question, also music related. What song would play every time you walked into a room like your own walk-up music?
Speaker 3:something was. I guess something with some energy, maybe like a, I don't know. The thunderstruck comes to mind first.
Speaker 1:I don't know why that's a good one that's a good one, all right, so there you go. Hopefully you've gotten to know some things you probably wouldn't get to know if it wasn't for the Boone Show.
Speaker 1:That's right and our questions with Dr Kyle Whitfield. All right, we are going to not even take a commercial break here. I'm just going to keep rolling along because we've only got one more full segment to go, and it's Kyle Whitfield reads the news. Okay, so I'm going to give you a script there and give Holly a script so she can follow along. We've got three very important news stories that have hit recently and I want to see how you deliver.
Speaker 2:He's reading it real quick.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's okay.
Speaker 2:He can't escape it.
Speaker 1:He can't escape it right now because it's right there in his face. So it's time for the news. Here's Kyle Whitfield Go ahead.
Speaker 3:Fried chicken isn't just a food anymore. It is also a paste. Kfc recently introduced a fried chicken flavored toothpaste. The flavors are inspired by all of kfc's 11 herbs and spices. According to a news release, like biting into a hot, juicy piece of kfc original recipe chicken. This toothpaste is irresistible, coating your teeth and flavor before leaving your mouth feeling fresh and clean. The news release said of the kentucky-based fast food chained new toothpaste. Kfc partnered with toothpaste manufacturer His Smile to unveil the newest dental hygiene product for a limited time. Apparently, finger-licking good toothpaste appeals to the oral care-minded public. The toothpaste, which is offered exclusively on His Smile website for $13, was sold out as of Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1:Okay, before he goes to the next story, we're going to get plenty of audio clips that we can use to blackmail him in the future.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:That may show up on his own school announcements someday.
Speaker 4:Is this legit, by the way? Yes, this is legit. I didn't make any of this up, I'm just curious, it's totally legit.
Speaker 1:In fact, if you go to that high smile website, there's all kinds of different flavors ofS. It's H-I-Smile.
Speaker 3:High Smile.
Speaker 1:And check out their other toothpaste. So anyway, do you see that, Holly?
Speaker 2:They do. They have chocolate and banana.
Speaker 1:People would just be chomping down on toothpaste. That's pretty pricey though $13?, $13, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know Great bubble gum that one's $30.
Speaker 1:But supposedly too, it's fluoride-free. If you're into that, you know being more healthy thing Go figure, I've been dealing with fluoride my whole life.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we all have too, that's right.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but just so you know. All right, second story, here we go.
Speaker 3:All right. He suffered catastrophic injuries. A 59-year-old UK man miraculously survived after sustaining a broken neck, fractured spine, smashed ribs, blood in his lungs and other car crash-evoking injuries from tripping over his cat. The freak apocalypse meow accident reportedly occurred when the wrinkly cat kitty, apparently feeling playful, dove out and latched onto one of the owner's legs while he was coming down the stairs. The man reportedly tumbled down 14 steps before arriving at the bottom where he lay unable to move when his feline put the hail in Hello Kitty. Paramedics later revealed that he suffered fractured skull, a broken bone in his neck, two fractures in his spine, nine broken ribs each rib with multiple fractures a bit of blood in the lungs and other cuts and bruises. It will take him up to 12 months to recover. A very unfortunate story.
Speaker 1:Goodness. I told you, dogs are better than cats.
Speaker 3:That's a pretty rough day.
Speaker 1:That is a very rough day, and further on in the story it said that he had to lay there for like uh hours because his wife was working and he couldn't move and he didn't have his phone so he had all those broken bones and everything.
Speaker 3:he had to lay there like overnight until his wife came home in the morning my wife, my wife like might come home and just leave me there anyway oh my god all right final story and finally a missouri All right Final story.
Speaker 3:And finally, a Missouri museum gathered 309 people in banana hats to break an appealing Guinness World Record. The city museum in St Louis took on the title for the for the most. Where for the most people wearing banana hats. At 5 pm on Wednesday, An official Guinness World Record educator was on site and confirmed the museum did indeed take the record for 309 participants. The world may be going down in flames, but at least we have a new banana hat record. That being said, bring your banana hats to Spring Fling at Wren High School Thursday as we attempt to break this record With your Pulse News update. I'm Kyle Whitfield.
Speaker 1:All right, so there you go. Everybody, get your banana hats. You've got to find 310 of them, and then you guys can break the record. I figured what record would you like to beat If you were going to do something at the high school which which would be fun if you could find a record and just have everybody participate?
Speaker 3:uh, any, any record that powder's ohio has.
Speaker 1:We're gonna break all over there you go I love it well they have most nerds in one place. Maybe that's maybe I'm just kidding, but uh, can you believe that? It's like they just decided one day to go out there and say let's all wear banana, yes, and let's see how many people we have and let's try to set a record.
Speaker 2:You know what, though? You could probably set a record for anything, and they had to get 309 banana hats, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So anyway, as we wrap down the final few minutes here, it is that time of the show when we oh, by the way, thank you so much for reading the news yes, sir, they were hard-hitting news stories and I'm glad and you did a great job communicating them to the public Appreciate that. But it's that time of the show where we get our guest recommendations. I remember some of yours from last time, so I will know if you try to repeat. We get our guest recommendations in entertainment and food. I visited another one this week, holly, one that was recommended from last year the earl street uh kitchen.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, great place.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is been there a couple times.
Speaker 2:Great every time so I had the salmon. I went too. You did, I didn't go there but you know where I went to the l titanic in belton oh, there you go. Yep, and I was recommended last week and I even had those little chicken strips, those buffalo. I didn't go there, where'd you go? But you know where I went, to the El Titanic in.
Speaker 3:Belton. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1:Yep, that was recommended last week and I even had those little chicken strips, those buffalo chicken strips, from a Mexican restaurant. They were delicious.
Speaker 3:Did Mary recommend those? No, mary recommended Earl Street, though yes, she did, she was the one that recommended that she needs to be original.
Speaker 1:She's what we were on recommendation.
Speaker 2:We'll tell her. Oh okay, all right, I see, what I see where it's coming from. I will tell her that. So this was from the mayor of belton, eleanor door. She doran, she's the one who recommended, and I do recommend it. It's very good all right awesome.
Speaker 1:I you know I've never been to el titanic you haven't. No, I mean, everybody goes there all the time, but and they wear the big sombreros for their birthdays well, and I thought I thought you would order Mexican, but you don't.
Speaker 2:You order buffalo chicken strips. Oh, I thought you were talking about me. No, no, no, no. But yeah, it was weird that she recommended that at a Mexican restaurant, but anyway, so we want to get entertainment and food recommendations.
Speaker 1:Entertainment I know you read a lot and I don't know if you have time to stream anything or watch any movies. I think the last time you were here you were big into the Tolkien stuff, weren't you?
Speaker 3:Oh, the Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, they did have a season too, but I mean most of my recommendations aren't going to be PG, so I don't know if my high school students can watch them, but the new reacher season was really good. Yeah, that was good it was. I'm in the middle of it. Yeah, reacher's good, um, it's exciting.
Speaker 2:But he's kind of monotone all the time.
Speaker 1:I like that though you're just watching him for him.
Speaker 3:Okay, I think he's a bit I think he's a better version than tom cruise.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, yes way more realistic in that part. Have you read any of the books? I have not. Yeah, I haven't either, but uh, okay, so reacher's your recommendation for entertainment yeah, I thought it was a good show.
Speaker 3:That's good, that's good you.
Speaker 1:You pump iron, just like that guy this last season. He was that other guy he was fighting was huge yeah, he's like six, uh seven foot tall yeah, they're showing him with pictures with this, with the uh cast and everything.
Speaker 3:That guy was gigantic, um, all right, so food so, uh, I'm gonna stay true to anderson because that's that's my roots and that's where we're all located. So I'm a big breakfast person. I like breakfast. I like to do like a brunch. I don't eat it like first thing but buenos dias. Uh, in anderson it's near excuse me, it's near the uh post office in anderson, that ingles, right in that same area, near the best of crispy cream, oh yeah yeah so it's a really good breakfast place I just passed.
Speaker 1:Is that new?
Speaker 3:it's new ish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, new ish, because I just noticed it for the first time. When I was driving down there a few days ago, I was like I never knew that place was so their breakfast?
Speaker 2:okay, yeah, breakfast and brunch. So what do you get?
Speaker 3:there all kind of stuff. I mean I'll tell you one thing that's worth trying and maybe you like it, maybe you don't. They have like a mexican coffee. It's got like you know it's. It's got a really good flavor cinnamon, a lot of cinnamon. So if you're a coffee drinker, give it a try. But they I mean everything there is is is really good.
Speaker 1:So all right, there's a new place I love it we usually on the weekends, try to get out somewhere for a breakfast or a brunch on a saturday so is it just breakfast.
Speaker 2:They have lunch yeah, they close it like two, though, right yeah, they do okay. Close it too, okay yeah so yeah they do have.
Speaker 3:They have lunch options too but, you know sounds good, I stick to breakfast. Yeah, I love it. That sounds real good.
Speaker 1:Good, All right. So with that we're wrapping things up here. A couple other things. Just what did you think of the women going into space the other day? Do you keep track of that? Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, katy Perry and Gail King.
Speaker 2:Gail King from.
Speaker 1:They've been getting some backlash because all the money spent to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they spent.
Speaker 1:But some people were wishing that Katy Perry didn't come back.
Speaker 3:But I was just wondering if you had a preview on it. Are you not a news watcher? That's a lot. I am, but I just somehow missed Katy Perry going up into space. Who's rocket was it? It was Amazon's.
Speaker 1:Okay, it was only 11 minutes is the entire. They're in space for 11 minutes and for about three minutes of that it's there's no gravity. So it'd be a kind of a cool. It's almost like an amusement ride. They're up and down pretty quick. I mean, obviously it's still pretty dangerous. But yeah, didn't we talk once about sending you up there, holly?
Speaker 2:But it was just too much.
Speaker 1:No, it really wasn't, yeah, oh it was like a quarter of a million dollars or something, what was it you got?
Speaker 2:to they were taking a teacher. Were they Wasn't it with a teacher.
Speaker 1:And it was one of these. It was either Amazon or the other one, elon's one, but I forget SpaceX, but the Amazon one has been billionaires that's right but and the other thing, um, did you see that the savannah bananas have their big game in clemson next week, on the 26th, playing in front of the front of their biggest crowd ever?
Speaker 3:yeah, 80 plus 1 000 I think they said that's amazing.
Speaker 1:I mean, the baseball field look weird on a football field, but they're gonna put on a great show and just the story I don't know if you follow jesse cole and that whole thing of how he started that he lost everything, gambling on himself that he could put this thing together he was talking about. You know, he lost his house, everything. Then, when he did get a house, he was just sleeping on the floor. But he put it together and now they're playing to 81,000 people. I've never been to one, I've watched one on TV, but I've never been to a Savannah Bananas game. That would be a good work thing.
Speaker 1:I've never been either, but I'm going next week, are you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got lottery tickets.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why you had to get it. It's sold out. They sold out in a hurry.
Speaker 2:But they, literally, I mean you couldn't buy it. They told us there was several different levels. No, it was only one level, and if you didn't buy it, you didn't get to go.
Speaker 1:Is it all one price?
Speaker 2:No, there were several different prices. So, yeah, started as cheap as like 40, right?
Speaker 1:I think it was like 40, 60 and 200, that, don't you get free food with that.
Speaker 1:With the 200 you do okay, but not the 40 and the 60 yeah, because when they originally started, they started doing that because they wanted to attract fans. They just wanted them to come in and say you know, if, as long as we can get them here, they'll come back. Yeah, and they. They put everything into one price the, the ticket, the food, the parking, everything was all just one price. And they knew they were going to lose some money at first, but they wanted to build up the base and it's just an amazing story.
Speaker 1:He has a book out as well, so it'd be nice to get him on before they're going to be in the area. I'm sure he's got plenty of time, but, dr Whitfield, thanks a lot. Thanks a lot for coming on. It's always great having you on and we'll do it again and you can come on any time, any time. Lanford maybe not, but you any time. No, I'm just kidding. We appreciate it. And thanks for all the great work you do over there at Wren High School. We love your students and occasionally they love us too. So next week we're working on a show. Can't announce any guests yet, but we're working on it, so we'll see you then. Podcast on Spotify, et cetera. Wherever you get your Spotifys, it'll be up there within 48 hours.
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