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The Boone Show - S5 E13 - Mary Boarts: The Principal of Running
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Mary Boarts, principal of BHP High School, shares highlights from a successful academic and athletic year while discussing her personal challenge to run 12 half marathons during her 40th year.
• BHP students earned over $3.5 million in scholarships this year
• State testing scores are trending upward across all metrics
• Football team reached state championship for only second time in school history
• Softball team competing for Upper State championship
• Potential new middle school may be built behind BHP, consolidating Belton and Honea Path middle schools
• Mary has completed four half marathons this year toward her goal of 12
• The "Bear Award" tradition honors one senior who embodies the spirit of the graduating class
• Senior pranks required student clean-up, demonstrating good character of graduating class
• Reduced phone use in classrooms has decreased disruptions and drama
• Restaurant recommendation: Heat in Powdersville for steaks and salmon
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Hello everybody, Welcome to another edition of the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. We're happy to be with you and here we go. I got a producer lined up for next year, by the way.
Speaker 2:You do, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1:Yes to push all these buttons, so I don't have to be late with stuff.
Speaker 2:I know it and like I have to adjust every time I come in because I want to be able to see everybody that I talk to.
Speaker 1:Yes, and now we have to see you too. So you have to see you too, so you have to make sure you're on camera.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right gosh, I forget about that.
Speaker 1:I can't see myself at least mary looks good today yes, I think um, you know the big runner that she is.
Speaker 4:She probably could have made it here quicker running today than um I definitely could have it was all day like I was within a mile, like you could see it just let your daughter drive.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess we shouldn't complain, they're finally paving the road that's true, that's a good thing, but they could have waited another week, it would have been progress, progress all right, but um, I'm john boone. Holly harrell is here, the boss lady, as you know her and uh, we have mary bortz, the principal of bhp high school. Hello, and we have little bortz over there emma emma, hi, emma. Nope, she's not gonna talk.
Speaker 4:Okay, that's all right talk into the microphone and say hi wait, wait, there's one more time.
Speaker 1:Do that, all right. How old are you, emma? Nine, nine, you're getting up there almost double figures. Good for you. Welcome to the show, all right? Uh, we got a lot to talk about. It's our last show of the year and then we're. We're on hiatus for just a couple of months technically three months, I guess.
Speaker 1:What is it may, and we'll be back middle august yeah, so um, yeah, mary always comes on late in the year to kind of take us out on a good night, a good note rather, and, um, we have plenty of good things to talk about with her. So, first off, how was your year at bhp?
Speaker 4:it was pretty successful. Things are good. We had a great year um, academically, athletically just as a staff, our students, I feel like we had a very, very good year football team all the way to the state championship we didn't quite win, but we came in second.
Speaker 1:it's only second time in school history, yeah which surprised me a little bit, because it always seems like they have a good football team. But anyway, softball what?
Speaker 4:They're playing Friday for Upper State and hopefully going to state again next week, because they won last year, right? So hopefully we're playing for state next week.
Speaker 1:Awesome, awesome, and I know you've had a lot of signed athletes that are going to colleges all over the place seeing those social media posts, so that's good. Got a real good program going on there. What can you tell us about academically, what's going on?
Speaker 4:I mean just this most recent round of state testing. Everything is up, that's always good, everything is up.
Speaker 1:It's the best way to go.
Speaker 4:So we are trending in the right direction. Scholarship money I mean our kids earned over three and a half million dollars. Our seniors scholarships, and most of that is academic, and so things are going really well yeah, yeah, and this is what year, six or seven for you, six six yes time flies, doesn't it remember when?
Speaker 1:you first started yeah in fact I picked up this one thing off of when I was looking up some stuff. It wasn't stalking, I'm just researching, okay, but I found this popped up, I'm nervous. From your website when you were an English teacher back at BHV a number of years ago.
Speaker 6:That was pre-Emma.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no kids, no kids, a couple of boxers dogs boxers not like punching boxers, but uh yeah, I thought that was uh kind of funny, so I had to print it out, that is that still exists. You can still go to that site oh how life and get your vocabulary list for the week yeah, all our vocabulary lists on there so.
Speaker 2:So tell me, since that time, do you see growth in yourself?
Speaker 4:Oh, of course we always talk and laugh about how different we would be as teachers now that we know everything. We know Because we live in classrooms in our building and just seeing all of the different things that teachers do, that I would now like oh, I would take advantage of doing now if I went back into the classroom. So, just from an educator standpoint, like I think I've grown, and then obviously from a leadership standpoint I hope I have grown.
Speaker 1:I think you could probably do a better website than that.
Speaker 4:I don't know. It's been a while since I messed around with a website, the Weebly sites.
Speaker 1:they used to have a big education thing where you got free sites and we would give them to all our seniors so they could do portfolios on there, and then they stopped doing it. So now we sort of use Google, but that's not as good as what the Weebly was. But anyways total other topic. So yeah, what about the growth of the school? How's that going? I know this whole entire area is growing. All this, this whole entire area is growing, so how's that affecting BHP?
Speaker 4:We have stayed pretty much the same. This is my 17th year at. Bhp and our student population has pretty consistently been a little under 1,100 kids. There are some potential developments maybe coming down the pipeline. There are some potential developments maybe coming down the pipeline, but we pretty much because we're a little further in from the Anderson, from the Pattersville, from the Greenville, so we stay. For every kid we lose we pretty much pick one up, so we pretty much stay right at the same number in terms of enrollment.
Speaker 1:What about facilities? Have you built any? Have any in the plans?
Speaker 4:So there is a all year we've been the district has been talking about consolidating the two middle schools and building a combined one right behind our school.
Speaker 4:So it would be Belton-Honeypath Middle School. So they did the different town hall meetings in the two towns and are kind of showing what that would entail cost-wise and what it would cost to fix the both buildings up. They're the two oldest buildings in the district, they're the old high schools for each of the towns and so right now I think they're at the phase where they're doing like a cost analysis to see what it would cost to just fix the things that need to be fixed compared to what it would cost to just build a new facility, and they're're getting ready to present that, I believe this summer, to the community and then that maybe will be voted on in the fall.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, holly, you got something there. No, I was going to follow up. Well, I was going to ask about.
Speaker 2:That's going to be a huge impact for you all as a school. If it comes on because of the proximity to your location, obviously things will be planned out where they would come in a different area but, you're still having the congestion all right around the same time.
Speaker 2:You know Anderson 1 has that a lot in their schools. I mean Powdersville is boom, boom, boom. You know all the elementary, the middle and the high and the same thing with Wren it's all right there. And Palmetto Now that I think about that, it's all of the schools.
Speaker 4:That becomes a logistic nightmare Schools start end times all of that. So yeah, we've already been having those conversations and talking about potential traffic light locations. We don't have to worry about any of that right now we're kind of in the center.
Speaker 4:That's right. So we have been talking a lot about that, but I mean, I think it has more pros than cons, just in terms of all of our kids coming from one faculty, um academically and also athletically, um having them combined as teammates, I think, and fine arts I mean fine arts that would be huge oh, yeah, our programs yeah, yeah, absolutely all right.
Speaker 1:well, every year at the end of the year, we've only done it once. Fine arts, I mean fine arts, that would be huge. Oh yeah, To help build our programs. Yeah, Absolutely All right. Well, every year at the end of the year we've only done it once.
Speaker 6:but this is the second time.
Speaker 1:We're having a competition between the principals. Remember last? Year we did basketball, but Mary wasn't here because that was all District 1. That's right Well this year, lanford, you know, closed the door on us District 1. That's right. Well, this year, lanford, you know, closed the door on us Right. And so he's not involved. But he is involved Because this year's competition is how enthusiastic the principals were at graduation.
Speaker 2:Oh, without a doubt, mary's got yeah.
Speaker 1:No, but we've got tape.
Speaker 2:Oh, you have tape.
Speaker 1:Yes, so we can judge oh. Well, let's pull it out, so we're just going to go in order of the graduations. Powersville was first.
Speaker 2:So, john, not everybody knows that me and you are like the only two that watch all four graduations. There are very few others that do that, but John and I both do, because John broadcasts for all the school districts and of course then I'm sitting there with you guys. So, realistically, we're only the ones that really can look at all four of them and judge everything from what letter do they start yelling on?
Speaker 1:versus what you guys look like? The little scold piece that they have for the audience at the beginning does not work.
Speaker 2:Well, that's Anderson 1. Anderson 2 hasn't done it yet.
Speaker 1:No, you'll hear that. Well, they still tell them not to. They tell them not to, but still.
Speaker 4:Well, we just say no extended yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:There's plenty of people making. Remember when we were back in the Civic Center and BHP.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah. People were really raucous and I'll tell you this is a side note that I attended my baby brother graduated law school on Sunday yeah, sunday, and there were 500 graduates and it's a fancy-smancy law school in Washington DC. And I texted my admin team and said even at fancy-smancy law school graduations people still hoot and holler it doesn't matter. That's right. That is just what people want to do. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what people want to do, it doesn't matter. Yeah, and you guys, out of all the graduate, the graduations, we've seen you guys handle it very well because you do give. It's not a lot, but it's just a little bit for them to get it out.
Speaker 4:But you still be able to hear the other names yeah, we don't want the next family to not be able to hear their child's name yep yeah, there's a lot of enthusiastic people and brad has a very good voice.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, like he does. He has a good voice for it. I was listening back to some of that today. He practices, I bet he does. So are you ready? Yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Our first example is Dr Adam Lanford.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is what he sounded like when he was telling them they're all graduated, okay.
Speaker 5:By the virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the state of South Carolina through the Board of Trustees of Anderson School District 1, granting you all the rights and privileges therein, I now congratulate you and pronounce you graduates. You may move your tassels.
Speaker 1:Okay, Now the problems I had with that one.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:He didn't say you know what year it was? Oh, okay, so that could be used any time, true, okay. He didn't say you know what year it was, oh, okay, so that could be used any time, true. And he also didn't even say the school Ah, okay, so yeah, those are points docketed off him.
Speaker 4:Now you have me questioning. Did I say those things?
Speaker 1:No, she did miss something oh. But, we'll find out. Okay, is Robbie Roach?
Speaker 2:Okay, palmetto High School.
Speaker 1:For Palmetto High School.
Speaker 10:By virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of South Carolina through the Board of Trustees of Anderson School District 1, and giving you all the rights and privileges herein, I pronounce you graduates of the Palmetto High School Class of 2025. Okay.
Speaker 2:He said it he said the whole. Thing.
Speaker 1:He did say move your tassel later on.
Speaker 2:Yes, he did, that's right.
Speaker 1:He just had one little stumble there. One little stumble there. Oh, she's already figured it out. But then we had Whitfield, a friend of the program, dr Conway, from Wren High School, from Wren High School, and this was his.
Speaker 3:By the virtue of the power of the authority vested in me by the state of South Carolina, through the Boise School District 1, giving you all the rights and privileges herein, I now congratulate you and pronounce you graduates of the Wren High School.
Speaker 4:Class of 2025. Okay, he doesn't sound very excited, he doesn't sound excited but he did get all the verbiage.
Speaker 2:He did, he got through it.
Speaker 1:He did Solid, so here we go. Who's going to win now? He got through it. He did Solid, so here we go. Who's going to win now?
Speaker 4:We have one more contestant, I'm nervous From PHP. It is my privilege to confer upon each of you your South Carolina diploma and the right and privilege thereof. I mean congratulating the class of 2025.
Speaker 9:Yeah, yes, yeah, that was fun for them. Forget that castle.
Speaker 7:And a round of fun for that. Forget that castle and we're in a castle 25.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I love it. Well, I will say in my defense they're waiting to throw their hats and I told them wait until I say that, because I was doing this at the stage. I was giving them the one-finger wait because they want to do it and I reminded them at practice, you've got to wait until I confirm you. So they were all waiting to throw their hats, isn't that neat?
Speaker 2:You know what I like, though she got so excited.
Speaker 1:It was awesome.
Speaker 2:It really was, did you? I wanted to graduate. I wanted to throw my hat. I wasn't even wearing it. Do you remember seeing her face when every graduate walked across that stage, mary? It was like you had to connect, even though I'm sure you knew 90% of the students, but every student that walked across that stage, you were so excited for them to walk across that stage.
Speaker 4:Made each one feel important it was a good group, like I loved this graduating class. They are the sweetest group truly, and I'm not just saying that to say it. They were angels, like almost all of high school, so I genuinely was very excited for them, and also some of that is to ease their nerves, because they're so nervous and I'm the one person they know of everybody really coming towards them.
Speaker 4:So I like try to say something to each one of them to like calm the nerves. So I'll talk about what they have on or I'll make a funny joke about something just from years past. I try to say something to each of them just to kind of get them to let their guards down a little bit.
Speaker 2:And you can see it because when they make that eye contact with you prior to walking across that stage, you can see it. It's like, oh, this is it, yeah, and you're so excited for them and you could see it and it's genuine in your eyes, so that's a have you watched it back at all?
Speaker 4:No, I have not. You can see it on our website at mypostradiocom I need to All the graduations.
Speaker 2:But the camera, you can see all the graduations.
Speaker 1:Is on your face as they go by, so you see your face every time showing them.
Speaker 4:I know my parents were very excited about that.
Speaker 1:How many graduates were there?
Speaker 4:Two, 70 something. How many graduates were there? 270 something? Yeah, I don't remember. That's a pretty big class. I mean that's one of the bigger classes, it is a very big class.
Speaker 1:And yet you did that for every single one, every single one. That was awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well thank you.
Speaker 1:I think for that reason alone we have to play this again.
Speaker 4:It is my privilege to confer upon each of you your South Carolina diploma and the right and privilege thereof. I mean congratulating the class of 2025.
Speaker 2:I love it. You know, one of the things that I love about one of the things that I love that you do, Mary is your bear, your bear statue. And one of the things that I miss, and I wish that you would say, is tell me why you give it to that person and I know it changes every year, but I'd love a way for you to put that in your program.
Speaker 4:And I write a card and stick it in their diploma, do you? So they know why I chose them. Okay, so it's in that person's diploma when they get it. So, but you're right, I don't ever. They don't even know it's coming.
Speaker 2:No, they don't.
Speaker 4:They've paid attention at other graduation ceremonies.
Speaker 1:They don't know Right, so wait a minute. You give what? What is explain?
Speaker 4:Yeah, so every year they get. So that bear is actually the same bear we give to retirees of BHP, except it just has a different placard on the front, and it's basically like the principal's award and it goes to a student that I just feel like truly represents the senior class like as a whole.
Speaker 4:They're super involved, they have a positive attitude, they're kind, they support all students and I typically will write exactly why I chose them in their card and then I slide it in the diploma so they, once they get it, they see it and no one knows any idea no one knows.
Speaker 4:So every year the counselors run a bet, and so they wait because they find out at graduation. That's when I bring the card and tell them whose diploma to put it in, and they, they all have money five bucks and they've never gotten it, ever they've never guessed right.
Speaker 2:And it's so neat because you see the bear sitting up there. So we on the stage, we know that somebody's going to get their bear and we're always. We always have to watch like who's going to? Get it. Who's going to get it? Because you, it's. It's typically it's not those ones usually sitting up on stage.
Speaker 4:No, it's somebody else, Well, and they're getting the accolades. Do you know what I mean? They are Not that I don't love those kids too Right right, right that was a very sweet group of kids, but they are like those kids on stage. They've won, like student council president or you know they're getting to be on stage, they're getting. I try to pick a kid that kind of hasn't already won everything else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be great to be able to give that out to them in front of the class to say this is why I'm giving it to you, because it sure makes everybody else think.
Speaker 4:That's a good idea next year.
Speaker 2:Just do it as an award.
Speaker 1:You know, actually, and I don't know what you call it, so you actually give it to them at graduation At the same, when they walk across to get their diploma.
Speaker 4:I also hand them the bear.
Speaker 2:And nobody has any idea. Yeah, it's very cool. And that kid when he walked through. It was just neat to look at it. I mean, he was holding it and he was so happy.
Speaker 4:I said I have a couple things to give you. And he said what do you mean?
Speaker 1:I remember you saying that. Okay, but I didn't.
Speaker 4:I wasn't paying that question, yeah and I did not start that tradition, so I cannot take credit. I just inherited that tradition. But it's great, that is good and it's really neat.
Speaker 2:You know, powdersville, they didn't do it this year, but last year they did an award. They call it the. They named it after Chris Ferguson, the first.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it was the Chris Ferguson Award and they give it to somebody who embodies their culture, and actually I'm a judge for it every year. This year, for some reason, something happened, but anyways, and you can nominate anybody. So you can nominate a parent, you can nominate whatever, but I do like the fact that it's through the class and it shows the character.
Speaker 4:So this one is the only thing that truly I am the only one that picks. So like all the other awards in the school, like I don't have anything to do with, but this is the one thing that I get to pick, the one senior that I feel like truly represented that group.
Speaker 2:That's cool, very nice.
Speaker 1:But congratulations on a great graduation.
Speaker 4:It was. Thank you, I appreciate it. Very well done. Very well done. It was Thank you.
Speaker 1:I appreciate it. Very well done, Very well done. And maybe did they call that thing the Fergie over there. They should call it the Fergie?
Speaker 2:Oh, I know they should, but they don't this year's winner Of the.
Speaker 1:Fergie, the Fergie.
Speaker 4:I like that.
Speaker 1:It's Fergalicious, all right. We have much more to go with Mary Bortz and what's his. He'll be calling in. He went to wrestling last night.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:At the Bon Secours Arena Always be the by-law center in Maine, but he went last night so I'm sure he wants to talk about that and he's going to be on in a couple of minutes here. So we're going to run a couple ads and then come back and talk with Mary about her running. Yes, she just ran a half marathon the other day.
Speaker 2:I know and I saw it.
Speaker 1:She's still here with us, and she has a big goal for how many of these dang things she's going to run. And do you know? A half marathon is actually longer than from here to BHP.
Speaker 2:No, I didn't know, that.
Speaker 1:It's almost the same. It's about 11 or 12 miles from here to BHP.
Speaker 4:Yep, that is. I did not know that.
Speaker 1:So yeah, you could have literally run here and got one of those out of the way.
Speaker 4:today it would have taken me two hours.
Speaker 1:Not too much longer than it took you anyway. All right, so we'll take a quick timeout here and come back with Zach and more with Mary Bortz on the Boone Show, my Pulse Radio.
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Speaker 1:All right welcome back to the Moon Show on MyPulse Radio. We have Zach on the line to talk sports as we continue here. Zach, how are you?
Speaker 11:I'm doing good, man. How are you?
Speaker 1:Did you have fun last night?
Speaker 11:Man, I had a blast, but I'll tell you what. I didn't have as much fun as my 5-year-old did.
Speaker 1:I bet.
Speaker 11:I bet Because I'm telling you, if you can ever experience that I commend people to experience that, because it's just. You know, we show up, I don't know 45, 35, 40 minutes before it starts and she says Daddy, how much longer I've got. 40 minutes, daddy how much longer?
Speaker 11:We've got 38 minutes, Daddy. How much longer Got 40 minutes, Daddy, how much longer we got 38 minutes, Daddy, how much longer we got 35 minutes. And just on and on and on. And then it was like just you know, like you're on cloud nine, and so just you know, I was there for her. But I tell you it had been probably 12 to 14 years since I had seen CM Punk in person.
Speaker 11:And right there at the very end he come out. That just made it all worth the while. And then seeing my little girl with Jay Uso when he come out, that's her favorite. Ain't nobody better than Jay Uso. So you know, it's just a surreal feeling. You know, just to watch her, I mean I think she's trying to recruit Tiffany to go next time. So she said, mommy, you need to come. She said, mommy, you need to come next time. You need to come next time and tiffany's like baby, I think I'll pass on that. So but uh, but it's just just. You know, if you never get to experience that, I, I highly recommend it, especially if you've got young ones, that's into it well, you know, I don't think I have any five year olds anymore.
Speaker 4:Holly certainly doesn't have no for sure mary I have one five-year-old there you go he might enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he probably absolutely was we took our kids when they were younger. It was a lot of fun. They took posters and everything and it was great.
Speaker 11:What's, what's funny about the whole thing is my dad works maintenance with the bilo center. It's always going to be bilo center to me there you go um, but uh, he works maintenance so he gets to see everybody.
Speaker 11:Like he saw logan paul, he saw gunter. He eventually saw cm because I told him. I said text me when you see cm punk, and I guess it was about 10 minutes before he come out. I just saw cm punk. He texted me and said, all right, here he comes, he's fixing to come out. And so after the show he told me he said yeah, about 15 minutes before he'd come out, right after he got there he hugged Logan Paul and they were chit-chatting and laughing and Logan Paul went one way and interfered in a match and CM Punk went the other way and I'm like that is so crazy to see it on that side of things right you know, just to see how.
Speaker 11:I hope I didn't ruin it for you. Mr boone, you know it is fake, don't you?
Speaker 1:oh wait, it's scripted. Let's put it that way, because a lot of the stuff isn't fake. I can tell you that they get bruises and cuts by the way.
Speaker 11:Speaking of fake, there was a triple threat. I don't know how much you watch of it, if you even get time and watch any of it anymore but I don't really watch the women's matches. Of course Carson likes to, but unless I'm there I sit through them, unless I'm vandering on my phone and stuff. There was a triple threat match. The winner went to Money in the Bank. They were wrestling for the briefcase, zoe Stark tore her ACL once again. I saw that they had to carry her out.
Speaker 1:It was a real thing.
Speaker 11:They had to stop the match and you can see it on TV. They immediately went to commercial break. The referee motions for the doctor to come in and everybody around us. I said that wasn't supposed to happen because she jumped off the top rope and when she did, her opponent didn't run like she was supposed to and hit the ring and tore the same ACL that she just got back from having surgery on back in October, I think it was. I think she returned right after, right before WrestleMania around the Royal Rumble time. But that was kind of crazy and they just stopped and you can see Rhea ripley say on tv stare down, because I mean I guess they have a situation if one of them gets hurt, this is how this is going to work. So that was kind of crazy to see it on that end because I mean that wasn't supposed to happen. So that was that was kind of crazy. Yeah, yeah stuff.
Speaker 1:Stuff does happen. Well, hey, you know this is the last show this year and then by the time you come on in August, we'll be right there with college football season.
Speaker 11:Yes sir, yes sir, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:And high school football, and high school football, yeah.
Speaker 11:Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, I can't wait, and then we'll see how bad the braves are doing, or we'll see how they'll be right doing it there, you know if they're right there, but it's either gonna be the phillies or the mets that win the that win the east. Um, but uh, you know, the phillies won't be able to receive any world series rings, since all they receive is national league.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you know I'm giving you time and you keep saying this stuff. I should just cut you off, I know. But you know I will say this though you know the National League is going to be very tough this year. It is, it is. I mean, it's going to be tough to get in. It certainly is. It certainly is, It'll be a fun summer.
Speaker 11:Hopefully, the Hopefully they're starting to get hot at the right time, maybe they can hit this hump. I mean, that's baseball for you, that's just how baseball goes. That's why it's one of my favorite sports to watch Mr Boone. Once again, I appreciate the opportunity. I look forward to this every Tuesday. It's gotten to where I work now that. I have to put it in my calendar so it reminds me to call you, because sometimes if you get busy and can't text me, hey, 430, I forget.
Speaker 1:I think that happened a couple of times last year. Yeah, and sometimes I forget.
Speaker 11:But I certainly enjoy it. I look forward to it every Thursday or every Tuesday.
Speaker 1:That's good, because Thursday wouldn't work.
Speaker 11:Sorry, dad brain, that's okay, but I look forward to it every Tuesday and looking forward to it kicking back up in August and I hope you all have a good summer break and look forward to hearing from you in August.
Speaker 1:All right man, Take care of that family.
Speaker 11:Yes sir, We'll see you.
Speaker 1:All right, bye-bye, that's Zach, and yeah, he'll be, you can tell. You know he doesn't have a whole lot to talk about at this time of year. Luckily he has the wrestling, but once football cranks up, his energy level goes way up as well. So, all right, shifting gears in sports, we go to running, running, running, running, running. How'd you do Saturday?
Speaker 4:Oh, not as well as I would have liked to I was. I haven't beat myself up, so it poured it stormed oh, and it was hot, so it was very muggy. Yeah, it was mountains to main street, so I started in tr and ended in downtown greenville and it was pouring the whole time, no, but the middle chunk. So, uh, and this was a half marathon, yes, Just a half.
Speaker 4:And so I was doing really good. I have this app that tells you your projected finish time after you finish each mile, and I was set to get my PR. And then at mile 10, there's only 13, I couldn't do it, like I think the humidity I was sopping wet, like I was just miserable. And so at mile 10, I started walk running and I added six minutes to my time in the last three miles, so I still finished under two hours, which is always like good, but it could have been my pr now you have this goal to do 12 of them in a year, basically one a month.
Speaker 1:Now, why is that a goal? When did you start?
Speaker 4:I turned 40 this last month this year. So so I said, for my 40th year, I'm going to do one a month. Oh, okay, wow. So since January I've run one. This is my fourth. Wow, wow.
Speaker 1:That's a lot, I mean is that like recommended that you run that much? I mean some people they take a break after the first one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, but like some of them there were, the two of the four were like two weeks apart, but my last one was like April 1st and this is now May 17th.
Speaker 2:So that's a pretty big stretch. Wow, so when's your next?
Speaker 4:one. So there are no local June ones, and there was one I was going to do, but I dropped the ball and missed the sign up and it sold out.
Speaker 7:So either I have to travel in June, which isn't likely because we already have a thousand other summer things going on or I'm just going to run my own which will probably just be what I do the Mary Bort half marathon, whether you pay, to run it or whether you do it on your own, absolutely.
Speaker 4:So I'll probably just end up doing my June one on my own, gotcha.
Speaker 1:Must be tough in the summertime.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, yeah, you're early yeah.
Speaker 2:Does your husband run too? No, he does not. You just do it on your own.
Speaker 1:Yes, he cheers you on.
Speaker 2:He does how about any of the little ones, are they?
Speaker 4:Oh, they run around constantly, but no.
Speaker 2:Emma is the current third third grade belton elementary school hula hoop champion. I just won that last week. Good for you. You think you're gonna run like your mama eventually.
Speaker 1:No, didn't have to think about that answer that's right I'm right to it. Okay, I have a few questions okay um for long distance runners, and you're the perfect person to answer this Some are serious, some are not, but whatever, enjoy.
Speaker 4:What do you listen to when you're running? So if I'm running inside I will watch a show, like if I'm running on my treadmill I'll just watch some whatever is on TV. Otherwise I will listen to, like they have running radio stations. So I've tried podcasts, which I love, podcasts, but I can't, for some reason that does not motivate me to go yeah, um.
Speaker 4:so they I will put on like a running station, um, or sometimes, like I have the peloton app on my phone and they have runs where, like hype you up, while you're running there's music playing, but then they're also like coaching you. So sometimes I do those.
Speaker 1:All right. Do you run towards snacks or away from responsibilities?
Speaker 4:Towards snacks.
Speaker 2:So, speaking of snacks, is there something that you eat just before or after? Oh, I like all.
Speaker 4:I want is carbs when I'm done. Oh sorry, All I want is like pizza and like all the carbs Before. I probably should be eating things, but I'm not very good about that, Okay. I'm not very good at like training Gotcha.
Speaker 1:We used to cover back in New Jersey. I used to actually cover some of these long runs and do the announcing when they're coming in and all that stuff.
Speaker 4:And man, they would have those big pasta parties yeah, car people will be like well, what's your water intake plan, what's your fuel plan, what's? And I'm like I just go and run, I don't have to keep it simple.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's working. Yeah, I mean uh, do you ever run so far? You forget why you started?
Speaker 4:no, okay, good have you ever run past your own house?
Speaker 1:why you started. No, okay good, have you ever run past your own house just to hit a mileage?
Speaker 4:goal. Oh, absolutely Back and forth, back and forth, just to, because I can't end on like an odd, weird number. I've got to finish on a whole mile, okay.
Speaker 1:What's the weirdest thing you've seen on a long run?
Speaker 4:Hmm, that's a good question. I don't know. I don't know that I've seen anything that crazy weird.
Speaker 1:Have you ever had to outrun some sort of animal?
Speaker 4:like a dog or something. No, luckily, my dad used to be a big runner and he would run with a stick Because we had a lake and there would be geese and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was actually on here too. Yeah, would be geese and stuff. So yeah, that was actually on here too.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I've never luckily squirrel. Yeah, I have had to do that okay.
Speaker 1:Do you ever have full conversations with yourself while you're running?
Speaker 4:oh, in my head. Yes, yes, especially after a long day of work.
Speaker 1:Yes, uh, what's your go-to excuse when you don't want to run but need to sound legit?
Speaker 4:oh I. There's just too much to do around the house.
Speaker 1:That's a good one, and you got young kids yeah, kids laundry, there's always things that's funny because that was the next question. Do you run to clear your mind or to avoid the pile of laundry waiting at home?
Speaker 4:oh, I'm more so the clear the mind.
Speaker 1:So that's what, that's why you run yeah I think this really does help help you on on the job.
Speaker 4:This is like your stress relief, yeah because I get up at about 5, 530, and from that point until my kids go to bed I am with somebody answering some question, in some capacity doing something. The only time I am by myself is when, I run. When you run, yeah. So, yes, it is truly like my time in my head, because even in the car, like I, always have a kid with me.
Speaker 1:And that's you know. You get so mentally worn out from the stuff at school and all that that you counter it with the physical.
Speaker 4:Right, yeah, I enjoy it, I really do.
Speaker 1:Okay. Do you consider walking to the fridge a warm-up or a recovery session? Both? Do you consider walking to the fridge a warm-up or recovery session? Both? You're too young for this one, but on a scale from one to I need new knees. How are you feeling?
Speaker 4:Oh, if you had asked me this last week, I would say 100. But since I just ran this race three days ago, I'm not moving quite as gingerly as I would like to. Today I'm at a seven. If you would have asked me two days ago, I was hobbling around at about a two. So is it the knee feet? It's my quads, it's your quads. They get so sore. Knees are still doing well.
Speaker 1:Okay, what is your favorite carbo load?
Speaker 4:Pizza.
Speaker 1:Would you rather run in 100-degree heat or freezing rain?
Speaker 4:Oh, both sound awful. I guess neither.
Speaker 1:Forget running. I'd hate to be outside in either of those, I'd rather run in the heat because the freezing rain would like hurt.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, that would hurt. At least on Saturday, when it was pouring, it was warm out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That didn't have to do with the cold. Yeah, it was warm.
Speaker 1:Which hurts more the last mile or stepping on a Lego?
Speaker 4:Ooh Well, I do have a five-year-old son, so I have a lot of experience in stepping on Legos. Legos, I, I think, are worse everybody says they're worse than anything?
Speaker 1:uh, if your running shoes could talk, what would they say about you?
Speaker 4:they would say it's time to get new ones.
Speaker 1:You're wearing these are you rough on your shoes?
Speaker 4:yes, I wear them far too long how long do for a runner?
Speaker 1:how long do running shoes last I?
Speaker 4:don't know if this is like marketing, but allegedly you're supposed to swap them out every 500 miles. And some people are like crazy and they log their miles. I wear them until they have holes in them and you can start to tell Like your toes start feeling different. You get blisters, you can tell. But I definitely wear mine far past their prime. What brand shoes do you?
Speaker 1:have yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm all over the place. Right now. I am wearing Asics, but I have worn just about every brand.
Speaker 2:So do you go to somewhere like Run-In or something like that?
Speaker 4:Yeah, fleet Feet and they'll fit you, and so they'll give you several different ones, and then I just kind of walk around in what I feel, what feels best in that time. I've pretty much worn every brand at this point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, ever pretended to tie what feels best in that time? I've pretty much worn every brand at this point. Yeah, yeah, um. Ever pretended to tie your shoe, just to take a break no, that's a good idea though that's all the questions I have. But uh, we wanted to know if I'm a true runner. At least I wanted that's great.
Speaker 2:So do you run every day or, do you like, every other day?
Speaker 4:so now, because it's the chaos of May and you know all the things in terms of my job and then the children's things like awards days, I am barely running at all. But when it's not the chaos of May, I typically run five days a week.
Speaker 2:Five days. So is that like Monday through Friday, or?
Speaker 4:It just depends like on my kids' schedule and my work schedule and what nights I have working. I plan around that. So you run in the evening, not in the morning, Correct. In the weekends I run in the morning.
Speaker 2:You do run in the morning.
Speaker 4:Yeah, not during the week. I run after work.
Speaker 1:All right, and our next segment. We wanted to talk to you about a little bit about your governing style as a principal. And, by the way, before we move on, holly, she said she just turned 40.
Speaker 4:She still looks like a student, but anyway, I have a baby face, jeez.
Speaker 1:That's what I told her the other day, because we posted that picture of her when she got a shirt. Four years ago, I think it was the first time we had her on and I used that to promote the show this year. She years ago, I think it was the first time we had her on and I used that to promote the show this year. She looks exactly the same. It's amazing. Good for you, maybe it's the running, I don't know, but good for you, all right. Um, I wanted to ask you just about, uh, senior prank. Was there one this year? Oh, yeah, yeah, what'd they do this it?
Speaker 4:was a fail on their part good for them. I asked who is this joke? Moron, you or me? So uh they, we got tipped off that they were coming.
Speaker 4:They're not very good criminals. There are about 20 or 30 of them that showed up at about 2 in the morning last Thursday night I guess Friday morning, and they did toilet paper, silly string. They brought in tons of wooden pallets and blocked all the door, the entrances and all the parking lots and they had that spray chalk I thought it was spray paint when I first got pictures, but it was spray chalk and they did a lot of the building um which washes right off. It does um, so nothing. I mean it was hard, it truly was hard, but they came the next day. That's why I said I asked them who was this joke really on? Because it took them five hours to clean it all up the next day and they had been up all night like they were there.
Speaker 4:When we watched the cameras they were still there at 2 am, so like the jokes was really on them.
Speaker 1:Yeah see, I told them not that I would give any criminal recommendations, but I'm like that's when you need to take your senior. Skip day is the day after you do the senior prank.
Speaker 4:Which they didn't have school. They were done Right so I sent a message to the parents and said if your children were involved in this prank, they better be here at nine to clean it up and they all came, they brought pressure washers. They came, they cleaned it all up.
Speaker 2:They loaded up all the. That's a good class.
Speaker 4:I told you I love them. They're so sweet. They loaded back up all the Because I was worried about all the pallets.
Speaker 2:It was probably 50 plus pallets and I was like what.
Speaker 4:But they came back with the trailer and got them all. They went and got a pressure washer. When they realized they tried scrubbing, I told them before whatever you do, I will not ask my custodians to clean it up, that's right and so they knew if they did it they were going to have to clean it up Wow.
Speaker 1:So all for a few hours of stress relief. They were good sports.
Speaker 4:But they got to say they did it and it was fun. That's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's all about the experience.
Speaker 1:I remember other years. You've always had a good sense of humor. You were telling us about the egg year.
Speaker 4:I don't know about fish, they came and cleaned that. Yeah, I don't remember fish, but they did that. One was a little that was. They may have crossed the line on that one, but they came and cleaned.
Speaker 1:Okay, All right. Now here's an idea, and luckily we don't have to worry about senior prank over here. Right, In fact Well they brought up the idea in class and I'm like no, no, no, you don't need to do that over here. No, and you better not do that over here.
Speaker 2:You need to do that at your home high school. Do that at your home high school.
Speaker 1:I mean over here. It's just too complicated. So here's an idea for you If you were going to do principal prank on the seniors, what kind of thing could you do to them that?
Speaker 4:they wouldn't know about, and you just pull a prank so we said we should have told them about a graduation practice, and then nobody showed up we joked about this the other day actually like what would be something and make? Tell them they all have to be there, and then none of us show up, like at a time after school or something, when the parking lot is dead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is a good idea. Yeah, yeah, principal pranks. That should become a. I think that would be pretty funny. What's the craziest thing? Students?
Speaker 4:have been sent to your office for this year. Oh, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 1:They're angels, I know.
Speaker 4:No, I don't get a lot of them in my office, my three wonderful assistant principals deal with the majority of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if it gets to your office.
Speaker 4:It's probably pretty wild, I guess. If it's coming to me I don't know that I've had any that I'm like whoa, what is this um or none that I can say on the radio? Um, nothing too crazy. I mean just the standard teenagers being making yeah, silly mistake.
Speaker 1:Is there an all-time? Is there an all-time thing? You remember? That just was crazy, funny, awkward, something like that that you could say on the radio One year we had, this is more apparent.
Speaker 4:This was like I was still an assistant principal. We had a parent. We don't. Today was exams. So one of our policy during exams is we will not interrupt an exam period for early dismissal. We send every message home in the world that says this multiple days in a row we will not interrupt a class for early dismissal. So you either get your kid before the period starts or after, because we're not calling in during exams. So I guess the parent didn't get the memo. So they called the police and said we had kidnapped her child because we refused to release them.
Speaker 4:And the police told them, like ma'am, they're where they're supposed to be legally in school. She called the police and said that we had kidnapped her child. This was like years ago. That's interesting, I don't even remember who the child was. Like we all got a nice laugh, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any social media, tiktok, challenges or anything you've had to deal with this year. No, we've been lucky.
Speaker 4:I've heard of lots of them, but we have not had to deal with that and I don't want to promote some of them. Yes, some of them are pretty bad. Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I liked it when we went to school and didn't have social media.
Speaker 4:Me too. Life was so much easier. Yes, it was no phones nothing me I know, but um life was so much easier.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was no phones, nothing um.
Speaker 2:I wrote something better this year without phones in the classroom.
Speaker 4:Oh, it has like dramatically yeah, little things, yeah, I think so I mean we still use them a lot for a lot of things for because our class is what it is but as far as them playing on them and stuff like that, but even like I remember, I don't remember what it was, but something happened maybe a month ago that would have typically spread like wildfire through the school and would have caused. I don't remember what it was, but I remember us not hearing a peep from anybody.
Speaker 6:No phone calls.
Speaker 4:It was the first time it dawned on me they can't text each other openly about this so that's why we're not getting chaos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. Let Chaos. Yeah, all right. Let's move on to the recommendation things, because you've already said they're angels and I was going to talk about reasons why kids get sent to the principal's office.
Speaker 4:Well, my seniors, they're just so sweet, we're going to miss them yeah.
Speaker 1:I wish I could say the same about mine. You know what the weird thing was? We didn't have any BHP seniors in our class.
Speaker 4:Really, you didn't have the first time ever. That is wild.
Speaker 1:You have underclassmen though, yeah, yeah yeah, that was the first time that ever happened, so I don't know what happened that year.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that is crazy yeah, um.
Speaker 1:So summer plans. You said you're going to do a million different things.
Speaker 4:We are enlighten us a little bit so, um, we are going to the beach. That's where my parents live in florida, and so we will go there. We're going to see Emma's cousins, who she is very, very close with. They live in Cincinnati Ohio, so we're spending some days there. We'll swim in and celebrate some birthdays.
Speaker 1:Go to the zoo. She has never been to the.
Speaker 4:Cincinnati.
Speaker 9:Zoo. I grew up there, so I have.
Speaker 4:So maybe that could be something we do. My kids love a good zoo Harambee.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's where.
Speaker 4:Harambee was. We will be, so let's see Beach Cincinnati.
Speaker 1:So you said Florida Beach right.
Speaker 4:Whereabouts in Florida, daytona Beach Okay, nice Big beach. Oh yes, you can drive on it Daytona Beach Okay nice big beach. Oh, yes, you can drive on it. You can drive on it, that's right. So we will be going there. We're going to be busy. I'm going to Nashville in a couple weeks for a friend's birthday. We're all over the place, yeah, and you're still going to fit in all these half marathons. I just got back from Washington DC yesterday for my brother's graduation.
Speaker 1:We're my brother's graduation we're all over the place. I think I saw that on gw right, yeah, wow he's.
Speaker 4:He's going to be a lawyer. What kind of lawyer? Um, so that I asked him that question on saturday after the ceremony and he said he doesn't know yet. Oh well, I guess they don't have to the law firm will place him like he got to. Let's put a ranking of the types of law he would like to practice and they will try to match him with one of those types, but he has passed the bar first in july okay, he will he's smart. That's cool, very cool, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Um, okay, so we get to the part of the program where we get the recommendations and my favorite part again, mary has had some good ones over the year, over the years that I've actually visited the restaurants and and such. I don't remember the all the entertainment ones, but I have a way of remembering the restaurants.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:To get some good food. So, as you know, mary, you've been here before. I would like to hear we would all like to hear what entertainment you can recommend to us A movie, something you're binging on Netflix, or a book, or anything that you're doing to entertain yourself that you would like to share.
Speaker 4:I just finished watching Four Seasons on Netflix. That was pretty good. Yeah, that's. Did you watch that?
Speaker 1:No, I did not. But that's what? Is that? A remake of the old Four Seasons. Oh is it, it's a show my wife is telling me it's like Alan Alda was in the original one.
Speaker 4:I did not know it's got a bunch of older SNL folks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is it funny.
Speaker 4:It's like a dramedy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:It's funny, it's funny, they're quick, little 30-minute episodes.
Speaker 2:That's what I was going to ask it's series.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, but it follows three adult couples through four seasons, so over the span of a year, and they were all friends that they met in college and so it kind of follows them. They go on four trips together and it kind of follows their lives and it's funny.
Speaker 1:It's got some serious parts. It's got what Steve Carell's in it. Yeah, steve Carell is in it. Who else is in it?
Speaker 9:Tina.
Speaker 4:Fey.
Speaker 1:Tina Fey.
Speaker 4:I can't think of guy on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 6:Not anymore, but he did. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4:I know who you mean. I can't. He's been in several shows Coleman.
Speaker 2:Diego, yes Domingo. Steve Carell, erica I don't know her, erica.
Speaker 4:Some of the people I did not know, Will Forte. I would recommend it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we saw the trailer for it last night when we were watching something else. It looked like it was it's an easy watch.
Speaker 2:Well, I like Tina Fey and Steve Carell anyway, so both of them are good.
Speaker 1:And I like easy watches every now and then, because most of the stuff I watch is dark.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no it's but anyway.
Speaker 1:So there you go, four seasons, and that is on Netflix, right?
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, so food, food.
Speaker 4:Restaurants, yes, restaurants.
Speaker 2:I've been out to eat in a minute and you're in a local area anyways, you live locally.
Speaker 4:Yes, so, man, emma, do we have any good restaurant suggestions? Where do you like to go? Oh, she loves Heat.
Speaker 7:Oh, heat is good.
Speaker 4:She loves Heat in Pattersville. I have not been to Heat.
Speaker 1:Wait a minute.
Speaker 2:I really have not.
Speaker 1:Wait, we need to ring a bell or something. Holly has always been to the places people recommend.
Speaker 2:So what do you eat at Heat? That's like right around the corner from you, I know it, I just don't think about it.
Speaker 4:So the owner? I don't know if this is true, but this is what my husband told me that he used to run a or manage or something or cook at at an outback, so it's kind of outback-esque. Okay the menu. Okay, steaks, potatoes. So what do you get there? What do you like? I've gotten the salmon there. She gets the steak every time she loves it there. Okay, steak and french fries. They have steak bites for kids. Um, uh, I get the salmon.
Speaker 1:Most of the time they have good sides okay yeah, I think I haven't been there in a while.
Speaker 2:But it's right, and it's been.
Speaker 4:It's reasonably priced too, and I just don't think about it within minutes from my house, so it's tiny, so like I thought you lived down here I live in, I live. I'm zoned for wren but I'm like on the cusp of Wren Patersonville.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't realize you were way up there yeah, oh okay, but yeah, I think I got something like sirloin tips or something there, it was something steak related.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was. I've gotten that before.
Speaker 1:That's good, which was really good, and now I want it again. So, sirloin tips, I think the sirloin tips and it comes, you know, gravy and a vegetable I think it's a steak and a salad every time okay yeah, okay, it's always, it's always and it's right there by the house. I just don't think about going yeah, yeah, used to be the barbecue place back yes, and I've been there and it was left empty forever yeah yes, and then it had the heat sign up for forever but then it
Speaker 4:didn't open they stay crowded, so they're doing well All right.
Speaker 1:Very good recommendations as usual from Mary Bortz.
Speaker 4:Absolutely Thanks.
Speaker 1:And we'll see if she gets the most downloads on the Spotify thing that we have.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:For the principals, she'll win yet another principal title.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Which she already won the best proclamation of graduates.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Even though it wasn't perfect. No, no, no miss the tassel and the and the school and all that, um, but the enthusiasm. I will go back and edit my notes you're officially graduated from bhp high school um, but thank you for coming on and closing out our year thank you for having me good luck with all the running around you're gonna do I hope you reach your goals and um the next one. You don't know when the next one is right, because it's probably gonna be on my own, it's gonna be.
Speaker 4:There is one called the carolina reaper challenge. That's in july and it's in greenville, and they call it that because it's so hot.
Speaker 1:Nothing to do with peppers, no, it's just that hot out in South Carolina. In July, in July, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:And you enjoy that?
Speaker 2:No, I don't love it in the heat.
Speaker 4:I need like 40, 50 degrees, but I have to check one off.
Speaker 7:That's right. Do they do them in the early morning? They?
Speaker 4:have night ones. I've never run one, but I don't like I can't travel every single month, I'd run out all my money. Right, right. I have traveled for two of two of them so far this year.
Speaker 1:So so would you say, that's your main hobby is just yes, and you want to pay people so that you can run and get exhausted.
Speaker 4:Yes, I know it's silly sounding, isn't it?
Speaker 1:No, it's good, it's good, it's good. I wouldn't know how it feels at the end, but everybody always tells me that it's just quite the feeling when you get to that finish line and get your medal for you know taking part in the run and I guess do you do well in, like your age group, do you always?
Speaker 4:Well, I just bumped up. This is my first race as a 40-year-old.
Speaker 1:I told because I told you I crashed out. Well then, you should be winning it.
Speaker 4:I told you I crashed out. I said I just can't hang now that I'm 40. That's what I told my family.
Speaker 1:But now you're against all the older people.
Speaker 4:So I'm in a new age bracket now. That's right. Moving up, yeah, I fare well though.
Speaker 1:But have All right. What's going to be your favorite part of the summer? Do you think Going to the beach? Yeah, yeah, you like going to the beach. Do you like swimming in the ocean or do you just like playing on the beach? I like going in the pool.
Speaker 4:In the pool, yeah, oh and you like boogie boarding yeah. Yeah well, that's cool it sounds like fun.
Speaker 1:You get along with your right. Yeah, she's a good older sister. That's good. That's good, alright, well, we'll close it out then. Fourth for the year and we'll be back. I think our our date that we're shooting for is August the 19th. So, mary, make sure you tell people around your area. If they got stories to tell, yeah, get them on the show. Okay stories like last year when we had what's the same on what do we have on with you? Who with you? One of the teachers, Mr Johns or no a?
Speaker 4:teacher. Oh, mr Woody, oh, mr Woody, that was great, I forgot about that and his talk about eating and food. He has some interesting habits. Oh he still has the same habits every day.
Speaker 1:Very interesting, but I mean, mean, that's what we want to do is tell stories. So you let us know if uh if there's anybody we can get on, and thanks again for coming on. So everybody, thanks for listening all year long. You know you can listen to the podcast anytime on on spotify. Tell your friends about that too, and we'll see you back in august. So, everybody, have a great summer. And thanks for listening to the boone show, my pulse radio.