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The Boone Show - S6 E1- Brandie Greer & Angie Stringer - Chamber Leaders & Cancer Warriors: Anderson's Community Champions
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The Boone Show welcomes Brandie Greer, CEO of the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce, and Angie Stringer, Executive Director of the Cancer Association of Anderson, for a powerful discussion on community leadership and supporting cancer patients through innovative programs.
• Brandie Greer shares her journey to leading the Chamber and her vision for supporting businesses of all sizes in Anderson County
• The Chamber's Leadership Anderson program celebrates 40 years of developing community leaders through sector-based learning and impactful class projects
• Junior Leadership program provides high school juniors with community leadership experience and service opportunities
• Chamber offers networking events including Business After Hours, golf tournament at Pine Lake on September 25th, and Taste in Topics with SC Attorney General on November 6th
• Cancer Association's Hot Air Affair will feature 40 balloons over Anderson County this Labor Day weekend as part of Celebrate Anderson
• New Survivor's Tent provides special recognition and experiences for cancer patients, including a "Warrior Walk" through balloon candlesticks
• Cancer patients describe balloon rides as providing "45 minutes of pure peace" after months of treatment
• Cancer Association breaking ground on new facility to expand services including massage therapy, acupuncture, nutrition classes, and an expanded boutique
• Both guests recommend local dining favorites including Hall's Chophouse for steak and chocolate cake, and Buenos Dias for breakfast
• Entertainment recommendations include The Chosen series and classic films like Steel Magnolias and While You Were Sleeping
Get out to the Hot Air Affair this weekend at Balloon Launch Field on the corner of Woodcrest and MLK Jr. Boulevard in Anderson to support the Cancer Association and experience the beauty of hot air balloons.
Thanks for listening! Direct all inquiries to jboone@mypulseradio.com.
Hello everybody, welcome to another season of the Boone Show on my Pulse Radio. Happy to be with you. I'm John Boone and the boss lady's here, Holly.
Speaker 2:John, how many seasons is this? Six, six seasons, yep, that's unbelievable, it is unbelievable. That me, and you sit on this show for six years.
Speaker 1:It is. It's gone by very, very quickly, very quickly. Uh, we have a couple of great guests here. This is like, uh, if, as I look around, it's just power women everywhere there you go. That's what I'm about um, but we have got the uh ceo of the anderson area chamber of commerce, brandy greer, is here. Hello, hey, welcome to how are you. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
Speaker 1:It was nice talking to you earlier, big radio fan from over the years.
Speaker 3:I am.
Speaker 1:So now you get to do it yourself. Yeah, take over the show.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, that's what your predecessor did Anyway.
Speaker 2:That's how we started.
Speaker 1:That's how we started six years ago. How we started was because of the old ceo. How about that? The old isn't that cool, the old ceo? Yep, that's a bad segue to our next guest, which is, uh, angie stringer, making her annual appearance here, one of the nicest people in the world and executive director of the cancer association of anderson.
Speaker 5:Welcome back it's great to be back. Thank you for letting me come. Yeah, we always like to see her here more than once a year, but anytime you know it's balloon time if Angie's here, absolutely so.
Speaker 1:We'll be talking about all about the hot air affair and what the Cancer Association is doing, but first we will go to our rookie. Our rookie, our rookie guest, and I will grill her for the next 10 to 15 minutes about what's going on at the chamber. So, brandy, first off, though, tell us a little bit about yourself and what brought you to where you are today.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, I have lived in Anderson my whole life. My family is from here and we live on a small family farm on the south side of anderson, kind of in the middle of belton star, iva. We're almost like a hubcap in the middle of everything. We have two adult children who are both married, and then our son was gracious enough to give us our first granddaughter, who basically rules our life. So, um, whatever we can do with sutton at any day and time we're down for.
Speaker 3:So you know, just live a pretty simple life. I'm a little boring, I hate to say, but I found my way to the chamber years ago when I worked for Senior Solutions. Doug had me sit in his seat for a year on public policy, just kind of fill in and do some things on that end, and I ended up being an ambassador and fell in love with it and had no idea that it would lead me to where I am today. But I guess that was the path that was meant to be and I'm just so honored and excited to get to do this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, holly, she's been someone that's been involved in all kinds of things Absolutely. A lot of places and natural choice really to lead the Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Which was what?
Speaker 1:this summer you're officially made the ceo the 16th.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, congratulations, but you've been there for what about four?
Speaker 2:four or five years already yeah, um four and a half years, five years in february, but very involved in the community prior to that, so it's not like this is she's the first time in anderson county, yeah, like she's been all over so and I think that's an important part of of what a CEO should have. Is involvement in the community in the first place, prior to being paid to do it.
Speaker 1:Yes, All right, now she has some interesting things about her that, um, before we get to the serious stuff, um, we made sure that she had a Diet Coke here on the desk.
Speaker 2:That is so important.
Speaker 1:Yes, Because her obsession is real. I just thought it was like a little thing until I found out that the obsession is real. So we got her a Diet Coke and your hero, I hear, is like Elle Woods from Legally Blonde.
Speaker 3:Oh, how did you find that Y'all do your research? I tell you, I do my research.
Speaker 1:But how did that happen?
Speaker 3:How do you see?
Speaker 1:her in your song.
Speaker 3:I really don't know how this came about. I'm assuming that I know exactly who you talk to, because that really gave it away. I love the movie I am a 90s kid, so it is what it is, and I love Pink. But it's been really funny that there's sort of like an inside joke about how that kind of came upon her little route and my little route to my position. But yeah, I love Elle. She's just authentically her. Yeah, makes no excuse for it, and she just is who she is.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. And another contradiction, well, a contradiction she has in life is her football allegiance, which we found out as well.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Clemson until there's a tide that comes in.
Speaker 3:I know I will roll tide. At least I'm loyal, at least I can't explain it. I can't expect anybody to understand it. I've met one other person who thinks like me and instantly liked her.
Speaker 1:And did you go there? No, no, no. So how did this come about?
Speaker 3:I'm from you, know, know. I was born in south georgia and my papa pulled for alabama. He had a friend that was big clemson fan and it just over the years that's just how it was and what he said went so yeah and hey in several years, in the 90. I didn't go wrong either way so I thought it was pretty smart one or yeah, but I will always, at the end of the day, roll tide. She can be wrong once.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can be wrong once in a while, and I like houndstooth. It all looks good. That's what it is.
Speaker 1:And one other embarrassing thing before we move on. I've heard that one of your goals in life was to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. And. I just need to know.
Speaker 3:I was not successful.
Speaker 1:Nor did.
Speaker 3:I try.
Speaker 1:Thank goodness, you will not see me on the Netflix series or a hee-haw honey actually. Yeah. That was. Was that like a teenage thing, or earlier than that Like?
Speaker 3:small child thing at my papa's house Every Saturday night. They watched hee-haw and evidently I just thought that was the coolest thing ever and so were you ever a cheerleader or anything?
Speaker 1:no, no, I know I thought that coordinated, but for some reason at like six.
Speaker 2:I thought that's cool now she can watch it on Netflix.
Speaker 3:I do yeah, I really do when I get ready so maybe Sutton will be a crimsonette one day or something.
Speaker 1:All right. So let's talk about the chamber and you, as Holly mentioned, worked in nonprofit work and stuff leading up to the chamber. What do you think from the other things that you worked on and in and for leading up to this job has really helped you do this job.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow. I'm always going to go back to Senior Solutions. We were so ingrained in so many things with the senior community. It's so humbling and eye-opening to just realize how many things that they are faced with from transportation to housing to food, building a community and things like that and it just built my love for nonprofit. I will always be a huge advocate for them. They do work that people just don't even realize that they do. But I think it gave me I will say he gave me the footing to love it. Carol Burdett gave me the backbone to stick through it. It's not easy work. You have to do it and I think Angie would completely agree. You have to really, really love nonprofit because it, if you work in nonprofit, it encompasses your whole entire life. You do take it home with you and you have to be willing to do that so that footing on that side be willing to do that.
Speaker 1:So that footing on that side, I think, is what gave me the best start in it, and it seems like too, from what I've read you seem to have really an open door kind of policy to hear from all these businesses, encouraging them to come talk to you and setting up times for them to talk to each other. Tell us a little bit about how that works.
Speaker 3:I mean, everybody matters. Every single business matters. You know, there's that old saying it takes all kinds of kinds it does. It takes the entrepreneur, the one man show, the food truck, the small business, the medium business, the large business. If you had all industry here, your community wouldn't work. You still have to have the boutiques, you still have to have the restaurants, you have to have the gas stations. So every single business matters to us. It doesn't matter what you do. You are valid and you are valued.
Speaker 1:Tell us about some of the things that you're doing there. I noticed with the youth you have a big thing summer camp, yeah, so we have a junior leadership program that is going to its 33rd year.
Speaker 3:It is actually a project that came from our leadership Anderson group and that is for high school juniors. So if you are a high school junior or know a high school junior, their guidance counselors are going to be reaching out to them very, very soon and someone from our junior leadership advisory committee will be coming out to talk to you about how to apply for that. So it's an abbreviated form of our leadership program. So they will start in January or run through May. They have a graduation. They have a couple of sectors that they go and visit from nonprofit, local government, industry, education and they also have a community service day that we'll be working with Anderson County Pals on. We did that last year and it was very successful. So we did an adoption event and a drive to get supplies for them. So we're going to make it a whole lot bigger this year.
Speaker 1:So Well, that's cool.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 1:Angie, I see you shaking your head, because a lot of this stuff is stuff you're familiar with that you do as well. And um, we'll certainly hear what's. What's the latest stuff on your plate, uh?
Speaker 2:coming up and to encompass that too. Not just junior, junior leadership, but there's also leadership anderson, yeah, which is in their 40th year yeah.
Speaker 3:So we are going to graduate this year's 40th class in november and um to piggyback off of that um, we are going to start the leadership anderson alumni association back. So we're going to have a huge event next year celebrating 40 years of that. We're going to call it the ruby jubilee and um more to come on that, but that's going to be a big, big event in anderson. We are going to have a collective class project that we'll be working on. It's going to be something very impactful and it's it's one of those projects that will keep on giving throughout the year. So we are very excited to announce what that is cool, we'll look forward to that.
Speaker 1:I know you have a lot of other events. You have a golf tournament, right?
Speaker 3:Yes, golf tournament September 25th at Pine Lake. We have a few not many, but a few spots left open for teams and a couple of sponsorships. So if you're interested in that, contact me or Liz and we can take care of that for you.
Speaker 1:All right, and the proceeds go to where.
Speaker 3:The chamber.
Speaker 1:I mean there are other like for instance I know you support some scholarships and stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely. So there we have a reduced rate for junior leadership. It's very cost effective for that to go through. If someone can't afford there, we don't ask any questions. They go through that. And then leadership. There are different tiers to that, whether you're a member or not.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So what? Do you have any other events coming up that you'd like to?
Speaker 3:Yeah, november the 6th at Anderson University, we have our final taste in topics for the year. We're going to have the South Carolina Attorney General, alan Wilson, coming to speak, so that's usually highly attended. He does a really good job talking about things he's working on in the state, so we're looking forward to having him too.
Speaker 1:All right. So what do you think? What are you putting out there that you want to accomplish? If there was one thing you wanted to accomplish, like in the next five years, what do you think that would be?
Speaker 3:That we are the first thing on your mind when you start a business or run across an event in your business, whether it's good or bad. If there's some remarkable time in your business that we are the first people you call.
Speaker 2:And you have a lot of other smaller events. Yes, also, if you go to the website, the Anderson Chambers website, there are also some after work things that y'all do.
Speaker 3:Business after hours. We have all those booked for 2025. The next one is in September at 215 Society Street and then in October is at the Anderson County Art Center and then in November will be at Grotto's. I do not have those dates in front of me, but those are on the calendar. They are $5 a person to come, which is super cost effective event. You just register online, whether you're a chamber member or not, to come to those. Those are $5 for everybody. We always say it's everybody's favorite networking event. It's the most laid back, easiest way to network and build your professional community. We also are offering a lot of resources. You'll see a whole lot more of that pushed out in 2026. We have worked with Community Works, we've worked with Truist Bank, we are talking with County Bank about some things that we're going to be adding, and a few other people too.
Speaker 2:Leadership Anderson should be. Applications should be coming out when they're out and the class is almost full.
Speaker 3:We have, I think, three spots left. So yeah, if you're interested in that, you just go online, look under our leadership programs and you can literally nominate yourself or someone else.
Speaker 1:Now, holly, you've done that right. Yes, you do that, angie, you do too I did the, the best class.
Speaker 2:Thirty two, twenty seven, twenty seven.
Speaker 3:We were thirty eight, the great.
Speaker 1:Well, can you explain a little bit of that to the listeners? What exactly goes into leadership, Anderson?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really is an impactful day. It's nine, ten sessions. Is that being ten? Now, ten sessions? You know it's been a couple of years since I've done it. You got to think they're class 40 and I was 32. You know it's been a couple of years since I've done it. You got to think they're class 40 and I was 32.
Speaker 2:So so, yeah, you go through and they it's really it's for those that and pretty much divide it up into what we call it days. So they have an education day, there's an industry day, there's a a government day, there's a state government day, and so they intentionally playing in things for you to go see and hear during those days. That helps you be one a better person. Maybe you can help a little bit better in the community, maybe a little bit knowledgeable about things that you don't know about. If you're not in education, then you get to go see things and maybe be aware of things that you're not getting, and then you do some type of what do we call it the project, class project, a class project. They do a class project to help do something for the community, whether it be this year's class project is.
Speaker 3:They are working with Vets, helping Vets. Last year they worked with First Light. Last year was the lot project. They did the transitional housing that is actually at the lot project and the year before that was my class. We first light, first light so they they take something.
Speaker 2:It's, it's a. If you've never been through leadership anderson, I can tell you, as a community member, it is well worth it, if it's not just for the networking purposes, it's for everything else, because you just don't know what happens in in our area and that affects, and how much it affects, our area.
Speaker 5:I'll agree with that. I mean we had a fabulous class and I made lifelong friends that I still connect with. Oh, absolutely. I mean we are. It's been several years since I went through and I still talk to them on a weekly basis. Some of them and we did our project was downtown sounds, which that we started that and uh, just it was. It was a fun. You learn so much about how to make things happen and get those connections and I wholeheartedly amen you there.
Speaker 1:That's awesome wow, and that all runs through chamber yep, yes, sir, okay, and what's the website people can go to?
Speaker 3:It's the andersonsechambercom, and just make sure, if you do Google it, that you pick Anderson County.
Speaker 6:South Carolina, because there's Anderson, ohio, tennessee and Indiana.
Speaker 3:We've actually had a couple of people sign up to be members from Indiana a couple of times and vice versa. So we catch them pretty quickly. Anderson SC. Don't forget the SC.
Speaker 1:Okay, and a couple of times vice versa, say we catch him pretty quickly. Anderson, sc Don't forget the SC. Ok, that's great stuff. We're going to take a quick time out and, when we come back, a few news bites of things that are going on today to get your opinion on. And then we have sports with Zach, and then it's Angie's turn. Tell us what's all going on with the Cancer Association and Hot Air Fair coming up this weekend.
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Speaker 1:And we're back on the Boone Show on MyPulseRadio. I love it when we have video now and you see everybody scrambling.
Speaker 2:You're not ready yet, are you, Mr Boone?
Speaker 1:But yeah, a few news things I'd like to get your opinion on, our guests and such. Of course, the big news of the day is that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift got engaged, so we have to talk about that very quickly and not take too much time.
Speaker 2:Did that have anything to do with that little album thing that she released with the little log? Well, she was on the podcast, but that was a couple of weeks ago, Right right.
Speaker 1:And the podcast, as a matter of fact, is the whole reason why they got together.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Because he had said how he wanted to meet her at a concert and you know he's got some pull being a professional football player but he couldn't get down to see her at a concert and she got word of it and called him and the rest was history.
Speaker 2:So, Mr Boone, are you a closet Taylor?
Speaker 7:Swift fan.
Speaker 2:I'm just asking. No, I'm not Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm a big Jason Kelsey fan.
Speaker 2:Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1:So you know, I've watched their podcast a lot and of course, jason was on my team the Eagles and all that. So you know I knew a lot of what was going on. But yeah, I don't like the mix of Taylor Swift and football especially, but hey, good for them.
Speaker 2:I don't feel so bad.
Speaker 1:We'll see how long they last and until she needs more lyrics from more songs about breakups.
Speaker 3:But they've been together two years already. Is she going to start writing little songs now?
Speaker 1:That's the thing. Can she do that? I don't know, but I'll have to admit I listen who is travis and tatey, but the thing I've been living under the cool thing, the funny thing about it was travis said he knew how to treat her because he listened to all of her songs so that's why he why he's doing so well Because he heard all the lyrics about the guys that didn't do so well and he made sure he didn't make the same mistakes.
Speaker 5:You don't want to be a song. I just want to see what the ring looks like. You don't want to wind up in one of Taylor Swift's songs.
Speaker 2:What does the ring look like, Mr Bain? I don't know.
Speaker 1:And I was trying to find out if there was some elaborate thing they did. But all they released at the time that I saw, because evidently it happened today was just, you know, him on a knee proposing, and that was this. I don't know where they were or what the situation was. The ring is probably as big as a Super Bowl ring. Who?
Speaker 2:knows.
Speaker 1:Correct those things are gigantic, but yeah, they're the power couple of of celebrity dumb now. So, uh, we'll see. We'll see what happens and see how far she can go without having to dump him to get more music written so okay, here's something interesting for y'all. Uh ways, you know, that weighs the app that you drive, which is great don't use anything other than yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:I love it, and and even my, my kids will say why are you using it now? You know where you're going. You're just going home and I'm like I gotta know what the traffic is, you know? Exactly which works out very well too that's right, unless. I'm the first one to report one.
Speaker 6:And then it's like I get a little nervous, but Waze is great.
Speaker 11:Well, anyway, it's funny.
Speaker 1:The co-founder of Waze predicts that the next generation of kids will not drive, will not even bother with learning to drive. He says that within a decade, most paid mobility and transportation services will be it. That'll be the thing. Oh, wow, that'll be the thing. He compared the shift to driverless cars to past automations like elevator operators. Don't need them anymore, you can push your own buttons, right. He helped build. There's another app. It's called Move. It is where you can plan a whole trip, and he predicts that kids that are born today known as Generation Beta by the way, we're back to the beginning of the alphabet will never end up behind the wheel and a generation after that. If you tell them that you use cars, they won't believe you because they will be taken everywhere and I see some signs of that.
Speaker 6:Does anybody see that.
Speaker 1:I see kids that are getting their license late in life, if they get it at all. I mean late in life, I mean like in their 20s, before they're getting it. One of my sons had a girlfriend that was older than him and she's mid-20s didn't have her license and he actually was the one that taught her how to drive and she went and got her license. But it's like people don't care as much anymore because it's so easy calling uber so you're saying that people will not drive?
Speaker 1:they'll still go places yeah, they'll go places, but something else will take them right like an
Speaker 2:like an u, but without a person in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are a thing now. Those are a thing now too. Oh yeah, I wouldn't do it but.
Speaker 3:I know I'm not that brave.
Speaker 1:But think about it If you're going a regular place, like you've got a shorter route to get to work, if you take an Uber, that may be more convenient than actually driving there using the gas and all that and you don't have to do anything. You just sit there. You're taken everywhere. Hey, jeeves, take me home. They ought to have a thing like Uber, just called Jeeves. They should.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that's interesting and I see it sort of happening. Yeah, Angie, you say yeah.
Speaker 5:I've seen a few people like that. My um, I have some family that moved up north and they have people all around them and the kids are like I'm like we couldn't wait to get our license, you know. But they they don't have their license and don't care to get it.
Speaker 3:Neither one of mine did till they were seniors in high school. Wow, both of them had a car, but neither one of them cared about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, there's my mind I was knocking on the door that morning, so was I but in when and when I, where I grew up in new jersey, they you couldn't get your permit till 17 wow, so I was basically a senior, yeah at when I was just getting my permit. I couldn't wait to do it, but these kids is like oh well, yeah, I'll just get somebody else to drive me around. Or when they get their first job, just take an Uber. Interesting, and I know people who let their kids do that all the time to go to school and all that. Just take an Uber.
Speaker 3:Which I don't know if I'd be doing that, but I know people that do it, yeah, especially like in New York. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Well yeah, you don't want to drive up there anyway, no but, interesting interesting.
Speaker 1:Um well, and today is national dog day. I have to throw that in before we go to zach.
Speaker 2:National dog day I mean, come on, how many dogs do you have, john? A lot, a lot I mean total. We probably have about a dozen, but not they don't all live in the house, right, right, but, and for those of you don't all live in a house, right, right and for those of you who don't know, we breed golden retrievers.
Speaker 1:kind of slowed that down and retiring a bunch of them, but that's what we did for a while. As a matter of fact, we have some available now.
Speaker 2:This is not a plug we have some 12-week-old puppies that are available.
Speaker 1:Yeah, full-blooded golden retrievers, just go to GreatCreekCaninescom.
Speaker 7:But anyway it is.
Speaker 1:National Dog Day. So do something to show your dog some appreciation. Get him a pup cup or something. And, brandy, take that mascot you got over there at the chamber. I mean I know it's late now, but tomorrow take him out, get him something good, he can have whatever he wants, that's what.
Speaker 5:I thought you'd say he's a star.
Speaker 3:He is. We answer to Tucker.
Speaker 5:Every day is dog day for Tucker.
Speaker 3:It really is. I mean, he's like a little celebrity in the chamber and my dog McDreamy.
Speaker 5:I have to put a plug in for him. Mcdreamy I have to put a plug in for him McDreamy, he's a border collie and he is spoiled, rotten, but that's okay. He's our therapy dog. In training he may never be trained.
Speaker 1:Do you take him to work?
Speaker 5:I have. Yeah, he's still kind of hyper, but less than he was.
Speaker 1:Our dog, one of our dogs, the one that we keep close to us. We wanted him to be a therapy dog or or even more so, um trained, but he's one of those dogs that would get turned down for the police jobs. He's too nice, he wants to socialize with everybody, and you can't do that. If you're supposed to be somebody's support dog, you gotta be focused on them and not everybody else, and and you can't be distracted. So he's too nice, but he's being trained in some ways. So is Zach on the line over there, danica.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's see if this actually works, if this was wired back correctly, zach, are you there? I'm here, there you are. Oh, you got a football game this weekend.
Speaker 7:Yes, sir, I do, yes sir, I do, and a doggone good one too.
Speaker 1:It is Top ten matchup.
Speaker 7:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So what do you think?
Speaker 7:I think it's going to be, whichever quarterback shows up, obviously, on Clemson's side of the ball, there's a lot of questions about the defense this year. You know, when you give up 300 yards to the Citadel, um, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered. Now we're hoping that, uh, those questions were answered by the new hire we got in the offseason penn state, the former penn state defensive coordinator, tom allen. Um, of course, I don't know a lot about him, but I hear good things. And what a way to find out playing against LSU.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they've got a lot of weapons. They've loaded up during the offseason too.
Speaker 7:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they've got Barryon Brown that comes from Kentucky and you know he torched Clemson in the bowl game a couple years ago. You know, I think he had a throwing touchdown or receiving touchdown or rushing touchdown, and I know he had a kick return touchdown. As a matter of fact, I think it was the second half kick return, but he torched Clemson. So we'll see. We'll see what we're made of.
Speaker 7:You know, dabo said in his press conference that we are the only you know he's talking about college football. We're the only you know he's talking about college football. We're the only league that does not have a preseason, and think about that all the way going to Little League. You know they have jamborees and scrimmages and stuff, and I know jamborees are two quarters, but you still get a lot of questions answered. Yeah, so, but yeah, what a way to start it. I mean, I think this is the biggest game since Deshaun Lamar and I think I heard them say today that it's like one of three or four top ten matchups. I know it's like six or seven.
Speaker 1:It's a great first week of football, that's for sure Six or seven top 25 matchups.
Speaker 7:I mean you start the day with Ohio State, texas, then you end it with Clemson, lsu. I mean that's awesome. So I'm excited. I'm excited it's here. It's hard to believe it's here. Just wish I knew. You know, I wish there was somebody out there with a parking pass. You know, I've had somebody give me parking passes for a couple of seasons but I haven't heard from that person.
Speaker 2:Now Are you going Saturday?
Speaker 7:I am not. I am not. That's why I have not.
Speaker 2:Well, don't beg a parking pass, I'll get you a parking pass, I know.
Speaker 7:I know. No, I'm planning to do SMU, I'm planning to go to that one and we're hoping to go to Georgia Tech again. That's a fun trip, georgia Tech, I tell you, and realistically, I've got Clemson probably going 10-2 or 11-1, because I think there's going to be just one game that K doesn't play all that well.
Speaker 2:Which one? This is it. This is going to be the hardest game of our season.
Speaker 7:You've got the Friday night at Louisville and Louisville torched us last year Isaac Brown's back and he is amazing.
Speaker 1:And Friday nights have always been a curse for.
Speaker 7:Clemson yeah, that's true. And then the at South Carolina worries me because of Lenore Sellers. He is a baller, I don't care what nobody says and Of course, I think Clemson's going to win the national championship every year. I think they're going to go 15-0 every year, Bar in injury, bar in injury.
Speaker 7:I think Clemson is either 11-1 or 11-0 going into South Carolina, 10-1, 11-0 going into South Carolina bar in injury. We'll see. I'm very, very excited. It's hard to believe it's here. So we will definitely get them. Questions answered. No, I hope I'm wrong. But realistically, if I was a betting man it would be 10-2, 11-1. I mean, I never told anybody Lenore Sellers was going to walk into Clemson and beat them last year. But he did by himself. He single-handedly beat Clemson by himself. I was at the game and I told the guy sitting beside me you've got to bring him down down low, he is too big to bring down up high. And what happened? Single-handedly, he beat them. And I don't like South Carolina. I'm a Clemson fan through and through. I don't like South Carolina, but I think they're going to have a good year this year and it scares me playing there. But we have done good there the last couple of years and South Carolina has done good at Clemson the past couple of years. So we'll see.
Speaker 7:I think the last four games the road teams won it and I know that's a little while, but it's a long season and that's why you play the games and I'm ready. I can't get here quick enough. I'm ready All right. Well, quickly, I need you to talk about your high school football team. I did not go Friday night.
Speaker 7:You didn't have to I think everybody knew what was going to happen. Yeah, we were at. For years we have made the first game of the year be Easley Pickens for years, depending on where it's at and, of course, who Wren's playing but went to Easley Pickens Friday night. Of course Wren plays Easley this Friday and Easley's fast. You know, I don't know if Pickens is that bad or if Easley's getting that much more improved, but we will find out Friday night. And I'm hearing good things about Ren. I'm hearing you know they're young. I'm hearing that, uh, they've got this player. If, if this player is not hurt, then this can happen, all this stuff. But like I said about Clemson, that's why you play the game, because anything can happen. So we will.
Speaker 7:we'll find out, and then I think I don't have the schedule in front of me. They play Powdersville next week or the week after.
Speaker 1:It'll be next week. Yeah, because we're covering that one.
Speaker 7:Next week at Powdersville.
Speaker 1:Not this week. Correct yes, On the 5th.
Speaker 7:And I love going to games up at Powdersville. I love going to games up at pottersville, I, I love going to games up at pottersville, um, so that that's always a fun one, no matter if each team's three and oh, oh and three, one and two, it don't matter, it's always a barn burner. The best game I've seen between the two schools was a playoff game a couple years ago. That was a fun one that was, that was great so we will see, we, we, we definitely will see.
Speaker 7:and, uh, and before I'm gonna let you go, before you make me start talking about the Braves, Okay, good. That's not even irrelevant right now. That's right, I don't know what's happened.
Speaker 1:I avoid that for a change. I don't hear you teasing as much as I used to.
Speaker 7:Yeah, there's nothing to tease about. I definitely ate my words for real. I don't know. I guess they've just given up. You know when your whole team gets injured, your whole staff gets injured. That's what happens. So you know for you, I'm pulling for the Phillies.
Speaker 9:There we go.
Speaker 7:You know, not most people like Bryce Harper, but I like Bryce Harper.
Speaker 6:I don't even like him that much you don't bother me.
Speaker 7:You know People always talk about his attitude and what you. Stand up there and let a 95-mile-an-hour fastball come at you and you see what happens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, probably a bad attitude.
Speaker 7:But anyway, well, y'all take care, yep, and I guess we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1:At some point, whenever we decide to do a show again.
Speaker 11:Yeah, that sounds good, that sounds good All right, zach, we'll see y'all.
Speaker 1:All right, take care, that's Zach Howard. Chime me in on sports.
Speaker 2:He's a mess.
Speaker 1:He is a mess, but he's part of our show.
Speaker 2:That he is and we're so glad he is. Yes, yes.
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Speaker 6:So just to give you a clue.
Speaker 1:She told me that, so we'll be back with more on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
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Speaker 1:And we're back on the boon show my pulse radio. Our special guest tonight uh brandy greer from the anderson area chamber of commerce and angie stringer from uh cancer association of anderson here for her annual visit. Yes, I feel like we're doctors I know for your annual visit.
Speaker 5:but y'all are more fun, that's true. But the Hot Air Fair is coming this weekend as part of what do they call it in Anderson Celebrate Anderson, yes, celebrate Anderson, celebrate.
Speaker 1:Anderson weekend, which is always a big deal, don't they have Cool in the Gang.
Speaker 2:They do yes, it should be a great concert. I think so, although I wonder who's left from the original Cool in the Gang.
Speaker 1:They do yes Should be a great concert, I think so, although I wonder who's left from the original Kool and the Gang.
Speaker 3:Is there anybody left? There's like 12 people that I think took care.
Speaker 7:It's on it.
Speaker 3:Somebody was talking about it the other day. It'd still be great. Whoever's doing it, yeah, for sure It'd be a fun time.
Speaker 1:But so the hot air fair is happening. Angie, tell us what's going on with the balloons this year?
Speaker 5:We'll have 40 balloons in the skies over Anderson County. We are so excited. You know I still get giddy. Next year that's going to be our catch line. I'm going to get with Brandy, we're going to put it on the show it's going to be.
Speaker 5:The balloons are here, get giddy with it, you know. So, instead of jiggy with it, we're going to get giddy with it, yeah. So, yeah, I'm excited. I love balloons and when they go up, there's just nothing more exciting. And I still do get giddy with it. But, yes, we'll have that. We have vendors, we have food vendors, we have merchandise vendors. We have something new this year's which is going to be really great. You need to bring your mom.
Speaker 5:We have a survivor's tent oh very cool and that's our new thing. We're going to grow it every year. Um, any survivor that comes can come into our tent. We're getting uh companies to come out and sponsor it, so they'll have snacks and drinks and giveaways and we're just going to treat our survivors like kings and queens. And on saturday uh evening, when the balloons come out, when it starts getting a little darker, we're going to do a special warrior walk and we have medals to give all of our warriors that come in. I've got the balloon pilots that are going to do what we call a candlestick. Have you all seen a candlestick before? No, they bring the baskets out and they don't put the balloon envelope up the top of it, they just have the burners and they do the candle and it's so beautiful. So we're going to do Rose and the survivors are going to walk through it. Oh, how cool and it's so beautiful. So we're going to do rose and the survivors are going to walk through it.
Speaker 5:Oh, how cool. And at the end of it they're going to get a medal. I am so excited. I have wanted to do this for four years and it finally came together this year. And I have to give a big shout out to Anderson County and to the city of Anderson and obviously to Blossom and Propane. They are amazing but we could not do this without them. And the county is helping extra this year so that we can do the survivor tent, and it's just going to be amazing and because that's what we're about, and Angie, what does this cost anybody?
Speaker 2:The survivors it's free.
Speaker 5:It's free. And don't ask me how we make it happen because I don't know. It's like the loaves and fishes thing. I'm like God. I really want to do this for survivors. I want some of our patients and survivors to get to go up in balloons and to get up close and personal. And every year it comes together and I still don't know how it happens, but it does and it's just, it's a labor of love for us at the Cancer Association to get to see that. And we got to see your mom go up. I got to be with her.
Speaker 2:It was just amazing.
Speaker 7:Was that last year?
Speaker 2:Yes, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 5:There's nothing like it. We have one special survivor that I adore. Her name is Kim Strickland and she used to be fire chief in Anderson County and she's just an amazing gal and she's a breast cancer survivor and she went up and she gave the most wonderful little advice spiel about it. She said after going through months and months of treatment and just the stress and the trauma, I had 45 minutes of pure peace in the air. And that sums it up. It's like when you get up there, there's nothing like it. It's just quiet, it's peaceful. It's amazing, and to be able to offer that to cancer patients is amazing. I could tell you stories that make you cry, but it'd make me cry and nobody would understand me because I'd be. But yeah, that's why we got to take Stacy up last year.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yes.
Speaker 2:She just finished everything last year and all healed and everything, and she said the same thing. She got to go up with my mom and I and we were all three of them up there and she's like this is the most peaceful thing I have ever experienced. Yeah, it's just incredible. Yeah, and she never stops talking. I love it, and it was literally just just amazing to view, so I thank you for that.
Speaker 5:Listen, it's. It is the highlight of my year to get to see that.
Speaker 2:And then for your balloon people to stay and talk to our students and help educate our kids and allow Friday to happen. I mean you guys come out on Friday and and launch from our school. I mean that's cool.
Speaker 5:We're so excited. Well, you guys have amazing programs here. I mean, the aviation program is incredible and James Davis a wonderful guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the students are making balloons right now.
Speaker 5:I love it. That is so great. I would like to think that maybe that might have had something to do with the balloon.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure it did.
Speaker 5:I'm sure it did, but yeah, it's great, I would invite you. If you've never been around balloons, we have a very unique event in that. A lot of events they block it off with rope or whatever. In our event, you can walk right up to the balloons, you can walk up to the baskets, you can talk to the pilots and that's not a common thing. So we do have amazing pilots they really and we had to turn some away this year because word has gotten around. I actually went to a conference in Cincinnati and they were talking about our event. How great is that? But it is amazing and the pilots are terrific and they love this place and the ones that come here on Friday morning for you guys love to come back here. It's awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, we can't wait to see him friday yes, guess what we talked before the show.
Speaker 11:We're trying to get danica up in a balloon yeah, oh, yeah, yeah our student producer danica, yeah she's thinking about, to talk to your mom about that first, but but hey, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1:Um, and there's a lot of things like for families and kids to do with this thing yes, we're gonna have a kid zone um they bring.
Speaker 5:Last year we had the gym mining. He's coming back. We have the trackless train. We have all kinds of things for kids to do um and you have the tethering and we have tethers, so you can ride a tether, you know, and go up. You're still connected to the ground, but you can go. It's a lot of fun. Maybe we can get John to do that.
Speaker 1:He's chicken no. I'm not chicken. I was going to do it that one year, but it was too windy.
Speaker 5:Remember Me and Robbie Binniker yes, Speaking of windy, let me just throw this out there, and we have it on all our posters, our website and everything but hot out there. And we have it on all our posters, our website and everything but hot air ballooning is very much weather dependent, absolutely so. We'll have other things going on and the balloons aren't out on the field all day. Um, they have morning flights and they have afternoon flights, um, and then evening glows, but, uh, they won't be out there in the middle of the day when it's hot. As a lot of your students in aviation will know, the weather is in layers, and so you don't want to be in a basket that's made of you know rattan up in the air when the winds at one level are doing 30 miles an hour Not a fun thing to do. So the pilots are very careful when they decide when to go up and when not to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was kind of the way it was when we couldn't go up that one year. That's right it wasn't windy at our surface but up a couple layers. It was Right, so we couldn't go. It's like if you just looked at it it's like why aren't we going yeah? It's too windy up there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they overanalyze that to listen to them, so they overanalyze that. They're very, very, very cautious.
Speaker 5:Very safe.
Speaker 2:But even if you just see the balloon glow, it is just incredibly beautiful.
Speaker 5:It's amazing, it really is, it's amazing.
Speaker 1:And that's all out by the Civic Center.
Speaker 5:Yes, on Balloon Launch Field, which is on the corner of Woodcrest and Martin Luther King Jr's up on the hill. Come out there. We're also going to have some music.
Speaker 3:I'll just tell you on the 29th on Friday night Band Silver will be out there. Oh, they're good yeah they are, I'm excited.
Speaker 5:On Saturday we'll have Mojo on the Max playing from 5 to 7, and the Senior Follies will be out there performing from 7.30 to 8.30. And then on the 31st we'll have Backwood Gypsies but it's spelled G-Y-P-S-E-A-S. Gypsies From three to six, and then the senior follies will be back out there again that night.
Speaker 5:Very cool so it'll be a lot of fun, yeah. And then of course you know you don't want to miss later on Sunday, cooling the Game yes, at Celebrate Anderson, and there'll be a wonderful fireworks show. Of course we'll. Before the fireworks show, we'll be doing balloon glows, weather permitting, and then on Monday morning we'll have a balloon flight. We call it our memorial flight. We do it in honor of a lot of the balloonists who've lost their lives or passed on. We have several that have passed from cancer and we'll be reading the names of some of our cancer patients that we've lost over the last several years that are special to us. So very cool, very cool very cool event.
Speaker 1:So get out there with the family and see it. There's. There's a lot to do. Spend the day or, you know, go in the afternoon before evening time and that's probably the best time to go to take in everything.
Speaker 2:So, because you're not going to get up early on Saturday, it's worth seeing the glow, though it is so worth seeing those, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:It looks really cool and you got good sponsorship support this year.
Speaker 5:Yes, we do, but you know we're always looking for more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, how can people sponsor if they want to get involved in that?
Speaker 5:If they want to visit our website at wwwcaandersonorg, they can find out how to volunteer. You may want to crew and I know Holly and her family came out and crewed for us it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Several times.
Speaker 5:Absolutely, and you never know if you're out there crewing, a lot of times one of the pilots will say come on.
Speaker 2:Come on, you can ride.
Speaker 5:You can. Of times one of the pilots will say come on, you can ride. So it's a lot of fun. So there's opportunities to volunteer, to do crewing, to help out with our event. There's a place where you can click sponsorship. We'll have sponsors mentioned from the stage. You can bring your banner out, things like that. We have some space. If you're a nonprofit, we can probably still fit you in there. You know, if you want to be a vendor, just come out to talk about your nonprofit. I know CERT's coming out from Anderson County's Emergency Management. We'll have some other nonprofits out there talking about their organization. We'll have plenty of vendors, plenty of stuff to do, but you can find out how to sponsor, how to volunteer, how to get involved, how to donate items If you want to donate snacks for the survivor tent or help out at the survivor tent. So just visit our website, wwwcaendersonorg. All right.
Speaker 1:That sounds great. So let's shift gears to the Cancer Association and tell us, other than this big event that's happening this weekend, what's going on there. I know you've got a new building, yes we are I drove by the other day.
Speaker 5:It's going up finally, yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I was like wow, now tell us about it.
Speaker 5:Well, it's been another dream that we've had to see expanded programs. We're very short on space, we have no storage, so we're in a small house right now and this facility is going to give us opportunity to offer enhanced programs for people. We're going to have more. We talked about it, I think, last year. We offer right now massage neuromuscular massage for some of our patients who have scar tissue, range of motion issues, but we're going to be able to do that on a more everyday basis rather than just one day a month, so we're excited about that.
Speaker 5:We have patients who have been former addicts that are afraid to take pain medication, and so we're going to be able to offer acupuncture to help patients with pain and nausea, which is really exciting. Classes on nutrition we're going to have a teaching kitchen, which is going to be amazing. I cannot wait. So your culinary students have to come over. Absolutely. Sign me up. You got it. That would be amazing. We have a boutique now, or, as one of our patients says, a boutique. We got a boutique now and we have wigs and hats and scarves and all kinds of little surceys for patients. Just pick me up. So we're going to have expanded area there, so it's just going to be a lot of things that we're going to be able to offer and provide without having to like right now, when we have a class, we have to move everything out of the room and then bring everything in and then move it back so it'll be pretty exciting.
Speaker 1:It's just amazing to me I think I said this last year, probably say it every year that Angie's on with what you do is so big, I mean how many people you know all the services you offer with you know the the limited resources that you have. So I mean, it's just incredible.
Speaker 5:we have dedicated people. We have dedicated volunteers. We couldn't do it without our volunteers. We're basically a five-person staff and one of them is a driver, so she's out in the road all day, every day, picking patients up and taking them to their appointments and taking them back home. So we basically have four people in the office and to pull this off is a lot of work, but we have wonderful volunteers. We have community partnerships. The chamber is amazing. They helped us get the word out, so things like that that help us do what we do.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's just you know, and it's all free for the patients.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 2:That's what's amazing, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's really incredible. Very cool, and I like to see, too that you've started to be recognized for that too. Gotten some awards. Tell us about, tell us about some of the recognition.
Speaker 5:don't be shy, because it just shows how good it is. Well, we just have, I mean, we've gotten some things. Other counties recognized us. You know, we've gotten, uh, recognition from the city. We actually went to the city uh their last council meeting, and went to the county council meeting and talked about our balloon event and everything. That was pretty exciting. But yeah, we've had a little bit of recognition here and there. But you know, it's about the patience and I'm just, I'm humbled to be a part of it because it is it's growing. It's so far beyond anything that I could even hope or imagine. And I like to tell people I actually put it in the cement God's donkey, because you know, god used a donkey and if he can use a donkey, he can use me.
Speaker 5:So, I put it in the concrete Angie Stringer, God's donkey. So I'm proud of that name.
Speaker 1:Mine would say John Boone, another name for it. There's a few other events you have coming up. You have a golf tournament coming up as well. Anybody's a golfer. We got plenty of tournaments here.
Speaker 5:That's right. Teed Off Against Cancer, October 7th.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where's that at?
Speaker 5:That's going to be at Cop's Glen, okay, and we're going to be at Copps Glen. Okay. And we're going to have a noon tee-off, so it'll be an afternoon event. So it'll be a lot of fun. Our Howlin' for Hope is our event for Halloween, and then Concert of Hope and Remembrance is one of our signature events. It's been around for 20, this will be the 24th year, so it actually started before the Cancer Association. That's how they raised money to start it. So we're 22 years old and the concert's 24 years old this year.
Speaker 1:And what kind of music are they doing this year?
Speaker 5:This year's going to be cool. It's music. You would really love it. The theme is Believe and it's songs about believing. So you know, don't Stop Believing. Journey They've got we're doing Prince of Egypt is going to be one of our songs, you know, if you Just Believe. And it's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited.
Speaker 2:Very cool yeah that's cool.
Speaker 1:And then you've got the Color Run.
Speaker 5:Yeah, Color Run will be at ANMED and we'll be putting more out about it. It's November 1st.
Speaker 1:All right, so some great stuff going on. Great organization, the website again C. Ca Anderson, okay it was easier than I thought, ca Anderson. Okay, so go to that. It's org right.
Speaker 5:Yes, org.
Speaker 1:And find out how you can help, because you know everything's going to be going to the right places. Whatever you do to help is going to be well used, all right. So it's the end of the show, which means it's recommendation time. I don't know what you recommended last year, angie, I forget, but we're going to find out what you got this year. I will tell you that again. I say this every show, but I use these recommendations, me too.
Speaker 2:I go to these restaurants Usually within two weeks of the recommendation. Yes. And. I watch it. If there's a Netflix show or Peacock or something like that, I usually watch it within two weeks.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, so are you ready? Brandi, Can we start with you? Have you been thinking about that? Bring it on, we like. We'll start with entertainment. Anything that you've been binging or you know, a movie that you really like, or a book you're reading anything entertainment. What can you recommend to the listeners?
Speaker 3:Well, I mean movies, hands down. It's going to be still Magnolia's, because I know every single word to it.
Speaker 6:Oh, that's a classic. It is Hands down my favorite movie.
Speaker 3:I could watch it a million times. But we don't watch a lot of TV in our house, especially during the summertime, so we are always very, very late to the game on stuff. So we just, literally Sunday night, started watching Outlander. So, evidently I'm way behind that's a good show, so it's good, but we got plenty of time to catch up Lots Way behind. Way behind. That's a good show, so it's good, but we've got plenty of time to catch up, oh yeah, Lots to binge when it's cold. Yes, yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1:All right, Outlander, what do you?
Speaker 3:got.
Speaker 1:Angie.
Speaker 5:You know, I was just telling Brandy earlier, we got hooked on, we binged on the Chosen. It is so good, I haven't watched it yet either. Well, you know, I kept hearing people talk about it and I thought I need to sit down and watch it. I need to sit down and watch it and I had some mouth surgery and so I was home and I sat down and I could not and my husband came in and we both watched it together and it was so good.
Speaker 5:I couldn't wait and I'm anxiously awaiting season six to come out so I can watch it. But it's very. It makes Bible times real.
Speaker 5:I mean it puts you know, you read the Bible and scripture and it's like up here, you know and all, but it kind of brings it down home and it's like Jesus is a different person. He's, he's down home, he's like I would talk to you and it just really is a very good show. I've enjoyed it very much. And then on the comedy side, because I'm big into comedy, hands down While you Were Sleeping, bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock. It is a phenomenal movie. I've watched it for years. I watch it whenever I need a good laugh.
Speaker 5:Okay, I haven't seen that I haven't either Going back a little bit Good, I love it.
Speaker 1:With the chosen. What are they up to now? The Last Supper, or something?
Speaker 5:Yes, last Supper Season five.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, good choices there. So let's move over to the food category. It's my favorite category. Most people it is. It really is. So let us know Brandy a place to go to get some good food and what we should get there.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, I don't think you can get it. It's kind of exclusive food. You can have Chef Maury from here. Well, not bad.
Speaker 1:Not a bad choice. We're a little hooked.
Speaker 3:I mean, we keep talking about that. Come to find out my daughter-in-law was one of his students.
Speaker 2:So just figure that out over the weekend. But if I, if I was going to go to a restaurant hands down, it's always Hall's, that's my favorite. And what do you get?
Speaker 3:Steak and some chocolate cake.
Speaker 1:What kind of steak?
Speaker 3:I like a ribeye, yeah, okay, medium rare.
Speaker 2:Yeah, medium rare.
Speaker 3:But I prefer my husband's. But if I've got to go out to a restaurant, I want to go to Hall's.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's funny when I first wife, everything that she had been brought up with was well done and she could. She's like, oh my gosh, it's still mooing when you're you're eating it and I'm like just try it, try it and now everything she gets medium rare, because uh it's juices yeah, uh, what you got, angie well, you know, my husband's a great cook so we don't eat out a lot.
Speaker 5:But I'll tell, tell you um Delta, vita and Anderson on 81. I love, if you want breakfast food, though I'm telling you um Buenos dias. Yes, oh my Lord, yes. It is so good. Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:That place is great we can have a meeting?
Speaker 5:Yes, I ate lunch there today.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:And I had their Buenos Dias special, which is, you know, eggs any way you want them. It's bacon and their bacon is so good. And then you can get fruit or you can get potatoes. It is really good. I love that place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've only been there once and it was for breakfast, but it was fantastic.
Speaker 5:I've not been there once, and it was for breakfast, but it was fantastic.
Speaker 1:I've not been and I got it, I gotta get back, but I think somebody recommended it last year. I think that's why I went, but I don't remember.
Speaker 1:I don't know who was, though but uh but yeah, that's a great place great place to have some breakfast or lunch. All right, so, uh, there we go. There's our recommendations, so now it's just time to say thank you, brandy, thanks for coming on the show, thanks for having me whenever you need to promote anything or come on talk about something. Uh, with the chamber always involved in everything, you can come on and do that.
Speaker 1:Thank you, and please, uh, if you need uh kids come out and help you with some things. Uh, let us know and we'll show up at events. We've done that with with angie's. We haven't done the labor day thing lately because it's on a holiday weekend so the kids aren't around, but we did go out there a couple of times and we'd love to get the kids more involved in all these community things.
Speaker 7:So if you have anything, Color Run would be good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll be out there, but thanks, brandy, for joining us for the first time. Hope you had a good time, great time.
Speaker 3:Thank you, thanks, brandi, for joining us for the first time. Hope you had a good time, great time.
Speaker 1:Thank you, it's a pleasure. And, angie, as usual, it's been like six years, six. You've been on at least six times. Yeah, because some years we've had you twice. Yes, so it's great, always great to have you on and just I'm blown away with what you do.
Speaker 2:So, and thanks to, I'm appreciative, appreciative of what you do, both of you. Yes, you do a lot for the community and we do appreciate that, and a lot for us. You allow us to be involved and incorporate our students and us into things. That's huge.
Speaker 3:Your students have been lifesavers. Well, good, good.
Speaker 7:Good good.
Speaker 5:And John's class actually designed our logo. It's not on here, but our logo, the first one that had the balloons in it. Oh, way back when? Yeah, the background. Every year we change. As a matter of fact, it's on the coin that logo and we just change the balloons out. But they designed the first one Very cool.
Speaker 1:Very cool, very cool. We do it all here, holly, thanks for carving out some time.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, you know it.
Speaker 1:And Danica, there she is there she is everybody there? I got to keep talking, so the camera stays on her. Talk, talk, talk, talk talk. There it is, back to you.
Speaker 1:That's Danica. She's going to be joining us all year long to learn some producing skills, even though she's learning from me. So we'll see how far she gets with that. But the podcast, remember everybody. You can get this on podcast. In a couple of days It'll be on Spotify, Apple. Wherever you get your podcast, Send everybody to it so they can listen to it. We'll get it up right away. Since we got an event this weekend and we want you to know all about, We'll try to get that up for you tomorrow, All right, so thank you everybody. We really appreciate you listening. Tell all your friends it's the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio. We'll be back at some point.