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The Boone Show - S6 E4 - Doctor, Fire Chief, Mayor: Honea Path's Jimmy Smith
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Jimmy Smith, a lifelong doctor and fire chief, turns mayor and lays out a practical plan to revive Honea Path with open doors, safe streets, and steady investment. We talk downtown revival, fiber, housing, healthcare access, and the ordinance that ended fire fatalities.
• hometown roots, medical training, and 42 years of family care
• 53 years in the fire service and 32 as chief
• lessons from fetal alcohol syndrome research
• the smoke detector ordinance and zero fatalities since
• Order of the Palmetto recognition for statewide impact
• why step into the mayor’s role now and how he won
• open door leadership and consistent code enforcement
• downtown revitalization via restoring the 1930 Town Hall
• infrastructure upgrades in water, sewer, and roads
• broadband expansion and reliable fiber options
• affordable housing to serve all residents
• Chicola Mill cleanup and redevelopment vision
• urgent care, rotating specialists, and mental health access
• long-term goals for controlled, human-centered growth
• personal tradeoffs and the meaning of service
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Hey, how are ya?
SPEAKER_02:We're good. How are you?
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that's quick, Holly. It's good jumping in. Holly's here early today, so she's ready to go. She's like, normally this would be halfway through the show for her.
SPEAKER_02:Not true.
SPEAKER_04:But welcome to the Boone Show on My Pulse Radio. I'm John Boone. That's Holly Harrell. She's the boss lady, makes it all happen. All this equipment would not be here without her. So obviously, no show.
SPEAKER_02:We get a lot of support from our community that's for dinner.
SPEAKER_04:Thank goodness. And our special guest here tonight for the first time. And the first time we've really had a honeyopath representative here, I think.
SPEAKER_02:I think you're right.
SPEAKER_04:It might be.
SPEAKER_02:No, we we've had we had the previous mayor once several years ago.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. Yeah. My memory. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It's been a long time.
SPEAKER_04:But uh we've got the current mayor right now, and that is Dr. Jimmy Smith. Welcome. Yeah, great to be here. Thanks for the invitation. Yeah. I'm looking forward to talking talking to you, the new mayor, just uh elected earlier this year. And uh so let's just kick it off with talking about uh how how you got from being born to this point in your life. We only have an hour show. So we'll keep it short. But but what's really cool, I think, is is you've been born and raised Honeyopath, right? Entire life. So talk about you know growing up in in this area and and why you've stuck with it here.
SPEAKER_14:Well, I stuck with it's because I love the community and uh uh I went to school, graduate BHP, uh, went to Clemson University. That's a good sign. Yeah, okay. Got a got a BS and uh in pre-med and then got a master of science and nutrition and actually did my studies in in my master's in in fetal alcohol syndrome. Oh my gosh. And then went from there to the medical university of South Carolina, uh, got my MD from there, and then did my residency in family medicine at uh back then was Anderson Memorial Hospital. Uh which is now ANMED. Which is now ANMED, that's correct. And then I went from there to practice in Honeyopath. Uh spent 42 years in practice in Honeyopath.
SPEAKER_02:So were you connected with a hospital in Honeyopath or Yes.
SPEAKER_14:Uh in fact, my practice was the first one that the hospital bought.
SPEAKER_02:That's kind of cool. And that would have been forty-some odd years ago.
SPEAKER_14:Forty yeah, well, not quite that. It's probably thirty something years ago.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_14:Wow.
SPEAKER_02:That is really neat.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah, I'd I'd gone from uh I had a partner when we started, and then uh he left. Had a hard time recruiting people just because they don't want to come to a small town and they don't want to see a hundred patients a day.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_14:And so we would we'd get people and they would leave. And anyway, for a long time I was the only doctor in town.
SPEAKER_03:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_14:Uh when I c when I stayed into practi came into practice there, there was uh f I was the fourth physician in town. And uh but it the other two were older and and they retired and one died and uh separately after retired. But it's been a it's been a real pleasant experience for the most part. Uh you know, uh family practice is a good good good area to go into if anybody's interested in medicine.
SPEAKER_02:Uh you know, 'cause you get to choose that, right? You don't have to do that right now.
SPEAKER_14:No, you choose it. And in fact, when I was in medical school, they uh tried uh tried their darndest to get me to uh go into cardiology.
SPEAKER_03:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_14:But no, I want to come back to Honey Path and practice and uh uh so uh I stuck with that and never looked back at all. And of course had offers to go other places to practice medicine as well, but uh I I just loved Honey Path so that uh I felt I wanted to come back and contribute.
SPEAKER_02:Sure, sure. I bet you touched 80% of the people who lived in Honey Apath in the last 40 years.
SPEAKER_14:Uh a lot. A lot. You know, family medicine takes people from the cradle to the grave.
SPEAKER_02:That's right. So you've delivered some babies.
SPEAKER_14:Well, delivered babies. Uh my last baby I delivered was actually my niece. Oh, how cool is that. Yeah, and uh that was the last one I delivered, and uh, but that was I was still a resident then. Uh but once we got into private practice, we elected not to do uh OB.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Very cool.
SPEAKER_14:Uh but took care of a lot of newborns.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_14:And back in those days we did our own hospital admissions. We just we took care of everybody. We'd we'd admit our own patients and made house calls.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_04:Uh tell me a little bit about you mentioned the fetal alcohol syndrome, you studied that. Uh what did you learn?
SPEAKER_14:Well, it's uh it's a uh devastating disease to the to the uh newborn. Uh it affects their mental capacity throughout life. Um and uh a lot of uh also a lot of medical issues such as seizure disorders and some different things like that. Uh a lot of uh gastrointestinal problems uh from birth, a lot of cardiac uh problems from birth. So uh I was on the early end of of that study and uh uh learned a lot, but uh I left and told somebody I I used to keep asking what I did. I said we used to keep a lot of rats drunk to do the study.
SPEAKER_02:So you again cho chose that. That's something you didn't think.
SPEAKER_04:That's something I chose, yes. Gotcha. That's that's interesting though, and yeah, big problem. And I'm sure that has helped you in your in your practice uh just knowing things along those lines. Um but that isn't the only thing you've done for the last uh you know forty years or so. Uh also been a fire chief.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah, well I've been a uh I was uh firefighter for 53 years.
SPEAKER_02:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_14:I was the first 18-year-old that the uh town ever put on as a firefighter, volunteer firefighter in those times. And uh then uh I've been I was the fire chief for 32 years when I retired.
SPEAKER_02:So you were a medical doctor and a fire chief?
SPEAKER_04:And a fire chief. At the same time. Must be some stories there, right? You you probably got called the fires while you're being a doctor.
SPEAKER_14:It was uh it it was uh quite interesting some of those times. But yeah, we'd you know, back in those days we were all volunteer. And uh you know the the the pager would go off and and I always had my nurses look around, they'd they'd say yes or no. If it was yes, I was all right to leave. If it was no, I had some urgent or critical there in the office and I couldn't leave. So uh but I I left uh a lot of times and I I I think I've been forgiven by most people I left sitting on the table waiting on me to get back. And in fact, one day I asked somebody said they were fussing about me leaving. And I said, Well, listen, if your house had been on fire here, you want me to go to your house. That's right. And so they changed their mind real quick. Yeah. But uh yeah, and saved a lot of lives by leaving. I used to we used to answer cardiac arrest calls and then I'd go out and sure and work them, and uh Times would even get on the ambulance back in those days and have paramedics and get on the ambulance and and and work them, go into the hospital and uh but uh yeah, some interesting stories.
SPEAKER_02:So you just have a service heart.
SPEAKER_04:Uh yes. And what busy careers. I mean a doctor and a firefighter. Right. And that but that was I read somewhere that that's what you wanted to do from the beginning. You set set out to be a doctor and a firefighter.
SPEAKER_14:When I was three years old, I used to tell people to ask, you know, I'd ask kids what do you want to do? I said I won't be a uh doctor and a fire chief. And I was three. So accomplished both. Accomplished both.
SPEAKER_02:So so so now you've retired from being a doctor?
SPEAKER_14:Yes. I've been retired one year.
SPEAKER_02:And what about fire chief?
SPEAKER_14:Uh when I got elected mayor, I retired from being the fire chief.
SPEAKER_02:So that's less than a year?
SPEAKER_14:That's l that's two months.
SPEAKER_02:That's two months. And so now all you do is one job. I'm the mayor. That is it. So in two months, do you like it? Yes. Do you regret all the other stuff that you did?
SPEAKER_14:No. Okay. No regrets. No regrets.
SPEAKER_04:That's good. That's good. Must be uh that's sure is shifting gears, though. Uh well, it's just uh it's just usual for me.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, that's more I mean you're you're looking at politics, right? So there's no politics in medicine, right?
SPEAKER_14:It's either give you this drug or not give me this tea treatment. But I'll tell you this. The best politician in the city is the fire chief. There you go. I could see and that's uh and I grew up in it. Uh my granddaddy guest um was a longtime firefighter, and he served a lot of several terms on city council, and he also was the mayor for a while. And I feel like when I was a kid and I'd I spent a lot of time with him, and it's like I just grew up around the the the city hall and around the fire station. So uh I've learned a lot over the years. Some things I probably shouldn't have learned.
SPEAKER_04:So wait a minute. Are you related to Michael Guest who works here?
SPEAKER_14:Yeah, Michael is Michael Michael is the first cousin, yes. There you go. Yeah, he's now Michael got started.
SPEAKER_02:Very cool.
SPEAKER_04:Yes. Um so yeah, you're one of few people that gets to actually live out their their dream from a very early age. Three, that's pretty good. That thing's figured out and actually do it.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah, in fact, uh I my my I had a uh uncle and aunt that lived in Greer, and he was a downtown in downtown Greer. Back in those days, Greer wasn't a whole lot bigger than Honeypath or something Williamston, Belton, some of those places. And anyway, I'd go visit him. Well, he would take me around to meet the fire chief, and I got to know him pretty good because every time we'd go up there, I'd slip off and go around. It was about a block around the corner to the fire station. So uh we had uh 50th anniversary for the uh State Fire Chiefs Association. And they brought l all the old living fire chiefs there to the conference. Well, Chief Colvin from Greer was there, and I went up and introduced myself, and he just laughed. And uh I said, Well, what do you what Chief, what what what are you laughing about? He said, Well, so you overachieved. So when you were little, you come around and tell me you were the assistant chief at Honey Fair. I said, Here you are, the chief. So he said, You overachieved.
SPEAKER_04:So very cool. That's awesome. Uh we're gonna we're gonna dive into the the whole mayor thing in in just a minute in our next um uh segment. But before you became mayor, you also got a big award. The the Order of the Palmetto. Oh, that is a lot of times that goes to public service people, you know, while they're mayor or such. You got it before you were mayor.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_14:Tell us about that. And that was a surprise, wasn't it? That was quite the uh surprise. Uh I was very honored by that. Um that happened, they gave it to them. Uh they uh uh retired uh from the office. I'd worked that morning and saw off saw patients until twelve o'clock, and they had a surprise get together for me and uh uh didn't present me with that. Uh Senator Mike Gambrel uh presented that to me.
SPEAKER_02:That's huge. I mean it takes everybody's buy-and it to make that happen. That means you had to make an impact not just in Honeyopath, but across the state. So you must have been involved in a lot of things.
SPEAKER_14:I served on a lot of committees, uh medical-wise and uh firefighter-wise, through the firefighters association and the state fire chiefs association. Yeah. Uh done a lot, uh served like I say, served a lot of committees, um, met a lot of friends and hopefully made an impact. Uh at one point I was a firefighter instructor, and uh the guy I used to team up and teach with, we would teach from O'Coney County all the way down to McCormick County. Yep. And uh it was uh it was quite the quite the time to teach those fellas. And uh but like I say met a lot of people and and I have a lot of people now that are professional or full-time firefighters who tell me, said you don't remember me probably, said you taught me my basic firefighting course. And uh how cool is that so but uh I've also done a lot of teaching through the medical part, uh teaching uh uh nurse practitioner students as well as uh uh residents and uh medical students. Very in fact, when I retired, I was on the uh adjunct uh clinical faculty at MUSC.
SPEAKER_02:Oh wow.
SPEAKER_14:So you've given all your life public service. It it doesn't seem like it.
SPEAKER_04:Uh you know, just what I should what I put here to do. And why, you know, after these long careers that you had in in these two areas that you love so much, and I know you you're gonna say you loved Honey Path too, but why mayor now?
SPEAKER_14:Well the uh the uh previous uh mayor, he uh he had two years left, well his term, and he's also he teaches at uh Greenville Tech. And he just got to the position where they were just kind of on him and on him about wanting to advance uh higher up the chain there. And he just wouldn't have time to do the mayor's job in that. And uh so I kind of helped him uh along the way, uh, right toward the end. He wanted me to help and kind of when he wasn't there to make sure the city was running the way that uh he wanted it to run. And uh so I kind of jumped in and helped him do that, and then uh when he finally decided it's just too much, and I said, Well, you know, you've done all you can. And uh and so that's the reason I decided now is the time to run.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. And he got elected in a landslide. It's a small town, but uh yeah, everybody was behind him. That that had to feel good, like eighty percent of the pay.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, that's huge.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's gotta really make you feel good going in away. But of course, everybody knew who he was, and he was helping the mayor with the city. Well, he's delivered to delivered them to taking care of them.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_04:He's uh kept their houses standing and not burning down. So I mean, why not? Why not be mayor?
SPEAKER_02:He's protected them all these years.
SPEAKER_04:All right, we'll talk more with uh Jimmy Smith coming up on the Boone Show My Pulse Radio.
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SPEAKER_11:In the middle with Danica?
SPEAKER_00:And Cam, where the conversation's never too far left.
SPEAKER_11:Never too far right.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, they are. Make sure you hear Danica's show tomorrow at what is it, one o'clock? One o'clock, yes. One o'clock, right here on My Pulse Radio. In the middle. Yes.
SPEAKER_03:She's so close.
SPEAKER_04:All right, we're back on the boon show talking to uh Dr. Jimmy Smith, the mayor of Honeyapath, and of course, longtime doctor, longtime fire chief. Oh, by the way, when you were a fire chief, you I hear you were a pretty good cook, too.
SPEAKER_14:Well, I did assist some. Uh not not I'm not gonna brag a lot about my cooking, but you know, when you hang around the firehouse enough and and and when you and your wife both are working in medicine, you have to assist and and do things. So yeah, I've done my share.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, my my father-in-law was a fireman and he was known for that. Oh, yeah. Because after a long night shift or something, uh he'd he'd be the one making up the big pots of whatever they had that day. And it was always really good stuff. Um maybe not good for you, but it's always good.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah, yeah. There was always good taste.
SPEAKER_04:Um all right, uh to continue here, tell us a little bit about your family.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because you mentioned your wife. Yeah, and your cousin. And your cousin.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah. There was a lot in between. But uh my wife and I, we have uh four sons, all adult, and we have five grandchildren. And uh have uh no grandchildren living in Honeypath right now. Every everybody's kind of grown their own way.
SPEAKER_02:Um are they close? Is is your four children close?
SPEAKER_14:Uh well one next who still lives uh right close to town. He works for the town, as a matter of fact. And uh he's uh the uh public works supervisor. Okay. And then uh the next son is uh he's uh the head trainer at North Carolina State football.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_14:So uh a lot of people in town they say, oh, they watch North Carolina State when they're on TV and say, Well, we saw Justin. So and then uh I have another son who uh is in Charleston, he's a veterinary and technician. He has he has one one child. And then uh Brandon, who's the youngest, he was uh firefighter, captain at the city of Greenville Fire, and he retired, and uh his wife had a lot of kin people in Alabama, so they moved to Alabama about uh six months ago.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_14:So uh it's been uh been kind of an adjustment because they they had two children and uh because one is he's fixing to graduate from high school, so he didn't move with them, he's he stayed behind. But uh the the the the youngest one of his uh he's uh he's one you really miss. He's he was every day there and but actually I think he would have lived with us for a while.
SPEAKER_02:That's cool. Very cool.
SPEAKER_04:So that's that's the makeup of our family, yeah. Kids are following in their parents' footsteps.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it sounds like it. And your wife, what did she do?
SPEAKER_04:She was a nurse.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_14:She was a nurse.
SPEAKER_02:So she was your nurse?
SPEAKER_14:She was my nurse. Very cool. In fact, when I had my own practice, she actually ran the office.
SPEAKER_02:Oh wow. So is that how y'all met?
SPEAKER_14:Yes. Oh.
SPEAKER_02:So she was your nurse. And you were single. She was single. Yeah, yeah. And the two of you just said, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Well, that's that's nice. How many years have you been married?
SPEAKER_14:We have been married now. 3334. Holy cow.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. A long dang time.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:That's very cool.
SPEAKER_04:That is cool. So um and one other thing before we move on to the the mayor thing was uh I know that you've been known for uh getting the fire safety programs out there. And I know Michael does a good job with that here going out to the elementary school. So that another uh point of what you did that is that's complimentary to everything else, is uh, you know, letting people know about fire safety. Sometimes everybody just takes it for granted or thinks it's never gonna happen to them. That's right. It's it's good to know.
SPEAKER_14:That's right. I remember the first fire prevention program we ever did at Honey Pan was in 1970, something one, seventy-two, seventy-three, somewhere along in there, and and we didn't have enough money to because we were like small volunteer fire department. And uh course the city supported us, but we didn't have anything for fire safety education in the budget. And uh so this guy that uh ran the local printing office there. Uh-huh. Uh we we got some brochures that were sent to us uh uh as as like samples if you want to buy these. So we took we got on his printing press one night, we printed up a bunch of those things and took them to the school and did our first fire prevention program.
SPEAKER_02:Oh very neat.
SPEAKER_14:Especially the four and five years old. They uh you ask anybody to have any questions, they want to tell you something. It's not a question, is they're gonna tell you something. So it's it's it's all good. And and I I think we made a lot of difference. Um we uh we've been real aggressive with things in in Hunt Town, Honey Pass been real aggressive with fire prevention. Um we had uh three and one family burned to death in a house fire one night. And I said, well that's enough. It's uh it was a rental house, and I said it just we we were tired of this. So we went to the council and uh we drafted an ordinance and uh well rental property had to be inspected before it was occupied, and that passed. And it requires smoke detectors, and that's a good safety check of the house. And uh knock on wood since we've done that, and that's been fifteen years ago now, and we've had no fatality.
SPEAKER_02:So that's impact right now. That's that's the importance of impact.
SPEAKER_14:And smoke detectors save lives. Smoke detectors save lives. I I like to get that out every chance I get.
SPEAKER_04:And one went off at my uh my son's apartment last night, but nothing serious, it's just uh smoke detectors also tell you when you you can't cook right. That's great. Uh because if it's burning something on the stove. That's great. Had to have all the windows open and the fans going. That's right. Thank goodness for smoke detectors.
SPEAKER_02:That's right.
unknown:Yes.
SPEAKER_04:Uh talk a little bit about your leadership style, because now you're you're you're mayor and you've been in these important positions before.
SPEAKER_14:How do you take that into being a well my style is to is an open door policy. I don't care who you are or what your robbing is, how big or how small it is. Uh if you come by my office, my door is open, come in. And we sit down and talk it. Uh I'll take notes and try to help them if we can. If we can't, I'll let them know that too. But uh that's that's my style of of dealing business with problems and is to have an open door policy. And I also um am real stern on uh adhering and enforcing the city codes and ordinances uh and the laws. Uh in fact I told our police chief that uh and all our policemen that, you know, I'm not gonna interfere with what y'all do, but I expect to do community policing, uh common sense policing, be hard on drugs, uh hard on violent crime, uh let's keep our streets safe and uh make Honey Path a better uh place and a place that people want to raise their families in and want to move to.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_14:So that we've been pretty successful for that in the last uh two months.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it's gotta be consistent, right? Because if you loosen up on anything, that's the beginning of the downfall. That's right.
SPEAKER_14:And and if I go by the ordinances uh and you come to me and ask something, I can tell you what I can do with what the ordinance says. And if Holly comes to me about the same problem, then I tell her the same thing. That's right. It's not showing favoritism. It's just doing being consistent and and and then I have it as an open you know, I don't expect people to have to for your information for us. You come and ask me, I'm gonna take you around there and show you.
SPEAKER_02:That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER_14:It's just uh just open government. And and and that that's just the way I like to have it done. No secrets.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah. And one thing I noticed too, and you mentioned it earlier, is you like to get other people involved. Like it's not just you, it's hearing from everybody. You have the open door, you love to network and get involved with uh what other people have to say, local businesses, local council members, uh all that stuff.
SPEAKER_14:Yes, we uh I instituted uh we've always had committees within the council, but I actually make my committee members work.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_14:They they they have to get together if something comes up that involves that committee, they're they're meeting and making decisions on it along with me.
SPEAKER_02:Right, right. I like that.
SPEAKER_04:All right. Well, it looks like um you can take a breath, uh, Dr. Smith, Jimmy, Doc. He gets called by so many names. Oh, I bet. A lot of them are doc, because uh yeah, they know him from that. You ever get asked a lot on the sidewalk for medical advice these days? Yeah, I even have people coming to my to my mayor's office. What's best? That's right. What do I do? Every day. Every day. We have Zach on the line, Zach Howard, our uh sports guy, or very biased sports guy. That's what we need to call him now, the very biased sports guy. But heck, it gives us some levity. Uh, Zach, how are you today?
SPEAKER_13:I'm doing good. How are you?
SPEAKER_04:Good, good, good. I know you have a big uh before you go on about how bad my team is and how Clemson finally got a win. Um I want you to now, hold on now, hold on now.
SPEAKER_12:What what?
SPEAKER_04:What?
SPEAKER_12:Hold on now. Well you what you're talking about how bad your team is, we're talking about how bad my team looks.
SPEAKER_04:All right, but but hey, you got another one and four team this week. You should uh should win again, right?
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, exactly. And y'all got another uh National League East Championship and choke again in the playoffs.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, well, that's why they gotta give out rings because they're never gonna get any further than that.
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, yeah, hey, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:It's frustrating. I didn't even watch much of the game last night.
SPEAKER_13:The Braves will be the Braves will be right there, sitting right next to y'all on the couch.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Yeah, that's the only team we can seem to beat in the playoffs is the Braves. And you weren't there this year, so you know there's Phillies are folding.
SPEAKER_13:So we looked uh Clinton looked a lot better on Saturday. I know the team that they played was uh was kind of uh, you know, Troy's better than they are.
SPEAKER_04:Hey Zach, let me tell you this. I could have thrown a touchdown pass to you, and you would have been untouched going into the end zone. That defense was horrible.
SPEAKER_13:We could have gave the ball to Holly, and she could have run in for the end. Hey, hey, hey!
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, Holly was a fullback back then.
SPEAKER_13:Um as running back.
SPEAKER_02:I I feel like we have two wins this year by week and last week.
SPEAKER_04:Well, don't forget Troy.
SPEAKER_13:Well, you know, people were talking about how bad North Carolina was and Clemson played against a bad team. But let me tell you something, of course. I wasn't at the game, Holly was. That wasn't the same Clemson team.
SPEAKER_04:Holly wasn't at the game, she was just detail gating.
SPEAKER_13:You know, that that wasn't the same Clemson team that played against Troy. And I know and I know that you know, bad defenses did, but that just builds the team's team's confidence.
SPEAKER_04:Well, you know what the big confidence was was starting out with the play that they did.
SPEAKER_13:Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, well.
SPEAKER_04:Right away. Because what are they they've had problems starting out games this year. And right away they go the trick play, touchdown.
SPEAKER_13:I'm always for, I'm always for um, well, it's always bit me in the rear end. I always want to those, all right, game's over now. Well, that's always come back to bite me in the rear end because my dad's always like, um uh still got a lot of football to play. So, you know, pretty much the game was over then. But you know, you take you you know, we're gonna move to high school football. You take Ren, for instance. I would have never thought in the Million Years they would have beat an undefeated Woodros team. And they did last week. And I didn't go to the game because um no, it was not last week, it was two weeks ago. And then they beat, and then they uh beat Emerald in first place in the region this week. But uh I didn't come back. Um so but um but I'll be there this week watching them play uh Fountain. Fountain's getting better. Um so but uh we'll see. We'll we'll see. That's why you spot the ball, that's why you play the game, and uh Boston College is like uh what South Carolina's Vanderbilt or South Carolina's Kentucky. You never know what the team you're gonna get when they play Boston College, no matter if it's there, no matter if they're gonna be able to get it.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah.
SPEAKER_13:Have you ever have you ever made that trip up there?
SPEAKER_02:Several times.
SPEAKER_13:Oh man, I want to go.
SPEAKER_02:It is an awesome trip. And their stadiums like in the middle of a neighborhood. Literally.
SPEAKER_13:That's on my bucket list for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you definitely need to go.
SPEAKER_13:So, but but yeah, I I I'm planning to go. I was gonna go to uh I know I mentioned this uh a couple of weeks ago, but I was that was gonna be my road trip this year was uh North Carolina, but my dad and I flying out to Dallas uh November the first to do the Cowboys playing um on his bucket list, and we're gonna get uh check that off his list. Um so but uh you know kind of like Notre Dame, the Cowboys fans have. It's kind of like Notre Dame in college. You either love them or you hate them. So my dad and Tiffany's dad uh pulls for them. So I guess me and her is on the bandwagon when it comes to the couch.
SPEAKER_04:Tiffany is on the bandwagon?
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, she uh what's she at? We was actually talking today. She loves Travis Etienne. Of course, I think CJ Spiller is the best running back that ever put a Christian jersey on. And people try to argue with me, but that's fine. You know, I'd have my opinion.
SPEAKER_04:Why did they get thrown into the middle of the conversation?
SPEAKER_13:So no, but she loves ETN because she always liked being at the games and with Dale Gilbert, you know, there's a big play. Travis ETN! And she always loved that. And she said, wait a minute. Trav just tells you how much she loves uh knows about sports. We was watching the game last night. She said, wait a minute, Travis Etienne's on the Jaguars. I'm like, yeah, babe. Yeah. He is, and he's like been there for five years. Well, that just goes to show you how much I know. I said, I know. You need to a little little less uh uh uh TikToking and more sports. Let's go now.
SPEAKER_04:He was hurt for a while, so I mean, you know. But they look good last night. Jaguars are off to a good start.
SPEAKER_13:They are. They they are when whenever you uh whenever you're playing the Chiefs, you're also playing the guys in the strikes.
SPEAKER_04:Exactly.
SPEAKER_13:So um but um but I was I was glad to see him get that win. I I don't really watch a whole lot of professional football, but I stayed up and watched that one last night. So I hey, I watched it instead of watching Monday Night Raw. Can you believe that?
SPEAKER_04:I don't believe that at all.
SPEAKER_13:I'm actually watching it.
SPEAKER_04:Isn't there a pay-per-view this coming weekend? Isn't there a pay-per-view this coming weekend? There is and you didn't even watch the show leading up to it?
SPEAKER_13:Well, I'm fixing um I've actually got it on my TV recently.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, you're going to watch it, okay. Yes, telling you.
SPEAKER_13:So I had to pause it. So uh, but do you know that it's in Perth, Australia Saturday, and it comes on at 8 o'clock in the morning? So they're going to be there all weekend, and so Monday Night Raw will be there as well, and it's gonna come on at 8 o'clock in the morning.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, there you go. You can watch it in the truck.
SPEAKER_13:So I guess, I guess, uh, yeah. I can see that now. Yeah, I can see that. I need another traffic jam, is what I need. Just not a five-hour long traffic jam. Yeah. So, but uh, but um before before I before I hang up, Lisa, she's not listening. Um, she wasn't able to uh listen. I tried to get her to, but uh, I want to wish Tiffany a happy anniversary tomorrow. Um tomorrow, if she puts up with me from now till midnight tonight, we will be together 14 years officially.
SPEAKER_04:That is awesome. You guys are getting old. So yeah, we are.
SPEAKER_13:What does that tell us for you this day? We went and celebrated, uh we went and celebrated on Friday, downtown Greenville a little bit, and uh enjoyed ourselves, got away from reality and focused on each other for just a little while. So I put up with a lot.
SPEAKER_04:So y'all think about it compared to what she puts up with.
SPEAKER_13:I put up with a lot. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, well, happy anniversary.
SPEAKER_13:Well, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Yeah, we celebrate uh nine years married in April and then ten years uh in uh 27. So uh best thing that ever that's ever happened to me, besides uh Clemson Student National Championship. Best thing that's ever happened to me. Oh, it'd be something something. I let me tell you, I would not be who I am today without her, and I wouldn't have half the stuff I have without her just because of uh, you know, I you know how they say you always got a spender and you got a saver. I'm the spender and she's the savior. Saver.
SPEAKER_04:Well, maybe the savior too.
SPEAKER_13:The savior too, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:And remember, Zach, as much as you pick on me, the you wouldn't be together if it wasn't for me.
SPEAKER_13:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02:I saved your relationship.
SPEAKER_04:She came to me one day and says, I don't know if I can stick with this guy. And I'm like, give him a chance.
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, yeah, I'll I'll never I I'll never forget that. I walk because if you had her, you had me first and then you had her, right? But you had her every day, correct? Yeah. Did you have her every day?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I think so, yeah. Bless your heart.
SPEAKER_13:So that's uh but yeah, we're gonna have to maybe maybe one day it'll work out where uh she's off on Wednesdays, but maybe we she can switch up her day and we can come in for a show.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you should.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely. Wednesday to have you.
SPEAKER_04:We have shows on Tuesdays, Zach.
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, well, she can switch up her day. That's good to do.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, you mean switch to a Wednesday? Okay, I gotcha.
SPEAKER_13:No, no, no, I'm talking about her day.
SPEAKER_04:Uh, that's I know, I understand. I understand.
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, but I mean if you want to switch up, you know, your show just for me, that would make me feel fantastic.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, would it? Well, we might do that someday. Someday.
SPEAKER_13:But no, that is a good thing. If we go like out of town for the weekend, she can work Monday through Thursday and because she's off on Wednesdays, and just switch from Friday from Wednesday to Friday, and she doesn't have to use a vacation day.
SPEAKER_04:There you go. Smart way to do it.
SPEAKER_13:So it must must, you know, it must be nice.
SPEAKER_04:Hey, just don't take your weekends away. Don't go to Gatlinburg right now. Have you seen what's going on up there?
SPEAKER_13:What's going on in Gatlinburg? I have not. She's she is pigeonforged out, let me tell you. Oh, that's good. She's pretty much as a kid. She went we have been we have been together 14 years. We will be married nine in April, and I want to say just the two of us, we have been twice. Just the two of us.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, but you've gone a lot with your family, though.
SPEAKER_13:But yeah, we do go a lot with our family, but every Thanksgiving, I think, for she can tell you probably 10 or 11, at least 10 years, they went on Thanksgiving every Thanksgiving to Pigeon Forge every year. Thanksgiving weekend. So she said, honey, we can that's when we went on a cruise for our honeymoon. And she said, honey, because I want to go to Pigeon Forge. She said, honey, I ain't Pigeon Forged out. So anyway, so but that's why we've been married so long, because I ain't been going to Pigeon Forge with her.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_13:So but uh but anyway, well, listen, y'all.
SPEAKER_04:So take her someplace nice for your little anniversary.
SPEAKER_02:He did Friday.
SPEAKER_04:Do it again. I'm gonna go. Just treat her well, would you?
SPEAKER_13:Uh yeah. I try to. I I try to, you know, I put up, I put up with a lot. Told you it's a bit of stress. I put up with a lot through this entire relationship. Y'all don't know what I go through. Yeah, I don't believe that.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I've been there done that.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_13:Have y'all not seen the pictures on Facebook of a two-year-old? I am.
SPEAKER_04:I can't believe she's adorable.
SPEAKER_13:I mean, I had to go get a dog. I had to go get a dog that says Happy Halloween, and every time, and set it up, because I've got a Clemson football and playable helmet out here, and set it up and have to have it blowing up every morning when she leaves, and every afternoon when Tiffany backs up the driveway, she has to roll down the window and it's dog, and every time she gets out, she's got to go down and see the dog. So yeah, she runs our, she she runs our house.
SPEAKER_04:You are well trained. You're well trained.
SPEAKER_02:Save her that because it's gonna go away so quick.
SPEAKER_13:Oh yeah, oh yeah. Carson is growing like a weed. So hey, I hey, like I tell Tiffany, and I'll let y'all go after this. Like I tell Tiffany, listen, only I I just say, look, two, you know, one down, one to go, and Carson is, you know, they say you pay child support up till they're 18, so Carson is five, so I've got 13 years left for her, and I've got to be a little bit more than a little bit.
SPEAKER_04:Look at you counting down the days. Don't do that. You gotta enjoy it.
SPEAKER_13:So I do that too all the time. Well, listen, y'all take care. You too. We'll talk to you next time.
SPEAKER_04:All right, take care, Zach. He is down the days until they're 18.
SPEAKER_02:He is a mess.
SPEAKER_04:Let me tell you, they get more expensive after they're 18.
SPEAKER_02:Uh well, they get when they're trying to get out on their own and everything.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, look out. That's correct. It doesn't end. It doesn't end at 18. All right. Did you enjoy that, Jimmy? Yes. Okay. He's very informative. He's a mess. He came on to do sports and spent 10 minutes talking about his relationship. But that's that's good. I enjoy I had them both in class. That's what he was referring to. They're media broadcasting grads. I have another couple from class going to the altar very soon, too, from several years ago. Don't ask me their names.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_04:But um, I saw it on Facebook. And uh so we've had a lot of connections in in our class. That's why they weren't getting work done, I guess. Um but let's continue with uh they're too worried about that. Uh Dr. Jimmy Smith is the mayor of Honeyapath, and we've just gotten started on the mayor part of it. Um obviously a big job is to you know promote the town, make it better than what it is. That's what a mayor does, right? And takes care of everybody. Well, a few different categories we want to hit here. Um first off, the economic development of the town, you know, attracting new businesses and jobs, and by that expanding the population, the tax base, all those things. What can you tell us about that?
SPEAKER_14:Well, we're actively doing that. I spend a portion of every morning talking with developers and selling honeypath, and uh it's paying off uh so far. And uh right now we have a big push to revitalize our downtown. And uh a key piece of that is our old town hall. It was built in 1930. Wow, and it's a classic municipal building. And uh we've been out of that building now about 15, 16 years, and it's it's gotten into disrepair. So my goal is and we're looking for searching for grants, and we're getting the building stabilized now, and we're gonna try to move town hall back downtown. And that puts a lot of foot traffic there uh for the for the merchants downtown. Then we have a lot of buildings that need to be revitalized, and we're gonna start working on that since we're working on our building and we get other people to work on theirs. So uh we're doing that to to promote some new businesses and uh also we want to support our old businesses. We have to can't forget them. Sure. We have to be supportive of them and keep them going. And uh of course with with with it business growth, it it helps to grow your resid the residential growth. And uh I I think Honey Path where we sit, we're perfect for a I call it a bedroom community. Uh we can be in uh we're thirty miles from downtown Greenville, we have twenty-five miles from downtown Greenwood, eighteen miles to downtown Anderson, and uh about twenty-two miles to uh uh uh Abbeville. So uh Honey Path, uh the post office there serves four counties.
SPEAKER_02:Very cool.
SPEAKER_14:So that's it puts us in a good geographic location. We have an excellent uh school system, the city has excellent services, so it's just a good good place to have your family uh grow and and develop there in Honey Path. So we we're wide open. You know, the county has uh put a moratorium on uh housing build house building, and I think it's gonna last uh I'm gonna be surprised if it lasts six months to get some zoning ordinances and stuff worked up. But I want everybody to know that the municipalities are still open to growth. We're not we're not restricted by that moratorium.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_14:So uh if anybody listening and they're a developer, uh come come talk to me.
SPEAKER_02:You've got a couple of businesses coming back in the works.
SPEAKER_14:Oh, we have uh yes, we have some stuff in the works.
SPEAKER_02:Something you can talk about?
SPEAKER_14:Nothing I can talk about right now. It's not to that point. Fair enough. You know, I don't like to talk about it until I see them moving dirt.
SPEAKER_02:That's right, that's right.
SPEAKER_14:Because a lot of things can happen.
SPEAKER_02:That's right.
SPEAKER_14:But uh we have had some good productive meetings with with two two people.
SPEAKER_03:Well good. Good.
SPEAKER_04:That's great. Um and you talk about the infrastructure. Well, town hall's almost a hundred years old, but uh there's a lot of things that need to be worked on within the town, like sewer lines.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah, we've got we we we've gotten uh gotten grants. We did uh about uh just finished a seven million dollar upgrade on our sewer and water system. And uh so that's that's helped. A lot of the sewer lines have been in the ground for a hundred years, a lot of the water mains have been in there for about that long.
SPEAKER_02:And you know, people don't see that. Right, it costs a lot of money and people don't see it.
SPEAKER_14:They go and they cut that spigot out until they get water, they are right. That's right. They don't worry about where the water comes from, and it and and the sure don't worry about where it goes. And uh so it that's that's a big a big thing. And of course, roads.
SPEAKER_02:And that's the other thing.
SPEAKER_14:You know, the the county came up years ago and it said, well, we don't have a there's no county roads in the cities.
SPEAKER_02:So you have no county roads in your city.
SPEAKER_14:Well the county built the roads. The city didn't build the roads, but they they it but they decided they weren't gonna fund uh municipal roads anymore. So that's that's been a that's been a thing. So there's a thing called the C fund that's uh funds that you get from the state and they allocated through the Hanson County Transportation Committee, and you have to put in, but it that's a long process. Uh so uh but roads that's that's an important part of the infrastructure. Uh you know, uh we have an important referendum coming up in November about the uh one percent uh sales tax, and I'm not gonna sit here and tout it either way, but I just want people to get out and vote. But I will say this, I sure would make it easier for all the cities if that if that passed.
SPEAKER_04:Another thing you're go ahead, Holly.
SPEAKER_02:I was gonna talk about fiber. Yeah. Because fiber and making sure people have internet and access to internet.
SPEAKER_14:We have uh there's a new company coming there, it's uh Western Carolina. And they are all over town now. And I I understand they provide good service uh uh because we're still served by Spectrum and of course ATT. But uh everybody's going crazy over West Carolina now.
SPEAKER_03:Well good.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's good. Um because that's important, and we see that in just with uh school. That's right. With the the kids being able to access uh internet.
SPEAKER_02:Especially when the hurricane hit. That was huge. That's that's right.
SPEAKER_04:So that's good. They're getting fiber. Um how about um affordable housing has been one thing you've talked about in your campaigns a little bit. Give us your views on uh getting that.
SPEAKER_14:Yes, we uh we uh support affordable housing. Um we uh have uh two relative new but large apartment complexes that have been built there in town. We'd like to get some more. Um but you know you you have to serve all kinds of people. You you can't just cater to the upper echelon of people. You got to cater to the less fortunate people too, and the people that don't have as much. And a lot of these people they work every day, but they just can't get ahead to own their own home or or or and and so we I think you have to have stuff and be ready for them because they're citizens as well.
SPEAKER_02:That's right, that's right.
SPEAKER_04:Go ahead. We keep cutting each other. I know it. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_02:The Chicola Mill area. I've had a lot of work done on that.
SPEAKER_14:Uh a lot more to be done. Uh we are waiting now. We've we've cleared the last hurdle through the uh uh federal government. And uh we got uh got an email out about a month ago that we have cleared the last part for them. And now the uh state uh through uh DHEC they're doing their last check of everything and it should go by easily now. And uh I know everybody gets tired of hearing it, I'm tired of hearing it. But I know for twenty years the longer that that mill has just been in disrepair and it's been been it's been like a cancer sitting there.
SPEAKER_03:That's right.
SPEAKER_14:And you gotta get rid of it. And uh when we get that done, which I think is gonna happen soon, uh when we get that done, we'll be meeting with the uh community and getting their input of what they want to see there. Uh we want to see something there that's gonna contribute to the tax base and uh something to conserve the citizens and it uh could be some housing, it could be uh some other uh and I'm not ruling out uh putting some other type of uh small industry there. So we just have to wait and see what what comes up.
SPEAKER_04:Another thing obviously close to your heart is uh health care and improving health care access.
SPEAKER_14:Yes, everybody there's there's it's just a health care shortage. I don't care where you live. And uh you know, I hear it all the time. Well, gosh, since you retired, we can't get into the doctor's office. And uh well, because uh but I I would start seeing patients at seven o'clock in the morning and work the long as it took uh to to get it to get people seen, but nowadays it's just a different culture. Uh nobody wants to work that much and uh they don't see what they're obligated to do and and so it's just hard to get in to it. But uh, you know, we have we're fortunate to have Ambed and Honeyopath, and I'd like to work for them to develop some more things. I'd like to see us to have an urgent care in the area. Uh I'd like to see them have a a clinic uh built where they can have specialists come in and let them rotate and uh like cardiologists or surgeons or keep our older people from having to drive all the way to Anderson for their follow-up and stuff like that. So that's that's kind of a plan that we're we're gonna talk with. And of course, uh on everybody's mind is we don't have enough uh mental health care. And so we'll we'll work with them and talk with them and uh have some other health care providers also are interested in in talking with us. Uh so we'll see where that goes. But uh that's part of my uh development, economic development plan.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so where do they go for the nearest urgent care right now? It's uh Anderson. Yeah, that'd be great. Not just for Honeyapath, but some of the other uh towns in the area. Yeah, need something down there.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04:All right. Uh if you could give kind of uh a life lesson uh that that you've learned as well as some advice to somebody that might be entering public service. You've been in it your entire life. What's uh what's a life lesson you can share?
SPEAKER_14:It's not for what you're gonna get out of it. You do what you can do for everybody else. That's right. Oh that's that's that's the number one thing.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_14:And you go into it to work untirelessly for the people. Uh and there's times you have to put uh you know, you've had to put your family in the background. Uh I don't know how many times I missed a Christmas dinner because of going to a fire. And so there's time to do that. Well, yes, and and we I hope hope we have over the time. That's that's been the goal. And uh you you can't it's it's gotta be selfless dedication. Uh that's that's that's what I would tell anybody who wants to go any medicine into the law enforcement, fire service, emergency medical service. It is it's got to be that type of service, or you're not gonna be happy with it.
SPEAKER_02:That's right. So is this mayor gig a full-time job?
SPEAKER_14:Yes, it is. Ask my wife.
SPEAKER_02:Is it supposed to be a full-time job?
SPEAKER_14:Uh it doesn't pay a full-time salary.
SPEAKER_02:I'm sure it doesn't.
SPEAKER_14:You know, uh you know, I I I uh it's right, funny. Uh I'll I'll tell this, it's uh when I got to be the mayor, my salary was cut in half what it was when I was the fire chief. And and and they took away my new cars driving and driving old police cars got about 150,000 miles of fucking.
SPEAKER_04:Public service.
SPEAKER_14:That's right. It's public service, it's not for me. That's right.
SPEAKER_04:But it brings up a good point because some people go into that field looking to be, you know, the hero or the get the title and not realize what everything comes with that to do the job.
SPEAKER_14:When I was the fire chief, I would never ask anybody at work for me to do anything that I wasn't out there doing with them. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_04:So how long do you think you'll you'll do this being the mayor?
SPEAKER_14:Well, two two years now, and I'm telling everybody I'm running again in two years. Good. And uh so we'll we'll see. Yeah, you can't get it all done in two years. That's right. No, but uh that's what my wife keeps telling me too.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I've heard a lot of great things about you. So thank you.
SPEAKER_04:What would be your long term like ten years from now? What do you hope to see has been accomplished realistically?
SPEAKER_14:Well, I'd like to see uh Honeypath uh be a population of about uh seven or eight thousand. I think that'd be a good size small city. Uh I'd like for us to have adequate health care. And and I want to have control growth. I don't see how he's stacked and I don't see that we want to maintain the character that we have now, but we want to grow within in that. Uh so that's that's where I'd like to see us in in ten years.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's good. Uh what do you do in your spare time? Well, there's gotta be more than just these things.
SPEAKER_14:Well, we uh we we right we we're in town, we're in the city limits, and uh we we have uh a large uh tract of land that we built our house on and uh uh and I like uh taking care of that property when I have a chance. Do a lot of bush hogging and love riding the tractor and yeah, getting around nobody calling and bother me. So I like that. Uh as far as hobbies, you know, I like sports. Uh love love Clemson sports. Um used to think that they could uh play without me being there. And I know it makes a difference to place, but uh as I've gotten older I've I've uh I decided it's a whole lot easier to sit at home and watch it on TV and I can be warm when it's cold or cool when it's hot and dry when it's wet. There you go. Know how to put up with the crowd leaving. And so but uh I still enjoy that. Uh I like to keep up with BHP. We see you're doing very well this year. Well, very well. And uh that's uh that's you don't have a lot of spare time.
SPEAKER_04:I guess being the mayor is my hobby now.
SPEAKER_02:That's right, that's right.
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SPEAKER_04:There you go. You can catch Danica twice a week. Twice a week. Yeah, I don't think there's anybody else you can catch twice a week. She thinks she's the only one with two shows. So there you go. All right, recommendation time. We're putting them on the spot. The mayor of Honey Path recommends what? As far as entertainment these days.
SPEAKER_14:All right, entertainment TV. The best uh series you can watch on Wednesday nights, all the Chicago series. It gets everything I do. Yeah. So it gets everything I can do. It's very entertaining. Uh but uh yeah, we we'll recommend that for it for anybody.
SPEAKER_04:Now, when you watch shows like Chicago Fire, is that realistic? No. That's what I thought. Is there any show or movie that is realistic that you've seen of uh you know what uh what firefighters like House, right?
SPEAKER_02:Have you seen House? Well that's not the doctor. That need that should be real to me. And I know it's not, you're probably gonna tell me it's not. It's not, but that's they've always said it was low.
SPEAKER_14:But uh my wife gets on to me because I sit down, especially on Chicago fire sitting down critiquing. That's not what to do. But uh I thought, you know, a building like that burning in Chicago, they'd have 120 firefighters in the middle. That's right, that's right. But uh uh it's just entertainment.
SPEAKER_04:You gotta take it to that.
SPEAKER_14:That's right.
SPEAKER_04:Has there ever been I mean, there's a lot of fire shows.
SPEAKER_14:Are there any that stick out to you that are well the movie I think one of the best movies they ever made was uh uh Ladder 49. Okay, yeah. Uh that that that was real good. Uh John Travolta. And uh What is it? Backflash back. If you go back to that, that's that's back in that's back getting back in the day now. That's back in the day. That was a great movie. That's a great movie too. Had a good good theme to it.
SPEAKER_04:And uh but I just wondered that with you being a fire chief, if you could recommend it. And the medical show is how sit down critique, anyways. My goodness. Medical shows, the pit, I really like that. Have you seen that? Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_14:Is that realistic? That's uh in some ways it is.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean the fact that they did a a a complete shift in hours.
SPEAKER_14:And that that's interesting the way they do that. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:So cover through the yard. But um all right, so the final recommendation is is food, a restaurant, uh or such. What do you have for us?
SPEAKER_14:Well, yeah, I'm gonna plug all our restaurants in Honeyabay. We have we have some good ones. And uh, you know, if you get a taco salad in a town cafe, have good cheeseburgers, and uh then if you jump over to uh uh to uh Grace's downtown, uh they have good uh sub s uh sandwiches, uh club sandwiches. Club sandwiches uh real good club sandwiches and also other uh food, uh cheeseburgers and all that's real good there. And then if you go on down the street there uh to Chadwick's, uh they have a lot of home cooking meet and three every day. And uh big crowd there on Sunday. Their food's always good. And if you look on down, they have the uh Sakura, which is uh Japanese, and we have another Japanese hibachi type cooking there in town. It it's good, and then uh we have a Chinese restaurant there in town, and uh they're they're all good.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, that's good. That's very good. So we'll we'll plug them all. That's right. All right, well, that's that's it. It's a wrap. So uh thank you, Doctor, Doc, Fire Chief, Mayor, Jimmy Smith. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you all for having me. All right, he is the mayor of Honey a Path. Uh visit Honey Apath, see all these things he's talking about going on, take a drive down there. You you won't be disappointed. Our next live show comes up in a couple of weeks, October 21st, so we'll talk to you then. Meanwhile, catch the podcast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to Holly and Danica. I'm John Boone. Thanks for listening and watching the Boone Show.