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The Boone Show - S6 E5 - Hill Electric's Trey Thomas: How A Local Electrical Firm Thrives By Adapting, Investing In People, And Serving Its Community
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A hometown journey through industry change, from textiles to advanced manufacturing, with a candid look at pay, culture, and why long-term loyalty still matters. Trey Thomas shares family stories, youth sports energy, and how community partnerships fuel a stronger workforce.
• origins in Anderson, Clemson engineering, early field work
• Hill Electric’s 70-year pivot from textiles to diversified industry
• Michelin era and building resilient customer mix
• total compensation vs hourly pay and retention culture
• profit sharing history and retirements with dignity
• communication, expectations, and life skills on the job
• career centers and technical colleges as talent engines
• student work programs, senior-year earnings, NIL joke
• local entrepreneurship with Kate’s boutique downtown
• youth sports, facilities, and coaching lessons
• civic service, boards, and downtown revitalization
• light news, trivia, and dining recommendations
Find out more about Hill Electric at hillelectric.net
Thanks for listening! Direct all inquiries to jboone@mypulseradio.com.
Hey everybody, welcome to the Boon Show on My Pulse Radio. We're happy to be with you this evening or whenever you're listening on another Tuesday, and we have a very special guest with us.
SPEAKER_07:A very special guest.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, this guy he's done a lot for the school.
SPEAKER_07:He has.
SPEAKER_05:You're gonna hear about that and a lot more. We're talking about Trey Thomas, who is the president and COO of Hill Electric. Welcome, Trey.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you, John. Holly.
SPEAKER_05:And uh Holly, of course, is here, and Danica's trying to put out fires in the background. So we've got a full show for you. So um what a week, huh?
SPEAKER_07:I know it's been a long week, and we've we've got what four or five five weeks in a row after this, which is a lot for us. Trey, we usually try to do it twice a month. These these show, the Boon Show, twice a month, and this month, um, for the next five weeks, John has got us booked up. Um but we have some good guests. Tim Self is coming in. Oh boy. You know Tim. That'd be a good story time. Yep. Okay, because I don't know him yet. Oh, he's uh hysterical. All right, good, good. Um, and a good storyteller. Who else do we have coming on?
SPEAKER_05:Uh the the auditor guy.
SPEAKER_07:Yes, John Bika from Anderson County's coming on.
SPEAKER_05:You would normally think an auditor might not be exciting.
SPEAKER_07:Yes, but I hope he's going to be. I've never met him. Yeah, well.
SPEAKER_03:Looks like you have the Middletown players coming.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. Next week here, uh Will reading it.
SPEAKER_07:Uh Will is always entertaining.
SPEAKER_05:And next week we're doing kind of a Halloween theme.
SPEAKER_07:Okay.
SPEAKER_05:So uh Winston's gonna be here. Okay, good. And his dad's gonna be here who's actually worked on some horror movies and stuff.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh so we're doing kind of a Halloween theme. So what a better what better day to get somebody like Will Raglan in here to uh to compliment and they would and their first show that they're doing is kind of a spooky kind of thing as they open their new season.
SPEAKER_07:Okay.
SPEAKER_05:So he's gonna talk about the new season and all that.
SPEAKER_07:Good. So it should be some good shows.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. Looking forward to it. Yeah. And the holidays are right upon us.
SPEAKER_07:Yes, I think I I read nine Fridays to Christmas.
SPEAKER_03:Wow. Yeah, I think the other day it was 67 days until Christmas.
SPEAKER_07:That's about right. Is that crazy?
SPEAKER_05:Wow, that's less than 10.
SPEAKER_07:So Trey, do you do you do the Christmas shopping or does your wife do the Christmas shopping?
SPEAKER_03:She does most of it for the kids and stuff.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, I thought so.
SPEAKER_05:Most most does she do it online?
SPEAKER_03:Uh a lot of it. I mean, she she's always looking. I mean, she's she's usually got the Christmas presents by August late latest at the end of this month. Yeah. See, that's a good thing. Maybe something gets drug out till November, but most everything's already already accounted for.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. Most of our family does that. Not me though. I'm in the in the phase now that they tell me what I'm giving somebody else. Here you got them a bike. Here you got them a bike.
SPEAKER_07:Jackie's already got that planned out for us.
SPEAKER_05:Yes. So I mean, I used to be the type that was out there on Christmas Eve with my friends. It was almost kind of uh comical. Uh it was comical. It was, you know, ridiculous because there's nothing left on the shelves, and but it was like a tradition. Whoever we didn't have, we went out to the malls on uh Christmas Eve to get them. And of course, you know, nowadays though, most of the stuff we get online. There's not much shopping involved. There's no camping out on Black Friday.
SPEAKER_07:Right. Well, I mean, still people do that to some.
SPEAKER_05:They do. So why?
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_05:It just has to be because it's an experience. Yeah, exactly. That's right. All right. But but we're here to talk to Trey.
SPEAKER_07:Let's talk to Trey.
SPEAKER_05:Skipping way ahead.
SPEAKER_07:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_05:We haven't had him on for a couple of years now. We were talking about that.
SPEAKER_07:It's been a couple of years.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, because the last time we tried to have him on, he had a he had a family thing that came up the last minute. And um he had to go and we had David though, right? No, that we had him on.
SPEAKER_03:I think we postponed yeah.
SPEAKER_05:He was supposed to be on too. I think the whole electric uh all the people were gonna be on. But he's back, so uh now we'll uh re-educate people on what Hill Electric is all about and um what Trey's all about and all the good things he's doing because he has quite a story. So let's let's start at the beginning. Give us kind of your your background. Uh you grew up around here, right?
SPEAKER_03:Yep, grew up here in Anderson, went to uh Concord and Canton's and Hannah, went to Clemson and came back. So all but four years were spent here in Anderson. That's it. And continue to be. So uh wife met her. She she lived about a mile from where I live growing up, didn't really know her. Um introduced between my boss and someone she babysat for and met her senior year going into PC and uh got married in 2013. She was teaching at concrete. She taught Holly's daughter Madeline. Not sure if that was first or second class, maybe second class, because I think it was her very first time teaching. So it was the first class. I couldn't remember if so this is.
SPEAKER_07:But she only taught like two or three years, right?
SPEAKER_03:She taught uh Brock was born in 16, so she taught 2012 through 2016. So she taught whatever that was, four or five years.
SPEAKER_06:Four or five years.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, surprised she didn't quit after that medal year.
SPEAKER_03:No, but she she loved her time there. Miss Page, I think she's about to retire.
SPEAKER_07:We heard I think she is on her way.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so she enjoyed that, and Brandon Kuhn over there. She she loved the administration.
SPEAKER_07:So and now you know Brandon's at Palmetto uh Elementary as a principal.
SPEAKER_03:I thought we'd heard that, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:So had his daughter in this class, she was great. Yes, graduated a couple years ago, Rachel.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. Um so yeah, so met Callie then we got married in 13, had Brock in 2016, Anna Kate in 19, and um two totally different personalities. Brock's the rule follower, and you know, you tell him not to do something, he's not getting 10 feet to it close to it. Anna Kate tell her not to do something, and she's already broken it, tossed it up something. You know, she's she's all into it.
SPEAKER_05:So uh girls train raising girls is much harder than raising boys. Yeah, yeah. Danica, you have something to say about that? Turn your mic on if you do. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Um but yeah, so so yeah, I've been yeah, my my career, I worked at the Anderson Country Club in high school and then went to college and uh I guess before I went to college, my neighbor, Mr. K, who was part owner at the time, um asked me to come work in the summer. So when I graduated that May came and worked uh till I was eighteen with him at the Bleckley Inn. He was building he wasn't building the Bleckley that time, he was building his apartment and and that kind of stuff. There's a three-story building beside it, so turned eighteen, went into the industrial side and um worked my summers there and came work full time in 2010 when I graduated. So And what was your degree in electrical engineering. So don't don't use a whole lot of it uh in the field we're in. Yeah, you can you can use it to to help explain some problems, um, but a lot of stuff what we've done is already have drawings and you know there's codes that you follow, um, which you don't really learn that in school. You're learning the the the theory, the mechanics behind why the code exists or why it's done. Um so you're just kind of following a set of rules. So don't don't get to use a whole lot of it. Uh our vice president David graduated from the other university in South Carolina in electrical engineering. And um But yeah, both of us, you know, we enjoy what we do and you know, Hill's a been a great still it's it's been handed down, not handed down, it's been you know, bought sold between individuals, no one in the family. So it's it's operated like a family business, but it's not you know generational. Um so it's it's been a cool little thing that Walter Hill and Bob, father son, started in 1954. Um seventy years. Yeah, yeah, 70, 71 years, and so they they started nineteen fifty-four doing whatever you did in the fifties. You know, that could have been water pipes to houses, miscellaneous projects. I think they were kind of doing whatever, and then the 60s they got into textiles, so your Millikan, your springs, uh West Point Stevens, or West Point JP Stevens, you know, all that kind of stuff. And so they got into textiles. The 80s, Mr. K came around and uh graduated from Clemson, came into the company and bought it from Walt, I mean from Bob and Gloria, and uh they kind of moved into the what they call the finishing plant. So you have textiles where your looms and twisters and spinning frames, and then your finishing sides where you got the chemicals, the die jets where you're you know putting dye or you're you're putting the finish and touching on the fabric. And that that was a little more involved, and then of course in the nineties, you know, textiles they didn't go away, but essentially in five, six, seven years pretty much vanished. Yep. Um so thankfully Mike Davis, who's our CEO, CEO now, uh Mr. Cade hired him in '95, I believe, as sales. So he'd come in and he was out there in Michelin. I think 2001, we started with Michelin, um, and they're our largest customer today. But you look at that transition of Michelin came in the late 70s, 80s. We don't do a whole lot of BMW, they came in the 80s. So you look at what that kind of pre-transition from textiles, but then you look at the market now, and it's it's heavy and automotive, but it's also diverse, you know, in this upstate, and that's been one of the things in the you know, kids that are 30 years or younger really hadn't experienced, man, Holly pissed me off today. I'm gonna go get another job. And they could have a job by the time they walked out the door. You know, 15 years ago, 2008, I mean you were lucky to keep your job.
SPEAKER_07:Correct.
SPEAKER_03:You know, so it's a it you know, if you're 30 years or younger, you have an experience like I don't know if where my paycheck's coming from next week. Like there's so much and it the in you know the upstate's been been great for you know, the career centers have helped with that, the the technical schools of providing the workforce that attracts those companies. Because yeah, I mean you can have the cheapest land or the cheap, you know, no taxes, but if you don't have anybody to work there, you can't, I mean, you're not gonna have the the the business. So I think that's been you know, the upstate has just been really fortunate that so much has moved here and it's diverse so that you know you may have automotive that does the ups and downs, but you've got you know everybody else here from healthcare to pharmaceuticals to automotive to textiles are still here, chemical plants, um and then of course manufacturing in general.
SPEAKER_07:Just all the other things that you didn't mention is all the same.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, you know, who knew that first quality you know could come in here and the amount of paper towels and toilet papers they produce is it's it's amazing.
SPEAKER_07:It is, it is, it is.
SPEAKER_03:And if only people knew how much was in there during COVID when you couldn't find it. I mean, there's no telling how many millions of rolls of toilet paper they had in first quality in the warehouse. Right. They just couldn't get it out trucking wise. Right, right. So you might have had everybody rush over there and uh steal it from there. But uh but no, I mean Arthrex, first quality. I mean, there there's been great things for Anderson County um over recent years and a lot of other industrial, you know, manufacturing plants, TTIs and all these.
SPEAKER_07:And even the small ones, you know, we we talk about these large ones, but the small ones is really uh and the medium-sized ones, those are the ones that that that bring the bread and butter, you know, that that supply that. And you know, Trey, you you mentioned about workforce. It's so funny because a lot of people don't realize that um, you know, the career centers, the the technical colleges, uh that's a huge tapping of of of potential employees for you. And nowadays, just like you said, I mean, these kids will skip a job for 25 cents.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_07:I'm getting paid 25 cents or 50 cents more an hour, and they're not seeing the longevity of security-wise and and loyalty in a company, and instead they'll just boop um 50 cents over here more an hour.
SPEAKER_03:Mm-hmm. And how about saying that you know it's and we we face the same thing of you know how you pay and you know, whether your insurance cost, your bonuses, your vacation, you know, all that goes into it, and you could you could potentially be making more money where you're at, yep. But you might be making a dollar less on the hour. And when you focus on that, that's that's one thing that like you say, everybody focuses on that, but they don't ask the question of, oh, well, what's my insurance cost? Oh, it's double. Oh, well now, you know, if your insurance costs and you got a family, you know, it may be$120 a week at one company and two hundred and twenty in another.
SPEAKER_08:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that's a hundred dollars difference. If you're only working forty hours a week, that's two and a half dollars. That's right. Yeah, you might be getting two more dollars on the hour, but guess what? You're actually gonna be taking home less than you were at your current. Yeah, so that's that's one thing that a lot of people get that quick reaction. And you know, like I said, you know, nowadays people just are so quick if if they don't like something, don't feel that you know they're treated right, you know, maybe they did something wrong and don't like getting called out that you know and it and it's easy to do. I mean there are you know it's not like they're going to a bad job, right? You know, but they're so quick to jump. And yeah, that's just tough out there where you you gotta balance of all right, we're we've got a culture and we've got r you know rules to follow. And when they don't get followed, you gotta discipline or or call them out. And you know, some people take that as well, I mean I I mean I I was I you know, I had a sick kid or I want to go do this. It's like, well, I mean communicate. You know, and I think that's the one thing that communication these days is so many so many people will just text. You know, like if I didn't come to the show today at 3 50 I might have said, sorry Holly, I'm not gonna make it. Alright, well texting that at ten minutes till you pick up the phone, right? Right, that doesn't fix that. You know, not to say that picking up the phone is gonna be better, but not just uh or an email, you know, sorry Holly, not gonna make it, or not gonna be able to turn this in. You know, and uh you know it's I feel like the same thing in our generation, you just didn't have that availability. You know, when I grew up you had you know your nine digits and you had to sit there to get C, you had to hit two three times. You know, you had to go two, two, two to get to C, and then you had to go to the next one. And then you had a limit of how many texts you could send with characters. And you had like 50 texts a month, and you had to sit there and go, I don't know if I'm gonna respond to this because that's one of my fifty texts.
SPEAKER_07:Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER_03:Um, but it was minutes on the phone, number of text. I mean, I remember that you'd look at you know you'd look it up. I think you could text or whatever you could do. I guess you get text, but whatever you could do to look up how many texts you sent, because once you got over it, you know, your parents were charged. You had to pay for it. That's right. It was like ten cents a text. I mean, it was expensive.
SPEAKER_07:It was, it was.
SPEAKER_03:Um but yeah, so anyways, yeah, it's it's you know criteria like this are good for that, you know, getting students prepared because uh you know, when I came through, you know, there was no push to get anybody into you know, we had e camp, you know, you had old McDuffie High School that we went to and you did some computer aid. I mean they they had some ad classes or some welding and some stuff, but it wasn't necessarily pushed. But even if you're still going to college, these are good life skills to whatever it may be. I mean, it could be radio to help you out with public speaking. You know, me as a kid in high school, I mean I was shy. Even going to college was shy and joining fraternity and you know, that helped, you know, get some leadership positions and that helped grow who I am because me in high school, if you ask me to do this or stand up and give a speech, like that that wasn't me. Um but having career centers that give you the opportunity and maybe you find a passion.
SPEAKER_07:That's right.
SPEAKER_03:Or maybe you don't, and that's just or you know, yeah, but I say, or even better that you don't you don't exactly you know what? I'm gonna be a doctor. And you go to college and do four years and you go, I don't want to be a doctor. And now you've got you know maybe maybe you're fortunate enough scholarships to pay for it, but if not, you've gone four years and you're like, that's not what I want to do.
SPEAKER_06:That's right.
SPEAKER_03:And you've spent, you know, spent$160,000, maybe at scholarships, but now you gotta pivot.
SPEAKER_06:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:But like you say, you maybe find out like, man, I did that construction stuff and that ain't me. Or I did the radio or I did marketing graphics and I thought I liked it, but I don't want to do that for the rest yeah, the rest of my life. You know, I I took one class of taking care of the pigs out here, and I you know, I want to be a vet now. Like I enjoy like you know, you never know.
SPEAKER_07:That's right.
SPEAKER_05:You know, I mean Yeah, we've had people go both ways in this program. Yeah. Either they were scared to death, like you say, come in not wanting to be or not you know, public speaking not being a a a strength, yeah, and being afraid of looking at all this equipment and lights and buttons and all that and saying, I can't double ask. Yeah, yeah. And then once they start it saying, I love it, and then other people will be like, Yeah, that's just not me. I mean, that's what the courses are about. That's what we want to find out. But in the meantime, just teaching them to be overall just successful people is is really the main focus beyond the curriculum. One thing I noticed at Hill Electric though, you must be attracting the good people because you look and people have been there for years. I mean, these are people that come and go. These people are staying for like decades.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and we've we've had uh the old school profit sharing. Yeah, we used to have profit sharing up until about ten years ago and had to make that change because you were they were they were getting you know great retirement, but they weren't getting it on the hour. You know, so you've got guys that we've got three guys next year they'll be here for 40 years.
SPEAKER_07:Wow.
SPEAKER_03:Al, Ance and John. So yeah, we've we've had in the last ten years we've had a lot of people retire that have been, you know, Mac was six, seven years ago, eight years ago, and he was forty-seven, forty-eight years with us. Um, you've you've had a lot of guys that have been I want to say in the last probably the last ten years we've had nine or ten that have retired with thirty-eight years or more with us. You know, but the way the bonuses structure was built between Christmas bonus and the retirement profit share, and they didn't have to put a dime in it. And they can retire and it's a it's a great retirement. I mean it I don't say they could live and do whatever they want to, but they could live with the with social security and their retirement for the rest of their life, you know, and not have to have to worry about it. And so that's where we got these guys now that are forty years with us that are late fifties, maybe sixty now, that they're gonna be able to retire. Most of 'em, I think, have got their houses paid off. And so they're gonna be able to take that and live a nice retirement. Um but yeah, that's that's what we fight nowadays is getting it to where they understand and having to take away the bonuses a little and put it in the hour because of that, you know, simple thing, and I get it. You know, I was twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, you know, got married at what was that, twenty-five or almost twenty-five when I got married. And you're sitting there and you're just like, Man, you're looking at other people going, Golly, how do they do that? or you know, and chasing that dollar. And and they're either chasing dollars or taking out loans, maxing out credit cards, and you know, then that's where some people get into it. They they chase it and max out those credit cards and they got it in their minds, like, I gotta take this job because I need to pay that credit card off. And and part of it's true, you know, that they'll they'll go on to another job, they'll cash out their retirement to pay it off, but unless you change those behaviors, you're gonna be right back in that situation and probably worse.
SPEAKER_07:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:Because now you've paid it off, you're like, Oh, I'm good. And yeah, so we see that. But I mean we got we got a lot of guys that uh and gals, you know, that we've we've had for a long tenure, you know, I forget what our average is now. I want to say it's like twelve or thirteen years. Um that's awesome. Overall. Might be higher than that. But uh but we've we've got a lot of we've got a big group that'll be retiring in the next ten years. I think it's eight people that'll retire in the next probably five to six years, and they'll all be at thirty-five years or more.
SPEAKER_07:And you know, it and in your area too, it's uh it's a it's a mindset shift, very similar to with uh career and tech ed. You know, a long time ago, vocational ed was not um you you went to vac to the vocational school because you weren't going to college.
unknown:Yep.
SPEAKER_07:So you needed a job and you were not going to college. And then there was that time between the shift of vocational ed and career in tech ed where it's at now, where now you come to the career and technology center to either go to college or get a career or both. And you're able to do that. And so there's that little shift, and and you're in that same pocket where you had the influx of people, you know, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, where I'm gonna go directly to work, and you've got those. Well, then then you get the mix of well, I'm not sure where I want to go. I don't I don't think I just want to do that. I think I want to do this. So so just like with with us, you had that little shift. So you may have that um portion in there that uh of of your employees that may not necessarily be in either one of those categories that's the middleman trying to figure it out. But I think going forward, I think you're gonna see more people um ready to go in and create opportunities for them instead of closing them. You know, I can go and work at Hill Electric and I can still go to college. Or I can go to college and then work for Hill Electric. You know, I I think you're gonna see both of that mix. And if you can offer the opportunity in high school where you can come to, you know, go to high school, work while you're in high school, come work part-time or full-time, go to school part-time, you know, and and and continue to your career and up your salary. I think people can see that.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah. Yeah, well, say I I had was telling John before the show, I was like, we've got we've had a couple kids that have, you know, worked their whole senior year, and I was like, I don't know how they do that. They'll have any classes and they get to come work for us the whole senior year and they'll make, I don't know,$25,000,$30,$35,000, you know,$40,000 as a senior in high school, you know, getting valuable experience. You know, I said it's almost like an NIL deal, you know, sure is. Wow. You know, so it's almost been it's pretty much been a dollar a year increase that's gone up. You know, so that was it probably was stagnant for a long time back in the I mean you obviously came out of 08 and everybody, you know, you're just hoping to hold on and have a job. And I think it kind of stayed with that. And then 13 came around and then fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, you kinda you kinda had some ups and downs. But after sixteen, I mean it's pretty much been you had COVID, but that was kind of a short blip here. You know, you had some stuff shut down, but there was enough enough people still working and between the stimulus and that kind of stuff. But uh but yeah, I mean it's it's just been the last nine years. If you if you if you wanted to start a company, you could have started it you could probably still start one now. I mean it's still tough to find people. Um you know, and that's that's what you've seen is is you've had a lot of companies that have come to town you know, and you can get as much work as you want. You know, because there's still people out there that are doing overtime just to get work done. The industry's still coming. I mean, the I mean it seems like every day, every week there's a new announcement for, like you say, it may not be a big plant.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_03:But those 30, 40, 50 person employee plants, I mean, some of those have really good even if you're going to a plant, a lot of those have fifty, sixty thousand dollar salaries. Yep. You know, for just operators.
SPEAKER_07:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:And uh the operators, forklift drivers, you know, even skilled trades like us, the the last ten, especially twelve, thirteen years, the pay is just exponentially gone up. Yeah. You know, it's it's pretty much doubled in twelve years. Yeah. Okay. Which is wild.
SPEAKER_05:And you're doing a great job over there. Um we've got Zach coming up in a couple of minutes um to talk sports. And so we want to take a quick break. And we come back too. We want to talk a little bit about your family. Tell us about your family, what they're up to. And I know you got some soccer games to go to after this. So yeah. Uh he's he's an assistant coach.
SPEAKER_07:I know. Out there on the line.
SPEAKER_05:But uh, we'll talk much more with uh Trey Thomas from Hill Electric coming up on the boon show, My Fulse Radio.
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SPEAKER_05:And we're back on the Boon Show, My False Radio. Trey Thomas from Hill Electric uh just uh shooting the breeze with us tonight here on the show, talking about uh what a great company and uh that he has. And uh one thing about that company too, Trey, is is you sort of mentioned it, is how it's been able to adjust over the years. I mean, starting out, you know, in textiles and then moving into the different fields as the need came, while other companies that that weren't forward thinking like that may have fallen off. But you guys have always been able to adjust to to the times.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. Yeah, it's it's one of those that you always got to be looking that uh you never know whether it's the company goes out of business or you you have a safety incident or somebody says something, does something, and you know you could be gone the next day. Yeah, so that that's in our world. You just you just never know. So it's it's always good to have that out there for for looking for new business, new new niches, and you know, our niches that you know equipment installation is is to process equipment. And uh we don't do that full time, but that you know once once times get tough, a lot of times the industrial sides who's doing those investments and upgrades because the cash is cheap, so they're looking at how can they upgrade the lines. And um, but yeah, it's it's always always you gotta be looking out there for new business because you never know when something might just go away overnight.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah, especially nowadays, you just never know. Um all right, tell us a little bit while we wait for Zach, tell us about your family. You've got uh two kids a little older since the last time that uh you were here talking about them, and uh well tell us about your about your family.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so Callie, we've been married for I guess in January will be 13 years. Um she taught at Concrete Primary for four or five years until Brock, our oldest, was born. Um so we got Brock who's nine, and Anna Kate who's six, and two different personalities. You got Brock the rule follower, and and Anna Kate uh like to see how far she can push things, but uh but they work well together. Brock's the the caretaker, as you would say. Um, but they're in third grade and kindergarten at Concord Elementary, where Callie and I both went to school growing up, so um not the same teachers there, but uh the school's pretty much the same. They've added on a little bit down there. Uh but yeah, so we grew up here. We have two dogs, Tilly's, she's a thirteen and a half chocolate thirteen and a half year old chocolate lab, and then we got Peppa's uh I guess she just turned two uh King Charles Cavalier. So a little dog um that thinks she's an outside dog and Leaves don't stick to Tilly, leaves 100% tick stick to Peppa. Um so she'll come in, you know.
SPEAKER_07:And both you and your wife are entrepreneurs.
SPEAKER_03:Yep, so Callie uh started Kate's it's a shoe boutique, uh our boutique store in in downtown Anderson. So April is two years, so this coming April will be three. Um but it was it was a passion of hers that she taught obviously first grade and um has always loved shoes and and fashion and that kind of thing. So three years ago pretty much we said we're gonna do it. And uh so about three years ago now, so that's when you start going out and seeing ven you know the I don't know if you call them vendors, the uh shoes and clothes and and trying to figure out she started a shoes only and then people were like, Well, we like your your style of dressing and dresses and jeans and that kind of stuff, so she she kind of broadened it into that and uh it's fun. So we go go to New She goes to Atlanta twice a year and then her and I go up to New York for the uh markets uh for shoes and clothes. So it's kind of a fun little thing we do twice a year that we get to go up there and a little bit of fun, a little bit of play. But uh but it's been great right there across from Solomon's downtown and you know she she's she's got the the knack for it. Um you know she's got a great sense of of fashion and style, so you know it's it's fun watching watching her thrive in that and she's got some great people that work for her so that that helps out there. Um that's awesome. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh so these kids playing are they both playing soccer?
SPEAKER_03:They are. So Brock's played every year since he was four, I guess, or five. And then Anna Kate played when she was four. And she had played since until this year, so she's uh she's back and um both of them are coached by Brent Jackson. I ran cross country with, and he's coached Brock for I mean, what has that been five, four or five seasons now? Um but yeah, so Anna Kate does dance and then doing soccer, and Brock does soccer and baseball. So now the Y sports are twice a year, so you get fall soccer, fall baseball, spring soccer, spring and and thankfully. Soak it up. Yeah, I was saying thankful we hadn't done basketball. He did one season of flag football, but if you played basketball and flag football, you could be between practicing games at the Y, you could be year-round, which is great. I mean the Y and Anderson's got seven seven hundred and fifty kids playing soccer. Wow. And that's just six and under under six through under twelve. You know, so seven hundred and fifty kids out there. That's that's a lot. That's awesome though. Yeah, I'm gonna say it's great. I mean, it's it's it's great to get out there and um yeah, they've got that new sports park there in Anderson. It's really nice. So that's that's great to have those fields out there. And um but yeah, it's it's my first season truly. I guess last season I assistant coach uh for Brock's and that was kind of the thing with Anna Kate. I said, you know, I'll be an assistant coach if if you'll play, because get her out there and get a little competition. She's she's got that drive and and want to win when she focuses. So it's been fun watching her out there that she'll she'll get after the ball.
SPEAKER_05:That's awesome. That is awesome. I remember coaching when I was coaching in high school. At one time I was coaching boys' soccer and girl soccer, and I always like coaching girl soccer better because they seemed to work harder. They weren't out there all for show like some of the guys were.
SPEAKER_03:Yep.
SPEAKER_05:They they worked their butts off, and we played some big schools and stuff like that, and they would get just bruised up and you know, just hurt at the end of the game, but they would not give up. Girls just go after it. I love that.
SPEAKER_03:That's what I was a thing growing up. You know, church basketball. I don't think church basketball is quite the way it is, but if you want to see some good games, you go out there and watch the girls.
SPEAKER_05:They're church basketball, any church league, is probably the most competitive leagues that you'll ever see.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I say maybe not the best skill, but the the drive and the competitiveness is is up there.
SPEAKER_05:The good thing is they go back to church on Sunday to ask forgiveness for everything that they've done. That's right. Donner said on the basketball court.
SPEAKER_07:Well, you know, and Trey's not just involved with his children in the community either. I mean, he's involved. I swear, if I'm somewhere, Trey's right there. Yeah. He's close to wherever I'm at.
SPEAKER_05:Why is that why is that important to you?
SPEAKER_03:I I don't know. I've always had that that want to give back. You know, my wife, you know, she's she's out there listening or listening to this. She tells me how much I do, and and I do you you get that between family and and doing stuff in the community and you know, my my passion's always to help others. Um you know, try to see the good in people. And that's one thing that you know, I went through JLA junior leadership Anderson when I was in high school and then went through Leadership Anderson when I graduated Clemson and then joined the JLA board and still on it now. And that's one thing I've always enjoyed is is seeing that future. You know, you see those kids and I that's why Callie taught too. I mean, you saw you see you see the potential in kids. I mean, there's so many kids that they come from nothing.
SPEAKER_07:They don't have that guidance.
SPEAKER_03:And they don't have the guidance and and how pure and sweet they are. And obviously these are juniors in high school, so they've they've got a little bit less, but you still you still see that want and drive and you know like when they f when they see something or or do something they won't. And that was also the thing is back then, 2010, like Anderson wasn't if you ask most college k kids or high school kids like what you doing after graduation, well, I ain't coming back to Anderson. Like that was pretty much the majority of it. Yeah, Callie was like that that when she left, she's like, Well, I'm you know, she went to PC, did her education, and said, I'm not coming back to Anderson. You know, and lo and behold, we meet her, you know, I meet her going into her senior year, and obviously that changes because I was here and and already working.
SPEAKER_08:Um But but Anderson's now become a place that you can want to live and play and eat.
SPEAKER_03:And so that's good that you know, I I originally kind of started that as, you know, being a part of JLA and letting them see like there is industry here and especially now, I mean it's obviously a lot easier for kids to be like, you know, well, we got the nice parks, you know, the city rec downtown. I mean, those fields are immaculate. You know, they've got Astro Turf, Lindley Park, you know, the city of Anderson, you've got the Williamstons, you you've almost had a revitalization revitalization in downtowns. You know, Mr. K obviously I feel you know was a big part of that in Anderson that he chose to move downtown, built the Bleckley, did J. Peters, did the runes above J. Peters, done the Blackley Station. And there's obviously been a lot of other people in the mix downtown, but he was a huge part that in 2010 you didn't go to Sullivan's a whole lot. Like I mean, it wasn't as regular as I feel like a lot of people now are like, Oh, you know, let me get a drink at Sullivan's, meet somewhere before an event now that's at the Bleckley Station. You know, 2010 it got dark and you probably didn't want to be downtown.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:You know, and a lot of that's changed. And and the city, you know, has done a lot to promote that. So I think that that's that's been great. Um but you know. Yeah, I am on that board and the Salvation Army and the Y and my wife will tell me to keep going and listening. Um but I but I do have that passion for for giving back and helping helping where we can. I mean we're we're very fortunate that we're successful and you know, y I can have the time and and money sometimes to donate for things and you know we do that here at the Career Center a lot.
SPEAKER_07:You know, to try to in our construction program, not just here in the radio station, because you guys do both.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Um but yeah, so it's it's one of those things that you know we're we're very fortunate of of what we what we have as a company and as a family, and you know, you you give back to to help those to give that chance, you know, because you you see a lot of kids that have a lot of promise, a lot of upside. I mean it's even kids when I was in high school here, like if you if you could just pull them away from the environment they're in, they would be hugely successful. And and then and that's that's the the sad part about sometimes. E even our employees, you know, you see where they've come from that some of them just didn't have the best upbringing. But good worth echo ethic and they get trapped in the wrong thing and they spiral down and you can't pull them back. You know, and then that's but uh but that's kind of my thing is is always to give back and always thinking of others first. Um probably too much, give too many people too many chances, and then you got David, not to say David doesn't give people chances, but he's he's very you know, black and white, which is great for what he does. He's already present. You gotta you have 100% have to have that. And if there was two of you, it wouldn't work. So that's what I'm saying. So him and I work good together that I'll kind of bring them back like, well, can we do something to give the person a chance? Or you know, sometimes you gotta be like, yeah, that's that crossed the line and you gotta do it. But uh, but no, him and I work work really well, and the same way with Callie. You know, Callie's not to say she's anti doing anything, but she's like, you know, let's let's prioritize this, and she does a tremendous job of keeping me within the the bumpers on the lane. You know, sometimes I might fall over the bumper into the next lane and try to drag me back, but uh but no, she does a great job of of keeping me, you know, when to say no. I have a problem with saying no. Um so but no, it's uh been very fortunate with that on the family side, two two great kids and a wife, and you know, we we love Anderson and you know, be here for for a long time, I think. That's awesome. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_05:All right. Um I'm wondering if Zach had a remember when the phone lines had that problem?
SPEAKER_07:Well, I'm afraid that he cannot call in. Oh, he didn't know. That's what I'm afraid of. I have not yet.
SPEAKER_05:But uh Yeah, we had some phone issues over the last couple of days.
SPEAKER_07:We still kind of have some phone issues.
SPEAKER_05:The whole school, not just this the radio station. So was that construction again? Did they call us that again? Yes, sir. How many lines are they gonna keep hitting out there? As many as it takes, yeah. Yeah, we got a big parking lot. We're running a student shuttle once that thing is made. That uh the radio station will sponsor it. We'll get those big golf carts and we'll shuttle kids in for a dollar.
SPEAKER_03:But it'll be well needed though, because because y'all have a lot of eight. Oh, it's coming. Y'all have a lot of events out here in the wonderful conference center y'all have. We've had some stuff out here.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:We kind of clog up some spots so you can't have students, especially during school time.
SPEAKER_07:That's right.
SPEAKER_03:Students and parents have nowhere to park. What's this?
SPEAKER_07:He texted you, he said, uh see, I don't have my He's in a meeting. So it doesn't look like we're gonna have sports today.
SPEAKER_05:Oh. We could have talked about another Clemson loss. I was gonna say Clemson Carolina probably lost. So I got a couple three and four.
SPEAKER_03:That's chop one of those up.
SPEAKER_05:Since when are there two buys?
SPEAKER_03:Is that always uh usually I think they have a buy later in the year because I don't think they have close together. Because usually Carolina has a buy before they play Clemson, and I think Clemson normally has one like two weeks before they play Carolina.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, we're gonna have to be October yet.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:But uh anyway, um we will talk more with Trey. We'll get it off topic a little bit and ask his opinion on some things that are happening uh just that I saw in the news, just basic stuff, and some factor fiction. Hmm. That's coming up on the Boon Show, My Paul's Radio.
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SPEAKER_00:Yo, what's up? It's Avery Merriaman joined by Asie Baston. And we're coming at you with a new show called Rival Talk Sports Radio, where we drop crazy sports takes and our impressive phone knowledge. Make sure you tune in on mypulse radio.com or the tune-in app.
SPEAKER_05:All right, we're back on the moon show of MyPulse Radio. A few minutes left here with Trey Thomas from Hill Electric. Uh, some things in the news. Did you notice that the uh Savannah Bananas are back in town on Thursday? No.
SPEAKER_07:Are they are they going to Clemson?
SPEAKER_05:I haven't heard much about it this time, but they uh they're having an exhibition against Clemson's baseball team. Of course, it's sold out.
SPEAKER_06:Of course.
SPEAKER_05:But uh Thursday at 7 o'clock. And by the way, if you ever see those Savannah Banana tickets that are being like scalped like crazy, they're against that. Because people are saying, yeah, you said it's gonna be affordable to all the fans, and they will they will tell you to get the tickets only off of their website.
SPEAKER_06:Sure.
SPEAKER_05:Because once they hit the second and third markets, they're gonna be marked up like crazy. So usually they're like 35 bucks on their website. When they came to Clemson before, there were people selling them for a couple hundred dollars. Ridiculous. And they were the seats like way far away from the action. But they uh they just announced that they're doing a big tour this summer. They're they're actually making it into a banana ball league. Ah, six teams now. They need two more. They're gonna be all over the country at all the big stadiums, baseball and football stadiums, and actually making a league out of it. So when you go see a banana ball game, it may not be the bananas, it might be the uh the tailgators or the firefighters, and there's party animals, and then there's two new teams, uh, which I can't remember what they are, but two they just announced two more teams to to make that tour, so it's a gigantic thing now. Yeah, yeah. They're selling out wherever they're gonna be. How fun so entertainment for sure. Cool. Um speaking of cool, there's a new store opening in uh uh downtown Williamston Holly. Did you see at the old Riggins uh dry cleaning? They're opening up a uh cards and collectibles type store. Kind of like you know, Borderlands would be, except on a smaller basis where you can go in and uh you can get the stuff, but you can also play. So you can uh bring friends in and play board games and other stuff. That's awesome for teams, DD, Warhammer, all you know, all that stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Because Anderson's got I think it's Empire. Yeah, I think Empire is similar to they can you can go in there and play games.
SPEAKER_05:So I'd be interested to see how that works in Williamston.
SPEAKER_07:And that's great because something for kids to do.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07:For teens to do.
SPEAKER_05:And I think adults too.
SPEAKER_07:And adults, oh, and don't know.
SPEAKER_05:So that's right there by the Walgreens, right?
SPEAKER_07:Yep.
SPEAKER_05:Right there by the Walgreens where we used to get the platypoles dry cleaned.
SPEAKER_07:Yes.
SPEAKER_05:But now we cannot anymore. He has to go to Anderson. Yes.
SPEAKER_07:You'll have to see him before we leave.
SPEAKER_05:Your shirt that you got. Yes, that's our mascot. That's him. Um, that's the radio station's mascot. Uh, school too, yeah.
SPEAKER_07:Huh?
SPEAKER_05:He does a lot for the school. He does do a lot for the school. Yeah. Holly agreed to him um how many years ago now? 6'7? 6'7, I said.
SPEAKER_03:But you got a full costume?
SPEAKER_05:Uh yeah. Oh, yeah. You got two of them, so you can have them back.
SPEAKER_07:We can have a female.
SPEAKER_05:It's the most popular baby platform uh marketing thing that we ever did as far as the radio. It really is. Because it's so recognized. How often does the platypus come towards it? It's all over the place. Like we were at a boo in the park the other day. Okay.
SPEAKER_07:He's at Denver Towns.
SPEAKER_05:He's at Denver Towns, uh at Comic-Con.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Um, so yeah, he gets around. How about that? Yeah. Um I didn't know you didn't know that. I didn't know. But now you have the official shirt because everyone was calling it a duck, so we made the not a duck shirts. Because he's got a shortcut. Now I get it. Okay, I was wondering. I was like, You're like, yeah, thanks for the shirt. I have no idea. Oh my gosh, Rolly.
SPEAKER_06:I was trying yes, I was trying to pull him up. Okay. That was him at Denver Downs.
SPEAKER_05:How about that?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, so he literally is.
SPEAKER_05:And now we have uh He's hysterical. We have a couple of people who are kind of dedicating to the role of Vladipos. Usually we it rotates around.
SPEAKER_03:So maybe they go to college and become a mascot. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:That is a well-field.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's a coveted role. I mean, it's tough, tough to get it.
SPEAKER_05:I mean, you could be the if you're the Philly fanatic, you're making like uh easily six figures. Wow. So if you get good at being a mascot, you know.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, there you go. And everybody smiles when they see the mascot. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Everybody laughs.
SPEAKER_05:It's just mascots do that. Three-year-old, four-year-old. Yeah. Yeah. And my dog barks at barks at him. Yeah. What is this animal? Um, and one other thing I wanted to mention as we get closer to Thanksgiving, is that have you seen this? Aldi is offering a$40 Thanksgiving meal pick.
SPEAKER_07:I did see$40. And it's for a family of 10 people. Right. I was going to say not just a family of four, it's 10 people.
SPEAKER_05:So, you know, and and I think the best way to reserve this is to go on their website, which is uh Aldi.us, and uh a meal for 10 people, which will include a 14-pound turkey, rolls, cranberry sauce, mac and cheese. Now, the mac and cheese, they give you the package. You've got to put it all together.
SPEAKER_08:Right.
SPEAKER_05:But they give you all the product. So mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing, and pumpkin pie.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And there are some substitutions you can make in there. But they'll give they'll even give you the seasonings for everything.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, isn't that great? That's a great price. 40 bucks.
SPEAKER_05:And that comes down because last year it was 47 bucks, and um, they felt like they could come down a little further and make it more fair for that. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_03:That's awesome. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_05:So check out Aldi.us if you don't have plans for Thanksgiving or trying to figure out how to feed your your uh your crew. I might have to get a couple of them. That's fair. But that's what I saw in the news this week. Okay. So um still got about 10 minutes. I wanted to try a few factor fiction questions on Trey to try to see another side of him, okay? All right. So all you all you tell me is if it's uh fact or fiction.
SPEAKER_03:Just a chat GPT over here.
SPEAKER_05:Yes, it is. It is. I I will admit, I get my stuff and then I run it through, and then I do the research on the back end and make sure it's right, and we come up with tons of stuff. I love chat GPT. So, but you have to make sure it's right. Oh, yes. Okay, here's the first one. Clemson's Tiger, speaking of mascots. The Clemson Tiger mascot costume costs over$15,000 to replace.
SPEAKER_03:Fiction.
SPEAKER_05:That's fact.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_05:High-end college mascot suits cost ten to twenty thousand dollars.
SPEAKER_07:Well, uh ours was expensive. Ours is a couple thousand.
SPEAKER_05:I don't know what they have in it. We need air conditioning and all the things. We have a little fan.
SPEAKER_06:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. And they have ice packs that you can wear around your chest. But um, but yeah, ours costs.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. So I could see the ladder balls. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:So uh yeah, okay. Um, how about this? You'll know this. Dabbo Sweeney once tried to trademark B Y O G bring your own guts. Fact. Yes. After the 2015 Notre Dame game. Did he get it? Didn't say whether he got it or not. I don't think he got it. You want me to Google that?
SPEAKER_03:Somebody may have with all the shirts that were made.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you would think somebody's making money off that. That is so true. And the uh the final Clemson question, the Clemson marching band performed at a presidential inauguration.
SPEAKER_03:Fiction.
SPEAKER_05:That is fact. Do you know which one it was, Holly?
SPEAKER_07:No, because I was type it in. Say I miss the question.
SPEAKER_05:The Clemson Marching Band performed at a not like the recent one, but at a presidential inauguration. Which one was it?
SPEAKER_07:I i uh it had to have been a while ago.
SPEAKER_05:So I'm thinking it was um it was George W. Bush, believe it or not. Oh 2001. Really? And that's right out of the Clemson Tiger Band archives. All right. Um I know you like golf, right? Yeah. Here's here's a golf question. Golf balls now have chips that track distance and spin data.
SPEAKER_03:True.
SPEAKER_05:That is true. Have you used any?
SPEAKER_03:I have not, but I could definitely see that.
SPEAKER_05:Smart balls like uh graph golf do this. Okay. Um and uh that'd be cool, wouldn't it?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, between baseballs and footballs and soccer balls. And they can see if it's out of bounds and yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And next year they're using the automatic balls and strikes in baseball. Oh yeah, the umpires uh, you know, they'll know if they're right or wrong right off the bat. So there won't be any bad calls. That's interesting. We'll see how that goes.
SPEAKER_03:Um let's see here. I wonder how that works on the left fielder that's pitching in the ninth inning that does the rainbow.
SPEAKER_05:The 40 mile an hour pitch. Yeah, the rainbow in there.
SPEAKER_08:Just drop it in like a slow pitch software.
SPEAKER_05:Um there's self-healing drywall that seals small holes automatically. Fact or fiction true. Yeah, that's that's true. There's a based material by USG and 3M that uh fixes small holes in the drywall. Uh here's another one as far as um That's a game changer for me. Why, you punch the walls a lot or something? Nick and walls going on here.
SPEAKER_07:Nick and walls, you know, the kids there playing.
SPEAKER_05:Um WD-40 was invented originally to clean rocket parts.
SPEAKER_03:I know it wasn't created for what it's currently used, so true. Fact.
SPEAKER_05:Yes. Created for the Atlas Missile Program way back in 1953.
SPEAKER_06:Wow.
SPEAKER_05:And I think the WD stands for uh it doesn't say it here, I'm not pretending to be smart, but I think it stands for water displacement or something like that.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like I've heard that. Yeah, because it was created not for what its current purpose is.
SPEAKER_05:Which is everything. Oh yes. Exactly. And the average homeowner has eight unfinished projects going at once. At least. Yes. Survey said that uh I feel like Family Feud. Survey said six to nine ongoing projects.
SPEAKER_06:I could see that.
SPEAKER_05:All right, uh kids' sports. Soccer is now the most played youth sport in America.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, here at Anderson, yes. I feel like probably lacrosse lacrosse is the cross is really picking up. The wise started lacrosse.
SPEAKER_07:And I could see that you play soccer in the fall and the spring. Like you don't have to play it just w like with baseball, right? You just play it in the spring. Unless you live in Florida, you can't. You know, so I think with soccer you could I mean it's year-round practically. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:But uh that was one thing we learned when we lived in Florida. Those sports were year-round. Talk about your kid would have to really want to do it. Yeah, because they're playing it year round, year-round baseball, year-round soccer.
SPEAKER_03:They do that here too, but man, that's that's a lot.
SPEAKER_07:So was it fact?
SPEAKER_05:Uh yes. Uh it is a fact. It surpa surpassed baseball in 2023. And like you said, the other sports are coming on.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh speaking of baseball, the average travel baseball bat costs more than$400. Fact or fiction.
SPEAKER_03:The average, yeah, I can see fact on that because those hype fire bats and those things are expensive.
SPEAKER_05:Average three to five hundred dollars for a bat. And the bat doesn't do the work. You still gotta hit the dang ball.
SPEAKER_08:That's right.
SPEAKER_05:A lot of these kids have really expensive equipment, but uh the bat looks brand new at the end of the season. Um, all right. Uh let's see, a couple more because we're running out of time. There's a hammer, you might know this. There's a hammer out there that connects to your phone via Bluetooth.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know what the purpose is.
SPEAKER_05:I wouldn't know either, but evidently it is fact. And it's from DeWalt, uh, Tool Connect series. Look it up. DeWalt Tool Connect series. It doesn't hammer for you. There's uh the Bluetooth. I guess if if you I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Want to find it?
SPEAKER_05:Why don't it find the next one?
SPEAKER_07:Yeah, it fought it finds itself, right? So you can find it, yeah. You're looking for it.
SPEAKER_05:It's like a well then we need that in a lot of other things, like cheese, yes, yes, RFIDs, uh wallets, stuff like that.
SPEAKER_07:Yes, my husband needs it in everything.
SPEAKER_05:And finally, a minor league baseball team used Taylor Swift's songs to psych out opposing pitchers. True. That is true, and it was the Savannah Bananas. Gotcha. Back in 2023. I think was that their first year or their last year as a regular team before they started banana. Yeah, I can't remember. Yeah. But it was right around that time. So, anyway, so now it's time before you go to make your recommendations, Trey. We need recommendations for entertainment and food. So, first, entertainment, anything that you're watching, reading, you know, movies, binging TV, anything entertainment-wise that you can recommend to our listeners.
SPEAKER_03:Well, Clubson football is not obviously not right now. Unless you're looking for a horror movie or something. Might get some good ticket prices. That's true. If you've been wanting to go. Right now, not watching a whole lot of TV. I'm trying to I don't feel like there's a whole lot of new shows this year. You know, I don't I couldn't tell you last time.
SPEAKER_05:Everything's on different streamers. It is.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I've always liked the NCIS and the uh trying to think what else is out there. Like the Chicago, yeah, the Chicago series of fire.
SPEAKER_05:That was a recommendation last week. They have a whole night of Chicago stuff on like what's the first one.
SPEAKER_03:So I enjoy always enjoyed watching those, but I don't think there's anything new this year.
SPEAKER_06:So there's nothing y'all are watching. Yeah, and Cali don't watch anything together.
SPEAKER_03:No, she she likes to read, so she'll she'll go and read and we'll sit on the cap some and um after we get the kids to bed. But she she's a big reader and we'll we'll occasionally, you know, watch Gilmore Girls for the fortieth time. Um, yeah. Oh, they are. It's I mean she's I don't know how many times she's probably watched that, you know, four or five times probably, but uh but yeah, I mean nothing. We'll occasionally you know, we got Netflix, so you'll occasionally turn turn something on, but uh nothing. Like, you know, Yellowstone, obviously we watched that. Okay. Uh except for the last season, you know, when it kind of got I I watched the rest of it, but she was like, Yeah, I'm done. I'm done, because that was it kind of started getting getting different. But uh yeah, I wouldn't say there's nothing that sticks out great right now. There's no new Yellowstone, I don't feel like, that's come out. Right.
SPEAKER_05:Okay. And movies, there there hasn't been any. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like since COVID, that whole it just kind of screwed up the whole Hollywood TV show.
SPEAKER_05:Because TV shows now when there is something, they're copying something they already did. Yeah, so it's like, where's the original idea? Yeah. All right, how about um food? A restaurant that you can recommend or something?
SPEAKER_07:Where do you guys want to go? Like if you and Callie go out to date night. Where's the date night?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we always enjoy Greenville, so we'll go to uh Coral or Um Obviously Halls is nice, and then I was trying to think where else we've been. Uh Scoundrel.
SPEAKER_07:Scoundrel's a really good scoundrel yet. And I haven't been to Coral yet either.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, Coral Coral is good for like if you're going before a concert. I mean, I guess you can go anywhere down. Greenport concert or something, but but Scoundrel is really, really good.
SPEAKER_07:Is that a longer time period?
SPEAKER_03:Not really. I mean it'd probably be the same as um Coral, but they uh they have some really you know, I feel like Coral does two farm to table type stuff, but unique kind of stuff there. Um Scoundrel, so it's not a huge menu.
SPEAKER_07:It's got So what'd you get the last time you were there?
SPEAKER_03:What did we get? We almost got the Tomahawk because they have they always have the Tomahawk for two. Oh so they they always have that as long as they still have some. But uh I think I did the duck and the duck was really you know, a lot of times I feel like ducks dry, but theirs was really, really good. I think we went there. Might have been for her no, it wasn't for her birthday, it was after her birthday. It was about a month ago we went there, but it's we've been two or three times now, maybe three times. But I mean you can't go wrong with food. And then down you know, Anderson you got Sullivan's and uh Fickle Palette, like I feel like you you've got a lot of stuff downtown, but you know, Sullivan's always good. We always enjoy going sitting in the bar at Sullivan's and there.
SPEAKER_05:So Holly, have you been to the Fickle Pallots? I have not. I go by there and always say gotta go there.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we haven't been in a little while, but I mean they they have that kind of unique food, and it's I mean it's always been good.
SPEAKER_07:I haven't. Now I love some uh cream and mushroom soup at Sullivan's. It's the best soup I think I've ever had, I swear. Oh, it's so good. You need to go try it. I mean, everything I've had there has been very good, but their cream of mushroom, every time it's on the menu, I get it. Have you had it?
SPEAKER_03:I have not.
unknown:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07:It's so good.
SPEAKER_03:You usually get steaks.
SPEAKER_07:Well, I know, but you need to try the cream and mushroom soup. It is delicious. And it's not something I thought I would get. Burris Nelson got me on it.
SPEAKER_05:Okay. All right, and it's so good to try it. It goes well with a steak.
SPEAKER_07:It does. Sure.
SPEAKER_05:All right. Well, we're out of time. So um, Trey, thanks for coming. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for everything you do for the Career Center. Yeah, everything you've done for us here at the radio station. We really appreciate your support, Hill Electric support. And um, yeah, let's do it again. All right. Sounds good.
SPEAKER_07:You make a difference. You really do.
SPEAKER_05:Absolutely.
SPEAKER_07:You make a difference. There's a lot of things that we can do here because of you, and we appreciate that. It gives a lot of people experiences, not just isolated. It allows us to do a lot of stuff. So I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_03:Good to hear.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:All right. Next week it's the Halloween episode. Uh, Winston Seely, Don Seely, Will Ragland will all be here. We'll add another mic, Holly.
SPEAKER_07:Okay. That would be a great microphone.
SPEAKER_05:Uh so that should be fun. So we'll talk to you then. Remember, catch the podcast of this show on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast, be up within 48 hours. And thanks everybody for listening to the Boone Show. Have a great night.