April 20, 2024 • 60 mins
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Leadership is changing in Anderson School District 1. We said goodbye to Robbie Binnicker and rolled out the welcome mat for Dr. Seth Young, the new superintendent taking the reins this summer. Robbie's legacy, marked by resilience through pandemic hurdles and the fruition of a major school expansion, is celebrated with the same vigor as the anticipation for Dr. Young's vision. Through laughter and earnest reflection, Robbie shares the next chapter of his life—retirement by Charleston's serene beaches and his son's high school graduation—while Dr. Young recounts his ascension from math teacher to superintendent, underscoring the district's nurturing environment for professional growth.
We reconnected with Zach to dissect the latest from WrestleMania, ponder over Clemson basketball, and debate the hottest topics from the baseball diamond, including the MLB's style-savvy City Connect jerseys.
Finally, we cap it off with a foray into personal tastes and preferences, diving into a series of 'this or that' challenges that peel back the layers of our guests’ personalities. Which will it be—podcasts or playlists, swimming pool or beach? Their choices are more than mere preferences; they’re a window into the culture and character of the people who shape our schools and our communities. From Robbie's teased shrimp and grits recipe to Dr. Young's tech leanings, each answer reveals the human side of our education leaders and closes the episode on a note as light-hearted as it is enlightening.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everybody, welcome to the Boone Show on my
Pulse Radio.
Glad to be with you on aTuesday afternoon.
We've got heavyweightsheavyweight in the studio today
major heavyweights in the studioas we start our year-end
roundup of guests and see howall the schools have been doing.
(00:22):
We start off with a veryspecial show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Strong.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Passing the torch today.
No fire in the studio, thoughwe can't or are not allowed to
do that.
But we've got the currentsuperintendent of District 1,
robbie Binnicker, good friend ofthe show, glad to have you back
.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Glad to be here.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And then we have the incoming guy who has been on the
show before but, as I wasmentioning earlier, we've lost
track of him for a couple ofyears because he's been doing
other things in the district.
But Dr Seth Young is here andthank you for coming.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, thank you for having me Excited to be here.
Good to be back in the seat.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, and hopefully you'll be there to be grilled
for years to come.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I hope so too.
I always enjoy being on theshow.
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sorry for sounding all nasally.
Getting over the old allergiesthis year they got me.
Some years they do.
Some years they don't.
This year they got me good.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And it's all covered like everything's yellow outside
yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You can't roll your windows down and enjoy the
temperature because of all thedang pollen.
But things are getting better.
I feel a lot better than Isound, uh, so let's roll on with
the show here.
Uh, mr biniker yes, sir I'vehad a connection with you now
for years because of your kids,because of your other relatives.
(01:53):
I've been in the.
I've had two of your kids, yes,and of course niece hannah.
I think that's it right.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Three I think it's three we've had over the years
Speaker 1 (02:03):
but that has spread over a number of years here.
Uh, enjoyed them all and havefollowed them all since they
graduated.
Of course, brayden's graduatingthis year and he just completed
the program here in december.
Um, so I've known you for quitesome time.
It's been great.
We almost took a balloon ridetogether.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, we actually did get in the balloon, but then
got in the balloon, but thenthey didn't take it up.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Holly, you were there too.
And it was probably good wedidn't go up, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It was windy.
The wind that day was, butstill it was kind of.
Who knows if he still wouldhave been the superintendent
right now had we taken thatballoon.
None of us may have been therethat day.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But it's been great talking to you over the years.
You're so easy to talk to and,uh, very forthright and
presenting information that weneed to guys that aren't as
smart like me, and that's why Ihave holly on the show for all
the details about what goes tointo being an administration,
because I'm just a teacher.
But, um, but you're going toretire and go on out into the
(03:10):
sunset, so to speak.
Why now?
Why did you choose now toretire?
Does it have something to dowith Braden graduating and
moving on that way?
Was there a number of factors?
Why now?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, there was clearly a number of factors.
First of all, I have thoroughlyenjoyed my time in Anderson One
.
There has never been a day thatI have woken up and said, boy,
I don't want to go to work today.
So it's been a true pleasure.
I just feel like it's ablessing to be able to work here
.
I started here as a teacher in1990 and have been here ever
(03:48):
since.
So 34 years I've been inAnderson 1.
And I think I've done about allI can do here.
So it's time to move on andpass the torch to the next guy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
All right, porch to the, to the next guy, all right.
And uh, you know, when you talkabout what you've done here and
you've been superintendent forsix years, that's right.
Okay, since 2018, you have beenin charge during a crazy time.
I mean, we had the pandemic.
We've had just a totalexplosion in growth in district
(04:25):
one, especially in thepowdersville area.
Um, it has been crazy duringthose times.
Not just you couldn't just kickback and put your put your feet
up, like mr young's probablygonna do but, uh, but I mean
describe some of that thatyou've been through, because a
lot of challenges you normallywouldn't see pop up and they
(04:48):
were everywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Sure, well, it definitely has been some
challenging time for us, but Iwill say we have got an
incredible school board that hashelped lead those efforts, not
to mention some really talenteddistrict office professionals,
along with our school principalsand school personnel as well.
In 2018-19, which was my firstyear as superintendent we knew
(05:14):
we had a huge issue with spacein the district.
We knew we were going to haveto build buildings.
We knew we did not have thosefunds to be able to build the
buildings, so we actually wentafter a $109 million bond
referendum during that time.
It was the largest that we hadever done in Anderson 1.
And that got approved by thevoters over 75%, which we were
(05:37):
really very, very, very proud of.
Then, of course, the next year,we actually started
construction Lots of—we builttwo new middle schools, added on
to a lot of schools, safety andsecurity measures at all of our
schools as well, and then thepandemic hit, which really and
truly was probably.
It was probably the mostdifficult time that I had as an
(06:01):
administrator, and I think a lotof administrators would
probably say that, and I thinkthe reason is is that nobody
really knew the right answer.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right.
There was nothing to learn frompreviously.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
There was no nobody had experienced a pandemic like
that and there were direconsequences.
I mean there were direconsequences of kids coming to
school and getting sick, andthere were dire consequences.
I mean there were direconsequences of kids coming to
school and getting sick, andthere were dire consequences of
kids staying home and notgetting that face-to-face
interaction with teachers.
We felt like we made somereally good decisions during
(06:35):
that time and we had a greatcommunity here at Anderson, one
that supported us.
Our parents, our medicalprofessionals supported us
during that time and we ended upreally well.
We have since.
You know, like every schooldistrict kind of saw that COVID
slide, as there were a number ofstudents who were virtual for a
(06:58):
period of time.
Of course, all the students inthe state were virtual for a
couple of months when thegovernor shut down schools.
We probably had less than mostthe the following year, but that
was something that that we'rereally proud of at this point,
that we feel like we've we'vekind of made up all of that,
(07:19):
lost ground and now have havemoved forward.
So it's definitely been somechallenging time, but you look
back and there were certainlyrewarding things that happened
during those times as well.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, that was one of the most impressive things when
I was just reading up onDistrict 1, where we are right
now the fact that you haverecovered to the pre-pandemic
test scores and such, andgraduation rate is as high as
ever.
I mean, that's a real tip ofthe cap, right there?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, for sure.
I think that you knowgraduation rate is one of those
things we always put out there,because that's incredibly
important.
Kids have to graduate.
They need to graduate from highschool and, having this past
year being our highestgraduation rate ever, over 94%
of our kids graduated and, ofcourse, that graduation rate
(08:12):
includes every kid.
It's a four-year graduationrate, so it includes all the
students who are self-contained,students who are not going to
graduate.
That number includes those aswell, as well as students who
transfer in without the abilityto be able to graduate in four
(08:33):
years.
So we're very, very proud ofthat number.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And you talk about the growth that's going on.
I know there's a lot going onright now again in the
Powdersville area and I know DrYoung will pick up on this too,
because there'sa big buildingproject coming up but there are
things going on now, the stadiumother thing, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
absolutely well.
We just finished a 12 roomaddition at Powdersville Middle
School.
We built that on top of anaddition that we had just built
in in 2019-2020 and so those 12rooms obviously will come in
very handy as PowdersvilleMiddle School grows.
We have Concrete andPowdersville Elementary School.
(09:13):
Both of those schools havecombined about 1,600 students,
so they have very large schoolpopulations of kids K-2 at
Concrete and 3-5 at Powdersville.
So we knew we had to buildanother elementary school in
Powdersville and we did that.
(09:34):
It took us about nine months tofind the land, to find an
appropriate place to build inPowdersville, but we found that
land.
The construction documents areall done.
That is now out to bid thebeginning of May.
We'll have those numbers in.
The hope will be I know DrYoung will be looking at those
numbers very, very carefully,but the hope will be is that
(09:57):
those numbers will be withinbudget and we've already started
clearing the land and lookingforward to building that new
elementary school to relieve theovercrowding at Concrete and
Powdersville Elementary.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow, it's growing so fast.
What exactly are you doing atthe stadium, because I see the
expansion there.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
The stadium was actually built.
Of course, when Powdersvillewas first built it was a two-way
school.
It only had grades 9 and 10.
And since then it's grownexponentially.
So it's almost as large as Wrenand as big as Palmetto High
School now, and the stadium justwasn't designed for that many
(10:36):
kids.
And of course they've doneexceptionally well in their
sports programs and there's beenmany, many events in that
stadium where it's literallystanding room only, and so we're
adding about 580 seats I thinkit is to the home side and about
400 seats to the visitor side.
(10:58):
That'll help increase thecapacity so that when we have
those large.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You know, and one of the things that Anderson 1 has
looked over the years obviouslyis academics.
I mean that has been a hugefocus but all of the academics
and, after you know, afterschool curriculum, after school
events, sporting events, is alsoa big part of making that whole
student.
And I know that you guys havebeen intentional when you make
(11:26):
those athletic decisions andthose kind of things and you all
have.
In general, every school inAnderson 1 has excelled in
athletics, not just in football,where most people think you
know, but you've excelled inother areas and I think you guys
have made intentional decisionson trying to upgrade your
athletic facilities, along withyour academics.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And I would certainly agree with that.
I think our board, our districtadministration, along with our
schools, understand the powerand the need for those
extracurricular activitiessports, the fine arts we have a
phenomenal fine arts programthroughout the district.
(12:12):
We just recognized someall-state singers and all-state
band members at our last boardmeeting and we know how
important that is in the livesof kids and them becoming
productive adults when theyleave our schools.
So, while academics yes, thatis absolutely the focus that
(12:35):
their math, science and socialstudies, that those things are
solid, that when they leave us,those other things to help build
a well-rounded student iscertainly very important to us
as well.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And y'all have created an atmosphere to embrace
, creating that whole studentand I think not just your
administration staff but yourentire faculty, your custodians,
your cafeteria workers, youknow everybody has to all buy
(13:09):
into that and I think youcreated a culture in your
superintendency to create andallow people to make that whole
student and I think that's ahuge proud moment in my thought
in your tenure during the time,what do you think is one of your
proudest times or moments orthings that you've accomplished
(13:31):
over your tenure?
Maybe not just assuperintendent, because you, you
know you came from theclassroom, you know I mean all
that's got to happen.
Where do you see during yourtime that you can go back and
think about now and say you knowwhat?
That was a really, really proudmoment.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I you know there are a couple of things that that
stick out.
As a principal, I was veryproud that we were able to go
from a good report card ratingto an excellent report card
rating and kept that excellentreport card rating the entire
time that I was a principal.
We were named Palmetto's FinestSchool during that time.
(14:09):
Dr Young will probably tell youlater on, but the only reason
we won that is because he wrotethe application which is true.
It wasn't the only reason butthat was certainly part of the
reason for sure, but that wascertainly part of the reason for
sure.
Our graduation rate was in the.
(14:32):
We were at about 88% when Istarted at Wren and got that
into the mid to upper 90s when Ileft.
So those are things that I wascertainly very, very proud of.
I think from an individualstudent perspective, though none
of that compares to thatstudent coming back and saying
you, you made a difference.
You know, I would not havegraduated high school with,
without you, and I'm gonna behonest, sometimes I didn't
(14:55):
really even recall the moment orthe thing that I, that I did,
but to that student it certainlymeant the world to them during
that time.
I think my time at the districtoffice really the building
program, I think, has been verysuccessful.
There was a lot of work and alot of hard planning that went
(15:18):
into the building program and ofcourse that's just ongoing.
I'm not sure Certainly Dr Youngwill not have the luxury of
resting on.
We've built all that we have tobuild.
I mean he's already thinkingokay, well, after we build this
elementary school, there willhave to be another elementary
school built as well.
(15:41):
So I think the building programis certainly something I'm very
proud of.
And then you know, we talkedabout COVID and we talked about
the pandemic and we made somereally good decisions during
that time and I'm very proud ofthe work that we did as a
district to get to where weneeded to be with that.
So those are probably some ofmy proudest moments with that.
(16:07):
So those are probably some ofmy proudest moments Right now.
I think the move that we madetowards professional learning
communities, I think, willpotentially have the biggest
impact on student achievement ofanything that I've done as a
principal or as a superintendent.
(16:28):
Our learning team at thedistrict office has just done a
phenomenal job of implementingthat process step by step with
our schools and I think that isgoing to show dividends for
years and years to come.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, that sounds good.
And you're going to bedividends for years and years to
come.
Very good, yeah, that soundsgood.
And you're going to be movingdown to Charleston yes, that
area, so heading down to theshore to retire nicely down
there.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Absolutely, we are.
My wife and I are moving downthere and of course you said I
had a son who's graduating highschool.
He's not exactly sure where he'sgoing to school.
Who's graduating high school?
He's.
He's not exactly sure wherehe's going to school clemson
carolina.
He's not sure.
He might be moving with us, hemight not, we don't.
We don't know yet, but we'relooking forward to it.
Um, we've lived in the middlepart of the state my entire um
(17:20):
pre-work life.
We lived in the upper state myentire work life, and so now
we're going to try the beach alittle bit and see how we like
it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So can't miss in that area.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, that's for sure , that's right, that's where we
got married where I got married,very good we like to eat too,
and there's plenty of gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, it keeps getting better all the time for
sure all right, we're going totake a quick time out here.
Come back with dr seth youngand, of course, more with Robbie
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Speaker 1 (19:47):
Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio with the
outgoing and incomingsuperintendents of Anderson
School District 1, robbieBittiger and Dr Seth Young, and
it's Dr Young's turn, as Hollywill be grilling him now.
But, dr Young, it's good tohave you back on the program and
let's talk about the wholeprocess of hiring here Now.
(20:09):
First of all, you used to be amath teacher, right, correct?
That's where you got your startin the classroom.
See, I'm going to use yourstory as inspiration.
Now to my daughter, who teachesmath at Liberty High School.
In fact, she wants to move intoDistrict 1.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Well, every administrator has to be a
teacher somewhere along thatprocess.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
But I mean I can tell her, hey, look, look at this
guy, that's right, he was a mathteacher.
Just like you and now look,he's the superintendent.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Somehow Mr Binnicker hiring that math teacher 20
years ago was not his proudestmoment.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You know it was next on the list.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Next on the list.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But take us on that journey a little bit, how you go
from a math teacher just on upthe line in the top of the
administration here.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
So I was a math teacher and I did student
council.
I coached basketball.
I coached JV basketball at WrenHigh School and at that time
Anderson had a partnership withClemson where you could get your
master's in administration andMr Benneker was actually the
(21:21):
principal at that time and heand the assistant principal
encouraged me to be a part ofthat program.
So I got my master's inadministration from Clemson,
then eventually became anassistant principal at Wren
Middle School for a year, thencame back to Wren High School as
an assistant principal where Ihad some great opportunities
(21:43):
there.
Then I became the director ofthe Freshman for five years,
working with ninth graders, andbecame the principal at Rent
High School for five years.
Holly talked a lot about thewhole child and a lot of the
different things that she wasbragging on Anderson 1 for and I
got to say as an assistantprincipal and principal, the
(22:04):
Career Center plays a huge partin what she was talking about,
where programs like this andother programs that the Career
Center has just allow studentsto find their niche where they
can just thrive, and I thinkthat that's a huge part of that
94% graduation rate thatAnderson 1 has is just kids are
able to find their place to besuccessful, and she and I have
(22:26):
talked about a lot of kids overthe years that their teachers
down here oftentimes can puttheir arm around their shoulder
and really motivate them to dowell, and then we help them get
their gen ed credits, if youwill, and then we're working
together to get them across thatstage.
So it's a big part of it.
(22:46):
But a couple years ago started,you know, thinking about maybe
pursuing some opportunities atthe district level.
This past year I've been thedirector of student services and
Anderson one and and workingclosely with the district
leadership here, gotten to,gotten to work alongside the,
the board that mr Ben Bennekermentioned.
(23:06):
In January I was named the nextsuperintendent, so jumping in
to the deep end, I guess.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That was a quick turnaround, mr Binnicker.
It's like we just heard you'reretiring and boom he's in.
So you kind of.
Of course, you guys have gottento work together for a lot of
years, both at the high schooland at the district office.
How much did that play into it,mr Minninger?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, Dr Young was really an obvious choice for
this.
I mean, he's been a phenomenalemployee.
Regardless of whether he's beena teacher, assistant, principal
, principal.
Everything he's ever done he'sdone with great finesse and been
fantastic at it.
So this was really not a harddecision for the board.
(23:56):
Our board expects for thecurrent superintendent to be
working on the nextsuperintendent.
They expect that, and Dr Youngwas clearly the obvious choice
for this position.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So, seth, your biggest challenge you think
coming up in the next couple ofyears.
I mean, you've got theacademics down, you're a math
teacher, you've got the wholestudent, you've got that.
I know you've got limitedexperience at the district
office and it's coming.
What do you think some of yourbiggest challenges are going to
be?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Well, the first biggest challenge is not to
screw it up, because I think youheard all the great statistics
and things going on.
So that's the first thing.
Don't mess up the great thingthat we have going.
But we've got some budgetissues with some of the funding
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issues that Anderson One hasalways faced.
But it's a unique time withschool funding, public school
funding, right now.
Over the last few years sincethe pandemic we've had some
support from the federalgovernment with ESSER funds that
on June 30th those funds aregone.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
We've, as Mr Binnicker talked about, we're
about to build a new school, sowe're having to allocate some of
our resources to that, butreally trying to make sure we
manage all of our financialresources as effectively as
possible so that we can continueto hire the best teachers
possible.
That's the most importantperson in Anderson 1 is the
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classroom teacher and we need tomake sure that we're doing that
.
The other thing is continuingto build relationships with
other district leaders and justgetting to know people.
You know, I spent most of mycareer in the Wren community so
I've been very familiar withfolks in that community.
But Mr Benneker has reallyhelped me facilitate getting to
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know some other folks, be itstate policymakers, local
policymakers, othersuperintendents, other folks
that are really influential inthe community, getting to spend
time with them and just kind ofbuilding those relationships so
that we can just continue tobuild on the great things that
(26:23):
have been in place.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And you know when you talk about school finances you
know traditionally Anderson Onehas been, you know, in the top
five ten in academics and all ofthose wonderful things.
But you've also been in thelower part of receiving those
funds.
Yes so you've had to makestrategic plans in the low
amount of funding that you getso realistically.
(26:46):
If you were a parent or just acitizen in our community to know
what the per pupil cost of astudent in Anderson 1 that you
all receive compared to somebodyin another county you're just
so much lower yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Mr Benneker could probably give you the exact
number, but I mean, if youlooked at just the funding per
student in Anderson 1 comparedto some of our neighbors in
Anderson County, you're lookingat tens of millions of dollars
difference in how some of ourneighbors are funded compared to
(27:22):
Anderson one and that makes abig difference Sure does.
We we really have to be smart.
We have a very small districtoffice staff.
Our schools, the administrativestaff at our schools is
oftentimes smaller compared tosome of the schools of similar
(27:44):
size and districts around us,because we are trying to push as
much of our financial resourcestowards teachers and that's
going to continue to be apriority.
We don't have a lot of extrastuff, which is why the move to
professional learningcommunities has been so
important, because it allowsteachers to work together.
(28:05):
They work together and makecurriculum decisions.
They work together to makeassessment decisions.
They work together to makeinstructional decisions.
Because we don't have a lot ofprograms, because we simply
don't have the resources to payfor it.
But we have great teachers whocan develop their own programs
and their own assessments tomake sure that students are
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getting the best possibleoutcome.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Why is it coming from ?
The guy on the outside hereagain, excuse me.
Why is it coming from the?
Uh, the guy on the outside hereagain, excuse me.
Um, why is it that it's so lowfunded?
Is it a demographic issue?
I mean what?
What's the reason?
Because I'm I live in a coneycounty now and I know they get
way more per student thananderson one does.
I'm just wondering how doesthat?
How's that work?
(28:51):
We could.
How much time I see you allside-eyeing it.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
There were some policy decisions made at the
state level, I'd say 16, 17years ago.
Act 388 really impactedAnderson 1 because Anderson 1 is
pretty much a bedroom communityfor Greenville, so the majority
of the property in Anderson 1is residential.
(29:18):
Act 388 limited the ability toraise revenue from residential
property, whereas you mentionedOconee County.
Oconee County has Duke Power,so Act 388 allows Oconee County
to raise revenue throughproperty taxes through Duke
Power and some of the other bigindustrial properties in that
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school district, whereas inAnderson 1 we don't have a lot
of the big industrial commercialproperties that some of the
other districts around us have,so that that really limits our
ability to raise revenue to helpfund the different things we
have in our district.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And to topple on Act 388, we were told that during
this process, when it was comingout that the funding would not
go down, In fact that it wouldincrease.
But I'm sure and I don't knowabout y'all, but I know I've
kept up with how much just theCareer Center has lost with Act
388 and its millions of dollars.
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I cannot imagine how muchAnderson One individually has
lost over the years.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
It's staggering when you start to look at that,
especially compared to some ofour neighbors.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's right.
Yeah, because in the thingsagain that I've looked around at
, I've seen that, dr Young, oneof the biggest challenges you
say moving forward is findingfunding, and Mr Binniker has
been good at that, worked hisway through the whole bond thing
and the penny tax and all thatstuff, and it's like where do
you go next?
You can't just do that stuffevery year.
(30:53):
There's got to be new ways andI know that you got turned down
on some other ones that you knowwith the growth there should
become more support and I thinkyou know again, I'm not the
politician, I'm not theadministrator here, but you
would think that that would meanthat there would be more
support with more people movingin.
(31:13):
But you know I don't make thosedecisions, but that is going to
be a big challenge.
So, other than that, dr Youngand the academics, as you
mentioned, anything else thatyou think moving forward, that
you can put your stamp on whatyou're doing?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I think a lot of public school districts are
going to make sure they need tocelebrate the positive things
that are going on and make surewe tell our story.
There's a lot of rhetoric attimes that surrounds different
public schools, public schooldistricts, and we have to make
sure that we continue tocelebrate the great things that
our students are doing, thegreat things our teachers are
accomplishing, and make sure wecontrol the narrative around the
positive situation we have inAnderson 1.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
A lot of those stories don'tget told and I know, and we
talked about with our newcommunications person that a lot
more of those stories are beingtold which is great.
All right, sorry again for myvoice.
Let's go.
Did you hang up on Zach?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I haven't done this in forever.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Push the line there, does it say on air there, holly
it does, it says on air.
Hey, zach, are you there?
Oh, he just hung up, See, allright.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
All I have to do is hit that button right.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.
Let's take a quick commercialbreak and when we come back,
Zach will talk aboutWrestleMania.
Talk about shifting gears here.
I can't help with WrestleMania,but I can help with baseball.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
How are we not talking about March Madness?
Well, that just ended lastnight.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
We will, we will, but I will tell you this Well,
we'll save it for that.
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Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, everybody.
Colt Classics is coming uptonight.
What genre of music is he doingtonight?
Disco.
Disco so right after this showthere will be an hour of disco
music on Cold Classics.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, it's Mr Benninger's favorite.
Love it, I think so Do you lovedisco Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Big Bee Gees fan.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Bee Gees.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
All right, let's go to the phone lines.
We got Zach on there.
We haven't talked to Zach inforever and there's been a lot
going on in the world of sports.
Hi, zach.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
What's going on?
How are y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Doing great.
What is your daughter about,five years old?
Now, it's been a while sincewe've talked.
Speaker 11 (35:33):
I've got a four-year-old and I've got an
almost seven-month-old theeighth of this month and I just
celebrated seven years with myhigh school sweetheart yesterday
.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Wow, Wow.
What's Tiffany doing these days?
Speaker 11 (35:49):
Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (35:52):
That's the way you do it.
She's doing absolutely nothing.
I can say that because she'snot listening.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
There you go.
Better hope she doesn't knowthat.
You said that too.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Dr Young is here, and he, of course, knows your whole
story, so we don't need to gothrough it all again.
I'm just kidding, Zach.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
I heard him making fun of me watching wrestling.
I just said I couldn't helpwith the conversation.
Hey, that's okay.
I got made fun of by Tiffany'sgrandpa on Sunday because I got
my little girl into it.
She has to watch it just likewe do.
You got her into that stuff.
I said yes, sir.
I said look, it's a male soapopera.
(36:30):
I can get made fun of forwatching it.
I don't care if Mr Boonewatches it, you know it's
entertaining.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
I just watch it as research for your segment, Zach.
Speaker 11 (36:41):
I mean, you watch Billy's baseball?
Yeah, I know, that's just so.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I can torture myself, yes, so what did you think of
WrestleMania?
Speaker 11 (36:52):
A lot of surprises.
Yeah, I mean I was telling mysister and my cousin.
I said if Cody Rhodes don'tfinish his story this time, he
just needs to go to the back ofthe line.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I hear you.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
I was getting tired of it myself, I don't think that
the bloodline it's.
It's a fun time to be a fan ofprofessional wrestling, even
though it's fake, even thoughit's put on because you're just
like I would have never thought,because when I was growing up
the rock was a good guy.
I never knew the Rock as a badguy.
So this whole segment has beenfun because you've got CM Punk,
(37:32):
who's back.
Now You've got the Rock who'sback.
You've got, you know, you hadUndertaker make an appearance.
You had, and I mean it's theSuper Bowl of wrestling.
I mean every celebrity's there.
You have these superstars,these legends that make
appearances.
You've got the Hall of Fameceremony the night before.
I like the two-day event myself.
(37:52):
I mean I love it and don't knowif you know, but they're coming
to Nashville in 2027, and we'relooking to go.
That'd be my 10-year weddinganniversary.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (38:04):
Well, I told Tiffany yesterday.
I said some things are justmore important than you know
WrestleMania.
And I mean you know so.
But I told her.
I said maybe we can compromise.
We can go to Nashville, we cango to Pigeon Forge that whole
week and then stop and then goto Nashville for WrestleMania.
And I won't tell you what shesaid on air.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, yeah, so, but for WrestleMania and.
Speaker 11 (38:25):
I won't tell you what she said on air.
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, they'resupposed to be.
It's funny the new TennesseeTitans Stadium is supposed to be
where it's at and it's supposedto be the first event in the
stadium before the season evenkicks off.
So we'll just we'll see howthat goes.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, that's pretty cool.
So what else we got going on?
We got, well, well, did youwatch any of the college
basketball march madness?
Speaker 11 (38:50):
oh, yes.
Yes, I had a feeling thatclinton was gonna make a run,
but I didn't think clinton wouldmake that kind of run yeah and
you know, and, and I don't knowif people agree with me or
disagree, but brad brown now isour guy.
I mean, he was proven in thetournament.
I mean.
(39:10):
I don't know who you're going togo get.
I mean, who are you going to goget?
You know if you get rid of him.
And I mean you know he uses theportal, something Dabo Sweeney
don't do.
He uses the transfer portal.
He knows how to coach people.
I mean PJ Hall, one of the bestplayers that ever come through
Clemson.
He was just known to get fouls,you know, to foul out of games
(39:33):
and everything.
But I was excited.
It was a good time to be aClemson basketball fan.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Well, it's always nice when you have those
surprise runs like that.
Speaker 11 (39:41):
Yeah, well, it happens, it happens to teams
every year.
I mean Tiffany come in thirdplace in our family bracket and
don't know a thing aboutbasketball.
My mom won it the very firstyear we ever done it, and I mean
my mom and sister don't knowanything about basketball.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, holly knows a lot, but she finished last in
the office.
I did finish last, not in thewomen's, but in the men's.
Speaker 11 (40:07):
Tiffany always I don't know these teams.
I'm like you know and I tellher I said you've got to watch
your 6-11 seeds, your 7-12s, theteams that's playing that's
right next to each other.
You've got to watch those.
Those are prone for upset.
Tiffany had Purdue winning itall.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
She came close, so Tiffany had Purdue winning it
all.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
Oh, she came close.
So I mean she done pretty good.
I mean she does every year.
She didn't do better than me.
Of course.
You know I finished second, shefinished third.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Okay, In the family bracket.
What was there?
Three people.
Speaker 11 (40:41):
Well, she took my last name, so and I can say all
this because she's not listening.
And this Clemson baseball teamis unbelievable.
Right now they're 28-3.
They play USC upstate tonight,so hopefully we can keep it
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going and don't choke like theBraves do in the playoffs.
Yeah, hopefully, but at leastwe had a ring ceremony for our
Braves do in the playoffs.
Yeah, you know, hopefully, butat least we had a ring ceremony
for our World Series and not theNational.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Well, I hope you enjoyed that, because it's nice
knowing that my team doesn'thave to win the division.
They just, you know, can getinto the playoffs and they can
beat the Braves.
So it's like go ahead and winthe division by 20 games.
Who cares, we'll see you inOctober.
Speaker 11 (41:25):
Yeah, we'll win it by 20 games.
Hey, I will say I meant to sendyou a picture, but you've
probably already seen it.
They're City Connect jerseys.
Have you seen?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
them.
Speaker 11 (41:36):
They're pretty sick man Did you pay for them?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Do you mean sick as in good or bad?
Speaker 11 (41:42):
Sick as in good man.
That's the tone we have.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Okay, bad Sick as in good man, that's the tone we
have, just making sure you're upwith the current vernacular of
the young people.
I really like the hats and Iwill say that the uniforms have
grown on me.
When I first saw them I waslike, ooh, what the heck is that
.
It's a totally different colorscheme, but I kind of like it.
Well, you know, like the braves, I wish the braves didn't even
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really do anything well, I wishthey would have went with a blue
yeah, instead of the white.
Speaker 11 (42:13):
You know, because they've already got the white
throwbacks that they wore backin hank barrett's day.
I wish they would have wentkind of a dark blue color, royal
blue or whatever you call it.
Yeah, um, I kind of wish theywould have went that route
instead of the white.
But you know, that's why theyhave people making way more
money than me and you puttogether making those decisions.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, it's holly money right there, oh um, but
I'll, uh, I'll, uh, I'll get youa harper jersey in the City
Connect, all right.
Speaker 11 (42:47):
And I'll send it to you.
That would be perfect to startmy bonfire with.
That would be perfect to startmy bonfire with.
So I will wear the Harperjersey if you'll wear the Ronald
Acuna jersey.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Maybe we can arrange that.
We'll see.
It'd be nice to go to a gamewith you sometime, but we'll see
about that.
Speaker 11 (43:03):
Yeah, we'll have to.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
All right, we're just about out of time here, man,
you gotta wrap it up.
I got two superintendents hereof course.
Speaker 11 (43:10):
Why should I tell them how bad of a person?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
no, I'm just kidding they all know you went, where
you went to school and all thethings you did yeah.
Speaker 11 (43:19):
Yeah, I know I've got my and somehow they let rent
high school recover after youleft.
Well, I've got my formerassistant principal on air, so I
have to be good I mean he knowsmy, he knows my baby sister too
.
I mean, you know, he knows herand my middle sister, you know
people will tell me zach, that'snot a good thing.
The principal knows you becauseI mean that's right.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
The principal knows my name I always ask my kids if
they know the principal if theydo that's not good.
That's not true.
I knew almost everybody.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
We had good relationships, you being in the
band and having fun up there.
Speaker 11 (43:56):
Man.
I was going around tellingpeople man, mr Young knows my
name, zach dude, that ain't good.
He knows your name Because whenyou get in trouble he knows
exactly where to come.
I will tell you a funny story.
Mr Young may remember this,because it happened my sophomore
year.
I think it was my I'm trying tothink no, it was my junior year
(44:17):
.
There was another Zach Howardat rim and he got in a fight one
day.
So I don't know if Mr Young wasthe upperc classman principal
then, because he started out asthe freshman principal, but he
got in a fight.
Well, to sign on to the computer, it was your first name and
then you made your own password.
Well, I always had to sign inas Zach Howard 2.
(44:38):
And so this kid gets in a fightand Tiffany's seen it this is
before me and Tiffany gottogether, so she sees it and I
go in.
I'm walking into class andpeople's like what are you doing
at class?
What are you doing at schooltoday?
I'm like I'm supposed to be.
You're supposed to be in OSS?
No, I'm not, because the waythey've done attendance was it
(45:00):
was your annual picture, youryearbook picture, and it had, if
you was there, not there late,whatever, and it had OSS beside
my name in every one of myclasses.
So when people started saying,you know, man, zach Howard beat
the crap out of that guy.
Let me tell you something I waslike yes, I did.
(45:21):
Yes, I did, yes, I did.
That has always been a funnystory, because even people now
didn't you beat up Wesson Sparks.
Yes, I did.
That has always been a funnystory, because even people now
didn't you beat up Weston Sparks.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yes, yes, that was me , that was me.
Yeah, yes, that was me.
All right, zach, get out ofhere.
Speaker 11 (45:35):
Oh, I am, I am.
It was good talking to youagain.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Take care, Zach.
Good to hear from you.
Speaker 11 (45:41):
You too.
Hey, keep Mr boone straight forme we'll do our best, yeah so I
know that's a hard job to do.
I don't try to ask miss haroldto keep him straight, but she
can't do it either she's triedbut well, y'all take care.
Man, it was good hearing fromyou and hopefully we'll talk
next week, if you don't cancelon me again all right, I'll, uh,
I'll keep you posted all right,we'll talk to you later all
(46:04):
right, see, See you, man.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
All right, as usual, we bring you a little bit of
everything on the Boone Show andZach is that little bit of
everything, but we are going tofinish off here.
Last 10 minutes.
A little lighter note with youguys.
Here We'll get some of yourrecommendations, as we do with
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our show guests, guests, so bethinking about this in the back
of your mind.
Any kind of entertainmentrecommendations you have a book
or something you're streaming orbinging or watching on TV movie
, whatever or a foodrecommendation We've had many
that have had recipes.
In fact, Mr Binniger, wasn't itchili?
Or something that you said youmake?
(46:47):
What was it that we wantedShrimp and grits.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Shrimp and grits.
I knew it was something in abig pot, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (46:55):
We've never had it.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
I mean he kept promising us We've got a few
more weeks left.
He literally came in here andtalked six minutes about it, but
we've not heard any, and we'venot seen it.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
We'll see what we can do.
All right, yeah, we've got it.
We've got to get some of thatand I got to be able to take
some home because my wife lovesshrimp and grits wherever she
can get it.
Um, so you know, somethingalong the food lines,
entertainment lines, we'll getthat front because I I have a
list we ought to publish thislist of all the guests that we
have and the recommendations forthe area and book.
I've read some of the booksthey've talked about and watched
some of the series.
It's really kind of cool.
But first we wanted to see ifwe could differentiate you guys
(47:33):
a little bit and see how alikeor different you are, to kind of
get an idea of where thisdistrict is going.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Okay, I'm sure these are important.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
These are very important.
This or that questions.
Okay, so you know we don't havemuch time, so we'll run through
a bunch of them very quicklyand there I I worked with a
psychologist to come up withquestions that work.
Certain things in your mind,with how you answer, will tell
us a lot, okay, so just so, justso you know that.
(48:05):
All right, first thing,playlists or podcasts.
Mr Binnicker, go first.
Playlist Okay.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Podcasts Uh-huh See.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
We got a difference already.
What podcasts do you like?
Speaker 4 (48:18):
by the way.
Lately I've been on a kick withAndy Stanley and Craig Rochelle
and some leadership staff.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, they would know what they're talking about.
Okay, swimming pool or beach.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
Oh my, I love them both, but since I'm moving to
the beach, I guess I'll have topick beach.
I'm beach for sure, all rightAll right, all right, fruits or
vegetables.
Oh, I like both of those two,but'm gonna go with fruits okay
fruits for me easy all right.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, we all deal with students.
That's a bunch of fruits everyday, all right um cats or dogs,
the age old question?
Hey, there's no question.
Dogs, thank you.
Dogs, no use, for I like bothof you guys.
All right, um movies or TVshows Movies, okay.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
I don't know how to answer that, because I would say
like a TV show, but I want onewith like 10.
You want a series of episodes?
Yes, I want to binge it.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Yeah because, it's different nowadays.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yes, it's like watching a super long movie
Correct, yeah, and I kind oflike that.
I probably watch more seriesthan I do movies.
Now, If I see something as amovie, I'm like yeah, I'll watch
that later.
But if it's a series, it's likeyeah.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
I saw something where somebody was like you won't set
aside a time to watch athree-hour movie, but you'll sit
there and show for a lot longertime it's yeah, I agree with
that all right um theall-important apple or or
android apple, apple good, good,good I like very similar.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, they are, they are similar and especially in
the more important things right,like if you have an android.
My wife god bless her, she, shehas an android.
It's just I've only had aniPhone of mine since they came
out, you know, 20 years ago orwhatever.
She insists on having anAndroid and even today she's
(50:16):
complaining because she couldn'tfind her stylus.
It's like he's still using astylus on a stinking phone.
I mean, come on, you're goingto lose the little thing.
All the time I don't lose myfinger, at least hopefully not,
and I use that on the wholething, excuse me, cough time.
All right, we're back umwaffles or pancakes pancakes
(50:40):
pancakes.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
There's a lot of hesitation, dr young in Young in
some of your answers.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
Well, I think he likes probably both Okay.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
It sort of also kind of depends on where from.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
Valid.
Who's making it Valid?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Just fine, so since you said pancakes, where's the
best place to get pancakes, ordo you make them yourself?
Speaker 4 (51:00):
Well, the first best place to get pancakes is my wife
made them Good answer.
Sunnyside Cafe in Clemson.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
I don't know if you've ever eaten there Patrick
Square.
Do you like the big fluffy ones, or more of the flapjacks kind
of thing?
Speaker 4 (51:17):
I like fluffy ones.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
Yeah, yeah, I got you All right Ice or fire, fire.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Ice or fire.
I'm going to go fire because Ihate being cold.
Okay Same.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Same, so like a bonfire would be more enjoyable
than just ice.
There's a lot of different waysyou could look at that question
.
Cars or trucks.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Ooh, ooh.
I have a car, but I want atruck, so should I say truck?
Speaker 5 (51:49):
Until you get one, I'm the same.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
I have a car but I want a truck and I've always
wanted a truck, but somehowevery time we go car shopping,
my wife gets what she wants andI get the hand-me-downs.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Yes, same, same, same , Holly.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
It does not happen in my householdbie is the one who
gets the vehicles yeah, and hegets the new vehicles mine, you
know.
I just got one after 13 yearsyeah, I noticed that.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
I didn't notice your car in the parking lot anymore.
I'm like yeah, you finally gotsomething new because I don't
even know what you're drivingnowadays.
All right, coke or pepsi.
Uh, coke, coke.
Why do you like Coke more?
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Because it is the best.
It tastes delicious.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Pepsi's just kind of like too sweet maybe Pepsi
tastes flat yeah okay, yeah, Isee that I drink them both.
But I see that All right moviedate or dinner date.
Ooh dinner date yes, goodrestaurant somewhere.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
Absolutely.
We love it.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Movie date and a large popcorn.
There you go.
That's also good With freerefills, nice and.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
I tell you what the movie theater is around here now
, with their nice recliner seatsand all that, and you know you
get that popcorn.
You're relaxing, just likeyou're at home.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Put your own butter on too, Yep.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Oh yeah, I empty that thing.
Yeah, it's a little sloppythere, but all right.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Introvert or extrovert, extrovert.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, I see that Extrovert Really.
So they're both extroverts.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
It's funny because we always joke around, because all
of us media people here areintroverts.
We actually took the testduring one of those professional
development things.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
That's the kind of professional development we do
around here.
My wife actually hates going inpublic with me at times because
she says I go into mayor modewhen I start shaking hands with
everybody, kissing babies, doingall that kind of stuff, but
it's like me, Mr Seeley and Jen.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
She's the same way.
She says she's an introvert.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
And a lot of media people are like that.
It's weird.
A few more because I know we'rerunning out of time.
Sausage or bacon Bacon Okay,bacon, yeah, yeah, okay.
Run or bike.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
Run, run.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Oh Okay, wings or ribs, wings, wings, okay, all
right, sunrise or sunset.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
Sunrise.
Speaker 1 (54:15):
Okay, early bird.
Yes, definitely All right.
Sunset.
Speaker 5 (54:19):
He was nodding his head the whole time, not even
close to sunrise.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
All right, let's have an ode to the comic books
Batman or Superman, superman,batman, okay.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
All right, let's have an ode to the comic books
Batman or Superman, superman,batman Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Rustic or modern Modern Modern, all right, all
right.
Music festival or art festivalMusic festival, all right.
Probably neither, but if I hadto choose music, Not much of a
festival person, but that'swhere you do all your mayor work
(54:55):
.
Speaker 5 (54:55):
Sporting event.
Yeah, okay, all right, I gotyou there, I got you there.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Reading or writing, reading, reading.
Okay, that was another comicbook thing.
We'll just skip that, sincewe're almost done here.
Hawaii or Alaska.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Well, I've been to Hawaii Beautiful, loved it.
Next on my bucket list isAlaska, so I'm going to say
Alaska.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
That's a hard one.
I would say Hawaii yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
Two very different places, but two very beautiful
places.
Speaker 4 (55:32):
They're both at the top of the bucket list, yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Alaska is also on my bucket list.
I've been to Hawaii too, butyou see all these shows about
Alaska on TV and you see wherethe cruises go up there and
everything.
It's so beautiful, so beautiful.
Soft or hard tacos Soft.
Really, definitely, yeah there,and everything is so beautiful,
so beautiful, soft or hardtacos soft really yeah, yeah
(56:00):
what do you do?
Speaker 3 (56:01):
huh, soft, yeah, yeah , flour, flour lobster or crab
crab I guess lobster okay allright and finally, sand or grass
.
Sand or what Grass?
Oh grass.
Speaker 4 (56:18):
Even though I like the beach, I'm not much of a
sand all in the car kind ofstuff yeah that's true.
I would say the same thinggrass.
Speaker 1 (56:26):
Okay, so there you go .
When everybody listens back onthe podcast, they will know
something about these guys.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
And how similar they are, how similar they are.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
So, as we wrap things up, recommendation Do you have
a recommendation for ourlistening audience, mr Binnicker
?
Entertainment-wise or food-wise?
Speaker 3 (56:44):
Yes, my wife and I just started watching this
series I think it's on Peacockcalled Traitor.
It's a oh gosh like a reality.
It's like a reality TV show andit's a game that they play.
Lots of twists and turns andjust a very simple game.
(57:05):
There's a group of about 20people Some are designated
traitors and some are designatedfaithfuls, and each one they
don't know who's who and they'retrying to vote each other out.
So it's a neat show to watch.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
So is this a movie or is this a series?
It's a series, dr Young, youcan watch that now.
Dr Young would like it.
It's a series, dr Young, youcan watch that now Dr Young
would like it.
Speaker 3 (57:29):
It's a series and there's an American version and
a British version and an.
Australian version.
The British version is prettygood Okay.
Speaker 1 (57:36):
A lot of the ideas for American television come
from.
British television and a lot ofthem are good.
All right, dr Young, what?
Speaker 4 (57:45):
can you recommend to us?
I'm trying to find the name ofit.
There was a show on Apple TVthat we loved.
Yeah, slow Horses.
Speaker 1 (57:53):
Yes, love that show as well.
Speaker 4 (57:55):
Yes, it's a British.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Gary Oldman.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
Yes, british kind of spy FBI thing, that they don't
call it the FBI because it's inEngland, it's MI5 or whatever it
is.
Speaker 1 (58:11):
But yeah, it's mi5 or whatever it is.
But yeah, it's cool.
Gary olma is just tremendous inthat and it's it's about like
these.
They got disgraced from the toplevels of the mi5 or whatever
it is yeah so they have to stayin this.
What do they call this sloughhouse?
Or whatever house is what theycall it is where these agents
all work, but they, they wind updoing these, solving these
great big crimes and all thiskind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
It's like a conspiracy thing they uncover
and it's like a hostagesituation.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
It's pretty cool.
Yeah, did you watch the latestseason?
I think there's three.
Speaker 4 (58:43):
We just finished season one and started season
two, so it doesn't disappoint.
Speaker 1 (58:48):
All the seasons are great, and it's based on a
series of books, so if you likereading, you can read the spy
books.
Speaker 4 (58:57):
Yeah, it was good, and we got interrupted by March
Madness, but my wife and Iliterally watched it in like
three days.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
Oh wow, Is that good yeah it's one of those things
you really want to binge.
It's pretty cool, all right, sothat will wrap it up with the
superintendents here.
Mr Robbie Binniker, thank youso much for your service.
It's not like you're leaving.
Leaving, we'll check in fromCharleston.
You know, during hurricaneseason We'll call you.
Speaker 4 (59:26):
Now that Holly knows how to get a caller in, we'll
have him call in.
Yes, we can call in.
Speaker 1 (59:32):
Well, we'll get Holly's daughter back on here so
we can raise the level ofproduction.
Speaker 3 (59:36):
That's right.
I would love that.
That would be an honor to beinvited back on the program.
Speaker 4 (59:43):
He can be our weather correspondent.
That's right, there you go.
He's our Jim Cantore.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
Absolutely You'll be out there in the wind and the
rain.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
Love it on the beach.
Pleasant, yeah, because that'swhere it point.
Pleasant is where you're living, right, so you'll be right out
there mount pleasant, yeah notpoint pleasant but mount
pleasant.
So yeah, you'll be, you'll be.
Hopefully you won't be in thepath.
Hopefully, of any hurricanesbut anyway it'd be great to hear
from you and thanks again foreverything over the years.
Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
And Dr Young.
We are just getting started,sir, so I know you're excited
about what's going to be goingon in District 1, and you've
been in it for a long time andnow you're in the top seat, so
looking forward to what you cando, moving forward.
Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Excited about the opportunity.
Big shoes to fill yeah, we'llsee what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
All right, Holly, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
We are working the show around Holly's schedule
these days, so when she can makeit we do a show.
Next show will be on in acouple of weeks.
We're going to do District 2.
Yes, jason Johns and Mary Bortz,that's right, Jason Johns and
Mary Bortz will be here andcheck out the podcast version of
this, which will be up by theend of the week.
So tell your friends they cancheck it out wherever they get
(01:00:52):
their podcasts.
Thanks again to these greatguys.
We'll talk to you next time onthe Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
Hello everybody, welcome to the Boone Show on my
Pulse Radio.
Glad to be with you on aTuesday afternoon.
We've got heavyweightsheavyweight in the studio today
major heavyweights in the studioas we start our year-end
roundup of guests and see howall the schools have been doing.
(00:22):
We start off with a veryspecial show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Strong.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Passing the torch today.
No fire in the studio, thoughwe can't or are not allowed to
do that.
But we've got the currentsuperintendent of District 1,
robbie Binnicker, good friend ofthe show, glad to have you back
.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Glad to be here.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And then we have the incoming guy who has been on the
show before but, as I wasmentioning earlier, we've lost
track of him for a couple ofyears because he's been doing
other things in the district.
But Dr Seth Young is here andthank you for coming.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, thank you for having me Excited to be here.
Good to be back in the seat.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, and hopefully you'll be there to be grilled
for years to come.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I hope so too.
I always enjoy being on theshow.
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sorry for sounding all nasally.
Getting over the old allergiesthis year they got me.
Some years they do.
Some years they don't.
This year they got me good.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And it's all covered like everything's yellow outside
yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
You can't roll your windows down and enjoy the
temperature because of all thedang pollen.
But things are getting better.
I feel a lot better than Isound, uh, so let's roll on with
the show here.
Uh, mr biniker yes, sir I'vehad a connection with you now
for years because of your kids,because of your other relatives.
(01:53):
I've been in the.
I've had two of your kids, yes,and of course niece hannah.
I think that's it right.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Three I think it's three we've had over the years
Speaker 1 (02:03):
but that has spread over a number of years here.
Uh, enjoyed them all and havefollowed them all since they
graduated.
Of course, brayden's graduatingthis year and he just completed
the program here in december.
Um, so I've known you for quitesome time.
It's been great.
We almost took a balloon ridetogether.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, we actually did get in the balloon, but then
got in the balloon, but thenthey didn't take it up.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Holly, you were there too.
And it was probably good wedidn't go up, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It was windy.
The wind that day was, butstill it was kind of.
Who knows if he still wouldhave been the superintendent
right now had we taken thatballoon.
None of us may have been therethat day.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But it's been great talking to you over the years.
You're so easy to talk to and,uh, very forthright and
presenting information that weneed to guys that aren't as
smart like me, and that's why Ihave holly on the show for all
the details about what goes tointo being an administration,
because I'm just a teacher.
But, um, but you're going toretire and go on out into the
(03:10):
sunset, so to speak.
Why now?
Why did you choose now toretire?
Does it have something to dowith Braden graduating and
moving on that way?
Was there a number of factors?
Why now?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, there was clearly a number of factors.
First of all, I have thoroughlyenjoyed my time in Anderson One
.
There has never been a day thatI have woken up and said, boy,
I don't want to go to work today.
So it's been a true pleasure.
I just feel like it's ablessing to be able to work here
.
I started here as a teacher in1990 and have been here ever
(03:48):
since.
So 34 years I've been inAnderson 1.
And I think I've done about allI can do here.
So it's time to move on andpass the torch to the next guy.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
All right, porch to the, to the next guy, all right.
And uh, you know, when you talkabout what you've done here and
you've been superintendent forsix years, that's right.
Okay, since 2018, you have beenin charge during a crazy time.
I mean, we had the pandemic.
We've had just a totalexplosion in growth in district
(04:25):
one, especially in thepowdersville area.
Um, it has been crazy duringthose times.
Not just you couldn't just kickback and put your put your feet
up, like mr young's probablygonna do but, uh, but I mean
describe some of that thatyou've been through, because a
lot of challenges you normallywouldn't see pop up and they
(04:48):
were everywhere.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Sure, well, it definitely has been some
challenging time for us, but Iwill say we have got an
incredible school board that hashelped lead those efforts, not
to mention some really talenteddistrict office professionals,
along with our school principalsand school personnel as well.
In 2018-19, which was my firstyear as superintendent we knew
(05:14):
we had a huge issue with spacein the district.
We knew we were going to haveto build buildings.
We knew we did not have thosefunds to be able to build the
buildings, so we actually wentafter a $109 million bond
referendum during that time.
It was the largest that we hadever done in Anderson 1.
And that got approved by thevoters over 75%, which we were
(05:37):
really very, very, very proud of.
Then, of course, the next year,we actually started
construction Lots of—we builttwo new middle schools, added on
to a lot of schools, safety andsecurity measures at all of our
schools as well, and then thepandemic hit, which really and
truly was probably.
It was probably the mostdifficult time that I had as an
(06:01):
administrator, and I think a lotof administrators would
probably say that, and I thinkthe reason is is that nobody
really knew the right answer.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Right.
There was nothing to learn frompreviously.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
There was no nobody had experienced a pandemic like
that and there were direconsequences.
I mean there were direconsequences of kids coming to
school and getting sick, andthere were dire consequences.
I mean there were direconsequences of kids coming to
school and getting sick, andthere were dire consequences of
kids staying home and notgetting that face-to-face
interaction with teachers.
We felt like we made somereally good decisions during
(06:35):
that time and we had a greatcommunity here at Anderson, one
that supported us.
Our parents, our medicalprofessionals supported us
during that time and we ended upreally well.
We have since.
You know, like every schooldistrict kind of saw that COVID
slide, as there were a number ofstudents who were virtual for a
(06:58):
period of time.
Of course, all the students inthe state were virtual for a
couple of months when thegovernor shut down schools.
We probably had less than mostthe the following year, but that
was something that that we'rereally proud of at this point,
that we feel like we've we'vekind of made up all of that,
(07:19):
lost ground and now have havemoved forward.
So it's definitely been somechallenging time, but you look
back and there were certainlyrewarding things that happened
during those times as well.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, that was one of the most impressive things when
I was just reading up onDistrict 1, where we are right
now the fact that you haverecovered to the pre-pandemic
test scores and such, andgraduation rate is as high as
ever.
I mean, that's a real tip ofthe cap, right there?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah, for sure.
I think that you knowgraduation rate is one of those
things we always put out there,because that's incredibly
important.
Kids have to graduate.
They need to graduate from highschool and, having this past
year being our highestgraduation rate ever, over 94%
of our kids graduated and, ofcourse, that graduation rate
(08:12):
includes every kid.
It's a four-year graduationrate, so it includes all the
students who are self-contained,students who are not going to
graduate.
That number includes those aswell, as well as students who
transfer in without the abilityto be able to graduate in four
(08:33):
years.
So we're very, very proud ofthat number.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And you talk about the growth that's going on.
I know there's a lot going onright now again in the
Powdersville area and I know DrYoung will pick up on this too,
because there'sa big buildingproject coming up but there are
things going on now, the stadiumother thing, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
absolutely well.
We just finished a 12 roomaddition at Powdersville Middle
School.
We built that on top of anaddition that we had just built
in in 2019-2020 and so those 12rooms obviously will come in
very handy as PowdersvilleMiddle School grows.
We have Concrete andPowdersville Elementary School.
(09:13):
Both of those schools havecombined about 1,600 students,
so they have very large schoolpopulations of kids K-2 at
Concrete and 3-5 at Powdersville.
So we knew we had to buildanother elementary school in
Powdersville and we did that.
(09:34):
It took us about nine months tofind the land, to find an
appropriate place to build inPowdersville, but we found that
land.
The construction documents areall done.
That is now out to bid thebeginning of May.
We'll have those numbers in.
The hope will be I know DrYoung will be looking at those
numbers very, very carefully,but the hope will be is that
(09:57):
those numbers will be withinbudget and we've already started
clearing the land and lookingforward to building that new
elementary school to relieve theovercrowding at Concrete and
Powdersville Elementary.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow, it's growing so fast.
What exactly are you doing atthe stadium, because I see the
expansion there.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
The stadium was actually built.
Of course, when Powdersvillewas first built it was a two-way
school.
It only had grades 9 and 10.
And since then it's grownexponentially.
So it's almost as large as Wrenand as big as Palmetto High
School now, and the stadium justwasn't designed for that many
(10:36):
kids.
And of course they've doneexceptionally well in their
sports programs and there's beenmany, many events in that
stadium where it's literallystanding room only, and so we're
adding about 580 seats I thinkit is to the home side and about
400 seats to the visitor side.
(10:58):
That'll help increase thecapacity so that when we have
those large.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You know, and one of the things that Anderson 1 has
looked over the years obviouslyis academics.
I mean that has been a hugefocus but all of the academics
and, after you know, afterschool curriculum, after school
events, sporting events, is alsoa big part of making that whole
student.
And I know that you guys havebeen intentional when you make
(11:26):
those athletic decisions andthose kind of things and you all
have.
In general, every school inAnderson 1 has excelled in
athletics, not just in football,where most people think you
know, but you've excelled inother areas and I think you guys
have made intentional decisionson trying to upgrade your
athletic facilities, along withyour academics.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And I would certainly agree with that.
I think our board, our districtadministration, along with our
schools, understand the powerand the need for those
extracurricular activitiessports, the fine arts we have a
phenomenal fine arts programthroughout the district.
(12:12):
We just recognized someall-state singers and all-state
band members at our last boardmeeting and we know how
important that is in the livesof kids and them becoming
productive adults when theyleave our schools.
So, while academics yes, thatis absolutely the focus that
(12:35):
their math, science and socialstudies, that those things are
solid, that when they leave us,those other things to help build
a well-rounded student iscertainly very important to us
as well.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And y'all have created an atmosphere to embrace
, creating that whole studentand I think not just your
administration staff but yourentire faculty, your custodians,
your cafeteria workers, youknow everybody has to all buy
(13:09):
into that and I think youcreated a culture in your
superintendency to create andallow people to make that whole
student and I think that's ahuge proud moment in my thought
in your tenure during the time,what do you think is one of your
proudest times or moments orthings that you've accomplished
(13:31):
over your tenure?
Maybe not just assuperintendent, because you, you
know you came from theclassroom, you know I mean all
that's got to happen.
Where do you see during yourtime that you can go back and
think about now and say you knowwhat?
That was a really, really proudmoment.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I you know there are a couple of things that that
stick out.
As a principal, I was veryproud that we were able to go
from a good report card ratingto an excellent report card
rating and kept that excellentreport card rating the entire
time that I was a principal.
We were named Palmetto's FinestSchool during that time.
(14:09):
Dr Young will probably tell youlater on, but the only reason
we won that is because he wrotethe application which is true.
It wasn't the only reason butthat was certainly part of the
reason for sure, but that wascertainly part of the reason for
sure.
Our graduation rate was in the.
(14:32):
We were at about 88% when Istarted at Wren and got that
into the mid to upper 90s when Ileft.
So those are things that I wascertainly very, very proud of.
I think from an individualstudent perspective, though none
of that compares to thatstudent coming back and saying
you, you made a difference.
You know, I would not havegraduated high school with,
without you, and I'm gonna behonest, sometimes I didn't
(14:55):
really even recall the moment orthe thing that I, that I did,
but to that student it certainlymeant the world to them during
that time.
I think my time at the districtoffice really the building
program, I think, has been verysuccessful.
There was a lot of work and alot of hard planning that went
(15:18):
into the building program and ofcourse that's just ongoing.
I'm not sure Certainly Dr Youngwill not have the luxury of
resting on.
We've built all that we have tobuild.
I mean he's already thinkingokay, well, after we build this
elementary school, there willhave to be another elementary
school built as well.
(15:41):
So I think the building programis certainly something I'm very
proud of.
And then you know, we talkedabout COVID and we talked about
the pandemic and we made somereally good decisions during
that time and I'm very proud ofthe work that we did as a
district to get to where weneeded to be with that.
So those are probably some ofmy proudest moments with that.
(16:07):
So those are probably some ofmy proudest moments Right now.
I think the move that we madetowards professional learning
communities, I think, willpotentially have the biggest
impact on student achievement ofanything that I've done as a
principal or as a superintendent.
(16:28):
Our learning team at thedistrict office has just done a
phenomenal job of implementingthat process step by step with
our schools and I think that isgoing to show dividends for
years and years to come.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, that sounds good.
And you're going to bedividends for years and years to
come.
Very good, yeah, that soundsgood.
And you're going to be movingdown to Charleston yes, that
area, so heading down to theshore to retire nicely down
there.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Absolutely, we are.
My wife and I are moving downthere and of course you said I
had a son who's graduating highschool.
He's not exactly sure where he'sgoing to school.
Who's graduating high school?
He's.
He's not exactly sure wherehe's going to school clemson
carolina.
He's not sure.
He might be moving with us, hemight not, we don't.
We don't know yet, but we'relooking forward to it.
Um, we've lived in the middlepart of the state my entire um
(17:20):
pre-work life.
We lived in the upper state myentire work life, and so now
we're going to try the beach alittle bit and see how we like
it.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So can't miss in that area.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, that's for sure , that's right, that's where we
got married where I got married,very good we like to eat too,
and there's plenty of gosh.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, it keeps getting better all the time for
sure all right, we're going totake a quick time out here.
Come back with dr seth youngand, of course, more with Robbie
Binnicker as well.
You're listening to the BooneShow on MyPulse Radio.
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Speaker 1 (19:47):
Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio with the
outgoing and incomingsuperintendents of Anderson
School District 1, robbieBittiger and Dr Seth Young, and
it's Dr Young's turn, as Hollywill be grilling him now.
But, dr Young, it's good tohave you back on the program and
let's talk about the wholeprocess of hiring here Now.
(20:09):
First of all, you used to be amath teacher, right, correct?
That's where you got your startin the classroom.
See, I'm going to use yourstory as inspiration.
Now to my daughter, who teachesmath at Liberty High School.
In fact, she wants to move intoDistrict 1.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Well, every administrator has to be a
teacher somewhere along thatprocess.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
But I mean I can tell her, hey, look, look at this
guy, that's right, he was a mathteacher.
Just like you and now look,he's the superintendent.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Somehow Mr Binnicker hiring that math teacher 20
years ago was not his proudestmoment.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
You know it was next on the list.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Next on the list.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But take us on that journey a little bit, how you go
from a math teacher just on upthe line in the top of the
administration here.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
So I was a math teacher and I did student
council.
I coached basketball.
I coached JV basketball at WrenHigh School and at that time
Anderson had a partnership withClemson where you could get your
master's in administration andMr Benneker was actually the
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principal at that time and heand the assistant principal
encouraged me to be a part ofthat program.
So I got my master's inadministration from Clemson,
then eventually became anassistant principal at Wren
Middle School for a year, thencame back to Wren High School as
an assistant principal where Ihad some great opportunities
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there.
Then I became the director ofthe Freshman for five years,
working with ninth graders, andbecame the principal at Rent
High School for five years.
Holly talked a lot about thewhole child and a lot of the
different things that she wasbragging on Anderson 1 for and I
got to say as an assistantprincipal and principal, the
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Career Center plays a huge partin what she was talking about,
where programs like this andother programs that the Career
Center has just allow studentsto find their niche where they
can just thrive, and I thinkthat that's a huge part of that
94% graduation rate thatAnderson 1 has is just kids are
able to find their place to besuccessful, and she and I have
(22:26):
talked about a lot of kids overthe years that their teachers
down here oftentimes can puttheir arm around their shoulder
and really motivate them to dowell, and then we help them get
their gen ed credits, if youwill, and then we're working
together to get them across thatstage.
So it's a big part of it.
(22:46):
But a couple years ago started,you know, thinking about maybe
pursuing some opportunities atthe district level.
This past year I've been thedirector of student services and
Anderson one and and workingclosely with the district
leadership here, gotten to,gotten to work alongside the,
the board that mr Ben Bennekermentioned.
(23:06):
In January I was named the nextsuperintendent, so jumping in
to the deep end, I guess.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That was a quick turnaround, mr Binnicker.
It's like we just heard you'reretiring and boom he's in.
So you kind of.
Of course, you guys have gottento work together for a lot of
years, both at the high schooland at the district office.
How much did that play into it,mr Minninger?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, Dr Young was really an obvious choice for
this.
I mean, he's been a phenomenalemployee.
Regardless of whether he's beena teacher, assistant, principal
, principal.
Everything he's ever done he'sdone with great finesse and been
fantastic at it.
So this was really not a harddecision for the board.
(23:56):
Our board expects for thecurrent superintendent to be
working on the nextsuperintendent.
They expect that, and Dr Youngwas clearly the obvious choice
for this position.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
So, seth, your biggest challenge you think
coming up in the next couple ofyears.
I mean, you've got theacademics down, you're a math
teacher, you've got the wholestudent, you've got that.
I know you've got limitedexperience at the district
office and it's coming.
What do you think some of yourbiggest challenges are going to
be?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Well, the first biggest challenge is not to
screw it up, because I think youheard all the great statistics
and things going on.
So that's the first thing.
Don't mess up the great thingthat we have going.
But we've got some budgetissues with some of the funding
(24:58):
issues that Anderson One hasalways faced.
But it's a unique time withschool funding, public school
funding, right now.
Over the last few years sincethe pandemic we've had some
support from the federalgovernment with ESSER funds that
on June 30th those funds aregone.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
We've, as Mr Binnicker talked about, we're
about to build a new school, sowe're having to allocate some of
our resources to that, butreally trying to make sure we
manage all of our financialresources as effectively as
possible so that we can continueto hire the best teachers
possible.
That's the most importantperson in Anderson 1 is the
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classroom teacher and we need tomake sure that we're doing that
.
The other thing is continuingto build relationships with
other district leaders and justgetting to know people.
You know, I spent most of mycareer in the Wren community so
I've been very familiar withfolks in that community.
But Mr Benneker has reallyhelped me facilitate getting to
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know some other folks, be itstate policymakers, local
policymakers, othersuperintendents, other folks
that are really influential inthe community, getting to spend
time with them and just kind ofbuilding those relationships so
that we can just continue tobuild on the great things that
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have been in place.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And you know when you talk about school finances you
know traditionally Anderson Onehas been, you know, in the top
five ten in academics and all ofthose wonderful things.
But you've also been in thelower part of receiving those
funds.
Yes so you've had to makestrategic plans in the low
amount of funding that you getso realistically.
(26:46):
If you were a parent or just acitizen in our community to know
what the per pupil cost of astudent in Anderson 1 that you
all receive compared to somebodyin another county you're just
so much lower yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Mr Benneker could probably give you the exact
number, but I mean, if youlooked at just the funding per
student in Anderson 1 comparedto some of our neighbors in
Anderson County, you're lookingat tens of millions of dollars
difference in how some of ourneighbors are funded compared to
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Anderson one and that makes abig difference Sure does.
We we really have to be smart.
We have a very small districtoffice staff.
Our schools, the administrativestaff at our schools is
oftentimes smaller compared tosome of the schools of similar
(27:44):
size and districts around us,because we are trying to push as
much of our financial resourcestowards teachers and that's
going to continue to be apriority.
We don't have a lot of extrastuff, which is why the move to
professional learningcommunities has been so
important, because it allowsteachers to work together.
(28:05):
They work together and makecurriculum decisions.
They work together to makeassessment decisions.
They work together to makeinstructional decisions.
Because we don't have a lot ofprograms, because we simply
don't have the resources to payfor it.
But we have great teachers whocan develop their own programs
and their own assessments tomake sure that students are
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getting the best possibleoutcome.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Why is it coming from ?
The guy on the outside hereagain, excuse me.
Why is it coming from the?
Uh, the guy on the outside hereagain, excuse me.
Um, why is it that it's so lowfunded?
Is it a demographic issue?
I mean what?
What's the reason?
Because I'm I live in a coneycounty now and I know they get
way more per student thananderson one does.
I'm just wondering how doesthat?
How's that work?
(28:51):
We could.
How much time I see you allside-eyeing it.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
There were some policy decisions made at the
state level, I'd say 16, 17years ago.
Act 388 really impactedAnderson 1 because Anderson 1 is
pretty much a bedroom communityfor Greenville, so the majority
of the property in Anderson 1is residential.
(29:18):
Act 388 limited the ability toraise revenue from residential
property, whereas you mentionedOconee County.
Oconee County has Duke Power,so Act 388 allows Oconee County
to raise revenue throughproperty taxes through Duke
Power and some of the other bigindustrial properties in that
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school district, whereas inAnderson 1 we don't have a lot
of the big industrial commercialproperties that some of the
other districts around us have,so that that really limits our
ability to raise revenue to helpfund the different things we
have in our district.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And to topple on Act 388, we were told that during
this process, when it was comingout that the funding would not
go down, In fact that it wouldincrease.
But I'm sure and I don't knowabout y'all, but I know I've
kept up with how much just theCareer Center has lost with Act
388 and its millions of dollars.
(30:19):
I cannot imagine how muchAnderson One individually has
lost over the years.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
It's staggering when you start to look at that,
especially compared to some ofour neighbors.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's right.
Yeah, because in the thingsagain that I've looked around at
, I've seen that, dr Young, oneof the biggest challenges you
say moving forward is findingfunding, and Mr Binniker has
been good at that, worked hisway through the whole bond thing
and the penny tax and all thatstuff, and it's like where do
you go next?
You can't just do that stuffevery year.
(30:53):
There's got to be new ways andI know that you got turned down
on some other ones that you knowwith the growth there should
become more support and I thinkyou know again, I'm not the
politician, I'm not theadministrator here, but you
would think that that would meanthat there would be more
support with more people movingin.
(31:13):
But you know I don't make thosedecisions, but that is going to
be a big challenge.
So, other than that, dr Youngand the academics, as you
mentioned, anything else thatyou think moving forward, that
you can put your stamp on whatyou're doing?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
I think a lot of public school districts are
going to make sure they need tocelebrate the positive things
that are going on and make surewe tell our story.
There's a lot of rhetoric attimes that surrounds different
public schools, public schooldistricts, and we have to make
sure that we continue tocelebrate the great things that
our students are doing, thegreat things our teachers are
accomplishing, and make sure wecontrol the narrative around the
positive situation we have inAnderson 1.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
A lot of those stories don'tget told and I know, and we
talked about with our newcommunications person that a lot
more of those stories are beingtold which is great.
All right, sorry again for myvoice.
Let's go.
Did you hang up on Zach?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I haven't done this in forever.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Push the line there, does it say on air there, holly
it does, it says on air.
Hey, zach, are you there?
Oh, he just hung up, See, allright.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
All I have to do is hit that button right.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what.
Let's take a quick commercialbreak and when we come back,
Zach will talk aboutWrestleMania.
Talk about shifting gears here.
I can't help with WrestleMania,but I can help with baseball.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
How are we not talking about March Madness?
Well, that just ended lastnight.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
We will, we will, but I will tell you this Well,
we'll save it for that.
We'll be back in just a minute.
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Speaker 1 (34:54):
All right, everybody.
Colt Classics is coming uptonight.
What genre of music is he doingtonight?
Disco.
Disco so right after this showthere will be an hour of disco
music on Cold Classics.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, it's Mr Benninger's favorite.
Love it, I think so Do you lovedisco Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Big Bee Gees fan.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Bee Gees.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
All right, let's go to the phone lines.
We got Zach on there.
We haven't talked to Zach inforever and there's been a lot
going on in the world of sports.
Hi, zach.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
What's going on?
How are y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Doing great.
What is your daughter about,five years old?
Now, it's been a while sincewe've talked.
Speaker 11 (35:33):
I've got a four-year-old and I've got an
almost seven-month-old theeighth of this month and I just
celebrated seven years with myhigh school sweetheart yesterday
.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Wow, Wow.
What's Tiffany doing these days?
Speaker 11 (35:49):
Absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (35:52):
That's the way you do it.
She's doing absolutely nothing.
I can say that because she'snot listening.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
There you go.
Better hope she doesn't knowthat.
You said that too.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Dr Young is here, and he, of course, knows your whole
story, so we don't need to gothrough it all again.
I'm just kidding, Zach.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
I heard him making fun of me watching wrestling.
I just said I couldn't helpwith the conversation.
Hey, that's okay.
I got made fun of by Tiffany'sgrandpa on Sunday because I got
my little girl into it.
She has to watch it just likewe do.
You got her into that stuff.
I said yes, sir.
I said look, it's a male soapopera.
(36:30):
I can get made fun of forwatching it.
I don't care if Mr Boonewatches it, you know it's
entertaining.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
I just watch it as research for your segment, Zach.
Speaker 11 (36:41):
I mean, you watch Billy's baseball?
Yeah, I know, that's just so.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
I can torture myself, yes, so what did you think of
WrestleMania?
Speaker 11 (36:52):
A lot of surprises.
Yeah, I mean I was telling mysister and my cousin.
I said if Cody Rhodes don'tfinish his story this time, he
just needs to go to the back ofthe line.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I hear you.
Speaker 11 (37:05):
I was getting tired of it myself, I don't think that
the bloodline it's.
It's a fun time to be a fan ofprofessional wrestling, even
though it's fake, even thoughit's put on because you're just
like I would have never thought,because when I was growing up
the rock was a good guy.
I never knew the Rock as a badguy.
So this whole segment has beenfun because you've got CM Punk,
(37:32):
who's back.
Now You've got the Rock who'sback.
You've got, you know, you hadUndertaker make an appearance.
You had, and I mean it's theSuper Bowl of wrestling.
I mean every celebrity's there.
You have these superstars,these legends that make
appearances.
You've got the Hall of Fameceremony the night before.
I like the two-day event myself.
(37:52):
I mean I love it and don't knowif you know, but they're coming
to Nashville in 2027, and we'relooking to go.
That'd be my 10-year weddinganniversary.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (38:04):
Well, I told Tiffany yesterday.
I said some things are justmore important than you know
WrestleMania.
And I mean you know so.
But I told her.
I said maybe we can compromise.
We can go to Nashville, we cango to Pigeon Forge that whole
week and then stop and then goto Nashville for WrestleMania.
And I won't tell you what shesaid on air.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, yeah, so, but for WrestleMania and.
Speaker 11 (38:25):
I won't tell you what she said on air.
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, they'resupposed to be.
It's funny the new TennesseeTitans Stadium is supposed to be
where it's at and it's supposedto be the first event in the
stadium before the season evenkicks off.
So we'll just we'll see howthat goes.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, that's pretty cool.
So what else we got going on?
We got, well, well, did youwatch any of the college
basketball march madness?
Speaker 11 (38:50):
oh, yes.
Yes, I had a feeling thatclinton was gonna make a run,
but I didn't think clinton wouldmake that kind of run yeah and
you know, and, and I don't knowif people agree with me or
disagree, but brad brown now isour guy.
I mean, he was proven in thetournament.
I mean.
(39:10):
I don't know who you're going togo get.
I mean, who are you going to goget?
You know if you get rid of him.
And I mean you know he uses theportal, something Dabo Sweeney
don't do.
He uses the transfer portal.
He knows how to coach people.
I mean PJ Hall, one of the bestplayers that ever come through
Clemson.
He was just known to get fouls,you know, to foul out of games
(39:33):
and everything.
But I was excited.
It was a good time to be aClemson basketball fan.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Well, it's always nice when you have those
surprise runs like that.
Speaker 11 (39:41):
Yeah, well, it happens, it happens to teams
every year.
I mean Tiffany come in thirdplace in our family bracket and
don't know a thing aboutbasketball.
My mom won it the very firstyear we ever done it, and I mean
my mom and sister don't knowanything about basketball.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, holly knows a lot, but she finished last in
the office.
I did finish last, not in thewomen's, but in the men's.
Speaker 11 (40:07):
Tiffany always I don't know these teams.
I'm like you know and I tellher I said you've got to watch
your 6-11 seeds, your 7-12s, theteams that's playing that's
right next to each other.
You've got to watch those.
Those are prone for upset.
Tiffany had Purdue winning itall.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
She came close, so Tiffany had Purdue winning it
all.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
Oh, she came close.
So I mean she done pretty good.
I mean she does every year.
She didn't do better than me.
Of course.
You know I finished second, shefinished third.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Okay, In the family bracket.
What was there?
Three people.
Speaker 11 (40:41):
Well, she took my last name, so and I can say all
this because she's not listening.
And this Clemson baseball teamis unbelievable.
Right now they're 28-3.
They play USC upstate tonight,so hopefully we can keep it
(41:01):
going and don't choke like theBraves do in the playoffs.
Yeah, hopefully, but at leastwe had a ring ceremony for our
Braves do in the playoffs.
Yeah, you know, hopefully, butat least we had a ring ceremony
for our World Series and not theNational.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Well, I hope you enjoyed that, because it's nice
knowing that my team doesn'thave to win the division.
They just, you know, can getinto the playoffs and they can
beat the Braves.
So it's like go ahead and winthe division by 20 games.
Who cares, we'll see you inOctober.
Speaker 11 (41:25):
Yeah, we'll win it by 20 games.
Hey, I will say I meant to sendyou a picture, but you've
probably already seen it.
They're City Connect jerseys.
Have you seen?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
them.
Speaker 11 (41:36):
They're pretty sick man Did you pay for them?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Do you mean sick as in good or bad?
Speaker 11 (41:42):
Sick as in good man.
That's the tone we have.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Okay, bad Sick as in good man, that's the tone we
have, just making sure you're upwith the current vernacular of
the young people.
I really like the hats and Iwill say that the uniforms have
grown on me.
When I first saw them I waslike, ooh, what the heck is that
.
It's a totally different colorscheme, but I kind of like it.
Well, you know, like the braves, I wish the braves didn't even
(42:08):
really do anything well, I wishthey would have went with a blue
yeah, instead of the white.
Speaker 11 (42:13):
You know, because they've already got the white
throwbacks that they wore backin hank barrett's day.
I wish they would have wentkind of a dark blue color, royal
blue or whatever you call it.
Yeah, um, I kind of wish theywould have went that route
instead of the white.
But you know, that's why theyhave people making way more
money than me and you puttogether making those decisions.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, it's holly money right there, oh um, but
I'll, uh, I'll, uh, I'll get youa harper jersey in the City
Connect, all right.
Speaker 11 (42:47):
And I'll send it to you.
That would be perfect to startmy bonfire with.
That would be perfect to startmy bonfire with.
So I will wear the Harperjersey if you'll wear the Ronald
Acuna jersey.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Maybe we can arrange that.
We'll see.
It'd be nice to go to a gamewith you sometime, but we'll see
about that.
Speaker 11 (43:03):
Yeah, we'll have to.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
All right, we're just about out of time here, man,
you gotta wrap it up.
I got two superintendents hereof course.
Speaker 11 (43:10):
Why should I tell them how bad of a person?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
no, I'm just kidding they all know you went, where
you went to school and all thethings you did yeah.
Speaker 11 (43:19):
Yeah, I know I've got my and somehow they let rent
high school recover after youleft.
Well, I've got my formerassistant principal on air, so I
have to be good I mean he knowsmy, he knows my baby sister too
.
I mean, you know, he knows herand my middle sister, you know
people will tell me zach, that'snot a good thing.
The principal knows you becauseI mean that's right.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
The principal knows my name I always ask my kids if
they know the principal if theydo that's not good.
That's not true.
I knew almost everybody.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
We had good relationships, you being in the
band and having fun up there.
Speaker 11 (43:56):
Man.
I was going around tellingpeople man, mr Young knows my
name, zach dude, that ain't good.
He knows your name Because whenyou get in trouble he knows
exactly where to come.
I will tell you a funny story.
Mr Young may remember this,because it happened my sophomore
year.
I think it was my I'm trying tothink no, it was my junior year
(44:17):
.
There was another Zach Howardat rim and he got in a fight one
day.
So I don't know if Mr Young wasthe upperc classman principal
then, because he started out asthe freshman principal, but he
got in a fight.
Well, to sign on to the computer, it was your first name and
then you made your own password.
Well, I always had to sign inas Zach Howard 2.
(44:38):
And so this kid gets in a fightand Tiffany's seen it this is
before me and Tiffany gottogether, so she sees it and I
go in.
I'm walking into class andpeople's like what are you doing
at class?
What are you doing at schooltoday?
I'm like I'm supposed to be.
You're supposed to be in OSS?
No, I'm not, because the waythey've done attendance was it
(45:00):
was your annual picture, youryearbook picture, and it had, if
you was there, not there late,whatever, and it had OSS beside
my name in every one of myclasses.
So when people started saying,you know, man, zach Howard beat
the crap out of that guy.
Let me tell you something I waslike yes, I did.
(45:21):
Yes, I did, yes, I did.
That has always been a funnystory, because even people now
didn't you beat up Wesson Sparks.
Yes, I did.
That has always been a funnystory, because even people now
didn't you beat up Weston Sparks.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Yes, yes, that was me , that was me.
Yeah, yes, that was me.
All right, zach, get out ofhere.
Speaker 11 (45:35):
Oh, I am, I am.
It was good talking to youagain.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
Take care, Zach.
Good to hear from you.
Speaker 11 (45:41):
You too.
Hey, keep Mr boone straight forme we'll do our best, yeah so I
know that's a hard job to do.
I don't try to ask miss haroldto keep him straight, but she
can't do it either she's triedbut well, y'all take care.
Man, it was good hearing fromyou and hopefully we'll talk
next week, if you don't cancelon me again all right, I'll, uh,
I'll keep you posted all right,we'll talk to you later all
(46:04):
right, see, See you, man.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
All right, as usual, we bring you a little bit of
everything on the Boone Show andZach is that little bit of
everything, but we are going tofinish off here.
Last 10 minutes.
A little lighter note with youguys.
Here We'll get some of yourrecommendations, as we do with
(46:26):
our show guests, guests, so bethinking about this in the back
of your mind.
Any kind of entertainmentrecommendations you have a book
or something you're streaming orbinging or watching on TV movie
, whatever or a foodrecommendation We've had many
that have had recipes.
In fact, Mr Binniger, wasn't itchili?
Or something that you said youmake?
(46:47):
What was it that we wantedShrimp and grits.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Shrimp and grits.
I knew it was something in abig pot, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (46:55):
We've never had it.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
I mean he kept promising us We've got a few
more weeks left.
He literally came in here andtalked six minutes about it, but
we've not heard any, and we'venot seen it.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
We'll see what we can do.
All right, yeah, we've got it.
We've got to get some of thatand I got to be able to take
some home because my wife lovesshrimp and grits wherever she
can get it.
Um, so you know, somethingalong the food lines,
entertainment lines, we'll getthat front because I I have a
list we ought to publish thislist of all the guests that we
have and the recommendations forthe area and book.
I've read some of the booksthey've talked about and watched
some of the series.
It's really kind of cool.
But first we wanted to see ifwe could differentiate you guys
(47:33):
a little bit and see how alikeor different you are, to kind of
get an idea of where thisdistrict is going.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Okay, I'm sure these are important.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
These are very important.
This or that questions.
Okay, so you know we don't havemuch time, so we'll run through
a bunch of them very quicklyand there I I worked with a
psychologist to come up withquestions that work.
Certain things in your mind,with how you answer, will tell
us a lot, okay, so just so, justso you know that.
(48:05):
All right, first thing,playlists or podcasts.
Mr Binnicker, go first.
Playlist Okay.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Podcasts Uh-huh See.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
We got a difference already.
What podcasts do you like?
Speaker 4 (48:18):
by the way.
Lately I've been on a kick withAndy Stanley and Craig Rochelle
and some leadership staff.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, they would know what they're talking about.
Okay, swimming pool or beach.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
Oh my, I love them both, but since I'm moving to
the beach, I guess I'll have topick beach.
I'm beach for sure, all rightAll right, all right, fruits or
vegetables.
Oh, I like both of those two,but'm gonna go with fruits okay
fruits for me easy all right.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, we all deal with students.
That's a bunch of fruits everyday, all right um cats or dogs,
the age old question?
Hey, there's no question.
Dogs, thank you.
Dogs, no use, for I like bothof you guys.
All right, um movies or TVshows Movies, okay.
Speaker 4 (49:09):
I don't know how to answer that, because I would say
like a TV show, but I want onewith like 10.
You want a series of episodes?
Yes, I want to binge it.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Yeah because, it's different nowadays.
Speaker 1 (49:20):
Yes, it's like watching a super long movie
Correct, yeah, and I kind oflike that.
I probably watch more seriesthan I do movies.
Now, If I see something as amovie, I'm like yeah, I'll watch
that later.
But if it's a series, it's likeyeah.
Speaker 4 (49:34):
I saw something where somebody was like you won't set
aside a time to watch athree-hour movie, but you'll sit
there and show for a lot longertime it's yeah, I agree with
that all right um theall-important apple or or
android apple, apple good, good,good I like very similar.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, they are, they are similar and especially in
the more important things right,like if you have an android.
My wife god bless her, she, shehas an android.
It's just I've only had aniPhone of mine since they came
out, you know, 20 years ago orwhatever.
She insists on having anAndroid and even today she's
(50:16):
complaining because she couldn'tfind her stylus.
It's like he's still using astylus on a stinking phone.
I mean, come on, you're goingto lose the little thing.
All the time I don't lose myfinger, at least hopefully not,
and I use that on the wholething, excuse me, cough time.
All right, we're back umwaffles or pancakes pancakes
(50:40):
pancakes.
Speaker 4 (50:41):
There's a lot of hesitation, dr young in Young in
some of your answers.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
Well, I think he likes probably both Okay.
Speaker 4 (50:48):
It sort of also kind of depends on where from.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
Valid.
Who's making it Valid?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
Just fine, so since you said pancakes, where's the
best place to get pancakes, ordo you make them yourself?
Speaker 4 (51:00):
Well, the first best place to get pancakes is my wife
made them Good answer.
Sunnyside Cafe in Clemson.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
I don't know if you've ever eaten there Patrick
Square.
Do you like the big fluffy ones, or more of the flapjacks kind
of thing?
Speaker 4 (51:17):
I like fluffy ones.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
Yeah, yeah, I got you All right Ice or fire, fire.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Ice or fire.
I'm going to go fire because Ihate being cold.
Okay Same.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Same, so like a bonfire would be more enjoyable
than just ice.
There's a lot of different waysyou could look at that question
.
Cars or trucks.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
Ooh, ooh.
I have a car, but I want atruck, so should I say truck?
Speaker 5 (51:49):
Until you get one, I'm the same.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
I have a car but I want a truck and I've always
wanted a truck, but somehowevery time we go car shopping,
my wife gets what she wants andI get the hand-me-downs.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
Yes, same, same, same , Holly.
Speaker 2 (52:07):
It does not happen in my householdbie is the one who
gets the vehicles yeah, and hegets the new vehicles mine, you
know.
I just got one after 13 yearsyeah, I noticed that.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
I didn't notice your car in the parking lot anymore.
I'm like yeah, you finally gotsomething new because I don't
even know what you're drivingnowadays.
All right, coke or pepsi.
Uh, coke, coke.
Why do you like Coke more?
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Because it is the best.
It tastes delicious.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Pepsi's just kind of like too sweet maybe Pepsi
tastes flat yeah okay, yeah, Isee that I drink them both.
But I see that All right moviedate or dinner date.
Ooh dinner date yes, goodrestaurant somewhere.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
Absolutely.
We love it.
Speaker 4 (52:49):
Movie date and a large popcorn.
There you go.
That's also good With freerefills, nice and.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
I tell you what the movie theater is around here now
, with their nice recliner seatsand all that, and you know you
get that popcorn.
You're relaxing, just likeyou're at home.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Put your own butter on too, Yep.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Oh yeah, I empty that thing.
Yeah, it's a little sloppythere, but all right.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Introvert or extrovert, extrovert.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, I see that Extrovert Really.
So they're both extroverts.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
I can see that.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
It's funny because we always joke around, because all
of us media people here areintroverts.
We actually took the testduring one of those professional
development things.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
That's the kind of professional development we do
around here.
My wife actually hates going inpublic with me at times because
she says I go into mayor modewhen I start shaking hands with
everybody, kissing babies, doingall that kind of stuff, but
it's like me, Mr Seeley and Jen.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
She's the same way.
She says she's an introvert.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
And a lot of media people are like that.
It's weird.
A few more because I know we'rerunning out of time.
Sausage or bacon Bacon Okay,bacon, yeah, yeah, okay.
Run or bike.
Speaker 3 (54:01):
Run, run.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Oh Okay, wings or ribs, wings, wings, okay, all
right, sunrise or sunset.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
Sunrise.
Speaker 1 (54:15):
Okay, early bird.
Yes, definitely All right.
Sunset.
Speaker 5 (54:19):
He was nodding his head the whole time, not even
close to sunrise.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
All right, let's have an ode to the comic books
Batman or Superman, superman,batman, okay.
Speaker 4 (54:30):
All right, let's have an ode to the comic books
Batman or Superman, superman,batman Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Rustic or modern Modern Modern, all right, all
right.
Music festival or art festivalMusic festival, all right.
Probably neither, but if I hadto choose music, Not much of a
festival person, but that'swhere you do all your mayor work
(54:55):
.
Speaker 5 (54:55):
Sporting event.
Yeah, okay, all right, I gotyou there, I got you there.
Speaker 1 (55:00):
Reading or writing, reading, reading.
Okay, that was another comicbook thing.
We'll just skip that, sincewe're almost done here.
Hawaii or Alaska.
Speaker 3 (55:15):
Well, I've been to Hawaii Beautiful, loved it.
Next on my bucket list isAlaska, so I'm going to say
Alaska.
Speaker 4 (55:25):
That's a hard one.
I would say Hawaii yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:29):
Two very different places, but two very beautiful
places.
Speaker 4 (55:32):
They're both at the top of the bucket list, yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Alaska is also on my bucket list.
I've been to Hawaii too, butyou see all these shows about
Alaska on TV and you see wherethe cruises go up there and
everything.
It's so beautiful, so beautiful.
Soft or hard tacos Soft.
Really, definitely, yeah there,and everything is so beautiful,
so beautiful, soft or hardtacos soft really yeah, yeah
(56:00):
what do you do?
Speaker 3 (56:01):
huh, soft, yeah, yeah , flour, flour lobster or crab
crab I guess lobster okay allright and finally, sand or grass
.
Sand or what Grass?
Oh grass.
Speaker 4 (56:18):
Even though I like the beach, I'm not much of a
sand all in the car kind ofstuff yeah that's true.
I would say the same thinggrass.
Speaker 1 (56:26):
Okay, so there you go .
When everybody listens back onthe podcast, they will know
something about these guys.
Speaker 2 (56:32):
And how similar they are, how similar they are.
Speaker 1 (56:34):
So, as we wrap things up, recommendation Do you have
a recommendation for ourlistening audience, mr Binnicker
?
Entertainment-wise or food-wise?
Speaker 3 (56:44):
Yes, my wife and I just started watching this
series I think it's on Peacockcalled Traitor.
It's a oh gosh like a reality.
It's like a reality TV show andit's a game that they play.
Lots of twists and turns andjust a very simple game.
(57:05):
There's a group of about 20people Some are designated
traitors and some are designatedfaithfuls, and each one they
don't know who's who and they'retrying to vote each other out.
So it's a neat show to watch.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
So is this a movie or is this a series?
It's a series, dr Young, youcan watch that now.
Dr Young would like it.
It's a series, dr Young, youcan watch that now Dr Young
would like it.
Speaker 3 (57:29):
It's a series and there's an American version and
a British version and an.
Australian version.
The British version is prettygood Okay.
Speaker 1 (57:36):
A lot of the ideas for American television come
from.
British television and a lot ofthem are good.
All right, dr Young, what?
Speaker 4 (57:45):
can you recommend to us?
I'm trying to find the name ofit.
There was a show on Apple TVthat we loved.
Yeah, slow Horses.
Speaker 1 (57:53):
Yes, love that show as well.
Speaker 4 (57:55):
Yes, it's a British.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Gary Oldman.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
Yes, british kind of spy FBI thing, that they don't
call it the FBI because it's inEngland, it's MI5 or whatever it
is.
Speaker 1 (58:11):
But yeah, it's mi5 or whatever it is.
But yeah, it's cool.
Gary olma is just tremendous inthat and it's it's about like
these.
They got disgraced from the toplevels of the mi5 or whatever
it is yeah so they have to stayin this.
What do they call this sloughhouse?
Or whatever house is what theycall it is where these agents
all work, but they, they wind updoing these, solving these
great big crimes and all thiskind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (58:32):
It's like a conspiracy thing they uncover
and it's like a hostagesituation.
Speaker 1 (58:38):
It's pretty cool.
Yeah, did you watch the latestseason?
I think there's three.
Speaker 4 (58:43):
We just finished season one and started season
two, so it doesn't disappoint.
Speaker 1 (58:48):
All the seasons are great, and it's based on a
series of books, so if you likereading, you can read the spy
books.
Speaker 4 (58:57):
Yeah, it was good, and we got interrupted by March
Madness, but my wife and Iliterally watched it in like
three days.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
Oh wow, Is that good yeah it's one of those things
you really want to binge.
It's pretty cool, all right, sothat will wrap it up with the
superintendents here.
Mr Robbie Binniker, thank youso much for your service.
It's not like you're leaving.
Leaving, we'll check in fromCharleston.
You know, during hurricaneseason We'll call you.
Speaker 4 (59:26):
Now that Holly knows how to get a caller in, we'll
have him call in.
Yes, we can call in.
Speaker 1 (59:32):
Well, we'll get Holly's daughter back on here so
we can raise the level ofproduction.
Speaker 3 (59:36):
That's right.
I would love that.
That would be an honor to beinvited back on the program.
Speaker 4 (59:43):
He can be our weather correspondent.
That's right, there you go.
He's our Jim Cantore.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
Absolutely You'll be out there in the wind and the
rain.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
Love it on the beach.
Pleasant, yeah, because that'swhere it point.
Pleasant is where you're living, right, so you'll be right out
there mount pleasant, yeah notpoint pleasant but mount
pleasant.
So yeah, you'll be, you'll be.
Hopefully you won't be in thepath.
Hopefully, of any hurricanesbut anyway it'd be great to hear
from you and thanks again foreverything over the years.
Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
And Dr Young.
We are just getting started,sir, so I know you're excited
about what's going to be goingon in District 1, and you've
been in it for a long time andnow you're in the top seat, so
looking forward to what you cando, moving forward.
Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Excited about the opportunity.
Big shoes to fill yeah, we'llsee what happens.
Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
All right, Holly, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
We are working the show around Holly's schedule
these days, so when she can makeit we do a show.
Next show will be on in acouple of weeks.
We're going to do District 2.
Yes, jason Johns and Mary Bortz,that's right, Jason Johns and
Mary Bortz will be here andcheck out the podcast version of
this, which will be up by theend of the week.
So tell your friends they cancheck it out wherever they get
(01:00:52):
their podcasts.
Thanks again to these greatguys.
We'll talk to you next time onthe Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
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