October 12, 2023 • 44 mins
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Ever wondered what it takes to transform a town or inspire a community? Today, we're thrilled to have Roberta Hamby, executive director of Envision Williamston, who's made it her life's work to do just that. From humble beginnings in Possum Kingdom to a career in real estate and a passion for community enrichment, Roberta's journey is inspiring.
But don't think we're all work and no play! What's a better breather than a juicy chat about the billionaire cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? We dive into this spicy topic, speculate on the ultimate outcome, and even take a detour into the intriguing world of Barbie Land. We also take a moment to reflect on the importance of personal inspirations.
The Boone Show is not just about the laughs, though; we also highlight matters close to our hearts. So grab your headphones, and let's embark on this journey together. It's an episode jam-packed with insight, entertainment, and a shared love for our communities. Don't miss out!
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Colt (00:01):
Get ready because it's season four.
The Boone Show with your host,john Boone.
John (00:08):
Hello everybody, we are back after a kind of short
summer break, but a breaknonetheless.
It's the Boone Show on my PulseRadio and here we are to start
season number four.
Believe it or not, startedduring COVID and here we are.
And can you believe that COVIDis that far in the rear view
(00:30):
window and rear view mirror, andlet's hope it stays there.
It's just time flies, that'sall I can say.
And we're here to start aseason number four.
Boss lady is not here today.
She's in Columbia and Danita isalso out.
Who is her fill in?
But we have plenty ofpersonality in the room.
My producer, colt, is here.
Hello, colt.
Colt (00:50):
Yes, sir.
John (00:50):
It's good to be back and our very special guest tonight
is Roberta Hamby from EnvisionWilliamston.
I'm going to tell us all thestuff that's going on in
Williamston and a little bitabout her.
Thanks for coming, roberta.
(01:03):
You're certainly welcome.
Thanks for having me.
John (01:05):
Yeah, it's great to have you because we know a lot's
going on.
But for people that don't knowyou yet, tell us a little bit
about yourself.
How'd you get to where you arenow?
Where are you from?
Are you from this areaoriginally?
I'm from Possum Kingdom, ohright somebody's actually from
one of those great named towns.
(01:23):
Yeah, southern end of Greenville County.
John (01:25):
Yeah, possum Kingdom, so generally from this area, your
whole life and tell us how yougrew up and how you got into
position.
You're a realtor now, right?
(01:35):
I am.
I own a real estate company.
I've been doing real estate for31 years, oh wow.
And we moved to this area whenmy children started school
because we wanted them inAnderson District on schools.
Wow, they both graduated.
They went all through schoolhere and they both graduated
from school here and now havegrad children in school here.
John (01:54):
How about that?
A great District 1 supporter.
(01:57):
Absolutely.
John (01:59):
And yeah, it's been a great district for a long time,
that's for sure.
(02:02):
A warm winning.
John (02:03):
Our kids, our older kids are in their 30s now and they
all went to District 1.
And so did our middle kids.
Now that we've moved to, ourother kids are in Oconee County,
but through no fault of theirown.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oconee is not that bad.
John (02:18):
But we all know from working here that District 1 is
great and I'm sure you've had agreat experience coming through
there.
So where do you?
Oh yes, colt, I know you're aDistrict 1 kid yourself over
there at Palmetto, and well,tell us what brought you to
Williamston.
How long have you lived?
Do you live right here inWilliamston?
(02:37):
I do.
I live right here, not even aquarter of a mile right here
from the Career Center.
So I'm just right there atHardee's.
So I have been here, like Isaid, since my kids have started
school, so that's been over 30years.
I moved here specifically toget them in school here and
we've been here the whole timeand absolutely love the small
town and feel like we belong now.
John (03:02):
Yeah, yeah.
When did you decide in yourlife that you wanted to be a
realtor?
Because you said you've donethat pretty much your whole life
.
So when was it that you decidedthat's what I want to do?
And obviously you've stuck withit.
(03:14):
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up Me neither
.
Colt (03:18):
That was one of those things.
(03:20):
I went to church with somebody who worked in real estate.
She was my children's Sundayschool teacher and she said, hey
, I'm going to go get my realestate license and I had never
thought about it.
And she taught me into going toschool with her to get my real
estate license.
And we did.
And I was in banking beforethat and I love the banking job,
but I wanted to be a stay athome mother and so real estate
(03:42):
gave me the opportunity that Icould set my schedule around my
kids field trips and things likethat and so that's the reason I
stayed in it.
John (03:50):
Yeah, it's good that you could find a job to do that.
It's always nice to have thatkid time.
I know a lot of people in mybusiness in radio wound up not
being so great of family peoplebecause they get so involved in
the 24-7 media cycle and a lotof them you know, unfortunately,
divorces and families breakingup.
The majority of the people Iknew had that happened to them.
(04:11):
So it's that kind of business.
So for you to be able to findsomething that you were able to
spend that time, that's time youcan't get back, and so I'm sure
you're thankful for that.
So what brought you up towanting to do this?
Envision Williamston thing?
(04:26):
Envision Williamston started in 2014 and I became a volunteer
in 2014.
So I've been with the programsince its inception.
John (04:34):
So it was 10 years now.
(04:35):
Wow yeah almost yeah, and I thought it was a wonderful
program.
I thought I loved everythingthat they were doing for the
program and I stayed as avolunteer for many years and
then I got on the board andthrough the COVID and some other
things, we lost our funding fora full-time executive director.
So I just stepped in to keepthe program running because I
(04:55):
thought it was such a goodprogram, and that's been a
little over two years now that.
John (05:00):
I'm still sitting here in the that's what happens when you
do a good job.
Well, thank you very much.
(05:06):
No one's going to chase you out of there, I ask them all the
time if they're ready to fireme and they just laugh and say
absolutely not.
Yeah, that's the same thing?
John (05:14):
We had the PBA girls in here last, at the end of last
season, and who are they again,caroline?
And Melanie Caroline yes, Idon't know why I can see their
faces, and I'm terrible withnames.
(05:25):
And Melanie.
John (05:26):
And they do a great job and they've really brought PBA
back and again from COVID andthey were saying the same thing.
They were just going to helpout a little bit and no one's
saying to leave anytime soon,because they're doing a great
job too.
So that's great.
We're going to talk aboutcoming up all the different
things and vision Williamstondoes and you can kind of explain
(05:47):
about what it does do, what itdoesn't do, what it's involved
in and those kind of things whenwe come back.
So a lot to talk about withRoberta Hamby.
We've also got some stuff inthe news that we like to joke
around about, because there'salways some fun we can find in
the news amidst all the bad newsthere is out there.
We can find some things tosmile and laugh about and of
(06:07):
course we'll close out with ourfood segment.
So that's all coming up here onthis episode of the Boone Show
right here on my Pulse Radio.
Welcome back to the Boone Showon my Pulse Radio.
I'm John Boone, along with ColGouge and our special guest
Roberta Hamby from EnvisionWilliamston.
I'm going to talk a little bitabout Envision Williamston right
(06:27):
now and let's kick it off withthe mission statement which I
told Roberta I would not tellher she had to recite it back to
me word for word right off thebat.
But it is a community-basedprogram designed to enhance the
identity and heritage of theWilliamston community by working
with both the public andprivate sectors of the town to
restore vitality and ensureeconomic security and ensure
(06:48):
economic stability throughconcentrated efforts in
organization, promotion, designand business development.
So we'll break that down alittle bit, Roberta, and you can
tell us what all that means.
Let's kick it off with thebusiness development and
promotion part of that.
(07:05):
We help to bring businesses to town.
We help locate the propertiesthat may be suitable for the
businesses.
We reach out to the propertyowners and we help facilitate a
meeting.
We help get the business ownerswith the correct departments
there in the town and theyhandle all their business needs.
We perform all the ribboncuttings in town and the grand
(07:25):
openings and we promote themwhen they have anything going on
in their businesses.
We promote that as well on oursocial media.
John (07:33):
So how is that going?
A lot of ribbon cuttings lately.
It seems like I see posts aboutyou being out there going
through a lot of ribbon thesedays.
(07:41):
Absolutely.
We've got a lot of newbusinesses coming to town and
we've got some that are evenfranchise businesses that we
love, so that means that growthis coming.
John (07:52):
We got the Bojangles.
Of course was a big one comingto town.
(07:55):
And T-Mobile.
John (07:56):
And T-Mobile there yeah.
So yeah, it's been Williamstonmoving up a little bit.
Colt (08:01):
Yeah, and an Ingles in a couple years.
John (08:03):
Yeah, everyone keeps talking about that.
Boy Board of Rocky gets thoseemails about that all the time.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
When's the Ingles coming?
When's it coming?
John (08:11):
Gotta get that grocery store.
I joke around with him all thetime about that.
But yeah, it's going to be coolwhen it does come, because
that's an area.
If that area of the town getsbuilt up right there on Main
Street, that'll really be acapper on the rebirth, I guess,
of the town to have that allbusy.
(08:32):
Originally in Vision Williamston was the Main Street
program and we were part of theMain Street program throughout
the United States.
And then we branched off and wekind of separated from just the
Main Street corridor to thewhole entire town.
So we worked throughout butwhen we first started it was the
Main Street program and we onlyfocused right there in the
(08:52):
direct center of town.
John (08:54):
Well, that's a good segue to the next thing that we're
talking about.
One of the things you do isbeautifying the town in many
different ways.
Talk about that a little bit.
(09:02):
OK, we've done adopt arrest stop.
That's been just throughouttown and people were able to
adopt those and put their plankson them and they could dedicate
them to someone who had passedaway or someone who was still
here.
We did adopt a shelter lastyear in the park and that was
businesses and individuals wereallowed to adopt the shelters to
help maintain them.
John (09:23):
I think the Career Center has one right.
(09:25):
The Career Center was going to have one but a little something
happened with that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And they weren't.
(09:30):
Yeah, they had to, but they did.
Yeah, they did commit to one,but then something happened with
that.
We've added wayfinding signsthroughout the town.
We've got welcome signs at mostof the entrances to town, we
put up the electronic messageboard in front of town hall and
we have town cleanup days everyyear and we do those as well.
John (09:52):
And it seems like you've had good turnout for those as
well.
People coming out to clean upthe town and some of these other
projects you've been doing seemto be growing pretty quickly
too, especially again coming outof COVID.
Everything kind of everythingwas growing and then COVID came
along and everything justtotally shut down.
It's not a shock to anybody,that's what happened.
(10:12):
But to see you guys withEnvision Williamston and with
PBA and such building all thisstuff back up is amazing.
And one of those things is thebobbers on Big Creek, which I
missed this year because I wasout of town, but that's a fun
thing.
(10:27):
That is a very fun event.
John (10:28):
And tell people how that works, in case you're not
familiar.
(10:30):
OK, it's a race and it's very similar to the Ducky Derby in
Greenville.
We partner with the PalmettoBusiness Association on this
event so that the businesses inWilliamston and Pelser and West
Pelser can all participate.
People go into one of theparticipating businesses the PBA
businesses and they receive abobber and they bring the bobber
to our freedom celebration andyou race it down the Big Creek
(10:55):
for a chance to win some greatdonated prizes.
John (10:58):
That sounds like fun.
I haven't seen it yet.
I've been missing it each time,and this was part of the
freedom celebration, right.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It was For the.
John (11:05):
Fourth of July and Williamston is becoming known as
one of the best places to watchfireworks what I've heard as
well.
(11:11):
They put on a phenomenal show.
We had a big storm right beforethe fireworks and it was kind
of iffy if we were going to getto do it this year, but it
cleared up just in time and itwas off the charts.
It was amazing.
John (11:23):
Yeah, and some of the other things.
As far as beautifying goes thepark, you now have a fire pit
over there.
How does that work?
Do people have to reserve thefire pit as well or get
permission to use that?
(11:36):
You do.
You just go to Town Hall andlet them know what day you're
going to be there and they justrecord what day.
Now we do ask that you staywith your fire until it's
completely out.
Occasionally there's woodalready there at the fire pit,
but you can certainly bring yourown.
It's a great way for you to beable to take for people who live
in apartments and maybe live ina subdivision that don't allow
any kind of backyard fire pit.
(11:57):
Take your kids, do a fire pit,make some s'mores and just enjoy
the evening and there's plentyof places to sit around there.
John (12:05):
They have that stone kind of seating area.
(12:07):
And then you've got picnic tables and all that and you can
bring your own fold out chairsand sit at my next that was a
good idea.
John (12:15):
Then you've got the Easter Bunny that comes to town each
week.
Yeah, each week, each year.
That would be a little crazyeach week, but that's always a
big deal with the, not only forthat, but they usually have a
hunt going on across the park,which those things are just
crazy, with kids running allover the place.
But you've got the Easter Bunny.
Then you've tell us about thesehometown hero banners that get
(12:39):
hung up on occasion throughoutthe town.
(12:42):
We started that a couple of years ago, right after COVID,
and we allowed, we got up anorder and you could buy a
hometown hero banner with yourloved one's information on it,
and then we hung it up at the4th of July and left it hanging
down Main Street and so anybodywho wanted to purchase one, and
then we will hang them up atdifferent times as well,
throughout the year.
John (13:01):
Now they go through your website or town website, or how
do they get the information toyou?
(13:07):
Usually we always have the applications right outside my
office store.
My office, invision Williamston, is when you walk in Town Hall.
It's the first store on theleft.
You can't miss it.
It says InVision Williamston.
It's got the mailbox next to itand we have got a brochure
stand right there.
So anytime we have any kind ofevent going on, we've got the
applications there.
But it'll also be on thewebsite and it'll be on our
(13:29):
Facebook page.
And if you don't have access toany of that, call me and I can
get you a copy.
We can mail you a copy or youcan come by and we'll come by
and drop you one off or whateverwe need to do.
The best place to find out isto follow us on our Facebook
page and you see what's going on, or in the journal and they
tell anytime we've got a programgoing on.
(13:50):
So when we open this hometownhero banner back up, then it
will be in the paper telling youthat you can order one and then
it will also be on our Facebookand the town of Williamston's
Facebook as well.
John (14:01):
Pretty cool thing.
So for all these events thatwe're talking about, you would
have information right there inthose places that you said.
So we'll, ok, throw that outthere.
The working on Williamson thewow used to be howdy.
(14:13):
It did used to be howdy, now it's wow.
John (14:17):
That's the cleanup day and every year around Earth Day, so
that's a cool thing to getinvolved in.
We had talked about doingsomething with the kids being
out of school.
It's tough for us to do thingsaround.
Well, that is like right at theend of the school year, right?
Earth Day is in April, is it?
It is and so yeah, that was abusy time, but we'd love to have
a team of people go out thereand help out.
They have a pastor's breakfasttwice a year.
(14:40):
That'll keep the churchesknowing what all's going on, so
that's a great idea.
We've got a lot of churchesaround and a lot of active
churches that do get involved.
They see a lot of the eventsyou're talking about.
A lot of churches out theredoing things.
(14:54):
We.
We've got a local church thathas a food bank right here in
town.
We've got a local church thathas a coat closet here in town
so they provide clothing forpeople in need.
We've got one that does a Lazerearth project and so you can
fill out an application for them, and if you have a special need
of a handicap or amp orsomething's wrong with your
house and there's an immediateneed, the Lazer earth project
(15:16):
steps in.
So we've got some wonderfulchurches in the area that do
amazing things for the community.
John (15:21):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Here's one for you, colt thebingo with the blue playing
bingo with the WilliamstonPolice Department when?
When is when?
Is that the good question, colt?
That was good.
Tell me, he's my news director,because he just asked a good
question when and where do youhave the bingo?
(15:38):
We only had that one time so far and we've got a great
response and we want people toand people want us to do it
again.
What we have to do is we haveto get prizes donated so that we
have something to give away atthe bingo.
The last time we did the bingogame we did it around
Valentine's Day and we partneredwith the Palmetto Business
(15:58):
Association and Piedmont PostAcute and they got donations.
So we hope to do it generallyin the springtime, All right and
we start working on gettingprizes and as soon as we get
enough prizes to make it, wecan't have a bingo game and have
two prizes and have theauditorium, but it does happen
at Town Hall and the auditoriumthere at Town Hall, williamston.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Town Hall.
Keep that in mind.
John (16:21):
Now I know, and it's free to the public, there you go, you
win from there.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
No losing involved there.
John (16:27):
You talk about all the ribbon cuttings.
They're going on all the time.
This summer kids scavenger huntI hadn't heard about that, but
a chance to win hundreds ofprizes.
How does?
(16:38):
that work.
We just had that.
That was the first time we'dever done that.
What we did was we hid rocksthroughout the park.
They were numbered and letteredand we had a puzzle so the kids
would find the rocks, theywould flip them over and they
would coordinate the letterswith the numbers and they would
solve the puzzle.
And then we had a camp out.
We had our first ever camp outin town.
(16:59):
We called that Staycation 2023,camping Creekside in
Williamston.
And so the kids brought theirsoft scavenger puzzles to the
camp out that Friday night andturned them in and we had over a
hundred prizes that the kidscould win for solving their
scavenger hunt.
And it kicked off our CampingCreekside event and that was the
(17:20):
first time we had that event aswell.
John (17:22):
How did that go?
Because that sounded prettycool.
(17:24):
That was really good.
We had 14 tents and threeindividual sleeping bag campers.
Everybody was really afraid.
With it being the end of July,it was going to be extremely hot
, but we had the threat of a bigstorm right before and so it
actually believe it or not gotcold in the night.
John (17:42):
So I think I think you're staying out there.
I did I was in the big tent.
(17:46):
I stayed in all my life, and and we definitely everybody who
was there have asked us to do itagain, and we're probably
thinking about maybe in the fall, but if not, certainly in the
spring.
The whole purpose of us doingit, though, was a lot of kids, a
lot of families, specificallywith the economy and stuff,
weren't able to go on a vacationthe summer, and the summer was
(18:08):
short, so that's the wholereason we set this up was so
that when kids go back to schooland the teacher said what did
you do during the summer, thesekids didn't have anything to
write about.
So then they had.
We had an outdoor movie at theevent, we had s'mores at the
event, we had hot dogs at theevent, so there was a lot to do
and camping, and a lot of them.
It was our first time evercamping.
(18:28):
It was right there.
We had security there that waspatrolling for us.
We gave every adult in a tent awhistle, so if anything went on
, they could whistle and therewould be help there.
So it was just a great time.
With the park completely closedoff.
They were safe, secure, andthen able to camp out.
John (18:44):
Now was Rocky out there.
(18:46):
Rocky did not come.
Rocky came for the introductionto it a couple of days before,
but he was actually on vacationwhen it happened.
So we're going to give him apass this year.
It had been scheduled for ayear.
John (18:58):
That's the problem with him.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
He's always on vacation.
He works hard.
John (19:03):
And of course, I might as well wrap it up here with the
biggest event of the year.
Last year was the first one ofthe winter wonderland right.
(19:11):
No, that was our second year.
John (19:12):
That's only our third it was big and we were sort of a
part of that too, with theparade and some of the things
that were happening afterwards,with Santa Claus and the food
and drink that was involved inthe park, with the hot chocolate
and cookies and all that.
But tell us what all thiswinter wonderland encompasses.
(19:32):
Okay, we start the evening.
Last year we tried toincorporate the parade with it
and it was just a lot for theday.
So this year we have decidedthat the parade will actually be
the first Saturday of December,that Saturday the second, and
that'll be at three o'clock,because it was just so hard for
everybody to get to all theplaces.
It was for the day and then withkids going back to school the
(19:54):
next day and stuff, we just hada lot going on.
We did move that to thefollowing Saturday.
But what we do on winterwonderland is we have our
official Christmas tree lightingin front of Town Hall.
Before we light the Christmastree we have all the local
pastors reading the story of thebirth of Christ.
We have carolers singingChristmas songs there.
(20:14):
The mayor gives a little speech.
Last year we had all the pastmayors that were our special
guests there.
We do the lighting of the parkof the Christmas, the mineral
springs park.
We do the lighting of the deck,the halls.
We have a holiday market fairinside where vendors sell their
goods and things.
(20:35):
We have a live nativity at theBethlehem Stable in the park.
We have carolers throughout thewhole entire park.
We have horse drawn carriagerides through the park and
that's sponsored by the PalmettaBusiness Association.
We have the free cocoa andcookies that you talked about.
Last year we added two famousmouses.
(20:55):
We can't call them by theirfirst names, but they live at
Disney and they joined thefestivities.
And then of course, we haveSanta and Mrs Claus and we
always have snow, so it is agreat event.
We said I had told the mayorwhen we first started it two
years ago that we wanted it tofeel like a Hallmark movie, and
(21:18):
we got that a lot.
We got that comment that we gotexactly what we wanted.
So it's a great event and agreat turnout.
John (21:25):
And that will be the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
So the only difference is theparade got moved to the
following Saturday, so theWinter Wonderland will still be
the Sunday right afterThanksgiving.
(21:35):
Right.
John (21:36):
All right, looking forward to that.
Roberta, thanks for giving usthat update on all the events.
A lot going on.
Of course, the Spring WaterFestival, which isn't
technically your event, right,but that's coming up next
weekend and, from what we hear,I mean they've had to turn
vendors away.
It's been so popular this year.
(21:53):
It is and it's going to be huge.
We will be there, we'll haveour tent there giving out some,
some Envision Williamson swag.
But it's not our event, butabsolutely it's going to be.
It looks like it's going to bestanding room only this year for
everything that's awesome.
John (22:07):
Looking forward to seeing everybody out there.
We'll be out there too, sowe'll continue with Roberta and
then we'll switch gears, ask herher opinion on some of the the
offbeat news stories we've gotgoing on in the world these days
.
As we continue, it's the BoonShow on my pulse radio.
Welcome back to the Boon Showon my pulse radio, our first
show of season four.
(22:28):
Okay, so we want to talk withour very special guest, roberta
Hamby, about some of the thingsthat are there in the news and
some of the things that aren'tnecessarily being talked about
with everybody else, because,you know, we don't want to talk
about any of the bad stuff andwe don't want to get into
politics on this show.
So so we won't, as we'll justtalk about dumb things like Elon
(22:50):
Musk and Mark ZuckerbergGetting in a cage match, have
you?
Colt (22:53):
seen this cult.
I have.
I already have my bets.
John (22:56):
You do have your bets.
Who do you think so?
I win?
Colt (22:58):
Obviously Elon Musk.
Do you think so People?
John (23:02):
people say that Zuckerberg has been really training.
Colt (23:03):
They say he's the you know the martial arts master.
But I think you know, once youget the Tesla mech suit in there
, then it's just a giant Ironman versus the lizard fight.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
And at that point, you are conspiracy theorist.
Colt (23:17):
Elon Musk will win.
John (23:18):
Okay, you heard it here first folks Elon Musk will be
the winner.
But here the latest on the onthe match.
Have you heard about this forbetter?
I have not.
Oh yeah, you're really missingout to.
These two billionaires havechallenged each other to a cage
match, MMA style mixed martialarts.
Zuckerberg has been training inthat for a while, and then I
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guess Elon kind of challengedhim.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
So I'll take you on a fight.
John (23:43):
And he supposedly has been training some a little bit here
and there, but has been comingup with excuses to put the fight
off, and lately the excuse iswell the not really an excuse.
Well, yeah, he said he neededsurgery and then he said he was
okay and he wanted to do apractice match in Zuckerberg's
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backyard.
Here we are talking aboutbillionaires.
Yeah, he has an octagon in hisbackyard to you know that he
practices in, but Zuckerbergdidn't want to do that.
If we do it, we do it for real,and Dana White, who's the head
of the UFC has, says that he'llget involved and they can do
this, you know, wherever theywant to do it, but he won't
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hammer down a date and Zuck isgetting.
Colt (24:31):
He's still.
He's building a suit.
You got to give him time, he'sbuilding his seat.
John (24:35):
Well, he's.
He's stalling and so there's nodate set, but I got to admit I
would watch.
That is as and they'll probablymake it a paper view that's
like a hundred bucks orsomething.
But I got to tell you I may notwatch it, then I'll find it
illegally somehow, but that issomething that you have to say.
You watched.
Colt (24:56):
Yeah.
John (24:56):
Two of the richest guys in the world trying to beat the
heck out of each other.
(24:59):
That would be, we'll make a watch party.
How about that Watch?
John (25:03):
party sponsored by Envision Winsons, coming up at
Town Hall whenever these guys.
(25:08):
We'll do it outside, outside in the park.
Yes, at the park, so everybodyin town can watch it.
John (25:13):
Yes, and this is it's.
It's ridiculous at the sametime.
It's so ridiculous that youknow it's the old train wreck
thing.
You've got to see it.
You've got to see it.
So whenever this happens, we'llkeep you posted right here.
Also, have you seen Barbie yet?
I have not seen Barbie.
I have not either.
Colt, have you?
Colt (25:32):
I was going to go this weekend, but I did not find the
time, so yeah, I mean, I'm notreal motivated to see it.
John (25:38):
And it's not a political thing.
I know people get it allinvolved in the movie too about
whether it's politically corrector whatever.
But you know I was just never aBarbie fan growing up, neither
was.
I was not a Ken fan.
I had my GI Joe's and that kindof thing and never really
bothered with Barbie, and evenmy sisters, they were into other
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stuff.
They were into sports and stufflike that.
They didn't really have dollsand so I was never really around
the whole Barbie craze.
But I can understand, if it'sthe biggest selling doll of all
time, why making a movie aboutit would be a big deal and it's
made over a billion dollars,which is amazing, and I heard a
good explanation about this.
Because some people say andagain, I haven't seen it, but
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I've heard a lot about it from alot of different people and
most people have said they likeit.
If you just take it for what itis, it's just a thing about
doll coming into the real world.
So what they were saying aboutthe people that think it's down
on men?
They were saying that it's justkind of the way that Barbie was
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presented originally Ken wasnever the star, it was Barbie
and Ken was just there.
So they just made a movie aboutit where Barbie's the star and
doing all the stuff and Ken'sthe side guy.
So it's not like they weredoubting men, it's just that's
the way it is with the dolls.
So it's like, don't take thingsso seriously, go have fun with
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it and sure, if it's a women'sempowerment thing, sure, fine,
ok, we get it.
But the funny thing I saw in thenews about it this week was
that Neil deGrasse Tyson, theastrophysicist one of the
smartest guys supposedly outthere and I wouldn't doubt it
says that by watching the moviehe can figure out where Barbie
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Land actually is.
So he said, by watching themovie and seeing the different
things that are in the movie andthis is funny because we're
talking about an astrophysicistbreaking down Barbie so closely
that he could tell you whereBarbie Land is he says, due to
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the moon's orientation in themovie, places Barbie world
between or Barbie Land, whateverit's called between 20 and 40
degrees north latitude on Earth.
But then there's more.
He says there are palm treesand there are plenty of palm
trees in Barbie Land.
It's kind of a tropical type ofenvironment.
He says that further constrainsthe latitude to between 20 and
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30 degrees and he says the sunand the moon rose and set over
the ocean.
So he says if it's in the USwhich you would kind of assume
it was just by the charactersand how they played and being in
Los Angeles and all that andthen going to Barbie Land, he
would say it would be somewherein the Florida Keys.
I was going to say so if youwere going to look for Barbie
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Land, you would look in theFlorida Keys.
Now the other people that arereally watching Barbie closely
say that can't be, becauseevidently, see, I didn't know
this either because I hadn'tseen the movie To get to the
real world from Barbie Land, youhave to go through space, and
you wouldn't really have to gothrough space to get from
California to Los Angeles, whichis the real world that they
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wind up going to from Florida.
(28:58):
Why, unless you're passing through a mile?
Unless you go way up in the airand go way back down again, or
Miami Beach is kind of likespace, if you can't feel that,
and maybe in a little differentway yes.
John (29:09):
I lived in South Florida for 10 years.
I can vouch for that Crazy,crazy down there.
So they're saying, well, thatwouldn't really be traveling
through space to go fromCalifornia to Florida and back.
But just interesting to me thatan astrophysicist would spend
that much time looking at it tofigure out exactly where it
would be by where the sun andthe moon are in the sky, where
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the ocean is and the palm treeshe was able to pinpoint.
Colt (29:35):
He's done weirder.
There's this famous I think itwas with Joe Rogan, I believe on
the Joe Rogan experience, buthe mentioned how he kept fussing
at James Cameron, the directorof the Titanic movie, because
the stars in the sky were notcorrect historically as what the
constellations in the sky wouldhave been.
(29:56):
How about that?
See, that's a guy, that's justentirely too, smart.
John (30:01):
When you're smart, it begins to be a burden.
After.
(30:03):
Or has too much time on his hands.
John (30:04):
Yeah, you just see too much error in the world when you
know everything.
So it's good not to knoweverything, because then you
don't concentrate on where thestars are.
I did want to let you know alsothat today is World Greatness
Day, and there is a professorthat established this as a
festival to honor all thingsthat are great in life to the
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individuals who have had asignificant impact on our lives,
whether it's a parent, friend,cherished pet.
This is our moment to honor andthank those people.
And he said above all, it'salso a day to think about your
own brilliance.
All brilliant in our own ways, Iguess Not as much as Neil
deGrasse Tyson, but thisprofessor believes that everyone
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is capable of greatness.
That's critical to buildconfidence and self-esteem.
Share that greatness with therest of the world.
So what I was going to ask youguys, and I'll tell you what
let's keep it outside of family,because I think we can all say
our family, we have heroes inour families that we look up to,
but maybe, whether it beanother person or an animal, a
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pet, maybe someone that hasinspired greatness in your own
life Colt.
I'll go to you right away.
Yeah, you got a phone.
Because the phone's going toring, I don't have a good answer
for that.
Colt (31:20):
Definitely not my pet.
I got a German shepherd huskymix.
Her name's Joey and shedefinitely has none of the
smarts from the German shepherd.
I'll tell you that much.
But is she loyal to you?
I think she'd run away if,given the chance.
John (31:41):
So is there a person that has inspired greatness in you,
Colt?
Colt (31:46):
I mean, this is going to be cliche.
I'm going to say my girlfriend.
Oh yeah, wow, so I because she,we have been together since
eighth grade.
John (31:53):
And that's five years.
You're senior.
Colt (31:55):
Yeah, it's crazy, and she has inspired me to do so much
that I otherwise wouldn't havedone that's good.
So yeah, she's who I wouldthink of.
John (32:04):
I have somebody pushing you.
That's always good.
You don't want it the other way, where they just sit back and
let you be you.
Colt (32:11):
No yeah.
John (32:12):
I know I've always had people pushing me.
What about you, Roberta?
You have a person or thing thathas really inspired greatness
in your life.
(32:21):
I just would take this opportunity to say specifically
law enforcement, and not for mespecifically, but just for us as
a society.
I don't think that they get therecognition they deserve.
It's a thankless job.
On many occasions they go aboveand beyond and I just think
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it's a great profession to be in.
That's not paid near enough.
Well, and teachers as wellTeachers is another profession
that you should make a milliondollars a year to be a teacher.
John (32:53):
Well, that sounds good, yes.
(32:55):
And I'll go to the district office and tell them I think
that that's what should happen.
But law enforcement officers Ijust see.
I get to work now at Town Hallside by side with them and I see
how much they put in and then Isee so much negativity that
comes back when they're workingas hard as they can and put more
in than they have to.
So law enforcement's definitelymake it a great place for us to
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live and don't get therecognition that they deserve.
John (33:22):
That's a good answer, and I'll say my dog, dog, dog, ha ha
ha.
I've had a lot of people,though, that inspire greatness
in my life.
I'm certainly thankful for them, because I can think of several
bosses that well, a couple, nottoo many.
I've had some good bosses, butI've had ones that I really
didn't like at the time thatwound up being the ones that
taught me the most, that shapedme for the future.
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But I really like coming hometo my dog, because I have a nice
golden retriever and after aday of dealing with teenagers
it's nice to go home and spendsome time with the dog and relax
a little bit.
So that dog is also veryimportant to me on this world
greatness day.
So think of somebody in yourlife that inspires you to
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greatness and give yourself somecredit for where you are in
life and where you can go Allright, when we come back.
It's the Boon Show on my Pulseradio.
Welcome back to the Boon Showon my Pulse radio.
One of the things that today isthat I noticed and caught my eye
was its chant at the moon day.
What is that?
That sounds like some cultishkind of thing, but it's really
(34:29):
not.
I don't think I couldn't findanything that showed that it was
cultish, because I did lookaround, but evidently this is
something on every August the15th, thousands of people around
the country.
They say chant, but they justkind of yell things into the
heavens as part of chant at themoon day.
Where did it come from?
This is why I think it's not acultish thing.
It came from a Wenatchee,washington based fruit grower,
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stemilts.
They grow all kinds of fruitand, according to local legend,
harvesting their cherries aroundthe full moon makes them
sweeter.
The moon's gravitational pullenhances the tree roots where
the cherries are grown.
That's what they say, and sothey decided to have a
celebration.
This is late in the season forcherries and they say to gather
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your friends together, let looseyour best lunar cheer, whatever
that is.
But what they're saying aboutthis whole thing is that
cherries, the higher they'regrown in elevation, the better
they are, and they say there'stheir cherries, which are called
moon cherries.
Are harvested very late in thesummer and very high up in the
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Washington mountains, and theyactually have to be harvested at
sunrise in order to maintaintheir luster.
62% of the sweet cherries inAmerica are grown in Washington
state.
California and Oregon combiningto make up with those three
states 94% of the cherries thatwe get Cherries, of course, very
(36:01):
good for you less than 90calories in a cup of cherries.
And I tell you I could go tothe store, buy a bag of cherries
and eat the whole thing, unlesssomebody stops me.
Cherries are awesome, but yeah,I don't know about the whole
chain at the moon thing, but Ithought it was interesting the
whole thing about how they growbetter at higher elevations and
(36:22):
such, so I wanted to share thatwith you.
And, of course, being cherries,my question would be what is
your favorite cherry dessert?
Colt (36:32):
Any cherry without the pit in it.
John (36:34):
I agree.
Well, I will eat the cherrieswith the pit if I'm just eating
them out of the bag, but I don'tlike the maraschino cherries.
Do you like those?
(36:42):
Yes, I do you like?
John (36:44):
those, the ones they put on ice cream.
(36:45):
Yeah, I need to Cherry limates .
That's what they use for cherrylimates too.
John (36:49):
No, that's not bad.
I've had that in the tessari,but I just don't, I don't know,
and banana splits OK, and fruitsalad.
Yeah, so there's a lot.
I mean, I like the traditionalcherry pie, one of my favorites
cherry cobbler.
You know those kind of things,old people food, thanks, thanks
a lot.
(37:09):
That's a little cherry for me, little cherry Cherry, just like
a taste of cherry, maybe nottoo much.
John (37:14):
OK, and it is also coming up this weekend a chance for you
to celebrate, because it isNational Soft Ice Cream Day and
we all like soft ice cream,right?
I like any kind of ice cream,it doesn't matter how soft or
hard it is.
So it's interesting.
The history of soft serve, soto speak.
Ice cream is thought to havebeen around since about 2200 BC,
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but one of the earliest talesof it is between 50 and 80 AD,
when Emperor Nero of Rome sentrunners to the mountains for
snow, which then he would eatflavored.
He would put flavor into thesnow, and that was the first
kind of report of ice cream.
Ok, now people will do that nowwhen it snows, so I'll take it
in and make the snow cream rightIn 1934, get this Tom Carvel
(38:06):
ice cream.
You know they make the ice creamcakes and all that.
Well, yeah, that guy suffered aflat tire in his truck.
He had to sell all the meltingice cream in a parking lot and
it went over big.
The soft ice cream went oververy big.
Late 1940s.
Margaret Thatcher, former UKprime minister, works for a
company dedicated developing asoft serve recipe compatible
(38:29):
with American machines, so sheactually helped bring it to
America in the late 1940s.
In the 1960s, better soft servemachines were made, evidently
not at McDonald's, butmechanized air pumps are added
to the soft serve machines,allowing better aeration and
boosting sales for ice creammachine manufacturers.
(38:50):
And then in the 1950s, illegalsoft serve.
Yes, whether it's a prohibitionor something, yes, the
Minnesota legislature actuallyprohibits the sale of ice milk
from trucks, specifying that thedessert has to be sold
pre-packaged.
So, yeah, you couldn't sell itout of the machines.
I guess it had to be packagedup before you sold it.
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So that was weird and they gotover that.
And now we have soft serve andit's called different things
around all the differentcountries around the world.
And, by the way, it contains35% air.
It's actually fluffy comparedto regular ice cream.
70% of people will choose softserve over hard ice cream.
(39:33):
It's actually healthier thanice cream because it has less
fat in it, if you're justmeasuring by fat.
If you want a soft cone, inGreece or Romania it's called
machine ice cream.
Well, that doesn't sound nearas good, does it?
I would like a machine ice cream, please.
In Ireland you ask for a softwhip, soft whip.
(39:54):
But I know Ireland loves somesoft serve and it seems like it
always tastes better in thesummertime, that's the time to
get soft served.
So I mean, what do you like,soft serve-wise?
Colt (40:06):
Chocolate and vanilla.
John (40:07):
I mean, do you just eat a regular cone or something?
Colt (40:09):
Yeah, it has to be on a cone, unless you do a hot fudge
Sunday, and then at that pointit's, it's acceptable.
Yeah but uh yeah, I'm just aregular tone guy.
John (40:19):
Yeah, I went for a long time thinking that you couldn't
have a good sundae with softserve.
It had to be the hard ice creamand then you know, but now I
like some of the sun.
He's like you go to freddy's orsomething and get some of their
sundaes and their their Softserves really good.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Um, where's a good?
John (40:35):
where's a good soft serve place?
Oh.
Colt (40:39):
Put you on the spot, not McDonald's not McDonald's.
John (40:42):
Yeah, no, that's though if you have to go kind of place,
yeah.
(40:47):
I'm not a huge ice cream eater , so that's tough for me.
Yeah, um, the doghouse rightthere, right right down the road
, they've got ice cream.
Yeah, they've got the hard.
Do they do that, sir?
No, that's just the hard.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
and it's good, they've got a lot of different
flavors there, yeah, um, allright.
John (41:02):
So now it's time for robberto Hamby recommends Dented
and dent, and we've got to comeup with some sound yeah, we
need some music.
That that was not it becausewhat what we've done on the show
is we always have our guestsrecommend something food related
, whether it's a recipe thatthey have or a place that they
go or a specific place to getsomething, you know, like a
(41:24):
breakfast meal or a lunch ordinner or a dessert or whatever.
So, uh, I kind of sprung thison her birdie, right, you, right
before the show, and and I'mcurious to hear what she has to
recommend to us tonight.
(41:36):
Okay, I've got a couple of things.
If you have not tried the potroast at Reigns and Williamston,
I have and that's, somebodyrecommended that to me and that
is great.
Oh, wow.
John (41:47):
Yes.
(41:48):
If you have it, you need to do it.
You owe it to yourself.
That and Fried Okra are off thechain.
That's right there at Reignsand Williamston.
Maple Bakery and Coffee Househas some of the best desserts
you will ever put in your mouth.
They change them up and thentheir coffees.
They can serve them any way youwant Hot, cold, any flavor.
(42:09):
They're amazing.
But personally, something, oneof my favorite things to eat is
something that nobody's probablyever heard of and it's called
tomato gravy and you serve itover cornbread and it's a basic
gravy that you make up, justyour regular roux and you pour
can of tomatoes in it, or youcan crush your fresh tomatoes
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and you salt and pepper and it'stomato gravy.
And you crumple up yourcornbread and put your tomato
gravy over top and it'sphenomenal.
John (42:37):
And where do you get that?
(42:38):
You make that at home.
John (42:39):
I just make it at home.
(42:40):
I grew up on that.
John (42:41):
So it's kind of like crushed tomatoes or whatever it
is.
(42:46):
Yes, diced tomatoes and you can get real fancy and you can
bake in the sausage and thingslike that in it.
But it is great.
If you like tomatoes, it'sgreat, just the tomatoes with
the basic gravy roux overcornbread.
John (42:58):
All right, yeah, that sounds like one of those rainy
day things.
(43:02):
It is.
John (43:02):
Yeah.
(43:03):
It's a comfort food, yeah, exactly.
Going home and comfort food.
John (43:07):
But I did want to wrap things up by first of all
thanking you, roberta, forcoming in and spending an hour
with us.
Thank you for having me, andthanks for everything you're
doing with Envision Williamston.
It's really taken off and somany different ways as we went
through that list for people toget involved, everybody to get
involved, whether you're family,kids, older people, you get
something for everybody.
(43:27):
So again we'd like to thankRoberta Hamby for being with us
today.
Our next live show is in twoweeks, that's August 29th, when
Angie Springer will be here forher annual visit from the Cancer
Association of Anderson,talking about all the balloon
launches and everything that'sgoing to go on Labor Day Not in
Williamston this year down inAnderson.
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That'll be at four o'clock.
Of course, you can catch thepodcast at any time on Apple,
google, spotify, wherever youget the podcast.
So thanks again for listening.
We'll talk to you next time onthe Boone Show on my Pulse Radio
.
Colt (44:02):
Next time on the Boone Show.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
So we've got to only raise two million dollars.
That's it now, just two million.
As you know, I mean, cancerused to be a death sentence and
now it's more of a chronicdisease.
I will tap, dance or sing.
Do you pay me to shut up tomake money for cancer patients?
So we had to turn a couple ofballoons away because we didn't
have any lodging for them, youknow.
John (44:24):
Get this.
Scientists recorded a PinkFloyd song from patients'
brainwaves, it's amazing Holly'sbeen everywhere it's like, no
matter what anybody brings up,she's been there.
Get ready because it's season four.
The Boone Show with your host,john Boone.
John (00:08):
Hello everybody, we are back after a kind of short
summer break, but a breaknonetheless.
It's the Boone Show on my PulseRadio and here we are to start
season number four.
Believe it or not, startedduring COVID and here we are.
And can you believe that COVIDis that far in the rear view
(00:30):
window and rear view mirror, andlet's hope it stays there.
It's just time flies, that'sall I can say.
And we're here to start aseason number four.
Boss lady is not here today.
She's in Columbia and Danita isalso out.
Who is her fill in?
But we have plenty ofpersonality in the room.
My producer, colt, is here.
Hello, colt.
Colt (00:50):
Yes, sir.
John (00:50):
It's good to be back and our very special guest tonight
is Roberta Hamby from EnvisionWilliamston.
I'm going to tell us all thestuff that's going on in
Williamston and a little bitabout her.
Thanks for coming, roberta.
(01:03):
You're certainly welcome.
Thanks for having me.
John (01:05):
Yeah, it's great to have you because we know a lot's
going on.
But for people that don't knowyou yet, tell us a little bit
about yourself.
How'd you get to where you arenow?
Where are you from?
Are you from this areaoriginally?
I'm from Possum Kingdom, ohright somebody's actually from
one of those great named towns.
(01:23):
Yeah, southern end of Greenville County.
John (01:25):
Yeah, possum Kingdom, so generally from this area, your
whole life and tell us how yougrew up and how you got into
position.
You're a realtor now, right?
(01:35):
I am.
I own a real estate company.
I've been doing real estate for31 years, oh wow.
And we moved to this area whenmy children started school
because we wanted them inAnderson District on schools.
Wow, they both graduated.
They went all through schoolhere and they both graduated
from school here and now havegrad children in school here.
John (01:54):
How about that?
A great District 1 supporter.
(01:57):
Absolutely.
John (01:59):
And yeah, it's been a great district for a long time,
that's for sure.
(02:02):
A warm winning.
John (02:03):
Our kids, our older kids are in their 30s now and they
all went to District 1.
And so did our middle kids.
Now that we've moved to, ourother kids are in Oconee County,
but through no fault of theirown.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Oconee is not that bad.
John (02:18):
But we all know from working here that District 1 is
great and I'm sure you've had agreat experience coming through
there.
So where do you?
Oh yes, colt, I know you're aDistrict 1 kid yourself over
there at Palmetto, and well,tell us what brought you to
Williamston.
How long have you lived?
Do you live right here inWilliamston?
(02:37):
I do.
I live right here, not even aquarter of a mile right here
from the Career Center.
So I'm just right there atHardee's.
So I have been here, like Isaid, since my kids have started
school, so that's been over 30years.
I moved here specifically toget them in school here and
we've been here the whole timeand absolutely love the small
town and feel like we belong now.
John (03:02):
Yeah, yeah.
When did you decide in yourlife that you wanted to be a
realtor?
Because you said you've donethat pretty much your whole life
.
So when was it that you decidedthat's what I want to do?
And obviously you've stuck withit.
(03:14):
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up Me neither
.
Colt (03:18):
That was one of those things.
(03:20):
I went to church with somebody who worked in real estate.
She was my children's Sundayschool teacher and she said, hey
, I'm going to go get my realestate license and I had never
thought about it.
And she taught me into going toschool with her to get my real
estate license.
And we did.
And I was in banking beforethat and I love the banking job,
but I wanted to be a stay athome mother and so real estate
(03:42):
gave me the opportunity that Icould set my schedule around my
kids field trips and things likethat and so that's the reason I
stayed in it.
John (03:50):
Yeah, it's good that you could find a job to do that.
It's always nice to have thatkid time.
I know a lot of people in mybusiness in radio wound up not
being so great of family peoplebecause they get so involved in
the 24-7 media cycle and a lotof them you know, unfortunately,
divorces and families breakingup.
The majority of the people Iknew had that happened to them.
(04:11):
So it's that kind of business.
So for you to be able to findsomething that you were able to
spend that time, that's time youcan't get back, and so I'm sure
you're thankful for that.
So what brought you up towanting to do this?
Envision Williamston thing?
(04:26):
Envision Williamston started in 2014 and I became a volunteer
in 2014.
So I've been with the programsince its inception.
John (04:34):
So it was 10 years now.
(04:35):
Wow yeah almost yeah, and I thought it was a wonderful
program.
I thought I loved everythingthat they were doing for the
program and I stayed as avolunteer for many years and
then I got on the board andthrough the COVID and some other
things, we lost our funding fora full-time executive director.
So I just stepped in to keepthe program running because I
(04:55):
thought it was such a goodprogram, and that's been a
little over two years now that.
John (05:00):
I'm still sitting here in the that's what happens when you
do a good job.
Well, thank you very much.
(05:06):
No one's going to chase you out of there, I ask them all the
time if they're ready to fireme and they just laugh and say
absolutely not.
Yeah, that's the same thing?
John (05:14):
We had the PBA girls in here last, at the end of last
season, and who are they again,caroline?
And Melanie Caroline yes, Idon't know why I can see their
faces, and I'm terrible withnames.
(05:25):
And Melanie.
John (05:26):
And they do a great job and they've really brought PBA
back and again from COVID andthey were saying the same thing.
They were just going to helpout a little bit and no one's
saying to leave anytime soon,because they're doing a great
job too.
So that's great.
We're going to talk aboutcoming up all the different
things and vision Williamstondoes and you can kind of explain
(05:47):
about what it does do, what itdoesn't do, what it's involved
in and those kind of things whenwe come back.
So a lot to talk about withRoberta Hamby.
We've also got some stuff inthe news that we like to joke
around about, because there'salways some fun we can find in
the news amidst all the bad newsthere is out there.
We can find some things tosmile and laugh about and of
(06:07):
course we'll close out with ourfood segment.
So that's all coming up here onthis episode of the Boone Show
right here on my Pulse Radio.
Welcome back to the Boone Showon my Pulse Radio.
I'm John Boone, along with ColGouge and our special guest
Roberta Hamby from EnvisionWilliamston.
I'm going to talk a little bitabout Envision Williamston right
(06:27):
now and let's kick it off withthe mission statement which I
told Roberta I would not tellher she had to recite it back to
me word for word right off thebat.
But it is a community-basedprogram designed to enhance the
identity and heritage of theWilliamston community by working
with both the public andprivate sectors of the town to
restore vitality and ensureeconomic security and ensure
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economic stability throughconcentrated efforts in
organization, promotion, designand business development.
So we'll break that down alittle bit, Roberta, and you can
tell us what all that means.
Let's kick it off with thebusiness development and
promotion part of that.
(07:05):
We help to bring businesses to town.
We help locate the propertiesthat may be suitable for the
businesses.
We reach out to the propertyowners and we help facilitate a
meeting.
We help get the business ownerswith the correct departments
there in the town and theyhandle all their business needs.
We perform all the ribboncuttings in town and the grand
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openings and we promote themwhen they have anything going on
in their businesses.
We promote that as well on oursocial media.
John (07:33):
So how is that going?
A lot of ribbon cuttings lately.
It seems like I see posts aboutyou being out there going
through a lot of ribbon thesedays.
(07:41):
Absolutely.
We've got a lot of newbusinesses coming to town and
we've got some that are evenfranchise businesses that we
love, so that means that growthis coming.
John (07:52):
We got the Bojangles.
Of course was a big one comingto town.
(07:55):
And T-Mobile.
John (07:56):
And T-Mobile there yeah.
So yeah, it's been Williamstonmoving up a little bit.
Colt (08:01):
Yeah, and an Ingles in a couple years.
John (08:03):
Yeah, everyone keeps talking about that.
Boy Board of Rocky gets thoseemails about that all the time.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
When's the Ingles coming?
When's it coming?
John (08:11):
Gotta get that grocery store.
I joke around with him all thetime about that.
But yeah, it's going to be coolwhen it does come, because
that's an area.
If that area of the town getsbuilt up right there on Main
Street, that'll really be acapper on the rebirth, I guess,
of the town to have that allbusy.
(08:32):
Originally in Vision Williamston was the Main Street
program and we were part of theMain Street program throughout
the United States.
And then we branched off and wekind of separated from just the
Main Street corridor to thewhole entire town.
So we worked throughout butwhen we first started it was the
Main Street program and we onlyfocused right there in the
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direct center of town.
John (08:54):
Well, that's a good segue to the next thing that we're
talking about.
One of the things you do isbeautifying the town in many
different ways.
Talk about that a little bit.
(09:02):
OK, we've done adopt arrest stop.
That's been just throughouttown and people were able to
adopt those and put their plankson them and they could dedicate
them to someone who had passedaway or someone who was still
here.
We did adopt a shelter lastyear in the park and that was
businesses and individuals wereallowed to adopt the shelters to
help maintain them.
John (09:23):
I think the Career Center has one right.
(09:25):
The Career Center was going to have one but a little something
happened with that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
And they weren't.
(09:30):
Yeah, they had to, but they did.
Yeah, they did commit to one,but then something happened with
that.
We've added wayfinding signsthroughout the town.
We've got welcome signs at mostof the entrances to town, we
put up the electronic messageboard in front of town hall and
we have town cleanup days everyyear and we do those as well.
John (09:52):
And it seems like you've had good turnout for those as
well.
People coming out to clean upthe town and some of these other
projects you've been doing seemto be growing pretty quickly
too, especially again coming outof COVID.
Everything kind of everythingwas growing and then COVID came
along and everything justtotally shut down.
It's not a shock to anybody,that's what happened.
(10:12):
But to see you guys withEnvision Williamston and with
PBA and such building all thisstuff back up is amazing.
And one of those things is thebobbers on Big Creek, which I
missed this year because I wasout of town, but that's a fun
thing.
(10:27):
That is a very fun event.
John (10:28):
And tell people how that works, in case you're not
familiar.
(10:30):
OK, it's a race and it's very similar to the Ducky Derby in
Greenville.
We partner with the PalmettoBusiness Association on this
event so that the businesses inWilliamston and Pelser and West
Pelser can all participate.
People go into one of theparticipating businesses the PBA
businesses and they receive abobber and they bring the bobber
to our freedom celebration andyou race it down the Big Creek
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for a chance to win some greatdonated prizes.
John (10:58):
That sounds like fun.
I haven't seen it yet.
I've been missing it each time,and this was part of the
freedom celebration, right.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It was For the.
John (11:05):
Fourth of July and Williamston is becoming known as
one of the best places to watchfireworks what I've heard as
well.
(11:11):
They put on a phenomenal show.
We had a big storm right beforethe fireworks and it was kind
of iffy if we were going to getto do it this year, but it
cleared up just in time and itwas off the charts.
It was amazing.
John (11:23):
Yeah, and some of the other things.
As far as beautifying goes thepark, you now have a fire pit
over there.
How does that work?
Do people have to reserve thefire pit as well or get
permission to use that?
(11:36):
You do.
You just go to Town Hall andlet them know what day you're
going to be there and they justrecord what day.
Now we do ask that you staywith your fire until it's
completely out.
Occasionally there's woodalready there at the fire pit,
but you can certainly bring yourown.
It's a great way for you to beable to take for people who live
in apartments and maybe live ina subdivision that don't allow
any kind of backyard fire pit.
(11:57):
Take your kids, do a fire pit,make some s'mores and just enjoy
the evening and there's plentyof places to sit around there.
John (12:05):
They have that stone kind of seating area.
(12:07):
And then you've got picnic tables and all that and you can
bring your own fold out chairsand sit at my next that was a
good idea.
John (12:15):
Then you've got the Easter Bunny that comes to town each
week.
Yeah, each week, each year.
That would be a little crazyeach week, but that's always a
big deal with the, not only forthat, but they usually have a
hunt going on across the park,which those things are just
crazy, with kids running allover the place.
But you've got the Easter Bunny.
Then you've tell us about thesehometown hero banners that get
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hung up on occasion throughoutthe town.
(12:42):
We started that a couple of years ago, right after COVID,
and we allowed, we got up anorder and you could buy a
hometown hero banner with yourloved one's information on it,
and then we hung it up at the4th of July and left it hanging
down Main Street and so anybodywho wanted to purchase one, and
then we will hang them up atdifferent times as well,
throughout the year.
John (13:01):
Now they go through your website or town website, or how
do they get the information toyou?
(13:07):
Usually we always have the applications right outside my
office store.
My office, invision Williamston, is when you walk in Town Hall.
It's the first store on theleft.
You can't miss it.
It says InVision Williamston.
It's got the mailbox next to itand we have got a brochure
stand right there.
So anytime we have any kind ofevent going on, we've got the
applications there.
But it'll also be on thewebsite and it'll be on our
(13:29):
Facebook page.
And if you don't have access toany of that, call me and I can
get you a copy.
We can mail you a copy or youcan come by and we'll come by
and drop you one off or whateverwe need to do.
The best place to find out isto follow us on our Facebook
page and you see what's going on, or in the journal and they
tell anytime we've got a programgoing on.
(13:50):
So when we open this hometownhero banner back up, then it
will be in the paper telling youthat you can order one and then
it will also be on our Facebookand the town of Williamston's
Facebook as well.
John (14:01):
Pretty cool thing.
So for all these events thatwe're talking about, you would
have information right there inthose places that you said.
So we'll, ok, throw that outthere.
The working on Williamson thewow used to be howdy.
(14:13):
It did used to be howdy, now it's wow.
John (14:17):
That's the cleanup day and every year around Earth Day, so
that's a cool thing to getinvolved in.
We had talked about doingsomething with the kids being
out of school.
It's tough for us to do thingsaround.
Well, that is like right at theend of the school year, right?
Earth Day is in April, is it?
It is and so yeah, that was abusy time, but we'd love to have
a team of people go out thereand help out.
They have a pastor's breakfasttwice a year.
(14:40):
That'll keep the churchesknowing what all's going on, so
that's a great idea.
We've got a lot of churchesaround and a lot of active
churches that do get involved.
They see a lot of the eventsyou're talking about.
A lot of churches out theredoing things.
(14:54):
We.
We've got a local church thathas a food bank right here in
town.
We've got a local church thathas a coat closet here in town
so they provide clothing forpeople in need.
We've got one that does a Lazerearth project and so you can
fill out an application for them, and if you have a special need
of a handicap or amp orsomething's wrong with your
house and there's an immediateneed, the Lazer earth project
(15:16):
steps in.
So we've got some wonderfulchurches in the area that do
amazing things for the community.
John (15:21):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Here's one for you, colt thebingo with the blue playing
bingo with the WilliamstonPolice Department when?
When is when?
Is that the good question, colt?
That was good.
Tell me, he's my news director,because he just asked a good
question when and where do youhave the bingo?
(15:38):
We only had that one time so far and we've got a great
response and we want people toand people want us to do it
again.
What we have to do is we haveto get prizes donated so that we
have something to give away atthe bingo.
The last time we did the bingogame we did it around
Valentine's Day and we partneredwith the Palmetto Business
(15:58):
Association and Piedmont PostAcute and they got donations.
So we hope to do it generallyin the springtime, All right and
we start working on gettingprizes and as soon as we get
enough prizes to make it, wecan't have a bingo game and have
two prizes and have theauditorium, but it does happen
at Town Hall and the auditoriumthere at Town Hall, williamston.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Town Hall.
Keep that in mind.
John (16:21):
Now I know, and it's free to the public, there you go, you
win from there.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
No losing involved there.
John (16:27):
You talk about all the ribbon cuttings.
They're going on all the time.
This summer kids scavenger huntI hadn't heard about that, but
a chance to win hundreds ofprizes.
How does?
(16:38):
that work.
We just had that.
That was the first time we'dever done that.
What we did was we hid rocksthroughout the park.
They were numbered and letteredand we had a puzzle so the kids
would find the rocks, theywould flip them over and they
would coordinate the letterswith the numbers and they would
solve the puzzle.
And then we had a camp out.
We had our first ever camp outin town.
(16:59):
We called that Staycation 2023,camping Creekside in
Williamston.
And so the kids brought theirsoft scavenger puzzles to the
camp out that Friday night andturned them in and we had over a
hundred prizes that the kidscould win for solving their
scavenger hunt.
And it kicked off our CampingCreekside event and that was the
(17:20):
first time we had that event aswell.
John (17:22):
How did that go?
Because that sounded prettycool.
(17:24):
That was really good.
We had 14 tents and threeindividual sleeping bag campers.
Everybody was really afraid.
With it being the end of July,it was going to be extremely hot
, but we had the threat of a bigstorm right before and so it
actually believe it or not gotcold in the night.
John (17:42):
So I think I think you're staying out there.
I did I was in the big tent.
(17:46):
I stayed in all my life, and and we definitely everybody who
was there have asked us to do itagain, and we're probably
thinking about maybe in the fall, but if not, certainly in the
spring.
The whole purpose of us doingit, though, was a lot of kids, a
lot of families, specificallywith the economy and stuff,
weren't able to go on a vacationthe summer, and the summer was
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short, so that's the wholereason we set this up was so
that when kids go back to schooland the teacher said what did
you do during the summer, thesekids didn't have anything to
write about.
So then they had.
We had an outdoor movie at theevent, we had s'mores at the
event, we had hot dogs at theevent, so there was a lot to do
and camping, and a lot of them.
It was our first time evercamping.
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It was right there.
We had security there that waspatrolling for us.
We gave every adult in a tent awhistle, so if anything went on
, they could whistle and therewould be help there.
So it was just a great time.
With the park completely closedoff.
They were safe, secure, andthen able to camp out.
John (18:44):
Now was Rocky out there.
(18:46):
Rocky did not come.
Rocky came for the introductionto it a couple of days before,
but he was actually on vacationwhen it happened.
So we're going to give him apass this year.
It had been scheduled for ayear.
John (18:58):
That's the problem with him.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
He's always on vacation.
He works hard.
John (19:03):
And of course, I might as well wrap it up here with the
biggest event of the year.
Last year was the first one ofthe winter wonderland right.
(19:11):
No, that was our second year.
John (19:12):
That's only our third it was big and we were sort of a
part of that too, with theparade and some of the things
that were happening afterwards,with Santa Claus and the food
and drink that was involved inthe park, with the hot chocolate
and cookies and all that.
But tell us what all thiswinter wonderland encompasses.
(19:32):
Okay, we start the evening.
Last year we tried toincorporate the parade with it
and it was just a lot for theday.
So this year we have decidedthat the parade will actually be
the first Saturday of December,that Saturday the second, and
that'll be at three o'clock,because it was just so hard for
everybody to get to all theplaces.
It was for the day and then withkids going back to school the
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next day and stuff, we just hada lot going on.
We did move that to thefollowing Saturday.
But what we do on winterwonderland is we have our
official Christmas tree lightingin front of Town Hall.
Before we light the Christmastree we have all the local
pastors reading the story of thebirth of Christ.
We have carolers singingChristmas songs there.
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The mayor gives a little speech.
Last year we had all the pastmayors that were our special
guests there.
We do the lighting of the parkof the Christmas, the mineral
springs park.
We do the lighting of the deck,the halls.
We have a holiday market fairinside where vendors sell their
goods and things.
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We have a live nativity at theBethlehem Stable in the park.
We have carolers throughout thewhole entire park.
We have horse drawn carriagerides through the park and
that's sponsored by the PalmettaBusiness Association.
We have the free cocoa andcookies that you talked about.
Last year we added two famousmouses.
(20:55):
We can't call them by theirfirst names, but they live at
Disney and they joined thefestivities.
And then of course, we haveSanta and Mrs Claus and we
always have snow, so it is agreat event.
We said I had told the mayorwhen we first started it two
years ago that we wanted it tofeel like a Hallmark movie, and
(21:18):
we got that a lot.
We got that comment that we gotexactly what we wanted.
So it's a great event and agreat turnout.
John (21:25):
And that will be the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
So the only difference is theparade got moved to the
following Saturday, so theWinter Wonderland will still be
the Sunday right afterThanksgiving.
(21:35):
Right.
John (21:36):
All right, looking forward to that.
Roberta, thanks for giving usthat update on all the events.
A lot going on.
Of course, the Spring WaterFestival, which isn't
technically your event, right,but that's coming up next
weekend and, from what we hear,I mean they've had to turn
vendors away.
It's been so popular this year.
(21:53):
It is and it's going to be huge.
We will be there, we'll haveour tent there giving out some,
some Envision Williamson swag.
But it's not our event, butabsolutely it's going to be.
It looks like it's going to bestanding room only this year for
everything that's awesome.
John (22:07):
Looking forward to seeing everybody out there.
We'll be out there too, sowe'll continue with Roberta and
then we'll switch gears, ask herher opinion on some of the the
offbeat news stories we've gotgoing on in the world these days
.
As we continue, it's the BoonShow on my pulse radio.
Welcome back to the Boon Showon my pulse radio, our first
show of season four.
(22:28):
Okay, so we want to talk withour very special guest, roberta
Hamby, about some of the thingsthat are there in the news and
some of the things that aren'tnecessarily being talked about
with everybody else, because,you know, we don't want to talk
about any of the bad stuff andwe don't want to get into
politics on this show.
So so we won't, as we'll justtalk about dumb things like Elon
(22:50):
Musk and Mark ZuckerbergGetting in a cage match, have
you?
Colt (22:53):
seen this cult.
I have.
I already have my bets.
John (22:56):
You do have your bets.
Who do you think so?
I win?
Colt (22:58):
Obviously Elon Musk.
Do you think so People?
John (23:02):
people say that Zuckerberg has been really training.
Colt (23:03):
They say he's the you know the martial arts master.
But I think you know, once youget the Tesla mech suit in there
, then it's just a giant Ironman versus the lizard fight.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
And at that point, you are conspiracy theorist.
Colt (23:17):
Elon Musk will win.
John (23:18):
Okay, you heard it here first folks Elon Musk will be
the winner.
But here the latest on the onthe match.
Have you heard about this forbetter?
I have not.
Oh yeah, you're really missingout to.
These two billionaires havechallenged each other to a cage
match, MMA style mixed martialarts.
Zuckerberg has been training inthat for a while, and then I
(23:39):
guess Elon kind of challengedhim.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
So I'll take you on a fight.
John (23:43):
And he supposedly has been training some a little bit here
and there, but has been comingup with excuses to put the fight
off, and lately the excuse iswell the not really an excuse.
Well, yeah, he said he neededsurgery and then he said he was
okay and he wanted to do apractice match in Zuckerberg's
(24:07):
backyard.
Here we are talking aboutbillionaires.
Yeah, he has an octagon in hisbackyard to you know that he
practices in, but Zuckerbergdidn't want to do that.
If we do it, we do it for real,and Dana White, who's the head
of the UFC has, says that he'llget involved and they can do
this, you know, wherever theywant to do it, but he won't
(24:28):
hammer down a date and Zuck isgetting.
Colt (24:31):
He's still.
He's building a suit.
You got to give him time, he'sbuilding his seat.
John (24:35):
Well, he's.
He's stalling and so there's nodate set, but I got to admit I
would watch.
That is as and they'll probablymake it a paper view that's
like a hundred bucks orsomething.
But I got to tell you I may notwatch it, then I'll find it
illegally somehow, but that issomething that you have to say.
You watched.
Colt (24:56):
Yeah.
John (24:56):
Two of the richest guys in the world trying to beat the
heck out of each other.
(24:59):
That would be, we'll make a watch party.
How about that Watch?
John (25:03):
party sponsored by Envision Winsons, coming up at
Town Hall whenever these guys.
(25:08):
We'll do it outside, outside in the park.
Yes, at the park, so everybodyin town can watch it.
John (25:13):
Yes, and this is it's.
It's ridiculous at the sametime.
It's so ridiculous that youknow it's the old train wreck
thing.
You've got to see it.
You've got to see it.
So whenever this happens, we'llkeep you posted right here.
Also, have you seen Barbie yet?
I have not seen Barbie.
I have not either.
Colt, have you?
Colt (25:32):
I was going to go this weekend, but I did not find the
time, so yeah, I mean, I'm notreal motivated to see it.
John (25:38):
And it's not a political thing.
I know people get it allinvolved in the movie too about
whether it's politically corrector whatever.
But you know I was just never aBarbie fan growing up, neither
was.
I was not a Ken fan.
I had my GI Joe's and that kindof thing and never really
bothered with Barbie, and evenmy sisters, they were into other
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stuff.
They were into sports and stufflike that.
They didn't really have dollsand so I was never really around
the whole Barbie craze.
But I can understand, if it'sthe biggest selling doll of all
time, why making a movie aboutit would be a big deal and it's
made over a billion dollars,which is amazing, and I heard a
good explanation about this.
Because some people say andagain, I haven't seen it, but
(26:22):
I've heard a lot about it from alot of different people and
most people have said they likeit.
If you just take it for what itis, it's just a thing about
doll coming into the real world.
So what they were saying aboutthe people that think it's down
on men?
They were saying that it's justkind of the way that Barbie was
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presented originally Ken wasnever the star, it was Barbie
and Ken was just there.
So they just made a movie aboutit where Barbie's the star and
doing all the stuff and Ken'sthe side guy.
So it's not like they weredoubting men, it's just that's
the way it is with the dolls.
So it's like, don't take thingsso seriously, go have fun with
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it and sure, if it's a women'sempowerment thing, sure, fine,
ok, we get it.
But the funny thing I saw in thenews about it this week was
that Neil deGrasse Tyson, theastrophysicist one of the
smartest guys supposedly outthere and I wouldn't doubt it
says that by watching the moviehe can figure out where Barbie
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Land actually is.
So he said, by watching themovie and seeing the different
things that are in the movie andthis is funny because we're
talking about an astrophysicistbreaking down Barbie so closely
that he could tell you whereBarbie Land is he says, due to
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the moon's orientation in themovie, places Barbie world
between or Barbie Land, whateverit's called between 20 and 40
degrees north latitude on Earth.
But then there's more.
He says there are palm treesand there are plenty of palm
trees in Barbie Land.
It's kind of a tropical type ofenvironment.
He says that further constrainsthe latitude to between 20 and
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30 degrees and he says the sunand the moon rose and set over
the ocean.
So he says if it's in the USwhich you would kind of assume
it was just by the charactersand how they played and being in
Los Angeles and all that andthen going to Barbie Land, he
would say it would be somewherein the Florida Keys.
I was going to say so if youwere going to look for Barbie
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Land, you would look in theFlorida Keys.
Now the other people that arereally watching Barbie closely
say that can't be, becauseevidently, see, I didn't know
this either because I hadn'tseen the movie To get to the
real world from Barbie Land, youhave to go through space, and
you wouldn't really have to gothrough space to get from
California to Los Angeles, whichis the real world that they
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wind up going to from Florida.
(28:58):
Why, unless you're passing through a mile?
Unless you go way up in the airand go way back down again, or
Miami Beach is kind of likespace, if you can't feel that,
and maybe in a little differentway yes.
John (29:09):
I lived in South Florida for 10 years.
I can vouch for that Crazy,crazy down there.
So they're saying, well, thatwouldn't really be traveling
through space to go fromCalifornia to Florida and back.
But just interesting to me thatan astrophysicist would spend
that much time looking at it tofigure out exactly where it
would be by where the sun andthe moon are in the sky, where
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the ocean is and the palm treeshe was able to pinpoint.
Colt (29:35):
He's done weirder.
There's this famous I think itwas with Joe Rogan, I believe on
the Joe Rogan experience, buthe mentioned how he kept fussing
at James Cameron, the directorof the Titanic movie, because
the stars in the sky were notcorrect historically as what the
constellations in the sky wouldhave been.
(29:56):
How about that?
See, that's a guy, that's justentirely too, smart.
John (30:01):
When you're smart, it begins to be a burden.
After.
(30:03):
Or has too much time on his hands.
John (30:04):
Yeah, you just see too much error in the world when you
know everything.
So it's good not to knoweverything, because then you
don't concentrate on where thestars are.
I did want to let you know alsothat today is World Greatness
Day, and there is a professorthat established this as a
festival to honor all thingsthat are great in life to the
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individuals who have had asignificant impact on our lives,
whether it's a parent, friend,cherished pet.
This is our moment to honor andthank those people.
And he said above all, it'salso a day to think about your
own brilliance.
All brilliant in our own ways, Iguess Not as much as Neil
deGrasse Tyson, but thisprofessor believes that everyone
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is capable of greatness.
That's critical to buildconfidence and self-esteem.
Share that greatness with therest of the world.
So what I was going to ask youguys, and I'll tell you what
let's keep it outside of family,because I think we can all say
our family, we have heroes inour families that we look up to,
but maybe, whether it beanother person or an animal, a
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pet, maybe someone that hasinspired greatness in your own
life Colt.
I'll go to you right away.
Yeah, you got a phone.
Because the phone's going toring, I don't have a good answer
for that.
Colt (31:20):
Definitely not my pet.
I got a German shepherd huskymix.
Her name's Joey and shedefinitely has none of the
smarts from the German shepherd.
I'll tell you that much.
But is she loyal to you?
I think she'd run away if,given the chance.
John (31:41):
So is there a person that has inspired greatness in you,
Colt?
Colt (31:46):
I mean, this is going to be cliche.
I'm going to say my girlfriend.
Oh yeah, wow, so I because she,we have been together since
eighth grade.
John (31:53):
And that's five years.
You're senior.
Colt (31:55):
Yeah, it's crazy, and she has inspired me to do so much
that I otherwise wouldn't havedone that's good.
So yeah, she's who I wouldthink of.
John (32:04):
I have somebody pushing you.
That's always good.
You don't want it the other way, where they just sit back and
let you be you.
Colt (32:11):
No yeah.
John (32:12):
I know I've always had people pushing me.
What about you, Roberta?
You have a person or thing thathas really inspired greatness
in your life.
(32:21):
I just would take this opportunity to say specifically
law enforcement, and not for mespecifically, but just for us as
a society.
I don't think that they get therecognition they deserve.
It's a thankless job.
On many occasions they go aboveand beyond and I just think
(32:43):
it's a great profession to be in.
That's not paid near enough.
Well, and teachers as wellTeachers is another profession
that you should make a milliondollars a year to be a teacher.
John (32:53):
Well, that sounds good, yes.
(32:55):
And I'll go to the district office and tell them I think
that that's what should happen.
But law enforcement officers Ijust see.
I get to work now at Town Hallside by side with them and I see
how much they put in and then Isee so much negativity that
comes back when they're workingas hard as they can and put more
in than they have to.
So law enforcement's definitelymake it a great place for us to
(33:19):
live and don't get therecognition that they deserve.
John (33:22):
That's a good answer, and I'll say my dog, dog, dog, ha ha
ha.
I've had a lot of people,though, that inspire greatness
in my life.
I'm certainly thankful for them, because I can think of several
bosses that well, a couple, nottoo many.
I've had some good bosses, butI've had ones that I really
didn't like at the time thatwound up being the ones that
taught me the most, that shapedme for the future.
(33:45):
But I really like coming hometo my dog, because I have a nice
golden retriever and after aday of dealing with teenagers
it's nice to go home and spendsome time with the dog and relax
a little bit.
So that dog is also veryimportant to me on this world
greatness day.
So think of somebody in yourlife that inspires you to
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greatness and give yourself somecredit for where you are in
life and where you can go Allright, when we come back.
It's the Boon Show on my Pulseradio.
Welcome back to the Boon Showon my Pulse radio.
One of the things that today isthat I noticed and caught my eye
was its chant at the moon day.
What is that?
That sounds like some cultishkind of thing, but it's really
(34:29):
not.
I don't think I couldn't findanything that showed that it was
cultish, because I did lookaround, but evidently this is
something on every August the15th, thousands of people around
the country.
They say chant, but they justkind of yell things into the
heavens as part of chant at themoon day.
Where did it come from?
This is why I think it's not acultish thing.
It came from a Wenatchee,washington based fruit grower,
(34:55):
stemilts.
They grow all kinds of fruitand, according to local legend,
harvesting their cherries aroundthe full moon makes them
sweeter.
The moon's gravitational pullenhances the tree roots where
the cherries are grown.
That's what they say, and sothey decided to have a
celebration.
This is late in the season forcherries and they say to gather
(35:16):
your friends together, let looseyour best lunar cheer, whatever
that is.
But what they're saying aboutthis whole thing is that
cherries, the higher they'regrown in elevation, the better
they are, and they say there'stheir cherries, which are called
moon cherries.
Are harvested very late in thesummer and very high up in the
(35:39):
Washington mountains, and theyactually have to be harvested at
sunrise in order to maintaintheir luster.
62% of the sweet cherries inAmerica are grown in Washington
state.
California and Oregon combiningto make up with those three
states 94% of the cherries thatwe get Cherries, of course, very
(36:01):
good for you less than 90calories in a cup of cherries.
And I tell you I could go tothe store, buy a bag of cherries
and eat the whole thing, unlesssomebody stops me.
Cherries are awesome, but yeah,I don't know about the whole
chain at the moon thing, but Ithought it was interesting the
whole thing about how they growbetter at higher elevations and
(36:22):
such, so I wanted to share thatwith you.
And, of course, being cherries,my question would be what is
your favorite cherry dessert?
Colt (36:32):
Any cherry without the pit in it.
John (36:34):
I agree.
Well, I will eat the cherrieswith the pit if I'm just eating
them out of the bag, but I don'tlike the maraschino cherries.
Do you like those?
(36:42):
Yes, I do you like?
John (36:44):
those, the ones they put on ice cream.
(36:45):
Yeah, I need to Cherry limates .
That's what they use for cherrylimates too.
John (36:49):
No, that's not bad.
I've had that in the tessari,but I just don't, I don't know,
and banana splits OK, and fruitsalad.
Yeah, so there's a lot.
I mean, I like the traditionalcherry pie, one of my favorites
cherry cobbler.
You know those kind of things,old people food, thanks, thanks
a lot.
(37:09):
That's a little cherry for me, little cherry Cherry, just like
a taste of cherry, maybe nottoo much.
John (37:14):
OK, and it is also coming up this weekend a chance for you
to celebrate, because it isNational Soft Ice Cream Day and
we all like soft ice cream,right?
I like any kind of ice cream,it doesn't matter how soft or
hard it is.
So it's interesting.
The history of soft serve, soto speak.
Ice cream is thought to havebeen around since about 2200 BC,
(37:38):
but one of the earliest talesof it is between 50 and 80 AD,
when Emperor Nero of Rome sentrunners to the mountains for
snow, which then he would eatflavored.
He would put flavor into thesnow, and that was the first
kind of report of ice cream.
Ok, now people will do that nowwhen it snows, so I'll take it
in and make the snow cream rightIn 1934, get this Tom Carvel
(38:06):
ice cream.
You know they make the ice creamcakes and all that.
Well, yeah, that guy suffered aflat tire in his truck.
He had to sell all the meltingice cream in a parking lot and
it went over big.
The soft ice cream went oververy big.
Late 1940s.
Margaret Thatcher, former UKprime minister, works for a
company dedicated developing asoft serve recipe compatible
(38:29):
with American machines, so sheactually helped bring it to
America in the late 1940s.
In the 1960s, better soft servemachines were made, evidently
not at McDonald's, butmechanized air pumps are added
to the soft serve machines,allowing better aeration and
boosting sales for ice creammachine manufacturers.
(38:50):
And then in the 1950s, illegalsoft serve.
Yes, whether it's a prohibitionor something, yes, the
Minnesota legislature actuallyprohibits the sale of ice milk
from trucks, specifying that thedessert has to be sold
pre-packaged.
So, yeah, you couldn't sell itout of the machines.
I guess it had to be packagedup before you sold it.
(39:12):
So that was weird and they gotover that.
And now we have soft serve andit's called different things
around all the differentcountries around the world.
And, by the way, it contains35% air.
It's actually fluffy comparedto regular ice cream.
70% of people will choose softserve over hard ice cream.
(39:33):
It's actually healthier thanice cream because it has less
fat in it, if you're justmeasuring by fat.
If you want a soft cone, inGreece or Romania it's called
machine ice cream.
Well, that doesn't sound nearas good, does it?
I would like a machine ice cream, please.
In Ireland you ask for a softwhip, soft whip.
(39:54):
But I know Ireland loves somesoft serve and it seems like it
always tastes better in thesummertime, that's the time to
get soft served.
So I mean, what do you like,soft serve-wise?
Colt (40:06):
Chocolate and vanilla.
John (40:07):
I mean, do you just eat a regular cone or something?
Colt (40:09):
Yeah, it has to be on a cone, unless you do a hot fudge
Sunday, and then at that pointit's, it's acceptable.
Yeah but uh yeah, I'm just aregular tone guy.
John (40:19):
Yeah, I went for a long time thinking that you couldn't
have a good sundae with softserve.
It had to be the hard ice creamand then you know, but now I
like some of the sun.
He's like you go to freddy's orsomething and get some of their
sundaes and their their Softserves really good.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Um, where's a good?
John (40:35):
where's a good soft serve place?
Oh.
Colt (40:39):
Put you on the spot, not McDonald's not McDonald's.
John (40:42):
Yeah, no, that's though if you have to go kind of place,
yeah.
(40:47):
I'm not a huge ice cream eater , so that's tough for me.
Yeah, um, the doghouse rightthere, right right down the road
, they've got ice cream.
Yeah, they've got the hard.
Do they do that, sir?
No, that's just the hard.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
and it's good, they've got a lot of different
flavors there, yeah, um, allright.
John (41:02):
So now it's time for robberto Hamby recommends Dented
and dent, and we've got to comeup with some sound yeah, we
need some music.
That that was not it becausewhat what we've done on the show
is we always have our guestsrecommend something food related
, whether it's a recipe thatthey have or a place that they
go or a specific place to getsomething, you know, like a
(41:24):
breakfast meal or a lunch ordinner or a dessert or whatever.
So, uh, I kind of sprung thison her birdie, right, you, right
before the show, and and I'mcurious to hear what she has to
recommend to us tonight.
(41:36):
Okay, I've got a couple of things.
If you have not tried the potroast at Reigns and Williamston,
I have and that's, somebodyrecommended that to me and that
is great.
Oh, wow.
John (41:47):
Yes.
(41:48):
If you have it, you need to do it.
You owe it to yourself.
That and Fried Okra are off thechain.
That's right there at Reignsand Williamston.
Maple Bakery and Coffee Househas some of the best desserts
you will ever put in your mouth.
They change them up and thentheir coffees.
They can serve them any way youwant Hot, cold, any flavor.
(42:09):
They're amazing.
But personally, something, oneof my favorite things to eat is
something that nobody's probablyever heard of and it's called
tomato gravy and you serve itover cornbread and it's a basic
gravy that you make up, justyour regular roux and you pour
can of tomatoes in it, or youcan crush your fresh tomatoes
(42:29):
and you salt and pepper and it'stomato gravy.
And you crumple up yourcornbread and put your tomato
gravy over top and it'sphenomenal.
John (42:37):
And where do you get that?
(42:38):
You make that at home.
John (42:39):
I just make it at home.
(42:40):
I grew up on that.
John (42:41):
So it's kind of like crushed tomatoes or whatever it
is.
(42:46):
Yes, diced tomatoes and you can get real fancy and you can
bake in the sausage and thingslike that in it.
But it is great.
If you like tomatoes, it'sgreat, just the tomatoes with
the basic gravy roux overcornbread.
John (42:58):
All right, yeah, that sounds like one of those rainy
day things.
(43:02):
It is.
John (43:02):
Yeah.
(43:03):
It's a comfort food, yeah, exactly.
Going home and comfort food.
John (43:07):
But I did want to wrap things up by first of all
thanking you, roberta, forcoming in and spending an hour
with us.
Thank you for having me, andthanks for everything you're
doing with Envision Williamston.
It's really taken off and somany different ways as we went
through that list for people toget involved, everybody to get
involved, whether you're family,kids, older people, you get
something for everybody.
(43:27):
So again we'd like to thankRoberta Hamby for being with us
today.
Our next live show is in twoweeks, that's August 29th, when
Angie Springer will be here forher annual visit from the Cancer
Association of Anderson,talking about all the balloon
launches and everything that'sgoing to go on Labor Day Not in
Williamston this year down inAnderson.
(43:48):
That'll be at four o'clock.
Of course, you can catch thepodcast at any time on Apple,
google, spotify, wherever youget the podcast.
So thanks again for listening.
We'll talk to you next time onthe Boone Show on my Pulse Radio
.
Colt (44:02):
Next time on the Boone Show.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
So we've got to only raise two million dollars.
That's it now, just two million.
As you know, I mean, cancerused to be a death sentence and
now it's more of a chronicdisease.
I will tap, dance or sing.
Do you pay me to shut up tomake money for cancer patients?
So we had to turn a couple ofballoons away because we didn't
have any lodging for them, youknow.
John (44:24):
Get this.
Scientists recorded a PinkFloyd song from patients'
brainwaves, it's amazing Holly'sbeen everywhere it's like, no
matter what anybody brings up,she's been there.
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