The Boone Show - S5 E13 - Mary Boarts: The Principal of Running

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Mary Boarts, principal of BHP High School, shares highlights from a successful academic and athletic year while discussing her personal challenge to run 12 half marathons during her 40th year.

• BHP students earned over $3.5 million in scholarships this year
• State testing scores are trending upward across all metrics
• Football team reached state championship for only second time in school history
• Softball team competing for Upper State championship
• Potential new middle school may be built behind BHP, consolidating Belton and Honea Path middle schools
• Mary has completed four half marathons this year toward her goal of 12
• The "Bear Award" tradition honors one senior who embodies the spirit of the graduating class
• Senior pranks required student clean-up, demonstrating good character of graduating class
• Reduced phone use in classrooms has decreased disruptions and drama
• Restaurant recommendation: Heat in Powdersville for steaks and salmon

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, Welcome to another edition of
the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
We're happy to be with you andhere we go.
I got a producer lined up fornext year, by the way.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You do, Thank goodness.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yes to push all these buttons, so I don't have to be
late with stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I know it and like I have to adjust every time I come
in because I want to be able tosee everybody that I talk to.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, and now we have to see you too.
So you have to see you too, soyou have to make sure you're on
camera.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, that's right gosh , I forget about that.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I can't see myself at least mary looks good today yes
, I think um, you know the bigrunner that she is.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
She probably could have made it here quicker
running today than um Idefinitely could have it was all
day like I was within a mile,like you could see it just let
your daughter drive.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I mean, I guess we shouldn't complain, they're
finally paving the road that'strue, that's a good thing, but
they could have waited anotherweek, it would have been
progress, progress all right,but um, I'm john boone.
Holly harrell is here, the bosslady, as you know her and uh,
we have mary bortz, theprincipal of bhp high school.
Hello, and we have little bortzover there emma emma, hi, emma.

(01:03):
Nope, she's not gonna talk.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Okay, that's all right talk into the microphone
and say hi wait, wait, there'sone more time.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Do that, all right.
How old are you, emma?
Nine, nine, you're getting upthere almost double figures.
Good for you.
Welcome to the show, all right?
Uh, we got a lot to talk about.
It's our last show of the yearand then we're.
We're on hiatus for just acouple of months technically
three months, I guess.
What is it may, and we'll beback middle august yeah, so um,

(01:35):
yeah, mary always comes on latein the year to kind of take us
out on a good night, a good noterather, and, um, we have plenty
of good things to talk aboutwith her.
So, first off, how was youryear at bhp?

Speaker 4 (01:47):
it was pretty successful.
Things are good.
We had a great year um,academically, athletically just
as a staff, our students, I feellike we had a very, very good
year football team all the wayto the state championship we
didn't quite win, but we came insecond.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
it's only second time in school history, yeah which
surprised me a little bit,because it always seems like
they have a good football team.
But anyway, softball what?

Speaker 4 (02:10):
They're playing Friday for Upper State and
hopefully going to state againnext week, because they won last
year, right?
So hopefully we're playing forstate next week.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Awesome, awesome, and I know you've had a lot of
signed athletes that are goingto colleges all over the place
seeing those social media posts,so that's good.
Got a real good program goingon there.
What can you tell us aboutacademically, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
I mean just this most recent round of state testing.
Everything is up, that's alwaysgood, everything is up.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's the best way to go.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
So we are trending in the right direction.
Scholarship money I mean ourkids earned over three and a
half million dollars.
Our seniors scholarships, andmost of that is academic, and so
things are going really wellyeah, yeah, and this is what
year, six or seven for you, sixsix yes time flies, doesn't it
remember when?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
you first started yeah in fact I picked up this
one thing off of when I waslooking up some stuff.
It wasn't stalking, I'm justresearching, okay, but I found
this popped up, I'm nervous.
From your website when you werean English teacher back at BHV

(03:19):
a number of years ago.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
That was pre-Emma.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, no kids, no kids, a couple of boxers dogs
boxers not like punching boxers,but uh yeah, I thought that was
uh kind of funny, so I had toprint it out, that is that still
exists.
You can still go to that siteoh how life and get your
vocabulary list for the weekyeah, all our vocabulary lists
on there so.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
So tell me, since that time, do you see growth in
yourself?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Oh, of course we always talk and laugh about how
different we would be asteachers now that we know
everything.
We know Because we live inclassrooms in our building and
just seeing all of the differentthings that teachers do, that I
would now like oh, I would takeadvantage of doing now if I
went back into the classroom.
So, just from an educatorstandpoint, like I think I've

(04:10):
grown, and then obviously from aleadership standpoint I hope I
have grown.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I think you could probably do a better website
than that.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
I don't know.
It's been a while since Imessed around with a website,
the Weebly sites.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
they used to have a big education thing where you
got free sites and we would givethem to all our seniors so they
could do portfolios on there,and then they stopped doing it.
So now we sort of use Google,but that's not as good as what
the Weebly was.
But anyways total other topic.
So yeah, what about the growthof the school?
How's that going?
I know this whole entire areais growing.
All this, this whole entirearea is growing, so how's that

(04:42):
affecting BHP?

Speaker 4 (04:45):
We have stayed pretty much the same.
This is my 17th year at.
Bhp and our student populationhas pretty consistently been a
little under 1,100 kids.
There are some potentialdevelopments maybe coming down
the pipeline.
There are some potentialdevelopments maybe coming down

(05:06):
the pipeline, but we pretty muchbecause we're a little further
in from the Anderson, from thePattersville, from the
Greenville, so we stay.
For every kid we lose we prettymuch pick one up, so we pretty
much stay right at the samenumber in terms of enrollment.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
What about facilities ?
Have you built any?
Have any in the plans?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
So there is a all year we've been the district has
been talking aboutconsolidating the two middle
schools and building a combinedone right behind our school.
So it would be Belton-HoneypathMiddle School.
So they did the different townhall meetings in the two towns
and are kind of showing whatthat would entail cost-wise and

(05:46):
what it would cost to fix theboth buildings up.
They're the two oldestbuildings in the district,
they're the old high schools foreach of the towns and so right
now I think they're at the phasewhere they're doing like a cost
analysis to see what it wouldcost to just fix the things that
need to be fixed compared towhat it would cost to just build
a new facility, and they're'regetting ready to present that, I
believe this summer, to thecommunity and then that maybe

(06:08):
will be voted on in the fall.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
All right, all right, holly, you got something there.
No, I was going to follow up.
Well, I was going to ask about.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
That's going to be a huge impact for you all as a
school.
If it comes on because of theproximity to your location,
obviously things will be plannedout where they would come in a
different area but, you're stillhaving the congestion all right
around the same time.
You know Anderson 1 has that alot in their schools.
I mean Powdersville is boom,boom, boom.

(06:37):
You know all the elementary,the middle and the high and the
same thing with Wren it's allright there.
And Palmetto Now that I thinkabout that, it's all of the
schools.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
That becomes a logistic nightmare Schools start
end times all of that.
So yeah, we've already beenhaving those conversations and
talking about potential trafficlight locations.
We don't have to worry aboutany of that right now we're kind
of in the center.
That's right.
So we have been talking a lotabout that, but I mean, I think
it has more pros than cons, justin terms of all of our kids

(07:09):
coming from one faculty, umacademically and also
athletically, um having themcombined as teammates, I think,
and fine arts I mean fine artsthat would be huge oh, yeah, our
programs yeah, yeah, absolutelyall right.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
well, every year at the end of the year, we've only
done it once.
Fine arts, I mean fine arts,that would be huge.
Oh yeah, To help build ourprograms.
Yeah, Absolutely All right.
Well, every year at the end ofthe year we've only done it once
.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
but this is the second time.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
We're having a competition between the
principals.
Remember last?
Year we did basketball, butMary wasn't here because that
was all District 1.
That's right Well this year,lanford, you know, closed the
door on us District 1.
That's right.
Well, this year, lanford, youknow, closed the door on us
Right.
And so he's not involved.
But he is involved Because thisyear's competition is how
enthusiastic the principals wereat graduation.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh, without a doubt, mary's got yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
No, but we've got tape.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Oh, you have tape.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yes, so we can judge oh.
Well, let's pull it out, sowe're just going to go in order
of the graduations.
Powersville was first.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
So, john, not everybody knows that me and you
are like the only two that watchall four graduations.
There are very few others thatdo that, but John and I both do,
because John broadcasts for allthe school districts and of
course then I'm sitting therewith you guys.
So, realistically, we're onlythe ones that really can look at

(08:36):
all four of them and judgeeverything from what letter do
they start yelling on?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
versus what you guys look like?
The little scold piece thatthey have for the audience at
the beginning does not work.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, that's Anderson 1.
Anderson 2 hasn't done it yet.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
No, you'll hear that.
Well, they still tell them notto.
They tell them not to, butstill.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Well, we just say no extended yes, yeah, yes.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
There's plenty of people making.
Remember when we were back inthe Civic Center and BHP.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Oh yeah.
People were really raucous andI'll tell you this is a side
note that I attended my babybrother graduated law school on
Sunday yeah, sunday, and therewere 500 graduates and it's a
fancy-smancy law school inWashington DC.
And I texted my admin team andsaid even at fancy-smancy law
school graduations people stillhoot and holler it doesn't

(09:18):
matter.
That's right.
That is just what people wantto do.
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, and what people want to do, it doesn't matter.
Yeah, and you guys, out of allthe graduate, the graduations,
we've seen you guys handle itvery well because you do give.
It's not a lot, but it's just alittle bit for them to get it
out.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
But you still be able to hear the other names yeah,
we don't want the next family tonot be able to hear their
child's name yep yeah, there's alot of enthusiastic people and
brad has a very good voice.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh yes, like he does.
He has a good voice for it.
I was listening back to some ofthat today.
He practices, I bet he does.
So are you ready?
Yes, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Our first example is Dr Adam Lanford.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, this is what he sounded like when he was
telling them they're allgraduated, okay.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
By the virtue of the power and authority vested in me
by the state of South Carolinathrough the Board of Trustees of
Anderson School District 1,granting you all the rights and
privileges therein, I nowcongratulate you and pronounce
you graduates.
You may move your tassels.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, Now the problems I had with that one.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
He didn't say you know what year it was?
Oh, okay, so that could be usedany time, true, okay.
He didn't say you know whatyear it was, oh, okay, so that
could be used any time, true.
And he also didn't even say theschool Ah, okay, so yeah, those
are points docketed off him.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
Now you have me questioning.
Did I say those things?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
No, she did miss something oh.
But, we'll find out.
Okay, is Robbie Roach?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Okay, palmetto High School.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
For Palmetto High School.

Speaker 10 (10:46):
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the
state of South Carolina throughthe Board of Trustees of
Anderson School District 1, andgiving you all the rights and
privileges herein, I pronounceyou graduates of the Palmetto
High School Class of 2025.
Okay.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
He said it he said the whole.
Thing.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
He did say move your tassel later on.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yes, he did, that's right.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
He just had one little stumble there.
One little stumble there.
Oh, she's already figured itout.
But then we had Whitfield, afriend of the program, dr Conway
, from Wren High School, fromWren High School, and this was
his.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
By the virtue of the power of the authority vested in
me by the state of SouthCarolina, through the Boise
School District 1, giving youall the rights and privileges
herein, I now congratulate youand pronounce you graduates of
the Wren High School.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Class of 2025.
Okay, he doesn't sound veryexcited, he doesn't sound
excited but he did get all theverbiage.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
He did, he got through it.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
He did Solid, so here we go.
Who's going to win now?
He got through it.
He did Solid, so here we go.
Who's going to win now?

Speaker 4 (11:44):
We have one more contestant, I'm nervous From PHP
.
It is my privilege to conferupon each of you your South
Carolina diploma and the rightand privilege thereof.
I mean congratulating the classof 2025.

Speaker 9 (11:58):
Yeah, yes, yeah, that was fun for them.
Forget that castle.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
And a round of fun for that.
Forget that castle and we're ina castle 25.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Yeah, I love it.
Well, I will say in my defensethey're waiting to throw their
hats and I told them wait untilI say that, because I was doing
this at the stage.
I was giving them theone-finger wait because they
want to do it and I remindedthem at practice, you've got to
wait until I confirm you.
So they were all waiting tothrow their hats, isn't that
neat?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know what I like, though she got so excited.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
It really was, did you?
I wanted to graduate.
I wanted to throw my hat.
I wasn't even wearing it.
Do you remember seeing her facewhen every graduate walked
across that stage, mary?
It was like you had to connect,even though I'm sure you knew
90% of the students, but everystudent that walked across that
stage, you were so excited forthem to walk across that stage.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Made each one feel important it was a good group,
like I loved this graduatingclass.
They are the sweetest grouptruly, and I'm not just saying
that to say it.
They were angels, like almostall of high school, so I
genuinely was very excited forthem, and also some of that is
to ease their nerves, becausethey're so nervous and I'm the
one person they know ofeverybody really coming towards

(13:16):
them.
So I like try to say somethingto each one of them to like calm
the nerves.
So I'll talk about what theyhave on or I'll make a funny
joke about something just fromyears past.
I try to say something to eachof them just to kind of get them
to let their guards down alittle bit.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
And you can see it because when they make that eye
contact with you prior towalking across that stage, you
can see it.
It's like, oh, this is it, yeah, and you're so excited for them
and you could see it and it'sgenuine in your eyes, so that's
a have you watched it back atall?

Speaker 4 (13:43):
No, I have not.
You can see it on our websiteat mypostradiocom I need to All
the graduations.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
But the camera, you can see all the graduations.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Is on your face as they go by, so you see your face
every time showing them.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
I know my parents were very excited about that.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
How many graduates were there?

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Two, 70 something.
How many graduates were there?
270 something?
Yeah, I don't remember.
That's a pretty big class.
I mean that's one of the biggerclasses, it is a very big class
.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
And yet you did that for every single one, every
single one.
That was awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah Well thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
I think for that reason alone we have to play
this again.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
It is my privilege to confer upon each of you your
South Carolina diploma and theright and privilege thereof.
I mean congratulating the classof 2025.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I love it.
You know, one of the thingsthat I love about one of the
things that I love that you do,Mary is your bear, your bear
statue.
And one of the things that Imiss, and I wish that you would
say, is tell me why you give itto that person and I know it
changes every year, but I'd lovea way for you to put that in

(14:54):
your program.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
And I write a card and stick it in their diploma,
do you?
So they know why I chose them.
Okay, so it's in that person'sdiploma when they get it.
So, but you're right, I don'tever.
They don't even know it'scoming.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
No, they don't.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
They've paid attention at other graduation
ceremonies.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
They don't know Right , so wait a minute.
You give what?
What is explain?

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, so every year they get.
So that bear is actually thesame bear we give to retirees of
BHP, except it just has adifferent placard on the front,
and it's basically like theprincipal's award and it goes to
a student that I just feel liketruly represents the senior
class like as a whole.
They're super involved, theyhave a positive attitude,

(15:40):
they're kind, they support allstudents and I typically will
write exactly why I chose themin their card and then I slide
it in the diploma so they, oncethey get it, they see it and no
one knows any idea no one knows.
So every year the counselors runa bet, and so they wait because
they find out at graduation.
That's when I bring the cardand tell them whose diploma to

(16:01):
put it in, and they, they allhave money five bucks and
they've never gotten it, everthey've never guessed right.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
And it's so neat because you see the bear sitting
up there.
So we on the stage, we knowthat somebody's going to get
their bear and we're always.
We always have to watch likewho's going to?
Get it.
Who's going to get it?
Because you, it's.
It's typically it's not thoseones usually sitting up on stage
.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
No, it's somebody else, Well, and they're getting
the accolades.
Do you know what I mean?
They are Not that I don't lovethose kids too Right right,
right that was a very sweetgroup of kids, but they are like
those kids on stage.
They've won, like studentcouncil president or you know
they're getting to be on stage,they're getting.
I try to pick a kid that kindof hasn't already won everything
else.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, it would be great to be able to give that
out to them in front of theclass to say this is why I'm
giving it to you, because itsure makes everybody else think.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
That's a good idea next year.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Just do it as an award.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
You know, actually, and I don't know what you call
it, so you actually give it tothem at graduation At the same,
when they walk across to gettheir diploma.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
I also hand them the bear.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
And nobody has any idea.
Yeah, it's very cool.
And that kid when he walkedthrough.
It was just neat to look at it.
I mean, he was holding it andhe was so happy.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I said I have a couple things to give you.
And he said what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I remember you saying that.
Okay, but I didn't.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
I wasn't paying that question, yeah and I did not
start that tradition, so Icannot take credit.
I just inherited that tradition.
But it's great, that is goodand it's really neat.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
You know, powdersville, they didn't do it
this year, but last year theydid an award.
They call it the.
They named it after ChrisFerguson, the first.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Okay, so it was the Chris Ferguson Award and they
give it to somebody who embodiestheir culture, and actually I'm
a judge for it every year.
This year, for some reason,something happened, but anyways,
and you can nominate anybody.
So you can nominate a parent,you can nominate whatever, but I
do like the fact that it'sthrough the class and it shows

(18:01):
the character.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
So this one is the only thing that truly I am the
only one that picks.
So like all the other awards inthe school, like I don't have
anything to do with, but this isthe one thing that I get to
pick, the one senior that I feellike truly represented that
group.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's cool, very nice.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
But congratulations on a great graduation.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
It was.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Very well done.
Very well done.
It was Thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I appreciate it.
Very well done, Very well done.
And maybe did they call thatthing the Fergie over there.
They should call it the Fergie?

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh, I know they should, but they don't this
year's winner Of the.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Fergie, the Fergie.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
It's Fergalicious, all right.
We have much more to go withMary Bortz and what's his.
He'll be calling in.
He went to wrestling last night.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
At the Bon Secours Arena Always be the by-law
center in Maine, but he wentlast night so I'm sure he wants
to talk about that and he'sgoing to be on in a couple of
minutes here.
So we're going to run a coupleads and then come back and talk
with Mary about her running.
Yes, she just ran a halfmarathon the other day.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I know and I saw it.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
She's still here with us, and she has a big goal for
how many of these dang thingsshe's going to run.
And do you know?
A half marathon is actuallylonger than from here to BHP.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
No, I didn't know, that.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's almost the same.
It's about 11 or 12 miles fromhere to BHP.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yep, that is.
I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
So yeah, you could have literally run here and got
one of those out of the way.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
today it would have taken me two hours.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Not too much longer than it took you anyway.
All right, so we'll take aquick timeout here and come back
with Zach and more with MaryBortz on the Boone Show, my
Pulse Radio.

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Speaker 1 (22:04):
All right welcome back to the Moon Show on MyPulse
Radio.
We have Zach on the line totalk sports as we continue here.
Zach, how are you?

Speaker 11 (22:14):
I'm doing good, man.
How are you?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Did you have fun last night?

Speaker 11 (22:18):
Man, I had a blast, but I'll tell you what.
I didn't have as much fun as my5-year-old did.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
I bet.

Speaker 11 (22:23):
I bet Because I'm telling you, if you can ever
experience that I commend peopleto experience that, because
it's just.
You know, we show up, I don'tknow 45, 35, 40 minutes before
it starts and she says Daddy,how much longer I've got.
40 minutes, daddy how muchlonger?
We've got 38 minutes, Daddy.
How much longer Got 40 minutes,Daddy, how much longer we got

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38 minutes, Daddy, how muchlonger we got 35 minutes.
And just on and on and on.
And then it was like just youknow, like you're on cloud nine,
and so just you know, I wasthere for her.
But I tell you it had beenprobably 12 to 14 years since I

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had seen CM Punk in person.
And right there at the very endhe come out.
That just made it all worth thewhile.
And then seeing my little girlwith Jay Uso when he come out,
that's her favorite.
Ain't nobody better than JayUso.
So you know, it's just asurreal feeling.
You know, just to watch her, Imean I think she's trying to

(23:30):
recruit Tiffany to go next time.
So she said, mommy, you need tocome.
She said, mommy, you need tocome next time.
You need to come next time andtiffany's like baby, I think
I'll pass on that.
So but uh, but it's just just.
You know, if you never get toexperience that, I, I highly
recommend it, especially ifyou've got young ones, that's
into it well, you know, I don'tthink I have any five year olds

(23:50):
anymore.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Holly certainly doesn't have no for sure mary I
have one five-year-old there yougo he might enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, he probably absolutely was we took our kids
when they were younger.
It was a lot of fun.
They took posters andeverything and it was great.

Speaker 11 (24:04):
What's, what's funny about the whole thing is my dad
works maintenance with the bilocenter.
It's always going to be bilocenter to me there you go um,
but uh, he works maintenance sohe gets to see everybody.
Like he saw logan paul, he sawgunter.
He eventually saw cm because Itold him.
I said text me when you see cmpunk, and I guess it was about

(24:26):
10 minutes before he come out.
I just saw cm punk.
He texted me and said, allright, here he comes, he's
fixing to come out.
And so after the show he toldme he said yeah, about 15
minutes before he'd come out,right after he got there he
hugged Logan Paul and they werechit-chatting and laughing and
Logan Paul went one way andinterfered in a match and CM
Punk went the other way and I'mlike that is so crazy to see it

(24:49):
on that side of things right youknow, just to see how.
I hope I didn't ruin it for you.
Mr boone, you know it is fake,don't you?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
oh wait, it's scripted.
Let's put it that way, becausea lot of the stuff isn't fake.
I can tell you that they getbruises and cuts by the way.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
Speaking of fake, there was a triple threat.
I don't know how much you watchof it, if you even get time and
watch any of it anymore but Idon't really watch the women's
matches.
Of course Carson likes to, butunless I'm there I sit through
them, unless I'm vandering on myphone and stuff.
There was a triple threat match.

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The winner went to Money in theBank.
They were wrestling for thebriefcase, zoe Stark tore her
ACL once again.
I saw that they had to carryher out.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
It was a real thing.

Speaker 11 (25:38):
They had to stop the match and you can see it on TV.
They immediately went tocommercial break.
The referee motions for thedoctor to come in and everybody
around us.
I said that wasn't supposed tohappen because she jumped off
the top rope and when she did,her opponent didn't run like she
was supposed to and hit thering and tore the same ACL that

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she just got back from havingsurgery on back in October, I
think it was.
I think she returned rightafter, right before WrestleMania
around the Royal Rumble time.
But that was kind of crazy andthey just stopped and you can
see Rhea ripley say on tv staredown, because I mean I guess
they have a situation if one ofthem gets hurt, this is how this

(26:19):
is going to work.
So that was kind of crazy tosee it on that end because I
mean that wasn't supposed tohappen.
So that was that was kind ofcrazy.
Yeah, yeah stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Stuff does happen.
Well, hey, you know this is thelast show this year and then by
the time you come on in August,we'll be right there with
college football season.

Speaker 11 (26:39):
Yes sir, yes sir, I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
And high school football, and high school
football, yeah.

Speaker 11 (26:44):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, I can't wait, and
then we'll see how bad thebraves are doing, or we'll see
how they'll be right doing itthere, you know if they're right
there, but it's either gonna bethe phillies or the mets that
win the that win the east.
Um, but uh, you know, thephillies won't be able to

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receive any world series rings,since all they receive is
national league.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, you know I'm giving you time and you keep
saying this stuff.
I should just cut you off, Iknow.
But you know I will say thisthough you know the National
League is going to be very toughthis year.
It is, it is.
I mean, it's going to be toughto get in.
It certainly is.
It certainly is, It'll be a funsummer.

Speaker 11 (27:25):
Hopefully, the Hopefully they're starting to
get hot at the right time, maybethey can hit this hump.
I mean, that's baseball for you, that's just how baseball goes.
That's why it's one of myfavorite sports to watch Mr
Boone.
Once again, I appreciate theopportunity.
I look forward to this everyTuesday.

(27:47):
It's gotten to where I work nowthat.
I have to put it in my calendarso it reminds me to call you,
because sometimes if you getbusy and can't text me, hey, 430
, I forget.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
I think that happened a couple of times last year.
Yeah, and sometimes I forget.

Speaker 11 (28:01):
But I certainly enjoy it.
I look forward to it everyThursday or every Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
That's good, because Thursday wouldn't work.

Speaker 11 (28:09):
Sorry, dad brain, that's okay, but I look forward
to it every Tuesday and lookingforward to it kicking back up in
August and I hope you all havea good summer break and look
forward to hearing from you inAugust.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
All right man, Take care of that family.

Speaker 11 (28:26):
Yes sir, We'll see you.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
All right, bye-bye, that's Zach, and yeah, he'll be,
you can tell.
You know he doesn't have awhole lot to talk about at this
time of year.
Luckily he has the wrestling,but once football cranks up, his
energy level goes way up aswell.
So, all right, shifting gearsin sports, we go to running,
running, running, running,running.
How'd you do Saturday?

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Oh, not as well as I would have liked to I was.
I haven't beat myself up, so itpoured it stormed oh, and it
was hot, so it was very muggy.
Yeah, it was mountains to mainstreet, so I started in tr and
ended in downtown greenville andit was pouring the whole time,
no, but the middle chunk.
So, uh, and this was a halfmarathon, yes, Just a half.

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And so I was doing really good.
I have this app that tells youyour projected finish time after
you finish each mile, and I wasset to get my PR.
And then at mile 10, there'sonly 13, I couldn't do it, like
I think the humidity I wassopping wet, like I was just
miserable.
And so at mile 10, I startedwalk running and I added six

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minutes to my time in the lastthree miles, so I still finished
under two hours, which isalways like good, but it could
have been my pr now you havethis goal to do 12 of them in a
year, basically one a month.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Now, why is that a goal?
When did you start?

Speaker 4 (29:49):
I turned 40 this last month this year.
So so I said, for my 40th year,I'm going to do one a month.
Oh, okay, wow.
So since January I've run one.
This is my fourth.
Wow, wow.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's a lot, I mean is that like recommended that
you run that much?
I mean some people they take abreak after the first one.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, I mean, but like some of them there were,
the two of the four were liketwo weeks apart, but my last one
was like April 1st and this isnow May 17th.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
So that's a pretty big stretch.
Wow, so when's your next?

Speaker 4 (30:23):
one.
So there are no local June ones, and there was one I was going
to do, but I dropped the balland missed the sign up and it
sold out.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
So either I have to travel in June, which isn't
likely because we already have athousand other summer things
going on or I'm just going torun my own which will probably
just be what I do the Mary Borthalf marathon, whether you pay,
to run it or whether you do iton your own, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
So I'll probably just end up doing my June one on my
own, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Must be tough in the summertime.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're early yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Does your husband run too?
No, he does not.
You just do it on your own.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yes, he cheers you on .

Speaker 2 (31:00):
He does how about any of the little ones, are they?

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Oh, they run around constantly, but no.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Emma is the current third third grade belton
elementary school hula hoopchampion.
I just won that last week.
Good for you.
You think you're gonna run likeyour mama eventually.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
No, didn't have to think about that answer that's
right I'm right to it.
Okay, I have a few questionsokay um for long distance
runners, and you're the perfectperson to answer this Some are
serious, some are not, butwhatever, enjoy.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
What do you listen to when you're running?
So if I'm running inside I willwatch a show, like if I'm
running on my treadmill I'lljust watch some whatever is on
TV.
Otherwise I will listen to,like they have running radio
stations.
So I've tried podcasts, which Ilove, podcasts, but I can't,
for some reason that does notmotivate me to go yeah, um.

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so they I will put on like arunning station, um, or
sometimes, like I have thepeloton app on my phone and they
have runs where, like hype youup, while you're running there's
music playing, but then they'realso like coaching you.
So sometimes I do those.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
All right.
Do you run towards snacks oraway from responsibilities?

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Towards snacks.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
So, speaking of snacks, is there something that
you eat just before or after?
Oh, I like all.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
I want is carbs when I'm done.
Oh sorry, All I want is likepizza and like all the carbs
Before.
I probably should be eatingthings, but I'm not very good
about that, Okay.
I'm not very good at liketraining Gotcha.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
We used to cover back in New Jersey.
I used to actually cover someof these long runs and do the
announcing when they're comingin and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
And man, they would have those big pasta parties
yeah, car people will be likewell, what's your water intake
plan, what's your fuel plan,what's?
And I'm like I just go and run,I don't have to keep it simple.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Okay, it's working.
Yeah, I mean uh, do you everrun so far?
You forget why you started?

Speaker 4 (33:09):
no, okay, good have you ever run past your own house
?

Speaker 1 (33:11):
why you started.
No, okay good, have you everrun past your own house just to
hit a mileage?

Speaker 4 (33:15):
goal.
Oh, absolutely Back and forth,back and forth, just to, because
I can't end on like an odd,weird number.
I've got to finish on a wholemile, okay.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
What's the weirdest thing you've seen on a long run?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Hmm, that's a good question.
I don't know.
I don't know that I've seenanything that crazy weird.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Have you ever had to outrun some sort of animal?

Speaker 4 (33:44):
like a dog or something.
No, luckily, my dad used to bea big runner and he would run
with a stick Because we had alake and there would be geese
and stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, that was actually on here too.
Yeah, would be geese and stuff.
So yeah, that was actually onhere too.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Yeah, I've never luckily squirrel.
Yeah, I have had to do thatokay.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Do you ever have full conversations with yourself
while you're running?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
oh, in my head.
Yes, yes, especially after along day of work.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yes, uh, what's your go-to excuse when you don't want
to run but need to sound legit?

Speaker 4 (34:10):
oh I.
There's just too much to doaround the house.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
That's a good one, and you got young kids yeah,
kids laundry, there's alwaysthings that's funny because that
was the next question.
Do you run to clear your mindor to avoid the pile of laundry
waiting at home?

Speaker 4 (34:25):
oh, I'm more so the clear the mind.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
So that's what, that's why you run yeah I think
this really does help help youon on the job.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
This is like your stress relief, yeah because I
get up at about 5, 530, and fromthat point until my kids go to
bed I am with somebody answeringsome question, in some capacity
doing something.
The only time I am by myself iswhen, I run.
When you run, yeah.
So, yes, it is truly like mytime in my head, because even in

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the car, like I, always have akid with me.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
And that's you know.
You get so mentally worn outfrom the stuff at school and all
that that you counter it withthe physical.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Right, yeah, I enjoy it, I really do.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Okay.
Do you consider walking to thefridge a warm-up or a recovery
session?
Both?
Do you consider walking to thefridge a warm-up or recovery
session?
Both?
You're too young for this one,but on a scale from one to I
need new knees.
How are you feeling?

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Oh, if you had asked me this last week, I would say
100.
But since I just ran this racethree days ago, I'm not moving
quite as gingerly as I wouldlike to.
Today I'm at a seven.
If you would have asked me twodays ago, I was hobbling around
at about a two.
So is it the knee feet?
It's my quads, it's your quads.

(35:44):
They get so sore.
Knees are still doing well.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Okay, what is your favorite carbo load?

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Pizza.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Would you rather run in 100-degree heat or freezing
rain?

Speaker 4 (36:00):
Oh, both sound awful.
I guess neither.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Forget running.
I'd hate to be outside ineither of those, I'd rather run
in the heat because the freezingrain would like hurt.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Oh yeah, that would hurt.
At least on Saturday, when itwas pouring, it was warm out.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
That didn't have to do with the cold.
Yeah, it was warm.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Which hurts more the last mile or stepping on a Lego?

Speaker 4 (36:23):
Ooh Well, I do have a five-year-old son, so I have a
lot of experience in stepping onLegos.
Legos, I, I think, are worseeverybody says they're worse
than anything?

Speaker 1 (36:33):
uh, if your running shoes could talk, what would
they say about you?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
they would say it's time to get new ones.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
You're wearing these are you rough on your shoes?

Speaker 4 (36:43):
yes, I wear them far too long how long do for a
runner?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
how long do running shoes last I?

Speaker 4 (36:48):
don't know if this is like marketing, but allegedly
you're supposed to swap them outevery 500 miles.
And some people are like crazyand they log their miles.
I wear them until they haveholes in them and you can start
to tell Like your toes startfeeling different.
You get blisters, you can tell.
But I definitely wear mine farpast their prime.
What brand shoes do you?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
have yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
I'm all over the place.
Right now.
I am wearing Asics, but I haveworn just about every brand.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
So do you go to somewhere like Run-In or
something like that?

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, fleet Feet and they'll fit you, and so they'll
give you several different ones,and then I just kind of walk
around in what I feel, whatfeels best in that time.
I've pretty much worn everybrand at this point.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, yeah, ever pretended to tie what feels best
in that time?
I've pretty much worn everybrand at this point.
Yeah, yeah, um.
Ever pretended to tie your shoe, just to take a break no,
that's a good idea though that'sall the questions I have.
But uh, we wanted to know ifI'm a true runner.
At least I wanted that's great.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
So do you run every day or, do you like, every other
day?

Speaker 4 (37:49):
so now, because it's the chaos of May and you know
all the things in terms of myjob and then the children's
things like awards days, I ambarely running at all.
But when it's not the chaos ofMay, I typically run five days a
week.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Five days.
So is that like Monday throughFriday, or?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
It just depends like on my kids' schedule and my work
schedule and what nights I haveworking.
I plan around that.
So you run in the evening, notin the morning, Correct.
In the weekends I run in themorning.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
You do run in the morning.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, not during the week.
I run after work.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
All right, and our next segment.
We wanted to talk to you abouta little bit about your
governing style as a principal.
And, by the way, before we moveon, holly, she said she just
turned 40.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
She still looks like a student, but anyway, I have a
baby face, jeez.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
That's what I told her the other day, because we
posted that picture of her whenshe got a shirt.
Four years ago, I think it wasthe first time we had her on and
I used that to promote the showthis year.
She years ago, I think it wasthe first time we had her on and
I used that to promote the showthis year.
She looks exactly the same.
It's amazing.
Good for you, maybe it's therunning, I don't know, but good
for you, all right.
Um, I wanted to ask you justabout, uh, senior prank.

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Was there one this year?
Oh, yeah, yeah, what'd they dothis it?

Speaker 4 (39:05):
was a fail on their part good for them.
I asked who is this joke?
Moron, you or me?
So uh they, we got tipped offthat they were coming.
They're not very good criminals.
There are about 20 or 30 ofthem that showed up at about 2
in the morning last Thursdaynight I guess Friday morning,
and they did toilet paper, sillystring.

(39:27):
They brought in tons of woodenpallets and blocked all the door
, the entrances and all theparking lots and they had that
spray chalk I thought it wasspray paint when I first got
pictures, but it was spray chalkand they did a lot of the
building um which washes rightoff.
It does um, so nothing.

(39:49):
I mean it was hard, it trulywas hard, but they came the next
day.
That's why I said I asked themwho was this joke really on?
Because it took them five hoursto clean it all up the next day
and they had been up all nightlike they were there.
When we watched the cameras theywere still there at 2 am, so
like the jokes was really onthem.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah see, I told them not that I would give any
criminal recommendations, butI'm like that's when you need to
take your senior.
Skip day is the day after youdo the senior prank.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Which they didn't have school.
They were done Right so I senta message to the parents and
said if your children wereinvolved in this prank, they
better be here at nine to cleanit up and they all came, they
brought pressure washers.
They came, they cleaned it allup.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
They loaded up all the.
That's a good class.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
I told you I love them.
They're so sweet.
They loaded back up all theBecause I was worried about all
the pallets.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
It was probably 50 plus pallets and I was like what
.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
But they came back with the trailer and got them
all.
They went and got a pressurewasher.
When they realized they triedscrubbing, I told them before
whatever you do, I will not askmy custodians to clean it up,
that's right and so they knew ifthey did it they were going to
have to clean it up Wow.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
So all for a few hours of stress relief.
They were good sports.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
But they got to say they did it and it was fun.
That's right.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, it's all about the experience.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I remember other years.
You've always had a good senseof humor.
You were telling us about theegg year.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
I don't know about fish, they came and cleaned that
.
Yeah, I don't remember fish,but they did that.
One was a little that was.
They may have crossed the lineon that one, but they came and
cleaned.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Okay, All right.
Now here's an idea, and luckilywe don't have to worry about
senior prank over here.
Right, In fact Well theybrought up the idea in class and
I'm like no, no, no, you don'tneed to do that over here.
No, and you better not do thatover here.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
You need to do that at your home high school.
Do that at your home highschool.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
I mean over here.
It's just too complicated.
So here's an idea for you Ifyou were going to do principal
prank on the seniors, what kindof thing could you do to them
that?

Speaker 4 (41:48):
they wouldn't know about, and you just pull a prank
so we said we should have toldthem about a graduation practice
, and then nobody showed up wejoked about this the other day
actually like what would besomething and make?
Tell them they all have to bethere, and then none of us show
up, like at a time after schoolor something, when the parking
lot is dead.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, that is a good idea.
Yeah, yeah, principal pranks.
That should become a.
I think that would be prettyfunny.
What's the craziest thing?
Students?

Speaker 4 (42:17):
have been sent to your office for this year.
Oh, I don't know, I don't.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
They're angels, I know.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
No, I don't get a lot of them in my office, my three
wonderful assistant principalsdeal with the majority of that.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, if it gets to your office.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
It's probably pretty wild, I guess.
If it's coming to me I don'tknow that I've had any that I'm
like whoa, what is this um ornone that I can say on the radio
?
Um, nothing too crazy.
I mean just the standardteenagers being making yeah,
silly mistake.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Is there an all-time?
Is there an all-time thing?
You remember?
That just was crazy, funny,awkward, something like that
that you could say on the radioOne year we had, this is more
apparent.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
This was like I was still an assistant principal.
We had a parent.
We don't.
Today was exams.
So one of our policy duringexams is we will not interrupt
an exam period for earlydismissal.
We send every message home inthe world that says this
multiple days in a row we willnot interrupt a class for early
dismissal.
So you either get your kidbefore the period starts or
after, because we're not callingin during exams.

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So I guess the parent didn'tget the memo.
So they called the police andsaid we had kidnapped her child
because we refused to releasethem.
And the police told them, likema'am, they're where they're
supposed to be legally in school.
She called the police and saidthat we had kidnapped her child.
This was like years ago.
That's interesting, I don'teven remember who the child was.

(43:42):
Like we all got a nice laugh,though.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, any social media, tiktok, challenges or
anything you've had to deal withthis year.
No, we've been lucky.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
I've heard of lots of them, but we have not had to
deal with that and I don't wantto promote some of them.
Yes, some of them are prettybad.
Yeah, they are.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, I liked it when we went to school and didn't
have social media.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
Me too.
Life was so much easier.
Yes, it was no phones nothingme I know, but um life was so
much easier.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yes, it was no phones , nothing um.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
I wrote something better this year without phones
in the classroom.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Oh, it has like dramatically yeah, little things
, yeah, I think so I mean westill use them a lot for a lot
of things for because our classis what it is but as far as them
playing on them and stuff likethat, but even like I remember,
I don't remember what it was,but something happened maybe a
month ago that would havetypically spread like wildfire
through the school and wouldhave caused.
I don't remember what it was,but I remember us not hearing a

(44:40):
peep from anybody.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
No phone calls.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
It was the first time it dawned on me they can't text
each other openly about this sothat's why we're not getting
chaos.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, all right.
Let Chaos.
Yeah, all right.
Let's move on to therecommendation things, because
you've already said they'reangels and I was going to talk
about reasons why kids get sentto the principal's office.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Well, my seniors, they're just so sweet, we're
going to miss them yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
I wish I could say the same about mine.
You know what the weird thingwas?
We didn't have any BHP seniorsin our class.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
Really, you didn't have the first time ever.
That is wild.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
You have underclassmen though, yeah, yeah
yeah, that was the first timethat ever happened, so I don't
know what happened that year.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
But yeah, that is crazy yeah, um.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
So summer plans.
You said you're going to do amillion different things.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
We are enlighten us a little bit so, um, we are going
to the beach.
That's where my parents live inflorida, and so we will go
there.
We're going to see Emma'scousins, who she is very, very
close with.
They live in Cincinnati Ohio,so we're spending some days
there.
We'll swim in and celebratesome birthdays.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Go to the zoo.
She has never been to the.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Cincinnati.

Speaker 9 (45:47):
Zoo.
I grew up there, so I have.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
So maybe that could be something we do.
My kids love a good zooHarambee.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's where.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
Harambee was.
We will be, so let's see BeachCincinnati.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
So you said Florida Beach right.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
Whereabouts in Florida, daytona Beach Okay,
nice Big beach.
Oh yes, you can drive on itDaytona Beach Okay nice big
beach.
Oh, yes, you can drive on it.
You can drive on it, that'sright.
So we will be going there.
We're going to be busy.
I'm going to Nashville in acouple weeks for a friend's
birthday.
We're all over the place, yeah,and you're still going to fit

(46:26):
in all these half marathons.
I just got back from WashingtonDC yesterday for my brother's
graduation.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
We're my brother's graduation we're all over the
place.
I think I saw that on gw right,yeah, wow he's.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
He's going to be a lawyer.
What kind of lawyer?
Um, so that I asked him thatquestion on saturday after the
ceremony and he said he doesn'tknow yet.
Oh well, I guess they don'thave to the law firm will place
him like he got to.
Let's put a ranking of thetypes of law he would like to
practice and they will try tomatch him with one of those
types, but he has passed the barfirst in july okay, he will
he's smart.
That's cool, very cool, that'scool.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Um, okay, so we get to the part of the program where
we get the recommendations andmy favorite part again, mary has
had some good ones over theyear, over the years that I've
actually visited the restaurantsand and such.
I don't remember the all theentertainment ones, but I have a
way of remembering therestaurants.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
To get some good food .
So, as you know, mary, you'vebeen here before.
I would like to hear we wouldall like to hear what
entertainment you can recommendto us A movie, something you're
binging on Netflix, or a book,or anything that you're doing to
entertain yourself that youwould like to share.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
I just finished watching Four Seasons on Netflix
.
That was pretty good.
Yeah, that's.
Did you watch that?

Speaker 1 (47:38):
No, I did not.
But that's what?
Is that?
A remake of the old FourSeasons.
Oh is it, it's a show my wifeis telling me it's like Alan
Alda was in the original one.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
I did not know it's got a bunch of older SNL folks.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Yeah, is it funny.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
It's like a dramedy.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
It's funny, it's funny, they're quick, little
30-minute episodes.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
That's what I was going to ask it's series.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
Yeah, okay, but it follows three adult couples
through four seasons, so overthe span of a year, and they
were all friends that they metin college and so it kind of
follows them.
They go on four trips togetherand it kind of follows their
lives and it's funny.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
It's got some serious parts.
It's got what Steve Carell's init.
Yeah, steve Carell is in it.
Who else is in it?

Speaker 9 (48:22):
Tina.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Fey.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Tina Fey.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
I can't think of guy on Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
Not anymore, but he did.
Oh, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
I know who you mean.
I can't.
He's been in several showsColeman.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Diego, yes Domingo.
Steve Carell, erica I don'tknow her, erica.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Some of the people I did not know, Will Forte.
I would recommend it.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, we saw the trailer for it last night when
we were watching something else.
It looked like it was it's aneasy watch.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Well, I like Tina Fey and Steve Carell anyway, so
both of them are good.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
And I like easy watches every now and then,
because most of the stuff Iwatch is dark.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Yeah, no it's but anyway.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
So there you go, four seasons, and that is on Netflix
, right?

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, okay, so food, food.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Restaurants, yes, restaurants.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I've been out to eat in a minute and you're in a
local area anyways, you livelocally.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
Yes, so, man, emma, do we have any good restaurant
suggestions?
Where do you like to go?
Oh, she loves Heat.

Speaker 7 (49:31):
Oh, heat is good.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
She loves Heat in Pattersville.
I have not been to Heat.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Wait a minute.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
I really have not.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Wait, we need to ring a bell or something.
Holly has always been to theplaces people recommend.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
So what do you eat at Heat?
That's like right around thecorner from you, I know it, I
just don't think about it.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
So the owner?
I don't know if this is true,but this is what my husband told
me that he used to run a ormanage or something or cook at
at an outback, so it's kind ofoutback-esque.
Okay the menu.
Okay, steaks, potatoes.
So what do you get there?
What do you like?
I've gotten the salmon there.
She gets the steak every timeshe loves it there.
Okay, steak and french fries.
They have steak bites for kids.

(50:05):
Um, uh, I get the salmon.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Most of the time they have good sides okay yeah, I
think I haven't been there in awhile.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
But it's right, and it's been.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
It's reasonably priced too, and I just don't
think about it within minutesfrom my house, so it's tiny, so
like I thought you lived downhere I live in, I live.
I'm zoned for wren but I'm likeon the cusp of Wren
Patersonville.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Oh, I didn't realize you were way up there yeah, oh
okay, but yeah, I think I gotsomething like sirloin tips or
something there, it wassomething steak related.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was.
I've gotten that before.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
That's good, which was really good, and now I want
it again.
So, sirloin tips, I think thesirloin tips and it comes, you
know, gravy and a vegetable Ithink it's a steak and a salad
every time okay yeah, okay, it'salways, it's always and it's
right there by the house.
I just don't think about goingyeah, yeah, used to be the
barbecue place back yes, andI've been there and it was left

(51:01):
empty forever yeah yes, and thenit had the heat sign up for
forever but then it

Speaker 4 (51:05):
didn't open they stay crowded, so they're doing well
All right.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Very good recommendations as usual from
Mary Bortz.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
Absolutely Thanks.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
And we'll see if she gets the most downloads on the
Spotify thing that we have.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
For the principals, she'll win yet another principal
title.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Which she already won the best proclamation of
graduates.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Even though it wasn't perfect.
No, no, no miss the tassel andthe and the school and all that,
um, but the enthusiasm.
I will go back and edit mynotes you're officially
graduated from bhp high schoolum, but thank you for coming on

(51:49):
and closing out our year thankyou for having me good luck with
all the running around you'regonna do I hope you reach your
goals and um the next one.
You don't know when the nextone is right, because it's
probably gonna be on my own,it's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
There is one called the carolina reaper challenge.
That's in july and it's ingreenville, and they call it
that because it's so hot.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Nothing to do with peppers, no, it's just that hot
out in South Carolina.
In July, in July, oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
And you enjoy that?

Speaker 2 (52:17):
No, I don't love it in the heat.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
I need like 40, 50 degrees, but I have to check one
off.

Speaker 7 (52:22):
That's right.
Do they do them in the earlymorning?
They?

Speaker 4 (52:24):
have night ones.
I've never run one, but I don'tlike I can't travel every
single month, I'd run out all mymoney.
Right, right.
I have traveled for two of twoof them so far this year.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
So so would you say, that's your main hobby is just
yes, and you want to pay peopleso that you can run and get
exhausted.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Yes, I know it's silly sounding, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (52:45):
No, it's good, it's good, it's good.
I wouldn't know how it feels atthe end, but everybody always
tells me that it's just quitethe feeling when you get to that
finish line and get your medalfor you know taking part in the
run and I guess do you do wellin, like your age group, do you
always?

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Well, I just bumped up.
This is my first race as a40-year-old.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
I told because I told you I crashed out.
Well then, you should bewinning it.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
I told you I crashed out.
I said I just can't hang nowthat I'm 40.
That's what I told my family.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
But now you're against all the older people.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
So I'm in a new age bracket now.
That's right.
Moving up, yeah, I fare wellthough.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
But have All right.
What's going to be yourfavorite part of the summer?
Do you think Going to the beach?
Yeah, yeah, you like going tothe beach.
Do you like swimming in theocean or do you just like
playing on the beach?
I like going in the pool.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
In the pool, yeah, oh and you like boogie boarding
yeah.
Yeah well, that's cool itsounds like fun.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
You get along with your right.
Yeah, she's a good older sister.
That's good.
That's good, alright, well,we'll close it out then.
Fourth for the year and we'llbe back.
I think our our date that we'reshooting for is August the 19th
.
So, mary, make sure you tellpeople around your area.

(54:01):
If they got stories to tell,yeah, get them on the show.
Okay stories like last yearwhen we had what's the same on
what do we have on with you?
Who with you?
One of the teachers, Mr Johnsor no a?

Speaker 4 (54:13):
teacher.
Oh, mr Woody, oh, mr Woody,that was great, I forgot about
that and his talk about eatingand food.
He has some interesting habits.
Oh he still has the same habitsevery day.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Very interesting, but I mean, mean, that's what we
want to do is tell stories.
So you let us know if uh ifthere's anybody we can get on,
and thanks again for coming on.
So everybody, thanks forlistening all year long.
You know you can listen to thepodcast anytime on on spotify.
Tell your friends about thattoo, and we'll see you back in
august.
So, everybody, have a greatsummer.
And thanks for listening to theboone show, my pulse radio.