The Boone Show S5 E9 - Principal's Perspective: Dr. Kyle Whitfield, Wren High School

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We explore the multifaceted role of a high school principal with Dr. Kyle Whitfield of Wren High School, diving into the joys of witnessing student growth and the challenges facing modern educators.

• Principal's satisfaction comes from seeing students develop from freshmen to graduating seniors
• Creating well-rounded students through academics, athletics, and community involvement
• The school's success in academics and extracurricular activities despite moving to more competitive 4A division
• Personal insights on supporting students through tragedy including Isaac Wigington's recovery journey
• The growing teacher shortage crisis facing schools nationwide
• Need for legislative changes to make education careers more attractive through better compensation and benefits
• Challenges of engaging modern students with shorter attention spans due to technology
• Teaching approaches must continuously adapt as traditional lecture methods become less effective
• The Wren community's special ability to come together in both celebration and times of need
• Education remains a calling despite challenges, requiring commitment beyond financial compensation

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, hello everybody.
Welcome to the Boone Show onMyPulse Radio.
Glad to have you along with us.
I'm John Boone.
The boss lady is here, hollyHarrell.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello.
Two weeks in a row, that'sright.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, we're starting a streak, and our very special
guest here tonight is theprincipal of Wren High School,
dr Kyle Whitfield.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
How are you Doing great.
Thank you all both for havingme on the show today.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well, one thing we know when we start having the
principals on is it's near theend of the school year.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yes, it is.
We always do.
Kind of a summary of the schoolyear.
You're the first one this year,so everybody's got to live up
to how you perform on the showtoday.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's a tough standard.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Now you remember last year when you were here, you
lost the basketball thing.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I know it's not one of my proudest moments, for sure
, yeah, I think he's beenbragging about it all year.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh, I know he has.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
But, we've got to get him on the schedule and Robbie
Roach will be here in a coupleweeks and we've got our District
2 people that we've got to geton there.
My show producer schedulerneeds to pick it up a little bit
.
I'm working on it to pick it upa little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm working on it.
I'm working on it.
They hadn't responded.
I swear I sent it out as soonas you told me last week to get
those pencils on.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I told her to do something.
That's so weird, anyway, andKyle was right on it.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Like he is on it, he's like I'll take 415.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Boom, he got it.
There we go, we got it, we.
And I want to tell people weusually forget about this, but
there are phone lines here Ifanybody's listening and wants to
get in on the action.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I actually turned on the ringer, holly so they can't,
so I can hear it.

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So if you're looking the other way, you'll be rudely
interrupted.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Did you see?
I went over there to try tofind it and pull it closer so at
least I can watch it.
But you've got the ringer on.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
But Zach, or at least I think I do, zach, uh will be
along later on and uh, you cangive us a call.
864-847-3509.
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(02:02):
Okay, so, dr Whitfield, youstill, you still like that ring
to that.
I mean, you put in a lot ofwork to get that.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
That's why I have so much gray hair.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I think the first time you were on a few years ago
, you were just finishing thatup, and has it?
Has it been everything youwanted to be so far?
Have you?
Have you been a greateducational leader?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm certainly trying.
I remember Mr Benneker, who Ithink very highly of, who's
living the dream down inCharleston.
True.
But I remember him telling methat his hardest job he ever had
was a high school principal,assistant superintendent,
superintendent, I mean, it'sjust like any.
I mean, we all have challengingdays, but it's definitely worth

(02:50):
it.
It's very rewarding.
Rewarding days, yeah,absolutely.
And I think being at highschool is pretty special,
because I actually did middleschool for the first half of my
tenure in education.
I think being in high schooland being able to see the
finished product, getting themacross stage and being a part of
that's pretty special.
And I'll actually not only beprincipal next year, I'll be a

(03:13):
dad of a senior and so, likeI'll probably, be, probably next
time if you have me this timenext year, I might be crying
because he'll, you know, be downto the wire for him, but I mean
to to be able to see him walkacross stage, hand his diploma,
maybe give him a hug and youknow, um, that's.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think it'll be a pretty, pretty special event you
know and it's not that you'rejust creating that high school
graduate right, you're gettingthe academics, are doing those
things, but you're making thatwhole kid, that whole person
that comes out.
So you look at the civicorganizations, the sporting
events.
You know all the things thatcome along with cooperating in
high school teamwork and all ofthose things.

(03:49):
You're doing that as well.
So you're seeing where thatkid's going, not just academic
wise, but just as a wholestudent and hopefully a
productive citizen of our UnitedStates.
You know, and that's rewardingas well, to see them progress as
a ninth grader to where theycome up to be a senior and see
how much growth they have theretoo.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, it's kind of cool and sometimes see them do
the opposite.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
You know, but I mean, which was?
What have I done wrong?
I?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
mean, that was me in high school.
You know I've got, I've alwayshad a heart for the kids that
don't always do the right thingand you know being able to coach
them in those moments and saythis is pretty dumb.
But you know, we're going to behere to help, if you'll let us,
we're going to be here to help.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
You know, guide you to making some better choices.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Give it those second chances, or sometimes third and
fourth chances.
Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now you have what?
Two, three kids.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
You have what?
Two, three kids?
Yeah, I've got two boys.
So, yeah, I've got a junior atthe high school with me and I'll
have a middle schooler nextyear.
He'll be in sixth grade, sohe'll be with Ms Alford across
the street and you know his son,his oldest, is with us.
Oh really he's in biomedical.
Is that?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Ms Minton, I think so .

Speaker 3 (05:08):
I'm pretty sure it's Miss Minton.
They're all good teachers.
I know, yeah, I know he lovesthe program and he's.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
He's a lot smarter than me, so y'all would have
probably denied me access if Iwas a guy with a PhD.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, but yeah, he's, he's doing well, he likes it
over here.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Good, well, tell us about your year a little bit,
some of the memorable momentsyou know, some maybe some
initiatives you've started overthere this year.
I know I see Wren just aboutevery year gets gets an award at
the end of it for being one ofthe best schools around.
So just give us kind of a runthrough of some of the memorable

(05:38):
things that have happened thisyear.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So, as far as initiatives, like I'm I've
always, I think all of us inthis room probably have similar
personalities in a sense thatwe're competitive and want to
want to do the best that whenwe're given given the chance.
And so one of our goals was to,you know, speaking at the end
of the year when you get yourreport card, you know we want to
maintain in the excellent rangeand we're always trying to, you

(06:02):
know, have the highest reportcard rating among rating among
high schools in our district.
But we've won Palmetto Silverthe past few years, which is
great, but it's been a long timesince we've had a high school
in our district win PalmettoGold, which was pretty tough
because you've got to.
There's four.
I'm not trying to bore you, butthere's four areas that the
state looks at.

(06:22):
They look at your academicachievement, which is your EOC
scores.
They look at graduation rateand they look at college and
career readiness, which you guyshave a huge part in that
helping us.
So our success is also y'all'ssuccess in that regard.
But the area where we've got to,you know, kind of grow and
challenge we've challenged ourstudents and our teachers is an
end of course test.

(06:43):
We've challenged our studentsand our teachers is an end of
course test, and so we've triedto just not only make students
aware of their hugeresponsibility and doing their
best in those end of coursetests.
You know algebra one, englishtwo, u S, history and biology
but you know, trying toencourage them to get a C or
higher, because every studentthat's that scores proficiency a
C or higher is going to help usget towards winning Palmetto

(07:04):
gold, and so we've.
You know we've tried to do somecreative things with.
You know incentivizing students, rewarding students for doing
well, and that's been a biginitiative last year and
continuing it into this year too, because you know our students
can, can, can do that if theyapply themselves, and you know
it's you all know trying tomotivate teenagers is not.

(07:27):
You know, if we all had asolution for that, we'd probably
go around you know the globespeaking about how to do that.
But you know that's that's.
That's been a huge, you know,initiative this year.
Beyond that, I mean, we, youknow, like you said earlier,
we're always trying to make ourstudents well around.
You know, like you said earlier, we're always trying to make
our students well-rounded.

(07:48):
You know we've had a lot ofsuccess in fine arts.
You know kids going to.
You know state competitions anddoing well.
And you know athletics andwe've had a lot of success this
year.
And you know my AD and I alwaysjoke.
There's this at the end of theyear, the year it's called the
Carlyle Cup.
So they take the schools thathave the most success in each

(08:09):
classification you're awardedthe Carlyle Cup.
Well, stan's first year he wonthe Carlyle Cup and each year I
give him a hard time like are wegoing to win it again?
And pushing our sports programsto compete at that level.
It's just everywhere you lookat a place like Wren, we got

(08:30):
such good students, teachers.
It's a great community and youknow, really, that tradition of
excellence there is.
It can be, you know, both achallenge to live up to, but
also I think it good to hold our, our school to that level so
that we don't get content withstatus quo well, the move to 4a
certainly didn't slow you downit's been a lot tougher, I mean

(08:53):
I'm not, I mean basketball.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
The final four again, yep um, would you get
volleyball championship no, no,not tell me you tell me, because
I'm all over it.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, so we had a lot of success in volleyball.
But I mean 4A is so much.
I mean it's very competitive.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
And all that was reconfigured this year.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Every two years.
Every two years, right yeah,every two years they look at
your enrollment and the waythings are trending with the
high school league.
I mean.
I think there's a good chancewe're going to move back down to
3A because it looks likethey're going to probably
restructure it the way it wasfor years with your big 16, they
used to call it your dormantsand whatnot and from there, as
they kind of reclass down, Ithink there's a good chance we'd

(09:37):
be back in 3A, which we had alot of success in.
We've had success when we wonstate championship in football.
We were in 4 of success in, andwe've had success in when we
won state championship infootball.
We're in 4A.
You know we beat Myrtle Beachto do that.
So we've had success in bothavenues.
It's just.
It's just a lot, a lot morecompetitive.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's tough, it can be tough, that's right, that's
right.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I did get a list from Mr Wren Austin Tripp about some
of the students that havesigned at some colleges around
and that's pretty impressive.
You've got people going toWofford and USC and Columbia
International, baba's going toFurman, yep Lander and Colin
McCaffrey who I didn't realizewas the cousin of Christian

(10:19):
McCaffrey, that is correct Goingto Erskine to play baseball.
So again and he also notes onhere Cheer got fourth place at
the States.
They were the upper statechamps this year.
It's not bad for a 4A.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
We won a lot of region championships.
We're having a lot of successin the spring too.
I think we'll continue thattrajectory.
It's always good when youhaving a lot of success in the
spring too, so I think we'llcontinue that trajectory.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
But, um, but yeah, I mean we, uh, it's always good
when you, you know, have kidsgetting their college paid for
through sports and and you know,even though, even though I like
to win as well, I think beingin that top five in everything,
or real close to that, that'shuge, because some people are
really good at one thing, but tobe really good out at a lot of

(11:06):
things, that's.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Competitive in everything.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes, and that's kind of where not just Wren but the
Anderson 1 school district, theAnderson 2, they all kind of fit
, both districts kind of fit inthat, and Wren High School is
right at the top of that.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, very proud of all our across the
board teachers, coaches, parentsI mean, parents are a huge part
of this too, sure you've got tohave that support Yep.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I did want to ask you a tough situation earlier this
year with Isaac Wigington.
That's tough for a school to gothrough.
Of course, for those that maynot know, he's in a serious car
accident, almost died and has along way back.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
From the fall yeah, back from the fall, yeah, yeah
In the fall.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
And I just wanted to know how do you navigate that as
a principal?
Because there's a lot of thingsgoing on, a lot of reactions
and emotions from kids.
He was pretty well known, wellliked with the football team, et
cetera, and then you know, wesee just the day we saw him in

(12:08):
his outfit for prom, lookinggood, looking great and it was
just such a major lift, that'sgotta be a lift for everybody
just to see him out there.
So if you could just take methrough, you know quickly how
how you navigate those tough,tough situations.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
I mean there, there, there, I mean that's, there's no
easy way to obviously uh,navigate those.
I, even going back to Houston,my first year is my first year,
first day on the job, with, withstudents and teachers in the
building, um, you know, and, anduh, and it was just it's, it's
tough.
And you know, even with Houston, his I mean they we go to
church together.

(12:41):
I've known you know his mom,jennifer, you know the whole
family for a long time and youknow, with Isaac, you know I've
known Isaac I mean he's rightaround the same age as my son.
They play sports together.
You know I know the familyreally well and so, you know,
just trying to be, you know, assupportive as possible for him,
you know, and going up to thehospital and you know our school

(13:06):
and community has really, youknow, poured out love and you
know we've been able to raisemoney at homecoming during both
we have two spirit weeksthroughout, we have one kind of
during basketball season and beable to donate not just for
Isaac but also for Ariel Terhuneas well, who was, you know, and

(13:27):
you know the great thing abouther is, you know, she was able
to come back to our seniormeeting this past week and she
was at prom too.
So you know I reached out toher mom and over the weekend I
was like it's so great to seeAriel there.
And you know I'm a veryreligious person, so I mean, I
think you know, through thosesituations, just relying on

(13:48):
God's, you know love andguidance and you know a lot of
prayer and you know, as a leaderis one thing you know, and then
you, but as a parent, you know,you can only imagine how tough
it's been for you know, thosefamilies, those parents, and
just trying to pray for them,love on them and any chance we
get.
And we've been able to talk.

(14:09):
You know Angie is his mom.
We've been able to talk a lotabout you know what's graduation
going to look like, because wewant him to be a part of that,
because he, you know, obviouslyhe deserves that experience
Exactly, and so does Ariel.
Ariel, absolutely, yeah, yeah,and she will be.
So you know just, I think thatyou know.

(14:30):
The word I keep coming back tois just being supportive in any
way we can.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'll tell you the students you know they take the
cue from leadership because theyhave been great in these
situations.
Oh, I know the way they've comethrough with the visits, with
the cards, with the balloons andflowers and money support,
raising the money.
It's tough to raise moneynowadays but they get behind
these the love for thesestudents and they work harder

(14:55):
than ever to to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
So it's kind of cool to see it.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's a tribute to you as well.
I mean that you can havestudents that really take the
cue from there and want toreally do something good.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, and it's.
I mean it's also the community,though I don't think you find
that necessarily in everycommunity.
The rent community is prettyspecial and I mean that's one,
you know, realization.
I came to, you know, almost 10years ago when I came to rent as
an assistant principal.
It's just a special place, youknow.
And you know almost 10 yearsago when I when I came to rent
as an assistant principal.
It's just a, it's a specialplace, you know, and you know
people that graduate from therewant to stay there.
They want their kids to gothere and and when something

(15:30):
happens good, good or bad, youknow, in the community they they
you know, really do show up andlove and support.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
So yeah, the celebration is there, but also
the support is there, so it'svery cool.

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Speaker 1 (18:01):
Back on the Boone Show on MyPulse Radio.
Glad you're with us as we talkto Dr Kyle Whitfield from Wren
High School and coming up at4.30,.
We've got Zach hopefullycalling in, but in the meantime
we've got plenty more to talkabout Before we get on to the
ridiculous part of the show,which is just some fun stuff.
We get the serious stuff out ofthe way here.

(18:24):
I just wanted to get from youjust your idea of where
education is going.
I mean, you're a master's ineducational leadership, so and
obviously you kind of relate.
Well, you spoke about how it'sdifferent motivating kids
nowadays and all that.
I was just wondering from yourperspective especially you know

(18:46):
you're a religious man, I shouldcome into this as well, I would
imagine.
But your views, philosophy onwhere education is going, where
it needs to go, maybe somethings that need to change, that
have been done for 100 years,that need to be changed?
I was just curious to see whatyour thoughts on that were.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
That could get me in a lot of trouble.
So I think, I mean, I've got alot of views.
I think you know that obviouslythis is maybe I hope you guys
agree I think we would that thisis probably a calling for most
people.
You know doing this and youknow.
I think you know doing this andyou know it's, I think you know

(19:27):
, from a state level.
You know I'd like to see moresupport.
You know, maybe monetary,monetarily.
I think you know we're teacherswork incredibly hard and it's
good to see that even at thedistrict level, they're
committing to raise this acrossthe board for educators because
they need it.
They're, you know, committing toto raise this across the board
for for educators, because theyneed it.
I mean, it's um, you know, lordknows they, they, you know, if

(19:48):
it's up to me they'd be paid alot more, but I think I think
daughter, young, and theleadership of the district
office for taking that on um, soI think you know that needs to
happen.
There's also some somepromising legislation going
through the state about, youknow um, teacher sick bank, you
know, trying to give teachersunencumbered time before the

(20:11):
start of school because I thinkthat's important for them to
have time to prepare.
So I do think there'slegislation going through that
is promising.
Certification stuff too, Yepmaking it easier, you know, not
so cumbersome, to getrecertified, much more like what
you know my wife's in themedical profession kind of what
they have to do.
It's not quite as rigorous aswhat teachers have to do, for

(20:33):
sure, but you know, I think theother thing that does kind of
worry me is, you know and thiskind of goes I'm not going to
bore you with my dissertationbecause y'all would go to sleep
and so would your audience but Imean we are going to be faced
with a teacher shortage.
As you know, these generationsI mean just looking at my
building sometimes it's scarierthe number of teachers who could

(20:53):
probably retire in the nextfive years, and they're
difference makers.
You know, they make the placebetter.
And then you know praying thatwe get those type of people you
know to replace them with.
And so you know, I thinkaddressing and making the field
in general more attractive toyoung folks is what we have to

(21:16):
do, Because you know we, youknow like it's becoming more and
more difficult to find scienceand math teachers because it's
so much more lucrative to gointo STEM fields outside of
education.
I mean, it's so we've got to,you know, like I said, address
monetarily that that part of it.
And two, because there's somecertification areas that are

(21:37):
going to be more and morechallenging, you know, to find.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
You know, and maybe not even just the paycheck at
the end of the day, but thebenefits that come along with
that Right.
I mean we used to.
I mean, when I started I don'tknow where you're at, but when I
started, you know we had the 28years.
I knew that in 28 years I couldretire, and that's kind of
where I'm sitting at.
Well, now that has changed.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know, before I came there was Terry.
Yeah, you know.
So there were some benefits tobecoming a teacher, even if it
wasn't the pay there, but youhad those outlying benefits.
Sure.
And I think that's changing andI think that needs to be a
focus that we need to look at it.
If the, if, the if, thebenefits of a salary line isn't

(22:21):
there, maybe there's some otherthings we can do, because we all
know that our teachers workmuch more than their normal 40
hours yes.
I mean.
And whether it be coming tofootball games or watching the
plays, or just coming out tosupport your kids in anything
they do, extracurricularactivity all of that the money's
not there for that.

(22:41):
That is where the calling comesin.
So, not only are you teachingwhat you like or what you
majored in, but you're alsotrying to figure out a way to
almost entertain, engage in anentertaining way to keep that
focus, and I can't imagine beingin an academic course like

(23:03):
English and math and science andhistory.
At least you know like John canhear he can.
He can do a hands on portionwhere where we look at that with
the kids.
It's difficult in thoseacademic courses and you got to
have those.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, so Shakespeare is not engaging, not to me.
But you know what I mean?
Yeah, I mean it becomes.
I know you got to look at allthat, yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
It becomes more difficult for those particular
academic teachers.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, and kids.
You know, I think probably whenI was in school, my teacher
said this generation, blah, blah, blah.
I mean I think that justinherently happens, but you know
it's.
I mean these kids are different.
They have to be, you have toreach them differently, you have
to be engaged differently.
And so you know, I think one ofthe most powerful things
teachers can do is be reflectiveand constantly looking and

(23:50):
saying you know, is this, isthis effective, is this engaging
?
And you know that's, you knowthe attention span because of
cell phones and social media.
I mean, I think you know it's,it's, it's definitely a
different different differentgeneration, but I mean they've
got a lot to offer.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, you can't stand up there and give 45 minute
lectures anymore and expectanything.
It's really down to about 15minutes tops before you can get
them to do something else.
And and you're right, Causeeven in this class, which most
people would think would be fun,it's still hard to motivate
kids.
I've told Holly it's thehardest thing about the job is
continually racking our brainsto figure out what's going to

(24:33):
work nowadays.
It's so different becausethey're so overstimulated by
everything else.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
So now we've got to come up with creative solutions
to find those teachers, whetherit be a calling, or whether it
be monetary or whatever it isthat drives that person time off
, whatever it is, we've got tofigure out a way Our generation
has got to figure out a way tocontinue to have teachers
because, I mean, that's anecessity.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
We don't have a choice.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Now it was pretty cool Like we had this career
fair this past week.
Yeah, we don't have a choice.
Now it was pretty cool Like wehad this career fair this past
week.
Weston Scruggs and my otherguidance counselors kind of put
work into this and it was greatto see our district office there
Like, yeah, carol Brooks,brayden, wilson, who's also
going to be assistant principalfor us next year.
And then Don, they were allthere, you know, at the job fair

(25:24):
trying to recruit prospectiveteachers.
So I thought that was reallyneat to even have our district
step up and say we need it, yeah, and I mean, out of all the
booths, I mean they wereincredible booths there.
I mean they did a really goodjob just from an aesthetic
standpoint and just, you know,positive things for students to
think about.

(25:45):
And they had a lot of trafficover there, good.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Well, good.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Good Good.
By the way, Zach is not callingin.
He's getting an MRI.
Oh no, and that's all he toldme.
I hope he's okay, it's like hedoesn't say what it's for what's
going on?
I'm like, hey are back, I'mgetting an mri.
I can't call in like okay, allright, well, let's, let's hope
zach's okay.
Yeah, in the meantime we've gotuh more to talk about and we're

(26:08):
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Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh boy, the things you hear between when we're not
on the air.
Boy, I'm going to have to signan NDA or something around here.
Welcome back to the Boone Showon MyPulse Radio.
Our special guest, dr KyleWhitfield, the Wren High School
principal.
Not president, I don't haveanything politics like that, but

(28:44):
uh, anyway, uh, now we get tothe ridiculousness of the show.
We have two things we got goingon here.
We have our usual questions forthe principal and then our
other segment is we're going tosee how good, uh, dr whitfield
is at delivering the news okay,I've got uh three news stories
for him to read.
He hasn't seen the script atall so he can't prepare, and

(29:08):
we'll see how he does it's a lotof pressure.
That's part of our class hereand we want him to experience a
little part of our program.
So we'll get to that in aminute.
But we do have questions fromvarious sources, people that
know you students just randomquestions all thrown in.
So if you want to get to knowDr Whitfield, you will know him

(29:29):
pretty well after thesequestions.
Okay, we play 20 questions andyou can pass on a question if
you want to.
You don't have to feel like youhave to answer every question.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
I can plead the fifth .

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yes, but then we're going to talk about it when the
show's in between.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I mean that's a given .
Yeah, We'll talk about it inbetween.
In between.
And someday I'll write a bookabout it.
Okay, here we go.
If you could go back to highschool for a day, what would you
do first?

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Oh, I mean, I was not a great high school student and
, shamelessly, I didn't alwaysgo to class.
So I think the first thing Iwould do is go to class.
So I think this may shock you,but there's a strong correlation
between your attendance andyour grade, so I would be a

(30:19):
regular attendee in class.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
All right, good answer, good answer.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
What's the funniest thing you've witnessed happen in
the hallways this year?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
There's a strange tradition.
Y'all are going to feel notvery highly of us over at REN
and this started long before me,but there's this strange
tradition of making fun ofpeople that fall in the hallways
.
People would go back on videoand try to find video evidence
of it, maybe play it at facultymeetings or whatever.
So I think you know that's thatis pretty funny, so we might

(30:54):
have done that a few times yeahreally.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I remember I fell down the hallway once came
around the corner.
They had just gotten donemopping wiped out first thing on
a Monday morning.
It was a great way to start theweek.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Ours is when we have a fire drill.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh really.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
You.
What I didn't fall down no butyou made a spectacle in your
classroom with your kids.
It was hysterical.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
That was at the Alice drill.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh, it was the Alice drill, fire drills, that's
boring.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay, alice, drill, you get to do a lot more.
Uh, here's a good.
Here's a good one for you.
If the school had a mascot forteachers, what would it be?

Speaker 3 (31:30):
oh, wow, um, that's actually an interesting question
because we, we, uh, we, we willhave a mascot going into next
year.
We've got the costume andthey're going are you allowed to
say what it is, because I'vealways wondered what a hurricane
yeah, so we've actually put itout on social media and stuff
and we're working throughfinalizing the students that
will be in the costume.

(31:50):
But it's hard to find ahurricane costume.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah, a tornado would be easy, but a hurricane no.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
So we went with kind of like what Miami and Iowa
State has done, and so we wentwith a Wren bird, yes, so yeah.
And so he's a ferocious looking.
You know, and for anybodythat's listening, we're not
replacing the Golden Hurricanes.
We will forever be the WrenGolden Hurricanes.
It's just.
It was hard to like, you know,from an aesthetic standpoint,

(32:21):
have a mascot that embodies ahurricane.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
So this is a mean-looking bird.
It is.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
I'll show you a picture of it when we get a
second Muscular bird.
So if your teachers, though,were to, if you would have a
mascot that represented theteachers rather than the
students, I was hoping I coulddeflect from that through that
story Well you can choose topass you can pass because you
did answer something for it.
You're right, you've got somepolitician in you there, just

(32:48):
deflect.
What's the most unusual requestyou've gotten from a student?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Oh wow, unusual, it would be hard for me to in this
time frame come up with.
But I will say that studentsget very, very creative with
their requests and they mightbend the truth a little bit
sometimes with the storiesbehind things.
I'm sure you never get that?

Speaker 2 (33:14):
No, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
But I think the prototypical my dog ate my
homework I mean, they've gottena lot more creative than that.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Can't do that anymore , because it's all digital.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
That's right.
Yeah, that's true, but I'msorry I can't come up with just
a one off the top of my headit's all right, but I imagine,
yeah, there are some creativeones.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
That's funny.
They still try to use thatexcuse and blame it on the
computer or something, and I'mlike computer doesn't lie, it's
either there, it's not.
Um, how do you unwind after along day of meetings and
managing this school?

Speaker 3 (33:47):
When I'm not at Uber after school driving my kids
around, because some afternoonsare predicated on that.
I love music.
I'm involved in my churchmusically, I love to read and
then I've always enjoyed goingto the gym, taking aggression
out in there so that you knowthat manifest and I lose my job,

(34:10):
you know, at Ren, but thosehave always kind of been, you
know, three of my bigger hobbies.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
So on a Saturday morning when you have nothing
else to do, you have no sports,nothing to do with your kids,
it's just a family.
You're home one week and whatwould y'all do?

Speaker 3 (34:26):
whatever my wife tells me to do there you go.
Good answer, I don't needanything else yeah, no, I mean,
we, we love doing stuff outsidelike we, you know we've all got
bikes.
Well, you know, we we ride likethe doodle trail or swamp
rabbit, you know stuff like that, but yeah, that's cool, very
cool this past saturday.
We're looking're looking atcouches because that's what my
wife wanted to do.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
That's exciting.
Yeah, that was a blast.
Yeah, well, that kind ofanswers.
Another one of the questionsfurther down was what's your
favorite outdoor activity?
I know you like to get outdoorsa lot ride bikes, hike and all
that.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Fish.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Where do you like to hike at?

Speaker 3 (35:00):
We've done a lot of trails, you know, uh, we've done
a lot of trails.
Um, you know, we've gone to uh,to lula falls.
Is is a pretty good one.
Um, there's, there's some kindof like in the long creek area,
what, uh past westminster, ifyou're familiar.
Um, so, um, but yeah, I love tofish too.
My dad took, took me fishinggrowing up and lake fishing
pretty much yeah, yeah, yeahI'll go out with him sometimes

(35:22):
and you know sometimes myfather-in-law.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
I can only tolerate him in increments there you go
all right, um, what's the bestpiece of advice you've ever
gotten from a teacher or staffmember?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
uh, probably listen more, like, I think, my
personality.
By nature.
I just want to be a problemsolver, like, come in, all right
, here's all right, here's thesolution.
All right, now move on to thenext one.
I think I just want to be aproblem solver, like, come in,
all right, here's a solution.
All right, now move on to thenext one.
I think sometimes people justwant to be heard, and I'm not.
That's the area I'm growing,you know, just listening and you
know, maybe not trying toprovide a solution, all right.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well, you like music.
There's a couple of music oneson here.
We'll hit one here.
What's your guilty pleasure?
Song that you'd never tellanyone you like, uh, song wise,
that's tough.
Are you swifty or something?

Speaker 3 (36:12):
no, not really yeah, um, I mean, so you know probably
some I love, like anythingguitar like I like, just you
know, clapton, blues, john mayer, I think you know today's, so
um, but I do listen just bynature because I help a lot with
music at my church.
When I'm listening to musicit's a lot of times learning a

(36:33):
new song or whatever you know toprepare for that.
But I love anything, like youknow, blues, bass, guitar driven
.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
So but not really.
It's only a slight deflectionwell, I mean more.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
I mean I'll listen to the stuff that, like morgan
wall, I know, like his listen.
Luke, I went to a luke collinsconcert, you know, with my wife
not too long ago, so I do.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
You know I'm not a robot, by any means you know,
you know there's a john mayerchannel on sirius xm which.
Have you heard that?
I don't, yeah, I don't haveserious, but you probably like
that a lot of his style of musicand a lot of his music
obviously.
Uh, let's see here ah, what's?
What's one trend at school youjust don't understand at all uh,

(37:16):
probably the uh seniorassassins are familiar with that
yeah, I don't like that either.
Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, I mean, and I'll go to the, because I go to
the um, the ymca and anderson,so there's some rain kids there,
but there's a lot of I mean,and I'll go to the cause.
I go to the um, the YMCA inAnderson, so there's some rain
kids there, but there's a lot ofhandy kids and they'll be on
the treadmill or whatever with aswimming on.
I'm like yeah.
I would've been made fun of forwearing that in high school.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
So, yeah, I agree with you on that.
Yep, I totally agree.
I agree too, and so we can allagree.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Robbie Roach would really agree with that oh yes,
so we're in all agreement thatthat's not cool, it's ridiculous
.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
It really is, it's ridiculous and the whole thing.
They don't even follow theirown rules and yeah, it's a mess.
Yeah, it's a mess.
They can find other things todo, right?

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Yeah, now I just sound like the old get off long
guy.
Um, let's see what's yourfavorite lunch at work, whether
it be in the cafeteria orotherwise.
If I brought my sro in here tjburgess this you could have an
entire show on making ourlunches, addressing some, some
things there.
But um, we need to get dr youngin here and ask him.

(38:19):
You know that question too.
But uh, taco.
Taco Tuesday is always good.
It's hard to go wrong withtacos.
And then Asian Chicken Daywould be up there too.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
So now, do you bring your lunch to school or do you
eat in the cafeteria?

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Both, both.
Yeah, it depends on the day,okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Tuesday's in the cafeteria.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Taco Tuesday is and the nachos are on Tuesday as
well.
They rotate.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Okay, All right.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
A couple more.
We won't do all 20.
But what was your?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
senior superlative in high school.
Surprisingly, it was mosttalkative.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I would not be surprised.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
You think so?

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Oh yes.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
You're a good talker.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
You are.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
You are, yes, most talkative I used to get in
trouble in class for not beingable to restrain my mouth at
times when he showed up rightwhen he showed up I made the
most of when I was there yeah,vocally made the time memorable.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Uh, detention or lunch duty, um which one do you
want to cover?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
um, I mean, I've had to do both, so we don't really
do detentions, that's true.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah, it's just you know.
But.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
I mean, I'm at lunch duty every day, so it's like a.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
What's the worst duty Like what's the like I do.
I don't mind standing out hereand doing this, but I hate being
in that parking lot Because.
I feel like you're sodisconnected from the kids you
can't talk to them.
And then if it's pouring, Well,and that too, yes, I would
agree with you.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
I mean, if you don't have like an awning or something
like I don't, I mean you knowyou do the best you can with
your umbrella, that's.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's pretty monsoon and coming in sideways at you
like Forrest.
Gump Right, exactly, exactly,all right.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Here's another either or Dress code or spirit day
chaos.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I don't like dealing with dress code.
I'd rather deal with spirit day, to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
I don't mind a little chaos.
It's a little more definable, Iguess, on spirit days than
getting dress code nowadays.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yeah, Do you have a song that reminds you of high
school?
It's probably not schoolappropriate, I remember.
So I went to West side and theyear I was graduating, you guys
familiar with Nelly the rapperhis first album was country
grammar.
Yes, and like you could ridethrough the parking lot and then

(40:45):
not hear it, and then suddenlyhear it again and then pull down
next row.
Oh, there's Nelly again, solike that first album probably
reminds me of my senior yearmore than anything else.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
That's funny what any particular song off that album?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
so his, his most popular one, was called Country
it was the name of the albumthat was Country Gamer.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Because you had wasn't Hot in here on there I
think that was on there, yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
And what's the other one that you?
Wrote all the time Air ForceOnes.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Oh my gosh.
That was a big album.
I remember all that.
Did you have a?

Speaker 1 (41:17):
question Holly.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Well, I was going to say did you always want to be
like?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
okay, I was going to say did you always want to be
like?
Ok, I'm going through highschool, I'm sitting in 11th
grade English and I'm going tobe a teacher when I grow up?
No, and I think when I startedteaching in Anderson Five, which
was my home district, the looksI got from some of my teachers
like we're getting desperate forhelp.
No, I mean so.
I had a lot of growing up Ineeded to do in maturing.
I didn't go to school right outof high school, I just you know

(41:49):
I need to figure some thingsout.
And uh, I originally went toschool to, to go into the
ministry Correct and then I,from there, I just you know what
better ministry field than togo into teaching?
So, um, but yeah, there is uhin high school.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, I didn't you weren't going to be a teacher,
no all right.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Last question, also music related.
What song would play every timeyou walked into a room like
your own walk-up music?

Speaker 3 (42:11):
something was.
I guess something with someenergy, maybe like a, I don't
know.
The thunderstruck comes to mindfirst.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
I don't know why that's a good one that's a good
one, all right, so there you go.
Hopefully you've gotten to knowsome things you probably
wouldn't get to know if itwasn't for the Boone Show.
That's right and our questionswith Dr Kyle Whitfield.
All right, we are going to noteven take a commercial break
here.
I'm just going to keep rollingalong because we've only got one

(42:40):
more full segment to go, andit's Kyle Whitfield reads the
news.
Okay, so I'm going to give youa script there and give Holly a
script so she can follow along.
We've got three very importantnews stories that have hit
recently and I want to see howyou deliver.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
He's reading it real quick.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah, well, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
He can't escape it.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
He can't escape it right now because it's right
there in his face.
So it's time for the news.
Here's Kyle Whitfield Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Fried chicken isn't just a food anymore.
It is also a paste.
Kfc recently introduced a friedchicken flavored toothpaste.
The flavors are inspired by allof kfc's 11 herbs and spices.
According to a news release,like biting into a hot, juicy
piece of kfc original recipechicken.
This toothpaste is irresistible, coating your teeth and flavor

(43:35):
before leaving your mouthfeeling fresh and clean.
The news release said of thekentucky-based fast food chained
new toothpaste.
Kfc partnered with toothpastemanufacturer His Smile to unveil
the newest dental hygieneproduct for a limited time.
Apparently, finger-licking goodtoothpaste appeals to the oral

(43:57):
care-minded public.
The toothpaste, which isoffered exclusively on His Smile
website for $13, was sold outas of Tuesday morning.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Okay, before he goes to the next story, we're going
to get plenty of audio clipsthat we can use to blackmail him
in the future.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
That may show up on his own school announcements
someday.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
Is this legit, by the way?
Yes, this is legit.
I didn't make any of this up,I'm just curious, it's totally
legit.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
In fact, if you go to that high smile website,
there's all kinds of differentflavors ofS.
It's H-I-Smile.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
High Smile.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
And check out their other toothpaste.
So anyway, do you see that,Holly?

Speaker 2 (44:50):
They do.
They have chocolate and banana.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
People would just be chomping down on toothpaste.
That's pretty pricey though$13?
, $13, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I don't know Great bubble gum that one's $30.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
But supposedly too, it's fluoride-free.
If you're into that, you knowbeing more healthy thing Go
figure, I've been dealing withfluoride my whole life.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Yeah, we all have too , that's right.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I don't know, but just so you know.
All right, second story, herewe go.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
All right.
He suffered catastrophicinjuries.
A 59-year-old UK manmiraculously survived after
sustaining a broken neck,fractured spine, smashed ribs,
blood in his lungs and other carcrash-evoking injuries from
tripping over his cat.
The freak apocalypse meowaccident reportedly occurred

(45:45):
when the wrinkly cat kitty,apparently feeling playful, dove
out and latched onto one of theowner's legs while he was
coming down the stairs.
The man reportedly tumbled down14 steps before arriving at the
bottom where he lay unable tomove when his feline put the
hail in Hello Kitty.
Paramedics later revealed thathe suffered fractured skull, a

(46:10):
broken bone in his neck, twofractures in his spine, nine
broken ribs each rib withmultiple fractures a bit of
blood in the lungs and othercuts and bruises.
It will take him up to 12months to recover.
A very unfortunate story.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Goodness.
I told you, dogs are betterthan cats.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
That's a pretty rough day.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
That is a very rough day, and further on in the story
it said that he had to laythere for like uh hours because
his wife was working and hecouldn't move and he didn't have
his phone so he had all thosebroken bones and everything.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
he had to lay there like overnight until his wife
came home in the morning my wife, my wife like might come home
and just leave me there anywayoh my god all right final story
and finally a missouri All rightFinal story.
And finally, a Missouri museumgathered 309 people in banana
hats to break an appealingGuinness World Record.

(47:09):
The city museum in St Louistook on the title for the for
the most.
Where for the most peoplewearing banana hats.
At 5 pm on Wednesday, Anofficial Guinness World Record
educator was on site andconfirmed the museum did indeed
take the record for 309participants.

(47:30):
The world may be going down inflames, but at least we have a
new banana hat record.
That being said, bring yourbanana hats to Spring Fling at
Wren High School Thursday as weattempt to break this record
With your Pulse News update.
I'm Kyle Whitfield.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
All right, so there you go.
Everybody, get your banana hats.
You've got to find 310 of them,and then you guys can break the
record.
I figured what record would youlike to beat If you were going
to do something at the highschool which which would be fun
if you could find a record andjust have everybody participate?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
uh, any, any record that powder's ohio has.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
We're gonna break all over there you go I love it
well they have most nerds in oneplace.
Maybe that's maybe I'm justkidding, but uh, can you believe
that?
It's like they just decided oneday to go out there and say
let's all wear banana, yes, andlet's see how many people we
have and let's try to set arecord.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
You know what, though ?
You could probably set a recordfor anything, and they had to
get 309 banana hats, yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah.
So anyway, as we wrap down thefinal few minutes here, it is
that time of the show when we oh, by the way, thank you so much
for reading the news yes, sir,they were hard-hitting news
stories and I'm glad and you dida great job communicating them
to the public Appreciate that.
But it's that time of the showwhere we get our guest

(48:50):
recommendations.
I remember some of yours fromlast time, so I will know if you
try to repeat.
We get our guestrecommendations in entertainment
and food.
I visited another one this week, holly, one that was
recommended from last year theearl street uh kitchen.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Oh yeah, great place.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yes, it is been there a couple times.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Great every time so I had the salmon.
I went too.
You did, I didn't go there butyou know where I went to the l
titanic in belton oh, there yougo.
Yep, and I was recommended lastweek and I even had those
little chicken strips, thosebuffalo.
I didn't go there, where'd yougo?
But you know where I went, tothe El Titanic in.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Belton.
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yep, that was recommended last week and I even
had those little chicken strips, those buffalo chicken strips,
from a Mexican restaurant.
They were delicious.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Did Mary recommend those?
No, mary recommended EarlStreet, though yes, she did, she
was the one that recommendedthat she needs to be original.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
She's what we were on recommendation.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
We'll tell her.
Oh okay, all right, I see, whatI see where it's coming from.
I will tell her that.
So this was from the mayor ofbelton, eleanor door.
She doran, she's the one whorecommended, and I do recommend
it.
It's very good all rightawesome.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
I you know I've never been to el titanic you haven't.
No, I mean, everybody goesthere all the time, but and they
wear the big sombreros fortheir birthdays well, and I
thought I thought you wouldorder Mexican, but you don't.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
You order buffalo chicken strips.
Oh, I thought you were talkingabout me.
No, no, no, no.
But yeah, it was weird that sherecommended that at a Mexican
restaurant, but anyway, so wewant to get entertainment and
food recommendations.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Entertainment I know you read a lot and I don't know
if you have time to streamanything or watch any movies.
I think the last time you werehere you were big into the
Tolkien stuff, weren't you?

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Oh, the Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah, they did have a seasontoo, but I mean most of my
recommendations aren't going tobe PG, so I don't know if my
high school students can watchthem, but the new reacher season
was really good.
Yeah, that was good it was.
I'm in the middle of it.
Yeah, reacher's good, um, it'sexciting.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
But he's kind of monotone all the time.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
I like that though you're just watching him for him
.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Okay, I think he's a bit I think he's a better
version than tom cruise.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Well, yeah, yes way more realistic in that part.
Have you read any of the books?
I have not.
Yeah, I haven't either, but uh,okay, so reacher's your
recommendation for entertainmentyeah, I thought it was a good
show.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
That's good, that's good you.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
You pump iron, just like that guy this last season.
He was that other guy he wasfighting was huge yeah, he's
like six, uh seven foot tallyeah, they're showing him with
pictures with this, with the uhcast and everything.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
That guy was gigantic , um, all right, so food so, uh,
I'm gonna stay true to andersonbecause that's that's my roots
and that's where we're alllocated.
So I'm a big breakfast person.
I like breakfast.
I like to do like a brunch.
I don't eat it like first thingbut buenos dias.
Uh, in anderson it's nearexcuse me, it's near the uh post

(51:43):
office in anderson, that ingles, right in that same area, near
the best of crispy cream, ohyeah yeah so it's a really good
breakfast place I just passed.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Is that new?

Speaker 3 (51:53):
it's new ish.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Yeah, new ish, because I just noticed it for
the first time.
When I was driving down there afew days ago, I was like I
never knew that place was sotheir breakfast?

Speaker 2 (52:00):
okay, yeah, breakfast and brunch.
So what do you get?

Speaker 3 (52:03):
there all kind of stuff.
I mean I'll tell you one thingthat's worth trying and maybe
you like it, maybe you don't.
They have like a mexican coffee.
It's got like you know it's.
It's got a really good flavorcinnamon, a lot of cinnamon.
So if you're a coffee drinker,give it a try.
But they I mean everythingthere is is is really good.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
So all right, there's a new place I love it we
usually on the weekends, try toget out somewhere for a
breakfast or a brunch on asaturday so is it just breakfast
.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
They have lunch yeah, they close it like two, though,
right yeah, they do okay.
Close it too, okay yeah so yeahthey do have.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
They have lunch options too but, you know sounds
good, I stick to breakfast.
Yeah, I love it.
That sounds real good.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Good, All right.
So with that we're wrappingthings up here.
A couple other things.
Just what did you think of thewomen going into space the other
day?
Do you keep track of that?
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
I'm sorry, katy Perry and Gail King.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Gail King from.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
They've been getting some backlash because all the
money spent to do that.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Yeah, they spent.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
But some people were wishing that Katy Perry didn't
come back.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
But I was just wondering if you had a preview
on it.
Are you not a news watcher?
That's a lot.
I am, but I just somehow missedKaty Perry going up into space.
Who's rocket was it?
It was Amazon's.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Okay, it was only 11 minutes is the entire.
They're in space for 11 minutesand for about three minutes of
that it's there's no gravity.
So it'd be a kind of a cool.
It's almost like an amusementride.
They're up and down prettyquick.
I mean, obviously it's stillpretty dangerous.
But yeah, didn't we talk onceabout sending you up there,

(53:36):
holly?

Speaker 2 (53:36):
But it was just too much.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
No, it really wasn't, yeah, oh it was like a quarter
of a million dollars orsomething, what was it you got?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
to they were taking a teacher.
Were they Wasn't it with ateacher.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
And it was one of these.
It was either Amazon or theother one, elon's one, but I
forget SpaceX, but the Amazonone has been billionaires that's

(54:08):
right but and the other thing,um, did you see that the
savannah bananas have their biggame in clemson next week, on
the 26th, playing in front ofthe front of their biggest crowd
ever?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
yeah, 80 plus 1 000 I think they said that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
I mean, the baseball field look weird on a football
field, but they're gonna put ona great show and just the story
I don't know if you follow jessecole and that whole thing of
how he started that he losteverything, gambling on himself
that he could put this thingtogether he was talking about.
You know, he lost his house,everything.
Then, when he did get a house,he was just sleeping on the
floor.
But he put it together and nowthey're playing to 81,000 people

(54:50):
.
I've never been to one, I'vewatched one on TV, but I've
never been to a Savannah Bananasgame.
That would be a good work thing.
I've never been either, but I'mgoing next week, are you?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Yeah, we got lottery tickets.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Yeah, that's why you had to get it.
It's sold out.
They sold out in a hurry.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
But they, literally, I mean you couldn't buy it.
They told us there was severaldifferent levels.
No, it was only one level, andif you didn't buy it, you didn't
get to go.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Is it all one price?

Speaker 2 (55:22):
No, there were several different prices.
So, yeah, started as cheap aslike 40, right?

Speaker 1 (55:24):
I think it was like 40, 60 and 200, that, don't you
get free food with that.
With the 200 you do okay, butnot the 40 and the 60 yeah,
because when they originallystarted, they started doing that
because they wanted to attractfans.
They just wanted them to comein and say you know, if, as long
as we can get them here,they'll come back.
Yeah, and they.
They put everything into oneprice the, the ticket, the food,
the parking, everything was alljust one price.
And they knew they were goingto lose some money at first, but

(55:47):
they wanted to build up thebase and it's just an amazing
story.
He has a book out as well, soit'd be nice to get him on
before they're going to be inthe area.
I'm sure he's got plenty oftime, but, dr Whitfield, thanks
a lot.
Thanks a lot for coming on.
It's always great having you onand we'll do it again and you

(56:08):
can come on any time, any time.
Lanford maybe not, but you anytime.
No, I'm just kidding.
We appreciate it.
And thanks for all the greatwork you do over there at Wren
High School.
We love your students andoccasionally they love us too.
So next week we're working on ashow.
Can't announce any guests yet,but we're working on it, so

(56:30):
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