The Boone Show - S6 E3 - Denver Downs Fall Fest and ACTC's Hogfather

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We walk through Denver Downs’ new fall season—Lainey Wilson maze, fireworks, flowers, food—and meet the ACTC “Hogfather” whose students breed, deliver, and show pigs while learning real vet science. A student leader joins to share how FFA turned curiosity into a calling.

• Lainey Wilson corn maze design, trivia, photo ops
• How mazes are built using grids and spray
• Mums, sunflowers, and market sales with tips to replant
• USA Today Top 10 pumpkin patch and TripAdvisor honors
• New rides, games, irrigation upgrades under the maze
• Live music, bonfires, and Saturday night fireworks
• Ticket details and preseason pricing
• ACTC ag program: student-led AI, farrowing, show prep
• Vet science lab: diagnostics, handling, hands-on skills
• Student voice on FFA leadership and college plans
• Pig and duck races collaboration between ACTC and Denver Downs
• Local recommendations for food, shows, and events

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_06 (00:00):
Hello, everybody.
Welcome to another edition ofthe Boone Show.
Happy to be with you on awonderful first show of fall.

SPEAKER_08 (00:08):
Two weeks in a row, John.

SPEAKER_06 (00:10):
Yeah, well, we're off next week.
That's true.
Can't overdo it.
But we do have a couple of greatgo uh ghosts, no, uh guests
would be the proper word uh onthe show.
And uh one is no stranger,because as it is, time for fall
fun.

SPEAKER_08 (00:26):
And you know what we always think of.
In the fall in Anderson.

SPEAKER_06 (00:30):
That's right, the Denver Downs Fall Festival.
Yes, and Catherine Garrison isonce again with us.
Hello.

SPEAKER_07 (00:36):
Hello, John.
Great to be with y'all today.
Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_06 (00:40):
And we also have a first timer who says he's been
waiting for me to ask him to beon the show.

SPEAKER_04 (00:46):
I feel so honored.

SPEAKER_06 (00:47):
I had no idea.
I keep looking over there.
He's sitting so low in hischair.
Anyway, Trey Harris my wholelife is quite all right.
Trey is the uh agricultureinstructor here at the Career
Center.
So we're doing all farm.

SPEAKER_08 (01:01):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_06 (01:02):
It's a farm show tonight.
So uh happy everybody's with us.
We'll have some fun uh gettingto know Trey a little bit, and
Catherine will let us knowwhat's going on at Denver Down.
So uh Catherine, let's startwith you.

unknown (01:15):
All right.

SPEAKER_06 (01:16):
What's going on what's going on at Denver Down?
No.
Um, but is there anything new atthe fall festival, which opens
up this Friday?

SPEAKER_09 (01:23):
Yes.

SPEAKER_06 (01:24):
So it boy, that came fast.

SPEAKER_09 (01:26):
It did.

SPEAKER_06 (01:26):
And uh I know you've been saying things have been a
little hectic, but heck, lastyear we had a hurricane.

SPEAKER_07 (01:32):
Oh, yes.
I know.
It was nasty.
I th I think I've got uh somepeace this year, so I don't have
to worry about a hurricane theopening week.

SPEAKER_06 (01:39):
Yeah, it can be a little better than that.
Um so tell us what's going onwith the fall festival.
What can we look forward to thisyear?

SPEAKER_07 (01:45):
Well, we've got uh everybody ready to open up, and
we've got our um maze theme thisyear is going to be Lainey
Wilson.

SPEAKER_06 (01:53):
Oh that's like all over the country they're 36
different places.

SPEAKER_07 (01:58):
Yes, so we belong to an association of corn mazes,
which people find that amazingthat there is an association.

SPEAKER_06 (02:03):
Amazing, she said it is.

SPEAKER_07 (02:05):
So they are the people in the corn maze,
sometimes they have partnershipsthat they're approached by
different uh organizations orcountry music, and they will uh
decide that they would love totheir image to be in the corn
mazes.
So we were offered the chance tohave Lainey Wilson as our as our
design this year.
We thought that was really cool.

(02:26):
She represents just you know ashe's a great individual and
she's a great role model for somany people.
So we thought that would be fun.
And when people go into themaze, we've got a a giant or a
life-size uh photograph of herthat people can take pictures
with.
And there's there's triviathroughout the maze on little
checkpoints that people canlearn a little bit about her

(02:48):
history and what's going on withLaney.

SPEAKER_08 (02:51):
And Catherine, this is a big deal to figure out
who's gonna be in the maze andwhat it's gonna look like each
year.

SPEAKER_07 (02:57):
Yes.
So and it's it's reallyunlimited.
We can just do anything we wantwith it.
But um it's uh we hopefullywe're gonna do the 250th
anniversary of the US UnitedStates next year.
Oh, yeah.
Very cool.
That would be a great thing.
We're looking forward to that.
So um we've got yeah, so a fewyears ago, we really would love
to do Dolly Parton, but theyhaven't um Dolly's people have

(03:18):
her people have not given us thego-ahead on that.
Uh but Luke Bryan um was in alot of corn mazes like the year
before last.
And we did Reva McIntyre.
Yes, I remember that.
Yeah.
So it's I mean, it's kind offlattering, I guess, to have
your image in, you know, a fieldof corn over the whole country.
So for sure.

SPEAKER_06 (03:38):
Yeah, just think she's flying somewhere, she'll
see herself in the city.

SPEAKER_07 (03:41):
Yeah, and all the different mazes.
And there's a special contestthat people can when they come
to the farms or one of the farmsthat's doing her the her image
maze, uh, they can register foran all-expense paid trip to one
of her concerts.
See, now that is very cool.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So when people have to rememberto do that when they come out to

(04:03):
Denver Downs, make sure thatthey sign up.
Register for that.

SPEAKER_06 (04:06):
Um when you do the maze, as you said, there are 36
places that are doing it.
Do they have people they justgive you the the outline,
whatever?
I mean, you've described acouple different ways you've
done it over the years astechnology advances.
Yes.
So how are they doing it thisyear?
And do they just give you a planand every place does their own,
or is there a group that adviseson this?

SPEAKER_07 (04:28):
That's a great question.
So most years we just do alittle sketch of what we want
the maze to look like and we uhkind of have an image of, you
know, well, we want this to be aturn, this to be a turn.
So we call that like maze wrap.
You want to have a certainamount of maze wrap with the
twists and turns in there.
So most years we sketch out animage and then we give it to our

(04:50):
uh our maze friends and theygraph it out and then can cut do
the cutout from there.
For Laney Wilson, they had a fewdifferent samples of uh design
that you could kind of puttogether in your maze.
One might be like a guitar orher outline, which hours has a
guitar and her outline.
Some are like cowboy hats,different kind of country.

SPEAKER_04 (05:13):
I was gonna say she has to be known for her hat.
Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_07 (05:16):
And bell bottoms.

SPEAKER_06 (05:18):
Bell bottoms, yeah.
Um but so not they're not allthese aren't gonna be the
exactly the same then.

SPEAKER_07 (05:24):
Right.

SPEAKER_06 (05:24):
Because they can choose certain elements.

SPEAKER_07 (05:26):
Yes, they'll all they'll all be a little
different.
I don't think any of them areexactly the same.
Yeah, that's neat.

SPEAKER_06 (05:31):
And how do you do it again?

SPEAKER_07 (05:32):
How do you Great question?
So the aliens come down.

SPEAKER_06 (05:36):
That's I would take that as an answer.

SPEAKER_07 (05:40):
So they um the group that our Bayes Association,
well, there's a few differentthings you could do.
You could do it with a GPS and amower and cut the corn out that
way.
We've done it that way, but it'snot optimal because uh there's
still some corn that grows backand you have to go in and trim
trim that.
So the best way we have found isthe the company that we the

(06:01):
organization we belong to,they'll send out their team and
the team marks the entire fieldit with white flags.
Say every 12, 10 or 12 feet,they'll make a huge grid of the
entire cornfield.
And then they walk through withbackpack sprayers with their
little piece of diagram, theirlittle piece of paper, and they

(06:23):
say, Okay, this little ten byten looks like this.
We need to go up and do a bigcurve, or you know, go up and
turn a make a right right turnin the middle of this little
area.
And so you do that over thewhole corn maze and and it's cut
out.
It just doesn't grow in theareas that they spray.
Yes, the trails, they kill offthe corn in the trails.

SPEAKER_06 (06:45):
So this thing is ready to go right now.
When did you have to start onthat?

SPEAKER_07 (06:49):
Beautiful.
Oh my gosh, the corn looksgreat.
Compared to last year when wewere all facing the army worms
everywhere, they they were notfriendly to the to corn and also
the and then the hurricane.
Yeah.
So this is amazing to see.
It's amazing.
I say that word way too.
I love it.

SPEAKER_04 (07:06):
All these corny jokes.

SPEAKER_06 (07:08):
Oh, oh my.

SPEAKER_07 (07:13):
I know.
Where's my buttons, John?

SPEAKER_06 (07:15):
I know.
Gotta get on Nathan about that.

SPEAKER_07 (07:17):
So yeah, it's really it's amazing how it the corn
just looks great.
And then we've got flowers.
We've got, you know, tons offlowers that people can come out
and pick and cut for uh flowerslike to take home in a vase for
their kitchen table or give to afriend, and that's always so
they can pick these.

SPEAKER_06 (07:33):
It's not like they're already just there.
And because I know what what arethe big flowers you usually do?

SPEAKER_07 (07:38):
The sunflowers.
Oh, and then we do the mums.

SPEAKER_06 (07:40):
The mums.
Yes.
But those are already in acontainer, right?

SPEAKER_07 (07:43):
Yes, those are in pots.

SPEAKER_06 (07:45):
Okay.
So these you can actually justgo out and pick your own.

SPEAKER_07 (07:48):
Yes.
So we've got the mums, which arein pots, for people to take home
and put on their front porch,and then we've got the cut
flowers that you take someshears out and you actually cut
the flowers and make anarrangement.
Nice.
So the the mums look great too.
It's they're absolutelybeautiful.
So people we'll be selling thoseon the weekends when we're open
for the festival, and then onthe weekdays we sell the them at

(08:11):
our market.
There's an old Roseide Marketthat we have on Clemson
Boulevard.
So we'll be selling those there.
And mine lasted all season.
Yeah, they are perfect and huge.
Yeah, they were gorgeous.

SPEAKER_09 (08:24):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (08:24):
You gotta make sure you keep them watered.
Yes.
So Clemson fans are gonna lovethis.
We've got some that are orangeand purple.
Okay.

SPEAKER_04 (08:31):
Sunflowers.

SPEAKER_07 (08:32):
Oh, the mums.
Mums, um, yeah.

unknown (08:34):
Okay.

SPEAKER_07 (08:34):
And so you know, I don't know if you tried this
before, but you can plant themums in your yard, and then the
next year they grow back.
No, I did not know that.
And we've got a lot that we'veplanted from last year.
So you plant when they startdying, then you plant them in
the ground over the and thenover the winter they look
they're dormant.
They're dormant, they lookterrible.

(08:55):
But then in the spring andsummer they start coming back,
and they are they're enormouswhen they're in your yard.
I did not know they had the bigshrubs.
Uh when mine died, I just threwit out.
Yep.
You gotta save them and put themin your yard.

SPEAKER_06 (09:07):
Thank you for the gift that keeps giving.

SPEAKER_08 (09:10):
That's right.

SPEAKER_06 (09:10):
Yeah.
Uh, and tell us about this wholeuh pumpkin thing, which uh
another national getting somenational attention.
Your pumpkin patch.

SPEAKER_07 (09:20):
We are very excited.
So this time of year, it's sointeresting because you don't
know what kind of email or orwhat news is gonna come come our
way.
Um USA Today uh contacted usabout two months ago and we had
been selected uh or nominatedfor the top ten pumpkin patches
in the U.S.
So the U.S.
about five for five years, thepast eight or nine years, we've

(09:43):
been in the top ten corn mazesin the country, but we've never
been in the top ten pumpkinpatches, which is cool.
It was really special.
So then there was a there was avote for about a month, and
Denver Downs came in at numberfive.
That's great.
So we want to thank everybodythat voted for us.
And I they probably everybodyprobably I probably got on

(10:05):
everyone's nerves askingeverybody to keep voting for us.
But it's it's a big honor.
Also, this summer we've got wegot a contacted by TripAdvisor,
and we are this is kind of hardto believe.
Denver Downs is in the top 10%of attractions worldwide.

SPEAKER_03 (10:24):
Wow.

SPEAKER_07 (10:25):
That is little blown away by that.
Yeah.
So that means that people we'repeople are searching for us a
lot and they are um leaving goodreviews.

SPEAKER_04 (10:35):
We used to bring our FFA group from Georgia over like
every year.
Um it depended on where you knowwhich school I was at, but we we
would come to Denver Downs andbring a busload of kids, um and
it was always a great time.
And y'all always was uh veryfriendly working with us and you
know and helping us out therewith the students, so we greatly
appreciate that.

SPEAKER_07 (10:54):
Great, I love hearing that.
Yeah, we want it to be a specialtime when people come out
because you could choose to goanywhere.
And so we want to make it reallyspecial when you uh come spend
the day with us.
And every year that we go,there's always something new.
So what's new this year?
This year we've got these thesewell, with Laney, she has a w
song called Whirl Win.

(11:16):
And so we've got these chairsthat you sit on and you they
it's like they're like gianttops.
Uh-huh.
So you sit on them and you go.
So they're kind of crazy, butthey're there's something fun
for folks to try this year.
And uh we've added a few morelittle games out there so people
can enjoy.
Uh and we on the farmagriculture side, we replaced

(11:37):
the uh irrigation systemunderneath the corn mace.
Okay.
So I don't know if y'allremember this, but like 15 years
ago, we had a 10-acre, about twoand a half foot mace.
Yes, because nothing was wet.
Right?
Right rain.
I remember that.
So it was our 10-acre mini maze.

(11:57):
So that so guess what we decidedto do?
And we really tried everything.
I mean, I was thinking, youknow, can we call the fire
departments and get them to comeout, you know, and it's you
know, now knowing what kind ofwater that requires, that was
really silly for me to thinkthat.
But um I was trying to problemsolve, but um, so we put in an
irrigation system that's likedripline tape underground that

(12:20):
waters the whole field.
So that had been in the groundfor 12 years and it was time to
replace it.
There was there was a lot ofdamage over the years.
So uh we just replaced that.
So that's one reason the corn islooking so great because it's
it's had Mother Nature and it'shad a little bit of help with
irrigation.
Very cool.

SPEAKER_06 (12:38):
That's cool.
Uh by the way, just an idea forfuture corn maize, you can do
our our mascot.
You can do the platypus.

SPEAKER_08 (12:44):
He's not a duck.

SPEAKER_06 (12:45):
He's not a duck.
We'll we'll get you your shirtlater.

SPEAKER_07 (12:48):
I love the platypus.
It makes me it makes my heart sohappy when I see him out at the
farm.

SPEAKER_06 (12:56):
We might come out and see the platypus.

SPEAKER_07 (12:58):
I may keep him.
If y'all if he gets kidnapped.

SPEAKER_06 (13:02):
We'll know where to look.
Okay.
But yeah, he has uh she lets himgo on all the the rides and
stuff.

SPEAKER_08 (13:08):
The rides and stuff, I love it.

SPEAKER_06 (13:09):
Ride the slide, and he was inside a big tractor tire
being rolled around and I'm surethe kids love to see him.

SPEAKER_08 (13:16):
So it's fun.
It's just happy.
People love that.

SPEAKER_06 (13:18):
Yeah.
Is he gonna be wearing his not aduck shirt?
Maybe.
That's a good idea.
We might as well let him wear itif everybody else is.
Sure.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (13:26):
I've got some ducks out at the farm this year, so
I'll have to get a picture ofthe colour.

SPEAKER_06 (13:30):
Yes, of him with the ducks so you can tell the
difference.

SPEAKER_07 (13:33):
Duck, not a duck.

SPEAKER_06 (13:34):
Yes, duck, not a duck.

SPEAKER_07 (13:35):
That'll be the next t-shirt.
This year, my new t-shirt we'regonna be selling, it says, How
about them pumpkins?

SPEAKER_06 (13:40):
Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 (13:41):
So we might have to say, I'm not a duck.
That's a good thing.
There you go.

SPEAKER_06 (13:45):
She's right along the line.
What we're thinking here.
Great minds.

SPEAKER_07 (13:50):
And when this year we are doing, in addition, we
always have live music on youknow, in the afternoons and in
the evenings.
And in October, on Saturdaynights, we are gonna be having
fireworks this year.
Yes.
So the Hyundai of Anderson is uhdoing a sponsorship to help help
us out with that.
So that's gonna be reallyexciting.
Every Saturday night at whattime?
In October.

(14:11):
Um, about dark, probably about 830.
Okay.
Yeah, so cool.
We'll have the bonfires goingand the live music, and then
we'll take a break and we'll dothe fireworks.
So it's everybody can come outand enjoy it.

SPEAKER_08 (14:24):
That's an I always every single year you surprise
me because I think there's noway you could have any more
stuff out there, and then yetyou add more things.

SPEAKER_06 (14:33):
Oh, it's kinda long.

SPEAKER_04 (14:34):
I'm always impressed with the musical lineup.
Yeah.
And I'm a big music fan, and andI just I think you guys pull
some great artists, and it'sjust an awesome event.

SPEAKER_07 (14:43):
We love that.
We love supporting localartists, and it really adds to
the atmosphere you know, havingsome great music.
Local, kind of homegrown themed.
Yeah, love it.

SPEAKER_06 (14:51):
So how many years has have you been doing the
Falcon?

SPEAKER_07 (14:54):
We think it's about 25, I think.

SPEAKER_06 (14:57):
But I tell you, the last several years, it just kind
of exploded.
So credit to you and all thosepeople who work with you because
it's really it's become one ofthe topics.
Right.
Yeah, I can just remember backuh the one you were talking
about with the short corn wasone of the first ones I had ever

(15:18):
been to.
And just you know, since then,it's just it's you can't even
compare.
It's gotten so much bigger andbetter.
And and the and just thegrounds, they're spotless.

SPEAKER_08 (15:27):
It's beautiful, it's just clean and and it's
decorated nicely.
It is, it really is.

SPEAKER_06 (15:33):
It's great.
So it kicks off this Friday, andwe'll come back to this later in
the show.
But how can people get tickets?

SPEAKER_07 (15:39):
We have on our website, Denver DownsFarm.com,
we have a the tickets are forsale there.
And they're gonna be we have apre-season sale going on now,
which will be through Thursdaynight.
So the day before we open, we'llhave uh the preseason sale
tickets.
So they'll go back to 25 or Ithink about$25 after that.

SPEAKER_06 (16:01):
Yeah, so good thing to bring the family to.
And again, we'll talk more aboutwhat's going on there,
including, yeah, we have to getthe food update.
Yes, because there's alwaysalways the food and drink aspect
of Denver Downs is big as well.
But right now we're gonna take aquick timeout, and when we come
back, we meet Trey Hours.
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In the middle with Danica.

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SPEAKER_00 (18:38):
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SPEAKER_06 (18:40):
And welcome back to the Boon Show on MyPulse Radio.
Our guest, Catherine Garrisonfrom Denver Downs Farm and Trey
Harris, the ACTC AgricultureInstructor.
Trey, what is this?
Your third year?
Third year.
Third year already.
And just things are explodingback in agriculture land.
It's like an amusement park initself.

(19:01):
Talk about Denver Down.
You walk back there and you gotall kinds of exhibits going on.
And if you like pigs, there'sjust a few back there.
Great things coming up that aresupport.

SPEAKER_04 (19:10):
There are pigs.
And you know, we got tons ofgreat support here, and that's
uh that's what the differencemaker is for sure.
Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 (19:17):
I I can certainly agree with that.
Uh so Trey, just tell us alittle bit about yourself.
Uh where you everybody wasasking during the well, not
everybody, we know you.
Catherine was asking during thebreak uh where you're from and
all that.
So uh get people up to date.
What bring what brought youultimately here?

SPEAKER_04 (19:34):
So um I am from a little town called Wahala down
the road, uh about 45 minuteslonger if you were stuck in that
traffic on 85 this morning.
Um but uh it's a great greatlittle town.
Um I grew up on a uh a farm.
We we grew uh beef cattle um forthe better part of my life, and
then the hurricane came throughand actually affected us as
well.
And um now I am uh I kind of runthings myself and um

(19:58):
unfortunately our our fencestook a lot of damage, so I I I
thought it was a good time to goahead and sell out of the cows
for a little bit, and I'm gonnacome back and try to revamp
things, but um so I I've putthat on the back burner right
now.
Um to me uh I've always saidthat you know in life you gotta
find what your one thing to dois and uh and you gotta do it

(20:18):
well, and you gotta be a littlebit cocky, a little bit arrogant
about it.
My one thing is to teachagriculture.
And I just absolutely love to doit.
Um, you know, and so that's whyI come in every single day and
and get around these kids andman, I tell you, it we have a
lot of fun.
So uh those kids uh they're theythey keep me coming here every
day.
I told my my students one of thethings that I like to say is uh,

(20:39):
you know, if you wake up and youdread going to work, or if you
you uh you you then you're inthe wrong line of work.
Um you know, the mega millionsthat just got up so so high not
long ago, and you everybodydreams and thinks about what
would you do with it andeverything else, you'd miss me
for a couple of days just whileI'm getting things settled, then
I'll I'll be back.
Okay, so just know, you know,I'll drive an escalade, but I'll

(21:01):
be back.

SPEAKER_08 (21:02):
That was that's exactly what I told the kids.

SPEAKER_04 (21:03):
I will drive something different every day of
the week.
Yeah, I will be back.
This isn't your first stopteaching, right?
It's not.
I actually spent um quite a fewyears in Georgia.
I spent 12 years in Georgia.
Um my first year uh or my firststop was in Effingham County,
and I had the best role model.
I had uh Mr.
Billy Hughes.
Um he was my mentor, and then umhe was an actually an ag teacher

(21:26):
for 28 years, I believe.
And then he he m uh moved aroundand went into several admin
positions, and then he actuallyended up becoming the director
of ag education for the state ofGeorgia.
So then he became my boss againafter I had left.
Um so that was uh that wasreally cool to have that
relationship with him and havehim as a mentor, and um he was
uh just really helped to kickthings off for me in the right

(21:47):
direction.

SPEAKER_06 (21:48):
So when did you decide that you wanted to teach?

SPEAKER_04 (21:51):
Um when I couldn't afford vet school.
That ultimately was my dream.
I wanted to be a vet and Iwanted to go to Georgia because
you know, we uh you know didn'thave a vet school at the time,
and now Clemson, you know, isbuilding this huge, huge vet
school.
Um, but I couldn't afford it.
And honestly, I walked throughthe halls every single day, and
I have a lot of friends.

(22:12):
You know, I really, really do.
I'm blessed.
Um, I have a lot of people thatI like to talk to.
And whenever I would walkthrough the halls every day, I'd
say, Man, I just I love this.
And as senior year of highschool kept narrowing down, I
was like, how can I get backhere?
And I looked around and I said,I'm not smart enough to teach
this, I'm not smart enough toteach this, but I'm gonna I I I
like agriculture.
So why don't why don't we goahead and teach agriculture?

(22:34):
And so I tell you, it's it'sbeen a wild ride, but it's been
a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_06 (22:37):
Yeah.
Um so talk about uh some of thethings you're doing in the
agriculture program here,because I know um in the three
years you've been here, you'veobviously had certain
initiatives that you've beendoing.

SPEAKER_04 (22:49):
So everybody knows me as the pig man.
Um I kind of get that mentality,you know, whenever we go
anywhere, everybody's like thisguy.
You know, I I my my favorite onethat I got the other day was the
hog father.
I thought that one was prettygood.
I so I thought that one waspretty good.
Um shout out to uh uh Jenny onthat one.
But it's I remember that.

(23:12):
It's great.
Um I I breed and raise pigs forthe the kids, and ultimately
what it boils down to is we canhave cattle here, but you know,
if we if we breed a cow and weraise a calf, I can impact one
student possibly through theshow ring.
Um if we breed and raise goats,I can you know have one to two
kids each year, and that that'sgonna impact one to two
students.

(23:32):
If we have a a pig, she caneasily have two litters, and
that's gonna give me twelve tosixteen viable show projects to
impact students.
And so that's ultimately why webreed and raise pigs, is because
we can impact more students.
And that's that's what I'm aboutis impacting the students.

SPEAKER_06 (23:49):
Now, tell us a little bit about raising the
pigs.
Because I I see him walking howlong is this show?
Well, we've got time.
I don't think Zach is callingin.
And you know why the reason is?
Because he's still stuck intraffic.
That traffic still hasn't allcleared up from earlier today.

SPEAKER_08 (24:03):
Not to mention he really doesn't have a whole lot
of talk about.

SPEAKER_06 (24:05):
Yeah, I think that's the real reason.
I don't think he's really stuckin traffic.
I think uh he doesn't want tocall in and talk about crimeson.

SPEAKER_09 (24:12):
Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (24:14):
But uh but but go ahead because I look out there
and I see, you know, you havethe piglets and then they grow
up a little bit, and then I seeuh the the kids walking them
around with those little uhhandles uh to keep them walking
in a straight line and all that.
And then what goes into theprocess of getting them, you
know, show ready, et cetera?

SPEAKER_04 (24:32):
So it's a it's a really big process.
Um you know, we start with umour our matriarch or our main
female that we kind of built ourprogram around, um, who has a
whole cool story herself, but wewon't go into all that, but she
is uh fantastic and it you knowhas done a really good job for
us.
And what we do is um we monitorthe heat cycles of the of the

(24:53):
females, and then my studentsactually artificially inseminate
the the the pigs with some ofthe the the best boar uh
prospects from around thecountry.
Uh gotta give a shout out toPremium Blend Genetics there
because they definitely help usout.
So those those guys arefantastic.
That's awesome.
Give us a good discount.
Exactly.
So we we love them.
Um and we have a lot of successwith that.

(25:15):
Um the thing that I I can sayI'm most proud about is in the
last two years, we have actuallybred 14 pigs here at the school,
and so that means that they werebred two times per pig.
So that's 28 total times.
27 of those were completed bystudents.

SPEAKER_07 (25:32):
That's incredible.
Wow.

SPEAKER_04 (25:33):
And we had 13 out of the 14 that ended up uh being
successful breedings throughartificial insemination.
That's uh almost unheard of.
And then when you start talkingabout our conception rates, you
know, we ended up having almost13 pigs per litter.
Um I think that's one of thehighest in the country as far as
in a show pig operation, andthat just that to me just boils
down to what we what we're doinghere and how we're able to to do

(25:57):
things a little bit different.
That's for sure.

SPEAKER_08 (25:58):
And I think the coolest thing is watching these
kids, and we're talkingsophomores, juniors, and
seniors, when these babies areborn.
And it may be born at twoo'clock in the morning, and
they're here catching them,grabbing them, making sure that
they're clean, they'rebreathing, they're okay, the
whole works.
It is the most incredibleexperience ever.

SPEAKER_04 (26:20):
It is quite the experience.
Um I joke with the kids as theywere coming in for August
because it was like uh talkingto the sophomores who were just
yes, it was like, get get ready,bring old clothes, wear old
shoes, because you know, babywatch the first week, it's gonna
be get ready, here's a pigcatch, you know.
Uh and it was it was a lot likethat.

SPEAKER_08 (26:38):
So the best part about it is when you have these
babies, we have, you know, Treyusually has anywhere from
twenty-four to twenty-eight kidssitting in there.
And if you have thirteen babiesjust like that, everybody can
participate.
And that's the coolest part ofit.
And they want to, the kids wantto participate.

SPEAKER_06 (26:54):
Hands-on projects.

SPEAKER_07 (26:56):
Yeah.
I love that you're reallyteaching them a lot about
genetics.
That's science.
It's so hands-on, and you know,kids will get that like in one
day in biology, and that's it.

SPEAKER_04 (27:05):
You should see our new vet science lab.
We're just now transitioningfrom the animal science uh
portion over into the vetscience, and I am so excited to
get going with these students.
We actually did some hands-onpracticums today and did some
different holding of theanimals, but we've got uh
microscopes where we can do umfecal samples and we can
diagnose problems.

(27:25):
There's just so much that we canoffer to the students here at
ACTC, you know, in our vetscience program, and it is just
phenomenal.
So if you haven't seen the vetscience program by far, stop by,
check it out.
Um it is it is incredible.

SPEAKER_07 (27:38):
It's impressive what y'all got.
That is the first time I've seenit today, and it's I've my mind
is blown.
I can't believe y'all haveeverything that you have.

SPEAKER_06 (27:47):
Well, I'll tell you.
Um I've been You didn't get tosee it all either.
No, no, we we scratched thesurface.

SPEAKER_04 (27:52):
But we you know, whenever I took this job here,
um, you know, it was uh it waskind of a last minute ordeal how
everything worked out.
Um and and ultimately I Ipersonally just have to say it
was a God thing for me too andand how it ended up because I
wasn't ready for where I was atat the time, and and then
obviously some things needed tofall into place for for us and

(28:15):
for ACTC to happen.
Um and you know, Miss Harrelcalled me and I'll tell you guys
just a little bit, just becauseI think it's just amazing how
that works.
I actually was lined up to takeanother job out of education
because I had I had had uh acouple of instances where I was
just ready to pull my hair out,and uh, and I just said, I need
to break.
And so um I actually was readyto take the job at another f uh

(28:38):
facility and I had it saved onmy phone to uh as a reminder to
call and accept this job at like9 30 in the morning.
My grandmother unfortunatelyfell and broke her hip.
We were loading her in theambulance when the reminder went
off on my phone.
Should we get her loaded?
I said, I'll have to call themin a little while.
Have we got a handle with this?
And as we're closing the doorsand she is driving up the

(29:00):
driveway, my phone rings, and Ianswered my phone because it was
Anderson and it was Miss HollyHarrel.
And she was offering me the jobat, you know, and here we here
we are.
And uh I accepted, had nevercame to the campus since 2008 or
2009 when we toured as a studentat Clemson, had no clue what uh
they had, nothing.

(29:22):
And uh I came the first day,they threw a notebook at me and
said, What do you need?
And and here we are.
Um and it has been wonderful.

SPEAKER_06 (29:29):
It is an incredible because you came in late that
first year, you missed a freebowling outing.
So Holly still owes you abowling outing outing.
Because we were out there at uhspare time.

SPEAKER_08 (29:45):
That's right.
That was our opening sessionthat year.

SPEAKER_06 (29:48):
So don't let her get away with that.
She owes you.
She owes me a bowling.
I gotcha, Trey.

SPEAKER_08 (29:52):
I gotcha.

SPEAKER_06 (29:52):
Okay.
Um, you have a student here.
Can we uh have her join you onthe mic?

SPEAKER_04 (29:57):
Yes, absolutely.
Come on over.

SPEAKER_06 (30:00):
Because now that we're talking about, we're
talking all about what you'redoing.
We got somebody who's doing itright here.

SPEAKER_04 (30:04):
Yeah, yes, and she definitely is.
So this young lady is MissStella Cawtran.
And Stella is our uh FFApresident, and she is a senior
at Rand High School.

SPEAKER_06 (30:15):
All right, so tell us what um what got you into FFA
and how you're enjoying yourtime here with Mr.
Harris.

SPEAKER_03 (30:22):
Um well initially I was never anything with
agriculture.
I've always been really intomusic and orchestra.
But we toured it in tenth gradeand I thought it looked pretty
cool.
So I decided to join it, andthen I was all about the plants,
wanted everything in thegreenhouse, and then he somehow
convinced me to show the pig.
And now I have two pig projectsand a land project.

SPEAKER_06 (30:40):
That's that's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 (30:42):
There's that impact.

SPEAKER_06 (30:43):
Yeah.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (30:44):
So you pull them in with that pig project and it
looms into this.
And from that, what all have yougot to do as far as this summer
and some of the things that yougotta change?

SPEAKER_03 (30:55):
This summer I really wasn't at home.
I had the I gotta go to FFAcamp, which was a lot of fun.
But the highlight of my summerwas probably to go to South
Carolina Commissioner School forAgriculture at Clemson.
It was a long applicationprocess, but it was really worth
it.
We gotta work in the BFO unit,we gotta work with a lot of the
professors and ISEC things andjust learn all about it.
And it was really, reallyamazing.

SPEAKER_06 (31:17):
That is amazing.
So where do you what do you wantto do with this?
Are you a senior now?
Okay.
So what do you want to do withthis uh moving forward?

SPEAKER_03 (31:26):
Uh I would love to go into wildlife conservation
and study wildlife biology.
That's the point.

SPEAKER_06 (31:31):
All right.
So are you gonna go to Clemson?
No?

SPEAKER_03 (31:34):
No, I don't think my mom went there, my uncle went
there, and they all love it.
I just don't think it's reallythe place for me.

SPEAKER_06 (31:39):
Yeah, the football team's not very good.

SPEAKER_03 (31:43):
Gotta have a good sports team.

SPEAKER_06 (31:45):
But where are you going?

SPEAKER_03 (31:46):
Uh I'm thinking about either ABAC or Colorado
State.

SPEAKER_06 (31:49):
Oh, way out west.

SPEAKER_04 (31:51):
Okay.
She's been looking at some uhcolleges out west, focusing on
the forestry management side ofthings.
I think the other day you werelooking at North Dakota State,
maybe.

SPEAKER_03 (32:01):
I got accepted yesterday.
Congratulations.

SPEAKER_06 (32:04):
North Dakota State, they do have a good football
team.
They're on the what the secondlevel of college football.
Yeah.
But uh I think it's D1, FBS,whatever it is.
The second level.
They win championships all thetime.
So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 (32:19):
I'll have some fun.

SPEAKER_06 (32:20):
It's very cold, very cold.

SPEAKER_03 (32:21):
Yeah, but I like the cold.
I've been out there a lot ofhiking and I love it.

SPEAKER_06 (32:27):
So what do you have to say about her track?

SPEAKER_04 (32:29):
Uh Stella's fantastic.
Um, you know, I I absolutelylike I said, I have a lot of
great students, but um, wheneverit comes to student leaders, I
love writing recommendationletters for her.
Yeah.
Um because we get lots of themfor scholarship opportunities
and for um, you know, justoverall acceptance letters and
everything else, and we get toexperience that.
And um we've got some really,really good kids.

(32:51):
Um that's that's the one thingthat I I tell you is different
about ACTC is because thestudents in the classroom want
to be there.
You know, I'm coming from apublic education background, and
a lot of times the students inthose classes don't want to be
in that class.
Um they prefer to be somewhereelse.
Whereas our students choose tobe there.
And so it makes it a learningenvironment, you know, a

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majority of the time.
Some days, you know, you you'renot necessarily as a teacher on
it a hundred percent, but the sthe kids are still there to push
you, and it that's what makesyour day better.

SPEAKER_06 (33:22):
I think for whatever reason, I mean you for obvious
reasons, you get some prettycommitted kids because if
they're, you know, inseminatingpigs and and such, that's uh you
have to be a a special kind ofkid to be before and after each
other.
Sticking your hands in placesthat they normally don't go.
But uh but uh at the same timeyou get a lot of r reward out of

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this field.

SPEAKER_03 (33:46):
Yeah, I really like seeing all the pigs just in the
barn.

SPEAKER_06 (33:51):
Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 (33:52):
I'm sorry.
And just getting to see themgrow up and knowing that like we
had a major part in that andgetting them here where they are
now.

SPEAKER_06 (33:59):
Yeah.
All right, that's really cool.
Uh stay around.
We might have some morequestions for you, Stella.
But uh that's awesome.
I love talking to shark kids.
Speaking of not talking to sharkkids, uh Zach did manage to call
in.
And uh, Zach, I know you'rebeing very brave.
Um, where are you right now?

SPEAKER_01 (34:19):
I am currently can y'all hear me outside?
Yeah, I'm on my blue screen.

SPEAKER_06 (34:22):
We can hear you.

SPEAKER_01 (34:23):
I am currently in uh Canton, Georgia, about let's
see, two hours and fifty minutesfrom home.
I'm getting home at 727.

SPEAKER_06 (34:33):
Long day, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 (34:34):
Well, I hope that nobody from uh the business
center is listening right nowbecause there's nothing like
being on the clock and talkingto your high school and teaching
at the same time.
I'll take that and you're done.

SPEAKER_06 (34:47):
Yeah, well, be careful out there.

SPEAKER_08 (34:49):
Um just as long as you're on your Bluetooth
following the law, then you'regood.

SPEAKER_01 (34:54):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 (34:54):
Yeah, hands free.

SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
I sat in traffic.
I don't know if y'all seen it onthe news, but it was the traffic
jam where right here at theSouth Carolina Georgia line
where uh somebody ended upgetting killed.

unknown (35:06):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (35:06):
And I sat, I started in it at 8 45 this morning and
got out of it at about 1 30.

unknown (35:15):
Holy cow.

SPEAKER_06 (35:15):
Yeah, that was that was Trey and I were both in that
traffic jam.
He left a little earlier becauseI'm always running late, but uh
and got through some of the thebag and only took him what, an
hour and a half to get here?
About an hour and a half.
It took me two and a half hoursto get here uh this morning.
So yeah, that's been a mess allday.
But uh speaking of messes, uhtalk uh uh talk about Clemson a

(35:39):
little bit, Zach.

SPEAKER_01 (35:40):
I mean, do do we have can we talk about the
heater, the brazer on instead?

SPEAKER_06 (35:44):
The heater that doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
They won nine games in a row,but it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 (35:49):
I know, I know.
I know they get on a heater andit don't even matter.

SPEAKER_06 (35:52):
Yeah, where was that?
Where was that, you know, acouple months ago?

SPEAKER_01 (35:55):
I know, I know, I know.
No, I that that's what I wasthinking about about um about
trolling you today.
Um that traffic jam, you know,it was like, you know, you go
for a little bit, then you stop.
Then you go for a little bit.
That's kind of like the wayClinton football's going right
now.
I mean, you know, you don't knowwhat you're gonna get.
You know, you you're sittingthere hoping for the best, and

(36:17):
you what you think's good, andthen you can turn your back
down.
And I I just I just I just can'texplain it.
Uh I wish I could.
I wish I could explain it.
I I don't know.
Holly's at the game, you know.
Um Holly was tailgating theentire time.
She didn't care about the game.
Um but you know, I haven't hadhey, the good thing is I put on

(36:39):
Facebook, I don't know if y'allsaw the other day, hey, the good
thing is Lincoln keeps losing,the tickets are just getting
cheaper.
So I won't be able to go to theFlorida State game this year and
watch that floodplace.

SPEAKER_08 (36:50):
The prices are set this year, but I'm sure people
will be uh dumping theirtickets.

SPEAKER_06 (36:55):
Secondary market will be uh really busy.
But I but it'll be full ofFlorida State fans.
That's what you gotta watch outfor.

SPEAKER_07 (37:03):
I do not want to go to that game.
I'm not looking for that at all.

SPEAKER_01 (37:06):
No, no, no, I do not.
I do not.
Speaking of tickets, and youknow, we're not on the sports
subject.
Smackdown is coming back togreen on November the 7th.

SPEAKER_06 (37:16):
Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 (37:17):
Lower bowl tickets.
Lower bowl tickets.
Where me, my sister, and Carsonsat last time, everything.
$220 a day.

SPEAKER_06 (37:30):
That's ridiculous.
I've heard that from a lot ofplaces.

SPEAKER_01 (37:34):
Me and my sister Caitlin, we always just put the
price down the middle withCarson.
We paid less than that togetherlast time they come.
And it that that is mind-blowingto me.
Is this at Bonstacoral WellnessCenter?
I mean, why do you have a NewYork Bowl with$67?

SPEAKER_06 (37:54):
Yeah, that's everybody they were talking
about that um at the at thepay-per-views, too, that they
were bragging about how muchmoney they were making off of
it.
It's the biggest gate ever.
Well, no wonder you're chargingso much money that uh it's the
biggest gate.

SPEAKER_04 (38:10):
My nephew actually uh talked me into going to that
last wrestling match at BonSecur.
Yeah.
So we went to that.

SPEAKER_06 (38:17):
But, you know, and they got all the streaming
services you gotta buy now, too.
Were you able to watch the onethis weekend on the SP ESPN?

SPEAKER_01 (38:25):
The the ESPN stuff.
Yeah.
The ESPN.
I mean, what am I supposed todo?
Just cancel my peacock, becausethat's why I got it first, was
because of that.
And uh I'm not gonna cancel itbecause all of our other shows
of me and Tiffany watch are onthere.

SPEAKER_06 (38:42):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 (38:42):
It's crazy.

SPEAKER_06 (38:43):
Well, now it's and it's not just ESPN, it's ESPN
apps, so you have to have thatother plus, uh Disney, whatever
it is, all of that.
Yeah, which is thirty dollars amonth more, and you know, you're
already paying for like sixstreaming services.

SPEAKER_07 (38:57):
I don't know who can figure out all this stuff.
You know, I just went likeAmazon Plus or Pro.
Each one of those is charging.
Like we ought to just go back toDirect TV.

SPEAKER_08 (39:07):
I mean, serious.

SPEAKER_06 (39:09):
Just have them all in there.

SPEAKER_08 (39:10):
Well, and I almost think that it's intentional,
right?
So, okay, to watch this, yougotta have Peacock.
So you subscribe to Peacock, andthen the next time they're like,
no, we're switching that toHulu.
So now you gotta have Hulu.
Or you have to have Netflix.
I mean, it's almost like justfor wrestling, they're on what?

SPEAKER_06 (39:24):
Three different streaming services now?

SPEAKER_01 (39:26):
It's like Yeah, you yeah, well, the it the wall is
on Netflix, so that's not threedollars, well, eighteen dollars
a month.
Smackdown is on USA, and it orUSA, I think it is.
I don't know, I don't haveYouTube TV, but I think it's
USA.

(39:48):
So you have to pay$30,$18, youknow, almost$60,$65, almost$60,
$65.
A little less than that.
And raw.
When it was$15 a month for allthe pay-per-views.

SPEAKER_06 (40:09):
And don't forget, you gotta pay$220 for your seat
if you want to go watch it.
So uh dig they're not treatingtheir fans very well these days.
But uh speaking of that, theClemson football team is not
treating their fans very wellthese days.
And uh I know you've uh broughtup some of the things, but how

(40:30):
uh what do you see going forwardfor the team?
Because I don't Are they gonnawin?
It's gotta be us.

SPEAKER_04 (40:36):
Is there somebody they can beat?
They had 500 and something yardsof offense.
But they only put up 21 points.
So we've got to we've got tofigure out how we're going to
score because obviously they canmove the ball, they just can't
move it to the end zone.

SPEAKER_08 (40:49):
And Syracuse did get fined$25,000 just for feigning
an injury.
Just saying.

SPEAKER_06 (40:57):
But you're a Clemson, folks, so you always
have excuses.
Just saying.
So it's uh Syracuse was sorry.
We're not used to losing.
I don't have a dog in the fight,so it doesn't matter.
You still sound salty.
I just like getting you guys.

SPEAKER_01 (41:14):
You've got to, you you and their defense hadn't
depressed me at all either.
I mean, I just get here andwe're gonna step the run, we're
gonna stop the run, we're gonnastep the run.
Georgia Tech really didn'tbother me because their
quarterback does that toeverybody he plays.
I mean, he sent Georgia, it took10 overtimes last year for
Georgia to beat them.
You know, he does that toeverybody.

(41:34):
But when Syracuse does it toyou, imagine what Furman's gonna
do too.
I mean, I'm at that that's whereI am at this point.
South Carolina eclipses is gonnabe at 10 o'clock in the morning
on the car two night.

SPEAKER_07 (41:48):
They might do it on a Thursday, uh Friday night.

SPEAKER_06 (41:53):
Well, if you know, if Clemps, if uh Furman gets out
to a 16-3 lead like Troy did, uhthen I don't I don't know why.
Zach actually texted me theother day after the game.
He goes, I'm done.
Period.
I know you're not really done,but my goodness.
My goodness.

SPEAKER_07 (42:13):
This is gonna show we have to show what real fans
are made of.
That's right.

SPEAKER_08 (42:19):
And you know what I say?
Some years are for watchingcollege football, and some years
are just for tailgating.
And this is just a tailgatingyear.

SPEAKER_04 (42:27):
Either way, there's a either be hanging on my wall
from Clemson.
So I'm gonna pull for them nomatter what.
I'm I'm invested.
That's right.

SPEAKER_07 (42:34):
It's gonna be fun either way, Holly.
That's right.
Yeah, we're gonna have fun.
That's right.

SPEAKER_06 (42:38):
Got anything else there, Zach?
This is a good discussion.

SPEAKER_01 (42:42):
We'll see what happens because this this
there's still a long seasonahead, but I can't.

SPEAKER_06 (42:46):
Oh gosh, if I hear that one more time, after every
loss.
Well, it's a long season.
Well, it's a long season.
Well, it's getting shorter everytime.

SPEAKER_01 (42:53):
We're already, you know, Vegas already had five
weeks beat up by three touches.

SPEAKER_08 (42:59):
Hey, I heard there's a thing out there now that you
could uh bet on odds of whetherDabo gets fired or not.
He's not gonna get fired.
I don't know.
The buyouts too.

SPEAKER_09 (43:11):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (43:12):
That's just crazy to me.
That's just I mean, who are yougonna go get?
Who you gonna go get?
Right.

SPEAKER_04 (43:18):
You lost the fire and the spark whenever we
started paying players.
You know, it's not collegefootball anymore, it's minor
league major f major football.
You know what I'm saying?
Like minor league football.
That's what we're dealing with.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (43:29):
And club said they just didn't show any life the
other day.
It was just meh.

SPEAKER_04 (43:34):
Well, that player said you don't have any dogs.
Yes.
That's that there's a lot oftruth to that.
So it needs to be some fire andsome spark, get them going.
Does Dabo still do thoseThursday nights uh out out at
the grocery stores like he usedto?
Because if so, I'm gonna I'mgonna go look him look him up.

SPEAKER_07 (43:50):
Ingalls at Ingalls?

SPEAKER_04 (43:51):
It used to be like at the food line or the back in
the day.

SPEAKER_06 (43:54):
That was yeah, was it it was Ingalls, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_04 (43:57):
See, that was uh how great was that.
I don't mean we don't need yougetting arrested.
Uh no, no.
I just I would like I would liketo have a conversation, you
know, like get him going, youknow.
Yeah.
You got anything else there,Zach?

SPEAKER_01 (44:11):
No, not really.
I wish I did.
I mean, you know, it's justwe'll just have to see what I
just hope we can get by bye weekthis week.
Yeah.
So we're not gonna lose thisweekend.

SPEAKER_06 (44:20):
And then uh, who is it after that?

SPEAKER_01 (44:23):
North Carolina and Bill Belichick and his
19-year-old girl France.

SPEAKER_06 (44:27):
Yeah, is that at North Carolina?

SPEAKER_08 (44:29):
Yes, yes.
And then Boston.

SPEAKER_06 (44:32):
At Boston Carolina.

SPEAKER_01 (44:36):
That that's a beautiful campus.
I went I went 2019 when theyjust about beat Clemson and uh
Matt Brown lost it on going fortwo there at the end.
And if they would have gone intoovertime, they probably would
have beat Clemson because theycontrol the entire game.
But we'll see.
It's a long season ahead.
This thing can get turnedaround, but I just don't see it
right now.
But that's why you spot the ballin place.

SPEAKER_06 (44:57):
That's right.
It's getting to be a long turnfor turning it around.
Um, all right, Zach, thanks forcalling.
I know, uh, and be careful onthe road out there.
We don't need anybody elsegetting in any trouble on the
road.
All right.

SPEAKER_01 (45:10):
Sure will.
Y'all take care.
We'll talk to you next time.

SPEAKER_06 (45:13):
All right.
Thanks, Zach.
Take care.
All right, there's Zach Howardon sports.
One of my favorites.
He is.
It's great.
He's definitely passionate.
Oh, yes.
He is.
This is killing him.
One and three is killing him.

SPEAKER_08 (45:28):
It is, it is.
I love that.

SPEAKER_07 (45:30):
I love the smack down.
I mean, I love that he threwthat in there too.

SPEAKER_06 (45:33):
That was a good one.

SPEAKER_08 (45:35):
And he's got a little two-year-old that just
eats it up.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (45:39):
And he's got what how many?
She's six years old.
Well, I think the one is threeand the other is one.

SPEAKER_08 (45:44):
Maybe it's one and three, yeah.
They're little.

SPEAKER_06 (45:47):
But he hasn't watching wrestling all the time.

SPEAKER_08 (45:49):
Yes, he does.

SPEAKER_06 (45:50):
But uh anyway, he's he's a good guy.
All right.
Um before we get to uh wrappingthings up here, boy, that hour
went by pretty quickly.
Um Trey, we look to the uh tothe future, uh Hogfather.
And um what else are you gonnado out there?

(46:10):
I see new greenhouses.
I see uh so is there anythingmore in the uh plant department
so uh Stella can be happier?

SPEAKER_04 (46:18):
Uh now that you've got I was gonna say she's kind
of left the plant side ofthings.
So we're working on finalizingour plant sale order um
currently so we can kind of goahead and get that put in for
the spring.
Um as you guys know, we willhave a huge spring plant sale.
Um we'll have plenty of hangingbaskets, I'm sure, and those gor
gorgeous ferns that everyoneloves.

(46:40):
Um so that that's all always inthe works.
Uh, you know, and of course wewill have some more uh pigs
coming.
Uh we'll have plenty of pigsrunning around probably uh end
of January, February, and March.
Um so we'll have some runningaround.
Uh if anybody comes to the plantsale, um, you know, come and and
see the pigs for sure as well.

(47:01):
We'd love to have you.

SPEAKER_07 (47:02):
Do you have the date set for the plant sale yet?

SPEAKER_04 (47:04):
Not not yet.
Um we typically try to do itaround spring break.
Um everybody likes to get outand they love to get in the get
in the gardens and everything.
But I do try to watch theweather a little bit as well.
Um the last two years uh we'vehad really warm spring breaks,
and luckily we've been able tokind of avoid the frost.
And so we'll look at that andsee what the farmer almanac is
telling us, and and we'll uhwe'll make that judgment call a

(47:27):
little bit closer.

SPEAKER_06 (47:27):
And spring break is earlier this year, too.
It's like last week of March.

SPEAKER_07 (47:31):
It is.

SPEAKER_06 (47:31):
I don't like that.
I like the first week of April.

SPEAKER_07 (47:34):
It's right before Easter, and Easter is the first
weekend in April this year,right?

SPEAKER_06 (47:38):
Why does Easter move around so much?
Is that a lunar thing with thePassover and all that stuff?
Is that how they figure thatout?
I don't know.
But it's always different everyyear.
I Easter needs to stay on thesame day so we can have spring
break at the same time.
But hey, it's always a good timeto go to Florida, no matter
what.

SPEAKER_07 (47:57):
I can't wait for that sale.
I'm uh well as soon as I findout, y'all let me know when it
is because I'll be out herebuying some flowers.

SPEAKER_06 (48:02):
Yes, we'd love to have you.
And you have the sunflowerthing.

SPEAKER_07 (48:06):
Yes, so we'll have an i the spring we do our Easter
egg hunt.
That's right.
So that's why we're definitelylooking at the calendar um for
uh Easter this year, becausewe'll probably have to open a
few weeks before in March.
And then the summer we do thesunflower festival.

SPEAKER_06 (48:20):
Yeah.
So see, it's gonna be cold forthe Easter egg hunt.

SPEAKER_07 (48:24):
Yeah, it might be.
It might be.
Yeah, one year uh it was uhMarch 31st was Easter.
Okay.
So that was really early.

SPEAKER_06 (48:31):
Yeah, it's close to that this coming year.
So we'll we'll see what happens.
Anyway, we said we were gonnaget back to the food at the
Denver Downs.
So tell us uh before we leave uhabout that.
What are the food and drinkselections this year?

SPEAKER_07 (48:44):
Well, we have a new apple cider slushie.
That sounds good.
Oh, those are good.
So I'd gone up to visit Stepp'sfarm up in Hendersonville and
had a delicious apple ciderslushie there.
I said, Oh yes, we've got to addthis to our selection because we
have a silo bar where we servebeer and wine, and we have an

(49:04):
apple, uh we have a fall frose,which is a Moscato wine and
apple cider you know, slushy foradults.
So now we're gonna do this forchildren, so non-alcoholic, and
then we'll have our funnel cakesand kettle corn and our s'mores
to roast by the campfire, sowe've got all that ready for
folks so they don't have toround up all the ingredients

(49:26):
themselves.
And then barbecue sandwiches andhamburgers, hot dogs, chicken
fingers, and we want people toand our fresh lemonade.
We have really delicious.
So we've got we want people tocome hungry and thirsty and
we'll take care of them.

SPEAKER_06 (49:41):
Yeah.
Yeah, and then you brought upthe um the campfires.
That's that's a big thing too,because you have the music going
on at nighttime, and then youhave all those little bonfire
areas.

SPEAKER_07 (49:51):
It really it just puts you in the mood for a fall.

SPEAKER_06 (49:54):
I have not done that yet, but people always say they
like that.

SPEAKER_07 (49:57):
So And we've got a little light show instead of
like a Christmas light show,it's pumpkin themed.
That little trail that peoplewalk through.

SPEAKER_06 (50:04):
Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_07 (50:05):
And that's that's really entertaining.
And we added some new um littlevignettes in that this year that
people are gonna love.

SPEAKER_06 (50:11):
All right, all right.
And you got that little housethat has like pumpkins on every
level.

SPEAKER_07 (50:15):
Yes.

SPEAKER_06 (50:16):
How do you keep them from falling off?

SPEAKER_07 (50:17):
Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 (50:18):
The biggest I looked at that thing and I'm like, how
do they keep that intact?

SPEAKER_07 (50:23):
They won't fall, they don't fall off as much as
uh three-year-olds take themoff.
So But this year I've got a goodfriend Michael Mayfield up in
Athens, Tennessee, who growsthese beautiful gourds, and he
sent me down a uh a half atractor trailer load of them
last week.
He was bringing calahans overand belting some pumpkins.
So he sent me down some, sothese beautiful gourds are

(50:46):
they're called some kind ofsquash.
So we've got those decoratingthe building.
And so they're heavier, so we'rethinking that's gonna deter the
three-year-olds from frompicking from the won't be able
to pick them up anymore.

SPEAKER_06 (50:57):
So, Trey, you ought to have like a little pumpkin
patch or something.
I mean, you got plenty of freetime.

SPEAKER_04 (51:01):
You ought to just uh y'all are kept talking about all
these streaming shows andeverything else, and I'm going,
I would just like an hour towatch TV.

SPEAKER_06 (51:09):
Yeah, I don't know how he does it.
I know he's he goes home toanother farm.

SPEAKER_08 (51:13):
And he's here all I know.

SPEAKER_06 (51:15):
Every time I leave, he's still here.
Get in the morning.
Me's too.

SPEAKER_08 (51:19):
Yep.

SPEAKER_06 (51:19):
Weekends.
At least I enjoy it, right?

SPEAKER_08 (51:21):
Yep.

SPEAKER_06 (51:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Like you said, if you enjoy it,that's that's certainly worth
it.
Absolutely.
All right, but it is time.
It is time, right?
It's our favorite time.
Our favorite time to makeeverybody hungry.
And um we we get Catherineknows, we take recommendations
from our guests on entertainmentand food at the end of each show
that we do.

(51:42):
So if you uh and this is the newview, Trey, so what we do is
I'll ask Catherine first uh foran entertainment uh
recommendation for ourlisteners, and a book that she's
read, or something that she's isstreaming uh on Prime or uh
elsewhere, or a movie that'sseen, something like that,
something entertained that youcan recommend.

(52:02):
It can be you know somethingthat didn't necessarily have to
come out right now, it could besomething that you're j just
reading or watching for thefirst time.
And then we'll come back aroundand take a food recommendation,
restaurant recommendation, whatdish at a certain restaurant,
something like that that you canrecommend, which Holly and I
have really enjoyed.

SPEAKER_08 (52:21):
We like that.

SPEAKER_06 (52:22):
I've gone to so many, she's been to like every
restaurant in the upstateanyway.

SPEAKER_08 (52:26):
But but I like to go to restaurants.

SPEAKER_06 (52:28):
I've I have a list based on this show, and I've
gone to many of them.

SPEAKER_08 (52:31):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (52:31):
Um and enjoyed every one I've gone to.
So uh you think about that.
The first one will beentertainment.
Let's start with uh Catherine.
What can you recommendentertainment-wise to our
listeners?

SPEAKER_07 (52:42):
Well, I know everyone's probably already
watched like Yellowstone in1883.
So good.
That's where you got to knowLaney Wilson, right?

SPEAKER_06 (52:49):
That's right.

SPEAKER_07 (52:51):
But anyway, she was she played Abby in that.
And I was trying to think.
There's one called I've beenrecommending, I haven't watched
it yet, The Social Dilemma.
Oh, it's very good.
Really?

SPEAKER_08 (53:01):
Yes, it's very good.
She showed the teenager needs tosee that.
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (53:07):
Yeah, that's about the social media.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Especially with kids, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's that's a good one.

SPEAKER_07 (53:13):
I would affect you down the road.

SPEAKER_06 (53:14):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 (53:15):
And again, I don't I don't spend a whole lot of time
watching TV.
I don't know if it's because Idon't want to navigate which
thing which channel I have towatch or what button.

SPEAKER_06 (53:25):
How much money you have to pay to watch one thing.

SPEAKER_07 (53:27):
Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 (53:28):
Yeah, it's gonna be on a different channel each
time.

SPEAKER_07 (53:30):
I love listening to audiobooks.
I listen to Mel Robbins a lot.
So I don't know if y'all knowher.
She's a like a motivational kindof speaker.
For Mel Robbins.
Yeah, she's good.

SPEAKER_06 (53:40):
Motivation.
That's what you need, Holly.
Okay, get more motivated aroundhere.
Um, Trey.
Entertainment.

SPEAKER_04 (53:49):
All right.
So, first of all, I was gonnatell you to go to a pig show.
All right, because there'splenty of those.
Well, and it just so happensthis weekend um there is going
to be the local Anderson Countyuh pig show um and livestock
show will be out at the cattlecomplex uh at T.
Ed Garrison Arena.
Um, so Daddy's going to be.

(54:10):
Exactly, exactly.
So check that out.
That would be great.
We're gonna have uh about Ithink eight to ten students
that'll be there participating.
Oh, yeah.
Um, and I will be gone.
I'll be out of town because I amtaking four students with me,
and we're gonna be going toNashville um to uh the national
show up there for Team PureBred.
So we have quite a few, yes.
So we're gonna go and see whatwe can do on a national stage

(54:33):
with our our pigs and some ofthe ones that we've raised.
So really excited about that, umin different directions.
So it's gonna be busy.
But check that out.
Uh uh look up Team Pure Bred.
That's even gonna be online, I'msure.
So you could watch it and gosupport our students that's
gonna be in the ring.
I'll tell you the four studentsthat I have going that's gonna
be representing ACTC is gonna beStella, Estella Cotherren, Ellie

(54:54):
Ellison, um Aidan Bradley, andPresley Wiggington.
So that's gonna be our fourstudents that's gonna be
representing ACTC at the pigshow.
Look up Team Pure Bred umonline, and I'm sure there's
gonna be lots of links to watchthat live.
So that would be really cool.
But as far as a a something thatI guess we've watched, um we
were totally shocked and blownaway with the Netflix

(55:17):
documentary of the unknownnumber, the high school catfish.

SPEAKER_08 (55:21):
Right, girl.

SPEAKER_04 (55:22):
Okay, like that was awful.
What is this?

SPEAKER_08 (55:24):
It is incredible.

SPEAKER_04 (55:26):
I don't want to give anything away, but it's it's the
high school catfish.
But I'm just saying I don't haveany kids.

SPEAKER_08 (55:32):
Unknown number.

SPEAKER_04 (55:33):
Oh, yes, okay.
It's it's terrible.
It's it's a great, it'sshocking.

SPEAKER_08 (55:37):
Do not look it up before you see it because it you
lose everything.
And it's important to watch itwithout finding out who that is.

SPEAKER_04 (55:44):
Yes.
But it uh it was definitelysomething that just catches you
uh by surprise.
Yeah.
Um so we did we did enjoywatching that.

SPEAKER_08 (55:51):
So I would highly recommend that for and it's
three episodes, it's notridiculously what is what 45
minutes an episode, somethinglike that.

SPEAKER_04 (55:58):
We easily binge watch that in one night.
And for me to find time, anybodyelse can.
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (56:03):
That is a truth right there.
So uh Catherine, you gotta getNetflix now.
Add that to the list.
It's uh like twenty dollars amonth or something.

SPEAKER_08 (56:10):
Yeah, or borrow somebody else's, because I'm
sure people do that.

SPEAKER_06 (56:14):
Uh you can't, it's not as easy anymore.
Oh, okay.
We've cracked down on that.

SPEAKER_07 (56:17):
Okay.
Well I got YouTube TV last yearjust to watch some football
games.
Yeah.
And then barely watched it afterthat.
So yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (56:24):
Last year I got the NFL package from UT YouTube TV
and I watched like two games onit.

SPEAKER_09 (56:29):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 (56:30):
So, like, never again, because I'm an Eagles
fan, but the Eagles were good,so they were on regular TV all
the time.
So this year, no.

SPEAKER_04 (56:38):
My wife's for some package to watch college
football.
And I tell you, you know, we hada busy night Friday night, and
then uh so Saturday, I wake up,she is watching college football
and watching, you know, the ESPNgame day and everything else,
and I just I just think like,how role reversal is this?
You know, like I'm supposed tobe the one sitting on the w on
the couch watching collegefootball and college game day,

(57:00):
and she's the one that's gettingall hyped up about it.
And I'm like, I'm gonna go feedpigs with people.
There you go.

SPEAKER_06 (57:05):
The hog file.
Uh and one more thing we didn'teven mention about the pigs
before we go to the uh foodthing is that the pigs are gonna
be running in the races atDenver Dam.
That's yes.
Why don't we make thatconnection?
That's why you're here.
Catherine, come and take it.

SPEAKER_04 (57:19):
I didn't know if we weren't unveiling it.

SPEAKER_07 (57:21):
No, Catherine, how many pigs are you taking?
Eight pigs.
And we give them really funnames.
So now Trey give it talkingabout the Hog Father.
I think I think we've got toname one of them Hogfather.
Absolutely, in honor of Trey.

SPEAKER_04 (57:35):
I've got to find like the wildest one out of the
group so he can be the champion.
You know what I'm saying?
Like he's gonna be your championracer.
So that's his name.

SPEAKER_08 (57:42):
And Catherine, what do you give to them when they
finish their race?
What are they racing for?
The big generic Oreos.

SPEAKER_07 (57:48):
Yes, Oreos.
They will run for Oreos.
They're brilliant.
So and I'm trying to train theseducks too.
So we're gonna see how thatturns out.

SPEAKER_06 (57:55):
What are you training them to?
I'm training ducks for a race?

SPEAKER_07 (57:58):
To to go around inside the pig racers.
There's gonna be duck races.
Duck races and pig races.
How cool.

SPEAKER_04 (58:05):
This is gonna be.
They should pick up very quicklybecause our students love to
feed them marshmallows.
So they eat marshmallows all thetime and follow them around the
pens and everything else, and weshoot videos of them.
So I'm sure that they're gonnaperform excellent for you guys.

SPEAKER_07 (58:17):
They're so smart.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (58:19):
Pigs are very intelligent.

SPEAKER_07 (58:21):
They learn quickly.
So yeah, they're people love it.
People love somethingunexpected.
They love seeing it.
And we do a little dance beforethe pig race starts, and all the
kids chew.
Yeah, that's my aerobic exercisefor the season.

SPEAKER_06 (58:34):
You're dancing with the platypus on one year.

SPEAKER_08 (58:36):
So you've got to go out and go to Denver Downs and
see the pig races and see ACTC'spigs.

SPEAKER_04 (58:41):
Yes, yes.
That's uh that's cool.
All right.
So we made a picture with theplatypus and the pigs.
Absolutely.
And the ducks.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (58:48):
So we can tell the difference between platypals.

SPEAKER_04 (58:51):
We can put a not a duck t-shirt on if you're that's
right.

SPEAKER_06 (58:55):
We should have yeah, we should sponsor the pigs.
They can wear different shirtsand stuff.
Yeah, I like that.
I like that.
So, Catherine, uh, what do youhave food-wise as a
recommendation?

SPEAKER_07 (59:06):
Oh gosh.
Well, once again, last year yousent us to Roughage.
Oh, yeah, Ruffage, yep.
So that's uh I haven't beenthere yet.
It's delicious.

SPEAKER_06 (59:14):
Where's that?

SPEAKER_07 (59:15):
Pendleton.

SPEAKER_06 (59:16):
Okay.

SPEAKER_07 (59:16):
I've heard great things about docks over on Lake
Hartwell.
Okay.
So doolittles, the man who ownsDoolittles operates that.
That's over at Green near GreenPond.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's kind of you have to likepull your boat up on the water,
on the um little embankment,because there's not a dock.
There's that's funny, it'scalled docks and there's not

(59:37):
really a dock.
But and then the Clemson'sgetting a lot in my area of
town, Pendleton.
Uh we love Lou Heron.
That's always good too.
I recommend that.

SPEAKER_06 (59:47):
Any particular dish that you recommend?

SPEAKER_07 (59:49):
Oh, they have a sushi called Tiger Paws.
So it is sushi that's fried.

SPEAKER_06 (59:55):
Oh, yeah, that's okay.

SPEAKER_07 (59:56):
Called Tiger Paw, and it's just delicious.

SPEAKER_06 (59:59):
Is that a temperature?
Tempura.

SPEAKER_08 (01:00:05):
I think that's the batter.
The tempura batter.
So I think if they do it in thetempura batter, then you call it
tempura, right?

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:12):
Oh, and it was out it was cooked sushi.
I'm learning.
I didn't used to eat sushi, andnow my wife is teaching me.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:20):
Well now they're telling you that it's is for the
most part it's all cooked sushibecause they're they're cooking
it with that the acid, like thecitric acid, and that's how it's
cooked, you know.
But um I because we eat a lot ofsushi.

SPEAKER_07 (01:00:33):
There's Erica's also near in Pendleton, and that's a
great little restaurant.
They've got great sushi.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:38):
Have you been to Soleil?

SPEAKER_07 (01:00:40):
Yes, I do like Soleil and Clemson's.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:43):
There's one that went in Seneca as well.

SPEAKER_07 (01:00:44):
That's right.
Surely you've been to that one,John.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:50):
No, I haven't probably Seneca.
She goes and gets uh so on onMondays and Wednesdays they have
some specials on their sushi uhand it makes it worth going for
sure.
In Seneca.
In Seneca.
Yeah, we can we can make thatup.

SPEAKER_07 (01:01:03):
I'm sure y'all talk about barbecue.
Speaking of hogs, where do y'allwhat barbecue do y'all prefer?

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:08):
So I'll tell you, it's hard for me to go and eat
barbecue because I barbecuemyself.
And uh and mine is barbecue,it's again the hog five.

SPEAKER_06 (01:01:17):
So I really enjoy that.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:18):
I actually grew up, and that's what my grandfather
would do.
He would go around and barbecueat different places because we
actually owned one of the onlyrestaurants in O'Connor County.
Um he opened it in I think '67and run it to 91.
And so it was one of the onlyrestaurants there.
And so we grew up barbecuing andtraveling around and doing a lot
of that.
So I love cooking.
But um, as far as my foodrecommendation, how far are you

(01:01:38):
guys wanting to travel?
Doesn't matter.
Okay, here you go then.
I've got to tell you, have youbeen to Marietta Diner?

SPEAKER_09 (01:01:45):
No.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:46):
You gotta try it.
It was on uh diners, drive-insand dives um at Marietta Diner.
It is in obviously Marietta,Georgia, um, and it is about
two, a little better than twohours from here.
But I went there this weekendbecause uh, you know, of course,
I was meeting a pig shippingtruck.
Okay.

(01:02:06):
No doubt.
Yep.
And I met them in North Atlanta.
We actually had to watch GeorgiaTech's buses go by.
He had to wait for the buses togo by so he could turn into the
parking lot to meet me.
And so I ended up waiting and umand I pulled it up on my phone.
I was only eight minutes awayfrom Marietta Diner, so I had to
go and and eat.

SPEAKER_08 (01:02:25):
What do I get there?

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:26):
So if you're feeling um a little spice, try the um
let's see.
The pinnae, the New Orleansstyle pinnae pasta, something I
can't remember.
I'm drawing a I'm drawing ablank on it.
That's okay.
It's really good.
So pinnae pasta, a little bit ofCajun dish.
It's got some sausages in it,and and chicken blackened
chicken.

(01:02:46):
Oh, it's really, really good.
That was good, and we also diduh because we did this a little
bit of sampling, um, and we hadsome of the amour seafood, and
it was delicious.
And it was a uh lobster stuffedravioli with uh shrimp and
scallops in a more of a like apink sauce on top.

(01:03:07):
That one was really, reallygood.
But you're gonna be blown awaywhen you come in and you see
their desserts because they haveabout 30 to 40 different types,
types of cakes and cheesecakes.
Um and the a wedge of that cakeyou can eat on for two days.
Ask me how I know.

unknown (01:03:22):
Okay.

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:23):
There is a little piece, I hope, still left in the
refrigerator at home that I willfinish tonight because it is so
good.

unknown (01:03:30):
Gotcha.

SPEAKER_06 (01:03:30):
Wow.
All right, wow.
That's that's gonna take acouple months for me to really
go through all theserecommendations.
And Trey, didn't you makebarbecue for us here once?
Yes, yeah, that was good.

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:41):
Barbecue.
I like the cooked brisket.
You need to do that more often.

SPEAKER_06 (01:03:43):
If the potatoes were delicious.
Since you have so much freetime, you need to do that more
often.

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:47):
Well, we're actually looking at making that um a
fundraiser for our FFA chapter.
We're we're um we're gonna begetting uh a smoker that we're
gonna be working with and uh andand you know providing some
Boston butts for the communityhere.
Uh hopefully looking at doingthat around Christmas time.
So y'all be on the lookout forthat.
Um we'll be selling whole Bostonbutts.
Nice.
Cooked.

SPEAKER_06 (01:04:07):
All right.
Hey uh Stella, do you haveanything to add?
Have you been streaming anythingor watching anything?
And I know you don't have muchfree time either, because you're
always here.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:16):
Um I don't watch that much TV, but Gilmore Girls
because it's fall.

SPEAKER_06 (01:04:19):
Uh huh.

SPEAKER_03 (01:04:21):
Danica's agreeing with you.
If you're gonna go far, I wouldsay Doc Seafood in Orange Beach,
Alabama.
So wow.
Alabama.

SPEAKER_06 (01:04:30):
You get seafood and you got chicken.
Exactly.
Okay.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:33):
She's not very adventurous.
Believe it or not, she just hadTaco Bell for the first time
about two weeks ago.
First time.
First time.
Oh on an FFA trip inIndianapolis.
So we went of all places, wewere at a boar stud and they fed
us pork loin sandwiches as wewere looking at pigs.

(01:04:55):
It was great.
Uh so yeah, she switches to thepig thing and then she gets to
eat the it all evolves aroundFFA and and everything because
you were mentioning that, andLaney Wilson was the headliner
of the FFA National Concert twoyears ago.
So, I mean, lots of great peoplethat we surround ourselves with.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:13):
That's awesome.
So, uh Trey, you made it throughyour first show.
And so we will definitely haveyou back.
Would love to.
Fascinating guy.
I know, I know, I told you.
He's amazing.

SPEAKER_08 (01:05:24):
That's how we hire here.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:26):
Stella, thank you for coming.
And good luck to you as the FFApresident.

SPEAKER_08 (01:05:30):
She's gonna be awesome.
She's also always here.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:33):
Yes, she is.
I see her out there.

SPEAKER_08 (01:05:35):
I'm glad I don't have to pay her.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:39):
Don't worry, she barely pays me.
And uh Catherine, we will seeyou this weekend.

SPEAKER_08 (01:05:45):
And it runs through when?
When's the last day I can go toDenver Downs?

SPEAKER_07 (01:05:48):
Uh oh, November the 9th.
Okay.
November the 9th.
The first two we're still openthe first two weekends in
November.

SPEAKER_08 (01:05:55):
So every weekend, uh Denver Downs is open starting
this weekend until November the9th.
Right.
Perfect.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:01):
So Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Yes.
Okay.

SPEAKER_08 (01:06:04):
Come on out.
We can't.

SPEAKER_07 (01:06:04):
Yeah, we're coming out.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:05):
Denver DownsFarm.com.

SPEAKER_07 (01:06:07):
That's right.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:07):
All right.
Come on.
Um, let's see.
Anything else I gotta remember?
Next show is uh in two weeks.
So we'll talk to you then.
But catch the podcast onSpotify, Apple, wherever you get
your podcasts.
I'll be up there either tomorrowor the day after.
And uh yeah, thanks everybodyfor being here, and thanks for
listening to the Boon Show onMyPulse Radio.