The Boone Show - S6 E7 - Julie Bell

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We sit down with Julie Bell of the WebbCraft Family Foundation who shares how a hometown endowment fuels early reading, arts access, and life-changing field trips. From Disney-level planning to third-grade literacy, we trace how small grants create big momentum for local kids and teachers.

• Origins of a family foundation and mission
• Endowment model that sustains grants over time
• Focus on education, arts, and culture in BHP
• Third-grade reading and coaching as a keystone
• Field trips as first experiences beyond the neighborhood
• Partnership with ACTC and hands-on career paths
• How to apply, deadlines, and reporting
• Teacher development and program impact stories
• Disney superfan quiz and why experiences matter
• Local culture notes and Michelin star news

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_11 (00:00):
Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of
the Boon Show on uh MyPulseRadio.
Happy to be with you.
Coming off our Halloween showlast week.
That was a good one.

SPEAKER_15 (00:09):
It was a great show, wasn't it?
Great show.

SPEAKER_11 (00:11):
I loved that show.

SPEAKER_15 (00:12):
Yes.

SPEAKER_11 (00:13):
So a lot of pressure on our guests tonight.

SPEAKER_15 (00:15):
And I purposely went home and not watched those shows
that they told me to watch.
I purposely did not.

SPEAKER_11 (00:21):
Other people went home and they did watch.
I've had a few comments aboutthat.
So uh but it was a great show.
Anytime you talk about movies,it's kind of something that
everybody gets into in some formor fashion.
So it was it was really cool.
And then the guests were great.
So tonight we have a veryspecial guest with us, as we
always do, joining me, JohnBoone, Holly Harrow, Danica.

(00:45):
Not Danica Patrick, but DanicaWeller, I almost said it, um, is
over there.
She's our our senior producer.
And uh our very special guest isa is a mother of one of our
seniors, but she also does someother stuff than raising a fine
young lady, and that is JulieBell from the Webcraft Family

(01:05):
Foundation.
Thanks for coming.

SPEAKER_16 (01:07):
Well, thank you for inviting me.
I'm glad to be here.

SPEAKER_11 (01:10):
Now, we're gonna talk a lot about Webcraft, but I
want to talk about you first ofall.
Let's get to know you a littlebit.
So tell us kind of about youryour personal history.

SPEAKER_16 (01:19):
Well, I grew up in Anderson.
Um, I'm 48 and um lived over inAnderson most of my life, but I
did meet my husband in 2000, andum as we got married in 2001, we
started trying to decide wherewe wanted to live, and we looked
at some of the school districtsand things, and we made Belton
our home, and a lot of myrelatives lived over here.

(01:42):
My mother is from Belton, so wedecided to move over this way.

SPEAKER_11 (01:47):
All right, so you're basically from this area, the
you growing up and everything.
So tell us about um you went toClemson, right?

SPEAKER_16 (01:54):
Yes, I went to Clemson University after
graduating West Side.
Um, I was there from 95 to 99and started out as a biological
major, uh science major degree,decided pretty early I wanted to
switch that to marketing.
So I graduated switch.
It was, it was a big switch, um,and graduated with a marketing

(02:15):
degree in 99.

SPEAKER_11 (02:17):
Okay, and then uh what'd you do after that
career-wise?

SPEAKER_16 (02:20):
Uh career-wise, after that, I took a job with
the Anderson Independent Mail.
Um, so I worked there straightout of college and um did that
for about nine to ten years.
I worked in outside sales, so Iwould go out to different
businesses.
Um, sometimes they knew I wascoming, sometimes just cold
calls.
But started off selling ads, um,the flyers that you would get in

(02:43):
the paper years ago.
The inserts.
It was the inserts, and we couldalso do the inserts to certain
zip codes, so we did direct mailmarketing.
Um, so it was really interestingand kind of worked with the
graphic team coming up with thedesigns for the ads and running
things back and forth, and Iactually worked the O'Coney
Pickens area for a while also.
So a lot of driving, but it wasnice.

(03:05):
And then um, when I had Reagan,I decided to be a stay-at-home
mom for a little bit, which wasvery rewarding at the time.
And then as she started intoschool, probably kindergarten or
so, I said, I think I want toget back out there.
I didn't really know if I wantedto go straight back into sales.
So I started substitute teachingat her schools, and that was a
lot of fun.
And then now I'm currently uhchiropractic assistant, office

(03:28):
assistant in uh TownsquareChiropractic in Belton.

SPEAKER_15 (03:32):
Oh, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_16 (03:34):
Now, is she your only child?
She is.
So she's a senior at BHP and ofcourse comes out here to the
Career Center and is all doesdoes the media broadcasting with
the radio and the productionside and really enjoys it.

SPEAKER_11 (03:49):
She's very good at what she does.
She is a unique person.

SPEAKER_13 (03:53):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 (03:54):
In that I think she is uh like a she's not an
introvert, but you would callher kind of a select introvert.
She can be very introverted whenshe wants to be and stay away
from everything.
But once you get her talking,she's got that.
She is very energetic.
And her show is on the air.

(04:15):
She never wants anybody to hearthem, which is weird because it
is radio.
But she does great and does sucha high-energy show that you just
wouldn't expect it from theReagan that comes in and is
doesn't draw attention toherself like some of the other
kids do.

SPEAKER_16 (04:30):
And with her close friends, of course, like you
said, she's so extroverted andloves to get out there and do
stuff, but she can be a littlebit more reserved.
She's not gonna be the one thatI guess needs the top attention
or anything, but she's gonna getin there and help and
everything.
You okay?

SPEAKER_11 (04:47):
You okay, Holly?

SPEAKER_16 (04:49):
Excuse me.

SPEAKER_11 (04:51):
I know I forget.
We finally put them in for you.
There we go.
Hit the button.
Hit the button.
Oh, it's not gonna happen thistime.

SPEAKER_16 (05:02):
It's that time of year, it's that time of year.
Yep.

SPEAKER_11 (05:06):
Excuse me.
All right.
Um okay, so um again, I'm savingwebcraft for a whole nother
segment.
So tell us this.
You have a few very coolinterests, things you do on the
side.
One of which you say you're aDisney adult.

SPEAKER_04 (05:22):
Yes.

SPEAKER_11 (05:23):
Now I have one of those in the family as well.
My daughter is, and uh she's atone level.
I want to know what level you'reat.

SPEAKER_16 (05:30):
Um, I'll tell you this, and this is probably
pretty embarrassing for Reagan,because we call it her little
brother, but I'm so much of aDisney adult.
I have like a four-foot Donaldanimatronic in the kitchen that
I dress in different outfits allyear.
Oh my! And I'll say, now yourbrother is wishing you a happy
birthday, and she'll go, please.

(05:51):
Please don't.
That is a different level.

SPEAKER_15 (05:55):
How many times over the year do you normally go to
Disney?

SPEAKER_16 (05:59):
Well, we go every year.
Um I used to go it twice a yearfrom the age probably 10 to 24,
and then we started having topare it down to about once a
year.
But we always run over there atleast once or twice a year.
So is this specifically MagicKingdom or all you're not you're
not right?

SPEAKER_15 (06:17):
We don't care.

SPEAKER_16 (06:18):
I love all the parks.
I will say Animal Kingdom.
I do love animals, but I feellike I could go to a zoo around
here.
It's not my favorite.
Um, so Magic Kingdom and Epcot,they're probably my top ones.
But we try to rotate thedifferent ones.
So if we we've done MagicKingdom next summer, we might do
Hollywood Studios.
Yeah, so we have a lot of fungoing and I collect all the

(06:41):
lounge fly, all the ears, allthat different things.
We go on Disney cruises, andwhen I say we, I mean me and my
husband for our anniversary.
Oh, not Disney.
Oh my goodness.
You and your husband.
Oh, just us.
That's our like dreamanniversaries, is we we already
have one book for next year forour 25th anniversary.
So my goodness.

SPEAKER_11 (07:02):
Well, don't give don't give away too much more
because we're actually going torate you a little later on as to
high how high on the list youare as a Disney adult.

SPEAKER_16 (07:10):
All right.

SPEAKER_11 (07:11):
All right, you've already said some of the things
that will be included in thatlittle quiz coming up, which I
expected.
But uh also you say you'refamous for finding deals.

SPEAKER_16 (07:21):
I do.
I love a good sale.
Like I guess some men love tohunt, and you know, to me, a a
great sale is the best thing.
Amen.
I'm telling you, if I go outsomewhere, if I'm at TJ Maxx and
I find, let's say, some Disneyearrings, Disney type thing, I'm
gonna let everybody I know knowabout it.
I'm gonna take pictures, I'mgonna embarrass my daughter

(07:42):
again on Facebook, putting upwhere I found coupons, where I
have deals.
Black Friday is is great.
Me and two of my friends go outat 5 a.m.
We still go out.
Um, but I had a lot of fun justfinding deals, eBay, see type of
thing.

SPEAKER_15 (07:57):
Did this do during like social media kind of stuff
you put on?
Like you're like if I was yourFacebook friend, I could see see
these deals?

SPEAKER_16 (08:04):
I'm not no, not too.
It's here and there to behonest, just mainly for my own.
It sounds like a good idea.
Right.
That's true.
I I used to love those showswhere you would have the coupon
extremes couponing.
Yes.

SPEAKER_15 (08:18):
Because I do go on social media and look at like
the Walgreens deals this weekand the CVS deals these weeks.
I do do that.
But I don't do much more thanthat.

SPEAKER_16 (08:28):
And Dollar Tree, I I love the Dollar Tree hacks and
Dollar Tree things you can get.
It's just it's amazing what theyreally have now.
Sure, sure.

SPEAKER_11 (08:36):
Now, the last thing that I had under the uh the
personal stuff was you've met abunch of celebrities in your in
your where what you've beendoing, I'm sure, with the
foundation and other things,Disney, all that.
So who are some of thecelebrities you name drops?

SPEAKER_16 (08:53):
Right.
Funny thing is, is celebrities Iconsider celebrities, maybe
nowadays it would beembarrassing celebrities, but I
would say Donnie Wahlberg fromNew Kids on the Block.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Aaron Tippen, country singer.
Yes.
Um, Neil Patrick Harris.
Oh.

SPEAKER_11 (09:10):
Yeah, Dookie Hauser.
Yes.

SPEAKER_16 (09:12):
Gina Davis.
Both of them were at Disney atTyphoon Lagoon.
So in the bathing suits.
Hey, how you doing?
I was a teenager, so of coursewe were screaming.
And Typhoon Lagoon's not thereanymore, correct?

SPEAKER_11 (09:23):
Yeah, they just took it out, right?
Just recently.
Oh didn't they do something overthere?

SPEAKER_16 (09:27):
They did they do shut down either Blizzard Beach
or Typhoon Lagoon for updatesevery season, and one stays
open.

SPEAKER_11 (09:34):
Um, but there is um The Tom Sawyer Island is what
they I think.

SPEAKER_16 (09:39):
Yes, they did.
You're right.
That is inside Magic Kingdom.

SPEAKER_11 (09:43):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 (09:44):
Yeah, you're right.
Typhoon Lagoon is still there,and and so is Blizzard Beach,
you said.

SPEAKER_16 (09:48):
It is, and both of those are water parks.
Yes, yes.
Very cool.

SPEAKER_11 (09:51):
Yeah.
That that's funny to meet you.
And some wrestlers.

SPEAKER_16 (09:54):
I mean, you know, like Jake the Snake.
Yeah, and some weird things.
Besides at Disney, where elsewould you meet these?
Corey Feldman.
Sorry.
Corey's holy cow.
I was pulling, I was pulling sohard for him on Dance with the
Stars.
Immediately he was voted off.
I thought me and I guess threeof my other friends were the
only ones voting for him.
But yeah, we actually went tosee Corey Feldman in some of

(10:17):
them.
I know we went and saw him inconcert in Greer and paid a
hundred dollars for in meet andgreet afterwards.

SPEAKER_11 (10:24):
How was the concert?

SPEAKER_16 (10:28):
I'll tell you this.
He was an inner he he put on atwo and a half hours of
everything he had.
I mean, he danced his heart out,he sang the best he could.
It was very entertaining.
It it was like you were in atime warp or something, but I
don't even know how to explain.

SPEAKER_11 (10:46):
How old is he?
I feel a bless your heart comingon.
Bless his heart.

SPEAKER_16 (10:50):
Probably 58?

SPEAKER_11 (10:52):
He's got to be up there, yeah.

unknown (10:54):
Corey God.

SPEAKER_16 (10:55):
But it was great.
I had the VIP pass, all thatgood stuff.
I didn't I didn't actually knewhe sang.

SPEAKER_11 (11:02):
Yeah, oh yeah.
He's had a bad long time.

SPEAKER_16 (11:04):
And he went on tour with Fred Durst last year.
So that was a huge thing for himto be brought on the Loserville
tour.
Yeah, he's 54.

SPEAKER_15 (11:17):
So that's interesting.

SPEAKER_11 (11:19):
Yeah.
Wow, I didn't realize I neverthought you'd drop uh Corey
Feldman as and you're a big fanof Corey Feldman.
But that's okay.
He was in a Friday the 13th andeverybody.
Part four.

SPEAKER_16 (11:31):
Gri and Gremlin's Standby Me.
Well, I remember him in theGoonies.
The Goonies.
Like that, I think that was myfirst movie with them.
Yeah.
Well, somebody I grew upwatching as a child.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 (11:44):
The two Coreies, of course, licensed to drive.
Yes.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
He was in.
Um Dream a Little Dream.
Yes, that's on a new.

SPEAKER_16 (11:59):
But it's been a while.
They say now his net worth's30,000.
He's having a difficult time, Ithink.
So he tried to get, I think thepayday was around$300,000 to do
dancing with the stars, sohopefully it was worth it.

SPEAKER_11 (12:14):
He got eliminated the first day.
Oh, poor guy.
All right.
Uh, we're gonna take a quicktime out.
When we come back, we'll talkabout the Webcraft Family
Foundation with our guest JulieBell.
You're listening to the BoonShow on My Pulse Radio.

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I've listened to your show.
It's really good.
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There's nothing wrong with it.

SPEAKER_11 (15:11):
But uh yeah, Jada likes to make her opinions
known.
Which is great.
That's why you have the uh theplatform.
All right, Julie Bell, our guestfrom the Webcraft Family
Foundation.
Uh tell us a little bit abouthow this got started.
It's been around for 25 years.
I just found out about it lastyear.
Um tell us what uh the reasonwhy it started, some of the

(15:32):
history and the mission of thefoundation.

SPEAKER_16 (15:34):
Well, my aunt um wanted to have a way to give
back to the community.
Um so she's been very blessed inher life, and she grew up here
in the Belton Honey Pathcommunity, uh right next door to
this area, and she really wantedto find a way that she could
give back to the community thathad given and taught her so

(15:55):
much, and she was very close toher grandparents, which are my
great-grandparents, uh KathleenWebb and Plumer Craft.
And so she wanted to find a wayto keep something going with the
family that they can be involvedin for generations, give back to
the community, and honor hergrandparents.
So she came up with the nameWebbcraft Family Foundation, and

(16:18):
so it was established in 2000,and then we kind of we got
together, formed the board, youknow, she had different members
and people she wanted to bringon, and then we accepted that
and we we did a lot of learning.
We had a a lady come in thatkind of taught us different
things.
We came up with a missionstatement, what some of our
goals were gonna be, and thenone of our first grants was in

(16:40):
2001.

SPEAKER_11 (16:42):
All right.
So what has been your focusareas?
It seems like most of the thingsyou do are with education.

SPEAKER_16 (16:49):
It is.
Uh mainly we focus oneducation's art and culture.
And uh primarily for the Beltand Honey Path and surrounding
communities.

SPEAKER_11 (17:00):
And uh why was it uh those areas of focus, do you
think?

SPEAKER_16 (17:05):
I think from her perspective, uh she saw in this
area that a lot of emphasis wenttowards sports, even when she
was growing up years ago, andthat there was always some type
of sport going on or you couldget scholarships through sports,
things like that.
But she was really involved inart and she loved art and she

(17:27):
had a hard time sometimes havingas much support with that and
she didn't see as as much art inthe community.
So she really wanted to givetowards something that would
support people that may havethat side with arts or the
different culture, just exposepeople not only to athletics but
to other things that they couldexcel in.

SPEAKER_15 (17:49):
And you y'all have given thousands of dollars.
I think it's over three milliondollars.

SPEAKER_11 (17:56):
Almost three point four million.

SPEAKER_15 (17:57):
Yeah, and and to us alone, you've given uh I mean I
couldn't even I don't even knowhow much, but I know it's a
portion of that.
And the so the impact of whatyou've done with us uh here at
ACTC is is incredible.
I can't imagine what you've donenow for the millions of dollars

(18:18):
you've given out to smallerorganizations or um you know the
district two in general and andjust the minor impact that
you've made on uh so manychildren growing up over the
years I'm sure has by farexceeded what you guys thought

(18:40):
you were gonna get.
And uh how long have you youmean you've been doing this for
20 years?
Twenty four years now.
Yes.
How much longer are you gonna beable to sustain this?
I mean, this is this is huge.

SPEAKER_16 (18:54):
Well, we hope that it will continue for
generations.
It's set up um in a way, and wehave uh excuse me, Michael
Pascusi, who is our financialdirector, and he is on the
board, and he has really set usup with different bonds and
stocks and I that you give justa certain percentage so that
your total amount staysconsistent.

(19:14):
So that way it is s supposed tocontinue for generations.
And the impact is really it canbe emotional because a lot of
times we get back feedback andso some of the kids that go on
some of the field trips thatwe've given to, they'll write
little letters or things, and itmight be the first time they've
gone anywhere outside thecommunity.

(19:34):
You know, we can take that forgranted, but that can really
impact.
It's one thing in the classroomand it's a way to reward
teachers and the schools whenthey put these field trips
together, when they put thereading boxes together, just
different things, just like themedia broadcasting and what the
Career Center has expanded andthey're able to do, uh it's

(19:55):
almost like the least we coulddo is support that with grants.
Right.
And be able to expose the kidsto so much because college is
one avenue for children and it'sgreat, but there's so many other
avenues and going thetechnological routes and
different things and showingthem these could be career
fields also to be successful inis very important.

SPEAKER_15 (20:16):
I you've taken away so many barriers for kids who
don't realize they even have abarrier.
You know, like you said with thearts and and culture and those
kind of things.
Um so to be able to be exposedto that and um allow teachers
and and uh uh people ofauthority to be able to
manipulate the money to make itfit.

(20:39):
Because I know that with withwith us when we get our money,
it it's incredible because we'retrying to get our bang for our
buck, right?
And so we may be put in a holewhere we we can't do this
because we don't have the funds,and then here you guys give us
the money and we can impact somany more people.
Right.
It's incredible.
I mean the volunteeropportunities for our students,

(21:00):
going to the elementary schoolsand and educating those, as well
as helping our kids now in andwhat they want to do after high
school.
I mean, it's it's just huge.

SPEAKER_16 (21:08):
Right.
And just like um with the forexample, with the Belton Center
for the Arts and also with themuseum in Belton, they just um
had their the Belton StampaiFestival and they have the
different artisans that come outand so they have the school kids
that are that come over and havea day of that and homeschool
kids, but then also it's open tothe community that Saturday

(21:29):
where you can go down there andthey they show the ways that
people used to do things now,and that's part of a grant that
we give toward the museum.
And then that with the artgrant, they have different
programs, or if somebody wantsto take a summer class but they
can't afford it, some of thatmoney can be used.
So and my aunt really always hassaid that another important
thing is they used to do theWashington trips, that's kind of

(21:51):
changed to different things, butshe always has felt like if
somebody wants to go on a fieldtrip and they've they're not
able to go for some reason, ifthey can't fundraise, that money
should be there for them to beable to experience and do things
like that.
And we had a big reading grantalso with district two, um, that
helped fund some of the readingcoaches and all that because

(22:11):
that was a huge need.
Um that's one of the top needsthat we see at most schools is
just reading by third grade.
Being able to read and and ifyou can get in there early and
do that, that really sets peopleup for so much in the future.

SPEAKER_15 (22:26):
Oh yeah, I mean statistics show if you can get
somebody to read on get grainlevel grade level by third
grade, by the end of the thirdgrade, the likelihood of going
to prison or jail or beingincarcerated is like eighty
percent less.
Like it's a huge statistic.
Right.
And y'all must feel good goinghome after you make these

(22:48):
decisions to say, you know what,I've impacted so many people
with these decisions.

SPEAKER_16 (22:53):
It really is.
And I tell you, the easy yearsare will we have enough money to
do every grant.
Some years that it that is achallenge.
And you try to maybe, you know,look at all the grants as a
whole or do partial or thingslike that, it can be hard, but
we've built back up since cCOVID in 2020, so we're getting
a lot a lot of grants.

(23:14):
But honestly, it feels so good,but we always think to ourselves
we could have all the money thatwe could give, but if it wasn't
for the teachers being able todo this, if it wasn't for the
programs and all the differentthings that are in place in this
area and that people have comeup with and wrote the grants to
do, it it wouldn't it wouldn'tmatter, it wouldn't happen.

(23:34):
So we're really blessed in thiscommunity and with the people
that we have in this communityleading the kids.

SPEAKER_15 (23:40):
What a neat like I that is just so what a neat
component of your life to beable to do.

SPEAKER_16 (23:46):
It really has been a blessing.
It has it could it's it can behard work to get through some of
the things, but I feel reallyblessed to be part of it.
So is everybody on the board umsomehow family?
Pretty much everybody is family,um, except I would say Mike
Pascusy, which is basically likefamily to my aunt, but he is
more of the financial member ofthe board.

(24:08):
So he does all of financials.
Yes.
Right.
That's cool.
Yes.

SPEAKER_11 (24:12):
And that's the that's what amazed me about the
whole thing we were talkingabout before the show is just
and you kind of referenced it,how how it's put together
financially, that it doesn't uhtotally rely on people giving
money to it.
That's right.
They have their investments andfrom an original endowment and
it just keeps earning money overand over.

SPEAKER_15 (24:31):
It's not going to go away.
There's not a risk of it goingaway.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 (24:34):
Now that it's built up after having a rough time
during COVID when everybody hada rough time, um that you know
sometimes they are just lookingfor new ways to help out.
Yeah and the fact that it's forcommun it's community-based, it
doesn't get absorbed into thesebig companies and you never know
where your money goes.

SPEAKER_14 (24:53):
And it's here.

SPEAKER_11 (24:53):
It's yeah, it's where you live, where you work,
or your children's difference.

SPEAKER_14 (24:58):
Or your child or your family membership.
I mean, this is it's gonnaimpact them too.
Yes.
It really has that.

SPEAKER_11 (25:06):
Um I see um well there's uh well why don't you
tell us what are some of thethings you're working on now
with the uh foundation?

SPEAKER_16 (25:15):
Well, we're actually gonna have a meeting coming up
um in about two weeks, and thenwe'll be reviewing all of our
grant requests that come in.
We have two deadlines, April 1stand October 1st are our grant
deadlines.
Um if anybody's interested inlearning more, you can go to
webcraft.org and that's with twoB's, W E B B C R A F T.org.

(25:39):
Um, and that kind of gives youan outline of what our mission
is, um, who can put in for thegrants and what the guidelines
are.
But so I really have not seenour grants coming up this year.
They're being prepared and we'llhave a meeting to review those
grants and approve those grants.
And that meeting will be for thefirst part of next year.

(26:01):
Yeah, so I know that we weconsistently have grants that we
give to the Belton Arts Center,uh, the museum.
Uh usually all the differentelementary schools have what we
c consider the kindergartenreading boxes.
Uh we'll usually get those on aconsistent b basis.
There's a couple of different umeighth grade field trips.

(26:22):
Some go to Charleston,Honeypath, and Belton do a trip.
Um we have it's just a bigvariety that we have come in.
And we do have some outside onesthat come in.
Sometimes they're included if itcould impact um people in the
Belton Honeypath area.
Um so we've had a couple ofthose come in or BEMA, different

(26:44):
things like that.
And we do have discretionarymoney um as board members that
we can give to things that areon our heart, more specifically
if it's a 501c3.

SPEAKER_15 (26:54):
Very good.
And you've consistently given usmoney and you've allowed us to
expand, you know, because ourpopulation here is all four high
schools, the Anderson one andAnderson Two.
And it was very difficult atfirst to try to narrow that down
just to that BHP area.
Right.
But y'all were so gracious tosay if it's needed, that's

(27:14):
right, do it.
That's right.
And you've allowed us that uhflexibility in that situation.

SPEAKER_16 (27:19):
And especially with schools and places that we have
a rapport with and we see whatthe what they're doing with the
money, and we're like, there'sno question that they use this
money to to the best benefit andthey're not consistent.
I mean, you do so much with themoney that that we give you.
We get those reports back andyou can just see how much you do
with it that we're like, this isa easy one.

(27:41):
I mean, we just get to AndersonCareer Center and we're like,
yes, you know, every yearbecause we just see the impact.
I mean, personally now thatReagan's been out here three
years, of course I've seen theimpact of it.
And from other, you know, umfriends, their children, they do
cosmetology, they're able to tograduate and have have something
they can fall back on, even ifthey're going into another

(28:01):
career, they can work on theweekends and earn extra money.
It's um it's really amazing.
I mean, how much money they saveputting in the little bit of
money they put into it, whatwhat it would cost you to go to
a cosmetology school.
I mean, it's a it's a no-brainerif you're interested in that.
So, I mean, we're really luckyto have this in the area.

SPEAKER_15 (28:21):
Well, um, you can come work for us and be our PR
person.

SPEAKER_13 (28:24):
Yes, please do.
We could use the home.

SPEAKER_15 (28:29):
That's right.
That's right.
Well, thank you again.
It does make a difference.

SPEAKER_16 (28:33):
Well, thank you.
And we love to reward teacherstoo.
We have um we have had grantscome in where sending teachers
to maybe training, or there wasone in Atlanta.
I'm trying to think of the nameof it, where um there was a man
that had a place in Atlantawhere he would bring teachers
and it was a big school.
Oprah had him on a couple oftimes.
It's not coming to me, but it'sa real fun place, and he would

(28:56):
pump teachers up and he had aschool up there, but they love
to go.
But we've sent teachers onthings.
We don't give an individuals,but if it's a program like that,
we love to reward the teachersthat are doing a good bit.
Um and especially, you know,sometimes people say, Well, I
haven't ever well, you just haveto put in the grant.
You know, you do have to put inthe grant.

(29:16):
It does take work.
It does take work, but if youhave somebody that's that does
well with writing grants, maybeget some information from them.
Um we've got where you can printout the application.
And always, you know, callJessica Jennings, our
administrative assistant, she'sgreat to answer any questions.
That's right.
And even if there's times wherewe maybe don't have enough

(29:38):
information, so we cannot givethe grant.
And we do have a conditionthat's just more maybe more
information is needed.
Or sometimes it doesn't fit thegrant guidelines.
Um, but we really try to give asmuch as we can.

SPEAKER_11 (29:52):
That sounds great.
Uh, when we come back, we'regonna switch gears and um just
have some fun talking aboutsome.
things with uh with Julie.
But again, not to discount whatwe just heard, Webcraft Family
Foundation is great.

SPEAKER_16 (30:06):
And that website again is it is www webcraft.org.

SPEAKER_11 (30:11):
Alright, so if you want more information on that,
um yeah fantastic.
Unbelievable.
You've helped us out for acouple years now and uh that's
you know I haven't heard ofanybody like them around here.

SPEAKER_15 (30:25):
I would love to be able to do that with mine.
Create a foundation to givemoney.

SPEAKER_11 (30:30):
Harold Foundation.
That's right.

SPEAKER_16 (30:31):
And I just think my great grandparents probably that
were outside having to wringchicken necks for for food and
everything.
Yeah.
What they would never imagine.
Oh they're smiling down at you.
It's really neat to think back.
I used to run around the farmout there.
And now we have our all theoffice is at their old house.
Yeah.

(30:51):
I mean how awesome is that isjust must I mean you just go
home feeling great legacy.

SPEAKER_11 (30:56):
Yeah.
All right Zach can't join ustonight.
He's on his way back fromDallas.

SPEAKER_15 (31:01):
That's right.
Which is okay because everybodylost this weekend.

SPEAKER_11 (31:04):
Well that's what I was going to say.
I can give you his sportsreport.
Dallas lost.

SPEAKER_15 (31:08):
Right.

SPEAKER_11 (31:09):
Clinton lost Wren lost and there's wrestling next
week.
Right.
There you go.
Talk to you next week Zach.
He is coming in studio nextweek.

SPEAKER_15 (31:18):
Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_11 (31:19):
So if you've never seen Zach you will have the
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Isaac he'll love that I said what's his name.
All right right now we are goingto quiz our adult our our adult
our guest who says she is aDisney adult we're gonna check
and see if she is indeed and howshe rates.
Talking to Julie Bell from uhWebcraft Family uh foundation

(34:17):
okay so there's gonna be aseries of questions all right
we'll just run through themquickly and depending on your
answer we'll you'll get aparticular score and we'll see
where your score is at I'mready.
All right so here we go.
How often do you visit a Disneypark?
Never been well that's not true.
Once or twice every few yearsevery year or multiple times a

(34:38):
year or an annual pass holder?

SPEAKER_16 (34:40):
Every year.

SPEAKER_11 (34:41):
Every year put down a four for that one.
She got a four.
All right have you evercelebrated a birthday honeymoon
or anniversary at Disneyabsolutely okay uh is it a life
event tradition or just yes andit was magical or just once for
fun?

SPEAKER_16 (35:00):
Uh I would say every other year.
I don't know how you write that.

SPEAKER_11 (35:03):
Okay, let's see if you missed the scale life
events.
Well let's see would that be afull I mean she went for her
anniversary we go about everyevery other year on a Disney
cruise for her anniversary Iwould say that's a tradition
give her a five on the five okaywhen you go to the parks do you
one just follow the group twoenjoy the rides casually three

(35:24):
have a park plan and favoriterides four coordinate outfits or
five have spreadsheets genieplus strategy and snack rankings
I would say I am the map um wedo have genie plus going I've
already got the Disneyreservations already know how
we're going to she's a five gotit so now she already answered

(35:46):
some of these yes yes yeahthat's what I meant well we we I
didn't want to go too far beforebut we're getting the official
scoring right now okay do youcollect anything from the parks
pins ears popcorn buckets etcone nope two a couple souvenirs
three some pins or ears four Ihave a shelf of collectibles or

(36:06):
five iHunt limited editionsonline I would say all of the
above I have lounge fly I haveears I have pins I have the
popcorn buckets I have the cupsI have the Starbucks Disney more
than just the shelf it it's apro it's a real it's a real
problem do you shop online toodo you circle up like the I had

(36:30):
to have the ghost Mickey forHalloween popcorn bucket but I
wasn't they're a tan or so I'veI've got to turn to my Disney
shopper and get them to send itto us.
All right how much Disney decoror merchandise is in your home
or office?
Is the Donald Duck I'll skip thenun or a mug or keychain three a

(36:51):
shelf's worth for severaldisplays or five my house could
double as Main Street US I wouldsay I'm not five level but I'm
probably right at a three fourput her four okay she has more
than the shelf she has a DonaldDuck as her son.

SPEAKER_12 (37:06):
I know that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_11 (37:07):
There you go all right now this is more about the
things around Disney like howoften do you rewatch Disney
movies?
Rarely occasionally a few timesa year monthly rewatches or I
quote them daily I'll be honestwith you on this I do love
Disney movies but I'm probablyweird on the fact that I'm not

(37:30):
re-watching Disney movies allthe time because I'm too busy
watching my dateline and UnvedMysteries and true a few times a
year occasionally a few times ayear.
Okay three three three okay okayall right what's your
relationship with Disney musiconly during movies occasionally
part of my playlist regularlysing along or I have a Disney

(37:54):
playlist for every mood I have aDisney playlist for every mood
so we've got a Halloween we'vegot a Christmas when we're going
to Disney we have a playlist Ilove her she's amazing that's a
five my daughter's gonna bejealous because she's working
herself up to this yeah I canI've got a Spotify have you ever

(38:15):
cried watching a Disney scenenever once as a kid maybe a few
times still do sometimes everysingle time I'm not ashamed I
would say I I do a lot not everysingle time but I mean we walk
in the park or I look at thecastle I'm on the cruise ship I
hear the horn there's gonna betears and it's really

(38:38):
embarrassing.
Alright what's your go-to DisneyPlus behavior a I don't use it
or one rarely watch regularlystream movies binge series and
documentaries or it'spermanently open on my TV?
I would say binge series anddocumentaries four four okay all

(38:58):
right favorite Disney era modernremakes pixar generation
nineties Renaissance classicWalt era or all of the above
it's all magic.
I would say I'm a 90s MichaelEisner three three okay all
right now we're gonna do alittle bit uh and this is I

(39:19):
think the last part lifestyleand personality how often do you
wear Disney apparel oraccessories?
Never occasionally sometimes ontrips I have themed outfits or I
coordinate park looks or Disneybound I coordinate park looks
five so I wore Disney ears towork on Halloween day so when

(39:44):
you go to the Disney parks youand your husband and maybe your
child oh Reagan Reagan is notcoordinating.
She won't coordinate she maywear some kind of Disney shirt
but yes so you and your husbandhas matching shirts oh yeah oh
you must we we even got thematching Mickey hey dudes when
we were at the mall not too longago all right how much Disney

(40:08):
trivia do you know not much afew fun facts enough to impress
friends I'm the go to Disneyexpert or I could host Disney
Jeopardy I would say I'm a thego to expert we have won that on
the cruise ship.
Really?
And it's a Disney cruise yeahshe should get extra credit for
that all these people knowDisney but you're the winner on

(40:30):
the ship.
All right how often do you postor share Disney content online?
Never rarely occasionally oftenwith friends family or I'm
basically a Disney influencer.

SPEAKER_16 (40:45):
I'm not an influencer but I do share a good
bit so if anything's going on inlife I'm gonna find a Disney
meme to express how I feel aboutthat.
Okay I suggest five.

SPEAKER_11 (40:55):
Well she says she's not a Disney we can do a 4.5 I'm
not quite Tim Tracker so youcould be you could be um have
you influenced others to becomeDisney fans no maybe a friend or
two my kids or family love it.

SPEAKER_16 (41:12):
I've converted co-workers I am the Disney
recruiter of my circle I've I'verec recruited some I think my
daughter loved it then she gotembarrassed as a teen.
I feel like she'll come backaround in her 20s 30s when she
wants to go on vacation andshe'll love it again.

SPEAKER_11 (41:30):
I think you're right that's the way kids are four or
three they're not all likeHolly's daughter she wouldn't
get embarrassed by any of thosehit it head on.
So four all right and uh this isthe final question here if you
could live in any Disney worldwhere would it be?
None I prefer real life Pixaruniverse Princess or Castle

(41:53):
World Adventureland or Galaxy'sedge or I can't choose I already
live in one mentally probably Ialready live in one mentally
that's a problem all right soHolly how many points do we have
total we're sitting at 64 64points all right you just missed

(42:16):
Mickey royalty you are a superfan all right you've got your
Disney ears playlist andcountdown calendar ready you
live the dream you're only twopoints away from the you are the
magic kingdom you know everychurro cart and cry during the
fireworks show I've gotsomething to work for so there

(42:37):
you go.

SPEAKER_15 (42:37):
Next time we have you back you gotta make up those
easy with that that's right wewant you to get there.

SPEAKER_16 (42:44):
What would you say would be your best Disney memory
I I think the best Disney memoryI have is going when I was in
high school I was probably inninth grade it was my mom, dad,
me and my brother and then mygranny went and a couple my aunt
and uncle and a couple thecousins there and their kids it

(43:06):
was probably it was I don't know18 to 20 people on this
particular trip.
We went a good bit with my dad'sside of the family but this was
one of the biggest trips and wewould hit a different park every
day and we we went to a placecalled I think it was Fat Boys
or something like that, Big Boysthat had the big statue every
morning.

(43:26):
And they would they would havethese five dollar breakfast so
that here would come we wouldpile in but we had a really good
time so much to the fact that myaunt had tried year after year
to get us to be in a parade andwe actually were uh we got
picked and we were in a paradedown Main Street one year.
So that was a really neatmemory.

SPEAKER_11 (43:47):
Yeah that would be that's awesome we got to move on
to some other things there's somany other questions I could ask
you about Disney.

SPEAKER_03 (43:55):
But I think they should make Disney free that
would be yes everything else ismore expensive in Disney just
give you free free admission andthen you gotta pay for
everything else.

SPEAKER_11 (44:05):
But that would make the drinks like thirty dollars a
piece or something oh probably ahundred dollars a piece they got
enough money as is that'll beokay that's how they make their
capitalism it is it would benice it would be nice you need
to come up with a foundation forthat you almost need to cause a
lot of the kids never get achance to go because it's so
expensive.

SPEAKER_16 (44:26):
Or even half off sponsor a kid yeah that's true
can we just do a Disney triplet's do well give kids the
world I don't know if you knowabout that but you should look
into it if anybody's interestedbut there's a there is a
foundation give kids the worldand a friend of mine she
actually took her disabled childyears ago he passed but um they
went every year and stayed at aparticular place that um kind of

(44:48):
sponsored the trip so they do alot um for kids who it's a
really neat organization funnyyou mentioned that because when
we lived in Florida I used tolive in Florida I lived 20
minutes from Walt Disney's MagicKingdom gates.

SPEAKER_15 (45:02):
And so my parents belong to the fire department
the local volunteer firedepartment and that organization
would contact the local firedepartments and see if there was
volunteers that could come andhelp with the children.
Yes.
Um and so my parents always didit every year.
So they would get in for freebut of course their entire time

(45:23):
was taking care of these youngum and it wasn't necessarily a a
minor like they had people thatwas you know 30 and 40 years old
but of course their mentality umtheir barrier that um was either
it was God given or if it was uhvia an accident or something

(45:45):
right was always younger and soI remember growing up my parents
would always go to Disney um tohelp out with these children and
it was that exact organization.

SPEAKER_16 (45:56):
Yes they do they do so it was so much yeah they
really do.

SPEAKER_15 (45:59):
My parents would come back and they would be
exhausted obviously physicallybecause they're m helping
physically move these people andkeep control and you know all
the things that go along becauseit is a lot it is a lot but they
kind of give the parents a breakand a vacation.

SPEAKER_16 (46:14):
That's exactly what they do and that's what they do
that hotel is really catered forthat.
Yes.
And what they do and and theyused to have the Osborne light
show at Hollywood studios and Ireally hate that they took it
down but somebody said theymoved it to an area that now
when people go and pay all thatmoney goes back toward um that
organization so I thought thatwas really nice.

(46:34):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 (46:35):
Yeah that's good because again like Danica
mentioned if you are going totake a family there it's it's a
thousand bucks before you get ineither you walk in the door.
Yeah so I mean it it is tough.
I mean but families you know wedid it a couple years ago and
we're saving all year.
That's right.
That's the big trip.
And it was great.
I mean you just knew you'regonna spend a lot of money but

(46:56):
that's why we just go up fouryears one day a one day a year.

SPEAKER_16 (46:59):
Right.
We stay we stay in Florida forthe beach but then we drive over
about an hour hour and a halfand just go for the day because
it has gotten a a good bit moreexpensive.
There was ways years ago whereyou could go to the gas station
and buy if somebody bought aseven day and they had four or
three days left you could buyit.

(47:21):
The gas station owner would buythose and sell it for a small
profit but you didn't havefingerprints you didn't have
this fingerprints no you have itright so next thing that we
would do is take them people'sblood.
If the blood doesn't match youthe retina scan well they do say
the retina scan's probably goingto be the next thing it is but
um boy um but it is a greatthing if you can do it with your

(47:43):
family.

SPEAKER_11 (47:43):
It's like uh that is the family trip that everybody
wants to do at some point intheir life.
All right uh three things in thenews before we get to our
closing segment um just threethings that I saw in the news
this week doesn't not in anyorder just they popped out of
me.
Dictionary.com is named theirword of the year.
Uh oh what do you think it isdon't say anything Danica

(48:04):
because I know you know becauseI told you always what do you
think the word I swear that Idid see this somewhere.
Oh I can't tell you give it awaywhat it the word of the year.
It ain't even a word I knowthat's what uh it's six seven
dictionary.com is really losingit now it's not even words

(48:26):
anymore but yes 67 is the wordof the year for 2025 and uh it
says uh why did we choose it asword of the year?
Well let's see.
Uh because um they saw that mostin headlines, trends on social
media, search engine results andmore to identify words that made
an impact on conversations andthat's the one they chose that

(48:49):
made the most impact and stillnobody really knows what it
means.

SPEAKER_03 (48:53):
Because life 360 now has a thing you know when you
can say like love you or like uhETA where you at or stuff like
that.
They have six seven on there.

SPEAKER_13 (49:02):
Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_11 (49:03):
Life 360 is oh my gosh.
Oh I'm gonna send that to mywife on the way home.

SPEAKER_16 (49:07):
I try to keep mine because everybody will be like
bless you.
Everybody says what are theseweird weird words the kids are
using I don't think to ourselvesthough we had cornio we do you
know we had the 369 and the youknow we had um one two three
into the four that was all kindof so I try to keep that at

(49:28):
psych do you remember psych ohsure so I guess every generation
but I don't know numbers it'sjust kind of weird it's just I
don't even know where it cameout about 10 four that was big
in the 70s right but that's a CB thing that's true right so um
I don't know but uh evidently arapper started it or something
and then it just exploded hereare the other words that were

(49:49):
considered agentic I don't knowwhat excuse me A G E N T I C has
been used in psychology andsociology to describe human
agency or the capacity to actindependently make choices and
shape one's environment haveheard of the next one though

(50:11):
aura farming Aura?
Yes A-U-A-U-R-A-L-C about youyes and if you're trying to how
is it Danica?

SPEAKER_11 (50:25):
I don't know if you're aura farm you would know
that he's giggling uh it peakedin June after steady growth in
the first half of the yearpeople are studying these things
uh combines aura in the modernsense of charisma style or
personal energy with farmingmeaning cultivation or
deliberate effort the termrefers to the practice of
intentionally developing one'spresence or vibe.

(50:47):
Oh wow okay so like a vibe vibecheck that's a bit more the boat
kid meme that's where it camefrom supposedly I don't know
what that is but I have peoplethat have said hey you're aura
farming you're just trying tomake yourself look better than
you are that's I've heard theI've heard the word but I have
like literally no clue.

SPEAKER_15 (51:05):
So that's it's it's a negative connotation yeah
pretty much it's like you'retrying too hard.

SPEAKER_16 (51:10):
Oh yeah it's gonna be a new one that I just use
randomly try to use it.

SPEAKER_11 (51:17):
There's a couple others that really don't make
any sense in the but there wasone that's actually an emoji
that's was considered for wordof the year.
That was aura farming yes doingstupid stuff to try to get
attention I really don't know sothe dynamite emoji was uh
considered as well you know whydo you know this?

SPEAKER_13 (51:39):
Which one?

SPEAKER_11 (51:39):
Dan again the dynamite emoji where it's about
to blow up I gotta look at thaton that I I have no clue.
You know what it's it's TNT youknow yes they're using it all
the uh Swifties to mean Taylorand Travis so they send out a
dynamite emoji Taylor and TravisTaylor Swift I've never heard

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that's I guess I need to startusing the dynamite emoji.
Oh I'm gonna do it with mydaughter too the Gen Z stare
surged in pro popularity thisyear capturing both a
generational quirk and acultural flashpoint the term
refers to a blank orexpressionless look often

(52:24):
attributed to members ofGeneration Z, particularly in
workplace or retail settings.

SPEAKER_03 (52:30):
No it's like people asking dumb questions So people
are going to stand there likeyes yes I I do that I do that at
work.
I'm being so for real I caughtmyself oh guess what else came
up on the list?

SPEAKER_11 (52:42):
Kiss Cam.
You know why?
Because of the Coldplay concert.

SPEAKER_16 (52:45):
Oh yeah that's that'll get you in trouble.

SPEAKER_11 (52:50):
Over tourism was a thing where people talk about
too many people going to seeplaces and they're not fun
anymore because it's too muchtourism.
They just raise the prices andthat's right to get the people
out.
Tariff was a big word obviouslyright uh and then this I think
this is the last one yeah tradwife short for traditional

(53:13):
traditional wife has renewedattention this this year
originally tied to conservativesubcultures that idealize a
dutiful domestic model offemininity trad wife has since
broadened into a label for anaesthetic as much as an
ideology.
They're on both sides.
It's actually more of a negativething a trad wife because if you

(53:33):
have a trad wife then you're notletting your wife go out there
and do her own thing.
But there's a lot of womennowadays who would rather be a
trad wife you know yeah wouldn'tyou wouldn't you're not a trad
wife you like to be out anddoing stuff and having your own

(53:54):
career and all that.

SPEAKER_15 (53:54):
Oh yeah yeah you're not the traditional staying at
home yes right I would love theopportunity to stay at home but
that's you're bored.

SPEAKER_16 (54:03):
That's I think I think you always want the other
one.
Like if you're at home you'relike what about being a career
mom but if you're a career momyou wish you had more time at
home it's it's a hard balanceright it is my wife's kind of
going through that now that allof her kids are pretty much
grown.

SPEAKER_11 (54:18):
Yeah and it's like what are you doing what do you
do now it's like you want tostart another career so that
you're not so you're doingsomething because being a mom is
a full-time job.
Uh the word of the year by theway last year was demure uh the
year before that hallucinated2022 was the year of the woman

(54:38):
I'm trying to figure out whathappened in 2022 that made it
such I mean women run the worldwe all know that um but oh
you're saying that because Idon't remember Aldi Ship
whatever that was 2021 and 2020pandemic of course all right so
there you go dictionary.com Iguess they have the right to
name the word of the year but itthey're not even words anymore.

(55:02):
Um all right we're a littleshort so I'm gonna shorten it to
two stories instead of threewe're a little long I should say
so I'll shorten it.
Okay we mentioned a restaurant acouple weeks ago in Greenville
called Scoundrel yes Scoundrelwas just awarded a Michelin
star.
I heard that and I wanted tomake sure that we mentioned that

(55:22):
I think that's cool.

SPEAKER_14 (55:23):
Have you been?

SPEAKER_11 (55:24):
No I haven't that's first I had heard of it.
Have you been to Scoundrel Starit's uh it's French right French
cuisine yeah and they just gotthe Mich uh one Michelin star.
Um as a matter of fact they justawarded all their stars for the
Southeast restaurants andEmeralds in New Orleans I got
two star two stars Michelinstars and that's actually run by

(55:45):
Emerald's son now.
Oh okay not the bang guy but hisson I guess he's boom um but
anyway do you know these otherrestaurants there's three other
restaurants in the state ofSouth Carolina and this is for
Holly pretty much because she'sbeen to like every restaurant in
the state I like to eat at allbut have you been there's three

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and they're all in Charlestonokay I don't frequent Charleston
but it is a good place to go toeat uh Malagone no Spanish place
you heard of it Verns nopeAmerican Contemporary and Wild
Common American ContemporaryI've never heard of either all
of those are located inCharleston so check out those

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restaurants and that means we'reto the rating point speaking of
restaurants of our guest needsto give us some recommendations
but first uh we'll doentertainment first um if
somebody's listening and theywant to watch something that you
think is really cool whetheryou're binging it you have
already watched it is it a movieeven a book or something what

(56:50):
can they do to entertainthemselves according to you
Julie Bell well um there's a newbook called Disney Adult that's
out did you write it?

SPEAKER_16 (57:02):
I did not write it but it is uh it's by the uh
Disney food blog lady AJ Wolfand so um I've just started
reading it I got it from thelocal library so um I and that's
a new book it's that is a it'suh brand new and um I'm watching
uh just started watching the newdairy welcome to dairy series if

(57:26):
you like it's a prequel rightyes it's a prequel kind of how
all of that came about we justwatched the first episode of
it's pretty interesting it'skind of set back in the 50s or
60s and what happened in thetown but it's been it's been
pretty interesting.
What is it called?
Welcome to Dairy D-E-R-R-Ythat's the name of the town yes

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and um I I'm always watching newum documentaries so of course
the one about the mom I can'tthink of the name now the number
the phone number um unknownnumber unknown number number if
you haven't seen that one umwatching the Murdoh the new murd
Murdoch that's on Hulu he cameout and blasting it yes saying

(58:12):
it's all lies it's all lies yesPatricia Arquette's in it as the
mom she's doing it is she's donea good job um but and then of
course we've we're watchingdancing with the stars we watch
that every Tuesday my mother inlaw loves it so we we have her
over Corey's gone but now we gota pull for Andy Andy who um is

(58:33):
it Andy Richter who was on ConanO'Brien so he's he's a pretty he
started really bad dancer.
He's improved every week buthe's always at the bottom with
the scores from the judges butevery week he beats out somebody
because the people get to vote.
So we kind of think thateverybody's gonna vote him up so
much that he actually wins it.

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And it's happened before withsomebody that cannot dance beats
a traditional dance dancer onthere.
So it's interesting.

SPEAKER_11 (59:01):
You never know and what about food a restaurant you
want to recommend?

SPEAKER_16 (59:07):
Um well we like to go eat Mexican and our favorite
Mexican restaurant is um let mewhat was I gonna say I had
written it down because I didn'twant to be wrong on the name
there's so many La Fagata.
There you go yes so shout out toLa Fagata and Orlando that works
there.
It is um on 28 Bypass right whenyou turn from kind of um

(59:32):
Whitehall on to eight out thatway.
Yes but we've we've trieddifferent ones but the man there
is really nice and he can tellus what we want to eat.
He was like you're gonna getthis you want that we're like
because we've been going for somany years.
So we we like that and of coursewe go to Logan's we're we're
kind of traditional Reagan lovessushi and Chinese and so we go

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out for that sometimes is therea good place like in around

SPEAKER_11 (01:00:00):
Belton or whatever that you go to.

SPEAKER_16 (01:00:01):
Well we just like to get go to the little Chinese
drive-thru place that used to beKFC and Belton.
They're really nice and theyhave good fresh food.
And then recently we've beentrying the place um near it used
to be Dragon's Den and it's abuffet.
Um but it's really good inAnderson.

(01:00:23):
They actually have all Chinese.
All different Chinese and theydo fresh hibachi, so you choose
your meats and your veggies andrice or noodles and then they
cook it for you.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's part of it.
So love hibachi.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 (01:00:35):
Yeah, that sounds good too.

SPEAKER_16 (01:00:36):
And then we try but we try to cook low carb at home
on the days that we don't eatout.
We try to balance it a littlebit.
We try to balance it out.

SPEAKER_11 (01:00:46):
Well, uh Julie, thanks so much for coming in.
Thank you.
I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_15 (01:00:55):
Um we appreciate you all that you do for H.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It really does make adifference.

SPEAKER_16 (01:01:02):
Well, we appreciate all the teachers and all the
educators and places that put inthese grants and educate the
kids.

SPEAKER_11 (01:01:09):
And it's uh webcraft.org.

SPEAKER_16 (01:01:12):
That's it.

SPEAKER_11 (01:01:13):
All right.
Uh next week, Zach will be herein studio.
Uh we're working on uh a coupleother guests because we don't
want to talk to Zach the entiretime.
So uh we'll we'll get thattogether for you this week.
Don't forget, catch the uhpodcast.
It'll be up probably tomorrow onSpotify, Apple, wherever you get
your podcasts.
And thanks for listening to theBoon Show.

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