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The Finale!

• Kelly Williams • Season 1 • Episode 36

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Welcome to the "All Things Nemaha" podcast! Your weekly look at everything happening within the world of Nemaha Central High School and the greater Nemaha Community.

This is it... Our time has come to an end on the ATN podcast! Join Jay and Mr. W. one more time as they recap successful middle school track seasons, talk strong finishes to the Thunder Baseball and Softball regular seasons, discuss stellar outings by the Nemaha Golf program, take a glimpse at Thunder Track, and discuss the near and distant future...

Thanks for listening and GO THUNDER! #Nemaha


SPEAKER_07

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, ATM listeners to the ATM podcast, all things animal. I'm JD Sites, joined with Mr. Williams. Welcome to the final episode. It's the last time, Jay. Final episode.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my gosh, we're gonna have to we're gonna have to carve out hours for this. I don't think I'm gonna be able to emotionally get through this. I don't know. We'll have to take some breaks. Luckily we can do things, right? We can pause. That's true. We can collect ourselves if need be. Or we just go straight through. Just rip and just sit through. All right. Let everybody feel it with us as we um enter into this final sit down and this final recap of the was, the is and the will be in the world of all things emhaw. I've enjoyed this ride. How about you?

SPEAKER_07

I obviously. Obviously. Like just, man, just yeah, I'm already getting already getting a little emotional. But no, I man, it's just it I've enjoyed every second of it. Um, you know. Uh I actually there was somebody that came up to me, they're like, you know, the podcasts are getting a little too long. Like just just maybe a tad bit long. I like when they're 30 minutes. I said, but I also like you know us, like we like to yap, so an hour doesn't really feel like an hour.

SPEAKER_05

And you can crank it up. I mean, you can go, you know, twice the speed. Right. I mean, we could, yeah. Well, not not the listeners. Like you can fast forward. That is true. I've I've had a couple people uh over the course of this uh season of the podcast uh you mentioned that like, gosh, you guys, I'm so impressed at the rate at which you can speak on microphone. That's amazing. And then they came to find out that they actually had the thing sped out. I was like, no, I I get to talking pretty fast anyways. Like if you ever observe a conversation between my brother and I, uh, it's almost like it's its own language because we both get to talking super fast, trying to sneak the next word in. At least. Yeah, at least, and then just kind of you know, jumble words together. But uh uh yeah, you know, that things got lengthy at times, and but you know, we wanted to uh recap for everybody exactly what the whole premise of this podcast was, which was you know, everything about the Nimahawk community, all right, here at school and outside. Uh what's been happening, what's going on, and what's on the horizon. I think I think you did a good job. Thank you. I think you did a good job. Thank you. Thank you. Right back at you. And and big thanks again to our listeners because you know, we've enjoyed this. It's been a labor of love at times, you know, but we've enjoyed this. Uh tip of the cap to you, tip of the cap to the listeners for sticking it through. Yeah. You know, we could have hung it up. We could have. You know, those weeks off were nice. Those weeks off were nice. We weren't putting together this script. Yeah. You know, um, we we were, you know, just because of maybe uh time constraints, uh, we didn't get as many guests on here over the last third of the season. Um, and that's kind of disappointing because we do have so many fantastic students and staffers that we love to, you know, give exposure to. Yeah, brilliant. Give them this platform. Yes, dote on them a tad. All right. Um, so I I would I would say that's probably one one uh um oh what's the word I'm looking for here? Uh regret, maybe one regret um uh of the podcast in its in its life thus far. But overall, man, yeah, I can't I I understand the timing thing. 30 minutes would be great. Right. But uh boy, there's just so much going on. There's so much to talk about and to cover and to recap. And but yeah, props to you, props to our listeners for yeah, making it through a full season, man. Yeah. It was good stuff.

SPEAKER_07

It's great stuff.

SPEAKER_05

And we still have a little bit of a stuff. Yeah. Should we get into that? I say let's get into that. Let's go ahead and let's circle back to the was here in the world of all things, Nimahaw. And we got an official middle school track recap. Oh, yeah. Yes. The 2026 middle school track season officially came to a close over the span of the last week or so. Uh, cycling back to last Thursday, the Saints, Peter, and Paul Trojans traveled down to Frankfurt one more time. I think Frankfurt hosts a meet every week in the spring, high school or middle school.

SPEAKER_06

Good for that.

SPEAKER_05

And they competed in the Oregon Trail League Championship. I'm happy to report that the seventh grade girls and the eighth grade girls both took second place. There's a little bit of controversy there, maybe. Oh. Uh, we maybe have uh there might be a school in the OTL that uh uh puts individuals into events that maybe they aren't really like legitimately competing for, but you know, just to get some points. And hey, that's the name of the game, though, right? In terms of a team championship. It is what it is. Um the Saints, Peter, and Paul girls, uh both runner-ups uh in this year's OTL championships. I believe the eighth grade boys finished fifth, and it was uh a pretty tight race there between the uh bottom four to five schools, uh, and then the seventh grade boys were the meat champions. Meet champions this year's 2026 OTL championship. Um individually, we got some highlights here, Jay. Yep. Uh and it looks like uh we're gonna kind of go down the list here. Yep, we've got the results, we're trying something new, ladies and gentlemen. Usually uh Mr. Williams scripts all this out. Like we just read straight from the screen, right? Now, what we're doing is you know, more of a true kind of a podcast sitting here. We got the results pulled up on screen. All right, we're sifting through, we filtered it out here on athletic.net. We'll always encourage you to check out those links for all those results. Uh, uh, whether it's uh track, baseball, softball, football, whatever it may be. Check out those links that are posted on our school's respective social media sites. And uh we're happy to report. Uh let's just kind of bounce back and forth here. 100 meter dash, props to Ella Barkowski, your eighth grade OTL champion with a time of 1383 on the boys' side at the seventh grade level, Eli Leaguer. Um man's been a bolt of lightning. Bolt of lightning this this spring. Okay. He did not have his best time, but he did log a 1338, and that was good enough to earn the OTL championship and a 100-meter dash for the seventh grade boys. Yeah. Uh sliding down to the 200 meters, Camden Koaki uh edged Eli out for first place with a 27-24. Congrats to Camden on that neat championship. And then jumping over to the girls' side, eighth grader Ella Bartkaski again. Your 200 meter champion in the OTL with a time of 227-9. Jay, what do we got in the 400 meters for the uh looks like seventh grade boys and eighth grade girls?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, so uh seventh grade boys, uh Camden Go Hockey uh OTL champ with time of 59.68. That's a sub-minute. That's a sub-minute. That's nice. Yikes. That is nice.

SPEAKER_05

Love to see that. I think I could be rounding the final turn uh with about a 59-16. I still have 100 meters to go.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. So congrats there, Camden. Um, and then for the eighth grade girls 400 meter dash, uh, shout out to Kenley Kramer with a time of 104. Um, good enough for an OTL champs. Congrats, Kenley.

SPEAKER_05

Other first place finishes here from the Saints, Peter, and Paul Trojans last Thursday. 1600 meters, the mile run. Violet Rige was your eighth grade girls champion with a time of 553. And on the seventh grade side of things, Ivy Hynan. Good job, Ivy, a 555. So right on the heels there of her eighth grade teammate, uh, Violet. So Ivy was the OTL champion of 1600 meters. And the 3,200 meters, Daniel Leager. Okay. Daniel Leager, 1318. Not a bad pace there, Dan. About a six foot. I'll do the math here. 640, about a 640 pace right there. That's good. All right, 640 mile split. So good job, Daniel Leaguer, your 3200 meter champion for the seventh grade boys. Congrats. Uh, 100 meter hurdles on the seventh grade side for the boys. Guillermo Rivera Kobian was your champion with a 1798 ninth job, Guillermo. Um, and then we've got some relay action. Four by one. Four by one, ladies of Olivia Bergman, Morgan Haverkamp, Kinley Cramer, and Ella Bart Kosky, a 54-19. That was good enough to earn them the championship on the eighth grade girls division. Uh, and then the seventh grade boys division, the four by one of Cam Kowaki, Simon Stromthman, Wiley Bergen, and Eli Leaguer, a 51-43. We also had a championship there in the four by twos. And it looks like we had three of them: eighth grade girls, seventh grade girls, and the seventh grade boys. Jay, go ahead and tell us who was on each of those teams at times.

SPEAKER_07

So, eighth grade girls, Morgan Haverkamp, Lily Nehoose, Josie Altenhoffen, and Violet Ruogie. Congrats there. And then the other four by two, the seventh grade girls, Caitlin Leger, Miriam Nortis, Brian Sudbeck. Brynn. Brynn. Come on.

SPEAKER_05

You're graduating with their brother K9 this Sunday. For God's sakes, get the name right.

SPEAKER_07

Bryn, Brian, my bad. I'm so sorry, Brynn. Bryn uh Sudback and then Cecilia Holthouse there. Uh good for an OTL championship. Congrats, ladies. And then on the seventh grade boys' side, Gary Mo. Uh revealed Colbin, Colin Chamley, Noah Kramer, and Eli Schulliance for that 4x2.

SPEAKER_05

Nice job, 4x2 teams. Cycling down into the world of the field events here. Uh shout out to Grayson Free, uh, checking a 33-foot shot put there to win the seventh grade boys' championship. Uh in the disc, Wiley Bergman was first place, launched a 94-foot five-inch throw there for the disc to win the seventh grade boys division. And the high jump, Simone Strothman remained supreme over the competition in the high jumping world of seventh grade gentlemen. This spring, Simon logged a 5'3-inch jump to win the OTL 7th grade boys championship last Thursday. Olivia Bergman on the eighth grade girl side of things. Long jump jumped 14 feet seven inches. Good enough for a championship there. And then the seventh grade boys long jump, Candon Kowaki. Another meet championship there with a 16-5.

SPEAKER_07

Tell us a little bit about triple jump, Jay. Triple jump, eighth grade girls. Shout out to Olivia Bergman on the championship there. And then triple jump, Jonah Bergman. There we go. There you go, Jonah getting the first place dub there, and then triple jump for the seventh grade boys, Simon Strothman. Uh, getting the dub there with the jump of 13 feet, 11.

SPEAKER_05

Little more than 13 feet. A little more than 13. Add 20 to that. 33. You said 13.

SPEAKER_07

I said 13. Yeah. Holy.

SPEAKER_05

We're gonna keep the mistakes in. Holy. It's all right. Hey, you're a little bit out of your your you know, normal routine, right? Brian. Your last day, your last day. 33. Your last day was Monday, so you know you're kind of out of the routine. Dude, out of the vibe. I'll be out of the routine, right? Out of the flow.

SPEAKER_07

I'll be honest with you. I woke up at 9:30 and I saw you text. I was like, I got to get up, my friend. I got to get up.

SPEAKER_05

All right. Ladies and gentlemen, one more round of goal. For the Saints, Peter and Paul boys and girls on a very successful middle school track season. And let's jump over to the public side of things here with the NCMSers. Uh we had two meets. The eighth grade competed on Monday down at Silver Lake, and the seventh grade competed in the Big East League Championships yesterday over at Sabetha. And here are some of those individual highlights. Okay. Scrolling down here to the 800-meter run. Hey. It's our boy. Our boy. All right. Everybody's boy. They're all our boys, right? But this guy, he's just been, again, logging some fantastic times this entire calendar year, whether it was cross-country or track. Will Martin was back and in action, and he won the 800-meter run with a time of 218. Congrats there to Will. Scrolling down to the 3200 meter, staying right in Will's wheelhouse. A time of 1052 is good enough. That's a personal best. And he was victorious, meet champion there, biggie's league champion in the 3200 meter. Sliding down to the shot put. She's had a strong season so far. Yes, Miss Lillian Dieters with a throw of 37, 2.5, is your eighth grade girls shot put champion, along with, yes, the disc as well, a 92 foot nine-inch toss. Congrats there, Lillian. A shot put and disc is champion at the big East level for the eighth grade girls. And that I think is it for the individual championships there for the eighth grade teams. A loaded meat. We got 12 teams. 12 teams at that big East League championship. Uh the likes of again Holton, Silver Lake, Hiawatha, Royal Valley, Perry, Jefferson West, Acheson. And another thing to consider is, you know, our middle school kind of split into two separate, two separate buildings, right? Okay. We are actually probably more of a 1A, 2A middle school competing against a lot of 3A, 4A middle school. So uh for our gentlemen to finish fourth overall, really solid, and the ladies tied for fourth overall in both of the eighth grade biggest league divisions. Nice stuff. Nice stuff. Nice stuff. So overall, really solid finishes there uh for uh kind of an understaffed, undermanned uh track team there at the eighth grade biggest league championships this past Monday down in Silver Lake.

SPEAKER_07

I will say I like how they split it up. I was actually talking to Chris Short Stack Williams. She was uh watching the seventh graders.

SPEAKER_05

I only know her as Mrs. Williams. Oh, we keep it professional.

SPEAKER_07

We keep it professional. Mrs. Williams. Uh no, but I was talking to her. I was like, wait, why is it just seventh graders here? She's like, well, they split it up. I was like, oh, that's that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_05

Can you imagine they did it last year? I think it's one meeting. Oh, really? Yes, eighth and seventh grade in the same location, 12 schools. And again, you're talking track teams when when you know we've got we've got good numbers ourselves. All right, you know, I talk about us being a little smaller than some of the competition in the Big East. We do just fine. Um, but holy cow, like imagine track teams, 12 of them, and we're looking at at least 60 kids from each location. And they're all middle schoolers. Let's do the math, right? We got well over a thousand kids there. Yeah, and they're all middle schoolers. Yeah, yeah. There's no way we got enough staff to write supervised that entire day. And it's the final, and it's warm out, and it's the final meet of the year, and the the lights at the end of the tunnel, school's almost dismissed. Like, yeah, mayhem.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, that was a good one. Mayhem.

SPEAKER_05

So for just the sake of like supervision, yeah, split it up. But then like meat maintenance. Like, ooh, what an enormous meet. I mean, that's about as big as any high school regional meet, probably bigger. Right. So, yes, it was split up uh and it went smoothly this year. I think uh I think our track team was home from Sebetta yesterday, the seventh graders they got things started around one o'clock, and I think they were home by I think near seven, seven thirty. I mean, so not a bad day. Yeah, not a bad day, but uh uh pretty good turnaround there. Efficient meat ran yesterday on the seventh grade side of things, and let's talk some of the seventh grade highlights. Do it. Uh, we did have a meet champion in the seventh grade girls, 800 meters, and again, strong season, fall and spring. Emerson Novotney was your 800-meter champion in seventh grade girls for the time of 242.55. Nice job, Emerson. And 100 meter hurdles, a Sawyer Lutz. Yeah. At the time of 1827. That was her personal best. Great stuff, Sawyer, there. Uh, meet champion and the 100-meter hurdles. Um jump. Sawyer Lutes as well. Jump of 14, 2.5. Nice stuff, Sawyer. Those are our only individual champions there for the seventh grade boys and girls at the Big East League Championship yesterday over in Sebatha. We got some runner-up finishes, but again, just keeping it consistent, we're gonna just kind of highlight those individual championships. Overall, as a team, the gentlemen finished third. Third place. Nice stuff there, seventh grade boys, right behind a large Riley County team. Right. Solid Royal Valley team. I know I was talking to Rowan and some of the boys last night. They were kind of surprised by that Royal Valley result. They said, boy, uh, the meets we saw them at this year, you know, they were not finishing that high. Uh so tip of the cap there to the Royal Valley Panthers on rising up and getting a top three finish, but also strong stuff there from the boys and on the girls side of things. Right behind Sabetha to fourth place, two points behind the Sabetha Lady Jays for a fourth place finish. But again, really solid stuff there from all of our middle school track athletes. One more big round of applause. And yes, I've already been fielding questions as a high school AD about hey, why don't we have middle school golf? Hey, why don't we have middle school baseball and softball? And I just run. I turn and run. Stay, stay, stay as far away from some of that as possible. Thoughts on that, Jay? Would you have uh what would you have done in middle school? Uh no, there are some there are some locations in the state of Kansas where some of that's offered. I know Missouri middle school baseball is is I don't want to say prominent, but available. Right.

SPEAKER_07

Um I think my gr oh no, I think he just did high school baseball in Missouri, but he kind of helped out with it or whatnot. And he mentioned he actually did mention uh middle school uh baseball there. I was like, what? That's that's interesting. I don't know. I I I was I fell in love with the javelin man, and I and you know, the throwing motion on that, you don't want to do both, you don't want to do you know baseball and then javelin. Um so when I when I got the javelin, I was kind of set on that and I didn't really uh think about baseball all too much. So uh all to say, yeah, I don't know. That that just that's just a lot more scheduling. Boy, like golf too, middle school golf, like alright, dude. If you're good, like you're gonna be playing anyways. High school's almost there.

SPEAKER_05

I would be I would agree with you. Like, I uh man, it'd be awesome opportunities. We have you know the summer for some of those events to be, you know, um participated in by our by our middle school aged students. Uh you know, so we've got the junior golf stuff that Spring Creek does a great job of of facilitating and offering. Of course, we've got all the rec baseball uh that you could want to play uh late May through June. Uh yeah, so those are the opportunities there. But I think the real difficulty, and you hit uh scheduling would be tough. Scheduling would be tough. Uh we already have ball diamonds being utilized so often for for high school practices, high school events, uh rec stuff that is rolling through the spring. Uh yeah, golf course availability. It really gets you down to just, you know, do you have the space? Do you have the facilities? Do you have the manpower? Probably don't have that right now, but hey, um I love that those kids are thinking about it. Yeah. Love that those kids are thinking about it. Just wait a couple more years. Yes. You'll be in time. In time. Due time, it'll happen. Hey, flashing forward now to this past week, okay? Because last week's installment of the ATN came at you a little bit later than usual. All right, a little bit later than usual. So um we don't have a ton of stuff to recap from last week, but we got some stuff from earlier this week. Monday, we had some makeup action in the world of junior varsity baseball and softball. Our JV Gals hosted a triangular with the St. Mary's Bears and the Holton Lady Cats. And we're happy to report that the gals are in the split. So a little mixed bag of results here. Rolled through the St. Mary's Lady Bears in game one, 12-2, uh, and then fell to a strong Holton University team in the night cap, 12-3. But overall, successful night from the ladies. Good night of ball there. Good deal. Monday at Seneca West. On the other diamond at Swisherfield, the JV gentlemen finished their season on a high note with a sweep of the Visiting Bears. A 9-7 victory, came back and won. Nice. And then rolled to a 16-1 dub. The gentlemen finish 11-5 on the season. Props to the JV boys on a strong campaign. And again, navigating through just a schedule that seemed to be perpetually in flux. Then that could be tough too. It's usually how it is, though, I feel like with baseball and can baseball and baseball. It definitely can be. Super hot. Super hot. Red hot.

SPEAKER_07

Man, it was close. Uh the boys' varsity tied in second place with Jeff West with a team score of 337 and Mr. Williams. Get this. The Big East League champions? Sabatha? Edged over top with a score of 336. No!

SPEAKER_05

Just one stroke. You know, and golf's a game. Golf's a game where there's 18 holes, right? You're thinking, yeah, like just one of our four dudes that's scoring has one better shot. But again, that's us, Jeff West, and Sabatha all thinking that, right? Yeah. All of us thinking that. And hey, who wasn't too far behind? Perry LeCompton. And uh, us along with those three big East League teams, and Rossville, too. A1A. Okay. But they were right on our heels as well with Perry. So five really solid golf teams right there. Yeah, what a meat. It's part of the reason why at the casure level we went ahead and adjusted the manner at which we set um previously known as regionals for golf now, substate. But it's why, we'll get into it here in a little bit. We're headed to Salina for substate and not locally to Village Greens. Effort made to kind of separate teams from each other if there's a high concentration of high performing teams. And that's kind of what we have right now, as we noted, with Jefferson West, Sabetha, Perry LeCompton, and us all being four of the top ten teams in class 3A. Four of the top ten teams in class 3A. So we got booted over to Salina for substate. But yeah, at the Big East League Championship down at Village Greens, or sorry, Lake Shawnee this past Monday, uh, a runner-up finish uh tying with the uh Jefferson West Tigers and just coming up short against coming up short against the Sabbath Blue Jays. Uh tip of the cap to uh Leighton Thomas, uh individual runner up. Uh Colton Corby and Brady Cook, all medalist at the league level as well. Round of applause for the Thunder Golf team as they keep it rolling.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, they're not, they're not, I don't think the fire's out yet.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, no way. No way. No way, baby. No way. We're just we're just we're just hitting a fever pit. We're just hitting a fever pit. Okay. Um jumping over to the JV side of things, Tuesday, yesterday, our JV golfers traveled down to Holton for a nine-hole affair. It was the Big East JV League Championships. They finished second to a strong Sabatha team. Uh, and shout out to Jacoby Burbitt and Luke Ganstrom, individual medalists at the JV level. And a boy. So a really solid season for the JV, a solid season overall for Thunder Golf, and looking forward to seeing how the varsity finishes. When postseason begins next Monday, more on that here in a few minutes. We also finished out the softball regular season schedule yesterday, Jay, up at Seneca West and down at Pearson Field. How did our softballers close the season out?

SPEAKER_07

Starting with the varsity. They swept the visiting dogs. Get the brooms out, baby. To zero and brooms out. Clean out that kennel. Man, they're clean out that kennel. They've been doing well. They've been doing really well over the last stretch here, I feel like.

SPEAKER_05

So a final record at the varsity level of 12 and 13. 12 and 13. Did you know at one point in time we were sitting three and ten? I wouldn't doubt it. Nine and three. Nine and three finish here, right? Also at one point in time, I think four and eleven. Okay. So again, we could say, all right, uh, you know, and eight and one. Eight and two finish. Excuse me. Let me do my math correctly there. All right. But yes, very strong finish here. Last few weeks for the varsity has been really stellar. 10-0 win, eight-two win, twelve and thirteen to finish out the year. Great stuff. Varsity. The JV finished their season 1-0-1 last night. Whoa. 1-0-1. 1-0-1. They tied in game one, 5-5 before winning in game two, 13-6. Real strong finisher for the JV ladies. Got that last up. And they finished their year on a 10-11-2. Kind of a hockey slash soccer record right there. Yeah, I know. 10-11-2. 10-11-2 season there for the junior varsity softballers. And that does it for Tuesday. And that brings us to today, Jay. Kind of the is.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Right? What do we got on today? I don't know. Let's check it out when we get back from this break. Stick with us, ladies and gentlemen. We'll be back with more ATN right after this.

SPEAKER_01

Hello, Thunder Family. It's Naya Holthouse and Lena McKinley from The Radar, and we are here to remind you to get on SmugMug to check out all of the exciting pictures we have uploaded.

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SPEAKER_01

Have a great rest of the year from the NCHS radar.

SPEAKER_05

This final episode of the All Things Dema Hall Podcast, Mr. Williams and Jaden Sites. Jaden Sites here with you. One final time. Yes. Classic pet band tune right there. I love that song. What Rocky's that out of, do you know? Did you know it was from Rocky? Yes. Alright? The band is. It's a continent. Todo sings Africa. Africa's a song name. This is a band name. Asia. Oh, Asia. Asia. Yeah, Asia. The final countdown. No?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. No. You gotta dive in. You gotta dive into 80s tunage. You gotta dive into 80s audio. I just know the tune. That's all I know. I don't really pay attention to the artists. I'm sorry, guys. Okay, so look.

SPEAKER_05

Look up Asia. Yeah. Final countdown. Look up uh I want to know the Rocky that's from. All right. Find that out from me. All right. Inform me. Do a little research. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It's time for us to take a look at the is, what's gonna happen today here in the world of all things Nima Hall, and also what is on the very near and distant horizon. Since this is the last episode, we'll probably go a little bit further out than just one week. Okay. Happening today up at Swisher Field, 2 p.m., just a couple of hours from now. Wow we've got regional quarterfinal baseball between your Nima Hall Central Thunder and the Holton Wildcats. Really looking forward to this one. Okay. Opening round play. It's one of these uh where the way the schedule works out, uh, everybody's gonna be throwing their best stuff. So it should be an absolute dandy of a baseball game, looking for a solid crowd. Um 2 p.m. start. So hopefully everybody can kind of sneak away for a little bit from work or school and get up there and cheer the gentleman on to hopefully what will be a big thunder victory. I will share with everybody that we got Keisha admission rates. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. $8 and $6. Be kind to Mrs. Williams, my gatekeeper tonight.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, no mind.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, be kind to Mrs. Williams as she harasses you for your $8 or $6 as you're pulling in there to the parking lot up at Swisherfield. But good luck to the gentlemen as they take on the Holton Wildcast today. It's also going to be streamed on SCTV. We've got our Huddle camera up there rolling as well, and KMZA is going to be in the house. Trendon Prophet's going to be sitting up in the bleachers. So, you know, keep it PC, keep it uh keep it PG 13. All right, bleacher creatures. Uh we do have a uh live broadcast happening uh right there in your midst. Uh but looking forward to regional baseball today, and uh we'll close that out. We'll get all cleaned up and we'll be back here at NCHS for Senior Awards Night. Senior Awards Night.

SPEAKER_07

Planning on getting anything, Jay? Uh, you know, we'll see.

SPEAKER_05

Recognition for some of the extracurriculars. Yeah, academic achievement awards to be determined.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, to be determined.

SPEAKER_05

To be determined. Okay. Fair enough. Did you apply for any local scholarships? Oh, yeah, I did. I did. I just thought might get a few of those. Yeah. Nobody's nobody's uh nobody's shared anything with you in advance. Nope. So it'd be like complete surprise. Complete surprise. Good. We should record some things, right? Kind of like uh kind of like the Oscars or the Grammys. Oh. And get your response. It's like your genuine response to how these things shake out.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I mean you're gonna get a genuine response, that's for sure. That's for sure.

SPEAKER_05

6 30 p.m. start here at NCHS. Um I'm not sure if it's in the commons or main, Jim. Just walk on in and see where it all settled at. We'll see where we're gonna. See where we're gathered. Yeah. Uh looking forward to a great night, though, of celebrating you and the rest of your peers in the class of 2026. Looking forward to tomorrow. We have the Big East League track and field championships down at St. Mary's. They will be operating in conjunction with the Big East League Art Show. The track and field championships field events, I believe, begin at 1 p.m. Running events will commence at 3:30. Uh, the art show, they've got some uh workshops happening in the morning. Ultimately get a lot of the pieces set up in the late morning, and then kind of the doors are open for the public to peruse through uh early to mid to late afternoon. So uh looking forward to a great day again of celebrating uh some physical prowess out there on the track. All right, uh, with uh all of our Big East League schools, uh, but also a little bit of the fine arts side of things there.

SPEAKER_07

A little Picasso.

SPEAKER_05

A little Picasso. Uh but also a pretty solid location near St. Mary's, one of the centrally located uh schools here in the league. So it should be a great day, great weather. Uh get down there and uh celebrate all things in Nima Hall and all things Big East. Um for some, they're gonna be returning earlier than desired, maybe from the Big East League track and field championships and art show. As we've got NCMS eighth grade promotion tomorrow. Congrats to what would be the class of 2030?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, 2030.

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No, yeah, yeah. 2030. The 2030ers. The 2030ers. The 2030ers. They'll be getting promoted and kicked up into this building. Welcome to I'm gonna go. Tomorrow afternoon. You know, this should be required listening. All 30 plus episodes of the ATN and gaining all the insight from you, a savvy veteran now, somebody that's been through all of it. Uh, Friday, we're gonna have the underclassman awards at 8 05 a.m. here at NCHS. And then Friday evening, shout out to the SPPS class of 2030. They will be having their eighth grade promotion. And then formally being again kicked up into this building. 234 glorious years.

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Glorious.

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Yes. They'll be uh be substantial. Oh. Right? Yeah, be substantial. So really looking forward to the class of 2030 and their eventual admittance, entrance, and attendance here starting in August of 2026. Looking forward to that. Congrats, eighth graders. Enjoy your evenings on Thursday and Friday and your celebrations. But you know who's getting out the door? On Sunday at 1 30 p.m., we begin the NCHS commencement. How long will we keep with this? Usually, I think it takes I think it takes round of applause there for us. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was good. We know that because I I'm sure back in the day we used to have the band play. Did you know this? We had a live band in the back.

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Mr. Krause said something about that, yeah.

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We need to bring it back. Have a live band in the back. Yep, yep, bring it back. Pomp and circumstance with the live band, I think's a lot better than the recording on the iPad. Um, but uh yes, we'll be firing that bad boy up Sunday afternoon, 1 30 p.m. here in the NCHS Bain Gymnasium. The class of 2026 gets their diplomas, flips the tassels, tosses the caps, receiving line, and then out the door, baby. Out the door. Out the door.

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Crazy.

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Hey, uh we'll circle back to that.

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We will circle back to that, but I want to give uh you know little yo, here's what's up on Saturday. If you are interested, there is my graduation party on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. from 11 a.m. There's some breakfast there. Come come stop by. Say what's up, say hey, I listen to the podcast, um, and just uh yeah, love to see your face.

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It's an open invite to all ATN listeners to James Sites' graduation party. This is an open invite.

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This is an open invite. I want to see.

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Do the people hosting this party know this?

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Uh I'll tell my mom. I'll tell I'll tell her. I'll say, hey, you know, I might have might have shared it to the might have shared it to the world. Now you did not disclose the location. Oh. Okay. One of their sheds. Okay. So yeah.

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Mosey on out there. Yeah, Mosey on the other. And if uh and if the food's dried up, the food and drink is dried up, just go to the clubhouse. There you go. Grab something there. Yeah, yeah. Okay, fair enough. All right. I think you've got this in conjunction with a few of your buddies, right? Yes, yes. I think a Caleb Straussman, a Drew de Sormeers, and a Jordan Lewis. Jordan Lewis. All right. So a little quad, little quad party. A little quad party. A little fearsome foresome right there. There you go. All right. Well, congratulations to you, sir. Yes, uh, it is graduation party season. I've got a stack of graduation party invites. Um, this is the first year I will have to say, I'll I guess I'll I'll I'll say this. I'll say this also on the pod here. Uh, I'm not getting anybody anything. Yeah. You got to understand. Like, I really don't care. Well, no, I'm just I'm like, I get you get like 25 plus invites, right? And uh man, like that's a $250 weekend for Mr. Williams. And I'm not gonna have $200, I'm not gonna have $10 worth of eat and drink at every single location. I just can't physically do that. I can't physically I'd love to. Yeah. But I don't. And I and then it's like the timing thing, it's really unfortunate. So, you know, I guess uh I guess I've given you all I can already, Jay. You know, imparting the wisdom. Hey, just your class of 2026, uh hanging out in the classroom together there if you're seeing a workshop. But we'll take it. No, I try to make it around uh Mrs. Williams and I, uh along with Wrigley and Rowan, we try to make it to as many of them we possibly can. And yeah, we always try to throw a little bit of uh something in the uh coffers there for uh for all of our graduating seniors. But looking forward to uh seeing everybody out and about this weekend, celebrating the graduation parties and yeah, celebrating the class of 2026 before their formal commencement there on Sunday afternoon at 1.30. Uh looking ahead to next week before we circle back and talk uh everything that has been your high school career this year, this podcast. Monday, substate golf, the Thunder Golf team, the Red Hot Thunder Golf team, heading down to Salina, where they will compete in substate golf at the Salina Municipal Golf Course in 8:30 a.m. Start. Looking forward to seeing how things shake out. We're away from Jefferson West, we're away from Perry Lecomfin, we're away from Sabatha. There we go. We're gonna be with Marysville. I believe Marysville is with us. That's also another one of the top 12 teams in class 3A. And then we're also with one of the top three teams in class 3A, the Heston Swathers. So in class 3A, we've got Wichita Trinity, Wichita Collegiate, and Heston. Those three schools are probably 20 to 30 strokes ahead of the next bunch, which would be us, Sabetha, Marysville, Perry, Jefferson West.

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So where do we need a place?

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Top three. Top three. We need to finish. Top three. Top three is a team. Uh individual qualifiers, um, you know, it's one of those things where they can make it without being uh on the team uh that finishes in a top three. But good chances there. Really looking forward to uh seeing how things shake out for our Thunder Golfers on Monday in Salina. And then in the afternoon, the Stuco Sunflower Derby will get underway at roughly 1 p.m. Love the Derby. We got a lot of listeners that probably participate in the Derby. Something we brought back uh in my days at NVHS. Uh attended Stuco Camp years and years and years ago, did the derby down there, brought it back. I think the first year was the spring of 03. So the Derby's going on 20 plus years of existence, and uh it's a good time. You've enjoyed the derby.

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Oh, I've I I love the Derby. Yeah, like you mentioned at Stuco Camp, you know, they do that and they do that uh really well. And um, we actually brought back some games from Stuco Camp 2 that uh we'll add uh to this year's derby. So excited for them, the underclassmen, to have fun on one of their last days.

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One of the last days. Last full day. Yeah, last full day. Last full day, because then Tuesday the 19th, it's an 1130 a.m. dismissal and school is out. School of the summer. I believe that was a Mr. Alice uh do you know who sings that? No, Alice Cooper. Mr. Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper recently I had a friend find him in the West Ridge Mall, Topeka. Whoa. Because he was doing a show at the uh Stormhawk Bell Center in Topeka. Oh, wow. Yeah. Uh look him up. He's um, yeah, uh he kind of looks like the walking dead, I'll be honest with you. It looks like he's old up. Yeah, yeah. He's he's old. He's uh he's lived a hard and fast life for sure. But Alice Cooper, yes, school is out for summer. Not forever, but just for the summer. Yes, that will happen at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Uh but we're also gonna have regional softball beginning Tuesday evening down at Pleasant Ridge. The ladies with their 12 and 13 record were able to secure the nine seed. They will travel to take on the eight-seeded Pleasant Ridge Lady Rams down in Easton. Uh Easton is near Leavenworth. Um, and from my research, the softball diamond is near the high school. So head to Pleasant Ridge High School. We'll find that softball diamond, 5:30 p.m. start. And uh good luck to the Thunder Softballers as they look to advance in regional play. Uh regional baseball would resume on Tuesday. Of course, big TBD there. We got to see how things go today. Uh, location, opponent, also to be determined. Um, win will match up with the winner of Riverside and Maranatha Academy. Uh, most likely, most likely, we'd also go to finish um regional play on Tuesday in Wathena. So at Riverside's home location. Uh so again, lots to still kind of shake out there. We'll know a lot more after tonight. Uh softball on the flip side of things, they're gonna play next Tuesday the 19th. Regional baseball will finish on Tuesday 19th as well. Again, TBD, all that information come out on our social media platforms over the next day or so. Uh, regional softball will continue on Wednesday, originally scheduled for Thursday the 21st, but after a lot of communication with the other ADs and our regional, we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna bump that up to Wednesday the 20th. So regional softball, quarter final action on Tuesday the 19th at Pleasant Ridge, and then win in advance. Well, boom bang. Again, location is TBD. Okay, location is TBD. And I'm I was wrong about baseball. I was wrong about I was already thinking softball here. Softball most likely would be finishing in Wathina on Wednesday. Gotcha. Baseball, my bad here, probably down at Ozaki at Jefferson West. Okay, that's kind of what we're looking at there. All right. Um, on Tuesday the 19th for baseball. Um, most likely Ozaki. Again, things gotta shake out here. Uh softball, Wednesday the 20th, be looking at over at Riverside's Facilities in Wathino. Gotcha. Good luck. Uh yes, good luck. Good luck. Good luck, Thunder Softball and Thunder Baseball. And then Thursday the 21st. Regional track. Regional track.

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You got that arm ready, baby?

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Yeah.

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Ready to let it fly. At Beloit.

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At Beloit. And that is a throwers' paradise, man. Get ready. I mean, the biggest and baddest throwers in the state of Kansas for Class 3A. They reside over in that neck of the woods. Oh yeah. Beloit. Build events. 1 p.m. Run events will get started at 3 30 p.m. And again, that is next Thursday, the 21st. Uh and they got a brand new facility. Um, phenomenal stuff right there. It's an old WPA project, their stadium. Uh so Trojan Stadium, old WPA project, really cool stuff. Um, it's had an upgrade though. Uh they did a phenomenal job, a little bit of private fundraising, um, kind of matched by one large uh benefactor. Um, so they got a brand new turf football field, brand new track. Uh they've got kind of concession stand, locker room facilities right there, a little bit of a mezzanine where everybody can kind of gather. Um stellar stuff. You're gonna enjoy being over there for all of their action. Yeah, so looking forward to that on Thursday the 21st. And then if we were to look further into the future, all right, um, regional, uh sorry, state golf will be taking place on Tuesday, the 26th, and Wednesday the 27th. It's a two-day affair. You gotta play well on day one to make it into day two. Um, but that is gonna happen down at Lake Shawnee. So it'll just be down the road from us. Uh so excited about that. And of course, that our guys have already played a couple of times, so that's nice. So state golf will be uh that Tuesday and Wednesday after Memorial Day. Um, state softball and baseball really up in the air because it's actually supposed to be hosted down at KU's facilities. But Kansas is having a historic baseball season. Probably looking at hosting a regional, which would be that week, which then adjusts everything. So the world of class 3A softball and baseball is a big question mark right now as they're looking to probably pivot to Manhattan. Because guess who's not hosting regional baseball? K-State Wildcats. And they don't have softball. Uh so uh big question mark there on what things look like if our teams were fortunate enough to qualify for their respective state softball and baseball tournaments. And of course, state track though, that's an old hat, man. That's an old trick. Down at Cessna at Wichita on Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th. And again, we'll see how things shake out next Thursday to see who all qualifies and what times and what events we'll have Thunder students participating. I'm feeling great to say track meeting.

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I'm feeling great about just track in general right now. I feel like we're in a good spot. Um, I think I could probably speak for the rest of my teammates as well. I feel like, yeah, uh, you know, these these last couple meets we call the big three so the biggies uh meet and then the regional and then the state you know are kind of our big three and this is where we this is where we peak. This is where we go all out um get those PRs uh maybe get some um you know some records as well too so chasing those excited excited I'm excited as well what I'm not excited for is what we're gonna do when we get back after our second break here and that is officially closing out the ATN gather our thoughts here yes so ladies and gentlemen thanks again for listening enjoy this break we'll be back right after this to close out this season of the ATN to every referee umpire and judge in high school sports we want to say we see you we see everything you do for us that goes unnoticed we see the positive role models that you are we see the way you get unfairly criticized just for doing your job the truth is we couldn't play without you so thank you for investing your time in us thank you for protecting the integrity of the game no matter what we hope you always know how much we appreciate you because without you this is just recess it's not really a game thank you for always making it possible for us to play the sports we love want to serve the students in your community sign up to become an official in Kansas at highschoolofficials.com back eight and listeners to the all things demon podcast I'm Jaden along with Mr.

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Williams and now we get into the section of this uh episode here where it's gonna get a little emotional so forewarn get the tissues out I don't know potentially maybe potentially hey potentially all good things have to come to an end right all good things all good things have to come to an end uh I can't uh begin to thank everybody enough for listening and being on this ride with Jade and I uh throughout this school year um you know we've been kicking around this idea uh for for a couple of years uh I've consulted you about it off and on as well um went to the booster club uh said hey I'd love to get some love to get some podcasting gear you know and they said absolutely you know anything you need anything you need Kelly and I'm like hey great let's let's go with it uh obviously had a a phenomenal confidant uh phenomenal sidekick here phenomenal partner I should say uh and Jaden uh you've got a comfort and knack for talking uh ad living being behind the mic um I myself uh have no problem uh in the art of conversation um and uh you know it's one of those things where uh uh just a different avenue to be able to showcase everything that we do here um in the greater Neemaha Central community. So uh big thanks to all of our listeners and everybody that uh has given us feedback, um, you know, given us an attaboy here or there. Yeah. Uh and just uh you know those uh consistent 70 or so downloads that we see every single week for the podcast. Again I know we're not getting to the masses necessarily but if it's uh several dozen individuals that are listening and benefiting and staying up with things and uh again uh then being able to have conversations or reach out to some of our students and staff and tell them thanks or great job. I man it it's totally worth it.

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That's why we do it. Yeah it's that's exactly why we do it. And yeah just again from my end just want to thank the the community and just uh yeah the support that we've gotten um you know I can't tell you how many times I've been you know approached saying hey you know so and whatever you said on the podcast you know uh I had a guy come up to me talk about the corn nuts meeting the corn nuts I'm like yeah man you know and that was just you know that was last week's episode that was last week's episode yeah so it's just like kind of funny uh you know to have that conversation starter and just uh yeah really connect with everybody and and give you a recap you know on what's going on around the school.

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I think I love um you know our community's involvement with the school and so just being able to have a you know a podcast or something uh an outlet to uh kind of really show yeah what's all going on is has just been wonderful and been really really special to been a part of so I will tell everybody that the uh the future of the ATN is uh a big question mark um I'm not sure I haven't pursued a fill-in right um you know Jay you're irreplaceable uh but uh you know we're not sure uh not sure what will transpire next year uh not sure if we'll have a weekly edition not sure if we'll have an addition at all um could be something that's every other week could be something that's uh uh once a month um I do have a teacher aide next year uh to kind of aid and assist with some of the uh some of the uh clerical work that comes with being EAD uh I just don't know if she's gonna be happy behind the mic. I might I might force it a potter. We'll see. But uh yeah got an aide so that'll be a that'll be a new experience. But yeah not not sure ATN big question mark. I know I have a uh eighth grade student uh future eighth grade student um that might uh share some DNA with me that's kind of interested in some of this stuff and he's got a buddy that's also interested in some of this stuff so we got two mics might take a year off yeah and then and then get back after it. Um you know we'll see uh I've had some uh um had some conversation with some other uh students in the building that I think are looking to take over some of the stuff that you and Olivia or some other seniors have you know spearheaded over the last year plus um not sure yet if they'd be ready for something like this. So uh the ATN uh question mark um not sure if we'll have it again next year but that's kind of the future of of our podcast. Uh you sir we've kind of talked about it already uh heading off to Liberty. You got a full summer though I think here locally before you depart for Lynchburg. Yeah. Anything else to add on what the future holds for Jaden Science?

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Uh yeah well you know like you said like you mentioned uh the summer pretty much here um you know I'll be at the pool so if you stop by the pool lifeguarding lifeguarding I'll be lifeguarding any any any swim lessons I will be doing swim lessons uh you know you booked out already the schedule's TBD I you know I need to work on that schedule you know how to get a hold of him ladies and gentlemen yeah you know how to get a hold of him listeners out there if you got kids that you know they won't listen to you but they might listen to Jaden might listen to me he's available yeah reach out so uh yeah doing that that that'll be good um and then you know trying to head down to lake as much as possible as well uh just kind of get some you know suck soak up the sun hang out with my friends you know because this I mean this it's kind of it right you know and you know feeling that uh pressure as you know we go into college but I you know with my friend group and just um you know some of the rest of the classmates here I think we'll be able to stay in touch pretty well um throughout you know college and whatnot. Um and I kind of make it my aim to you know still reconnect um and whatnot. Um but yeah just super excited about Liberty man and just what they offer. Um you know I'm already getting to into the uh marching band stuff and we got music constantly playing around my house. You know I've been home alone uh with no school and so I've just been listening to that and uh trying to pick up on as much as I can before getting out there um in early August. So yeah.

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Awesome. Well let's do this here.

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Um as we say Sayonora as we ride off into the sunset give me uh give me maybe your your fondest fondest memory as uh a Thunder student uh could be all the way back to you know pre-K all the way up to now I mean yeah give me give me something fondest give me fondest memory putting you on the spot here gosh I mean there's there's a ton there is a ton um you know I was thinking while coming over here because I w I you know for my grad party actually for my grad party I was looking through some old 9 to 11 a.m Spring Creek golf course this Saturday. Yep yep no but I was looking through my photos and you know there's a lot of photos of me like speaking whether that's um in eighth grade whether that's even the you know our little fifth grade musical like I was I was you know front and center and I don't mean to toot my own horn I'm not I'm not doing that. But you know even in the high school too with announce you know and seeing the pep rallies and and then doing this and whatnot like I've always been um I guess involved kind of the center of things. And I do that mainly because you know for me it I love this community a lot. I really do. And I'm gonna be very sad when I leave. And so I think for me that was always my kind of way of you know saying hey like I'm gonna give my best. This is my best. Um and it and it's ultimately for the cu community and the people that have you know raised me, mentor me such as yourself um and others around you know the community and so I just really again just really thankful uh for you know the lessons that I've learned and um being willing to yeah step up in front and do the do the hard thing. Be the guy you know kind of thing. But but yeah just some some fond memories uh you know football I always remember football um and even um you know the the state loss you know junior year that was that was big that was a big turning point in my life just because you know with all the success we had had previously um you know for that to kind of stop and kinda come to a head is like well what what are we gonna do? How are we gonna uh move past this um and then just uh just seeing Daniel's face you know this this state game uh and this year this team um this past year and so just just having that win that state championship kind of was incredible. You know I I I cried a little bit and I I usually don't cry too too often but uh yeah just seeing the the joy um and just all the hard work that we had put in. So that that's definitely a fond memory of mine. Oh man back going back to like first grade kindergarten I don't know.

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Well I I just mentioned that because again like I I everything's fair gay like open it up like it yeah you know like what is and and you don't have to I think that was you don't have to find something but I think you I think you uh I think you kind of hit um on a couple of things that have always resonated with me regarding you your peers again just the community uh but uh you know you kind of said it like uh you thrusted yourself into roles of exposure of leadership um uh not because you just necessarily felt comfortable about it but also you felt somewhat of a a desire to to provide to give back you know to like yeah someone needs to do this uh it can be me I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and uh um at my own volition uh uh you know take yeah take over the responsibility you know put these uh put these uh obligations on my shoulders um uh I think you've done a great job of you know leading by example in addition to you know leading vocally um you know definitely going to be missed you and your peers we we see this uh every year this time of year is always tough for us educators um I'm watching another group after four years of connections and relationships move out in the real world and um you know uh everybody's got uh a a special moment a special situation a special connection uh and it uh the month of May is tough because you're you're trying to get across the finish line yeah almost sprinting again to that light at the end of the tunnel uh but it is also a time of uh phenomenal reflection right uh celebration yeah um and then uh you know uh making sure that uh uh we we recalibrate and refocus because it all gets going again whether it's a different chapter for an individual like you as you move into the next uh uh next chapter of your life or if it's just uh another group of uh uh students getting ready to start their four year journey through NCHS um great time of year emotional time of year for sure uh but yes uh uh take those fond memories with you all right uh no you won't forget them uh don't forget about us either um but uh I think uh I think you and your peers are are well equipped to get out there and uh dominate in all of your respective areas and respective pursuits.

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And just a great senior class too um yeah I don't know just looking this is gonna sound weird. But just like I don't know like you know because I did live in Sabbath at one point in my life and so you know if we stayed there we didn't come here you know there's a lot of what ifs of uh you know what if we didn't you know move to Seneca, whatnot what if we stayed in Sebetha like just having the senior class that we had I mean that is just our our senior the you know the girls and the guys everybody um is just so I don't know real genuine. There's times where you know we get on each other's nerves and that happens. Um but yeah just a a lot of solid people a lot of solid people in in uh this year's uh class of 2026 um and yeah just looking around like oh man would I be able to fit in and you know all this stuff and so just thankful of our class and how how good we've been I don't know. Yeah nope well stated well stated do you got to give a speech on Sunday? I d I'm not giving a speech no speech huh?

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No I didn't get the I didn't get the nod unfortunately I was gonna I was gonna do the uh everybody's tired of hearing from you I know right we're tired of hearing from you I'll sit and listen it's all good that's good that's good you know and that's probably uh yeah that's not bad I uh you touched on something as well uh in in regards to fond memories or just impactful memories uh the the quote unquote failure junior year uh and and um you gotta experience that sometimes too you've got to learn how to how to accept adjust and move on and build from failure uh and as I've told people before um having uh significant loss whether it's personal professional etc um you know you feel that failure uh you you you you you need to you need to let it simmer you need to feel it completely uh because then it reminds you that the things you've been doing definitely worth it yeah right uh obviously you know it means something it means something so um you know I kind of perked up when you're kind of providing a little monologue on that uh just again another uh great example of growth and and hopefully as as uh educators here at 115 and what we're looking to do uh you represent that um we're doing things okay yeah and as your class collectively represents that we're doing things pretty well as well and that's a testament to you our staff but let's circle back to the whole premise of this podcast right celebrating everything in the world of the Nemo Central community the all things Nemo podcast baby I think you embody it I think our staff our community our students embody it and man I had a blast this year had a blast thank you Jay me as well I I can't even one yeah I can't even one up you there I just just just so yeah just so blessed and and and and thankful again for you know just everything you the community the school uh you know peers around me as well um and what a ride what a ride it's been let's ride it on out my man ride it on out ladies and gentlemen yes you've been listening to the All Things Demon Hall podcast with Mr. Williams and Jaden Sites we appreciate you tuning in every single week through the 2025-2026 school year Jay I'm gonna say my final goodbye you want to sneak yours in I'll try you go first though ladies and gentlemen this has been Kelly Williams of the ATN podcast thanks for listening we'll see you next time this has been Jaden Sites peacing out for now much love goodbye ATN listeners you're listening to the all things Nimaha podcast where we talk about the was the is and the will be in the world of all things Nimaha. This has been Jay and Mr Williams thanks for listening everybody and have a wonderful wonderful summer