Borah Pridecast

In Episode #40, we offer some teacher quick takes on that universal part of everyone’s school experience: lunch in the cafeteria. Ms. Compton, Mr. Rose and your host spent some time in the studio reminiscing over our own histories with school cafeterias of our pasts, and then we recently spent a lunch period gathered at one of round tables in the Borah Cafeteria, paid our 5 dollars and 10 cents, g...

How many books have you read in the last year? Go ahead—pick a number and hold onto it. Now, press play on this episode of the Borah Pridecast and meet a group of students who are driven readers and rabid competitors. For the past four years, Borah High School’s Idaho Battle of the Books team—affectionately known as the Big Friendly Slugs—has taken on the challenge of reading a dozen carefully sel...

This third installment of our Mix Tape series has the music-minded duo of Kris King and Brad Peachey contemplating covers -- those songs that find different interpretations with different bands and different singers. As an added “bonus” -- those are sarcastic quotes -- Chuck McHenry offers a couple of the worst covers he’s uncovered (get it?). Give Episode 38 a listen, and don’t forget to hit that...

Welcome Pridecast listeners! This episode of the Borah Pridecast is all about anticipating and planning for a future after high school and includes an interview with Sherise Porchia, Borah’s College and Career counselor, who spends her days at this school instilling hope for that future in young people. Can there be a better job than that? Plus, senior Sussanah Biggs sits down with senior Harmony...

Welcome to Season 9, Episode 36 of the Borah Pridecast! In this episode, AP Government Teacher Korrin Rue interviews a couple of Borah High seniors who spent 6 months as senate pages in Washington D.C last year.; you'll also hear a couple local club spots, and back by popular demand, art teacher Pat Rose resurrects the Prep Period Cold Call. His victim this episode is SPED teacher Russ Byrne -- wh...

Welcome to Season 9 of the Borah Podcast! This quick overview of the coming season offers new student voices to the Podcast! Student hosts and commentators have been working tirelessly to put together new bits, interviews, and a few surprises. The Borah Pridecast is devoted to everything Borah High School -- it’s students, staff, and the school community. Welcome to Season 9! These are Borah voice...

As the school year comes to an end and we set our sights on summer break, the Pridecast sits down once again with Borah social studies teacher, Korrin Rue to chat about the president's first 100 days and teaching a U.S. Government class in these politically charged times. We also offer a brief overview of sounds from the Borah Faculty vs. Seniors softball game, You can hear the sharp PING! of the...

For this Pridecast episode, we sit down with Don Day, founder and publisher of Boise Dev – an online news and growth publication for Boise and the Treasure Valley. A 1999 alum, Don began his journalism career as an editor for Borah High School’s newspaper, the Senator, where he honed his skills as both a thoughtful, investigative reporter and a techy, webmaster wizard. And his trajectory of succes...

If you’ve ever heard an old favorite song and it reminded you of a bygone time, or event -- the high school dance, the first kiss, your first job -- you understand the special relationship between music and the human psyche. And if, like us, you constantly keep shuffling and reshuffling pieces of music to form the soundtrack of your life (come on, we’ve all done it), then you’ve come to the right...

Welcome to Season 8 of the Borah Pridecast -- the only school podcast in the Boise School District. This season promises to be -- as the kids say -- totally FIRE (or is it rizz?). Now would be a good time to subscribe to the Pridecast, and its sister podcast, Borah Voices, which is totally written, recorded, edited, and produced by Borah High School students. These are Borah Voices!

If you’ve ever heard an old favorite song and it reminded you of a bygone time, or event -- the high school dance, the first kiss, the bitter breakup (you know who you are!) -- then have a listen to a couple of Borah High's unofficial musicphiles and life-long friends, Kris King and Brad Peachey. This is the first installment of their "Mix Tape" podcast series, and you're going to learn a lot. A l...

The 7th season of the Borah Pridecast has been a "restructuring" year. Our audio expert, Mr. Wray, did what a lot of teachers hope to do: he retired. So, we've been trying to get some episodes done while learning the editing ropes; and it's been a tough year, but we've finally found the "on air" button on the this thing, so here comes Episode #31! In this sit down interview with Borah U.S. Governm...

The Pridecast is set to go for Season 7 and the podcast crew is eager to drop some episodes. Stay tuned, too, for the 2nd Season of Borah Voices, the completely student generated podcast from Borah High School. It's going to be a great year! These are Borah voices.

Pin on your boutonnieres, and tighten your cummerbunds! This episode dropped back in April of 2018 -- before COVID ruined the high school prom. A little romcom, a little tragicomedy as Borah teachers offer a nostalgic look back at their own high school prom nights. Hattie Smith (2018 grad) gives her"Hattie Minute" -- and her two cents -- about student "promposals," and Ms. Hughes offers student li...

Episode #3 finds the podcast team sliding into the 4th quarter with the slight, exciting twinge of summer break on the horizon. We chat up students standing in line for the Friday Food Trucks; seniors share their graduation plans, the podcast crew introduce themselves. We also reached into the Borah Pridecast archives to retrieve Mr. Rose's Prep Period Cold Call with Mrs. Atkins, and a short excer...

The winter episode of Borah Voices features interviews with Borah Debate students, whacky and weird holiday gifts and traditions; Mr. Samano talks up the Borah Snow Team. There's a movie review in the mix, as well as an interview with the Youth Programs Coordinator at the Boise Brick House full of information about teen and family mental health options. Give a listen and don't forget to subscribe!...

Welcome to Episode 1 of Borah Voices -- A sister podcast of the Borah Pridecast and the first podcast in the Boise School District (and probably the state of Idaho) produced, recorded, and edited solely and completely by students. Your hosts for this episode, Camille, Tommy, and Scarlett, bring listeners on a Cross Country team bus trip, then record "Man-on-the-street" style among the throng of Bo...

Welcome to Season 6 of the Pridecast. This season opener introduces a new podcast in the Pridecast family. "Borah Voices" is totally student-produced and hosted, offering a focused look at student life at Borah High School. In this opening episode, Camille and Sloane offer listeners "Will You Cringe?" and interviews with seniors who talk about their cool parking space designs. Drobny offers his pi...

Carlos and Miles talk some shop, Tommy talks to band kids, an interview with Borah Tennis Coach, Mr. Stafford, and the Borah Debaters talk really fast and will argue about anything! These are Borah Voices!

Episode 27 is this year's first fully student-produced podcast. Senior Co-hosts Carlos and Miles and their bevy of student correspondents report in on the first semester happenings at Borah High School. Interviews, movie reviews, and student-on-the-street Homecoming questions. These are Borah voices.

Well, it's October at Borah (it's October everywhere, probably), and our seniors are starting to get the College itch. Time to start thinking FAFSA, letters of rec requests(we hear plying a certain English teacher with a bottle or two of strawberry milk will greatly improve that recommendation letter!), and making that list of potential schools. In this episode, Ethan chats up Borah's College and...

Here comes season 5 of the Borah Pridecast! We have new hosts, new segments, and, just like Episode 4 of Star Wars: A New Hope. What is it? You'll have to subscribe to find out! These are Borah Voices.

On Saturday, February 1, 2020 Jad Abumrad, host of Radio Lab and Dolly Parton’s America podcast series, visited the Borah High School library in Boise. For over an hour, in a library jammed with eager students, Jad graciously sat for an interview with Borah Pridecast student host, Ellie Smith (graduating class of 2020!). A few weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic surged, and the school year went vir...

After 10 months out of the studio at Borah High School, the Borah Pridecast team is back! In February of 2020, Jad Abumrad -- host of Radio Lab and Dolly Parton's America -- stopped by Borah to meet and talk to our Podcast club. Our (now graduated) Ellie Smith interviewed Jad for over an hour, and you will get to hear that full interview when Episode #25 of the Borah Pridecast drops in a day or tw...

School in the time of Coronavirus. We interview some students about their day-to-day lives during the pandemic. Borah's social worker, Becky Woodland walks us through the help available to students during this closure -- plus some "Price is Right" memories on the Pandemic Period Cold Call. And Borah staff and students look toward a different kind of graduation this year. From bedrooms and back por...