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04/09/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Allison Brill, Olivia Hubbard Laverty, Rob James, Jennifer Pharr, Jay Silverman · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 4: is here. You know him from the Dirty Birds, but
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  Speaker 4: like most of us, he is a side hustle these days.
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  Speaker 4: Families want to help out Rob James and that group
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  Speaker 4: want to tell you about a group called Rebuilding to
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  Speaker 4: gather Now these folks do home repairs everything from ramps
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  Speaker 4: to handrails to new roofs for homeowners and Canal and
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  Speaker 4: Putnam Counties have been doing this for like thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't do.
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  Speaker 4: Stuff without this like this without funds. Executive director is
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  Speaker 4: Alison Brill. She is here along with Olivia Hubbard lebrity.
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  Speaker 4: Am I pronouncing that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Who is on the board of this organizations? Well, good morning,
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  Speaker 4: Alison will start with you. Good morning, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks so much for having me appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let me have you coming to that microphone just
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  Speaker 4: a little bit there, Okay, better, there you go, there
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  Speaker 4: you go, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Olivia and I, of course we go way back from
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  Speaker 4: my days in state government, so I already know her.
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  Speaker 4: So let's let people get to know you a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: tell me about you, and tell me about this organization.
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  Speaker 4: Then we'll bring a Livy in. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: forget you'll Livy.
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  Speaker 2: We go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm originally from Hampshire County, so in the eastern
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  Speaker 5: Panhandle is where I grew up, and I came down
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  Speaker 5: here in twenty sixteen for an internship and I ended
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  Speaker 5: up working a lot with Rebuilding Together Charleston, and when
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  Speaker 5: I graduated in twenty seventeen from Wesleyan, I moved down
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  Speaker 5: here and accept the position of executive director. And so
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  Speaker 5: I've been here since or about ten years now, and
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  Speaker 5: I've hopefully done a good job. They haven't given up
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  Speaker 5: for me yet, but I've been trying to revitalize the
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  Speaker 5: organization and bring them back to what they were in
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  Speaker 5: the heyday. A lot of people know our organization by
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  Speaker 5: Christmas and April, and we've changed that name from the
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  Speaker 5: nineties when we first started out to Christmas and to
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  Speaker 5: Rebuilding Together in about two thousand and five.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so explain the basic mission statement of the organization absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: So we try to repair homes, revitalize communities, rebuild lives.
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  Speaker 5: So repairing homes pretty much speaks for itself, I think.
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  Speaker 5: So anything that is essential to make your home warmer, safer, dryer,
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  Speaker 5: we try and do revitalizing communities. Sometimes the work we do,
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  Speaker 5: and a good majority of it tries to actually revitalize
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  Speaker 5: the neighborhood, bring it back to life. So we usually
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  Speaker 5: have work on a home on a block the neighborhood
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  Speaker 5: hears about us. Do you work for the neighbor as well,
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  Speaker 5: and it brings it back to life.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's not just about one home, it's about
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  Speaker 4: the entire blocks.
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  Speaker 5: The entire blocks absolutely so. Even in the rural communities,
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  Speaker 5: the word gets out from neighbor telling neighbor of what
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  Speaker 5: we do and what we did for them. And you
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  Speaker 5: can see a change even the royal communities as you
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  Speaker 5: drive down their lane.
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  Speaker 4: What is the most common one or two requests that
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  Speaker 4: you get for specific things? I mean, were the most
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  Speaker 4: one or two common ones?
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  Speaker 5: So the most common ones currently that we have is
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  Speaker 5: something as simple as hand rails. We actually have several
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  Speaker 5: people requesting handrails that can be inside or outside of
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  Speaker 5: the home. And the other one is also showers, So
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  Speaker 5: we're people are asking us to do walk in showers
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  Speaker 5: for them and because they can't step over that threshold
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  Speaker 5: of like what the baftub is anymore, and so they.
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  Speaker 4: Are because the changes that have happened in their lives,
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  Speaker 4: a medical condition, accident, something like that.
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  Speaker 5: It can be anybody in their you know, thirties who
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  Speaker 5: had an accident in medical issue that they're asking us, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: I can't take a shower, I don't have dignant anymore. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: all the way to you know, you're a great aunt
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  Speaker 5: who is ninety two years old.
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  Speaker 4: So I think, I think it's a wonderful organization. And
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  Speaker 4: these services are free of.
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  Speaker 5: Charge, absolutely no charge to the homeowner at all.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so how do people get on your list or
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  Speaker 4: how do how do they qualify for this?
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  Speaker 5: So we asked that people, of course like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 5: live in kana Putnham County, they have to own their home,
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  Speaker 5: they have to lived there for at least three years
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  Speaker 5: and be considered low income. So we have the income
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  Speaker 5: requirements on our website, so we do fifty percent of
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  Speaker 5: the area immediate income. And so most people who ask
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  Speaker 5: for applications qualified, So are applications on the website and
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  Speaker 5: also they can call and we can send it to them.
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  Speaker 4: Let me you're on the board here, and now I
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  Speaker 4: know you haven't been on the board for very long,
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  Speaker 4: but tell us about this organization, what you've learned and
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  Speaker 4: being on the board.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, so I have been on the board about
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  Speaker 6: six months now, and Allison was very modest. She has
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  Speaker 6: done an amazing job growing the organization. We recently received
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  Speaker 6: a HUD grant, a federal grant that is specific to
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  Speaker 6: the West Side, and so we're going to be working
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  Speaker 6: on a lot of homes in the two five three
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  Speaker 6: zero two zip code under this federal grant, which is
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  Speaker 6: really exciting and it's a great opportunity for that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: I have learned. I've learned a lot in the short
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  Speaker 6: time that I have been on the board. This organization
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  Speaker 6: is turning thirty this year. It's the thirtieth organization also
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  Speaker 6: turned thirty this year, so that was exciting to learn. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: but just they do like stories. If you want to
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  Speaker 6: check out the Facebook, we do stories of like homeowners
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  Speaker 6: that we've helped and different features like that, and it's
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  Speaker 6: just incredible. Allison told a story recently at one of
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  Speaker 6: our board meetings about a man who was in a
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  Speaker 6: power chair and we were able to put to redo
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  Speaker 6: his porch so that he could leave his home. He
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  Speaker 6: immediately went to the dollar store. He was so excited
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  Speaker 6: to be able to get back to the dollar store
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  Speaker 6: that used to be his hangout. But he told the
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  Speaker 6: volunteer crew that had worked He's like, I have been
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  Speaker 6: a prisoner in my home and you guys just released me.
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  Speaker 6: And it was just so powerful to hear, and that's
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  Speaker 6: true of many of the homeowners that were able to help.
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  Speaker 4: And those are things, Olivia and Allison, things that we
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  Speaker 4: take for granted, those of us that are able bodied
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  Speaker 4: and get up and go, as you said, to the
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  Speaker 4: dollar store, go to McDonald's, whatever the case may be,
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  Speaker 4: go to grocery store, go to church. But when something
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  Speaker 4: happens like that, especially if it's I would think if
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  Speaker 4: it's somebody that this is a sudden occurrence in their home,
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  Speaker 4: it's a sudden illness or sudden injury or something like
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  Speaker 4: that that has left them. As you said, this gentleman
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  Speaker 4: liked to go to the dollar store. It's something he
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  Speaker 4: did maybe a couple of times a day. Told suddenly
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  Speaker 4: you used to term prisoner in your own home. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is life changing for these folks, it is.
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  Speaker 6: And the organization we have we do a lot of
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  Speaker 6: those type of repairs with volunteers too, which is really
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  Speaker 6: powerful to see these groups come. It can be like
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  Speaker 6: a employer that does a volunteer day and you can,
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  Speaker 6: you know, work on somebody sport or put in handrails
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  Speaker 6: or things like that. And then they also if it's
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  Speaker 6: a roof or something like that, we'll use contractors, but
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  Speaker 6: to see those volunteer groups meet and really make a
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  Speaker 6: huge change in somebody's life, Like I think it's powerful
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  Speaker 6: for everybody involved.
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  Speaker 4: And I would think that when these different like I
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  Speaker 4: know the United Way has their Day of Giving, many
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  Speaker 4: many companies do, private companies do things like this where
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  Speaker 4: they take a day and they go help out with
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  Speaker 4: this organization or that organization. I would think that that
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  Speaker 4: would be ideal for some of them just to come
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  Speaker 4: in kind of help you out. And you don't do
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  Speaker 4: these things though without funds, and so you need funds.
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  Speaker 4: Where can people donate, whether it's time, cash or monetary
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  Speaker 4: donation or materials, Where can people donate and get involved?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely so just the basic when people think of donate cash.
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  Speaker 5: We have a system on our websites. You go on
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  Speaker 5: a website, it will probably pop up say you want
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  Speaker 5: to donate, So that's someplace they can donate as well.
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  Speaker 5: Can also nail a check or things like that and
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  Speaker 5: get back to them. But also we're looking to improve
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  Speaker 5: the local volunteerism. We know people love to volunteer. We
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  Speaker 5: know there's people with skills, there's people without skills, and
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  Speaker 5: just good hearts and want to help their neighbor, so
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  Speaker 5: they can call our office, email us carry your pigeon.
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  Speaker 5: At this point, we'll get back to them. And so
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  Speaker 5: we're trying to look for either organization's businesses anything like that,
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  Speaker 5: churches just to volunteer and get back to the community.
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  Speaker 5: We try and partner them with a homeowner that best
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  Speaker 5: suits their skill sets and needs and such. So we're
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  Speaker 5: not just going to throw you on a project without
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  Speaker 5: ever talking to you. We talk to you and your
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  Speaker 5: organization a lot before we pick a project.
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  Speaker 4: Is there an age for volunteers, because I mean, is
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  Speaker 4: there like an age requirement you have to be like
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  Speaker 4: twenty one or we.
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  Speaker 5: Actually have at least fourteen. So we have a lot
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  Speaker 5: of church teams come in the summer months and we
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  Speaker 5: teach the youth how to build like a wheel trip.
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  Speaker 4: I say that because I'm bringing this up all the
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  Speaker 4: time on the show. If you are graduating high school,
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  Speaker 4: you have to have so many community service hours and
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  Speaker 4: there are various things you can do in the community.
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  Speaker 4: Is this something that they would qualify for some point?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So in the past we've actually worked with usually groups
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  Speaker 5: of teenagers and usually they have like one adult with them.
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  Speaker 5: From either their school or one of their parents or something.
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  Speaker 5: And so they can work on a project if they
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  Speaker 5: get in touch with us, and we can try and
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  Speaker 5: match them to a project, and we certify that, yes,
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  Speaker 5: you did volunteer with us. Here are the hours you
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  Speaker 5: volunteered with us.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking with Olivia and Allison's rebuilding together. The Dave
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  Speaker 4: Alan Show in five eighty Live has brought you in
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  Speaker 4: part by Morgan to Morgan with more than twenty billion
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  Speaker 4: dollars recovered. They believe that when you're injured, you deserve more.
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  Speaker 4: Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. We had
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  Speaker 4: a text here it said, our home is in desperty
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  Speaker 4: of a floor section replacements in different rooms. I think
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  Speaker 4: our foundation is sinking causing is Does your organization help
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  Speaker 4: with things like that?
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  Speaker 5: So we do help with flooring issues such as that.
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  Speaker 5: That's one of the repairs that a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: have contacted us about. We do, not, however, work on foundations,
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  Speaker 5: just partially because we have our own insurance and we
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  Speaker 5: can't work on foundations because that's a little too sensitive
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  Speaker 5: if something went wrong with a contractor or something. And
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  Speaker 5: also so there's a limit of what we can input
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  Speaker 5: into a home for monetary wise, we can only go
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  Speaker 5: up to a certain amount on projects depending on the
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  Speaker 5: funding that we have. So we won't work on a foundation,
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  Speaker 5: but we can usually work on the flooring.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and I'll give a big shout out. We have
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  Speaker 4: several people that advertise with this company. I know the
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  Speaker 4: folks at Foster Foundation Repair do a fantastic job, so
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  Speaker 4: to the to the text there, if you want to
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  Speaker 4: try to get in touch with those folks. I mean
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  Speaker 4: they're a company, so now they can't do it for free,
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  Speaker 4: but they may be able to help you out the
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  Speaker 4: Foster Foundation. There's so many that do great things and
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  Speaker 4: that advertise with us. But I want to kind of
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  Speaker 4: get in my there as well. What's your website so
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  Speaker 4: people can learn more?
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  Speaker 5: So our website is www dot rt WV dot org. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: such as we've ailding together West Virginia dot work.
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  Speaker 4: And you're on social media, Yes, We're on.
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  Speaker 5: Facebook and were on Instagram, so we pretty have pretty
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  Speaker 5: active social media's there so people can kind of follow along,
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  Speaker 5: which we encourage. This month, we're going to be sharing
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  Speaker 5: a lot more about what we do, the work we
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  Speaker 5: do and the impact it does in the community.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, you're always welcome back in the show,
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  Speaker 4: show any time you want to come back. Alison Brill
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  Speaker 4: and Olivia, I appreciate you both for being here with
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  Speaker 4: us today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Keep doing great things in the community.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks so much for having us.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm done. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Day next Wednesday, some folks could use a little help.
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  Speaker 4: Rob James is here with a group, West Virginia Alliance
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  Speaker 4: for Sustainable Families. You got it, Yeah, all right, I
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  Speaker 2: So welcome to the show. Thank you, Thank you so much.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, this is so the West Virginia Alliance for Sustainable Families.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: We are a.
• 16:26
  Speaker 11: Nonprofit that was basically created to do what's called the
• 16:31
  Speaker 11: VITA program, which is volunteer income Tax Assistance, which means
• 16:34
  Speaker 11: that we provide free income tax preparation for load of
• 16:37
  Speaker 11: moderate income or load of moderate individuals in families with
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: load of moderate income individuals and families in West Virginia
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: and so next Wednesday. And this is the first time
• 16:50
  Speaker 11: we've ever done anything exactly like this. Well, I've formed
• 16:55
  Speaker 11: basically a coalition, an alliance, if you will, of a
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: bunch of different We have a few sites in the
• 17:02
  Speaker 11: charlest scenario that do free income tax prep and so
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: several of them. We're going to get together at the
• 17:08
  Speaker 11: United Way of Central West Virginia on Wednesday from ten
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: am to four pm and we're going to do a
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: day where folks can just walk in and if they
• 17:16
  Speaker 11: haven't got their taxes done, they can get their taxes
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: done and we'll be there to.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Help them out.
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: And honestly, if you haven't done your taxes by April fifteenth,
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: it's probably a reason. And that reason is probably because
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: you suspect that you owe money.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: You owe money, or maybe or maybe you can't afford
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: to have them done, right.
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we we're at we're in nonprofit.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: We're absolutely free.
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: If you do owe money to the irs, we can
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: kind of guide you through that process to make it
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: as painless as possible. I can't promise you that we're
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: not going to be able.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: To mitigate what you owe. We're going to be able to.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: You're not in that part of the business.
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: No, No, we're going to make it a lot easier.
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: So that yeah, that's what we do. So we have
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: the United Way and the Maker Center which is on
• 18:03
  Speaker 11: the west side on Patrick Street.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: And oh no, it just lost my just left my mind.
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: Oh Pride Community Services, which is it's down near the
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: ballpark and Logan is where they come from their Logan.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I'm very familiar with the Pride organization from Logan and
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I spent a lot of time. Yeah, I spent a
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: lot of time with the folks with with the with
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: with Pride of Logan County and they've kind of expanded
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: beyond that to go to other areas now. But they're
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: based in Logan.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: You're right, right, yeah, but now they are.
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: They have an office in Kanna County and they've been
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: kind enough to help us do taxes. They've actually been
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: doing taxes with me at the library at the Big
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: Library downtown for all of taxis and and and they're
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: kinder still because they're going to do our free income
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: prep tax Day, last Minute tax Day at the United Away.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: So when you say it's it's for lower income people, Yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: so how do you what's what's the income? I mean,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: how do you how does that work?
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: Well, we're we ask that folks keep it to under
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: seventy thousand.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, so if your income is under.
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: Seventy thousand, then come on down. We also don't do
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: anything super complicated. We want to help as many people
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: as we can. And the VITA program, which is actually
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: funded by the I r S.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: We actually we get it. We're not the i r S.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not the IRS.
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: We get a grant from the I r S to
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: do free income to exprop And there's certain things that
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: we are allowed to do in certain things we're not
• 19:38
  Speaker 11: allowed to do. So we can't do any anyone that
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: has rental properties. We can't do anyone that has a farm,
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: we can't do anyone that has We're not going to
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: do anyone that has a form called a K one,
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: which if you don't know taxes and don't know what
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: that means, that's fine. But if you do, if you
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: get a K one, you know what a K one is.
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: It's a distribution from a partnership, a state or trust.
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: And if you have a really complicated business, then you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: we want to help as many people as possible. So
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: we're not going to do any super complicated schedulecye businesses.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: But you can do you can do businesses. I mean
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: as long as it's a simple type business.
• 20:17
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah, if you if you have all of your expenses
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: and everything together pretty well, and you're for example, if
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: you you're an uber driver or something like that, Yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: come on down.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: But if you have but if.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: You're Toyota of West Virginia probably.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, any kind of self employed business.
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: Just to not to get too far into the nitty gritty,
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: but if you have an inventory that you keep track of,
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: or if you have if you have anything that has
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: depreciation on it, yeah, then that's not what I'm here.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: And it's like pretty much somebody you mentioned an uber driver.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I'm picturing somebody that maybe is in business for themselves,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: like a one man, one woman operation. Yeah, it's kind
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: of simple, uh cort of thing. Maybe I don't want
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: to I don't want to throw it anything out there
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: because I don't want anybody to say, well, he says,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: my profession is simple, that's not what I mean. But
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I mean if it's a simple you know, lawn care
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: or something like, you could probably do that, right.
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, anything like that's kind of a gig economy thing,
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: then that might put it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: That's what we would do.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Primarily you're looking for individuals, I mean that you're looking
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: to help individuals.
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, We're going to help as many people as
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: we can. From ten to four we've got We've got
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: volunteers from all over. And also I would be remiss
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: Chemic Credit Union, which is in Dunbar. They also do
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: free income tax prep and you might give them a
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: call as well.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Between now and Wednesday.
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: I think they're going to be doing it on their
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: own up to the day anyway, so Chemic Credit Union,
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: I would give them a call. And then the United
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: Way Central West Virginia, which if you don't know, it's
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: near the restore and Greens Feed and Seed. Ten to
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: four we're going to be doing it and just just
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: come on down. I don't know exactly how chaotic it's
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: going to be, because this is the first time we've
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: done anything like this. It could be that half a
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: dozen people show up, and it could be that one
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: hundred people show up. We're open for closer to one hundred,
• 22:13
  Speaker 11: but let's not go crazy. But it is, we'll get
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: you in and out of there pretty fast too.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: What would make it for the tax prepares Rob What
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: would make it easier on you guys if people should
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't want people just showing up going, hey,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I need to do my taxes. Yeah, you got to
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: have something you got to bring some sort of paper
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: in right.
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, So the easiest thing that you can do
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: to facilitate it is make sure that you have your
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: IDs ready, make sure that everybody that's listed as a
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: tax payer so the primary person in the spouse is
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: present and available to sign. We really can't, you know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: we can't let people go home if we had to
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: verify everyone's identity. So we can't let people take things
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: home and have them sign it and bring them back.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: Just make sure you know that you they're either there
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: with you or if you've made or you've made arrangements
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: to get them there that day. And make sure that
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: you have all your tax paperwork, that's any kind of
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: income documents, anything from the State of West Virginia that
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: gets your refund fright. For example, the state of West
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: Virginia has something called the MV one and what it is,
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: it's a rebate on your personal property tax if you
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: pay your personal property taxes on online, that's.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Let your cars taxes on your car.
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: And so if you if you have that form and
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: I'd go digging through the mail for it, bring it
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: in because we in order to get you that rebate
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: on your taxes, we got to see the form, so
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: look for it. If you're if you're thinking about coming in,
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: make sure that you look for it. Look for the
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: MV one form. And if you don't have it, but
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: you suspect that you did pay your taxes online, then
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: you can go on the West Virginia tax website, which
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: I think is my Taxes WV dot gov. And if
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: if that's not it, you can just you can google it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: Make sure anytime you're dealing with taxes, make sure that
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: the web address that you're looking at is a dot
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: gov address when you want to get anything official. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: go ahead and you can go on that website. You
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: just have to put in your name, your the tax
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: ticket number, which you can find on the Kanaw County
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: Shaff's office website, and your driver's license number. And if
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: there is a form out there that you can use
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: for your taxes, you'll be able to find it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Are you still in need of volunteers to help out
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: or are you good on that? I mean somebody, if
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: somebody's listening right now, they say, hey, this sounds like
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: a great thing. I have the skill set to do
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: this on an accountant or whatever, and I would like
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: to do this could I come help. Do you still
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: need people to do that?
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: We don't need people this year. Everybody, every volunteer that
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: we have is certified by the IRS.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So it's a whole thing. I got you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: You get to take a you have to take a
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: certification test in order to do it, and then you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: we want you to go through a training and so
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: there's just.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Not really time I get it this year.
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: But however, I'm not going to turn any volunteers away
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: next year. So if you're listening to this and you
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: you think, oh, I'd love to do that, I'd love
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: to help out the community, because, believe it or not, David,
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: this is hard to believe. There are people out there
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: that love doing tax returns. There are people out there
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: that will do tax return after tax return after tax return,
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: and I'm one of them.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to sit down here. I like what you like.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody everybody said that, like my coworker TJ. Meadows,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure he wouldn't mind for me saying this.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Would probably give up one of his children for an
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: opportunity to do a to do a spreadsheet. It's his thing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: And when we are having a meeting, the other.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Day about some things, and he said.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I'll do a spreadsheet. I'll do a spreadsheet. And I'm like,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: you're you're sick, you know, just so you know, but
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: everybody likes what they like.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: I'm absolutely the same way. I love a good spreadsheet. Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: but if so, But if you are that kind of person,
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: if you're the kind of person like you know, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: there are there are people in you know, they're probably
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: pretty grumpy about it, but secretly they love it. Because
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: there are people that are like, oh no, I just
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: do my taxes online, and then somebody in their family
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: finds out about it and they're like, can you do
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: my taxes? And then you know, it kind of snowballs
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: from there and suddenly they're responsible for half a dozen
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: families during tax season, and you know, again they're like,
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: oh okay. But the truth is is they probably enjoy it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: They enjoy kind of the the numbers aspect of it
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: or the puzzles aspect of it. So if you're one
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: of those people, please get in touch with me our
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: James at WVASF dot org.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: That's the West.
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: Virginia Alliance for Sustainable Families, So it's WVASF dot org
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: and it's our James, and reach out to me, and
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: I'm happy to I'm happy to have any volunteers. I
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: will talk to you after tax season and then we'll
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: work on it. And also if you have any questions
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: about the event, if you're like, well, I'm not sure
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: if I qualify, so on and so forth, you can
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: also email me. I would prefer you email me and
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: ask me before you show up and we have to
• 27:07
  Speaker 11: figure it out live. So yeah, definitely, any questions about
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: it or any questions about the organization, please feel free
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: to email me.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: All right, And the event is on tax Day, but
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: one are the hours again in the location.
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: It is going to be Wednesday, April fifteenth, the United
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: Way of Central West Virginia, and we're going to start
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: around ten, we're going to end around four. I will
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: say that events like this depending upon how many people
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: find out about it, and that's why I'm here, of course,
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: that it tend to be very popular. So you might
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: consider showing up a little bit early. Don't come out
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: in the parking lot at six am, but if you do,
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: bring donuts.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: I've been doing taxes for ten years, both privately and
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: for this nonprofit, and I can tell you that when
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: it's taxiason, there is never a time when I went
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: into work to taxes and there.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Wasn't somebody waiting for me.
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: It doesn't it doesn't matter how early I get it,
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: get there, there's always that there There used to be
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: somebody in the parking lot waiting for me anytime I
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: got there. So you know, and we realize that's going
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: to happen. But yeah, if you want to get your
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: taxes done early, get in and out come early. These
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: people are really good. We got people that have been
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: to on taxes for many, many years. So what that
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: means is that they're pretty fast, and that means that
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: we are going to do our best to get folks
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: in and out of there as soon as possible because
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: we want to help the most people we can. And
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: you know, in that six hour timeframe. So you know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 11: if you if you want it done, if you want
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: it done, first come in early, because it's going to
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: be first come, first serve, walk in and you will
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: be amazed by at the speed in which we can
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: get it done for you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Rob James, West, Virginia Alliance for Sustainable Families, appreciate you
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: being here, man.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: Oh, thanks, thanks a lot, good good to see you
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: and thanks for having me. Good luck with everything on Wednesday.
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: It's probably gonna be a little zany, but hopefully we
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: can contain the chaos at least a little bit. But
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: if you need your tax is done. We hope to
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: see you.
• 29:12
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  Speaker 4: Jennifer farr A and Autumn Rucker Family Healthcare Centers here.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, folks, welcome to the show. Good morning, Autumn,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: welcome to job.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Then, Jennifer is a regular. This first time you've been
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: on the show though, right, yeah, all right, So we
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: need to get to know you we already know, Jennifer. Okay,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: so we can get to tell us about Autumn Rocker.
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: So I'm Autumn Rocker with Curate Designs, an in full
• 33:19
  Speaker 16: service interior design studio, and I'm working with Family Care
• 33:24
  Speaker 16: on their upcoming maternal health fare on a special giveaway.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Okay, comit a little closer to the microphone for me there,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: All right, Jennifer, tell us about what you get going
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: on at Family Health.
• 33:34
  Speaker 17: So this Saturday at the birth center at one o
• 33:37
  Speaker 17: eight Washington Street West in Elk City, we are having
• 33:40
  Speaker 17: a maternal healthfare in our parking lot at our birth
• 33:43
  Speaker 17: center and it'll be an opportunity for people to meet
• 33:46
  Speaker 17: the midwives and dulas and the staff that are there,
• 33:49
  Speaker 17: have some resources that are available, and one of the
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: things that we're most gracious for is that Autumn Rucker
• 33:56
  Speaker 17: Curate Designs. She's giving away a full nursery makeover during
• 34:00
  Speaker 17: the maternal health fare.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: All right, So how did you get hooked up in
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: this at them?
• 34:04
  Speaker 16: So I have known Jennifer and we have just kind
• 34:07
  Speaker 16: of had got to talking about the maternal health fare.
• 34:10
  Speaker 16: And my heart has always been for mothers as I'm
• 34:13
  Speaker 16: a mother myself and It just has always been something
• 34:16
  Speaker 16: that I've wanted to be able to do, is to
• 34:17
  Speaker 16: give back to the community, and it just seemed like
• 34:20
  Speaker 16: the perfect way to be able to do that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: So complete makeovers what you're saying right, Yeah, for the nursery,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: what kind of things would I guess it would depend
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: on the particular situation. But what kind of things are
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: we talking about a particular that you think you might
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: do with this kid one?
• 34:34
  Speaker 16: Yeah, So I want to be able to work with
• 34:36
  Speaker 16: the mother and help them come up with a design
• 34:38
  Speaker 16: for their nursery that they love, to help them personalize
• 34:41
  Speaker 16: the nursery for their child. It will include a crib,
• 34:45
  Speaker 16: the bedding, a rug, wal art, a chair for the mother,
• 34:50
  Speaker 16: the room painted and just put together for them to
• 34:53
  Speaker 16: where they're ready for their baby when they come home.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Jiffer, I want to talk about this birthing center that
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: you've got of there. We'll get into the other things.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Is you're a regular on the show, as I said,
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: with family health care centers, but talk about this birth
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: and center. But in case people haven't heard you talk
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: about it in the past.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 35:06
  Speaker 17: So Family Care began almost thirty seven years ago with
• 35:09
  Speaker 17: four midwives that thought women should have a choice in
• 35:11
  Speaker 17: the way that they gave birth. Started in Putnam County,
• 35:14
  Speaker 17: it's grown to four counties, twenty two locations, five mobile
• 35:18
  Speaker 17: medical units. We service about forty schools and the birth
• 35:21
  Speaker 17: center has just been that's the essence of family care.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: That's how we began.
• 35:25
  Speaker 17: So about seven years ago we moved to the second
• 35:29
  Speaker 17: floor of where doctor Patten's office is, or what used
• 35:31
  Speaker 17: to be the former Kelly Men's shop, and there are
• 35:33
  Speaker 17: two birthing tubs there. We have three midwives that are
• 35:36
  Speaker 17: on staff. We have three obgyns. So if a mother
• 35:40
  Speaker 17: wants to give birth in the birthing tub, or she
• 35:42
  Speaker 17: just wants to give birth, we have like a it's
• 35:44
  Speaker 17: a suite where there's a bed, there's the tub, there's
• 35:47
  Speaker 17: a waiting area for the family. The family can be
• 35:50
  Speaker 17: in the room when they give birth if they want to.
• 35:53
  Speaker 17: And if something does happen where all of a sudden,
• 35:56
  Speaker 17: we need to go to a hospital. Women's and Children's.
• 35:58
  Speaker 17: Is someone that has a good baseball arm, they could
• 36:01
  Speaker 17: throw a ball and hit Women's and Children's from the
• 36:03
  Speaker 17: bus center. And we just want people to know that
• 36:05
  Speaker 17: there are options.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: We had a text here you said, can anyone register
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: for the nursery or only expectant parents.
• 36:12
  Speaker 17: I think we allow anyone to register. I mean, I
• 36:14
  Speaker 17: think my mother would go for me if when I
• 36:16
  Speaker 17: was pregnant, she would have gone.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: They may know somebody, absolutely, So if somebody gets this,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: then they can gift it, I guess to whoever they want,
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: right and you know, if they find somebody that needs it,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: definitely and remind us ofeing how how you'll register during
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: this event?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Absolutely?
• 36:31
  Speaker 17: And one of the things that we just want people
• 36:33
  Speaker 17: to do if they want a register for this awesome
• 36:36
  Speaker 17: giveaway and what an incredible heart Autumn has to do this,
• 36:39
  Speaker 17: but we want them to just take a tour the
• 36:41
  Speaker 17: bus center just so that they can see what it's about,
• 36:43
  Speaker 17: have some interaction with the menwives, and just really see.
• 36:48
  Speaker 17: And I don't want to say that it's an amazing
• 36:49
  Speaker 17: place because that's where I work, But truly I didn't
• 36:53
  Speaker 17: know about it, David. I think I shared that with you,
• 36:55
  Speaker 17: you know, sitting on city council, I didn't know that
• 36:57
  Speaker 17: we had this facility that was a Charleston And I
• 37:01
  Speaker 17: just want so many people to understand what is available,
• 37:04
  Speaker 17: the options that they have, the resources that they have,
• 37:07
  Speaker 17: and all that we ask is that they just take
• 37:08
  Speaker 17: a tour the bus center.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: How many you give me a ballpark figure of how
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: many people utilize this on a yearly basis just a
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: ballpark figure.
• 37:15
  Speaker 17: So twenty. I do know the twenty twenty four statistics
• 37:20
  Speaker 17: we had. I believe it was two hundred and eighty
• 37:22
  Speaker 17: nine berths. Now does that mean that all of them
• 37:24
  Speaker 17: were birthed at the Burth Center. No, because some complications happen.
• 37:28
  Speaker 17: But this month in April, we are expecting twenty women
• 37:31
  Speaker 17: to give birth at the birth center. So that would
• 37:34
  Speaker 17: be a record for us if there was twenty women
• 37:36
  Speaker 17: that gave birth that way.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll give you an opportunity to talk about the
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: other things that are going on with your company that
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: with family health care. So what else you got going on?
• 37:46
  Speaker 17: Well, one of the biggest things that we've opened right
• 37:48
  Speaker 17: now is called prescription Care, and that's our pharmacy. We've
• 37:52
  Speaker 17: opened it in the loop in Saint Albans. So we
• 37:55
  Speaker 17: have our convenient Care, which is our urgent care, our
• 37:57
  Speaker 17: regular family practice, and then we have prescription Care. What
• 38:00
  Speaker 17: we're noticing is that there are lots of larger chains
• 38:04
  Speaker 17: that are closing and people need to have access to
• 38:06
  Speaker 17: pharmacy or pharmaceuticals. So we have been blessed to have
• 38:11
  Speaker 17: a grant funding that helps people that can't afford their
• 38:14
  Speaker 17: medication copase. And I know that I've shared with you
• 38:17
  Speaker 17: my previous experience having brain tumors and my parents' mortgage
• 38:20
  Speaker 17: their home to keep me alive. When you have someone
• 38:22
  Speaker 17: that walks up to you and says, my cope is
• 38:24
  Speaker 17: eight hundred dollars and I can't afford that. If it's
• 38:26
  Speaker 17: life saving medication, I believe everyone should have a way
• 38:29
  Speaker 17: to live. So we've been blessed to have some medication
• 38:33
  Speaker 17: assistance and we're actually trying to partner with folks to
• 38:36
  Speaker 17: let them know that we have this funding that's available
• 38:38
  Speaker 17: and it's holistic care. We're doing food as medicine. We're
• 38:42
  Speaker 17: seeing tremendous results with people that are learning how to
• 38:44
  Speaker 17: cook health here with our health and community education program,
• 38:47
  Speaker 17: and we're seeing their A one c's lower, we're seeing
• 38:49
  Speaker 17: their blood pressure lower, and people are actually getting access
• 38:53
  Speaker 17: to fresh foods and vegetables through a Fresh Connect card
• 38:56
  Speaker 17: that's fifty dollars that allows them to go to a
• 38:58
  Speaker 17: grocery store and buy fresh freets.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: One Alway's got a lot of good stuff going on.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: That's what I'll do, thank you, all right, so give
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: us the details on this event again.
• 39:04
  Speaker 17: It is the Maternal Health Figure. It'll be at one
• 39:06
  Speaker 17: o eight Washington Street West and the Burst Center parking lot.
• 39:10
  Speaker 17: We'll have lots of free giveaways, we will have tours,
• 39:13
  Speaker 17: we will have resources for mothers and expectant mothers, and
• 39:17
  Speaker 17: then also talk about some opioid settlement funds that we
• 39:20
  Speaker 17: received for those that are either in active addiction, long
• 39:22
  Speaker 17: term recovery, that are pregnant or want to become pregnant,
• 39:25
  Speaker 17: that we have some funding to help them and their
• 39:27
  Speaker 17: families as well.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, Autumn, hats off to you, as Jennifer said,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: for volunteering to do this, because it's a great thing.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure that whoever whoever gets that's that's that's
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: quite a substantial thing that you're doing there, So you
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: should be very very proud of yourself and your company.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Jennifer and On appreciate you both being here. Thanks,
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  Speaker 4: A movie about hot dogs, Yes, I Love It? Premiere
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  Speaker 4: Saturday night seven at the Alban Arts Center in Saint Albans.
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  Speaker 4: This kind of comes on the heels. What was a
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: couple of.
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  Speaker 20: Years ago that you and six years ago we started ago, Yes,
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  Speaker 20: started during COVID. We were looking for the best West
• 43:22
  Speaker 20: Virginia style hot dog?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: How many? You and I were talking?
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: So?
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: I know you did an interview with with with the
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Mountain earlier this morning.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, So how many hot dogs did you get in
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty four over two and a half years.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Two hundred and eighty four for two and a half years, okay,
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: And when you came out with your list, you practically
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: broke the internet. We did because people were upset. They
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: were because you didn't choose their play.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: And for those that missed all that, what was the
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: criteria for what made the best West Virginia hot dog?
• 43:55
  Speaker 20: Well, you had to have Slaw on your chili, I
• 43:58
  Speaker 20: mean on top of your dog, you know. So it
• 44:00
  Speaker 20: was the it was the mustard, the onion, the hot dog,
• 44:03
  Speaker 20: chili sauce or chili, whatever you want to call it,
• 44:06
  Speaker 20: top with Coleslaw. So so a lot of people are like,
• 44:08
  Speaker 20: where's Yans Yeans up there at That.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Was probably the one that you got the most pushed
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: back on. Yeah, Yans. And was there another one?
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just a There was a handful of others,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: just the.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: One that really people were that was.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: The one people upset about.
• 44:22
  Speaker 20: I'm like, well, they don't serve Slaw because you know,
• 44:25
  Speaker 20: there's a line that's a Slaw line.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Apparently around Ripley somewhere in that general apparently even a
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: little bit higher.
• 44:31
  Speaker 20: Okay, okay, but it's true. But you know you can
• 44:34
  Speaker 20: find Slaw. So we went to the Northern Panhandles, Eastern Panhandle,
• 44:38
  Speaker 20: and that story about that is also in the movie.
• 44:42
  Speaker 20: We talk about it we talked about it quite a bit,
• 44:44
  Speaker 20: and yeah, we had two million people talk about in
• 44:47
  Speaker 20: the first forty eight hours about that list. Because we
• 44:50
  Speaker 20: came out with the top fifty at first, two.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: Million people engaged in this.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, two and a half million over the course of
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: the week.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Two and a half million people for a couple of
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: wise guys from West Virginia.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 45:04
  Speaker 20: Yeah, And you can find the list at half on
• 45:06
  Speaker 20: wv dot com.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, the top one hundred.
• 45:09
  Speaker 20: We made at one hundred because people of nostalgia were
• 45:11
  Speaker 20: looking like, where's my favorite place? Like where's Stewart's, you know,
• 45:15
  Speaker 20: where's King Tut Where's all these other different places that
• 45:19
  Speaker 20: I cherished as a child. You know, it's like where
• 45:21
  Speaker 20: do they rank on the list? Because you don't know
• 45:23
  Speaker 20: anything about hot dogs? And I'm like, well, apparently, if
• 45:26
  Speaker 20: you don't leave your county you can try other hot dogs.
• 45:29
  Speaker 20: You won't really know what's the best out there unless
• 45:31
  Speaker 20: you try it. So we tried the entire state eight
• 45:34
  Speaker 20: at every place you can think of. And this movie
• 45:37
  Speaker 20: is a ninety minute movie about everything behind the scenes
• 45:40
  Speaker 20: where we went the first two and a half years
• 45:42
  Speaker 20: of this journey, and then what happened afterwards, like we
• 45:44
  Speaker 20: meet the governor, we get a proclamation about, you know,
• 45:48
  Speaker 20: visiting mom and pop restaurants and just to support your
• 45:52
  Speaker 20: local restaurants and eat a West Virginia style hot dog.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: And he even says what a West Virginia style hot
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: dog is?
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Has having known you Jay a long time, you're a
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: California guy, I am, yeah, But you had roots to
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: West Virginia right, absolutely, yes, but you were primarily California gap,
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: So somebody could say, what the hell does a California
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: guy know about West Virgina.
• 46:11
  Speaker 20: True, I eat a lot of hot dogs. I've been
• 46:13
  Speaker 20: in working in baseball for twenty one years. I started
• 46:17
  Speaker 20: ten years with the Sacramento Rivercats and Oakland A's affiliates.
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  Speaker 20: I also worked in a restaurant industry for twelve years
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  Speaker 20: prior to getting into into baseball, So I have kind
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  Speaker 20: of a pretty good background for hot dogs and just
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  Speaker 20: food in general. And what's to me a good taste
• 46:33
  Speaker 20: and a good feel of what's going on. So if
• 46:35
  Speaker 20: you catch out on TikTok or YouTube at half fun
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  Speaker 20: WV every day, I check out new food and new
• 46:41
  Speaker 20: restaurants every day, supporting local places. But you know, that's
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  Speaker 20: an extension of what we did back from during COVID
• 46:47
  Speaker 20: when we did the hot Dog Tour.
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  Speaker 4: Well, oddly enough, one of the sponsors of the show's
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: not hot dogs, though, it's a folks at Husband's Pizza
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  Speaker 4: and this month at Hustin's get a large eighteen inch
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: pepperoni pizza and a large toss out of twenty one
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: ninety nine dining pickup or get delivery a Husband'sizza dot com.
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  Speaker 20: And you, folks, do you think Hussan's Pizza might make
• 47:02
  Speaker 20: me a hot dog pizza with the West virgin Sta
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  Speaker 20: toppings on it?
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  Speaker 4: All right, folks at Hustin's, are you listening.
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  Speaker 2: That's a challenge, I challenge. I'll be there. I'll make
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: a video about it.
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  Speaker 4: Colonel Ron Hughes is your hook up here for Hustin's.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: That's a guy that has the account here, so colonel, Colonel,
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  Speaker 4: and he'll take care of you on that. Hell you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do West Virginia hot dogs? Yeah, I get that,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: but hot dogs is a lot like pizza. Depending on
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: where you go, they could be very different. And you
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  Speaker 4: coming from the baseball background, yeah, I mean some of
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: these places are nuts when it comes to what they
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  Speaker 4: put on hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know that there's crazy ones, but you.
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  Speaker 4: Kept it to the simple West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Know, we wanted to try everyone's chili, everyone's slaw.
• 47:44
  Speaker 20: You know, each thing is unique. You know, how do
• 47:46
  Speaker 20: you prepare a hot dog? Is it a boiled hot dog?
• 47:49
  Speaker 20: Is it going to come out wet? Or is it
• 47:51
  Speaker 20: a grilled beef hot dog which has got maybe some
• 47:54
  Speaker 20: good smokes, some good grill marks on it. You know,
• 47:56
  Speaker 20: it makes a difference of how hot dog tastes and
• 47:58
  Speaker 20: how you prepare it. Is it a steam bun is
• 48:01
  Speaker 20: it a bunnet's on the grill that's buttered.
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  Speaker 2: On one side?
• 48:03
  Speaker 20: I mean it's you know, there's so many different ways
• 48:05
  Speaker 20: to really trick a hot dog into being better than
• 48:08
  Speaker 20: what it should be.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what that's what the tour was about.
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  Speaker 2: We found the best ones.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll just tell you this, and I'm sure you've
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: heard this before. If you want a non restaurant hot dog, Okay,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: here's what you gotta do. You got to go to
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  Speaker 4: southern West Virginia. You got to look for some lady
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  Speaker 4: probably by the name of Mabel or Ethel. She's got
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: to have coulots. You know what coolots are. Coulots are
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: kind of like shorts that go to the ankles. Okay,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: a lot a lot of Baptist women. I grew up
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: in free will Baptist churches. We called it free meal Baptist.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: So you gotta find that. You gotta have the glory bun,
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: the hair up. And that's where you'll find the best
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: hot dogs. And they use the serving with like a
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: bag of chips and a fried apple pie. Yeah, that's
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: there's where you got to go.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: You know how many people have told me you need
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: to visit my church. Yeah, great hot dog. I'm like,
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: I need to do this.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: There you get, Well, maybe you'll do that next time,
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: and maybe you'll get a little religion in there. Who knows.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's the sequel.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: All right, So what is next for the have fun?
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Guess there will be a sequel?
• 49:06
  Speaker 20: But like I said, we are, you know, looking for
• 49:09
  Speaker 20: always the best West Virginia style hot dog.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be in West Virginia. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So I mean.
• 49:14
  Speaker 20: There are other places you can get West Virginia style
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  Speaker 20: hot dogs. And I found a place in Myrtle Beach,
• 49:19
  Speaker 20: but I didn't realize this. It's actually in surf side.
• 49:22
  Speaker 20: There's an actual bar.
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  Speaker 2: It's a West Virginia bar dedicates everything in West Virginia.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: I'm aware of the sundown. I have been there, but
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: I went there for.
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  Speaker 2: The first time. Of course they did. I had to,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: and my god, it is so good.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: All right, So my man Tony the Taylor onto the show. Yes,
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: just sent me the information on the Slaw line. It's
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: an actual sign near the nearest spotlightes of culinary and
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: cultural boundary known as a Slaw line, where it crosses
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: Interstate seventy nine. South of this point, West Virginians are
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: smart enough to order coleslaw and their hot dogs, while
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: north of this line people have no idea what a
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: real West Virginia hot dog gets.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Yes and no. He is true on that line.
• 49:59
  Speaker 20: However, you if you ask for it, they have slaw
• 50:02
  Speaker 20: and you can put it on type of your dog.
• 50:03
  Speaker 20: Not all restaurants have the slaw, but we found it.
• 50:06
  Speaker 20: We found the restaurants that did have them. And some
• 50:08
  Speaker 20: people don't even put have real hot dog chili. So
• 50:11
  Speaker 20: you go to an eastern panhandle, they have beans in
• 50:14
  Speaker 20: their chili. So it's kind of like, you know, you
• 50:16
  Speaker 20: have to explain to them what exactly is a hot
• 50:19
  Speaker 20: dog chili without the beans?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? So you can find it
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: out there. It's just it took a lot of work.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: Tex says, if you thought about traveling across the country
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: and doing hot dog challenges a West Virginia hot dog
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: versus each state's local hot dog and am flying test
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: with local resid that goes back to what I was
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: saying Jay about my wife is originally from Chicago. A
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: Chicago dog is a totally different animal. They're good.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: You like them. I love them, man, I don't like
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: them that much.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like there's like with pizza.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: You know, there's no really good or butt. I like
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: a good West Virginia dog.
• 50:51
  Speaker 20: You are you a deep dish pizza guy like Chicago
• 50:54
  Speaker 20: pizza gugcause I'm like a flat New York or style.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: But well, what's odd is my wife, who's from Chicago
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: likes the flat New York styles. Okay, see yeah, but
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: in the Chicago pizza I know, in my hometown of Logan,
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: we have the great debate, you know between Parkway and Morrison's. Uh,
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: the two are owned by the same guys. By the way,
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: the same gap. The thing about a Morrison's hot Dog,
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: and we got to close with this is you don't
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: I don't put slaw on it because the sauce the
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: chili is so good the slaw takes away from it.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: That's true, man, that's true.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: It can happen.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: Give us the details on the movie.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, the details. It's over at the all of the theater.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: It'll be Saturday, of course, this Saturday.
• 51:31
  Speaker 20: And to get tickets you basically have to get on
• 51:34
  Speaker 20: over to HALFTHUNWV dot com and try.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: To get some tickets down there by signing up.
• 51:40
  Speaker 20: And it'll be at seven o'clock at the Aubun Theater
• 51:43
  Speaker 20: this Saturday.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: And we're excited to have it.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: Still, the big questions people are going to ask you
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: is are you gonna have hot dogs?
• 51:49
  Speaker 20: Yes, we are the number the the number one hot dog.
• 51:53
  Speaker 20: Boge's Drive Range will actually be serving hot dogs out
• 51:55
  Speaker 20: front before the movie starts. So the door's open at six,
• 51:58
  Speaker 20: the movies at seven, So Bogus be out there from
• 52:00
  Speaker 20: five th number.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: One hot dog. Yes, I said, what according to your list, Yes.
• 52:04
  Speaker 20: But you need to really get him out there at
• 52:06
  Speaker 20: the driving range with a big smokers act, because things
• 52:08
  Speaker 20: are a little bit different when you got the smoke.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: All right, the Mere at the Arts Center right there
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  Speaker 4: in Saint Albans, seven o'clock Saturday night, Jay Silverman, have
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: fun West you did you appreciate you being here? Thank
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: you appreciate it. Thanks light all right. We got talk
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: line coming up at ten oh six tomorrow on the
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: show Angie Giblin Water with our dop me Please put
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: of the week Doctor Marty Roth at the University of
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Charleston and more in a special basketball tournament happening this weekend.
• 52:29
  Speaker 21: See you later till then, have fun. I love somebody you.
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