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03/03/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Tim Brady, Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, Charleston Fire Captain Austin Smith · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 3: Dave Allen Way Day, Morning to you. Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 3: edition of the show. First Monday of the month means
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Speaker 5: Good one.
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Speaker 3: She'll be coming up a little bit later on the show.
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Speaker 3: in addition to our normal conversation we have once a month.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow is the anniversary, the seventy sixth anniversary I believe
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Speaker 3: it is of the Woolwort Fire and Charleston. So are
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Speaker 3: also going to be joined by a member of the
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Speaker 3: Charleston Fire Department that's going to talk a little bit
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Speaker 3: zero zero eight. Want to start though, well, welcoming into
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Speaker 3: the show. The man from the Charleston Convention of iSER Bureau,
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Speaker 3: Tim Brady, Good morning, sir, how are you.
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Speaker 6: I'm great, Dave. You know, I think, like a lot
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Speaker 6: of people, still trying to process John Cena's heel turn
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Speaker 6: and elimination Chamber Saturday night. But beyond that, man, I'm great.
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't I don't watch a lot of
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Speaker 3: wrestling these days. I haven't watched it in years. However,
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Speaker 3: I did see a lot of feed and of course
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Speaker 3: we have the show my man Hollywood. Jeff Petty does
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Speaker 3: his podcast here and that seemed to be all of
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Speaker 3: the all the rage was was the John Cena heel
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Speaker 3: turn on the pay per view I guess Saturday night,
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Speaker 3: is that right? Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Saturday night, at the end of Elimination Chamber, he went,
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Speaker 6: he went heel and attacked Cody Rhodes. You know, It's
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Speaker 6: a big deal because in the wrestling world, nobody ever
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Speaker 6: thought John Cena would turn heel. You know, he's holds
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Speaker 6: the record for most make a wishes granted, like he's.
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Speaker 3: A he's a hero in that community.
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Speaker 6: His whole vibe has been hustle, loyalty, respect, and so
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Speaker 6: the heel turn was it caught a lot of people
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Speaker 6: off guard.
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Speaker 3: It was a shocking moment.
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Speaker 6: And uh yeah, still, as I said, I'm still trying
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Speaker 6: to process it.
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Speaker 3: Care if you have Matt Sutton plenty to talk about.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure the texts have gone and Adam, well, you
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Speaker 6: just you just basically it's like you were reading through
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Speaker 6: the text threat on my phone between the three of
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Speaker 6: us all weekend long.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, I want to get into this a little bit,
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Speaker 3: but we're here to talk now, and I want to
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Speaker 3: get in this a little bit later on with the mayor.
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Speaker 3: But it was another weekend him here in the capital
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Speaker 3: city with a ton of things going on. I mean,
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Speaker 3: and I know I'll leave something out, but you had
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Speaker 3: the Celtic Calling event which wrapped up yesterday. Saturday night
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Speaker 3: was the festival fundraiser. There was a huge wrestling event
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Speaker 3: and not kind of wrestling. You're talking about actual, actual, actual,
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Speaker 3: actual wrestling youth. The wrestling event, the Winter Blues Farmers
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Speaker 3: Farmer's Market was at the Kybleseum Convention Center. Saturday night,
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Speaker 3: capacity gathering at Embversity Embassy Suites for the Marshall University
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Speaker 3: Court Back Club at Charleston's Beach Party. I was there
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Speaker 3: for that. I'm sure we left something off, but man,
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Speaker 3: my point is there's a whole lot of stuff going
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Speaker 3: on in the capital city this past weekend.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I go back to a conversation that we
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Speaker 6: had the last time I was here, Dave, and I
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Speaker 6: think we see the model, and the model works, and
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Speaker 6: it is when we combine all of these things were
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Speaker 6: all better. You know, the West Virginia Youth Wrestling Association
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Speaker 6: state championships that you mentioned on Saturday, I think, you know,
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Speaker 6: certainly brought a lot of people to town. We know that,
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Speaker 6: for a fact, you couldn't shoehorn another person into a
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Speaker 6: hotel room in Charleston this weekend. And I think that
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Speaker 6: trickles down and it it people go to see the
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Speaker 6: Celtic Calling festivities while they're in town, they go out
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Speaker 6: to eat, and they realize there's something cool happening in
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Speaker 6: downtown Charleston. So you know, the model of combining events
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Speaker 6: and having these robust weekends make it a more attractive
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Speaker 6: city for locals and visitors.
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Speaker 3: And again, I think it's interesting and that you did
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Speaker 3: talk about that the last time you were here, that
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Speaker 3: people say, well, you know, there's all these different activities
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Speaker 3: going on, but they don't There was a school of thought,
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Speaker 3: I guess at one time that okay, just one activity
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Speaker 3: at a time, but that's not necessarily the case because again,
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Speaker 3: you take the wrestling event for example, people aren't going
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Speaker 3: to be there the entire time these sporting events. Their
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Speaker 3: kid may have their activity at two o'clock in the afternoon,
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Speaker 3: then they don't have to be back until like one
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Speaker 3: o'clock the next day or whatever. So that's a lot
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Speaker 3: of downtime to go to the restaurants and go to
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Speaker 3: the bars, or go to the Celtic Calling event or
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Speaker 3: all these other events that were going on as well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I happened to be downtown when the Celtic Calling
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Speaker 6: parade went down Capitol Street and I saw a lot
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Speaker 6: of people in very clearly wrestling gear. You know, they're
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Speaker 6: not the gear, but you know, like sweatshirts, wrestling mom sweatshirt. Right,
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Speaker 6: So we saw people that had come in for wrestling
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Speaker 6: taking part in in those activities, and it just makes
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Speaker 6: the city a more exciting, more vibrant place. Vibrant is
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Speaker 6: the word I'm looking for there.
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Speaker 3: I want to have you here, though, announcement was made
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Speaker 3: that TBT is coming back.
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Speaker 6: Yep, TBT returning to Charleston July eighteenth to the twenty
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Speaker 6: third and maybe longer. There's an interesting ticket model this
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Speaker 6: year that we can talk about. But yeah, I remember
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Speaker 6: very clearly talking about TBT when it was here in
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Speaker 6: twenty one and twenty two and saying I think the
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Speaker 6: model is let's host it for a couple of years,
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Speaker 6: let the regional go somewhere else, and then bring it
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Speaker 6: back and generate that enthusiasm, and we saw that in
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Speaker 6: practice this week because we got a lot of really
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Speaker 6: positive response that TBT was coming back in twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 6: In twenty three, it was in Wheeling, in twenty four,
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Speaker 6: it was in Pittsburgh. They're coming back to Charleston. They
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Speaker 6: want to be in Charleston. They sell a lot of
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Speaker 6: tickets in Charleston, so we're excited to bring them back
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Speaker 6: in July. And there's an incentivized ticket model where you
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Speaker 6: could theoretically see the entire tournament play out in Charleston
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Speaker 6: if ticket sales are strong. After you get through the
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Speaker 6: regional for the next round, they look at the top
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Speaker 6: four selling sites ticket sales sites, and then host that
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Speaker 6: next round there. So there is a model where if
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Speaker 6: Best Virginia continues to win and ticket sales are strong,
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Speaker 6: the entire tournament up to and including the championship game
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Speaker 6: could be played at the Charleston Coliseum. So that's exciting
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Speaker 6: as well.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, it is, and it's amazing Tim to me how
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Speaker 3: popular that this thing is. But when you have teams.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned Best Virginia and you have heard that when
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Speaker 3: you have these teams that people remember the names because
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Speaker 3: not that far removed from their playing days for me,
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Speaker 3: a couple of years for most of them. You know,
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Speaker 3: people here are gonna love it. They are, and it's funny.
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Speaker 3: I had this conversation with Tony Curriedy last week. It's
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Speaker 3: also about the name on the front of the jersey, right,
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Speaker 3: Like some of the players will change. Some of the
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Speaker 3: guys that you recognize will be back. John Flowers still involved,
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Speaker 3: some of the other guys that came through the program
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Speaker 3: that people recognize or are obviously still involved. But it's
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Speaker 3: also it's at a time of year where there is
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Speaker 3: no other basketball being played. There's really no collegiate sports.
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Speaker 3: So if you are a WVU or and I have
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Speaker 3: to say Marshall the Herd, that team has not been
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Speaker 3: officially announced yet, although we do anticipate that they'll be
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Speaker 3: in it, but they've not been announced yet. You know,
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Speaker 3: people who are passionate about college sports, this is the
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Speaker 3: time of year where there's nothing else to sort of
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Speaker 3: feed that jones. So people buy in and get excited
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Speaker 3: because there is nothing else right at that period of
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Speaker 3: time to sort of.
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Speaker 6: Scratch that itch. So that's exciting. And I will say,
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Speaker 6: and I can just preface this, there will likely be
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Speaker 6: a third team with West Virginia Ties participating in the
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Speaker 6: Charleston Regional in July, so keep your eyes and ears
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Speaker 6: open for more information about that as it comes available.
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Speaker 6: And the bikes are on their way back to USA.
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Speaker 6: Cite that Yeah, USA Cycling. The second of our five
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Speaker 6: year contract returns May nineteenth to the twenty sixth, and
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Speaker 6: I have to say a big thank you to Spilman
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Speaker 6: Thomas Battle are presenting sponsor this year. They've signed on
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Speaker 6: to be our local presenting sponsor for the next four years.
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Speaker 6: So certainly want to say a big thank you to
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Speaker 6: Mike Basil and the team at Spilman Thomas Battle for
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Speaker 6: signing on. But we're really excited and this year, Dave,
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Speaker 6: another really cool thing that I'm excited about with the
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Speaker 6: USA Cycling Pro Road Nationals is the addition of Paracycling,
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Speaker 6: bringing a whole new classification of athletes of different abilities
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Speaker 6: to Charleston to compete for their national championships as well.
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Speaker 6: So we'll see paracycling in the city of Charleston, and
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Speaker 6: I'm excited to bring the athletes here and give them
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Speaker 6: a great experience, and I'm excited for our community to
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Speaker 6: be exposed to these pair of athletes and what their
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Speaker 6: abilities really are. It's going to be really exciting and
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Speaker 6: it's going to be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 3: And last year, I mean, this thing was so big
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Speaker 3: and you knew, I don't know, when you and the
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Speaker 3: mayor and others announced this, you thought it was going
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Speaker 3: to be big. But I think it even surprised you
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Speaker 3: folks by how big and how the city really embrace
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Speaker 3: not just the city, but the entire Canal Valley in
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Speaker 3: this part of West Virginia really embraced the entire event.
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Speaker 6: And that's the word Dave, and I've used it a
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Speaker 6: lot over the course of the last year, and that
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Speaker 6: is embraced. The community really embraced this race at a
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Speaker 6: level that we didn't anticipate. We knew it was going
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Speaker 6: to be big, we did not anticipate, as you said,
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Speaker 6: how big it was going to be. And that just
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Speaker 6: really fueled me to really put the work in and
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Speaker 6: be excited about twenty twenty five and beyond, because the
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Speaker 6: enthusiasm in this community was contagious that week. And I've
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Speaker 6: told people this multiple times that race last year, that
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Speaker 6: event last year was the most rewarding project that I've
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Speaker 6: ever worked on in my professional career. To see the
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Speaker 6: community come out and embrace those racers and the athletes
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Speaker 6: and the races themselves was just it was It was
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Speaker 6: really satisfying and I can't wait to grow on that.
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Speaker 2: UH.
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Speaker 5: This year, I.
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Speaker 6: Will say that, you know, we're going to start some
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Speaker 6: some pretty robust and extensive volunteer recruitment over the course
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Speaker 6: of the next couple of weeks. We're already recruiting, but
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Speaker 6: we're going to launch a campaign to recruit volunteers. We
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Speaker 6: need we need more volunteers this year. So what hope
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Speaker 6: are we talking about for a volunteers I would I
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Speaker 6: would like to have between two hundred and two hundred
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Speaker 6: and fifty volunteers signed up for the week.
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Speaker 3: And what exactly do those volunteers do?
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Speaker 6: You know, a lot of what they do is just
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Speaker 6: crowd and traffic control, serving as race course martials, race marshals.
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Speaker 6: You know, certainly there's police presidence at the major intersections.
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Speaker 7: UH.
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Speaker 6: And I have to say thank you the Charleston Police
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Speaker 6: Department that this is a heavy lift. In all the
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Speaker 6: city departments, streets, parking, public works, everybody pitches in. It's
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Speaker 6: an amazing team effort. But the volunteers, you know, they
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Speaker 6: keep people off the road, they keep cars off of
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Speaker 6: the off of the course. They're really important. The volunteers
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Speaker 6: are critical to the success of the race. It's it's
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Speaker 6: not a lot of hard work. It can be some
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Speaker 6: long hours, but uh, it's also really fun and fulfilling work.
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Speaker 3: And won't be along TOI we'll be talking about regatta.
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Speaker 3: We should see some announcements. I would think, come it
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Speaker 3: up soon. I'll get into that with the mayor a
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Speaker 3: little bit. With those announcements.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would imagine you'll see we're got to entertainment
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Speaker 6: announcements coming soon. We've and there's a lot of other
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Speaker 6: things coming up this summer. Dave that in June there's
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Speaker 6: an event called the Great Race that I'm love to
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Speaker 6: come back and talk about as it gets a little
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Speaker 6: bit closer. But the Great Races. Think about the Cannonball
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Speaker 6: Run and this notion of cars racing from city to city, right,
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Speaker 6: it's antique cars that the travelist circuit across the country
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Speaker 6: and they race from city to and I say race
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Speaker 6: in the sense that they all drive from city to
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Speaker 6: city in their timed It's not like they're racing on
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Speaker 6: our highways. But it's a timed it's a time to
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Speaker 6: vent and they go from city to city, and I
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Speaker 6: think they're in Frankfort, Kentucky the night before they come here,
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Speaker 6: and they'll be here on a Thursday in Charleston. We're
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Speaker 6: going to close down the boulevard that night and do
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Speaker 6: some music at Hadad and welcome these racers to town.
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Speaker 6: And then they leave out the next morning and go
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Speaker 6: to their next destination. But that'll be cool. That's in June.
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Speaker 6: Happy to come back and talk about that. A ton
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Speaker 6: of stuff coming up this summer, Dave, and it's super exciting,
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Speaker 6: and I'm leaving off two or three things that I
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Speaker 6: don't want to tip my hat on, but summer is
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Speaker 6: going to be a lot of fun in the city
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Speaker 6: of Charlestown.
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Speaker 3: Jex says, Remember growing up, no gen xer ever thought
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Speaker 3: hul Cogan would turn also then he went in woo.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 6: There's a quote about hull Cogan that I can't share
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Speaker 6: on this radio program from the Iron Chic, but I
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Speaker 6: will say that I saw a lot of that sentiment
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Speaker 6: over the weekend regarding seen as he'll turn in. When
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Speaker 6: Hogan joined the nWo is the third member. I think
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Speaker 6: it shocked a lot of people, and a lot of
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Speaker 6: people were shocked Saturday night. I love that I just
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Speaker 6: spent ten minutes talk to me about all of this
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Speaker 6: great stuff coming up at the City of Charleston, and
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Speaker 6: the passionate wrestling community still wants to talk about seeing
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Speaker 6: as heel turn.
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Speaker 3: Well, guess what I have another text about wrestle. Let's
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Speaker 3: do it. We'll do this. I'll let you go. I'd
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Speaker 3: like to know what the CEO of the CVB means
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Speaker 3: by actual wrestling? Was Travis Scott in Charleston or was
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Speaker 3: he at an actual wrestling event in Toronto? I'll give
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Speaker 3: you one guess, because that one came to me personally.
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Speaker 3: Who that's from.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess what I meant was amateur Olympic style wrestling,
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Speaker 6: you know the kind that Kurt Angle did before he
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Speaker 6: joined the WWE.
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Speaker 3: I think you know.
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Speaker 6: The Travis Scott part of this is one of the
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Speaker 6: most fascinating things. I was reading this morning that he's
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Speaker 6: actually been training at one of the WWE Legends wrestling schools.
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Speaker 6: He's going to actually get in the ring. But I didn't.
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Speaker 6: I guess actual wrestling was the wrong word. Olympic style
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Speaker 6: wrestling is is really Just remember that famous the slap
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Speaker 6: heerd around the world that doctor d David Schultz did
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Speaker 6: to John Stossel on twenty twenty in nineteen eighty five.
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Speaker 6: Just remember that it's real to me, damn it.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow's also Marshall University Day at the Legislature. Not really
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Speaker 3: I do want to spend I got the mayor coming
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Speaker 3: want to spend a little bit of time though, talking
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Speaker 3: about what happened on Friday afternoon, the exchange between Ukrainian
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Speaker 3: President Vladimir Volensky and President Donald Trump and Vice President
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Speaker 3: jd Vance. Now, I was in my office Friday afternoon.
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Speaker 3: One of my office mates said, and this is a
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Speaker 3: direct quote, Oh my god, have you seen this? Well,
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Speaker 3: sure that you have probably seen it ten thousand times
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Speaker 3: if you watched any TV or online over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, did you expect anything else? I
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Speaker 3: saw some online chatter and on the network news shows
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Speaker 3: you afterday with people asking if it was a setup.
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Speaker 3: You know, I have no idea about that, but let
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Speaker 3: me let me just say this, and this is just
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Speaker 3: my opinion. It was a horrible look for our country.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not necessarily talking about the contents of what was,
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Speaker 3: but more about the decorum or lack of So since
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Speaker 3: when does a leader of the of the free world
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Speaker 3: get into an argument in front of a bunch of
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Speaker 3: reporters with the leader of a supposed ally of ours.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Ronald Reagan didn't do that, Nixon, the Bushes, Obama, Biden, Clinton, Ford, Carter.
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Speaker 3: None of the presidents during my lifetime behaved that way
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Speaker 3: that I'm aware of it, That did any presidents prior
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Speaker 3: to my birth. It was embarrassing. And again I'm not
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Speaker 3: necessarily talking about what the president said, but the way
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Speaker 3: and the manner and the setting of where it was said,
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Speaker 3: and for the vice president to chime in as well.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is where we are now.
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Speaker 3: Shouldn't be surprised though. I mean Donald Trump thrives on
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Speaker 3: drama and controversy. He he did that well before he
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Speaker 3: ever entered the political arena, so no reason to think
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Speaker 3: he would change once he got into the oval office.
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Speaker 3: Now he's twice in the over office. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: got nothing here, even Mark or Rubio. If you saw
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Speaker 3: Mark or Rubio on George Deephanopolis's show yesterday. He seemed
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Speaker 3: on yesterday's show to support what the President and VP
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Speaker 3: did on Friday. But if you go back and watch
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Speaker 3: the tape of what happened in real time on Friday.
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Speaker 3: I think even Secretary of State Rubio seemed embarrassed by
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Speaker 3: the whole thing. But that's neither here nor there. Now
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Speaker 3: the legislature, who seemed to be a little bit more
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Speaker 3: concerned with social issues the surprise of no one, than
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Speaker 3: they are actually getting stuff done that benefits everyday West Virginians.
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Speaker 3: Ranked choice voting seems to be on some people's minds
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Speaker 3: right now. And the editor's note, my man TJ. Meadows
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Speaker 3: voting thing over the weekends, so we have that now.
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Speaker 3: We're still talking about gender issues that may be tackled
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Speaker 3: today which impact absolutely no one, not an issue here
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Speaker 3: in West Virginia. Everyone points to the one case out
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Speaker 3: of Harrison County I think it was, But go ahead
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Speaker 3: and try to find another one. I mean, I'll wait
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Speaker 3: and Judge Merrick clair Acres had a hearing in her
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Speaker 3: courtroom about this on Friday and her foster care system.
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Speaker 3: We have kids staying in hotels and apparently at campsites.
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Speaker 3: But go ahead, legislature, just just focus on the stupid crap.
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Speaker 3: It's Monday, and I'm not even starting off on a
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Speaker 3: positive note. I do want to get this news item
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Speaker 3: out there. And the investigation continues, and we reported on
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Speaker 3: this yesterday. A body was discovered near the mount in
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Speaker 3: South Charleston yesterday that according to the South Charleston Police Department.
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Speaker 3: No word this morning on whether foul play is expected
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Speaker 3: or not. South Charleston Police continuing the investigation. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I've got some texts and then we'll bring the mayor
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Speaker 3: in Texas watched the entire forty five minute video of Trump,
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Speaker 3: Vans and Zelensky. Lensky was very snarky and built up
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Speaker 3: to that blow up. It was a Lensky that began
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Speaker 3: the whole entire things as a tankster. Taxa says, the
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Speaker 3: funniest thing about the Trump disaster conference was little Marco
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Speaker 3: Rubio sinking into the couch out of embarrassment. That's what
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Speaker 3: I was referring to earlier. But now he's flip flop
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Speaker 3: welcome to the show now, Charleston Mayor Amy Schuldter good one,
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Mayor, Harry Morning.
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Speaker 11: Happy Monday to you.
24:53
Speaker 3: Sir, Happy Monday to you as well. Got a few
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Speaker 3: things I want to talk about and I'll tell you
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Speaker 3: what we'll do. I do have you have questions waiting
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Speaker 3: on you as you generally do. Okay, great, and the
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Speaker 3: Charleston Fire Department. Austin, good morning, Welcome to the show,
25:20
Speaker 3: Good morning sir, thanks for being here so tomorrow is
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Speaker 3: the seventy sixth, that's correct anniversary of the world with
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Speaker 3: fire in Charleston. Mayor I'll start, I'll start with you.
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Speaker 3: A tragic day in the history of the capital city.
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Speaker 11: It is, and we remember the Wolwarth fire and are
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Speaker 11: lost and injured firefighters every year. Captain Austin Smith, who's
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Speaker 11: here with me today, can talk a little bit more
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Speaker 11: about it. But many folks remember that day in Charleston,
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Speaker 11: and I have learned a lot from our firefighters and
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Speaker 11: listening and learning to them what happened on that day,
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Speaker 11: how many firefighters we lost. It was a tragic, tragic event.
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Speaker 11: But as we continued to talk every year during in
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Speaker 11: and around this sad anniversary, the importance of investing in
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Speaker 11: our first responders, their safety and their training to be sure.
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Speaker 11: But it was it was a terrible day in the
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Speaker 11: city of Charleston.
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Speaker 3: Captain, Yeah, it definitely was.
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Speaker 4: It's a it's something you have to remember, and we
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Speaker 4: wouldn't don't like to think back on tragedies, but they
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Speaker 4: really do need to be remembered on a regular basis
26:32
Speaker 4: so that we can learn from them. You know that
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Speaker 4: that morning, at four am in the morning, it was
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Speaker 4: a typical response for the guys, and they responded from
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Speaker 4: Elizabeth Street. They responded there because a police officer noticed
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Speaker 4: some white smoke. Typical job, No big deal, you know.
26:45
Speaker 4: They rolled up there, no big deal to them. They
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Speaker 4: went into the first floor, sent a crude the basement
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Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden tragedy collapse that happened.
26:52
Speaker 4: The first four collapse down the basement, trapping seven firefighters,
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Speaker 4: eventually killing two more through their critical injuries and injuring fifteen.
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Speaker 4: So a split second and their whole lives changed. And
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Speaker 4: like the mayor said, it's so important that we always
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Speaker 4: remember the importance of our training. And thankfully we have
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Speaker 4: a mayor and city council that really puts, you know,
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Speaker 4: firefire safety in their first responder safety at a forefront,
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Speaker 4: providing with us with the tools and the resources we
27:18
Speaker 4: need to keep our training up so that we can
27:21
Speaker 4: keep on doing a safe job.
27:22
Speaker 3: And if any good captain comes out of a tragedy,
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Speaker 3: and you hate to say something good came out, but
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Speaker 3: you touched on training. And there have been people and
27:33
Speaker 3: I've got a lot of friends that are in the
27:34
Speaker 3: fire fighting game, so it's not a game. But you
27:36
Speaker 3: know what I mean, And in the first responders that
27:39
Speaker 3: have looked to that across the country as the war
27:43
Speaker 3: to fire and they have used it as a training mechanism.
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Speaker 4: Sure, so that a lot of that is as understanding
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Speaker 4: your surroundings and understanding building construction. When you roll up
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Speaker 4: to the scene. The firefighters who arrived there, they thought
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Speaker 4: it was just a typical fire, you know, a small
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Speaker 4: light smoke fire, no big deal. But ubknowes to themselves
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Speaker 4: the fire had been raging in the basin for a
28:04
Speaker 4: long time and that smoke has just been whisping out.
28:06
Speaker 4: So the fact of getting in doing building inspections, knowing
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Speaker 4: pre plans of the buildings in our territory, having that
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Speaker 4: constant training and expecting the unexpected and being prepared for it,
28:17
Speaker 4: and then also the resources to back you up. That
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Speaker 4: whole entire company was stuck, and thankfully there was a
28:24
Speaker 4: whole city of firefighters willing to come and help and
28:27
Speaker 4: do the rescue and they could. So having that massive
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Speaker 4: resources that a city this size needs is really invaluable.
28:34
Speaker 3: Again, we're talking for the first part of the segment
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Speaker 3: today about the anniversary of the World War of Fire,
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Speaker 3: which is tomorrow, and Mayor. I know that you've become
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Speaker 3: somewhat of a historian, as many other people have been studying,
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Speaker 3: studying this dark piece of Charleston's history.
28:49
Speaker 11: You know, it was interesting. I've only been there for
28:52
Speaker 11: six years, but last year and the year before we
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Speaker 11: actually had relatives of the fallen firefighters there with us
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Speaker 11: and to talk about their family's legacy. That's something that we,
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Speaker 11: as Austin says, we need to continue to do. These
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Speaker 11: were public servants. And so let me say something about
29:11
Speaker 11: public servants in a time in which folks are kind
29:14
Speaker 11: of thumbing their nose, let me say that, not only
29:18
Speaker 11: are the folks that Austin's talking about are firefighters, are
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Speaker 11: ems responders, they're public servants. So are the folks who
29:25
Speaker 11: are going out and demoing these buildings for us as well,
29:28
Speaker 11: in our building department and our inspectors. They are also
29:30
Speaker 11: public servants. You don't think about somebody from the building
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Speaker 11: department being a part of our safety team, By golly,
29:37
Speaker 11: they are. They're going out there to make sure that
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Speaker 11: these structures that our guys and gals are going into
29:43
Speaker 11: in the middle of the night are safe, and if
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Speaker 11: they're not, they're notified. You know, I don't like to
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Speaker 11: tear buildings down, but in the six years I've been here,
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Speaker 11: we've done over six hundred and twenty structures. I don't
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Speaker 11: like to do it, but they're coming down if they're
30:00
Speaker 11: not safe, and we should not expect our firefighters to
30:03
Speaker 11: go into these buildings that are coming down because a
30:08
Speaker 11: lack of repair or maintenance. And so I'm really proud
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Speaker 11: not only of our CFD, but also also our Building
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Speaker 11: Department as well. And you'll hear in our budget tonight
30:18
Speaker 11: we're going to keep up our monies to get those
30:20
Speaker 11: buildings down because they appreciate it as much as I do.
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Speaker 11: We're not going to put our first responders in unnecessary harms.
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Speaker 3: Captain Smith, before we let you go on the training
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Speaker 3: that is conducted by the fire departments here. How much
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Speaker 3: the young firefighters that are coming in, how much do
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Speaker 3: you part the history and the story of the woold
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Speaker 3: word fire when you are talking to perspective of firefighters.
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Speaker 4: So all of our new recruits come by and we
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Speaker 4: take them by the plaque that's out of the worst
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Speaker 4: building and we tell them the story, give them a history,
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Speaker 4: a lesson of what happened, what's the worst case scenario,
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Speaker 4: and then how vital it is to prepare for the
31:21
Speaker 4: worst case scenario. And then the Charles's Fire Department is
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Speaker 4: excellent in training. We take pride in our training of
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Speaker 4: the members on the fire department, so it's constantly on
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Speaker 4: The Fire Department. We do training every day three sixty five.
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Speaker 4: We work twenty four hour shifts, so we have plenty
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Speaker 4: of time to fit in a training scenario in our day.
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Speaker 4: And our training department is is the top notch about it.
31:44
Speaker 4: So we really try to keep training on the forefront
31:47
Speaker 4: and then always remind ourselves we don't want to think
31:50
Speaker 4: about too much because you don't want to slow your
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Speaker 4: response or make you question what you're doing, but you
31:55
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Speaker 3: All right, Captain Smith, I appreciate you taking time out
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Speaker 3: I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot, Captain, Thank
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Speaker 11: Yeah, the tbt's back in Charleston. Very excited about that.
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Speaker 11: The USA Cycling Okay, okay, just USA Cycling.
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Speaker 11: I'm not gonna I'm not going to divulge too much,
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Speaker 11: but I have gifts for a couple of our council
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Speaker 11: I didn't expect. None of us knew anything about it.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we've seen video of other cities.
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Speaker 3: This is amazing.
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Speaker 11: I didn't know. I didn't know. So bringing more cow
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Speaker 11: And so I have a couple of gifts to give
35:55
Speaker 11: to some of our council members who really were so
35:57
Speaker 11: supportive and showed up every single day to help with
36:01
Speaker 11: USA Cycling and be the biggest cheerleaders on the front lines.
36:04
Speaker 11: But you know, listening to Tim this morning on my
36:06
Speaker 11: drive in, there's so many things he said or you
36:10
Speaker 11: were talking about. You know, it was the Celtic Calling,
36:11
Speaker 11: and we had wrestling and we were talking about Marshall
36:14
Speaker 11: University's Quarterback club and gosh, you wiz, we had so
36:17
Speaker 11: many people in town and you know, one of the
36:19
Speaker 11: biggest problems we have there's nowhere to stay and the
36:22
Speaker 11: restaurant lines are too long. Man, that's music to my ears.
36:26
Speaker 11: It's music to my ears. But it's not just that.
36:29
Speaker 11: Let me you know, when people say, oh, there's there's
36:31
Speaker 11: too many things. You don't want to have something on
36:33
Speaker 11: this weekend because there's the Celtic Calling, which I took
36:36
Speaker 11: my son who was home for the home for the weekend,
36:38
Speaker 11: down to the Celtic Calling. Yes you do. And here's
36:42
Speaker 11: why Tim called it being vibrant. Right, Well, this is
36:45
Speaker 11: what Longwood's international the world's leading travel and tourism research
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36:55
Speaker 11: and your bride are going to go somewhere is yeah,
36:57
Speaker 11: probably for a concert. Right, you'll go downtown for a concert,
37:00
Speaker 11: but you're not just doing that most of the time.
37:02
Speaker 11: You'll go get supper first, or there'll there'll be some
37:07
Speaker 11: new art art display that's up at the Clay Center.
37:11
Speaker 11: You'll do several things before you head back home. Lots
37:15
Speaker 11: of things to see and do. Is the number one
37:18
Speaker 11: travel motivator. Most people, when they're thinking, well, let's go downtown,
37:22
Speaker 11: what they're going to say is what's going on? What
37:25
Speaker 11: else is happening when we're there at this conference or
37:29
Speaker 11: when we go see a show. So it's always the
37:31
Speaker 11: number one travel motivator. So when people call our events
37:34
Speaker 11: office and they say, you know, hey, what's going on
37:36
Speaker 11: in Charleston. We don't want to have this when other
37:39
Speaker 11: things are going on, we always say, you know, what
37:42
Speaker 11: hang on, Let's let's.
37:44
Speaker 3: See about that.
37:44
Speaker 11: Because if folks are out and you can pull a
37:46
Speaker 11: big crowd, you know, there's synergy, there's there's that opportunity
37:52
Speaker 11: to get folks to come to your event. And again,
37:55
Speaker 11: as as Tim said, this is our gear up mode.
37:58
Speaker 11: We're you know, we're going to turn around and the
38:01
Speaker 11: girls' basketball tournaments coming in, and the boys' basketball tournament's
38:04
Speaker 11: coming in, and then and then we're literally off to
38:07
Speaker 11: the races. I know you talked about the Great Race
38:08
Speaker 11: coming in and USA Cycling and all there is to
38:11
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38:14
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38:18
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38:21
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: I am working with our Director of Finance, Andy Wood,
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Speaker 11: who's just absolutely amazing. We are so incredibly fortunate in
39:02
Speaker 11: the City of Charleston to have him on our team.
39:05
Speaker 11: I'm going to be presenting one hundred and thirteen and
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Speaker 11: some change million dollar budget, and it's what it has
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Speaker 11: in there is our priorities. It's safety and health and
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Speaker 11: wellness and infrastructure. And two to take a to take
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Speaker 11: a page from Tim Brady's talking points, A vibrant city,
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Speaker 11: investing in our infrastructure, investing in our employees, uh, investing
39:31
Speaker 11: in the roads that you travel on. Listen. It is
39:35
Speaker 11: no secret that we had a very difficult winter, Dave.
39:40
Speaker 11: And I can't imagine that there aren't people that are,
39:44
Speaker 11: because I know they are in my office calling in, Hey,
39:47
Speaker 11: there's a pothole here, there's a I need you to
39:50
Speaker 11: pave this road. Absolutely, we are going to, yet again
39:54
Speaker 11: for the sixth year in a row, keep up that
39:59
Speaker 11: pay budget at over three million dollars, and for good reason,
40:03
Speaker 11: because the roads this year took a beating and while
40:07
Speaker 11: we really feel like we're trying to get ahead and
40:09
Speaker 11: are paving, when you have a season like that, insulting
40:12
Speaker 11: and scraping, uh, you're gonna have a lot of potholes
40:14
Speaker 11: and we're trying to get there as fast as we
40:16
Speaker 11: can with cold patching. Some roads will just need that,
40:21
Speaker 11: but some roads will need to be completely uh paved
40:25
Speaker 11: this year. And so we have a schedule, we have
40:28
Speaker 11: a system that we work on. But you know what,
40:31
Speaker 11: as I always say, three oh four three four eight
40:33
Speaker 11: eight one seven four, call me, uh if there is
40:37
Speaker 11: a challenge with the road or something you want us
40:39
Speaker 11: to investigate, if we don't already know about it, and
40:41
Speaker 11: chances are we probably do, Dave doesn't matter, Still call
40:44
Speaker 11: me and let us know because we do keep a
40:46
Speaker 11: running list of that. But what you'll see also in
40:49
Speaker 11: the budget, does you know no taxes or fee increase
40:51
Speaker 11: proposal and uh maintaining all of our critical city city
40:57
Speaker 11: services as well, and something that I started just a
41:01
Speaker 11: couple of years ago, getting our wages of our employees
41:06
Speaker 11: who make the least up to that fifteen dollar mark.
41:09
Speaker 11: I am extremely proud for the third year in a
41:11
Speaker 11: row we've made that jump to get them there again.
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Speaker 3: With Charleston may Or Amy Shulver good one. Speaking of potholes, Yeah,
41:18
Speaker 3: can the mayor Polae says a textra Can the mayor
41:20
Speaker 3: please have can od Turnpike addressed? Driving it and dodging
41:24
Speaker 3: the multiple potholes is like skiing a slalom course.
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Speaker 11: As always with any road condition that you see out
41:31
Speaker 11: there that you want me to address and send her
41:33
Speaker 11: our public works group please three four eight eight one
41:36
Speaker 11: seven four, and especially if you have a specific if
41:40
Speaker 11: you can give me a little bit more detail, a
41:42
Speaker 11: little bit more guidance, that would be wonderful in city
41:44
Speaker 11: and you know in city roads too. Let me go
41:47
Speaker 11: ahead and be clear. But let me also say in
41:49
Speaker 11: that same breath, Dave, nothing would frustrate me more or
41:53
Speaker 11: any of our residents when they call about a road
41:55
Speaker 11: and say there's a pothole. I hope you don't hear
41:59
Speaker 11: from our folks, Well, that's a city road. We may
42:01
Speaker 11: tell you, we may inform you that is a city
42:03
Speaker 11: road or a state road. Excuse me, a state road,
42:05
Speaker 11: not a city road. It's a state road. But if
42:08
Speaker 11: it is in the city limits, let me know about it.
42:10
Speaker 11: Of course, we've got a great relationship with the Department
42:13
Speaker 11: of Highways in the state of West Virginia, and we
42:15
Speaker 11: certainly want to take that information because if it's in
42:18
Speaker 11: our thirty three square miles and it impacts you, we
42:20
Speaker 11: should at least know about it.
42:22
Speaker 3: Texas, please ask the mayor about the status of the
42:24
Speaker 3: mccorkil Avenue rebuild project in Kanas City. The roadwork looks
42:28
Speaker 3: like it's been completed, but portions of the sidewalk remained unfinished.
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Speaker 11: Thank you so much. As we work with the State
42:35
Speaker 11: of West Virginia on that project, because that is a
42:38
Speaker 11: State of West Virginia project, I understand I think maybe
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Speaker 11: from the language in that text, Dave, that there is
42:45
Speaker 11: some frustration. I think that Council Members Robinson and Council
42:50
Speaker 11: Member King also share in Councilwoman Burka share your concern
42:54
Speaker 11: about that as well as we continue to work with
42:56
Speaker 11: them to share our concerns. Because I I don't disagree
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Speaker 11: with you. I think there are some improvements that need
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Speaker 3: Texas, Dave, please ask me a good one if she
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Speaker 3: has any knowledge of the schedule for painting the Washington
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Speaker 3: Street bridge. If not, would she checked with the doh
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Speaker 3: as to the schedule. Yeah, I do.
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Speaker 11: Actually, well I don't officially so if you want to
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Speaker 11: call me at three four eight eight one seven four,
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Speaker 11: but it is it is on the it's on the
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Speaker 3: game arcade and roller rink within the sports complex?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it is so interesting. Not a roller rink. But
45:58
Speaker 11: actually we're working with an investment or from West Virginia
46:01
Speaker 11: actually on that movie theater because nothing would please us
46:04
Speaker 11: more than to get a theater back in that area Texas.
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Speaker 3: Does the mayor have any word about the town center
46:10
Speaker 3: shutting its doors this summer?
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Speaker 11: No, I don't, but I will say that we have
46:16
Speaker 11: been working hand in glove with a whole group, which
46:19
Speaker 11: seems like that's the answer that I have given you
46:22
Speaker 11: over the past couple of times. But oh, by the way,
46:25
Speaker 11: something that began in the seventies that has seen its
46:29
Speaker 11: demise at least in the past fifteen years. It takes
46:33
Speaker 11: more than just a couple of years to turn it around.
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Speaker 11: So we've been working with the Hall Group and their
46:39
Speaker 11: entities to see what we can do to move forward.
46:42
Speaker 11: It's thirteen acres Dave that we want back in developable hands.
46:49
Speaker 11: And if it's going to be the Hall Group, great,
46:51
Speaker 11: If it's not, then what do we need to do
46:53
Speaker 11: with with that space?
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Speaker 2: Is there?
46:56
Speaker 3: And I don't want to shut the gun here. Is
46:59
Speaker 3: there a possi stability that we could see a time
47:01
Speaker 3: when maybe the whole group doesn't own the town Center?
47:03
Speaker 11: Well, I mean I think that you know, I certainly
47:05
Speaker 11: don't have a crystal ball or a magic wand because
47:08
Speaker 11: if I did, it would be full and actually I'm
47:11
Speaker 11: not sure that it even would be a mall. I'm
47:13
Speaker 11: not sure that that is the model in which it
47:16
Speaker 11: is right now. Let's just be clear, won't be in
47:19
Speaker 11: the future. And by the way, that's okay. We want
47:22
Speaker 11: it to change. Downtown malls are not where it's at anymore.
47:28
Speaker 11: It is mixed use. And so as we have investigated
47:32
Speaker 11: for years and continue to look at what is the
47:36
Speaker 11: best and highest use for that property. Certainly having a
47:43
Speaker 11: mall that is not filled is not it. It's in
47:47
Speaker 11: the center of the city, and oh, by the way,
47:49
Speaker 11: it's connected to some of our most critical assets. But
47:52
Speaker 11: let me be clear about this. We're not sitting on
47:54
Speaker 11: our hands. We're not just twiddling our thumbs. We are
47:58
Speaker 11: working with them and others to see what is the
48:02
Speaker 11: best and highest use for that property and how do
48:05
Speaker 11: we move forward. Because folks, it's not going to be
48:07
Speaker 11: a mall and one entity is not going to save it.
48:11
Speaker 11: Bringing in a Dave and Busters is not going to
48:13
Speaker 11: save a property. That's not my opinion. That is simply
48:18
Speaker 11: a fact. It is a multi faceted investment approach and
48:22
Speaker 11: development approach, and that's the direction that we're going in.
48:26
Speaker 3: About to add about to double the city's population over
48:29
Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks. With the girls and boys
48:31
Speaker 3: State tournament now come in to.
48:33
Speaker 11: Town next week, it's gonna be great. Lots of things
48:35
Speaker 11: to celebrate, for sure, and lots of folks that are in.
48:39
Speaker 11: I have some friends who are coming in. Their daughter's
48:41
Speaker 11: playing and they're coming in and the first thing they
48:44
Speaker 11: said was, Hey, you've got a lot of James Beard
48:47
Speaker 11: chefs in town.
48:48
Speaker 3: Don't you tell me where?
48:49
Speaker 11: They literally said again, ready, Dave goes back to my point,
48:52
Speaker 11: lots of things to see and do. Yeah, they're going
48:54
Speaker 11: to be there for their daughter, but they're not going
48:56
Speaker 11: to be there the entire time. And so let me also,
49:00
Speaker 11: while I'm thinking about it, give a shout out to
49:02
Speaker 11: chef Chase Collier. One week ago. He's with restaurant A Brewsy.
49:08
Speaker 11: He'll be considered for the twenty twenty five James Beard Awards.
49:12
Speaker 11: So you know, as we celebrate Chef Paul, we have
49:15
Speaker 11: another chef here in the city of Charleston. We need
49:17
Speaker 11: to be celebrating as well.
49:19
Speaker 3: Texas has any municipal budget proposed under the current administration
49:23
Speaker 3: ever been smaller than the year before, It might be
49:27
Speaker 3: time for doge r right, that's what Textra said.
49:31
Speaker 11: That not mean that's right, that's right. Yeah, sure, I
49:33
Speaker 11: will say this. We are extremely responsible with our funds.
49:36
Speaker 11: And let me just go ahead and say this. When
49:40
Speaker 11: I got here, our Rainy Day fund was less than
49:43
Speaker 11: three million dollars. It is now at seventeen and a half.
49:48
Speaker 11: So we are responsible and we are fiscally conservative with
49:51
Speaker 11: our budgets. I can promise you that.
49:53
Speaker 3: Tex says, the town Center will probably become a mixed
49:56
Speaker 3: use with six to seven figure condos that West Virginians
49:59
Speaker 3: can't afford. I don't know about that, but I will
50:02
Speaker 3: say when I had Taro Ellis on a couple of
50:03
Speaker 3: weeks ago, my buddy Rich the Reeltor was on last week.
50:06
Speaker 3: There is a housing shortage, desperate, a desperate housing shortage.
50:10
Speaker 3: And I don't know about you know, six to seven figures,
50:12
Speaker 3: but there is a housing shortage well all over the canal.
50:14
Speaker 11: Out I worked out somebody that I work out with
50:16
Speaker 11: in the mornings. He put his house on the market
50:20
Speaker 11: two weeks ago, a three bedroom home here in the
50:25
Speaker 11: city of Charleston, three hundred and whatever you put in
50:28
Speaker 11: on the market for. He got a heck of a
50:31
Speaker 11: lot more and one showing one day. It's already in contract.
50:36
Speaker 11: And so to be sure, there is a housing housing shortage, all.
50:40
Speaker 3: Right, Tex says, what about a casino in Charleston. I
50:43
Speaker 3: remember reading about that a couple of years ago.
50:45
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think there is certainly a push for that.
50:49
Speaker 11: There's been not only a push for that, but there's
50:51
Speaker 11: also been a push for riverboat gaming as well. As
50:55
Speaker 11: the elk and the canal. We meet right here at
50:58
Speaker 11: the confluence of both of those things. But I'm not
51:01
Speaker 11: a gamer. I like shoes too much to spend on gambling, TJ.
51:05
Speaker 11: So that's what I what I that's what I do, TJ.
51:08
Speaker 11: I like to spend my money on. And oh, by
51:11
Speaker 11: the way, college tuition.
51:12
Speaker 3: And give me give me about thirty seconds and then
51:16
Speaker 3: we'll let you go on. When when can we expect
51:18
Speaker 3: some Regatta announcements to come?
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Speaker 11: Thank you so much, so we're very excited. This year
51:23
Speaker 11: is kind of weird how the days fall, but we
51:26
Speaker 11: already have in contract to performers, and so we're very
51:29
Speaker 11: excited to make those announcements in the next couple of weeks.
51:33
Speaker 11: Let me before I turn it over to TJ and
51:35
Speaker 11: get out of your hair. I promised that I would
51:37
Speaker 11: do this this morning on the air. I think his
51:39
Speaker 11: family is listening. Mister Julian Sackman turns one hundred and
51:43
Speaker 11: two today, one hundred and two, So I wanted to
51:46
Speaker 11: make sure that I give a big birthday shout out.
51:48
Speaker 11: How lucky of a man and a life well lived,
51:51
Speaker 11: and he's given so much to so many as a
51:53
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Speaker 3: Happy and believe to be the oldest living Marshall graduate.
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Speaker 13: Oh is that right?
52:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I've heard that at a martial event. Mayor.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. TJ. Quickly,
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Speaker 3: what's coming up on the talk Line today? Ten o six.
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Speaker 3: I'm for it. I gave you a little shout out
52:25
Speaker 3: on your commentary. I'm for it, all right, all right,
52:27
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52:29
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