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05/01/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Amy Goodwin, Mary White, Andy Shea · The Dave Allen Show

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means we have a mayor in studio today and it's the mayor of City Charleston,
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a mean good once. She's going to join us a little bit later
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on at the show with the Mayor of Monday segment that'll be in the third
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segment of the show. Yeah, the third segment, Mathless Nathan my strong
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suit, the third segment of the show that's coming up a little bit later.
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I also think that Andy Shay from The Dirty Birds is going to stop
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by the studio as well. I reference to Children's Home Society and we have
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Mary White with us from the Children's Home Society. Mary, Good morning,
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How are you? I am fun, I'm doing great today. We're happy
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to be here. Well, thank you for being here. And I want
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to talk about first of all before we get into this special program. And
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I kind of reference that they're at the top of the show, but you
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get so many different things going on with the Children's Home Society. What is
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the actual mission of the Children's Home Society? What does it the U folks
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do. Our mission is to promote the well being of all children. Our
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current efforts are directed at finding lifetime families for children, nurturing and strengthening families,
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and helping them to be strong and there for their children. And this
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month, the month of May is a pretty big month for you. It
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is. This is foster Care Awareness Month. It's also the Take It Home
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for Mother's Stay campaign. So there's a lot going on in the month of
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May. And I mentioned the foster care thing. Last week. I had
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some other folks that are doing this foster care summit which is going to be
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over in Putnam County over the River rid Church letter this week, and they're
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bringing a lot of different people in. And I say that because I've kind
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of highlighted it on the show Mary last week, the issues with foster care
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in West Virginia and how West Virginia, I mean, we have more we
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have more kids in foster care than any of the state in the Union.
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Yes, that's true. And if there's any opportune tunity to bring that to
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light and to talk about the needs of West Virginia's children. We want to
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do that. We will be at river Ridge Church and you know we're always
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out in our communities talking about the need for foster and adoptive families, but
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also the need to strengthen families so that children can remain at home safe.
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So there are two parts to that. So we really do have a foster
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care crisis in the state as far as the number of children coming into care
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the need for good foster homes until those children can go back home or otherwise
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be adopted. Um, So we work on that every day, and I
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know every other foster care agency in the state does the same and many of
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the different groups you are forced to work together. But that's a good thing.
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Oh, it is a kind of network and see what works and what
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doesn't work. Why why exactly are we in this situation in West Virginia And
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your opinion what with the with the crisis level for foster care, Well,
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I think it's a combination of things that has happened over time. We went
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from having twenty five hundred to three thousand children in foster care to nearly seven
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thousand and what time frame was that, I mean approximately, Okay, I
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would say in the last five years, the last five years, we have
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gone from from twenty five hundred to over seven thousand, four years, while
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the state's population has gone down. So you got to keep that in mind.
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And the couple of key factors and that has been the opioid epidemic,
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the ongoing drug crises in the state. Um, you know, um,
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families were falling apart, children were being removed. We still continue to see,
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you know, the fallout of the drug epidemic, and we'll probably still
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continue to see children come into care until we can do more to make that
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situation better. And then I think you have other factors. You have economic
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factors. There are lots of reasons for neglect of children, and so I
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think there's a lot of different things going on in West Virginia all at one
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time. And then COVID happened and we saw people leave the workforce, and
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the most critical infrastructure is you know, with the DHR they lost GENO employees,
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child welfare agencies have lost employees. So I think it's it's not just
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one issue, it's a lot of different things. That's sort of a perfect
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storm that's happened in the last five or six years, and but we have
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to work to get out of that. And I think we are. I
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think we're working every day to put more programs and services in place. We're
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working to hire as many people as we can across the board, every state
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employee, every private employee. We're trying to do that. So we're working
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to get to a better place for our kids in West Virginia. We're talking
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we do the show from the Parmar storage studio. If there's not a
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Parmar store near you now, there will be soon. But that having been
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said this month and actually through Mother's Day when people come into Parmar stores or
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for that matter, any store that's part of the Omega group, which is
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kind of like the trade organization basically for convenience and grocery stores and oil and
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gas retributors, etc. When you go into any participating Omega store, not
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just palm Are any of them, you can contribute to the Children's Home Society
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and talk about this campaign you've got going them. Oh thank you. This
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is our thirteenth year for the Taking It Home for Mother's Stay Camp, and
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at the omegaconvenience stores you will have the opportunity to purchase a bright pink flower.
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You can sign your mother's name, your grandmother, you're a sister,
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anyone you want to honor from Other's Day and help West Virginia's children. This
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is our largest awareness campaign and the reason for that is we have over five
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hundred and thirty stores that are Omega members that are participating. So when people
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purchase that flower, they get to hear about Children's Home Society. So it
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helps us to recruit foster families, adoptive families. It helps us recruit volunteers
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and mentors and employees. So it has become our greatest awareness campaign. The
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funds are amazing that they raise, but it's all about helping people understand what
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Children's Home Society does and how they can help make a difference for West Virginia's
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children. I mean, and we see the difference that's being made every day
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through programs like this. And hats off to all the stores of Omega for
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doing this and thirteen years. At what you said, thirteen this is our
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thirteenth year. Yes, and that's a testament to not only the stores and
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their hard work, but also the customers that are willing to commit and think
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about you know, West Virginia is Mary a relatively small state. It's a
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very small state, and a lot of times in these stores when people come
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in, they know their customers. For the most part, it's not just
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everybody pulling off the inner say. A lot of times it's the same people
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that come in every day. They come in and give some coffee and something
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for their lunch, or stop on the way home and get a lottery ticket
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or whatever. And you get to know those people and sometimes you can shame
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them into it, and that's not always a bad thing. Well, I
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have been to I've traveled across the state in recent weeks, and I stop
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in at the convenience stores because it's important for us to say thank you personally.
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And the reason it works so well is because those clerks are so dedicated
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to it, and there's so happy to show you the flowers that they have
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hung up and how many they've sold, and what their goal is. And
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I've talked to clerks about, you know, their history around foster care or
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their families work to help children, and so it brings us all together.
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There's such a connection there, and they are the ones who make it happen
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every day. And the convenience stores that participate, their owners, they just
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really support it. They encourage it. And I can say this, I've
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never met a group like the West Virginia Oil Marketers and Grocers Association that truly
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is dedicated to helping West Virginia's children in so many ways. They just do
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so many different things well. And I think too, that there's a certain
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level of competition that comes in not only with the individual clerks inside the stores.
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You know, Okay, I work you know three to ten or what
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and I sold more than you did in the morning, but also between the
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different stores and the different store groups, and there are various ones that are
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part of that Omega group and that's a little competitive for them as well.
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Oh. Absolutely, this year we have not only Parmar, but we have
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the little general convenience stores, the Gomarts, bfs, we have Rocks up
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in the Panhandle, we have De Fazio Oil, and this year we have
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new to the campaign is City Fuel and Ice. And so we're just so
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thrilled. And actually there's a convenience store or several in every community, so
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it's a huge outreach and it's just an amazing awareness campaign. And this is
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an opportunity too, because you know, in the world of competition, no
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matter what the business is, you know, you're you're all being competitive with
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each other and you're trying to get into Mantage whatever. This is the one
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time that they kind of put that aside because what is good for a little
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General is good for Parmar, and it's good for Gomart and all these different
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stores that you mention. I'll just kind of work together, may talk about
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some of the success stories that you've seen working with the Children's Home Society.
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I don't mean specifically, I don't mean names or anything like that, but
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just just kind of random or you know, just kind of kind of a
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generalization. What are some of the success stories that you've seen in working with
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the Children's Home Society. Okay, well, I'll just start with a little
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bit of data. Last year, we cared for, or supported in some
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fashion in fourteen thousand, six hundred and twenty nine children and families statewide.
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Every day, we have about sixty five to seventy children we care for in
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our emergency child shelters and about two hundred and fifty children in foster care.
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Our Families Strengthening programs help thousands of people children and families across the state.
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And we're really seeing some great success with our older youth and care where we
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now have what we call independent living programs, so our older youth in our
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shelters or in foster care can then go into an independent living program and they
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get a social worker and an apartment and funds to start up, and we
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help them into their adult life. We just had a young man at one
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of our locations. He will be eighteen in June. He's going to go
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into our Morgantown independent living program and he's so excited and so there's just so
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many good things. I went to an adoption last week in Summers County,
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an adoption hearing of three children. Actually there were two hearings, and those
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children are so thrilled to have a lifetime family and to not have to worry.
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And we might not necessarily understand the impact of that. No matter the
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age of the child, once they know they have that lifetime family, it
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changes everything for them. Absolutely it does. Mary White is with us from
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the Children's Home Society West Virginia. Where can people learn more about the Children's
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Homes Society, the work that you do about this campaign? Give us some
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info? Absolutely, you can go to our website www. Child c h
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I L d H s WV dot org. Or you can call our administrative
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office and they will route you to the right person. So you only have
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one number to remember, three h four three four six zero seven nine to
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five. You will find us on Facebook, Twitter, other social media outlets
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everywhere everywhere. We have getting into those stores, even any of those stores
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that you want to just get into there and let's let's do this thing.
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Let's make it bigger and better than it's ever been. And if you and
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if you get to go to a store, be sure and say thank you
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to those folks because they're really the boots on the ground making this campaign so
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successful. And they really liked the us smile and a thank you. It
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means so much to them because they're doing that in a addition to their job
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all day long. Yeah, they're trying to help children. All right,
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Mary, what's your best luck with the campaign? We'll talk again soon.
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Thanks, all right, thank you. It's Mary Wife from the Children's Home
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Friday, Texas Day of the foster care system is geared towards protecting the biological
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parents and preventing lawsuits from them, not for protecting the children. The process
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takes too long, and bioparents that need to lose rights immediately hang on for
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months and months. Text says there is no finer group of people than Mary
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White and her staff and the volunteers with the state with the Children's Home Society
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West Virginia. There is no greater issues, says a texture facing the state
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than our exploding foster care population. And its broken system. Marrying the Children's
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Home Society do amazing work every day to help kids and their foster and adoptive
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families across the state. Thank you to all the local businesses and individuals that
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are participating in their annual Mothers Day fundraiser. Thanks for having Mary in this
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morning. Absolutely glad to do it. Tex says most children in foster care
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per capita in the nation I heard, says a Texture, most in the
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country and was shocked. Still a huge number, but not the most displaced
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children in the country. Strictly by the numbers, we are ranked twenty first
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in the country in displaced children according to a Texture. Well, are you
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excited about a Trump Biden rematch in twenty twenty four If you said no,
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you're on alone. It's interesting. I was doing a bit of a deep
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dive over this weekend on some of various things, various news sites and whatnot,
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and according to statistics and polling, a lot of what got President Trump
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elected in twenty sixteen was the independent vote. Now, when I say the
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independent vote, it doesn't necessarily mean those that are registered independent. It could
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be somebody that has an R or D after their name, but one of
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these people that say, look, I vote for the better person, doesn't
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matter necessarily what the party is. But it's so that's basically I'm thinking about
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independent voting mindset, not necessarily somebody who is registered as an independent. People
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that say, and you know them as well as I do that, you
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know, I don't vote for the party, I vote for the person.
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And so those people are what got Trump elected at least a portion of it
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in twenty sixteen. They simply wanted a change, and at that time Canada,
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Trump offered that change. He was a break from the norm and people
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saw him as a break from the norm as far as bureaucrats go, which
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is how many people viewed the Obama years and the Bush years before that,
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and certainly how they viewed candidate Hillary Clinton. Those same voters, in turn,
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did not support Trump in twenty twenty. They it is kind of interesting.
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They went back and they saw Joe Biden as the alternative somebody that had
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in in Washington for you know, a thousand years, basically yeah, give
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her, okay, no more than seven hundred. They saw Biden as that
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alternative, you know, and right or wrong, they saw him as a
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return to normal now the question is will those independent voters support President Biden this
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time? Many say that the answer is no, which could then open up
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the door for a third party, or this no labels group as it's being
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called. And hint, hint, Joe Mansion's name, Senator Joe Mansion's name
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is being thrown around a lot there. I was watching some man on the
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street, I guess you should say, people on the street. Interviews on
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some of the news shows over the weekend, and it's they were interviewing some
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younger people, and I can tell you I think it was. I think
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it was on ABC News on the Martha Ridott Show. It's on Sunday morning,
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and I can tell you that some of the young people that they interviewed
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ain't exactly excited over a Biden Trump rematch. I mean, just think about
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it this way. If you were young, and I am not, would
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you be excited over a Trump Biden rematch? I mean I certainly would not
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be. I mean, I'm fifty two now and I'm not excited about it.
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A country of three hundred and fifty million people and this is the best
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we can do. Florida Governor Rod De Santis was showing some signs of hope
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earlier, but this battle that he's got himself into with Disney has Republicans,
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let alone Democrats Republicans attacking him now. Nicki Haley, a Republican running for
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president, said she would welcome Disney to South Carolina, her home states,
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if Governor DeSantis doesn't want them in Florida. You know, and now it's
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still early, but if it were election time now, and let's face it,
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in the world of media, it never stops being election time, I
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feel pretty confident we would be looking at a Trump Biden rematch. And if
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that's the case, I think many people are going to choose to stay home
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and getting back to this no label thing. It's an actual group, and
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they have qualified to be on the Arizona ballot, and they're working to be
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qualified to be on the ballot in all fifty states, and a lot of
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people feel that this is going to be a hindrance to Joe Biden more so
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than Donald Trump. I will say this one thing is for sure, a
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lot of average people, people like us, like me, and you feel
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that both parties have been taken over by extremists on both sides. It's the
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left is way left and the right is way right, So how do we
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fix that. Of course, many people don't think it needs to be fixed
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at all. They're happy with the directions of the party. You know,
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I have a lot of Republican friends who could be happier with the state of
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the Republican Party right now. They love the fact that the party is now
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being controlled by the farthest right wing of the party, and the same with
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the left. And I just I don't think and I'm just just be espousing
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views. I don't think that's where most people are, the far right or
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far left. I think that most people's political ideology is somewhere in the middle.
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But at this point, neither party, in my opinion, seems to
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be overly interested in the middle of this point. Um, I mean,
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look at just just look at at who they who they court and the ideas
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that thing. And I'm talking about sides, So I'm not talking about Republicans
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or just Democrats or conservative I'm talking about both sides. Maybe maybe one day
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says it's it isn't going to be Trump Biden in a rematch, is going
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to be a matchup between Trump and dark Brandon, according to a texture,
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h let me see, Dave, America has lost its mind and common sense
27:42
in electing Biden as president, and we are seeing the negative results of this
27:47
election. But to see him again, it's a candidate in twenty twenty four
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is beyond belief. Thanks Dave, Well, he's going to be the candidate.
27:52
I mean, there's no doubt about it. I mean, the Democratic
27:55
Party's not gonna put anybody up. It's it's definitely going to be Joe Biden.
28:00
And there was a time when I thought it necessary that it may not
28:04
be Trump, um, but what I'm seeing right now, it's it's gonna
28:11
be Trump at this point. And you know, I mean two three four
28:14
months ago I would have said no, it's Rond de Santas. But and
28:18
I still I can't quite wrape my head around the fact that you know,
28:22
everything that Trump touched in the last election turned to crap. But it's different
28:29
in West Virginia, of course, but it's kind of where we are.
28:33
U Text says Biden has been great for West Virginia. Just look at all
28:37
the good jobs coming here because of his policies. According to Texter, Texture
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says, our elections will be more representative when Citizens United gets repealed and we
28:47
have publicly funded elections. To a Texture. Locally, authorities are looking into
28:55
an attempt at carjacking yesterday. It happened at Target out on the Corridor around
29:00
seven thirty last night. According to can On nine one one dispatchers, South
29:03
Charleston police were called to Target last night when an armed man tried to steal
29:08
a woman's car. The subject is a blackmail with long hair that they said
29:12
could have been a wig, So apparently they're looking for Rick James. He
29:18
was also wearing a puffy purple jacket and in all seriousness, he is considered
29:23
to be armed and dangerous. Had someone texting the show several times last week
29:30
asking about some sort of controversy involving Ted Cruz. Going back to nationally.
29:34
I'm all over the place this morning. Apparently, just days before January sixth,
29:40
Senator Cruz shared with a producer from Fox News his proposal to get an
29:47
audit going to potentially overturn the twenty twenty election results. Now, it was
29:52
a conversation between Ted Cruz and Fox Business host Maria Barto Romo and another producer
29:59
at Fox. The conversation was released by an attorney for Abbey Grossberg, who
30:03
was the producer in question from Fox. Ted Cruz, of course one of
30:07
those who refused to certify the election results, and Cruz, for his part's
30:15
firing back saying none of this was a secret, and he says he actually
30:18
went on on TV the next day and said the exact same thing. Now,
30:22
for her part, the producer, Abbe Grossberg has two legal suits going
30:27
against Fox at this time. She's a legend. She was coerced into giving
30:30
misleading testimony in the dominion voting defamation case. The other part of the suit
30:37
talks about the workplace culture at Fox News, specifically Tucker Carlson, who was
30:41
fired last week. And this is why most people are saying the real reason
30:45
why Carlson was fired. Grossberg in the suit talked about the poor working environment
30:49
at Fox News, including sexism and demeaning minorities and those suffering from mental illness.
30:56
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Every time there is a quote mass shooting. By the way, the
34:47
FBI to find a mass shooting, it's more than four victims, not ten,
34:52
not one hundred, but four. And being a white conservative period,
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tex says, Trump was fined for a while. Then it became of truth
34:59
denier and went all queuing on on us. So he and bided her both
35:01
terrible, terrible candidates when you were when you were started to say the list
35:07
of things like does your back hurt? Did your knees hurt? Did you
35:10
see me start to raise my hand? I did, like, oh my
35:13
gosh, are they talking about me this morning? At your age? I
35:16
right, my dear dear friend. It's wonderful. Andy Shay, owner of
35:27
the Charleston Dirty Birdsry Andy Charleston great father too. There's lots of tables you
35:32
have absolutely no and love them all. And and just in the off air
35:37
conversation, we were talking Andy and I and yourself about about chores around the
35:42
house. Andy and I apparently have a lot in common because our wives do
35:45
most of the work around the house. And when it comes to back your
35:47
outdoors is like even probably not enough. I don't know if it's literally all,
35:52
but there's somewhere in between literally all and most for me. Yeah,
35:54
well, I'm a fan of the great indoors. That's that's. I'm an
35:59
indoor cat. I prefer to do the mowing and the weeding it. I
36:01
prefer to do it because I just like to be outside. You know,
36:04
you're just sick in my head. All right, So Andy, I want
36:07
to get several things. I want to get to it the mayor, but
36:08
I want to start to with you. Opening Night for the Dirty Birds was
36:13
just passed Friday night on the road against Staten Island. And yeah, there
36:15
are a lot of rain in New York this weekend. Exactly what games got
36:19
played. It was scary rain too. I mean it was funny. So,
36:21
I mean we only played Friday night and we got the w So I
36:24
was joking with my buddy and a few other people. We got our first
36:27
sweep. Yeah I want to know, but uh, we technically did sweep
36:30
them. All right? So now, well those games are are they just?
36:34
They just scrub? Will they be made up in another Now? It's
36:36
kind of a bummer there. One percent be brought up. A one will
36:37
be in July up in Staten Island, and the other bee in August and
36:42
Staten Island, so I mean they will get played, but uh yeah,
36:45
the guy's got a chance to come back here nice and early. They're playing
36:47
on the field yesterday. They they're getting a little work in this morning before
36:52
they head out to High Point. And it's a lot still. We had
36:54
eating on the show on Friday. Uh and you kind of forget in this
36:59
world of getting places quickly that in the world of baseball in the minor leagues
37:05
you were You're still taking the bus and it was I think sixteen hours or
37:07
something like that. There's something ridiculous like a slow bus. I think it
37:10
is a heck of a bus ride, but I don't know about that much.
37:15
I think we were like eight hours, maybe eight or nine, which
37:16
still is not you know, lightning speed type thing. But you know,
37:20
the other part of it that is kind of goofy. Of course we went
37:22
up there two play three games, but making that trip for one game,
37:27
right and then coming back pretty much the next day, that is weird.
37:30
You know. It was kind of a and it was such a great win
37:34
too. I mean their starting pitcher was mowing us down. I mean he
37:37
had a no hitter through five, eleven strikeouts, no walks. You couldn't
37:40
have had a better game, really, but because it was early, it's
37:44
our league, it was nasty weather. They pulled him after five, and
37:46
we put up five in the next two thirds on the next guy, and
37:50
that was the game. So, I mean, we've got this cool momentum
37:53
and then it's like, oh man, I've got three more days off and
37:57
the home opener for the Dirty Birds is one week from tomorrow. You got
38:00
it May Night at the week from tomorrow, and of course we'll have as
38:02
we normally do on opening day, We'll have manager Billy Horn and whoever else,
38:07
the cast of thousands, whoever maybe you'll be here, and whoever else
38:08
he brings in on opening day. That's coming up next week. And you
38:14
just made the announcement and I'll say one of the things, and then I've
38:15
got some questions already waiting on the mayor and she and I know she's got
38:17
some things she wants to get into as well. The announcement was made this
38:21
past week of at this musical festival. It's good to be coming up,
38:23
but to go Martin Ballpark later in the year, absolutely, I mean,
38:25
it's something really truly that I've wanted to do since I've become the owner of
38:30
the team in Charleston, a formerly power of course, when I first took
38:34
over and now the Dirty Birds. You know, in that first season,
38:37
we came out of the gates with Wiz Khalifa concert a few months in and
38:39
it was awesome and it was great, and it was just the beginning though,
38:43
because that was at that time it was still coming off of COVID.
38:45
The whole concert and entertainment world was still very very wonky. Last year,
38:51
I don't want to say we took a break, but it was in preparation
38:53
of the field replacement, everything we had going on there. So when I
38:58
was introduced to Alan with Airstream Ventures, I mean, it was the quickest
39:01
yes of all time, and it was like, oh my gosh, that's
39:05
small world awesome that it's like the two of us plus the city, plus
39:08
Tim Brady plus everyone. Really you know, had kind of been visualizing this
39:13
and then boom, in one meeting, we were all talking about it on
39:15
the same page right away. So with that, I mean that was really
39:19
only a couple of months ago. I mean, in a couple of months,
39:22
we had the deal ironed out, we had the concept ironed out,
39:23
we had the A one priority for me was that it had to be super
39:28
super affordable tickets. It was almost like the artist were I want to figure
39:32
that out. Second, I want to start with the affordable tickets, not
39:37
book the artist, and then base the ticket prices off of that. So
39:40
we were able to What we've been able to do is combine both. I
39:44
mean our final lineup, which we have not announced yet, we will be
39:46
announcing over the next several weeks. I mean already it's awesome and for twenty
39:52
dollars the tickets starting at twenty bucks. I mean, I'm really pumped about
39:55
what we've been able to put together and the response and the reception has been
40:00
through the roof. And and again the complete lineup is us not even been
40:05
announced yet, that's gonna be coming soon, Yes, exactly, We'll be.
40:08
Part of it was planning and announcement and excitement part of it, you
40:13
know, was definitely a kind of artist side and the other logistics piece of
40:16
uh, you know, maybe not everyone could keep up with us. We
40:20
were like, go go, go go, but uh, the entertainment world
40:23
is there papers yes, so to put it, I think, and there's
40:29
a lot of stuff going on at the at the ballpark. You know,
40:31
I've never seen it um and I've been here since its inception and when it
40:35
was built. But you know, you just got off a great week with
40:38
the Savannah Bananas. Largest crowd in the history of the stadium, uh for
40:45
two nights, by the way, and that comes off the heels of w
40:49
View and Marshall playing, which was insane. Did you see the photos from
40:52
that. I did, was out of town. I didn't get to go
40:54
to the game, but I did see the photos from it. Yet,
40:57
Yeah, it was absolutely amazing and the Savannah Bananas was what a what a
41:01
catch Andy to get them? See what I did there. I'm a hockey
41:07
moment, I was practicing before sport ball sport ball, but I mean,
41:10
what a big deal. And I guess I didn't even realize when you booked
41:15
them what the Savannah Bananas really would mean to Charleston and for our hotels and
41:22
for our restaurants and really getting the largest crowd we've ever had, right,
41:25
Yeah, and it was amazing. I mean, it was so fun.
41:28
And don't be wrong, I certainly did not know this impact, but I
41:31
mean that was the first thing that I said to Jesse Cole because at that
41:35
time my family is still owned the team in lex in Kentucky, and I
41:37
think more people because I had been there since two thousand and five, knew
41:40
me as the Lexan and guy. But I told him right away. I
41:44
was like, man, I'm telling you. I was like, I want
41:45
to look at Charleston. I was like, for you know, if it's
41:49
one or the other type thing, let's talk Charleston. And you know,
41:52
it was just so important. It was. It was really awesome because for
41:55
their business model, a bigger stadium and more tickets sold, technically, you
42:00
know, it would have meant more money for them. But I was so
42:05
pumped. He believed in me, believed in what and like when they were
42:07
just so thankful. They were so palmed the reception, they loved the community.
42:15
I mean, it was it was amazing. And that's you know,
42:16
that's something that we've talked about since the first time that we met Mayor,
42:20
that the non the Dirty Birds. It's the home of the Dirty Birds,
42:22
it's the Dirty Birds Stadium and everything, but it's those non events. To
42:27
use a three hundred and sixty five day calendar, and I swear we have
42:30
one hundred percent had way more people in our stadium than people who have actually
42:34
started their season. I mean, that's amazing. When you look nationwide,
42:37
there are dozens and dozens of professional baseball teams that have not had the crowds
42:42
that we have, and we haven't even had our first game yet. Right,
42:45
it's about turns too, right. Yes, In that filmy, I
42:49
got a phone call for you. Yea, and so Andy and Miski put
42:51
those headphones on there so you can hear the phone called that. I don't
42:53
know if Asess Shelly going to be for you or not, but I want
42:55
to make sure you're ready. Let's pa, let's rhyme. Let's goo to
42:59
Dan. Dan, you're on with the mayor. Go ahead, good morning.
43:01
I appreciate you're taking my call. Thank you, Mayor. You and
43:07
I had a phone conversation on this show back before the first Regatta that you
43:12
guys decided to do. I asked about doing the regatta river swim. You
43:16
put me in touch with a lady who told me that the Regatta river swim
43:22
wasn't going to be done the first year, but it would be done the
43:25
second year. I have since been in touch with your office and found out
43:30
that the regatta river swim is not going to be done. I'm wondering why
43:35
you decided not to do it and if you might do it next year.
43:38
You know, I'm not sure that I knew it was not going to be
43:42
done, or I'll say this at least, Dan, I wasn't involved in
43:45
those conversations, but I'm happy to circle back and ask our team when I
43:52
got back to the office why it wasn't happening. You didn't want me to
43:54
swim in it, did you, Dan, Well, I thought about challenging
43:58
into a ring, not swimming. I'll do a couple different races, but
44:04
swimming. Swimming is not going to be one of them. I'm I don't
44:07
know why you got that answer, Dan, I'm sure that. I mean,
44:08
there's a work out, a commission. Maybe it was brought up at
44:12
a commission that I couldn't attend. But I promise you this, I have
44:16
folks listening. Our chief of staff, Matthew Sutton is listening this morning,
44:20
and I'll ask him to follow up and get an answer. If you would
44:23
consider doing it next year, I would greatly appreciate it. Yes, sir,
44:28
row swim that's been really popular, Dan, so I get. I
44:30
get why you're asking. Dan. We appreciate your phone call. I mean
44:34
I got a text before we go to break says good morning day. Please
44:36
ask Mayor if she would reach out to Barry Hills or Edgewood and had them
44:39
since someone over to advise the city on how to repair and maintain the greens
44:43
at Cato Park. I've already done it. I've done it right. Yeah,
44:46
yeah, our team is learning. We have an amazing team at the
44:52
City of Charleston, and these folks are not they're not greenskeepers. As a
44:57
golfer myself, that is that's the challenge Dan, if you want to call
45:00
back, I'll challenge you a whole for a whole butt um. That is
45:02
my sport um when I'm not when I'm not working, that's what I like
45:08
carrying the week at mayoring um. And so I get it, and I
45:12
and I understand your frustration sometimes when the greens are a little too dry or
45:17
uh, you know, there's not bermuda grass everywhere. So it's as you
45:21
well know, if you're a golfer, you're asking for a reason. You
45:23
know, the aeration of the greens and the type of grass that we have
45:27
and fertilizing in water. It's a science, it's not it's just not something
45:31
that you can do. We're not trained in doing that. Those calls were
45:34
made actually years ago. Uh, COVID kind of shut us down. Um,
45:38
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Hill out of Group Voice Charleston w Chs. Mayor, Good one is here.
48:28
Andy Shay from the Dirty Birds is here too. Text us what's going
48:30
on with the whole group? Mayor and the town Center mall parking? Did
48:32
the whole group not know they bought them all with no parking? It's a
48:36
great question for the whole group. Okay, we'll try to get them on
48:38
the show. All right, let's go to Jim. Jim, you're on
48:42
with the mayor. Go ahead, Good morning everybody. Jim. Yeah,
48:52
oh Jim. That thrills me. Well. I was. I was a
48:59
very sick person and I appreciate everybody's prayers and everything like that. There was
49:07
a few days that I was I was not myself. Uh. We love
49:15
you, we worry about you. I love you too, and I want
49:20
to I want to thank Themanda Bear on the air for her kind words.
49:24
She's amazing. But you talk about a blood, she is my blood.
49:35
She's a wonderful person. So listen, you all carry on. Thank you
49:39
very much, said glad to talk to you. And I'll be around definitely,
49:46
will be at the Live on the Weather and also at the regard.
49:52
I got to try to get me some beeds this year. I got your
50:00
be GM. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Texas. My guess
50:02
is the reason there's no regatta swim's liability seems pretty chancey. We're just kind
50:07
of talking about Yeah, yeah, I mean it's very popular. We were
50:12
talking about that in that small area, which is great, right guys.
50:15
You know, but you've got hundreds of boats between Court and Capital literally,
50:22
and so our police and fire during regatta on their boats are very busy trying
50:25
to keep people away or watching. It's because during the regatta everybody enjoys the
50:30
riverfront, which we love. But if you're out kayaking or a lot of
50:34
people have and we have one you put on the back of your boat,
50:36
it is like a little float. Throw your kids out there, they jump
50:38
off of there. That it gets really dangerous when you've got boats and jet
50:42
skis and foats flying by, so it's it's like a highway during regatta.
50:47
But I appreciate the fact that folks want to enjoy the river, you know,
50:51
swimming, kayaking, all the above. Tex says, while I realize
50:54
this is not a city project, doesn't they ever have any insight as to
50:57
the progress of the mccorkill Avenue rebuild. It seems this project is dragging along.
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Is it on schedule, behind schedule or where are we within now that's
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okay. I'm glad if it happens in the city of Charleston. By the
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way, it's a city interest, so yes, it's a mccork was a
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state road. A lot of folks don't know mccorkill state road, but it
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is. As a matter of fact, we met with the entire team.
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We had eleven people in a meeting week before last to ask the Department of
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Highways exactly that where are we, what's being done, and what are we
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doing moving forward. There's been some paving going on over the past week.
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I know this because our chief of staff lives in Kanal City and he sends
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me photos of kayhot photos like this is being done. This isn't being done.
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But remember the asphalt plants are just opening. We talked about this offline
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paving is starting in the city of Charleston here sooner rather than later, and
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so you'll see an uptech beek all right, May I appreciate it, and
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he's always a pleasure to have You didn't know that you're going to be asked
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to come in solve city problem. Hey what Helloay, I'm learning Opening days
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next Tuesday? Right, Andy, you got her a week from tomorrow,
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May ninth, Dirty Birds baseball dot Com. All right, looking forward to
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mayor. Always a pleasure to see you. Thank you, Thank you for
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being here tomorrow on the show. Our good buddy Chris Swithrow from the Benny
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Keadam Shrine is here in Republican strategist Greg Thomas is on the show tomorrow as
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well. Hoppies on vacation for the next two weeks. He's traps in around
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the mountains somewhere. So you get Dave Wilson on talk line. I will
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see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody see hs A
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