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08/13/25 580 Live with Dale Cooper - Building Stronger Communities – United Way’s Board Connector & High School NIL in WV · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk this morning about some new initiatives
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Speaker 2: zeros ero eight. And now i'd like to welcome into
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Speaker 2: the studio Carry Cooper. She is the Community Impact director
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Speaker 2: with United Way. Hey, you doing this morning? I'm doing
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Speaker 2: great as soon as I get your Mike's turned on correctly. Okay,
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Speaker 2: now let's try it again. I'm doing well this morning. Man,
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Speaker 2: this is a quick turnaround. I have to admit I
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Speaker 2: haven't been in these new studios since we've been doing this.
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Speaker 2: Quick turnaround six minutes goes pretty.
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Speaker 3: Quick, it does. It's a beautiful studio. Thanks for having us, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: thanks for coming in.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate. Is this your first time coming into the new one?
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Speaker 2: Is I did not know that Margaret had been over here.
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Speaker 2: This is your first time here, this is my first
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Speaker 2: A little bit of an upgrade, isn't it? Yes much Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's a little different than what it has been. Well,
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Speaker 2: thanks so much for coming in this morning. And this
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Speaker 2: would be a great opportunity for us to talk about
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Speaker 2: this because what we're going to be talking about this
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Speaker 2: morning is the Board Connector launch. That is that is
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Speaker 2: an initiative of the United Ways put together and this
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Speaker 2: is pretty exciting. I've been doing a little bit of
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Speaker 2: digging into it and I can see where this could
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Speaker 2: really come into come into play in something that's going
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Speaker 2: to be very very useful. I'd like to also introduce
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Speaker 2: doctor Craig Glover. He's the board chair. Doctor Glover, Good morning.
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Speaker 2: How you doing this morning. I'm doing well. Thank you
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Speaker 2: for having me, Thank you for coming in, and really
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Speaker 2: appreciate you coming in. First of all, I thought carry
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Speaker 2: I would get from you if you could just give
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Speaker 2: us an overview of what the Board Connector program is.
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Speaker 3: Sure, it is to connect those individuals that want to
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Speaker 3: work in their nonprofit community right want to spend their
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Speaker 3: time and their talent and their treasure with their nonprofits
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Speaker 3: and to help strengthen those boards. So the stronger the
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Speaker 3: board of a nonprofit, the stronger the nonprofit. The stronger
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Speaker 3: the nonprofit, the stronger the community. So this is a
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Speaker 3: way to recruit volunteers for board positions that nonprofits have available,
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Speaker 3: or they're looking to fill a certain skill set, and
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Speaker 3: this is the way to connect them.
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Speaker 2: And this simply starts right now with the website. Is
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Speaker 2: that right? You can go to register.
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Speaker 3: There is an online application you just fill out, you know,
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Speaker 3: a little bio about yourself and the things that you're
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Speaker 3: interested in, and then we would send that to nonprofits
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Speaker 3: that ask for the same thing. So if I have
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Speaker 3: someone that says I need a radio jockey, I'm going
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Speaker 3: to send Delle's application straight over to that nonprofit.
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Speaker 2: That's great. Can you kind of describe or do you
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Speaker 2: have like sort of a sketch of the individual of
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Speaker 2: a typical individual that you'd like to see apply for
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Speaker 2: this or to put their information on there? Is there
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Speaker 2: is there any cutout that you're looking for or is
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Speaker 2: it really one size?
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Speaker 3: Diversity is the key here, So it would be anyone
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Speaker 3: that is interested in their community, anyone that is interested
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Speaker 3: in serving at a higher capacity than just being a
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Speaker 3: sometime volunteer, being a part of a working board, giving
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Speaker 3: back to the community and making us all stronger.
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Speaker 2: So we're hoping to make connections between folks that are
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Speaker 2: really community minded, that want to work in this in
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Speaker 2: this board, and places that really need So sometimes you
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Speaker 2: have people that want to do the works and they
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Speaker 2: can't find a place to go. And if you have
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Speaker 2: people that want to hire somebody to do the works,
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Speaker 2: they don't have anybody to hire. So this is going
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Speaker 2: to help them that. And I want I wonder doctor Glover,
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Speaker 2: if you could address from from a leadership perspective and
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Speaker 2: with your experience, why are strengthening nonprofit boards so critical
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Speaker 2: right now in Central West Virginia.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's important because we do have a
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Speaker 4: lot of nonprofits in our state that are doing great work.
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Speaker 4: And as Carrie said, the stronger the governance model than
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Speaker 4: the stronger the board and the stronger the organization and
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Speaker 4: the services that they're providing. So it's a really important thing.
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Speaker 4: And as we look at a lot of the challenges
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Speaker 4: that are happening in our state now, and there are
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Speaker 4: a lot of nonprofits that are addressing notes. So connecting
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Speaker 4: folks who want to be involved and have a skill
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Speaker 4: set and talent that they can lend is really important.
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Speaker 2: And a previous interview that you did, you called it
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Speaker 2: a powerful bridge, the connector, the connector system. How's that
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Speaker 2: dynamic going to work for nonprofits? How's that going to
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Speaker 2: help him? Is it what we're doing here is identifying
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Speaker 2: the you can't always call perfect, but the best fit
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Speaker 2: for a particular job. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, So it's an opportunity to bridge because the nonprofit
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Speaker 4: from their side, they can say, this is the skill
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Speaker 4: set that we're looking for. So to your question before,
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Speaker 4: this is kind of the profile of the next board
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Speaker 4: member we would like to add. And then from the
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Speaker 4: individual side they can say, this is my profile, this
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Speaker 4: is the skill set that I can bring to a board,
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Speaker 4: and that bridge is connecting them together.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds like a very very needed program, something
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Speaker 2: that a little surprising. Maybe it wasn't there before. I
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Speaker 2: don't know, but it seems like being able to put
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Speaker 2: this place, put these placements together is great. What are
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Speaker 2: some of the uh, the mechanisms behind the scenes carry
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Speaker 2: where you make sure these matches work?
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Speaker 5: Is it?
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Speaker 2: Is it kind of a mechanism of the system itself,
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Speaker 2: that's just going to make those connections or what's kind
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Speaker 2: of behind the scenes home.
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Speaker 3: We're just going to make those connections. I can't tell
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Speaker 3: you what you need in your daily life. I can't
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Speaker 3: tell you what you know your your world looks like,
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Speaker 3: what kind of skill set you're looking for next? But
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Speaker 3: I'm going to offer you, you know, a catalog to
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Speaker 3: choose from to order the next thing that you need.
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Speaker 3: So it's just a way for us to have a
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Speaker 3: database of those that are willing and want to be
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Speaker 3: a part of the community. And that's to be able
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Speaker 3: to fill that.
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Speaker 2: Gap, emphasize the building diverse and skilled boards. They're in
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Speaker 2: the course of the conversation, what would that and this
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Speaker 2: might be kind of a hard question, but what would
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Speaker 2: that look like in practice? Like five years down the road,
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Speaker 2: ten years down the road, you're seeing this system that
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Speaker 2: kind of works. What what is it that you envision
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Speaker 2: it working.
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Speaker 3: As I envision it as the first place they stop
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Speaker 3: when they when they know they have board members rolling off,
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Speaker 3: or they have change programming in their building and decide
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Speaker 3: they need something, you know, more more specific to their
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Speaker 3: to their organization. I think it would be the best
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Speaker 3: place to find. You know, if if I need legal
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Speaker 3: it's the best place to say, hey, I need someone
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Speaker 3: with legal experience, or I need someone with financial experience.
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Speaker 3: So it's you know, just to go through the catalog
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Speaker 3: and say, no, I don't need this, but I do
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Speaker 3: need this, So I think it would be the best
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Speaker 3: way to keep those already at your fingertips.
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Speaker 2: It really seems to make a lot of sense. And
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Speaker 2: doctor Glover, what are some of the qualities and effective
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Speaker 2: board members that you're hoping to cultivate with this initiative.
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Speaker 2: You're hoping to find more people with those types of qualities.
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Speaker 4: So the most important quality is that for a board
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Speaker 4: member is that they believe in the mission. So you
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Speaker 4: have to believe in the work that the organization is doing.
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Speaker 4: That's the most important. And then from there it is
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Speaker 4: what is the skill set that that individual can bring
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Speaker 4: to the board compared to what that board is looking for.
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Speaker 4: So as Kerry kind of mentioned, you know, typical things
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Speaker 4: are folks with finance backgrounds, legal, human resources, marketing, but
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Speaker 4: it's all going to be dependent on that organization. So
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Speaker 4: if they're doing something that's very specific, they may be
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Speaker 4: looking for someone who has radio experience. And this is
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Speaker 4: an opportunity for them to say this is what we're
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Speaker 4: looking for, as well as an opportunity for people to
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Speaker 4: say I can meet that need and I believe in
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Speaker 4: that mission.
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Speaker 2: What would ask, Well, I'll start with you, doctor Glover.
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Speaker 2: What would you if somebody's out there and this sounds
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Speaker 2: interesting to it, but they never really saw themselves in
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Speaker 2: that role. Well, I don't know if that's something that
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Speaker 2: could I be on the board. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: that's really me. But I have this passion something that
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Speaker 2: I can do. I have this skill set, whatever it
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Speaker 2: might be. What would you tell them, maybe to push
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Speaker 2: them over the hump a little bit, like, hey, just
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Speaker 2: try get started. There might be a perfect match out
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Speaker 2: there for you. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: What I would say is go to board connector fill
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Speaker 4: out the application, put in your skill set, and see
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Speaker 4: if there's a match for you.
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Speaker 2: That's really the thing.
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Speaker 4: You never know where your skill sets may be needed,
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Speaker 4: and so that's the most important thing is start with that.
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Speaker 2: Fill that out.
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Speaker 4: If you've never served on a board, not sure what
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Speaker 4: boards do, that's okay. The organization can help you with that.
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Speaker 4: We're talking at the United Way about developing some board
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Speaker 4: training for folks who've never served on a board, but
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Speaker 4: you don't know until you actually start to do it.
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Speaker 4: So you got to put yourself out there and get
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Speaker 4: immersed in it.
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Speaker 2: I never thought about this before, but even if you're
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Speaker 2: some who's thinking, hey, I would like to send on
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Speaker 2: a board or whatever, if you don't know where the
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Speaker 2: resources are to what openings there are, what boards are there?
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Speaker 2: What is a board? I mean, if you don't have
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Speaker 2: those resources that are available, you may not be able
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Speaker 2: to find this. So this kind of cuts out some
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Speaker 2: of that a morphous mystery to like how do I
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Speaker 2: even get involved with being on a board. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it kind of cuts through all of that a lot,
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Speaker 2: and that's on itself beneficial until this point in time
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Speaker 2: and talking to you guys, if it's something that I
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Speaker 2: had any interest in, like where do you look for
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Speaker 2: the list? How do you have any idea? But now
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Speaker 2: I know if I can if I just fill out
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Speaker 2: an application on this connector if there is an opportunity
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Speaker 2: and it's something that matches up with my own passions
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Speaker 2: and skill sets, there might be an opportunity out there.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of the big step, right.
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Speaker 4: The other thing, you may fill out an application and
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Speaker 4: find that there is an organization you never heard of,
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Speaker 4: but they're looking for your skill set. That's what happened
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Speaker 4: with me twenty years ago when I started on my
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Speaker 4: first board, I got connected to an organization I had
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Speaker 4: never heard of before, but they were looking for someone
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Speaker 4: that had my skill set. And once I understood what
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Speaker 4: they were doing, I can support that. I can get
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Speaker 4: behind that.
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Speaker 2: And you have no idea, whatever your skill set and
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Speaker 2: your passions might be could align with any number of
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Speaker 2: things if you put it in and you don't know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, you might think that, well, my weird I
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Speaker 2: have this weird brain that likes all these different things.
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Speaker 2: You never know where that might come into play at.
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Speaker 2: And that's another beautiful thing about this connector. If someone
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Speaker 2: is interested today, Carrie, what's their first steps? What do
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Speaker 2: they do?
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Speaker 3: Go to our website, so it's United Way CWV dot org.
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Speaker 3: How we help? The tab at the top, how do
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Speaker 3: we help? So there's a board connector tab there you
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Speaker 3: can read some information about the board connector. The applications
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Speaker 3: are right there and straight to my mailbox and we'll
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Speaker 3: go from there.
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Speaker 2: What a really neat initiative and something that I mean,
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Speaker 2: I could really see it making a difference for nonprofits.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know this for a fact. If I'm
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Speaker 2: assuming sometimes you're opening up position, you have a board,
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Speaker 2: you don't have a lot of candidates that you're choosing from,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes you have to have that roll field for
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Speaker 2: one reason or another, where it be fun drives or
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Speaker 2: whatever it might be, and so you may make an
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Speaker 2: imperfect selection there, you know, something along those So it'd
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Speaker 2: be nice to have candidates that almost select themselves into
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Speaker 2: it without necessarily knowing specifically that it's for your for
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Speaker 2: your initiative, but it gives you kind of a better
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Speaker 2: overview of that.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it makes it much easier on everyone. So
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Speaker 3: it would make it easier on the organization choosing a
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Speaker 3: board member. You know, I've got this rolodex of people
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Speaker 3: that I can look through and yes, that one fits exactly.
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Speaker 3: And then it makes it easy on the volunteer to say, well,
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Speaker 3: I really wanted to go there, but no one ever
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Speaker 3: called me.
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Speaker 2: That's great information. Yeah, that's really good, Devin.
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Speaker 4: If I can add absolutely from my side, you know,
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Speaker 4: my professional life, I run a nonprofit organization, and so
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Speaker 4: when we're looking for new board members, the first thing
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Speaker 4: is you're approaching someone that you don't know if they
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Speaker 4: have an interest in board service by but by using
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Speaker 4: the board Connector, at least in that first conversation, you
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Speaker 4: know this person and they're interested in serving on a board.
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Speaker 4: So then it's a matter of figuring out is this
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Speaker 4: the right fit for them and the organization versus sort
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Speaker 4: of cold calling someone and said, hey, have you ever
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Speaker 4: thought about doing this?
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Speaker 2: So that all so cuts that out as well. Man,
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Speaker 2: it's great information. I think this is going to be
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Speaker 2: a massively useful tool. Maybe we'll have an update on
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Speaker 2: it at some point, but it might also just fade
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Speaker 2: into the background and be the perfectly most useful thing
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Speaker 2: ever and just does the hard work, which is what
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Speaker 2: we're hoping for, right, And that's great stuff. I really
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Speaker 2: appreciate your als time this morning. Thanks so much for
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Speaker 2: coming in from the United Way. Kerry Cooper has been
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Speaker 2: here so he's the Community Impact director and also a
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Speaker 2: board chair. Doctor Craig Glover and studio with this this morning,
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Speaker 2: talking about board Connector once again United what's.
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Speaker 3: The website United Way cw CW.
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Speaker 2: That's right, CWV dot org. If that's United Way, CWV
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Speaker 2: dot org is where you can get started. Kerry, thank
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Speaker 2: you so much for your time. Really appreciate it. This
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Speaker 2: morning now doctor Glover, thank you for your time as well,
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Speaker 2: really appreciate it. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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Speaker 2: remainder of this week. I'm del Cooper. Thanks for tuning
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Speaker 2: in to the radio station. Thanks again to the night
16:31
Speaker 2: a Way for coming in talking about the Board Connector program.
16:33
Speaker 2: I think that's that's massively useful. One thing I did
16:36
Speaker 2: want to talk about today though, and I'm glad that
16:38
Speaker 2: he made Tom to come on this morning. Delegate from
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Speaker 2: fifty seven Delicate fifty seven, Hollis Lewis is with us
16:46
Speaker 2: this morning. We're going to talk a little bit about
16:48
Speaker 2: the high school name, image and likeness. This went into
16:51
Speaker 2: effect on August eighth. Delegate Lewis, good morning, how you
16:55
Speaker 2: doing this morning, Hollis.
16:56
Speaker 5: Good morning, Coop, and thank you for having me on.
16:59
Speaker 2: Yeah. Man, I appreciate you taking some time out today.
17:01
Speaker 2: I always appreciated your insights. So on car A LS
17:04
Speaker 2: show you talk about this quite a bit and you
17:05
Speaker 2: have your own insights on this. Nil. This went into
17:10
Speaker 2: effect on August the eighth. I wondered if I have
17:14
Speaker 2: the information here, but as your understanding with this name,
17:17
Speaker 2: image and likeness which deals with grade six to grade
17:21
Speaker 2: twelve in West Virginia as an overview, what does that
17:25
Speaker 2: mean for student athletes in West Virginia.
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Speaker 5: Well, basically, what it means is that student athletes in
17:31
Speaker 5: West Virginia, as you mentioned, from grade six to twelve
17:34
Speaker 5: can now earn money and compensation from their name, image
17:39
Speaker 5: and likeness.
17:40
Speaker 10: And from the.
17:41
Speaker 5: Understanding that I have from reading the policy, students you know,
17:45
Speaker 5: could do commercials and host camps and do different things
17:49
Speaker 5: like that. What they could not do that was on
17:53
Speaker 5: the college level. Is they couldn't just accept money from
17:56
Speaker 5: like collectives, so they would actually have to you know,
17:59
Speaker 5: do something as far as work or you know, something
18:03
Speaker 5: to that effect.
18:04
Speaker 2: So that you actually have to have like you're applying
18:07
Speaker 2: something in order to get the the the funds from
18:10
Speaker 2: the from the nil.
18:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you're doing something like I said, to promote
18:14
Speaker 5: like for example, like a car dealership or a clothing brand. Uh,
18:19
Speaker 5: but you could not you And again it's based on
18:21
Speaker 5: your own name, image and likeness, so you can't do
18:24
Speaker 5: that in affiliation with whatever school you may represent.
18:28
Speaker 2: Does this? Does this? Is this considered employment? For example,
18:33
Speaker 2: for like someone in sixth grade, do you need to
18:36
Speaker 2: get like an exception to work? Or how does that
18:38
Speaker 2: work as far as that goes? Does the does would
18:40
Speaker 2: the money come into the student athletes name? And and
18:43
Speaker 2: like for the trust to the family's name? How how
18:45
Speaker 2: would that work for the extremely young that we're talking about.
18:48
Speaker 5: And that's that's a good question. And those are the
18:50
Speaker 5: same questions that I had in reading the policy, which
18:53
Speaker 5: it doesn't necessarily spell all those things out. So again
18:57
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if you need to like a you know,
18:59
Speaker 5: like A ninety nine or you got to fill out
19:01
Speaker 5: W two's and all that, particularly like when you are
19:05
Speaker 5: that young. So I think as we you know, worked
19:08
Speaker 5: through this, those details will be worked out.
19:12
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean just I've been in commission jobs
19:14
Speaker 2: and different things like that before. If you're ten ninety
19:16
Speaker 2: nine employee, that means you got to worry about paying
19:18
Speaker 2: taxes yourself. If you're taking out of it, you got
19:20
Speaker 2: to create that tax fund and get it take care of.
19:22
Speaker 2: I mean, we're actually six year old or grade six
19:24
Speaker 2: to do this, there's got to be some sort of
19:26
Speaker 2: oversight in it, right exactly.
19:28
Speaker 5: And again, you know, like I said, I'm not necessarily
19:32
Speaker 5: against this as a concept. Again, I think as we
19:35
Speaker 5: worked through this, there definitely need to be guardros on it, because,
19:39
Speaker 5: like you said, we don't want you know, sixth graders
19:41
Speaker 5: and seventh graders spending you know, an unreasonable amount of
19:46
Speaker 5: time trying to you know, work when they should be
19:50
Speaker 5: enjoying their life and going to school.
19:51
Speaker 2: And stuff, and kind of perusing through the benefits of
19:54
Speaker 2: what this would have liked. First of all, any benefits
19:57
Speaker 2: at least that I proceed from it are all benefits
20:00
Speaker 2: other than the ability for student athletes to make money.
20:02
Speaker 2: It seems like all the perceived benefits are just benefits
20:05
Speaker 2: that are cutting short problems that we're made from having
20:07
Speaker 2: high school iniol to begin with. For example, students won't
20:10
Speaker 2: cross state lines. We won't lose student athletes out of
20:13
Speaker 2: West Virginia for Nile to another state. Well, I mean,
20:15
Speaker 2: that's only possible because there is an il at that state.
20:18
Speaker 2: That's a self created problem as far as things like
20:20
Speaker 2: that goes. So you have the talent retention in the
20:23
Speaker 2: state and financial empowerment, which I guess, if done the
20:25
Speaker 2: right way, really could help. I mean, we know about
20:30
Speaker 2: young people when they get into adult situations and get
20:33
Speaker 2: further along in life, a lot of times there's not
20:35
Speaker 2: financial literacy that's part of their education younger. I'm not
20:39
Speaker 2: so sure it is now either, So maybe that's an
20:42
Speaker 2: element that we should look into adding into education at
20:45
Speaker 2: some degree. Is just a basic responsibility to yourself from
20:49
Speaker 2: a financial standpoint, because this is we're starting to talk
20:52
Speaker 2: about a lot of money that relatively young kids are
20:54
Speaker 2: gonna be able to play around with.
20:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're exactly right, because when we talk
20:59
Speaker 5: about these sort of things, I think there has to
21:01
Speaker 5: be an educational piece. And again, has this thing will
21:05
Speaker 5: be implemented. I think the execution of it will be
21:08
Speaker 5: fine tuned over time and will work out those details.
21:12
Speaker 5: The biggest concern I have is that I think that,
21:16
Speaker 5: you know, number one, we're now moving towards the situations
21:21
Speaker 5: where you know, parents, I think this is going to
21:25
Speaker 5: be the primary concern and how they you know, deciding
21:31
Speaker 5: what schools the kids go to and trying to figure out,
21:36
Speaker 5: you know, instead of the kid you know, necessarily just
21:40
Speaker 5: working on the brand, excuse me, working on becoming a
21:42
Speaker 5: better student athlete, they're now having to develop a brand
21:45
Speaker 5: very early. So I think this is going to be
21:48
Speaker 5: top of mind for some parents. And what I also
21:51
Speaker 5: don't think some people are considering is that just because
21:55
Speaker 5: you may be even good at a sport doesn't necessarily
21:58
Speaker 5: mean you're going to be marketable for a particular product.
22:02
Speaker 5: So there's going to have to be a lot more
22:04
Speaker 5: thought into maybe your social media and all those other
22:08
Speaker 5: things which can bring a whole host of other issues
22:11
Speaker 5: and problems to you know, school and coaches and different
22:13
Speaker 5: things of that nature. And if you just allowed me
22:16
Speaker 5: for a second, the second prime concern I have is
22:20
Speaker 5: also dealing with the transfer Again. I know the bill
22:23
Speaker 5: addresses it as far as you know, looking into those
22:28
Speaker 5: uh nil deals that follow transfers, but I think it's
22:32
Speaker 5: still going to be a problem. And it's I think
22:35
Speaker 5: this is going to be, you know, a situation in
22:38
Speaker 5: which as we go through this and work it out,
22:41
Speaker 5: different issues and problems are going to come up, and
22:43
Speaker 5: then we're going to have to sort of figure out
22:46
Speaker 5: how to address those problems, like you know, building the
22:49
Speaker 5: plane while you fly.
22:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the thing that I think if we
22:53
Speaker 2: would take this all the way back, and I want
22:54
Speaker 2: to go over just a moment, I'm going to talk
22:56
Speaker 2: about some of the things that are supposed to be
22:57
Speaker 2: restricted in some of the issues that that I see
23:00
Speaker 2: potentially coming up on things that are obstensibly supposed to
23:04
Speaker 2: be restricted. What you mentioned there about the transfers when
23:06
Speaker 2: I was doing research on this, the one thing that
23:07
Speaker 2: that like you mentioned in the legislation that says we
23:12
Speaker 2: realize where transfers are and we have to deal with it. Well,
23:14
Speaker 2: saying we have to deal with it is different than
23:15
Speaker 2: actually dealing with it. And the biggest difference is there's
23:18
Speaker 2: forty states that have high school in IL. So it's
23:19
Speaker 2: not like West Virginia's a unicorn here. This is a
23:21
Speaker 2: relatively common thing that's going on these days. There's nothing
23:24
Speaker 2: necessarily wrong with that. The problem is our transfer rules
23:27
Speaker 2: are way out of step with the rest of these
23:29
Speaker 2: states that have high school NIL and how those two
23:32
Speaker 2: things are going to combine, I have no idea.
23:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again that's one thing that's going to have
23:37
Speaker 5: to be addressed because the reality is is that there
23:40
Speaker 5: are going to be situations in which, you know, a
23:43
Speaker 5: kid is going to be incentivized to transfer to said school,
23:48
Speaker 5: you know, you know, by way of an NIL deal.
23:52
Speaker 5: Whether that's you know, on the level or not, that's
23:55
Speaker 5: going to be the reality in some situations. So we
23:58
Speaker 5: don't want to sit up programs. We don't want to
24:00
Speaker 5: set up kids for failure. So again, I think those
24:03
Speaker 5: that's one of the things that I would like to
24:05
Speaker 5: see it maybe a little bit more fleshed out. And
24:07
Speaker 5: in addition, you know, as far as pitying truth, you know,
24:11
Speaker 5: the onus on our principles, I think maybe we're going
24:16
Speaker 5: to have to have a third party at least, we're
24:19
Speaker 5: gonna have to start to kick that around. As far
24:21
Speaker 5: as enforcement, and actually to go over these things because
24:24
Speaker 5: again there you know when you talk about specifically, you
24:28
Speaker 5: know the transfer thing, you're gonna have to have some
24:31
Speaker 5: investigations that come with that as kids move and get
24:34
Speaker 5: nil deals and sort of keeping up with those things.
24:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the and that's the and and to kind
24:40
Speaker 2: of explain that to where I was heading with this
24:42
Speaker 2: and what you were talking about, kind of building the
24:44
Speaker 2: slide as we're on it. The problem to me anyway,
24:47
Speaker 2: is that the place that should have given us a
24:50
Speaker 2: model to kind of bounce off of the n C
24:52
Speaker 2: double A didn't do a good job to start with.
24:54
Speaker 2: So they created the chaos by basically leaning into the
24:57
Speaker 2: chaos and just saying, hey, if everybody's going to p money,
25:00
Speaker 2: we're going to print money too. We'll figure it out
25:02
Speaker 2: on the box side. And so we don't have a
25:04
Speaker 2: model to really model any of this after everybody is
25:06
Speaker 2: just kind of chasing their own intel because there isn't
25:08
Speaker 2: something to look up to and say, well, this is
25:10
Speaker 2: a model that works, because there isn't one that really
25:11
Speaker 2: works right now.
25:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, and again, and I'll give credit to the WDSSAC.
25:17
Speaker 5: One thing that I feel like they did get right
25:20
Speaker 5: is that from the start that went on hitting the
25:22
Speaker 5: next collectives and boosters out of this. So now kids,
25:27
Speaker 5: you know, you're just not getting money to come to
25:30
Speaker 5: said school. That's good without it necessarily being earned. So
25:33
Speaker 5: I think that's probably the biggest thing that they got
25:37
Speaker 5: right in this, and that this is as I read
25:40
Speaker 5: it and understand it, this is a true nil. So
25:43
Speaker 5: you have to actually you know, I mean, companies have
25:47
Speaker 5: to want you to promote said products. So I think
25:50
Speaker 5: that's one thing they did get right in.
25:52
Speaker 2: This, and that will kind of lead into the last
25:56
Speaker 2: couple of minutes of the conversation that I was hoping
25:57
Speaker 2: to have here because and this is all my generation,
26:01
Speaker 2: not nothing from Delegate Lewis here. I was just wondering
26:02
Speaker 2: if he could help me steer through some of these
26:05
Speaker 2: things that I was warning about what you said about
26:10
Speaker 2: we mentioned there's no school related promotions to this, so
26:12
Speaker 2: it's it's about the the the individual student athlete and
26:15
Speaker 2: their brand. So if you play for for for Capitol
26:18
Speaker 2: High or anybody else, your school is not going to
26:19
Speaker 2: be involved with that. So it's not like your school
26:21
Speaker 2: is going to be necessarily brokering for the coach or
26:24
Speaker 2: the and that's just it, nor the coach. So the
26:26
Speaker 2: coaches are supposed to steer clear in general, adults are
26:29
Speaker 2: supposed to steer clear of this as far as the
26:33
Speaker 2: negotiation and in the in the in the implementation of
26:36
Speaker 2: the revenue. Yeah, so that would be coaches, boosters, alumni
26:41
Speaker 2: and and and all of those things. Another thing is
26:44
Speaker 2: that's that's technically banned, is no recruiting via n I L.
26:48
Speaker 2: But how in the world is that going to be enforced?
26:52
Speaker 5: Again, it's one of those things that I don't know
26:54
Speaker 5: how you enforced that. Again. I believe the w v
26:58
Speaker 5: S S a C. I believe they have investigation. But
27:00
Speaker 5: you know, we're talking about you know, thousands, tens of
27:03
Speaker 5: thousands of kids. And when you talk about not only
27:06
Speaker 5: high school, we're talking about we're talking about middle school too,
27:09
Speaker 5: So you're talking about you know, hundreds of thousands of
27:12
Speaker 5: kids across you know, a lot of different sports. So
27:17
Speaker 5: that's gonna be a big list. And to your point,
27:22
Speaker 5: coaches not being involved, you know, that's probably a good thing,
27:31
Speaker 5: but I think it's just, you know, we just have
27:34
Speaker 5: to be very careful to your point, how we this
27:37
Speaker 5: thing is execute and implement it, because there could be
27:41
Speaker 5: issues not just with you know, the coaches and different
27:46
Speaker 5: things like that, but with the parents now looking at
27:49
Speaker 5: nil deal instead of like the student athletes, instead of
27:53
Speaker 5: worrying about winning games and championship. They're trying to get
27:56
Speaker 5: their kids in the position where they are, you know,
28:00
Speaker 5: have more leves as far as that is concerned. And
28:02
Speaker 5: I believe the only far as you know, school personnel,
28:06
Speaker 5: like I said, is the principal is going to be
28:08
Speaker 5: involved in a process, and I believe that the students
28:11
Speaker 5: would have to report said deals to principle and they
28:14
Speaker 5: would have to review those.
28:16
Speaker 2: It's just see, I mean, I understand where we're going
28:20
Speaker 2: with it. It seems extraordinarily complicated as as far as
28:24
Speaker 2: how to keep this on the up and up, how
28:27
Speaker 2: to keep it from from kind of evolving into some
28:29
Speaker 2: of these situations that we're talking about. As far as
28:32
Speaker 2: with recruiting, with adults being involved in somewhere or another.
28:35
Speaker 2: It's like adults can't be involved, But how can adults
28:38
Speaker 2: not be involved and also teach the children how to
28:40
Speaker 2: manage their money? Is there going to be agents? You know?
28:44
Speaker 2: Is somebody going to act as that?
28:46
Speaker 5: So again, it doesn't address that, but I would imagine
28:49
Speaker 5: there'll be even if you don't have what we think
28:51
Speaker 5: of traditional agents quote unquote, I believe there's probably at
28:55
Speaker 5: least going to be some brokers. So for example, if
28:58
Speaker 5: if I'm the guy and I know god b who
29:01
Speaker 5: has said businesses are looking for promotion, then I could,
29:05
Speaker 5: you know, act as a middleman between that deal. So
29:07
Speaker 5: I believe you're probably gonna have situations like that. And
29:10
Speaker 5: what I want to remind you know, parents, coaches and
29:14
Speaker 5: everybody involved in this is that in order to get
29:17
Speaker 5: adequate NIL deals, you know, I think number one, you know,
29:21
Speaker 5: you have to be good at what you're doing as
29:24
Speaker 5: far as you know, on on the field, you're on
29:27
Speaker 5: court or whatever, you want to be in a winning program.
29:30
Speaker 5: So we have to, you know, you know, remind ourselves
29:37
Speaker 5: of the foundations of what this is. And if you
29:40
Speaker 5: take care of your business over here, then those things
29:43
Speaker 5: can come. But even with that, it's not guaranteed to
29:46
Speaker 5: come because it's you know, name, image and likeness. So
29:49
Speaker 5: like I said, you know, we're we're money money in
29:52
Speaker 5: the water, but this is where we're at. So I
29:55
Speaker 5: actually applaud the w B S s SC for even
29:58
Speaker 5: looping forward with it. Is there's no reason for us
30:01
Speaker 5: to be number fifty if you know number forty four,
30:04
Speaker 5: so you know this is where we're at, so we miles, well,
30:06
Speaker 5: just go ahead and address it and deal with it,
30:08
Speaker 5: and like I said, I think it will be fine
30:10
Speaker 5: tuned over time.
30:12
Speaker 2: One last question that I was wondering about, and this
30:14
Speaker 2: is again just goes into with every level that we're
30:18
Speaker 2: trying to remove barriers, other barriers get put into place.
30:20
Speaker 2: So this all sounds good and you were leaning into
30:24
Speaker 2: it and things might work out with it, but then
30:26
Speaker 2: you think about, well, certainly there's more there's more opportunities
30:31
Speaker 2: in Charleston for there to be people offering anile than
30:35
Speaker 2: there is and say play county. So although you may
30:38
Speaker 2: not be quote unquote recruiting, you know, actively going out
30:41
Speaker 2: and trying to get the best players from another county
30:43
Speaker 2: or something like that, the obvious matriculation may be that
30:46
Speaker 2: players are just going to move from one place that
30:49
Speaker 2: might be more rule with less opportunity trying to get
30:52
Speaker 2: to places that are going to have more opportunity for
30:54
Speaker 2: the nil opportunities.
30:57
Speaker 5: That's actually a really really good point and it brings
30:59
Speaker 5: up another issue that you know, if a parent felt like, hey,
31:03
Speaker 5: you know, my child is going to be better in
31:06
Speaker 5: this school or this county or this area of the state,
31:10
Speaker 5: and they're going to be able to get more NIL deals.
31:12
Speaker 5: And then there's problems as far as like, well, you
31:14
Speaker 5: can't transfer for the NIL deal. It could create problems, right.
31:18
Speaker 5: And also I think what we have to remember too is,
31:21
Speaker 5: in addition to you know, locale which is going to
31:24
Speaker 5: be important, also your social media presence is going to
31:27
Speaker 5: be very important as well. So what that means is
31:31
Speaker 5: that we're going to have you know, obviously parents creating
31:34
Speaker 5: social media accounts for their kids as at younger ages.
31:37
Speaker 5: But and you're going to have deals that are not
31:40
Speaker 5: just bound to West Virginia. You know, we can be
31:42
Speaker 5: talking about national companies, right, But you also don't want
31:46
Speaker 5: to create a situation in which you know, you're quote
31:50
Speaker 5: unquote doing it for the gram to try to be
31:52
Speaker 5: silly and get attention in order to spark set NIL deals.
31:56
Speaker 5: So there's going to have to be a fine balance.
31:58
Speaker 5: I believe there's we're going to have a need for
32:02
Speaker 5: education again, as we mentioned with the kids as far
32:05
Speaker 5: as on the financial literary side, but we're also going
32:08
Speaker 5: to need that same education for parents. We're going to
32:11
Speaker 5: need that same education for coaches and administrators as well
32:15
Speaker 5: in order to make sure that we're navigating these waters
32:18
Speaker 5: in a way that's going to be conducive to the
32:21
Speaker 5: development of young people. Because at the end of the day,
32:24
Speaker 5: when we're talking about sports, sports are condouan for you know,
32:29
Speaker 5: setting up somebody for the rest of their life as
32:32
Speaker 5: far as being able to work with the team, and
32:34
Speaker 5: you know, a lot of Fortune five hundred companies they're
32:38
Speaker 5: looking for, you know, collegian athletes. So we have to
32:41
Speaker 5: remember what they're there for and just think about nil
32:44
Speaker 5: as a bonus and not get lost in it as
32:48
Speaker 5: far as what sports are here to provide us.
32:51
Speaker 2: Now, I think that's some very good insights, and I
32:53
Speaker 2: would just make the appeal to parents out there because
32:55
Speaker 2: we've all seen it. You and Carl Leave address it
32:58
Speaker 2: on his program and especially when it first started, but
33:00
Speaker 2: we've seen how sort of the parental influence when it
33:04
Speaker 2: comes to student athletes trying to set your kid up
33:07
Speaker 2: to be I mean, I hate to put it this way,
33:09
Speaker 2: but sometimes you see it as kids being set up
33:11
Speaker 2: to be the payday for the family. It's it is
33:16
Speaker 2: what it is. That's just the truth. We've already seen
33:18
Speaker 2: that in recruiting. In recruiting areas where you're trying to
33:22
Speaker 2: get your kid in front of a recruiter, it used
33:25
Speaker 2: to be you'd send tape out, you would do all
33:27
Speaker 2: these pleas to try to get them out there. So
33:29
Speaker 2: now instead of taking your close to adult child and
33:33
Speaker 2: pushing forth their information to try to get him in
33:34
Speaker 2: front of a recruiter, we're going to be starting even
33:37
Speaker 2: younger getting information out there in front of people to
33:39
Speaker 2: offer them money for their endorsements, which again is the
33:43
Speaker 2: place that we're at. But I'm just asking parents, please, man,
33:46
Speaker 2: think of the kid first, and maybe think about the
33:48
Speaker 2: education too. That gets kind of lost sometimes in all
33:50
Speaker 2: of this discussion. But man, I've seen this happen on
33:54
Speaker 2: the bad side of things, where parents push their kids
33:56
Speaker 2: set them up as a pay day a little too much,
33:57
Speaker 2: and it can get very ugly, very quickly.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think what players will realize is, like
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Speaker 5: you know, and you know I've worked, you know, I've
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34:08
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34:23
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Speaker 5: But to you to your exact point, you can't get
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Speaker 2: That's great stuff. Delica Hollis Lewis joining us here on
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Speaker 2: in below. Thank you so much for your time this morning,
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Speaker 5: Thank you, sir, I appreciate you. Have a good day,
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Speaker 2: We'll see you later on. That's Hollis Lewis joining US
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Speaker 2: like that, as you always do, but I really appreciate
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Speaker 2: top of the at the top of the nine o'clock
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Speaker 2: hour is fast.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 2: You come in here, you log into your computer, and
39:11
Speaker 2: then it's it's showtime. Man, it's time to go. So
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Speaker 2: I experienced that, I think for the first time in
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Speaker 2: the studio this morning. So that was that was quite different.
39:19
Speaker 2: Logan Scot's joining us now. He is the program director
39:21
Speaker 2: with V one hundred, also does the drive home over
39:25
Speaker 2: there in the evenings. But Logan's here today to talk
39:28
Speaker 2: about the WU Children's radiothon that we're doing next week.
39:32
Speaker 2: It's our second annual time doing that. I'll let you
39:34
Speaker 2: kind of set the stage for this. It's gonna be
39:37
Speaker 2: next week, so we're going to be putting this out
39:38
Speaker 2: on the air. But what is w Children's.
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Speaker 14: WVU Medicine Children's, No child is ever turned away, regardless
39:45
Speaker 14: of their family's ability to pay. That's that's their motto,
39:48
Speaker 14: that's their mission. Every child, every family gets the life
39:52
Speaker 14: saving care that they need at WVU Medicine children. So
39:55
Speaker 14: we think the hospitals in Morgantown and people here in
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Speaker 14: Kannak County don't utilize w VU Medicine Children's. Last year
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Speaker 14: in Kanawah County one three hundred and ninety five families
40:06
Speaker 14: turned to WVU Medicine Children's and just Kanah County at Wow.
40:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
40:10
Speaker 14: So if you look down at the look at the
40:11
Speaker 14: breakdown of counties throughout the state of West Virginia, I
40:13
Speaker 14: don't have I didn't do the math this morning, but
40:16
Speaker 14: thousands upon thousands of families in West Virginia turned to
40:19
Speaker 14: WVU Medicine Children's in some way, shape or.
40:22
Speaker 10: Form for care.
40:23
Speaker 14: I mean I have a personal time my cousin, she
40:26
Speaker 14: had suffered an eye injury when she was playing soccer.
40:30
Speaker 14: She's fine, Thank God, and thank for WV Thank you
40:33
Speaker 14: to WVU Medicine Children's to provide who provided the care
40:36
Speaker 14: to her. She was able to use that resource right
40:39
Speaker 14: in our backyard. I'm from the eastern Panhandle, so it's
40:41
Speaker 14: about an hour and a half drive. So everybody, I
40:45
Speaker 14: always say, everybody knows somebody a family who has utilized
40:48
Speaker 14: WVU Medicine Children's or who has received care there.
40:52
Speaker 2: So what we're gonna be doing during the radio fun
40:54
Speaker 2: We'll be taking donations and also sharing some stories and
40:56
Speaker 2: successes and things like that. And this is really important
40:59
Speaker 2: and powerful to our state, because like this state has
41:01
Speaker 2: some obstacles when it comes to health, our children have
41:05
Speaker 2: some obstacles when it comes to health and getting access
41:08
Speaker 2: to health. We have some medical deserts in the state
41:10
Speaker 2: of West Virginia where it's hard to get access to
41:12
Speaker 2: that and not to mention just overbearing costs and different
41:15
Speaker 2: things like this. This is part of the Children's Miracle
41:17
Speaker 2: Network of hospitals and the work that they do is
41:20
Speaker 2: just immense. It's incredible work, it is.
41:22
Speaker 14: And I did a thing a while back in May
41:25
Speaker 14: the goodmar Ballpark, camping for kids, and I actually had
41:28
Speaker 14: some of our local families because there are families from
41:31
Speaker 14: Hurricane that joined me from Charleston and just to meet
41:34
Speaker 14: them hear their stories, and we'll hear some of their
41:36
Speaker 14: stories during Radiothon as well. But it's just it's very
41:41
Speaker 14: It makes you step back and realize, you know, the
41:44
Speaker 14: great things that WVU Medicine Children's does, and they have
41:47
Speaker 14: some outpatient facilities down here as well in Charleston, so
41:50
Speaker 14: families don't have to make the drive to Morgantown.
41:53
Speaker 2: And when we do this Radiothon, you know, I know,
41:55
Speaker 2: Radiothon's on the people when they tune into the radio
41:58
Speaker 2: to have different thoughts of the way we try to do.
42:00
Speaker 2: So we're gonna have people one location, So you're going
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Speaker 2: up to Morgantown. Let's actually do this the F one hundred.
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Speaker 2: Jenny will be on site from six to noon. I'll
42:06
Speaker 2: be on site from noon to six, and then on
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Speaker 2: our sister station KWS, Rob Reel is going to be
42:10
Speaker 2: up there as well. So we're going to be at
42:12
Speaker 2: the hospital in Morgantown. And some of these families are
42:15
Speaker 2: you know, I told them in setting us up, I said, hey,
42:19
Speaker 2: you can come into our studios and we'll talk to
42:20
Speaker 2: you that way. A lot of these families want to
42:22
Speaker 2: go to Morgantown to see the doctors and the nurses
42:26
Speaker 2: that took care of them. I get that. Yeah, I
42:29
Speaker 2: totally get that. Although I haven't tapped into that service.
42:31
Speaker 2: My wife and I had to have our child through
42:33
Speaker 2: IVF and it's always kind of a special moment I
42:36
Speaker 2: can see, like the nursing staff and the doctors and
42:37
Speaker 2: stuff who took care of us, because it's a very
42:39
Speaker 2: intimate life changing moment, you know, and you kind of
42:41
Speaker 2: identify with those people for a long time. So I
42:43
Speaker 2: totally get that and just the amount of passion and
42:49
Speaker 2: care that goes into it. With you and Jenny and
42:51
Speaker 2: Rob going up there, they couldn't have more community minded
42:54
Speaker 2: people that's going to be running this thing and telling
42:56
Speaker 2: us about it. And so when you hear it on
42:58
Speaker 2: our station CCHS over here, we're more of a report stations,
43:00
Speaker 2: So we're going to tell you about it, give you
43:02
Speaker 2: the ways that you can make donations and stuff to it.
43:04
Speaker 2: But when the primary stations is going to be up there,
43:06
Speaker 2: like V one hundred and KWS, they're going to have stories.
43:08
Speaker 2: They're going to tell you about what's going on. They'll
43:10
Speaker 2: have patients on the air to tell you how they
43:13
Speaker 2: got from point A to Z with all the help
43:15
Speaker 2: from WVU Medicine Children's I mean, the stories are powerful
43:18
Speaker 2: and they're compelling, and we're going to ask you to,
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Speaker 2: you know, if you can, if you can afford to
43:23
Speaker 2: donate a little bit, to donate. If it's five dollars,
43:25
Speaker 2: it's five dollars. If it's fifty, it's fifty. If it's
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Speaker 2: five hundred, it's five hundred, that's great. But this this
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Speaker 2: is driven by community efforts as well.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely, and last year our company WVRC Media, we raised
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Speaker 14: almost two hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: For WVU Medicine.
43:38
Speaker 2: Children.
43:39
Speaker 1: Think about that and that goes back to life saving care.
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Speaker 14: So we think if you're going to the hospital, you know,
43:45
Speaker 14: your life changes in an instant. You're not taking clothes,
43:48
Speaker 14: you're not taking iPads, you're not taking you know, things
43:51
Speaker 14: that give comfort to your kiddo. So there we bought.
43:55
Speaker 14: We bought Teddy Bears iPads. There's nick View cameras for
43:59
Speaker 14: premature base. Yeah, so there's just so many things that
44:02
Speaker 14: are covered from the money that we raise. So you
44:04
Speaker 14: can go ahead and text WVU Kids Now to three
44:08
Speaker 14: four nine eight four for a link to give, and
44:10
Speaker 14: we have a link on our website too at V
44:11
Speaker 14: one hundred dot FM.
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Speaker 2: That's great stuff, man, I'm looking forward to it coming
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Speaker 2: out next week. That'll be on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Yeah,
44:17
Speaker 2: Thursday and Friday of next week we'll be doing the
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Speaker 2: radio thought. You can check it out on V one
44:21
Speaker 2: hundred or KWS. We'll be offering support over here and
44:24
Speaker 2: give a listen. If your heart feels compelled, then we
44:26
Speaker 2: ask you to just maybe help out the hospital.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely, and and it's a very emotional two days.
44:30
Speaker 2: It is a hospital TA. Yeah, it's from you guys.
44:33
Speaker 2: It's a lot tougher because you're up there with the
44:35
Speaker 2: folks that really experienced it. That's very true. Logan, thanks
44:37
Speaker 2: for Tom Man. I really appreciate it. That's Logan Scott
44:40
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44:43
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44:45
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44:52
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44:54
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44:55
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Speaker 18: now and then.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave needed to get out of here. I thought
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Speaker 2: I was gonna have to push him out the door
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Speaker 2: at some point because he needed some time off. So
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Speaker 2: I'm glad he's finally getting something.
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Speaker 18: And he doesn't he's not one to I'm sure he
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Speaker 18: doesn't take all the time that he has.
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Speaker 2: Not any well. I mean, yeah, he's not officially been
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Speaker 2: a full time of playing for it to have all
50:21
Speaker 2: those time, but still he doesn't take what he needs.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, he's always I mean he's burning it all the
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Speaker 18: time at both ends. So he's a good dude like that.
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Speaker 18: He's always out, so I'm hoping he's enjoyed himself whatever
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Speaker 18: he's doing. But yeah, so we got a lot of
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Speaker 18: things going on, Koop. We're going to sell some state hospitals, apparently,
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Speaker 18: the governor announcing that yesterday, so a lot of angles.
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Speaker 18: There are people that like that idea, there are people
50:40
Speaker 18: that don't like that idea. There's also this sixty million
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Speaker 18: dollars that apparently we're going to get from selling these assets.
50:45
Speaker 18: What are we going to do with that sixty million dollars?
50:49
Speaker 18: I guess that depends on how bad you think the
50:50
Speaker 18: budget is. And I'm sure the governor has his ideas
50:53
Speaker 18: about how we would spend that, and then you have
50:56
Speaker 18: the legislature, who i'm sure has their ideas about how
50:59
Speaker 18: we will spend that. So we'll talk about that issue,
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Speaker 18: and then we're going to spend some time today on
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Speaker 18: what's happening in the District of Columbia with this takeover
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Speaker 18: in Washington, d C. We've got a couple of guests
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Speaker 18: with different angles on that and what they think. I
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Speaker 18: wrote about that today at wv Metro news dot com.
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Speaker 18: You can read that piece. You know, we talked about
51:19
Speaker 18: the statistics yesterday. Yes they're down, and anytime they're down,
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Speaker 18: that's good. But man, talk about a murder rate. I
51:26
Speaker 18: think it was one hundred and eighty seven murders in
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Speaker 18: d C last year, over two thousand robberies, over one
51:31
Speaker 18: thousand assaults with a deadly weapon. I used to work
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Speaker 18: in d C base there, although I would work out
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Speaker 18: of my house, and I gotta tell you, not the
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Speaker 18: not the safest place in the world, but not the
51:43
Speaker 18: worst either. I mean, you look at Saint Louis. Their
51:46
Speaker 18: murder rate fifty four point one compared to DC's twenty
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Speaker 18: seven point three. I think it was you think about that,
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Speaker 18: fifty four murders for every thousand people in Saint Louis.
51:54
Speaker 18: They clearly have issues there too.
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Speaker 2: There's it's not just the cities that has the problems
51:58
Speaker 2: in the country. The murder rates and a lot of
52:02
Speaker 2: from a lot of places that complain about the cities
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Speaker 2: are higher than the cities. Yeah, So I mean I
52:06
Speaker 2: get it, I get it. But if we're going to
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Speaker 2: privatize the police force in DC, then maybe we need
52:11
Speaker 2: to go into Missouri. Maybe we need to go into Tennessee.
52:14
Speaker 2: There's a lot of places that we need to go
52:15
Speaker 2: then invest the.
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Speaker 18: Case well, and I think understanding why we can do
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Speaker 18: this in DC or why the president they can do
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Speaker 18: it versus not a state.
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Speaker 2: He talks about New York Chicago. That's not gonna fly.
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Speaker 2: Those are just be honest. Yeah, Yeah, it's an interesting
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Speaker 2: discussion I'll have. I'm gonna have a guy on tomorrow
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Speaker 2: to talk about it as well on this show, so
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Speaker 2: I'll hopefully be able to pitch a dovetail rather off
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Speaker 2: of some of the information that you guys give, so
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Speaker 2: appreciate it. That's coming up next. That's going to be
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Speaker 2: talking on with TJ. Meadows and Dave Wilson. That's coming
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Speaker 2: up next. Thanks so much for tuning in on five
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