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11/15/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Millie Snyder, Holly Jolly Brawley, and Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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Pushkin is going to join us. I'm sure he'll want to wait in on
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you know, with all that's going on with the gas crisis on the
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web side. Well, Holly Jolly Brawley is going to be going on Downtown
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Charleston and a couple of folks from the Downtown Charleston Association are going to join
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three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight. Want to welcome out
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our good friend Milly Snyder from the Shape Shop. How you doing, I'm
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wonderful, how are you happy? Early? Thanksgiving? Thank you the same
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to you and the same to everybody who's listening. I want to start off
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by talking about the issues on on the west side. Of course, that's
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where that's where the shape shop. Yes, we don't have heat because we
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don't have gas. And yesterday my wonderful staff decided to make vegetable soup,
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and I mean a huge potful, but we used our grill and my role
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in making sure we could make vegetable soup. Vegetable soup, my husband used
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to say vegetable. He couldn't say vegetable anyway. I had to go and
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get the propane tank filled. So if anyone is interested in hot vegetable soup,
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please come on down and get it, and then you'll have to heat
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it up in your microwave. So exactly, and I've known people that have
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done that, that have made soup on a grill like that. Exactly.
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How does it differ. I mean, it's basically the same process process.
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It just that it took longer because of the propane heat. And when we
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make vegetable soup we make it in a huge pot, so of course it
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took a little longer. But that vegetable soup is to die for. What
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do you put in your vegetables? Every vegetable you can think of, everyone,
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but we don't use starches, we don't use peas, we don't use
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potatoes, we don't use anything that is a carb in that soup. So
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a lot of Keto people love our vegetable soup because it's just vegetables. Okay,
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And what about the base of the soup. I mean, the base
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of the soup is one of the bullyons that not bullions, but one of
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the soup mixes that we use. We have a great chicken one. When
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we season our vegetable soup, sometimes we use a little bit of our ham
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seasoning in it. But I'm telling you, the chicken and the vegetables in
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the vegetable soup is absolutely wonderful. Now you folks are as you said,
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you're still open of there, you just absolutely so. We don't have heat,
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and what we're encouraging people who do have microwaves or air fryers to come
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in and pick up some of the frozen grab and go dinners that have been
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made by Tiffany, who's part of our staff, and just take them home
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and then you can heat them up so you'll have a fresh, delicious meal
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without having to go to eat nasty fast food. Yeah, and I say
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nasty because it's not fresh and it's but your food is very matter of fact.
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I had who it was, Our good friend Mark Curtis from from w
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w K TV thirteen, the political reporter, did a post a couple of
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days ago about going down there and having lunch. I saw him. He
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was out on his way to one of the biscuit places and he saw our
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sign. He stopped in and he bought a rap And what did he say
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about it? He said, it was fantastic. Well that's I'll actually I'll
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try to while you're talking. I'll try to pull it up here on the
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old on the social media and I'll read it for you. But yeah,
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yeah, he did. He was very I'm I'm a big fan of the
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raps too. That's usually kind of raps are even getting better and better.
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We're gonna take We're going to bring our truck to Hope Village at the first
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Presby on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So I want to just let people know
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they can make a note on our on the calendar. We're going to be
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there from eleven to three on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Absolutely, and I
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want to talk about Thanksgiving a little bit of course, this is your final
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visit before Thanksgiving. You come up with us once a month. So,
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so how do you do healthy Thanksgiving? Well? Number one? What's on
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your what's on the menu? If I if I show up at Millie Sneyder's
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house, yes, well am I going to eat? We're going to have
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turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans. My daughter is
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going to be making and she told me yesterday on the phone. She'll be
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coming back from her time in Florida and she makes a wonderful stuffing. But
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it's all healthy because I mean, she had no choice but to grow up
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with all of that. And we're going to have rolls. But the thing
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I want to talk about is how you make gravy. And you know what
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you do. You go to the bottom of the pan where the turkey has
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been cooking all day, and you get all that juice and fat and you
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put it in a big bowl. What I would like everyone to do is
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put that bowl in freezer for about thirty minutes and then take it out of
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the freezer and all that fat is going to come to the top. You're
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gonna take a knife and you're gonna run it around the rim, and you're
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gonna lift that fat and you're gonna put it in the garbage can. Oh
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my god, don't get nervous. Then you're gonna take all that wonderful broth.
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You're gonna put it in a saucepan, and then you're going to thicken
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it with either arrowroot or flour, and then you're gonna put it in the
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gravy bowl, and then you're gonna put it on the table. I guarantee
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you when your guests, family members, whoever you're having, taste that gravy,
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they are gonna say, oh my god, Hazel, this is the
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best gravy I've ever had. And no one is gonna say, honey,
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you left the fat out of this. That gravy will be outstanding. Why
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do I want you to do that? Because that fat is saturated, and
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that's saturated fat is what hurts us. Taste good in your mouth, but
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it hurts you internally. Let's learn to do some old things differently. Not
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sacrifice taste, not sacrifice Thanksgiving, but let's do little things differently, and
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stop using bacon grease to season all those vegetables. Come to the shape shop,
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get some ham seasoning. Some chicken seasoning, some beef seasoning, and
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I'm telling you your guests will love it in addition to yourself. So what
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about desserts? What about them? What kind of desserts do you have for
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your house? You gotta have desserts. I have a pumpkin pie. Okay,
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what makes your pumpkin pie different? Well, my pumpkin pie that we
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make at the Shape shop is crustless. It's just most people leave the crust
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because everybody says I want to diet, but that pumpkin pie is just delicious.
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And I usually when I buy them for myself from the store, I
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get three for and I keep them in the refrigerator and then I gradually use
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it as an evening snack and devour them. Also, what am I having?
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Uh? One of my friends, one of my friends that's coming is
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making brownies, the real, honest to God way of making brownies. Because
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three of my grandsons are going to be Oh well I have I only have
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three grandsons. They're going to be there, and they are brownie lovers.
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But you know, everything in moderation, why not have a real brownie?
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Why not have a piece of pie? All right? But in moderation.
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In moderation, nobody's saying that, but that's important, no matter if you're
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following Mediterranean or you're doing some other kakamami diet that's out there. And everybody
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you never heard of that word. Oh of course I have. It's crazy.
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It's crazy everything in moderation. And by the way, my Mediterranean group
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now has two meetings, one in the morning and one in the late afternoon.
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And if you really want to learn how to eat, and you know,
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support groups now are gone, but they're not gone in my world.
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And I would love you to come. We do it on Thursday Thursday at
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nine to fifteen Thursday afternoon at four fifteen. Okay, Millie signed it from
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the Shape shop is here. It's become a I guess a Thanksgiving tradition.
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I've been doing this show. This would be my third fourth Thanksgiving, third
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Thanksgiving that I've done the show. Math is not my strong suit. It
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mainly looks. But excuse me, that was a laugh. But you every
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year you tell us a story for Thanksgiving. Yes, all right, so
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I'm going to Everybody has to get comfortable. This is just a few minutes,
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all right, Jeff, let's everybody gather around the radio here because Millie
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has a story to tell us. It's the it's the story. It's a
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exciting Thanksgiving story courtesy of Millie's. It's not that exciting, oh, it's
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rip it is. It's called Black November. Turkey's lament, all right.
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When I was a young Turkey new to the coop, my big brother Mike
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took me out on the stoop. Then he sat me down, and he
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spoke real slow, and he told me there was something that I had to
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know. His look, in his tone, I will always remember when he
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told me of the horrors of black November come about August. Now, listen
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to me. Each day you'll be thick where once you were thin, and
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you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin. And then one morning,
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when you're warming your bed, it'll burst the farmer's wife and hack off your
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head. Then she'll pluck out all your feathers so you're bald and pink,
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and scoop out your insides and leave you lyin' in the sink. And then
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comes the worst party, said not bluffing'. She'll spread your cheeks and pack
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your rear with stuffin'. Well, the rest of his words were too grim
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to repeat. I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat,
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and decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked, I'd have to lay
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low and remain overlooked. I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
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high ruffed salade, juice and dia cola, And as they ate pastries,
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chocolate and crapes, I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes. I
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maintained my weight of two pounds and a half and tried to notice when the
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bigger birds laughed. But twas I who was laughing under my breath as they
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chomped and they chewed ever closer to death. And sure enough, when Black
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November rolled around, I was the last turkey in the entire compound. So
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now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap. I haven't a worry,
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so I eat and I nap. She held me today while sewing and humming,
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and smiled at me and said, Christmas is coming. I love it.
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I do too, I love it. It's part of It's as big
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a Thanksgiving tradition as a Macy's Day parade. Well that's the that's a pretty
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big thing. Well a story behind that. Where did that come from?
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Well, you know, this story was given to me number of years ago
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when I was the franchise owner for weight Watchers, and I think my members
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in the classes that I conducted looked forward to this story as much as I
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looked forward to sharing it. And it's just a lot of fun. Indeed,
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it is so accept The part about laying in the Saint you know,
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it's a little violent and there it is some amount of nudity in there.
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But all right, so my god, this is X rated. Yeah.
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Well it's on a radio though, so it's okay. All right, So
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Black Friday? What are you doing for Black Friday? Black Friday, We're
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not going to do anything except be open. We're going to be open,
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but we'll probably for a limited number of hours because we want we don't know
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yet, but we'll be posting it on Facebook. And then on Saturday after
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Thanksgiving for bringing our truck over to Hope Village at First Presby. They have
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a wonderful program with artisans from other countries and we're going to be there from
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eleven to three so you'll be able to eat something healthy after Thanksgiving. All
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right, Well, hopefully here soon everybody will be back online far as the
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gas situation goes. They do have some online, but again as I had
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I had mister scaff on the show yesterday, they said it would be seven
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h I mean, I mean, I didn't count, but it made me
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feel good that they weren't taking this lightly because it's a very serious situation.
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It is very serious. Merely as always, it is a pleasure to talk
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to you. We'll talk again next month. Thanks a lot, Thanks,
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throughout downtown Charleston, happening next Friday and Saturday. That's today's after Thanksgiving.
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Morgan, our good friend, Morgan Morrison and Kevin and Madison are here to
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of like cousins and trauma bond Yeah, guys, let's talk about Holly Jolly
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Brawley. Who wants to start? Go ahead, Kevin, take it away?
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All right? So this is our third big year. It kicks off
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at noon on Black Friday. Start Art Walk kicks off on Black Friday,
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and it runs from noon until eight. The Holly Jolly Brawley festivities kick off
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at noon. This year, we've done it again and again I'm gonna I'm
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gonna thank them now with the City of Charleston and the grace of God,
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they've been incredible. They have worked their tails off. We have one hundred
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and sixty trees this year for our tree display, and we're expanding the footprint.
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So we've of course City Center at Slack Plaza, down Brawley Walkway,
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throughout Lee Triangle, and this year we have a new location in the Kennall
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County Public Library of the downtown branch. So they'll be trees displayed there as
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well. It's just getting bigger and our city. I mean, it's gonna
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look incredible, you know, I was. I was actually telling Kevin.
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I was like, you know, from day one, we've had these visions.
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We're like, oh, we need a snow machine, we need a
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light show, we need a Christmas village, all these things you know we
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always kind of like fantasized about in our head. It's happening this year.
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We have the second year of our synchronized light show. We have purchased two
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snow machines so it will snow in Brawley. We have Christmas Vendor Village.
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We have everything just to make you feel all the magic of Christmas. And
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not only do we have the two day festival, it's also up to enjoy
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until first of the year, so you know the main goal of it.
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You know, it drives traffic downtown. It you know, helps the local
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businesses, It puts foot traffic, it helps photographers. It's just beautiful and
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it just gives you the nostalgic feeling of Christmas that we all love when we
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were kids. I feel like, and it's it's honestly as corny as it
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sounds. Magical well and both of you. One of the things I like
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about the fact that you guys are so involved in this along with your organization.
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We'll talk about that a little bit later on, is that you're both
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business you both run businesses, you are business owners here in Charleston. That's
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what we So you see the benefits of this absolutely. I mean, the
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mean restaurants were on waits last year. This event brings people from Kentucky and
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Ohio. You know, they come downtown, they park, they eat,
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they shop, they go see the lights. This year they can up on
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the Holly Jolly Brawley trolley. Yeah, so we've added another one of the
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indie alliteration there. That's good. We did Jolly Brally Tralley and it'll actually
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run every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from four to ten pm. And it
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has four stops, which is City Center, Lee Triangle, Capital Market because
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don't forget Capital Market's going to have their Christmas village and the Light of Night
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at the ballpark. So the city, you know Kart, the City,
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they've teamed up. You have a Holly Jolly Brawley trolley to take you to
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all the Christmas stops, which to me, you know, in the sense
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of a small business owner, drives people down here because it makes us a
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Christmas destination. And we're going to have on speaking of the ballpark, We're
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going to have Eaten Douglas from The Dirty Birds. It's going to be on
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the show. She's going to be in your position where you were last Friday
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as my guest host is Friday. So Eden's been on the show dozens of
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times, but she's never been in as a guest host. So she's going
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to be on as a guest host coming up with the show on Friday.
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And again you know, it's all this Christmas stuff all in one location in
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Charleston. I mean, it's gonna be awesome, you know that. I
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mean I travel every year to New York City around December usually because I love
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the Christmas feeling. You know. I feel like people travel for things like
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that, they travel for what they love. So I think the fact that
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you know, we can grow this and we can build this, and now
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the momentum is catching and there are people you know, on board with this
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vision, like the ballpark and Capital Market, and to me, you know,
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look at how big it is now. Imagine it ten years from now
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what we can do and what we can grow with it, because I think
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we all have the same common goal here, and that's just to see Charleston
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thrive. How much talk about the work that goes into this and talk about
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the I mean, obviously, you know, you two in your organization,
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you work yourtails off on this, but there's a lot of other people that
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are involved in this as well, from sponsors and people that make donations and
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things that nature talk about all that. Now, we have a great group
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of volunteers this year. We've it's been a huge blessing for us. I
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mean, we've got you know, we've got a core group of really really
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really good volunteers that have stepped up. We've got some organizations Maverick Gymnastics,
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Capitol High School bandbooster Parents. You know, if it wasn't for them,
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I mean, set up would be a nightmare. This coming week. We've
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got great sponsors again, you know, City of Charleston. You know,
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from the get go there may A Goodwin and her administration have been incredible from
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the from the jump. We have you know, there's our list of sponsors
23:30
is incredible, twenty five sponsors. I mean, you know, American water
23:34
was Virginia. I mean I could literally we'd be here all day naming.
23:37
Yeah, I get it, I get it. It's it's it's takes a
23:41
village. It really does. And while it just might be you know,
23:42
me, Kevin Bryan, a couple like Miranda Jane, like we might be
23:47
all sitting down, you know, doing the logistics behind it, it truly
23:48
takes a village. You got to look at the public Grounds who built almost
23:52
two hundred hand built tree stands. Like we were just talking to Mike right
23:56
before we came here, and he said, you know, this took twelve
23:59
hours a day, six days a week since September just to build the tree
24:03
stands. So they go that that's gonna protect us from trees falling over in
24:07
the elements they imagine Unison. I mean you're talking hand built from scratching painted.
24:12
People will never truly realize, just like anything, you just don't realize
24:15
what goes into it until you do it. And you know, it truly
24:18
takes a village of community. And I just could not be more thankful for,
24:22
you know, all the support that we've received from literally every angle.
24:27
Talking about Holly Jolly Brawley which this year is gonna have a trolley by Golly,
24:34
I'm running out of things to say here with Morgan Morrison and Kevin Madison
24:41
here on the show. Okay, so it runs throughout the Christmas season,
24:44
but it actually starts on Black Friday. What are people when they come out
24:47
on Friday twelve noon next Friday, what are they gonna see? All right?
24:49
What happened? So of course you know they're gonna you're gonna you're gonna
24:52
see the trees. You're gonna see the trees. New this year a life
24:56
sized snow globe that you and your family can get in and have your photo
25:00
taken inside the inside the snow glove. Okay, and we also have a
25:04
three sixty photo bits sponsored by Goodwill. Absolutely, we have entertainment. We're
25:10
gonna have a triple a entertainment on Capitol Street with our Basically we've dedicated my
25:15
man JK JK the DJ. He's going to be there providing DJ his DJ
25:21
services on Friday and Saturday Friday. Santa Claus Is on Capitol Street. This
25:25
year, West Banco stepped up. They provided an inflatable Christmas village. We
25:30
have a thirty foot tall by forty foot long alpine snowslide. Yeah, the
25:36
adults can get on too. You get on an inner tube and slide down
25:38
Capitol Street. Christmas Bounty houses, I mean, everything's Christmas. Then we
25:42
have like we ordered these big life size cardboard gingerbird houses that are basically like
25:48
gonna be a village of giant coloring books for kids, like letters to Santa.
25:53
So Capitol Street's really for the kids. And then we have face painting,
25:56
face paint everything, and then you know the Christmas Village vendors and DJEJ
26:03
salim bro Redline Band. We've got entertainment for the adults and everything on Summers
26:08
and City Center. It's big this year. And now when the Christmas Parade
26:12
happens, i'd imagine it's going to be a a pretty off the church place
26:17
to be while the Christmas Parade's going on. Absolutely absolutely, And let's not
26:22
forget the hundreds of families that come down just to get their holiday photos.
26:26
Yeah, we don't see Christmas cards anymore. That isn't taken in Brawley pretty
26:33
much. And that kind of lends itself. As you talked about Christmas tourism.
26:37
I mean people may think that that's not a thing. It is a
26:40
thing, and that in our part of the world where you and I are
26:42
originally from, Christmas in the Park started in the early nineteen nineties and there's
26:47
literally people that come from all over the state and other states, church groups
26:52
and whatever just for that. I know they see it in Saint Albans.
26:55
I know that they see it not far from here in Gallipolis, Ohio.
26:57
People go up there. Christmas tourism is a real thing, kids, it
27:02
is. And it's so funny you mentioned Christmas in the Park because as far
27:04
as you know, we all have our own reason. That was one of
27:07
my biggest inspirations doing this, because you understand, you're a Logan guy.
27:11
Every year after Thanksgiving dinner, we go get in that line and we go
27:15
through Christmas in the Park. And you know, a town as small as
27:18
Logan and I know thousands of people who's like, oh, we've got to
27:22
make it the Christmas in the Park. And I think, you know,
27:26
becoming one of those nostalgic locations is just it puts you on the map.
27:30
Like you said, it's a thing, and there's just so many there's no
27:34
negatives from it. I don't believe. Yeah, all right, well,
27:38
I know that there's information available all over social media. You got just to
27:41
a great job talk about your organization that you're part of the either one of
27:45
you. This this Downtown Downtown Downtown Charleston Association started approximately four years ago,
27:52
and you know, our goal is to put on events such as Holly Jolly
27:55
Brawley to bring people downtown, to get them to support our local business is.
28:00
We also produce Artwalk, which is always the third Thursday of every month,
28:06
with the exception of November because we have Black Friday art Walk twelve to
28:10
eight Downtown Charleston. Maps will be available on Summer Street and Capitol Streets.
28:15
Yeah, so, I mean the DCA. You know, as much as
28:18
I'd like to say that we're some big, corporate, amazing nonprofit, it's
28:22
really just us. We're we're you know, managers, business owners on the
28:26
street wanting to do whatever we can to play our part in helping the small
28:30
businesses downtown and see them thrive. You know, we've seen firsthand the ups
28:34
and downs of what it can be to have a business downtown. And so
28:38
it's basically, you know a group of people that's just dedicated to doing whatever
28:44
we can to advocate for these people and keep it successful and keep it thriving.
28:48
And while Holly Jolly Brawly is our biggest baby out of this, we
28:52
hope, especially next year, moving forward with this momentum, that we can
28:56
throw out a lot more Halloween little Halloween teaser, another one after that.
29:04
I think I'm gonna have you guys on again one day next week to kind
29:07
of talk about this, remind people about it. But Kevin and Morgan is
29:10
always a pleasure to have you on the show. Holly Jolly Brawley again starts
29:14
on Black Friday at noon, uh, and we'll run Friday and Saturday,
29:18
but then the actually that's just the two day thing. But then throughout the
29:22
Christmas season it's all going to be lit up down there. And as you
29:25
said, we've got that's part of it. What's going on over at the
29:26
ballpark is part of it. So it's all good stuff bringing people to Charleston.
29:30
We appreciate it. Thank you. We'll talk to you again sometime next
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springing our good friend delegate and the state Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin. Hey
32:54
you doing man? I'm doing okay. How are you doing fine? I
32:59
mentioned earlier you are at an undisclosed location because you feel a little bit under
33:01
the weather. Well I'm feeling better, but yeah, I've got having another
33:07
about of COVID. Man. How many COVID abouts is this for you?
33:10
Michael? Well, you know I I were I care to mentioned. I
33:17
guess I'm going for the world record, but so far COVID's undefeated, So
33:22
I I don't want another bout right right? All right? Well, in
33:25
all seriousness, we hope that we hope that you get well soon. So
33:30
now I do want to say this, as you well known, I want
33:31
to get your take on some of the things going on with the with the
33:35
gas issue on the West Side. But at some point, and this is
33:37
kind of like a live radio thing, Mike, I didn't have a chance
33:39
to discuss with you. If we may get a call or a text from
33:43
our good friend Margaret O'Neill with the United Way, and if that is the
33:49
case, if we do get a call from her, then I may briefly
33:52
have to put you on hold to go to her for an update, but
33:54
then we'll come right back. Okay, But that's great. I look forward
33:58
to hearing all right. I don't know for sure because they're all in a
34:00
meeting right now. They're all they're having meetings every morning, I think starting
34:06
on Monday. They're having meetings every morning around nine fifteen, nine o'clock nine
34:09
fifteen with the United Way, Red Cross, with Mountaineer Gas in West Virginia,
34:14
American Water of course, the city of Charlton. We really appreciate them
34:17
bringing everybody together trying to figure out how we can, you know, mitigate
34:22
the the things that are going on over here on the West side. But
34:29
yeah, I live over in the affected area as well, so you know,
34:34
Saturday morning, I woke up and was shivering because I didn't realize at
34:40
the time, but I had COVID and I still had a fever at the
34:44
time, but didn't know what was going on. Checked, like a lot
34:46
of folks on the West side, checked my thermostat and saw that I had
34:51
no heat, and you checked the furnace. Didn't know what was going on.
34:54
Maybe I had a problem with the furnace. And then as I was
34:59
talking to name as we realized that none of us had any heat. And
35:01
I think that was you know, the initial UH. One of the initial
35:06
problems was this real lack of communication from from Mountaineer Gas and UH there was
35:12
one TV story and so that they would have to cut off gas for some
35:16
residents of the West Side. Nobody really knew the extent of it. Uh.
35:21
You know, I don't know Mountaineer Gas it really understood the extent of
35:24
it of how many UH customers were going to be without their service. UH.
35:31
But that's how we found out about it. And that's that's a problem
35:35
if the lack of communication. UH. So that's one thing that you know
35:40
right now there's immediate needs to be that need to be met. But going
35:44
forward, there's going to be some discussions about the UH you update alerts from
35:49
our utilities and that will be addressed. Yeah, I had yesterday, I
35:52
had one of the senior vice presidents. Uh, mister Scaff, Moses Skaff
35:57
was on the show yesterday, and I don't think, and I'm not trying
36:00
to put words in his mouth, he was gracious enough to take time out
36:02
to come on the show yesterday. I don't know that initially that Mike,
36:07
that they realized how bad it was, and but going forward, I think
36:13
that they have been out in front of it trying to get communication out there.
36:16
There's been some questions about what Virginia American water though. To be honest
36:20
with you, there's all there have been questions about West virgin American Water for
36:23
the past decade, have there not. I'll talk. We'll get to them
36:28
here in a little bit. And while yes, the gas company did not,
36:31
I don't think, to be honest, I don't think they did to
36:35
the extent of it. However, they did know they were going to have
36:37
to cut customers off, and there has to be some sort of alert system
36:42
in place to let the rate payers know that they're not going to be receiving
36:45
the services that they paid for. They are able to contact us when we
36:52
are laid on a payment. They're able to contact us if they're going to
36:55
cut us off for failure to pay. There's got to be a way for
36:58
them to contact us US if, if, if they have to cut off
37:01
service for another reason. Because a lot of us woke up Saturday morning cold,
37:07
some of us woke up with a fever Saturday morning even colder, and
37:09
didn't know why we didn't have heat or hot water in our house. Those
37:15
of us who have gas, like most people who have gas heated hot water
37:20
tanks, you know, and a lot of folks over here also have gas
37:22
ranges, gas ovens, not able to cook their food. It's a it's
37:27
a it's a serious, serious issue over here. But one thing that needs
37:30
to be address going forward or their ability to communicate with their customers. And
37:36
I don't think that's an unreasonable request. You know, We've got something in
37:39
state law that we just passed recently about water companies. Whether they're a large
37:47
privately owned water companies like West Virginia, American Water, or even the smaller
37:52
publicly owned water companies, they are required to uh to alert their their customers
37:58
when they have a boiled water advisory. That's in I believe, in the
38:01
public Health section of Stakecode. But what needs to be updated in the in
38:06
the park that addresses the Public Service Commission is that all utilities should be able
38:15
to contact their customers when something like this occurs. Now, of course,
38:19
nothing like this has ever occurred. I've never heard of this happening. Yeah,
38:22
thirty two years in a business. He said he'd never seen anything like
38:25
this. I've never heard anything like that. You know, it's just what
38:29
I'm hearing is correct, and that you know, the water may busted and
38:32
somehow got into a gas line and put this much water. And if you
38:37
if you look at like the gas lines down here, especially on the lower
38:39
part of the flats, I saw where a friend of mine unhooked her gas
38:45
line into her furnace and it was like a water pipe. It wasn't a
38:47
little bit of water. It was gallons upon gallons coming out of that water
38:53
pipe. So nothing like this has ever happened. I understand that. But
38:58
it's it's definitely not unreasonable to expect better communication from our utilities. And that's
39:05
what's that what will be addressed going forward. I do you know, while
39:09
I LAUNCHEDY, I do want to mention that there's a tremendous amount of good
39:14
work being done by folks over here on the west side and a lot of
39:17
friends and folks on the west side who are coming in. Whether it's West
39:22
Virginia Health Right that has a location on the west side, and Shala Leverage
39:25
is doing a great justice. They're preparing hot meals for people every day,
39:29
and they're doing a great job of distributing whether it's the space heaters or blankets
39:35
or hot plates wherever people need over here. They're doing a great job.
39:38
The City of Charleston has done a great job of putting information out there.
39:43
They're going door to door with the Fire Department with the Red Cross, and
39:46
that's something that really need to mention. The booking everybody over here using space
39:52
heaters, we need we need people to stay warm, but we also need
39:55
people to stay safe. Make sure that those heaters are at least three feet
40:00
away from anything that's flammable. That includes people. Don't leave your heaters undattended.
40:07
Make sure they're on a solid, flat surface. And also what's real
40:12
important to the fire department, the Mayor's going out with them going door to
40:15
door to check on people's smoke alarms. Yeah. Actually, so interesting that
40:20
you would say that, Mike, because as we're speaking I just got a
40:22
text from somebody at the city asking me to talk about that, but I'll
40:24
let you do it. Go ahead, okay, Well, the number to
40:28
call is eight four four two one six eight two eight six, select option
40:34
two and they will come by the fire department. Red Cross will come by
40:39
and inspect your your your fire alarms or smoke detectors. Uh. And there's
40:44
also you can go on It's just like looks like the link I have this
40:49
is free smoke alarms. I think that would find it. And they're providing
40:52
free smoke alarms free uh free uh uh. You know, detectors for people's
40:58
houses. With everybody using these space heaters, and then we really got to
41:02
keep an eye on that and make sure everybody is warm but also safe from
41:07
fire. Yeah, and I'll get that information use these space heaters, but
41:12
that information needs to be out there. And we do know that everybody wants
41:15
to stay warm. And I know there's been various volunteers in the community going
41:19
out and getting and collecting heaters, and that's all well and good and God
41:22
bless those folks are doing that. However, there's, as you said,
41:25
Mike, there's there's a safe way to do it and just handing out,
41:29
just handing out heaters without addressing people how to properly use them. I mean,
41:34
it sounds elementary, but it's really not because some of the stories that
41:37
I have been hearing. I was talking to the mayor yesterday and some of
41:39
the things that they were saying about when the fire department and the city officials
41:45
are going from door to door in some of the ways that people are are
41:47
hooking up these heaters. Although heaters now are much safer than they were thirty
41:52
forty years ago, Doeshn's fool proof, So you got to know what you're
41:54
doing now. And with a lot of the heaters being donated, they might
41:59
some of them might be thirty or forty ar Yeah, we don't know.
42:00
We don't know what kind of heaters people are using. I put a fact
42:05
sheet out on my official Facebook page, my delegate facebook page. I know
42:08
the city has the same fact sheet out on their social media. I'll repost
42:15
it later. But just like a heater check list and the tips for safe
42:19
use of space heaters, it's where we need people to stay warm, but
42:21
we need them to stay safe as well. Yeah, exactly right. Mike
42:23
Pushkin is here with us one. I just actually the thing that the city
42:28
sent mean that you're referring to. I actually, just as we were speaking
42:31
there, just posted it on my Facebook page on Dave all and Radio on
42:36
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not being provided housing in local motels? Once again, the West Side being
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blanked on. Mike Pushkin, who not only represents the area, but that
45:22
lives in the area, and he's without heat this morning and he's suffering from
45:25
COVID, is with us, Mike any comment? Well, I think it's
45:30
important to put out there. There's a lot there too. The information that
45:36
denis of that needs to be correct information. We need to make sure everything
45:38
that we're putting out is true. I think there was stuff put out there
45:43
about vouchers from the DHHR, that is, you know, that's not true.
45:47
Even if there was to be a state of emergency declaring, which there
45:52
has not been, from the Governor's office, it wouldn't be the DHHR,
45:57
which is now the Department of Healthy and the Department and Resources of that would
46:00
it wouldn't be coming from them, it would be coming from another agency.
46:05
If that were the case, but that's not the case. I think that
46:07
there are talks for people who are in extreme need. There are some talks
46:14
may work something out with local hotels, but I can't for certain put that
46:19
information out there yet. I would recommend that people do keep track of any
46:24
expenditures, keep track of any receipts, because there's already been a class action
46:30
suit filed, so that would be information you're going to want to have in
46:32
the future of just how much you're having to spend. And Micha, let
46:36
me jumping here, because speaking of that state of emergency, there's been some
46:38
questions raised in social media as to why hasn't there been a state of emergency.
46:44
I actually was in contact with some folks with the city and from what
46:49
I am being told, and you probably are more knowledgeable about this than I
46:52
am, but according to the information that I received is that as of now,
46:58
this does not meet the level of a state of emergency. Now.
47:01
The Mayor's office, and I talked to them earlier today, said that they
47:05
will be working to get that done if it qualifies. But as of now,
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and that was of about eight fifteen or so this morning, this does
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not qualify as a state of emergency as of now according to code, and
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I don't know what that threshold is, but that's something that the Governor's office
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would would have to determine. I'd say. In the meantime, I think
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the City of Charleston has, once they really realized the extent of the damages
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over here and the extent of the situation, has really stepped up first of
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all and having these morning meetings with all of the parties involved and doing their
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best to get relief out to the people, whether that's you know, safe
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space, heaters, hot food. There's now showers over at the King Center
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down closer downtown and the North Charleston Rec Center, I believe boad or being
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portables have brought in portable showers, and you know, the relief effort to
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mitigate the damage over here is up and running and doing well thanks to the
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City of Charleston, a whole lot of great volunteers and the volunteer organizations over
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here on the West side. But we have to make sure that the information
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we put out there is correct and factual. And the part about vouchers from
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the d h HR, it was not factual. That's not that's not taking
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place, So people shouldn't be showing up at hotel saying they're going to get
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that. This is going to be covered well. One thing that I have
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heard that people do need to know is, I know people want to check
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their furnaces, they want to check their hot water tanks, they want to
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get in early with the plumber. Eighth BAC company whoever be replacing that Mountaineer
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Gas will be coming by to check people's appliances and property. And they should
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have a very very reputable plum company in tow and if repairs need to be
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made, they're going to be there to make the repairs. And if appliances
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need to be replaced, they're going to put the order in directly. Yeah,
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and we want to make sure that people realize that. Again, everybody's
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cold, and everybody wants to just flip it on, but you can't do
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that. You've got to let the fuck and Mountain their gas. Folks have
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to literally go to every house, every business. It's not like I told
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when mister Scaffa, you can't just flip a switch. I mean they literally
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have to go to each one. I just got a text here. We
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were hoping to have Margaret O'Neil on for the United Way. But again that's
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not gonna be able to happen because they're still in this meeting. But she
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did say that she wanted me to throw out this phone number three zero four
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three four zero thirty five hundred. That is a number for the United Way
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for if people need heaters, they need food, whatever, three zero four
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three four zero thirty five hundred, and that's from the United Way. Mike.
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That's that's thank Thank you very much, Margaret. That's information we need
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to put out there. Thank you very much. Tex says Western Gina.
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American Water apparently unable to deal with the routine maintenance but always premiums to their
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stockholders. Maybe privatization of a water service is not the best idea. Your
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thoughts, My thought is I agree. One. I've been very vocal about
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this since before I was in office, you know, ten years ago,
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when we had another issue with the water company when the chemicals were able to
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enter into the UH, the the one intake that serves one third of the
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state. That, yeah, maybe privatization of a water system was not a
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great idea, but it's very hard, UH to go from private back to
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public. It's It's difficult something that I've looked into for a long time,
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but I've always been a proponent of publicly owned water systems. They should be
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answering to the rate payers and the customers and people who need water rather than
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shareholders. I think the problem is when when more of the profits are going
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to shareholders and less going back into the infrastructure, then we continue to have
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problems. But they've outdo in five any line brought to you apart by Meek's
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realty group called three zero four four zero one one one zero one or visit
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Meeks dot US. Texas governor doesn't care about Charleston or Kanawa County. One
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bit a little unfair and that text, Mike, what do you think.
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I'm not gonna give comments. And I don't know what the what the governor's
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priorities are. I know that our priority right now is taking care of folks
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on the West side. I need to stay warm, need hot meals,
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and I just need to be taken care of. And like I said,
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I thank all the volunteer organizations and the City of Charleston who are stepping up
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and helping out over here. And as soon as I'm cleared to leave the
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house. I'll be out right out there with them. Yeah, I'm sure
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you will. I mean, I've known doubt that you'll be right out there
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with them. Yeah. And well, one thing I did. I did
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speak with some of my colleagues and the legislator who were all up and wheeling
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for the inn be I was supposed to be up there with them. Of
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course I'm not. I couldn't go because because of the you know, sick,
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and you want to get anybody else sick. Thirty seconds ahead, but
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I'm sending a letter today to the chairs of the Joint Committee on Transportation and
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Infrastructure. I think it's important for these utilities to come in and answer some
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questions. But since I only have thirty seconds, I'd like to put out
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there again. Most important information is eight four four two one six eight two
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eight six select the option two, and that is they have the city at
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Charles in the fire Department, in conjunction with the Red Cross, to check
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your smoke alarms and your fire detectors in your house to make sure everybody stays
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safe. We've got a lot of people using space heaters. We got to
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use them safely, all right, Mike, I appreciate it. Get Wilson,
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we'll talk against so Man. Thanks a lot. Follow the news of
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