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06/01/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Andrew Donaldson, Danny Jones, Mayor Amy Goodwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 2: a little bit later on. But I want to welcome
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Speaker 2: to the show now Andrew Donaldson. He's summed from me
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, a couple of times when
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Speaker 2: I was on vacation. You can also read his commentaries
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Speaker 2: in West Virginia. Watch back. We're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: one of those recent commentaries, so recent that I think
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Speaker 2: it dropped today. It's called over paying for the status
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Speaker 2: quo in West Virginia's primary election. Andrew, good morning and
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Speaker 2: welcome to the show.
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Speaker 4: It's a thrill to be here. You do that so
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Speaker 4: much better than I did it, so it was great
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Speaker 4: to send into your learning trade, my friend. Thank you, sir,
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Speaker 4: good to be here.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. So why do you say, why do
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Speaker 2: you call it in this column which you can read
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Speaker 2: in West Virginia watch over Paying for the status quo
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Speaker 2: in West Virginia's primary elections.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it was just a good idea to
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Speaker 4: step back from it because we all talked about how
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Speaker 4: much money was being spent on this primary and to
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Speaker 4: sit back and go, okay, Well, normally, if you spend
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Speaker 4: a lot of money on something, you want to see
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Speaker 4: what you get for either in purchase or returning investment,
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Speaker 4: or what kind of a conversion rate if you're in
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Speaker 4: the business world. And five million dollars for a very
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Speaker 4: marginal change in the legislature seems like a lot of
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Speaker 4: money for not a lot of output. And sometimes we
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Speaker 4: get lost in the buzzwords and the coverage and we
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Speaker 4: just talk about the ends and the ouse and the
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Speaker 4: horse races and all that and go, wait a minute.
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Speaker 4: This is a lot of money for not a lot
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Speaker 4: of product to show for it, And it looks like
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Speaker 4: the next election will be more money and maybe not
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Speaker 4: as much to show for. Maybe we should just talk
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Speaker 4: about why all that money isn't actually moving the electorate
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Speaker 4: that all that money is telling us is so important
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Speaker 4: to get involved in everything. It just seems like there's
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Speaker 4: a disconnector we should probably talk about.
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Speaker 2: Secretary of State's office. Andrews says, only about twenty one
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Speaker 2: percent of us twenty one percent showed up to vote.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you think about it and you look
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Speaker 4: at the numbers, that's probably the floor of people who
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Speaker 4: are going to vote no matter what. Are pretty close
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Speaker 4: to it. When you look statistically across West Virginia, it
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Speaker 4: does bump up and down a little bit. And there
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Speaker 4: wasn't a big top line race. There wasn't, you know,
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Speaker 4: the governor's race, the Senate race really wasn't in doubt.
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Speaker 4: Things like this, So there's reasons for that. But this
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Speaker 4: is probably about the floor of people that's going to
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Speaker 4: vote no matter what. So then you got asked like, okay,
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Speaker 4: everybody's got mailboxes full of things telling us this is
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Speaker 4: the latest, most important election of our lifetime and people
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Speaker 4: aren't buying what's being sold to them in the ad
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Speaker 4: and then the mailers and not showing up at the polls.
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Speaker 4: That's a disconnect that needs to be discussed because that's
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Speaker 4: not good for anybody. That's not good for the system,
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Speaker 4: it's not good for the state. Voters need to be engaged.
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Speaker 4: So if they're not engaged, we should talk about that.
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Speaker 2: Why do I mean nobody really thought and again we're
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Speaker 2: talking with Andrew Donaldson that the turnout was going to
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Speaker 2: be that great anyway, Most people thought it would be
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Speaker 2: somewhere between fifty to I'm sorry, fifteen to twenty five
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Speaker 2: percent is right in the middle there at about twenty one.
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Speaker 2: What can be done to encourage more people to want
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Speaker 2: to take part in the system and to vote.
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Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like over simplification, but you've got to
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Speaker 4: get involved in things that will get people out to
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Speaker 4: the polls, to engage, and you've got to let them
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Speaker 4: think that what they're voting on matters. So if we're
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Speaker 4: just going to have an election that's pretty much over
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Speaker 4: what shade of red and what faction people are going
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Speaker 4: to be involved in, which is what a lot of
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Speaker 4: the coverage, fairly or unfairly, of this primary was about
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Speaker 4: a lot of people that are worried about their schools
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Speaker 4: and worried about their roads, and worried about their water quality,
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Speaker 4: and worry about their quality of life, and worried about
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Speaker 4: whether their kids are going to go out of state
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Speaker 4: or stay in state, and all those things we're always
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Speaker 4: talking about, and worried about the demographic changes. That's probably
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Speaker 4: not going to register with those folks really well. And
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Speaker 4: then you get the ugly mudslinging we see. You see
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Speaker 4: the advertising that gets very very negative, that turns off
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Speaker 4: the normies, whatever a normy is anymore, that isn't all
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Speaker 4: that up with politics because they just go well a
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Speaker 4: poks on all these people houses. I don't want to
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Speaker 4: deal with any of this. I don't want it on
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Speaker 4: my TV, I don't want it in my mailbox. You
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Speaker 4: can see where the voter turned out. Again, you should vote,
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Speaker 4: it's your duty to vote, it's your privilege to vote.
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Speaker 4: You should always vote. But you can also understand and say, yeah,
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Speaker 4: these people need to vote, but you can kind of
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Speaker 4: see where they're coming from, where they're a little disconnected
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Speaker 4: from the process, and your.
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Speaker 2: Talking to people or whatever engaging with your readers, and you,
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Speaker 2: of course have a big online following as well. Did
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Speaker 2: you hear anybody say anything about the primary being closed
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Speaker 2: as a factor as to whether they or not they
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Speaker 2: were going to vote. I mean, I'm a registered independent.
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Speaker 2: I went to the polls. I voted for nonpartisan races.
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Speaker 2: Some people friends of mine opted to stay home. What
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Speaker 2: have you heard about that?
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Speaker 4: I think this is conjecture, but I think you saw
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Speaker 4: that in the Supreme Court race, which was the one
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Speaker 4: nonpartisan vote, people came. I think that race was where
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Speaker 4: some people showed their displeasure and the voting came out.
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Speaker 4: We also have some interesting stats on this because I
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Speaker 4: hear people say that I'm like you, you can chisel
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Speaker 4: independent on my voter car. It's never going to change
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Speaker 4: ag in for the rest of my life. But you
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Speaker 4: hear from people and they're like, well, why are we
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Speaker 4: doing that? Because yes, the Republican Party has grown in
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Speaker 4: the voter registration has flipped and Republicans have grown, but
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Speaker 4: the number of independence is also growing almost twelve thousand
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Speaker 4: over the same period, so the independent group is actually
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Speaker 4: getting bigger also, So to just turn those people out
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Speaker 4: and I understand the argument. This is not a right
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Speaker 4: or wrong thing. It's just to how do you want
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Speaker 4: to run your party? He we just only want Republicans
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Speaker 4: in close primary. Okay, that's fine, but understand you're also
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Speaker 4: turning off independence. And right now that's not a big
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Speaker 4: deal of supermajority. But down the road, five, ten, fifteen
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Speaker 4: years independence that might be able to do a coalition
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Speaker 4: with the Democrats and disaffected Republicans based on cycle to
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Speaker 4: cycle stuff. Now you've got a coalition that can maybe
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Speaker 4: give you trouble down the line. It's just something the
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Speaker 4: Republican Party might want to think about talking.
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Speaker 2: To Andrew Donaldson. Do want to remind you that the
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Speaker 2: point out in your column five million dollars in less
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Speaker 2: than ten weeks, mostly from ten or so groups. Now
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Speaker 2: let that sink in for a moment. Five million or
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Speaker 2: so dollars in less than ten weeks or so, and
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Speaker 2: mostly from ten or ten or so groups.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and really about five of those was something, you know,
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Speaker 4: eighty eighty five percent of that. She could tighten it
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Speaker 4: down even further than that. But when you have some
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Speaker 4: let's just call them what they were. You had some
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Speaker 4: grudge matches, right, You had some people that had personality
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Speaker 4: on top of the politics involved. You had some big
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Speaker 4: name stuff where a lot of money. You know, when
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Speaker 4: you start having six seven hundred thousand dollars legislative races,
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Speaker 4: that's pretty high popping for folks. So it's more than
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Speaker 4: just the politics. It's also what we talk about that
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Speaker 4: money funnel then we go. It's also a lot of Look,
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Speaker 4: everybody in the elected office has ego. You can't get
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Speaker 4: in there if you don't. So there's some of that.
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Speaker 4: But when you sit back and look at and just
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Speaker 4: think about it's like, Okay, well, the last governor's race
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Speaker 4: was you know, twenty million dollars. In the last legislative
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Speaker 4: primary was a couple of millions. So are we going
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Speaker 4: to see a thirty five to forty million dollar governor
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Speaker 4: race if Governor Morrisey gets a premary in the GOP primary?
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Speaker 4: Are we going to see Senate and House races get
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Speaker 4: more and more expensive, and I think the resounding answer
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Speaker 4: is yes, because this money machine for politics, it's got
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Speaker 4: to spend money somewhere to justify its own existence. I'm
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Speaker 4: afraid this is the new normal and we're going to
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Speaker 4: see more and more of this.
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Speaker 2: I want to switch gears Andrew for a moment, go
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Speaker 2: National for a moment. I want to talk about the
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Speaker 2: America two fifty concert or lack of concert, Martina McBride,
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Speaker 2: Morris Day, and the time the Commodore's Brett Michaels all
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Speaker 2: dropping out. Now the President says that he will be
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Speaker 2: the main events. What do you make of this?
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Speaker 4: He'll probably draw a crowd. I was upset about the
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Speaker 4: Morse Day one because I love me some Morse Day
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Speaker 4: in the time. You know, squawk, you know that's that's
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Speaker 4: an age reference. Nobody will get that. Look it up good.
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Speaker 2: I got it because I was there for Jungle Love.
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Speaker 2: Jungle Love came out when I was in like junior high.
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Speaker 2: And the fact that I just said junior high should
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Speaker 2: tell you something.
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Speaker 4: So there you go, Wow, yeah that was a banger
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Speaker 4: slaps or whatever the kid's calling in and they but yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's amazing because and again we got to start with this.
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Speaker 4: There's two different groups. There's the bi partisan Commission that
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Speaker 4: was done years ago to set up that big S
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Speaker 4: word that kids from somewhere's on logan like I shouldn't
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Speaker 4: be trying to say on radio, and I'm not even
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Speaker 4: going to try it. But the two fifty Celebration of
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Speaker 4: semi singinnial whatever. The America two fifty is that group
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Speaker 4: that's the official government group. The Freedom two fifty is
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Speaker 4: what President Trump has put on top of that in
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Speaker 4: conjunction with that, and has used a lot of his
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Speaker 4: own people and a lot of his own stuff in
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Speaker 4: the UFC fight and this and a lot of that's
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Speaker 4: going in under that. So it's two different things going
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Speaker 4: on at the same time. So it's important to differentiate
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Speaker 4: those two things. But yeah, this is a mess. And
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Speaker 4: I actually try and called around a little bit on this.
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Speaker 4: So the people that were running the concerts, the politics
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Speaker 4: is going to be put on this, But the people
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Speaker 4: that were setting this concert up kind of co opt
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Speaker 4: to a concert package that was already toring around And
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Speaker 4: you could probably speak to that better than I can.
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Speaker 4: How those things get set up. There's just some good
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Speaker 4: old fashioning competence on how that concert got set up,
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Speaker 4: and then you put the politics on top of it.
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Speaker 4: Everybody hadn't easy out to get out of it. So
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Speaker 4: those are two things going on at the same time.
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Speaker 4: But it is a mess, and it's one of those
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Speaker 4: things where most normal people will still celebrate the two
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Speaker 4: hundred and fiftieth, they'll be very excited of it. The
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Speaker 4: political people will make political hay out of it. But
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Speaker 4: it is a shame that we can't just do this
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Speaker 4: without a little bit of working together on it. Because
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Speaker 4: I'm hearing a lot of star spangled you know, wordedge,
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Speaker 4: I'm seeing a whole lot of osay, can you see
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Speaker 4: what I want to put on my CV and show
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Speaker 4: that I was in charge of it and this is
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Speaker 4: all about me, That's what I'm seeing. It's amazing because
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Speaker 4: you see that on national level, and now we're seeing
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Speaker 4: it on state level, almost an exact parallel of it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we have two different things. Well, actually
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Speaker 2: we don't have two. Let me back that up. There
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Speaker 2: are going to be two things going on at the
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Speaker 2: same time in the city of Charleston as part of Americas.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, you know, the country only turns two
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Speaker 2: fifty one time, you know, so why not. For her part,
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Speaker 2: Martina McBride called the whole thing a quote non partisan
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Speaker 2: event originally that turned out to be very misleading end quote.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, what do you what do you make
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Speaker 2: of her statement? Because she's not somebody in her career
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Speaker 2: and she's been Martina, it's been around for well over
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Speaker 2: thirty years now. She's not somebody in her career that's
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Speaker 2: been known for a whole lot of controversy.
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Speaker 4: No, she's not. And you have people like Brett Michaels,
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Speaker 4: who's been very friendly to the president, very publicly. It's
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Speaker 4: not like he's anti Trump or anything. He's done events before.
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Speaker 4: And you have other artists as well. I think a
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Speaker 4: lot of them just didn't want to get caught and
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Speaker 4: mess of it, and rightly so. And again the promoters
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Speaker 4: that put together the concerts specifically, there's just some good
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Speaker 4: old fashioning confidence and how they set this up to
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Speaker 4: start with. So it was one of those things whe
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Speaker 4: were like, a heck, we're not going to fool with this.
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Speaker 4: But it is telling and it's a shame that people
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Speaker 4: are thinking, like the two point fifty, when you start
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Speaker 4: branding it for your own purposes, you're going to get
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Speaker 4: that pushback. If somebody doesn't like you personally, they're not
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Speaker 4: going to want to deal with it. And it really
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Speaker 4: should be about the whole country.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Donaldson, you can read this stuff in West Virginia Watch.
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Speaker 2: Where else can people learn more about you and about
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Speaker 2: your stuff? Because you're all over social media? And so
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Speaker 2: I said, you do commentaries for West Virginia Watch. Tell
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Speaker 2: people where they can find your stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, West Virginia Watches. I love the opportunity to talk
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Speaker 4: about what I love the most, my home state of
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Speaker 4: West Virginia. So it's great right there. I'm on the
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Speaker 4: for the fire. Hotel Media is my website. You can
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Speaker 4: look it up there. And I always love doing what
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Speaker 4: is hometown radio for me because I grew up listening WCCHS.
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Speaker 4: It's always a thrill to be on here with you
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Speaker 4: because my mom and dad still listened to you. So Hi,
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Speaker 4: mom and dad.
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Speaker 2: All right, Hi mom and dad, Hi Andrews. Mom and dad,
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Speaker 2: all right, we appreciate you being here, man, Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 4: We'll talk soon anytime, sir. Appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: from an undisclosed location. Okay, it's California, Danny Jones. How
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Speaker 2: you doing, my friend, Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 11: I'm doing fun. Thank you very much. David.
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Speaker 2: How are things in California?
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Speaker 4: Sir?
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Speaker 2: Daniel.
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Speaker 11: Oh, it's beautiful. It's wonderful out here. I did you
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Speaker 11: see my video?
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Speaker 2: No, I did not see your video. You said you're
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Speaker 2: going to tag me in one? Did I did not
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Speaker 2: see it.
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Speaker 11: It's on It's on Facebook. And I did a video
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Speaker 11: in my apartment. And I'm out here about ten days
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Speaker 11: a month, and I really enjoy it. A lot of
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Speaker 11: people from Charleston if they have, you know, other places
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Speaker 11: they go, they usually go south and I choose to
17:54
Speaker 11: go west. So I like it out here, and I
18:00
Speaker 11: have some friends out here, and gets nice. Hey, by
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Speaker 11: the way, is the guy that was on before me? Yeah,
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Speaker 11: he's really good.
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Speaker 1: He's very good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Andrew Donaldson. Yeah, he's very good, very very talented,
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Speaker 2: and he's writing now for West Virginia Watch. But he's
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Speaker 2: also a good follow on x and social media and
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Speaker 2: got his own media company, Andrews. Andrew's very good. He
18:20
Speaker 2: got to sub for me a couple of times when
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Speaker 2: I was on vacation. We'll trying to have him on
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Speaker 2: the show more often, but not on Mondays though, because
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Speaker 2: that's your slot.
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Speaker 11: Hey, let me ask your question. Okay, have you had
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Speaker 11: the Republican candidate for a mayor on there yet.
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Speaker 4: I have not.
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Speaker 2: No, he's not asked, but whenever he asks, he's more
18:38
Speaker 2: than more than welcome to come on. Actually, Maddie, go ahead.
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Speaker 11: I don't need I don't even know his name.
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Speaker 2: It's a Brian Hunt.
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Speaker 11: I think, well he needs to rageous profile a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I mean, well, I mean, it's even let's keep in
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Speaker 2: mind it's just June first. I mean, you know that
19:03
Speaker 2: back in the old days, they used to say that
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Speaker 2: campaigns don't even get going to Labor Day. Now I
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Speaker 2: know that's not the way it is now, but I'm
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Speaker 2: just saying.
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Speaker 11: Now, I want to when I were in I well,
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Speaker 11: of course we had our election in May. Then I
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Speaker 11: started in August and didn't stop until it was time
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Speaker 11: to vote, and that's why I won.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, well, I mean, and now, I mean
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Speaker 2: you're continually running maybe not so much for mayor, but
19:36
Speaker 2: I mean in uh, in these house seats, especially uh
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Speaker 2: that they're every two years. I mean, that's you're you're
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Speaker 2: you're continually in an election cycle. But to answer your question,
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Speaker 2: I have not had the gentleman on. I met him
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Speaker 2: a couple of months ago. He was in the studio here.
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Speaker 2: I'd be more than happy, and I will definitely have
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Speaker 2: him on maybe whenever he wants. All he's gonna do,
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Speaker 2: uh is reach out to me. Speaking of may orl stuff,
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Speaker 2: I want to ask you a question. More, more and
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Speaker 2: more cities in West Virginia are starting to have their elections,
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Speaker 2: municipal elections to go along with the county elections. Do
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Speaker 2: you have a you have a thought on it? And
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Speaker 2: being the same day.
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Speaker 11: We started, Oh did you start?
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Speaker 2: Charleston started it?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Charleston started it. You mean in November?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 11: Yeah. We used to have artist in May. But the
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Speaker 11: problem was in May we ran into the at school,
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Speaker 11: we ran into the West test Oh okay, all right,
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Speaker 11: So we just decided to save a quarter million dollars.
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Speaker 2: Well that's I was gonna say. People don't understand how
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Speaker 2: expensive elections are. And I have always been a big
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Speaker 2: proponent of trying to combine things, you know, when you can.
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Speaker 2: But I will say when it comes to things like
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Speaker 2: bonds and levees that some communities and some cities have
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Speaker 2: sometimes I know one county in particular that that wanted
20:56
Speaker 2: It's not kanaw uh, but one county that I dealt with.
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Speaker 2: What I was doing work with the Secretary of State's office,
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Speaker 2: they had their Emergency Services levy, and they had it
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Speaker 2: on a random Saturday in February because statistically it had
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Speaker 2: been shown that that was the snowiest day of the year,
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Speaker 2: because they didn't want turnout. And I had more than
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Speaker 2: one person told me that.
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Speaker 11: We did that when the bomb or levee failed, they
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Speaker 11: would have it on some obscure day and and have
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Speaker 11: a eight percent turnout, and the right people would go
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Speaker 11: to polls and they would pass.
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Speaker 2: When Danny I was talking to Andrew earlier, and I
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Speaker 2: brought up this whole thing with these all these performers
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Speaker 2: backing out of what the president had planned. And there's
21:42
Speaker 2: still going to be things going on. Don't get me wrong,
21:44
Speaker 2: but a lot of these performers met Martine McBride, Brett
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Speaker 2: Michael's poison, several others are backing out of this thing.
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Speaker 2: And now the President says that, well, he's just gonna,
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Speaker 2: I guess, give it himself. He said on social media
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Speaker 2: something to the effect of I have bigger and I'm
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Speaker 2: very much paraphrasing, I have bigger numbers than Elvis did
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Speaker 2: during his heyday.
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Speaker 11: Well he did the biggest, the happiest I've been in
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Speaker 11: a long time. They're going to take his name off
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Speaker 11: at Kennedy Center. He he has the Marine Corps band,
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Speaker 11: you know, the President's band, which is the Marine Corps band.
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Speaker 11: He can always grab trace adtions. There are other musicians
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Speaker 11: he could grab if he wants to. But he wants
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Speaker 11: to make everything about himself, and I think that's I
22:39
Speaker 11: think that's very sad.
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Speaker 2: Somebody had brought that up to me. Somebody said about
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Speaker 2: those performers, saying that, you know, his normal group of
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Speaker 2: people like Lee Greenwood for example, you know, as a
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Speaker 2: Ben or Kid Rock or somebody, or some of the
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Speaker 2: people that performed at the at the the alternate Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl halftime shows, some of those people. I agree with you.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it was ever. I think it was
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Speaker 2: I think he's getting what he wants is he wants
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Speaker 2: the spotlight on himself. That's that's just me.
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Speaker 11: Yeah. And by the way, if you go to YouTube,
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Speaker 11: you're going to watch a duet between Elbots and Martinez
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Speaker 11: McBride and it is really good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, so you mentioned the Kennedy Center. His name's
23:17
Speaker 2: not going to be on that, it looks like, and
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Speaker 2: he's not going to fight it. He said, this is
23:20
Speaker 2: Congress's problem. Now, many people didn't know there was a
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Speaker 2: problem to begin with. But are you surprised by him
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Speaker 2: not fighting harder for that?
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Speaker 11: I'm glad he's not. I mean, look, David Indefference. I mean,
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Speaker 11: I don't want to upset the mega crowd out there,
23:38
Speaker 11: but he's a draft dodger. President Kennedy was a war hero.
23:43
Speaker 11: And even though we were Nixon people, you know my family,
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Speaker 11: we were Republicans. I liked President Kennedy. And I'll tell
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Speaker 11: you a funny story because they were so parties and
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Speaker 11: my parents were so artisan. I asked my mother, I said,
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Speaker 11: what would you do if President Kennedy pulled up the
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Speaker 11: driveway out there and walked in knock on the door.
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Speaker 11: And she said, well, I didn't bite him in for
24:11
Speaker 11: a drink. No, I really I love President Kennedy. I
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Speaker 11: didn't care for Bobby one bit, but I like President Kennedy.
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Speaker 2: How do you feel about it? How'd you feel about
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Speaker 2: Ted Kennedy?
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Speaker 11: I didn't, I mean I didn't. I didn't want I mean,
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Speaker 11: and him and Chris Dodd Sandwich and that waitress and
24:37
Speaker 11: I just you know, orn Hatch pulled him aside on
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Speaker 11: the Senate floor because Teddy Kimsey had a really bad
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Speaker 11: drinking problem and he pulled him aside and Orange Hatch,
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Speaker 11: you remember him, a very dignified man from Utah. He
24:57
Speaker 11: told me, he said, it's about time you grew up
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Speaker 11: like that. And uh I think that that helped. I
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Speaker 11: think that helped change Teddy Kennedy. John McCain and Nelson
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Speaker 11: and uh Jay Rockefeller both told me the same thing
25:14
Speaker 11: about Teddy Kennedy. He was the best legislator they ever saw.
25:19
Speaker 11: And uh Jay said, when you look around on the
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Speaker 11: Senate floor, Teddy was always back there with the Republicans
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Speaker 11: trying to work, trying to work something out. And so
25:35
Speaker 11: you asked me, how maybe I maybe I.
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Speaker 2: Did, Like I was gonna say, what a novel concept
25:40
Speaker 2: that is, is that one party person from from from
25:42
Speaker 2: the opposing party sits down and tries to talk to somebody.
25:45
Speaker 2: What a novel concept.
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Speaker 11: Now, what he did to what he did to Robert
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Speaker 11: Boroke was unspeakable, And I mean you had to see
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Speaker 11: the Senate s feats to know what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 11: and it was it was totally unnecessary and totally untrue
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Speaker 11: and just untowards but in the end he won because
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Speaker 2: you happen to see the unbelievable knife any comeback rally
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Speaker 2: to get the Mountaineers to win they desperately needed over
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Speaker 2: Kentucky last night. Are there any West Virginia fans there?
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Speaker 2: And the text refers to it as crack of Fornia. No,
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Speaker 2: there's no WU fans there.
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Speaker 11: And when you watch that video, it's only four and
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Speaker 11: a half minutes on Facebook. David, I deal with that?
26:59
Speaker 11: Is you about California and the homeless encampments that are
27:04
Speaker 11: in San Francisco and Los Angeles. I'm down here in
27:08
Speaker 11: Orange County and I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's
27:12
Speaker 11: I mean, it's beautiful down here, and it's nice. And
27:15
Speaker 11: I live in a complex with ten thousand other people
27:21
Speaker 11: and six thousand homes and I love it out here.
27:26
Speaker 11: And like I say, I own this place and I
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Speaker 11: come here about every you know, ten days a month.
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Speaker 2: What's the overall when you meet people for the first time, Danny,
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Speaker 2: and you tell them that you're from West Virginia, what's
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Speaker 2: the overall impression or do they have an impression of
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Speaker 2: West Virginia at all?
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Speaker 11: Oh? They tell me they've been to Richmond.
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Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. Is it somewhere
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Speaker 2: near they had a cousin that lived in Roanoke or
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Speaker 2: something like that?
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Speaker 11: Right? Yeah, no, But but see, I'm believe it or not, David,
27:56
Speaker 11: I'm kind of known out here. I mean I have
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Speaker 11: not not walking down the street, but I have a
28:03
Speaker 11: circle of friends that I'll be with. I'm with every
28:06
Speaker 11: day and these are very close friends. And I had
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Speaker 11: with one hundred and fifty of them on Saturday, and
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Speaker 11: I celebrated thirty two years of sobriety.
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Speaker 2: I saw that I posted about that. Congratulations on that, sir.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and so I have a lot of friends out here,
28:29
Speaker 11: And I don't mean I'm known, like I walk down
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Speaker 11: the street and I'm known, but I'm known with my friends.
28:36
Speaker 11: So I have people I can hang around with out
28:38
Speaker 11: here if I want to. But being out here at
28:42
Speaker 11: this complex I'm in, there's a lot to do out
28:45
Speaker 11: here too.
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Speaker 2: I would imagine that when they ask you what you did,
28:51
Speaker 2: and you tell them all the things that you did, said,
28:54
Speaker 2: I was a multiple term mayor of the capital city
28:56
Speaker 2: in West Virginia, legislator, owned restaurants, I was an actor,
29:01
Speaker 2: even throwing you are a grave digger, I would say,
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Speaker 2: you've got a pretty interesting past for those people.
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Speaker 11: Now, what happened? What I didn't bring on any of
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Speaker 11: that up until things happened that put me in the
29:15
Speaker 11: national spotlight, like the flood or the chemical.
29:23
Speaker 2: Skill yeah, the water crisis. Yeah.
29:25
Speaker 11: And then I made national news and people said, what
29:28
Speaker 11: you know because I didn't. I didn't. I never bought
29:33
Speaker 11: that up. I would tell people I worked in city government,
29:37
Speaker 11: in the administrative side. And now my best friends, my
29:42
Speaker 11: closest friends out here is a public information officer for
29:46
Speaker 11: the Long Beach Fire Departments, and and I just you know,
29:54
Speaker 11: I just really really like it. It's just it's really nice
29:58
Speaker 11: and and I look forward to seeing these people. We
30:03
Speaker 11: all gather on Saturdays. I'll see a bunch of them
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Speaker 11: today at noon. So it's pretty nice.
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Speaker 2: When are you coming back.
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Speaker 11: I'll be back next Sunday. I want to tell you that,
30:16
Speaker 11: since we were talking about Kennedy, just came up. My father
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Speaker 11: hated the old man, hated him, said him a crook,
30:26
Speaker 11: the bootlegger, and just hated him. But I never heard
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Speaker 11: him say even though we were for Nixon, now, I
30:38
Speaker 11: never heard him say one bad word about President Kennedy
30:42
Speaker 11: or my mother for that matter.
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Speaker 2: All right, well you all want to invite President Kennedy
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Speaker 2: into the House for a drink?
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Speaker 7: Right?
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Speaker 11: That would have been that would have been sung.
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Speaker 2: A great story. All right, Danny, we'll let you go,
30:54
Speaker 2: let you get back to your California dreaming out there,
30:57
Speaker 2: and we'll have you in studio back with us. I
30:58
Speaker 2: guess next week. Man, thanks a lot, Thank you, Danny Jones.
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Speaker 2: When Danny's done, he's done, right, he just boom, he's done.
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36:00
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Speaker 2: I introduced you to a gentleman and his wife from
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Speaker 2: here in the Canaw Valley. His name is Dylan Hackworth.
36:25
Speaker 2: He and his wife working to gather the history of
36:27
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36:31
Speaker 2: He talked to us on this show a couple of
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36:48
Speaker 2: Bruce McGrew will join us, and Jamon Schmidt from Goodwill
36:51
Speaker 2: will be on the show tomorrow. That voice you heard
36:53
Speaker 2: earlier as Charleston maryor Amy Shoulder, good, how you doing.
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Speaker 13: I'm wonderful.
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Speaker 5: It was a great it was a great game, super
36:59
Speaker 5: super ex so I think the crowd was absolutely amazing
37:02
Speaker 5: and so looking forward to seeing that. And actually I
37:05
Speaker 5: heard when I was coming in, I heard somebody talk
37:08
Speaker 5: about the DOOP and bringing it back, and I I
37:11
Speaker 5: just as a reminder, and I went back to make
37:14
Speaker 5: sure I still had it in.
37:15
Speaker 13: My emails, and I do.
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Speaker 5: On April eighteenth, twenty twenty three, we begged the organizers
37:24
Speaker 5: to continue with DUOP and had the money prepared and
37:28
Speaker 5: found out on the news they were canceling, and so
37:30
Speaker 5: whoever texted in that they'd like to bring back the DUOP,
37:34
Speaker 5: I never wanted it to go. I can send you
37:37
Speaker 5: the email from twenty twenty three April eighteenth, to be exact,
37:42
Speaker 5: and we'll we'll get the funding and we'll bring it back.
37:45
Speaker 13: Just call me let me know what.
37:48
Speaker 8: That made.
37:49
Speaker 5: I think it was just an easy narrative to say
37:51
Speaker 5: she didn't like it, she didn't want it, and that's
37:53
Speaker 5: just simply false.
37:54
Speaker 13: It's absolutely false.
37:56
Speaker 5: And so anybody that I've talked to individually, I have
37:59
Speaker 5: told and we really haven't made it a big deal
38:02
Speaker 5: because those in the know no. But I'm happy to
38:05
Speaker 5: share this email and certainly happy to share any conversation
38:08
Speaker 5: with anybody who wants to talk about bringing a do
38:11
Speaker 5: up or bringing another car show, because I thought it
38:13
Speaker 5: was absolutely fabulous, it was a great time. It was
38:16
Speaker 5: a great you know, great location for sure, and certainly
38:20
Speaker 5: as we revitalize this riverfront, I think that you know,
38:24
Speaker 5: in the years to come, it would make an even
38:25
Speaker 5: better location and certainly something that we're looking forward to
38:30
Speaker 5: to doing.
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Speaker 11: Well.
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Speaker 2: There you have it, Yeah, bring it back, bring it back.
38:34
Speaker 13: Yeah, we're ready for it.
38:35
Speaker 2: Well, but the problem the thing about those events like
38:37
Speaker 2: that is it takes a whole lot of volunteers.
38:39
Speaker 13: Yeah, and that was the that was the thing. It was.
38:42
Speaker 5: We lost our volunteers, we lost our other sponsorship money,
38:45
Speaker 5: not our money. As a matter of fact, we increased
38:48
Speaker 5: the financial contribution substantially when I became mayor, and so
38:53
Speaker 5: because I saw what it what it did, and what
38:57
Speaker 5: it did for the city and the energy that brought,
39:00
Speaker 5: and so we would we would love to have it back.
39:02
Speaker 5: So call me three oh four, three four eight eight
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Speaker 5: one seven four, get.
39:06
Speaker 2: A question or commented or the concern for the mayor.
39:07
Speaker 2: Now you can put it out here. There was some
39:10
Speaker 2: social media chatter about about the pool.
39:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, so infrastructure certainly, and if anybody,
39:18
Speaker 5: if anybody owns a pool, or has a pool, or
39:21
Speaker 5: maintains a pool, you know that it is a big undertaking,
39:25
Speaker 5: and so uh Cato has needed some repair work for
39:29
Speaker 5: a really long period of time. Cities all across the
39:32
Speaker 5: state and the country are finding it very difficult to
39:35
Speaker 5: find you know, parts and chemicals, and so Cato is
39:40
Speaker 5: something that we have gone after because it's a really
39:43
Speaker 5: large pool and it is millions of dollars to fix,
39:47
Speaker 5: and so we have gone after grants and funding for
39:52
Speaker 5: that pool in particular, But right now we just don't
39:55
Speaker 5: feel it is safe to open. Tina are are com
40:00
Speaker 5: folks put out a release I think a week before
40:03
Speaker 5: last two weeks ago or so.
40:05
Speaker 13: Letting folks know.
40:06
Speaker 5: And what we did and what we'll continue to do
40:09
Speaker 5: is do shuttles to other pools for kiddos or families
40:13
Speaker 5: who may want to go to another pool. And certainly,
40:18
Speaker 5: and then the other thing is this, and I saw
40:20
Speaker 5: a couple of other cities pop this up as well.
40:22
Speaker 5: We're getting back to full steam on lifeguards, but lifeguards
40:26
Speaker 5: are really difficult to find right now, and so we're
40:30
Speaker 5: having a little bit of a challenge with that, but
40:32
Speaker 5: hopefully that'll be remedied here before too long. I will
40:36
Speaker 5: say that when I became mayor, we allowed all kids
40:39
Speaker 5: to swim for free, because we know that in the summertime,
40:43
Speaker 5: and as a mom of two, I always like to
40:45
Speaker 5: say I'm a mayor, but I'm a mom first. You
40:48
Speaker 5: need to kids, get the kids moving, not just their
40:51
Speaker 5: brains but their bodies, and swimming is just one.
40:55
Speaker 13: Good way to do that.
40:56
Speaker 2: Put down the phones.
40:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, Lee, he's my goodness gracious right, But you know
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Speaker 5: this week if you had your phone in your hand
41:03
Speaker 5: this weekend, something was wrong because festival was incredibly successful.
41:09
Speaker 5: I mean, Zach and the team, and it's it's a team,
41:13
Speaker 5: that's for sure, just like the regatta, just like Live
41:15
Speaker 5: on the Levee. These are team sports here, certainly in
41:19
Speaker 5: the world of events. And so it was float like
41:22
Speaker 5: a buffalo and then the rumble on Friday night for
41:25
Speaker 5: Live on the Levee, it was just it was packed.
41:28
Speaker 5: It was wonderful, the Stern Wheel, the River Queen that
41:34
Speaker 5: came in to do, Bob Thompson and the salsa night
41:37
Speaker 5: and it just was just what you remember festival being.
41:44
Speaker 5: And you know they've gone through some transition periods, Dave,
41:46
Speaker 5: but it is. It was a beautiful weekend. Mother nature
41:50
Speaker 5: was so kind to us.
41:52
Speaker 2: It was a beautiful week I mean just so kind
41:54
Speaker 2: to us.
41:54
Speaker 5: I don't give a shout out, you know, not not always,
41:57
Speaker 5: but sometimes I take different routes every day. But this
42:00
Speaker 5: this morning, I was on the boulevard and I ran
42:01
Speaker 5: a couple miles and the trash that was already picked
42:05
Speaker 5: up and ready to go from late Saturday and Sunday.
42:08
Speaker 5: So shout out to our Streets Department, our refuse department,
42:12
Speaker 5: our Park and Rex Department. They do an amazing, amazing job.
42:16
Speaker 5: We give a lot of props to our police and fire,
42:18
Speaker 5: as we should, but these guys are working really late
42:21
Speaker 5: at night and really early in the morning and doing
42:23
Speaker 5: a lot of the heavy lifting for these events. You know,
42:27
Speaker 5: more to come, obviously, we have a big USA Cycling
42:32
Speaker 5: meeting coming up this week to talk about those final
42:35
Speaker 5: little details, of course, and we're so excited to welcome
42:38
Speaker 5: back USA Cycling. It is you know, it transforms the
42:43
Speaker 5: downtown area. Businesses look forward to it. We certainly look
42:46
Speaker 5: forward to it. I know the racers look forward to it.
42:49
Speaker 5: We've already seen folks who are already running the routes,
42:53
Speaker 5: I say running cycling the routes, cycling the routes because
42:55
Speaker 5: you can you can tell, you can tell some of
42:58
Speaker 5: these Olympic athletes they you see on our roads. And
43:01
Speaker 5: so the walkthroughs continue and we're really excited about welcoming
43:07
Speaker 5: them in as we prepare for more events in the city.
43:10
Speaker 5: As we always like to say in our office, this
43:12
Speaker 5: is when you've got to really start stretching and really
43:14
Speaker 5: start training, because now until September it is full steam ahead.
43:20
Speaker 2: Text. I know everyone's ready for regatta. And there's one
43:22
Speaker 2: thing I would love to see comeback, any possibility of
43:25
Speaker 2: bringing back the old hot air balloon racing.
43:28
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, Morgantown did a really good job doing
43:31
Speaker 5: their Certainly we can talk about it, you know, but
43:35
Speaker 5: I will say this, it's also capacity to what are
43:38
Speaker 5: the events. You know, we always like to say we're
43:41
Speaker 5: the fun people, but you know, tourism is business. It's
43:45
Speaker 5: you know, it looks like we're the fun people, we're
43:47
Speaker 5: the money people. We're the business people. And so Secretary
43:50
Speaker 5: Ruby are Secretary of Tourism for the State of West Virginia.
43:53
Speaker 13: Will tell you that as well. It's a money venture.
43:56
Speaker 5: And so we have to make sure that if we're
43:58
Speaker 5: going to put on events like that, we have the sponsors,
44:01
Speaker 5: Do we have the capacity from a staffing issue to
44:04
Speaker 5: do those types of things. And when I said earlier.
44:08
Speaker 13: I'd love to see the deal, I love love for.
44:10
Speaker 5: It to come back. We also have to talk about
44:12
Speaker 5: staffing and volunteers and how that works. And you know,
44:16
Speaker 5: just like USA Cycling, just like Festival, just like Regatta. Yes,
44:20
Speaker 5: it takes a lot of team members from our city,
44:23
Speaker 5: but it also takes community members as well for them
44:26
Speaker 5: to step up and give us just a couple of
44:29
Speaker 5: hours of their time. And the good good thing about
44:32
Speaker 5: this community, Dave, and I know you know it as
44:34
Speaker 5: well as anyone.
44:36
Speaker 13: People like to do it.
44:37
Speaker 5: People like to come back and do these things, and
44:39
Speaker 5: we're so appreciative because it directly benefits our businesses and
44:45
Speaker 5: the quality of life we you know, we go round
44:48
Speaker 5: to Robin's Barn all the time with recruiters, hospitals that
44:52
Speaker 5: are bringing folks in. That's what they're interested in seeing
44:55
Speaker 5: is the quality of life and not just the events.
44:58
Speaker 5: The capital investments that we've made as well, so their
45:01
Speaker 5: kids when they go to the Big Lee ball fields,
45:04
Speaker 5: they got turf fields for the little guys and little
45:07
Speaker 5: girls who are out there.
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Speaker 2: Charleston Mayor Amy Schuler, goodwe one is here, Texas. The
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Speaker 2: state has been working on a bunch of state roads
47:03
Speaker 2: within the city, but it isn't normal asphalt. Can you
47:06
Speaker 2: tell us what is being done?
47:08
Speaker 13: It's the state is doing well.
47:10
Speaker 2: The state has been working out a bunch of state
47:12
Speaker 2: roads within the city, but it isn't normal asphalt. Can
47:16
Speaker 2: you tell us what is being done.
47:18
Speaker 5: No, I can't speak to that. I can find out
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Speaker 5: for you. Right there you go and you can call
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Speaker 5: me three or four three four eight eight one seven four.
47:24
Speaker 5: You will see as I did this morning on my
47:27
Speaker 5: way here, just a couple of quick, you know, cold
47:29
Speaker 5: patching jobs along the way. And of course we're having
47:32
Speaker 5: a massive, massive, more money than ever before in a
47:36
Speaker 5: calendar year put into paving projects here in the City
47:40
Speaker 5: of Charleston. Is something that I asked city Council to
47:43
Speaker 5: allow us to do, and they concurred to say, we
47:46
Speaker 5: need we need more, we need more investment in that.
47:50
Speaker 13: And then one thing I did want to mention that
47:52
Speaker 13: you know, you see.
47:53
Speaker 5: Paving projects, but a lot of the infrastructure projects that
47:56
Speaker 5: you see sometimes in the City of Charleston, you just
47:59
Speaker 5: don't see. For instance, we just did a new underlay
48:04
Speaker 5: of the docks. If you're at Belive on the levee,
48:07
Speaker 5: if you are on Festival on Sunday, you saw and
48:11
Speaker 5: on Saturday you saw all of.
48:12
Speaker 13: The boats that were docked there.
48:14
Speaker 5: But we did a lot of repair work to the
48:17
Speaker 5: underlying of the boat dock just because it needs refreshed again.
48:22
Speaker 5: You know, it's you know, several hundred thousand dollars to
48:25
Speaker 5: do that. It's important. It's important for our our boaters,
48:30
Speaker 5: our visitors, police and fire who were down there as well.
48:34
Speaker 5: But I'm not sure that anyone saw that happen. Sands
48:38
Speaker 5: our city manager who kept going down every day to
48:41
Speaker 5: take pictures and send back to our team saying they're
48:44
Speaker 5: making progress, They're making progress. So just just want to
48:48
Speaker 5: let you know that those are those are some of
48:50
Speaker 5: the things that are that are that are happening. And
48:52
Speaker 5: then of course you know all of the other infrastructure
48:55
Speaker 5: projects that we're working on, including a.
48:57
Speaker 13: At all of our eight firehouses. We are at fire
49:01
Speaker 13: station number five.
49:02
Speaker 5: We started at number we did two, we did four,
49:08
Speaker 5: we're at five right now working on station one. All
49:12
Speaker 5: of our firehouses, I shouldn't say all five of our
49:15
Speaker 5: firehouses are currently being worked on millions of dollars of repair.
49:19
Speaker 13: Is something that we committed to do.
49:23
Speaker 5: Many years ago, and so it's a huge infrastructure project
49:28
Speaker 5: because our firefighters and our ems workers deserve a good
49:31
Speaker 5: place to live because they live their day and I
49:34
Speaker 5: also wanted to make mention of our public safety building
49:37
Speaker 5: as well.
49:38
Speaker 13: Again, large projects take a long time. I wish that
49:43
Speaker 13: they could come.
49:44
Speaker 5: About right quick, but when you do big projects like this,
49:47
Speaker 5: it takes a it takes a long period of time.
49:49
Speaker 5: But it's stuff that's happening in the background. I always
49:52
Speaker 5: just want to let people know that while the events
49:55
Speaker 5: are exciting and the music is exciting, we are always
50:00
Speaker 5: top of mind that infrastructure, infrastructure investments, park and recreation,
50:06
Speaker 5: our roads, our bridges, those are things that we also
50:10
Speaker 5: have on the front burner at all times.
50:13
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier that I had Dylan Hackworth on the
50:16
Speaker 2: show as a young man. Who he and his h
50:18
Speaker 2: I think, I said wife. I think they're Beyonce his
50:22
Speaker 2: other he's probably he's probably better half of Yeah, Okay.
50:26
Speaker 2: They are working on this project where they're trying to
50:29
Speaker 2: gather history pictures of emergency services fire. Well, he's going
50:33
Speaker 2: to be on the State Wide show today. Dylan actually
50:35
Speaker 2: just texts me and asks a question for you. If
50:38
Speaker 2: the mayor asked the mayor at the City of Charleston
50:40
Speaker 2: owns the old fire Department on Washington Street, beside the
50:43
Speaker 2: Bluegrass Cafe, that would be a dream location for a museum.
50:46
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah, we don't own it. We don't own it.
50:51
Speaker 13: We don't I know who.
50:52
Speaker 2: Does okay if you want to call me all right, Dylan.
50:55
Speaker 11: There you go.
50:55
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, three oh four three four eight eight one
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Speaker 5: seven four Yeah. Great interview last week, so very cool.
51:02
Speaker 5: And I think what what he and his person is
51:06
Speaker 5: doing good stuff, dyn't.
51:09
Speaker 2: I think they're I think they're engaged.
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Speaker 13: I think I think is the truth.
51:13
Speaker 2: His love text is the tradition of the ice cream
51:16
Speaker 2: Sunday social still on the schedule for regatta this year.
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Speaker 13: I don't know. I haven't seen it on the schedule.
51:26
Speaker 2: But not saying it's not.
51:28
Speaker 13: I'm not saying it's not.
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Speaker 7: I don't.
51:30
Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like I know about every single one.
51:33
Speaker 5: But we might be doing it at our Family Fund zone.
51:36
Speaker 5: I know we are doing some different things in the
51:38
Speaker 5: Family Fund Zone during Regatta, but I don't know about
51:42
Speaker 5: an ice cream social. But that sounds as a person
51:44
Speaker 5: who hasn't had breakfast yet.
51:46
Speaker 2: It all sounds good.
51:48
Speaker 13: It sounds fantastic.
51:49
Speaker 2: Well, I know the countdown is on for regatta, as
51:52
Speaker 2: you mentioned that the biking event as well.
51:55
Speaker 5: We'll be having Michael Ford, Bobby Brown, montel Let's Ethridge,
52:00
Speaker 5: my own and Judge. I mean, we're just it's going
52:02
Speaker 5: to be an All Star just it's it's the best.
52:06
Speaker 5: It is the best, So kudos to our team from
52:07
Speaker 5: pulling it all together.
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Speaker 13: Amazing.
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Speaker 2: I hope Brian Hughes can do as good a job
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Speaker 2: on the weather.
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Speaker 11: As I'm on.
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Speaker 13: Gracious all together, Brian, all right.
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Speaker 2: I will be back later today with Metro News, Midday
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