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09/02/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dr. Barb Brady, Travis Willard, Matt Sutton · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 6: zero eight. I do want to tell you about an
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Speaker 6: event that's going to be happening later in the month.
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Speaker 6: It's Thursday, September the eighteenth at Mount West Community and
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Speaker 6: Technical College, which is located in Huntington. It's called Together
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Speaker 6: We Thrive Drug Prevention and Family engagement being hosted by
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Speaker 6: the Inspiring Dreams network here to talk about it is
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Speaker 6: doctor Barbara Brady. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
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Speaker 6: Did I get everything right? All the all the particulars
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Speaker 6: right there?
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Speaker 8: You did?
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Speaker 6: All right?
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 6: Well I can go home then, right because everything's done absolutely,
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Speaker 6: because everybody thinks it's you know, I said, I mean,
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Speaker 6: is it gonna have?
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Speaker 9: At what point today are we going.
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Speaker 6: To stop saying it's Monday? You know, two three o'clock
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Speaker 6: in the afternoon. Time to go home.
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Speaker 7: Probably it's a good thing. I remember, today's too.
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Speaker 6: Better you than me. First of all, I want to
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Speaker 6: talk about the Inspiring Dreams Network. What kind of work
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Speaker 6: do you do? What's a mission statement behind? Just talk
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Speaker 6: about the Inspiring Dreams Network.
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Speaker 10: Well, Inspiring Dreams Network trains and supports adults who work
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Speaker 10: with youth across the state. Our mission is to foster,
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Speaker 10: equip and empower stronger resilient community network that inspire, prepare,
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Speaker 10: and support youth to thrive. And our vision is we
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Speaker 10: envision a future where every community is equipped and empowered
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Speaker 10: to nurture the dreams, resilience and successive youth. So basically,
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Speaker 10: we support adults across the state. We're really trying to
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Speaker 10: build strong community networks of adults who are prepared to
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Speaker 10: support at risk youth. As you probably know, West Virginia
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Speaker 10: has the highest opioid death rate in the nation, almost
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Speaker 10: a third higher than the next highest state, which is Conduck, Kentucky.
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Speaker 10: And our opiloid death rate is twice about twice what
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Speaker 10: the national average is, which means we have a lot
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Speaker 10: of kids who are struggling in homes with parents who
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Speaker 10: are dying of drug overdoses, being arrested. You know, a
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Speaker 10: lot of neglect, family dysfunction that impact kids. And so
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Speaker 10: we're working to empower adults to support them so they
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Speaker 10: can overcome and thrive.
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Speaker 6: It's it's it's a great project and great work that
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Speaker 6: you're doing. And you know, we've heard this doctor h
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Speaker 6: for a couple of decades now that West Virginia leads
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Speaker 6: the nation in opioid debts and and all of these
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Speaker 6: all all these bad things. Why do you think that is?
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Speaker 6: That's a million dollar question. But why why does West
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Speaker 6: Virginia struggle with this more than say Arkansas or Vermont
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Speaker 6: or whatever, what what what other state?
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Speaker 7: That's a good question.
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Speaker 10: I think part of it is that we don't focus
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Speaker 10: enough on prevention.
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Speaker 7: You know a lot of poverty, you know a lot of.
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Speaker 10: Just negative national statistics, a lot of adverse childhood experiences,
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Speaker 10: which is neglect, family dysfunction, and abuse.
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Speaker 7: So a lot of adults in West Virginia are.
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Speaker 10: Don't really like to use the word victims, but I'll
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Speaker 10: say victims of adverse childhood experiences.
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Speaker 7: And so.
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Speaker 10: Any individual who is impacted by adverse childhood experiences is
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Speaker 10: more likely to self medicate, if you will use drugs
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Speaker 10: to kill the pain. And so it's just this vicious cycle.
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Speaker 10: It's a multi generational cycle of abuse, neglect, family dysfunction.
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Speaker 10: Another interesting piece of data about West Virginia is what
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Speaker 10: we know is adverse childhood experiences impacts not only mental health,
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Speaker 10: and impacts physical health and impacts You're more likely to
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Speaker 10: have cancer, diabetes, overweight, and if not treated, if there's
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Speaker 10: not some mitigation, it leads to early death. And West
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Speaker 10: Virginia has the lowest life expectancy in the nation. So
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Speaker 10: it's just a multi generational issue that Inspiring Dreams Network
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Speaker 10: is working to be part of the solution. Teaching coping,
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Speaker 10: helping adults teach themselves and kids coping skills, positive youth development,
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Speaker 10: and those kinds of things. So this event that's coming
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Speaker 10: up in Huntington is, you know, part of our solution.
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Speaker 10: We have a small grant from the West Virginia Youth
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Speaker 10: Alliance Promise that we're putting on this event. It's called
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Speaker 10: Together We Thrive Drug Prevention and Family Engagement. It's Thursday,
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Speaker 10: September eighteenth, from five to eight pm. We're going to
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Speaker 10: provide free food so parents, really encourage parents, families, community
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Speaker 10: folks to come in. We're going to provide free food
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Speaker 10: so you can come straight from work, have dinner, and
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Speaker 10: then we're going to have several different activities.
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Speaker 6: You know, I'm going to go back to the work
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Speaker 6: that you're doing and then we'll focus on the event.
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Speaker 6: I'm a kid of the nineteen eighties, you know, and
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Speaker 6: we were to just say no generation. And I say
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Speaker 6: this to talk about prevention a little bit. We were
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Speaker 6: the just say no Nancy Reagan on the on TV,
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Speaker 6: you know, just just say here's your brain on drugs,
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Speaker 6: you know, all the public service hencements, and for one
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Speaker 6: reason or another that that didn't stick. Thankfully it did
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Speaker 6: with me, but it didn't stick with a lot of
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Speaker 6: other people. Okay, it probably stuck with me because I
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Speaker 6: had parents who would have who were part of my
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Speaker 6: even though they were here's were divorced, they were still
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Speaker 6: part of my life. So that's probably had a big
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Speaker 6: part to do with it. But then we tried different
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Speaker 6: things over the years in the nineties there, it was
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Speaker 6: a different way in the two thousands. And what's the
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Speaker 6: I mean when it comes to prevention, I mean, have
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Speaker 6: we learned anything from the past in your opinion, doctor
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Speaker 6: that a lot of these things that we tried in
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Speaker 6: the past just didn't work. I mean, you know, science
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Speaker 6: is always about evolving and trying different things. What have
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Speaker 6: we learned from maybe some of the mistakes or some
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Speaker 6: of the missteps out of the past.
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Speaker 10: Well, the reason just say no doesn't work. You're not
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Speaker 10: building skills for individuals to cope with the pain that's
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Speaker 10: caused by adverse childhood experiences. And so there are research
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Speaker 10: based strategies that we know works. So helping kids build resilience,
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Speaker 10: for instance, So we teach organizations how to specific strategies
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Speaker 10: to help kids build resilience and overcome, helping them develop
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Speaker 10: coping skills, calm down strategies, emotional regulation strategies. You don't
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Speaker 10: know what you don't know, and you know, deal with
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Speaker 10: a child who lacks emotional regulation can be very frustrating.
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Speaker 10: You can become frustrated yourself. So we're not only teaching
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Speaker 10: them how to help kids calm down, we're helping them
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Speaker 10: be able to take a step back and not compound
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Speaker 10: the problem or not re traumatize a child.
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Speaker 7: So when we know that certain things can a lot
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Speaker 7: of people don't like the word trigger, but trigger a child.
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Speaker 10: It could be a sound, a smell, a phrase that
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Speaker 10: someone says that makes them want to stay safe, makes
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Speaker 10: them scared, makes them feel like, you know, those emotions
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Speaker 10: of feeling threatened. And so that's where we have to
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Speaker 10: start addressing the child, helping them recognize their emotions, finding
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Speaker 10: out what's triggering them, teaching them emotional regulation skills. And
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Speaker 10: so if we don't build the child, they're going to
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Speaker 10: grow up to be emotionally unregulated adults.
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Speaker 7: And again the cycle is going to the.
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Speaker 6: Cycle continues there. We're getting talking to get to a doctor.
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Speaker 9: Let's go back to this event again.
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Speaker 6: It's September the eighteenth at Mount West Community and Technical College,
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Speaker 6: and I was reading over your flyer, doctor. A lot
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Speaker 6: of folks come together, you know, to make this happen.
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Speaker 6: Some of your partners. If I leave one off, you
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Speaker 6: could tell me the West Virginia Promise Youth Alliance, Marshall University,
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Speaker 6: School of Health, Technical Assistance Centers, and others. Just at
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Speaker 6: a lot of folks working on this project to make
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Speaker 6: it happen.
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Speaker 10: Right, and Mount West is also donating their facility.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: It's a beautiful facility, by the way, if you've never
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Speaker 6: I've been there. Very nice facility it is.
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Speaker 7: And so we really want this to be a family event.
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Speaker 10: Lots of times parents won't go to things because they
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Speaker 10: lack childcare in the evening.
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Speaker 7: So we're going to have children's activities. In fact, we're
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Speaker 7: going to be.
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Speaker 10: Help letting them practice some calm down strategies, some coping strategies,
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Speaker 10: some stay safe get strategies, and having fun.
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Speaker 7: We're not going to be lecturing them or anything like that.
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Speaker 10: We're going to play games and have fun, and so
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Speaker 10: we're really excited that we're not only engaging the parents
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Speaker 10: and community members but also having some fun activities for kids.
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Speaker 6: And where can people learn more about your work about
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Speaker 6: this event and did they need to register ahead of time?
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Speaker 6: Give us all the details.
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Speaker 7: There is a registration link.
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Speaker 10: We would like for you to register ahead of time,
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Speaker 10: so we'll kind of have an idea of how many
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Speaker 10: people will attend.
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Speaker 7: But you can also just show up.
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Speaker 10: But if you go to the Inspiring Dreams Network website,
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Speaker 10: which is just Inspiring Dreams Network dot org, it's the
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Speaker 10: first thing you'll see on our page, and there's a
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Speaker 10: registration link.
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Speaker 7: There's a schedule.
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Speaker 10: Some of the things that will be going on are
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Speaker 10: We will have a presenter from the Community Prevention Liaison,
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Speaker 10: Josh Murphy, who will be talking about hidden in Plain Sight.
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Speaker 10: We know that the earlier an individual gets addicted, the
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Speaker 10: more difficult it is to come out of the addiction,
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Speaker 10: and so we're not doing this to punish kids, but
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Speaker 10: there's a lot of temptation, lots of things and lots
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Speaker 10: of ways, lots of things that you wouldn't even think
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Speaker 10: is a drug, and so I'm excited about that. He's
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Speaker 10: going to talk about hidden in plain sight maybe how
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Speaker 10: to catch it early before kids really get addicted. We're
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Speaker 10: also going to have a Narcan training demonstration and people
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Speaker 10: will receive free Narcan and talk to parents and family
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Speaker 10: members and community members about an evidence based program from SAMSA.
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Speaker 7: It's called Talk.
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Speaker 10: They hear you and really communicating with your children in
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Speaker 10: a positive way is one of the best ways to
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Speaker 10: have a healthy relationship.
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Speaker 6: So it sounds like you got a whole lot going
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Speaker 6: on there. And again, give us that website again.
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Speaker 7: It is www.
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Speaker 10: Inspiring Dreams Network dot org.
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Speaker 7: So just like it's spelled okay arian.
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Speaker 6: That's another I think I think we got to we
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Speaker 6: wish you the best of luck with your events. Is
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Speaker 6: like you're doing a lot of great work and it's
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Speaker 6: going to be September the eighteenth a Mountain West Community
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Speaker 6: of Technical College, which is located in Huntington. Doctor, I
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Speaker 6: appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 7: Thanks thank you, Dave, thank you for having all right.
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Speaker 6: It may be an off year for elections in West Virginia,
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Speaker 6: next year's election. One of those people's Travis Willard, a
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Speaker 6: this morning at the Jeric Construction Studios. Good morning, sir,
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Speaker 6: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 4: Good morning Dave, Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for being the first of all give us
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Speaker 6: a bio. Travis wild Who is Travis Wilder.
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Speaker 15: So, I'm a West Virginia boy, born and raised. I've
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Speaker 15: spent my entire life between Mason and Putnam Counties. When
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Speaker 15: I was born. My parents lived in Buffalo and then
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Speaker 15: they moved to Point Pleasant, So I grew up there,
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Speaker 15: went through all my school there. My son of Marshall
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Speaker 15: son of University of Charleston as well, So spent my
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Speaker 15: entire life here.
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Speaker 6: So this is your first foray into politics?
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Speaker 9: Is that right?
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Speaker 10: It is? It is so?
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Speaker 6: So what made you decide to want to run?
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Speaker 4: You know, Dave?
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Speaker 15: I spent twenty four years in the army, and thank
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Speaker 15: you for your service by day. You know, it really
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Speaker 15: was an honor and a privilege. I joined on a
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Speaker 15: whim when I was seventeen and then honestly fell in
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Speaker 15: love with it. Nine to eleven happened, and it really
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Speaker 15: inspired that sense of service. And throughout my tenure in
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Speaker 15: the military, I had some great leaders, some great mentors,
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Speaker 15: and they really inspired me that sense of selfless service.
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Speaker 15: So for me, this foray into politics is a continuation
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Speaker 15: of that selfless service. I really believe that's what leadership
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Speaker 15: should be about. It shouldn't be about egos or titles.
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Speaker 15: It should be about standing up for those who can't
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Speaker 15: stand up for themselves and ultimately given the citizens of
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Speaker 15: West Virginia the opportunities they need.
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Speaker 4: To succeed in a safe and healthy environment.
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Speaker 6: What do you see Travis as the biggest needs of
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Speaker 6: your district?
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Speaker 15: You know, that is a really big question. We have
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Speaker 15: a lot of opportunity coming to district for for the
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Speaker 15: first time in a long time. We've got the new
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Speaker 15: core plant opening up. There's some other facilities in the
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Speaker 15: northern end of Mason County are that are scheduled to progress,
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Speaker 15: and we hope that they do. With that being said,
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Speaker 15: we have major, major infrastructure issues. Our roads are in
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Speaker 15: a lot of areas falling apart. We still have folks
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Speaker 15: in Mason and Putnam County that still don't have running
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Speaker 15: water and it's twenty twenty five. That's a problem. On
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Speaker 15: top of that, we have, you know, our I don't
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Speaker 15: feel like our school systems are ready. I don't think
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Speaker 15: they're ready to support the influx of people moving in
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Speaker 15: the area. I mean, we're talking thousands and thousands of jobs.
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Speaker 15: And my fear is that those folks are gonna, you know,
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Speaker 15: they're gonna move right across the border in Ohio, you know,
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Speaker 15: and just commute to work. So we're gonna we're gonna
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Speaker 15: lose those those citizens.
20:24
Speaker 6: This district is interesting and again we're talking with Travis Willard,
20:27
Speaker 6: a Republican candidate for state Senate. This district. Travis is
20:31
Speaker 6: interesting because there's not a whole lot of areas in
20:33
Speaker 6: the state, maybe eastern Panhandle, maybe the Morgantown area that
20:36
Speaker 6: can say we're preparing for an influx of people, because
20:39
Speaker 6: usually it's the exact opposite.
20:41
Speaker 9: And let's face it, you know, ten years.
20:44
Speaker 6: Ago we were facing that in this district. But it's different,
20:50
Speaker 6: and the challenges I think can be different. I mean,
20:53
Speaker 6: you know, we're not we're not bleeding population in this
20:57
Speaker 6: district that you want to represent like we are in say,
20:59
Speaker 6: areas of so other in West Virginia or whatever. But
21:02
Speaker 6: there are still challenges that come with that.
21:05
Speaker 9: There are.
21:05
Speaker 15: It is absolutely a great problem to have, and the
21:08
Speaker 15: biggest challenge in my mind is, you know, how do
21:10
Speaker 15: we how do we capitalize on this growth because ultimately
21:13
Speaker 15: we want our kids to be able to stay here,
21:15
Speaker 15: you know, be able to have jobs that they can
21:17
Speaker 15: raise a family on. But how do we capitalize on
21:20
Speaker 15: that growth and not lose the values that make West
21:24
Speaker 15: Virginia what it is. I firmly believe that the people
21:28
Speaker 15: are our greatest natural resource. That's why I've continued to
21:33
Speaker 15: stay here. Right Like a lot of my generation they
21:35
Speaker 15: left the state, I chose to stay because I believe
21:39
Speaker 15: I believe in those values and I believe that's what
21:41
Speaker 15: makes West Virginia great is the people. So it is
21:44
Speaker 15: a great problem to have, but we've got a lot
21:47
Speaker 15: of work to do. We need some vision, we need
21:50
Speaker 15: some folks that are able to look ten, fifteen, twenty
21:55
Speaker 15: years down the road prepare for that growth. And again,
21:58
Speaker 15: I'm very thankful we've got the growth come, but I
22:00
Speaker 15: feel like that we are at a point where it
22:03
Speaker 15: could either be a great thing or or we're going
22:06
Speaker 15: to get left further behind.
22:07
Speaker 6: Explain the district to us. District for so, it is kind.
22:10
Speaker 4: Of an interesting district.
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Speaker 15: So in Putnam County, it's basically everything south of the
22:15
Speaker 15: River in Putnam County, so Tay's Valley, Hurricane, the whole
22:20
Speaker 15: southern end of the county. It bleeds over into Cable
22:23
Speaker 15: County a little bit and encompasses Milton and Keloding, It's
22:27
Speaker 15: all of Mason County, and then it is essentially the
22:31
Speaker 15: western part of Jackson County. So Ripley, Ravenswood evans that
22:35
Speaker 15: area as well.
22:36
Speaker 6: It is interesting because it is such a diverse district
22:42
Speaker 6: and the issues that that Milton has are not going
22:47
Speaker 6: to be the same that Ripley has. And the issues
22:49
Speaker 6: even in Putnam County, where I live and you live
22:52
Speaker 6: in the current senator lives there as well, you know,
22:56
Speaker 6: there is a Putnam County are are very very different.
22:59
Speaker 9: So how do you how do you prepare for that that.
23:01
Speaker 6: You know, I go to a you know, you go
23:02
Speaker 6: to a meet with some constituents in you know, ravens
23:06
Speaker 6: Wood and on a Monday. Then you go to meet
23:08
Speaker 6: with constituents and in Milton on a Tuesday, and their
23:12
Speaker 6: issues are quite a bit different. How do you prepare
23:14
Speaker 6: yourself for that?
23:16
Speaker 15: So, you know, at the end of the day, I
23:19
Speaker 15: think you have to you really just have to listen
23:21
Speaker 15: to the people. They will tell you what they need.
23:24
Speaker 15: They will tell you where the pain points are, and
23:25
Speaker 15: I think oftentimes that gets forgotten, that gets overlooked.
23:30
Speaker 4: You know, you have to listen to the constituents and
23:33
Speaker 4: you have to be able to remain flexible.
23:35
Speaker 15: Right, plans are great until you go to implement them
23:37
Speaker 15: and then they all go out the windows sometimes, so
23:40
Speaker 15: you have to remain flexible. You have to keep an
23:43
Speaker 15: open mind, and you have to be able to explain
23:45
Speaker 15: to people in the district that sometimes there's going to
23:49
Speaker 15: be some compromise. And I think in today's day and age,
23:52
Speaker 15: we often forget that we've lost the ability to communicate
23:55
Speaker 15: and talk with one another. I don't have to agree
23:58
Speaker 15: with you, Dave, on everything, and you don't have to
24:00
Speaker 15: agree with me. Discourse is good, but we have to
24:03
Speaker 15: be able to find some common ground. And I think
24:05
Speaker 15: being able to explain that to the folks in the district,
24:07
Speaker 15: you know, the folks in Ripley, you know, if they're
24:09
Speaker 15: concerned directly conflicts with the folks in Milton or in Hurricane,
24:13
Speaker 15: I think we'll be able being able to articulate that
24:16
Speaker 15: and being able to help them to understand the overall vision,
24:20
Speaker 15: the long term goal. I think West Virginians are you know,
24:24
Speaker 15: they're filled with grit and fire, right They're they're hard workers,
24:28
Speaker 15: They're used to sacrifice. I think they are okay with
24:32
Speaker 15: with giving up some now for the greater good, right right.
24:36
Speaker 15: We are a selfless people. So I think just approaching
24:41
Speaker 15: it honestly, you know, not trying to you know, I'm
24:44
Speaker 15: blunt to a fault. Uh, the army did a pretty
24:47
Speaker 15: good job of beating that out of me over the years.
24:50
Speaker 15: So and you know it's well we received by some,
24:52
Speaker 15: not by others. But you know, at this at this
24:54
Speaker 15: point in my life, I am who I am. You know,
24:56
Speaker 15: I again, I'm doing this out of a sense of service.
25:00
Speaker 15: You know, hopefully it works. Hopefully people can appreciate that.
25:03
Speaker 15: And if they can't, then you know, it's not meant
25:06
Speaker 15: to be.
25:07
Speaker 6: In the legislature. Right now, you're looking at a and
25:11
Speaker 6: I have coined the phrase copyright Dave Allen twenty twenty
25:13
Speaker 6: five all represent super duper majority. Okay, I mean twenty fourteen,
25:20
Speaker 6: the Great Revolution happened, and then by now it is
25:24
Speaker 6: and there's no there's no reason to believe that's going
25:26
Speaker 6: to change anytime soon. But with that sometimes and the
25:31
Speaker 6: Democrats saw this too, you get fracturing within the party.
25:35
Speaker 6: You get those that are far a little farther right,
25:38
Speaker 6: and you get those a little bit more centrist, and
25:40
Speaker 6: you get those that are moderate, and you get those
25:42
Speaker 6: that you know, there's very just like they're were with
25:45
Speaker 6: the Democrats, Travis. You get different types. If you had
25:49
Speaker 6: to describe what type of Republican you are what would
25:53
Speaker 6: you what would you say?
25:55
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a really tough question. You know, there are.
26:04
Speaker 15: I think from an economic perspective, I tend to be
26:06
Speaker 15: more on the conservative side. With social issues, I tend
26:09
Speaker 15: to be more of the middle ground. At the end
26:13
Speaker 15: of the day, I think the commonality with all of
26:16
Speaker 15: those folks, right, and I've had the pleasure of speaking
26:19
Speaker 15: with a lot of them, is all of their hearts
26:22
Speaker 15: are in the right place, right they I mean, they
26:24
Speaker 15: genuinely want to do good things for their people, for
26:27
Speaker 15: their constituents, but they have to be able to get
26:30
Speaker 15: on the same page, you know, we have to to
26:33
Speaker 15: bring that together, right because at the end of the day,
26:36
Speaker 15: from my perspective, it's more about people. It should be
26:39
Speaker 15: more about people than politics. So it's again, whatever's good
26:45
Speaker 15: for the majority of my folks is where I'm gonna
26:46
Speaker 15: is where I'm going to fall.
26:49
Speaker 6: Why State Senate, because I mean that's normally and you
26:52
Speaker 6: mentioned this your first full rant of politics, and I
26:54
Speaker 6: always apout anybody that wants to wants to get involved.
26:56
Speaker 6: But usually people will start out a little a little smaller,
26:59
Speaker 6: maybe an executive committee or something, or maybe as you know,
27:02
Speaker 6: even a city council or something like that and then
27:05
Speaker 6: kind of work their way up in certainly the house
27:08
Speaker 6: and that usually people go to the house. And why
27:10
Speaker 6: did you choose If you don't mind my asking, why
27:13
Speaker 6: why did you choose State Center?
27:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, not at all.
27:16
Speaker 15: So you know, you know me personally, Dave, I'm a
27:18
Speaker 15: I'm a pretty busy guy, right to run a successful business.
27:21
Speaker 15: I've got a family. You know, this is not something
27:24
Speaker 15: that I necessarily need in my life. But if I
27:27
Speaker 15: am going to do it, I'm going to do it
27:28
Speaker 15: and make as big of a dent as I can.
27:31
Speaker 15: And I really feel like that, you know, at this level,
27:34
Speaker 15: I think that there's again there's a lot of great
27:36
Speaker 15: folks in the legislature at this point that are trying
27:39
Speaker 15: to do the right things. And I think in order
27:42
Speaker 15: to really move the needle, I think this is the
27:44
Speaker 15: place I need to be. You know, I've got I
27:47
Speaker 15: think I've got a unique skill set that I bring
27:49
Speaker 15: to the table, coming from a finance background professionally, you know,
27:53
Speaker 15: my military background, from an operational and a planning perspective,
27:57
Speaker 15: uh and really just a leadership perspective. You know, I
28:00
Speaker 15: really think that I'm being called in this direction.
28:04
Speaker 6: Talk about your campaign strategy. I mean, I know we're
28:07
Speaker 6: we're ways away. I think, well, I actually I think
28:10
Speaker 6: the first part of the question, why are you choosing
28:12
Speaker 6: to announce now? Most people don't. I mean you announced,
28:14
Speaker 6: I guess on social media or whatever a month or
28:16
Speaker 6: so ago. But I mean most people don't do it
28:19
Speaker 6: this far out. I mean we're just in September. Why
28:22
Speaker 6: why now? And what does your campaign strategy look like?
28:26
Speaker 15: So I really feel like I've got I've got an
28:28
Speaker 15: uphill battle, right, I've got an uphill climb. I know
28:31
Speaker 15: a lot of folks in Mason County and Putnam County,
28:34
Speaker 15: but I really feel like that, you know, there's no
28:37
Speaker 15: time like the present, right. I really don't want to
28:40
Speaker 15: be that guy that starts, you know, shoving political stuff
28:42
Speaker 15: or shoving campaign stuff down people's throats too early. But
28:45
Speaker 15: I want to be able to start the dialogue now.
28:48
Speaker 15: I want to be able to start that communication now
28:51
Speaker 15: because at the end of the day, I have to
28:53
Speaker 15: be able to listen to the people. Right, there's one
28:55
Speaker 15: hundred and ten thousand roughly people in the district. That's
28:58
Speaker 15: a lot of ground to cover. So so I'm doing
29:00
Speaker 15: it now, and I'm putting in the work now ahead
29:03
Speaker 15: of time. When it comes to campaign strategy, you know,
29:06
Speaker 15: I've there's been campaign strategies that have reached out and
29:09
Speaker 15: at the end of the day, again I can only
29:11
Speaker 15: be me, and for me, the strategy is really more
29:17
Speaker 15: values based and less policy based. Not that i'm you know,
29:22
Speaker 15: I will by all means address any policy issues that
29:24
Speaker 15: people have in mind. But at the end of the day,
29:26
Speaker 15: I think all that starts with values. Right, times change,
29:29
Speaker 15: the world changes that we live in, but we're rooted
29:32
Speaker 15: in our values, you know, values like selfless service, like
29:36
Speaker 15: accountability and integrity, a sense of duty and honestly personal courage. Right,
29:42
Speaker 15: Like this position or any other political position, in my mind,
29:46
Speaker 15: it is a representation of the people.
29:48
Speaker 10: Right.
29:49
Speaker 15: I don't care how good I am at being a senator.
29:53
Speaker 15: I can't do it for you.
29:54
Speaker 4: Right.
29:54
Speaker 15: I can give you the opportunity, I can give you
29:56
Speaker 15: the tools, but it's up to the people to be
29:58
Speaker 15: able to put those tools to work. And I think
30:00
Speaker 15: it's time that the silent majority stands up and bands together. Right,
30:05
Speaker 15: And that's really not asking people to do. I will
30:07
Speaker 15: stand out in front, I will take the hits, I
30:09
Speaker 15: will expose myself right to everything that's thrown at me.
30:14
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I'm doing it
30:15
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30:38
Speaker 6: Travis Wilard for State Senate Republican District for.
30:42
Speaker 4: So the end of the day, again, I'm a hometown boy.
30:46
Speaker 4: I grew up here.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 15: The people, like I said, is its most natural resource
30:54
Speaker 15: or its most valuable resource. And at the end of
30:56
Speaker 15: the day, this is about self of service to me,
31:00
Speaker 15: It's about integrity. It's about holding folks accountabile, accountable at
31:03
Speaker 15: all levels, even myself holding myself personally accountable. I'm you know,
31:09
Speaker 15: I'm not perfect, but I'm the guy that's going to
31:13
Speaker 15: give one hundred and ten percent every step of the way.
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Speaker 4: It's not always going to be pretty.
31:17
Speaker 15: But if you want somebody that's going to shoot you
31:19
Speaker 15: straight and work their tail off for you, then I'm
31:22
Speaker 15: your guy.
31:24
Speaker 6: Do you have a social media website anything?
31:26
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so you can find me on Facebook.
31:29
Speaker 15: It's Willard for WV or the website is Willard for
31:34
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Speaker 6: All right, we'll talk again soon. Wishing the best of luck.
31:37
Speaker 4: Thanks, Dave, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 9: I am doing fine.
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Speaker 4: How are you? Long time? No see?
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Speaker 14: Yeah?
35:30
Speaker 4: And I'll let you and I get together too often. Yeah,
35:32
Speaker 4: I guess that's smart.
35:33
Speaker 9: It's probably good.
35:33
Speaker 6: It's probably good, you know, better for the community that
35:37
Speaker 6: you and I don't hang out together. It's probably You're
35:39
Speaker 6: probably right about that.
35:40
Speaker 9: Uh, I guess.
35:41
Speaker 8: You know.
35:41
Speaker 6: Technically summer doesn't end until later this month, but most
35:46
Speaker 6: people think of Labor Day as being the end of summer.
35:48
Speaker 6: Talk about the spring and summer that was and Charleston,
35:50
Speaker 6: from the bike races to regattas, so on and so forth.
35:54
Speaker 13: You know, I think over the last three years, the
35:56
Speaker 13: spring and summer and Charleston has been just absolutely crazy
36:00
Speaker 13: in both a logistical way and in terms of folks
36:04
Speaker 13: having stuff to do. I mean, you know, kicking off
36:06
Speaker 13: with the bike races having their got up. But I
36:08
Speaker 13: think also it's some of the stuff that maybe not
36:10
Speaker 13: see Like last night or Sunday night, I went out
36:13
Speaker 13: to get some food downtown from my wife and I
36:15
Speaker 13: and they had the City Center Alive had a nice
36:17
Speaker 13: little Jimmy Buffett tribute concert or something going on in
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Speaker 13: the park, and there were had to be a couple
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Speaker 13: hundred people sitting down there just having a good time
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Speaker 13: enjoying it. City Center and Live has been great, they've
36:25
Speaker 13: taken a break, they're getting ready.
36:26
Speaker 4: To come back. Summer doesn't really events don't really end
36:30
Speaker 4: in Charleston.
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Speaker 13: I mean, we've got the Spartan Race, which is happening
36:34
Speaker 13: down in Faye County is but the kickoff is this
36:36
Speaker 13: Thursday here in Charleston.
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Speaker 9: And that's going to be a huge bottle.
36:39
Speaker 6: I had DJ EJ on the show with Jim Strawn
36:42
Speaker 6: on Friday, I think it was, and that is going
36:45
Speaker 6: to be a huge event for West Virginia.
36:47
Speaker 9: But also for Charleston.
36:48
Speaker 13: Oh, its huge for Charleston. I mean, we're getting the
36:50
Speaker 13: opening ceremonies here and a lot of folks staying. But really,
36:53
Speaker 13: I mean, this is one of those ones where, you know,
36:55
Speaker 13: all credit to Secretary Ruby and her her staff and
36:58
Speaker 13: the Tourism Department.
36:59
Speaker 4: They really put this together.
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Speaker 13: They started working with Tim Brady and the mayor to
37:03
Speaker 13: get Charleston involved and it's it is really big for
37:06
Speaker 13: the entire state. And it's one of those things where
37:08
Speaker 13: we always have said, you know, all along, and I
37:10
Speaker 13: was listening to your you know, your guest on before
37:12
Speaker 13: this of talking about you know, the differences differences in
37:15
Speaker 13: communities and things like that. But the biggest thing that
37:17
Speaker 13: West Virginia has to realize is that what's good for
37:20
Speaker 13: one of us is good for all of us.
37:21
Speaker 4: And that's the biggest thing.
37:22
Speaker 13: So when something big happens in Fayetteville, you know, remember
37:24
Speaker 13: somebody comes, well why not, how come it's not happened
37:26
Speaker 13: in Charleston. Well, it doesn't have to happen in Charleston
37:28
Speaker 13: in order for it to benefit Charleston doesn't have to happen,
37:31
Speaker 13: you know.
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Speaker 10: Uh.
37:31
Speaker 13: South Charleston having their summer fest a couple of weeks
37:34
Speaker 13: ago was a blast.
37:35
Speaker 4: I went down there, had a great time.
37:36
Speaker 13: It's just across the thing and people were downtown Charleston
37:38
Speaker 13: eating dinner as well, and the same thing is true
37:40
Speaker 13: when they were God, it happens in Charleston, people go
37:42
Speaker 13: over to South Charleston. So it is a benefit to everybody.
37:45
Speaker 13: But it has been a really fun summer. We had
37:47
Speaker 13: to duck some some crazy weather early.
37:49
Speaker 6: On, but then it hasn't rained, has it rased since
37:53
Speaker 6: I guess it's going to rain sometime this week.
37:54
Speaker 13: I think during Spartan hopeus everybody this is what it's
37:56
Speaker 13: going to raid. But it has been really it has
37:58
Speaker 13: been really fun. And then heading into the fall is
38:00
Speaker 13: going to be great. City Center Live continues. We've got
38:03
Speaker 13: another wrestling event in the park in a couple of weeks.
38:06
Speaker 13: They've got a couple more concerts going on. We've got
38:10
Speaker 13: that's the fall come in up. So we just continue
38:12
Speaker 13: right on and change and change direction, playing maybe a
38:15
Speaker 13: cool down a little bit. But it's been really exciting,
38:18
Speaker 13: and I think that what we have shown in Charleston.
38:22
Speaker 13: I think if ten years ago, if the ten year
38:23
Speaker 13: ago me would have said anything, it would be the
38:25
Speaker 13: Charleston a summertime is the time people leave Charleston, And
38:27
Speaker 13: now I think it's actually the opposite. I think it's
38:29
Speaker 13: the time people come to Charleston and hang out, come
38:32
Speaker 13: back and visit. And we're seeing that in the results
38:34
Speaker 13: and that I know Tim could talk about a whole
38:36
Speaker 13: lot more, but we're seeing the results of our hotels
38:38
Speaker 13: and our restaurants businesses and everything.
38:40
Speaker 4: It's just it's been a great summer.
38:41
Speaker 6: You were talking about fest of all. Do you want
38:43
Speaker 6: to note that there's going to be a press conference
38:45
Speaker 6: I think held this morning. I think over at five Street.
38:49
Speaker 6: We'll be covering that. We'll have it on the air
38:50
Speaker 6: and on the news and whatever, And then tomorrow Zach Harrold,
38:53
Speaker 6: who's a new executive director of Festival, is going to
38:55
Speaker 6: be on the show with talk about Yeah, that press
38:57
Speaker 6: eventcept for ten o'clock this morning.
38:59
Speaker 9: Zach Carrold will be on the show with it to
39:00
Speaker 9: talk about it tomorrow.
39:02
Speaker 6: And this thing on with the Spartan Races again, even
39:05
Speaker 6: though it's happened in Fayetteville. You get the kickoff on
39:09
Speaker 6: Thursday this week and it's going to be just another
39:12
Speaker 6: even with what's predicted to be ranked either with that
39:15
Speaker 6: could be an exciting time downtown.
39:17
Speaker 4: I feel like with that kind of race, they probably
39:19
Speaker 4: like the rain.
39:20
Speaker 6: Oh right, yeah, snow locusts, they don't care.
39:25
Speaker 4: I assume you're not running. I assume no.
39:28
Speaker 6: No, I was going to, but I got that thing
39:29
Speaker 6: I gotta do. Uh So I want to talk about
39:32
Speaker 6: the construction projects downtown. And you know, I get off
39:34
Speaker 6: on Virginia Street every morning. A couple of the studios here,
39:37
Speaker 6: and it seems like those buildings downtown, uh two projects
39:40
Speaker 6: going off at the same time. There's always people out
39:42
Speaker 6: there working when I hit town about seven o'clock, and
39:44
Speaker 6: they work even on weekends. And those are we've got
39:47
Speaker 6: some pretty big buildings coming to downtown Charleston.
39:50
Speaker 13: Just with those two, yeah, I feel like you almost
39:52
Speaker 13: get sort of welcome to Charleston by cranes each morning,
39:55
Speaker 13: and I think that's exciting. I mean, I know that
39:56
Speaker 13: every now and then there's some traffic and you know,
39:58
Speaker 13: those type of things, but seeing cranes in our town
40:00
Speaker 13: is tremendous. I mean, the work that Remison Corporate's doing
40:04
Speaker 13: on the TC Energy building, they're just I mean, they're
40:06
Speaker 13: putting that thing together super quick. And then a couple
40:09
Speaker 13: of weeks ago, the mayor met with the executives at
40:12
Speaker 13: Poka Valley about their new headquarters.
40:14
Speaker 4: And I got to go over. I'll tell you what,
40:16
Speaker 4: that is a state.
40:17
Speaker 13: Of the art, beautiful building that they're putting together as
40:20
Speaker 13: there as their headquarter right in the entrance to Charleston.
40:23
Speaker 4: It's very exciting. I mean, it's a fun time.
40:25
Speaker 13: I think between those two projects, you're probably looking close
40:27
Speaker 13: to eighty five ninety million dollars worth of investment into
40:30
Speaker 13: the city. But then you also see some other you
40:33
Speaker 13: see other cranes around. Right, I'd sell probably four or
40:35
Speaker 13: five street closures we've had to do because of HVAC
40:37
Speaker 13: units or work or upgrades to buildings they're currently going on.
40:40
Speaker 13: So there's a lot going on in the city. You know,
40:43
Speaker 13: give us a minute if there's a closed lane or something.
40:45
Speaker 13: But there's a lot going on in a lot of excitement,
40:48
Speaker 13: both inside or both outside and inside, especially when we
40:51
Speaker 13: think about the five million dollar investment going on to
40:53
Speaker 13: Coliseum Convention Center right now, which.
40:54
Speaker 9: Is what I want to get to.
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41:12
Speaker 6: with the Colosseumic Convention Center.
41:13
Speaker 13: Yeah, so right now they're in the process and they're
41:15
Speaker 13: moving awful quick. They've taken out all the old seats
41:17
Speaker 13: and they're in the process. It's about a five million
41:19
Speaker 13: dollar investment of redoing the seats. You know, when they
41:22
Speaker 13: when they when Mary Jones and the city council back,
41:25
Speaker 13: I guess it was what's seventeen twenty sixteen twenty seventeen
41:29
Speaker 13: invested one hundred million dollars in the Colisseumic Convention Center.
41:32
Speaker 13: At the time that they built the they essentially built
41:34
Speaker 13: the convention center, and that was the thing to do.
41:36
Speaker 13: Nobody could have seen COVID come in and hurt the
41:39
Speaker 13: convention industry the way it did, so that is coming
41:41
Speaker 13: back now as well. But one of the things that
41:43
Speaker 13: was kind of not done in that was the Colosseum
41:45
Speaker 13: side of things. So we end up hiring OVG and
41:48
Speaker 13: the Colisseum, the concerts, the family events, everything just blows
41:52
Speaker 13: up and the next thing you know, they're coming to
41:53
Speaker 13: us and saying, hey, we've really got to replace these seats,
41:56
Speaker 13: and we needed to and they needed to needed an
41:59
Speaker 13: upgrade for a long time. Mostly, I think the folks
42:02
Speaker 13: that we heard from the most folks with the state
42:03
Speaker 13: high school basketball tournament to the state high school volleyball
42:05
Speaker 13: tournament who've been sitting in those seats for years and
42:07
Speaker 13: saying it's time to redo them.
42:09
Speaker 4: So blocked about a.
42:10
Speaker 13: Year and a half ago, blocked off about a twelve
42:13
Speaker 13: week period to be able to redo all the seats,
42:15
Speaker 13: and they're flying through it. So hopefully they'll be done
42:17
Speaker 13: here soon, and well, I know they'll be done in
42:20
Speaker 13: November because they've got concerts and events that are coming up.
42:23
Speaker 13: I think warren Zeiders might be the first in early
42:26
Speaker 13: November or somewhere in there.
42:27
Speaker 4: But it's exciting to get those new seats.
42:29
Speaker 13: It's going to be very beneficial to us, and I
42:32
Speaker 13: think I only continue to allow OVG and everybody at
42:35
Speaker 13: the Colisseum Convention Center to continue to sell that building
42:38
Speaker 13: as they are the biggest economic driver in our city.
42:40
Speaker 6: Right now, we're talking again with Matt Suton, the chief
42:42
Speaker 6: of Stafford Mayor, a good one. We did have a
42:44
Speaker 6: question here about crowd barrier system. Actually the news department
42:48
Speaker 6: asked me to ask about this. There's a resolution I
42:51
Speaker 6: guess this council.
42:52
Speaker 4: Meet tonight tonight.
42:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a resolution that's on the agenda tonight allowing
42:56
Speaker 6: authorizing the city to purchase a crowd barrier system or
43:00
Speaker 6: Mountain productions for the Connoseum Convention Center.
43:02
Speaker 4: Tip.
43:03
Speaker 6: What's it all about?
43:04
Speaker 13: So it's really the sort of I guess the area
43:07
Speaker 13: that goes around the stage and blocks off where the
43:09
Speaker 13: seats are right now, they're just old bike racks. So
43:12
Speaker 13: it's really just kind of the barrier that is more comfortable,
43:16
Speaker 13: easy to use, and will be more durable than the
43:19
Speaker 13: old bike racking system that we current that we currently
43:22
Speaker 13: have in there. So when you think about like kind
43:24
Speaker 13: of in front of the stage and around the areas
43:26
Speaker 13: in which you need people to not be around, that's
43:29
Speaker 13: where they'll be able to use this barrier. So it's
43:31
Speaker 13: really about just keeping and now we have a lot
43:32
Speaker 13: of those, especially when we have sort of the heavy
43:35
Speaker 13: metal concerts, you know, you'll need some barriers around the
43:38
Speaker 13: pit area and that's what that is. So it's just
43:40
Speaker 13: sort of upgrading that the existing what i'll call bike
43:44
Speaker 13: rack that we currently use in something much more modern
43:46
Speaker 13: and much more durable that we won't have to we
43:48
Speaker 13: won't have to change out very often.
43:49
Speaker 6: Also, there's a resolution we'll do this and we'll go
43:51
Speaker 6: to break. There's a resolution looking at tonight's agenda authorizing
43:55
Speaker 6: the city to enter to a contract for the purchase
43:57
Speaker 6: and installation of security cameras own city owned park.
44:01
Speaker 13: Yeah, so we've been working on this with our head
44:04
Speaker 13: of Emergency Services, Chad Jones, and Mayor has been working
44:06
Speaker 13: with him for probably the last nine months to a year.
44:08
Speaker 13: You know, we've invested, including the turf, over twenty million
44:11
Speaker 13: dollars in our park facilities over the last six years.
44:14
Speaker 13: And one of the things we haven't put in is
44:15
Speaker 13: any cameras that it just allowed for to be able
44:18
Speaker 13: to see what's going on, to be able to see
44:20
Speaker 13: if there are any issues going on. Every now and
44:21
Speaker 13: then we'll have a problem and you'll be like, well,
44:23
Speaker 13: you know, let's check the cameras that are not there. So,
44:26
Speaker 13: just to modernize our parks and to protect the investment
44:28
Speaker 13: that we've had, we decided to do this. It's about
44:31
Speaker 13: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of cameras that
44:33
Speaker 13: are going I believe in nine parks throughout the city
44:35
Speaker 13: that don't already have cameras. And it's just another way
44:37
Speaker 13: in which we can make sure that people can enjoy
44:39
Speaker 13: our parks in a safe manner and that if something
44:42
Speaker 13: were to happen, then we have some accountability that we
44:44
Speaker 13: can utilize our.
44:46
Speaker 4: Camera system for.
44:47
Speaker 13: So we started looking all across the country and people were,
44:50
Speaker 13: you know, kind of like your homes where folks will say, well,
44:52
Speaker 13: you mean you don't have a doorbell camera, they were
44:53
Speaker 13: saying the same thing. To have got to have some
44:55
Speaker 13: level of security in our parks to protect our investment,
44:58
Speaker 13: and that's what we'll do tonight, he said.
45:00
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45:02
Speaker 13: We have had heavy metal shows, yes, right, I mean
45:04
Speaker 13: we've had quite a few in the Colosseum. I know
45:06
Speaker 13: they've booked not my general genre of music, but I
45:08
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45:11
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45:11
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Speaker 6: Play our obligatory text, and I appreciate the text about
48:34
Speaker 6: the town Center. Anything new to report with the town Center?
48:36
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I think that you know, I know
48:39
Speaker 13: that there are some stores closed in and I know
48:41
Speaker 13: that it's not heading you know, publicly heading inter right direction.
48:44
Speaker 13: But I do feel like we have some positive momentum
48:45
Speaker 13: with the owners of the building in terms of what
48:48
Speaker 13: the future of the property looks like. Do I think
48:49
Speaker 13: it's going to be tomorrow or the next day, No,
48:52
Speaker 13: But I do think that we do have some conversations
48:55
Speaker 13: in some positive momentum going as it relates to the
48:57
Speaker 13: future of that property.
48:58
Speaker 6: Are you at liberty to say what happens in those
49:01
Speaker 6: conversations about the future of the property and what's going
49:04
Speaker 6: to happen and what it what it needs to be.
49:06
Speaker 13: You know, when the when the mall was put in
49:10
Speaker 13: right before I was born, I guess what the late
49:12
Speaker 13: late seventies, eighties, eight eighty three. Yes, so you know
49:15
Speaker 13: that that time frame, that was what was necessary to
49:18
Speaker 13: help spur the economic growth of the of the city
49:20
Speaker 13: of Charleston. And obviously there was some issues that came
49:22
Speaker 13: along with that, but I feel like that that was
49:24
Speaker 13: what was needed at that time. And now we have
49:26
Speaker 13: to not only the city itself, but also the people
49:29
Speaker 13: who own the property have to reimagine what's useful and
49:32
Speaker 13: what can be the next economic growth and the economic
49:34
Speaker 13: driver for the city of Charleston, and what that property
49:36
Speaker 13: can be used for. You know, do I ever see
49:38
Speaker 13: it being a fully packed retail center.
49:41
Speaker 20: No.
49:41
Speaker 13: I think that there are things that can occur in
49:44
Speaker 13: that property and around it that can help spur the
49:47
Speaker 13: next forty years of development in Charleston. It's just about
49:50
Speaker 13: getting there and getting everybody on the same page and
49:51
Speaker 13: getting the agreement in place. But we're in a better
49:54
Speaker 13: place with those conversations than we were a year ago.
49:56
Speaker 13: So I feel like that when you say.
49:57
Speaker 6: Matt, when you say that you don't ever for see
50:00
Speaker 6: it being the retail center that it was, is it
50:03
Speaker 6: is that because of where it's located, because of the downtown,
50:06
Speaker 6: because you go to the Huntington mall and it is
50:08
Speaker 6: booming out. My wife and I were in Columbus and
50:10
Speaker 6: mothers so ago I said to on anybody that says
50:12
Speaker 6: shopping malls or dead, have it been to east and lately?
50:14
Speaker 6: Now that granted that may not that's a million, and
50:16
Speaker 6: it's also a million like a million square feet. It
50:19
Speaker 6: may not be necessarily a good comparison.
50:23
Speaker 9: Uh and uh, but I mean it's.
50:26
Speaker 4: A different model.
50:27
Speaker 9: It's a different model. It's different mob.
50:28
Speaker 13: That's when Barbersville and the and the stuff they've done
50:31
Speaker 13: down there. And I know that the mayor was with
50:33
Speaker 13: may Tatum over the last couple of weeks at the
50:35
Speaker 13: Municipal League where there was a lot of great conversation
50:37
Speaker 13: about everything going on in the cities. Uh and and
50:40
Speaker 13: at the Business Summer last week mostly focused around job
50:42
Speaker 13: retention and job growth in economic development, and that's what
50:45
Speaker 13: we're talking about, you know. But what they've done in
50:47
Speaker 13: Barbersville out there was you could see everything's in one spot, right,
50:50
Speaker 13: The mall's there, the Walmart's there, the Dicks, all the outsdoors.
50:53
Speaker 13: We're a little bit spread out in truston right. So
50:54
Speaker 13: we've got the south Rough Jerry in the mall. It
50:56
Speaker 13: is its location, it is its indoor sort of model
51:02
Speaker 13: that really you don't see in downtowns anymore. People look
51:05
Speaker 13: for downtowns to be much more local. They look for
51:07
Speaker 13: the local shops, They look for the you know, the
51:09
Speaker 13: coffee places, the restaurants, the local shops. They don't necessarily
51:12
Speaker 13: look for the big chains in a downtown. I don't
51:14
Speaker 13: necessarily think that's what we want. We've got the big change.
51:16
Speaker 13: There are just a couple of minutes outside of town
51:19
Speaker 13: in South Ridge, and it works out very well for everybody.
51:21
Speaker 13: And not everything has to be in one place. So
51:24
Speaker 13: I think that the retail model is going to be
51:26
Speaker 13: what the demand is for the retail and most of
51:28
Speaker 13: that are these big, big stores, chain stores that already
51:31
Speaker 13: exist out in South Ridge, and we have room to
51:33
Speaker 13: grow out there. This can be something else.
51:35
Speaker 6: Any update here. Texter wants to know on the sports
51:37
Speaker 6: complex that happened at the mall.
51:39
Speaker 4: So sports complex is tied directly to what's going on
51:41
Speaker 4: at the mall.
51:42
Speaker 13: So, I mean, I think that we're working through not
51:44
Speaker 13: only some additional funding opportunities that we have, but also
51:47
Speaker 13: what the future of the mall is going to and
51:48
Speaker 13: the property is going to hold. There's really you know,
51:51
Speaker 13: as we started to get closer to the you know,
51:53
Speaker 13: the construction documents being put together, there's really not a
51:57
Speaker 13: whole lot of reason to rush forward with a sports
51:59
Speaker 13: center until we understand what the future of them all
52:01
Speaker 13: property is going to hold. So that's a big part
52:03
Speaker 13: of what's going to happen with the sports center because
52:06
Speaker 13: could there be more property available for the sports center,
52:08
Speaker 13: could there be other things that go around it. All
52:10
Speaker 13: that's got to be considered along with putting together the
52:13
Speaker 13: funding for it. But again, that was a lot of
52:16
Speaker 13: you know, I said with the mayor has been at
52:17
Speaker 13: the Municipal League and the business summit, and it's worked
52:20
Speaker 13: out really well while she's been gone a lot, and
52:23
Speaker 13: that's why I'm here today. It's worked out really well
52:24
Speaker 13: because you get to talk to other mayors and other
52:27
Speaker 13: legislators about economic growth and economic development and what the
52:30
Speaker 13: future holds. We're really excited for this upcoming legislative session
52:32
Speaker 13: and working with our legislators to really talk about the
52:35
Speaker 13: future of West Virginia because I think now we've got
52:37
Speaker 13: people on the same page.
52:38
Speaker 4: We're exciting about that.
52:39
Speaker 6: Matt's always pleasure to have on the show.
52:40
Speaker 9: We got to go. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it, Matt.
52:42
Speaker 4: I appreciate you. Budy all right, we'll be.
52:43
Speaker 9: Back with the show again later.
52:45
Speaker 6: I'll be back with Metro News midday coming up at
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