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02/28/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dr. Casey Sacks, Rich the Realtor, Brendan Quirk · The Dave Allen Show

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Chapmanville. Of course, the big story is the weather this morning. It
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is wicket out there, depending on where you live. We've had tornado watches,
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not warnings, but watches, flood watches, heavy thunderstorms. So I'm
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the government years ago decided to do it. There's nothing we can do about
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it. So you may or may not even be hearing me right now.
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I don't know so, but anyway, this is going to get better as
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we head towards the end of the day. They tell us we'll keep you
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updated on that. On the show today, we got to doctor Casey Sackvillbridge
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Valley to be stopping by momentarily biggest event Charleston has ever hosted, and that's
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not an exaggeration. Imagine if the two state tournaments and maybe a regatta were
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to combine. That's how big this USA Cycling thing is going to be in
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the month of May. And Brendan Quirk is from that organization. He's going
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to join us to talk about that a little bit later on. Plus,
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our good friend, which the realtor client for Meek's realty will be stopping by
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two. Your phone calls and texts are always welcome. Bigley Pickley Wiggley hotline
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three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight in the text line from
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through three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight. Now, before
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we get to doctor Sachs, there is a big story I have to get
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to. Story just broke about an hour and fifteen minutes or so ago.
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From the Charleston Police Department, a second fourteen year old has now been charged
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in the murder of a nineteen year old Dunbar smoke shop worker. Now that
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murder happened on January thirtieth, So now a second fourteen year old has been
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charged in that. But there's more. Both fourteen year olds, according to
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Charleston PD, have now been charged with malicious mooding and a shooting that happened
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earlier in January on Woodward Drive. That victim, a forty four year old
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woman, was walking with her boyfriend when she was shot in the face butt
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Wait, there's more. Both these fourteen year olds have also been charged with
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first degree robbery in an incident that took place in a parking lot on Patrick
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Street now Jeff Jenkins of a new team working on the store. We've got
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it posted wv metronews dot com. More details will come out a little bit
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later on in the day, so we wanted to get you updated on that.
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All right, that haven't been said. Doctor Casey Sachs, Bridge Valleys
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here with us. Good morning. How are you doctor, Hi Dave,
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I'm great. How are you? I am fine? Thank you for being
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here. So how are the things at the Valley or the Bridge or whatever
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the cool kids call them. Yeah, things are great. It's been a
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really wonderful kickoff to the semester. There's a lot going on on campus and
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we're really excited just to have our students around. We talked about it when
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you've been on the show, Doctor Sachs in the past, and that has
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been the nationwide need for drivers with a commercial driver's license or CDLs. It's
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known in the industry. Talk about your CDL programs that you have at Bridge
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Valley. We have a wonderful CDL program at the college. There's all kinds
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of lengths of training. Different companies need people who already have drivers to upskill.
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They might need their hazmat certifications, something like that. You have to
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be eighteen to start. That is one of the questions that we get a
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lot, and you have to have had at least six months of driving.
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So if you're a young person and you're thinking maybe commercial driving could be for
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you, get your drivers permit, start driving now while you while you're young,
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and as soon as you turn eighteen, you can sign up for the
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certifications. And I said last time you were on the show that if you
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are if you are drug free and you've got a CDL, you will not
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have a problem finding a job, not only here in this area, but
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anywhere for that month. That's right there. There's about two million CDL drivers
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in the country, so that's more than there are people in West Virginia,
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and they there's a huge need. And so it's everything from driving buses locally,
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driving any kinds of trucks or equipment locally. Yeah, it's not as
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we talked about last time, doctor, it's not just about you know,
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your eighteen wheeler drivers. There's a whole lot more to it than that.
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But there's that too. So if sure, yeah, travel's good for you,
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that's great, But if you want to be home with your kids at
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night, you want to be home at five o'clock, you can possible,
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you can be You did something out there a couple of days ago I was
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reading about called Meet the Majors Monday. What was that all about? So
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we like to do Meet the Majors, especially in the spring term, to
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help people in the community really get to know what your options are at the
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college. Things like medical lab tech are really great jobs in the community and
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not something that you necessarily know about immediately. If I tell you we have
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nursing, you know what a nurse is. But an MLT is a person
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who looks at sells in the hospital to decide is this COVID or is this
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the flu? And so you need those our hospitals. CAMC will hire every
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single MLT who we make right now. But it's harder to get people into
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those majors because you sort of don't know about those things. So we try
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and do an introduction Meet the Majors for those kinds of program areas. I
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think it's really interesting too, you know, going back thirty some odd years
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when I was in college, you know you're wondering, Okay, what are
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you going to do after you graduate? With these programs that you've got at
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Bridge Valley, you don't have to wonder. The only question is is like,
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where do you want to work? Because you've got these these partnerships with
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so many people you mentioned CAMC and others in various fields. Your job's waiting
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on you. And many times you start your job before you graduate. That's
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true. We try really hard to have our students start their job before they
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graduate, and our majors are very practical, and so I think to that
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point, Dave, you really see students come to school with us because they're
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going to major in something like cardiacconography. It's very clear that you're going to
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go into cardiacsonography if you major in that, where something like history might be
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a little bit more obscure. I get it. It's nine fourteen. We
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out the dirty Birds social media pages. Speaking of Marshall University, I always
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like to have an opportunity to throw in Marshall when I can get an agreement
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of swords. I understand with Marshall talk about that we do. We just
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and articulation agreement so students who go through our business program can seamlessly transfer to
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the Marshall Business Program. We're really excited because we're going to do even field
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trip experiences with our students. That Brad Smith School of Business up at Marshall
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is pretty spectacular, and so we want to make sure that Bridge Valley students
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can seamlessly transfer. And if you do your first two years at Bridge Valley,
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it means you've saved thousands of dollars and you'll still graduate with that Marshall
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bachelor's degree. And it's very very important to do that again. And I
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think hats off to Marshall for being one of those institutions again. I mean,
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it's an institution of higher learn but it's also a business too, and
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that is willing to step up to the plate to help you out with that.
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I mean, I'm just perusing like your social media pages. You got
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it something called a self care fair going on here? What is that all
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about. We try and do lots of things for students to get them to
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think about their own well being. One of the reasons why we see students
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who take a pause from college is often because they have kids, they have
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other jobs, they have lots of stuff going on. And so one of
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the things that we found is the more we can do to help students think
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about how do I take care of myself so I can be a better community
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member and a better family member, the more likely they are to stick with
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their program and actually finish. That's something called Sophomore Saturday. Happen Saturday.
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We do have a lot going on, You're right, Dave, So Sophomore
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Saturday. One of the things that we've seen is that families need a longer
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on ramp to think about what they're going to do for college. And if
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we start talking to students in their junior and senior year, sometimes that's a
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little bit too late to really have parents and grandparents to get to weigh in
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and think what are you going to do? And so we've started a Sophomore
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Saturday where we're inviting families to campus to see campus, to see the program
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areas to really start students earlier thinking about what kinds of things they might want
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to do. Nine seventeen, Doctor Kacie Sachss Here did I read something about
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black Hawk? I wasn't sure. It was that the mining company of the
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helicopter the mining company. All right, what do you got? So we're
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so excited. Black Hawk is starting a black Hawk co op with us and
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the program will give students five thousand dollars up front to go into diesel welding
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or electrical engineering and they get a job with Blackhawk. So they'll work at
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Blackhawk three days a week, come to school with us two days a week,
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and they'll be getting paid because they have a job. And the idea
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is that Blackhawk really wants students out of those three programs, so they're trying
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to find incentive ways to get to recruit them upfront, which is the money
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to pay you to go into that area and to take that job with them,
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so that they'll see more students who graduate and then stay with them.
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I know we've thrown a lot of information, as every time doctor Sacks is
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on the show, we do I thrown a lot of information in your way.
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They do such a great job with their social media. Every thing's available
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on the website. Give us the website Bridge Valley dot edu. Can't beat
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it all, right, Doctor Kase Sachs, I appreciate you being here.
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Good friend Rich the realtor is here. Good morning. I want to go
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to you in the traffic copter. Rich. Yeah, and you drove in
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through You drove in from the tays as we call it, hourly, from
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the wind field, from the wind, from the wind, from from the
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wind field. How are How would you drive in this morning? Body?
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It was pretty rough. There was quite a bit of wind and standing water
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on the roads. And just I advise people to stay away from a little
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bit if you can. I mean, I'm here because I'm dedicated to you
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and real estate. But it's going to get better, as they say a
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little bit later on now. I did, just a couple of months ago
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receive information that the tornado watched very different. Make sure you know the difference
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between the watch and a warning. They're not the same thing. A tornado
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watch means that conditions could be favorable for the development of severe storms, not
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necessarily tornadoes. You see something that's a warning, it's time to go,
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get in a closet or in a bathtub. But we don't have those for
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this area right now. We do have a tornado watch for the area and
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that's been extended I think till around like ten o'clock or so this morning.
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The severe weather is expected to continue after that, but as rich said,
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just be careful and slow down and maybe put off your trip a little bit
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if you can, till maybe later on today. Although one thing about later
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today, it's going to get a whole lot colder, it is, that's
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what I heard. Just see what happened? I mean, you know,
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I know this is not you know, Brian Hughes Weather Show here, but
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did you see that in Chicago yesterday the temperature dropped from eighty six degrees to
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twenty six degrees in a matter of moments. It went from eighty six to
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twenty six coming down from that Canadian weather pattern. I guess. I mean,
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that's that's insane. And I'm not going to get into the discussion about
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climate I'm a believer in climate change. Where I draw the line is is
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how much does man actually have to deal with it? And how is how
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much of it is Mother Nature just saying, well, you know what,
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I'm still in control of this thing, but there's some weird things happening.
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All right. We're not going to talk about the weather anymore. Le'll talk
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about the housing situation in the valley. Richard has it gotten any better since
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the last time you were added. We suddenly have some big developer to come
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in to build like three hundred more homes in the Kanaw Valley because that's what
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we need right now. It is what we need and unfortunately know and it's
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actually the inventory levels are actually slipping a little bit. We're down to about
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where we were at our worst case during the peak of COVID. So,
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I mean we when the raids went up in the fall of twenty one,
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they the listing inventory got up to about five hundred and seventy or five hundred
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and eighty somewhere in that area, and we're down now. I didn't look
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this morning, but it was somewhere between five fifty and five or sorry,
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four fifty and four sixty. You know, they'll get thirty homes listed in
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our Cana Valleyboard or realtors that is encompassing eleven counties. We'll get thirty that
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are listed in a you know, a couple of day period, and forty
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will go pending. So it's just there are so many buyers out there that
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wins up and hits the mark good and it's ready to go. It's yeah,
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it's gonna be uh, you know, it's competitive, and you have
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to bring your best game right up front. I mean, you know,
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it's I was talking to some friends of mine the other day and they were,
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uh talking about they had just paid their house off, and they thought,
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well, it's okay, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be nice to
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be debt free. But then the other one in the couple's married a couple
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of the other one said well, you know what, we could get a
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mint for for this house right now. But then comes the problem rich and
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then where do they go because there's not even we have a shortage of quality
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rentals in the area. Not just homes to buy, we have a shorty
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shortage of quality housing for you know, for townhouses. Plus the influx of
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people that are moving into our area. You know, we just to have
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that they fill the rentals up, and you know, and of course the
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Meeks Realty Group has a property management group on the other side, and they
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are, you know, they're full, they're waiting lists in some certain cases.
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And I just talked to you know, our good friend James just that
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if you had a single family home and you wanted to rent that, it
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would be shocking if it doesn't rent in the first day. I mean,
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it's just because there's so many people out there looking and I don't want you
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to rent. I'd rather sell it. But so you and James are at
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odds with each other a little bit in that regard. But but here's the
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thing about it, Rich is and I want you to kind of clarify this
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is that people to this show all the time, but a lot of times
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it's a politically based talk show. So sometimes we have people that, no
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matter what happens, are not going to give credit whatever you see this every
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day, there are a heck of a lot of people moving into West Virginia,
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would you And that's not a political statement, that is a fact.
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Talk about what you see. There's absolutely people coming and looking for housing and
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looking for homes, and you know, we you know, one of my
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listings is currently under contract with a new core person, so you know,
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have good thoughts and prayers that that will go through. But they are already
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here and they are definitely here coming by the waves. Yeah. Indeed,
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All right, so I have hired Rich the realtor to be my realtor.
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How smart? What do I do to make my home stand out other
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than the fact that the buyer would have the pleasure of knowing that it was
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owned by me and that there's still a bunch of Dallas cowboy stuff, you
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know, probably up in the garage, and I encourage you to get rid
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of all the clutter and the things that are detractors. Send the Steelers fan.
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Yeah. So, but from a seller's perspective, I mean, you
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just have to have this thing pretty tight, and you know, I would
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look at some of the deferred maintenance and if you can tidy up, you
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know, things that you've just been putting off a little bit. Some paint
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would help in fresh carpet cleaning and getting rid of odors. And we always
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tell or you know, recommend to sellers that they declutter really as much as
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they can remove pieces of furniture to make the spaces look bigger, make sure
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all the lights are on and all that kind of stuff, just to make
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it look like it's you know, ready to go. And curb appeals,
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particularly here in the spring, will be important that you want to get out
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there in your yard and clean up all of the you know, the debris
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that builds itself up over winter and get rid of the sticks. And there's
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going to be more today, So it's gonna be a few little Yeah,
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I wait till the after today's over. But yeah, from a seller's perspective,
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that's what I would do. Now. From a buyer's perspective, if
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you want to, you know, talk about like how do they make their
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offers competitive and stand out and like that, And that's really what we're working
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with these days, is that those you know, there are ways to do
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that, and you know, lots of people will make offers on homes and
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not get them, and they're it's very discouraging, but you have to keep
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going. And there's a there's a clause in our contracts that has kind of
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made its way to our board in the last few years. It wasn't around
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a long time, but it's an escalation clause where you can, you know,
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you offer a certain amount of money, but you're willing to escalate that
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all the way up to another amount of money. So you want to offer
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them too, but you're willing to go to to twenty so and then you
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that that clause would beat any other offer, and you can establish how much
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you want to beat them by. You beat them by a couple of thousand
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dollars all the way up to that number that you want to go to.
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We're getting multiple offers with all of those have escalation clauses, so it's it
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is a very competitive world of buying. And I would just tell you that
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another option would be to talk to your lender and kind of go from a
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pre approval to or sorry apart from a pre approval into the all the way
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into the conditional approval level with your lender ahead, and you can have the
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lender rather than send just a generic guess, I can get them qualified,
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have them send a little like, hey we already have these people. Go
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well, they'll go right to the to the conditional approval level. And that
21:52
can help sometimes too. Well a text say isn't it true that twenty years
21:56
ago, Charleston's population was fifty eight thousand. Now it's under forty eight.
21:59
I just don't see the growth. Maybe there is growth, but the facts
22:02
say otherwise. Well, I mean you've got to understand too, when it
22:04
comes to population and things of that nature, that we're looking at numbers that
22:07
are usually a couple of years old, and we're talking about what And now
22:11
this is not to discount what the text're saying. No, they're completely I
22:15
mean within the city limits right, well, but even in the in the
22:18
Kanal Valley, I mean, there's about fifty percent less people here than what
22:21
there used to be. However, anytime you're looking at these numbers, you're
22:25
looking at numbers that are usually, according to the census, you know,
22:26
a couple of years old, so we don't have what we're seeing is in
22:30
real time and what you're seeing, So what if you want to see what's
22:33
happening in twenty twenty four, you're going to see those numbers concrete come out
22:38
from the government in twenty twenty five or twenty twenty six, whenever the census
22:41
is yeah. Yeah, So with all the ways rich that one can go
22:47
about buying a home online, mainly of course, and with all the ways
22:49
you can go about beginning the search for a home. I'm gonna ask a
22:55
real dumb Please don't please, don't strike me with your with your fist or
22:57
anything. I'm just asking the question, why go with the realtor? I
23:00
mean, there's all these different things. You see the ads for them all
23:03
the time. You can go online, you can look at why go with
23:06
the realtor for either buying or selling? Well, primarily the answer to that
23:11
is our representation. So you know, a real estate transaction can be very
23:14
complex, takes It takes a pro to be able to get you through those
23:18
contractual agreements, and you need somebody who understands that process, who has a
23:23
group of our list of referrals to help get you to the right people to
23:26
have a successful closing. That's the representation part of that. The other part,
23:32
you know, from the buyer's perspective, is that because everything is online
23:34
and you can search on those secondary sites, you know the want rhymes with
23:40
willow and those kind of things, so it will not be named by you.
23:45
Is that what you're saying? It will not? So you know you
23:48
need realtors often have off market or coming to the market soon options. So
23:52
in this competitive world where you're waiting on one of those sites to like,
23:56
yeah, you're looking every day, and you're like, I'm searching same criteria
24:00
of where I want to be in the meantime, relter sometimes know, if
24:03
I've got a seller who I know is going to list in two weeks from
24:07
now, that's not on willow Right, so I would be able to talk
24:10
to my particular set of buyers who I have on the other side looking,
24:12
I'm like, hey, I'm going to try and get them that house first.
24:15
You know, if we can get them in the contract and the buyers
24:18
and sellers agree, that house is not even going to hit the market.
24:21
So you need a realter because we're all that way, all the relters are
24:23
that way. We have this, we have that group of our own past
24:27
clients and all of that stuff happening. So you need you need representation to
24:33
navigate those contractual technically technicalities, but you also need someone who's ahead of you
24:38
on the search well. And sometimes it's all about rich relationships too. You
24:45
know, you get to know these people and they know you know, if
24:48
I go online and I'm just looking at a you know, Facebook yard,
24:51
saleor or that as you said, that site that rhymes with willow. I
24:53
like that, you know, and I can maybe reach out to them myself.
24:59
But I still think there's something to be said for relationships. If you
25:02
know, my wife and family are looking for a home and I've get this
25:06
relationship built with you, you know, you and other quality realtors are going
25:10
to know, Okay, this is what this is the kind of neighborhood they
25:12
want. They want a neighborhood that's loaded with kids. They want a neighborhood
25:18
that's that's close to their school. They want a neighborhood, and that's not
25:21
something that you're going to necessarily be able to get from a computer. Yeah,
25:23
often they think that they'll be able to cut the realtor and those brokerage
25:27
fees out by doing it without us. But I don't know what the statistics
25:33
would say, but I would most likely promise you that from a seller's perspective,
25:37
if you think you can do it, you probably could do it.
25:41
But we could do it and actually probably sell it for more than what you
25:45
would sell it for, and you would have the representation, the protection of
25:48
the legal part of that too. Before we let you go on to quickly
25:52
talk about commercial property. I know that I kind of walked in on a
25:56
conversation you were having somebody out there in the hallway earlier about commercial property.
26:02
There's a ribbon cutting of yet another business. I think I'm not going to
26:04
be able to attend it. But there's a ribbon cutting of another business I
26:07
have opened up in Tay's Valley this morning at eleven o'clock. It seems if
26:11
you follow the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, and I'm sure it goes on
26:15
in other areas too, but especially in Putnam County, you just see one
26:18
new business after another coming in. It's insane. It's two or three a
26:22
week. Yeah, it's two or three a week, is what's opening up.
26:25
And of course not all of them are going to succeed, and we
26:26
certainly hope that they do. But if you are in the market for a
26:30
commercial property, you decide, Okay, I'm tired of working for this person.
26:33
I want to work for myself. I want to open up that restaurant,
26:37
or I want to open up this, you know, the shop that
26:41
boutique specializes in whatever. Or if you're looking to sell a commercial property,
26:45
what do you do for commercial property. I mean it's a similar kind of
26:48
a deal where from the selling perspective is that we can help market that in
26:52
a way to all of our commercial buyers. And you know, there are
26:55
a lot of times those commercial listings are not within our mls, but they're
26:57
listed on other sites which we are members of and can market that appropriately.
27:02
But we also have a group of investors and commercial buyers that are you know,
27:07
just out there. We know what they're looking for and can often try
27:10
and match them up with what with that right spot, whether they're doing a
27:14
boutique or a restaurant or a live you know, a bookstore, something of
27:18
that nature. So it's you know, commercial is a little slower than the
27:21
residential. The demand is lower for sure, but it is still it's still
27:26
going. I mean, commerce from that perspective is still going. So all
27:30
right, where can people reach out to you, Richard? Yeah, you
27:33
can find me at three oh four nine three two seven four eight eight nine
27:38
three two seven four eight Eight's the best way to reach me. You can
27:41
find me at rich Klin sixty six at gmail dot com. Pretty easy to
27:45
find us on our website is meeks dot us. All right, rich the
27:51
realtor. I appreciate you being here. Man. We hang out with me
27:52
a little bit, a little bit so you know, you don't have to
27:56
drive in the nastininess back to value, just you know, stay away from
27:59
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it, and to be prepared for because Charles and it's about to see the
32:00
biggest event it's literally ever hosted. I mean, it's going to be regatta
32:06
sized times two. It's going to be boys and girls state tournaments times three,
32:12
mainly because of all the ground it's going to cover and because of the
32:15
length of it. May fourteenth through the nineteenth, the USA Cycling Pro Road
32:19
National Championships are going to take over the city. And as we get closer,
32:22
I'm going to have folks in from the police and Fire Department, the
32:25
Mayor's office to talk about logistics, because if you're in Charleston every day,
32:30
your life's going to change for those days. I want to talk about the
32:31
organization though today itself. Brendan Quirk is the CEO of USA Cycling and he
32:37
is in town doing a little prep work, if you will, along with
32:40
the Charleston Convention, visitors, bureau folks, and he joins us this morning
32:44
from the par Mar Stores studio. Brandon, good morning, welcome to the
32:46
show. Well, thank you, happy to be here, excited to be
32:49
in Charlesto. Now, where is a home for you? Were you out
32:51
of we are? The USA Cycling is based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
32:54
Man, that's definitely cycling area out there in Colorado. What exactly is
33:00
in the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships will be coming to Charleston in May.
33:04
So it's actually not just one race, but it's three different races,
33:07
three different types of races. If you've ever seen the Tour de Frances,
33:09
the road race, that's really the marquee event. We'll have that going on.
33:14
We'll have a shorter, tighter race called the Criterion if you imagine like
33:17
the Bristol NASCAR race. We're gonna have that going one night in the middle
33:22
of downtown. And then we have what's called a time trial, which is
33:24
just man against the clock. We've got individuals racing against the clock. We'll
33:29
have that race as well. We're gonna have it for professionals. We're gonna
33:31
have it for the under twenty three category if you think like minor league baseball,
33:36
These are the up and comer type of athletes. And then we're gonna
33:38
have the junior seventeen to eighteen category as well, So it's three different categories
33:44
of men. We'll love women. We'll have three races, and that's why
33:46
it's six days long. But it's gonna be a lot of excitement people coming
33:49
from all over America to come here and race and to come here and watch.
33:52
It's a big deal for us, it really is. And Charleston is
33:55
going to be hosting. How exactly was Charleston chosen to do this, Well,
34:00
we run a process where we put a request out there for cities across
34:07
America, do you want to host this event. We've had this in amazing
34:09
cities in the past. We've had it in Philadelphia, We've had it in
34:13
Knoxville, We've had it in Chattanooga, a lot of other places. Charleston
34:16
put a bid in front of us. They're like, hey, look,
34:20
we are the most unbelievable metro area in the middle of outdoors you're ever going
34:25
to see. You've got to come visit and you will believe. And we
34:28
did and we were just blown away at how beautiful it is, how welcoming
34:30
the community was, and for us, it was a no brainer decision to
34:35
come here. We're here. It's not just next year, but it's for
34:37
the next five years. Five years. Yeah, I mean, now,
34:39
is that the way that you normally do that you normally do like a five
34:43
year contract type be on every time, normally it's five years. Because where
34:46
has it been before? Well, we came to the last believe it or
34:50
not, the last seven years we were in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now,
34:52
COVID made it so that it ended up being longer than five years, but
34:57
Knoxville was a long stay there. I think Notville was the second longest day
35:00
we've ever had. We're in Philadelphia for a long long time as well,
35:04
but again, been in Chattanooga, I've been in Greenville, South Carolina.
35:07
You know those are those are the cities where we had the biggest stays in
35:10
the past. Talking to Brendan Quirk again, who's the CEO of USA Cycling
35:15
for this big event that's going to be in Charleston, A Dave Island showing
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When you take in take the number that you mentioned, all the cyclists,
35:30
plus there's gonna be a whole lot of media covering this. You'll have the
35:34
very I'm gonna imagine your ESPNS are going to be here, and your Fox
35:37
Sports and all these other people are going to be in fuss family and team
35:40
members. There's a lot of people. It's a lot of people that they're
35:44
going to be in Charleston for five days, if not longer, because you
35:46
got time getting ready for it. There's gonna be a lot of people here.
35:50
You know, it's so beautiful here. I think the spectators are going
35:52
to bring their own bikes just go ride and discover the you know, the
35:54
terrain around here. So we're excited. I think this year. You know,
35:58
one reason why it's so is that the time trial event, which as
36:01
I mentioned before, is when individuals are racing against the clock, that is
36:06
actually going to be an Olympic qualification event. So the man and the woman
36:10
who win their respective races will qualify for the Olympic team that'll be competing for
36:15
Team USA at the Paris Olympics this summer. So what is a big deal
36:20
American athletes, you know, racing their bikes all over the world. Bike
36:22
racing is pretty much it's a heavily europe based sports. So our best athletes
36:28
are all in Europe. A ton of those athletes are going to be coming
36:30
over here, coming to Charleston to try to qualify for the Olympic team.
36:34
So that is going to be a big, big day. That's going to
36:37
be Wednesday, May fifteenth, and there's going to be a lot of energy
36:40
and a lot of excitement that day. Now, if I just want to
36:44
come, maybe bring the family out to just to watch it. And I
36:46
know you guys are working on the logistics right now. You're working with Tam
36:50
and the folks in the Mayor's offices as well. But exactly if I just
36:53
want to come and watch some of these events, I'm not a cyclist.
36:57
I want to bring the family because this is a major, major deal.
37:00
I would say it's a once in a lifetime deal, but it's actually going
37:02
to be for five years in Charleston. How does that work? If I
37:06
just want to come with you and watch stuff. If you want to come
37:08
down with your family and get the biggest I would say initiate yourself into what
37:14
world class bike racing looks like Friday night. So it's Friday, what is
37:17
that Friday the seventeenth. There's the style of race called Criterions, And the
37:22
only analogy I could give you, it's like Bristol, a Bristol, you
37:25
know Bristol at the NASCAR NASCAR stop it. You know, it's a super
37:30
tight course, it's like less than a mile, it's technical. You got
37:34
the riders all bunched up together, and they're coming by again and again and
37:37
again, like every ninety seconds. You're going to see them come by.
37:39
The men's race and the women's race for each about an hour long. So
37:43
if you've got kids, you know their attention, you don't have to worry
37:45
about their attention span. That's where the crowd is going to be the thickest
37:49
and the energy is going to be the most exciting from a spectator standpoint.
37:52
So my recommendation would be if you just wanted to come to one event,
37:54
that Friday night event is going to be something else. Now Sunday with the
37:59
road race. It's a long day for the men. They're racing one hundred
38:01
and thirty miles. It's a five hour race, but that Friday night race
38:06
it's an hour and just the electricity that night is going to be incredible.
38:09
So that would be my recommendation. When we have the other folks on,
38:12
we'll probably have you on again as we get a little bit closer, because
38:14
again we're talking about this in May, but I'm interested to see exactly what
38:20
the course is going to look like and what areas of Charleston that it's going
38:22
to And you're still learning Charleston. I understand that, but I mean what
38:25
areas is it's because it's going to be pretty much all over the city,
38:29
right, yes, So the criterion is going to be in downtown. It's
38:32
just going to be right down by the river. They've got a course on
38:36
an L shaped course in downtown where we really take in much more of the
38:39
city is in the road race. So we're finalizing what the route's going to
38:43
look like. But our expectation is the lap will be about twelve or thirteen
38:46
miles. There's still some things that are unknown, but what is known is
38:50
we are going to climb Bridge Road, which is going to be, you
38:52
know, just outstanding. It's going to be a tough climb for the professional
38:55
men. They're going to climb that ten times, ten times, ten times.
39:00
Can you imagine that? A simple answer is no, I drove up
39:04
at last night and I was tired. That's what I was gonna say.
39:07
You're lucky if I drive up. Yeah, And then they're gonna come down
39:09
Louden Heights ten times. Just super technical, tight, It's gonna it's gonna
39:14
look amazing on TV to see what that looks like. The aggression with which
39:17
these athletes will take that descent, it'll just make you want to cover your
39:21
eyes because they are so aggressive. Just as you can win a race on
39:24
a climb if you'ren outstanding athlete, you could also win a race on a
39:28
descent if you're super aggressive. And that's gonna just make for some incredibly dramatic
39:32
racing. It really reminds me of what you see in the Tour de France.
39:36
But I've seen so far of Charleston. The roads here, especially like
39:38
Louden Heights, it's tight, it's technical, it's a narrow You've got these
39:43
amazing vistas of downtown we just we couldn't We couldn't have asked for more in
39:47
terms of what the layout of the course is going to look like. It's
39:51
gonna be amazing now. And Tim and I go way way back, And
39:53
Tim and I are both economics guys. We're both numbers guys. And I
39:57
am interested. Although I am interested in the athletic compet I'm also interested in
40:01
butts and beds, and I'm also interested in restaurants and what economically this is
40:06
going to mean to Charleston, because I know in doing some research what it
40:08
meant to Knoxville in the seven years that you had it there. I mean,
40:12
it's millions of dollars. Millions and millions and millions of dollars are going
40:15
to be coming to Charleston over that five day period. Yeah, no,
40:17
there's no doubt about it. It's exactly what you said before. It's the
40:21
athletes, it's their teams, it's the coaching staffs, the mechanics. This
40:24
is the first time typically when we host this race it's only the professionals.
40:29
So we were talking about seven years at Charles seven years excuse me, in
40:32
Knoxville, Greenville, Chattanooga. Formerly this was only the professionals racing. What
40:37
we've done this year is we've added the U twenty three category and we've added
40:42
the junior category. So this is going to be like a festival of road
40:45
cycling. This is going to be the biggest turnout of athletes, family,
40:50
they're entourages, the biggest we've ever had. So what that means for economic
40:53
impact for Charleston, It's going to be the biggest economic impact we've ever had
40:57
with this event. So it will be disruptive to the city. We're going
41:00
to be shutting down roads. But you know, the feedback we have gotten
41:05
from the community has been super positive. They're excited to see the racing,
41:07
they're excited for the economic impact, and we're really grateful for the hospitality that
41:14
we have gotten from the community. So I just want to say a big
41:15
thank you to everybody in Charleston. Before we let you go, I didn't
41:17
have a text here, and I knew this was going to be there.
41:20
I know it was going to happen, a texted houses bike race going to
41:22
affect school traffic. We're still a couple of months away and all that's going
41:27
to be out on all the websites, in the paper, and so on
41:30
and so forth. But the short answer is it's greatly going to impact.
41:35
I know, most of the disruption on the roads is going to be on
41:37
Saturday and so okay, Okay, so I think actually, I mean,
41:40
we're going to get way ahead of that, but I think that the disruption
41:44
during the school week is going to be pretty minimal. Okay. Where you're
41:46
going to see it mostly the road races where you see a lot of the
41:50
closures only on Saturday and Sunday. Okay, But now Saturday and Sunday,
41:53
and again we're way in advance of this thing. That's why we wanted to
41:58
have you on now. But we want you to know that for those particular
42:01
dates May fourteenth through the nineteenth, that, especially when we have these road
42:06
races going on, as you said, primarily on weekends, your travel is
42:10
going to be impacted. You know, it's Saturday and Sunday, it will
42:15
be you know, you might, you know, give yourself a little bit
42:16
more time on Sunday to get to church. But you know, in terms
42:19
of getting communicating out there is to how you know the ways in which the
42:24
road closures will work. We'll get that information out there, but people will
42:29
be able to get around. You know, we're not locking the sea down
42:30
by any stretch of the imagination. Look, if you're bringing this much money
42:35
and lock it down, well we won't be. You know, we're going
42:37
to work to make it so that it's gonna work for everybody. But we
42:39
we're counting down the days. We can't wait to be here. Where can
42:43
people learn more about this? I mean about your organization. USA cycling dot
42:47
org is where you can learn about us and the work that we're doing to
42:51
try to grow bike racing on a grassroots level across the United States, about
42:53
what we're doing with the Olympic team and everything in between. It's a big
42:58
year for us with the Olympics. So we're excited. And this is a
43:00
five year deal for Charleston. So as I'm sure you did in Knoxville in
43:04
these other areas, you know you're gonna be learning as you go. I
43:06
mean, you guys are pros at this. But there's gonna be little things,
43:08
are gonna We're gonna say, there's gonna be little quirks, but you
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know I can say that, Yeah, no, now you've heard all those
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Tim and the folks here in the city are professional, and you know we've
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put a lot of these races on, so I'm hopeful that the hiccups won't
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be too big. All right, And again, we're gonna be talking a
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Tomorrow on the show, Chris Lawrence is going to talk about it, and
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then Rachelle Beatty, who is on the Morgantown end of things, are going
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to join us on the show on Friday. So today's crossover day at the
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Capitol. And again, Hoby'll have more than that coming up at ten oh
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six. Couple of quick notes here, and this is something I had not
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had a chance to talk about with the legislature, and it has to do
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with mugshots. The House has passed a bill that booking photos of criminal suspects
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would no longer be made public. Now. The vote was fifty four to
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forty six in favor of banning of banning mugshot photos to be released to the
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public and media. So so if allowed to stand, you would no longer,
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as best I understand, to see, television, radio, station,
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websites, whatever, putting arrest photos out there, and those popular websites like
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West Virginia mug Shots for example, those would go away. Now it's house
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built forty six to twenty one and Brad mclahenney as a story posted about it
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on the website. And I'm gonna say this, I you know, not
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just not to ride the fences. I'm accused of from time to time here.
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But I understand both sides of it. The media has a job to
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do and I completely understand that. But on the other hand, if people
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are arrested and later found innocent or those charges are dropped for one reason or
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another in the digital world that we live in, that picture is out there
50:07
forever. And if you've ever known anybody that was in the hiring aspect of
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a business, generally speaking, the way it's done today, the first thing
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that potential employers do when they look at a new hire is to google their
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name. They check out their social media and they google their name. And
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if one of the first things that pops up is a booking photo, and
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then charges are later dropped for one reason or another, then then you got
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a problem. And again I completely understand both sides of this argument. I
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really do. The media has a job to do. But let's keep in
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mind that old adage. All everyone's in a sentental proven guilty, And when
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you go on these websites and you see somebody's picture, it doesn't necessarily mean
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that means it means they were accused of the crime, doesn't mean they were
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convicted. So there's an effort and it's kind of pitting some Republicans against Republicans.
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Of course, with the Republicans having such the super duper majority that they
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have, every bill is going to pit Republicans against Republicans. So we'll continue
51:25
to follow that story. Close with this. If you're planning to go krogering
51:29
anytime soon, you may be crossing a picket line. There is a contract
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dispute going on, and I was looking last night at a list of possible
51:37
strike locations for local Kroger stores, and it's pretty much every Kroger in our
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listening area. If it happens, they all of the Krogers. I mean,
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as far as I know the Kroger locations in our area, pretty much
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all of them would be part of it. So you gotta go get that
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loaf of bread and that the gallon of milk. If it does, it
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worked out, you'll be crossing a picket line when you go krogery. Text
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says, my problem is the media doesn't put on the news that someone was
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found innocent like they do their arrest photo. Good point, good point,
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all right, gotta go. Coming up on the show tomorrow, Charleston City
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Council and Emitt Pepper is going to be here. We had a text in
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the show last week people asking about the scooters in Charleston. Where do they
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stand. Emmitt Pepper's the guy behind that. He's going to join us to
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update us on that, plus some other things going on on. Charleston City
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Council. Chris Lawrence on this weekend's West Virginia Fishing, Hunting Outdoor Sports Show
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in Morgantown. Coming up to Hobbies at the Capitol. Coming up at ten
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