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1/13/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Jessica Martin, Bryan Hughes and Chris Miller · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 1: Could go from you being extremely positive to you being
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  Speaker 1: extremely negative, to you being controversial, to you.
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  Speaker 2: Just sharing your day to day.
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  Speaker 1: I choose to be on the positive side, choose to
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  Speaker 1: be positive and uplifting and just show my day to
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  Speaker 1: day life here in West Virginia as a Tarlestonian. Charleston
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  Speaker 1: can come sometimes get a negative rep and I absolutely
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  Speaker 1: can't stand that. So I try to be the person
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  Speaker 1: to uplift our community.
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  Speaker 3: Now you a native Charlestonian.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm actually from Rand originally, so yes, I'm originally
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  Speaker 1: born and raised and Ran, and then I have lived
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  Speaker 1: in North Charleston all of my adults.
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  Speaker 4: You know, recently, I think like a week or so
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  Speaker 4: ago ESPN two, I think it was just reran the
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  Speaker 4: Rand University and I actually watched it again. I watched
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  Speaker 4: it when it was new and it came out like
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  Speaker 4: what ten twelve years ago, but they reran it. I
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  Speaker 4: was slipping through the channels on the weekend. I saw
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  Speaker 4: that and I watched it again. It's very good documentary.
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  Speaker 3: It really was. When we're going to do a documentary
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  Speaker 3: about North Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, I don't know, but that would be good. They
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  Speaker 2: call that dog.
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  Speaker 4: Town and yeah, I know I learned that doing this show,
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  Speaker 4: and you would be a great person for that. You know,
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  Speaker 4: there are influencers all over the world, but I think
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  Speaker 4: that we have the fact we have some base here
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  Speaker 4: in Charleston is pretty cool. How did you get into
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  Speaker 4: this whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, just organically. It wasn't planned.
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  Speaker 1: I literally just started sharing local news, uplifting local businesses,
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  Speaker 1: especially the new businesses, and I just started. My page
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  Speaker 1: just started growing drastically. I did recently create a new
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  Speaker 1: page that's so jam Fancy, so you can follow me
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  Speaker 1: at Jessica A. Martin or so jam Fancy either one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be sharing uplifting things, positive things, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of local things as well, just because that's
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  Speaker 1: where my heart is. But as far as like how
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  Speaker 1: I got started or what made me started, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: nothing new and I just am just myself. I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect any of this, so it's really crazy and
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  Speaker 1: it's coming full circle because I used to make everybody's
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  Speaker 1: MySpace layout and you know, all those little fun things,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just all come full circle now. So as
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  Speaker 1: far as how I did it, there's not really like
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a secret prost on how to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I just suggest being yourself, being consistent, and you'll eventually
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  Speaker 1: grow your following.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you said that you choose to do mostly positive things,
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  Speaker 4: and I've followed you for some time and that's pretty
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  Speaker 4: much all I've seen you in a world where it
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  Speaker 4: seems like we thrive on negativity and that's what keeps
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  Speaker 4: social media going.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you choose the positive?
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like there are so many people that
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  Speaker 1: need it, and a lot of those people that do
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  Speaker 1: focus on the negative need that positive aspect to uplift them.
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  Speaker 1: So I choose to be the light and choose to
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  Speaker 1: be the person that brings that positivity to them.
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  Speaker 4: How many followers approximately do you have? Because I know
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  Speaker 4: you've been in the studio for ten minutes, so you
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  Speaker 4: probably increased while you were here, But approximately how many follows?
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  Speaker 2: I have almost thirty six thousand followers on Facebook?
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  Speaker 3: What and how much? What was the amount of time
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  Speaker 3: it took you to get to thirty successes?
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  Speaker 1: So I have been monetized on Facebook for almost four years,
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  Speaker 1: so a lot of people are new to monetization on
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  Speaker 1: social media, and all I.
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  Speaker 2: Can say is just be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly it took me four years, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: start taking it very serious until the last year. Other
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  Speaker 1: than that, it was just me posting all the time
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  Speaker 1: and uplifting businesses and doing different things like that. And
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  Speaker 1: then like within the last year, I was like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, this is crazy, Like my following is going
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  Speaker 1: really fast, Like I really need to start focusing more
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  Speaker 1: on this. So I've kind of really taken the lead
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  Speaker 1: and like started being a little more serious.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how does one get into the monetizing of social
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  Speaker 4: media posts?
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  Speaker 1: So it's very different now. Used to be invite only.
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  Speaker 1: I got invited almost four years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Who invites you? Is it meta?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, mata is who invites you?
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  Speaker 1: And I think now to get in the content monetization program,
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  Speaker 1: you do still have to be invited, and there are
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  Speaker 1: certain criteria like how many followers, you have to have,
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  Speaker 1: certain amount of engagement, all of those things before they'll
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  Speaker 1: actually monetize you on social media. So the first key
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  Speaker 1: is just to start posting consistently and authentically.
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  Speaker 4: And there's so much news even in an area, and
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  Speaker 4: you focus primarily on Charleston and the surrounding areas, but
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  Speaker 4: there's so much news out there.
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  Speaker 3: How do you choose what it is that you that
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  Speaker 3: you post for that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really cheesy. I don't like political things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like anything too controversial in a bad light
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  Speaker 1: at least, and I pretty much just I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If I see a new business is coming, I try
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  Speaker 1: to uplift them. If I see a business as maybe
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  Speaker 1: struggling to stay open, I try to uplift them.
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  Speaker 2: And then as far as news.
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  Speaker 1: Wise, it's anything that could stop somebody from getting somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: So if there's a traffic alert, if there's something where
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  Speaker 1: there's a missing child, anything that could possibly help someone,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that I have the platform for it.
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  Speaker 4: I try to talk to Jessica Martin again. It's nine
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  Speaker 4: Last week, on social media and on the airwaves here
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  Speaker 4: Big story was the mayor's comments during city Council during
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  Speaker 4: her State of the City addressed at the City of
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  Speaker 4: Charleston hoping to enter into talks with the owners of
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  Speaker 4: the towns that are all the whole group about the
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  Speaker 4: city taking over the mall, and that really got comments
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  Speaker 4: a blazon on your page.
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  Speaker 3: How did you choose?
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  Speaker 4: Because there was and look I heard it on this show.
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  Speaker 4: I got off the text line here on my social
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  Speaker 4: media as well, there where everybody's got an opinion. But
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  Speaker 4: how did you separate that into Okay, this is positive,
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  Speaker 4: this is not be And even said a couple of
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  Speaker 4: times I was following you that night. You even said
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  Speaker 4: something that let's keep it positive, let's keep it positive.
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  Speaker 4: How difficult was that?
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  Speaker 1: So we all want the mall, you know, we all
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  Speaker 1: want them all to be something successful. And my thinking
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  Speaker 1: of all of it is, you know, the mall is
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  Speaker 1: not going to be what it was when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid and we would go to the mall movies
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  Speaker 1: and shop and all the things. It's a whole new
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  Speaker 1: time frame now, a whole new generation of kids, and
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  Speaker 1: anybody that can be positive about what's to come for
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  Speaker 1: the Charlestontown Center. I think it's just insane. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's selfish. I think we should all want the best
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  Speaker 1: for that area, that space. It may not even be
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  Speaker 1: that same building in the end, you know. So I
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  Speaker 1: just try to stay as positive as I can on
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  Speaker 1: my page and let people know if you us something
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  Speaker 1: negative to say, that's why you have your own news.
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  Speaker 2: City takes ring it to mine, Yes, Dot's ring it
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  Speaker 2: to mine. Take that on somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: And I think one of the things we talked about
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  Speaker 4: this in the show last week is everybody thinks that
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  Speaker 4: they've got a great idea. And when I had Mayor
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  Speaker 4: good one on the show last week, she talked about it.
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  Speaker 4: She said, Hey, we appreciate the ideas, but the truth is,
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  Speaker 4: if we bring in a blank fill in name here,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whether it's you know, David Busters or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: it's not going to save the town Center.
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  Speaker 3: It's not right. I mean you exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And it's and multi use is where it's going to
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  Speaker 4: probably head if this deal works out, where you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have a variety of things, you're gonna have off the space,
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna have living space. It like you and I'm
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  Speaker 4: a bit I'm a lot older than you. It's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be the Charleston Town Center of nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 4: eight ever again, and we need to get that out
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  Speaker 4: of our heads. I'm not trying to be negative. I'm
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  Speaker 4: being a realistic.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, I think that it's a huge space
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  Speaker 1: and there are so many different things that could be
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  Speaker 1: done with that space. And I have faith and trust
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  Speaker 1: and Amy and the City of Charleston that they will
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  Speaker 1: make the best decision for our kids. It's really about
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  Speaker 1: our kids now. It's not really about us that much anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're all oldies now, so it's really about
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  Speaker 1: what we can bring to our kids. Think about how
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  Speaker 1: many memories that we have. They're ass kids. We want
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  Speaker 1: that same type of experience for our kids. But modern
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  Speaker 1: day of course.
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  Speaker 3: Ye, what else is positive? That's keeping you busy these days?
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  Speaker 2: Into Charleston area, Oh, all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: I was invited to Carnival, so that's exciting. I have
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  Speaker 1: to get them their shout out. Make sure you get
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  Speaker 1: your tickets to Carnival because that does fund a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different programs that they had at the case.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about it on the area yesterday and if you're
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  Speaker 4: going to get your tickets.
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  Speaker 3: You need to do so the next couple they do
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  Speaker 3: sell out.
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  Speaker 1: So I have Carnival coming up, and of course I'm
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  Speaker 1: always looking forward to the Regatta. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't realize that I am the owner of fancy five
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  Speaker 1: buck fashion as well, and I do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the fares and festivals that are here local, so I
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  Speaker 1: sell five dollars accessory. So if you go to those
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  Speaker 1: fares and festivals, which you should, you'll see me there
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  Speaker 1: with my booth.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to have Brian Hughes, the Regatta chair,
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be on a little bit later on the
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  Speaker 4: show to talk about where we are as we move
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  Speaker 4: into the regatta, because when you wake up with temperatures
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  Speaker 4: at like twenty three or twenty four degrees, you're like
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  Speaker 4: I was talking about the dirty Birds early. You're thinking baseball,
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  Speaker 4: you're thinking and you're thinking regatta. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: I had a text here, And normally the text of
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  Speaker 4: the show are anonymous. We don't know who they are,
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  Speaker 4: but sometimes people will text my personal phone here, so
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. I don't think this person would care
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  Speaker 4: if I read this or I read this. Jessica Martin
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  Speaker 4: is a former student, and I'm so proud of her.
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  Speaker 3: She's always so positive. From Fred Albert, Oh, oh.
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  Speaker 2: My gosh, I love Fred Albert.
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  Speaker 1: He was my teacher in let me think, sixth grade
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  Speaker 1: at DuPont and oh my goodness, he I literally first
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  Speaker 1: of all, we have a relationship so great that I
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  Speaker 1: called him my dad in middle school and he still
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  Speaker 1: calls me his daughter. I'm shocked he didn't call me
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  Speaker 1: his daughter in that text message. But he's one of
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  Speaker 1: those teachers that you'll never forget, like I'll never forget him.
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  Speaker 1: He was literally so such a great teacher, and math
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  Speaker 1: has always been my strong suit. I'm just such a
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  Speaker 1: nerd and he just we bonded because of that.
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  Speaker 2: He loves math.
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  Speaker 1: I loved math, and he was just wonderful. And then
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  Speaker 1: still to this day he checks in on me like
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  Speaker 1: he was just such an amazing teacher.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it's interesting when it comes to the
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  Speaker 4: teachers that you remember, sometimes it's not about the lessons.
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  Speaker 4: Some of my bat some of my favorite teachers, now
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if they want to hear there's not
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  Speaker 4: some of my favorite teachers in public school. I can't
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  Speaker 4: really tell you a whole lot about their classroom. It's
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  Speaker 4: the other things I learned from it, and I know
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  Speaker 4: Fred is one of those.
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  Speaker 2: He's the best. I already knew all the math.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just lucky he gets credit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when it comes to me in math, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: anything I can memorize. You give me a history book whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good, but anything math not so much. That's want
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  Speaker 4: to end it up in the media. Remind people where
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  Speaker 4: they can follow you in social media, because if you're
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  Speaker 4: not following Jessica Martin, you need to.
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  Speaker 1: So you can visit Jessica amartin dot com and it's
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  Speaker 1: going to give you all of my social media links.
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  Speaker 1: So Jessica amartin dot com and you can go. It'll
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  Speaker 1: show you where are my TikTok pages, my Facebook, my
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  Speaker 1: all the different social media platforms.
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  Speaker 2: It's all listed on Justica Martin.
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  Speaker 4: What is the hottest thing going as far as social media?
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, forever it was Facebook and now Facebook's
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  Speaker 4: kind of no. I say, Facebook's still the biggest and
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of people on it, and then x
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  Speaker 4: or Twitter, and then it was Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok.
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  Speaker 3: What's the new thing out there right now?
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  Speaker 1: So I guess TikTok will be the number one, and
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  Speaker 1: that's because the youth generation loves that the most. So
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  Speaker 1: wherever the youth is, that's usually what's the most trending.
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  Speaker 1: So my old bones are trying to get on there
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more, even though I do love that
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  Speaker 1: blue app called Facebook, but TikTok is definitely where most
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  Speaker 1: people get on and scroll and scroll and scroll and
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  Speaker 1: go down rabbit holes and all.
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  Speaker 3: The things, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll close with this. There was a meme I
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  Speaker 4: posted about once a year to remind people that it
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  Speaker 4: was posted by some young person said, you know, if
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  Speaker 4: only there were an app that would tell people in
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  Speaker 4: real time what the news is, what the weather is,
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  Speaker 4: things like that. And somebody responds, Oh, yeah, that's called radio.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's what we do. So you can embrace
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  Speaker 4: all the new technology. But don't forget us folks here
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  Speaker 4: in radio. We've been doing it for a long long
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  Speaker 4: time and we try to do a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Jessica, always a pleasure to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 4: I do well, this is the first time I've had you,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll tell you you're gonna be back on again because
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  Speaker 4: I want I want you back on the show again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, anytime. You're always welcome here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much, Dave. It's been a pleasure,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 4: let you know that. Coming up a little bit later
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: on the show, Chris Miller is going to join. Is
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Chris Miller of course auto magnate you know from that field,
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: you know, and from the Dutch Miller commercials. But he's
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: also getting involved in politics and has been. He ran
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: for governor in twenty twenty four and unfortunately for him,
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: didn't win, but he is making a run at state
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Senate and we're going to talk to him about his campaign.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Coming up a little bit later on. Also, Brian Hughes
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: is going to join his Brian. Although he's no longer
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: with the television station here in Charleston, Brian is still
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: very heavily involved in the community, including the Charleston starning
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Will Regatta, and he is going to join us a
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: little bit later on as well to kind of let
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: us know about some planning for the regatta. Everybody always
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: wants to know where or when I should say, are
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: the new acts going to be announced to be coming
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: to regatta?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: They're not quite ready for that yet. But we are
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: going to talk about.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Some other things related to Regatta, because I mean, if
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: it's in the middle of January and it's twenty three
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: degrees when you leave your house, you want to start
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: thinking about warm weather things. So we're going to talk
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: to Brian about that. Coming up a little bit later
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: on a reminder that tomorrow the West Virginia Legislature will
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: gavel in Metro News talk Line be Live with Wilson
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: to Meadows from there two or three times a week now.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: This week they're gonna be there Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: They will be their life at the capitol though starting tomorrow.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: The governor will give his State of the State tomorrow
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: night at seven. We're gonna have coverage on air and
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: on the Metro News TV app coming up tomorrow night.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: And it's going to be interesting to see what happens
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: with this session this time, because I've been kind of
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: following this, you know, a couple of weeks ago, the
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: House came out, Speaker Roger Henshaw and the Republican Caucus
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: came out and they laid out their plans for the
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: upcoming session, and there seems to be a little, shall
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: we say, uncertainty when it comes to what the Senate's
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: going to do. And that on Friday, the Associated Press
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: and Westrdian Press Association, I think they do this thing
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: called the Legislative look Ahead and what they there were
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: some questions that came out of that. I don't think
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: that the Senate President, Randy Smith was an attendant to
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: think he had I was total he had a medical
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: thing going on or something. He wasn't there. So it
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: is it's gonna be interesting to see what the Senate is.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: I mean from an outsider looking in, it looks like
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: the Senate may be a little I don't want to
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: say that they don't have a plan. I'm not saying that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that they haven't presented one yet. And
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: that's okay. Uh, that's there. That's their prerogative. But it's
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: going to be interesting to see what the Senate is
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: going to do. And there are a lot of folks
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: that are going to be running for the State Senate
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: on the Republican side, trying to take out current senators.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I know in one particular district, the district the directorias
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: and there is at least two of the Republicans that
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: are running, and sometimes when that happens, it ends up
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: working out well for the for the incumbents.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: But again, I do want to let you know that
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: talk Line again will be broadcast asting live from the
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Capitol on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, generally
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: speaking Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday. Wilson Meadows will go
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: live there at ten oh six Later today Metro News
• 18:09
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• 18:11
  Speaker 4: and Me powered by Selango Law. The Dean the Goats,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Hoppy Kerchival is going to join us. He is in
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: town moderating. It's probably starting to wrap up right now,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: if it hasn't already, the Issues an ex event, the
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: annual event Charlestonnry Alliance, Charleston Chamber involved in that that
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: happened this morning at the Marriott in Charleston. He's going
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: to join us in the studio coming up a little
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: bit later on. Also, State School Superintendent Michelle Blatt is here.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Steve Roberts from the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce will
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: join us. Also, we're going to be joined by House
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle on the show today as well.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: If there's a quote in this morning's paper and reported
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: elsewhere from Sean Hornbuckle, Delegan Hornbuckle out of Cabal.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: County that they really want to legalize.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Cannabis, recreational cannabis in West Virginia and that they want
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: to make that a priority of the Democrats. So we're
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: going to talk to Sean Hornbuckle about that. Some of
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the folks that will be on the show today Metro
• 19:05
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• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Tonight Live anchor Amanda Baron and me again coming up
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: at noon today on this show. Tomorrow, we're going to
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: put a rap on the Christmas season the Selango Law
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Light the Night at gomart Ballpark. Andy Shay and Jill
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Garon for the Dirty Birds will be here, Doctor Casey
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Sachsbridge Valley will show up. It will be on the
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: show tomorrow. And next week is Restaurant Week at Charleston
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: and we're going to get into that coming up on
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: tomorrow's show as well. I do want to remind you
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: about something that we are trying to do. We think
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: this is the second maybe third year we've done this.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: I have to talk to Rob Real about that. Our
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: annual Drop your Socks events. The stations of WVRC Media
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Charleston in Union Mission inviting you for our big event
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: next Thursday, a week from this Thursday on our parking
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: lot eleven, eleven Virginia Street East and Charleston, seven am
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: till six pm.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: And we are looking for new socks.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: You can drop them off on that Thursday, that's the
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: twenty second, seven am till six p and we can
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: also accept cash and check donations as well. For the
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: Drop your Socks event. We'll be talking to Rob Real
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: about that. And the single is ready. You've heard Rob say,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: and the promos that we're running will say this the single,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: the single number one thing that people ask for, of
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: the most requested item when it comes to the folks
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: like Union Mission, these folks that do this sort of thing,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: the socks warm socks, and last year we collected I
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: don't know, like several hundred pairs of socks and I'm
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: not even sure how much cash we did.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: So we're going to start.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: At seven am next Thursday, one week from this Thursday,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: on our parking lot eleven eleven Virginia Street East and Charleston.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Really simple. You don't even have to get out of
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: your car. You know the way these things work. You
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: basically will do a loop in the parking lot and
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: all of our stations take part in this. You all
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: your favorite WVRC media Charleston personalities will be out there
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: collecting socks. The only thing we ask is that they
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: are new socks. All right, they can be. We just
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: want them to be new socks. That's the only thing
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: that we ask, all right. And you can give a sum,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: you can give us all. You can do whatever you
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: want for drop your socks amount.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: So we've had a little bit of scheduling problem which
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: probably is on my end, uh for the new Knaw
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: County Magistrate, Delbert rausch Uh And uh yeah, looking at
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: the schedule, it is on my end. The problem was
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: on my end, So not on the show today. He
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: will be on the show. Hey, you keep it down
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: in there. The a trained Anthony Harmon giving me crap
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: about this, all right, Yeah, it's I apologize it's tomorrow,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: it's not today.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you who is here. It's our good
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: friend Brian Hughes. How you doing doing great?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Are you just put just tagged you in here a
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: little bit early because you boy here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Messed up on the sky.
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: I heard you dancing like nobody's business. I mean you
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: had tap you had tap shoes on there. Well, luckily
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: I'm pretty good at it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: They tell me.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: I don't those dance lessons back when you were a
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: kid finally paid off all that clog.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah all right, So Brian Hughes is here, How are
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: you doing, my friend?
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: I'm doing good right, well chili this morning. But hey, yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: life happens. Life happens. All right, let's warm it up
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: and talk about Regatto. Yeah bet, all right, So you
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: you're the chairs that I no no official title, but
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: I primarily am doing the fundraising or that. That's my
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: primary role at this point. Then I go into operations
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: once we get there. But listen, we've been going full
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: force with our fundraising because you know, this is a
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: big year coming up. I mean it said twenty you
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: know it's a twenty twenty five or twenty twenty five,
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: two hundred and fiftieth birthday of America. So we've got
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: to celebrate that. We've got a couple of votes that
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: are turning one hundred years old this year. The regatta
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: is in its fifth year of the return. And then
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: let's the American Ctermal Association, which I'm the president of.
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: It turns fifty years old this year as well.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: All right, big year. It is a big year, indeed,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And what give us? Give us a date to the regatta.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: So July second through July fifth, and that's that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: When you know, when we've spoken to the fireworks folks,
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: they've said no time. And and you know a couple
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: of these families that, by the way, most of fireworks
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: are based out of Pittsburgh, Italians.
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: They know how to blow things up.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: What's the yeah, Because I remember when I was helping
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: out with the Freedom Festival down down in Logan years ago,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: there was a big there was one big company. They
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: always advertised when and they didn't just say fireworks. They
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: wanted their name mentioned. It was like the Zambelle and
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: zam Beli brothers. Yeah, they wanted their name mentioned in
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: the advertising.
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: Oh let me tell you the asam Belli brothers.
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: You've got the Pyrotechnica group and and they actually all
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: are descendants of the same family. So they've just broken
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: off when somebody goes, I can do this better than
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: you guys, and you know, they break off. But yeah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: most of the fireworks celebrations are booked out of Pittsburgh.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: That's that's interesting, very interesting.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: But but you know, they said, no time in the
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: one hundred year history of some of these one hundred
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: plus year history of some of these families and h
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: organization have they ever had a date that has been
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: so perfectly placed in which they have to do massive,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: massive celebrations across the country. So we're gonna have a
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: fun time. The good thing about it is and you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: if you want to be a part of the uh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: you know, of the celebration, we are absolutely willing to
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: talk with you, find ways to help you grow your brand,
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: make things unique for you and your and your company.
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: But this is the time that you know, corporate citizens
• 24:29
  Speaker 9: need to step up because you know, we are here
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: to help you every single day of the week and
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: of the year, you know, to make sure.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: Your business continues to grow.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: But if there's a time to give back to the
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: you know, to celebrate America right and and everything we've accomplished,
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: whether this country. Whether you think it's broken or it's perfect,
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: or it's somewhere in between. It's time to celebrate this,
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: this long, two hundred and fifty year experiment.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: And from that's what it is to time, Brian, I
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: wonder how the experiment's going, especially in the last.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Couple of years.
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: Listen, I I know, I agree. There are times I
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: look at how I'm.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Like, what are you people doing?
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: But but the good part about it is, you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: we get to come together every couple of years, every
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: four years, and we get to you know, let our
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: voices be heard. But this is the time to celebrate
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: the fact that our voices can be heard, celebrate those
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: people who have given the ultimate sacrifice.
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: And it's just gonna be it's gonna be a fun time.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: And and but but this year, when I have been
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: meeting with many of our sponsors, they I've said, if
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: you can help us out a little bit more, because
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: things are going to cost a lot more this year,
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: just help us out, you know, step up late, just
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: so touch more. Nearly every single organization has stepped up
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: to the plate. And and that's that's a cool thing.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: This is going to be an awesome celebration the mayor
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: uh and and the entire Charleston Stem when we got
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: a board, uh, the city employees, everybody's excited. Plus we
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: also know June into that first week of July is
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: a massive undertaking for the city with the bike races,
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: with the you know you say cycling, which is so exciting,
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: and then you've got the gymnastics that it's gonna be
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: USA Gymnastics and their new stuff.
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: You know, that's gonna be some really fun times.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Talking to Brian Hughes again about the Charleston's Stern Wheel
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: forgot it now? Everybody always asks when will the entertainment
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: be announced? I'm not asking for it today. When will
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: it be announced?
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: We we hope to announce somewhere because the thing is,
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: we still we just don't have all of it booked.
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: You know, we've got we've got some of it books.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: But we hope that maybe sometime during March or April
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: we might be able to do that with with Gusto.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Because the other thing, too is everybody's gonna be on
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: the same page. So once once we're all on this,
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: once every single artist, their management teams, we're all on
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: the same page, then we can do it but one
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: of the most popular.
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: Things from last year. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: You know, the the Valley jam and the stern will
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: boat rides everybody.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I love that. It's a huge hit last year. Yeah, jam.
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: So we we've been chatting with them and and and
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: we expect that to grow. Uh you know, there are
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: more opportunities with that. But there's so many different things,
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: you know, from the carnival, the kids zone, uh, you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: to the all the food that you.
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: Could possibly imagine. So that's gonna be fun.
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: But listen, we're gonna have a big party and celebrate
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: America's birthday.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: That's the plan. That's the plan.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: So I mean, again, I don't want to give away
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: too much now because we're just in January, but are
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: there new things this year coming? You don't have to
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: tell me what they are, but are there new things
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: that are in that head of you and and the
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: rest of the committee and the and the and the
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: and the city that you're thinking about.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: If there's if there's anything that because we we've laughed
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: about it, uh, you know, and we said if there's
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: any time to do something and go over the top,
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: it's this year. And we do have some we do
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: some things that we're planning and I and here's the deal,
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: as Mayor said the other day, we got to keep
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: this all the wraps because we will make this a
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: big party. But it is going to be bigger, it's
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: gonna better, it's gonna be so much fun. The Wii,
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: your dog raciers are going to be awesome. You know
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: you've got the And this is one thing I don't
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: think people realize that we have this little hidden cove.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: It's called Capitol Street. It's not so much hidden during
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: the day, but during regatta it's hidden. And we put
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: a jumbo tron at the end of Capitol Street close
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: to the river, and you can sit there with your
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: lawn chairs an incredible comfort because there's a lot of
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: space up there, and we've got speakers that go specifically
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: to Capitol Street and a JumboTron you can relax, step
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: into whether it be Groove or Sam's Uptown Cafe and
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: now one oh one just right across the street. You know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: you have that opportunity to sit down, sit there and
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: relax and enjoy the concert there as well without having
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: to get over into the main footprint and try and
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: fight some of the crowds. So there's a lot of
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: things that you can still do and still enjoy it all.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Talking to Brian Hughes about the regatta, a Dave Island
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  Speaker 4: this is gonna be your but not your final one.
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  Speaker 4: What happened on several times between nowadays, but for today
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: your final plea if you will for for sponsors, because
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: if you're a company, I mean, there's no bigger event
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: in one place I can't imagine in West Virginia. Maybe
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: maybe Bridge Day, but but it doesn't have that's a
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: you know, that's a one day thing. One day for
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: that you're not gonna have your name out there. Any
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: other opportunity that you're gonna have your name in front
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: of that many people is what you will with for God.
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: The the the equivalent of the Charleston Cemo Regatta, is
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: three Mountaineer football games back to back to back. It
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: is you are you're reaching audience that is massive. It
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: stretches states upon states away and if you're and you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: and it also gets the locals here so excited. But
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: this is a time for you to be a corporate citizen,
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: step up to the plate, have some on with us
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: and celebrate America's birthday. The Stern Wheels, you know, these
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: boats are you know what helped get the coal and
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: the salt trade going up and down the rivers. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: you know, we celebrate that every single every single day.
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: I sell it, every celebrate every single day. I live
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  Speaker 3: Dave, Wow, you could have done much better than me. Ah,
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  Speaker 3: I disagree.
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  Speaker 14: You're pretty You're pretty okay in my book.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, yeah, you and I have known
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  Speaker 4: each other for a long time. But what made you
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  Speaker 4: make this decision, Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Dave, Yeah, we have to.
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  Speaker 14: I don't want to. I don't want to taut a
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  Speaker 14: bunch of negativity. But if we're going to look at
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  Speaker 14: the numbers and look at where we are as a
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  Speaker 14: state right now, we have serious, serious problems. We've been
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  Speaker 14: declining in population, we have an aging population, and we
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  Speaker 14: have a financial catastrophe that's coming because of the way
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  Speaker 14: the funding works for the Affordable Care Act, in Medicare
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  Speaker 14: and Medicaid expansion. As our population continues to age and
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  Speaker 14: we don't have a productive workforce below it, then the
• 35:39
  Speaker 14: revenue gets basically upside down and it's going to affect
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  Speaker 14: the bond ratings and put us in a financial tail spin.
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  Speaker 14: And that's when the deep austerity happens. And so the
• 35:47
  Speaker 14: way to fix this is just like any time that
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: I buy a business, I systematically analyze it and then
• 35:52
  Speaker 14: I determine how in the world we're going to take
• 35:54
  Speaker 14: it from where it is because you don't buy a
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  Speaker 14: business that's really rocking and rolling and cranking, right, You're
• 35:58
  Speaker 14: always buying struggling businesses. Most of the time. You create
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  Speaker 14: a game plan and a blueprint to fix the problem,
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  Speaker 14: and then you go through and execute. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 14: where we are in the state. We have serious financial catastrophe,
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  Speaker 14: a serious financial catastrophecoming and it's going to take our best,
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  Speaker 14: in our brightest on the field to fix it. It starts
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  Speaker 14: and ends with economic development, because the solution to every
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  Speaker 14: problem that we have, from population, to healthcare, to the
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  Speaker 14: foster care system, to everything that involves our economy. We
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  Speaker 14: got to add two hundred thousand people to our state
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  Speaker 14: over the next ten years. We absolutely positively have to.
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  Speaker 14: And that's a function of economic growth, growth and development.
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  Speaker 14: And who better to do that than people that are
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  Speaker 14: literally employ people. I'm employee about six hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 14: people and understand how to operate a business. It's the
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  Speaker 14: same darn thing. We're going to get in there and
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  Speaker 14: make ourselves very appealing to commerce and investment and turn
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  Speaker 14: West Virginia into an absolute engine of economic development because
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  Speaker 14: we have to. So there is a key thing here
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  Speaker 14: that we need to discuss. We are living in artificial
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  Speaker 14: intelligence age. It is going to change absolutely everything. And
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  Speaker 14: it just so happens that West Virginia has everything that
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  Speaker 14: the rest of the country needs in this emerging twenty
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  Speaker 14: first century economy. And it starts and ends with being
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  Speaker 14: able to produce massive amounts of energy and also all
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  Speaker 14: of the water resources that we have. It takes massive
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  Speaker 14: amounts of water to cool all the servers to provide
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  Speaker 14: the computational power. It takes massive amounts of water to
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  Speaker 14: manufacture the Cubit chip, which is the next generation of
• 37:22
  Speaker 14: artificial intelligence chips. It takes massive amounts of power to
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  Speaker 14: power the computation to literally fund all of the future.
• 37:30
  Speaker 14: And West Virginia has a key role that we can
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  Speaker 14: play by turning ourselves into the battery of the East Coast.
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  Speaker 14: And here's where the real game changer happens, Dave. We
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  Speaker 14: dramatically uptick the amount of power that we're producing, it
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  Speaker 14: dramatically lowers the cost, and we export the power. When
• 37:45
  Speaker 14: we do that, we're an ability to where we can
• 37:47
  Speaker 14: dramatically drive down the cost of power and use that
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  Speaker 14: as the foundation of all of the economic growth and development.
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  Speaker 14: So if We're the state in the Union that's power
• 37:55
  Speaker 14: is eighty percent cheaper than anywhere else. It is an
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  Speaker 14: absolute game changer because businesses that are in power intensive
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  Speaker 14: will come to us. But then you also think about
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  Speaker 14: Jim and Susie Adkins, both of them are on Social Security.
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  Speaker 14: You cut their power bill by seventy to eighty percent.
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  Speaker 14: You've done something incredibly impactful for them as well. And
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  Speaker 14: that's what good government is. And that's what I want
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  Speaker 14: to be a part of. I want to be a
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  Speaker 14: part of nothing but solutions and fixing problems.
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  Speaker 3: Todor Chris Miller.
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  Speaker 4: And again, this is the fifth District, Yes, sir, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: and that's primarily Cable County.
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  Speaker 3: But explain, explain the district what area It is.
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  Speaker 14: A little bit of Cable, all of Cable in a
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  Speaker 14: little bit of Wayne County, Okay. And Mike Wolfele was
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  Speaker 14: the Senator and the state out of the fifth district
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  Speaker 14: for the past three terms, so he served for twelve years.
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  Speaker 14: He is just a fantastic guy. He's a close friend
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  Speaker 14: of mine, and he decided that it was time for
• 38:38
  Speaker 14: him to step aside, and so he's passing the torch
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  Speaker 14: onto me. And I'm going to roll up my sleeves
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  Speaker 14: and rock and roll and do everything I can to
• 38:43
  Speaker 14: represent the fifth.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting you say, because Wolfel was a Democrat and
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: you're a Republican. You're saying he's passing the torch under.
• 38:49
  Speaker 14: Your Mike and I play basketball together, like I'm close
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  Speaker 14: with his with his sons, they're my age. They're great
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  Speaker 14: people and we're just we're family friends, and you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: get past the political party stuff. They are good human beings.
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  Speaker 14: The Wolfls are just great people and I do anything
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  Speaker 14: with them.
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  Speaker 4: Talking to Chris Miller, who is going to make it official,
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  Speaker 4: I guess later today when you head to the Secretary
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  Speaker 4: of State's office. When you leave here, these will be
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  Speaker 4: running for state Senate out of a district five, but
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  Speaker 4: you ran for governor last time around. What did you
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  Speaker 4: take away from your bid for governor?
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  Speaker 14: The absolute best thing about the state of West Virginia
• 39:32
  Speaker 14: is the people. And I got the privilege to travel
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  Speaker 14: all around the state. My wife and I got the
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  Speaker 14: privilege to travel all around the state and meet so
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  Speaker 14: many incredibly fantastic people, and it just literally inspired me
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  Speaker 14: to want to stay involved and do this even you know,
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  Speaker 14: lose it hurts, but that's not why you do this, right.
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  Speaker 14: You do this because you're trying to do the right
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  Speaker 14: thing and help the people in the state that has
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  Speaker 14: literally provided everything for you. So here we are.
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  Speaker 4: It is interesting, I guess, because there have been people
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: that have said, we need more business people in the legislature,
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: and over the last couple of years we have seen
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: I think a lot more business people stand up. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: you're obviously a very successful business person. Why do you
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: think it's important to have more business people in general
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: in the legislature.
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: We understand financial mechanisms, we understand common sense, and we
• 40:19
  Speaker 14: also don't like bureaucracies. And I really do think that
• 40:22
  Speaker 14: one of the enemies of the twenty first century, just
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: in general or bureaucracies, and so we know how to
• 40:27
  Speaker 14: manage through them and also fix them. So that's why
• 40:31
  Speaker 14: it's a unique skill set. That's problem solving. It's not
• 40:34
  Speaker 14: sausage making. It is actual execution because every single day,
• 40:37
  Speaker 14: every decision that I make affects six hundred and fifty
• 40:40
  Speaker 14: employees and then some because we got businesses outside of
• 40:43
  Speaker 14: the state, So it matters to have people that understand
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  Speaker 14: decisions and consequences and in particular unintended consequences, because in business,
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  Speaker 14: I can make a decision that could have unintended consequences
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  Speaker 14: if I don't evaluate them, and it creates it's nothing
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  Speaker 14: but problems. It's the same thing in politics. Sometimes they
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  Speaker 14: create solutions to fix problems that they don't think about
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  Speaker 14: the unintended consequences because they're not using common sense. And
• 41:06
  Speaker 14: so it's providing that kind of simple, clear thought process
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  Speaker 14: and mindset to help fix problems. That's what the appeal
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  Speaker 4: talking to Chris Miller, who is going to be a
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  Speaker 4: candidate for State Senate out of District five. You've mentioned
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  Speaker 4: some of the things that are on your agenda and
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  Speaker 4: you're coming in this. You're attacking this with a very
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  Speaker 4: ambitious agenda, but you're one of you know.
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  Speaker 3: There are other people in there. You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like when you're running for governor or secretary
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  Speaker 4: to be when if you are elected or whomever's elected this,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to be the new person on the block.
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  Speaker 4: How do you plan on attacking that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: Well, building bridges. That's that's what we do every day
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  Speaker 14: in business, that we build bridges. You can't get stuff
• 43:44
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  Speaker 14: to be good to everybody, right, and people always remember
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  Speaker 14: So like, this is just what I'm made for. This
• 43:53
  Speaker 14: is teamwork. This is creating a team and creating a
• 43:56
  Speaker 14: map for execution, going out and executing. And I realized
• 43:58
  Speaker 14: that I might start might not start off right, you know,
• 44:01
  Speaker 14: in charge of everything.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay.
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  Speaker 14: I'm just gonna do everything that I can to work
• 44:04
  Speaker 14: is absolutely hard as I possibly can for Cabal and
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• 44:09
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• 44:12
  Speaker 14: thing is going to be who's going to be able
• 44:14
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• 44:15
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• 44:17
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• 44:19
  Speaker 14: busting my hump for the people of West Virginia, and
• 44:22
  Speaker 14: so I hope everybody else is prepared to roll up
• 44:24
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• 44:25
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• 44:28
  Speaker 4: When you were talking earlier about AI and things of
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: that nature, one of the hot button topics over the
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: last year so has been data centers. We've talked about
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: data centers. Where are you on data centers?
• 44:38
  Speaker 14: So we have to be smart about this. There are
• 44:41
  Speaker 14: locations and areas that people that do not want data
• 44:44
  Speaker 14: centers there. There also are, like when we're talking about
• 44:46
  Speaker 14: being strategic, there are locations where we absolutely positively should
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: be putting data centers. And here's why. The way that
• 44:53
  Speaker 14: those those those servers and computational systems are calculated for
• 44:59
  Speaker 14: property tax because of how expensive they are even at
• 45:03
  Speaker 14: salvage values. We're talking about twenty five to fifty million
• 45:06
  Speaker 14: dollars in revenue for a county. You know, you see
• 45:09
  Speaker 14: you think about Mingo County, you think about McDowell County,
• 45:12
  Speaker 14: you think about Wayne County that's really struggling. A data
• 45:15
  Speaker 14: center there would provide an incredible amount of revenue for
• 45:18
  Speaker 14: that county because of the way property taxes work. That
• 45:22
  Speaker 14: would be an absolute game changer. So nobody wants a
• 45:25
  Speaker 14: data center, just like nobody wants a power plant right
• 45:27
  Speaker 14: beside their house. But there's plenty of sites and locations
• 45:29
  Speaker 14: that we can find to put these in, because like,
• 45:31
  Speaker 14: this is a financial obligation. We have a fiduciary duty
• 45:35
  Speaker 14: inside of elected office to run the government, to do
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  Speaker 14: beneficial things for the people and manage the dollars and
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  Speaker 14: cents the right way. And this is something that's imperative
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  Speaker 14: when it comes to managing dollars and cents, because my goodness, gracious,
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  Speaker 14: that is an incredible amount of money that we could
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  Speaker 14: have to improve education, to improve people training and trades,
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  Speaker 14: to improve healthcare, all kinds of things inside of just
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  Speaker 14: one county that has that data center. So we got
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  Speaker 14: to be smart and I'm all in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 4: What you know, you mentioned earlier that we need we
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: need to add what did you say, two hundred thousand, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: people to West Virginia. How do we market West Virginia
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  Speaker 4: I mean to other people to get them to want
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  Speaker 4: to either a stay here. I mean, you brought your
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  Speaker 4: son with you, he's a young guy. How do you
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  Speaker 4: look at him and say, okay, your generation, we need
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: you to stay here. Or how do we go on
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  Speaker 4: the on the national level and say West Virginia is
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: the place to be.
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  Speaker 14: Both things right. So we have what the rest of
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  Speaker 14: the world, based on data, is looking for. We have
• 46:30
  Speaker 14: what the rest of the country is looking for. We
• 46:32
  Speaker 14: have hills and trees and rivers and streams, and a
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  Speaker 14: high quality of life and the lower cost of living.
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  Speaker 14: We have some of the best people on planet Earth. Like,
• 46:39
  Speaker 14: there's something very beneficial to all of that stuff, and
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  Speaker 14: there are people all around the country that are looking
• 46:45
  Speaker 14: for that. They're tired of being locked up in cities
• 46:47
  Speaker 14: surrounded by concrete where they like, if something happens, like
• 46:50
  Speaker 14: a pandemic, you're locked up in a quad building up
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  Speaker 14: and down bunch of apartments and you can't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 14: That is pure misery. That's not the way human beings
• 46:58
  Speaker 14: are wired. So we have what people are looking for.
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  Speaker 14: And if we ramp up our economy and make it
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  Speaker 14: very very beneficial for opportunity in the young kids to stay,
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: then you hit it with a double edged sword, right,
• 47:10
  Speaker 14: You hit it with what people want that aren't here,
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  Speaker 14: and then you solve the problem that people are looking
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  Speaker 14: for that are here, and it's a win.
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  Speaker 4: The couple weeks ago, Chris House speaker Roger Hanshaw came
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: out and had a gathering little press event with some
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: of the people of the Republican Caucus, and he said,
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: on the House, they want to focus on not so
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: much on social issues, but they want to focus on jobs,
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: the economy, so on. So we didn't really hear that
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: out of the Senate. Where are you on the social
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: issues versus the other things?
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  Speaker 14: So we need to be focusing on nothing but economic
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  Speaker 14: growth and development to solve the problems the state is facing.
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  Speaker 14: And if you break down every single problem that we have,
• 47:47
  Speaker 14: it all boils back down to if you create a
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  Speaker 14: thriving economy, you can fix it. You can fix Peia,
• 47:52
  Speaker 14: you can fix education, you can fix healthcare, and what
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  Speaker 14: you have to do to do all those things that
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  Speaker 14: you have to the tax revenue and the systems to
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  Speaker 14: make it work. And so growing the population does exactly that.
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  Speaker 14: And how do you grow the population You create an
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  Speaker 14: economy that thrives. Capital flows like water to the places
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  Speaker 14: that it's most welcome. And so if we make West
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  Speaker 14: Virginia welcome to capital and investment systematically hitting singles and
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  Speaker 14: doubles and then setting it up for the home run
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  Speaker 14: in the Grand Slam, then the sky is the limit.
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  Speaker 14: And I if we do this, the right way, Dave,
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  Speaker 14: we can awake a sleeping giant. West Virginia could be
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  Speaker 14: because of our resources, we could be the richest state
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  Speaker 14: in the country per capita. And when we do that,
• 48:31
  Speaker 14: there's lots of problems that get solved.
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  Speaker 3: You have your website or social media up and running in.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, so it's Miller for West Virginia dot com. It's
• 48:39
  Speaker 14: just now freshen up and running. And when I go
• 48:42
  Speaker 14: file today then they'll have a po box and all
• 48:44
  Speaker 14: this other stuff. It'll make it official.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chris Miller, Republican candidate. Now go to go
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: make it official. Head down the street.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thanks for having us dating that.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Chris Miller coming up on tomorrow show, Doctor Casey Saxsonbridge
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: Valley will stop by. We'll wrap up the Selango, loll
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: Light the Night more on Restaurant Week in Charleston. And yes,
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Delbert Rouse third, the new magister in Kanawh County, will
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: be on the show tomorrow as well. Wilson Meadows coming
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: up with talk Line. Our producers the a Training Anthony Harmon.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I will see you later today
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: on Metro News midday. Till then, have fun and love
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