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08/14/2025 580 Live with Dale Cooper - Mayor Frank Mullins, Andrew Donaldson, Mayor Amy Goodwin · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 3: Eight minutes past nine o'clock, you're listening to five eighty
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  Speaker 3: love WCHS the Voice of Charleston from Downtown Charleston. I
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  Speaker 3: am Dale Cooper. Thank you so much for tuning in today.
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  Speaker 3: Dave Ballen out today and tomorrow, will be back on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: what our setup is here for the week, filling in
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  Speaker 3: for Dave, one of our many Daves across our network
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  Speaker 3: days having he's I've checked in with him a few
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  Speaker 3: times checked he's checked in with me and he's doing fine.
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  Speaker 3: So Dave's fine. You don't have to worry about him.
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  Speaker 3: The Bloomberg report just coming out of news. Kind of funny.
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  Speaker 3: Two days ago we had inflation news that was, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is so much lower than what we expected. In
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  Speaker 3: today's inflation numbers so much higher than we expected. Interesting times,
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  Speaker 3: very interesting times. We have an interesting show as far
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  Speaker 3: as those things go, coming up for you today in
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  Speaker 3: just a moment, South charleson Maryer Frank Mallins is going
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  Speaker 3: to join me for just a couple minutes, so we're
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  Speaker 3: going to we're going to preview the remainder of Summerfest.
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  Speaker 3: Summerfests started last night with some great events and then
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  Speaker 3: it continues through Saturday and there's all types of great
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  Speaker 3: things going on there. We're going to talk to Meyer
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  Speaker 3: Mallins about a couple of those things. I want to
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  Speaker 3: have on Andrew Donaldson a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 3: the program. He's with West Virginia Watch and The Herdtel Show.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew's been on this program a couple of times. He's
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  Speaker 3: even co hosted it. He has been making the tour
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  Speaker 3: he's in well, i'll let him I think four different countries,
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  Speaker 3: four or five different countries where he's been commentating on
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  Speaker 3: different things going on in the US, specifically this thing
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  Speaker 3: that's going on in Washington, d C. So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to get Andrew's opinion on those as well as kind
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  Speaker 3: of what his impression is from outside the country based
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  Speaker 3: on the types of questions and impressions he's getting from
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  Speaker 3: other countries where he's been on to talk about what's
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  Speaker 3: going on here. Just wanted to kind of see it
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  Speaker 3: from that perspective, which I thought might be unique compared
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  Speaker 3: to what we've heard so far. So I thought that
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  Speaker 3: might be interesting. We'll talk to Andrew coming up here
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  Speaker 3: in about ten or fifteen minutes, and then Mayor Amy
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  Speaker 3: Schuler Goodwin is going to join.
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  Speaker 4: Us as well.
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  Speaker 3: She was just elevated to the position to president of
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  Speaker 3: the Municipal League of Mayor's here in West Virginia, covering
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  Speaker 3: over two hundred and thirty municipalities in the state. It's
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  Speaker 3: a very important role. Amy's been part of the league forever,
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  Speaker 3: but I wanted to get Mayor Amy's take on what
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  Speaker 3: her leadership is going to encompass in this what her
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  Speaker 3: major initiatives are and what she sees on the future
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  Speaker 3: for the municipal league. So that's what our show is today.
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  Speaker 3: our first guest. We have Mayor Mullins who's coming on
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  Speaker 3: lines with us. Ring Mallins from South Charleston, gonn talk
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about Summerfest this morning. Mary, good morning,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Corndale, go find thank you, thank.
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  Speaker 3: You so much for for tuning in. I always love
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  Speaker 3: Summerfest in South Charleston. It's a great event.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great time. It's you know, it's what
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  Speaker 5: we look forward to at one of our big events
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  Speaker 5: we look forward to every year. Started off last night,
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  Speaker 5: got a little rain at the end but got most
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  Speaker 5: of it in so I had a good crowd. We're
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  Speaker 5: off the pretty good start.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that that tributes track reality because the Heart
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  Speaker 3: concert first time around in Charleston got canceled and last
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  Speaker 3: night you got a little bit of rain with the
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  Speaker 3: Heart tribute band coming on. But that's okay, that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: The the forecast for the weekend looks pretty darn good
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  Speaker 3: for what you have coming up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it really does. So we'll get back at
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  Speaker 5: at this evening hopefully have a good crowd out to
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  Speaker 5: night via. You're right, I think Mother Natre is going
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  Speaker 5: to be good to us the rest of the time.
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  Speaker 4: I certainly hope so.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're in the area, you know what Summerfest
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  Speaker 3: in South Charleston is all about. It starts late in
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  Speaker 3: the afternoon around four point thirty. Food vendors open up.
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  Speaker 3: They have them all over the place. What I like
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  Speaker 3: is you every single day you have a place for
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  Speaker 3: the kids. So you have the Kid Zone place where
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  Speaker 3: you can go and get different activities there, and that's
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  Speaker 3: an important part of a family activity.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we wanted to keep it a family oriented advent
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  Speaker 5: and that's one of the things that we put into
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  Speaker 5: play in my first term was the kids Zone. It's
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  Speaker 5: kind of grown a little bit since then and so
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  Speaker 5: now it pretty much wraps around the whole backside of
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  Speaker 5: the mound. So we're worthly proud of that. Everything back
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  Speaker 5: there is free, with the face painting, the inflatables, the
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  Speaker 5: slow cones, all that kind of stuff is free to
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  Speaker 5: the kids, so they can just get back there and
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  Speaker 5: have a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to that and when I
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  Speaker 3: bring my daughter down there this weekend and the music
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  Speaker 3: starts every night at about six o'clock. There's two shows
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  Speaker 3: every night, all kinds of things. Josh Pantry is going
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  Speaker 3: to be over there tomorrow and night. I know he's
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  Speaker 3: a very popular locally. You have the Detonators and the
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  Speaker 3: Legacy Motown Review that's going to be performing tonight. It's
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  Speaker 3: just a good time, live music, live events. It's your friends,
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  Speaker 3: your neighbors, and it's in the beautiful city of South Charles.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's really nothing to not love about this.
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  Speaker 5: It really isn't It is a great time. Just bring
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  Speaker 5: your lawn chair, set it out on d Street and
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  Speaker 5: join the entertainment. You know, I like that most about it.
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  Speaker 5: Just mingle with all across the crowd, and you see
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people you don't get to see all
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  Speaker 5: the time. So it's just a good time to get out.
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  Speaker 5: It's a good family atmosphere, as I mentioned, and so
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  Speaker 5: they come on out and join the entertainment. We'll have
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  Speaker 5: a big drone show on Friday night and fireworks end
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  Speaker 5: up on Saturday. So come on down and joy with us.
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  Speaker 5: It's a really good time.
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  Speaker 4: Just briefly that drone show.
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  Speaker 3: These things are getting more and more popular, and I know,
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  Speaker 3: especially for folks that have like dogs or kids that
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  Speaker 3: are a little bit nervous around the noises. Drones show
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  Speaker 3: in South Charles and this is gonna be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a quiet fireworks show, right, so but with
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  Speaker 5: the music and everything. You know, we were one of
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  Speaker 5: the first in Koff County to do it. We were
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  Speaker 5: almost first of the stay yaha beat us by a
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  Speaker 5: little bit, but but it's caught on a lot of
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  Speaker 5: folks were doing. It's pretty neat. I mean, it's amazing
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  Speaker 5: what they could do with those drones, is all the
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  Speaker 5: different characters and things they can design up in the sky.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: And then one of the favorite events for everybody that
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  Speaker 3: happens there, and we've lost some of our car events
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  Speaker 3: in the area recently, so it's really nice to have
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  Speaker 3: a car show in South Charleston that's going to be
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday morning starting at eight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we rebooted that thing a few years ago and
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  Speaker 5: it's a couple of my city council members have taking
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  Speaker 5: control when they run that thing, and it's grown every
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  Speaker 5: year and it's grown again this year. I can't remember
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  Speaker 5: the exact number of cars that we're having, but I
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  Speaker 5: think we reached over two hundred last year, maybe getting
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  Speaker 5: there again. So come on out. That's from Saturday morning
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  Speaker 5: from eight to two, prior to Summer Fest getting kicked
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  Speaker 5: off later in the evening, so it's a full day
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  Speaker 5: that day, but come on out and enjoy the car show.
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  Speaker 5: Those guys do a great.
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  Speaker 4: Job of that man.
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  Speaker 3: That is great information, a great time happening at Summerfest
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  Speaker 3: in South Charleston, and it's the ongoing now starts about
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  Speaker 3: four thirty today and tomorrow eight o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Saturday is an all day event, starting with the car
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  Speaker 3: show at eight o'clock. But you can turn out out there.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a great time, a mixture of events,
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  Speaker 3: some free, some things you have to do. It's just
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  Speaker 3: an amazing time and it's the perfect type of event
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  Speaker 3: and festival to kind of start wrapping up summer, getting
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  Speaker 3: ready to go back to school.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, like I say, a great time and
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  Speaker 5: Saturday night come out. We'll we'll we'll end up with
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  Speaker 5: our our tradition of Rick K and road trip. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Rick's been with us a long time. Everybody looks really
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  Speaker 5: everybody looks forward to all the entertainment is great, but
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  Speaker 5: everybody looks forward to Rick K. He's kind of a
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  Speaker 5: statue with Summer Fest. So we're glad to have him back.
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  Speaker 5: And again we'll wind up with the fireworks on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: So meyor allins, I really appreciate your time. That's a
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  Speaker 3: great time out in Summerfest. I look forward to bringing
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  Speaker 3: my family out there. I know most people are. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much for coming on and just remind us
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about what's going on. It's how Charleston
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  Speaker 3: this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Well that's it now Summerfest is going on, and so tonight,
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  Speaker 5: tomorrow and Saturday. We'll wind up Saturday, but we start
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  Speaker 5: every day at four thirty. The food vendors open up. Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: It's an all day things starting date aim with the
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  Speaker 5: car show, So everybody just come on out and enjoy
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  Speaker 5: the enjoy the enjoy the evening with us. It's a
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  Speaker 5: really good family oriented time.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds a great Mayor. I really appreciate your time warning
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  Speaker 3: and sharing it with us. Having good luck this week
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  Speaker 3: and really appreciate it and thanks a bus. Take care
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  Speaker 3: all right, take care maryor Frank Mallins from South Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: What a great time over there, and for Summer Fest's
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  Speaker 3: a it's an event that's grown and grown and grown.
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  Speaker 3: It's just become one of the staples of our local
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  Speaker 3: combined communities here in the Kenall Valley. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know that's very true. I really enjoy
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  Speaker 3: I really appreciate your joining me this way. There's so
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  Speaker 3: much stuff to talk about. And one thing that I've
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  Speaker 3: just a moment. I guess first of all, the main
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's funny because there it's interesting what stories pop overseas.
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  Speaker 12: That's kind of what they think of. So it did
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• 13:46
  Speaker 12: recompense overseas. They kind of sit back and watch. They
• 13:49
  Speaker 12: understand Donald Trump very well and how he does things,
• 13:52
  Speaker 12: so things like the terrorists, things like this. They've really
• 13:54
  Speaker 12: adapted this term as opposed to the first term, more
• 13:57
  Speaker 12: of a wait and see approach. So they're like, Okay,
• 13:59
  Speaker 12: we know there's going to be the big loud headline,
• 14:01
  Speaker 12: then there's going to be the big loud reaction, and
• 14:04
  Speaker 12: then President Trump will react to the reaction. They've kind
• 14:08
  Speaker 12: of developed overseas. They kind of know to wait for
• 14:10
  Speaker 12: those three things to happen, and then it kind of
• 14:11
  Speaker 12: settles into whatever it's going to be, probably something that
• 14:14
  Speaker 12: would be healthy for all of us to start trying
• 14:16
  Speaker 12: to do.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: That's an interesting point. I have a friend of mine
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: who dabbles in the stock market quite a bit, and
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: he was very frustrated with kind of the the announcements
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: of seeming half hazard, announcements of tariffs, no tariffs, break
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: on tariffs, back and forth. Somebody in the know there
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: could potentially make you know, quite a bit of money
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: play in the market if they knew what was happening.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: But also the predictable reactions. Reactions became relatively predictable after
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: the announcements, and he started playing in that area and
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: he did it for about a month and did very
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: very well. He said, I'm not going to use like
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: the Trump index for my career, but for this month
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: he cashed out and worked very well, just working on
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: the inverse of announcements that we made on tariffs.
• 14:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we get caught up in the news cycle, but
• 14:56
  Speaker 12: there really is kind of a circadium rhythm to this stuff. So, like,
• 14:59
  Speaker 12: you know, we're both in the new business. So right now,
• 15:01
  Speaker 12: it's like, Okay, the reason I'm doing this overseas stuff
• 15:03
  Speaker 12: with my own work right now is because when Congress
• 15:06
  Speaker 12: comes back to September, we're going to go right into
• 15:08
  Speaker 12: failure theater and passing a cr and all of that.
• 15:11
  Speaker 12: We're doing this new stories on the DC military takeover,
• 15:14
  Speaker 12: but the Putin News sometime today, once that meeting happens,
• 15:17
  Speaker 12: that's going to take over the cycle Friday, going into
• 15:19
  Speaker 12: the weekend, and then we'll go into the midterms. Long
• 15:21
  Speaker 12: term we know that's coming, and even longer term we
• 15:23
  Speaker 12: know to twenty twenty eight. This stuff has a rhythm
• 15:26
  Speaker 12: to it, So if you can kind of step yourself
• 15:28
  Speaker 12: back from the day to day chasing the viral, whatever
• 15:31
  Speaker 12: the character of the day is on social media and
• 15:33
  Speaker 12: news media, this stuff really does have a rhythm to it,
• 15:36
  Speaker 12: and you're going to get surprised a lot and things
• 15:38
  Speaker 12: pop up, but the overall arc of it, there's an
• 15:41
  Speaker 12: up and down to it that you can kind of
• 15:42
  Speaker 12: follow if you have a little bit of perspective.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: When we talk about what's happening in DC and a
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: perfect illustration of what you're talking about about the coverage,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: especially in the US news media, Basically you have hyperpartisans
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: on both sides that immediately find and identify a sort
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: of what their narrative is going to be. That's what
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: they marry to, and they defend that narrative until it's
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: beyond cognitive dissisonance.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I hate the both sides things, I really do, because
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: not always as both sides equal, but both sides are
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: definitely guilty of doing this where you just you just
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: married to your narrative and you will not budge off
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: that narrative if we try to navigate through the truth here.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Some people is like, this is just a plain fascist takeover.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: This is a warning every This is a warning shot
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: across the bowels to basically everybody. You need to be
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: in line or or who knows what's gonna happen. They're
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: gonna be federal offices in your office. People, you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: claiming that there's a crime issue when when depending on
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: the on the data, Yeah, what is What do you
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: think is if we if we went to trying to
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: find the best possible faith argument for this, is there
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: a good faith argument to be made? Is that there
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: is significantly a problem in DC and is the federal
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: government the only thing that could help it?
• 16:53
  Speaker 12: There is this is just kind of the perfect media
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: story for our modern age because both things are true. Yes,
• 16:59
  Speaker 12: crimes down, yes, DC, the government area and the mall
• 17:03
  Speaker 12: and the tourist areas and where Congress and the halls.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Of power are.
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: If you ever went to DC in the eighties and nineties,
• 17:08
  Speaker 12: it is inarguable it is cleaner, it's nicer, there's lower crime.
• 17:11
  Speaker 12: That is all true. But DC is also a city
• 17:14
  Speaker 12: of two different things. So you have places across Santa Costia.
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: You got places in Brentwood that have very high crime,
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: and there's some systematic things built into d C why
• 17:23
  Speaker 12: it's always had a high crime problem. So you can
• 17:26
  Speaker 12: pull out the crime stats and go, yeah, the crime
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: stats are down, that's true. And you can pull out
• 17:30
  Speaker 12: the viral video of really bad crime happening and going,
• 17:32
  Speaker 12: crime's way up, and that's true too. And both of
• 17:35
  Speaker 12: those things are true at the same time. And it
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: goes right into everything else we're talking about. People Donald Trump,
• 17:40
  Speaker 12: and President Trump is the expert at getting reaction to
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: further his message. So the reaction of him, and he
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: has the legal authority to do this, So the people
• 17:49
  Speaker 12: saying he can't do it, yes, the home room law.
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: He gets thirty days past that he has to go
• 17:52
  Speaker 12: to Congress. He's going to make a big show of it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 12: They're going to have all the FEDS walking around. It's
• 17:56
  Speaker 12: going to be a big pr hit. What's it going
• 17:59
  Speaker 12: to do after that? If the answer was not to
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: go there's no crime in DC? Because now you look ridiculous.
• 18:03
  Speaker 12: And that's what a lot of the people that are
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: against President Trump are doing. They play right into it,
• 18:08
  Speaker 12: they add to it, they fuel his fire. A lot
• 18:10
  Speaker 12: of President Trump's success is he is blessed with really
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: bad decision making by his enemies and opponents, and this
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: is a good example of it. Of course, there's bad
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: crime in DC. Is this going to fix it? Probably not.
• 18:20
  Speaker 12: You'll have a little bit of a bump, but they're
• 18:22
  Speaker 12: not going to go into Anacostia. They're not going to
• 18:23
  Speaker 12: go into Brettwood and actually clean.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Up a lot of it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 12: Really, my favorite quote of that whole thing was he
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: talked about cutting loose a little bit of money for
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: road improvement West Virginians. We've heard politicians promise road improvement.
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: This is how Donald Trump do it. He said, this
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: is a quote, we need a beautiful topping by a
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: very talented asphalt type person. That's how he talks about
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: road improvement in his very Donald Trump way, which is
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: so entertaining. But that's the point of this. Does he
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: have the right to do it. Yes, Is it the
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: end of the world he's doing it?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: No?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Is it the end of the republic?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: No?
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: Is it probably going to go away in two or
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: three weeks because we just did this in LA where
• 18:57
  Speaker 12: the military came in, and when's the last time did
• 18:59
  Speaker 12: we talk about that? Because they quietly went home and
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: the court case hasn't even caught up. I think that's
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: probably more of the model of what we're going to
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: be dealing with here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: That's so insightful, and I think it really marries into
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: a lot of problems that we have with these things,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: and it all comes bad to bad faith argument. And again,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: this could be anyone that does this. And DC is
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: a great example. Well, there's not that much crime in DC.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Look how much it's gone down. You look at the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: actual raw numbers. There's a ton of crime in DC,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: and there's no question about it. It's the same argument
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: that I hear about Chicago all the time. I hear
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: people that's never stepped foot in the state of Illinois
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: argue about how dangerous Chicago is. I lived in between
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Chicago and Detroit for fifteen years. I went to bo
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: cities a lot, perfectly safe both cities. Every time I went,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: never felt threatened in any way, shape or form. Why
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: because there are certain areas you don't go to. Otherwise
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: everything's more or less fine. And that's what you find,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: that kind of two city thing that is in a
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: lot of places. And when you start talking about, well,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Chicago's a hellhole, you can't go there without being murdered.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: That's just not true. It's not even close to true.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I've been there twenty times. It's not true at all.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Same thing with New York. I've been to New York
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know fifteen or twenty times. It's just not
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: true unless you happen to go into the wrong place.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I remember driving through Indianapolis a few years ago, got
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: off at the wrong spot. I was looking for Indianapolis
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Indians a baseball field, as a matter of fact, got
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: off at I think it was like Northern India or
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: something like that. I can't remember exactly. I got pulled
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: over by the police. I'm like, what in the heck
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: did I do wrong? I have no idea. The police
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: came up to my car, rolled down my window, and
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: they said, sir, I think you might be in the
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: wrong neighborhood. By my observation, you might want to find
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: a different place if you're looking for a hotel or something.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I was Indianapolis is fine, but this police officer pulled
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: me over just to tell me, Son, you might be
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: in the wrong place to seek other places. It's like
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: that basically everywhere.
• 20:45
  Speaker 12: It's like that. In Charleston, it's like that. In Huntington,
• 20:47
  Speaker 12: it's like that. In Morgantown. It's like that in Somersville,
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: a little tiny Summersville where I live there. You know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: Summersville is very nice, all the touristy stuff. But you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: we can go down some hollers. When you start getting
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: past Craigsville and rich Wood, there's some places you probably
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: don't want to wander off without some way that's local
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: with you. The thing is, can you survive first contact
• 21:03
  Speaker 12: with a viral video and not overreact to it? Can
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: you look at data and look at a problem like
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: crime and understand it like, Okay, you can come in
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: heavy handed because it makes everybody feel good and you
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: can squash the crime temporarily. That'll work, but it won't
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: work long time. Because we know crime prevention. You have
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: to do the preventative stuff. You have to do the
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: infrastructure stuff you have to have, you know, the social
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: aspect of it. Poverty is a big part of it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: There's an all of the above way of dealing with
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: crime and just bringing the hammer and smashing criminals. Never
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: ever in the history of ever has fixed it. It'll
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: do it temporarily. It makes a really good PR hit,
• 21:35
  Speaker 12: but long term it ain't gonna work. Just like our
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: drug prom in West Virginia, you can, you just can't
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: throw enough of them in jail to ever stop it.
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: You have to do the preventative, which brings us to
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: what we're going to see in the next week or so.
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: With this, there's going to be the big PR splash.
• 21:48
  Speaker 12: The six or seven FEDS walking through Georgetown is not
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: actually going to change the crime rate overall. There'll be
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: a depression because there's so much pr over it. But no,
• 21:56
  Speaker 12: it's not the end of the republic. Everybody calm down.
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: You have to take President Trump and President Trump's opponents
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: at their face value. Look at it, don't lose your bearing.
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: And then when President Trump says does something good, say
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: that was good. If he does something bad, say that
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: was bad, and don't lose your bearing over it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Because then you just end up.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: Screaming in the wind all the time, and we're going
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: to get a lot of that with this story.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you really end up looking uninformed. Like one of
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: the things you love seeing rolled out is like crime
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: statistics in Alabama and Tennessee, for example, very high. When
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: you talk about violent crime rates and things like that,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: you deal into it more. It is very high, higher
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: than in most areas. They are typically rural states. Where's
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the crime rate come from Huntsville and Memphis? Yeah, you
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: know what I mean.
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: As with poverty, Yeah, poverty is the number one driver
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: of crime. That always has been, always will be. Lack
• 22:44
  Speaker 12: of services driver of crime. It's it's the same stuff everywhere.
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: We just want to put the other story.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: On top of it.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's absolutely true, and sometimes it takes a little
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: bit more of a longer view. One of the we'll
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: go to a break here in a minute. I want
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: to come back and talk a little bit more, maybe
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: a little bit more lighthearted stuff.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: School thing.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I wanted to ask your opinion on the cell phones
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: in school. That's something in here in Kinnak County we
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: just recently got rid of. But you mentioned a moment
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: ago I don't want to leave this completely unturned. I
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: didn't we didn't prep on this, but we can riff
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: on it for just a second. As far as the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: meeting in Alaska taking place between President Trump and Vladimir Putin,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: what's your top line read on that?
• 23:19
  Speaker 12: This is something that President Trump's actually done really good
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: on Russia the last couple of months. He's been a
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: lot harder on him. He's been critical of Putin, which
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: is unusual for him. I don't know what to make
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: of this, because this was very much Putin talked the
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: world into pressuring President Trump into having this meeting, into
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: having a unilateral meeting where it's just the two of
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: them bilateral. I guess I should say just the two
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: of them talking about it. I'm a little apprehensive what's
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: going to come out of it, But again, whatever the
• 23:44
  Speaker 12: initial announcement of it is, we probably shouldn't react to
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: it until we find out the details of it. Because
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: you can come out and pronounce something with this, but
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: if we don't have anything written in paper, if the
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: Ukrainians don't agree to it, if NATO and the EU
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: don't agree to it, this may not have a whole
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: lot of teeth to it if we're not to do
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: sanctions and things like that. So I would caution everybody
• 24:03
  Speaker 12: to probably let that one burn a day or two
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: before we overreact to it. But the optics of it
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: aren't great. But we'll see what happens.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: That's that's kind of what you know.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know enough about that international theater to really
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: have much of an opinion. I try to retract from
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: from from downing too far into opinions on stuff that
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know all that much about. Optically, it's just
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: an odd fit, you know. That's the thing. The thing
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: for me is as I have a hard time kind
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: of squaring that circle a little bit. I mean, it
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: could be fine. I mean like, I'm not an expert
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: with this. It's just there's something about the the in
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the gut that I have a hard time squaring, squaring
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: the meeting the way that it's taking place.
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: Because it's a pr thing and he's gonna see it,
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: and Donald Trump's a very transactional it's a big media
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: moment and he lives for those. So when you look
• 24:47
  Speaker 12: at it with your media hat on, it makes perfect
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: sense politically and geopolitically. No, it don't make a lot
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: of sense. But that's the secondary consideration. Is this sort
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: of a thing. It's moving the ball forward in Putin's mind,
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: in President Trump's mind, because they're going to have the
• 24:59
  Speaker 12: big moment, going to put all the attention back on them.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's uh, that's very true, and it's it's
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: interesting the way these things play out. I like that
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: your perspective from this always is to to wait till
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: the noise dies down and then try to make sober
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: assessments of what's going on. Don't get caught in the headline,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: don't get caught into the social media thing. I've almost
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: removed myself completely from social media except for where it
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: has to go with work, because you frankly don't.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I'm in news. I have access to like actual.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Local news resources and to people won the ground in
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: places I don't. I don't actually need social media to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: follow the news. I have plenty of resources that I
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: could get to myself where I don't need to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: influenced as it as it is by people that are
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: trying to contextualize things that might not be necessarily true.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I've just tried to completely separate myself from that it's
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: more therapy for me than anything else anymore. I don't
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: use it for any information sourcing.
• 25:49
  Speaker 13: No.
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: Look, social media is a tool. It's like a hammer.
• 25:52
  Speaker 12: You can use it to kill somebody, or you can
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: use it to build a house for somebody. It's just
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: a tool you use.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very true. If you don't mind hanging one
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: with me, I want to come back talk little abo
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: here locally. We're going back to school. I want to
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: talk a little bit about going back to school. We
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: recently had an initiative where cell phones are no longer
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: allowed up to high school in Knaw County schools.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Talk a little bit about that, what it might mean
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: you have.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: You're a multi time father, You've been dealing with different
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: aspects of kids in schools.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: So we'll talk about that from different perspectives when we've
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: come back. If you don't mind.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Holding no one for me, absolutely, As Andrew Donaldson joined
• 26:27
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• 26:28
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• 26:30
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• 26:33
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• 26:35
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  Speaker 3: going back to school. Uh and uh, yeah, going back
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  Speaker 3: to school. Basically, Andrew's a father multi times over. I'm
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  Speaker 3: may had some changes here locally in Kanall County. Did
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  Speaker 3: get a text in a couple of texts, and one
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  Speaker 3: of them Andrew, this is for you. Social media is
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  Speaker 3: like a hammer. This is from the six eight one
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  Speaker 3: four seven to four. That's a great analogy, so very true.
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  Speaker 3: So they liked your analogy of calling social media hammer.
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  Speaker 3: It's a tool that could be used either to bludgeon
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, oh, it's a nice to get a compliment on
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  Speaker 12: the text line. That's better than usual, So appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Yeah, not so bad.
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  Speaker 3: So I appreciate you listening. But we have plenty of
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  Speaker 3: So that's coming up here in just a few minutes. Andrew,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to just get a couple guys talking here
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  Speaker 3: of a certain age. You're a parent multiple times over,
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  Speaker 3: generation might say this, but I feel like that the
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  Speaker 3: generation of our children that's been coming up for the
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  Speaker 3: last fifteen or twenty years have really seen some pretty
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  Speaker 3: massive changes in the way the dynamic works with education.
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  Speaker 12: They have and they believed everything we told them about it.
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  Speaker 12: So one of the things we don't talk enough about
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  Speaker 12: COVID when they shut down the schools, that generation of kids,
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  Speaker 12: and my two youngest kids went through that. My oldest
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  Speaker 12: was in college when that happened. My other daughter was
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  Speaker 12: in high school when it happened. That generation believes what
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  Speaker 12: we told them about education. So when we shut down schools,
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  Speaker 12: what we told them was that our school system, too
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  Speaker 12: often as far as the adults are concerned, was it's
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  Speaker 12: a giant jobs program for the teachers and it's a
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  Speaker 12: daycare for the parents, and their education came in third place.
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  Speaker 4: And that's how they saw it.
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  Speaker 12: Because they could go to stores, they could go everywhere
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  Speaker 12: where I live, the grocery stores kind of across the
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  Speaker 12: street from the elementary school in the high school, right
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  Speaker 12: And you told these kids who don't understand all of
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  Speaker 12: the same They're like, well, we see all the same
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  Speaker 12: people over here, but if we go over there, we're
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  Speaker 12: all going to die of this dreaded illness. And that's
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  Speaker 12: how it got treated to them. And they're all very
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  Speaker 12: online and they have their own ways of learning things,
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  Speaker 12: and they're smarter than us, and they're more online than us,
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  Speaker 12: and they have more information than us. So we adults
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  Speaker 12: us old, they just believe what we told them, and
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  Speaker 12: they've made their own decisions of you know what, our
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  Speaker 12: education is something we're going to have to take on ourselves.
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  Speaker 12: We have to be a little more responsible needs to
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  Speaker 12: be about us because they have a trust problem with
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  Speaker 12: the adults in the school system and their government, and
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  Speaker 12: they have a right to have one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that, and those are some problems with
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  Speaker 3: a seven year old. We were a little under those
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  Speaker 3: concerns at the moment, except for the fact that my
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  Speaker 3: kid's just way smarter than I was at seven years old,
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  Speaker 3: and the access to information is even As somebody that
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  Speaker 3: grew up with a computer in his and I mean
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  Speaker 3: I have my first k Pro two in nineteen eighty two.
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  Speaker 3: I was eight years old with my first computer. I'm
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  Speaker 3: familiar with technology, but as a fifty one year old
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  Speaker 3: man today dealing with a seven year old kid, I
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  Speaker 3: feel a little out of sort. Sometimes I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: get you know, security precautions in place, make sure that
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  Speaker 3: she has the right filters and stuff like that. It's
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  Speaker 3: very difficult. And that kind of relates to the recent
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  Speaker 3: decision of Connaw County Schools that up until high school
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  Speaker 3: that you're not allowed to have cell phones in classroom anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that kids have rights. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that kids are all in like one bucket and that
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  Speaker 3: we should just disrespect kids at all. But as far
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  Speaker 3: as public school goes, what took so long? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: isn't that an obvious move?
• 34:04
  Speaker 12: Well, it's obvious move. I've kind of been torn on it,
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  Speaker 12: and I'm in the minority where I was slow on
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  Speaker 12: it because one of the things about it is too
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  Speaker 12: is I think education you should prepare killed children for
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  Speaker 12: the world as it exists, not for how you think
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  Speaker 12: it should exist. And the world they exists in is
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  Speaker 12: they're going to have a phone in their hand.
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  Speaker 4: Every day for the rest of the world. Excellent, okay,
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  Speaker 4: or whatever.
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  Speaker 12: Replaces cell phones. However, we've got the data now. It
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  Speaker 12: took a couple of years to get the real good studies.
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  Speaker 12: We've got the data in classrooms. So if I think
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  Speaker 12: back over my working career, like when I was in
• 34:31
  Speaker 12: the military, you had all kinds of briefings where you
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  Speaker 12: put your cell phone in the little plastic thing outside
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  Speaker 12: and then went in and had your briefing. Should we
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  Speaker 12: take it away for in classroom stuff? We now have
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  Speaker 12: the data that yes, that improves your in classroom scores.
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  Speaker 12: Should Would they ban them from the school building completely
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  Speaker 12: where they have zero access to them? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 12: I think you need to let them have access during
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: non learning times. I understand people just want to swing
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  Speaker 12: the banhammer because it's easier, But this is just one
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  Speaker 12: of those evolving things where we have to decide what
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  Speaker 12: kind of education we want. And we do have the
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  Speaker 12: data now that in classroom the cell phone should probably
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  Speaker 12: be off or put away. But in school and around
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  Speaker 12: we still need to teach them how to use these
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  Speaker 12: tools we just talked about, because they're going to have
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  Speaker 12: them for the rest of their lives, and if we
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  Speaker 12: don't teach them how to do it now, they're going
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  Speaker 12: to have a harder time in the future. So they
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  Speaker 12: might as well learn how to do it and when
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  Speaker 12: to do it, and how not to do it now.
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  Speaker 3: There's some musicians when you go see them perform, they
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  Speaker 3: actually have technology deployed at the arenas where you can't
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  Speaker 3: access the outside, where your phone basically goes into automatic
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  Speaker 3: airplane mode. I mean you can't access the outside world.
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  Speaker 3: And we know there's technology where you can create gateways
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: to where you can allow some information through. It seems
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  Speaker 3: to me like there might be a technological solution to
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: this where you can have the devices used as a
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  Speaker 3: learning thing where there's no pass through information that's allowed,
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  Speaker 3: and if there was an emergency, there's an override where
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: that would go away and you would be able to
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  Speaker 3: use your phone. It seems like that that would be
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  Speaker 3: a possible solution.
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  Speaker 12: It's going to be the solution eventually, but it's a
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  Speaker 12: massive funding issue right now. But at some point, what
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  Speaker 12: they're going to do is they're going to have what
• 35:55
  Speaker 12: a lot of hospitals have this, military places have this,
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: government buildings had courts are starting to at this in
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: court buildings are starting to put in limited Wi Fi.
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  Speaker 12: You're gonna have a Wi Fi system where you're only
• 36:04
  Speaker 12: allowed to access certain things. Universities are test betting this place,
• 36:08
  Speaker 12: but it's a mass you know, if you're going to
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  Speaker 12: go to you know where I went to elementary school
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  Speaker 12: in Frametown in Braxton County. You know you have thousands
• 36:15
  Speaker 12: and thousands and thousands of those. It's a massive funding thing.
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  Speaker 12: But eventually that will be the answer to it. It's
• 36:19
  Speaker 12: just going to be a long way getting there with
• 36:21
  Speaker 12: the technology. Until the technology is cheap enough, they can
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  Speaker 3: That's good stuff, man. I appreciate the conversation this morning.
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  Speaker 3: so I could get to her. But nice conversation this morning, man.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to talk about a couple of different things.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, y'all are my favorite media I ever get a
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  Speaker 3: doing this morning?
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  Speaker 19: Good morning to you. So great to speak with you.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to talk to you again. It's nice to
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  Speaker 3: seeing you out and about my daughter's favorite mayor.
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  Speaker 9: You.
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  Speaker 3: She's the best, and you have done great, great things
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  Speaker 3: and this will this this plays perfectly into your role
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  Speaker 3: impressions of mayors, because up until she met you, her
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  Speaker 4: I think?
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  Speaker 3: And he's kind of a villain, and so to her,
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  Speaker 3: she met you, and so now she's like, she wants
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  Speaker 19: She's very happy with Mayor's ma Oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 19: harder than it looks. I don't know if you've ever done.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: I respect your courage, mayor, I respect your courage.
• 41:56
  Speaker 19: Oh my goodness, gracious and so. But there's this video
• 42:00
  Speaker 19: now going around with me double dutching. I'm it's difficult.
• 42:04
  Speaker 19: But anyways, but this this little girl, it was about
• 42:07
  Speaker 19: five or six. It was standing there and getting ready
• 42:09
  Speaker 19: to double dutch and she said she said. I said
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  Speaker 19: to her, hey, you should really do it. There's a
• 42:14
  Speaker 19: professional there. She'll teach you how to do it. And
• 42:16
  Speaker 19: she said to me, you do it first, then I'll
• 42:18
  Speaker 19: do it.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, no, what did I do?
• 42:22
  Speaker 19: But I will say this. It is you know, being
• 42:25
  Speaker 19: the first female mayor in the city of Charleston is
• 42:28
  Speaker 19: something I'm very proud of. The good news is I'm
• 42:32
  Speaker 19: the first, but I certainly won't be the last. And
• 42:34
  Speaker 19: I do think that. You know, mayors worked in every
• 42:37
  Speaker 19: form of government. Deal You know that because I've worked
• 42:39
  Speaker 19: with you in my other roles in government. Never thought
• 42:42
  Speaker 19: I would run for public office, but here I go.
• 42:47
  Speaker 19: But it is the it is the form of government.
• 42:51
  Speaker 19: It is the type of government that I like to
• 42:56
  Speaker 19: work in and it is the most connective form of
• 43:01
  Speaker 19: government because you not only get to meet and help
• 43:04
  Speaker 19: influence and shape policy, but you also get to interact
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  Speaker 19: with my favorite which are kids. It's always been, it
• 43:11
  Speaker 19: was seven years ago, it's going to continue to be
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: in the future. Focus on the kids, because if you
• 43:16
  Speaker 19: focus on kids, everything else falls into place.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely agree with that.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: I have a question for you before we get off
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: here to put a boat one regatta A Jim had
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: a question for that, but I wanted to talk a
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: little bit about the Municipal League first and then I'll
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: ask that before we get off the here. You've been
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: part of the League for a long time, so I mean,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: this isn't a new organization verything to you. But with
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: your experience that you have there and kind of now
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: ascending to the leadership role in it, do you have
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: a vision for your short medium term as far as
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: initiatives that you would really like to see either continue
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: or something that you would like to try to see implemented.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 19: I think the thing that is most important to me
• 43:52
  Speaker 19: in representing the two hundred and thirty two cities, towns,
• 43:54
  Speaker 19: and villages across the Mountain State is just simply this.
• 43:57
  Speaker 19: I mean, yeah, sure, Charleston, West Rgia is the capital city,
• 44:01
  Speaker 19: and we're the largest city in the state. But we
• 44:04
  Speaker 19: need to represent all cities, and all cities need to
• 44:07
  Speaker 19: have a voice because we take directives through not only
• 44:13
  Speaker 19: our own research and our own initiatives, but also from
• 44:16
  Speaker 19: the legislature. I mean, many of the things that they
• 44:19
  Speaker 19: implement at a federal and state level impact our cities, towns,
• 44:23
  Speaker 19: and villages, and I think it is important to make
• 44:25
  Speaker 19: sure that not just the capital city is represented, but
• 44:29
  Speaker 19: that all cities are represented. I mean, most of the
• 44:33
  Speaker 19: cities that we have are far and away less than
• 44:36
  Speaker 19: ten thousand, So we need to make sure that folks know.
• 44:39
  Speaker 19: And people say all the time, oh, well, you're the
• 44:41
  Speaker 19: big city. Oh this is you know, you don't have
• 44:44
  Speaker 19: these issues. Oh honey, we all have the same issues.
• 44:47
  Speaker 19: The same issues of Charleston, West Virginia. I promise you
• 44:50
  Speaker 19: are the same issues they have in Beach Bottom. That's
• 44:53
  Speaker 19: not an opinion, Dell, that's a fact. And so over
• 44:56
  Speaker 19: the past seven years being mayor, and of course in
• 44:59
  Speaker 19: my twenty year career doing federal and state government as well,
• 45:02
  Speaker 19: and traveling I've been to every single county uh in
• 45:05
  Speaker 19: the state of West Virginia minimum five times.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 45:08
  Speaker 19: Because because the years that I used to travel with
• 45:10
  Speaker 19: Bob Wise and Governor Wise and Governor Tomlin, they traveled
• 45:15
  Speaker 19: as they should have. Which governor should I learned a lot.
• 45:20
  Speaker 19: I learned a lot about each one of our great cities.
• 45:24
  Speaker 19: And so it is, it is my goal and is
• 45:27
  Speaker 19: my job, as as former presidents have done with the
• 45:31
  Speaker 19: West Virginia Municipal League, is to make sure that we understand,
• 45:34
  Speaker 19: and not just that we understand, we do a good
• 45:37
  Speaker 19: job of communicating our challenges. I'm not you know, I'm
• 45:41
  Speaker 19: not sure that we always do such a great job
• 45:43
  Speaker 19: of doing that because quite frankly, you know, we're.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Mayor.
• 45:48
  Speaker 19: It may seem sometimes and your daughter may think, oh,
• 45:50
  Speaker 19: they're on they're on TV a lot. Well, most of
• 45:53
  Speaker 19: our we work nights and weekends and holidays. If our
• 45:56
  Speaker 19: police are out, I'm up. If there's a fire, we're
• 45:59
  Speaker 19: on it. It is the heavy lifting work, and so
• 46:03
  Speaker 19: we do a very good job. Mayors do, and city
• 46:06
  Speaker 19: council members and city managers all across the state do
• 46:09
  Speaker 19: a very good job at that meat and potatoes work.
• 46:13
  Speaker 19: The heavy lifting, if you will. Boots on the ground.
• 46:16
  Speaker 19: I just want to make sure that we always do
• 46:18
  Speaker 19: a good job in making sure we communicate our successes,
• 46:22
  Speaker 19: for sure, but also our challenges, and sometimes I think
• 46:26
  Speaker 19: we focus on our challenges and telling people, oh, what
• 46:29
  Speaker 19: is us? Here are the difficult things that we are
• 46:33
  Speaker 19: going through, which is of course important, but also sharing
• 46:35
  Speaker 19: our successes and implementation.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: The Municipal League in your relationships with all these other
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty plus municipalities across the state, they
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: could almost be like many laboratories with initiatives, overcoming challenges,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: different things like that you can work together and try
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: to come up with some best practices.
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 46:52
  Speaker 19: I was with our treasure state Treasurer Larry Pack yesterday,
• 46:55
  Speaker 19: who's doing a phenomenal job, and he even said it
• 46:58
  Speaker 19: best Municipally, we need to start listening and allowing our
• 47:02
  Speaker 19: cities and towns and villages to take action because they
• 47:05
  Speaker 19: are boots on the ground and they know. The one
• 47:08
  Speaker 19: thing that I wanted to certainly make mention and I
• 47:11
  Speaker 19: do every time I talk about the Municipal League is
• 47:14
  Speaker 19: that this is a non partisan group. Guess what mayors
• 47:18
  Speaker 19: are non partisan? It makes no matter to me if
• 47:24
  Speaker 19: you are in any political affiliation. Listen, I am raising
• 47:29
  Speaker 19: two boys. He are likeugh, do we have to have
• 47:32
  Speaker 19: a political party? This is crazy. It is the place
• 47:36
  Speaker 19: in the space where we get work done. It doesn't
• 47:39
  Speaker 19: matter what party affiliation that you have. And that is
• 47:42
  Speaker 19: what I am most proud of at the municipal league.
• 47:45
  Speaker 19: It doesn't matter to us. We're talking about issues, we're
• 47:48
  Speaker 19: talking about people, we're talking about projects, and we're talking
• 47:51
  Speaker 19: about policies. We're not talking about politics.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: And that's where the good work can get done is
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: when you just have people talking about those successes and challenge.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: It's hard.
• 48:02
  Speaker 19: It's not that it's not that difficult. I mean families
• 48:05
  Speaker 19: do this every day. Dale, you know this. You do
• 48:07
  Speaker 19: this with your family every day when you have an
• 48:09
  Speaker 19: issue in your family or even in your business. Politics
• 48:14
  Speaker 19: is not involved. It's practical solution. That's all that it is.
• 48:19
  Speaker 19: And we need to get back to a place in
• 48:21
  Speaker 19: a space that that's what we're focused on because that's
• 48:24
  Speaker 19: how normal people run their lives, run their households, run
• 48:27
  Speaker 19: their businesses. That's how we should be running our governments
• 48:30
  Speaker 19: as well.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Got a text line in from uh let's see you
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: got a text from the three zero four seven sixty
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: seven when my son was eleven. He met mey or
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: a good one and left the meeting also wanting to
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: be mayor. So thank you well.
• 48:46
  Speaker 19: That is that is that is very sweet, and that
• 48:50
  Speaker 19: is encouraging because I will tell you right now the
• 48:52
  Speaker 19: numbers that I see all across the country. I'm in
• 48:55
  Speaker 19: the US Conference of Mayors, in the National League of Cities.
• 48:58
  Speaker 19: What is disappointing is more people do not want to
• 49:00
  Speaker 19: get into government or run for public office because, by
• 49:06
  Speaker 19: the way, it's tough when they say it's a blood sport,
• 49:09
  Speaker 19: oh buddy, But it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. It
• 49:13
  Speaker 19: should be a it should be what it used to be.
• 49:18
  Speaker 19: It's true public service. I mean, I'm standing here at
• 49:22
  Speaker 19: my desk. I'll be working all day, I'll be out
• 49:24
  Speaker 19: working in the community. It should not be this type
• 49:28
  Speaker 19: of vitriol, this heat, and this terrible rhetoric that's being
• 49:36
  Speaker 19: passed along because it's scary quite frankly. But what I
• 49:40
  Speaker 19: want to see is more common sense solutions, more level
• 49:45
  Speaker 19: headed discussions. You know, you can't lead if you are
• 49:48
  Speaker 19: screaming and yelling. You also, I don't think because I
• 49:53
  Speaker 19: wouldn't want it for Listen, you don't want it for
• 49:55
  Speaker 19: your baby. I don't want it for my babies. Looking
• 49:57
  Speaker 19: at somebody who is yelling and screaming at one another
• 50:00
  Speaker 19: to get a point across, we don't have to do that.
• 50:04
  Speaker 19: And that is why I'm so excited to spand with
• 50:07
  Speaker 19: other mayors and city council members across the state to
• 50:10
  Speaker 19: speak calmly and rationally and come up with good solutions
• 50:15
  Speaker 19: to our state's biggest challenges.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: Before I got you loose, Mayor, our buddy Jim had
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: he was waiting on the phone and he had some
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: connection issues, but he just wanted you to summarize regarded
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: numbers this years compared to previous years.
• 50:25
  Speaker 19: Oh man, it was great. I'll say this. The temperature numbers, Jim,
• 50:31
  Speaker 19: as you well know, my little buddy, were certainly higher.
• 50:35
  Speaker 19: We don't have those in yet. As a matter of fact,
• 50:37
  Speaker 19: we had a meeting about it yesterday. They're still collecting them,
• 50:40
  Speaker 19: but I would say they're probably a little on the
• 50:44
  Speaker 19: mark where they were last year. Maybe a little. You know,
• 50:46
  Speaker 19: the heat was gross. I mean, at one point we
• 50:50
  Speaker 19: got to ninety eight degrees with high humidity, and quite frankly,
• 50:55
  Speaker 19: some of those temperatures as we've seen Mother Nature into
• 51:00
  Speaker 19: us this summer, have been non negotiable for some of
• 51:05
  Speaker 19: our families, and we quite frankly don't blame them.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very true. Mary good one, Thank you so
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: much for your Thomas. Were appreciate you taking the time
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: out on your business the kiss for me, would you?
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: I sure will, no problem at all. We are, Amy
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Shuld're joining us on the air of our final out
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: of office guests for this morning. I have about a
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: minute left on the program, and coming up next, of course,
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: is going to be Talk Line with Dave Wilson and
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: TJ Meadows. TJ has popped into the studio right before
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: his show. What's going on on the Big Show today?
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: Hey Dale, good morning. So Joey Garcia, Marion County Senator,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: is going to join us. A lot of talk about
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: those hospital sales.
• 51:36
  Speaker 20: One of those hospitals is in Joy's district, so we're
• 51:39
  Speaker 20: going to talk about that and get his perceptions. We'll
• 51:41
  Speaker 20: talk nil and we'll also talk about the Apple ectionpower
• 51:44
  Speaker 20: rate increase company spokesperson.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: A lot of good stuff today.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: That's good stuff that's coming up on Talk Line. After
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: that will be midday where Jef Jenkins is filling in
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: with Channel thirteen's Amanda Baron, and then I'll be back
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: this afternoon with Dave Weekly on Metro News Hotline. Thank
• 51:57
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• 51:59
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