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05-26-23 - 580 Live with Dale Cooper and Guest Co-host Andrew Donaldson - Hannah Gardner and Jim Strawn · The Dave Allen Show

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broadcast live from the Palmar Stores studio. Happy Friday, everybody, it is
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Voice of Charleston. I'm Deel Cooper. We've made it to the weekend,
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made it to the holiday. This is my last day filling in for Dave
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Allen for a while. Dave will be back on Tuesday. On Tuesday or
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Monday, we'll have some special Memorial Day programming from ABC News like we always
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have. Dave will be back on Tuesday and he'll have the show the rest
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of the week. Thank you so much for tuning in. Interaction and all
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of those things that we've had this week, and thanks to the guests that
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we've had throughout the course of the week, I think we've had some pretty
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good shows in here. Maybe a little different than what Dave usually brings you,
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but hopefully you were well entertained. Today's show, we're gonna have a
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lot of fun. We're going to do our Adopted Me Please Pet program coming
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up here in just a little minute. In just a minute, you can
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check out the dog for today over on our Facebook page WCHS Network on Facebook,
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you can find the picture over there description at the dog and you'll want
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to check that out because we got a nice little pooch here today that you're
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gonna want to be involved with. So you can check that over on our
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Facebook page or on social media at five ad WCHS or on mine at on
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air Coupe. Also, Jim Stron's going to be here this hour. We're
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going to talk about what's coming up on Live on the Levey. It's Hair
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Supply kicking things off this weekend. That is the tribute band for Air Supply,
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So we're gonna talk to Jim about that, Plus what's gonna be coming
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up on the levee and our special guests ho that we have in for our
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guest host Fridays. That is going to be our special guest co host today
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is Andrew Donaldson, who had joined me earlier this week to discuss this article
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in the Washington Examiner magazine on Jim Justice Today a little bit more of general
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Fair. Although it's going to have a Memorial Day flare. And Andrew is
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online with me now. Andrew, good morning, how you doing this morning.
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By the end of today, I'll be on my I think twenty sixth
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hour of radio this week or twenty fifth hour of radio this week or something
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like this. I'm ready for a little bit of a break this weekend.
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That is where your love doing radio. It's a busy weekend. And you
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know what the great thing is. It is true they don't let just anybody
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in the Palmar studios, but everybody does get to participate with this thing.
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Calling on Texan and calling the hotline. We've got so much fun because we
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get to talk about the travel weekend. It is Memorial Day weekend. We
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can talk about that busy news week. Business is good man, That's absolutely
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true. So you can start thinking about what we're going to do after we
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get after we talk to our adopt me please pet, and after Jim gets
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in here, we want to talk if you would like to call in with
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some of your Remember it's Memorial Day, if you want to memorialize someone and
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a loved one or a family member or a friend, anything along those lines,
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were more than welcome to do that. We're also gonna talk a little
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bit a little bit about road trips, something that I used to do a
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lot of Memorial Day. Not as much anymore, but I used to go
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on road trips and one of my biggest road trips ever ended up being across
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the United States. That was about a four month trip where I camped out
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and did a lot of things. That's my most epic one. I'll tell
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a little bit of a story about that one. It was about this time
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of year that I debarked on that years and years ago, twenty four years
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ago now or something like that. Anyway, we'll get to that a little
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bit later on, but we need to get over to our animal this morning.
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Andrew, did you get a chance to check out Chemi Chongga? I
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did you know? I've got five dogs and a cat plus assorted teenagers and
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supernumeraries of the neighborhood that come and go around the household. And we do
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have three long haired chihuahuas that's not to be confused with my rescue pit bull
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and the Pyrenees that we have outside, so we have the whole gama.
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But yeah, I just he could come to my house. I probably wouldn't
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notice for a week that right in. But man, he's cute, looks
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like a very very good boy. Let's bring Hannah online. She is from
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the Canal Charleston Humane Association and we're trying to keep our streak alive when it
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comes to adopting out some of these pets. Hannah, good morning. How
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you doing this morning? I'm great. How are you? I'm doing very
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well. The other voice you hear is Andrew Donalds when he's my guest co
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host this morning. Tell me a little bit about Jimmy Chonga. You can
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check out the picture Jimmy Tonga on our Facebook page. That's five d w
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chs on Facebook or at five ad w chs on Twitter. What a cute
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What a cute pup? Yeah, So, Jimmy Tonga is a female.
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She's about one year old. She is considered an adult dog, so her
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adoptions. He isn't ninety five. But she is very very sweet, very
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very playful. She prefers other commer dogs, and she has shown to be
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kid friendly with us. And we consider her to be a social butterfly.
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So that just means that in all of our play group, so we have
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we have a couple dogs that are just good with everything. They're good with
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dogs, they're good with people. They're submissive or or maybe they're not submissive,
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but they are just really nice with everyone. And they don't like step
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on anybody's toes, dogs or people or anything like that. But she's not
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fixed yet, she will be before she leaves. But other than that,
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she is a really really good dog. She walks on the leash, and
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she came in as a stray, so that's how we got her. That
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is, uh, you know, bringing in strays and finding homes. That's
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obviously part of the passion and part of emission. But but you know,
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we've had all kinds of different animals, cats and dogs mostly that we've we've
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done on this program, and we've had a good rate of adopting them out.
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But of all the ones that we've had, at least when I've been
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filling in and I've seen what Dave does, it looks like that Chimmi Chonga
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is a pretty uh not very many red flags at all, and it looks
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like this dog could almost adopted, be adopted into anyone's lifestyle. Yes,
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well she you know, like I said, she's to be kid friendly.
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But even when we say kid friendly or social butterfly, or even if they
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have never ever ever given us the red flags at all in any way whatsoever,
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and even if we know the dog, we still tell people to be
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cautious because you never know with dogs. You also want to make sure that
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if you have kids, you're teaching them the respectable respectable boundaries for dogs as
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well, so you know, other than that, I mean, she is
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a really good dog. And to give you an example on like how big
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and how much way she's about thirty pounds, he's a smaller dog. She's
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not a really big dog at all and won't get much bigger than since she's
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already at an adult. Right, very good. Probably most dogs when they
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get adopted out, I find that they seem to grow sideways more so than
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the taller yea, yeah, that's typically how it cans, especially with my
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dogs exactly. But that just means that they're well loved. I mean,
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I think that that's what the bottom line is for it. So all right,
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thought me please pet today is Chimmy Chonga. You can contact the Canal
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Charleston Humane Association. What's a good contact number for if someone is interested in
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Chimmy Chonga. Yeah, well they can call or they can even come up
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and if they want to call, they can call three or four three four
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two, one five seven six and they can speak to any of the adoption
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counselors about Chimmy Chonga or even to adopt. And if we are super busy
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or anything, we do have a text one, but I believe that is
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either on our Facebook or you can also just call it and ask us and
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we can get that all done over the phone for you. Or you can
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come up and visit with Jimmy Chonga first, which is what we always recommend
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a good thing. Yeah, so just come one up or even call us
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and we'll give you all the information about it. Well, go check out
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Chimmy Chonga and hopefully we'll get a note of the later on today that Jimmy
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Chonga has been adopted to a loving home. So we appreciate you listening this
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morning. And Hanna, thank you so much for your time and telling us
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about another pet that needs to find a forever home. Thank you so much
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for listening. I appreciate it very much. That's uh, Hannah over from
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the Canal Charleston Humane Association. This is something that we do every week on
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five ad WCHS. We I think we have one hundred percent. I need
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to ask to Dave, but I think it's a near one hundred percent adoption.
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Right. It's a good thing, you know, Andrew. Uh,
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It's something that we do every Friday. It's really it was Dave's passion.
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He's a big cat guy, but he's he's an animal lover. It was
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Dave's passion that he wanted to do something like that. I like the idea
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that we're able to find these animals homes. Welcome me into the studio,
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and now Jim Strawn is here. Want to talk to Jim transition. How
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are you? Yeah? Not too bad at all. I want to make
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sure that we get you in there. Uh, how you doing? I
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spend a lot of I love to hear I come in you a lot on
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the show with Dave that I appreciate that you guys having me on, but
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yeah, this is a great promotion. I was just on with one of
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your sister stations and we were talking about the kitty cat that was rescued from
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Patrick Street Bridge all last night or a couple of nights ago, and this
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is being adopted, going up for adoption today at noon. So I'm a
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kitty cat guy. I'm like Dave, I'm a kitty cat guy. And
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we we just actually lost our kitty cat. We're still strong with that about
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even six months ago. But this just a void and these these doggies and
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these kitty cats can add so much to a family life. They're they're they're
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just precious to have. So yeah, we we love our track record here
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of getting these guys adopted. Our special co host this morning, you don't
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see m Jim because he's one zoom. Andrew Donaldson is with us Andrews the
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morning. Andrew. I know of Andrew, Yes I do, And I
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appreciate the shout out this morning on Twitter, but yes, this is you
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know. I have a lot of favorite Daves Coop. I have so many
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favorite days throughout the year, but this just might could be maybe it opening
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opening day, Opening night of the Moses Auto Group. Live on the Levee
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is tonight six thirty. Will start some music down at Haddad River Fron Park,
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the Schoenbaum Stage or will Come Alive. This is our twentieth anniversary of
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Live on Levy, but it's our nineteenth season because we all know what happened
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in twenty twenty. So yeah, so we're launching our nineteenth season special thanks
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to the City of Charleston Mayor and all her team, Matt and Ben,
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Jane Mirandon, Tina and Ray Ray and many others. Tonight is Veterans Night.
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We also have fireworks at nine thirty special thanks to Brewer and Company,
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Lou Windell and the Health Plan. And of course we do this Levy great
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cause for great time, great fun for a great cause, and we help
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those five inner city charities each and every Friday night with a fifty fifty drawing.
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But at six thirty, I know you're wanting to hear what the music
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is. At six thirty, good friends of mine from Ashton, Kentucky,
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the Chase, will take center stage. They'll play for sixty minutes the Chase
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has been around for literally over forty years together. Wow. Scotty Martin is
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the drummer. John is the lead. They've been together for forty years.
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They play a lot of rock stuff Queen Journey, Pink Floyd, The Beatles,
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YouTube, Rolling Stones, all the cover stuff. You'll know every song.
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People who love to dance to them. They've done lots of fairs and
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festivals around the Tri State area and they they're really fun. And then they
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just set the table for seven forty five taken center stage. There another fun
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band called hair Supply. When I first heard about Hair Supply, I thought
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it was kind of a tribute band or or they played all the Air Supply
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songs. But they're not anything like that. They're just a hair band from
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the eighties who like to rock. There's about six members and they have coop
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a lot of hair. Some of them is their real hair and some of
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them is not their real hair, but they wear lots of hair. They're
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just fun guys, six guys. They just have a rock in a good
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time. I think the weather's going to be perfect tonight, about seventy five,
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seventy seven, low humidity, nice breeze off of the Majestic Canal,
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River had Dad river Front Park, tons of food, Bend, there's beverage
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vendors four points by Shared and will be serving your favorite adult beverages music for
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three hours and then come for the music in the food, but stay for
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the fireworks at six thirty. It will be six about No, No,
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No, nine thirty. Fireworks at nine thirty, pretty pretty sharp at nine
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thirty, right after the last song. So yeah, come down unofficial beginning
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of our summertime you Coop. I know you've been down there plenty times.
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Oh yeah, you love it. You're a music guy. You love being
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part of it, right, Oh, absolutely, it's it's I love how
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it. You know, you have the two acts that come on there.
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Everybody's out there and it just depends when the acts that are going to be
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there. But people are always dancing. They're up, they're dancing in the
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aisles, or dancing down in the in front of the stage, or dancing
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back behind things, or if you need to take a break and take a
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few steps back. There's vendors all along there where you can get you something
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to drink, walk down. I mean, I always find that it's a
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great time and really looking forward to it. Andrew Donaldson is originally from the
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area. Have have you had a chance to get to the life of the
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Living at all? I haven't been to that one specifically, but this is
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radio. See. You need to describe the abbiance because this is such a
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great facility and a great place to do this. You have the river right
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there people everyone was seeing tim. You have some kind of concert event,
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you get all the boats to come up to the weather is going to be
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good for that. Just kind of describe it for people, because we kind
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of take it for grand people just drop bys like, oh, I wonder
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what that is, but along the river. Describe the actual ambiance this thing,
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because this is also laid back. You can dance and stuff, but
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you can also bring your family just kind of relax. This is a little
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more low key than maybe like going to the Civic Center and going to a
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big concert or the stadium. Just kind of describe it for people that haven't
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been there yet. And Andrew had asked you. Unfortunately, Jim, I'm
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not listening in. Sorry, No, that's okay, that's okay, just
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some translation coup no. No. Basically, Andrew just asked you to set
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the scene a little bit. If folks haven't been there before. It's right
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next to the river. It's gorgeous. Used to get to see the sunset
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during the course of the concert. When it's a really nice night, you
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get a nice little breeze, even on hot nights. Boulevard probably four or
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five six blocks, enough room for the food vendors, enough room for four
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vehicles from Autogroup. They are the presenting sponsor, Thank you to Moses.
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They've been with us for fifteen years. Tonight is Ford Night, so there'll
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be four Ford vehicles there. Part of Moses Autogroup about twenty or so food
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vendors, adult beverages, other charities that may be there. We do a
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fifty to fifty drawing for the charity. Tonight is Mano Meal. Through the
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summer we also help our CCR Canal Valley Collective, sojourn Or Shelter and the
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Covenant House. We've raised about one hundred and ten thousand dollars the previous eighteen
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seasons through kindness through these people that support this, so you know they'll be
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volunteer selling fifty fifty tickets. You're right, there's just there's just music and
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food and It's a nice segue what you were talking about, Coop, and
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to set the table a little bit more, Andrew, I stand on that
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show and bomb stage, and I'm humbled and very honored to serve as your
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master of ceremonies and hosts for the Live on the Levy. This will be
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my seventeenth season to do that. But one of the things that I I
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do is I look up into the audience and sometimes there's ten thousand people there,
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and do we get a nice crowd? I think the record is like
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it somewhere between eighteen and twenty thousand. They were everywhere. But we typically,
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you know, have anywhere from four to five to eight to ten,
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sometimes twelve thousand. It's a big, big, big, big night.
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And my goal is to always look for someone not having a good time,
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And in seventeen seasons, I haven't found that. No matter what kind of
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week or day you're having, or a month or a year, you come
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down to the Levy for Live on Levey. You can't help, but tap
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your foot. You can't help, but smile. You can't help, but
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get a bite to eat. You can't help, but you'll find your neighbors.
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You can't help but you sit there on a blanket and just have a
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great, great time with free music. The city does a great job.
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This is a destination as well. It's not just for our Canal Valley peeps.
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People come in from all over through Charleston soccer tournaments, what have you.
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They come in for Live on Levey and maybe happenstance or accidentally and they
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come out there and they're like wow. And they stopped me because I'm the
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host, and they're like, wow, Jem, you guys do this every
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Friday. I'm from Charlotte, or I'm from Indianapolis, or I'm from Saint
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Louis and we're just driving through and I'm here to tell you, you guys
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have it going on. So it's it's a boatload of fun, no pun
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intendent. That's another thing I like to do. Stand on the back of
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the show and bomb stage and look out in the Canal River and I count
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the boats that I can physically see the records. One hundred and fifty eight
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boats. Man. That is good stuff, and that's a lot. I
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absolutely love. Hope that's it the scene Andrew just a little bit. Yeah,
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that did a good job. That's good stuff. Jim we really appreciate
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it. I'm gonna I'm gonna run, gotta I know you gotta go.
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But yeah, I see everybody tonight. I'm music at six thirty with the
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Chase, and then at seven forty five hairs supply, lots of food,
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lots of drink, bring your friends, bring your family. Will see you
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down at the Levity to night. Thanks, Coop, appreciate it. Man.
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That is Jim Strong talking about Live on the Levee, And of course
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you can you can check out the all of the acts that are gonna be
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live on the Levee this year, Live on the Levey Charleston dot com.
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Live on the Levee Charleston dot com. You can check it out over there
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anytime. I want to get injured on as my guest co host this morning.
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And we'll take a break here in just a moment. But Andrew has
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a new piece up in the Fayteville Fayeville. Tim's right, Yeah, yeah,
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I knew it was. I knew it was one of the traditional names,
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one of those two exactly the Faville Tribune, and I read it last
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night. This is um, you know, a memorial Day piece reminding folks
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that you know, it is okay to have fun, obviously, I mean,
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but also a little respect for where we are in the United States and
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how we got here. Yeah, it's just one of those things where you
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know, it is a Memorial Day weekend. This is let's be honest,
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this is the official start of summer for most people. Kids start getting out
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of school, weather starts getting nice. We do need to just take a
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minute and remember why this is Memorial Day. This holiday goes back to you
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know, post Civil War and binding the wounds of the country up after that
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horrific conflict. And there's been a lot of a very high price paid for
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us to have the freedom. So it's completely appropriate that we enjoy all those
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freedoms, but we also need to take a few minutes somewhere in there to
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appreciate how we got them. The people that served, especially for Memorial Day,
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the ones paid the ultimate price for by giving their lives in the service
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of our great country. We can do both things, and in fact,
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I think it's best that you do both things because it keeps the perspective of
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it. Yeah we can remember, and yeah we can enjoy it, and
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the two things go together, and we should keep it that way when we
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do a holiday like this. Yeah, I couldn't agree with that more.
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And one of the things I would like to offer invitation for today for folks
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that are listening, you can either you can write in if you want on
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fifty. That number has been the same for years. Give us a call
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this morning if you want to, if you want to memorialize someone, if
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you want to, if you want to pay tribute to someone, you're more
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and welcome to give us a call this morning. Another thing I want to
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talk about a little bit. We'll take a break and we'll come back and
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talk a little bit about this as well. It is to kick off of
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the summer. A lot of folks to go on vacations, road trips and
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things like that on the summertime. I want to know what your epic road
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trip, either one that you've taken or one that you've had planned. Let
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me know what your epic road trip is You can give us a call today
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four five fifty eight fifty eight. Andrew, I know that you're a military
22:12
veteran yourself, but is there someone that you would like to memorialize? With
22:18
Memorial Day coming up, I'll tell you a really cool story of getting to
22:21
do what I do. I usually do a thread every Memorial Day and sometimes
22:25
Ventnor's Day. Two of the cemeteries. I mentioned it in the Pac American
22:27
Battlefield Monument Commission where they keep the official cemetery, especially the overseas ones.
22:33
You know, it's amazing you go to somewhere like Normandy where they're you know,
22:34
some of those guys. That's as far as they got a couple hundred
22:37
yards from the beach, and they're buried there Luxembourg where people like Patton or
22:41
Burry, but you go to these big cemeteries. I put out that thread
22:45
one year and I mentioned that my great uncle, who my mom is,
22:48
actually a namesake of Fred Hughes. He was a War two vet and was
22:52
killed in Korea. And I just mentioned that, and he's buried at Rosecrans
22:56
National Cemetery out in San Diego. Well, I just mentioned that on Twitter
23:00
and I put that thread out and somebody actually sent me a picture of his
23:04
gravestone from Rosecrans and said, hey, is it this Fred Hughes? And
23:08
it was. So it's interesting when you memorialize somebody, or you talk about
23:12
family members or loved ones or friends or whatever. That person just saw that
23:17
on social media and they were there and they found the headstone and sent me
23:19
a picture of it. And how cool is that. I love stories like
23:22
that, And it's amazing how in this gargantlin country state world that we how
23:27
village has always seemed to be formed somewhere or no, you always find your
23:30
village somewhere. It's amazing how how these stories can play out like that.
23:36
Yeah, it is, and it's in the opposite is true too, because
23:37
we have the big nation. You know, you go to somewhere like Arlington,
23:41
you can just feel it, you viscerally feel it walking around Arlington.
23:44
But then a very good friend of mine who was killed in Iraq in two
23:47
thousand and four, Antoine Holt, he he's buried in Atlanta in a civilian
23:52
cemetery, but he has the military headstone and it's and it's really it's it's
23:56
almost amazing how that just the simple white headstone and it says, you know,
24:00
as the date April two thousand and four, purple heart rack and but
24:04
it sticks out because it's in the civilian cemetery. But then when you just
24:07
see the roads on the roads and the roads of the white ones and the
24:10
crosses and the headstones ross hit you in different ways, but they always hit
24:15
you. And you know, obviously because I served it hits me a certain
24:19
way, and because look, I can go to Arlington and see names that
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I know that hits you different too. But I encourage anybody we have We
24:26
now have two cemeteries for veterans in West Virginia one right there in the valley
24:32
and the other one up in Grafton. If you've never been to one,
24:34
you need to go one. You owe it to yourself and you owe it
24:37
to your country. Just walk through there and just let it kind of absorb
24:41
into you, like, Okay, this freedom isn't free things a nice slogan,
24:45
But when you walk through those headstones and you see it, it's going
24:47
to hit you different. And I think it's a good experience for people to
24:49
have. I really believe that, you know. I mean, the serving
24:55
in the military, as far as percentages of certain age groups is not as
24:59
high as it once. You're less likely if you're if you're from Generation Z
25:03
to know someone that that was in the military. Uh, it's less likely
25:08
that you're that your mom or dad was in the military. I mean all
25:11
of these things. Danny Jones was in here yesterday and and talking about how
25:17
you know politicians that used to be like one of the main things you got
25:19
to find somebody that that previously served as a veteran that's no longer really becoming
25:23
a mainline thing. I don't know that it necessarily has to be. I
25:27
understand that we lived in a very world. But I think that that that
25:30
the youth and the folks that maybe haven't been part of these generations of understanding
25:37
exactly what the sacrifice means. There does need to be sort of a a
25:41
and it's not a jingoistic thing. There needs to be a rediscovering if just
25:45
what importance that is and in the place that it takes for our position in
25:49
history, because without any of those historically going all the way back, the
25:52
United States doesn't exist to where it is today. And it's it's a constant
25:56
struggle, but it's something that I think that that folks, especially maybe on
26:00
the younger side of things now need a little bit of a historical context.
26:03
We are a very unique country and that we have such a tiny percentage of
26:07
our people that actually serve in the middle. It bounces around a little bit,
26:11
but it's always just under a right around one percent of the populations either
26:15
active duty, reserve, or you know things like that. That that's a
26:19
staggeringly small number. The number of people that are connected to active duty troops,
26:25
even if you include all the families, only like two percent three percent.
26:27
So the burden for defending our country is always a very very small and
26:32
because we have an all volunteer military, it's even smaller than a normal country,
26:37
especially a country of our size, and it really doesn't sink into people
26:41
like how few Americans really carry that load. But you know, now we
26:45
have the technology. Now we have social media things like that, Folks can
26:49
It's something I put in the piece for fayet Tribune. You can go to
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a Faytribune dot com ray right now front page. You can buy it if
26:55
you're in the Faytaville area. People need to take a minute, and this
26:59
all technology we have in the palm of our hand with these phones. Take
27:03
a couple of minutes this weekend and you know, watch a documentary. You
27:04
know, I like watching those old history documentaries. Right they used to run
27:07
the I don't know if they still do. Remember T ANDT. They used
27:11
to just do like war movies all Memorial Day weekend in the old cable day.
27:14
Drake, watch a memorial. Look up some of these people. Look
27:18
up, there's man, there's We've had medal of honor winners and really famous
27:21
West Virginians that served. If you want to just do local history, spend
27:23
a little time on this stuff and you can use the technology, and then
27:26
you can talk to your kids, and you can talk to those younger generations
27:30
and kind of install it that way. Because they're smart and they're clever,
27:33
and they want to know this stuff and they've got the technology to do it.
27:36
We should just encourage it, like, hey, just go on line
27:37
and read up some of this military history and I think it'll start kind of
27:40
taking care of itself a little bit. But yet, that percentage of people
27:42
that serve it's always going to be small. That's a blessing to our country
27:45
in a lot of ways, but it also means we got to work a
27:47
little hard to make sure everybody knows about it. Yeah, I think that's
27:51
a that's a very salient point. And you're welcome to call in this morning
27:53
as well if you want to share some of your thoughts or some of your
27:56
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28:00
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28:03
that you took in the past. I know Andrew you have some plans coming
28:06
up here as far as a road trip goes. What I want to do
28:08
is go ahead and take a take a break and we'll come back. We're
28:11
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28:14
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28:17
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You're listening to five EVE on w c HS, the Voice of Charles and
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Andrew Donaldson our guest co host. Today, I'm gonna talk a little bit
31:06
about road trips and also about Memorial Day. You can call in at three
31:08
or four, three, four, five fifty fifty eight. You can text
31:11
in at three or four nine, three five five zero zero eight. Andrew,
31:14
we've gotten a few text messages during the break here. You want to
31:15
help me go through these a little bit. Absolutely, all right, let's
31:19
see. First of all, all these get political. But that's okay,
31:25
I said, if you want to get politics involved, and we can do
31:26
that on this Memorial Day. Remember that Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were convicted
31:30
of seditious conspiracy for their role in the January six attacks. Also remember that
31:33
disgraced Trump Senator Michael Eisnger, Senator Mike Stewart's delegate Chris Pritt, and Patrick
31:41
Morrissey stopped the steel Warner. I think January six riders are political prisoners.
31:48
I mean, there are a lot of things going on with the stop the
31:52
steel and the January sixth thing and stuff like that. A lot of folks
31:56
can't have honest conversations about that day. I mean, we've got all the
32:00
courts tank Like the guy yesterday he got eighteen years because he was one of
32:02
the guys. It's on video. It's not like he had he's like,
32:06
Oh, no, we're gonna overthrow the government. We're gonna do this.
32:07
We're armed. If we need to go get our weapons, we'll go get
32:09
Yeah, he needed to go to jail. There's a vast majority of people
32:13
who got nuisance notices, they did, you know, probationary things things like
32:16
that, because they were just doing minor of fences. There's a wide spectrum
32:21
of this stuff with people that there is people that just got caught up in
32:22
it. There is people that didn't do anything badly illegal but just shouldn't have
32:28
been there in the first place. And then there's that small minority of people
32:30
that really want to start a whole lot of trouble and the laws coming down
32:31
on him. We got to be able to purist through all that stuff to
32:36
the you know, you're talking about a thousands of people here. The people
32:38
that got caught up one of the people who may be made an awest mistake,
32:40
and then those are the people that are really bad people really trying to
32:44
start pretty Yeah, they should have got him an eighteen year prison since,
32:45
and I'm glad he did. Yeah. That was the odd thing about that,
32:50
of course, is is at what point do you do you just disbelieve
32:53
everything? Are you disbelieving every grand jury, every judge, every every court
33:00
of law in the land. Are you just do you disagree? I mean,
33:02
do you just think it's it's all conspiracy, that it's all because there's
33:05
a lot of people that's serving a lot of time right now. I tend
33:07
to believe people when they're under oath. And every single one of these people,
33:10
with like three exceptions out of the thousands some cases, now almost all
33:15
I'm said, I understand now I shouldn't have done it. I'm sorry,
33:16
I wish I hadn't have done it, And then they'll blame somebody else for
33:21
it, almost every single one of them, so they know, you know,
33:22
the court brings out the truth and almost all of this it's not that
33:25
the court can't sometimes get overstepping. That does happen, but free through these
33:30
court documents. They're all public record. You can get the truth yourself.
33:31
You just work on a little bit. And you got to know, there's
33:34
something up with with the difference between when somebody does their cable news hitting,
33:37
when somebody's under oath, and when their stories change considerably funny how that happens,
33:40
it is, it's amazing. And which one do you think it's closer
33:43
to the truth? Right? I take the court room most of the time,
33:46
with a few exceptions. So that's the way that that's the way that
33:50
that's those lead out. Sometimes go to the next one here from the three
33:52
or four two zero six. Can I ask please do not refer to Memorial
33:57
Day as a holiday or say happy Memorial Day. It is a day of
33:59
abserve evans to remember an honor. Don't get me wrong. Have your cookouts,
34:02
laugh, enjoy family, friends and fireworks, but please make sure you
34:05
remember why that you have that cookout with your friends and family. Make sure
34:08
that your children know why. Thank you, May God bless and always be
34:13
with our military, their families, and our nation now and forever. Yeah,
34:15
fair enough, I'll take that. I the way I use it,
34:17
you know, writer, I do deal with words for you know my day
34:21
to day living the holiday weekend and then the holiday day itself. I've already
34:27
talked about this a little bit. We can do both at the same time.
34:29
But yeah, you need to have a reverent thing in there somewhere.
34:32
But yeah, it's a holiday. Go have fun, enjoy yourself, because
34:36
if we don't enjoy the freedoms we were given, you're kind of missing the
34:38
point of the sacrifice in the first place. There's a balance there, absolutely,
34:42
But yeah, I appreciate that. I've got no problem with it at
34:45
all. I'm going to bounce off this just a little bit and that I
34:47
understand the sentiment here, and I don't disagree with the sentiment. However,
34:50
I will say that it's actions that speak louder than words. If you call
34:52
something a holiday, but you're properly respectful and you understand the gravitas of the
34:58
situation, I don't think there's anything wrong with calling it, with referring to
35:01
it as a holiday, because personally, you're you're you're doing things the right
35:05
way, and it kind of it kind of dovetails into a discussion that Hobby
35:07
was having earlier this week on talk Line, where they were talking about vulgarities
35:12
and and uh and cussing, and there was so many people that were responding
35:15
to that with their clever words that they used to substitute for those things,
35:21
you know, the fudge or whatever it might be. You know, I
35:23
mean, those are perfectly acceptable words to say, and I totally get it.
35:27
However, my thought is sort off, if the point of not cursing
35:31
it's not the word is it Isn't it the feeling that's attached to the word.
35:37
So if you're if you're just if you're just substituting the word and you
35:39
still mean what the word that you're substituting means, what's really the point.
35:45
Yeah, language is a complicated thing because there's so much more to it than
35:50
just the word itself. There's nuance, there's facial expression. I'm somebody I've
35:55
had to work a lot of you know. My family was as like,
35:58
your body language is really strong, so I can say something completely you know,
36:01
benign. But because I have I have a big mannerisms or something,
36:05
people think you're angry when you're not, just because you stand up quick or
36:07
you slam something down or whatever. You know, there's so much that goes
36:10
into it. Besides just the word itself. We pretty much socially acceptable to
36:15
know what we should and shouldn't say, though, so a lot of this
36:16
is people kind of pushing their limits a little bit. Let's be honest about
36:20
it. But you know, I think it's like you just said the other
36:22
thing, the actions, not the words. How's it coming across? Why
36:25
are you using you? Why are you doing it? That's going to be
36:29
way more important than the word itself in a lot of cases. And uh,
36:32
yeah, I think that that. I think that that. I've always
36:36
been fascinated by that with folks that talk about with the use of certain words,
36:40
because if your intent is the same regardless, I think that that's pretty
36:44
I think that's a pretty interesting difference. We also have let me see where
36:46
did this loss of text here? Oh this is interesting. I'm trying to
36:50
get some information about it now, but I'm having a hard time getting an
36:53
update as this as this texture obviously is. Andrew, I don't know if
36:57
you've heard anything about this, but what is the status of the West Virginia
37:00
Runs Hall of Fame? The legislature created it in the session before last,
37:02
but I've not heard anything since. I haven't heard anything, since this is
37:07
something that came out. Man, we probably need one because we have one.
37:09
This kind of came up when Woody Williams died last year and they got
37:13
brought up again because he was the guy for West Virginia veterans for decades and
37:16
decades and decades and I was honored actually got to write one of the obituaries
37:21
for Washington examin Or when he did pass away. So this this was something
37:24
that kind of came out of that. I don't know the details of it.
37:28
I'm all for it West Virginia. When you looking through military history,
37:31
we've we've carried a heavy load per capita of people that have served. We've
37:37
had Medal of honor winners. We have people you know even now serving you
37:40
know our National Guard units. I have served with distinction and continue to do.
37:45
So I'm all for it. I don't know what that would take.
37:47
I know they passed some legislation about it, but like everything else, you
37:50
gotta physically go do it, even if you get it approved. I'm all
37:52
for it. I hope they get it done. And then there's other things
37:54
like you know, getting the getting the traveling wall a permanent home. I
37:58
think that's fantastic, and I'm glad they're getting so these these are all things
38:01
we have to pay attention to year round, not just on the Moral Day
38:05
or Veterans Day or on Force's Day like we had a couple of weekends ago.
38:07
By the way, it looks like the only information I can find.
38:09
And then this is from bike in January, Woody Williams was Governor. Justice
38:14
enshrined him is the first member of the West Virginia Veterans Hall of Fame.
38:17
But that's kind of where we are. It's a House Bill forty four h
38:21
six, which lays out the guidelines of what the Veterans Hall of Fame would
38:24
be. But there has been that I can find. There's been no brick
38:29
and mortar movement or any like board put together anything along those lines. It
38:32
exists out there as a thing that's going to happen, but it doesn't look
38:36
like If somebody has any updated information on this, I'd love to have it,
38:38
But as of right now, it doesn't look like there's been any major
38:40
movement forward on the West Virginia Military Hall of Fame. So this would be
38:45
that's perfect. They'll leave a post it on the screen there for day when
38:46
he comes back, because he talks to all these heavy hitters baggage true here
38:50
on five eighty Live. I bet you he can figure this one out for
38:52
so leave a memo. I will I'll put I'll put a post it note
38:55
up here, and we need to get this figured out because that's kind of
38:59
a it's a neat thing or something that we need here and I think would
39:01
be interesting and better for us if we had it up and running. Listening
39:07
to five eighty Live this morning. Andrew Donaldson is my co host a guest
39:10
co host this morning. You can get in on the phone lines if you'd
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like at three or four, three, four, five fifty fifty eight.
39:15
We've been getting a lot of text in this morning at three or four nine
39:16
through five five zero zero eight. I promise. We talked a little bit
39:20
about road trips. Have you been what's you've been in the military, so
39:23
you've traveled a lot, But as far as as a doing civilian things and
39:28
road trips, is there any particular one that you like to go in and
39:30
they don't have to be long sometimes you know, like a favorite two hour
39:34
drive or something, or sometimes it's a vacation. Do you have something that
39:36
you kind of zen out too when you drive. Yeah, I drive driving
39:40
long drives and all of those things that called me down anyway, So I
39:43
love to do it. You know, I've got about an hour and a
39:45
half two hour run to the beach from the North Carolina house, so I'll
39:47
do that all the time. I'll drop my favor because like we're going to
39:50
the sunset on the beach, We're gonna get up early and catch sun runs
39:52
of the beach. I've done that. I'll tell you one of my favorite
39:53
road trips I ever got to do. And I've lived out West and I've
39:55
lived all over the world, so I've done a lot of these. We
39:59
had a summer we flew out to San Francisco and then drove the Pacific coast
40:02
all the way to Vancouver. Oh yeah, and it was nineteen ninety six.
40:06
And the reason I remember it was nineteen ninety six. We were in
40:08
We drove to Vancouver and then came back down to Seattle. We were sitting
40:12
in the Seattle Airport Seatach Airport, and because of the time difference, that
40:15
was the day that the Olympic Park bombing happened in Atlanta. So we were
40:19
sitting in the airport watching the coverage of that. I've just never forgot it,
40:22
but that was an amazing trip. We drove the you know, almost
40:24
all the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco all the way up to Vancouver,
40:29
and people never been to Vancouver, Cana that are looked it up. It's
40:30
one of those places where you can sit on the beach and see snowcapped mountains.
40:32
It's just a beautiful, beautiful city. That's one of the really sticks
40:36
in my mind. I lived in Vegas, I've drove cross country multiple times,
40:39
like you have. This is a big country, go out and see
40:43
it. It just it blows people's mind. And then I've gotten into drive
40:45
all over Europe because i lived in Germany twice, so I've been very blessed
40:47
with the road trip. But that one always sticks out in my mind because
40:51
you have a historical event that happened, and then also just the you know,
40:54
there's just very few places in the world like driving the Pacific Coast of
40:58
the US. You know, Highway one Pacific goes to Highway. It's famous
41:00
for a reason. It's it's incredible and the first time that I drove across
41:04
the US and and man, if you have the opportunity to do this and
41:07
you've never traveled significantly outside the state, something along the I did a combination
41:10
of camping and motels depending on where I was. I traded everything that I
41:15
owned for camping supplies. So I had I'd rented a house at the time.
41:21
I had had a girlfriend. We decided to give away everything that we
41:24
had, so like everything that I had in my house, I traded my
41:28
stereo for a tent. I mean, I mean literally it was no cash.
41:30
But I prepared myself for the road, very kind of a hippie type
41:32
of thing to do in a way. But I went camping for months,
41:36
and man, there is nothing like when you're driving and you've only been in
41:39
I mean, I've been in most of the states at this point in time,
41:42
most of the states in the mid Atlantic. And you know, I
41:45
wasn't non traveled. I'd gone to New York every year for years. It's
41:47
not like I've never been anywhere. But when you point that car west and
41:51
you just keep driving and you see state after state after stating even and other
41:54
places in the world, these are like different countries, you know, different
41:58
terrains, different people that you run in to different different regional flares. It
42:01
is incredible when you go from you know, kind of our region, then
42:06
you drive across the plains and then you start seeing like the rocky mountains on
42:08
the horizon. You get past that and you get into more of the Pacific
42:12
Northwest or whatever. It is a huge country, and nothing gives you more
42:15
respect of this country than actually going through it. Sometimes nothing I'll give you
42:19
perspective, like driving cross country. I remember the first time, I think
42:22
we were driving to Colorado or somewhere like where you spend a whole day driving
42:24
in Kansas, and the mountains don't get a closer, you know. It's
42:28
just one of those things you just have to really experience. We were out
42:31
in Denver back last fall and my youngest daughter went out there with us.
42:37
We went to a family wedding and I was trying to explain because she's kind
42:39
of too little to really remember Vegas for a while. I like it just
42:42
when you go out west in the country, the sky looks different. It's
42:45
bigger. It really does look bigger. It's hard to explain. And you
42:47
can see like three or fourth thunderstorm rolling around. It's not like West Virginia
42:51
really just sneak up the valley and hits you. You can see them moving
42:53
around. It's a big, big world out there. I cannot encourage people
42:57
enough to get out and travel. You will. I have never regretted going
43:00
on a trip. I've regretted not going on trips, but I've never regret
43:04
That's one of those things like I'm pretty frugol with my money. That's something
43:06
I spend money on. I was like, you will always remember trips.
43:08
Your kids will always remember your trips are. That's good family time. Doing
43:12
stuff like that. Cannot encourage people do it enough. When I was camping
43:15
in the desert and brewing some coffee like on an open fire and then just
43:19
sitting there and watching like a thunderhead coming in from the masa or something.
43:22
To me, even thinking back to it right now, I get a little
43:24
bit of that free zone feeling that could just a little bit. It's just
43:28
it's just awe inspiring to be sitting there and something like that. Yeah,
43:31
you get up in the mountain and look, I love my West Virginia mountains.
43:34
I'll be there here at the seat and I'm leaving, coming back up.
43:37
I'll be up in Somersville all weekend. There's something about those mountains out
43:40
west where it's higher. When I was in Vegas, I go up top
43:43
of Mountain Charleston all the time. Those mountains just blow your mind. Then
43:46
somewhere like you go to Europe and the Alps and you're driving down through southern
43:50
Germany and just all of a sudden, it's like this massive rock wall coming
43:52
at you, very different from the hills and mountains we have in West Virginia.
43:57
It's an amazing world. Get out and see it. And this is
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one of those weekends. This is one of the busiest travel days of the
44:01
weekend of the year. I cannot encourage people enough to get out too.
44:06
And just in West Virginia, there's so much. We really do have a
44:09
great state park system. State parks are very affordable. It doesn't cost anything
44:14
to drive to them and walk around either. Just go walk around. There's
44:16
woods. We just take it for granted in West Virginia. How beautiful it
44:20
is, how preserved it is, how little footprint mankind really has in the
44:24
state West Virginia when you think about it in a big picture way. I
44:27
used to joke when i'd fly home at night, I know I was almost
44:29
home because you look down and the lights would stop, and then it just
44:31
be like little ribbons of lights insteads of spread out those things. Don't take
44:36
them for granted. Get out there, do things, enjoy it, and
44:38
take somebody with you. Very good. Andrew Donaldson my guest co host this
44:42
morning. Let's go ahead and go to the fund lines before we have to
44:44
go to our break, and John is on the line from Nightshore. John,
44:45
Good morning. How are you doing this morning? Pretty good? How
44:49
thy you get more time? Maybe you can do a show on Woody Williams.
44:54
You read the book called Flamethrower? Yeah, yeah, I wrote.
45:00
I read it because I had to do a piece on his. Uh.
45:02
I wrote one of the obituary pieces for him. And you cannot make Woody
45:07
Williams more herogue than he was with a flamethrower. Both the guys that were
45:12
tending him were both killed in action. He was wounded. He changed out
45:15
flamethrowers multiple times. He kept doing highly recommend people to read his book on
45:20
that. It's amazing. Well, the god wrote the book. They kind
45:24
of had a mutual agreement. This Gooby Woody's autobiography and he's gonna get paid
45:29
a little bit of money. And the guy got mad at Woody and tried
45:32
to turn it into stolen valor type thing. And then the guy is a
45:37
good book. But the guy contradictory himself all over the place. He called
45:40
wood a hero, then he compared him with other people. Was this totally
45:45
ridiculous? But anyway Gul could reread it or something. Maybe we haven't talk
45:51
about it sometime. Sounds good, John, I appreciate it. Thanks,
45:54
thanks for calling in this morning. Okay, appreciate I appreciate that. John.
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HS the Voice of Charleston. Andrew Donaldson's with me as our special guest host.
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I wanted to get through a final couple of our texts this morning.
48:30
Let's see what is the importance of those who sacrifice their lives in Iraq or
48:34
Afghanistan. Perhaps gen Z has grown up. Andrew's gonna be good at answering
48:37
this because this is uh. He's a veteran during these during this time,
48:40
perhaps gen Z has grown up watching the military be sent to war for corporate
48:45
interests and decided that it's not for them. And how the VA and Congress
48:49
are terrible to veterans. The politicians of the last twenty five years have been
48:53
horrible to veterans. No wonder no one wants to serve in the military.
48:59
That's an over exag They're having some recruiting issues, but some of that is
49:01
because of the triol, and people do see how our government behaves itself,
49:06
and yes, that does affect things, But on the other hand, there's
49:08
just issues that need to be done. I just spent yesterday about almost ninety
49:13
minutes on the phone with the people doing the Burnpin information gathering. They finally
49:16
got around the columny. We've been in almost twenty years now trying to get
49:20
the burn pit stuff, and I finally had my thing with that yesterday.
49:22
So it moves very, very slowly. That's an overexaggeration. People want to
49:27
be proud in their country, but our government and the people like us that
49:30
need to hold our government more accountable, we could do a better job with
49:32
that. That probably fixed a little bit of that, and some of that's
49:35
on us. And last one, just briefly, we have about two and
49:37
a half minutes left here. Let's see from the three or four two zero
49:40
six. You can burn down cities and destroy mom and pop businesses and not
49:45
even be taken into custody. But don't they're parade inside the people's house and
49:47
not touch a thing. Because your face was on video and your credit cards
49:51
showed up, the DJ will spend two years tracking you down all the way
49:53
across the country and drag you out of your home. Before you comment on
49:57
this, I'll just say one hundred and twenty federal arrest from the it's twenty
50:00
twenty, one hundred and twenty federal arrests from the rights of twenty twenty,
50:02
hundreds of state arrests from the rights of twenty twenty. You got to get
50:07
outside of your news buddle, Yeah a little bit. Look again, Yes,
50:12
there's people that just got caught up in it and just walked through and
50:15
didn't do any damage. It didn't cause any mayhem, wasn't looking to hurt
50:16
anybody. Yes, that's absolutely true. But then we know because these court
50:20
cases there was a there was about twelve to fourteen people that really were trying
50:23
to do some really bad things, and there was a couple hundred people that
50:25
got carried away and did do damage and stuff like. You can read through
50:29
this. Don't just read a headline. You can read every single one of
50:31
these court cases and get get yourself informed on what it is. If you
50:35
break the law, you need to get punished by the law. Sorry,
50:37
that's just the way things work. Yeah, and a lot of that too.
50:40
This is a whole different discussion. But I have a friend that lives
50:43
important for Portland, for example, and so when all this stuff was going
50:45
down in Portland, I just reached out to him, was like, hey
50:47
man, what's going on? And he happened to be live streaming and I
50:51
caught some of his live streams of one night. People don't real people talk
50:53
about how entire cities were burning down. There were cities all across the country
50:57
that were just burning down, and Portland, for example, it was like
50:59
a four radius that the police funneled everybody into to control that four block radius.
51:05
I'm not saying it was like that in every city. It's just people
51:07
get twisted up in their narratives a little bit. Yeah, the image is
51:10
worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need a couple thousand words to put
51:13
the image in perspective. I did a whole show with two gout one guy
51:16
that worked a block away from that. He's an attorney, good friend of
51:20
mine. He's like, yeah, it's bis all this one little thing.
51:22
Careful, careful with your news intake. You need to make sure you're getting
51:25
a wide perspective on things, because no, it's not all bad news.
51:29
There's good news too, but even the bad news, let's keep it in
51:31
perspective a little bit. If it's fitting perfectly into what you already think,
51:35
that's kind of a red flight for you, Like maybe I need to step
51:37
back and look at this a little differently. Well. I hope everyone has
51:39
a does a proper remembrance a Memorial Day. Enjoy your weekend and your Monday
51:45
off. Most people were going to have that. I'll be back here this
51:47
afternoon at three h six for a hotline with Day Weekly Andrew Donaldson, my
51:51
guest co host and also guest earlier this week. Man, thanks a bunch
51:53
for hanging out on the radio with me. I had a blast. You're
51:55
the best anytime, Coop. Always happy to be with you. We'll check
51:58
in with you soon. And because we're driving up to the Mountain state tonight,
52:00
Yes, sir, take care all right, man, take care.
52:02
That's Andrew Donaldson from the North the Ordinary Times, from their Hortel Show,
52:07
from the Washington Examiner magazine and all over the place. Thanks so much for
52:09
listening in today. That's it for me. Have a great day everyone on
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