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03/26/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Rich "The Realtor" Kline, Alex Mooney, Jill Gearin, Joe Stevens · The Dave Allen Show

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zero eights. I want to welcome into the show now our good friend Rich
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the realtor cliin from Mee's Realty. Richard, good morning, welcome to the
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show. Good morning, thanks for having me. I was driving up here
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today in the rain. Hm. And remember that last month it was that
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torrential downpour on the way up here too, So I don't know if that's
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a sign or what's happening there. Well, we got forest fire situations in
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West Virginia, so maybe we should just book you on the show more often
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to help out with some of these things. Send me where the fires are.
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Yes, we've also got Rich has got a special guest with him,
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but we're going to introduce him a little bit later on he comes nowt Now
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he's got an entourage. You've become such a star doing this show. Rick,
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Now, Rich, I don't know why I call you Rick whatever?
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Now now now you have an entourage, and so we're going to introduce you
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somebody a little bit later, all right, Rich, And as always,
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Rich is open to take your calls or text if you'd like to textas question
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in about real estate. You can do that again. You can call us
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the big Ley Pigly Wiggly hotline is three zero four three four five fifty fifty
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if the text line from truth is three zero four nine three five five zero
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zero. Ate Rich, I'm not the realty expert you are, but I
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have heard and read something about from the National Association of Realtors has been making
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the news lately. And what I'm hearing what I've read again, I just
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know bits and pieces of it could change the way that real estate listings are
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done across America. Explain what this whole thing is about. Well, there
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was a settlement, and I won't try and go into too many details.
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I'll direct you and the listening audience just to where they can go to look
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up that information for themselves. They can read the settlement. It was a
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settlement with the National Associated Association of Realtors that will probably change the way we
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do business. But you know, for me today, I just want everyone
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to know that real estate is still going to go on. There's still going
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to be people buying and selling. Professional realtors are going to be there to
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help you. There will be some changes on how we advertise any concessions that
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a seller might do for to help a buyer's side commission and explain what concessions
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are. So if they you know traditionally, well, first thing I tell
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everyone I get into the real estate, whether the buying are selling. I
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always say that everything in real estate is negotiable, and that includes the commission.
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So there is a not a standard set commission that you would sell some
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you know, you come to a realtor and say, hey, how much
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do you charge? Would you charge to sell my house? Traditionally, however
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much that is, whether that's four or five, six, seven percent,
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whatever that is, that gets split between the buyer's agent and the seller's agent,
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and then they of course have agreements with their brokers, so it gets
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typically split split four ways sell. That's a seller's concession on paying for the
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real estate commission on both sides of the transaction for the buyer and the seller.
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Okay, so that's going to change where the sellers they've always had options
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to negotiate that commission, but it is going to be it's also advertised.
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The other big part of that the change that will happen, it's advertised within
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our multiple listing service, and that will no longer be true in July,
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so the advertising parts. Okay, So, so where did all this come
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from? I mean again, and people can look it up for themselves,
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and I don't want to get you into a trouble, but but what does
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this stem from? So? And I'm not going to go into the details
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of the of the lawsuit. And it was a class action thing that happened
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in Missouri, had nothing to do with West Virginia. But we're all part
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of the National Association of Realtors, where most of us are. So it
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is still has not been approved by the courts. So what I'll say is
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that if you're interested in the findings and all of the details, you can
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go to a to a link just facts dot realtor. And if you do
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that, it used to be you would need to be a realtor to be
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able to get to that. But all of the details on the settlement are
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there. You can find out. There's frequently asked questions there that are answered,
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a lot of the questions for us. So changes are happening, but
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you know, I think that the professional realtors are still here to help and
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we know that it's just part of our lives. Change is part of it,
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and we will change with that and and be able to help buyers and
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sellers. Facts Dot Realtor, Okay Rich Rich the realtor climbs with Us.
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or dined in. So talk about the real estate market here in the Canal
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Valley. We have you on once a month to talk about it. How's
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it going, Yeah, it's going good. It's the spring selling season,
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so people are moving and trying to get into their you know, forever homes
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or forever businesses or whatever they're doing. It's just kind of a hot time
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of the year right now, which is exciting. We still lack inventory,
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and you know that'll know that there's going to be a significant change in that
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in the next couple of years, is my opinion. So you know,
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we still battle multiple offers in that kind of scenario. I would just encourage
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you to make sure your realtor is on top of it for you and help
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move you as quickly as long as possible with that and deal with the realtor
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when it comes to this stuff. Don't try to do it yourself. I
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mean, whether it's Rich or somebody else, but really there is nobody else
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who is there. I do want to say. One of the things that
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realtors, you know, experienced and established realtors have is a huge network of
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referrals. So and that goes on forever. So even after you buy your
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home, that realtor can still be a source for you. And that goes
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from people who need to change your locks, you need electricians or whatever you
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need. So you know, one of the things that we provide as a
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referral is even somebody who can help you with your furnace, changing your filters
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for your furnace. And and that's why you're the ultimate in the master of
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segue, because that's why we have this guy here. I practice that.
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Yeah, you're you're a regular pro. Now you've been doing it's about a
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year or so. Now Rich you're But again, referrals is a part of
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that. And that's why I have John Lovejoy here from the company Fresh Air
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Now you've heard me talk about fresh Air on the show because they're a sponsor
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to the show. We've never had John on to talk about it specifically.
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John, good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, how are
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you. I'm doing fine, Thank you for being there. So so talk
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about fresh Air, talk about what services that you provide. Fresh Air is
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actually an air filter changing service. A lot of your HVAC companies that offer
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these preventative maintenance programs don't actually cover the air filter changing. If they do,
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it's typically an additional charge, or you actually have to purchase the filters
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yourself. With Fresh Air, we come out and we build a custom filter
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for your unit, given it a tighter fit which allows it to work more
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efficiently, and then in return, it's a better quality filter than once you
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can just go to the local box stores and purchase. That's what I was
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going to ask you. I mean, why can't I just go to my
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local store and pick one of these ups Again, you're looking at better quality.
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The typical air filter that you're going to get at the box stores basically
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just going to cover dust and pollen, you know, or we've got anything
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from our basic covers dust, pollen, dust, mites, debris, pet
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dander. That's a big factor when it comes to their air filters in your
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air quality inside your home. If you have a pet, you know that
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dander does tend to clog up the unit. Yeah, and so it's you
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know, you want to make sure that that's filtered out before it gets in.
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And you also offer this for commercial use as well, for restaurants,
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churches, you know, whatever. Yes, we do, we actually do.
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We actually offer a medical grade filter for those facilities where you're going to
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have larger groups of people gathering. You know, our goal is one to
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protect the health of your age back unit, but also to protect the health
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of everyone on the inside of the building as well. People don't realize the
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indoor air quality or is actually five times worse than our outside air quality.
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And you know here in the valley, outside air qualities not that great to
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begin with. So you can imagine, you know, in your homes or
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in your business at being five times worse than that. Can it? I
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know you don't want to make any kind of promises or anything, but John,
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can it affect your the cost of your your heating and cooling if you
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don't have the proper fitting because we're all trying to save money wherever we can.
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Now, I mean, is there any I mean, is there a
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direct correlation between having the right filter and how much you write a check for
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or I'm a old school I say write a check how much money you take
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out of your your account every month to pay the bills? Absolutely? Absolutely,
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Like I said, our goal is to make sure that we provide a
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healthy option for that unit that allows it to work and it's mix efficiency and
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so as a result, you're if it's working and it's mix efficiency, there's
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less energy consumed. Less energy consumed results in lower energy bills. Right and
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again, John is with a company called fresh Air and they do offer twenty
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four hour emergency service and we'll give you the contact information on them and riches.
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As I know somebody who's in the real estate business, you're always looking
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for things like this, anything to help out to potential buyers or sellers.
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Absolutely, for sure we are. And I just wanted to make sure that
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I'm clear on the on John services as well. You guys are actually doing
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the work of the changing of the filter for the client as well. Correct,
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Yes, we actually, like said, we come out, I don't
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want to make my wife crawl up under the house anymore, and she does
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not have to crawl in that cross space or walk across the rafters in the
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attic. She'd appreciate that. I'm always looking out for her because I hate,
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forre it have to go into there with spiders and whatnot, especially right
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after she mows the grass. Well, yeah, right right, and washes
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the car and waxes it. Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah,
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that you know, that's the nice thing is we come out, like I
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said that first time, we're going to build that custom frame, and then
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we come out on a scheduled basis and actually change that for you, so
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that way you've always got that, okay, as we like to say,
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fresh air, fresh air, and clients are looking for that. I mean
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they really, truly are they looking for easy maintenance things where they're buying a
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home. They don't know what they're getting going to get into, so things
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that will just make their you know, an east of use for them for
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that kind of stuff that they're looking for that all right, and again the
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website, well, let me give you the phone number first. It's three
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zero four four four zero one one zero four, and you have a website.
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Website is fresh air Field I got it right here. Fresh Air Filters
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dot Us is this website, and again twenty four hour Services VIP. And
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I love the tagline because everyone deserves fresh air. Every time I read that,
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I think I picture Oliver Douglas and Green Acres going fresh air. You
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know, Richard, I remember this unfortunately, and probably John does too.
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We are aging, yes, right, guys. I appreciate you being here.
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Rich Give me your contact information directly to me is three oh four nine
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three two seven four eight eight, or you can find me at meeks dot
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us. This is an easy way to find me, all right. John,
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It's a pleasure to have you on the show. Will have you on
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again. Shiate your sponsorship of the show. Rich It's always pleasure to see
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you and talk to you as well. Thanks a lot, guys, Thanks
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Dake, appreciate you. All right. We're going to take a break.
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the show now, Congressman candidate for US Senate Alex Mooney, Good morning,
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sir, Hey, good morning. Great to be with you. Thank you
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for being here. Uh. First, before we get to your race for
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the Senate, I want to talk about your current job as a congressman.
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What's been going on in Washington here with you as of lighton. Well,
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it's a lot of spending, the taxpayer dollars. Things have changed, you
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know, it's erally what I've seen in my ten years in Congress. Of
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course, I've represented Kennall County for eight of those ten years, so it's
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good to be on the show remind people of my representation. But I've seen
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it all. I've gone from Republican control when I was first elected in twenty
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fourteen, to Democrat control back to Republican control in the US House of Representatives.
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But sometimes you wouldn't know it because we still spend, it seems with
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the Democrats, and spend lots of money, and the debt keeps going up.
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So we can get into particulars of it, but overall, what I've
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seen in my ten years is just a lot of uncontrolled spending and frankly,
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both already are responsible for that. A bill we passed just last week won
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over trillion dollars, but it doesn't build the wall, doesn't rain in the
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out of control you know, Department of Justice, and I mean it's disappointing.
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I think the taxpayers deserve better. Oh, I'm going to keep voting
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conservative and I want to I want to give to that specifically. And you've
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been one that has talked about it. I think we all have concerns,
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congressmen about the about the national debt. And I will say you have been
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very consistent in speaking out against it. I learned in my first year that
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nothing was changing, that both parties were addicted to the spending. And they
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say, now's not the time. That's the thing, Now's not the time.
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I even heard it a few weeks ago from saying, well, now's
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not the time to take on this spending. You know, we have to.
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You know, there's a there's a there's a war in Israel, and
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there's a war in Ukraine, and there's you know, the economy struggling,
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and now's not the time that you know what. Now never seems to be
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the time, because it's going to be tough, and you know, I
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know when I vote against these trillion dollars spending bills that are bankrupting our kind,
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I know that opens me up to a political attack. There are things
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in those bills that I support, of course, and when you vote against
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one spending bill for the rest of your life, you'll be you know,
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they'll pick something out of there run of a TV I'd saying you oppose it.
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But I'm counting on the voters to be smart enough to realize that,
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as they have in the past, because they have reelected me to this position
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at least. And so you know, at the end of the day,
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when I have to look myself in the mirror and see this debt that eventually
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is going to bankrupt our country, I mean we are we are going so
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fast to the point where we literally wouldn't be able to pay the interest on
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the debt anymore. Then you couldn't pay for anything, you know, That's
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the real concern. And so yes, I have been consistent against it,
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and this last bill last week actually the majority of my party for the first
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time in recent memory, most House Republicans did vote against it. It was
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about one hundred and twelve two hundred and twelve voted against it, but almost
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every Democrat voted for it. So here you have a Republican majority. Mike
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Johnson a Republican Speaker of the House, but most almost all the Democrats are
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supporting these spending bills. That should be a the flag. If one of
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your listeners is a Republican and they want conservative government, well, if all
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the Democrats are voting yes, clearly, if Nancy you know, it's like
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Nancy Pelosi's voting for it, clearly, it can't be that good of a
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bill. So it's a it's a real struggle. But are tax dollars.
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People work hard to pay these tax dollars, and they deserve a government who
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will govern conservatively. Talking again the Congressman Alex Mooney, I want to talk
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about your candidacy for US Senate House. The campaign been going so far,
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it's been going well. I mean, I have my hands hold the guy
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I'm running against as super high name I d Jim Justice's governor and everybody knows
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who he is. And I have to wrote. You know, I did
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write like I said, I did represent Kennall County for eight years and I
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now for just over a year. Represent the northern half of the state,
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but the southern half of the state I've never or the southern third really I've
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never represented. They don't know as much about me, and fat of have
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to remind people about my conservative voting record. I mean, it's clear like
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when I was elected in twenty fourteen, and I was re elected in twenty
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twenty sixteen as a republic Jim Justice was running as a Democrat and he did
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win as a Democrat, and in my view, he still votes like a
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Democrat even though he switched his party affiliation. So and I'm making the case
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that I have a conservative voting record. He's spending those we just talked about.
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I voted against all of them. The Joe Biden American Rescue Act was
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one point nine trillion. Of course I voted against that. Mister Justice actually
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endorsed it and said, me need the money. Who cares what you know?
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When he's wasted, he supports it. He would literally do more liberal
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on spending than any other senator. And frankly, mister Justice ran and out
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attacking me in my last campaign because I poked to Joe bidf trillion. Not
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so there's a huge difference between the candidates. So if you know somebody wants
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someone who's proven to vote conservative and stand up against spending, I'm your only
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choice here, mister Justice. Of course, even last year, as a
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supposedly Republican, he didn't he campaign against getting herd, the inventory tax in
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West Virginia and the car tax. So uh, you know, I'm pointing
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this out everywhere I go because it's important for people to know. But I'm
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the old conservative choice for the US Senate. Of course, Joe Manchon has
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chosen to retire, and the deadline the file was in of January, so
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mister Mansion is gone. He's not running. He legally cannot run. There's
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no reason for West Virginians to accept someone who's basically a liberal Republican. He
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would vote the same as Joe Mansion when you have a conservative choice me Alex
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Mooney for US want, what do you make of the governor's recent financialow was
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Congressman Well, I mean, I just think he campaigned as a business guy
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who can turn the state around and all that, But he's just suspender.
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Family spends and spends and spends, it doesn't pay bills, and you know
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he doesn't like I've seen it. I mean, he yead attacking me because
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I wouldn't vote for a trillion dollar spending bill. He obviously needs to pay
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taxes. I mean, I think it's beyond hypocritical that they would collect taxes
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at the Greenbrier and then not turn them in, Whereas he's the guy's supposed
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to be in charge of, you know, spending taxes in the state.
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You know. But my problem with him is is, you know he raised
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the gas tax. Remember that, you know he raised a gas tax.
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Ten sense. I've never voted for a tax increase in my entire political life.
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Ever, I've voted against every tax increase anty increases because I'm a conservative
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and that's what conservat is supposed to do. I think the West Virginians are
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taxed ENUF already. Government leads to live within its means. So, yeah,
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I have there's a lot of concerns with mister Justice. Clearly he needs
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to go home, take care of business, Congressman before we let you go.
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Several recent polls have come out of the show the governor Justice with the
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commanding lead, and the race we still have some some time. How do
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you close that gap? Yeah, I'm going everywhere. Man, I'm not
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seeing mister Justice or his teams at any of the Republican gatherings I've been to.
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Obviously, you know I have the chance to communicate through paid media as
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well my conservative record. But i's everywhere I go, like, I don't
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understand. I've seen the polls you're referencing as well. I'm not hearing it
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when when I go around, everyone I meet says they're looking for an alternative
24:03
to Jim Justice, and you know, whether they knew me or not before
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they say they're voting for me. I think a lot of voters are going
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to pay very close attention in the coming weeks to the candidates, and it's
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going to be very clear because look, I'm not making this up. I
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have a voting record. It's been there for ten years. Everyone knows I'm
24:21
a solid conservative. I'm a fighting conservative because my voting record proves it.
24:25
I've been endorsed by Ted Cruz and Ran Paul. Those senators have endorsed me.
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Mich McConnell personally recruited my opponent to run. He will go along with
24:32
all that spending. I'll fight it. So I still think, you know
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you have a guy Jim Justice, who's literally known by everybody, and he's
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barely breaking fifty percent in the polls. I think that's a problem for him,
24:41
to be honest with you, I think a lot of people don't want
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him. So I have to make it really clear that I'm the only conservative
24:48
choice, because I am the only conservative choice, and that's what West Virginians
24:52
deserve. Congressman Alex Mooney, I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule
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to be here. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, you bet,
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text. Talk about to baseball right now. Before you know it, another
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Charleston Dirty Bird season will be up, honest. Jill Garren is here from
30:14
the Dirty Birds. Jill, good morning, welcome to the show. Good
30:15
morning, thanks for having me. I wanna get a little background on Jill.
30:18
Who is Jill? How did you get here? Why are you here?
30:21
Who are you? Absolutely so I moved to West Virginia officially just about
30:26
a month ago. I am My official title is I am the manager of
30:30
Community Engagement, media Relations, and I'm also the play by play broadcaster for
30:33
the team. So basically anything media, community marketing, that's me. How
30:37
do you fit all that in a lot of sleepless nights? Oh? So
30:42
do you sleep at all? I try to. I mean, the staff
30:45
is awesome and with the dirty words and so I have a lot of support
30:48
and you know, hopefully interns will be coming in soon. So you got
30:52
to have the interns in this business. So where are you from? Originally
30:55
originally from Hermosa Beach, California. I moved here from Arizona. That's where
30:59
I was this last baseball off season, and then the previous five years I
31:03
was with a minor league team in Visalia, California. Okay, all right,
31:06
so welcome to the East Coast. Thank you. Had you been to
31:07
this part of the world before you took the job. I went to school
31:11
in Boston, so I've done the East coast New England, just have not
31:14
been to really the mid Atlantic coast. Ah, I got it, I
31:15
got it. So how's your time been in Charleston? So far. I
31:19
know you're making the round trying to meet as many people as possible in front
31:22
of the season. How's it been so far? It's been good. I
31:25
mean everyone here is so so nice. I think that's the big difference between
31:29
this area and Arizona and California. But I've really enjoyed going hiking so far.
31:33
I haven't done any big heights. I want to go to the Gorge,
31:34
obviously, but just some smaller local nature hikes. To talk about the
31:40
season, what was it about this job with the Dirty Birds that attracted you
31:45
to come here. I've known Andy Shaeffer a few years now and we have
31:48
kept in touch. It was time for me to leave my old job in
31:52
baseball. I was just feeling a little too complacent, and I really liked
31:55
the idea of a new team. I really liked the idea of an independent
31:56
team where we are able to do what we want with what we have.
32:01
The players are are legitimate co workers. They have the same paycheck signed by
32:06
the same person, so there are co workers. We can have them out
32:08
in the community a little bit more. They can go out and do more
32:10
and be a part of this city. And as we've talked about, with
32:15
Andy and with others with the Dirty Birds in the past. These are as
32:17
you said, these are players that chose to be here. They're not necessarily
32:22
shipped here from from a team in Montana or something there there here because they
32:27
want to be here exactly. And the Dirty Birds are very very important to
32:30
the community. And I love I mean, I follow you guys on social
32:32
media. I try to share as much as possible. You were out like
32:35
in the classrooms doing some reading yesterday. You had Dusty the mascot out there
32:38
with you. Correct, that was me yesterday. West Tays Elementary That are
32:42
one of the five schools that we're partnering with on our new books with the
32:45
Birds Reading program. For more information, you can go to our Kids section
32:47
of the website for that. And again we're talking to Joe Garren, whose
32:51
official title is the Manager of Media Relations and Community Engagement and broadcaster. I
32:57
want to talk about your broadcasting absolutely so. Was this something you always wanted
33:00
to do? Was be a play by play broadcaster? Yep. At thirteen
33:02
years old, I spoke in my eighth grade graduation and I told everyone I
33:06
was going to be the voice of the Boston Red Sox. Okay, well,
33:08
I mean, you still got time. It's it got some time.
33:09
I did intern for the Red Sox my senior year of college, and I
33:14
did do a few innings for the Arizona Diamondbacks radio, so I have some
33:17
some big league experience. And you know, there was a time and I'm
33:21
going to go ahead and state the obvious here and not to make myself sound
33:24
older than I already am, but there was a time that when you thought
33:27
about, well, a female broadcaster, I mean, that's just something that
33:30
you wouldn't have, especially in a male sport. It's no big deal now,
33:32
which it shouldn't be in my opinion, if you can call the game,
33:36
call the game no matter what your gender. But you know, there's
33:40
a lot of trailblazers out there doing great things right now. Absolutely, the
33:43
big two names in Major League Baseball is Jenny Kavnar. She has just announced
33:46
as the first primary female play by play for the Oakland Athletics. Melanie Newman
33:51
is with the Baltimore Orioles. There's a ton of other women in minor league
33:53
baseball, but I'm very lucky to be a part of that that crew of
33:57
Trailblazers. Now, are you a Red Sox fan. I am a Red
34:00
Sox fan. I'll be honest. I've been following the Diamondbacks a lot more
34:01
because the team I was with was affiliated with them for five years, so
34:05
I was paying very close attention to that team more than the Red Sox.
34:08
Well, and their primary owner Ken Kendrick, who's the West Virginia native.
34:13
Oh really, I don't think I knew that. Yeah, I think that
34:15
he's very involved. He's a WVU alum and he's very involved with the wv
34:19
program. Matter of fact, he was just on Hoby Show a couple of
34:21
weeks ago. But yeah, so you've learned something from me. Thank you.
34:24
Let's talk about opening Day. When it's opening day for the Dirty Birds
34:28
April twenty fifth, six thirty five. Gates open at five thirty, and
34:30
I'll have you on. Of course, it's kind of an opening day tradition.
34:34
I normally have whoever sits in your role, but I also will have
34:37
a player too and the manager and talk about some of the things you're looking
34:40
forward to this season. I mean, there's just so many fun promotions.
34:44
We're really trying to cater to the kids this year, so nothing super official.
34:49
We're hoping to put pens of paper very soon. But we're going to
34:52
have hopefully a kids area that will have you know, inflatables, potentially other
34:57
kind of carnival sue games. If you went to our Light the Night,
34:59
it's going to be very similar to that, where there's going to be a
35:00
lot of activities for kids. We have some clinics coming up this year.
35:06
Every Saturday we'll have Mega Blast fireworks, and every Friday there's going to be
35:09
a giveaway awesome all right, now, I've just started talking about this on
35:13
the show a little bit yesterday. You're doing there's a home run derby,
35:15
yeah, coming up over Ballpark that's going to be on Saturday, April the
35:19
twenty. If gates are going to open at five thirty, derby starts at
35:22
six thirty. Where I guess from what I'm reading and correct me if I'm
35:24
wrong. Members of the Dirty Birds team are going to be matched with people
35:29
out in the community. Is that correct? Correct? So we don't have
35:30
any community or we haven't announced at least any of the community members yet.
35:35
That'll be paired up with the players that will be coming at a later date.
35:37
But we're really excited about it. This is kind of a way for
35:39
the fans to get ready. Remember it's baseball season, it's April. Time
35:44
to go, come enjoy the new stadium, see what's new with that new
35:47
kids area, the different concessions that we have going on, and get to
35:51
know some of our players, because we're going to be having our players walking
35:53
around the concourse and getting to know our fans. And that's one of the
35:57
great things again about small town based And I know Charleston in the big picture
36:00
of things is not a small town, but in the big picture of things,
36:02
it is a small town. And to be able to have, as
36:06
I said, that engagement with the people that are in the community, and
36:09
you see them at different events. You don't only see them at the ballpark.
36:14
You see them over at the Clay Center or Capital Market or whatever you
36:16
see. You get to see the players on the regular basis. This home
36:20
run derby, though, I think, is going to be a big hit.
36:22
I mean when I first read about it last week in your social media,
36:24
people were just all over So I can't wait. I can't wait.
36:28
Of course, there's still a lot of details to be ironed out, but
36:29
it's gonna be a great night. I'm really excited about it. It's normal
36:32
seating, just how you think of a normal Dirty Birds game. You can
36:35
get your normal physical seats. But we do have a home run alley,
36:37
so that's going to be in the outfield right behind the outfield wall, a
36:42
home run power alley where you can get tickets for that. You have a
36:45
chance to take home a souvenir from the home run. And some of these
36:49
home run balls might be numbered because this home run Derby is now presented by
36:52
gomart and they're going to give away prizes for some special kids who catch certain
36:58
numbered balls that are home runs. We'll have more details on that because that's
37:01
going to be in April the twentieth, but I want to have you you
37:05
on to talk about that, and then of course we're going to have you
37:07
back on opening Day because we're definitely excited about this upcoming season. What's great
37:12
to have you here, Jill and get to know you. I think you're
37:14
going to do great things with the organization you've got. You mentioned Andy and
37:16
some of the other people that are involved with the organization. You got a
37:20
fine group of people over there, and I love the fact and the city
37:23
of Charleston has a lot to do with this as well. That the ballpark
37:27
is being used in December and being used in January, but that would not
37:30
be possible without having to buy in from the Dirty Birds. Absolutely, I'm
37:36
really excited to be here this when I came in January, it's my first
37:38
time ever in West Virginia, first time in Charleston. I'm really excited to
37:42
be here. For those of you who want to be a part of the
37:44
Dirty Birds, I want this team to be a part of the community as
37:46
much as possible. That's my job here. So reach out to the Dirty
37:50
Birds if you have any ideas of how we can partner. What's the best
37:52
way for people to reach you? Jay Gearan g E A. R.
37:55
I. N At Dirtybirds Baseball dot com. All right, well, Jill,
38:00
it's been a pleasure to have you on the show. Now, as
38:02
far as the broadcasting and the games, those are primary. There's an internet
38:06
based right correct, They're going to be on Flow Sports, Okay, And
38:08
that's the way it's been in the past, right the last couple of years.
38:10
Okay, all right, Jill, I appreciate you being here. That
38:13
home run derby again, it's coming up on Saturday, April twentieth, and
38:15
you've always got great You know, whoever takes care of your website and your
38:20
social media do a fantastic job with it because the schedules are on there.
38:23
The merchandise and the Dirty Birds merchandise. I will say this before we close.
38:28
The Dirty Birds merchandise is selling unbelievably around the country right now because people
38:35
love the teams with the odd names or the odd characters or whatever. And
38:40
it's one of the top sellers of merchandise for people that have no ties to
38:44
West Virginia whatsoever exactly. It's a lot of fun to see where our merchandise
38:50
gets shipped off to. So I'm just really excited to be a part of
38:52
this team. All right, Jill, Now you got to get back over
38:54
to work. We'll let you go because you got the weeks you're county down
38:57
to the Okay, in the Major League Baseball opening season is Thursday. Now,
39:00
I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan, So do you have any predictions on the
39:05
Reds this season? World Series this year? I will say I actually broadcasted
39:08
a prospects game for them this last week, and they have some good prospects
39:10
coming up, so it's a young team. It's a young team. I'm
39:14
the hope springs eternal when you're a Reds fan. So all right, Jill,
39:17
I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. We'll be talking to
39:20
you several times this season. Thanks a lot. Jill Garrett again is the
39:23
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had to reschedule. She'll be on the show tomorrow. Rick Cavender, also
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from the Charleston Urban Works Group, will be on the show coming up tomorrow.
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I want to bring in Joe Stevens Now. Joe, of course no
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stranger to the show. He's usually on to tell us about something good going
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on in the city of Nitro. I've had him on his role with the
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Western Indon Ski Association, which he's a part of. Today he is going
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to report on some events in Baltimore, which happens to be his hometown.
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Now, just after one point thirty this morning came word and the shocking video
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of a cargo ship striking a bridge there. Joe, good morning, what's
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the latest on this situation. I mean, this is everybody's seen the video
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by now in your social media. It's a horrific situation there in Baltimore.
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It really is. In Just to paint a picture a little bit, this
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bridge was built in nineteen seventy seven because of the two tunnels that are used
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across the harbor. It was deemed dangerous for any type of hazardous materials to
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go through the two tunnels that crossed the harbor in Baltimore. So this bridge
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was constructed so that anybody carrying hazardous materials, any truck carrying hazardous materials,
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or any vehicle carrying hazardous materials could go and proceed across the river across the
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Francis Scott Key Bridge. It opened in nineteen seventy seven. It took five
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years to build. It's a mile and a half long. It's one of
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the longest steel girder bridges in the country. And waking up this morning,
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Dave at around four point thirty this morning and hearing on CBS News or this
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morning on WCHS that the Francis Scott Key Bridge had collapsed, just I sunk
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and started trying to gather information immediately. My brother still lives in Dundalk and
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he can basically he's five minutes away from the bridge and it can actually see
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it from his back door. And when he got up to this morning,
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an iconic image that's out there on the Paxico River is now in the water.
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The ship itself is a container ship, just looking at My dad was
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a tugboat captain in the Baltimore Harbor for thirty nine years, ending up his
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career with the Moran Towing Company and I've traveled with him on the tugboat under
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that bridge on numerous occasions. And just looking at the ship, it's about
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twelve hundred foot container ship. It was outbound at one point thirty this morning
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when something happened. None of the officials have said exactly what has happened.
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They're still investigating that. You can imagine that it's all hands on deck right
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now. And the watching that video, it reminded me of when they collapsed
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the old Saint Albans Nitro Bridge, when they did that on purpose and demolished
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it and it just dropped in the river into the Canal River. That's what
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happened here. I mean, the bridge just dropped. Any information as it
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pertains to you know, if there was any cars on the bridge, any
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vehicles on the bridge at the time. I know there's a report that there
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were workers on the bridge working overnight, so you know that's all coming from
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Maryland Transportation. The Baltimore County and Baltimore City fire departments were on hand within
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minutes and two folks were retrieved. One refused treatment, he's okay, but
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another one is in the hospital. Dave just being a native Baltimore and I
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talked to my brother this morning and my nephew works in the Port of Baltimore.
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They're telling people just to stay home. A lot of workers are just
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to stay home. And right now, the other than for trucking in and
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out of the various loading docks and stuff. All shipping has been curtailed by
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the Coastguard and by the Maryland Transportation So it's an incredible being up there.
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The needless to say. Yeah, Governor Wes Moore of of Maryland is actually
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speaking doing a live press conferences as we speak right now. So reports are
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Joe is that the ship contacted I guess those with the and I don't know
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the first thing about shipping, but I guess they contacted somebody and said,
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look, we're having some issues. We may not be able to make this,
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and sadly enough they didn't. Well, right now they're trying to determine
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the first nine one one call. There are some reports indicating that the nine
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to one one call actually did come from the ship itself. Each ship.
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As as as I mentioned, my dad was a My father was a tugboat
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captain, but he was also considered his correct title was a harbor pilot docking
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master. Then there's a harbor pilot who then I mean, there's three different
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polots that will bring them in from the bay, bring them into the harbor,
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and then turn them over to the docking master, which is the tugboat
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captain. I would probably I assume, and I could be corrected real easily,
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but I believe the harbor pilot was on with them and they were headed
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very close. They were. You can if you see the pictures, there's
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a couple standing sticking straight up in the air. That's the outer markers,
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and they would be turning them over to the bay pilot, and then the
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bay pilot the ocean going pilot. So it's it's an extensive situation of how
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they moved the ships in and out of the harbor. But everything, as
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you were mentioning of how any may days or you know, the calls coming
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in, that's all going to be determined by the transportation folks. All right,
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Joe, I appreciate you taking time to be here with us this morning
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again Native Baltimore, and you certainly know that the area very well. I
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appreciate it, my friend. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot,
49:52
Dave. On a lighter note, Yes, best of like to your Baltimore
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orials this season, all right, thanks a Joe. Joe Stevens again is
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from the city of Nitro. He's also with the West Virginia Ski Association.
50:05
And Joe actually and I were talking about five point fifteen or so this morning
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because he is a native of Baltimore and he certainly knows that area very well.
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want to close with something in particular. Texas, since the Dirty Birds went
50:38
gay and cashless, I stopped supporting them as a text Texture says that poor
50:45
girl working for the dingy Birds sure has a lot of roles. Must be
50:51
a low budget operation. Well it's minor league baseball. That's that's the way
50:54
it is. Tex says just got to say, of course you would enjoy
50:58
Styrawalt. You're both Trumpe and rip Fox. She had met you, watched
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News Nation, home of the TDS. That's Trump derangement syndrome, suffers Chris
51:06
Cuomo, Dan Abrams at Ashley Banfield says a Texter Texas says, female broadcasters
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for male sports just not as good as male broadcasters. I much prefer male
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broadcasters. According to a text big story out of Huntington, and that's the
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departure of Heads basketball coach Dan d'antni. I was actually on campus at Marshall
51:25
last night when I've had a series of meetings at Marshall University last night,
51:30
and it was surreal that feeling on campus. When I arrived on campus last
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night, I didn't know any of this and then immediately just hit with all
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this while I'm actually in a meeting at the Henderson Center last night. Former
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Marshall player and current assistant coach Cornelius Corney Jackson is a new headman there.
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I will say this as a son of Marshall. It's a bad situation because
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I know nobody loves Marshall University in the city of Huntington more than coach d'An
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TONI does. He's been a part of this organization for sixty years, one
52:00
way or the other. Seventy six years old. He was the oldest coach
52:04
in Division one. He is stepping inside. Corny Jackson, another Marshall guy,
52:07
Okill Native will be the new head coach. I will say this,
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I love Coach D'Antoni. I have a picture of coach and I hanging in
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my office upstairs. Maybe it was time for him to go. I just
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hope that whatever happens, he can remain a part of the Marshall program because
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there is no better ambassador for the Marshall University and the city of Huntington,
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Dan Coach Dan d'antuny. All right, thanks to all my guests on the
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show today, my producer Ryan Nicholson, thank you so much. Hoppy.
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Coming up at ten oh six with Talkline Fall the News Today, wv Metronews
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dot com, WCCHS Network, Domina dot Com of course ABC News for the
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latest on the situation out of Baltimore. I will see you tomorrow. Till
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then, have fun and love somebody. C HSA MTY six point five at
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