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04/18/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Johnny Rutherford, Garrett Burdette, and Pepper Pena · WCHS Network Podcasts

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This is the Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live, and your host.
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on the sports. Of course, there's been a lot of reclassification going on
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and so some of these schools aren't happy about it. One of those is
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Let me welcome into the show, good friend, Johnny Rutherford Metro nine
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one one, Good morning, sir, how are you, Good morning,
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Dave. Thanks for having me appreciate it. I'm never gonna get to hear
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the end of the story because if you've been listening, we've been talking about
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all the remodeling that we're doing around here, and it kind of looks like
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somebody said, looks like a low storage room in here now, because we've
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got all these giant boxes and all this stuff in here, and they're moving
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us all around, and you know, all kinds of weird things are going
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to be happening over the next couple of months. But John and I were
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talking off the air, and he tried to tell me a story three different
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times, and I keep having to say, hold on, hold on,
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hold on, we got to do this, we got to do this.
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But you've been bottom line is, John, you've been coming to the studio
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for a long time. I have been coming to the studio for a long
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time, over about thirty five years ago, and one of my best friends,
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Roger Lyons was the assignment editor for Channel eight TV, and I started
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coming here back in the Mary Sue Jackson and Roger lines and all those guys
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work here. So it's very familiar to me. And that's when WCCHS radio
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and television were together. People still think that we are. We still take
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about thirty phone calls a day for Kenny Bassaw's right, and then we have
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to tell him he's he's not part of us. That's a totally, totally
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different company. Now, you got another pickleball event coming up that you're really
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excited about. I want to get into that a little bit later on,
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but I want to ask you about last year's event. Now, you shared
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some numbers with me about the pickleball tournament that you guys in Metro nine one
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one sponsors at. Last year you had it was like what two hundred and
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some odd players last year, eleven different states represented. Yeah, we're very
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lucky. We have the Charleston Pickleball Club, the City of Nitro and Metro
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nine to one one and we had we had thirty four players ranging in age
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from eighteen to seventy, skill levels from beginner to pro almost you know,
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semi pro and it was eleven states. We had people in RVs. It
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was It's just it was just a great experience. And I love the fact
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that if I get time. There was a big announcement totally unrelated to you
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guys, but it came out of Clinton and yesterday about this this new bicycle
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facility that they're put this mountain bikes facility, two million dollar facility that they're
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putting in Clinton. And the governor was there and several other elected officials,
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Canno ant commissioners were there as well. And I say that to say this,
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John, It's just I love what's going on in West Virginia right now,
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you know, with all of these different different things. And I mean
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talking to commissioners Slango out at Shawnee a couple of weeks ago, the week
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of the storms, by the way, the weeks of the tornadoes we had
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here, we had something. I think there was thirty two different teams that
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came out for an event out there from not only the US, but Canada.
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And all those people eat in restaurants and all those people sleep in hotels.
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That's that's the beauty of these things. And the Kanau Valley, John
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is becoming a mecca for a lot of these things, including pickleball. You
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know, that's what's great about Kanda of Valley. We all work together.
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There's no jealousies pickleball for an example. We have great courts in South Charleston.
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We have Shawnee, the Shawnee Complex, we have Nitro and then all
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the other Tornado where they're puting the trails in what you just said in Clintona.
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Everybody's working together and everything's growing and it's really exciting for the sports community.
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All right, so let's talk about the next one. It's coming up
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in July, but we want to talk about it early. Why well,
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we like to just advertise it out because number one, the Charleston Pickleball Club
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and Metro nine one. This is great for the community. It's interesting.
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It's grown so much the last few years that people get together. It's very
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social. It brings the community together. The reason we have the tournament and
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the reason it's started is to promote pickleball. But the main thing is it's
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called serving for Safety. Metro nine one one and the funds for these tournaments
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pay for the tournament, but after that it helps our Metro nine one one
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employees who we'd like to pay more, but we can't pay them as much
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as they deserve. And any money that's extra over these we use to reward
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our employees. For an example, if you do a CPR, if you
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call me in and your loved one is in distress and we give CPR instructions
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and we help keep that personal liive un till the animals gets there. This
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money here is used to buy a gift card for our employees to reward them
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for doing a great job. Because we do a lot of you know,
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reviewing calls to make sure we do a good job, and a lot of
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this money's used to reward our employees. Okay, well let's go to again.
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We're talking with John Rather for a metro nine to one one to day
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what is it that makes the sport so popular? Have you been on
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talking about it? And I know you're a big proponent of but what makes
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it? What makes this so so popular? Across the country. But what's
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great about pickleball ismber Like and I said, Number one, it doesn't matter
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if you're a lady or a gentleman that's five to two or six to one
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hundred pounds orw hundred pounds. The skill level really doesn't matter. The size
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doesn't matter. And it's great for the community because pickleball is very social.
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It's very social, you meet people. It brings communities together. And like
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I said, the Pickleball Association you're in Charleston, we are up to around
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three hundred people now and it just keeps growing day and we invite people to
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go to the Charleston Pickleball Club Facebook page and just keep doing it. It
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just kind of brings the commune together and gets everybody to work together to sort
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a common goal of having a great community. So briefly explain the rules.
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A pickleball to us, souocker ball is a combination of tennis and ping pong.
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It's on a court a little bit smaller than tennis. You play with
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a plastic ball and a paddle a little bit smaller than that, and it's
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pretty much a volley and rally game. But like I said, the great
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thing about it doesn't matter your stature. You can be confetitive against anyone.
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It's great. And in the tournament we do, we do from beginners to
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the very experience and very skilled players. So I know we talked about the
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success of last year's tournament, John, I mean, you had two hundred
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players, eleven different states representatives. You said, people coming in from RV
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on RV's and everything else. I know, this year, you want to
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make it bigger, better, stronger, faster. We've done well, we're
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growing. We actually have Ohio Valley Bank As came on board and we're offering
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up at fifteen thousand dollars cash person year. And what we're doing is we're
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recruiting players from South Carolina, from Ohio and everybody to come in the best
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players in the country. So it'll be even if you don't play pickleball,
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it'll be an event in July that people want to come watch because it'll be
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some of the best players in the country playing. I mean, so even
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for the there's a lot in this for the fans if you just want to
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come out and check it out or maybe maybe watch some people that are really
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really good at this. And it's kind of like with golf, you know,
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sometimes you can learn by watching what I want to do. If I
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want to I want to get better at my game, I want to watch
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these guys. Yeah, I mean that if you've never played, come out
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and watch it. And then I'm excited. I've been playing for years and
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I'm excited to see the best ones play and just watch how skilled they are.
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When did this just become a thing, because there was, like,
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you know, I don't know, ten fifteen years ago, I started to
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hear about pickleball, and I'm like, what the heck is pickleball? I
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mean, how long has the sport been around? You know, it's been
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around ten or fifteen years. Like you say, I used to hear rumors.
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I used to listen to the show Wants to See It just radio with
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Donnelan and Bob Prewitt talking. They would talk about during the wintertime going to
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Florida and playing pickleball, and I thought, what's that? And it's slowly
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developed here in the valley and it's it's growing, and it's not I would
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imagine it's not maybe, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, John,
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I would imagine it's not a very expensive sport compared to other sports.
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I mean it could be, right, but I mean you're probably gonna spend
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less on equipment here than you are for let's say golf or something. Right,
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Yeah, it's it's a regular, relatively inexpensive sport. You can buy
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a paddle for twenty dollars or just like with a golf you can go all
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out to you, right, and there's two hundred fifty dollars paddles, so
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you know it's where you want to be. But it's to get started and
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to play. It's free to play on all the courts, on most courts,
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and the and the starting equipment is very inexpensive. All right, give
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us the details and where can people learn more? Because I'm gonna have you
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on a course a couple of times because the tournament itself is not going to
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be till the month of July, but we're kind of putting getting it out
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there early. Right now, Where can people learn more? And are you
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in need of Sponsors's probably the need of sponsors. We like, say the
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funds go towards the tournament and the plus the support Metro now on staff,
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and you know, we we did three We did a couple thousand dollars to
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the Animal Shelter Human Siety a couple weeks. It's how the money to help
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them. But yeah, the tournament's July eleventh through July fourteenth at the Nitro
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Complex, which by the way, just got a big grant to put a
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roof on their facilities, so when we play year round, it'll be serving
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for safety pickleball tournament with nine Metro nine one one. Go to pickleball brackets
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dot com pickleball brackets dot com to sign up and you can always call the
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non emergency number at Metro and get a hold of me at three zero four
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seven four six seven nine one one. And you know, one of the
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big things if you've got just second, July twelfth is our Community Night again
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the term it's from the eleventh to fourteenth, the July twelfth Communit Night City
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and Nitro working with us with the mayor. We get free swimming, we
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get free pickleball, we get live music, and we're going to have a
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lot of vendors out there just selling things and just a police departments, fire
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departments there showing their equipment everything. So we're excited about that again. Also,
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of course the pickle eating contest, the pickle eading content. Are you
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on that, Jeff Jeff's are you a pickle leader? Did you tell me
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you were an anti pickle person or I'm getting you mixed up with somebody else.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of pickles. He's not a fan of
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pickles. So can't get Hollywood jeff In on that. But some of us
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around here, that sounds like it's got my man, Steve, animal or
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robbery or written all over to either one of those guys. We were concerned
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last year because the first few weeks we could we had we have volunteers for
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the Canadian contest, but before it was over we had over twenty people vuing.
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So how many pickles did the winner? Twelve pickles and ten minutes.
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And they're big pickles. Twelve pickles and ten Why I think everybody thinks they
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can do that till they try it. Yeah, yeah, all right,
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so I'll help me have to consider that, all right, John. I
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appreciate you being Here's always my friend. Take it easy, I know with
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the folks at nine one one. It's been a rough couple of weeks.
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It's been busy with the tornadoes and storms, but we're very proud of our
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employees. They did a great job putting the sirens off and warning people.
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Did exactly what it was supposed to do. Yes, sir, and I
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was in it, exactly what it's supposed to do. John Rutheran for Metro
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know can hurt you. Talking about pickleball text says f FYI, at one
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time the Greenbrier had pickleball courts. They removed them as they were so in
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this repairs, it's a textra coming up on tomorrow's show. To say tomorrow's
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show is loaded up would be an understatement. Of course, you know it's
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Friday. So Hannah Gardner from the Gnaw Charsty Maine Association will be stopping by
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with our dot me please pet of the Week. Kanaw County Commissioner Ben Slang
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Go and Charleston Mayor Amy Shudler goodwe are gonna be on the show tomorrow.
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I have no idea what they're talking about. Dave reached out to me,
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Commissioner Selango did yesterday and said, and this is kind of a paraphrase here,
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said, we have a big announcement we'd like to make so big that
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not even telling me what it is. So I'll find out when you find
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out coming up tomorrow on the show, they'll be on talking together Kannah County
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Commissioner Ben Selango and Charleston Mayor Amy Shudler a good one on the show tomorrow.
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four nine three five five zero zero eight. There's been a lot of controversy
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about high school sports, say over the last year or so for the transfer
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rules on down and maybe add this to it, some schools are now finding
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themselves reclassified. Garret Burdette is a vice principal and a former athletic director at
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Nitra High School, and he joins us now to talk about it. Mister
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Burdette, good morning, welcome to the show. Good morning. Thanks for
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having me. And I'm gonna call you mister Burdette because of your title,
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because even though I'm much much older than you, you're a school official.
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You'll always be mister just so you know, mister Burdett. All right,
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I'll take it. I probably would have been somebody would have been in your
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office at one point, just so you know. I doubt that. And
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I will say he told me what the shows. He's really suffering with some
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vocal issues this morning. He's kind of got that Bonnie Tyler total eclipse of
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the heart thing going on this morning. But I appreciate you sucking up and
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being here today. Man, I appreciate so exactly what has happened here and
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what has caused you and some others to be upset. Give us the whole
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story. So, come to find out, the SSAC did the reclassification,
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and you know, in the four class system for four classes, our basketball
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team ended up three eight. Now, this is Nicer high school. This
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is night your high school. Yes, And then in smaller sports, which
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is where we are having our issues, they also put us as a three
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A school and so now we are stuck in a position where we're competing against
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schools with sixteen hundred students and we have eight hundred. We are in a
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region with Capital, Midland, Hurricane, Parkersburg, Parkersburg South, and our
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main questions are about where is this competitive balance that they talk about. They
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won us in the four class system, we were deemed that we cannot be
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competitive with the big schools. Now, all of a sudden, in our
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sports that are not as well equipped as our main sports, we are deemed
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that we are able to compete with the biggest schools in the state. And
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that's where our questions are. Unfortunately, we're not feeling they're being answered,
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and that's where our issues lie. And of course, you know, your
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concern obviously is because you're individual with Nitral High School, but other schools are
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impacted by this as well. Yeah, there's seven seven schools in total I
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believe that are impacted by this. That in the four class system they are
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three A, and then now in the smaller sports three class system they are
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moved up to the biggest class, and we've been in contact with those schools.
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We're working with those schools to try to come up with some form of
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a proposal to the SSAC to see if there's any way for us to drop
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down where we should be competitively. And we're being told that there is no
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appeals process in the small three sport system, but there is in the fourth
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class system, which is where we're confused. Okay, it's going to say
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so why I mean, and by the way, I will make time for
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anybody from the s SAC that wants to come on the show to explain it,
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you know, I mean, I like the interest of fairness, I
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would be glad to do that. But so, so, how do they
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arrive at this? I mean, for those who may not, I assume
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everybody's a sports fan. Sometimes that's that's an incorrect, incorrect presumption on my
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part. How they how do they arrive at these reclassifications or the classifications to
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begin with. Maybe that's a good place to start. Yeah, So they
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for the four class system, there is a formula that they use to rank
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everybody in on a spreadsheet. They put you a lot on a spreadsheet.
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They use formulas, economics score, location score, and so they come up
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with everyone's score and they have a competitive balance meeting to draw the lines to
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figure out how many schools they feel would be. Now who sits in on
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these meetings? I mean they have a they have a competitive balance committee,
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and then the board of directors also sets in on this. So they do
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all this for the four class system. And then three weeks ago, two
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a month ago, we all get an email that says the small sports which
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is three class system, three state tournaments. Uh, these are where you're
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going to be, These are your regions, these are your sections. And
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we wanted we asked if you know who met to come up with these,
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who drew the lines, who said this is balanced? And according to what
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I have received, the four members of the s SAC are the ones that
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drew the lines. There was no competitive balance team meeting, no Board of
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directors met on it, and so they went through and drew the line where
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they felt that the line needed to be drawn to try to make it in
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their mind balanced. There was not a bigger committee as is set up through
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So again, Garrett, I guess I'm trying to wrap my head around
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this. You're telling me that there is in effect no appeals process that you
22:19
can't say, hey, we're not happy with this. How do we how
22:25
do we how do we have our voices heard? And that's the main thing
22:27
that is frustration to us and Nitro and the other schools that have been deemed
22:33
to be competitive in the smaller sports is in four class system. There is
22:37
an appeal process. It is my understanding they had thirty two schools that did
22:41
not agree with their position in the four class system and they were able to
22:45
go to appeals process. The smaller sports classification came out through three weeks to
22:51
a month ago. We have been in contact with the ssa C to ask
22:55
how do we afoul our appeal and there is no appeal process that cannot We
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don't feel like that can be a way forward if you have the ability to
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appeal for four classes, but you don't have the ability to appeal for our
23:10
smaller sports, which again, smaller sports are the backbone of a school.
23:15
All right, these are your students that and when you say smaller sports,
23:18
to find them. UA, let's talk about the smaller sports. So your
23:22
smaller sports are going to be your cross country teams, your soccer teams,
23:27
you're wrestling, you're swimming, and some of those sports I completely understand.
23:32
Golf there might be or swimming. Let's take swimming. There might be thirty
23:37
teams in the entire state that have a swimming team. So of course there's
23:41
only going to be one state tournament. I completely understand that. But some
23:45
like soccer that you're looking at ninety two teams, we can have four state
23:48
tournaments for those for that sport and break it up fairly among everyone to give
23:53
everybody the opportunity. We've seen what the four class system has done for basketball.
23:57
We've seen teams in Charles them that have not been here ever, and
24:00
they've had the opportunity to compete, and it's really brought energy to sports,
24:04
high school sports and must Virginia. And that's all we're asking is the ability
24:08
for our kids to compete. Our cross country team they made the state tournament
24:14
this year as the boys team for the first time, and now they're going
24:17
to have to be running against the three best teams in the state, every
24:22
regional just to have a chance to qualify for states when we're eight hundred and
24:26
those schools have fourteen hundred students, Garrett, are you, mister Burdette,
24:30
are you? Are you concerned because we hear it all the time from people
24:34
that say that we have less less kids that want to get involved. And
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I mentioned at the top of the show the transfer rule, and I know
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it's not what you're here to talk about, but nobody likes to get beaten.
24:45
And if this is just not fun and we have a hard enough time
24:48
getting our young people involved, are you concerned that if you look at maybe
24:52
kids in let's say, in the middle school system right now, seventh eighth
24:56
grade, are you concerned that they're going to look at this sort of thing
24:59
and say, well, I'm gonna stay on play video games. I'm not
25:00
gonna go out there and kid bet. Yeah, I am concerned about that.
25:04
But also the transfer rule, I feel is something that the SAAC should
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look at when making this decision because at a school like Nitro, where are
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smaller sports, so where we got soccer, cross country track. The students
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that are going to come to my school, why why would they have the
25:25
ability now to leave and go to Saint Albans which is right overside over top
25:29
the hill, or I'm Sysamville that is below me their double A and I'm
25:33
three A. Why would a student, my student, who is a great
25:37
student want to come to my school where they feel they can't compete against the
25:42
Hurricane A Kiple Midland of Parkersburg. They would just transfer to Sissmville where and
25:48
I'm going to lose an amazing student athlete in my building, someone that can
25:52
help my my school as a whole. I'm gonna lose not just athletics.
25:57
I'm not looking at this as athletics. I'm gonna lose students in my building
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because of the transfer world that's in place, good students that impact the culture
26:06
of my building to a school like a Systemville or a Hoover who remained in
26:11
the small double way because they can compete. They feel that they have a
26:15
better chance to compete and to make a state tournament or win a state championship
26:19
instead of Nitro. Because I'm up against Kyple, misleyn Hurricane and Parkersburg Protect
26:23
Style. What statement if I had somebody from the s SAC, I'm I'm
26:29
gonna go ahead and say they're probably listening this morning. If you had a
26:33
statement to leave them with mister Bodet, what would that be? Uh?
26:37
Basically, we would like the opportunity to have a good conversation about where we
26:45
are. We would have like the opportunity to have an appeals process for the
26:49
small sports, as we feel that those students need to have a voice,
26:55
just like the students that are in the four class system. We want all
26:57
of our student atleast to be able to have a voice. And that's where
27:00
we feel that we are trying to get to give our small sports a voice
27:06
to show their concerns. Whatever happens from there will happen. But as long
27:10
as we have the opportunity, that's what we're asking. Grey burdad vice principal
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and former athletic director at Nitro High School. I appreciate you being here man,
27:18
thanks a lot. Thank you, And again, I do want to
27:21
say that, just kind of for clarification that if there were some folks in
27:23
Nitro that reached out to me about the subject, and again, I certainly
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will make time for anyone with an opposing view, or better yet, someone
27:30
from the s s ceed to come on the show. I'm more more than
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to play against. As a text, West Virginian Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse.
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We talked about this group on the show in the past. From time to
32:00
time, they're out with something they call the Dirty dozen list. Pepper Pania
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is with the group and she joins us now. Pepper, good morning,
32:06
Welcome to the show. Hey, good morning, thanks for having me.
32:08
First of all, talk about the group West Virginia. West Virginian's Against Lawsuit
32:13
Abuse. Talk about the group as a whole. Well, the group as
32:15
a whole is created to educate the public on the role of the legal system
32:20
and how it plays in our daily lives. It's a watchdog group that pays
32:24
attention to what's happening and how different players in the system are affecting our races
32:30
and our legislature. Lawsuit abuse increases the cost of all goods and discourages job
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creators from bringing good jobs in states where there's lawsuit abuse in existence. So
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you're out with something, Pepper, that's called the dirty Dozen. What does
32:47
one have to do or maybe not do to find themselves on the list.
32:52
We'll start with who's on the list and how your group arrived at your decisions
32:55
though, So the Dirty Dozen List prizes of the top twelve plus an honorable
33:01
mention of candidates honorable this honorable mention, excuse me, I misspoke? Okay?
33:07
Of folks that have taken money from personal injury attorneys, information can be
33:13
found on the Secretary of State's website as campaign financial reports disclose who money gets
33:19
from, contributed from two candidates, the amount, and it also shows their
33:23
employer and occupation. So that's where people can find it. So what is
33:27
the problem with personal injury attorneys? Here? Editors know one of the firm
33:30
sponsors this show, so I just wanted to get that outter. But what's
33:32
the group's problem with personal injury attorneys? Well, the problem with personal injury
33:37
attorneys are these are attorneys that practice to find ways to make money off of
33:43
the off of the system. They sue based on insurance, They go after
33:51
as much as they possibly can go after for their clients, and they have
33:54
their own personal interest. I mean these folks, you know, when when
33:59
they're working this in this system, they're making money and it's how many houses
34:05
can you purchase? You know, I have the house at the Lake,
34:07
a house on the beach, a house in Charleston. So when you look
34:10
at the fact that they're going after and their clients are going after, exposing
34:16
and going after the most vulnerable and attacking and going after our business leaders and
34:22
businesses, it raises the cost of everything. But to play Devil's advocate here,
34:27
I mean, I mean they're going to say, well, we're just
34:30
standing up for injured workers, for example, We're just standing up for those
34:34
less fortune. That's going to be their argument. Your argument would be,
34:37
well, of course everybody deserves their day in court. But there's also limits
34:40
as well. I mean, should you go after somebody just because that's the
34:45
maximum allowable that their policy allows them, their insurance policy allows them to pay
34:51
out. You have to have a balance as well. So talk about the
34:54
list. So our local candidates that we have. Number one on the list
35:00
is here in Kanah County is Jennifer Bailey, Judge Bailey, Kanawk County.
35:06
She took in one hundred and fifty six thousand dollars and there's also a two
35:09
hundred thousand dollars independent expenditure as well to help her remain on the court.
35:16
The second one that we have here local and Putnam County is actually Judge Phil
35:22
Stowers. You know, this person was a Democrat for his entire life and
35:25
now suddenly says he's a conservative Republican recently, but he still takes in money
35:31
fifty eight thousand dollars from personal injury attorneys. So Putnam County residents need to
35:36
ask, has this leopard changed his spots when he's still taking money from the
35:39
same interest groups that fund Democrat liberal policies. In Kanah County, also number
35:46
four on the list, we have Richard Lindsay. He's a former state senator
35:52
with a liberal Democrat policy, the liberal Democrat record as well. I mean,
35:58
he's a nice enough person, but you know, he still took in
36:00
fifty six thousand dollars in his campaign from them. And what was also interesting
36:07
in Kanah County is for the first time we've seen a prosecutor prosecutor candidate to
36:14
take in forty thousand dollars and it was you know, Democrat Ben Salongo's house
36:21
is where the fundraiser was held, where she took in thousands of dollars in
36:24
money from personal injury attorneys. Then then number twelve on the list in Kanagh
36:30
County is we also have Delegate Kayla Young. And you know one thing I
36:36
can say I can give Kayla Young props is that she has a liberal record.
36:40
She advocates for liberal policies, but at least she stayed in the Democratic
36:45
Party where her policies and her views are aligned, where in other races we've
36:51
seen liberal Democrats switch parties only to because they think it's politically expedient. So
36:58
it's important to know where their money comes from. This see that they may
37:00
say that they're walking and talking like a Republican, but they're still taking money
37:04
from liberal Democrats. Talking to Peppervania again, who is with West Virginia Citizens
37:08
Against Lawsuit Abuse. Now, it is important to note that this is not
37:14
the entire list. You're only going over the local ones. And that entire
37:16
list of people want to see it from your organization is available where it's available
37:20
at West Virginia Kayla dot org. Okay, and that's c A La La.
37:25
And although let's talk about the judges for a moment. Although judges are
37:30
nonpartisan. Their parties are known. A simple Google search or search of the
37:32
Secretary of State's website, you know where you can find that out easily.
37:37
And the people that are on the list all are not registered Democrats, because
37:43
we don't want people to think that this is just you going out, although
37:45
the majority of them I think are in fact, at least one of those
37:49
on the list arguably the single most conservative Republican member of the House of Delegates,
37:54
and that would be Tom Fast. Well it's Tom Fast did make the
38:00
list, So this isn't This is a nonprofit organization. We're not targeting Democrats
38:05
only, right, That's the point I'm trying to make it. So we're
38:07
being fair and looking at everybody's campaign financial reports to report back to folks to
38:13
let them know who's funding elections and how. I just didn't want people to
38:16
think, well, this is just an organization that's just going after after liberal
38:20
Democrats. I mean, you don't get any more conservative Republican than Tom Fast
38:23
is me and he didn't get an exception. Yeah, and he's on the
38:27
list. So the what what goes into making this? I mean, I
38:31
know you you you pour over the Secretary of States finance reports and whatever do
38:36
you organization? You have a board, it gets in a room together and
38:38
work it out, or I mean, how does it all work? Well?
38:40
The numbers speak for themselves. This is a this is black. This
38:45
is a black and white issue when it comes to this. We just took
38:49
a list at the campaign financial reports and did the math. It wasn't that
38:52
you have to sit here and say, Okay, who are we going to
38:54
put on the list and who are we going to exclude from the list.
38:58
You just take a look to the math and then rank them in order of
39:01
how they received campaign finance funds. Where is your organization? It's a nonprofit
39:07
organization, right, And I think it's a fair statement task because I get
39:10
this. When I have organizations like this, people want to ask whether it's
39:14
you or whether it's any other organization. Republican liberal, concerned people will say,
39:17
where does your funding come from? Well, West Virginia KAYLA is an
39:22
independent organization and funding comes mostly from folks that are interested in making sure that
39:28
we have a fair and just legal system in West Virginia, from mostly individuals.
39:31
All right, And the list is available where it is available at West
39:36
Virginia ca LA dot Org. All right, Pepper, always a pleasure to
39:40
have somebody from your organization on the show. And again as I as I
39:44
said in the last segment, you know, if anybody has got an issue
39:46
and they want to come on the show, I'm all open. They drop
39:51
me an email and I'll put you on the air too. I mean,
39:52
I had people wanting to destroy guns on the show yesterday, So I'm equal
39:55
opportunity. Absolutely, all right, Pepper PAIDI you from What's introduced Citizens Against
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Lawrence did. Let me see. Texas Putnam County Judge Phil Stowers made the
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Dirty Dozen list because he's a lifelong liberal Democrat who is bankrolled by personal injury
45:14
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45:16
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Republicans John Hoover and Kathy christ I'm not I mean, I'm going to send
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whoever this text or wise won't have to send him a bill for that now,
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Texas Dave, what makes these cases different than those like Campbell June or
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suing a gun manufacturer for actions of a shooter? Says a Texter asked the
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West Virginia Kala Rap that citizens against lost abuse tell us who funds them?
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Don't care to tell us? Don't they care to tell us about the dirty
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dark money they used don't trust a watchdog group that hides everything. Let me
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see texts says, well, it's really hard for me to read stories.
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I appreciate people's texting me at actual metro news and television stories, but I
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really can't read those on the air. It's very hard to do that.
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Text says JB. McCuskey toward the state, saying we'll handle it all and
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the invited management of the funding. Can't have it both ways. He wanted
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to be in charge before he didn't textas JB. McCuskey has taken tens of
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thousands of dollars from personal injury lawyers, is he in the hall of fame?
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And there is a reason why he didn't make the list. If it's
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a black and white organization, where is JB. McCuskey on that list?
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I know the folks are listening from Cala, So yeah, there's a question
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for you. I see CALI representative when they will go after JB. Acres
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as a greedy plaintiff attorney. He literally built his practice suing West Virginia employers
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and job creators. To use the phrase from Cala, Jbakers is still suing
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employers and doctors and just about everyone else as a greedy, greedy plaintiff's attorney
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would best I can tell, says the TEXTA Citizens against Lawsuit Abuse had its
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nonprofit status terminated by the IRS. Can they confirm if that's true? If
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so, why do they Why do they misrepresent it as a non profit on
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their website? Again? We'll have them back in to answer any questions.
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Tex says, God bless Tom Fast. He's a good man and a great
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conservative. We will be glad to see him on the bench. Says the
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text. I only brought up Tom Fast. Nothing against Tom Fast personally.
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I actually sort of know him. But I just wanted people to realize that
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that list. Didn't want people to think, well, they're just piling on
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a bunch of liberal Democrats, because again they get no more conservative than Tom
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Fast, and he made the list. So I just wanted to make sure
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that people people got that text, says Dave as pepper Y. JB.
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McCuskey was not listed. He should be top three on that list. Texas
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peppersh and director Energy to our calling on oil, gas and coal money influencing
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West Virginia elections. At least personal injury lawyers don't destroy water quality, says
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Today. Text says I would like to applaud Delegate Jbacres for organizing the event
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last night. Yeah, this was this event that they held out at Sandplant
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Road last night at the community center there to try to get people that needed
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storm had storm damage to be able to ask questions. I did not attend
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the meeting. I know Jared Lewis, I think from our news team did
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and I saw some of the television coverage. Looks like it was packed out.
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There was a lot of different representatives, not just Delicate Acres there,
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there were a lot more that were there from different organizations. I think Margaret
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O'Neil from the United Way was there last night. Several other enforcement or non
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enforcement but several other agencies were there as well, so I think I think
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it was pretty well attended. Texas Dave, This is a wrestling thing,
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says Dave. Loved that the greatest air of wrestling eighties and nineties has made
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a comeback with shows like WWF Legends and Dark Side of the Ring. Mis
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watching the greats live here in Charleston, sting Rick Flair, Dusty Roads,
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in the Road Warriors, says a Texter. Well, that's the difference between
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professional wrestling and sports entertainment. They're not the same thing. Jeff and I
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can have that argument at some point, but not today. I want to
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say this about a story in the news. I love the fact that more
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good stuff that's coming to the area. Cat Skelton has a story and pictures
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posted now wv metronews dot com. A big bike park is in Mountain Bikes
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coming to the Clendenon area to the tune of our around two million dollars.
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The governor, members of the County Commission, other elected officials were on hand
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along with Clinton and Mayor k Summers to make that announcement yesterday in Clintdennon.
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This is a year round park that is designed for downhill mountain biking. Now,
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this is the kind of folks stuff editorial comment coming. This is the
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kind of stuff that West Virginia needs. This could turn an area like Clintdennon
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into a world class tourist destination. You add that with what's going on out
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at Shawnee and the proposed downtown sports complex and also go ahead and factory in
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the New River Gorge area now being a national park, and going down to
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Barbersville, one of my buddies, Chris Tadum, the Barbersville is doing down
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there. We have a lot of good crap going on here in West Virginia,
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to be honest with you, I mean, we have some really really
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good stuff going on here. We have world class natural stuff here that people
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will pay big bucks to come see and experience and to spend their money here
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too. And we talk about I mean, you know, talking to Commissioner
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Selango about the event at Shawnee a couple of weeks ago. This was a
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couple of days after tornadoes devastated the area. Thirty two teams came in for
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this. Now that is an average if you figure, and depends on which
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you know, which mathematical equation that you use. And I always try to
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avoid math at all costs. If every player brings in three or three people
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with them, a sibling, a parent, or guardian, whatever, and
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you figure maybe ten fifteen players a team, do you do the math?
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Do you do the math? Folks? And I'm telling you, folks,
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we are going to mess around and have some good things here in West Virginia
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if we're not careful, and we are well on our way, specifically in
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this part of the states. And I think it's wonderful. I mean,
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I think the announcem but it was made in clindenn And yesterday, is awesome.
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I think what Shawnee is doing is awesome. I think of what the
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proposed Downtown Sports Complax is going to do is going to be awesome. Again,
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it's not always about the local people, you know, it's not about
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me and you necessarily it's about bringing people in from out of town and putting
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the heads in beds. We had another term for it in the wrestling business.
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That seems to be the things today. But I can't say that because
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Jeff will pull the plug on me, all right. Coming up on the
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show tomorrow again some sort of a big announcement from Charles Marre Amy Goodwin,
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Knawa Countymmission Ben Silango on the show tomorrow. Hannah Gardner from the Humane Association
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is on the show tomorrow. We're gonna talk a little dancing with the stars.
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And former Secretary of State and the current candidate for Kanawk County Commission,
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Natalie Tennant, will be on the show tomorrow as well. Follow the news
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