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05/12/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen and Guest Host Doug Skaff - Hannah Gardner, Jim Strawn, and Ric Cavender · The Dave Allen Show

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Pet of the Week coming up here in just a couple of moments. Jim
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Rick, of course, from the Kanaal County Board of Education and from
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Charleston Main Streets. Foma to Dome was scheduled for tomorrow, but that has
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been postponed and we're gonna talk to Rick about that, and you know,
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some other things with Rick Kavner coming up too. But I want to welcome
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in my guest co host. This is something I started doing a couple of
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months ago, having a different guest co host, and today I am very,
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very pleased to have my good friend Delegate, entrepreneur, president of HD
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Media, owners of the Charleston Gazette and several other publications, Doug Staff.
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Welcome to the show man. Oh, it's exciting to be here today.
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I always wanted to beat co host. I'm looking forward to it today.
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This is great. I'll listen to you all the time. I love the
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show. Well, I appreciate that you're the one. You're the guy that's
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listening, right, you're the one. I'm the one that you're least got
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one. I got one. Before we go in to hand, I do
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more there. This week's fifty fifty Friday went live at nine o'clock at WCHS
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network dot com. Let's bring in Hannah Gardner from the Canal Charleston. You
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made association with our adopt Me please Speed of the Week. Hannah, Good
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morning, How are you? I'm great? How are you? I am
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fine? Hannah. This is Doug scaff Doug scaff me and Hannah. Good
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morning, Hannah. It's great to have you on here with us. Thanks
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all right, before we get into our adopt Me, please ped of the
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Week. I gotta ask about tucks and tales you out of this past Saturday
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night at the Capital Market. Unfortunately I could not be there. How did
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everything go? It was great, It was very successful. We raised a
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lot of money for it for the shelter, and I mean it was just
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just a really really good night. I was there for a little while.
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It was great. There was often music to people, it was it was
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amazing. Well, it looked like I saw the pictures online, Doug.
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I know you probably saw him as well as I saw him. I've been
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to that. I've attended to before. It's always a great event. It's
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it's it's lovely to see all the costumes and then the festivites of all the
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pictures and the dogs, the ones that come in person and not and share
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those stories of their pets. Yeah, it's always good stuff. All right,
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let's get to this week's dot me please pet of the Weekend. A
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picture posted is always Dave All on Radio, on Facebook and at Dave a
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seventy on Twitter. This is Petunia. Tell Us about Petunia. Yeah,
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so, um, Petunia is a very very pretty I would have to say
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maybe pity or something. Um, she's definitely mixed with something. But I
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would say just by looking at her, you would say that she is a
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pit or maybe has a little bit of boxer in her face or something.
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But she does have that square head. She's black and white, she is
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a female, and she's eleven months old. She is kid friendly from what
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we have noticed. Of course, we always advised cautions for honestly forever,
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because you never know with dogs or with cats, even it doesn't matter,
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you know. And then she is good with other dogs. She put hers
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commer dogs, but she still likes to play. She still has some energy,
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so she still wants to play with dogs, but not dogs that are
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going to play super rough or super hyperactive. She is a beautiful Have we
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featured Petunia in the past here, because I was thinking maybe I think we
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may have had Petunia on the show in the past. You said she's been
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there since January, right, Yes, she has. She's been with us
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since January, so we've probably have done her before. But we're trying to
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push her because she has been here since January and she's creeping up to one
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of our longest residents. Yeah, that's what I was going to ask,
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you know, nor it seems like it she's she's overstayed or welcome a little
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bit looking for a fun home with kids. So what's the average time when
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i Ane was get adopted like them, Um, we usually have pretty like
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good turnout on dogs coming and then just going back out to a home.
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It's common, I would say for dogs to be there between like three to
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six months or so, especially ones that are like adult dogs that maybe are
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just like your average looking dog. People just kind of passed by them.
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But she is a really really good dog. She has them with us since
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January. She's never been adopted before. I don't even think she's been out
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in a foster home yet. But she doesn't have anything wrong. She does
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have a few medical things, but nothing that's like crazy she is. I
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believe when she came in she had it an injury from one of our playbooks
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or something, but that's it. Like she doesn't have anything lifelong or anything.
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So she is a really really good dog. She walks really well on
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the leash. She would be a great or a great dog for somebody who
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maybe wants to walk up hikes and stuff or even take on trips. Like
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she's just a really well well groom dog and she's eleven months old, which
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means that probably got well, I'll tell you. I mean, I'm sure
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she has a lot of energy, so you know, it probably would be
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better to have somebody that is physically fit enough to be able to take her
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on walks and things of that nature. And one of the things that I
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loved about her, you said that she is great with kids. I mean,
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this dog just absolutely loves kids. And what a better time going in
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the summertime too, to have a dog play with your kids outside. It's
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perfect time to go and adopt Petunia. Yeah, it's Doug is absolutely right,
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So we hope to get to Petunia. Petunia adopted. Go over to
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dave aland Radio and Facebook and at dave a seventy on Twitter if you want
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to see a picture, and then you can contact folks at the Canal Charleston.
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You made association for more information, and I know you have an event
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tomorrow up at Habitat for Humanity three store, three O one Piedmont Road.
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I love this name retails as in tail, as in dog, cat and
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other animal tails. Building homes for all it's new until four tomorrow. Tell
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us about them. Yeah, so it's nothing, nothing crazy, but it
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is an adoption event that we're having, so we're turning. We're hoping that
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we have lots of people come out and look at the animals that we have.
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I believe we're going to be bringing puppies if we have any, which
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I'm sure we will because we do still. And then also if we have
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any kittens, we're going to be bringing those two because we're gonna have our
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caravan, so so'll be. We'll have a sea, you'll have food with
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the hot water. But we just need people to come out and adopt them.
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We're gonna bring out some cute little babies. So come on. It
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is noon before, like you said, so we hope to see you.
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All right. It's good stuff again. It's happening tomorrow at the Habitat for
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Humanity Restore three o one Piedmont Road and Charleston. Get out there noon tole
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four cats, dogs all available, Hannah. I appreciate it. We'll talk
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to you soon. Thanks a lot, Thank you talking with you. An
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all right hand a garden from the canal, Charleston. You main an association
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with this week's adopt me. Please put of the week eleven months old Tunia
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it's a dog's name, Doug. Are you Are you a pet guy?
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You're a family have passed. You know. I love dogs and I have
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three little boys and they love chasing the dogs around as well too. When
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I was growing up, I had a Chinese sharpey, the kind of the
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dog with all the wrinkles on it. It was so cute and it was
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it was just cuddly. It had the wrinkles. It was hard to keep
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clean though, but it was just one of those that you see on TV.
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And then I have a I love chasing doground. I had one that
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was kind of a it was I was a little beagle mixed thing, you
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know. It was a mutt adopted as well too. When I was in
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college. You know, I thought it was cool to have one in the
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frat house. But that's always interesting and indeed, uh so, uh all
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right. Uh. The dog is again posted Dave Allen Radio and Facebook and
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at Dave A seventy on Twitter. It's Petunia, eleven months old. Not
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fixed you, but will be social. Butterfly Hannah tells this very kid friendly,
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prefers smaller dogs, loves to play. Came in in January. It's
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Astray and it's been there for a while. We need to get adopted,
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like today or this weekend. I hope that somebody finds a loving home for
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him tomorrow. At that event, it would be a great, great thing
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to do. And again as good point you brought up dog about having,
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you know, getting into warm weather once they can. This dog loves to
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ride in the car. You can take it to the beach, she can
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take it to the park. Take her to Jim Strawn's house. You know
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that the walk around the the the the palatial estate that Jim Strawn has.
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Go ahead, Jim, all right, I need a microphone for Jim to
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yo yo yo yo. Hey Hey hey here, Hey Morty, Doug,
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here as my co host. You've made it through the first twenty one minutes.
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You're doing survived. I'm doing all right. We're trying to find a
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happy home for that dog, Petunia. Yeah, he's all excited about Petia.
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Want to get Petunia home this weekend. Scaff family could always take Petunia.
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Boys. I got three animals, my own alexanderlist. It was sometimes
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folks like Doug and myself, and and and you, Dave, and people
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that are out there pretty active, sometimes it's not really fair to You're right,
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so you gotta be care. You love them, but I can't have
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them that's exactly ever at the house. So I'm more of a kiddy cat
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guy because they kind of Yeah, well, that's why my wife and we
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travel a lot. We have we have with two cats. Now we have
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one. We'll probably get more at some point. But now, I mean
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cats are perfectly happy. I mean I've said told the story before. My
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wife and I went on vacation for a week and a half several years ago.
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We all the kid, this was a different cat. All the cats
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I just got a show and you said that, I just a chill
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went down my body. We had these of the Hustums Pizza, well,
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the Custins Pizza two, but no live on the levee. Man, this
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is crazy. We had the press conference on Wednesday over at the Overlook and
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just a beautiful day and a great setting, a great vibe. And I
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say it every year and I got the host of press conference. It just
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feels like my adult Christmas morning now as a child. I just I can't
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wait to see who's coming. I can't wait the unofficial beginning of summer.
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May twenty six, we're going to launch our twentieth season of the Moses Auto
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Group live on Levy. Twenty seasons. Moses has been with us. Jeremy
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was there the other day. Moses has been with us. This will be
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their fifteenth year. I'll never forget getting Suzanne and Bob on board. That
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went over to see them in downtown, and they've been just a great part
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of this. They loved the family atmosphere. They're a family business, so
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yeah, that's a great partnership for them. But we got some great music
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common opening night May the twenty six. That night, we're gonna salute our
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veterans and debut and I know we're not veterans, but we love to salute
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and we love to honor our veterans, So a veterans night to open things
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up with, and we're gonna have fireworks that night. Hair Supply was at
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the press conference and Hair Supply will be the headliner that night. They're there,
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their hair, they're just they have so much hair. Yeah, they're
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Lario and the character. To see the picture in the paper, Oh yeah,
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yeah, I ken he captured at Gray my boy straight out of logan
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camera, straight out ye la. So I don't know. They're everywhere.
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Yeah, Supply goes everywhere. They're playing together, going around. I'm not
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gonna be able to hit all the highlights, but I do want you know.
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John's going to do his thing again this year. It's a tribute to
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the Who. I always want people to understand it's not a Who tribute band.
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It's a tribute to the Who. There are two different things and that's
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what John does. We have another w TSQ night. We have a Fleetwood
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Mac. It's a Fleetwood Mac tribute ban. We do have a tribute band.
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Fleetwood Mac is coming. We're gonna stop doing the live on Levy.
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It's a little bit shorter this year. We're gonna stop. The final night
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will be August. The eighteenth instead of that Labor Day, a Friday,
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August the eighteenth will be the final one. And I think it was Amy's
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idea. May Or Goodwin. I think we're going to do back to School
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Night and we're going to really cater to the kids, have things for the
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kids, you know, have some back to school materials, just have a
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big night for kids to come down. And Salem is going to be the
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headline of that night. And kids just love him. Heck, I love
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him. I'm sixty three. I love him. So it'll be fun.
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He's high energy, and I think the kids will will have a blast.
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And then you know, you toss in you know, there were God and
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multifest and all of a sudden, you have it. Like Doug said,
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you have a heck of a summer and always something to do, whether you
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go to the Dirty Birds game or soccer tournaments or just get out on the
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river and hang out in a boat. They're just it's just an amazing opportunity.
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And we've become this Liva Levy has become kind of a destination. I
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don't care if you're from Charleston, the Kanaha Valley, but we have folks
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from Indianapolis, and Louisville come by, and Pittsburgh come down. People stop
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here on their way wherever they're going, and they come down to the levee
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and they're like wow. My favorite, My favorite story was from that guy
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from Indianapolis. He was just driving to the beach and he stopped and he
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came out and he said, are you in charge of this? I go
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no, I'm just the MC And he said, I'm from a big market.
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We don't do this in Indianapolis. This is unbelievable. But he said,
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you guys really have a going on. I felt really good about that.
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Well, it's exciting Jimmy. On Friday's, normally everyone's ready to exit
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town to go back home after they work. But now you see cars coming
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into the town starting at four o'clock to get that parking spot. It's it
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makes it live when the levee brings people back to Charleston before after all the
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Liven What a vision Tom Lane had. I always like to give Tom Lane
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some props. He's the father of Liva Levy. He and David Mulgard got
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together twenty one some years ago and said, hey, but what can we
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do this like this? Like Doug said, what can we do to keep
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people in town at five o'clock so they don't depart, And he said,
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listen, just do this little concert series. We didn't have it. We
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didn't have a canopy down there, we didn't have a stage down there.
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And the humble beginnings where somebody would pull a hay trailer down on the pickup
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truck and a band would get on the hay trailer and play for about twenty
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five or thirty people. That's how it started six weeks first season and now
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look at it now. So yeah, props to the city, props to
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Mayor Jones and David Mugard before the current administration, and Amy's just kept it
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going and it's it's going strong. It's fun. So yes, folks,
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hope to see you on May the twenty six. Is free to come down.
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The music starts at six thirty, The headliner goes on at seven forty
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five. We're always done at nine thirty. So it's always one of those
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things. It's a three hour fun pack, fun pack time for families.
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I don't care if you're four or one hundred and four. Come down.
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There's something down there for you. We have We have about twenty some vendors
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or more so, there's always a great variety of food, and get your
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favorite bed region, just stay hydrated and have a blast. I know,
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Dave, you've been down there. I've seen your boys down there. Duck.
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It doesn't get any better in Charleston, West Virginia than live on Levy
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on Friday nights in a hot summer with the breeze coming off of the river.
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It's just phenomenal. Even last night I was talking to somebody saying,
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you can't find something to do, and Charles, so we're gonna be talking
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about other event here after this, but we are something to do almost every
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weekend this summer. I have about thirty seconds for people that go, god,
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I just I just don't there's nothing to do. Jim, I don't
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know. This is just I go, well, I'll give him a little
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bit, and they go, no, I don't think that. Then I'm
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like, well, I tried, I'm out. I don't have time for
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him. I have time for people that have synergy and energy. We talked
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about that. McKinsey Spencer from for Festival on the show yesterday. McKenzie and
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I talked about she was part of the She was part of the announcement because
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we collaborate with Festival, we collaborate with Multifest, we collaborate with Bike,
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we collaborate with so many things. And that's what I was talking about at
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the press conference when I introduced the mayor, I said, synergy. She
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has so much synergy, and she worked so well in clab Rich with so
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many organizations, and she has to and so everything kind of dovetails together and
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goes hand in glove, and all of a sudden, you have so much
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fun things to do every single day, and I know every weekend you have
21:11
something no excuse the zero zero excuse first show again, we'll be on Friday,
21:15
May twenty six, coming in that morning. Okay, of course you
21:18
are actually actually I won't. I won't be there. I'll be I'll be
21:22
on vacation that week. But Dale k hosting, Dale Met co hosting it
21:26
talk to coop in for the whole time. But the first the show is
21:32
Friday, May the twenty six sets. The first one real quick Jim,
21:33
one of the ones that really piqued my imagine. And I have the schedule
21:37
posted on on Dave Allen Radio and Facebook and at Dave Sebody on Twitter this
21:41
Fleetwood Mac show Fleetwood Mac. It may say tk D mac uh the Fleetwood
21:45
Mac tribute band. I'm a big, big, big Fleetwood Mac fan.
21:48
If they do TUSK then I may go crazy, Yeah, because I love
21:52
to us they John said they're one of the premier tribute bands in America right
21:57
now traveling, so we were fortunate they get them. I want to mention
22:00
this. You mentioned Fleetwood Mac, but right before they play, the opener
22:06
that night is going to be the Battle of the Band's winner. And what
22:07
we do for that is it's a Sternwheel Regatta event at Slack Plaza. And
22:11
if you are not playing at Live on the Levee and you think you should
22:15
be, by the way, we had two hundred and fifty bands submission,
22:18
so this was not an easy task by the way, guys, but if
22:21
you think you should be playing at Live on Levy, I would enter into
22:23
the Battle of the bands. And that winner of Battle of the bands during
22:30
the regatta is going to be the opener of Fleetwood Mac on July twenty first
22:33
at Schoenbom Stage at Live on Level. So that's big stuff for a band.
22:37
They can work their way in, they can work their way into Live
22:41
on the levee. But I'm gonna take off, guys, I gotta run,
22:42
and I there's the guy right behind me, the ones to jump on,
22:45
mister Rick Cavitis here here, Rick, all right, all right,
22:48
Jim, I appreciate it. May twenty six, and if again, if
22:51
you want to see the whole schedule, I've got just posted on my Twitter
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producer today. This is what Fridays are like, scaff I mean, we
23:25
just it's just in man, shuffle them out in amount. Rick Cabitaer is
23:30
with us right now. Rick, how are you, ma'am? It's as
23:32
a green Cincral station station. It certainly is. Rick, of course.
23:37
Charleston Main Street's na Candy Board of Education. I want to talk about Foam
23:40
on the Dome, originally set for tomorrow, but it's been postponed until July
23:45
because of the threat of weather tomorrow. Yeah, we may we Leah and
23:48
I in the office. We called the capital, we called our main sponsors
23:52
and partners, board members, and made the decision um that it was best,
23:56
I think for everyone's safety and um, for the for the overall health
24:02
of the event in every possible way, just to go ahead and postponent Um.
24:06
You know, people kind of get spooked whenever they see thunderstorms. Um.
24:10
The new date is July twenty second. Yeah, so um, so
24:12
we made the decision. We feel good about it. Um. You know,
24:15
I think most people are just kind of hanging under their tickets. We're
24:18
going to transfer them automatically to the new date. You don't have to do
24:19
anything, you automatically get it. And if you do transfer your ticket to
24:22
the new date we were going to we'll give you a ten dollar discount to
24:25
October West, which will be September thirtieth of this year. Good stuff.
24:29
So we were talking about there's something going on all the time. You found
24:32
an open date. Probably just snuck it in there, and yeah, well
24:34
it's probably I think it is one of the only open June was obviously totally
24:40
out. There's so much going on in Charleston and June that's so exciting.
24:41
Of course, Regatta and festival and Pride Week and all that. There's a
24:45
lot of great stuff happening in June. So we didn't want to touch that.
24:48
So we felt like July that that weekend of July was good year's this
24:52
been going on though? This is the seventh Yeah, well it would have
24:55
been the eighth if if COVID would have happened, So we don't count that.
24:59
Yeah, yeah, that didn't you know, they didn't have normally,
25:02
you know, we'd like to keep things up beating on Fridays. You actually
25:04
said in mister Scaff's see just a few short weeks I did, Yeah,
25:07
but but I didn't I didn't questions. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
25:11
yeah, good luck, but it uh, you know, obviously it hasn't
25:15
been the best two weeks for you, my friend. We all know the
25:18
story about your house, so I don't want to get into all that.
25:18
Everybody knows it, uh, but uh, I just want to talk about
25:22
the outpouring of love and give you an opportunity to thank everyone uh in the
25:27
Canal and the Canal Valley in Charleston area, because from what I have seen,
25:32
all of these folks that have come together for you and your family.
25:34
Uh, it's it's just been, it's been amazing. I just want to
25:37
give you that opportunity. Yeah, I know, I appreciate that, Dave.
25:40
I I do want to I'm so glad you gave you this opportunity because,
25:44
um, you know you and I've sort of made this comment on my
25:48
video that I put out the night after it happened. Um, you know
25:51
you. You when you're in a role like I'm so blessed to be in
25:55
in this community and you get to get up every day doing what you love
25:57
and work in the community and do what you can to make it better and
26:02
for all those people in that community, when something so completely tragic happens in
26:06
your life that you would never expect ever to happen in your life, Um,
26:11
when that happens and they all gather around you the way they have,
26:12
it's just I'm still very overall. I don't think I've processed it fully yet.
26:17
I mean, it's it's going to take me some time to process everything,
26:19
obviously, but certainly this um, the and the love for my boys
26:22
that this community has had and and for me and UM, it's just been
26:27
I just I can't say thank you enough to everybody. It's just insane.
26:30
Well you know that, it's the nail on the head. Uh. I
26:33
always say, our communities like none other. It's a family. You stink
26:37
together. And people ask why we do what you and I do, and
26:38
the service heard the public it is because we want to give back and this
26:41
is in the community. They respond, that's rightful, that's right people.
26:45
They appreciate it. And I mean, my heart goes out to you and
26:48
the family know its continue to continue to help and then we can. But
26:51
this community always seems to rally around each other, whether they know you,
26:56
where they don't know you or whatever. That's what's the beauty of Charleston and
26:57
all value. Oh I've gotten, I mean I gotten messages and texts and
27:00
emails and calls from people that I mean, I may know who they are
27:06
past them, you know, in a meeting or something, right, but
27:07
you don't really you know how that goes. You pass them on the meeting,
27:11
you see him one time, talk to them, and then you may
27:12
not see him again for a year. And those are the folks that are
27:15
also reaching out saying anything you need, uh, you know, just give
27:18
me a call, which is just I mean, it's just so incredible.
27:22
Well, I appreciate you. I've been on with us this morning. You
27:23
know, we're all we're all praying for you and your family. Rick.
27:26
And I know, I know there's a fundraiser for you happeny tomorrow. I
27:30
love the name. It's Foam a few blocks from the dome. Yeah,
27:34
it starts starts at three tomorrow afternoon at Short Story Brewery and Charlton. That's
27:38
on Summer Street, one eighty six Summer Street. Hope everybody, UM,
27:42
we'll come out for this, um to help you guys out. Yeah.
27:47
And I can't say enough things to to Aaron and the crew at short Story
27:49
for putting that together. And I actually because we postpone phone with them.
27:52
It's supposed to be in a post phone with the dome after party phone raiser,
27:56
right, and so he changed the name because we postpone phone with the
27:59
dome. So also I just found out yesterday that Fife Street Brewery is also
28:02
doing a similar benefit from seven to ten I believe tomorrow night as well.
28:07
So, I mean, again, just another example of just all these people
28:11
rallying around my boys and eyes just and this is not something that Rick Cavender
28:15
said, Hey, do this for me. I mean, you had nothing
28:17
to do. I mean, actually, so I will say, Tracy White,
28:18
my fellow board member, I know you. She's probably been l here
28:21
before. If everyone knows Tracy when she set up that go fund me,
28:23
she texted me and she said, she literally was like, I'm doing this.
28:29
You have no control. I know you hate getting help from anyone.
28:33
I just want you to just sit back and accept it and say thank you.
28:37
That's all you need to do, which is hard for me because I'm
28:40
usually on the other side of that at that table, and it's just not
28:44
in my nature to to to accept things like that. So it has been
28:45
I will say, it has been a shift in my natural reflex to be
28:51
able to sit back and just accept these wonderful, all this wonderful love and
28:55
support and gifts and just say thank you. But I can't say thank you
28:59
enough and say you can feel good both ways. You canceled the phone with
29:02
the dome, people get still enjoy their phone, and that's to help and
29:04
then support them. Yeah, a great person like you and do something good.
29:07
Yeah, Rick, no testament to you, man. I mean,
29:10
you do so much for this community and that's the least people can do is
29:11
help out. And I think they they we welcome the opportunity. So uh,
29:15
my heart goes out to you again and the kids and everybody. Thank
29:18
you, Doug. I appreciate that. But I got to ask you this.
29:19
There were some fireworks at the school board meeting last night. Did you
29:23
hear the audio from there? You heard it? I'm glad you did.
29:27
We played it. Oh goody. It was Tracy's annualk Yeah. I mean,
29:33
and I'm not going to get into the whole thing, but but there
29:34
was somebody and that's that's certainly they're right. There was somebody at the school
29:37
board meeting last night that had some disparaging things to say about the every education
29:42
and they talked about how you guys don't really care about kids, and so
29:45
on and so forth. And Tracy, who I've known for a number of
29:49
years, she's not very outspoken issue. I think she's a logan girl.
29:57
That's not where she lives now, but that's where originally. But but it
30:03
is difficult being in your gas position. You know that we're people, UM
30:07
think that I guess that the school boards get rich off this sort of thing
30:11
if you serve school board. I told you my cousin used to be the
30:14
president of the school board. And one of my really really good friends and
30:17
former co worker of North Mike Queen, was with the Harrison Candy Board of
30:21
Education. Mike told me one time he said everybody should have to serve on
30:23
the school board at least once. Yeah, like jury duty. Yeah.
30:26
I mean, well, I think you asked me this when I was a
30:29
guest host right a few weeks ago, about this whole this concept that I
30:33
think a lot of people think. And I think the lady who spoke to
30:37
us last night made this comment that we were using as a stepping stone and
30:41
you're the worst stepper in history. Right, what a step to take,
30:44
right? And I think that I think that that sometimes is the perception that
30:47
we just run for the seats this seat to like advance to something else.
30:52
But I mean, if you think about it, I mean we're I mean,
30:53
school board members typically are the ones who are usually being blamed for a
30:59
lot of stuff, and which is fine that we we accept that we do
31:02
get blamed for things. Um and and that's how that's how it goes.
31:06
That's life. But um, I can guarantee you and as Tracy said last
31:10
night, we get paid one hundred and sixty dollars a meeting, Okay,
31:12
So I mean that, I mean think about that. We only have two
31:15
meetings a month, maybe sometimes four meetings a month. So we none of
31:18
us are doing it for the money. We do it because we're either parents
31:22
or we were parents, and we our kids graduated already or whatever the case
31:25
is, and we care about public education and we want to do our best
31:29
to sit around the table and have and have a seat and have a voice
31:32
in some of those those decisions. We none of us are there for any
31:34
kind of like um selfish personal Yeah. So I mean, and you know
31:40
the folks that keep coming to these meetings, everyone is welcome to come and
31:44
speak as delegation that is the absolutely can Doug. You're you're very familiar with
31:47
how that process works. Everyone is welcome to come and do that, and
31:49
we we welcome it. Um. But I'm just I'm I'm personally, UM,
31:55
I've heard enough as when it comes to our marginalized communities. I want.
31:59
I'm not going to go into this whole thing. I'm just gonna say
32:00
I've heard enough about it, and we as a system accept every single student,
32:05
no matter who they are, every single employee, no matter who they
32:07
are, no matter what walk of life they're from, no matter where they
32:12
come from, no matter their orientation. We don't care. We accept everyone.
32:15
That's that simple. And I'm just not interested in hearing hearing people being
32:19
spoken about like they are not human beings anymore so, and I'm happy to
32:23
publicly say that I don't really at this point. I mean, and I'll
32:25
be honest. I walked out of the meeting and paste in the parking lot
32:30
for about I don't know, fifteen minutes yesterday while some of them were speaking.
32:35
I just I was, I was done so and I made I made
32:37
my remarks very clear and I stand by them, so you know, And
32:39
it's one of the things too. As you know, like people, they
32:42
they don't offer any solutions. Probably they just come they just want to tell
32:44
you that they're disappointed and they're do want a terrible job and can't believe you
32:47
did this or said that. But then they don't want to help the system.
32:50
They just want to make it worse. And especially on social media,
32:52
it gives people that platform to just kind of say and speak how they wish
32:54
and hey, listen, they work with me, talk to me. Yeah,
32:58
we'll have to take this offline. Don't come here and make show out
33:00
of it. Let's talk offline. Tell me how we can really get to
33:01
the root of this and fix it. Do you want to fix it or
33:05
you just want to try to embarrass them? Yeah? What are the solutions?
33:07
We can talk all day about what you think an issue or a problem
33:09
is, or something you personally or something based on your your experience or your
33:15
experience or your religion. That is one hundred percent. You're a business.
33:16
I'm not here to judge or make any comment on that. That is your
33:20
business. But um, unless you have a solution that's going to benefit everyone
33:23
in the system, I just I'm not interested in hearing about it anymore.
33:27
And I know that sounds harsh, but that is where I am here.
33:29
It is what it is. Rick. I appreciate you being here, man,
33:31
our thoughts and prayers with you, with you and your family in this
33:34
a difficult week. I love you, man, and I love it really
33:37
means a lot. And I wanted to give you that opportunity. You know,
33:40
I got you in here, you know, to talk about but I
33:44
had alterior motives because I know you. I wanted to give you apply intuition
33:46
I could, Yeah, I'm not very good at that, but I want
33:51
to. I wanted to give you an opportunity to thank people. That's,
33:52
of course basically what I want to because I know, I know you have
33:54
known you for a number of years. I know that's kind of gay you
33:57
are. And keep up the fight man. Yeah, all right, thank
34:00
you. Also, Rick, we'll talk Rick Cavitaer from the Cana County Board
34:04
of Education. Also Charleston Main Streets again. Foam on the Dome schedule for
34:07
tomorrow has been postponed until July twenty second, So get out there and enjoy
34:13
them. Doug scaff is with us. He's our co host today. Doug,
34:16
you're in the hot seat man, It's me and you for the rest
34:20
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34:25
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four zero one, one zero one. Doug Scaff, president of HD Media
37:36
and delegate, is my co host this morning. How you know, man?
37:38
You start hanging out rapid fire on Friday's Man, I got everybody coming
37:42
in my hat today as co hosted a day valence show. That's the best
37:45
one. So I thank you for being here up. Give us your background.
37:50
Of course, you know you're well known, your entire family heroes in
37:52
valley. But for those who may be listening that do not know your story,
37:55
what is the Dug Scaff story. I'm a South Chauston guy, born
37:59
and raised and they're my family built the stuff from commercial real estate development,
38:02
went to WVU, got a chance to graduate from South Rowson High School,
38:06
had a leadership scholarship. WVU got a chance to serve in student government,
38:09
worked with a lot of great people. A senator Mansion Robert C. Byrd
38:13
got me in politics a little bit. I ran for student body president,
38:15
met a guy named Glenn Hiner. He was the CEO of Owens Corning at
38:19
the time. He recruited me right out of WVU. So after student Body
38:22
President, I left, went to Owens Corning, became a regional sales manager,
38:25
traveled the country all fifty states. First chance I had to move back
38:29
to West Virginia, I came back. I was gone for about four years,
38:31
lived in Pittsburgh, Ohio. Came back, lived with my parents for
38:35
a couple of years, got my feet wet here, helped my dad grow
38:37
his business, and then ran for office in the House of Delegates. This
38:40
is my eleventh year in the House of Delegates, serving here my first year.
38:45
My second term here back and also service a Minority leader. And I
38:49
invested in the Charleston Gazette mail to help, you know, save the newspaper
38:52
here, keep it local, and partner with Doug Reynolds to form HD Media.
38:57
We have twelve newspapers all across West Virginia and Virginia. And now I
39:00
sit in my day to day chair just one block from you as president of
39:04
this ever changing news industry. And we're gonna talk about that a little bit
39:08
later on. I'm gonna go back to the political thing for a moment.
39:10
And you talked about your time as student body president and all these things.
39:14
Well, what I mean a lot of people serving those roles and then they
39:15
go on about their life. They don't hang onto that political What was it
39:19
that made you want to serve? And you know what, I'm glad you
39:21
said. So many people come and go and I see that list of student
39:22
body presidents and they hang your name up there, and it's what you It's
39:25
what you. David Hardessay, he was a president of the university time said,
39:28
it's what you make of this role while you're in it, not just
39:30
the title or just doing it and then get out. It's what you make
39:34
of it and the connections you make. And I took advantage of it.
39:36
I traveled at all with the university all around the country, meeting the alumni,
39:38
you know, from Texas to California to South Carolina. I met people
39:42
like I've met people from all over coast to coast, and that's where I
39:45
made my connections. And to this day, I met Rod Thorne, I
39:47
met Jerry West, I met all these people, and I was just a
39:50
twenty one, twenty two year old student. And then I met Senator Robert
39:52
C. Bird. We did a joint summit form together about bullying in the
39:59
classroom of all things, and we did at WVU and I got to host
40:00
it with Robert C. Bird. He got me interested in furthering my career
40:04
in politics. I've always had in NACT and it's on politics. It's just
40:07
helping people and finding a way in a platform to help help people in your
40:10
community. And so I came back to West Virginia. I didn't want to
40:13
do it in Ohio or Pennsylvania where I was living and working. I only
40:15
wanted to come back and help the people that helped me grow as a kid
40:20
and ruin And you know, and we're gonna talk about media, and I've
40:22
I've got to kind of watch the things I gonna talk about because we're almost
40:25
out of time, and I got to get to tend questions a little bit
40:28
later on. But you know, there's this, I guess, stigma about
40:31
traditional media, whether it's radio what I do, television, whether it's newspaper
40:36
that it's that it's dying and start dying. It's just changing. Uh,
40:39
And when to talking about that a little bit later on. But I want
40:42
to quickly ask you one more political question that I try to avoid politics on
40:45
Friday from it? Do you want to the Last Democrat Standing? And I
40:50
joked with you a couple of weeks ago a text. I said, I
40:52
want to do a show called Last Democrats Standing. Uh. It's changed quite
40:54
a bit since you became involved in the world of politics. It keeps changing,
40:58
you know. I was in there. I was in a supermajority as
41:00
a Democrat when this all started twelve years ago, and now it's quickly changed.
41:05
Within ten years. The Republicans have came in, they take over,
41:07
they took all constitutional offices. As you know, the rest is history.
41:09
I'm one of eleven Democrats and the House of Delegates serve as a minority leader.
41:13
And I don't think the people's views are changing. I think they were
41:15
party affiliations changing. We were always a conservative state, whether you're registered Democrat
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or a Republican. Most people were just registered Democrat because they always wanted to
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vote in the election. Remember when the Republicans couldn't even fill the ballot,
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so you know how it goes. You either you're the registered Democrat or you
41:30
had nobody to vote for exact. So then people's views they were always pro
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live, pro gun, pro business, pro call, but they were registered
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Democrat. So then it started catching up to him. And then there was
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more and more than the Republicans, and then you had the Trump factor,
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and then the West Virginia started changing, but their views never changed. The
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people's views how much of the role to national politics. Master polics played a
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huge role. I think the people couldn't relate with some of the national candidates,
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and that's too bad because that was a trickle down effect and a lot
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of people. You know, I don't have any relationship with any of the
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national figures out there, but you get associated with them all that Doug scaff
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vote for Doug Scaff is a vote for Chuck Schumer. Yeah, I mean
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I don't even know the person. I don't care less like I, oh
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you know what he does really where he is or well he has fun.
42:08
But the bottom line is you've got to get to know your people. All
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politics is still local. I think we can go back to that. In
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West Virginia. You got to vote for the person, not the party.
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And I think those Democrats that are out there surviving now, they really have
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to know their people. People have to know them. They get to be
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out there, get to know them. So it's not just about the party,
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it's about the person. Talking about Doug scaff who is our guest host
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today, we're gonna take a break. I'm gonna spend a little bit more
42:30
time talking about media and the role of radio, television, newspapers quote unquote
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our producer. Today Doug scaff is with us as my co host. You're
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ready to go, man, I'm ready to go. Let's do it thing
45:08
we call ten questions. I give you ten questions. You answer them as
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best you can. You don't know what the questions are ahead of time.
45:15
Rapid fire as quickly as possible. I feel like I'm on family feud.
45:17
Ready all right? Are you ready? I'm ready? All right? My
45:22
go to sandwich is go to sandwich is all a single Big Dave's Classic at
45:30
Wendy's. Okay. I can own any car past or present. What would
45:34
that car be? Oh? I like a jeep wrangler, the old fashioned
45:37
jeep rangler. Do you put the top down? You get out and get
45:39
a little muddy. Okay. If you come into Doug Scaff's house and Doug
45:44
is watching TV, you are most likely watching there's gonna be some form of
45:49
sports on, you know. With three boys, that's all they care about
45:51
is either watching Sports Center or replayed game. My favorite grade school teacher was
45:55
favorite grade school teacher was, oh, miss mister Calhoun. Mister Calhoun,
46:02
he's a sixth grade teacher. Man. He told you like it is.
46:05
He taught your life lessons. He wasn't easy on you, but he abanded
46:07
expectations and he knew what you were getting with him. Sunrise or sunset,
46:14
Oh, I'm a I'm a sunrise type of guy. I used to love
46:15
getting up at the beach early and watch that sun come up. No matter
46:17
what time it was, I'd always want to race up, no matter how
46:20
tired you are, whatever. Watching that sun come up is the most beautiful
46:22
thing down there in Myrtle Beach that you could ever see. I will I
46:24
will be on a beach in two weeks. So what I mean. The
46:29
sports team that never fails to break my heart is Pittsburgh Pirates. They're just
46:34
terrible. For the first place, are they sold? The first place?
46:36
They'll find a way to's like trade everybody, you know they're in first place,
46:38
they're doing great. Oh wait, we have some trade value now,
46:40
so they'll trade everybody away before they pay him. I always break my heart
46:44
all right, here's the newspaper question for the newspaper guy. And I don't
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know if this applies for reading online or not, but when reading the paper,
46:51
I always read blank first. Phil Kabler, Oh, I used to
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always read it. He always talks. It's entertaining, you know, I
47:01
know people always read it. I read this his opinion, and then I
47:06
turned to the sports section, because you know I'm a big sports game.
47:07
Okay, all right, you can get three toppings on your pizza. What
47:10
are the three toppings? Three toppings? I'm a veggie guy on pizza because
47:15
sometimes, you know, the meat gets a little too greasy for me.
47:16
So when I order HUSS's Pizza guys, I always order your mushroom, green
47:20
peppers and onions. Okay, what's the most beautiful place in West Virginia?
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Oh? The most beautiful place is I'm a big fan of Cooper's Rock.
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When I was up in Morgantown that spent a lot of time up there and
47:30
just looking out. You know, at that point, there's so many beautiful
47:32
places. It's hard to choose Cooper's Rock. Hawk's nest name it. If
47:36
someone opens up the console to your vehicle, they're likely to find Oh my
47:40
god, my whole life anyway, from mouth washed, toothpaste, to deodorant,
47:45
to check book to cash. You do have a home, don't you.
47:50
I do have a home. Yeah. I keep a suitcase in the
47:52
back because you're always changing in my role. You're always changing from a polo
47:54
shirt to a shirt and tie, sport codor shorts or you name it.
47:58
All right, final one, complete the sentence. No day is complete to
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me until I No day is complete until I hug my three boys. Good
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way to end it, Tech, says Doug. Thank you for keeping our
48:09
newspapers alive envibrant. Yeah, you know, I'm a big fan of the
48:14
newspapers. I'm still an old school guy. I love to touch and film
48:15
and that print and just smell the paper there it is right there. There's
48:19
just something about the sound of my newspapers. Ja looking at the way out
48:22
of the page. He came in and he said, I brought you a
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paper, but you already have one. I'm that guy. It's just a
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part of my daily routine, all right. I want to ask you this
48:30
about media, and we're running short on time here, and you know,
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and I mentioned quote unquote conventional media. You know, radio, television,
48:36
newspaper people say, oh, they're all dying, and they're not dying at
48:39
all. And I can't speak for your medium, and I speak for radio.
48:43
Radio listenership is through the roof right now. But the form, the
48:46
way that people are I mean most the majority of people that are listening to
48:50
this show right now are not listening on a quote unquote traditional radio. They're
48:53
listening on their phone or their iPad or their device or some kind. We
48:57
have almost as many people that listen to the podcast asked of the show that
49:00
listen to it live. They listen two to three to four attacks from a
49:04
friend of mine just now ask me about when they could go back and listen
49:07
to a show from a couple of days ago while I'm on the air.
49:09
So it's there. It's just changing down the way people access. People want
49:14
news, they want local news, they want to key informed. It's we
49:16
are a multimedia company that also still prints of paper. You're a multimedia company
49:22
that has radio stations. It's the way people consume the news is what's changing.
49:25
And you, as a paper, as a radio station or whatnot,
49:29
have to adapt and give people that alternatives, multiple options, multiple ways to
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listen, to view, and to read. And that's what we're doing.
49:37
We're even doing so much more with the QR codes. Who put QR codes
49:39
with all the stories because people want to see it. They want to see
49:43
a video, two to three minute video with almost all of our stories.
49:45
We didn't have that. We didn't have that six months ago. We're hiring
49:47
multimedia specialists. That's what they're called now. They're not called reporters anymore.
49:52
Multimedia specialists out of the College School of Journalists are called Television's what they're called.
49:55
They're called multidis specials. Who can write, who they can produce,
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they can film, and they can edit. That's what we're hiring. And
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our newspaper is alive, and well, hey, we're growing. We just
50:05
bought two newspapers down in Virginia. They're weeklies that come out once a week.
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People still want to be informed. We are growing, we are expanding.
50:10
We're hiring more reporters than we've ever had. We have one of the
50:14
biggest staff that we've ever had now at the newspaper industry. Those positions,
50:17
though, are just changing. And some of the roles and dudes from like
50:21
you said, from podcast, if you can't catch this show live because everyone's
50:23
busy. Go back and listen to it, right, and that's the way
50:27
it is right now, all right, I didn't think we have a phone
50:29
call, so let's try to grab well. I can give this this person
50:30
maybe thirty seconds, so go ahead. You're on a Doug scaff Hey.
50:35
This is Jim. Hey, Jim. I don't know if you remember me,
50:37
Doug, but I was a teacher whenever mister Parsons was there. Okay,
50:44
what'd you teach? Jim? Reading and computers? Okay? And you
50:51
talking about South Chauser Junior High? Right, yes, right, you were
50:54
there. I think you were ninth grade when I was there. I wasn't
50:58
there very long, and it was whenever there was a teacher's strike. Okay,
51:02
all right, Jim, do you have a question, because we got
51:04
a roll, Do you have a question. Yeah. The media is the
51:08
most important process in this country, I think because the free press was the
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only thing that was mentioned in the constitution? Am I not right? Yeah?
51:17
You are correct, I stand by it. Local free press is more
51:22
important than ever to keep our people informed. Nationally can get it from so
51:24
many different outlets, but radio stations like this and Dave Allen show in our
51:28
newspaper. Keep people locally in the community connected. I totally agree with you,
51:31
all right, Jimmy. We appreciate your phone call. Thanks a lot.
51:34
So we had about thirty seconds left on the show. Why is it
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so important, real quick, big question. Why is it so important for
51:40
you to keep those local newspapers going to local one, not Charleston, but
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the local one. I think keep people informed. You can turn on your
51:45
TV. You can hear about all the national stuff. What's going on in
51:46
your community, what's the new business that's coming to town, what's your church
51:50
doing, what's your family? A little old Johnny or Jimmy, you know
51:52
that had a home run at the game last night. You want to know
51:54
about your friends and family that you grew up with and in the community.
51:58
That's why it's so important. That's why I moved back to West Virginia.
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This is my home. This is my town, this Pete, West Virginians
52:02
are family to me. It's not sure town, it's my town. But
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okay, it's Dayowenstown. Here we are, it's the day Owens alright.
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I appreciate you being here, man. Thanks, It's a lot of fun.
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Day Mayor Monday. On Monday with the Mayor of Belle. David Fletcher
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will be on the show on Monday. Also Greg Thomas will be here as
52:16
well. From my producer Hollywood, Jeff Petty. Have yourself for a great
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weekend, folks, we'll see you Monday. Till then, have fun and
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