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04/01/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Megan Diehl, Jennifer Potter, Emmett Pepper, Daniel Woods, Brad McElhinny · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 1: The country, the United States of America, the state West Virginia,
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Speaker 1: the city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on
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Speaker 1: five eighty Live and your host.
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Speaker 2: What we've got here is fail the new case.
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Speaker 3: He's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 4: I have come here to chew bubble gum and check
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Speaker 4: out a ball out of.
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Speaker 3: Bulon Dave Allen.
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Speaker 5: Who Well, Dave is off today. This is Dale Cooper
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Speaker 5: filling in for Dave Allen. Forgot to put my open
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Speaker 5: in there, but that's okay. Thanks so much for tuning
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Speaker 5: in on this Wednesday morning, in the state of West Virginia,
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Speaker 5: the city of Charleston. We're in the country of the
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Speaker 5: United States of America. Appreciate you tuning in. It's a
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Speaker 5: few minutes after one o'clock this morning. We have a
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Speaker 5: good show for you here today. We're going to have
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Speaker 5: a lot of information we're going to bring up to you.
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Speaker 5: We want to talk a little bit about the Maddix
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Speaker 5: Potter Foundation coming up in just a moment that they
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Speaker 5: have their annual fundraising event that has been expanded a
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Speaker 5: little bit this year, and of course we all remember
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Speaker 5: Maddix Potter, and so we're going to do a little
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Speaker 5: reminiscing and also talk about that foundation and exactly how
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Speaker 5: you can help with that. We're also going to talk
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Speaker 5: this morning about new street sweeping in Charleston. That's something
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Speaker 5: that's taking place in Charleston, a new schedule and how
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Speaker 5: we're deploying st street sweeping in the city, and so
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Speaker 5: Pepper's going to be by we're going to talk about that.
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Speaker 5: Daniel Woods is going to join us near the bottom
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Speaker 5: of the hour. We're going to talk about high school
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Speaker 5: baseball in the Canall Valley and what teams and players
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Speaker 5: to look out for, and then we'll wrap up the
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Speaker 5: day or the hour anyway, at the end of the hour,
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Speaker 5: Brad mcluinney will join us. That big discussion about data
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Speaker 5: centers took place last night. Brad covered that, and so
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Speaker 5: we're going to talk about some of the things that
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Speaker 5: happened as it comes to the data centers and the
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Speaker 5: discussion that was had last night doing that town hall
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Speaker 5: that was co sponsored by metron so a bunch of
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Speaker 5: stuff coming up here today. Appreciate you tuning into five
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Speaker 5: eighty Live. And I'd like to welcome our first guests
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Speaker 5: onto the program now, and that is from the Maddix
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Speaker 5: Potter Foundation, and I'm looking forward to this interview ever
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Speaker 5: since Dave told me we want to be doing it
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Speaker 5: because this is an important event for an important foundation,
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Speaker 5: relatively new that's here in the valley for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 5: But welcoming into the studio this morning, it's Jennifer Potter,
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Speaker 5: who is Maddix's mother. Jennifer, good morning, how you doing
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Speaker 5: this morning? Let me try to turn on your mind,
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Speaker 5: so thank you so much for coming in. And also
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Speaker 5: Megan deals with us this morning. Megan, good Morningredy morning, Dale,
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Speaker 5: thank you for coming in. I appreciate you guys coming
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Speaker 5: in and sharing some of your experiences in exactly what
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Speaker 5: we're going to be doing to help out the matter
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Speaker 5: Maddix Potter Foundation, And I guess first of all, I
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Speaker 5: want to ask you, Jennifer, for listeners that may not
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Speaker 5: remember or no Maddix a story.
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Speaker 3: It was.
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Speaker 5: Such a community event getting behind Maddix a couple of
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Speaker 5: years ago and the young man struggled with cancer. But
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Speaker 5: can you explain a little bit about your son.
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Speaker 6: Sure? So, Maddox is my sixteen year old son. He
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Speaker 6: passed away in January of twenty twenty five after a
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Speaker 6: fourteen month battle with a rare type of pediatric sarcoma
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Speaker 6: called alveolar rabdomyosarcoma. It's a sarcoma that starts in your
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Speaker 6: muscle cells, and oftentimes it will disguise itself as a
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Speaker 6: sports injury. And that is what happened with Maddox. He
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Speaker 6: was in the middle of his freshman year of high
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Speaker 6: school golf season, playing a lot of golf rounds of
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Speaker 6: golf with his friends, practicing hitting on the simulator, going
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Speaker 6: to the driving range, playing matches, and he started complaining
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Speaker 6: of back pain, and his dad and I just we
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Speaker 6: made the very incorrect assumption that it was just a
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Speaker 6: golf related injury. Because what serious golfer hasn't tweaked their
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Speaker 6: back't hasn't hurt their back.
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Speaker 7: Right, that's right.
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Speaker 6: And so it took us a couple of months to
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Speaker 6: It took us a couple of months to get to
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Speaker 6: the root of the of the problem. And by the
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Speaker 6: time we figured out what was what was going on
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Speaker 6: his his cancer had progressed to stage four and so
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Speaker 6: we we really had sort of already crossed the point
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Speaker 6: of no return by the time we even even began treatment,
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Speaker 6: and but we did. We traveled to Cincinnati each and
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Speaker 6: every week for about thirteen months until our options became
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Speaker 6: so limited that anything Maddix would have continued to do
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Speaker 6: was not going to stop this disease. It was just
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Speaker 6: going to delay the inevitable. But all it meant for
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Speaker 6: him was continued time away from his home, from his brothers,
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Speaker 6: from his community. And so he made the decision to
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Speaker 6: just come home and spend the remainder of his life,
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Speaker 6: you know, in the in the place where he felt
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Speaker 6: the safest and most loved and once he well before
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Speaker 6: he passed away. Actually he you know, he and I
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Speaker 6: had a lot of discussions about this, and those are
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Speaker 6: terrible conversations to have with your with your kids. But
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Speaker 6: I feel very blessed that I was able to talk
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Speaker 6: to him about how he wanted us to proceed. And
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Speaker 6: you know, the only request he had was just try
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Speaker 6: to make sure somebody learns something from me, and so
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Speaker 6: that that just became our mission. You know, a couple
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Speaker 6: of months after he passed away, we decided that in
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Speaker 6: order to do that, to do what he had asked,
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Speaker 6: to keep that promise to him, we would form the
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Speaker 6: Maddox Potter Foundation and we picked three three goals that
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Speaker 6: that we think he would be proud of, three three
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Speaker 6: areas that we thought needed addressed. You know, it's it's
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Speaker 6: financial assistance to families affected by pediatric cancer diagnosis. That
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Speaker 6: the financial impact is swift, and it's overwhelming funding critical
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Speaker 6: sarcoma research. We all know that that pediatric cancer is
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Speaker 6: wildly underfunded compared to adult cancers, and rare diseases suffer
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Speaker 6: specifically in that regard, and philanthropy and foundations like ours
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Speaker 6: really are the main funding source for keeping these research
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Speaker 6: projects going, for making sure momentum is installed. And then
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Speaker 6: the last thing we try to do is encourage the
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Speaker 6: growth of junior golf, just because that was such an
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Speaker 6: important piece of Maddox's identity. It's very much part of
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Speaker 6: what made him who he is. But not only that,
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Speaker 6: we try to share the message about what a great
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Speaker 6: sport golf is. When you're going through chemotherapy treatment, there
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Speaker 6: are so many times during these protocols where you become
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Speaker 6: immuno compromised and you cannot be in large groups. You
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Speaker 6: maybe cannot play those large group sports. There are times
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Speaker 6: when you face dangerously low platelets, so you know that
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Speaker 6: puts these kids at risk for excessive bleeding. So any
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Speaker 6: type of contact sport is unsafe. You know, no basketball,
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Speaker 6: no no hockey, no football, nothing like that. But you
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Speaker 6: can still be out on the golf course, right because
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Speaker 6: they're usually only with you know, one or two other people.
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Speaker 6: There's you know, it can be modified. You can use
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Speaker 6: a cart on the days that maybe you're feeling particularly tired.
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Speaker 6: But we all know that all things being equal, staying
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Speaker 6: active can lead to better outcomes. But even when the
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Speaker 6: outcome is not going to be what you hoped and
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Speaker 6: prayed for, having that little bit of normalcy, having that time,
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Speaker 6: you know, outside with your family or with your friends,
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Speaker 6: becomes that much more important. So we try to share
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Speaker 6: that message too.
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Speaker 5: That's really carrying on Maddox's wishes, and I find it amazing.
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Speaker 5: Within just a few weeks of Maddox's passed and Megan
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Speaker 5: the Foundation was up and running basically based off of
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Speaker 5: these pillars of his last wishes.
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Speaker 8: I tell Jennifer All the time and Davy, you know,
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Speaker 8: they amazed me every day because literally they carried on
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Speaker 8: Maddix's wishes so strong and just marched forward and said that,
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Speaker 8: you know, this is what we're going to do. It's tragic.
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Speaker 8: Nobody ever wants to see a sixteen year old lose
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Speaker 8: their life. But Madix's legacy is stronger than ever. And
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Speaker 8: we say that every day and everything that we do
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Speaker 8: and everything that we try to go out into the community.
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Speaker 8: And do you know when you see his little golf
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Speaker 8: emblem somewhere, like that's something he's touched. You know, how
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Speaker 8: much money they're giving for research, how much money they're
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Speaker 8: giving to West Virginia families. These are West Virginia families
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Speaker 8: that are applying for assistance. You know, Jennifer and Davy
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Speaker 8: and the Foundation are very humble in all the ways
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Speaker 8: that they are giving back to the community. They're providing
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Speaker 8: assistance with care, they're providing assistance with you know, final
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Speaker 8: wishes for children that have unfortunately lost their lives as well.
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Speaker 8: So it's incredible. We're in going into our second year
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Speaker 8: of the foundation and the growth. I mean, I've told
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Speaker 8: them all the time, it's something truly remarkable. I've been
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Speaker 8: in nonprofits for over a decade and it's incredible what
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Speaker 8: they've been able to accomplish.
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Speaker 5: I would just encourage folks that we used to do
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Speaker 5: Saint Jude Radio thigns here a lot, and we've tried
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Speaker 5: to help out with different initiatives, especially when it comes
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Speaker 5: to childhood cancers. But it's so important with a local
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Speaker 5: initiative like this that when you give locally. It's not
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Speaker 5: that everybody doesn't need help, but I mean, you want
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Speaker 5: to help your neighbors, you want to help specifically with
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Speaker 5: pediatric cancers and things like this. Giving that moment money
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Speaker 5: locally is very important.
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Speaker 8: In that case, absolutely, And you know they don't just
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Speaker 8: hone in. They hone in on their pillars, but also
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Speaker 8: hone in on the community as a whole. You know,
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Speaker 8: the community really rallied behind the Potters when Maddox was
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Speaker 8: in his fight and they haven't given up on returning
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Speaker 8: that favor. You know, they come from a family of coaches,
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Speaker 8: a family that people that are actively involved all throughout
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Speaker 8: the valley. So just seeing that and then have it
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Speaker 8: be in Maddox's legacy is just another piece of that.
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Speaker 5: My wife and I were relatively late to having a child.
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Speaker 5: I'm in my early fifties and we have an eight
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Speaker 5: year old. But she when she read about Madex's final passing,
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Speaker 5: she just cried. I mean she was telling me about
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Speaker 5: it because we'd been talking about and everything, and it
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Speaker 5: really as any parent out there, or any human really,
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Speaker 5: but especially as parents, I think it just has to
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Speaker 5: hit so hard. I'm amazed at what you're able to
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Speaker 5: do and how you've been able to spin this into
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Speaker 5: into such a positive as much as you possibly can
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Speaker 5: with this kind of help. I think that the important
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Speaker 5: thing that we addressed here is when it comes to
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Speaker 5: these funds goes to families here, it helps out people
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Speaker 5: that are in these needs. So let's talk about how
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Speaker 5: we can help these things. This fundraiser is coming up
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Speaker 5: has been expanded now, so tell us a little bit
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Speaker 5: about the history of that and how the expansion comes up.
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Speaker 6: Sure, So the golf tournament we're holding On April seventeenth,
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Speaker 6: we're holding a golf outing at Barry Hills Country Club
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Speaker 6: and on April eighteenth, we're trying our hand at our
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Speaker 6: very first gala. The golf tournament actually started. This will
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Speaker 6: be the third year of it. It actually started with
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Speaker 6: Maddox was still going through treatment. It was just it
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Speaker 6: was an initiative that the community put together for our
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Speaker 6: benefit on our behalf, and once Maddocks passed, we thought,
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Speaker 6: you know, we knew obviously that golf was going to
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Speaker 6: be a huge part of our foundation because it was
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Speaker 6: a huge part of Maddox and so we've continued the
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Speaker 6: golf piece and we always will. But the incorporation of
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Speaker 6: the gala, the idea behind that was, you know, not
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Speaker 6: everybody golfs. I don't even golf, not everyone. You know,
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Speaker 6: I would never enter into a scramble, but you know,
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Speaker 6: so we thought perhaps the gala would be something more
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Speaker 6: inclusive that we could do. And yes, yes, it is
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Speaker 6: a fundraiser. Yes, the goal is to raise money for
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Speaker 6: these families, for research for youth golf initiatives, for caregiver kits.
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Speaker 6: Yes that is the goal. But the goal is also
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Speaker 6: to just be together with the people that have supported
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Speaker 6: us too, just you know, a time for us, you know,
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Speaker 6: all together together away for my family to show our
11:53
Speaker 6: appreciation for what what everyone has done has done for
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Speaker 6: us as well. So that is what we're that's so
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Speaker 6: what we're trying to accomplish. With the Gala is just
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Speaker 6: you know, it's not just fundraising, it's relationship building and
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Speaker 6: it's just it's showing our gratitude truly for this community.
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Speaker 3: Several different ways that you can help as a part
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Speaker 3: of the community.
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Speaker 5: Of course, you can just you can sign up for
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Speaker 5: the golf event, you can attend the gala, buy tickets
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Speaker 5: and do all those things. Or are we sending folks
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Speaker 5: to as far as easiest access for the tickets.
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Speaker 8: So if you get to Madoxpotter dot org you'll see
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Speaker 8: our event page on there. You can also please follow
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Speaker 8: us on social media on Facebook, the Maddox Potter Foundation.
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Speaker 8: We do a lot of updates different initiatives that are going.
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Speaker 8: You know, there's a lot of tickets still available. We
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Speaker 8: still have some sponsorships available.
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Speaker 3: How does that work out? The sponsorships when you give a.
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Speaker 8: Chance so sponsorship, So there's sponsorships for the golf tournament
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Speaker 8: and then there's sponsorships for the gala. And something that
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Speaker 8: we've been very intentional about is that we know a
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Speaker 8: lot of people want to help, but you know, I
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Speaker 8: understand you know, funding's tight, you know the economy, we
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Speaker 8: get it. We know everybody's being tapped a lot by
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Speaker 8: different nonprofits and their cause of their choice. So we
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Speaker 8: have whole sponsors for two hundred dollars or if you'd
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Speaker 8: want to be an event sponsor or GALLAS sponsor in
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Speaker 8: the several thousands. So you know, we have something for
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Speaker 8: every budget. If you have some sort of service you
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Speaker 8: would like us, you know, we're accepting live auction, salent
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Speaker 8: auction items as well. If you think that you have
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Speaker 8: something that would be great for that, we are open
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Speaker 8: to that as well. You can reach out to us
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Speaker 8: on the Facebook or on our website, but definitely there's
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Speaker 8: a way for everyone to help or just buy a
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Speaker 8: ticket at attend. It's going to be a fabulous event.
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Speaker 8: We have DJ EJ. He's the household name so here
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Speaker 8: in Charleston, so we're excited to have them him there
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Speaker 8: as well.
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Speaker 6: Don't have a golf simulator, so we are going to
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Speaker 6: have ator.
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Speaker 3: We're going to learn how to play golf.
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Speaker 5: Escape it.
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Speaker 6: We can't escape it. We say, come to the gaylyf
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Speaker 6: You don't golf, but there's golf. But there's also golf.
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Speaker 5: So this is just a great it's a great opportunity
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Speaker 5: for folks to to reach out and help the community
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Speaker 5: to help this this really under serviced area of medical
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Speaker 5: need that we have. And also it's your neighbors, it's
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Speaker 5: your friends, it's it's it's a community, and it's something
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Speaker 5: that we need more huff today anyway. So I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's all the things lined up that folks can help with.
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Speaker 5: Mattixpotter dot org is where you can go. You can
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Speaker 5: become a sponsor of a either of the events that
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Speaker 5: are coming up. You can buy tickets to the gala.
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Speaker 5: You can still participate in the golf event, right, so
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Speaker 5: if you want to or is.
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Speaker 6: That yep, we know, I think we have we have
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Speaker 6: room for two maybe max three teams.
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Speaker 3: You better hurry.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, the teams go fast, so if you want to play,
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Speaker 8: you a.
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Speaker 5: Better hurry to do that. So we'll get that out there.
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Speaker 5: And then plus, if look, if you if maybe you
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Speaker 5: can't quite meet the sponsor threshold for something, but you
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Speaker 5: can't also attend the events, you just send money. You
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Speaker 5: can go to the site and just send money anytime.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't even have to be an April or you
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Speaker 5: can do it anytime.
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Speaker 6: That's right, that's right. Don't don't ever ever think that
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Speaker 6: if you can't buy a ticket, or if you can't
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Speaker 6: pay for a foursome, or if you can't do a
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Speaker 6: big sponsorship, don't ever think that it's insignificant because it's.
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Speaker 5: Not five dollars, five hundred dollars or whatever it is.
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Speaker 5: That's right, Yeah, absolutely, So that's Mattix Potter dot org,
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Speaker 5: matics potter dot org. You can find out about the events,
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Speaker 5: you can buy tickets, you can find out information about
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Speaker 5: coming to sponsor. A'm just send the money because it's
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Speaker 5: a it's a good cause and that's something that you
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Speaker 5: might want to think about doing. Really appreciate your alls
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Speaker 5: time this morning and coming in and talking to us
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Speaker 5: about this. It's such a massively important thing. And I
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Speaker 5: think that the legacy of Mattis is very important as well.
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Speaker 5: So I really appreciate you coming in. Jennifer, thank you
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Speaker 5: so much for your time this morning. And Meghan you
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Speaker 5: as well, thank you for coming in. I really appreciate it,
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. So that's for the Mattis Potter Foundation,
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Speaker 5: the Golf Outing, memorial, Golf Outing, and the Galist coming
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Speaker 5: up on the seventeenth and eighteenth of this month. This
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Speaker 5: month now it's April first, so of this month now.
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Speaker 5: Our guest this morning has been Jennifer Potter and Megan Deal.
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Speaker 5: Emmitt Pepper's joining us from the City of Charles and
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Speaker 5: we're going to talk about new street sweeping that's happening here.
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Speaker 5: First of all, it's been a while since I've had
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Speaker 14: I'm good, Thanks for having me on. It's good to
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Speaker 14: be back. In Dave's chairs and good hands here.
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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: Dave is of course getting some He openly shares his
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Speaker 5: That's where he's at this morning. To expect him to
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Speaker 5: in this chair tomorrow. So just a brief absent for Dave.
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Speaker 5: Emma is an at large member of the Charleston City Council.
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Speaker 5: He's been there for quite some time now. And when
18:55
Speaker 5: we talk about street sweeping and stuff like that, that's
18:57
Speaker 5: kind of your focus, right, that's us where the area
18:59
Speaker 5: you specialize.
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Speaker 14: Well, it became that way, Yeah, it's certainly not the
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Speaker 14: you know, this is the thing I was thinking about
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Speaker 14: running on or anything like that four years ago when
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Speaker 14: I ran for the first time.
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Speaker 3: You're on the Ordnance Rules and Environment committee, right.
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Speaker 14: Is that there's two committees of money or environment, recycling
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Speaker 14: and Ordinances Rules.
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Speaker 5: So what what Well, first of all, what is the
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Speaker 5: streets sweeping change?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 14: So well, the change is that we are enforcing parking
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Speaker 14: on streets sweeping in the afternoons on both sides of
19:28
Speaker 14: the street. Very very exciting for people who live on
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Speaker 14: the East End. It only affects the East End. This
19:34
Speaker 14: has been an issue that in the East End has
19:36
Speaker 14: become has been a hot topic of discussion. And it
19:41
Speaker 14: was to me that this is a perfect example of
19:43
Speaker 14: how government really should work, and it's strange that it's
19:45
Speaker 14: this issue. But you know, there were some very loud voices,
19:49
Speaker 14: some of whom were sponsors on this show, and we
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19:54
Speaker 14: were like, we don't we shouldn't have streets sweeping parking enforcement.
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Speaker 14: It's too It's the only place that has at the
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Speaker 14: East End. And so I was like, well, gosh, well
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Speaker 14: maybe we should do something about that and and so.
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Speaker 14: But then we so we said, well, well what other
20:06
Speaker 14: people think about it? And so we did a public meeting.
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Speaker 14: We went door to door talk to people about it
20:11
Speaker 14: and other issues, but talked about that issue, and lo
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Speaker 14: and behold, it is actually more people like to have
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Speaker 14: the parking enforcement. So it's like we had to go
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Speaker 14: back to the drawing board. It's like, well, how do
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Speaker 14: we make this less So at the time last year
20:24
Speaker 14: it was at nine am you'd have to move your
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Speaker 14: car on one side of the street and noon and
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Speaker 14: the other and so uh, and I happened to live
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Speaker 14: on the side of the street with the word it's
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Speaker 14: the nine am side, but I park on both sides
20:34
Speaker 14: of the street. So anyway, the change we got is
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Speaker 14: that we made it so that people don't have to
20:37
Speaker 14: rush out by nine am, uh, you know, to to
20:40
Speaker 14: rush to the cars to listen to the radio and
20:42
Speaker 14: the show. They can they can wait and listen in
20:45
Speaker 14: there and they're h and they're drinking the coffee in
20:47
Speaker 14: the kitchen.
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Speaker 5: And so this is uh, the new schedules, basically combining
20:54
Speaker 5: the schedules, right, making it so it's more of a
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Speaker 5: one stop period of time.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's the same time twelve to noon every day.
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Speaker 14: And actually our statue or our codes were inconsistent with
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Speaker 14: what the signs were on the other side of the
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Speaker 14: street too, so you know, everything is now consistent. It's
21:08
Speaker 14: all at the same time of day. People don't have
21:10
Speaker 14: to rush out by nine am. So it was it
21:12
Speaker 14: was a it was a thing. There were people who
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Speaker 14: were very passionate. On the other side. I like having
21:16
Speaker 14: this because you know, keeps our streets clean, and you
21:20
Speaker 14: know it's otherwise they'll never get swept. And I think
21:23
Speaker 14: that that makes sense. And this the reason that's only
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Speaker 14: in this area in the East End is because there's
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Speaker 14: a lot more on street parking. A lot of people
21:30
Speaker 14: do not have driveways, myself included, and so there's just
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Speaker 14: a lot more and there's just a lot more density there.
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Speaker 14: So unlike other parts of the city, that's what we've
21:39
Speaker 14: come up with.
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Speaker 5: There's also more trees and things like that. I mean,
21:41
Speaker 5: we're debris on the roads these lines. I mean, there's
21:43
Speaker 5: reasons to clean up clean off the streets other than
21:45
Speaker 5: just aesthetic appeals. You want to keep the storm drains
21:47
Speaker 5: clean and things along those lines. So you want to
21:49
Speaker 5: make sure you keep them up to date for that too.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely, And so it was it was just a really
21:54
Speaker 14: great example, like I said, of how government should work.
21:56
Speaker 14: We listened, we listened to lots of different voices. We
21:59
Speaker 14: came up with a policy that maybe not everybody was
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Speaker 14: totally pleased with, but it was it was the best
22:03
Speaker 14: policy I think.
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Speaker 5: So this was no change of area. This is just
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Speaker 5: change of schedule. So if you lived within the area before,
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Speaker 5: you're still in the area. If you didn't live in
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Speaker 5: the area before, you're not in the area now. So
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Speaker 5: there's no changes as far as that goes, So just
22:13
Speaker 5: in case maybe somebody just moved to town or they're
22:14
Speaker 5: not real for sure about what it means. What does
22:16
Speaker 5: this mean for somebody that's parking on the streets on
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Speaker 5: Tuesdays or Thursdays?
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Speaker 14: So yeah, Tuesday, you need to move it to the
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Speaker 14: other side of the street. If it's on the Tuesday
22:23
Speaker 14: side or Thursday, move it to the other side of
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Speaker 14: the street.
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Speaker 3: Just park it there.
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Speaker 14: You know, it's good because there'll be time for people
22:29
Speaker 14: to get out to go to work and see you
22:30
Speaker 14: can just kind of if your ar is still going
22:32
Speaker 14: to be home moving over there.
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Speaker 5: That's good stuff. So that's going to be a little
22:36
Speaker 5: bit more efficient, keep the street a little cleaner, And
22:38
Speaker 5: that's what it's all about. And I love the the
22:41
Speaker 5: you know, you can use it almost as an antidote. Sure,
22:43
Speaker 5: this was quote unquote just street cleaning. I mean it's a.
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Speaker 3: Part of a whole.
22:47
Speaker 5: So it's all important. But that is absolutely the way
22:49
Speaker 5: that politics should work. What you're talking about. You take
22:51
Speaker 5: public you take public opinion and say, hey, there's a
22:53
Speaker 5: problem here. You go to the public and say what
22:55
Speaker 5: do you want to do about the problem, And then
22:56
Speaker 5: you come up with options and put.
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Speaker 3: Up to vote. Wow. Yeah, exactly, Wow imagine that.
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Speaker 14: And I mean I didn't even get into it, but
23:03
Speaker 14: I went to the library. I was on the microfeach
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Speaker 14: looking up and see if there were news stories at
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Speaker 14: the time, like why did this happen?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 14: So anyway, Yeah, it's you know, it's the kind of
23:11
Speaker 14: thing that that's how it should work. Absolutely. I was
23:14
Speaker 14: thinking about doing, you know, a April Fool's post today
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Speaker 14: and say we're gonna do alternate side parking city wide,
23:19
Speaker 14: but maybe the people don't really deally in they might
23:22
Speaker 14: not catch it, so we're not doing that. It's just
23:24
Speaker 14: in the East in the same place.
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Speaker 3: It was interesting.
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Speaker 5: I used to visit a friend of mine in New
23:28
Speaker 5: York all the time, and he lived in a little
23:29
Speaker 5: gated community called Seagate in Brooklyn, and it was largely
23:32
Speaker 5: populated a BYuT Hasidic Jews, and there were the of course,
23:38
Speaker 5: there's certain times that they're not allowed to use equipment
23:41
Speaker 5: like different things like that, So there was an industry
23:43
Speaker 5: of people that would move their cars for them during
23:45
Speaker 5: the streets sweeping, because there would be certain days that
23:47
Speaker 5: they couldn't get in the cars on those days. And
23:49
Speaker 5: so there was like a literal industry of usually younger,
23:52
Speaker 5: younger men and girls that would move cars literally just
23:55
Speaker 5: drive from one side of the street to the other
23:56
Speaker 5: side of the street because religiously they were prohibited from
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Speaker 5: doing that on that day.
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Speaker 13: York.
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Speaker 14: You can't do this here, but in New York, the
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Speaker 14: people when I lived in the Bronx, you would just
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Speaker 14: like move over to the middle of the street and
24:07
Speaker 14: so then the street serpers to go buy and you
24:09
Speaker 14: move right back. And when I lived in Buffalo, they
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Speaker 14: had it for snow.
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Speaker 5: Luckily, we don't have to worry about here. It's relatively simple.
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Speaker 5: You try to keep it between the lines and it
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Speaker 5: helps out the community quite a bit. And that's great information.
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Speaker 5: I wanted to make sure we got that out to folks.
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Speaker 5: We're right here in downtown Charleston and affects a large
24:25
Speaker 5: part portion of our listening audience. And it's a relatively
24:28
Speaker 5: minor change, but one that can make difference to folks,
24:30
Speaker 5: and I want to make sure we get that out there.
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Speaker 5: Thanks all, I do appreciate your time. Thanks for That's
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry to pull you in here. I know you've
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Speaker 5: had a super busy last couple weeks with the tournament
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Speaker 5: everything that's been going on, and they're slowing down, which
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Speaker 5: have a baseball conversation. But I thought this is something
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Speaker 5: a little bit, don't. We haven't in the past done
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Speaker 5: here on WCCHS. We do what Metro News covers and
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Speaker 5: everything else. But baseball is one of those sports that's
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Speaker 3: Across the classes.
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Speaker 5: We're starting to see more players out of this state
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Speaker 5: that go to larger programs and stuff like that. Give
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Speaker 11: I'll tell you what. It's a great start for Kanawha
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Speaker 11: Valley baseball this year. I mean Hurricanes coming off of
29:07
Speaker 11: a state championship, won Class Quad A last year. Their
29:10
Speaker 11: best player state player the year, Weston Smith, is now
29:13
Speaker 11: pitching for WVU. But it hasn't mattered. They're six and
29:16
Speaker 11: one to start the year. Brian Sutfins team's gotten off
29:19
Speaker 11: to a really good start. Their only loss is out
29:21
Speaker 11: of state. It was a couple of days ago against
29:23
Speaker 11: East Mecklenburg, North Carolina. They lost four to three on
29:26
Speaker 11: a walkoff in extra innings. So Hurricans playing really good baseball.
29:29
Speaker 11: George Washington's going to challenge them for the MSAC championship
29:32
Speaker 11: this year. GW won the MSAC last year and then
29:35
Speaker 11: Hurricane ended up winning the state championship. GW six and one,
29:39
Speaker 11: you dropped down to Class Triple A. Winfield has not
29:42
Speaker 11: played as many games. They're three and one and beat
29:44
Speaker 11: the defending state champions from Ripley last night thirteen to six.
29:48
Speaker 11: Nitros out to a five and two start. Saint Albans
29:51
Speaker 11: is five and two, and then in double A Charleston
29:53
Speaker 11: Catholic is four and one. They're a perennial powerhouse in
29:56
Speaker 11: the area. Buffalo's had a couple of good years in
29:58
Speaker 11: a row. They've started three and one, Soville Man. So
30:01
Speaker 11: the Canal Valley is well represented with baseball and very well.
30:05
Speaker 11: That's something that I went to school at Capitol and
30:07
Speaker 11: the well I was the first class to go all
30:10
Speaker 11: three years at Capitol. I started in eighty nine, graduated
30:12
Speaker 11: at ninety two. And back then, I mean, obviously we
30:16
Speaker 11: had baseball teams, but baseball wasn't you know, it was football, basketball,
30:19
Speaker 11: and then pretty much everything else. And I've been really encouraged.
30:22
Speaker 11: Number One, the increase in popularity of girls basketball has
30:26
Speaker 11: been a mint in the last decade, especially, and I
30:28
Speaker 11: think maybe just a little behind that, but also growing
30:31
Speaker 11: at very good pace is baseball and softball as well.
30:33
Speaker 11: But baseball is really starting to come around now. Any
30:36
Speaker 11: players that you've seen that really have caught your off,
30:39
Speaker 11: there's guys that are returning for some of these teams
30:42
Speaker 11: that I think have started out the way that you'd expect.
30:45
Speaker 11: Chuck Kelly from George Washington was part of that boys
30:48
Speaker 11: basketball state championship team. One of the best highlights of
30:51
Speaker 11: high school sports in the last year was the MSAC
30:54
Speaker 11: championship game last year Hurricane at GW at go Mark Ballpark.
30:58
Speaker 11: Chuck Kelly going first to third for winning run for
31:01
Speaker 11: George Washington and that gave no It was a first third.
31:03
Speaker 11: Was an inside the park home run, That's what it was.
31:05
Speaker 11: It was just Chuck Kelly for an inside the park
31:06
Speaker 11: home run. It was first to third. But GW is
31:09
Speaker 11: just a deep roster. I'll tell you what talked about
31:11
Speaker 11: Weston Smith going from Hurricane to WVU. Slade Barton is
31:15
Speaker 11: a senior this year that is committed to WVU, played
31:18
Speaker 11: three years at GW. He moves to Morgantown, is playing
31:21
Speaker 11: for Morgantown High. Right now, GW is still six and one.
31:24
Speaker 11: That's how good that program is. And then right now,
31:27
Speaker 11: I mean, if you're looking at somebody that is probably
31:32
Speaker 11: coming into his senior year being looked at as maybe
31:35
Speaker 11: the best player in the knav Valley, Zaiden Ranson from
31:37
Speaker 11: Charleston Catholic has been a three year starter for that team.
31:40
Speaker 11: A ton of recruiting interest for him. Was actually just
31:43
Speaker 11: named the first team All State double A basketball team today,
31:46
Speaker 11: great athlete at Charleston Catholic. He's he's hit the ball
31:49
Speaker 11: really well to start the year for Charleston Catholic as well.
31:52
Speaker 11: So a lot of talent across the area. But it's interesting,
31:55
Speaker 11: you know, with with Weston Smith being gone from Hurricane,
31:58
Speaker 11: Slade Barton being gone from GWS, some of these other
32:00
Speaker 11: teams graduating guys. It's been a really strong start for
32:03
Speaker 11: these teams, but those standout players were still kind of
32:06
Speaker 11: seeing your merge at this point.
32:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's very interesting and one of the things that
32:10
Speaker 5: I've just casually as an observer over the years, it
32:13
Speaker 5: seems like that scouting and the development of pitching is
32:16
Speaker 5: always a little bit behind the scouting and development of hitting.
32:18
Speaker 5: And it seems like we're seeing a lot more pitching now,
32:20
Speaker 5: a lot of people that are being talked about as pitchers.
32:22
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think so, And that's really I think grown
32:25
Speaker 11: kind of across this area just since I've been following
32:28
Speaker 11: high school baseball in West Virginia at a relatively high level.
32:31
Speaker 11: I mean, you go back a few years and you
32:33
Speaker 11: get guys like Jake Carr, that had so many great
32:36
Speaker 11: state tournament performances coming out of the canav Valley. Going
32:39
Speaker 11: to WVU was weekend starter for the Mountaineers as a freshman.
32:42
Speaker 11: You go back, i should say, you expand the area
32:46
Speaker 11: a little bit. You go down into Boone County. You
32:48
Speaker 11: get Carter Lyles that pitched at both WVU and at
32:51
Speaker 11: Marshall and had success in both of those places. West
32:53
Speaker 11: and Smith is going to get opportunities for WVU, I
32:57
Speaker 11: think sooner rather than later. And it really is something
33:01
Speaker 11: that I've seen out of the Kanawa Valley this year
33:04
Speaker 11: in particular, but last couple of years as well. It's
33:06
Speaker 11: low scoring games, and it's not because these teams can't hit.
33:09
Speaker 11: It's because there's really good pitching in this area of
33:11
Speaker 11: the state in particular.
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Speaker 3: It's fun to watch.
33:13
Speaker 5: It's really funny that you bring that up, because it's
33:15
Speaker 5: literally been me listening to you doing the scores. Really,
33:17
Speaker 5: but I've been like, wow, these scores are really depressed.
33:21
Speaker 5: Over like ten years ago when I would come is
33:23
Speaker 5: like Winfield one tonight, seventeen twelve, you know whatever it was.
33:26
Speaker 3: It is like all the games.
33:27
Speaker 5: Were like double digits for both the winners and the
33:29
Speaker 5: losers or whately. Now you're getting much more reasonable sounding
33:33
Speaker 5: baseball scores. Seven to three, eight to four, you know whatever.
33:35
Speaker 5: It might be relatively normal sounding baseball scores.
33:37
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think so, and I should mention I have
33:40
Speaker 11: neglected to mention Bryson Hoff from George Washington, who was
33:42
Speaker 11: their ace two years ago, who's at WVU as well.
33:45
Speaker 11: And I expect to get some opportunities. But yeah, I've
33:46
Speaker 11: got last night's scores just written down in front of me,
33:49
Speaker 11: And yeah, you know, you've got GW beating South Charleston
33:51
Speaker 11: fourteen to nothing. But you've also got Charleston Catholic three,
33:54
Speaker 11: Buffalo two, Saint Albans five, Parkersburg South three, Nitro six,
33:58
Speaker 11: Chapmanville three. The pitching is really good in this area.
34:02
Speaker 11: When you get the other team's number one, I mean,
34:04
Speaker 11: you're gonna have a long night at the plate if
34:06
Speaker 11: you're not ready.
34:07
Speaker 5: The other thing that that means is generally fundamental and
34:09
Speaker 5: defense is decent. It is not a bunch of runs
34:11
Speaker 5: are scoring on you know the little league home runs
34:13
Speaker 5: and stuff you see.
34:14
Speaker 11: And we've got really good, well coached teams around this area.
34:16
Speaker 11: That's the thing, you know. I'm still relatively new to Charleston.
34:19
Speaker 11: It's not going to be a year that I've lived
34:21
Speaker 11: here until August, so I have not This is my
34:24
Speaker 11: first high school baseball season actually being in the Canau Valley.
34:27
Speaker 11: But one thing that I've always picked out the last
34:29
Speaker 11: handful of years covering games at the state tournament has
34:32
Speaker 11: been these Coma Valley teams are just fundamentally sound. They're
34:34
Speaker 11: well coached, they run the base as well. They don't
34:36
Speaker 11: make mistakes in the field, and that's why you see
34:38
Speaker 11: teams like Hurricane winning state championships. I mean, Hurricane came
34:41
Speaker 11: down with the best pitcher in the state, with a
34:44
Speaker 11: really good lineup going to the plate, but they still
34:48
Speaker 11: had to play really good Hedgesville and Morgantown teams in
34:50
Speaker 11: the state tournament last year. And looking back on that
34:54
Speaker 11: state tournament, really Hedgesville ends up winning it because or not,
34:57
Speaker 11: I should say Hurrican, not Hedgesville. Hurricane ends up winning
34:59
Speaker 11: it because they made the fewest mistakes in those games.
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Speaker 5: And that happens a lot at this level, and fundamentals
35:05
Speaker 5: is so important. I've got a text message. I don't
35:08
Speaker 5: know that you know the answer to this, but I'll
35:09
Speaker 5: throw it out just in case you've heard anything, we
35:11
Speaker 5: have a listener at seven six zero nine hundred who
35:13
Speaker 5: was wondering if any of the high school pitchers break
35:15
Speaker 5: ninety miles.
35:15
Speaker 11: Per hour on their pitches offhand across the kanav Valley.
35:19
Speaker 11: I don't know. I do know, and this is a
35:22
Speaker 11: little bit unfortunate for the baseball fans here in the
35:24
Speaker 11: greater Charleston area. Slade Barton, who I mentioned is it
35:27
Speaker 11: Morgantown High School, now play three years at GW and
35:30
Speaker 11: is going to WVU next year. Is well into the nineties,
35:34
Speaker 11: and you know, some of it's you know, bullpen session
35:36
Speaker 11: numbers and stuff, But I've heard ninety three ninety four
35:39
Speaker 11: thrown around for him, to the point that they've got
35:41
Speaker 11: some major league scouts that are starting to show up
35:44
Speaker 11: in Morgantown right now. So great player originally from the
35:47
Speaker 11: Kanawa Valley that is still pitching in West Virginia local
35:50
Speaker 11: kids right now. I'd have to get out and see
35:52
Speaker 11: some more games. But those radar guns, I'm sure are
35:54
Speaker 11: going to be sure, they're going to be fired up.
35:56
Speaker 3: As the season goes on.
35:57
Speaker 5: When I briefly thought I was an intermural blayer, I
36:00
Speaker 5: played football in high school. But I thought maybe I
36:02
Speaker 5: love baseball. That's my first sport, and I thought, well,
36:04
Speaker 5: you know, maybe I'll try out. But I never saw
36:06
Speaker 5: actual pitchers before, you know, so the first time that
36:09
Speaker 5: I tried out for Capital, and first of all, it
36:11
Speaker 5: was amazing because fastball is back then seventy maybe is
36:15
Speaker 5: probably what you were looking at for a lot of
36:16
Speaker 5: those So, I mean, just the amount that we've gotten bigger, faster,
36:19
Speaker 5: and stronger is incredible. But also the first time I
36:21
Speaker 5: saw an actual breaking ball, like one that actually broke brush, yeah,
36:25
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, this isn't frocket.
36:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy.
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Speaker 11: And the way that these kids develop now, you know,
36:32
Speaker 11: we're talking about kids twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old that
36:37
Speaker 11: know how to take care of their arm and like
36:39
Speaker 11: know what they're suppos They're not just going out and
36:42
Speaker 11: throwing a bunch of innings in these travel tournaments and stuff.
36:44
Speaker 11: You know, they'll pitch, but they're done, and they know
36:48
Speaker 11: how to stretch, and they know how to ice, and
36:49
Speaker 11: they know what they're supposed to do with that kind
36:51
Speaker 11: of stuff. And that's why you start to see kids
36:53
Speaker 11: that are seventeen years old in West Virginia throwing ninety
36:56
Speaker 11: plus because they've developed over that period of time.
36:58
Speaker 5: It's amazing just in a relative amount of time, how
37:00
Speaker 5: much this stuff changes. Great information, Daniel, I'm looking forward,
37:03
Speaker 5: by the way. What I want to know from you
37:04
Speaker 5: listening out there today. We're thinking about rolling out some games.
37:07
Speaker 5: Like I talked about, we were thinking about doing some
37:08
Speaker 5: coverage of local high school games this year. So we
37:11
Speaker 5: have so many great teams here in the Cannall Valley
37:13
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37:15
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37:17
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37:18
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37:22
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Speaker 5: So maybe seeing some high school baseball being covered here locally,
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Speaker 5: and then hopefully we maybe can get some games up
37:47
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37:49
Speaker 5: to that. And Daniel, thanks a lot for your time, man,
37:51
Speaker 5: Thank you, and.
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Speaker 5: That's awesome stuff. And Joe does such a great job
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Speaker 3: Like to welcome to the phone line now.
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Speaker 5: Is Brad Michael Heaney, a Metro News reporter and uh
42:07
Speaker 5: and uh frequent guest when I fill in for Dave,
42:10
Speaker 5: just because I don't with my afternoon show being you know,
42:14
Speaker 5: sports and pulp culture and things like that, I don't
42:15
Speaker 5: necessarily follow some of the harder news as much as
42:18
Speaker 5: I should, and so Brad's always my got to go
42:20
Speaker 5: to to talk about those things. And Brad, how you
42:22
Speaker 5: doing today?
42:23
Speaker 13: Oh? Hi, John God, and you know you are fortunate
42:27
Speaker 13: to have pop culture and sports is when we're going
42:30
Speaker 13: to wash away the talks.
42:31
Speaker 5: You eight lyon my friend, I am extraordinarily lucky to
42:38
Speaker 5: have the show that is tasked with doing no politics.
42:41
Speaker 5: That makes it much That makes my job sometimes maybe
42:45
Speaker 5: a little bit more fund than yours.
42:48
Speaker 13: Well, we are at some points that I was grateful
42:49
Speaker 13: for data centers.
42:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, you you are all about the data centers, and
42:53
Speaker 5: we had this big discussion last night. I wondered to
42:55
Speaker 5: preface this just a little bit because there's a lot
42:57
Speaker 5: going on with the with the data data centers explain
43:00
Speaker 5: experiencing a flurry of announcements here in West Virginia and
43:03
Speaker 5: other proposals across multiple counties. Google has purchase land in
43:06
Speaker 5: Putnam County for a multi billion dollar project in scale.
43:09
Speaker 5: A global AI infrastructure company announced the Monarch Computer Campus
43:13
Speaker 5: in Mason County. Penzance Management announced a site in Berkeley County. QTS,
43:17
Speaker 5: who participated in last night's town hall, is developing a
43:21
Speaker 5: three hundred acre campus spanning Jefferson in Berkeley Counties, and
43:24
Speaker 5: the controversial Ridgeline facility proposed by Fundamental Data LLC in
43:28
Speaker 5: Tucker County between Thomas and Davis would pair large scale
43:31
Speaker 5: data center and on site natural gas power plant. There
43:34
Speaker 5: was a lot of topics being tackled last night.
43:37
Speaker 13: Oh man, you know, and to a lot of what's presents,
43:41
Speaker 13: this may be sort of a new concept, you know,
43:45
Speaker 13: like all right, I've heard of these, but what is
43:47
Speaker 13: this that we're getting and how will they affect me
43:50
Speaker 13: in my community? Because I mean you just rattled off
43:53
Speaker 13: communities all over the state around out with you know,
43:58
Speaker 13: the life development of these big essentially server warehouses, and
44:03
Speaker 13: they can be each each one, depending on the developer,
44:09
Speaker 13: can be can be quite different from another. So this
44:12
Speaker 13: was I thought it was. It was the Stubblefield Institute,
44:15
Speaker 13: we at Metronews, broadcasted on a variety of platforms, but
44:20
Speaker 13: I thought it was a really great and helpful entry point.
44:26
Speaker 13: And you know, the theme that I got out of
44:28
Speaker 13: it was the States. Last year, the legislature and the
44:32
Speaker 13: governor put forward a girl. It was Housekill twenty fourth plenter,
44:39
Speaker 13: the Power Generation and Consumption Act, and it did a
44:41
Speaker 13: lot of things. Among the frans was it would allow
44:47
Speaker 13: projects that are approved by the state to move forward
44:50
Speaker 13: with their own power generation. They're an on site power
44:54
Speaker 13: but a couple other fans have divvied up the tax base,
44:58
Speaker 13: with the state taking a pretty big cut and then
45:01
Speaker 13: made it so that the local communities really have almost
45:04
Speaker 13: no regulatory control of their own can't really round uh
45:10
Speaker 13: these these projects, can't have their own sort of water
45:14
Speaker 13: and sounds standards, can't necessarily uh you know, mandate that
45:22
Speaker 13: those projects have noise buffers. And that's the thing that
45:25
Speaker 13: I saw running through this was in particular, one of
45:29
Speaker 13: the Jefferson County commissioners where there are one or more
45:33
Speaker 13: big projects is Commissioner kerre A Keys, a Republican how
45:37
Speaker 13: in her private life deals with real estate and property.
45:42
Speaker 13: She was really eloquent on the fact that she she
45:44
Speaker 13: just thinks that this state vain is the mark on
45:48
Speaker 13: not allowing the community to cross Western hand to hold
45:52
Speaker 13: their in their own hands.
45:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought what she said was really, uh really
45:56
Speaker 5: kind of summarized her feelings and the feelings of a
45:58
Speaker 5: lot of people in the night. At one point, Commissioner
46:01
Speaker 5: Keys from Jefferson soundly and said two things can be true.
46:04
Speaker 5: You can support data centers and you can be against
46:06
Speaker 5: the guardrails lacking in HB twenty fourteen. So and I
46:11
Speaker 5: was kind of surprised and reading through the transcript and
46:13
Speaker 5: the portions that I watched, you know, I've seen things
46:17
Speaker 5: from other places in the country where these things get
46:20
Speaker 5: really spirited with the folks that are against the data centers.
46:23
Speaker 5: And it's not that there wasn't that view represented last night,
46:26
Speaker 5: but I thought all of the reasoning behind it was
46:29
Speaker 5: actually well, I mean very reasonable, to be honest with you,
46:32
Speaker 5: I mean with some of the concerns that were being
46:34
Speaker 5: brought up.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, I'm if and are let's say, of
46:41
Speaker 13: citizen Mercer County or Jefferson, and you have heard that
46:44
Speaker 13: some project is coming your way and it's going into
46:48
Speaker 13: what used to be a pastoral orchard in a past
46:51
Speaker 13: and you, Carl, who is this corporate entity? And what
46:54
Speaker 13: actually will it do to my to my heir and
46:57
Speaker 13: my growl or my noise traffic all of that? Uh,
47:01
Speaker 13: you know it used to be a conservative theory, but
47:06
Speaker 13: that the government closest to you knows you the best,
47:11
Speaker 13: and you know you could call the county commissioner an
47:14
Speaker 13: express your concerns or are talked through it and they
47:18
Speaker 13: would be available to you. But the route, the stage
47:21
Speaker 13: has chosen. It's sort of this, uh, you know, state
47:24
Speaker 13: one five fits all approach. Now, I will say that
47:28
Speaker 13: that the state had a representative also. It was it
47:31
Speaker 13: was Chris Morris, who is the Data Economy Office director,
47:36
Speaker 13: and he was quite eloquent himself, had an air of responsibility. Uh,
47:42
Speaker 13: certainly listened and his he was not in this position
47:47
Speaker 13: when the state established the law that we've been talking about.
47:51
Speaker 13: But uh, you know, he did say that that the
47:54
Speaker 13: state wants a responsible approach, that not all applicants will
47:59
Speaker 13: get a moved by the state to have this, to
48:04
Speaker 13: have their own power structure and that kind of thing,
48:06
Speaker 13: and that you know, he thinks that if the state
48:10
Speaker 13: wants to make an emphasis of these projects that there
48:13
Speaker 13: have an enormous tax base, there needs to be a
48:17
Speaker 13: yearified state approach rather than you know, the opposite side
48:22
Speaker 13: of the point for what I've been talking about with
48:24
Speaker 13: the local control is sort of peace style. So anyway,
48:30
Speaker 13: Chris Morris, the data centers are, if you will, for
48:33
Speaker 13: the state making an equally compelling cause to say we
48:38
Speaker 13: want a west person approach to deal with these companies
48:42
Speaker 13: for an area that is has a lot of potential
48:46
Speaker 13: to grow up the tax base in West Virginia.
48:48
Speaker 5: So one quote from Morris that I made note of
48:50
Speaker 5: in looking over it is he said, at one point
48:52
Speaker 5: I would rather have seven projects statewide that are successful
48:55
Speaker 5: than approve one hundred and ninety five and fail ninety
48:57
Speaker 5: five percent of the time, which I see where he's
49:00
Speaker 5: coming from there. And I understand both of these arguments.
49:02
Speaker 5: And doing a little research and looking at other states
49:05
Speaker 5: with data centers and that are onboarding data centers, this
49:08
Speaker 5: does seem unique and maybe even novel. I can't find
49:12
Speaker 5: any other project that has this type of background where
49:17
Speaker 5: basically the state controls the entire thing. I'm not an
49:19
Speaker 5: expert in this, so I might be missing something, but
49:21
Speaker 5: I can't find anything that is that's like this.
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Speaker 13: No you know, and kind of communities where the states
49:30
Speaker 13: really in Vergons have had general complaints about, well, they're
49:34
Speaker 13: right up against my neighborhood. I bought my house years ago,
49:37
Speaker 13: and this is effecting now the value of my home
49:41
Speaker 13: since Linopol light there's noise, and so I mean, I
49:47
Speaker 13: think it's a word of the discussion in West Virginia
49:49
Speaker 13: about whether local communities should have more say so about
49:53
Speaker 13: their own standards. And you know, one of the gun examples,
49:56
Speaker 13: there is a project set for the terrain value area.
50:01
Speaker 13: My understanding is that project has not a fast floor
50:04
Speaker 13: or been under the umbrella of House Built twenty fourteen
50:10
Speaker 13: that it's just exploring the idea of developing in Tucker County.
50:16
Speaker 13: But well, that is a place. On the one hand,
50:19
Speaker 13: it's a very rural area, so constainable projects could be
50:24
Speaker 13: kind of out and away from people. But it's also
50:27
Speaker 13: a really Russic and beautiful area just prized by citizens
50:31
Speaker 13: who want to get away from it all or Western
50:34
Speaker 13: Hans who want to see the state's natural beauty, who
50:39
Speaker 13: want to go skiing or hiking or whatever. And it's
50:42
Speaker 13: easy to see how it's the possibility that a large
50:48
Speaker 13: data center with its own power plant when not mingle
50:52
Speaker 13: well with the attributes I just described.
50:54
Speaker 5: It's an interesting discussion, and like Brad said, at very least,
50:57
Speaker 5: it's a discussion that should be had. There shouldn't anything
51:01
Speaker 5: kind of done under the covers here. We should This
51:04
Speaker 5: should be a public discussion and everything made in full
51:07
Speaker 5: sunlight as far as these decisions and discussion goes. That's
51:10
Speaker 5: about going to wrap up the time that we have
51:12
Speaker 5: for this this morning. I know this is an ongoing
51:13
Speaker 5: story and you'll be following it as always. Brad at
51:16
Speaker 5: WV metro News dot com. I appreciate you taking some
51:18
Speaker 5: time out this morning and sharing some of your thoughts
51:20
Speaker 5: with last night's.
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Speaker 3: With last night's event, you.
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Speaker 13: Know, if we're kick your interest in out there. The
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Speaker 13: full video as well as a Spotify link are in
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Speaker 13: the story that I've posted What's your Hearing atternews dot com.
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Speaker 5: I'll make sure that I get that out there so
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Speaker 5: folks who follow along with it. Brad, I appreciate your
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Speaker 5: time this morning. Thanks a bunch.
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Speaker 3: Hey, thanks, appreciate that.
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Speaker 5: That's Brad Malcaney, the Metro News state reporter and covering
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Speaker 5: all of the important stories that you found at wv
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Speaker 5: metronews dot com, wrapping up this show here but coming
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Speaker 5: into the studio, wondering into the studio getting ready for
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Speaker 5: his ten oh six hit on talk line is TJ
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Speaker 5: Metos How you doing today?
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Speaker 3: TJ? Let me turn on your mike. How you doing today?
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Speaker 13: TJ?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, What's what's on the agenda today?
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Speaker 17: Jeff Jenkins STUBSVIIB. We'll talk about what bills the governor
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Speaker 17: has signed, what bills he didn't. That time has expired.
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Speaker 17: I'm really excited. Eleven oh six Chris Simbrowski, he's an astronaut.
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Speaker 17: We're going back to the moon, or at least prepping
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Speaker 17: to go back to the moon. I'm so excited. Hope
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Speaker 17: the weather holds out today we'll get into that much more. Yeah,
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Speaker 17: I'm a space guy. I love that as well. By
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Speaker 17: the way, he got a text for you yesterday, TJ.
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Speaker 17: Did you know TJ is such a capitalist that he
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Speaker 17: won't let his kids play left wing in soccer.
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Speaker 3: Not bad, bad, I know.
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Speaker 5: Thanks for tuning in today, everyone, Thanks DJ for stopping in,
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Speaker 5: and thanks for everyone we had on the program. Coming
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Speaker 5: on next is gonna be local news and then talk
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Speaker 5: line at ten o six. I'll be back this afternoon
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