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07/25/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Spencer Adkins, Rich Kline · The Dave Allen Show

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are good friend Spencer Adkins from Storm Track of thirteen is going to stop by.
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Not to talk weather, although we probably will mention the weather a little
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bit. I'm kind of a weather geek that way. But there's a big
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event happening at Marshall University as it pertains to bands coming up in the month
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of Augus. Spencer's going to join us to talk about that. But before
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all of that, I want to welcome to the show, Senator shelleymore Capito.
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Good morning, Senator, how are you? Good morning? I'm great,
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Thank thank you, I'm doing fine. Thank you for being here.
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We got lots to get to this morning, Senator. But what everyone really
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wants to know is how is your pickleball game? Because you were spotted getting
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your pickleball on this past weekend in Nitro. I did. I went down
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there and Mayor case Ball was down there and a lot of folks from nine
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one one as a fundraiser for Metro nine one one. Pickleball is the fastest
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growing sport and Nitro. The City of Nitro has built a beautiful facility there
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and they had I think two hundred and sixty one competitors and it's it was
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really fun. I like to play. I don't get a lot of chance
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to do it, but congrats to the City of Nitro. Beautiful, beautiful
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facility, lighted and everything it is. It's a great sports complex. Yesterday
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actually had Joe Stevens on from the city talking about that. He subbed for
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Mayor Casebolt guest day. Maybe he's still recovering, I don't know from the
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pickleball tournament. Let's let's talk about broadband this morning. Senator, you and
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I talked the last time you were here, and it's become a it's what's
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not a luxury anymore like it used to be. It is a necessity now
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for not only a business but also education. We saw that specifically during the
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pandemic when there were kids that were just shut out, that couldn't do remote
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learning because they didn't have a reliable Internet at their particular place where they lived.
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There was an event recently a senator in Charleston with the head of this
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group, the National Communications and Information Administration, talk about that event. Well,
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this is the We had Assistant Secretary Davidson in and he's the guy that's
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going to put all this together. We had that announcement of one point two
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billion dollars because of the infrastructure package to West Virginia. There have been statements
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made that this will connect every West Virginia and we believe that it will so
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with the good work of the Broadband Council and Kelly Workman and her group.
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We need to make sure because this money is targeted towards the unserved and underserved,
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So we're not going to go around and use that money to up people's
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speeds or other things like that. It's going to be to the folks who
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do not have service. And that's why this mapping issue that you've heard about
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is so critical because we have to make sure that we have every location mapped
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which we do, and we can show that we have over two hundred and
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seventy one thousand locations still in the state that have inadequate service, and that's
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where these dollars are going to go. I'm so excited about this, and
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I want to kind of I don't want to play Devil's advocate. I just
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want to kind of present the other side here just for a moment, because
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Senator, as you well know, we've heard lots of these announcements in the
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past about we're going to get on this, and certainly it does seem like
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that we're head in that direction now again. One point two billion dollars is
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coming to connect pretty much every West Virginia. How confident are you? And
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if people are listening today, they're saying, yeah, I've heard all this
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before. How do you quiet the naysayers on that? You know, I
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don't blame people for feeling like that, and I have that sort of anxiety
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myself because we have gone down this path. In twenty ten, we were
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given a huge slug of dollars and it was misused for routers and things.
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So what West Virginia, the state under the leadership of Governor Justice and others
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has put together a council that it really knows the technologies, that knows the
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equities of whether somebody has it and somebody doesn't. And so there are also
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written into the bill accountability measures to make sure this money goes where it's supposed
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to go. And so I think there's a lot more guarantees here that we
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will see this be successful, learning from past mistakes, but also recognizing the
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technology has gotten a heck of a lot better over the last twelve and thirteen
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years. So I think that while skepticism is good because I think that brings
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about accountability, I think that certainly from my perspective and what I was able
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to get into this bill, we've got a lot of measures in there to
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make sure that we're doing it the right way, and that mapping is a
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big part of it. Center, as you well know, and I know
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your counterpart Center Mansion even had mentioned that in years past that you know,
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you go it to a hollow somewhere in southern West Virginia wherever it is,
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and you say, okay, well, this house has Internet at the beginning
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of the hollow. Ten miles up the hollow, they may not have it.
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So the hollow served and uh, and that's that's not that's not what
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we need. Let's switch gears from them again. We're talking to Sheldy Moore
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Capitals. Sender, Sheldy Moore Capital. Let's talk about this National Defense Authorization
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Act. Now, you've been working on this, and this is something that
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if I read this right, correcting me if I'm wrong, that's been passed
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for something like sixty some odd straight years. But but Chuck Schumer, in
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your words, never really has never really made this a priority at least as
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of late. Uh, what exactly is this senator? And why didn't he
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make it a priority and where are we now on him? Right now?
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This is the bill that basics basically sets all the parameters and the priorities for
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our nation's defense. So it doesn't do the money spending. It just sets
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the programs, and it talks about you know, uh care and uh family
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life for our for our military, and also sets you know, where we're
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going to be, what kind of bases, all these kinds of things,
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munitions, fortifications, in terms of defense, all of these things are in
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here. And that is a huge priority for me and and for some reason
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not as much for Chuck Schumer because he always drags his heels on bringing this
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up. We've done this every year for the last I think at least sixty
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years, and so we're in the middle of it right now. Hopefully we
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will finish it this week. You'll there'll be some votes as we move forward,
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and then we'll have to work out a compromise with the House. We'll
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talk with Sender Shelling more capital. There's a nuclear component to this act,
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is that right? Yeah? There really there is, and this is this
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is my part of this. I believe that our country needs to be the
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leader in nuclear technology for our national defense but also our security. And so
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we know West Virginia is starting to really look and be looked at as possible
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site for small nuclear, small modular nuclear, more advanced nuclear technologies, and
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so in this bill, I've really incentivized that in terms of making sure that
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our country gets the is the global leader here and we're not other countries are
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not relying on the technologies from China or Russia. We're want to encourage investments.
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We want to make sure that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is the
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overseeing body which does the licensings, is ready and can face the expansion of
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nuclear. We also put in there that you should be looking at former sites
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of power generation and old power and old coal fired power plant and old maybe
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natural gas plant to cite our nuclear which is what the state of West Virginia
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has been looking at as well. So I wanted to make sure that we
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were able to get those industrial sites in there, because I think that's very
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important and I think this is something the nation needs to leadership on. And
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I'm proud to have been a part of this. And it's called the Advanced
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Act, and it is in this bill. Before we let you go some
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and I want to talk about the Mountain Valley pipeline you addressed. I understand
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the US Supreme Court on the specifically and directly. Is that right, and
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your support for this yes. I joined with the Congresswoman Miller and Congressman Mooney
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and others from Pennsylvania to put what's forward a brief to the Supreme Court to
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say, look, Congress spoke here very directly, very specifically, this Mountain
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Valley Pipeline should be completed. It can't be litigated again and again and again,
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as it's obviously being attended to. Now the President signed this bill.
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The President has also come in in support of completing the Mountain Valley pipeline.
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And I think what we have here are activist judges on the Fourth Circuit that
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don't want this pipeline, and they keep pushing it back, and I think
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the Supreme Court is going to act here. And I wanted to make sure
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my voice was heard in terms of completing this. We did this in the
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debt limit bill. It's done, it's over. It's time to get those
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four thousand people hired and complete that pipeline. Sinder Shelley Moore Capito, it's
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always a pleasure to have you on the show. Keep working on that pickleball
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game too. I understand the tracks are pretty good at it. If you
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can get a little bit more practice time in so I'll do it. All
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right, we'll talk soon. Thanks a lot, of Senator. I appreciate
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you, Thank you a lot. All right, thank you. It's Senator
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hopefully the rubber as they say, we'll meet the road and we'll get it.
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Teet off of whatever cliches I can come up with and get this thing
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going. Man who never needs cliches is meteorologist Spencer ad from a storm track
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of thirteen. How are you my friend? Hey, good morning? How
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are you. I am doing fine? You're not here to talk weather,
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but for that matter, nor was your partner Brian Hughes when I had him
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on last week, but we managed to get it at Gonna be hot a
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few days though this week, Spencer, Yeah, absolutely. I mean we're
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up in the upper eighties today, we're going to get into the nineties,
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and we couldn't reach somewhere around ninety eight by about Thursday and the Friday,
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So you know, that starts getting pretty serious. Let's make sure that we,
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you know, do take it seriously. And whether we're talking about excuse
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me, you know, like football practice or band, which we'll get into
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in a second, or just you know, living our daily lives. Ninety
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eight is not comfortable for us around here, so we do want people to
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kind of take it easy, take your breaks and check on your neighbors.
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Yeah. Absolutely, And when we start talking about that heat, indicase and
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I love saying indicase. I don't know why. It just it was flows
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as opposed to index. When you say end disease makes it may makes you
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sound a lot smarter than what you are. But actually, and I'll say
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this and we'll move on to the band thing. Uh. I actually heard
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a story on our morning news this morning out of I think it was maybe
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Phoenix. It was somewhere in Arizona. We're burn centers because it's so hot
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there. Burn centers are scenes an uptick in the number of cases that they
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see because of contact with things. Falls on sidewalks now are are having to
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be treated by burn centers now out there. Now. Thankfully we're not gonna
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have anything like this here. But as Spitzer said, on a serious note,
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if you are going to be working outside, you're doing any working out
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things of that nature, just know that by Thursday we are going to be
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near a hundred degrees. It's going to feel a lot warmer than that.
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So plan accordingly. All right, Um, you know one other thing about
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the weather. We had some big time storms that roll through the Huntington area.
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Is watching your newscast last night? Yeah, where I live in Tay's
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Valley, we didn't get a single drop of rain, but that but that
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summertime, right, Yeah, ten minutes, I mean it was probably about
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thirty minute downpour. Here inch and a half flooded, you know, and
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you can go out and get those pictures. Thirty minutes later it's gone and
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it's like, wow, did that even happen? Yeah, I've knocked down
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some trees and so yeah, you're into the big downpours, the big up
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drafts go up in this heat and then then when the rain comes down,
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it drags a wind with it to the ground and can be a little mess.
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But here and not the other side of the street. It's kind of
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weird. Yeah, I got to talk about the reason you're here. As
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I said, I'm a wetter gig man. I can talk weather all day.
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But but but I don't want to call you a band geek. But
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you do have you band geeks own that title, bangie. You do have
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an interest in this sort of thing. And there's a big event coming to
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Marshall University. Talk about it. Yeah, So a lot of people remember
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drums across the tri State. It used to be in Huntington, then it
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came to Charleston. It was it lately for a long time. Now it's
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come back to Marshall University and it's called DCI Huntington and Drum Corps International.
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So if you've ever wondered kind of well where the show go, let's move
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back to Huntington in the Marshall University Stadium right there at the jone. And
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if you've never heard of drum cor International. Actually a friend of mine.
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It just described it to him. I said, imagine professional marching band.
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It's kind of across a Broadway gymnastics marathon, racing with instruments, rifles and
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swords. I mean, it's just another Saturday night in my producer Ryan Nicholson's
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house. So there you got. That's exactly, that's right, that's right.
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But we have units coming, and we have We were only going to
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have five and then something happened and they said, well, we like Connington,
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so we need three more. So we have eight units coming. Shows
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generally run about fifteen minutes, and it's I forget how many decibels we get
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out of you know, it's about one hundred and fifty young people between the
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ages of about sixteen. I think the oldest are twenty two age out of
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twenty one twenty two, and these are you know, college musicians, high
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school musicians, and performers. And it's just extravagant. But it leaves you.
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If you're someone who gets chills or you know, chill bumps or goosebumps
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as we call it, I mean, you will just overdo sun goosebumps and
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you will just love everything you see. And it's just it's kind of like
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the Circus of Marching Man only is so professional. These are young people.
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That's the marvels. Just marvels me. But it starts at Monday at seven
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thirty over at the Jone and it's gonna finish up by about ten thirty,
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so we have a big, full night. You know, the tickets are
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at DCI dot org if you want to check it out DCI Huntington. We're
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gonna have a blast. So it's gonna be great. I hope people will
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come out and watch it. And you know, one of the things I
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remember you mentioned something almost from my childhood there when you said the drums across
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the Tri State event that used to be a big part of things going on
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here. I can remember as a kid when I would see the commercials on
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television for drums across the Tri State. I always knew it's almost back to
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school time. That was almost like the kicker that your summer was halfway there
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and you were looking at the beginning to school is when you would see those
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commercials that came on television. But I mean, we've really got in West
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Virginia at Spencer, we don't really talk about it. Probably enough. We
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got a vibrant music scene of all kinds here, but we've really got a
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vibrant I am seen here in West Virginia talk about that. Yeah, we
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really do. I mean, we have so many high schools and I'm pretty
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deeply involved in that too. And there's a show every Saturday from every high
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school and it's actually Miss Fisher from Hoover High yesterday sent me a picture one
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of her students had tracked on their first day of band. Kept his track
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around on his phone where he walked, and he walked about three and a
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half miles. It wasn't walking, of course, they were positioning and learning.
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This is just day one, three and a half miles over five hours
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around the field. Then it just looked like big scribbles. It was hilarious.
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I absolutely loved it. So every Saturday. You know, there are
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hundreds, if not thousands of kids who are involved in this activity. You
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know, we got into the argument years ago it's a spark. Now it's
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not because look there's a final score, it's a contest. We didn't even
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argue it anymore. We took our thing. We said, fine, we'll
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call it z activity. Okay, it's not an activity, it's the activity.
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So come out and see the activity. Check this out. This lineup.
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We got people from Washington, from New Hampshire, California, another group
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from washing Texas. Of course the Madison Scouts. A lot of people remember
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them, very historic unit. Spirit of Atlanta. You if you talked about
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drums across tri State, Huntington always had this kind of love for Spirit of
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Atlanta. They're back. And then of course my favorite group of all time,
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the name Fandom Regiment. You gotta love that. I'll come out and
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see them. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be Monday. It's gonna be
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a great time. Spencer. What is your involvement in this? I mean
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as far as going back because I said you're a band guy. Was this
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something that you did a lot when you were in school? Well, so
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I never got to march in the units because before the Internet, we thought
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like, okay, if I go join the Cavaliers in Rosemunt, Illinois,
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I have to live there. We didn't know, well, you don't actually
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these So we have kids from here in our area who are like in the
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Madison Scouts. I know of two of them, and I'm gonna try and
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interview them when they come in, so that's how that works. But I've
22:45
just always been a fan and then it just stuck around the scene my whole
22:48
life, and I so I started tweeting and around whatever twenty fourteen, which
22:52
we don't call that now, we call it xing apparently, yeah, yeah,
22:56
apparently my story. But I started tweeting forecasting. One day one of
23:00
them called me up from from Drum Corternational. They were like, who are
23:03
you. I said, well, I'm a meteorologist and I'd just like to
23:04
put out forecasts for the fans. And it's actually turned into a job.
23:08
So I'm actually now working for them along with two other meteorologists, and we
23:12
keep track of the weather for them and we provide forecasts for them. Because
23:15
it is an outdoor activity. I actually will not be doing. I'll be
23:18
announcing for this show and then somebody else will handle the weather because they said,
23:23
we can't trust you because you know you want the show. You want
23:26
it to go on no matter what. So there's lightning, we know you're
23:29
gonna be like, it's just it's just in a couple of sprinkles. In
23:33
the meantime, the tuba player just got knocked out right if we don't want
23:37
that, have we done? And I know you guys and weather always say,
23:40
you know that it's kind of hard to predict the weather that far in
23:41
advance, But have you done a deep dive yet on what the weather's gonna
23:45
look like next Monday in Auntington? Yeah, a little bit, I mean,
23:48
and it's just your classic passing shower storm. And so we build that
23:52
into the schedule. Uh, Like in Texas Week, we built a lot
23:55
of things into the schedule for the heat. We just are our groups are
23:57
coming out of Texas. You know it was one hundred degrees and you'll be
24:00
surprised. We have rigorous standards of temperatures on the surface which can get to
24:04
one hundred and sixty, but we know exactly when that's going to break.
24:07
So we pushed all our shows back to eight twenty and right on the dot.
24:11
All of our signals that we do, we do the surface temperature,
24:14
we do the humidity, the heat what we call wet bulb globe, not
24:17
wet ball, but wet bulb globe, which is more of an eat stress
24:19
indicator used by the military and OSHA, and all of our things would kind
24:23
of break in our favor, we could run the kids out there and let
24:26
them put the show on for the fans. So, you know, we
24:29
track a lot of variables, not just whether it's a rain. Now,
24:33
there are hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment too that these units bring.
24:37
It's a soundscape on top of this band that you'll hear, and electronics
24:41
still play well with rain. So yeah, we keep really good track of
24:47
all that stuff. So it's a it's a completely different scene. If you
24:49
haven't seen it, or if you do remember drums across the tri State,
24:52
it's the same, only much more modern. To come see it, you
24:56
know, And I can remember. I'm sitting actually in the neighborhood where the
25:00
old Fairfield used to be in Huntington right now doing some errands and you'll member
25:03
Fairfield and now it's a medical complex and yeah, where's my football stadium?
25:08
When I was a kid, nothing like Fairfield. You know, they actually
25:11
built the new stadium Spencer when I was at Marshall, but my first year
25:15
there it was all Fairfield Stadium. There was another nothing quite like Fairfield.
25:18
But let me just say, as much as we have all have great members
25:22
of Fairfield Stadium. The jone is good too, It's very good. How
25:26
did a text here for you, Spencer that said, for anyone, for
25:29
the Texas, for anyone who's never seen a DCI show, you are missing
25:32
out. Several years ago, the Bluecoats did an amazing field show. Yeah,
25:37
absolutely so. And what my hope is And let me tell you some
25:41
I twisted some arms to make sure that we could get this thing built back
25:45
up and alter the generosity of our CEO, Dan Atchison. He finally he
25:49
just said, wait a minute, why are we not in Huntington at the
25:52
Big Stadium? And it said okay, and you know, nothing gets lately,
25:56
but I always hated the jake break of the trucks coming through when you
25:59
know some of the music and okay, So anyhow, we're over here,
26:03
and I could say that the units loved this stadium. They told me they
26:07
were like, this is one of the greatest places for us to perform.
26:10
The people feel like they're right up on us here and they can hear and
26:12
the sight lines are beautiful. So oh man, I get a little fired
26:17
up about it. As you can tell. I want I want people to
26:21
come and experiences because you will get the goosebumps, and it's music that you
26:23
can feel, you know, sometimes a hundred plus decibels and that's just kids
26:29
blowing horns. Think about that and doing it very well. Most of these
26:32
are music majors. You're gonna hear good stuff. Yeah. One quick text
26:36
here for you says two of my high school band directors were members of the
26:40
now dissolved Garfield Cadets, and DCI text well, so there's still the Cadets,
26:45
but they moved to Erie and it was one of the smartest things that
26:48
they ever did because they have an indoor dome where they could practice there.
26:51
Yeah. So but we have again, you know names like when you say
26:55
Madison Scouts, people remember that unit. They were here back in the day
26:57
of Fairfields. So there's built a unit together and it's the same tradition.
27:03
So yeah, yeah. It starts to seven thirty Monday at the jone.
27:06
You can get your tickets at DCI dot org. Man. I appreciate you
27:08
letting me come out absolutely and talk drum corps. It's it's my favorite thing
27:12
and the capitalist pig in me. Spencer says, I love when people come
27:17
to the region and they stay in hotels and they go to restaurants. That's
27:21
what I like about it, I tell you what. And through Twitter and
27:25
whatever, I have Twitter friends whore and they're like, yeah, we're coming
27:26
from Lexington. Sure, we're coming from Cincinnati. Because people tour to watch
27:30
this. It's that kind of a cool thing, so please do come and
27:34
enjoy the town. Yeah, Spencer, give us all the details again.
27:37
Time place ven thirty seven thirty Monday. This coming Monday at the Jone in
27:42
Huntington. We're gonna run seven thirties, ten thirty big full show, eight
27:45
units and tickets are at DCI DCI dot org and that's where you can find
27:52
tickets for DCI Huntington. All right, Spencer, is always a pleasure to
27:55
talk to you, and the best of luck with everything. We'll talk against
27:57
man. Thanks a lot, Thank Aprika. We'll see you Spencer Adkins again
28:02
from Storm track of thirteen. Spencer is gonna be okay, Ryan, if
28:04
he can just get a little bit more excitement about the event, If he
28:07
could just get a little bit more excited, I think he'd be all right.
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good friend, Rich client. It makes realty. Good morning, how are
31:18
you, sir? Good morning Dave. How are you. I'm doing fine.
31:21
It's always a pleasure to have you on the show. Talk a little
31:22
real estate and talk a little bit whatever. Rich and Dave talk about maybe
31:26
the Pittsburgh Penguins today. Yeah, you know, turning into a fan.
31:29
You know, I've talked about this on I was never a hockey fan.
31:32
We didn't have a It just wasn't really a thing growing up for me.
31:34
But I've become a hockey fan of the last couple of years, watching the
31:37
Penguins. You know, they're available locally on AT and T Sports. That
31:40
you're a Pittsburgh guy, you know, originally I think you're originally from Hurricane,
31:42
but you spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh. And I was in
31:45
Pittsburgh this past weekend and I sent you a text and I said, I'm
31:48
official. I now have a Pittsburgh Penguin's hat. That's right. I had
31:52
to go buy a Penguin's hat. So now I'm official. Did you download
31:55
the app that I say I did not? That makes you official? Okay,
31:57
I gotta down load the Penguins up and they will go to the game
32:01
if I want to go to a game I've never I may or may not.
32:05
Back when the back when I was in college, the Huntington Blizzard from
32:07
the East Coast Hockey League was a thing in Huntington, and I may or
32:12
may not have gone doing it. It's college, I don't I don't really
32:14
remember. Yeah, so a long time ago, Yeah, a long time
32:16
ago one not as long as it was for you. But anyway, that's
32:19
beside the point. I believe it. Not. Rich and I are friends
32:22
outside this and we h we a group of guys. Now, he's a
32:24
kid, rich about his age, but he's not. He's not really that
32:28
old. He's not really that all right, So I want to stop.
32:30
Let's start with this, rich Um, I want to talk about what I
32:32
heard somebody the other day call referred to specifically the valley. Maybe he Tay's
32:37
alley, but the entire valley general. Somebody called it a housing crisis on
32:43
the news. Could be some strong words, but it is true. We
32:45
don't we don't have enough houses out there for people. Yeah, I don't
32:50
really know how people would maybe, uh define crisis. We've been in a
32:54
very similar scenario now for more than two years. So it's I mean,
33:00
it's just an inventory problem. So we're I've said this before on airs,
33:04
we're underbuilt in the valley. There aren't enough homes to go around. So
33:07
when the when the rates dropped in twenty twenty, and people, just the
33:10
buyers, you know, who are successful in buying, they just bought up
33:14
all the inventory. And you know, there's not enough building going on,
33:16
so there's not enough incentives to do that. The cost of building went up
33:20
so high that the builders just weren't keeping up with demand. But but I
33:23
mean, there is a certain and you can correct me if I'm wrong,
33:27
there's a certain school of thought here that there are people, I know a
33:30
lot of people don't want to hear this, but there are people moving to
33:31
West Virginia and specifically in areas like Tay's Valley, and that's a part of
33:36
it as well, Right, it is it's the demand or the houses,
33:39
but there aren't enough new ones and there's probably so many builds, so that's
33:43
where you're running into this problem. So but I don't know that I would
33:45
say crisis. We certainly we've actually gained a little bit of our inventory since
33:49
my last time here. I checked again this morning, Like I think our
33:52
last time here, we were in the upper fours in the terms of the
33:54
total number of listings available on the Coomballible or WILTS, which is about eleven
34:00
counties. There were like four hundred and seventy five total active listings um.
34:05
This morning they are like five hundred and thirty, so it's gained a little
34:08
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the word crisis. Okay, all right,
34:10
Well that's all the semantics I guess of it, so to speak. But
34:14
but but to me, though again I refer to myself as a capitalist pig
34:17
during the last segment. One of the good things about it is it does
34:21
show though, and I know there's a lot of factors that have gotten to
34:23
this, as you said, you know, the pandemic and the and the
34:27
the lack of um. Sometimes people just builders just can't get stuff, you
34:30
know it supply chain issues and things of that nature. But it's a good
34:34
problem to have to a certain extent because it does mean that people are are
34:38
being mobile and people are coming here that and that they need houses. Yeah,
34:44
and we have the land still to be developed, so you know,
34:46
so you landowners, rich client says, get out there and build some houses
34:50
so we can put these people, build some developments. But because we are
34:52
going to have more people come in coming into this area, I mean,
34:57
you know with New Core, we've already seen it in taste. I mean,
35:00
I've already seen townhouses going up. I was saying, I'm driving the
35:02
other day in the Windfield area and I look like I said, oh,
35:06
there's some townhouses going up. I mean, and all this is a direct
35:08
result not only of newcre We talk about that because it's the biggest, but
35:13
you've got the things going on in South Charleston, You've got the things you
35:15
know going on in very seriously, that's all a result of this growth that
35:19
we have in West Virginia. Night. Yeah, that's absolutely true. And
35:21
Putnam County attracts a lot of that. But it isn't just specific to Putnam,
35:25
No, it's not. And a lot of times people will choose to
35:29
live in Putnam County that may work in Charleston or maybe work in you know,
35:32
as mentioned New Chord in Mason County or whatever they choose putnham Can and
35:36
some people. You know, it's the exact opposite. Rich client is with
35:38
us from a MEEKSA realtors. How is the market right now for real estate
35:43
investors? You know, it is pretty strong and we have we probably get
35:46
at our realty group and we probably get four or five inquiries a week between
35:52
Thor and I that we get those looking for homes to build or homes you
35:57
know, just investments to make and a lot of people or looking in the
36:00
Huntington area for the student housing. I had another developer yesterday or not a
36:04
developer, but investor yesterday who's going to release five or six of his properties.
36:07
Are looking to turn some cash so that they can invest in other things.
36:10
So that stuff is still active. You've got to you know, it's
36:14
a seller's market, so the sellers still dictating what the terms are. Where
36:17
investors are more frugal, they're really looking for the deals. So we want
36:22
to talk about commercial buyers for a moment, and those maybe that are a
36:27
business that's looking for space right now, how's it looking for commercial units center?
36:32
So that's a little tighter, and that's a little slower movement. So
36:36
there are certainly things that are available out there, a lot of leasing that
36:39
goes on, so you know Thor would speak more directly about that is what's
36:44
available through. Yes, certainly from the Meek's rental properties where we have available
36:49
properties to lease. But the buying has slowed for sure. Yeah, I'm
36:53
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37:17
and feel free to give me a very generic answer if you want, But
37:21
how are the rates looking right now? Rich? For those buying and and
37:28
and I understand that's variable, depends on what your situation is, But overall,
37:31
how are the rates looking right now? Yeah? So, if you're
37:32
a if you've got a good credit score. Currently best available rate on thirty
37:37
year fixed is six point six, so it has come down a little bit
37:40
um. I think the last I missed last month, I was vacationing,
37:44
So the last time I was here's a couple of months ago. But the
37:45
six six is a little better than what we were before. I do know
37:49
that the FEDS, those people that meet and decide these things, are meeting
37:53
actually tomorrow, and they're the lenders that I know. They really don't know
37:59
which way it's going to. Ago could go up a little bit, they
38:00
could bring them back a little bit more certainly, you know, bringing them
38:02
back. It's all about inflation, of course, as you guys know.
38:06
But we'll see what happens tomorrow. But currently six point six. But there
38:09
I will tell you that there are lenders out there for people. You know,
38:14
we have we have a lot of people in our area that maybe need
38:15
some help with the repairing their credit. There are loans available for them.
38:20
You know that you don't have to have a good credit score to get into
38:22
a mortgage, So i'd tell you to call a mortgage broker, and there
38:25
are several you can call. You can call me directly and I'll give you
38:29
a handful of numbers to call people that will help you with your credit repair
38:31
and then and then steer you into write program that suits you. It's amazing
38:37
to me, and you talked about when the FED meets, It's amazing to
38:38
me Rich how things that you one would think were totally unrelated to housing can
38:45
in turn effect housing and interest rates and things that There's so many things you
38:49
hear about in the news. You know, you turn onto news, whether
38:52
it's you know, ABC news radio here, you turn on new television news
38:54
and you here's something going on. You know that you think, well,
38:58
this has nothing to do with housing, but gosh, it does. It
39:00
does kind of intertwined it all. It's it's amazing to me how much out
39:05
of pocket are by most buyers looking at these days. I mean, I
39:07
know that's again a very generic stay, but that's a good question for buyers
39:10
who want to know what they're expected to bring to the closing table when they
39:14
have that, and then what they're going to spend throughout the course of the
39:16
transaction, from the time they enter into a contract of the time they get
39:21
closed. So you have about four four and fifty bucks for a home inspection
39:25
if you have. You know, we would never recommend that you would wave
39:28
a home inspection or any circumstances. Even if you're buying the home in a
39:31
condition where it's being sold as is, where the seller is not going to
39:35
make in repairs, we still want you to do the home inspection. So
39:37
four hundred and fifty dollars for that. Some lenders will roll your appraisal,
39:40
which is about six hundred bucks. Some of them will roll that into your
39:44
closing cost Some of them, you know, I want that payment upfront,
39:49
but and then you have like a pest control which sixty bucks or something like
39:53
that. But so you know, then you have your closing costs for your
39:57
fees for your loan. That's really people will get confused on their versus their
40:00
down payment. So you know, that's why you really want to speak to
40:02
a lender to know that you're down payment on the fha loan. You're looking
40:07
at three and a half percent of the purchase price plus the fees for your
40:09
loan that are being closed, and those are generally somewhere around five thousand dollars.
40:14
So I would encourage buyers. And again there are loans out there the
40:17
USDA loan that requires no money down, VA loans that are no money down
40:22
so called. I would tell you not to be intimidated about what you need,
40:25
but to get ahold of a lender and you know, talk to your
40:29
your realtor to help them get to the lender. That there's preferred lenders out
40:31
there that can help you. That you want to get matched up with the
40:35
loan that matches you, because however, it's not a one size fits all.
40:37
Before you put your house on the market, and there are a lot
40:40
of people that are doing that right now. They're they're taking a look at
40:44
the situation and they're saying, okay, it it may be time for us
40:50
to sell because you know, I mean, I know some people that very
40:55
close to me. That happens to be me and my wife. A place
41:00
where we used to live in Tays Valley. It was a townhouse just went
41:02
on the market and we just happened to see a sign we were driving by
41:07
it. We saw it it was on the market. That price of that
41:10
particular townhouse where we lived in Tays Valley has gone through the roof right now,
41:14
and you're just looking at it going, oh my god. You know,
41:15
we didn't. We didn't pay anywhere near that. We didn't sell it
41:19
for anywhere near that. But it's gone through the roof. Right now,
41:22
If someone's listening to this and they're thinking, man, now it's the time
41:24
for us to sell our house, I would say, and you can correct
41:28
me if I'm wrong, you know, I would say, proceed with caution,
41:30
because you may not have another place to move into. That's the right.
41:34
I mean, there there in lies the rug because you've got where are
41:37
you're going. If you've got a place to go, though, then certainly
41:39
you can cash in on some equity in your I mean it's just the home
41:43
prices of just are just so much. I mean some of them have gone
41:45
up more than twenty percent. So the appreciation factor here in West Virginia has
41:50
certainly skyrocket or the last two or three years. So you could cash out.
41:54
You need, you need a place to go, and you can help
41:58
with that, right I can't. You know, a guy, I do
42:01
a couple of quick textures where we let you go once it's I'm from California
42:05
and I can remember this as a texture, citress groves and vineyards being torn
42:08
up to build houses. West Virginia should be careful with exchanging farmland for housing
42:13
developments. I would agree with that, and I think that that's a lot
42:15
about, you know, the economical development here in West Virginia, of trying
42:21
to balance out what's right for the state on both sides of that. Really
42:27
understand why this is a question for you. But because I know you're easy
42:29
to get along with, I'm gonna go ahead and ask it. Texture says,
42:30
ask your housing guess what percentage of residential construction is done by migrant workers?
42:36
Yeah? I would have. Now that's all. You're no yount of
42:38
my pay grade, your pay grade. Rich. It's always a pleasure to
42:44
see you give us your contact information again because if you're looking to buy,
42:46
if you're looking to sell, you're looking to whatever this is the EU.
42:50
I need to talk to Rich client with Meekes Realty. You know I talked
42:52
about when my fund number direct us three or four nine three two seven four
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eight eight and then I can be reached through email at the rich Kline sixty
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six. And that's with a K. It is with a K. Thanks
43:02
for not the Richard part, the Cline part. Yeah, KLi Any sixty
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hot coming up next hour on the show. Lead story at wv metronews dot
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com. I've a lotch of powers request to raise rates. Now they're asking
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for a raiding increase of a combined six hundred and forty two million dollars six
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hundred and forty two million. There was a public hearing. It was held
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last night at the Public Service Commission headquarters here in Charleston. A couple of
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dozen people showed up, including an appearance from Conaugh count Commission President Kent Carper.
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Commissioner Carper obviously not for it. He's quoted as saying in Jared Lewis's
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story posted on the website. There's a couple quotes in there. Also.
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Phil moy the longtime spokesperson for Appalachian power and believe me, that cannot be
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an easy job, and he does it pretty well. He's quoted in Jared
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Lewis's story again the lead story on the website, as saying, this is
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a direct quote. This case in particular is about fuel, and the amount
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that's built into rates for fuel just doesn't match the amount we were paying for
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fuel and to purchase power through twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two. He
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goes on to say, when you're burning seven million tons of coal a year
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and you're paying even five dollars more a ton, that ends up very quickly
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in quote. Now, there have been other hearings held in communities like Huntington
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and also Princeton. Next one is scheduled for the twenty first of August in
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Wheeling, and then there's going to be an evidentiary hearing held in Charleston's at
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some point in early September. Again Jared lewis Is great story posted at WV
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metronews dot com. Jarrett a busy guy last night because he also has a
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story about the bird scooters. They have arrived in Charleston and you are going
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to see them around town. They were placed I guess yesterday in town.
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This was all an idea that was spearheaded by councilman Emmett Pepper. You will
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find them downtown, also in the East and West ends, as well as
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over in Kanasa City. And still there are a ton of questions about him.
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Emmett Pepper has been on the show a few times in the past to
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talk about him, talking about Charleston City Council and Emmett Pepper. He's been
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on the show to talk about it, and I will get him back on
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against him to give an update. Some of the basic rules as far as
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the scooters go are posted as part of Jared's story at wv metro news dot
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com. Just kind of just you know, skimming off top here. They're
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only able to go on roads with the speed limit that's under thirty miles an
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hour, So you're I'm going to see him on I sixty four, although
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frequently on I sixty four as late with this construction project project, a lot
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of people are doing under thirty, but no, they're not allowed there.
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They aren't allowed on sidewalks or other paths that are not open to bikes.
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You can't have passengers. You have to be over sixteen preferably eighteen, and
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you have to download this app. They will not operate until you do that.
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So as far as people stealing them or whatever, they physically will not
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move until the app has been downloaded and until they have been paid for it.
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Now, I had people when I had him at Pepper on the show
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saying, well, you could get three or four guys out there. Maybe,
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I don't know, but by and large, you know, probably probably
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not, because they literally will not move, I mean will not move.
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I just hope I'm not against them for them whatever. I just hope Charleston
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has better luck with them than what other cities have had, including Saint Albans
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if you remember, Saint Alban's got rid of them all to get Still,
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the fallout from State Auditor JB. Mccuski's decision not to run for governor but
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to instead run for attorney General continues. One person that's not happy State Senator
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Ryan Weld, who was He's been on this show before. Of course,
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at least it was a good friend to State Auditor J. B. Mccuski.
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Well, he ain't happy about the decision, at least on the service
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doesn't appear to be of JB. To run instead of for governor now to
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say he's going to run for attorney General. Ryan Weld is going to be
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on Hoppy to talk about it next hour, so that may be one you
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want to listen to, because I don't know. He issued a couple of
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statements on the you know, through his press court and on Twitter and so
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on, and so we're talking about Ryan Weld now, but we'll see what
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he says. Because it didn't take a lot of people by surprise the announcement.
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As I mentioned on the show yesterday, I had talked to JB myself
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on Friday and he told me about the announcement he was gonna make on Hoppy.
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But you know, it didn't take a lot of people by surprise his
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announcement, but the fact that he's now going to run for attorney general,
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putting him into what's going to be a very competitive primary with not only Ryan
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Well but also Mike Stewart as well. So we'll be watching that story closely
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quick Texas. I'd be fine with rate increases on the condition the big money
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makers a EP for go raises for five years. I think most people believe
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rate increases go into the pockets of those big money makers at AEP. All
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right, we gotta go. I appreciate Ryan Nicholson, our producer today,
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also Rich Client for s typing my Senator shelleymore Capito and Spencer Adkins as well.
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Coming up on the show tomorrow, Rob Cornelius, there's the name we
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haven't had on in a while. What are his future political plans? We're
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gonna find out. Talkative Delica Data Farrell on the high school transfer a rule
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added, appearance by Democratic Party chair and delicate Mike Pushkin. I'll see you
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tomorrow. Till then, have fun. Four point five Cross Lanes UPRC Media
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