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07/17/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Frank Mullens, Chris Miller, Steve Animal · The Dave Allen Show

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So a lot of stuff going on. A big day here, Dave
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Nation. That's welcome in from Mayor Monday, the honorable Mayor of South Charleston,
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Frank Mullins, Mayor Marlins, good morning, how are you, good
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morning to day, doing wonderful. Thanks for having me, Thank you for
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being here. You're at a big day, man. Lots of big announcements
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today, Yeah, lots of big announcements. It seems like the last few
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weeks here in South Crowleston, the works site, they've got a lot of
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good things going on, not only in South Charleston but all over the region
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as well. Let's talk about the mall project. What's the latest there.
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That's what everybody wants to talk about. So how's the mall project going into
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in South Charleston. Well, that's going well. As a matter of fact,
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the great news we got last week and got confirmed from our engineering companies
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are that we actually have finished the field of the pond itself, which is
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six months ahead of time. So that's a good thing. So now the
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clock's kicking on the Compassion and Settlement fixed to twelve months and then the rest
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of the stores can start construction. So that's that was great news that we're
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six months ahead of time. So what we're doing now is you'll see us
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over there doing a little bit more site development work at the Minard site and
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have to check out I mean at the Starbucks site, which will be the
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next construction starting in September. So things are moving along and I think within
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the next six to twelve months you're going things see things pick up a little
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bit. And what is our Has it changed any mayor since the last time
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we had to do on our projected timeline for the entire project to be done,
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No, it has not. Even though we did we did finish that
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six months ahead of time, we're still projecting it to be you know,
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twenty twenty five to be the completion of all the stores and have things open.
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We'll see how that goes. These timeline seems to always be a moving
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target. But mother nature has a lot to do with it obviously, well,
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mother nature, supply chain issues, there's all kinds of things we're still
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dealing with. Yeah, absolutely absolutely, and I want you to talk about
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it as you have in a past Mayor. But as we get closer to
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this thing being a reality with all of it, I'm talking about the entire
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project, talking about your expectations for this project and what it's gonna mean not
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only to South Charleston, Mayor, but to the entire Kanaal Valley. Yeah,
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I think. I think since day one, I've called it a game
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changer for this community, not only South Drawston, but I think the whole
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valley, as you mentioned, and what you'll see not only you know.
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I've been asked before, what do you know do we just got to finish
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with election cycles? We're starting new terms a lot one? What are you
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looking forward to the most? And to me, obviously of getting upon project
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done and some other things done we've got already started. But to me,
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the most exciting thing is the unknown. And I've said this before too,
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there are projects out there. They're going to be a domino effect to what
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we're doing. We're already dealing with some developers on some other properties along with
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the new Jefferson Road route and things like that. We're already talking to some
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other companies and some other businesses about ideas and what they want to do to
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develop then be close to the They want to be close to park Place because
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they know that that area is going to be, you know, a focal
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point for people to come to shop. So that the most exciting thing to
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me is there is an idea out there. We don't even know what it
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is yet, but it's coming. It's going to be exciting. And I'll
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tell you this, Mayor, is somebody who, mean maybe a couple of
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times a week, finds themselves navigating the construction project on Jefferson Road. I
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will say this though, I mean, considering what you are doing there,
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I mean, you know, you're building roads through mountains and things of that
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nature. It again, and somebody's probably gonna eat me up about this.
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I'm only through there maybe a couple times a week. But I think the
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traffic, considering the project and the scope of this project, Mayor, I
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think the traffic actually flows pretty well through there. Now, I would agree
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with you, David. I've said this before too. Now, there's gonna
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be some unavoidable in conveniences. There always is progress, right, it means
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nothing you can do about that. Look, this is a guy who drives
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through their five or six times a day. Yeah, And I'm telling you,
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you know, so that's how I get to work and get home.
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So I agree with you. I think the traffic flow on both, whether
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it be Route sixty gonna Pie Park Place or whether you're going down Jefferson Road,
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I think it's going as well as it can. The toughest thing for
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me is keeping my car clean, right, yeah, exactly exactly. I'm
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a car clean guy, and it's hard to keep a clean driving through that
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stuff. It's Mary Monday and we're talking to South Charles from Mayor Frank Mullins
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here on five Dady Life had a text of the show. Here. Mayor
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wanted me to ask you when all the new road work to South Roads would
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be complete and open to Root sixty. I believe now that's the DAHS project.
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You know, it's not a city project. I'm not exactly sure what
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the completion day is if I'm not mistaken. What they told us in the
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beginning was it was a two year project. So I would guess that to
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be somewhere at the end of next year maybe, but again I don't might
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be a better question for the DOAH engineer's answer, but that's my that's my
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memory of what it was now the a, he says, road. I
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understand information I got last week as well. Is it it's complete, So
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it'll just be waiting on Jefferson the road to come though to connect in Okay,
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all right, very good. Another text, you're popular guy here,
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mayor, but people want to ask them all of our mayor's questions when we
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have them. On one says, can you ask the mayor is there going
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to be any attractions in the newmall area like putt put golf or top golf,
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something like that, or just shopping and Texas says, I know many
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of us still, mister Rock Lake area, and they have such things to
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do there. Yeah. Good, that's a good question. We have talked
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to some in the entertainment industry as well as hospitality and restaurant obviously in retail.
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So we'll see what the final makeup is going to be. But I
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hope to have something like that because I want it to be diverse. I
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wanted to have a little bit of everything for people to enjoy. I want
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to You mentioned the election, so you are the voters of South Charleston just
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elected you to a new term. Congratulations on that. Now, how long
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have you been Mayor? Now this will be my fifth term, your fifth
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term, Okay, So what makes you want to keep doing this? Because
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obviously, I mean, you know after sometimes after one term or two,
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you know, people just throw up their hands say, Okay, I'm done.
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What makes you want to continue to do this? I just still have
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the passion and the vision, and I obviously I want to see the projects
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we have going on and get across the finish line. That's a big motivator
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for me. But look, I'm a South Charleston guy and I've been in
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this business for forty one years, believe or not. I started at the
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age in nineteen when I was in college, the lifeguard, the community center
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before it even opened. So you know, I've been here a long time,
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but I enjoyed. I think what's kept me fresh, though, is
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the fact that I have done a lot of different jobs. I haven't just
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been the public works director, recreation director or may I've had different things to
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do. So that keeps you. That keeps you fresh, I think in
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a sense. But it's it's just a passion for the job. It's my
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staff. I have an amazing staff. It just makes it a joy to
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go to work every day. So I'm just very happy doing I'm doing.
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You know, try to recruit me to do other things state level and things
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like that, and that's flattering, but I'm doing what I like to do.
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And I'll tell you you know. And I have, as you know,
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mayor a different mayor on the show every week. And nobody, nobody
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loves their towns more than our mayors here in the Canal Valley. Whether it's
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you or whether it's Scott James, or mayor a good one of you're in
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Charleston, whoever I have on, I mean, they love and you gotta
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love the town. You said, you're a South Charleston guy. You gotta
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love the town in order to do the job. Well, there's no questions
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about it. I tell my people all the time when I'm looking to hire
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folks and bring them on board with us. Obviously, education, experience,
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those kind of things come into play, But to me, the most important
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thing is do you have a passion for what you want to do. If
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you have a passion for it, you'll do well. I would agree with
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that now, Marion. Seems every time we have you on, we talk
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about them all. But there's plenty of other great things going on in the
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land there of the Black Eagles, both business wise and fun stuff at summer
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festivals and whatnot. Give us a little time capsule what's going on. Well,
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just last week we cut a ribbon on a very exciting company called Helicon,
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which is basically it's a company coming to our coming to the tech park
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that's going to manufacturer Teleton buying there, which is a fuel that that boosts
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are at boost the improvements and enhancement of our rockets and missiles for the military.
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So not only they bring good jobs to the city, but they're also
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into the region, but they're also doing the work to improve our national security.
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So that's that's all. It is a good thing. And the briefing
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they gave us that day was the most impressive briefing I've ever been in sitting
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to see where, you know, a new business coming to your city.
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So that from that standpoint, that was very exciting. As you mentioned,
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we got Summerfest coming up, an annual event to people all over the area
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love, so we're happy to get that going here in a few weeks.
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So that's a Again, that's something everybody looks forward to. Yeah, I
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mean, there's always something going on there, you know, whether it's restaurants
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or whether it's business. And and again I think that when you get this
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park place finished, I think that you're going to see even more things going
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on there, because again it's not just a South Charleston project, may you
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know how, And like we just came off for god a couple of weeks
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ago where Gotta didn't just impact Charleston, it impacted you folks and onto the
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valley. It's kind of the way it works here, Absolutely it is.
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And I think all the cities have a little bit of something going on like
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that. I know Scotty does a good job down and saying aust with some
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things as well. So Day's doing a good job overnight. So we've got
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a pretty good group and we all work together well. And that's it's kind
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of like I said, I think I told you before when you asked me
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a question about how everybody gets along with the be state level or city or
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whatever. Just seems to be a really good time to where we're all on
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the right page. May It's always a pleasure to talk to you. You're
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always upbeat, and it always a good way to kick off for Monday when
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we have y'at we'll talk again soon. Mayor. I appreciate it, y
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thanks for having me anytime. Thank here and a good day now you as
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well. May Frank Mullins of the City South Charleston. Always pleasure to have
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candidate Chris Miller. How are you, sir? Man A thousand? If
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I was any better day, if i'd be illegal well, and and they're
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in certain states, you are, but then I'm kidding, I'm kidding about
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So first of all, I got a lot of I want to get to
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you with you, sir, But how is a campaign overall going right now?
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Rocking and rolling and having an absolute blast? Over ninety three percent of
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all of our fundraising dollars that's come from inside of the state of West Virginia,
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and that's because we have been actively out jumping around for spot to spot
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all summer long. Um. You know, for example, I was in
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the Eastern Panhandle on Monday, Morgantown area, jumping around in a Putnam County
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fair. Spoke to a group of people in Putnam County last Sunday. It's
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just NonStop stuff. We've been having an absolute blast, and you know,
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the real secret sources is that our fundraising success. We've outraised everybody else combined.
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It has three and a half times the amount of cash on hand as
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the second closest person as we speak. So that's that's you know, we
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attribute that to our message and interacting with people. You know, we we
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know exactly where we are and we're having an absolute blasket and meet everybody around
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the state of West Virginia, and the responses that we're receiving, Dave are
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off the charts. Man, It's great. Chris. You said that a
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great number of those dollars are from within the state of West Virginia. How
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important is that to you in your campaign? Well, they're the ones that
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vote, right. You know, people from Florida and people from New Jersey
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and people from Washington, DC don't vote in West Virginia, so you know
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they're if they're pouring all kinds of money into a candidate, that makes you
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scratch your head and wonder why. But the people that are in the side
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of the state of West Virginia are the ones that are voting, are the
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ones that are supporting us, and that matters. That had huge impact and
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there are some new numbers that actually just came out about eight thirty or so
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this morning. I'm gonna get to those a little bit later on, but
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before I do that. Last week Chris I had on Brian Dayton from the
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West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and he and the Chamber have been out about
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on the show and others talking about their polling and so early, but it
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looks like according to the polling and the Attorney General Patrick Morris, he's doing
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pretty well that I'll get more capital h as well as well, and you
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know, as are you. And again it's early, but I mean,
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I'm sure that you want to improve on that. Any comments on the chamber
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pole. UM. So you know I'm the numbers in a data guy,
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you are, and I've started my own data company, um, just to
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track what's happening in our country and in some fascinating stuff. But UM,
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here's what I'll say. There are good polls and good information and good data,
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and there are bad poles and bad information and bad data. And anytime
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that you have a poll that's got a standard deviation at twenty percent, that's
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not really great data. UM. I look at standard deviation that needs to
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be about five percent before you can really tell what explain for those for those
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who may not know what is standard deviations and stuff. It's the swinging percent
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of the accuracy of the number, which means basically that some of these polls
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numbers can swing twenty percent plus or mind us either way. That doesn't sound
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very accurate to me, right well, And as I said, it is
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earlier. It is very early in the you know, in the campaign,
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and a lot can change, and not so much necessarily in the in the
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governor's race. But when you look at some of those other races that were
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in the poll, and I'm not being critical the Chamber, don't get me
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wrong, but if you look at some of the other races like attorney general
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and in a secretary of state, wasn't wasn't even pulled just because it's so
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early and there isn't that there'sn't that buzz around those particular races. Yet that's
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exactly right at the end of the day, man, You know, it's
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funny because a lot of these early polls, these are a wall about political
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lead stuff, and elections at the end of the day are about the people,
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and it's understanding and knowing the people and what they're looking for and who
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you are as a person and how that stuff matches up. You know,
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elections are not about the political elite. They're not about early polling. They're
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about the voters and what the voters are looking for. And they're the ones
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that always decide, and a majority of the time they tend to get it
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right too, So that more important to me than polling are the voters and
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what the voters are saying, and what the voters are doing is they're they're
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speaking really really loud and clear to us that they're looking for something different.
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They want state government to be run more like a business. We have to
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have somebody upfront that's willing to promote and show how great our state is and
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how exciting the things are. That's here, you know, when we're talking
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about running state government more like a business. One of the other things that
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people really are tired of seeing as their tax dollars being wasted, and so
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they want every single dime of our state's government's budget audited. And I think
20:27
that speaks very very strongly as well. You know, we need to have
20:32
somebody upfront that knows how to make things happen and knows how to promote and
20:36
knows how to leave with excitement, and also at the same time understands everything
20:40
that is key for economic growth and development, driving down taxation to create business
20:45
and commerce right here in the state of West Virginia. And that just matches
20:48
up exactly with who we are and how we're going to win Talcus. You
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googn up too on Canada. Chris Miller here on five eighty Live. It's
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All right, Chris, So, about eight thirty or so, I
21:06
get on my email, I'm preparing for the show, and I get some
21:08
new information that was sent to me by you. And you distributed this information
21:14
everywhere and it's going to be all over the news throughout the day. But
21:17
for those that haven't seen it yet, what exactly break it down for us?
21:19
What exactly does all this mean? Honestly, I still think it's just
21:23
way too early to really tell. But what the new information out there has
21:27
polling wise has a cent a virtual tie for second place in the governatorial race.
21:32
We keep gaining ground, and like I said earlier, a lot of
21:34
that has to do with the messaging and how we're interacting with people, in
21:38
the excitement that comes around from us being around any group talking and interacting.
21:44
So there's a long way to go, right there's a long hill to climb,
21:48
and it's really really early and right now should not be a time to
21:52
really vest faith or trust inside of polls. But if we're all talking about
21:57
polls, I mean, I'm okay with being considered second place. That's not
22:00
bad. Well, and when you look at that field, as I said,
22:03
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, you got yourself, you've got more capital,
22:07
You've got Secretary State Macwarner, Auditor JB. Mccusky, there's a lot of
22:11
big names in there, and a lot of times people are going to have
22:15
to especially on the you know, when we look at the primary, people
22:18
will have to look at it and kind of say, Okay, it doesn't
22:22
matter what party you're talking about, they're gonna like more than one or two
22:23
of those guys, you know, and they're gonna have to kind of make
22:26
that decision. And that's the difference between me and everybody else. There's some
22:30
good guys out there, right, but they're all the same person. They're
22:33
all bureaucrats, politicians, and attorneys. It doesn't matter who you're talking about
22:37
in the race, every single one of them is that. And people are
22:41
looking for something different. They're looking for some excitement. It's not a time
22:45
for politicians and lawyers and bureaucrats to be running things. It's a time for
22:48
entrepreneurs and people willing to work to seventy hours a week to make stuff happen,
22:52
to lead from the front, be active and engage promote the state.
22:56
I mean, that's exactly who you are. That's exactly what we're going to
23:00
do. We're just different than everybody else. And I love that. I
23:04
love those odds. I absolutely love being the outsider. Love being the only
23:10
guy that is a business leader in the community and a business leader all around
23:12
in the state. I mean, these are all things that I take pride
23:15
in, and it just matches up with what the people in West Virginia are
23:18
looking for. They're tired of the politics, and you know, they're tired
23:21
of the same old, same old and they're also tired of that good old
23:22
boy system that's been running our state for a way too all. And I'm
23:26
not a part of any of that stuff. Talk with Chris Millner again,
23:30
candadate for governor, And Chris, with all due respect, I've ever since
23:34
I mentioned once because we originally had your scheduled to be on last week.
23:37
As of things happened, we had to work around your schedule a little bit.
23:40
But anytime I've mentioned your name, I always get a and probably orchestrated.
23:44
You know, a boatload of texts that come into the line here asking
23:48
about things like, you know, the the PPG loans that went out and
23:52
things of that nature, and your car dealerships and things of that nature.
23:56
Do you care to comment on any of that? Which one and particular we'll
24:00
have a common owner thing. Well, I have a text right now that
24:03
said the three million dollars of taxpayer dollars for your family car lots and some
24:07
that went for a farm or something that your family owns. Do you want
24:11
to I mean, I don't know all the details. Do you want to
24:12
address that? So what they're referring to are the PPP loans that happened during
24:18
the pandemic, and this is something that I'm very very proud of those we
24:22
use for their purpose. We kept all of our employees employed throughout the entire
24:26
pandemic and actually paid them an average of one hundred and fifteen percent of their
24:30
twenty nineteen earnings in twenty twenty while the pandemic was happening. Guaranteed income,
24:37
no fans or butts about it, for every single one of our employees,
24:41
all across all of our organizations. And I'm not talking about you know,
24:45
a couple hundred employees here. We employ six hundred people, four hundred of
24:48
which are inside of the state of West Virginia, and I was able to
24:52
pay each and every one of those families one hundred and fifteen percent of their
24:56
average twenty nineteen earnings during the pandemic. When I mean, we can call
25:00
it a scamdemic now, but during that entire time where everybody was scared and
25:03
everybody's worried about losing their job and taking care of their families, we made
25:07
sure that every single one of the people that worked for us had income that
25:12
was there to take care of their families, and it was way more than
25:15
what they made in twenty nineteen, and we passed every single penny of that
25:18
stuff onto our people where it belonged. So I'll hang my hat on that
25:22
one man. I want to talk about name recognition. You're very well known,
25:26
of course, you're in this part of the world, your car ads
25:27
and the other businesses that you've been a part of. Your very successful business
25:32
person. But sometimes, Chris, it can be hard for someone to get
25:36
noticed, let's say in the eastern Panhand or in the Wheeling area or something
25:40
like that. You know, Patrick Morrissey has a title of Attorney General after
25:42
his name, so more people are going to be familiar with him. Same
25:45
with some of the other officeholders, Mac Warner and J. B. Mccusky
25:48
and others that are in there. How are you overcoming the name recognition problem
25:52
outside the Huntington Charlestonnario Through a lot of travel, a lot of phone calls,
25:57
and a lot of face to face meetings. You know, we're in
26:00
Jefferson County all day last Monday. It was an all day thing. We
26:06
are moving around through all of the locations of the state all the remaining part
26:11
of twenty twenty three, and we'll be doing the same thing through twenty twenty
26:14
four. And the more people that I meet and the more people that I
26:15
interact with, and the more people that I talk to, the better it
26:18
is. Because people hear me, they go, wait a minute, gut
26:21
and talk like the politician. He talks like a West Virginia and they like
26:23
that a lot, and they understand what we're saying and what we're doing and
26:27
what we're going to focus on, which is jobs and economic growth and reducing
26:30
taxes more and turning West Virginia into a business friendly state, and also doing
26:37
things a little differently. Right we're moving into a time where everything that we
26:41
do is going to revolve around power. And you look at West Virginia.
26:47
We have an incredible amount of coal, We have an incredible amount of natural
26:49
gas, we have the potential for nuclear and we have an incredible amount of
26:52
water that passes through our state. And all of this stuff adds up to
26:56
where we can leverage our natural resources and use it to drive down the cost
27:00
of power for our people. Be the state in the Union that has the
27:04
cheapest power in the country and use that as a foundation of primary economic growth
27:11
and development. Because right now we've got a system where we're not thinking about
27:15
all the West Virginians. We get businesses that come in, we work this
27:18
special deal with them, and they get exempt from all the taxes that the
27:22
standard businesses have to pay that are here in the state, and they get
27:26
all kinds of benefits, etc. Etc. Etc. And guess what the
27:33
average every day Joe gets left handing hind tribe. And if we used power
27:37
as the primary source of economic growth and development, not only will it bring
27:41
businesses and commerce to us, but you think about Mo and Paul Kettle in
27:45
their white pick offense. Both of them are on Social Security and power keeps
27:49
going up in cost, and eggs keep going up in cost, and milk
27:52
keeps going up in cost. If we are able to cut their power bill
27:56
by fifty to seventy percent, we've done something meaningful and impactful in their lives
28:00
as well. And that's what I think we need to move the state of
28:04
West Virginia for it is we need to think about what we're going to do
28:07
that can last an incredibly long time, and power, I'm convinced, is
28:11
the reason for that talk with Chris Miller. A couple more questions here before
28:15
we let you go. Chris, the electorate in America, or at least
28:18
certain to a certain extent, seems to be looking elsewhere for candidates. And
28:22
what I mean by that is something like sixty percent of all voters, regardless
28:26
of party, don't want Joe Biden to be the nominee for president. Around
28:29
fifty percent of Americans Republican and Democrats don't want Donald Trump to be the nominee.
28:34
And when you look at some of these people, as you mentioned,
28:37
that have been in office for a while, the different offices some of the
28:40
opposition, do you think that that helps you because you are seen by some
28:45
at least as an outsider, and this is your first attempt at an elected
28:48
position. Absolutely, this is the only job that I'll ever want in politics.
28:52
It's the only job that it treats me because I know it's where we
28:56
can make the largest amount of difference. I'm not like the rest of these
29:00
people, you know. I'm a boxer and a bison farmer and a business
29:03
owner. I employ a bunch of people in the state of West Virginia.
29:07
I signed the front and the back of paychecks. I know what it's like
29:11
to grind and make sure that your people are taking care of and I'm just
29:15
not a bureaucrat or a politician or a lawyer. That's just not me.
29:19
And that's what we need right now. Leading our country is a business as
29:23
business. Guys, entrepreneurs, free thinkers, people are outside of the box
29:27
and aren't beholden to special interest or lobbying either. A lot of these guys
29:32
are for sale. I'm not for sale. Before we let you go the
29:34
final question, I promise. I just keep thinking of things to ask you,
29:37
because I know you're a very you'd like to you like to answer questions.
29:41
All right, it's looking like Steve Williams, Mayor of Huntington, somebody
29:44
is from your part of the world. You know. Mayor Williams very well
29:47
will be. He's going to throw his having in the ring. He's not
29:48
officially done it yet, but he probably will to be the the the run
29:53
of the person the candidate on the Democratic side. Don't know whether I have
29:56
any opposition or not, but more than more than likely he's going to be
29:59
the No. Many if you get through the primary, I can so all
30:02
these other opponents. What about a match up with Steve Williams, And what
30:03
do you think about Steve Williams possibly running for governor. You know, I'm
30:08
not even gonna worry about that right now. You know, I know Steve,
30:11
nice guy, nice enough guy, been friends with my family for a
30:15
long time. And more importantly, Steve's mom was my third grade teacher,
30:18
and she was one of the most impactful people when it came to my education
30:22
through elementary school. I love that lady to death. She is terrific.
30:27
The rest of the stuff, you know, you've got to have the right
30:29
person running the state. And this is not a job for politicians and bureaucrats.
30:34
It's just not that job. We need someone that understands how to employee
30:37
people, understands how to manage to run businesses. You know, our state's
30:41
budget is about four point six billion dollars. When you take out a couple
30:45
of things like the lottery Commission and all of my businesses combined, I've got
30:49
about twenty six different enterprises that have an incredible amount of revenue that passes through
30:53
them. And honestly, Dave, I'm the only person in the state that
30:57
I know of that is an injury did in running that has the aptitude and
31:03
the ability to handle a budget that big, to actually manage money that size.
31:08
This is not something that politicians and bureaucrats are really capable of because they
31:12
don't know how to manage and spend our money. So it doesn't matter who
31:15
I'm running against. I hang my hat on what I'm able to do and
31:18
what I have done, and that's the only thing I'm gonna worry about.
31:21
I'm not going to talk bad about other people or anything like that. I'm
31:25
just gonna make sure and earn the voters trust and show them that I'm the
31:29
right guy for the job because I'm a West Virginian just like them, and
31:30
I've done a little bit of everything in my life, and I understand where
31:33
we are and what we need to be doing. Chris, always a pleasure
31:37
to talk to you. Where can people learn more about your campaign? We
31:40
can go to millerforgov dot com and see all kinds of videos and information about
31:45
us and who we are and where we're going. And you know, also
31:47
check us out on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. All right, I know
31:49
you got a of a lot of places to go on people to see,
31:53
so we will talk soon. I appreciate you, beat here Man, thanks
31:56
a lot, Dave Man, thanks so much for having me Chris Miller one
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text three or four nine three five five zero zero away. Let me knock
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out a couple of texts or Texas, Dave. If we don't stop what's
34:52
happening in the Nurse state government, little towns like South Charles will be taken
34:54
over by our state government. U the Texas so sick of hearing people try
35:01
to make some kind of connection between PPP loans and student loans. Loans were
35:07
given because the vast majority of businesses, primarily small businesses, were deemed non
35:10
essential, which destroyed them and forced them to close because of this government.
35:19
Texas. Chris Miller social conservative. Yes, thinks government should be around like
35:22
a business. Yes, thinks cannabis should be illegal. Yes, the same
35:25
philosophy as every other conservative Republican. Yes, going to a text er,
35:30
tex says, I'm just one person, coordinated by myself, trying to understand
35:34
why a supposed to supposed a fiscal Republican would take a three million dollars loan
35:38
and forgive herself of that loan. I'm just jealous because I wish I could
35:42
have the taxpayers helped me out like That's tex says Dear Dave. Please tell
35:52
Chris Miller that the average West Virginia dude is not a boxer or a bison
35:55
farmer. You know who is Steve freaking Animal. Mike drop with the feedback
36:02
and Texas, get missus Miller's kids off the radio and get to the Animal.
36:07
That's crazy talk. It's crazy talk, Steve Animal. Yes, sir,
36:13
is with us right? How are you, my friend? I am
36:16
apparently have been sucked into the w v r C family. Yes, indeed,
36:25
the all new ninety eight point seven West Virginia's Wild, Wonderful Classic Rock
36:30
the Mountain is on Steve Animal Morning Guy. And I gotta tell you,
36:35
you know, I knew this was launching. We you know, it's been
36:37
we teased it for a while. I get in my vehicle this morning,
36:39
like a whole lot of other people in the valley, I get in turn
36:43
on the vehicle there and I go over to ninety eight point seven and I
36:46
hear Steve Animal and suddenly I'm like a three year old kid again. Oh
36:52
no, wait a minute, I wasn't that young. But that hurt.
36:55
Everything hurts when you're our eight. Yeah. But what response so far?
37:00
Man? I mean, I mean not only to this, I want to
37:02
talk about the station, but also to having you back on the airways for
37:06
the first time in how many years? A little over eleven years, so
37:10
it was uh yeah, twenty yeah, twenty twelve, so twelve years.
37:16
It was fantastic response this morning, Uh waiting for me in the parking lot,
37:23
my co hurt crime Larry Shockley. Shockley did what did he not come
37:28
down with you? No, he hadd to run, but uh yeah,
37:30
we'll drag him on at some point. So okay, got some family stuff
37:35
taking care of. Well, it's it's it's interesting because you know, we
37:38
went on the air at six o'club. We've been talking about this, We've
37:40
been insider information here. There's a thing called stunting in radio, which basically
37:45
means that you just play random stuff to get people interested. And if you
37:49
noticed, all of the songs when they launched this thing Thursday morning had been
37:52
animal themed, yes, of all different varieties. And then we come in
37:54
here and Steve animals on your radio. But this morning, you know,
37:58
um got to WUKTV thre big shout out to Andy Bernhardt from thirteen. Was
38:02
waiting in the parking lot when I got here this morning, and she hobbled
38:06
in on one foot she did, which was awesome she did. And then
38:09
I understand I was in hair and makeup getting ready for this show. But
38:14
I understand that you need more hair and makeup. I understand that WSAZ I
38:19
think came into the story. And so let me recap some of the changes
38:23
around here. So here's what we did, all right, and you may
38:25
need a program to follow this. So we moved our country station, which
38:30
was one of seven three kaz to ninety five point three, replacing Bloomberg Radio.
38:35
We then moved ninety eight point seven with Woody Woods and the others.
38:40
That's the beat to one oh seven three, And then we put this brand
38:44
new station ninety eight point seven to mouth and on this morning featuring Steve Animal
38:49
and so I guess we're caught up now, right, Yes, So it
38:52
has been an awesome day. We actually had phone calls today Ken and between
38:57
him and Fred Francis, our engineer got the lines worked out last night.
39:00
Uh, it's so every everything's coming together. A few glutches this morning,
39:06
but to be expected, especially with computers. Yeah, because these computers are
39:10
a passing fat They're awful. Yeah, you and I are from the days
39:15
of cart machines and and real to real machines and records and you know things
39:20
of that abacus and the tablet. I want to talk about your career a
39:25
little bit now. You know you ain't from here originally, but how did
39:30
a young animal get involved in radio and how did you end up in West
39:34
Virginia as a kid. I just kind of drifted to it. I had
39:37
received a transistor radio, you know, for my birthday, and that thing
39:42
was basically connected to me twenty four seven until it melted and I needed another
39:46
one. And um, I just loved listening to the radio and just mimicking
39:51
the jocks that we're on there. Um, and it's I thought. I
39:58
actually, uh in high school, I was actually headed into going to the
40:01
Pittsburgh School of Art Design, and we actually had a radio station at one
40:05
of the other high schools. So buddy of mine, uh, Bill plom
40:08
He's like, he's like, you should do radio. He's like, you
40:12
got the character to and uh and the voice compliments a mom and dad in
40:15
the face because because we never get tired of hearing that joke that yeah.
40:22
So from there, Uh, Actually it was kind of funny because I didn't
40:27
make the audition cut. I remember looking down at the piece of paper that
40:31
mister lampin and had filled out, and people either had check pluses or minuses,
40:36
and I actually had a check minus, and but the pencil was sitting
40:39
right there, and I gave myself a plus. And now the rest is
40:42
history. I changed my own course. Well, Michael Jordan got cut from
40:46
his high school basketball team too, so so um you are the Michael Jordan
40:51
Radio. Thank you. Now, now you worked a few other stations around
40:54
the Tri Citary, most notably in Saint Albans, and then you were out
40:58
of the business with your real estate and holdings and with your company East Coast
41:04
Teas quick cheap plug for those two find establishments. Thank you. And still
41:07
doing real estate with Better Homes and Gardens, real Estate Central with Josh McGrath
41:12
and that crew. Still have my rentals, still doing the radio, still
41:15
have the T shirt shop. We opened up the Vinyl frontier where we're rewrapping
41:20
all the station vehicles here. If you haven't noticed the upgrade in the parking
41:23
lots. You do something with the engines that would be good, but you
41:25
only do the outside right, right, Yeah, all on, I got
41:30
some w D forty radio, but I don't think it's going to help a
41:32
couple of the vehicles we have here. But with all those things going on,
41:37
I mean, you know East Coast teas, I mean, you guys
41:38
are just everywhere all over the state and other areas. Try you got that,
41:45
you got their you know, your rentals and all of this other so
41:47
you know, somebody, so one day you say, well, let's go
41:51
do radio. Let's go get up at four o'clock in the morning. Again,
41:53
I don't enjoy sleeping. I need to be moving in gravy. It's
41:57
way overrated. Yea, it is. So so see in all seriousness,
42:00
and we'll do this, we'll take a break, will continue a little bit
42:02
more. Well, I mean, why why are you doing this? Because
42:07
well, you know, the radio is something that gets into your system,
42:10
into your blood, and that's just much like a fungus. Yeah, pretty
42:15
much. And so when the idea came up, I was like, oh
42:17
really, you guys sure, it's like you want this in your building?
42:22
And so yeah, no, I missed it greatly dearly. And they were
42:29
very kind and they said they asked, would you like to come back to
42:32
radio? Nobody's asked so until now. So and now you're here. I
42:37
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West Virginia's Wild and wonderful classic Rock the Mountain, the Mountain, Come to
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the Mountain top not got some text here? So many virtually vitally important issues
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that are caused you the Marxist destruction of our republic. I would love to
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know why the same person keeps texting and almost daily about legalizing pot. If
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that's your priority, you may have a problem and should seek treatment. So
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it's a text TEXTA says, over the weekend, I heard Elvis on ninety
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eight point seven. Does that mean this new format will include sixties rock?
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Also, you know that's a good question. I didn't work. Yeah,
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but they don't tell me everything the computer does at all. You did see
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Elvis twice in concert, so all right, So, um, you know
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this whole thing started. I mean, well, I had a small part,
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in a very small part, and that's when I had you on the
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show to talk about something. I don't even know what we were talking about.
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This text fine like blew up with people Steve Animals Steve animal and so
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I went upstairs to the powers of me and I said, look look at
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this this People still remember this guy. He's not dead yet, he's still
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alive. So let's talk about the station. What can people expect from ninety
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eight point seventh the Mountain? Well, like over the weekend. Actually on
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Friday, Joe had asked, uh, you know, so, what do
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you have plan for my day? Ask like, absolutely nothing, because it's
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radio, because it's radio. But yeah, I mean so we're firing this
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thing back up. We knew the area needed a good classic rock station and
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they were kind enough to reach out to me to dig my carcass up off
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the ground. And you know, it's like, hey, kick him?
47:45
Is he still alive? And I want to talk about that for a moment,
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because you know, there are various places people can get music now.
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I mean, you know, back in our day you had the radio,
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and you maybe somebody would show up on Don Kersonal's rock concert or something.
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Expert what's all we have? But now you've got all these different music sources,
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and of course you know and even here as far as terrestrial radio goes,
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I mean, there's other places for rock music in the Charleston honey to
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market. With all due respect to all that, but what sets the Mountain
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apart from those other stations. Let's just talk to restaural radio. The restaural
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radio, like you said, you can get the app or listen at least
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you can listen like online or get the app now, but having somebody with
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a pulse, a live person there that you can actually talk to or relate
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to, or you know, somebody there to talk to you versus just a
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generic playlist, which is which is fine. I guess if you're at a
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party and just want some background noise. But if you're wanting to hear some
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music, maybe talk with somebody, win something for free. You know,
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you know, the radio is still here, and it still matters whether you're
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driving into work just to get a local feel or beat on what's happening in
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your city. You're not going to get that on the worldwide Web now.
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And what sets I think the station apart from some of the others, is
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that we are confined by our own doing to being classic rock. So when
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when if you're a rock guy like you and I are, when you turned
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it on, you're you're going to hear music that you recognize. We're not
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doing new stuff, and that's fine for those of are, but that's not
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what we are. We are classic rock. So you're going to hear I
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mean, driving in this morning, I'm hearing Billy Squire, I'm hearing the
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Eagles, Employers Cult, Yes, some Pearl Jam, Collective Soul. Those
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guys are now you know, we're talking twenty thirty years old these songs.
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Even though I was there when we broke the bands. It's like now,
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we're defining it as a classic. Oh god, yeah, there's that is
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kind of funny you mentioned that because when we had we had Andy Myrnhart and
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folks from thirteen up here earlier this morning. I was in the studio with
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you at that time and you played Pearl Jam and my mind goes to,
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why is he playing Pearl Jam? And oh, yeah, that's because it's
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thirty five years old. That's why mine mind blown out. I know the
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Facebook page for the Mountain is up h and the streaming is there. Yeah,
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there, so they I've received so many lips and beeps, but I
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know the Facebook page is up there this morning, UM find it, like
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it, share it with a friend, and we are streaming live. I
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know. If you go to the web page the Mountain ninety eight point seven,
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the Mountain dot com, just it's streaming live at the top and we'll
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get the and all that stuff. We'll be there. Quick reminder of their
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phone calls to five eighty live or service of Biggley Piggley Wiggily Texts services provided
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by Fruit Pharmacy, your hometown family Pharmacy tech says The Animal the soundtrack to
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most of my bad decisions. Love that dude. Thank you. I'm glad
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you're still with me, are you? Are you happy to know that you're
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the soundtrack to somebody's bad decisions over the year, Steve, I feel that
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there are more children conceived during the Steve Animal Live broadcasts over the last thirty
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years than most other broadcasts. They also, shall I say this on the
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ear? I mean, if I get fired, can I come work at
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your station? They referred to listening to you as an eargasm. Oh heck,
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yeah, I don't know, Ryan, Can I say that on the
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air? I guess I can. Can? I don't care. He's well,
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he's the one that's his name's on the transmitter log. So so we
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get in trouble, it's Ryano that goes down, not me. So uh
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um. You know, I'm looking forward to it in here, and we
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got to wrap it up. But I will say this. You know,
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as long as you and I have been friends, which is like one hundred
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and eighty eight years, this is the first time that we've ever worked for
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the same company. We've you know, know each other. We and of
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course big props our friend is watching us right now. Late great Papa Jay
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Nunley for years you and Jay worked together, and uh, that's the only
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thing I could think of. You know, this morning, I wanted to
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send you a good luck text, like you needed a good luck text for
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me. Uh, And I sent it and I said, I gave you
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a big Papa Jay Nunley quote textures in my studio. So yeah, and
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I love you, man, God bless you big Papa j Nunley. All
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right, we'll be listening ninety eight point seven West Virginia's Wild and Wonderful Classic
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Rock featuring the Steve Animal Morning Show. Thank you, Dave. I appreciate
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your brother man. Keep listening. And Shockley is up there and hanging out.
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Two. Yes, it's all right, all right, we gotta we
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gotta go coming up tomorrow. Uh hey, this is right up our alley.
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We're talking about phone with the dome. Thanks Morrow. I was there
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all weekend. It hadn't even started yet. Plus we're gonna talk a little
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pickle ball tomorrow and house candidate Tristan Levitt is on the show as well.
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See you tomorrow. Till then, have fun, love somebody and listen to
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the Mountain w c h A W two for three d RFN Charleston W two
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and three Act Cross Lanes, w VRC Media Station. We are proud to
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live here too,