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11/30/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Steve Animal, Joe Stevens, Fred Persinger · The Dave Allen Show

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It is day two of what we're doing this online auctions at WV bargains dot
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com. We started it yesterday morning, runs through five o'clock tomorrow. And
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again this is one of our things where not only are our station is doing
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this only the stations in the building, but all the stations is part of
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the WVRC media family are taking part in this. And I've got with me
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right now. He's got the unabomber look going on this morning, and I
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know you can't see that. I'll take them at some point. My good
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friend, the semi legendary Steve Animal from our sister station ninety eighty seven A
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mouth in wild, wonderful classic rock. How are you, Steven? Well,
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I'm warmer in your studio than I was in mine. There's a little
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issue with the heat of this morning upstairs and here, and I guess I
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don't I can't figure out the way that because you know, this building we're
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in used to be a house. It was the old Frankenberger at Mention Yah,
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And so I guess we're on the same heating and or cooling system because
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there. I went to see Animal this morning and he's locked away in the
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studio and I thought, okay, again, he's doing the show naked.
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That's what I thought, as is generally the case, because he had the
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door shut. And then I figure out, well, it's like seventeen degrees
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in there. Then I walk into this studio this morning, and it's also
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seventeen degrees slus. I'm still wearing my unibomber looks yeah, But anyway,
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how are you man? I'm good, I'm good. Thanks for having me
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on. I needed to move. I was falling into a heat coma because
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I grabbed the Fisher Price heater out of somebody's office and I'm like, how
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does this just crank it up? So in there like drilling on myself.
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Well, before we talk about WV bargains dot Com, I want to ask
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you how are things on the Mountain? Our new station. We launched this
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station in midsummer, and by the way, if you haven't had a chance
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to listen to it, it's awesome. If you're a classic rock fan,
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this is definitely the station for you. Nine eighty seven the Mountain. It's
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now you know, you can go to you can download the app and you
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can listen to it anywhere you want to. But how are things? How
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things been on the Mountain good? We have been extremely well received, which
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I'm very thankful for. I'm still waiting for my first complaint call, so
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you know, if you want to be the first one. But no,
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it's been great. You haven't gotten to Wait a minute, let me get
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this straight. You have not gotten a complaint call yet. Yeah, dude,
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do you have any complaint calls? I get and I'm doing news and
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talking a lot. I'm walking on just two days ago. As a matter
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of fact, I'm actually behaving. I'm letting my back, my thought proceed
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what I'm doing. I'm just letting the music do the talking right now.
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So I should be a song. Oh it is. Yeah, well I'll
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tell you that. You know, whenever I go people, I was at
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an event last night here in Charleston and people were just talking about the Mountain
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and they were saying, man, I was talking to a friend of my
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last night he said, man, I love that that New stations. It's
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really really cool. Nine eighty seven the Mountain and if you like classic rock,
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it's the place to go. My buddy Joey Gresham sent me a text
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last week. He's like, dear Lord, I feel like I'm sixteen years
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old again driving to high school listening to the station. So yeah, it's
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pretty cool. I'm glad to be there. And yeah, I mean we've
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got Larry Shockley there, we have Attricia Moore, We've got Live Classic Classics
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at five. We have the Classic Cafe. So that's pretty awesome. Yeah,
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it is, indeed, so go check it out if you have it.
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And we've been out and about everywhere. You know, I'm going to
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spend a little bit of time talking about some of the Christmas parades a little
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bit later on, but I know that you're gonna be taking part. Shock
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that they've even broke me in. I'm dropping this weekend. Somebody's got to
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drive me. I got a pardy I'm going to Friday night. But all
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right, let's talk about this WV bargains dot Com. Today's day two and
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there are so many cool things on the website against WV bargains dot Com and
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many of these Steve I was taking a look at it into tail last night.
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Sixty five to seventy percent off of the original prices, which is pretty
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all of this stuff. If you want to get the stuff around us,
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you got to click on the Charleston section, but you can almost like an
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eBay moment, you can just go around the area if you want. But
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we were talking off Mike earlier. There's a fire truck. I'm fascinated with
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this fire truck. Coop and I talked about it yesterday, this fire truck,
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and somebody sent me a text and asked me who's selling the fire truck.
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I don't know how. I don't know how that whole part of it
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works. I just know we have this stuff, so I don't know who's
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say this is our stuff, so it's not our fire truck per se.
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But yeah, we have a legitimate nineteen eighty one fire truck available on the
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website, and I am really really wanting us to get that for the station
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vehicle for CHS. But anyway, that's just one of the many things on
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there. That's why you can hose back the crowds. The crowds, the
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thousands of people that I make angry on a regular basis. Yeah, we'll
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do that. But there's I mean, that's serious, of course. But
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there are a lot of furniture items on there, and a lot of it
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is local stuff. The folks from Qugh Furniture have got some really cool things,
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and there folks some Dunbar Furniture have got some really neat things out there.
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There is a party package from Kidderous. I know I'm not a parent,
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but I know I was talking to coop, and he's got a young
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daughter who just absolutely loves kidderous there, I mean, and again, some
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of this stuff is sixty five to seventy percent off tax services for Penny Pinchers,
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a truck driving scholarship from the Boone County Truck Driving Academy, which is
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pretty awesome. Fireworks, there's fireworks available. Put that under the holiday Christmas
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tree and light it up. Nothing. Nothing says Merry Christmas like blowing up
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uncle ted like a flaming Christmas tree in your living room. But give certificates
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from the good folks at Eddie's. Tire and Auto are on there too,
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So there's just so many great things on there. And again, you know,
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like I said last night, I came in and I was actually looking
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at it online, and I mean, you want to do your Christmas shopping,
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this might be a great place to start. I'll get you my list
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here a little bit. I like this one though, Penny Pinchers Tax Service,
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because tax season is coming up and down. Yeah, I just got
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slot. I filed mind late, so I got penalized interest and everything.
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So maybe they can help me out. I'll get my crap together a little
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quicker that's coming here, but go to the website. It's wv bargains dot
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Com is where it is. And this is actually going to be going on
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through I think five o'clock tomorrow, and they've from what I understand, this
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is kind of a little bids thing that we used to do here, and
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the way it works is there's kind of a you can do it, you
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can buy right then. I mean, it's like again like some of the
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other online auctions, if you want to hit a buy now, just say
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boom, I'm in. You can buy it right then if you want to,
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and we've already seen that happening with some of the things. Buy me
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the fire truck. You need the fire truck. And I also want to
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say again it's see said at the top of the segment here you can although
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we're obviously based here in the Kanawha Valley, this is all of our stations.
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So there's things from Beckley, there's things from Morgantown, there's things from
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Cumberland, there's things from Martinsburg. So if you see items on there and
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you want to drive to get then'ts between you know, you could definitely do
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that, yes, absolutely, but if you want to get everything locally then
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just click of the Charleston section of that website right there at WEV bargains dot
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com and yeah, you can do some holiday shopping. Like you said,
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sixty sixty sixty five seventy percent off stuff. So it's and it's going quickly.
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So again, this is something that we like to offer our listeners,
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you know, to give them an opportunity and help about our advertisers too,
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you know, that's what that's what it's all about. And again we got
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some great advertisers on all of our stations, many of them are represented on
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there. So go head on over to WV bargains dot com because you only
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got till five o'clock tomorrow to do it. Hip certificates too. I got
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to thank edist Tier for keeping the Mountain Truck alive and kicking. It's had
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a few issues, but you know they've been able to resuscitate it back to
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life, so thank you. Yeah. Indeed, I got a couple of
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texts for you here. They're not subpoenas this time, unlike the last time
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you were on the air. Is let me see, is there any truth
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to the rumor that Steve Animal is raised by a pack of wild wolves.
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That's in that legitimate tech. Yeah, I still have the marks where my
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mom would grab me by the nape of my neck and pull me up.
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Oddly enough, she grabbed me by the name of my neck as well.
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Tex says dear Dave curious who came up with the station named the Mountain?
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Animal Rules the voice of Local Rock No offense, Dave nay, thank you?
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Yeah, Dave take offense. I mean, well, no, I
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mean you're a legend, man, You're a llegend. I'm not well,
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it's kind of funny like listening to some of the liners and stuff, it's
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just like, you know, the legend has returned. I'm like, who
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are they talking to walk through the door? It's like who's coming through the
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door. But but who did come up with the name of the mountain?
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Do we have any idea where that came from? Is that just we just
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flip a coin, just had a wheel? I believe the powers that be
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actually being We talked. We talked multiple times from the beginning of the year
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you were involved with the poking me Woody. You know also it's like,
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hey, we need to bring you back. So through those conversations. But
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I believe the upper level management on the promenade level of this house came up
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with that. So pretty cool. The promenade level. We have a promenad
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level. Yeah, it's about sixty degrees. Well it's about it's about forty
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here right now. But all right, Steve, I appreciate you stopping by
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this morning. I had a coupon yesterday Tomorrow that seems going to be occupied.
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It's talking about w B bargains dot com by our good friend Rob Reel
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from our sister station and nine and ninety one KWS. We're looking forward to
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talking to Rob about that as well, because he seems like a guy that
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might want a fire truck. I could see that. I would, I
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mean I would drive it. All right. Where are you out and about
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here? I know, by the way, you got a birthday coming up
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soon. I do. I don't know exactly what it is because I don't
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care enough to know, but I'm just telling you you have a birthday.
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Come out. I'll remind you every day from here on out. Eleventh,
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the eleventh of December is your birthday. Stop early and shop often. Yeah,
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drop gifts off at eleven eleven Virginia Street. Well, happy, happy
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early birthday, Thank you, thank you glad to still be here. I
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was gonna say, are you surprised you live the song? Because I'm surprised
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you live this line I would have taken much much better care of than myself.
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Relie. But where are you out and about? Because I was talking
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about the Christas prayer? Are you doing any of the Christmas praise this weekend?
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And you know, I think I'm gonna be in the Saint Albans one
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as of yet. I think maybe Schockole or Brian will take over Dunbar Friday
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night, Yeah, I know. And I'm doing South Charleston Charleston Saturday Saturday
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morning, and there's one Saturday evening I think, yeah, I think so.
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Actually, I've got a schedule where we're going to be not just us,
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but our sister station, and we'll try to get in that a little
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bit later on Animal as always, man, thanks for being there as always.
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I appreciate you being here. Peace all right. It is nine to
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Now, as mentioned this earlier, and this is almost like a Friday
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funhouse show. I am going to get to serious news a little bit later
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on, but there's a lot going on as far as Christmas season, goes.
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You know, Charleston Christmas Parade, I think is one week from today.
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You got all kinds of festivals and all kinds of get togethers and parades
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and whatever. Many of them happened to this weekend. One of those is
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in Nitro or good friend Joe Stevens from the Nitro CVB joins us right now.
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Joe, good morning, how are you? Good morning, David.
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Thanks for having us one to chat about the Christmas Parade. There's a lot
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of them coming up this weekend next week, there is a lot, a
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whole lot of them, and I'm going to try to mention, you know,
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as many as I possibly can. But you specifically reached out to me
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and said, can I go on? I said absolutely anything. For Joe
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Stevens, I wouldn't go that far, my friend, but we appreciate the
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time and effort. You know, Saturday is a big time because I know
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the Dunbar Parade is on Friday night, but on Saturday a couple of years
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ago, it seemed like all the parades were happening at the same time,
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and the fine folks at South Charleston and Saint Albans and Nitro, we all
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got together and said, why don't we kind of like separate them so that
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somebody can start at South Charleston at noon, go to Saint Albans at three
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o'clock and come over to Nitro. In fact, we're going to start this
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year is at five o'clock. So if you like Christmas parades and if your
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kids want some candy, I would say you can get your fill of everything
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of Santa and see Santa making a trip three times during those three parades.
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But our parade, like you said, Dave, we get underway at five
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o'clock. And what is really neat about the parade this year is the fact
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that who our grand marshall is. His name is Bob Denny. Bob Denny
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is a local resident. He is ninety six years old, ninety seven in
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the month of December, and he is a World War Two veteran. We
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honored him during our Veterans Day celebration here at Nitro, and I looked at
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the Mayor, Dave K Bold and some of the other folks in the city
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and I said, we need to bring him as our grand marshal for the
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parade, and he will be our grand Marshal for Saturday's parade. He is
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about history. This man, while he was serving his country, was on
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the USS Marquette on its way to Pearl Harbor to get supplies for the invasion
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of Japan in nineteen forty five. On their way to Pearl Harbor, the
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captain of the USS came over the intercom of the ship and announced that the
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United States had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. And you know when you
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hear that, and you hear him describe that and everything. He is about
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history, he is about serving, He is about the greatest generation that we
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ever had, and we just felt it would be a fitting way to honor
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him by having him as the Grand Marshal of the Nitro Christmas Parade this year.
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I mean, that is awesome. I mean really, And you know,
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I think the last time you were on, we were talking about the
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Veterans' Day things and you were talking with Joe Stevens from the Nitro Convention and
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Visitors Bureau. The last time you were on, we were talking about years
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ago that World War Two veterans were everywhere, and it's just it's just a
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march of time. Man. We're all getting older, you know, some
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of us more than others sometimes is the way I feel. But but now
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there's just so few of them, you know, left, and eventually that's
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going to happen to the Vietnam veterans and on and on down the line.
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So we need to honor these people while we can't. And what great,
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what a great story I mean about this, gentleman, I mean really really,
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I mean, you think we all like to think, Okay, we've
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undergone things in our life, and we've all, you know, we have
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I complained about traffic. This guy, I mean, this is really really
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an incredible story of what he and so many other people did Joe in that
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Greatest Generation without a doubt. And again he was on his way along with
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his other the other he was a Navy machinist third class, but they were
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on their way for one of the you know, other than maybe Normandy,
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the greatest invasion military invasion in the history of the world, and and to
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get that announcement. But he will be leading the parade. The parade will
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start at five o'clock. We're excited about it. We're going to have the
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AJ Andrew Jackson Middle School band right behind mister Denny. Then we've got you
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know, the normal Christmas, but as a lot of people understand, the
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Christmas parade is about bringing in the season of fun and enjoyment. And of
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course we'll have Santa Claus and we'll have just only First Avenue will be lined
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up as it always is, just bringing in this in the season. But
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it's really cool, Dave, and you and I have talked about community,
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the community spirit from it throughout the Caneal Metro area and every community having a
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Christmas parade, just putting smiles on people's faces. Yeah, and the weather
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I'm looking ahead. I mean the weather for Saturday looks like it's going to
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be your parade starts at five. Looks like it's probably going to be in
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the fifties at parade time, maybe maybe the forties. I mean, not
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too terribly bad. I think some people would like to have a little snow
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to kind of set the mood. But you know, I've been in various
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parades, either radio station or other civic organizations, and it gets kind of
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cold out there, especially if you get that cold rain or whatever. Nothing
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like that is predicted at least four now for Saturday, So that's good news,
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and that's great news. Again, you got a lot of parades.
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If you can't make it to Nitro's parade, and would love to have you
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here. Obviously there are other parades. In fact, there's one I believe
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in Cystonville that night around six o'clock, so make sure. And then you
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know, Charleston just steps it up when it comes to a Christmas parade.
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My goodness, Mayor Goodwin and her staff and Jane Bostick down there, they
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throw it down when it comes to a Christmas parade. And that'll be on
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Thursday. So just this area, Dave again stepping up and just having some
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fun for the season. Well, and I'll just go ahead throw this out
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there about Charleston Christmas Parade again next week. That same night, America's Got
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Talent winner Landelug Murphy Junior is going to be doing a concert here in Charleston
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that night. And so that's just an added bonus for next week for you
22:53
mentioned Landau. I have a picture of him holding my son way back when,
23:00
not soon after he had won America's Talent competition and the concert he did,
23:07
the concert he did in the Clay Center, and he was coming up
23:11
the owls and everybody was giving him high fives and my son, Christian,
23:15
he reached over and he just picked him up and was touring around the Clay
23:19
Center with him in his arm. Well, that son is now sophomore at
23:23
Ohio University, and so he brings back a lot of memories and it's glad
23:30
that he is still providing enjoyment for the whole community. And he does this
23:33
every year. He comes back, comes off the road and comes back home
23:37
and does a series of dates usually you know, seven, eight, nine
23:40
or whatever dates around the state of West Virginia in different places, usually not
23:42
the same venue or not the same city. Two years in a row.
23:47
And this is a while. First time he's played in Charleston Wild. He's
23:48
actually going to be on the show next week. Landal will be on the
23:51
show next Tuesday. Let's get back to Nitro before we let you go Joe
23:55
again. Time lineup place and can people still get in the lineup for the
24:00
night your at Christmas Parade? You show up at four o'clock when the lineup
24:03
starts at Pickens Road, which is right across the street from McDonald's on First
24:07
Avenue, Route twenty five, and I'll find you a spot in parade.
24:11
We're talking about a Christmas parade. Unfortunately, we're now solving world peace with
24:15
it. We're having fun. We're having a Christmas parade. You show up,
24:18
we'll get you a spot in the parade. I think all the vehicles
24:22
from as I understand from West Virginia Radio Corporation, the Charleston scenario there will
24:30
be in the parade. So come on out and meet some of your favorite
24:33
personalities in the Nitro parade. The parade will start at five o'clock day,
24:38
real quick, one shout out, it's the season. Shop local. I
24:42
don't care if it's in Dunbar. I don't care if it's in Charleston.
24:45
I don't care if it's in Nitro. Shop local. Indeed, one,
24:49
how was your event on Saturday? A small business Saturday? How they go?
24:53
It went well? You know, twenty first Street was quite active and
24:59
various businesses throughout the area we're doing. You can see people were thinking about
25:03
it again. Yeah, and that's good stuff. All right, we'll see
25:07
you in Nitro this Saturday. Joe Stevens, I appreciate it, man,
25:10
Thanks a lot, Dave. You stay safe, okay, all right,
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man, thanks a lot. Twenty eight minutes away from Jim Joe Stevens not
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the only communities. Joe and I talked about having Christmas festivities and Christmas parades
25:51
and whatnot this Saturday, and I'm not going to be able to mention all
25:55
of them. But I did get a note from my good friend Kay Summers,
25:56
who is the mayor of clintdenn and she's done the Mayor Monday segment in
26:00
the past about their Christmas activities. They're also on Saturday, they're going to
26:03
start their parade lineup at five at PoCA Valley Bank there in Clindennon. There
26:08
is a fee to enter and that fee is a new unwrapped toy. So
26:12
if you're going to enter a float in the Clindennon Christmas Parade, you have
26:17
to bring an unwrapped toy, a new unwrapped toy. I think it's kind
26:19
of cool what they're doing at to be given to those in need, the
26:22
underprivileges holiday seasons. So hats off to Mayor k Summers and those folks in
26:26
Clindenon for that. Dave Fletcher, who is the mayor of a Bell,
26:32
reached out to me about their Christmas parade, which is also Saturday. The
26:34
lineup starts at five point thirty at Boyd Caterpillar. Others on Saturday include now
26:38
this is not the entire list, but others on Saturday include Dunbar. This
26:48
Dunbar Friday Night. Dunbars is actually Friday Night at six, and I think
26:52
some of our station vehicles are going to be in on that. Then Saturday,
26:56
South Charleston's is at eleven. That's the one I'll be I'll be driving
27:00
to the truck for nine eight seven. The Mountain in our sister station.
27:03
Also Saint Albans is happening on Saturday, and Joe just told you about Nitro
27:08
at five when the lineup starts at four o'clock. So we meaning WVRC Media
27:15
Charleston, our sister stations will be in a lot of these parades. That's
27:18
just this weekend, coming through the end of the Christmas seas we look forward
27:22
to it, you know, get an opportunity to get out there, all
27:25
of us from V one hundred and the Mountain and us and all of us
27:27
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here from a good friend of mine in St Albans who wanted me to mention
31:11
the time of the parade in St Albans, and that is three o'clock.
31:15
So in the Land of the Red Dragons is I like to say? And
31:18
I think animal is actually going to be in that one on Saturday afternoon.
31:22
But that's St Albans Parade Saturday afternoon at three o'clock, Texas. Dave,
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if you're going to be playing Christmas music from your van, actually it's a
31:30
truck. Is there any way to request which songs you play if so.
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My nine year old grandson loves Elvis and Santa Claus Is Back in Town.
31:37
It's his favorite Elvis Christmas song. I don't know what the setup for that
31:45
will be, but if we can make it happen, we'll definitely make it
31:48
happen. I'm not a huge fan of I know, here we go.
31:51
I'm not a huge fan of Christmas music per se myself, but I will
31:53
say that if I'm going to listen to Christmas music, there are two songs
31:56
by Elvis that are just kicked you know what, and that would be Santa
32:01
Claus Is Back in Town and the seven minute version seven to nine minute version
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of Merry Christmas Baby. You got to have the long version. It's like
32:09
the freebird of Christmas music. Okay, it's Merry Christmas Baby by Elvis.
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com. Mountaineer Gas says it will provide a seventy five dollars credit to each
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customer's bill who lost service on the West Side. Now, apparently the way
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this is going to work, as best I understand it, there's going to
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be letters going out to the impacted customers a few days. It tells the
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letters do of the customers that they'll be exempt also from the termination process through
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the end of February. So I guess from what I read into that,
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and if I'm wrong, somebody from Mountaineer Gas can let me know that they're
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not worried about turning people off at this point that have gone through all this,
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and it certainly is understandable, and that will be through February now the
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company has paid for residential damage, including the replacement of a great number of
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appliances. Now, yesterday on the show, I had Delegate Mike Pushkin on
33:52
the show, and of course he is somebody who actually lives on the West
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Side and as he told his the story yesterday, was actually impacted by it.
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He's one of the ones that's also back on line. But he also
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received damage to his furnace unit in his house. But he's back in line
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now. But he says he is hopeful that representatives from the gas company and
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West Virginia American Water will appear before the legislature in a committee form during interims,
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and interims are going to be happening next week in Charleston. He has
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asked Delegate Daniel Linville, and he talked about this on the show yesterday's and
34:30
asked Delegate Daniel Lenville to put it on. I guess some sort of an
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agenda for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Mike and I talked about this
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on the show. By the way, if you missed the appearance from Delegate
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and State Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin, just like with all shows, you
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when the podcasts are available. But anyway, as Mike and I talked about
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yesterday, I don't think you're going to find a whole lot of partisan pushback
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on this. To be honest, if there's anything that I think that we
35:14
can reunite, that we can unite Republicans and the few Democrats that are left
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under the Dome, this could be it. And so I am very interested
35:30
in seeing how this is going to play out with them meeting in front of
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a committee, if it does indeed happen with a legislative committee, because as
35:40
Mike and others have pointed out, and I think this is a really good
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point, what they're going to be doing is they're actually going to be talking
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to legislators that answer, as Mike said, to the people and not the
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PSC. And now I'm not saying that they're not going to talk to them,
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because they will at some point obviously, but I'm saying that it's a
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little bit different, uh, when when you're actually talking to legislators, phone
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Wheeling Island Stadium. Three classes of champs will be decided on the gridiron.
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The guy who knows all about it is fred pur Singer, the voice of
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high school sports in West Virginia. Frederick, good morning, Good morning,
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David. Like the temperature in here this morning? You know what it keeps
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you awake? Whoa hello, Hello, Hello. We're hanging meat back in
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the corner over there. But anyway, so another Super six for you.
37:00
This is hard to believe. This is the thirtieth at Wheeling Island Stadium.
37:05
I've been to every one of them, several at Ladley Field, before that.
37:08
So it's always a good time when we get together the first usually the
37:13
first weekend in December. And weather it can be anything you wanted to be.
37:19
Yeah, and I wanted to talk about that because I mean, I
37:21
know I was talking about for the Christmas parades in this area. The weather
37:23
looks good Saturday pretty much the same. In Wheeling. All week long we
37:27
had rain, rain, rain, rain, and that looks like the rain's
37:30
going to be out of there probably by kickoff tomorrow night, and then Saturday
37:35
looks very nice. So and you you said it. I mean, there's
37:37
been everything in these Super six is in the past, from snow to mud
37:43
to ice. I mean, you've had everything. But what a tornado or
37:46
a tornado up there? No, no yet, no, Yeah, but
37:49
no, you're right, we've had everything. I can remember the executive director
37:52
of the WVSSAC before he had that job, he was one of the co
37:55
committee members of the SR the Super Six actually seen him with a hatchet chopping
38:00
ice out of the bleachers. That's hardcore. Friday afternoon, that's hard core.
38:06
It's been told three classes of champs will be decided on the grid on
38:08
Friday night. Class Double A it's number one versus number two in the Battle
38:12
of Marion County as a top rated North Marion team will take on Fairmont Senior
38:15
Saturday Triple A. It's first up is number five. Princeton will take on
38:20
number three Martinsburg Saturday night Single A Championship as four faces three Greenbrio West taken
38:27
on Williams Down. All the action right here on the radio and also on
38:30
the Metro News channel, Fred, what are you? What are you looking
38:34
at? In these games? Take them a game by game, all right,
38:36
starting tomorrow nights. As you mentioned the Battle of Marion County. They
38:39
met one other time the same two teams nineteen eighty one and they were Class
38:45
Triple A teams at the time. They met at Ladleyfield and Charleston and North
38:49
Marion won that one twenty one to six. These two teams have played once
38:52
this year. Vermont Senior won fifty four to thirty six. I don't think
38:57
we'll see that kind of score tomorrow night because that was back in the early
39:00
October. Teams change and yes and so forth, and we've had players on
39:07
last night on the High School Sports Line Show, and it's it's an exciting
39:09
time. I think that will be just really a battle. If it was
39:14
up. The defense is going to win this one because both teams have astounding
39:17
quarterbacks. They really really are very talent on the offensive side of the ball.
39:22
So I think it could be high scoring again, but I think it'll
39:23
be closer than eighteen boys. The question is is there going to be anybody
39:27
in Marion County? No, absolutely not, from the north side to the
39:30
west side, and even those folks on the east side who like to see
39:32
the west side get beat, they're all going to be in Wheeling Saturday.
39:37
It's the Triple A Championship with Princeton taking on Martinsburg and Fred We all know
39:42
the legendary program that is Martinsburg, but Princeton it's kind of kind of new
39:46
ground for them. And yeah, well it is totally new ground. So
39:52
talk about this Princeton team. First, it's Princeton team. They got a
39:53
brand new head coach, first year Keith Taylor. Mountain of a man,
39:59
has a beard in the law hair, and I mean evidently he knows football.
40:01
He has a lot of talent, he really does. Chance Barker is
40:05
a tremendous quarterback. They've got a receiver by the name of Dom Collins.
40:09
His name is Dominic, but he prefers dom. Dom Collins is very very
40:13
fast. I mean he's as fast as there is anybody in the state.
40:16
Actually, we had on our show last night, and I mean, you
40:20
talk about excitement. You go through Princeton at night and all of the businesses
40:24
have blue lights on them. So the businesses, the community's really gotten behind
40:29
the team, and I think Princeton will show up now again. You know,
40:31
you talk about Martinsburg, and Martinsburg has won a total of nine state
40:37
championships and Dave Walker going for the number ten tomorrow on Saturday afternoon. A
40:43
lot of folks seem to have written off Princeton, But my point of contention
40:46
is if you beat Bridgeport seventy three to seventy, he better take note because
40:53
obviously Princeton can score points. So it's going to be Martinsburg's defense against that
40:58
high octane offense that Princeton will bring the wheeling and then Saturday night the single
41:01
A title game. Williamstown certainly no strangers to success in the world of high
41:06
school sports, taking on the pride of Charmco West Virginia. And let me
41:10
just say I love saying Charmco. By the way, Greenbrier West Briar West
41:16
head coach first year Kelly Vaughan. Kellyvan played for Greenbrier West and went on
41:21
to play college ball at Wake Forest. He's a mountain of a man.
41:24
He shook my hand the other day and we were in a meeting in Parkersburg.
41:28
The guy, I still don't know what happened my hand. I don't
41:30
that, so trying to get the circulation. I heard the interview. Let
41:32
me jump in real quick. I heard the interview last night. I was
41:35
driving and listening to the interview that you did with one of the players from
41:37
Greenbrier West, and he was talking about Kelly Vaughan. You know because he
41:42
again he's a local guy because he went to Greenbrier West, went to play
41:45
for the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest and then came back to coach. Yes,
41:49
great story. They have a lot of respect for him in that program
41:51
they're doing need and he has a lot of respect for Charmco. He loves
41:54
that hometown of his. So I don't know. Both teams are undefeated.
42:00
Williamstown on the only one of the six teams that we'll see this weekend that
42:02
was at Wheeling Island last year. At this time they're trying for a repeat.
42:07
They've got probably the most prominent name in high school football in the state,
42:13
and Maxwell Molessa is the quarterback and he is very, very good.
42:16
He's already signed to play baseball at West Virginia University, so a talented athlete.
42:22
But again, when you look at Greenbrier West, they're gonna come and
42:24
smack you in the mouth and if you get up, they're gonna smack you
42:28
again. So yeah, it's gonna be a tough, hard fought game.
42:32
Williamstown certainly favored, Martinsburg is certainly favored very much. Senior is favored,
42:38
but we'll see what happens. The cliche is, that's why you play the
42:43
game. I guarantee you Bridgeport was favored against Princeville. Well, and what
42:46
about Wahamma. It definitely Mohamma came in with scoring eighty seven thousand points a
42:51
game. You know exactly. We'll be listing and watching because the games will
42:55
be on the W on the Metro News channel. Of course, we'll be
42:58
airing them on the radio as well. And before you before you go,
43:00
I would want to throw this in here, we're already talking high school basketball.
43:05
You know, the boys are scrimmaging, the girls are already playing play
43:07
last night. It's it is that time. And a quick question. And
43:12
I don't I do, don't want to put you on the spot, okay,
43:15
because you know I have too much respect for them to do that.
43:17
But we all know about the controversy surrounding the transfer portal. Yes, and
43:22
what many people think that's what caused a lot of the lopside of scuare not
43:27
in the playoffs necessarily, But what you saw in the regular season in high
43:30
school football, could we be looking at the same thing, in your opinion
43:32
in high school basketball? Think it'll be worse. I've heard people say that
43:36
in football you need twenty two players basketball you need five. Yeah, and
43:39
I know for a fact one team has replaced four their starting five from last
43:44
year through the transfer portal. So you're going to see it. I said
43:47
all along, I thought basketball would be hurt the worst, and I think
43:52
it will be. But we'll have to wait and see. You know,
43:53
it's it's been a while things to settled down. And here's the bad part.
43:57
Here's the bad part. In my opinion on this whole transfer thing.
44:00
I know. I know three football players that played for a high school,
44:07
three differ high schools. They don't play for three different high schools and basketball
44:12
mm and they can do that according to this new law. You can play
44:15
football at one school transfer to play basketball at another school if you didn't transfer
44:21
in to play football at that school, you know, And I hate to
44:25
and I guess, wow, I mean mind blown as they say on that.
44:29
I just I guess I never really thought about that. I guess fred,
44:31
I'm I'm old school. I'm so old school on preschool when it comes
44:36
to certain things. But I just, I mean, there's something about school
44:39
spirit and about you talked about about Princeton and what's going on down there with
44:45
you and I've been there, coming from a small town, and we didn't
44:47
have success like that in football at Logan High, but we had it with
44:50
Mann and Chapmanville within the county and and and have the whole town rallies around
44:54
and and it's that that's that is shot all the heck and back in many
45:00
cases, whose dad played there, Yeah, they went there, And now
45:05
he said, who's this kid? I don't remember his family? You know.
45:08
That's what's happening. So uh, you know, I hope it doesn't
45:12
affect it as much as I think it's going to. You just have to
45:14
wait and see. All right, well, Fred, it's a pleasure to
45:16
have you on the show. Enjoy your time in Wheeling. Where's the go
45:20
to eating places? And when I know a couple? But for you,
45:22
where's the place to go in Wheeling? To Hej's is one of the best
45:25
places in the world of eating Wheeling. Okays is good? What's the go
45:29
to thing on the menu? Teach wings, get the wings, Get the
45:31
wings. I always get the wings, the wings and hard to believe the
45:35
coal slaw I like to die for. Hey, I grew up free Will
45:37
Baptist. Man, I know my coal slaw. All right you, Fred
45:40
Pursinger, I appreciate you stopping by. Man. You get you and the
45:44
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shelter cana kind of animal shelter is listening. Since the weather is supposed to
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be very nice on Saturday, would you consider having some of the dogs and
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cats in the different parades. I would think that the fresh air and meeting
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all out to people along the route would do them a world of good.
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Well, Hannah Gardner from the Humane Association, as always, will be on
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the show on Friday. That is Tomorrow's Friday Funhouse, So we'll bring that
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up to Hannah tomorrow on the show. Let me see Texas Water Company going
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to deny any responsibility. We have some of the highest water rates in the
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country. They need to be reeled in, according to a Texter. All
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right, So this postal facility thing, story posted about it at Wvmetronews dot
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com. You know by now that the Postal Service has said that they are
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in I guess, sort of a review process, if you will, of
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the Charleston Processing and distribution center. Now it's located out near South Ridge.
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There is a possibility that the facility could be closed or at least downsized.
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Tim Holstein, who is with the union representing the workers, was on Hoppy
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yesterday and said, basically, basically, it's just talks at this at this
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point, but there's a lot of talk out there about it. I mean,
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it first hit the news earlier this week. We've been all over it,
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and all the other local media outlets have as well. And the plan
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is is that if I guess what I'm hearing is if it does shut down,
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that it would transition to Pennsylvania probably, And this distribution center employee is
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about eight hundred people, About five hundred of them are represented by the union
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here locally, but about eight hundred people total, and those jobs, I
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guess would be lost, or maybe they'd give an opportunity to transition to something
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else. I don't know, but everybody's all the politicos are getting involved in
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this. Last night, Senator Mansion released a statement and you can read the
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entire statement posted as part of the story at wv metronews dot com. Us
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some pretty harsh language in there. Governor Justice, Senator Capitol, others have
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issued statements about it as well. Delegate Pushkin on the show yesterday he talked
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about it as well, and again the story's posted at wv metronews dot com.
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Tex says, if you care about the post office issue, blame Representative
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Carol Miller. Representative Alex Mooney and Senator Shelley Moore Capitot, Miller and Mooney
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voted no on the twenty America Act that would have brought funding to the USPS
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to prevent closures. Capitol and the Republican controlled Senate wouldn't even take up the
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bill. Republicans equals bad deals for workers. According to a Texter, we'll
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close with this. The judges, Ryan B. Packin in Kanah's Circuit Court
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Chief Kanah's Circuit Court Judge Taris Lango entered the order allowing circuit judges to carry
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a gun inside the judicial annex yesterday. Now. Up till now only police
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officers were permitted to carry them, but now the judges can do so as
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well. So keep that in mind, Ryan when you go in front of
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the judge. We're thinking about acting up in the courtrooms of Kanawha County.
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They're packing heat. Now, all right, we got to go. Thank
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you so much for Fred Persinger, for star by Joe Stevens as well.
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my guest co host for Friday fun House will be local comedian Andy Frampton is
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you then till then, have fun and love somebody whs Am ninety six point
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