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Thunder In The Mountains with Rusty Webb & Senator Rich Lindsay's Future · The Dave Allen Show

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is going to join us. He has an announcement to make about what his
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future is going on. I don't even know what it is. Rich contacting
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me last week and said like to come on the show to make an announcement.
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I have no idea what it is. I'll find out when you find
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out. Good friend Rusty Webb is with us right now. Thunder the Mountains
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is coming up this weekend. Good morning, sir, how are you?
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Good morning, Dave. Good to be here looking looking well of this morning,
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coming in here like Jim Cornette, you know, swinging the tennis racket
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around. You're ready to go for this weekend. Man, I am in
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thanks to Palmer. They're one of our sponsors. Well, you got plenty
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of sponsors. You got a lot of sponsors. Yeah, I do have
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a lot of spots. We'll get to those a little bit later on.
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I'll tell us tell us about this thunder in the mount Just give us the
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overall of you. What is this You're everywhere by the way, Yeah,
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so you know you're everywhere talking about this. Yeah, it's a it's a
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collegiate Division one collegiate women's tennis tournament co hosted by marsh in WVU. Yes,
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they do get along. And this year's guest teams are Cleveland State University
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and Radford University. And Radford University is making a This will be their second
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appearance. Radford University has two West Virginia players and Marshall has two West Virginia
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players, and two of those players won the state doubles championship a few years
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ago. So it's a kind of a family reunion for these these young ladies.
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Now, Radford is known as a tennis school. They have a pretty
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good program. Now they sure do they sure do? Yes, they do,
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Yes, they do. It's going to be in Kanasa City at the
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Show and Bomb Tennis Courts. It's free. I never say that because I
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just assume people know that, but some people don't know that. It's free
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if you want to catch the highlights. Marshall is playing WVU in doubles on
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Friday morning at ten o'clock and Marshall and WV are playing singles around noon.
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On Saturday. Okay, Uh, Saturday is a we're coding as we did
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last year and the first year, by the way, in two nineteen.
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A clinic, a kids clinic. And if you if you're in an elementary
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student or middle school student and you're a beginner, and you attend our clinic,
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you'll be taught by Marshall and WVU players. You'll receive a free junior
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tennis racket complements of Graceland Tennis, which is a Charleston based tennis company.
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Hold that up, I'm taking a picture. I want you to see the
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right. Go ahead. So doctor Joseph sink Layer uh, who is an
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eye surgeon here in town, he has this company and I discovered it and
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he's he's he's giving us forty rackets at cost. And then CATA Charleston Area
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Tennis Association is underwriting the cost of those rackets. Uh. They get money
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from the US Open that they need to spend on community development projects. Also,
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if you're if you attend, the kids get a free T shirt,
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free lunch, and free autograph tennis ball. So now is that any day
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or is that a certain days? It's just Saturday, Saturday at am to
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eleven am okay, okay, talk about how this whole thing came about?
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Well, Uh, in two nineteen, I was meandering my way down to
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the courts one Friday or Saturday Friday, I think it was, to play
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and I noticed all these uh them and tennis players. And they were not
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University of Charleston, which I'm accustomed to sing right, because they practiced there,
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they play their matches there. It was Marshall, WVU, Toledo,
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James Madison and two others I can't remember. And I'm like, nobody was
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there, and I'm like, I'm affiliated with both universities, and like,
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how did I miss this? Like I know everything that's going on, you
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know, at WV and Marshall. So I approached both of the coaches and
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said, hey, this is kind of a big deal. Let you know,
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let's make it an event, you know, let's make it bigger than
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this. And they both agreed, and so and uh and the and I
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got the mayor involved. The can't think Amy Mayor Amy Goodwin and the City
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of Charleston enough for underwriting the major expenses in this in this event without which
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we couldn't do it. Quite frankly, she was excited about it. I
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called it, I call it the Mayor's Cup. She gives the trophy away,
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and twenty twenty we had to cancel it. We planned to had to
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cancel. Twenty twenty one, we had six teams, including West Virginia State.
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They were there the only time we've ever had a Division two team there.
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States Number one took WVU to the wire to overtime. That was pretty
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cool. And then last year we had four teams, and this year four
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teams are more manageable because you just don't you don't have to start at the
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crack of dawn and end at night at midnight. So we've we've narrowed it
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down to four teams each year. Rusty webbers with us. We're talking about
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this weekends thunder in the Mountains. Rusty talk about the work it takes to
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pull this off. Well, I'll say this, after two years with the
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City of Charleston's is just absolutely wonderful. Miranda over there, she helps,
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she coordinates this, she takes care of all my permitting, so it's almost
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it's it's almost automatic. But then again, I still just do a ton
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of things like interviews like this, press releases, you know, I have
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meetings with the rec center people who are also awesome. Uh, you know,
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in the weeks leading up to it, I have T shirts printed,
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I have polish shirts printed. I try to advertise as best I can and
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before I forget any tennis team, any high school or middle tennis team that
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attends as a team will receive free tournament t shirts. All of Cabell County
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middle schools are coming, by the way, which I'm extremely pressed with.
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So yeah, it takes a lot, and I'm but it's a labor of
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love. I mean, I love tennis. I'm a huge supporter of women's
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athletics. I usually would wear my Riley Gaine shirt because I'm a big supporter
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Riley Gaines and her efforts. I just feel like, you know, the
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women and girls don't get the credit that they deserve because they're just their their
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athletes, and I just I just want to support them anyway I can.
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But yeah, so it takes a little bit of work. And talk about
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what it means to the Canal Valley. I mean, because again I spent
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a lot of time talking about events like this where you're bringing people in.
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You know, you said there's gonna be high school. Elamm, We'll talk
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about that a little bit, but talk about what it means to the Canal
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Valley to have this here. Well, you know everyone, everyone wants diversity
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in their entertainment opportunities. And I can't think of anything better than to introduce
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young girls to the sport of tennis and having this in your backyard. You're
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talking about two major universities and last year VCU actually wanted Virginia Commonwealth and these
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are these are potentially future pro players and the tennis is just really really good.
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And I'm a tennis fan. I mean, I'll I'll say it.
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I'm I'm a tennis fan. I'm a women's tennis fan. I watch more
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WTA than I do ATP But yeah, it just it's opportunities that you know,
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we have the cultural center, we have the all the theaters and the
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music, and this is just another component of that and and it and it
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it's a little bit of a boost to the economy. I mean, nothing,
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nothing, nothing great, but you know, you know Marshall's state.
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I want everybody to Marshall will stay up. They only have an hour drive,
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but they'll stay up because we have events plan for them. Uh,
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you know, in between the matches, we have dinners and all kinds of
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things, not the least of which is are meet and greet on Thursday night
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that you can attend if you want to, for fifty dollars catered by Pepperoni
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Grill food. Is awesome. It is. It is awesome, very good
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and uh you know, fifty dollars, you meet and greet silent auctions,
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you get a free T shirt. The sponsors will be there to get their
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swag bags. I give swag bags to all the volunteers and players and coaches
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and sponsors. I mean, I try to do it's it's all patterned after
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the Western Southern Cincinnati. Okay, so it's Western Stone as a professional tournament
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with it's a big deal, but it's my kind of my little Western Southern.
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I'll do it as best I can. And you mentioned Earli about the
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high school and middle school teams, Yes, that are coming. That's got
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to be pretty cool for them too to look and see. Okay, if
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I if I keep doing what I'm doing, I can get a scholarship,
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I can go play collegiately, maybe go pro. Talking about the high school
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teams in middle school, I was just so happy. Someone reached out to
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me from Cable County and said, we're bringing all the middle school teams and
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I was like, wow, that's really cool because I haven't been able to
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do that heretofore, but I thought, hey, offer a free T shirt.
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Kids will come for t shirt. Nitro's coming, Herbert Hoover's coming,
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I know for a fact. But yeah, I mean what I mean,
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you get even I get, I get. I was talking to I was
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playing with a buddy yesterday. He says, you want to learn tennis,
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watch tennis, watch tennis, watch the pros, watch the college players.
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Just emulate what they do. You don't need lessons, just watch them.
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And uh, that's one of the reasons why this is my last year doing
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it, because I want to watch the tournament. So I'm I'm I'm training.
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What's gonna happen. Well, I'm going to train a buddy of mine
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to take over. But this is your last year, not the last year
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the event. The last year of the Rusty Webb's gotta be char and we
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may transition it into something else. But now I'll leave that. I'll leave
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that for another day. Talk about the sponsors again. These things aren't possible
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without sponsors. Well, I tell you Parmar, Kata Mullen Heating and Plumbing,
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the City of Charleston, Pepperoni Grill, Subway, Chick fil A,
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Jimmy John's. They're all providing lunches each of the each of the respective days.
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Oh gosh, I hope I don't leave anyone out. You always leave
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somebody out. I had last year's T shirt with me. But well,
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then what is this you brought me here? You brought me a Well,
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that's for our that's for that's for that's business after we get off the air.
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Okay, all right. I never know when with Russia shows up with
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gifts and he says, okay, that's for one to get off the air.
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It's not like it's a bottle of bourbon or anything. But all right,
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we'll talk about that. I guess when we get off the air,
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where can people learn more? Give us all of the tails we have it?
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Well, we have a group page. We have a Facebook page.
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Thunder in the Mountains A great job with that. By the way, well,
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I just copy and paste. I'm not very well. Whatever it takes,
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man, it good see info out. Yeah, Thunder in the Mountains
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it's all on there. If you want to go to the reception, you
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got to get a hold of me somehow quickly because I need a headcount to
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give to Pepperoni Grill today tomorrow. Okay, all right, so thank and
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thanks for having me on. Absolutely, absolutely, it's a great event.
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I mean again, and I love the fact that it says, even in
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the under the insignia Rusty, it says hosted by Marshall University and West Virginia
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University, and again proving that they can work together. All right, So
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I gotta get this in. Has nothing to do with tennis and you and
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I were talking about this with Jeff just before we went on the show.
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I love the fact that West Virginia University and Marshall University, and I'll admit
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I'm not the biggest soccer guy in the world one and two respectively in the
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national rankings. My wife and I were actually watching one of the TV news
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channels last night and when they put that graphic up there. I'd heard it
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about it all day on our stations, but I saw it up there,
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I said, look at I paused it. I said, look, how
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kind of cool that is. We got West Virginia and Marshall nationwide one and
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two. That's good stuff. It is. It is great stuff. It
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is great stuff. The game is going to be played in Morgan Down this
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year and Marshall's taking some busses up and that's going to be their gold rush,
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which means they're they're going to take it very seriously. And I can't
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imagine the atmosphere because it's always great in Huntington, and we just need to
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replicate that with all the other sports. We're only down to three sports right
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now where we play each other, but we need to just go back to
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where we played all all sports. I agree, I agree, you know,
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especially basketball, I mean especially especially basketball. I completely get it,
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Rusty. I appreciate it, appreciate you. Kim By. Thunder the Mountains
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and I appreciate you being here man. Thanks a lot, Thanks Rusty.
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nine three five five zero zero away. We'll welcome to the show. Former
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State Senator rich Lindsay, good morning, sir, How are you? Good
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morning Dave? How are you doing man? Well, I'm doing better because
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you showed up with gifts this morning. Everybody's bringing me gifts. You see
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what Rusty Webb brought. He brought me a nice little West Virginia flag here.
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I just kind of hard to describe that on the radio. But you
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can't eat that. No, But you brought donuts, right, Donut Connection.
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Yes, you got to support our good donut people there on Spring Street.
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Yeah, absolutely, well, we appreciate that very much. Those are
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healthy donuts, right, because Millie Snyder from the Shape Shop is going to
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be on the show tomorrow, So those are healthy donuts, right. Sure,
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sure, Pumpkin, there's pumpkin, and it's good for you, right,
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Coop, it's pumpkin, not good for you. Yeah, Apple's good
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for you too, those apple crisp doughnuts. Drink a Dyet Coke with it.
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That's all you got it? Check all right. You wanted to come
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in this morning, sir, to make an announcement. Yeah, Dave,
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you know you're a good friend of mine and I wanted to be here and
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make this announcement on your show. I am running for the new seat here
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in the Circuit Court of Kanak County, running for judge for that seat.
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It's the eighth division seat. Here in Kanak County, and I want to
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make it official by announcing it on your show. Okay, so what level
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of this decision? Well, twofold, twofold? Really. The first reason
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is and I miss, I truly miss public service. I get a lot
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of joy out of what I do for a profession, but nothing gives me
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more joy or gave me more joy than making a difference in people's lives when
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I was in the state Senate, whether it was passing legislation, end in
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legislation, helping constituents directly or indirectly. I think when your hold public office,
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you have that opportunity. There's probably no other profession, maybe other than
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preacher, where you can make a difference in people's lives. And I missed
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doing so, and I thought here was an opportunity where I could give back
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to the people of Kanak County who have made me who I am, who
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have contributed to my successes, and I want to serve. So that's the
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first reason, Okay. The second reason is this seat was created in part
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because of the significant abuse and neglect docket in Kanau County. I know you've
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talked on your show many times about the opioid crisis, and how there are
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after effects or consequences of the opioid crisis that we've been living with for the
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last several years, and one of them is just this explosion of our abuse
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and neglect docket, and then of course some of the failures in the foster
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care system, both of which while I was in the State Senate, I
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became knowledgeable about and speaking to families people who have been through the process.
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As an attorney, I've represented families in that process, and I can think
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of no better thing to do than to try to, you know, reunify
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families where it's possible, where it's not, to find the next best alternative.
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You know, raising a child for him or her to reach their potential
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just takes a few ingredients, you right, time, stability, love,
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security, And I think that in our abuse neglect system, I'm sure.
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I'm certain that's the goal of all the judges, and I want to be
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part of the solution in that regard. I can't imagine get we're talking with
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former State Senator rich Lindsay, Uh, I can't imagine what people in the
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judicial brands, or foster care workers or whomever is involved in this process see
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and hear on a daily basis in the courtrooms, family court systems or whatever.
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Because directly, you know, the opioid crisis that we have in this
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part of the world and really all over the country, but especially in appalachic
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I can't imagine what the seeing here rich on a daily basis. Sure,
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no, absolutely, and obviously judges playing a cential role in and making those
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decisions and being part of the solution. And that's something I want to do,
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you know. I think that again that that's where that's where the greatest
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need is right now, unfortunately in a lot of ways in our state,
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and I want to be part of that. Did you give any thought whatsoever
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to or maybe I mean you're a young guy, if you thought about that
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some point possibly returning back under the dome in West Virginia as a as a
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legislator at some point or had been there done that. Well, you know,
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I enjoyed the time I was there. I hope the folks that I
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represented thought I served them well. I think that you know that the environment's
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a little bit different than what it was when I when I was first selected,
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and uh, you know, you go where you can make a difference,
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and I think I can make a difference in this arena. What did
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you learn rich during your time in the States Senate that you think will serve
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you if the voters choose you in this new role. Well, you know,
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I learned again the processor. You know, what goes into our abuse
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and neglect cases, the parties that play, the guardians that lie on,
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the appointed attorneys, the the the the in family treatment courts, the specialties
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that come in. You know, I've supported the expansion of family treatment courts
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and the expansion of drug courts because I do think it. Judge plays an
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important role, and it's not just what I've learned in the legislature. An
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addition to that, I think I bring to this particular position as judge a
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lot of experience. You know, most people may think that you know that,
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Uh well, if you've got a law degree, then then you know
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everything that happens in a courtroom. And just like any other any other job
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or vocation, there are various types of lawyers. And I pride myself on
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being an attorney who's who's practiced for fifteen years. I have, you know,
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done everything you can do in a trial, and you know, two
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things that judges want, or right rather, attorneys want, whether they're planets
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attorneys or defense attorneys. They want a fair judge, someone who will put
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their different their personal beliefs aside and apply the law to the facts. And
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then also they want someone with trial court experience. And the reason why is
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because in the twenty cases that I've been co counsel or lead counseling and Canall
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County and Cavil County, mercer Riley Upshur County, I've become quite familiar with
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our rules of civil procedure or an evidence and discovery in our trial court rules,
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so familiar that I think I can bring that type of experience to the
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lid against no matter what the action is before or before the court, and
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make decisions. I think sometimes judges is getting a little trouble when they're not
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as familiar with those rules. They may not want to know what to do.
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I'm happy and willing to make quick decisions and move cases along and to
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make a difference. Again in those abuse and neglect proceedings. We talked about
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your time in the legislature and about your career as an attorney. Give us
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the overall bio though for people that may not know what't that long ago?
24:59
You serve? Just give us a bio and Rich lindsay in the in the
25:02
state Senate in general, okay, who are you? Who are you?
25:04
Did you get just assume like no, no, ain't in general? No
25:07
no, no, you know, because maybe are gonna ask him. It's
25:11
West Virginia. When you're out on the campaign trio, people are gonna ask
25:14
who's your mom and dad? Who's your right? That's a good question.
25:17
Get in West Virginia, sir, Yes, sir. So you know I'm
25:19
born in Charleston, West Virginia. I've lived most of my life here.
25:23
I live on the East End with my wife, who is a physicians assistant
25:26
at Captain Creek Health Systems. We have two boys, and eleven year old
25:30
and nine year old. I have, you know. I went to college
25:37
at Wingate University in North Carolina. I went to law school at Appalachian School
25:41
of Law and Grundy, Virginia. You know I have. Before going to
25:48
law school and before becoming a professional, I was one of those guys who
25:52
worked in bars and restaurants as waiters and bartender. My first job going coming
25:57
out of or during in high school, was a bag boy at the now
26:03
Biggy Piggy Wiggly used to be food Land. But you know, I have
26:08
tried to hold some type of job throughout my life and and think that's important
26:15
to bring not just that experience, but to have that type of work ethic
26:18
that has led me to be what I would think to be successful in my
26:21
law practice. I've been a lawyer for fifteen years. I represent families,
26:26
individuals, children, parents and grandparents who've been catastrophically injured through no fault of
26:32
their own. And I'm proud of that work. And of course I've you
26:37
know, worked and been on the boards of the Covenant House and the Easton
26:42
Family Resource Center, and of course served in the state legislature for four years.
26:45
So that kind of gives you an idea. And of course, as
26:48
you know, an avid fan of the Smoke House. Yes, if you
26:52
do nothing else in your in your career. I had reached on a couple
26:57
of years ago and he's we're talking about food, and he asked me about
27:03
the Smokehouse and try and I told him I had never eaten there. And
27:06
the first, my first ever trip to the Smokehouse was with Rich Lindsay,
27:11
and you invited me to lunch, and we said, even though you know
27:14
we have some differences politically, we sat down, we we broke bread,
27:18
and we we had a delicious meal there with the folks over the smokehouse and
27:22
came friends after that. So yeah, I'm forever in your debt for that.
27:25
No, only our only real disagreement. And this is probably gonna hurt
27:29
me politically saying this, But you're a Cincinnati Reds fan, and so between
27:32
the Reds and the Cowboys successes, you're almost insufferable at this point. Well,
27:36
yes I am, I am cow but this is the Cowboys. You're
27:38
in the super Bowl. By the way, I saw you posted down on
27:41
social media. That was pretty you know, that was brave of you.
27:45
Well, as long as the forty nine ers aren't involved, then the Cowboys
27:48
have got it all right. So what's campaign gonna look like? Because rich
27:52
campaigns for for for judicial officers are a little different. You know, sometimes
27:56
they can be you don't you know, you don't see all a whole lot
28:00
of attacks and and sometimes sometimes some of the packs do get involved in things.
28:04
But what what kind of approach are you're going to use to campaigning Rich
28:07
Well, the nuts and bolts of any type of campaign that I've been part
28:10
on, part part of and lead is that, you know, a good
28:14
grassroots effort effort. I'm a big canvasser. I believe in meeting people where
28:18
they are. I intend to run this race like I've run in every other
28:22
race in that regard. You know, I think that I think what people
28:25
need to know, you know, when when considering judicial candidates, I think
28:30
it's important to know again that experience, you know, is it the first
28:33
time they've been in a trial courtroom. That That's one thing I think a
28:37
question should should be asked. I think I can answer that. I think
28:41
the other thing is I think that, you know, making sure that people
28:45
understand that I am one who believes that again, putting a judge's role is
28:52
to put their personal you know, beliefs, political or otherwise aside and just
28:57
apply the law to the fact. I think, you know, it is
29:00
essential for not just our judiciary, but our democracy to have consistency in our
29:07
courts. And the way you have consistencies is when you have judges follow the
29:11
law. The reason why that consistency is important is because I was actually thinking
29:15
about this and I'm I'm gonna steal it from Andrew Jackson, you know,
29:19
two hundred years ago or whatever. But you know, the courts don't have
29:23
a military, all right there they They're rulings are not enforced in that way.
29:30
The reason why rulings are followed, in part is because people believe that
29:36
the laws being applied equally. The people believe that the law is consistent.
29:40
And I think as a judge you play an important role in making sure that
29:42
people continue to believe that in that it is so that it's not just a
29:47
belief indeed. So yeah, I've asked I'm gonna close with this. Some
29:52
of the other candidates that I've had that are rich, that are running for
29:55
other circuit courts and things that nature, I've I've thrown out this question to
29:59
pretty much all up them. And that has been There has been real or
30:02
imagine, there has been talk around America that people a certain certain segment about
30:10
legislating from the bench and about making rules from the bench. And we've seen
30:14
it. I mean, there's been accusations of that here in Canock, can
30:15
There's been accusations of that on the Supreme Court going up to that level It
30:18
all depends on which party is in charge. I think as to which who
30:22
they have a problem with your comment on that legislation from the bench or I
30:30
disagree with that. That's a different function. Legislature makes the law, the
30:33
executive enforces the law, and the judiciary applies the law and interprets the law.
30:37
I think that again, one of the worst things that can happen in
30:41
our judiciary and our system of government is if a litigant comes out of a
30:45
courtroom believing that they got a raw deal because of the different political opinions the
30:49
judge may have than themselves. I take that seriously. I think that that's
30:55
important. It's greater than Richard Lindsay. It's greater than any party. It's
31:00
it's that belief and principle that that's what a judge is supposed to do.
31:03
Do you have your websites and all that up you're working on it? Or
31:07
yeah, no, no, I have the website up, but thank you
31:10
for asking. I would have forgotten that. It's a Lindsay for WV dot
31:14
com. L I N D S A Y number four WV dot com.
31:18
All right, and you know the way this works. Anytime I ever have
31:21
a candidate on always close with the thing I call the Final thirty, and
31:25
I'll have you and anybody else's running on several times between now an election day.
31:29
Why should people vote for Rich lindsay? I ask folks to vote for
31:32
me because I believe I have the experience necessary to be a judge that not
31:37
only is committed to this community in our county, but is looks forward to
31:41
being part of the solution when it comes into abuse, when it comes to
31:45
abuse and neglect cases, then also has the experience and to the proven experience
31:51
to act quickly on actions, all actions, be they criminal, civil,
31:56
or otherwise. Rich, I wish you the best to luck. All right,
31:59
I'm going to forget that Cowboys and Red's statement. You man, I
32:01
want to make sure happy end. I don't know if you've told your listen.
32:05
I have not yet, but I was going to tell on my list
32:07
of things to talk about. Okay, Well, May is my wedding annivers
32:09
We'll make sure Ruth gets a donut, makes sure she knows that they're donuts
32:13
here. I don't know if she likes donuts, but there's a whole variety.
32:15
I brought them for her, not for you. Well, you know,
32:19
if you look around this building and you see Chris Lawrence, and you
32:22
see the sales weasels upstairs, whatever, you really think those donuts are gonna
32:25
make it back to Tay's Valley. I mean, comes, just get one.
32:28
There's eleven, all right, all right, there's eleven. Well,
32:30
someone already came up. Someone it wasn't me. Someone want to test it
32:34
to make sure it was good. Oh. I have to have food testers
32:37
for this show now because there's all the enemies I make Riche Lyncy, I
32:39
wish you the best to like man, We'll have you on again. Thanks
32:42
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36:45
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36:50
bit of that this morning. Council Woman Snodgrass will be on the show this
36:52
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is on Thursday show. Councilwoman Shannon Snodgrass. Oh man, let me knock
37:04
out some text here. Text says, oh yeah about Hurricane High School student
37:09
fastest high school in the I'm sorry. We had a text earlier in the
37:13
show about Hurricane High School and a student there who is the fastest runner in
37:17
the nation right now, and they wanted to make sure they texted back that
37:22
and it's an all capitalist just say in the nation fastest runner in the nation
37:27
goes to Hurricane High School, and texture wanted me to point out not a
37:31
transfer, actually a Hurricane native, at least somebody that's been in the school
37:37
system there, So congratulations to that young student. Text says the West Virginia
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GOP will be making endorsements in nonpartisan elections in the spring. It's safe to
37:50
say the GOP will not be endorsing the liberal Rich Lendsay. According to a
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text Texas, Rich lindsay will one of the more liberal Democratic senators in the
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West Virginia Senate before losing his bid for reelection. West Virginia does not need
38:06
any more liberal judges on the bench blocking conservative laws, just as we do
38:10
not need liberals in the legislature. These liberal judges say they will not legislate
38:15
from the bench, but that is exactly what they do. According to a
38:20
texture, let me see here, Texas says we have enough progressive liberals on
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situation of drug addiction has gotten worse in the last ten years and there's no
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end in sight. Time to make change. Creepers for change. According to
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a Texter, I would be remiss if I don't, if I did not
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mention this big milestone. Today is my thirty first wedding anniversary, as mister
38:53
Lindsey pointed out earlier on the show, So you only have to put up
38:58
with me for one hour a day. This poor soul gets me for the
39:04
other twenty three and has done for thirty one years now. And so so
39:10
happy anniversary to my wife, Ruthan. And it's funny because as you get
39:15
older, and I am getting older, I think sometimes it means more.
39:22
You know, maybe maybe you look back and you realize all the changes that
39:27
have taken place in the world in those thirty one years that I've been married.
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You know, there was no internet to speak of back then, certainly
39:35
no social media or smartphones. We were still recording things on VCRs. I
39:40
was just wrapping up college and was working doing news at a radio station in
39:47
Gallipolis, Ohio when we got married. Well here we are now thirty one
39:51
years later, and we've moved on in our career. She's advanced. I'm
39:53
still talking on the radio about houses, cars, you know, buried parents
39:59
and all the things that you do as an adult. But I was looking
40:04
at some of the pictures this morning before I came in of our wedding day.
40:08
It was a beautiful sunny day in Whitman, West Virginia and Logan County,
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and the song in Color by one of my favorite artists, Jamie Johnson,
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kept going through in my head. The lyrics say, if we look
40:22
like we were scared to death, like a couple of kids just trying to
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dot o r G. Let's go to the phones, Matt, you're on
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five eighty live. Go ahead, hello, sir. Oh there you are
45:49
there. You are a happy anniversary. Thank you, sir. Appreciate them
45:52
and listen. I want to say Rusty Govern an awesome job with Thunder in
45:58
the Mountain. He doesn't. I gotta say, though. The only thing
46:01
I disagree with you all in this Saturday in Huntington is a perfect example.
46:06
Was Virginia Tech coming to town. I used to get really wrapped up in
46:09
why WVU and Marshall don't play each other, especially basketball? Like you said,
46:15
but I just, Dave, I just don't care anymore. I really
46:20
don't. The last the last few experiences were so horrible and I don't want
46:22
to you know what I mean. It's you know, there's bad fans on
46:25
both sides, but I just with Virginia Virginia Tech NC State. You know
46:31
what I'm saying. I just I just don't care anymore. I mean,
46:35
I just don't. So you're maybe that's me getting old. So you're a
46:38
Marshall fan, Matt that says that you don't really care, whether that's not
46:44
that's that's not a flight at them at all. I just I think I'm
46:47
just tired of all the drama that surrounds it. Well, the one thing,
46:52
Matt, I'll say this, and I agree with you, and people
46:54
know I'm a Marshall guy, but that doesn't mean I did you do did
46:58
you have to hate WVU? I don't consider I don't consider them to even
47:01
be rivals now their rivals when they play each other, uh, you know,
47:06
I mean when you know this weekend at thunder Mountains will be rivals will
47:08
be rivals on a baseball field or whatever sport, but on a regular basis
47:13
if they don't play, I don't know how they can consider. What I
47:15
don't understand, though, is people that as soon as you know and and
47:21
it's and again you're right mad. It goes on both sides. I don't
47:23
understand how people from Marshall get joy in when West Virginia is struggling and vice
47:30
versa. Well, and I've been to West Virginia athletic events, believe it
47:36
or not, it's just so disconnected from Huntington, I guess, so far
47:40
away. I mean the people that you know, that's just not top of
47:44
mind to them. And I don't blame them, you know what I mean.
47:45
I think the reason in Huntington that it's a little bit more in our
47:49
face is because obviously there's statewide West Virginia fans, and especially once you cross
47:54
the Cattle County lot, right. Yeah. But anyways, I just enjoyed,
48:00
for the most part on the basketball games. Still a couple of the
48:02
roughs, but I just I don't know, man, I'm just not as
48:07
wrapped up in it. I'm really enjoying the scheduling that Marshall and uh,
48:12
you know, has had over the last few years, and it has in
48:14
the future, you know, and especially with teams coming here, willing to
48:16
come here. And in the ad, took took that little took that little
48:20
shot, you know, a couple of weeks ago. We have no interest.
48:22
We're not even willing. That's fine, why, you know, And
48:24
a reporter brought that up. I'm not saying the ad. I'm not saying
48:28
that, you know, he brought it up on his own. But anyways,
48:32
not to dry. I just I just don't care anymore, all right,
48:36
man, I appreciate it, Thanky, thank you, see you four
48:38
minutes away from a ten. Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of and
48:43
and look, I'm gonna be the first to admit as I'm getting I'm getting
48:46
older and getting wiser, you know. In addition to my wedding anniversary today,
48:50
I turned fifty three on Saturday. So I'm just becoming that old guy.
48:53
And Coop and others will tell you he's always been that old guy.
48:57
But I used to get really wrapped up in the I and I took.
49:00
You know, I try to on the Facebook page that I do, not
49:06
my personal page, but the professional so to speak, Dave Allen Radio and
49:08
also at Dave A seventy on X, the artist formerly known as Twitter.
49:14
You know, I try to put an equal WVU and Marshall stuff on there,
49:16
and I used to on my personal page. It was all about Marshall
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because that's where I went to college. And then I started getting stuff from
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people like and I'm a big Georgia Bulldog fan. And I'm not a bandwagon
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Georgia bulldog fan. I've been a Georgia Bulldog fan since nineteen eighty when I
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saw herschel Walker player. I'm a fan of herschel Walker the football player,
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not necessarily the want to be politician. However, every week I would say,
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you know, go bulldogs, go heard, you know, and not
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necessarily in that order. And I had people reaching out to me and said,
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well, how could we ever say the WV don't you know WV you
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plays blah blah blah this week. And I was saying, I'm kind of
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like Matt was. I just didn't. I just didn't really care. And
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it's not that I am anti West Virginia University. Obviously you listen to the
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show, you know I'm not. But you know, I'm a Marshall guy,
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and that's kind of where That's where I went to college. It's where
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I live in an area that's closer to Huntington. I go to games,
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and so you know, I was always that was always where my focus was.
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You know, it wasn't really on West Virginia University. But I'm trying
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to do better with that. I really am. Tex says I want w
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Marshall Capitol Classic Basketball game back men's and women's, but not to football.
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Marshall has never beaten WV in football. For the few years of the Friends
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of Colbol, it became boring. No offense, just facts. I don't
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disagree, don't disagree with that at all. I mean, and what I
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here's what I always tell my Marshall brethren. I always say, if we
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didn't hang with West Virginia University, well we hung with them, but if
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we didn't beat him, I'll say, in the days with Pennington Moss,
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I don't know that we would have done much better in years past, you
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know, in some of the more lean years from Marshall University. But you
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know, I want to speak in a sports and I get accused sometime.
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Also talked about sports too much on the show. But this is more of
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an economic thing than it is a sports thing. Stories posted on our websites.
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It was a good season for the Dirty Birds attendance wise. WCHS network
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dot com has got the story. More people came out this year for Dirty
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Birds games it did last season. Attendance is up fifteen percent. I was
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skeptical when they made the announcement, you know, among that they weren't gonna
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take cash at the games. And people I had texted the show people said
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I won't go to another game. Well maybe you didn't, but others did.
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Because attendance is up, which is good news for Charleston because again,
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most people don't just go to a ball game. They used to go to
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dinner or something afterwards, and so they don't all eat at the ballpark,
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you know, kind of make it. I went to a whole lot of
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games when I lived in southern West Virginia. I loved going what was in
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the power. But anyway, congratulations all those folks of Dirty Birds. You're
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doing it right over there, and again attendance is up. All right,
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gotta go. My thanks to my producer Dale Cooper rich Lindsay for being on
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the show today as well as Webbed Under the Mountains this weekend. Will be
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of course keeping updated on that a whole lot coming up tomorrow on the show.
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Millie Snyder, a friend from the Shape Shop, will be here and
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State Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin on the show tomorrow, Hoppy coming up of
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the news or with talk Mine, I should say, and they'll see tomorrow
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till they have fun. Happy anniversary, Ruthann and love somebody