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08/13/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Terrell Ellis, Matt Gallagher, Marnie Rustemeyer · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 4: Brian Hughes and the Steam of mediaologies on social media
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Speaker 4: as well. Welcome to the show now, good friend Arrell
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Speaker 4: Ellis from Advantage Valley.
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Speaker 2: How you doing, Terry Dave, I'm good.
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Speaker 5: How are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm fine. Thank you for being here.
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Speaker 4: It's always great to have you on the show. And
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Speaker 4: today we're going to revisit a topic that we've talked
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Speaker 4: a lot about when you've been on the show in
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Speaker 4: the past, and it's housing in the Advantage Valley region. Now,
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Speaker 4: we've talked in the past about the Regional Housing Needs Assessment.
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Speaker 6: What can you tell us, Well, we've updated it and
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Speaker 6: the reason we updated it was because we have builders
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Speaker 6: who are actively looking at projects and lenders who are
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Speaker 6: looking at financing those and you know, I think people
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Speaker 6: were wondering, what is the data still telling us, you
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Speaker 6: know what it did four years ago. So we updated
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Speaker 6: the study. And before we get into it, I want
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Speaker 6: to give a shout out though, to the people who
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Speaker 6: helped us update that study, the Appalachian Regional Commission, ab
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Speaker 6: Contracting and Service Wire, the last two being companies that
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Speaker 6: are investing in the region significantly and they recognize the
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Speaker 6: need and so they helped us do this. So we
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Speaker 6: updated it. We've got the results recently. The numbers still
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Speaker 6: show tremendous demand and very little supply. That's kind of
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Speaker 6: the overarching theme. And if you don't mind, I go
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Speaker 6: through some of the top line findings. So you know,
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Speaker 6: we have to look at our employment and our unemployment
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Speaker 6: rates and things of that nature to kind of drive
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Speaker 6: what's driving our economy. So the good news is our
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Speaker 6: unemployment rate dropped over the past few years from four
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Speaker 6: point five to four point three percent. We looked at
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Speaker 6: the total number of jobs that have increased in the
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Speaker 6: region since the study was done in twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 6: So just in a three year period, we've had sixteen
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Speaker 6: hundred new jobs in the region. Now, when we look
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Speaker 6: at the future number of new jobs coming in because
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Speaker 6: that's going to be driving demand. That number did decrease
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Speaker 6: a little bit from the last study, and the reason
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Speaker 6: being that some of the projects that had announced three
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Speaker 6: years ago, their job numbers did not come in or
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Speaker 6: they're not going to be coming in at the level
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Speaker 6: that we had thought. But there's still a significant number
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Speaker 6: of new jobs coming in. So we're projecting almost four
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Speaker 6: thousand new jobs coming in, whereas before it was fifty
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Speaker 6: three hundred. So that's going to change our numbers a
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Speaker 6: little bit. And when you have the and these are
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Speaker 6: manufacturing jobs, might I add these are only manufacturing jobs,
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Speaker 6: so there's other other jobs potentially that are out there
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Speaker 6: that we're not even talking about. But on manufacturing jobs,
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Speaker 6: those always spin off a number of indirect jobs. So
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Speaker 6: almost four thousand jobs spins off actually another thirteen thousand
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Speaker 6: jobs in all the other businesses that are served as
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Speaker 6: flurry businesses. That's right, So we kind of start with
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Speaker 6: that assumption for a minute. And what those new jobs
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Speaker 6: mean is that we're going to be creating about ninety
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Speaker 6: seven hundred or seeing the development of about ninety seven
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Speaker 6: hundred more households in the region, which is a number
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Speaker 6: that's down a little bit from the last projection, but
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Speaker 6: never never mind that it's down, it's not down by much.
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Speaker 6: And what we're seeing though, in the trends for housing,
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Speaker 6: like the people that are renting, people that are buying homes,
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Speaker 6: it's really interesting. We're seeing as a percentage of all
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Speaker 6: the people that rent, we're seeing a drop in the
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Speaker 6: number of renters in the income household incomes under fifty thousand,
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Speaker 6: it dropped by ten percent in the past three or
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Speaker 6: four years, and we're seeing an increase. So the people
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Speaker 6: we're seeing an increase in household over fifty thousand over
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Speaker 6: one hundred thousand that are renting, and the same applies
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Speaker 6: for people who are owning homes. So I guess the
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Speaker 6: top line there is and all of this is driven
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Speaker 6: by the fact that when you look at our household income,
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Speaker 6: median household income in the region has increased by ten
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Speaker 6: thousand dollars over ten thousand dollars annually, So it's gone
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Speaker 6: from fifty four thousand a year as the median in
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Speaker 6: twenty twenty three to sixty four thousand.
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Speaker 2: Now, no, what's great, Nick, What do you attribute that to?
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Speaker 7: You?
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Speaker 6: Because we're attracting because these jobs are we're starting to
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Speaker 6: see the impact of those jobs coming in, those good
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Speaker 6: manufacturing jobs. So we have we have sixteen hundred more
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Speaker 6: jobs in the region now than we did three or
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Speaker 6: four years ago, and median household income is rising by
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Speaker 6: a significant percentage. So that is such a such good news.
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Speaker 6: So when you look at the number of people who
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Speaker 6: are renting and owning homes, a higher percentage are renting
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Speaker 6: and owning homes that are more expensive, and the folks
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Speaker 6: that are in the lower income range, they're a lower
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Speaker 6: percentage of the total. I don't want to get too
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Speaker 6: much into weeds, but the one thing, let's talk about
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Speaker 6: those that are under fifty thousand in income, because here's
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Speaker 6: something that is very troubling I think for our region,
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Speaker 6: and that is, you know, the cost of your housing
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Speaker 6: shouldn't exceed thirty percent, okay, of your total income. We
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Speaker 6: have in the region sixty two percent of the people
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Speaker 6: renting in the region are either cost burdened or severely
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Speaker 6: cost burden. When you're severely cost burdened, you are at
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Speaker 6: fifty percent or more of your income is being spent
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Speaker 6: on rent.
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Speaker 8: That's it.
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Speaker 6: I mean, think about that.
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Speaker 2: I know it was sixty two percent yeah, that's a lot.
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Speaker 4: We were just having My wife and I were just
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Speaker 4: having this discussion the other night about this, about an
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Speaker 4: article that she had read, and we were just talking
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Speaker 4: about this. Sometimes with the lower income folks. I don't
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Speaker 4: mean this in a bad way. I don't know how
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Speaker 4: they make it right with the rent and everything right and.
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Speaker 6: This pay and for home owners, it's the same thing.
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Speaker 6: It's twenty percent are cost burdened or severely cost burdened.
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Speaker 6: And when you translate that into the number of households,
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Speaker 6: so almost forty three thousand households are burdened, meaning they're
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Speaker 6: paying over thirty percent of their income, and twenty thousand
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Speaker 6: are severely burdened. That's sixty two thousand households in our region.
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Speaker 6: So affordable housing. You know, what we're seeing is it's
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Speaker 6: sort of a good news bad news thing. We're seeing
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Speaker 6: people with higher incomes, more jobs buying or renting higher
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Speaker 6: income housing. But the folks who are still the lower
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Speaker 6: wage earners are becoming more and more cost burdened.
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Speaker 2: And here's here's why.
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Speaker 6: Here's a number that's gonna I thought this was a
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Speaker 6: little astonishing when we looked at the market rents, so
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Speaker 6: market rate rent no subsidy, not affordable in terms of
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Speaker 6: government subsidy, rents went up for a two bedroom apartment
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Speaker 6: in a three year timeframe, they went up thirty two
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Speaker 6: percent in a three year timeframe, So a two bedroom
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Speaker 6: the average the media, I'm sorry, the median rent went
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Speaker 6: from one and twenty five dollars in twenty twenty three
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Speaker 6: to one thousand, four hundred and eighty eight dollars in
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Speaker 6: twenty twenty six. So you know, it went up for
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Speaker 6: a one bedroom seventeen percent, for a three bedroom it
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Speaker 6: went up ten percent. So the rents are rising, and
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Speaker 6: part of that is because there's no supply. If you
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Speaker 6: took economics one O one, you know, when there's no
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Speaker 6: supply of something, then the pricing goes up. And so
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Speaker 6: when you look at apartments in our region, the vacancy
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Speaker 6: rate is it about ninety eight percent or I'm sorry,
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Speaker 6: the occupancy rates about ninety eight percent. And the reason
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Speaker 6: why it's not actually higher than ninety eight is because
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Speaker 6: the big project in Tays Valley that is being built,
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Speaker 6: those three hundred apartment units down there, they're still leasing up,
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Speaker 6: but those will be those will be gone. If you
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Speaker 6: are in any kind of government subsidized or tax credit
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Speaker 6: subsidized housing. The occupancy rate is one hundred percent one
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Speaker 6: hundred percent, and there's thirteen hundred people on the waiting
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Speaker 6: list on a waiting list get in, So you know,
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Speaker 6: the cost is going up. The supply has not grown
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Speaker 6: to the degree even though we have people by, you know, building,
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Speaker 6: we have some building going on. I think the last
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Speaker 6: time I was here, we said that we had estimated
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Speaker 6: about seven or eight hundred new housing units have gone
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Speaker 6: up in the past two years. That's a lot, but
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Speaker 6: it's a drop in the bucket compared to what we
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Speaker 6: really need. And in terms of pricing on for sale homes,
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Speaker 6: that's kind of interesting too because over the period of
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Speaker 6: time between the last study in this one three to
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Speaker 6: four years ago, we've sold about one thousand fewer homes
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Speaker 6: in the region, but the cost went up forty percent
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Speaker 6: on those homes. So it's it's just you know, and
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Speaker 6: the availability of the number of homes that are actually
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Speaker 6: on the market at anyone given time right now represents
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Speaker 6: a less well it's about four percent I'm sorry, not
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Speaker 6: four percent. Point four point four percent of the total inventory.
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Speaker 6: So thrown a lot of numbers out at you. But
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Speaker 6: but the you know, the bottom line is we have
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Speaker 6: a tremendous housing gap. We have very little supply. The
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Speaker 6: occupancy rates are so high, and the rents just keep
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Speaker 6: going up, and we have more jobs being created with
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Speaker 6: higher income people and across the board from affordable to
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Speaker 6: higher income housing. We need it all, and we need all.
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Speaker 6: We need rental units, we need single family homes, and
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Speaker 6: so what at the end of the day, what we're
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Speaker 6: trying to get at is, well, how many units do
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Speaker 6: we really need? That number did drop a little bit
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Speaker 6: because those numbers of projected new jobs coming in dropped,
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Speaker 6: but it's still over the next say, five years, spread
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Speaker 6: across our ten county region, we need about ten thousand
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Speaker 6: rental units to be built, and we need about eighteen
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Speaker 6: thousand new single family homes to be built.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So what is your plea to the prospective builders
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Speaker 4: out there right now, or or owners or whatever, I mean,
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Speaker 4: get to work other than that, well, building, I.
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Speaker 6: Wish it was that easy, that we could just say, hey, guys,
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Speaker 6: hey men and women out there in the building community,
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Speaker 6: here the numbers, here's the demand, go have at it.
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Speaker 6: It's not that easy, though, because what we're seeing is
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Speaker 6: although we know the demand is there, it's a little
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Speaker 6: hard to build sometimes in West Virginia because of our topography,
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Speaker 6: the cost of building is high, and also with.
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Speaker 2: The cost of materials.
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Speaker 6: The cost of materials has gone up. So we're seeing
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Speaker 6: a number of barriers that make it a little bit
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Speaker 6: more difficult to build here as compared to maybe building
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Speaker 6: in some of our surrounding states where the topography is
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Speaker 6: a little more forgiving, and also where there are some
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Speaker 6: incentives for builders to go over there and build. So
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Speaker 6: we have formed a housing task Force. I mean, you
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Speaker 6: can talk about the numbers till the cows come home,
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Speaker 6: but the underlying question is, okay, so what are you
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Speaker 6: doing about it? You know, we're not builders. We cannot
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Speaker 6: jump in and start building, but we can try to.
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Speaker 6: What we're trying to do is get some folks together
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Speaker 6: who are the best minds in finance, development, construction, et cetera.
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Speaker 6: Identify a little more clearly what the barriers are. But
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Speaker 6: I think we know the cost of getting infrastructure to
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Speaker 6: sites is critically expensive here. It makes it makes it
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Speaker 6: difficult to build.
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Speaker 4: Plus the infrastructure, if I can interject the industry the
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Speaker 4: infrastructure in many cases that we have is not that great.
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Speaker 2: It's worn, it's worn, it needs updated.
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Speaker 6: And you know, in counties like Mason County, which have
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Speaker 6: historically been so rural with not as much industry, now
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Speaker 6: they're seeing a lot of industry there, so they're trying
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Speaker 6: to catch up with their infrastructure and helping identify where
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Speaker 6: the sites are. It's not as easy as you might
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Speaker 6: think to just find a site and identify it, so
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Speaker 6: one of the things that we're doing is scouring the
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Speaker 6: region for where are there viable sites where you can
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Speaker 6: build at scale. I mean, I know we can find
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Speaker 6: one acre here or two acres there, but really what
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Speaker 6: we're looking for is maybe fifteen to acres or more
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Speaker 6: where you can build to scale to start making some impact.
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Speaker 6: Because trying to get developers in here to build, they've
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Speaker 6: got to build at scale. It's not enough for them
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Speaker 6: to do one or two or ten houses. So we're
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Speaker 6: identifying those sites and helping do some site planning to
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Speaker 6: show what the opportunities are. And then we've put together
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Speaker 6: this task force that's looking at potential financial incentives that
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Speaker 6: we can create regionally, trying to look at what the
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Speaker 6: state is doing and maybe make some suggestions for how
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Speaker 6: we can identify new programs or maybe tweak some existing
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Speaker 6: programs at the state level so that we can make
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Speaker 6: it a little more attractive for our builders.
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Speaker 4: Right now, we got to close, but I do know
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Speaker 4: you have a webinar coming up. This could be August
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Speaker 4: twenty seventh. Talk about that quickly, right, So.
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Speaker 6: If you really want to dive into the numbers, our
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Speaker 6: consultant who did the study will be conducting a host
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Speaker 6: will hosting a webinar to showcase all those numbers. It's
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Speaker 6: on Thursday, this coming Thursday that I'm sorry, August twenty seventh.
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Speaker 6: August twenty seventh, at ten am, you can go to
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Speaker 6: Advantage Valley's website. It's advantage Valley dot com and click
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Speaker 6: on the housing tab and you can register for the
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Speaker 6: webinar there to listen.
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Speaker 2: In and well I'll see you next week, and say
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Speaker 2: to the valley are you going to be there?
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Speaker 9: I am not.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to be out of town. You're gonna miss me,
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Speaker 6: going to miss you. I'm sorry, I'm very sorry to
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Speaker 6: miss it. That's a great event, is it.
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Speaker 4: Because I am of the moderator? Is that why you're
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Speaker 4: going out of town? I gotta I gotta get on
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Speaker 4: a plane. I got to get out of here now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. As soon as I saw that, I booked my
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Speaker 6: flight out of here.
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Speaker 2: All right, it's always a pleasure to have you on
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Speaker 2: the show.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, And I hope the next time, because we
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Speaker 4: have you on every couple of months, come back here
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Speaker 4: in a couple of months and maybe we'll have some
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Speaker 4: I mean, this wasn't horrible news, but but there's some
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Speaker 4: good news there. But we'll have more better news.
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Speaker 6: If that's about the economy and we're just trying to
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Speaker 6: we just need to get the train and growing in
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Speaker 6: the right direction for incentivizing building. And so I want
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Speaker 6: to come on next time and talk about Taste Appalachia.
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Speaker 4: All right, just let me know when I have two shows,
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Speaker 4: but you on one or both? All right, okay, all right,
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Speaker 4: Deputy State Director of Americans for Prosperity. Good morning, sir,
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Speaker 14: Good morning, Dave. I appreciate you have me on excited
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Speaker 14: you make the make the sausage right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Is there sausage here? Ryan? Is our sausage here?
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Speaker 4: No, there's no sausage here anyway, But I want to
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Speaker 4: talk about your your group, America's prosperity. They're out with
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Speaker 4: the legislative scorecard for the twenty twenty sixth session. Before
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Speaker 4: we get into the findings, though, how does this how
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Speaker 4: do you put this together?
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Speaker 15: Yeah?
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Speaker 14: So, alleged scorecard is a tool for citizens to engage
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Speaker 14: with the legislative process to understand precisely how their delegates
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Speaker 14: and senator voted on the biggest items of the twenty
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Speaker 14: twenty sixth legislative session. This scorecard covers some of those
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Speaker 14: items like the governor's tax cuts, hope scholarship funding, and
20:41
Speaker 14: it covers some of the lesser known items like the
20:44
Speaker 14: right to try and an expansion of the right to
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Speaker 2: Portable what is right to try?
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Speaker 8: Right?
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Speaker 2: So right to Try a few years.
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Speaker 1: Ago was passed where.
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Speaker 14: Where someone who was terminally ill could try experimental FDA
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Speaker 14: If you're diagnosed with a terminal illness, you've got to
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Speaker 14: This legislative session expanded the right to try from terminally
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Speaker 14: ill to those who have a life threatening condition or
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Speaker 14: really interesting bill because it also allows those patients to
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Speaker 14: like genome sequencing for certain drugs or programs, right, drugs
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Speaker 14: or programs that are specifically designed for you based on
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Speaker 14: kind of your specific biology. Okay, but yeah, so Legislative Scorecard.
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Speaker 14: We put it together so that citizens can engage the
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Speaker 14: legislative process. No more, because not everyone has the time
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Speaker 14: to watch all sixty days of a legislative session, or
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Speaker 14: the patients or the patients, yes, right, or the patients.
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Speaker 14: Sometimes it's a bit done.
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Speaker 8: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 4: Now if you want to see and again we're going
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Speaker 4: to break it down a little bit. But if you
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Speaker 4: want to see the entire scorecard, what's the best way
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Speaker 4: for people to look it up online?
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Speaker 14: Go to wvscorecard dot com. You'll see a little zip
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Speaker 14: code address bar at the top of the screen. Type
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Speaker 14: in your zip code and it will pull up who
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Speaker 14: your delegate and senator is and you can see precisely
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Speaker 14: how they voted.
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Speaker 2: It is a cool website.
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Speaker 4: I was on it earlier this morning kind of looking
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Speaker 4: around and there if you can put in, as you said,
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Speaker 4: your zip code to get your individual representatives or they
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Speaker 4: have an alphabetical list of all of them, and you
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Speaker 4: can actually just go through all of them if you
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Speaker 4: want to, which I thought was kind of cool.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely, you can go through and check any delegator senator
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Speaker 14: and you can see the twenty twenty six that's what
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Speaker 14: we're here talking about, but that also goes back to
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Speaker 14: twenty eighteen, right, so that far. Yeah, there's a delegate
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Speaker 14: or senator you're real curious about, you can go back
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Speaker 14: and you can evaluate how they have how they voted
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Speaker 14: over the past few years, not just this year, though
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Speaker 14: you know this year is pretty important. And one of
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Speaker 14: the things I like about it too, and I have
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Speaker 14: Jason Huffman from your group on frequently is on under
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Speaker 14: the Legislators, it has the bill number, what it what
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Speaker 14: it is, how they voted.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 4: And if there's a lot of facts, now you do
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Speaker 4: put on there whether you supported that or didn't support
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Speaker 4: that particular bill or whatever. But if you just want
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Speaker 4: to go on and read just the facts, it's not
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Speaker 4: it's not editorialized.
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Speaker 2: Is what I'm saying. Is this is the fact. This
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Speaker 2: is how he or she voted.
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Speaker 15: Right there.
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Speaker 14: These are bills based on a proven policy agenda that
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Speaker 14: are and we present the bill. We present what we said,
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Speaker 14: what we wanted, what we supported or opposed, and what
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Speaker 14: they did right. We don't grade delegates from A to B, C,
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Speaker 14: D E F right, although some of them deserve a's
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Speaker 14: and some of observe F Sure, that may be true,
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Speaker 14: but that's not what we do. We present it in
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Speaker 14: a way that citizens can can just read through and
23:53
Speaker 14: see what those items are based on. You know, what
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Speaker 14: we think is a proven policy agenda.
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Speaker 4: Talking to Matt Gallaghan Matt Gallagher from America's Prosperity of
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Speaker 2: This is generations for dot.
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Speaker 4: Com and Matt one of my other takeaways and I
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Speaker 4: just chose when I was on there this morning, a
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Speaker 4: couple of delegates randomly, you know, from different parts of
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Speaker 4: the state. You gave high marks and low marks to
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Speaker 4: Democrats and Republicans because I think sometimes people think, well,
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Speaker 4: this is obviously a super partisan organization.
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Speaker 2: But one particular I don't mention.
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Speaker 4: His or her name, it doesn't matter, but there was
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Speaker 4: someone who tends to be a more liberal Democrat on
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Speaker 4: their scorecard, use their particular bill you supported it, you know, yeah, yeah, Like.
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Speaker 14: I said this, what is important is the policy itself.
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Speaker 14: We're not we are not committed to one party one
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Speaker 14: way or another. We're committed to good policy and you
24:46
Speaker 14: know that comes out of both sides occasionally, and so
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Speaker 14: where we agree with liberals, we're happy to agreed with them.
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Speaker 14: There are plenty of places where that occurs.
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Speaker 4: And then by the same token, there were possibly more
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Speaker 4: conservative leaning Republicans that you did not support. Not their
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Speaker 4: candidates say I mean that, but you did not support
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Speaker 4: their particular vote on that bill.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, there were bills that that would traditionally be considered
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Speaker 14: conservative or we'll say right leaning, that we don't support.
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Speaker 14: Right The Team West Virginia Act is one on our scorecard.
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Speaker 14: We opposed that bill. We think it was an exercise
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Speaker 14: in crony capitalist Okay, explain what that bill was. Sure,
25:29
Speaker 14: that bill was a bill that would have taken state
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Speaker 14: dollars given it to a semi private organization to invest
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Speaker 14: in the businesses that it's thought, would you bring economic
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Speaker 14: growth to the West Virginia. But what it is is
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Speaker 14: it's an exercise in the government picking winners and losers.
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Speaker 14: We know that the government does a really poor job
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Speaker 14: of doing that, right, I mean to be a long
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Speaker 14: dead and rotten horse.
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Speaker 16: Maybe.
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Speaker 14: I think we all remember under President Obama Salindro they
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Speaker 14: were given something like five hundred billion.
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Speaker 1: Dollars to.
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Speaker 14: Create a to improve solar panel usage and to sell
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Speaker 14: solar panels as a solar panel company. Right, they're even
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Speaker 14: five hundred billion dollars and they ultimately went under. Now,
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Speaker 14: I think it's it's a mind blowing that anyone could
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Speaker 14: be given five hundred million dollars and still fail as
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Speaker 14: a business. But what it shows is that the governor
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Speaker 14: or the government does a really bad job of picking
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Speaker 14: winners and losers.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 14: The market is the best tool or mechanism to show
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Speaker 14: what is what produces good economic growth within a state
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Speaker 14: and within a country. And the Team West Virginia bill,
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Speaker 14: we thought was the state picking winners and losers. And
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Speaker 14: so that's why that's why we opposed it, even though
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Speaker 14: it is something that right leaning individuals may may be
26:50
Speaker 14: more interested in then the left lean.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I got it.
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Speaker 4: What are some other some of your other just major
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Speaker 4: takeaways from the from the scorecard.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, from the scorecard. One of the the other items
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Speaker 14: is portable benefits. Right, you contrast the crony capitalism approach
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Speaker 14: versus a market approach, and we think the Portable Benefits
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Speaker 14: Bill is a good representation of that. Previously, if you
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Speaker 14: were an independent contractor, of which there are about ninety
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Speaker 14: thousand in West Virginia, and a company wanted to offer
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Speaker 14: you some compensation in the form of benefits, you had
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Speaker 14: to be categorized as an employee.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 14: The company may not you as an independent contractor, may
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Speaker 14: not want to be categorized as an employee, but the
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Speaker 14: state did so regardless of your choice. Now, the Portable
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Speaker 14: Benefits Act allows the company to offer independent contractors some
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Speaker 14: form of compensation. They can contribute to these portable benefit
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Speaker 14: accounts and they can stay independent contractors. So it gives
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Speaker 14: independent contractors the ability to stay independent.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 14: They like that that it gives them the freedom and
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Speaker 14: the control over their own work. And that is what
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Speaker 14: we think is a good representation of, you know, a
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Speaker 14: free market, pro growth bill versus you know, a pro state,
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Speaker 14: pro crony capitalist bill.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to ask you something away from the scorecard
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Speaker 4: here for a moment. How do you think this is
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Speaker 4: a very very broad question, Matt to just work with
28:17
Speaker 4: me here. How do you think we're doing in West
28:19
Speaker 4: Virginia as a whole right now? On behalf of the
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Speaker 4: Americans for Prosperity group. I mean, how do you think
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Speaker 4: we are doing it? We just talked to terryll Allis
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Speaker 4: from Advantage Valley. Don't know whether you get to hear
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Speaker 4: the interview or novel we got to. We know we
28:29
Speaker 4: have a housing shortage in West Virginia, a major housing shortage. Okay,
28:32
Speaker 4: they're working on trying to make it easier for people
28:35
Speaker 4: to build and so on and so forth. But as
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Speaker 4: a whole, how do you think West Virginia is doing right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 14: So Rich State's Poor Stage, which is a study on
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Speaker 14: the economic kind of opportunities that existing states, has West
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Speaker 14: Virginia at about sixteenth right now. We've moved up. We
28:53
Speaker 14: used to be thirty fourth a few years ago, and
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Speaker 14: we used to be far far lower about a decade ago.
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Speaker 14: I think we have have opportunity, or we have we
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Speaker 14: have reason to be optimistic, and I think we're doing well.
29:08
Speaker 14: The governor's tax cuts, I think have shown that the
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Speaker 14: more we reduce state involvement, the more the free market
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Speaker 14: and private sector grows, but we still face economic headwinds, right.
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Speaker 14: West Virginia has faced those for quite a while. Some
29:25
Speaker 14: of those are geographical, some of those are social and cultural.
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Speaker 14: But I think I think we have reason to be optimistic.
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Speaker 14: What what would you you folks, your group, what would
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Speaker 14: you like to see in the future?
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Speaker 8: What can I mean?
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Speaker 4: I know, we get the legislative sessions starting, you know,
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Speaker 4: after the first of the year. But what's what's kind
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Speaker 4: of like on your gas radar things that West Virginia
29:44
Speaker 4: needs to do in your opinion?
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Speaker 14: What's on our radar right now is a November election, Okay, right,
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Speaker 14: I mean what what happens in January always depends on whatever.
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Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, I forgot about that.
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Speaker 14: Nothing what happens in January usually depends on what happens
29:57
Speaker 14: in November, right, So I think we're staying focused on
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Speaker 14: making sure that there's a there's a good solid outcome
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Speaker 14: for conservative legislators in November.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 14: And you know, once that's established, and you know, we
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Speaker 14: keep our eye on the ball. Once we get that done,
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Speaker 14: then I think we'll probably be will be one to
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Speaker 14: come back on and tell you all about what we
30:16
Speaker 14: want for January.
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Speaker 4: And remind people where they can read this scorecard. And
30:19
Speaker 4: there's actually a printed version too that you brought. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 4: I brought you.
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Speaker 2: A wonderfully for old people. You're printed version.
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Speaker 14: No, that's that's not just old. I mean I'm not
30:27
Speaker 14: that old, but I'm I'm a bit of a tech curmudgeon.
30:29
Speaker 14: Like I love it in some state instances and hate
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Speaker 2: And I like I like paper. Yes too, you can
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Speaker 2: see I like it as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh so.
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Speaker 14: The scorecard can be found at wvscorecard dot com. You
30:40
Speaker 14: can go in there, you can type your zip code,
30:42
Speaker 14: find out who your delegates and senators are, precisely how
30:45
Speaker 14: they voted for this past legislative session as well as
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Speaker 4: Matt Gallagher, a deputy state director for Americans for Prosperity,
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Speaker 4: appreciate you being here. We'll talk again soon, man, thanks
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Speaker 17: not only covers women having a breast cancer diagnosis, but
37:04
Speaker 17: I literally just got back from Egypt on a mission
37:07
Speaker 17: trip with Operation Smile where we were helping children with
37:10
Speaker 17: cleft palate conditions restore their lip and their smile and
37:16
Speaker 17: training other practitioners, dentists and doctors on how to do
37:19
Speaker 17: restorative tattooing. And it was really special experience and I
37:25
Speaker 17: was able to gain some new skills which I brought
37:28
Speaker 17: back with me to Charleston that I'm excited to incorporate
37:32
Speaker 17: in my practice here.
37:33
Speaker 4: And you've gotten this event coming up October the eleventh,
37:36
Speaker 4: so let's talk about this.
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Speaker 2: Give us all the details.
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Speaker 17: Absolutely, So this is an evening at ten tin Bridge.
37:42
Speaker 17: It's Sunday, October eleventh, from four to seven. There is
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Speaker 17: one hundred and fifty dollars donation to the foundation that
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Speaker 17: gets you in the door and nearly every dollar goes
37:52
Speaker 17: straight to Survivor Care. So the flyer and donation link
37:57
Speaker 17: are going to be on our Facebook pages. That's the
38:00
Speaker 17: easiest place to get everything. And we're also on Instagram
38:04
Speaker 17: at restore dot after dot breast cancer and and you know,
38:09
Speaker 17: we really want to help people patients in this community.
38:13
Speaker 17: And so James Beard Award winning chef Paul Smith has
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Speaker 17: graciously donated his space and culinary talents for the evening,
38:24
Speaker 17: and it's going to also include a signature cocktail with
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Speaker 17: which I created.
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Speaker 2: Okay about signature, it's a surprise.
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Speaker 17: You have to you have to come at the event
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Speaker 17: and try it for yourself.
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Speaker 4: So who do you want to come out to this?
38:38
Speaker 4: I mean, I know you want because it's a fundraiser
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Speaker 4: for what we know you want that. But from an
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Speaker 4: education standpoint, wonder who would you like to see come to.
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Speaker 17: This Patients, practitioners, medical professionals, supporters, advocates. I just I'm
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Speaker 17: really wanting this community to come together to support each other.
38:59
Speaker 17: And that's what I found that this community really does
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Speaker 17: and that's really near and dear to my heart and
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Speaker 17: why I'm here in Charleston.
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Speaker 2: Tell us your story.
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Speaker 4: I mean you mentioned a little bit earlier, but as
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Speaker 4: much as you're comfortable with, give us your background, because
39:12
Speaker 4: I mean, you chested, you just got back from Egypt
39:15
Speaker 4: on a mission trip. But you know, but obviously you're
39:18
Speaker 4: from Charleston, right, yes, but you've been all over the world, literally,
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Speaker 4: But just give us your story what you're comfortable with.
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Speaker 17: So I actually come from an investment banking background, and
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Speaker 17: when I had my double misteck to me in twenty thirteen,
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Speaker 17: I wanted to do something that you know, helped other
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Speaker 17: people that was more fulfilling for me, and I left
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Speaker 17: that life and I became advocating for other people that
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Speaker 17: were in a situation similar to myself and realized that
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Speaker 17: this was a part of them that was missing, and
39:52
Speaker 17: I felt like it was something that I could give
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Speaker 17: them because I do have some artistic talent and studied
39:58
Speaker 17: really hard. It was very hard work to learn to do,
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Speaker 17: especially since I hadn't done anything artistic.
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Speaker 1: For so long.
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Speaker 17: So I just, you know, reached out to different surgeons.
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Speaker 17: I reached out to patients. I was able to get
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Speaker 17: the appropriate training and it was it was a really
40:22
Speaker 17: heartwarming experience when I did my first tattoo. I gotta
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Speaker 17: tell you, because when I was done, I didn't think
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Speaker 17: I could do it. At first, I was very nervous.
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Speaker 17: But after I did it and the patient looked at
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Speaker 17: herself in the mirror, she was elated. She was elated
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Speaker 17: at how she felt and how she that was.
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Speaker 4: That was the that was the winning moment for you,
40:41
Speaker 4: was when you not when you completed it, but when
40:43
Speaker 4: you saw the look on her face when she saw
40:46
Speaker 4: herself in the mirror.
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Speaker 17: Right, So when she saw herself in the mirror, she
40:49
Speaker 17: was crying.
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Speaker 2: I was crying. The whole everybody was crying exactly.
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Speaker 17: And that's when I knew that that was my calling.
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Speaker 2: All right. And so this event again is going to
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Speaker 2: be in October.
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Speaker 17: Was the date again, So it's October eleventh at ten
41:03
Speaker 17: ten Bridge. And I also want to let everybody know
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Speaker 17: that if they cannot make the October eleventh event, they
41:10
Speaker 17: can still donate to the RIBC Foundation and they can
41:14
Speaker 17: also check out some of Chef Paul's other restaurants Polly's
41:20
Speaker 17: and Bad Happy Burrito and Huntington.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bad Happy Britos in Tays Valley, a Tays Valley.
41:26
Speaker 8: Yeah.
41:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about two miles from my house.
41:28
Speaker 17: Well, I haven't been there yet, but I will.
41:30
Speaker 2: Let's just check it out some pore.
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Speaker 4: Last week we had Tony Coreedi, a Voice of the Mountaineers,
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Speaker 4: in town along with Brad Howell. We did an event
41:38
Speaker 4: with them up the Willow Event Center on Greenbrier Street
41:41
Speaker 4: inside the Huddle raising money for the United Way. He
41:44
Speaker 4: came to town or I had invited Tony to come
41:46
Speaker 4: on the show, the afternoon show that I do, and
41:50
Speaker 4: I thought he said, yeah, I can make that happen,
41:52
Speaker 4: and so he came in the studio. But I found
41:53
Speaker 4: out later the real reason was was because he wanted
41:56
Speaker 4: to allow enough time so he could go to Bad
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Speaker 4: Happy Burrito in Tays Valley. He and had how to
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Speaker 4: go there, so it was it about driving down from
42:02
Speaker 4: Morgantown to make my show. They did twenty minutes with
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Speaker 4: me and then hit sixty four to go to.
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Speaker 2: Bad Happy Burritos. So it's good. It's very good.
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Speaker 8: By the way.
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Speaker 17: Well, I can't wait to try it out.
42:11
Speaker 4: Sometimes I mean is it going about? I mean, yell
42:13
Speaker 4: can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Speaker 8: Good. Yeah.
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Speaker 17: And you know what, ten Tent's not open on Sunday, Yes,
42:19
Speaker 17: so this is the perfect day. Like if you want
42:22
Speaker 17: to stop by, the time is from four to seven.
42:25
Speaker 17: You can come by after church or after you work
42:27
Speaker 17: out or whatever. Yeah, whenever, so you can come and
42:29
Speaker 17: go as you please.
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Speaker 4: Where do people get tickets? Because I have a feeling
42:33
Speaker 4: these things probably going to sell out, so I hope
42:35
Speaker 4: so or tickets available and they're limited? Yeah, yeah, they're limited. Yeah,
42:39
Speaker 4: they're available now. The fires on my Facebook page, and
42:43
Speaker 4: I think you guys are going to work on getting
42:44
Speaker 4: it up on yours as well. It should be on
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Speaker 4: ten tens facebook page. So they you go to the link,
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Speaker 4: you purchase a ticket or make the donation that I
42:54
Speaker 4: send you the ticket.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, all right, it sounds good and we'll have
42:57
Speaker 2: you on before then to kind of.
42:59
Speaker 4: But I'm going to have you on on early now
43:01
Speaker 4: because people can number one, to get it on their calendar,
43:03
Speaker 4: but number two, it's going to sell out. So the
43:05
Speaker 4: earlier you get your tickets and get it taken care
43:07
Speaker 4: of the better. If you're going to try to wait
43:09
Speaker 4: till a day or so before.
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Speaker 2: That's probably not gonna work, right, We definitely need to
43:13
Speaker 2: get the ticket sold and give us that website one
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Speaker 2: more time.
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Speaker 17: So the website, what's on my Facebook page?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's fine.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah. The website is MEDIINCLLC dot com. Okay, where
43:25
Speaker 17: you can click on a tab that has the restored
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Speaker 17: after Breast Cancer Foundation. But the flyer to the event.
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Speaker 2: Is on my faceny Marty Rusta Meyer.
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Speaker 17: Marnie Rusta Meyer, and it'll be on your Facebook page
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Speaker 4: I'll actually when we get I get done here, I
43:41
Speaker 4: will share it on Dave Alan Radio and also on my.
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Speaker 2: X page as well.
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Speaker 4: Okay, that's great, appreciate you being here. Martie's always playing
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Speaker 4: the show. We'll have you on the show again. And
43:49
Speaker 4: happy birthday to Bobby Spribe.
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Speaker 17: Now I'm looking forward to that spring Hill Baker hot dog.
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