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08/21/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Randy Barrett, Ellen Allen, Ashley Alford-Glance · The Dave Allen Show

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of Police for the City of Charleston and announcement coming down just after the show
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ended on Friday. He will remain on the force. We'll get into that
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a little bit later on. Ellen Allen, no relation, is the new
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state director of West Virginians for Affordable Healthcare. She's going to join us a
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little bit later on. We'll talk to her. And also Ashley Offered Glance,
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who is executive director of the Putnham County Chamber of Commerce, is going
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to join us. They have a big event happening this Wednesday at Valley Park
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at the Conference Center. It's say kind of a get together with Putnam County
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officials as well as officials from Kandah County in Caboc County playing off this whole
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advantage Valley thing that we've been talking about. Ashley is going to join us
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to talk about that. Plus your phone calls to tech Star Welcome. It's
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Mayor Monday, so you know what that means. We welcome in a different
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mayor this week to talk about what's going on in their particular community in their
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town this morning. Welcome, and our good friend Randy Barrett, who is
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the mayor of Winfield in the land of the General's Mayor. Good morning,
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how are you, sir? I'm doing good. Dave, how are you
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doing? I am doing fine. Before we get to the important stuff,
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one of the biggest high school rivalries in the States is Winfield. The Winfield
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Generals and the Hurricane Redskins are going to play this week in Hurricane Prediction on
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the big game. Mayor, go ahead, Well, I did talk to
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one of the next chief here at Winfield, is one of the coaches up
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there, and uh he was he seemed pretty good up there. You know,
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I haven't got to see in the practice, so of course I haven't
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been able to go to Hurricane and seeing there as I really don't. I
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don't myself, don't have a good idea. I know, me and Scott
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Edwards having had a bad this year. I've lost quite a few of them
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to Scott down there on football and basketball and different stuff. But it's all
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good fun. But uh, you know, it's it's you know, it's
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always a good game, especially in the first half, and then then then
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you never know what might happen the second half. Now or they're supposed to
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be very very hot Thursday too, so that conditioning. He's going to be
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a big thing in that all of a sudden. And it truly is,
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Mayor one of the best rivalries in the state. And what I like about
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it, Mayor is that they go back and forth U and but at the
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end normally at the end everybody shakes hands and and goes on about their business
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and which is the other team the best like for the rest of the season.
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Proving yet again while Putnam County is one of the best places in the
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state to live in my opinion, Yeah, it's a it's a friendly rivalry.
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We're not breaking windows out and buses and stuff in there like you did.
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I think probably we're used racey Hey easy now easy Now, we don't
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do that much anymore. Uh. What's new and Windfield, Mayor, Well,
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we've uh we got our new plant up completely running. We got our
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we got to build our storage building. It's ninety nine percent done up there.
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That'll close our loan out from USDA in September. And that's up and
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getting all the bugs out of it and stuff in there, so we're able
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to take on new subdivisions or people in there. We was under uh an
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order from DP for quite a few years when I was first here, and
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so that's behind us. And uh so, you know, we got a
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lot of people wanting a lot of developers wanting to build in Windfield and a
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lot of us right out of city limits and stuff in there. The city
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itself doesn't have a whole lot of a buildable land on. There are a
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few of them in there. Some of us is gonna build there, but
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most of us owntown. And you know, you get more people, you
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know, Newcord and stuff in there. There's people wanting to build all there's
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already people lived in Windfield that from New Corps and so they're already they're already
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moving in. Oh yeah, they've been there and they uh well, I
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know it was actually and thanks for having me on before I actually offered.
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No one wants to follow astal offer. Actually I got a little buffer between
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the two of you. She'll be all around Hine and forty, but go
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ahead. But uh yeah, she's what told me. There's people moved in
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from different states already here. We care where they live. Our kids can
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walk to both schools and U you know, not to high school, but
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little and it's such a neat little community here. In our schools or seconds
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none. I think Winfield was the middle school was second the state or something
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ranked, and our schools are That's why people move here. There's just no
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way around it. Well, and you're exactly right. We're talking to Mayor
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Rady Barrett of of Winfield here on Mayor Monday and five eighty Live Voice Charleston,
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Wchs and Mayor again with these announcements, as I said, with new
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Corp coming, you're already seeing. Of course they're seeing another ease too.
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Obviously Mason County, which is you know, the next county over that's where
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the plan is going to be. Cabell County's seen a lot. But getting
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specific to Putnam County, I know that there is and talking to some of
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my realtor friends enriched the realtor and some of my other friends of Putnham County
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that there is a housing shortage there and we need to do something to get
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these developers in which we've they've done a great job in years passing or continue
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I guess to do all they can, but some thing to get some investment
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into getting people to want to build houses because people are coming. I mean,
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thousands of people are coming and we just don't have a place to put
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them right now. Yes, and well, the Development Agency in Putnam County
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has got a program out that if you spend so much money in ten years,
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you get a big tax write off and stuff. So they contacted me.
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Morgan over there Stay contacted me, and I've contact all the developers that's
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already in the plans of doing stuff. I mean, I can save them
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moneys, which hopefully in turn makes to the prices, because you know,
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the prices in Putmain County of rent or buying is through the roof and and
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here's here Windfield also, So anything that can help a developer and maybe pass
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it on to the people buying a rent will be help also. So you
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know, May one of the many things I love about your town is the
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way that you folks would really play off of your river access. There's always
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exciting things going on into the Putnam County homecomings coming up, and we get
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to that in our next question. But talk about what's new with the river
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access there in Winfield. Well, we've we've built a new shelter there,
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helped with the Publam County Commission they helped us with that there with their grants.
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They got there weeks. I mean you go by there and there's always
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something going on, the amount of boats. And then we have we've started
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our river fest, and I talked to Mayor James from Saint Auban's. We've
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already scheduled our waterfest next year. We always try to have a warm up
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for the yacht fest week before. So we got it going and stuff in
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there and that and that. That's growing. But that boat ramp down there
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now are a little the boat ramp new centers, a little park down there
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to two shelters. It's such a pretty place right down there on the river.
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And then I was talking earlier about the plant, the Steal plant.
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We've were in the early stages of building a park down there where our old
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plant was at. We've got about five acres is there on the river down
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there, kind of behind advance if you know where it's at. And we're
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looking at there. Of course, everybody's building pickleball, and that's uh,
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people's been on me about that. Yeah, we're looking at pickleball, basketball's
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fitness and splash pads and dog parks and a bunch of shelters on the river
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and walking trails and stuff in there. But we're there. We don't even
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I got a picture up in front of me, but we we don't even
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have it ready for a grant yet to get submitted. But that's we had
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to. We need to do something that land. I know some people have
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been wanting to buy it, but we need to. We need to do
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it for ourselves, for our citizens here. So we're hoping to get it
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going, you know, when we start getting grant money and we'll start start
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doing that, So that'd be a really nice for the city and mayor.
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We're just a couple of weeks away from the Putnam County homecoming talk about that.
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Yes up there September ninth and tenth. That's a Saturday and Sunday.
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I think it starts at two o'clock on Saturday. We got music and all
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from two o'clock up until our headliner, Cody Wickline from he's been on the
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one of I can't keep all the teaching these shows straight, but he's been
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on there, and he was there last year and we got a lightning storm
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and stuff and blew out a speaker and that guy came there on Main Street
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and plays guitar and sang there for probably an hour and a half and underneath
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a little canopy, and it was the best show Winfield has ever had.
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And I mean the guy could have got his check all walked out. A
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lot of people would have done that. Yeah, and I'm telling you it
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was awesome. Sat down there and played and he played with Deal Harper and
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it was one of the best shows I've ever saw, and probably the twenty
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of us that was left there, it was just awesome. So it was
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such a good show. We had him back coming back in there. Then
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our our you know, Sunday is you know, our main parades and stuff.
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We're changing it. It's too close one o'clock worth the praise is kind
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of tough getting people out of church and getting things up there, so forth
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tight here. So we'll moved to parade to one thirty this year. And
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you can sign up for the parade day of or you can go on the
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public Kry Homecoming on their website and get a form and get it out there.
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It makes it easier. But we got a full weekend of activities and
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stuff in there on Main you know, the stage will be on Main Street
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and then the parade will be on eight seventeen up there. When we're looking
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forward to to a good weekend, it always is we'll have somebody on,
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maybe you or somebody else from the committee. As we get a little bit
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closer. And again at September the ninth and the tenth, finally, Mayor,
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I was in Winfield Saturday, drove through there and I saw a big
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sign in front of your city hall and signed. Looks great, by the
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way, that you've personally got some special recognition. What's that all about.
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Well, I've been after I was elected, I started getting involved with the
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Western Municipal League and after a few years they voted me on the board,
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and uh so I've been on the the officers up here, and I two
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weeks ago I had the privilege of being the president of the West Virginia Municipal
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League for a year, and it's that's such a group, good group of
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people, and it's such an honor to serve those people for a year.
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As the president got more responsibilities and stuff in there. But it's you know,
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if if you're listening, you're in a city and you're not involved.
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We all got the same problems where you're big like Amy or Stephen and in
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bigger cities, were like, we all got same problems. Yes, but
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that league can help you out. And it's it's such a but all sign.
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We've saved money for years. That was my goal to get a sign
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out there when we bought this building, which is going to be paid off
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in March, which is I got to throw that out there. Ten years
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we've had this building and we're going to be paid off in March. We're
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gonna have a We're gonna have a deep burning. Sometimes that's good, but
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but but that sign was really awesome. Trying to get people come to our
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meetings and stuff, They're trying to get the word out of different things,
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and it's a it's a really nice sign and to get the information now.
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But I appreciate Denner and the girl here does it. She loves working with
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different signs and stuff. It is. It's really nice. You've got a
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great city hall there and in great town there in Winfield too. I mean,
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it's it's fantastic. You're doing wonderful things there and I appreciate it as
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always you being on again. The homecoming is going to be September. The
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ninth and the tenth there on Main Street and Winfield will have you or someone
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from the city on to talk about it between now and then. Mayor,
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I appreciate you being on Mayor Monday. Thanks lot, We'll talk soon.
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Thank you day for sure, will Mayor Randy Barrett of the Town of Winfield
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relation, uh the I guess executive directors at the title, Yes, of
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the group West Virginia's for Affordable Healthcare. How are you welcome to the show.
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I'm fantastic, Thanks so much for having me this week. I heard
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a lot about you, read a lot of your stuff. It's great to
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actually meet you in person. Thank you my pleasure. And as far as
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I know, you and I are not related. We are not, probably
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because well no one in radio uses their real name anyway, so your yours
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is a real mind's not. That's just part of the radio mystique. I
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guess. Congratulations on the news gig. Yeah, I'm very excited. And
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for those who may not be familiar with West Virginias or Affordable Healthcare, tell
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us about the organization. Oh, it's a wonderful organization that's dedicated solely to
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making healthcare more affordable and accessible for West Virginians. And it was a little
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bit of your background. Yeah, I've been in the nonprofit sector day for
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I guess going on sixteen years now. I spent ten of those years at
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Covenant House, and that's where I really saw firsthand what it met, how
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life changing it was for people to have healthcare they could actually use. You
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know, it's something we prioritized as an organization. It's something we're prioritized getting
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to people that we worked with on their ground level, and it's life changing
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for people. And I'm very excited to get to spend the rest of my
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working career advancing the policies that will help get more healthcare to more West Virginians.
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Now, when we are at the one year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction
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Act, some were for it, many were against it. Many were Obviously
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you're a proponent of the legislation. Talk about it and what, in your
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opinion it's meant to West Virginia. I don't think I've ever seen anything this
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significant historic and healthcare investments, unless it would be the Affordable Care Act.
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This is probably the most historic investment we'll see in healthcare, and it's probably
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will be as meaningful to West Virginians as any state in the country. For
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example, we have about three hundred nineteen thousand West Virginians on Medicare, and
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we will see out of pocket drug costs cap for them. We'll see the
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ability to negotiate drug prices on eighty drugs between now and twenty thirty and like
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ten one year, fifteen the next year, until there's a total of eighty.
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We'll see West Virginia families pay less out of pocket for a family coverage.
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And these are huge significant issues. I mean, my mother, for
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example, is ninety years old and last year should like four thousand dollars and
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out of pocket drug costs that'll be capped this year at two thousand dollars.
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So, hi, Mom, and that's really good news and set in your
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graduation. Yeah yeah, So, I mean, I think those are the
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things if people really get into some of the details, at least on the
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healthcare section, it's really hard to say, how is this not a good
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thing? And insulin, you know, we have I think around thirty thousand
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West Virginians on Medicare who had over five hundred dollars and out of pocket insulin
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costs, Well, those costs will be capped at thirty five dollars a month
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thanks to the inflation Reduction Acts. So these are pretty historic and significant things
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that will put more money in people's pockets and make healthcare more affordable. And
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you know, it's great to have healthcare, but if you can't afford to
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use it, it's not really that helpful. We have a text here for
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you, Oh You're popular. Text says so great to hear Ellen on five
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Live. She's done so much for our sitting and say over the years.
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Truly a great guests. Even better person was that from your mom. Must
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be listening moms texting text Mom, I owe you. I'm gonna I'm gonna
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throw up through this out there. I guess one of the things about the
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Inflation Reduction Act that gave the people that were that were steadfast lee against it.
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And again it political lines. I make my living on political lines.
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I get it. But one of the things that people point to was the
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cost. And I was reading a piece last week in the Wall Street Journal
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that talked about the generations their words, not my other generations of Americans who
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would be left to pay for this. Your answer to that, My answer
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to that is we pay for it one way or the other. We can
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pay for it up front and try to prevent many of the diseases that become
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chronic, like diabetes, heart disease, substance abuse. We can prevent those
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by putting more of the investments up front. I mean just just think about,
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for example, labor participation in West Virginia. We have when the lowest,
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maybe the lowest participation rate in the country. Yeah, well, love,
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that's tied to health conditions de layne going to the doctor or putting off
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things so long that they've become chronic issues. So I believe the investment upfront
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will in the long term be less expensive. And I think there's a lot
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of science and vegetary analysis that backs that up. And you talk about the
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workforce participation, and I know this is not necessarily something that falls under your
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whale house, but I know a little bit about your experience. You've done
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various other things, and you've you've seen this. This is not something that
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you can do in your organization. But how but but but but this is
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something that we have seen in the past with people. We talk about West
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Virginia's workforce participation and you're you're exactly right, this is not necessarily political.
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In what I'm about to say is people say, well, a lot of
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people say, well, I would like to go. I'd like to you
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know, get back to work. We've got all these jobs with a West
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Virginia. I'd like to go. But if I do, I lose my
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benefits. And I don't think that's the way that the system was set up
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to be, that you are doing better financially, medical wise, whatever,
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by staying home. I mean, that's that's not the way the system was
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designed to work, right, And it's an unintended consequence, and that goes
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to a piece of legislation. We're going to be working with legislators on this
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coming session our Bridge Plan. This will be a plan that is designed to
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get move people off of Medicaid. So right now, about forty to sixty
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thousand West Virginians come on and off of Medicaid all the time. You know.
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Let's say they get a promotion, they make too much, they exceed
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the Medicaid limit, they're knocked off, and it takes some months to get
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back on. Well, we hope to put together a basic health plan that
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is designed to help people that make too much to qualify for Medicaid but don't
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have access to employ your based healthcare or if they do, they have a
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five thousand dollars deductible copays they can't really afford to use. So this bridge
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plan or for successful and working with state representatives on that, this could be
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that plan that could help people move up, receive those promotions, and increase
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pay and better work outcomes while they're working towards improving their their economic situation.
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We think that's the key to addressing that issue. And again, that would
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be about forty to sixty thousand West Virginians at any given time, So that's
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a that's a big deal. We're talking with Ellen Alan again, who's executive
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director and state director for West Virginias for Affordable Healthcare. How big of a
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component of what you do in your organization is education is getting out and talking
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to different groups or social media or doing interviews like this. How much is
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that a part of it? Oh, I suspect it'll be eighty percent.
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I mean, I want to go everywhere anybody will talk to me. I
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want to hit the road, I want to go around the state. I
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want people to know who West Virginians for Affordable Healthcare are because it's so you
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know what we do to try to bring healthcare to every West Virginia in is
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it can help every single life. I mean, that's that's pretty exciting to
24:07
wake up every day and get to do that. So I'm gonna be talking
24:11
to again to everybody that'll listen to me, and I want to go around
24:14
the state and make us a household name. Again. We talk about workforce
24:18
participation in West Virginia being, depending on what study you look at, either
24:21
the lowest in the nation or one of the lowest. We're also the one
24:25
of the least healthy states in America as well. Absolutely, and there's a
24:29
lot of reasons for that. You know, we all, well my present
24:33
company included, we all like our fried foods and we all like our butter.
24:36
The problem is we don't do anything. I mean a lot of us
24:38
don't present company, don't exercise like we should. How much of that does
24:44
any of that fall into your wheelhouse? And when you're out educating telling people
24:47
there's things you can't do to help yourself a little bit, and that begins
24:49
a time. I mean, I consider myself an athlete, and you know,
24:52
for what it is, I've been an athlete in my whole life.
24:55
It looks very different at sixty one than it, you know, forty years
24:59
ago. Yeah. I am active. I'm very active, but you know
25:02
I still need healthcare and you know, a cycle, a hike, and
25:07
I will always encourage people to do that because when I just think it makes
25:11
for a better quality of life. But people have to feel like doing that.
25:14
Yeah, they have to feel well enough to get out and walk around
25:17
the block and then the next day walk around a block and a half and
25:21
build that momentum and you know, ultimately that will provide an inspiration. I
25:26
think that will help them be healthier, but it takes many elements to bring
25:30
that together. It's twenty two minutes. Actually, make that twenty eight minutes.
25:34
In front of ten. We're talking to Ellen Ellen Allen, executive director,
25:37
State director of the of the group Western Indias for Affordable Healthcare. When
25:41
the Inflation Reduction Act was first being discussed. You know, political lines are
25:45
drawn like everything else. That's just that's kind of that's kind of where we
25:49
are. That's kind of where we are right now. And even after the
25:53
fact, you know, there are certain folks on it would not have it
25:57
would have not have has to have been successful in passage. If it weren't
26:03
for some Republican buying in. But there's still a lot of people on the
26:07
on the more conservative side, Republicans side, that still to this day speak
26:10
out against it. What do you say to those people when when when you
26:15
are out talking to people and you have somebody who comes up to you and
26:18
says, why I didn't support this at all, what do you say to
26:22
them? Well, I would encourage them to really look at the language of
26:25
the bill, and I would encourage them to talk to people in their communities.
26:30
I know a lot of people without access to healthcare, and I'm sure
26:34
they do too, whether or not they know that. I would really encourage
26:37
them to talk to the average person, go to their libraries, sit down,
26:41
have a meeting, and have their own informal talent hall. Put it
26:44
on Facebook. I'm going to be at the library for the next ninety minutes.
26:47
Once you come, talk to me about your healthcare something the library and
26:52
Martin's sorry. No. I would encourage lawmakers to do that, really talk
27:00
to their constituent, because I think once we get through the where the lines
27:03
have been drawn and we really look at what's best for one another, it's
27:08
really hard to be against that because it only helps people. So where do
27:14
we go from here? I mean, I know you're you've got a lot
27:17
of work ahead of you, you know, and you get to get the
27:18
information, But but where does this as not just your group, but I
27:22
mean it's a niche one, where does it go from here? I'm optimist.
27:25
I'm optimistic. I think I really do believe our lawmakers and regardless of
27:32
boundaries and we feel like they've been drawn or cross party lines, I think
27:34
we really do overall what to do us best for one another. And I'm
27:38
optimistic that when we look at some of the language and the particularly the bridge
27:44
plan we hope to put forward, and we talk to people who can make
27:48
this happen, that they'll see how it will help West Virginia. And So
27:51
where we go is we just keep talking to people and we have respectful language,
27:55
and we keep showing up. That's it. Keep showing up with an
27:59
open heart, an open mind, and listen to one another. Where can
28:02
people learn more about your organization? They can go to our website www dot
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w v a FC Affordable Healthcare dot org. They can call me my numbers
28:15
three or four three two zero two seven to five two I again, I
28:18
would love to talk to anybody about healthcare, and I want to learn more
28:22
myself, and I want to share with them what our plans are. And
28:26
again, just get out to West Virginians and do all we can to help
28:30
make healthcare available for everyone, healthcare that they can afford to use. Elda's
28:36
pleasure having down the show. I'm getting to know you. Appreciate you being
28:37
here. Yes, thanks, they've so much. We'll have you back on
28:40
again. I love that. And best of luck to your mom. Best
28:42
wish, just a mom alright selling good health? Mom is I mean obviously
28:48
November, so I'm glad to have her still with us. Well, that's
28:51
awesome. That's awesome, Ellen, Allen, I appreciate you being here.
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is your radio handle. There's an unwritten rule in radio the back of the
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day that everybody had to have two first names, and that's why you had
32:29
so many people named Steve, Michaels and Mike George. I don't know why.
32:32
I don't make the rules, It's just there was an unwritten rule back
32:36
in the day, Texas. I don't think looking out for another when it
32:38
comes to healthcare is a priority of our culture. Our culture is much more
32:43
like why should I pay for someone else's medical bills? According to a Texture
32:50
Texas speaking, it's a former Democrat. I find it odd that any Democrat
32:53
today is complaining that they do not have access to affordable healthcare. I mean,
32:58
we were told that the socialist dream Bill, Obamacare was going to take
33:02
care of all that. Tex says. Many of those health issues mentioned happened
33:07
to be because of persons choices, smoking, over reading, drinking, drugs,
33:10
sexual history, etc. Not hereditary or by chance, Tex says.
33:16
Even Biden says he doesn't know why they named the bill the Inflation Reduction Act
33:20
because it has less to do with reducing inflation than it has to do with
33:24
providing alternatives that generate economic growth. It's a climate change, green New Deal
33:30
bill, and everyone knows it. According to a texture actually offered Glance as
33:36
the executive director of the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, she joins, is
33:38
now Ashley, good morning. How are you, hey, Dave, good
33:40
morning, how are you? I am doing fine. Randy Barrett of Winfield
33:45
was in the Mayor of Monday segment earlier the day Ashley, and he said,
33:49
thank goodness he didn't have to follow you because his words where nobody can
33:52
follow Ashley, Well, I don't. The sentiment is the same, nobody
33:55
can follow our mayor Randy Barrett from Winfield. He is he is a gym
34:00
and loved having him here in Putnam County. You got a big event happening
34:06
this Wednesday morning at Valley Park and Hurrican talk about him. We do.
34:10
So. This is an event that is not only the Punnham Chamber, but
34:14
it is a collaboration between the Huntington Regional Chamber and the Charleston Regional Chamber and
34:20
we're really excited about it. This is the first time at least in you
34:23
know, to my knowledge that we have been able to host such a collaborative
34:30
event, and we're hosting it here in Putnham County just because it's centrally located,
34:32
but we're really excited. We're bringing together some a great panel discussion from
34:38
representatives from each of our communities, Honey from the Caval County commission Commissioner,
34:45
Kelly Savonia, Puntham County Commissioner Andy Skidmore, Mayor Amy Goodwin, and Mayor
34:50
Steve Williams. And the event's going to be moderated by Tony Stroud of Marshall
34:53
University, and we're going to be talking about and showcasing, you know,
34:59
what initiative we have going on in our communities and how we can continue to
35:02
foster that collaboration between each of our counties. And actually, you know,
35:07
listeners to the show know that I am a big proponent of the idea of
35:12
getting everyone on the same page, especially in the sixty four corridor and with
35:15
all of these people that are coming here, and Mayor Barrett and I talked
35:20
about it earlier about these people that are already moving in not only to Putnam
35:22
County, but they're also coming to Cabell County in other areas as well.
35:27
Important that we get everybody on the same the same page. And like I
35:30
said, Putnham County is represented. You got Mayor good One and others coming
35:32
from Kandall County as well as Mayor Steve Williams and others from Cabell County.
35:37
It's going to be a collaborative effort. It absolutely is, and we're really
35:39
excited about it. It has been a lot of not only is it going
35:44
to be a great event, but it's been a lot of fun collaborating with
35:46
Trishaball and Nicole Christian from Huntington and the Charleston Chambers. They are just they
35:52
are super dynamic. And love having them, you know, as our neighbors
35:57
here in Putnham County and being able to put on an event with them and
36:00
showcase you know how great our communities are. And you know, I've harped
36:05
up on this for years as of others, that we can get everybody again
36:07
on the same page. The sixty four Corridor, Charleston and Huntington and Factory
36:12
and all the communities that go along with that, be at Winfield, Barbersville,
36:15
the different communities South Charleston Saint almost all of us here. You know,
36:17
you've got a major university in Marshall, You've got other great institutions of
36:22
higher learning from State to UC to Bridge Valley, world class healthcare options.
36:27
You know, Putnham County where I and you and I both reside, starting
36:30
to explode again, almost like it did in the nineteen nineties. A lot
36:35
going on and supporting that we get all of our ducks in a row.
36:37
To use the cliche, absolutely and even to your point day two, not
36:40
only is it important that you know, the surrounding counties are are on the
36:45
same on the same page, but I think it's also important that the state,
36:49
you know, as a whole beyond the same page. And one thing
36:52
that we're also doing here today in Punnham County is we're having a roundtable discussion
36:55
with Senator Glenn Jefferies and Senator Eric Carr. They're going to be here in
37:00
Putnham County hearing from business leaders. And one of the things that Senator Jefferies
37:05
is doing is he's actually as the Economic Development here, He's going around to
37:07
every county in the state of West Virginia to hear what issues and what things
37:12
that that the state can do to drive economic development. So you know,
37:16
I think that goes to your point of you know, being on the same
37:20
page. That's one thing that that he's doing that is trying to get everybody
37:23
together. And actually I talked to you and again we're talking with Ashley Offered
37:27
Glance, who's the executive director Putnham County Chamber of Conference. Actually I talked
37:30
to you last week and you told me that the event their Valley Park is
37:32
pretty much sold out, which I think is a testament to your hard work
37:36
as well as the people the other counties. But how can we get more
37:39
people in there? Absolutely? Yeah, we are, we are. We
37:44
are at capacity, so we you know, we're not gonna be able to
37:50
post anymore this week, but you know, our Nicole and Tricia and I
37:55
hope is that this becomes an annual event, so you know, if all
38:00
goes well this week, hopefully next year anybody that wasn't able to come with
38:02
us this year can make it in twenty twenty four. All right. Indeed,
38:07
Well it's good stuff that you're doing there you and again hats off to
38:12
you and the folks here and the Charleston Ay Mayor Goodwin and also the people
38:16
of the Charleston and Alliance and also in Honeytown New Trish Ball very well,
38:19
who's the head of the Chamber of Commerce. She's the Ashley of Cabell County.
38:22
Trishian does a fantastic job down there. And you've got Tony Stroud who
38:24
was actually on this show last week. He'll be serving as a moderator.
38:28
It's going to be a great day there of Valley Park. I'm looking forward
38:30
to attending, looking forward to seeing you as always. I appreciate you and
38:34
we'll talk soon. Thanks a lot. Yeah, absolutely, thanks Dad.
38:37
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that one Tex says, was your last guess a paying customer or did she
39:12
get that segment for free? I think they, I guess they were referring
39:15
to Allen. Allen was West Virginia's refortable healthcare and now they don't pay for
39:19
that. They just asked to come on the show. I don't turn down
39:22
to anybody they reach out, you know, either themselves or say I'd like
39:27
to get this out of All are welcome here. I see bumper stickers all
39:30
over Charleston say that, but all are welcome. I want to continue on
39:36
now with something a little bit different. Late last week, the Charleston radio
39:40
market, and incredibly small and getting smaller radio market, lost someone who was
39:45
very good at her craft, Alison Mosby, who went by Ali J on
39:50
the air. One of our competitors. I don't care to mention the name.
39:52
They mentioned us this morning over at Electric one or two seven. Ali
39:58
passed away way to young at the age of I think it was forty three,
40:02
and I did not know her well. I was at a few events
40:07
with her. As I said, Charleston is a very, very small radio
40:09
market. A lot of us bump into each other. We've known each other
40:13
for years, but she always seemed very nice and very pleasant, always smiled
40:16
on her face. And you know, competition is one thing. But as
40:20
their morning guy over there, very good friend of mine as well, Coach
40:23
Kid said this morning. Yeah, I was listening to them on the way
40:27
end this morning. Competition is one thing, but life is about relationships.
40:34
So even though we're all competitors in this crazy Charleston radio market, there is
40:39
there, as far as I new, zero real world conflicts between any of
40:44
us that I know of. I have a lot of friends who worked there
40:46
at Bristol Broadcasting, which is their parent company, as well as at LM
40:51
Communications, which is the parent company of the guys in Saint Alban's. I
40:53
mean, I worked there for three years. All great people and great friends.
40:58
And you know, Ryan, I blame this on the I acted.
41:00
Over the weekend, I watched this documentary on the shock jock Wars in radio
41:05
and the nineties and early two thousands with Howard Stern and man caw and Opi
41:07
and anth et cetera, et cetera, and the stuff that was set on
41:10
the air about the competitors, it was horrible. In my opinion, As
41:14
I get older, I want less conflict. I want more of everybody just
41:19
getting along. But I'd say that to say this to our good friends at
41:23
our competitors over to Bristol Broadcasting Corporation, our thoughts and prayers are with you
41:28
and the loss of Ali Jay. She was a great radio talent and from
41:31
what I understand, again, I didn't know her well, but when I
41:35
understand, she was an all around great person. So our thoughts and prayers
41:38
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He's good to be here, Delicate Daniel Linville. I had Delicate Linville scheduled
44:45
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44:46
in this cybersecurity stuff. And I had him scheduled to be on the show
44:52
last week, and unfortunately, or actually two weeks ago, I guess because
44:55
of the special session and everything, he couldn't be here. He's gonna be
44:58
on the show tomorrow and my first visit with our current state auditor and now
45:02
candidate for Attorney General, JB. Mccuski, who started out in the race
45:06
for governor but then switched to the AG's race. JB. Mccuski is going
45:09
to be on the show tomorrow as well. Texas, dear Dave, Aha,
45:15
just as I suspected you broadcast under a different name. Now to figure
45:19
out your real name? Is it Hector Allen? Yes, because when you
45:22
look at me, you suspect Hector that would see how that's that's right?
45:25
Tex says Obamacare would have worked if Republicans such as Glitch McConnell didn't sabotage it
45:32
to stay in Obama's presidency. Texas, Dave, I had a vision West
45:36
Virginia could get a new airport and international airport between Huntington and Charleston. That
45:40
airport could be served by a light rail train that runs between Huntington and Charleston.
45:45
Coonskin Park could be saved. And imagine all the cold and gas that
45:50
could get burned to make electricity for the light trail, according to a texture,
45:58
Tex says, how many generations of okay, well, hold on,
46:01
se okay, let me start with this. Why don't the woke marks,
46:04
a socialist communist said the Democratic Party forced Ellen's mom to pay full price for
46:08
healthcare. Tex says, how many generations West Virginias have to pay for the
46:12
massive corporate welfare and handouts from the Justice Administration. Hey, maggots, if
46:17
you had any principles, you'd vote against every Republican politician. They're the worst
46:22
at spending. Fact Deck says approximately twenty eight thousand West Virginias got health insurance
46:27
to Obamacare in twenty twenty three, at an average premium of one hundred and
46:30
sixty eight dollars a month. Where's the Republican plan to get these people,
46:34
our friends and neighbors health insurance? Is that the private market solution that previously
46:37
resulted in them being uninsured? Question Tex says, have any of the West
46:43
Virginia Republican legislators tried to generate economic development by banning drag Queen shows this is
46:47
untapped potential, according to a texture, late Monday afternoon came the news that
46:54
Charleston Police Chief Tai Hunt would be stepping down as chief. He will not
47:00
be leaving the department, instead staying on as a lieutenant Now. Jeff Jenkins
47:07
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47:10
Goodwin is quoted in the story, also reported by w CHS Television no relation
47:16
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47:22
of police position back in two thousand. Of course, you know the story.
47:25
He came under fire and was suspended for three days after news service he
47:30
had invited a woman to his office after hours, something he admitted to apologized
47:35
for. He called it a lapse in judgment, and he was suspended,
47:42
of course, for three days. The mayor reiterated that no one asked for
47:50
Chief Hunt to step down, and that he did it on his own.
47:53
In fact, the mayor said she learned the decision by Chief Hunt late Thursday
47:59
night, around nine thirty or so when she got an email from him.
48:05
Now, Chief Hunt is dealing with some back issues, including surgery right now,
48:08
one I understand he's been off the medical league. Deputy Chief Scott Dempsey
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has been named as interim Charleston Police chief, and the mayor says she wants
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to take time to find a permanent chief now. Scott Dempsey has been with
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the Charleston Police Department for twenty three years and again more you can. You
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can read more about the story at wv Metronews dot com. Texas Dave uh
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you always referred to guests as my good friend. Are they really friends or
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do they just tolerate you. Well, in the case of let's say Mike
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Pushkin, yeah, he probably just tolerates me. We're not really free now.
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Actually, Mike and I are actually pretty good friends. I mean,
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you know, you can be friends with people that you disagree with. I
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don't know where we've got again, this is just old Dave Ryan, I
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guess getting getting old. I don't know why how. I don't know how
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we got to this place where you can't be friends with people that you have
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disagreements with. I mean, it's not hard. Just be a decent person.
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You know. You can get on the radio as I do, and
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you could talk politics, or you could talk all these different things, but
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you can at the end of the day, you can you can shake hands
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and just say, well, let's go grab a beer, let's go grab
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a burger, cup of coffee, you know whatever. Five ay Live is
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49:42
and at evening Saturday at the all new Herbert Hoover High School, Brad Paisley
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was on hand and a cast of seemingly thousands I think there were actually thousands
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there. And in case you missed it any of the big doings, as
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we would say in the South, that were there, we have a nice,
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little, neat concise podcasts of everything available on all of our platforms websites,
50:07
social media, etc. Now again, it was it was a great
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day. It was a great day. Weather was picture perfect up there as
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we dedicated the Herbert Hoover High School and the athletic facility. Brad Paisley,
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I mean, was everything cracked up to be just a just fantastic day and
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a big celebration up there, not only for the folks of that community,
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but really, I mean it's a West Virginia success story. I mean it
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really is to rise, not to use too much of a cliche here,
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but to rise out of the ashes, as as that whole community did with
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this state of the art facility that a lot of colleges probably wish they had.
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It's gonna be some exciting times for Principal Kelly and Mayor Summers of nearby
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Clendenin and the football coach Joey Fields up there. So it's going to be
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some exciting times. Hats off to everybody in that Elk River community. Speaking
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of high school sports, Indeed, high school football season is here. It's
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for real. Now that was a documentary, but for real. This Wednesday,
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the West Virginia SSAC kickoff game will feature Saint Mary's and Doddridge County.
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That game will be available on the Metro News Channel. The voice of high
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school sports and West Virginia, Fred Purr Singer, is going to join me
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this Thursday morning to talk some high school football. Yes, indeed, it
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is the most wonderful time of the year. And I know that's kind of
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a cliche, but I love it. I love football season. I love
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everything about it, from high school to college to the pros. This is
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the year the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl. Ryan, write it now,
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I said it. This is the year Cowboys win the Super Bowl.
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But best luck to all the area high school teams as well. Quick Tech
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says the radicals in the GOP and Democratic Party don't want to be friends with
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anyone who doesn't think like them. That's why they're radicals and they're dangerous people.
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According to a text, I gotta go. Thank you so much for
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Mary Randy Barrett's Windenfield the Land of the Generals, and Ellen Alan for West
52:07
Virginia's for afordable healthcare, and also to Ashley offer Glance from the Huttnam County
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Chamber of Commerce. Tomorrow the show again. Attorney General and candidate for Governor
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Patrick Morris is here Delaga. Daniel Linville will stop by, and current state
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Auditor now candidate for a G. J. V. Mccuski on the show
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tomorrow as well Hobbies on vacation for the next couple of weeks Dave Wilson and
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the host chair, the Big Chair coming up on Top Tide. My producer
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was Ryan Nicholson. Thank you so much. I will see you tomorrow till
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then, have fun and love somebody I mean sim Charleston and one four point
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five Cross Lanes wu PRC Media Station. We are proud to live here too.