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07/03/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Kaci Foster, Tony the Tailor, Amber Costello, Chris Lawrence, Carrie Hodousek · The Dave Allen Show

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your calls and text are welcome to but without further ado, let's bring
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in the Governor of the great State of West Virginia, the Honorable Jim Justice.
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Governor Justice, good morning, Welcome to the show. No, Dave,
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thank you so much for having me. Thank you for wish everybody the
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greatest regard it that we've ever had. So I hope everybody has a wonderful
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time and a great, great celebration in Charleston. I want to talk about
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Governor. The big news from Monday, big gathering at the Culture Center to
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celebrate baby Dog was there. There were balloons. I ought to celebrate this
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huge multimillion dollar surplus and now you'd like to cut taxes even further. Talk
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about that, sir well, Dave. At the end of the day,
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you know, once you get this thing, this engine, really running,
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you got to keep it going. And whine in the world do we think
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that these dollars are ours as legislator or whomever? I mean, you know,
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why do we think that they're there for our pet projects and everything.
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They're people's dollars. That's all there is to it. And at the end
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of the day, there is nothing there is and I think there never will
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be anything that will spur our economy in West Virginia more than getting rid of
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our state income tax. And so for us to sit back and try to
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say, well, let's do this, let's you know, take a little
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tidbit now, you know, maybe we'll do three percent now, and you
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know, we'll do two percent next year and everything for God's sakes to live
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and all of us will be dead and gone one hundred times over before we
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ever get there. And at the end of the day, what we want
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to do is absolutely just continue to try to do all that is possible while
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minding the store and the right way we've done that. It's dogged one tough
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to argue that in the last three years we've ended up with four billion dollars
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of surplus money, four billion dollars in West Virginia for God's takes to live,
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and nobody in the world and the right mind can say we didn't take
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care of the store the right way. We kept almost a flat budget,
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and absolutely we can do this, and we need to do it. We
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need to put more money back in the pockets of our people. And that's
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why I'm saying now right now, we need to not only do the trigger
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amount, which is going to be either three or four percent, so we
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need to do an additional fight and so and all that's doing is putting money
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back in the pockets of West Virginia and they'll spend it here. I mean,
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and it just makes more people want to come to West Virginia. It
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absolutely does everything. And don't forget the child care. Absolutely we really need
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to do our childcare tax credit. Wow, when God Hurst we didn't do
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that, Who in the world will ever know? It was four point two
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million dollars and in the scope of things, not very much. Why we
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didn't do that, I'll never know. And the last thing I got add
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is just this day, if we want real money constantly a for needs like
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corrections or foster care or the hungry or whatever it may be. If we
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want real money is we have to have a thriving economy. And to have
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a thriving economy, you've got to be a business guy and you've got to
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stay on your toes. And that's exactly what we've done. And this is
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exactly what we ought to do. Governor, a couple of things where we
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let you go, what would you say to those and I'll keep it brief,
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that say that that we should be extremely cautious and they're a little a
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little scared of some of these proposals. I would tell to watch the movie
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Heat and and see Melissa McCarthy come into the boss's office and be searching for
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something. But you know, I absolutely would tell you that. Look,
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I mean it's hard to argue. I mean, I don't know how in
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the world we argue that we've not done the right thing with the Cares money.
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We did the right thing looking after COVID, We've done the right thing.
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Grow in thisemy, We've done the right thing keeping the budget flat.
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Why in the world would we now be doing the wrong thing? And listen,
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you know, for people that want to sit on the sidelines and do
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nothing. Then at the end of the day, we will get exactly ultimately,
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in the end, we will get you mark it down days because I'm
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not going to be here very much longer, and all on all honesty,
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we will get exactly what we deserve. And that is just this. When
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I walked in the door, we had nowhere to turn. People were leaving
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our state like crazy. They were going to Atlanta and Charlotte that were looking
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for jobs. You know, they had to. You know, there was
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nowhere to turn except one place, and that was make additional cut. Every
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single blooming year we cut people. And the more we cut, the more
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left now if we want that, and absolutely, if you get today,
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do you think there'll be a dollar for corrections, or a dollar for foster
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care, or a dollar for our arts and history and culture, or dollar
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for the hungry? No way, no way, absolutely will be a disaster.
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So we better listen to a business guy that's got a track record that's
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probably dog one good. So I love all the people listening to to beyond
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good sense too. And the last thing I say, I got to say
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this, Dave, if I've done anything, you know, I have given
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us hope, and you know, really and truly I have made his laugh
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and I made us proud you know, of who we are in many many
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different ways. I told us to dream big and believe. But in addition
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to that, I did one thing, and Dave, it's the God's truth
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if I die, and that is this. I showed everybody who really important.
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Who's really important. It's Toby Neden public, the voters, in all
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honesty, that's who's important and really and true. It's not us as legislatures
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or governors or whomever it may be. It's the people. And I showed
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everybody the dog gone people were important, and they spoke, They spoke on
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roast and prosperity, they spoke on amendmic io, they spoke. They spoke
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it in elections. Absolutely, and if we don't, if we turn our
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back on the people, we're gonna be dumb buddies. That's all there is
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to it. And I'm not gonna do that, Governor, before we let
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you go, just's a couple of one thing I wouldn't want to bring up,
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you know. As you mentioned, the regatta kicks off this week.
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Part of the regatta is the hot dog eating contest. This year, among
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all those greasy men on stage, there's a woman, one lone woman that
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is under the competition, competing against the man. Her name is Casey Foster,
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and she has already in studio of me, because she is going to
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be the next guest on the show after you. She's here in the studio,
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Governor, would you like to take this time to wish her luck for
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all of womankind? Casey kicker, But you can do it. You can
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do it. I would love it to death. Go do it, you
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know, I mean, you got more guts than I've got. That's today,
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I'm sure. But I'm rooting for you now, all right, Governor.
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We'll let you go. I appreciate you being here, have a happy
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and say fourth of July. We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot,
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works everybody, Bye bye. At nine sixteen, phone calls to Dave Allan
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in the building this morning. He's going to be coming up a little bit
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later on the show. Casey Foster I mentioned, is here the only female
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to enter the hot dog eating contest Regain and Regatta this year. Casey,
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good morning, good morning. Are you the governor's on your side? You
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got that going for you? What in the world made you want to do
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this? Enter at the er hot dog eating contest with all those guys Because
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you're not the first woman to do it. There been other women in the
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past, but you're the first woman this year, right, the only woman
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this year? Right? Yes, there was one woman last year. Last
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year was the first year that they had it at Rigatta. Anyway, my
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nickname is the hot Dog Queen. I did advertising for the Charleston Gazette mal
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for over a decade, and one of my jobs was traveling the state looking
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for great food. And every July I would go to all these restaurants around
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West Virginia pick the best hot dogs. And my record is sixty four hot
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dogs in a month. And so I love hot dogs. And I was
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looking on social media. I was looking at the contestants and I realized,
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Hey, there's ten men, there's no women. We got to be represented.
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And so I thought, hey, it's my calling. I got to
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do it all right. And you had another reason for wanting to do it
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too, out of your personal lifeview. You and I have never met till
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today, but I do follow you on social media. And your mother passed
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and you're kind of doing this in her honor? Is that right? Yes?
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My mother in February was diagnosed with skin cancer, metastatic melanoma, and
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it broke her back in three places. It went from her skull, her
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shoulder, her spinal cord, her lungs, at her liver, and she
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passed away three months after her diagnosis. She passed away on May seventeenth.
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My mom was a huge foodie. She was my biggest fan, and like
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her already. My mom was the greatest And I kind of put my life
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on hold while she was sick, and I'm just now coming out of that
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haze. And my mom would love this. She would be in the front
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row rooting for me, biggest cheerleader there were in the governor Apparently she would
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have loved that too. So what time? And this is on the fourth
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right. This is as part of we Gotta and What Time? Yes,
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Word. Okay, So how have you been trying? How does one
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train for something like that? Because here's the thing. You see these hot
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dog eating contests on television, you know, the Nathan's for the July and
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everything. I have MC. I've never entered, but I have MC a
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couple of hot dog eating contests. The people that are on these stages are
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not professional, so to speak. I mean I think they're not. They're
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not you know, they're not gonna be doing seventy or eighty or something crazy
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like that, like like Joey Chestnut would do, although he's not in it
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this year. So how does one train being an amateur for this? Okay,
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Well, what I've been doing is I have been researching. I've been
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watching videos on YouTube. I've been looking at other contests, what they do,
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best techniques and so forth, and I think that I've picked a technique
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that is right for me. And it's not the standard way. You can't
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just sit down and eat a hot dog like normal. These are plane winers,
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plane bun You can bring condiments if you choose there you are you going
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to bring the condiments one of yours? No? Okay, no, no,
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I mean I would think if if I were doing it, I would
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say no, no, no, no, that's just going to take up
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time. Yeah. Now, because you see these people that just shove them
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all in their mouth, and you see people that break them up and dip
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them in water. There's all kinds of different There's a whole lot that goes,
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be goes. Then what's what's the grand price is? Actually they have
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a big hot dog trophy from arm Beaver. Okay, well there you go,
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there you go. Well, we wish you the best to like text
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here says oh my gosh, that lady sounds like Milly Snyder. You know
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who. Melle Snyder is the owner of the Shape Shop. She's on my
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show about once a month to tell me how bad I eat. Totally.
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I met her a few times when I was working in advertising. All right,
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so so you sound like it, You sound like Melly Snyder. I
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never thought of that. I don't think. I don't think this contests Melly
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Snyder approved though. I really don't know. No, no, no,
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no. Actually, I'm going to be going in hungry. That way I
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can feel up, and that's you know. I've heard people, if you
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remember the show Man Versus Food, they talked about in order to prepare for
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those eating challenges, that some people had different strategies. They would not eat
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for a day or so, and then other people said, no, I
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just eat little amounts. So I guess this is whatever works for you right
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now. Some people do stomach stretching actually, so they eat as much as
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they possibly can to stretch out their stomach as much as they can so they
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can get as many hot dogs as they can. In me, I know
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my body. So I'm going in hungry because when I'm hungry, I can
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eat like a horse. Well, we wish you the best of luck and
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it's been a pleasure getting to know you. I know you made the rounds,
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you survived Steve Animal and robbery on and so you get me last.
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So thanks for being here and we'll all be and the governor apparently is going
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to be a cheering you on as well. Wooo, thank you. Casey
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Foster, the only female to enter the Hot dog eating contest this year at
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the regard of five o'clock tomorrow on the main stage. Is that right is
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on the main stage and I've got more regott to talk coming up a little
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bit later on. Casey, thanks a lot for being here hanging out with
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And speaking of Wieners, he's involved. He's not going to be in
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the Wiener Dog Race, but he is one of the sponsors of the Wiener
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Dog Race, and it's it's really for a good cause. We're going to
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out a couple texts here before we get to the next segment. Text says
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the audible Jim Justice, What a croc. He can't even honor his own
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debts without lawsuits, says a Texter. Ask the cawar lee Jim Justice why
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he won't do in person press conferences. Text says I was worried about childcare,
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so what I could work? Thank goodness, there will be an income
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tax cuts are excellent at watching children. They run the best care, the
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best care centers. I think that tongue in cheek Texas. Who's Toby and
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Edith? Well, if you followed the governor, he kind of uses personification
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with these characters called Tony and Edith or I'm sorry, not Tony and Edith.
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Toby and Edith to kind of be the average West Virginian. Although I
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have to say I've never met anybody named Toby. I don't think in my
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life. I've met in a few Ediths, but I don't know any Toby's.
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That's that's who. That is winner dog races, question mark. If
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the losers end up as the winner in the winder dog eating contest, I
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don't think that's I don't think that's the case. Texas Day. The governor
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wants to reduce taxes, but we have no bridge maintenance program. Bridges are
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in deteriorating condition and are becoming unsafe. As as a bridge engineer, there
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are several bridges that I don't cross. I feel that we are headed for
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a bridge collapse. Look at the Washington Street bridge, says Texas, Texas.
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The governor kicked up old scuffles with Amendment two. But that he signed
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a bill that essentially does precisely what Amendment two would do. He's taking up
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in that particular issue is significantly shallow, says a texter. Textas says.
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It's a little shocking to hear a lady say when I'm hungry, I can
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eat like a horse, says a text. Texta says, as all respect
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to Casey, but my man Clifton Clark is going to blow Charleston's mind tomorrow.
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goodness, look who's here. It's Tony the Taylor. Good morning, Dave,
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how are you sir, feel great. I let you sponsor the text
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line. And now you think you can just waltz in here, walk in
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here and just talk about whatever anytime you want anytime. However, I am
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going to mention that I know Clifton Clark uh huh, and he is a
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solid eater. But my money is on Casey. Casey. You're going with
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Casey. I'm going with Casey tomorrow. Are you running any kind of boards
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or anything down there? We can now I'm just discussed for entertainment purposes only.
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We also have with us via the Bigley Bigley Wigglely hotline, Amber Costello,
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who's with the fix some clinic? Amber? Good morning? How are
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you? Good morning? I'm groovy. How are you? You are fine?
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And I'm fine. He's fine. We're all fine, Antoine, the
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producers find everybody's fine. We've got Tony the Taylor in studio. Morning,
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Amber. How did I get short change with with you being on the phone
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and and and Parentzino being in the studio? How does that work? I'm
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so sorry, but one of us has to work, you know, that's
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very true with two ships. And I'll tell you Amber, we've never met,
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but I can tell you that, just by uh, just by your
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friendship with Tony the Taylor, you're a horrible judge of character. Just so
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you know, I know, I'm so sorry. All Right, tell us
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about the Fix Some Clinic before we get into what we're here to talk about.
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Tell us about the Fix Some clinic of which you are a part of.
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Sure. So, I've been affiliated with the Fix Clinics since opening in
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twenty eighteen. I was the executive director for three years and the last two
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years I've been on the board. This is an organization that's near and dear
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to my heart. So we're an ASPCA affiliated, high volume, high quality
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spay and neuter clinic for anybody in the community. We don't have any income
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or demographic restrictions. Since opening in February of twenty eighteen, we have successfully
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spayed or neutered over twenty seven thousand animals from all over the all over the
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county, other counties, surrounding counties as far as Wyoming County, and in
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twenty twenty three last year, we were really close to hitting almost six thousand
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span neoter surgeries from owned pets, shelter pets, community cats, and feral
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cats as well community demand for high quality spain Hooter has been overwhelming since opening,
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so we're actually seeking a full time veterinarian. And this this is really
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important. It's not just spain Hooter. A lot of these animals coming in
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for spain Hooter, it's their first and only time at a veterinarian. So
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we try and offer other services like de wormer, fleetich, treatment of bet
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exam and really make it count for the first and last time this animal sees
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a vetinarian and then permanently is sterilized so they can no longer contribute to the
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pet overpopulation problem which we see. It seems like it every shelter and every
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nook and Craney shelters are overflowing with cats and dogs And the answer is just
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spain Hooter. You're speaking, you're preaching to the choir here, Tony.
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What's your involvement in all this? The eye candy right, Well, I
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have somebody has to be pretty yeah, So I got involved last year sponsoring
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the Wiener Dog Race with them, and that's my second year going. So
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we print up the T shirts, we donate them, so every T shirt
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sold, one hundred percent of the money goes to the fix. Some clinic.
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That's awesome for that. And now this year I'm volunteering because and I'm
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also on the board now and so now all the other board members leave except
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for Amber and I. So her and I get to go sell t shirts
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and if anybody can sell, it's you. But I like to mention some
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of the other sponsors who help this happens. Our list of sponsors is the
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best electric who is I believe has been involved the entire time, Subtle on
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Stonicker CPAs, Mountain Juice, John Alderman his office, the Bullock Distillery,
23:40
Bailey Javens and Carter, the Charles Stormer. God helps. They give us
23:45
volunteers to help, and of course Tony the Taylor and it should be fun,
23:51
kid friendly. Uh. There's a dress up contest for the dogs and
23:55
it's a fantastic grace. It has been going on. How long is this
23:57
gone on? Amber? I believe the Wonard dog races have been going on.
24:03
They originally started on the East End before the clinic was even established.
24:07
Wow, it's been a long time now. This is all the Magic Island
24:11
Saturday registration starts at eight thirty Is that right? A thirty nine? Okay?
24:17
And our own Stephen Jenny from her sister station V one hundred are going
24:19
to be there, I understand. So if people want to register, is
24:25
there registration process or do they just show up with their dogs? So there's
24:29
a registration process. There are some entry fees, and of course all of
24:33
those fees go towards our mission of low cost, high volume Spain uter.
24:37
So to show up between eight thirty and ten thirty is registration on Magic Island
24:42
this Saturday. Register There's some different categories to register. There's costume contests,
24:48
actual races and things like that that you can register for between those time frames.
24:55
All right, well, Amber, it was a pleasure getting to know
24:56
you. Hopefully you can choose better friends Tony the Taylor moving forward. So
25:03
and and I will say in all serious since I one hundred percent believing what
25:06
you folks are doing there. So anytime that you ever need airtime with me,
25:08
all you got to do is you know, you know how to get
25:10
a hold of me. Now, just getting to get a hold of me,
25:12
We'll give you some airtime. Again. It's all at Magic Island as
25:15
part of regatta Saturday registration eight thirty nine o'clock or so, come on out
25:19
Steven, Jenny will be there, Tony the Taylor, and yourself. Amber
25:22
will be out there hawking some T shirts and all the money raised goes to
25:26
the Fix Some Clinic. I know you've got a Facebook page because I was
25:29
looking at it last night about the fix some Clinic. Is that pretty much
25:32
the best way to find out more information, not about this event, but
25:34
just about the fix Some Clinic in general. So our Facebook is updated almost
25:40
every day. However, our website fixomclinic dot org that's fixe mclinic dot org
25:47
has a full list of services that we provide, our pricing list and things
25:52
like that, and then our website really gives I'm sorry, our Facebook gives
25:56
them more of an updated on a day to day operations as are only currently
26:00
we have about half of that area that we're working with right now, so
26:03
our schedule varies with walking surgeries as well as wellness exams and health exams and
26:11
things like that. So website and Facebook, all right, Amber, will
26:15
let you go and let you get back to us. As you said,
26:18
between me and Tony and Antoine, somebody has to work here, so we'll
26:21
let you go, okay, right, someone has to have a job saynoter
26:25
and at the end of the Wiener dog race, at the regard to no
26:29
matter winner or losers, everybody's a Wiener. Oh I see what you did
26:33
there? All right? Amber, I appreciate you. Thanks a lot,
26:37
good luck and everything. Thanks for Amber again. From the Fixed Some Clinic.
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and very beautiful too, and unlike you, i'd like me. I appreciate
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By the way, I'm gonna give you a couple minutes here because I appreciate
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ate you for signing up to sponsor the text line here. What's what's new
27:04
to Tony the Taylor. We just had our big annual sidewalk sale, which
27:10
is highly successful, and we wind down a little bit for vacation in July.
27:14
Ryan is getting ready to have a baby on the sixteenth. Well he's
27:18
not be a miracle, but so he's a nervous wreck and he needs people
27:22
to come in and buy something because he's on commission because the new baby.
27:26
And he has had a replace of rough on his house too, so he's
27:27
he's a little stressed. So in other words, you don't put in other
27:32
words, you don't pay a living wage. Yeah, well you you work,
27:34
you live. But yeah, it's all going good. We will be
27:40
closed, yeah, the last week of July for vacation and regul vacation,
27:45
and then we head back at it for August. Get ready for fault.
27:48
What's the big things in August in the world of tailoring. There, we
27:52
prepare. We have a couple of early birds specials that we'll be announcing,
27:57
and then we announced our trunk shows, which are highly popular and mostly in
28:00
September and part of October. Unfortunately, and I'm a Tony the Taylor Shopper,
28:04
but unfortunately I did not make it down for the sidewalk sale last week.
28:08
But I will say I had reports that there were people lined up outside
28:11
the door. Twenty two people lined up at love me, I love it,
28:15
just to see what you had to offer. Yeah, I know my
28:18
man what he would said. He was on his way down there, so
28:19
I know you take care of he's still on his way down there. That's
28:25
if you know what, that's that's pretty and Antoine, his son, you
28:30
know, works for us. Now that's our that's our producer. Antoine's going,
28:33
yeah, that's my dad. I know, I know. Well,
28:36
if somebody's got to work in that family, that's exactly right. All right.
28:40
So again, you're one of the sponsors. You're helping out with this
28:42
thing. You're doing the T shirts and everything for the Winer Dog Race.
28:45
It is eight thirty. I'm sorry, I get my events Saturday morning,
28:52
thirty nine. Registration. Come on down there to start at eleven. And
28:56
as somebody who's been around Charleston since the late eighteen hundreds, as you have,
29:02
what does regotta coming back to Charleston mean mean for you? It means
29:06
for me reliving my childhood. I'm glad to keep it small just a few
29:11
days. I was around when We're got a very first start at the very
29:14
first one. We were kids and rode our bikes down and checked it out
29:17
and watch the bands play on the back of a flatbed tractor trailer. And
29:22
then he kind of mushroomed into something that was too much. And then of
29:26
course when they ran all of the chemical uh industry out of here, of
29:30
course, sponsorships dropped and Gotta suffered from that, but now it's back scaled
29:36
down. I have to give credit to Brian Hughes uh in his direction,
29:41
and he has been a fantaic fantabulous. Uh. That's a great word,
29:45
especially for Brian. Uh. It just does a great job and keeps it,
29:52
keeps it real and spends the money correctly. And and again I get
29:56
that from a lot of people because people and I get to it. But
29:59
I had to on the show earlier this week and then people texting saying,
30:02
well, you know, I want it to be this date and I want
30:03
it to be that day. You're not going to please everybody, but the
30:06
bottom line is, and I want to get your opinion before we let you
30:08
go as a business owner, because you're open during we are closed. Actually
30:14
you're closing because we give our employees holidays off. Okay, okay, Well
30:17
I'm in during the regatta like you. So you're open, you open the
30:18
day two days, our last day, we close tomorrow and where we reopen
30:22
next Monday. Okay, all right, but but you see, as a
30:25
business owner, what bringing all these people to Charleston, And not just Forgotta,
30:29
but these everything we get. You know, we don't get direct business
30:33
from regatta. We get the end direct business. We get the second and
30:36
third dollars as they spend around the economy from the regatta. Uh, what
30:40
we get direct business from are these huge soccer tournaments and travel sports. And
30:45
we can't wait for the sports center to open downtown to it is amazing what
30:51
travel and sports tourism does. See it all the time, I said,
30:53
people do not realize what a big multi billion dollars coach fash pitch softball twenty
31:03
years ago and was traveled all over and just one we couldn't do it here.
31:06
Now we're doing it. It's fantastic now. Now kudos to everybody who
31:08
is involved in that. Yeah, and so you're a big supporter of this
31:11
downtown sport compliment. Yes, please please get it open fast enough, please
31:15
bring how's your business? Very good? Very good? Thanks to things like
31:18
that. And you know, we just try to take care of people so
31:22
you know, quality product, quality service. And of course you know we
31:26
keep around out front because he's a lot prettier than me. Well here's the
31:30
reason I ask you that is because I hear it all the time people say
31:33
that from a retail perspective that downtown Charleston is dying. Downtown Charleston is not
31:38
without its issues, as is neither any city in America. But you're saying,
31:44
and I saw you you posted this or something like that, you had
31:47
a record year. We had a record year. Last year was a record
31:49
year, and we are up twenty five percent over last year so far to
31:52
date. So the rumors of downtown Charleston dying are greatly exaggerated. From a
31:59
business have heard that. See, I've been downtown, will be fifty years
32:02
September first, and we're still there. A lot of the stores are still
32:07
there. Yeah, downtown is fantastic. And people who are naysayers, they're
32:13
just naysayers and just and it's they have an agenda that basically they just have
32:16
an agenda. They then said, we never come downtown. Well that's why,
32:22
all right, come down Chown. Check it out, Tony. I
32:23
appreciate you being here, man boys, Dave, and again everything gets underway
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at Magic Island Regstoration eight thirty nine o'clock or so on Saturday morning. You
32:31
for the winter dog races, Stephen Jenny for every one hundred go to be
32:35
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Ice cream? Of course, we all love ice cream. Westberry Chocolate Chip
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Chris Lawrence and Carrie hooda set carrying on a tradition at the regatta this year,
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are going to be floating around the canal handing out free ice cream to
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eating contest. A text says, my money's on Clifton Clark. Uh and
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we call him the East End Wiener King. Uh. That's a great title,
36:35
uh, says A textra texture says, Uh. The letterman quote is
36:37
actually it's an exhibition, not a competition. Please, ladies and gentlemen,
36:42
no wagering. That is what the competition is. I was referencing the hot
36:45
dog eating contest, and I said, you know, Letterman's one of my
36:47
one of my heroes, and Lettermans has always said no wagering. So it's
36:51
the exact quote from David Letterman. Christopher Lawrence is here. How are you
36:54
man? It's going on? Man? How you doing? You ready for
36:58
ready for all this fun, for vality of the regatta? I would,
37:00
oh, yes, always ready for the regatta. I'm I'm looking forward to
37:04
our day tomorrow, especially out on the Canal River with Trojan landing, and
37:08
we'll be uh, we'll be out there on the boat and we're going to
37:10
be passing out ice cream. I hope. Okay, I'm looking. I'm
37:15
looking for dry ice. And I was told leading up to this that a
37:20
couple of places had it, one of them no longer carries it, and
37:22
one of them is out until Friday. And that doesn't do me any good.
37:25
So if anybody knows where I can procure dry ice, please give the
37:30
newsroom a call. I'd like to speak to you and give us that number.
37:34
Please, three four to two five eight, oh okay, three oh
37:37
four? All right. So we need dry ice. We need very important.
37:40
We tried it last year without dry ice. And it was we were
37:44
basically just handing out, you know, dying ice creams and it just didn't
37:47
work out. So how does this whole thing get started with with with the
37:52
with you guys and you and Carrie hands. Actually it was your idea.
37:55
It was my idea. Yeah, it was your idea. I get involved
37:58
in this. I don't know. I said, yeah, we didn't have
38:00
anything to give out. We're just like out there riding around. I was
38:02
like, we need something to give to people. He goes and you said,
38:04
why don't you just give him ice cream? I said that, really
38:07
you did. I got to start remembering what I say. Yeah, you
38:10
said that, and I said, well you think he can help us out
38:14
with ice cream? And then Palmer stepped up and they provided the ice cream.
38:17
Okay, but now we need dry ice, Yeah, because I don't
38:21
want to hand out soggy ice cream. So I got to get dry ice
38:22
to make it happen. But it was a big hit everybody on the river.
38:25
You know, it was hot and it's fourth of July, so you
38:29
get I have ice cream. Well, I am sending a texas we speak
38:31
right now to my man Tommy Clay. Tommy Clay, if you need anything
38:36
done in Kanawa County. Tommy Clay knows about it, and the King of
38:38
Bell was Virginia. I am reaching out to my man, Tommy Clay as
38:43
we speak, all right, well, I need dry ice. I was
38:45
told leading up this, so I didn't think there was any big deal that
38:49
Kroger carried it in a couple of locations and that air Gas supply carried it
38:53
and A contacted them. Kroger does not carry it. I was told today
38:58
and air Gas said they're out, but they got more coming Friday, and
39:01
I was like, that's a day late for what I needed. Okay,
39:05
Well, we had a textas says dry eyes. Try air Gas, one
39:07
Oregon Street, Charleston. Yeah they're out. Okay, they're out, texture
39:13
try again. We appreciate the text, and Tommy says, call me.
39:17
Well, I you know, I'm doing a talk show right now, so
39:21
I'm gonna be able to do that right at any rate. And Tommy Clay's
39:24
not the kind of guy you put on the air live. I'm just gonna
39:27
say that's that goes for about ninety five percent of the people you hang with.
39:30
Yes, that's one hundred percent true. Exactly what's one hundred percent true.
39:36
So you guys are just up there floating on the river and if they,
39:37
I mean have they. Yeah, we're just rolling around out there and
39:42
uh and and we u we holler. You know's there's boats out in it.
39:45
During the regatta. There are you know, pleasure craft all over the
39:47
place, because a great place to take in the regatta is in a boat.
39:52
And so the stage is up there and you can hear all the music
39:54
playing. I'll never forget last year. We're out there roaming around and and
40:00
Woody Woods is up on stage holding court and it's just it's entertaining just to
40:04
hear Woody filled between a time as he will be tonight at the Shaggy concert.
40:08
I'm sure, yes, so he will. He'll be filling the time
40:13
up there on stage. In fact, I was texting him and he was
40:15
giving us shout outs from the stage and we're out on the water. That's
40:17
awesome. So all right, so the need is on for dry ice,
40:22
yes, and order. This is like, this is kind of like the
40:24
radiothons that we do for the price of a couple of coffee. I don't
40:29
know how what dry ass called, but we need some dry ice. Yeah,
40:31
we'd like you to sponsor Dave Allen and Chris Lawrence with some dry ice
40:36
for this Fourth of July. All right, we need dry ice, and
40:38
everybody's either out or closed. So if you know somebody that can provide dry
40:43
ice, I will get it today. Yeah. I'll put it my own
40:45
freezer overnight tonight, so we'll have it for tomorrow. Okay, But I
40:47
just I just got to procure it. Or if we can make arrangements to
40:51
pick it up tomorrow morning, that'd be even better. Okay, So give
40:53
us the newsroom number again, three oh four three four two o five eight
40:59
oh, and ask for Chris. That would be me, that would be
41:00
you. Well, but you better get in there in case the phone's ring.
41:05
I hope it does, all right, Chris, I appreciate you being
41:07
here. Man, buddy'd say, what's your favorite part? I was gonna
41:08
ask carry this, but she's busy on assignment right now. I'll ask you
41:12
two, what's your favorite part of the menu for Fourth of July? What's
41:15
your favorite thing? Oh? Goodness, gracious, I like it all but
41:19
I guess we always have hot dogs and hamburgers, but this year my mom
41:27
is having barbecue. So probably probably ribs. Oh yeah, I can't go
41:30
wrong. I can't go wrong with ribs. But I'll eat just about every
41:35
meat that's out there on the table. What about the sides? Are you
41:37
a sides guy? Is he? Because I love the side dishes. When
41:40
it comes to the fourth you give me a potatoes, salt of colesau,
41:45
macaroni salad, baked beans. I'm a happy guy. I'm with all of
41:46
that. I'm done with all that I do make. I always make a
41:51
pasta salad that my brother seems to like it, and I don't have the
41:55
heart to telling him that all it is it's it's instant, boxed up stuff.
42:00
I just I just put some fresh stuff in it, and he thinks
42:02
that I'm like Chef Paul. So a couple of texts here Matheson may have
42:07
it, says a texture. I called Matheson and left them a message.
42:09
They were busy helping other customers. Hopefully they'll call me back. Howl about,
42:15
says a textra Buzz food Services. It's an idea. I don't thought
42:19
about that. Okay, all right, well you can continue to text me
42:21
and I'll get the information. Chris, or you can call him in the
42:22
newsroom. Have a happiness, say fourth, my friend. Our listeners always
42:27
come through for us, I always do. We got the best listeners in
42:29
the world. Chris. I appreciate it. Man, thanks a lot.
42:30
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42:35
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42:38
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Encove Insurance Studios of Dale Miller Building to Morgantown at ten oh six Center.
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Financi sha Eric Tarr on the show this morning, someone who's found themselves at
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odds with the Governor UH from time to time. It seems to me,
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in listening to an interview that Senator Financial Aitar did with WMOV Radio out of
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Ravens Wood, I listened to some of that on my way in this morning
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that he seemed to got a little bit of pause about some of the things
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that the governor talked about both on talkline and also on my show earlier this
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morning, with the tax cuts and whatnot. Senator Tar is going to join
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Dave Wilson to talk about that, plus one of my favorite guests on the
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show that Hoppy and Dave have on from time to time. Robert Rupp from
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West Virginia, wesleyan political guru, extraordinary and simply one of the best.
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I listen to this guy talk all day in all seriousness. He's great at
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what he does. And he's going to join Dave to talk about the presidential
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race and not to be interesting, plus some more issues with homeschooling tomore Hoppy
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away this week. Dave Wilson is in the Big Chair talk Line today and
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then tomorrow is a best of talk line, and then Dave will return to
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the air on Friday. Hoppy is back on Monday. I think they were
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going I'm going to be off tomorrow and Friday, so there will actually be
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no shows. They were going to do a best of Dave Allen, but
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they couldn't find enough material from what I understand, so there will be no
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best of Dave Allen Thursday or Friday. We've got some special patriotic theme programming
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from the ABC Radio network that's going to air on Tomorrow at nine oh five
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and also on Friday. I will be back on the air chair on Monday,
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and I can tell you one of the things we're going to get into
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Monday. There is a new school board President in Kanawah County. Rick Cavender
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was named to that position earlier this week at the Kanawa County BOE meeting,
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and Rick is going to join us on the show on Monday. Back to
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Regatta for a moment. It all gets underway today. Vendors open up around
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noontime. The TC Energy Carnival opens up at one o'clock. The Better Homes
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and Garden real Estate Central Wheel Wash Beer Festival is at four point thirty this
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afternoon City Center at Slack Plaza. My man Steve Animal from nine eighty seven,
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a Mountain, wild and Wonderful classic rock, will be holding court down
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there. Tom Batchelor the Tom Bachelor Band takes the main stage tonight at six
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thirty, with DJ e J and the MFB Band playing on the Slack stage
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while Shaggy and That of course is all My man Woody is all over that
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from one of oh seven to three the beat Shaggy will start at eight o'clock
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on the main stage tonight. Woody will be kind of manning things there.
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Who I mentioned earlier this week is heading into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of
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Fame as along with our own Jeff Jenkins so go down and hang out with
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the future Hall of Famer Woodie Woods. Now, if you need any information
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about any of the events we talked about with Regatta, and as I said,
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we've covered a lot of them today, they're all over. They're all
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over our pages, WV Metro News dot com, WCCHS Network dot com,
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my Facebook page, my Twitter, my ex whatever you want to call it.
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The City of Charleston, there's actually a Regatta Facebook page. So if
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you need exact timing, parking information, that's kind of a big deal because
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you know they're running shuttles back in. Information about the carnival, about the
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wrestling, whatever, all available all over the internet. You shouldn't have a
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hard time to find that. We are proud to be a part of Regatta.
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And as they say, you gotta Regatta. But Dave Island Show in
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five eighty Live is brought to you a part by your hometown baseball team,
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the Charleston Dirty Birds. Birds playing the second game of a road series against
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Long Island tonight. They'll be back at Gomar Ballpark for a weekend series against
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Southern Maryland. They got a lot lot of things planned for this weekend.
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I understand to salute the military and our and our country and so on and
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so forth. They've got all that information available on their website, dirty birdsbaseball
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dot com and on their social media site as well. So as we head
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into the fourth of July weekend, many people, as I said, you
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know, they're going to be enjoying all the things that go with Independence Day.
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They're going to be enjoying the cookouts and the family gatherings and so on
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and so forth. I'm gonna get a little not sentimental, that's not the
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right word, but I will get a little serious here, just for a
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moment, take the time to realize that despite the fact that we are in
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a place in our country right now, and no, I've not been around
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for every year of the United States of America's existence, but we're in a
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place right now. But I don't know that we've ever been before. Because
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there's been strife in America. You think civil War obviously, you think of
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all these Vietnam and the Civil Rights era struggles and all this other. So
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there's been strife in America. But I don't know that we've ever been at
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a place in this country where you know, I read a lot I watch
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a lot. I have a lot of guests on the show, listen to
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what my listeners have to say. And we're at a place in this country
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right now where I have heard within the last twelve hour, twenty four hours,
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I have heard both sides say that if phil in blank name is elected
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to president, we're doomed as a society. I heard that about Donald Trump.
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If Donald Trump is re elected to the presidency, our country is done.
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I've heard that about Joe Biden. If Joe Biden president, Joe Biden
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is re elected, our republic, this grand experiment of ours is all over.
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And both sides say that, and they say it with a lot of
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force, and they say it with a and they believe wholeheartedly what they say.
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I will, I will say this, and I have my opinions on
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both Joe Biden and on former President Donald Trump, and you know that I
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have made them perfectly clear. I hope we're not at a at a place
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we're in all seriousness that the election of one of those two guys is really
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going to be the downfall of America. And what's going to be the downfall
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of America is not the guy in the White House What's going to be the
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downfall of America is the American people if we choose to let it go.
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This has been a grand experiment. Let's see do our best to see if
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we can keep it going. All right, Dave Wilson coming up with talk
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line at ten oh six. I'm out the door. My producer Antoine Woods,
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thank you so much. I'm off tomorrow and Friday and joining Independence Day
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and stuff. Be back Monday morning. Till that, have fun and love
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somebody and enjoy the ring. Gatta go and see at Sam ninety six point
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five Stick one four point five Cross Lane on WVRC Media station. We are
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proud to live here too.