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Funhouse, the one day of the week where we try our best to say
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goodbye to politics, at least for a day. Chris Lawrence, anybody with
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a preview of the nights high school football. Will get into that a little
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bit later on Hannah Gardner from the Canal Charleston Humane Association with our Adoptment Police
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pett of the Week, Rob Banader's going to stop by to talk about a
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big event on the trails this weekend. Plus it's the final weekend of the
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season for the Dirty Birds. They are at home. Eaton Douglas for the
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Dirty Birds is going to join us to talk about that. Day two of
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rib Fest and Charleston all kinds of other big events going on. And I
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have as my special co host for this Friday edition. It's a guy that
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you've listened to on Charleston Radio for a long long time. Not doing radio,
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he's crossed over to the dark side doing television right now. He actually
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sat behind the very mic that I'm sitting behind for years. His name is
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synonymous with broadcasting in the world of Charleston. Here Charleston Broadcasting. It is
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Rick Johnson. Good morning, sir, Good morning. How are you?
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I'm fine, Dave? How are you? Do you have any problems finding
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the studio this morning? I mean, if you've been here before, I
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had help, but I did make it in. Yes, I was able
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to find it. Well that's good. Now, try not to be nervous
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because I don't know have you been on the radio before. It's been a
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long time. But yeah, off and on, off and on. More
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of the Rick coming up. I want to talk high school football. They
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or WCHS network Game of the Week tonight, Chris LARTs you, Jeff Jared
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Lewis, I should say, Matt Guitar Murphy, Well you got for it
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tonight man. We will be in Hurricane tonight. As Hurricane, we'll try
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to bounce back from that lass a week and go to g W They've got
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Spring Valley coming in. The timber Walls are in desperate need of a win
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there oh in three, But they started the year out with a pretty rough
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schedule. They had Huntington, Cavil, Midland and then went all the way
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across the state to Jefferson last week for their first three games, and doesn't
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get any easier for them as they roll into Hurricane tonight. Spring Valley has
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never been oh and three and now they are. And of course I've never
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been oh and four. So we'll see if how this plays out. Tonight
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in Hurricane will be on the air at seven o'clock, kick off at seven
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thirty, and of course Hurricane put up you know, those gaudy numbers a
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couple of weeks ago, but then they gott I'm about a little last week.
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But it came back down to earth, that's for sure. And but
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they turned the ball over four times, and you just can't win when you
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do that. But even after that, they still had a chance to win
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that game. Just it was one of those nights where they went wrong and
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I guess they're hoping to uh to not have another one of those. Well,
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it's gonna be a perfect night for high school football weather wise too.
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This is what it's all about. Man, this is awesome. Yeah,
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finally finally feeling a little chill in the air. I'm liking that. Carriers
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like, yeah, we're gonna break out the sweater. I was like,
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we got another month in a half of the way of talking about that.
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Yeah, the high is still gonna be And I was looking at the forecast
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like a near eighty next week. We're not We're not quite there yet.
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Yeah I'm not. I'm not breaking out a sweater until at least December.
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Yes, you know that's got to be snow on the ground exactly. Uh.
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And of course let's talk about tomorrow on West Virginia Doors. But again,
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well, tomorrow we will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the West Virginia
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Wildlife Center at French Creek. A lot of people don't realize that's been around
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one hundred years. It originally was the West Virginia Game Farm, opened up
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in nineteen twenty three as a place that the D and R would raise deer
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and turkey and bear another wildlife to be released back into the wild. But
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what they realized was that farm raised wildlife doesn't adapt well when it's released into
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the wild. So the concept, while nice in theory, didn't work.
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So they saw, well it's a waste of time and money. But what
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they did notice was people love to come up there and look at the animals,
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and so it transitioned from being a facility to reintroduce animals to becoming an
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educational facility and a zoological facility. And now you can go there and see
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just about every animal that was indigenous to West Virginia, some of which are
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no longer with us, some that have been reintroduced, and that's it.
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A French Creek, which is kind of out of the way for a facility
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like this, but keep in mind, at the time it was nineteen twenty
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three. They put it where they had in land and it was in French
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Creek. So but yeah, they're celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of that tomorrow,
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so we'll talk to the folks up there about that, and then we're
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going to talk about the West Virginia Trampers Association got their big Fall Rendezvous going
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on at Glenville tomorrow, so we'll have we'll be talking trapping as well with
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those folks. I want to throw this in here, Chris, speaking of
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the outdoors. One of my favorite ladies in the entire world, Grace Randolph
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of the Randolph Engineering Family, sent me a note that an organization she and
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her family are a big part of, the Putnam County Gun Club, are
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having a youth Day tomorrow at Eleanor at the Eleanor Gun Club. There twenty
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eighth year for this event and they provide everything. You don't have to bring
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guns or AMMO or anything. They got it all tomorrow at Ellimore Eleanor.
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Rather, all the youth must have a parent or some of the adult with
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them to participate in. Our registration is five dollars and if you need more
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information contact David Thompson three oh four seven seven six, nineteen fifty or three
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oh four five three nine fifty nine sixty five. Twenty eighth Annual Putnham County
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Gun Club Youth Day tomorrow in Ellena. Yeah, I've been to that before.
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They do a great job out there. They've always been very supportive of
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kids in the Putnam County community there. I think it took my kids to
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that one year we did the show live from there, Okay, And I
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remember I remember Hank was just a toddler. I made a little older than
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a toddler, but he caught a massive catfish out of their pond out there
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as part of the as part of the event. So yeah, Yeah,
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a good, good group and a good opportunity and the weather's gonna be great,
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so be a great place to take your kids tomorrow. All right,
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Chris, we'll be listening with the game time is tonight at or our broadcast
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time be on the air at seven and kick off at seven thirty and then
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after the game, Fred and Day you've have game night, all right,
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Chris, appreciate it, man, thanks a line. All right, Let's
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bring in Hannah Gardner from the Canal Trusty Main Association with this week to Adopt
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Me Please Pet of the Week. Hannah, good morning, welcome to the
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show. How are you great? Hurry doing? Find My co host today
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is Rick Johnson and Hannah. Long before you were born, Rick Johnson was
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a radio starr in Charleston. Just so you know. Oh my god,
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he ain't lying long long before I was born now, and I'm just kidding
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about that, all right. I gotta ask you before we get to our
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pet this week. Hand. How was KEX for k nines last week?
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It was great? It was really successful. We had a lot more people
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than we had last year, so it turned out great. Great. I
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know. My man Steve Animal no pun intended from our news station, the
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Classic Rock Station nineteen seven a Mountain was there and he took some pictsels like
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everybody had a great time and raise some funds for the animal shelter. So
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hats off to everybody that took part. Let's talk about Moose. Moose is
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this week to Adopt Me please? Pet of the Week. Picture posted Dave
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Alden Radio and Facebook and at Dave A seventy on X tell us about Moose.
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Yeah, it's a moose. He is a nail. He is about
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three years old. He's a micro chippin. He's back vaccinated. He's also
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neutered, so he's all ready to go home. He's got all of his
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shots and everything, so he just needs a good home now. He is
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not that good with cats. He doesn't really like them, so he would
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probably do best in a home that does not have any cats. He is
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fine with very select fete dogs. He likes to be the star of the
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show, so he likes some dogs. So if you want to bring your
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own dog up to the shelter, we could do a meet and greet with
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Moose and your own dogs and make sure that they get along before you introduce
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him into your home as well. He also he's a really good jumper.
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He's a really smart boy as well, so he does know how to consensus.
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But with somebody out there with him, and with somebody out there playing
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with him or something, he'd be perfectly fine. I don't think that he
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tries to run away. I think he just likes to have fun, and
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he's really energetic and he likes to jump and play because he is very playful
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himself, and we consider him a little class crown because he just likes to
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be clumsy and run around and loves people. I mean, if you can
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see the smile on his face whenever you're petting him, he's sophy. It's
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much like the picture that I sent days. But he is ready for a
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good home. He just needs someone who's patient with him and someone who can
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give him that chance to be running free and just have him fun. He's
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a really, really good dog, and he does seem to be housebroken as
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well. And what is the what's the adoption fee for Moose Hannah? Well,
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until the twentieth he will be just ten dollars. We are having our
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ten years of life saving events for ten days of ten dollars adoption fees for
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all of our adult dogs and our cats and kittens. All right, now,
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you folks are in need of some other supplies. I was reading that
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to online. You're needed some cat litter, some blankets and whatnot. Talk
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about that. Yes, we always need blankets, we always need I know
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that we need some pill pocket to help give the dogs and even some of
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the cats. They make cat hill pockets as well. We need some of
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those. I know that we could also use some like uh, not big
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huge like comforters, but just some sheets. If you have any extra ones
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laying around that you're just not using, we would gladly take those. So
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just as long as you know they're not big pillows or something like that,
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will take them. I got a nice note from somebody sent to me,
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Hannah, and this is something that I really hadn't thought of, but we
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probably need to remind people. We're in a little bit of a cooler snap
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right now, but it's going to warm back up. But as we get
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closer and we get in further into falling into winter, cats like to climb
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up into and I guess maybe dogs do too, I don't know, but
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cats especially like to like to climb up under cars and the engines to stay
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warm. And somebody sent me a picture of it was kind of kind of
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sad really, of a of a kitten. A kitten did did survive,
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but that had climbed up into a car and just be careful as and I
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know it's we're not there yet, but as we get into the cooler weather
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much were it stays cold, just keep in mind that those kittens like to
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run around on and that's something that they like to do. Yeah, So
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if you I always tell everybody, if you get in your car, maybe
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just look under the car and make sure there's not casulai and under the car,
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just in case. But you can also honk your horn. I know
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that that might be funny. You might live in a neighborhood until or you
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really can't do that. But if you honk your horn, and you can
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honk your horn, then the cat will typically you know, get scared,
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wake up from their sleep if they're in the like engine area, and they'll
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just run away. So that definitely helps. But if you could just kind
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of walk around your car maybe like cap on the hood or something, and
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they say, typically will come out. Okay, all right, Hannah,
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it's always a pleasure to talk to you. We will we'll talk again next
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Friday. Thanks a lot. Thank you by Hannah Hannah Gardener again from Canal
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Charlesty Main association with this week's Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week. Moose
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is the dog's name. A picture posted Dave Allen Radio on Facebook and at
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Dave A seventy on The artist formerly known as twitter three years old, neutered
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vax microchip, prefers to be the only dog. Doesn't really like cats,
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and if you're thinking about adding them Rick to your family. Probably not so
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much with other dogs. But you can always arrange as Hannah set a meet
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and great to bring your dog up there to see how it works. I
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like that that way you'll know early on if you're gonna have a great,
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big family or maybe it's not gonna work out. And he likes to climb,
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and again he's not trying to escape what Hannah says. He just likes
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to have fun. So you might want to have a tall fence or something
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like that. And remember his adoption fee is only ten dollars to the twentieth
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of this month, so and he's got a million dollars. Smile. He
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really does. Yeah he does. Again. Go look at a picture Dave
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go. Rick Johnson is my co host today having fun over there. Right.
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Thank you for the opportunity. Okay, we're gonna talk You're not getting
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off that easy. We're gonna talk about a little roality of texts waiting on
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you over here. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna get too a
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now your television career. Rick Johnson, of course, many many years
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associated with this station. I want to go down to Rob Vanader though from
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my adopted homeland of Putnham County. Rob representing Rivers to Ridges in the Heritage
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Show. Good morning, Rob, How are you doing good in you Dave?
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I'm doing fine. Rick Johnson's my co host today, Rob, My
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boy, what do you got going on over there? With the rister ridget
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Herenage trail Well. This week is our final of our four race series of
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the year, and tomorrow actually starts at ten am at the West Virginia Farm
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Museum over on Point Pleasant. And if you're not familiar with the Mothman Festival
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that's going on this weekend brings around twenty five or thirty some thousand people to
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Point Pleasant. Took gonna be a packed weekend of great fun down there.
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But we've got what's called the Mothman Search Team Bike Ride. So this is
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going to be through nine miles on grass and gravel through the McClinton Wildlife Management
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Area and the Westernia Farm Museum. It's a great chance to kind of get
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a tour around the mcclinton's Wildlife Area. You get to see the ponds,
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you get to see the T and T bunkers and right through some of the
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bunkers. Hopefully maybe find the Mothman out there somewhere too. But it starts
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at ten am race we do at Strata Raise at ten fifteen for the little
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ones. It's just gonna be a fun day. It's gonna be great.
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Rob explain the whole concept behind this Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail, and I
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want to change the name because I have a heck of a time scene Rivers
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to Ridge's Heritage Trail. Explain the whole concept behind him, well, Rivers
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to Ridges our Heritage Trail. Our Heritage Trail runs from Nitro to Point Pleasant
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on the north side of the Canal River. There mostly about our focus on
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recreation history and the just all the focus on those areas that don't get highlighted
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very much in other other aspects there. So we like the host events all
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on the trail to kind of promote different areas that might not get highlights throughout
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the rest of the year there too. So it's a it's a nice way
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to be able to spread the word but also spread the word of the recreation
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and just the history along the trail as well. And you're saying, Nitro
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to point pleasant, Yes, sir, that's a long way, isn't it.
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It is, Yes, it is. I don't even want to drive
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that in a car. It's a beautiful jove if you ever get a chance
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to. But there's so many historical locations, and you got Raymond City and
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got Black Betsy and all the all the great towns along the way there too,
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And there's so much history on the side of the river that a lot
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of people are It goes under underrecognized a lot too. So our promote,
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our our goal is to try to promote and get the word out about the
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history and heritage in that area. Rob working people learn more about it.
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Well if you go to Rivers to Ridges dot com as our website got all
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our information on there. If you do go to the registration tab, the
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registration link is right on that page. For anybody eighteen years and up as
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twenty dollars, twelve years to seventeen years is ten dollars, and anybody eleven
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years and below is five dollars. All right, So we locked in our
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early pricings for the whole time. So it's a good deal and a great
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great way to be able to support a good nonprofit and also get a good
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tour of the area that you don't get to see all the time. Well,
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and kind of the theme of the next couple of days, Robs is
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going to be the fantastic weather here in West Virginia. You couldn't ask for
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any better weather. And then you can go and enjoy the Mothman Festival,
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right exactly. They've got jam packed stuff all day long. And I mean
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they've got Hey rides out in the McClinton area Wildlife Area going until like two
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sick two o'clock in the morning. They do nighttime Hey rides on Saturday,
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and it is a wild out there. It's awesome, all right. Rob
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is always a pleasure to talk to you. The Rivers to Ridge's Heritage Trail
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system. You guys doing great job in this time you're involving the Mothman.
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Are you more excited about seeing moth manners moth and Mothman? More excited about
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seeing Rob? I don't know about that one. I hope I don't see
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him. But here it's like a like a like one of those wild cats
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out there. If he sees you, he's gonna get you. But if
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you see him, it's too late. All right, all right, Rob,
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We'll talk soon, Buddy, Good luck Man. Thanks thanks a lot,
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our producer. Today it is the final weekend for the Dirty Birds as they
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take on Southern Maryland. Eaton Douglas from the Dirty Birds joins us now for
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the Bigley Pigley Wiggly Hot Lion. Eaton, Good Morning, How are you?
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Good morning? I'm well, how are you? I'm fine? And
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my co host today is Rick Johnson. So what don't we have lined up
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for the finale this weekend? Miss Douglas. It is the last weekend of
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baseball in Charleston for the twenty twenty three season. It's crazy that you know,
22:26
we're already here, but we've got a big night tonight. We've got
22:29
a Julio Rodriguez bobblehead, which is pretty awesome. And for people who don't
22:33
know Julio, he played here for the West India Power in twenty nineteen and
22:38
now he's made his way to the Mariners and he's been Rookie of the Year
22:41
and All Star, participated in the Home Run Derby. So pretty cool to
22:45
have him a part of baseball and back in twenty nineteen. And so we're
22:49
going to celebrate him tonight with a Sunday's gonna be a fan appreciation It's already
22:55
here and then Sunday's gonna be a fan appreciation day. So we invite fans
23:07
to all fans to come out. We're gonna have some some sessions, stand
23:10
deals, and be given away some things on Sunday. What time do the
23:14
gates open tonight? Five thirty. Gates open at five thirty, first pitch
23:18
at six thirty five, and we're gonna give away the Julio babblehead. But
23:22
we're also going to name our pitcher of the Year and our MVP for the
23:26
year before the games signed as well. Now, Eden, I understand that
23:30
the Birds have a new general manager. Is that right? We do.
23:33
Ben Blom was our business operations manager. He joined the team in January,
23:38
and he was named the general manager early last week, and we're really excited
23:44
to see what all he can do here. He's been absolutely amazing the time
23:48
that he's been here so far, so we're excited to have him on board.
23:52
Indeed, And I know the numbers are still being crunched and we'll be
23:55
overall over the next couple of months. But oh, but just talk overall
23:59
generally about a ten that's this season. Pretty good season for the Dirty Birds.
24:03
Yeah, good season. I actually got an email last night to say
24:06
that our attendance rose again this season, so that's pretty awesome. And we're
24:10
super thankful for everyone who's came out to support us and our team and everything
24:14
that we're doing to build. And although Dirty Birds Baseball is almost over,
24:18
we've got a bunch of stuff coming up this fall that I think people are
24:21
going to be excited about. Yeah, I want to talk about that briefly,
24:23
just give us so kind of the over if you and I'll have you
24:25
on several times between now and then. But what are some of the things
24:27
that are going to be going on over Gomart Ballpark. Yeah, so October
24:32
fourteenth and fifteenth, We've got the Selingo Law down in Dirty Music Festival.
24:37
We've got local guys Josh Pantry that's going to be performing, Kate Boytech,
24:41
and then we've got Nashville artists like Jamison Rogers, David Nail, John Linkston
24:45
that are also going to be performing. And it's we're titling it like the
24:48
biggest party in Charleston this fall because it really is going to be fun and
24:52
you can go for as cheapest twenty bucks. I mean, you can't really
24:56
go to a music festival anywhere for twenty dollars, so we're really excited to
25:00
have that. And then we just announced we're having a light festival at the
25:03
ballpark and starting November seventeenth through January first. So it's the Selinga Law Dirty
25:10
Birds Lights the Night And when I say every inch of the ballpark is going
25:12
to be covered in Christmas lights, every inch is going to be covered.
25:15
So it's gonna be really cool. Is there a place where one could go
25:21
eating online and get a sample of what that's going to be? Like,
25:25
I think I've seen something online about it. Yeah, you can go to
25:29
our website, dirty birds baseball dot com to look at the ticket options and
25:34
to see like kind of like a small, short, little video. We've
25:37
partnered with Lawrence y'all's. They're the baseball team in Florence, Kentucky, and
25:42
they've done this before, so we're bringing what they do here. So if
25:48
you go to our website or you can look up Florence Y'all's deck the y'alls,
25:52
and you can see a video and pictures of everything that it has to
25:56
offer. All right, and again there's a lot going to be going on
26:00
during the off season, but let's let's let's dial it back and go talk
26:03
about this weekend with the baseball game time tonight, Tomorrow and Sunday. Eating
26:07
game time tonight is six thirty five, gates open at five thirty, same
26:11
thing. Tomorrow night, gates open at five thirty, first pitch at six
26:15
thirty five, and then Sunday gates open at three with a four or five
26:18
first pitch and of course you got the bobblehead thing going on, but you're
26:22
also doing Mega Blast fireworks, right. Yeah. The last Mega Blast Fireworks
26:26
show is tomorrow night, and we know it's a w pit game, but
26:30
we will have it on throughout the concourse in certain areas so you can still
26:33
get catch some of the game while you're at our game, if you want
26:36
to do the very last fireworks show. All right, eating and again,
26:40
a lot of things going on during the off season. I really like what
26:41
this ownership is doing with this is that once the final pitch flies on Sunday,
26:45
it's not like we're going to say, okay, well, we'll see
26:48
you again in May or June. It's you've got things going on with it,
26:51
with the music festival and with the with the Christmas Lights, which actually
26:55
begins well before Thanksgiving. We'll have you on plenty of times between now and
26:57
then to a talk of out of even I appreciate you as always, we'll
27:00
talk soon. Thanks a lot, Yes, thank you, Dan Douglas from
27:04
the Dirty Birds. Lots going on there, mister Johnson. I love the
27:08
after season stuff. Yeah, especially I mean there's I mean, it's some
27:11
beautiful ballpark. Why not you and of course we're going to be doing I
27:15
don't know the exact date yet, but the we'll be doing Tricker Beat over
27:18
there with our sister station, The Beat. So as talking about that as
27:22
well. Rick Johnson is my co host Day Texas. Dave is your co
27:25
host a guy that had an afternoon show with Mike Agnello. Yes, that
27:29
that would be him. Absolutely, We're going to talk about that covered up
27:32
a little bit later on. Also, I have been informed, and I
27:34
don't know one percent of it's going to happen, that we may actually have
27:37
a visit from as we call it in the wrestling business. We may have
27:41
a run in from our good friend Rob Real, who is the morning host
27:45
on ninety six one k WS. Rib Fest is going on, and and
27:51
I think Rob is going if his schedule works out down in the basement.
27:53
We keep him locked in the basement. Uh, he may run in here
27:56
to talk about some things going on with the rib Fest. I do do,
28:00
but because he's got Rob's got this flowing hair and there's something going on
28:03
with the hair and rib Fest. I don't know exactly what it is,
28:07
but if Rob's schedule allows, he's going to do a little run in on
28:11
the show between now on the top of the hour, it is Day two
28:12
a rib Fest and Charleston Now in addition to the food, they had the
28:15
Kids Zone and tonight's you Got the Esquires, followed by this It's the What's
28:22
called the Sensational Blues Brothers and John Ellison and the Carpenter Ants, Fantastic Local
28:27
Folks Tomorrow night, Charlie Brown's Coasters and Parley and the Grease Balls will be
28:33
playing Sunday. Closing out was Stolen Moments and fourth, followed by the wing
28:37
eating Contest. The contestants in the wing eating contest mister Johnson, we got
28:44
Major Harris WVU Great Major Harris is gonna be there. Kenny Bass will be
28:48
there, Brian Oxley, who was the Raining Wing rib Fest wing eating champion,
28:55
Another mountaineer, Great Avon Coburn, is going to be taking part.
28:59
Anthony Lewis very good friend of mine. Anthony's going to be there. Expert
29:02
on WVU sports, He's gonna be there. Jim Strawn, who is an
29:04
expert on nothing, is going to be part of I'm just kidding Jimbo and
29:08
a couple of guys from our sister stations Woody Woods from the Beat one of
29:14
seven three is going to be there as the as the aforementioned rob Real They're
29:18
all going to be part of the wing eating contest and that is happening on
29:22
Sunday. Now. Of course Sunday is going to wrap up with the legendary
29:26
Confederate Railroad. Really, yes, Confederate Railroad will be there, and of
29:30
course the biggest tailgate party south of the Blue Lot for WVU and PITT tomorrow
29:37
night, live and in living color on the giant screen they're gonna have.
29:41
They're gonna have this giant screen set up rick for people to be able to
29:45
take in the WVU pit game. It is a winga Paloza, Polka,
29:49
Valley Bank, Quantum Sports Center, West banko Optima and Go Mart make it
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all possible. Also, we got the Dunbar Fall Festival going on this weekend.
30:00
Plus in Bell they're having their Cruise In a Car show. Now that
30:03
Cruise In starts at four this afternoon and Bell Car Show starts at nine tomorrow
30:08
morning. They got live bands, they got great food both nights, so
30:12
certainly no excuse to setting home. Gotta get out. He got so many
30:18
things going on and of course, not the least, which is the backguard
30:21
brawl Pitt and WVU in Morgantown tomorrow night. Our coverage will begin at three
30:26
tomorrow afternoon. So again, lots of stuff going on twenty two minutes away
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to play ten questions? Man? Anytime? Bring it on, Bring it
34:07
all right. We're gonna do it a little bit later on. But before
34:08
we do that, I mentioned that we had I'm gonna have a run in
34:12
from the man the myth ledge and talking about Rob Reel from our sister station.
34:15
I think I run is my mouth. So it's a walk in.
34:19
It's a breathing heavy come in. Yes, Rob Real is here, ninety
34:22
six one k WUS morning show host. Uh and uh, you know I
34:25
was trying to describe to the people you got these flowing locks, yes,
34:30
Rick, and I wish we had flowing min minor on my back. But
34:36
let's talk about what you're what you're doing with this hair man? What's up
34:38
with this? So I promise this is the cliff notes version. Well,
34:43
I'm gonna shave have my head shaved. I'm gonna have a professional do it
34:45
on Sunday at rib Fest as a payoff to me shooting my big mouth off
34:51
during our WVRC Media Cares for Kids radiothon presented by Stike Wealth Enhancement Group.
34:54
This time last week, I pledged that if we got to us certain number
35:00
of miracle makers to help VU Medicine Children's that I would shave my head,
35:05
that this would all be gone. And I did it during a power hour,
35:08
which is you know when money gets matched by sponsors. So all right,
35:12
we'll do the beard too, So it's all gonna go on Sunday this
35:16
began. It's kind of hard to set this up. I had long,
35:22
curly red hair as a kid until I started playing organized sports, and coaches
35:29
don't let you have long hair. So I went to the really short and
35:31
then it was into the Marine Corps and I played in the minor leagues,
35:35
and so it was for decades I would have short regulation hair and then but
35:40
my mom always loved the curls. And so when it became evident a couple
35:45
of years ago that Mom was taking her final lap, that she was in
35:49
her year of last, I called it. I just started letting the hair
35:52
grow. I didn't have anybody to whom I needed to be responsible for that,
35:54
so I just started letting it grow out and letting it grow out.
35:58
And this Sunday, coincidentally will be the anniversary of her death. So and
36:02
Mom, we grew up. We grew up poor. Like neckbone soup poor.
36:07
I am one of ten kids, my mom is one of nine,
36:08
my dad is one of ten, and so we we we help with elbow
36:14
grease. In my family, we didn't have the money to do it,
36:16
so it was what can you do? How can you help people that way?
36:21
And and mom was always making chicken salad out of lemonades or however that's
36:23
supposed to go. And so I think this would be an appropriate hat tip
36:29
to the way she got things done. So, so you reached the goal
36:32
with the radio. And so you are going to shave every I mean the
36:38
head, the beard, everything, It's all gonna I will sit down.
36:42
I mean, you have no no hair above the name I've I have requested
36:45
the zero guard. If you know anything about hair cutting, so it will
36:51
be you. You will see kind of the shadow of my hairline and my
36:54
browback pretty quick. I will do the zero, and it's all going to
36:57
go, and the beard will grow back pretty I will do the zero and
37:00
it's all going to go, and the beard will grow back pretty quickly,
37:04
which is good because I got a couple of ugly scars from when I got
37:06
my purple heart. But when was the last time you had hair that short
37:09
or close to it. The last the last time I had what I call
37:14
the regulation haircut. And when I say that, I mean basic training Paris
37:16
Island. The last time I would have had that would have been probably about
37:22
three years ago I did that. This is two years worth of hair.
37:25
My last haircut haircut was about this time in twenty twenty one. Okay,
37:30
and what time is all this happening. We're aiming for four thirty I'm waiting
37:35
for on Sunday. On Sunday, the time that the wing eating contest is
37:38
going to be on. Yes, so I'll do the introduction. I'll do
37:43
it over the over the wings. So I think that's part of me pick
37:46
this time because I don't want to wear a hairnut when the contest. But
37:52
yeah, well we'll we'll do the introductions at four o'clock on Sunday on the
37:54
big stage at had at Riverfront Park. Then we'll do it at our tent.
37:59
Shave my head and all that, and I will be clean as a
38:00
whistle, very aerodynamic by the time we hit six o'clock for the win.
38:04
Ating cannot wait to see the pictures and I can't wait to see it this
38:07
weekend. So I'm the only person who's gonna lose weight rib vest and there
38:12
you go. Rob Real, appreciate it. Man up real early is the
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because what you don't know can hurts you. All right. Rick Johnson is
38:52
here for the rest of the show. Ricky, ever do anything crazy like
38:54
that, I'm like shaving your head or anything like that, and radio.
38:57
The craziest thing I did like that was sixty eight continuous hours in a mini
39:01
submarine in a swimming pool. Set up in the show room of then Burt
39:07
wolf Ford in the Patrick Plaza. I remember that story. Now, what
39:12
was the whole the whole story behind that. I mean, just well,
39:15
it was trying to break a record, and I don't know who had the
39:19
record before me, but yeah, two and I worked for sixty eight WC
39:22
a W at the time, and so hey, let's put him in this
39:25
U mock submarine for sixty eight hours, which would they submerge the submarine in
39:31
the swimming pool that was set up and at the dealership and I broadcast live
39:37
from inside the submarine for sixty eight hours. Wow, Now that was a
39:40
long, long, long time ago. That kind of stuff. Hung up.
39:45
Let's talk about your your your career in the broadcasting field here in the
39:49
Trolston area. But before I do that, I want to give us the
39:52
bio on Rick Johnson outside the world of radio. Where did you come from?
39:55
Where you from? You know, the whole thing. Born in Akron,
39:59
Ohio. My family, my parents moved to Charleston after I was born.
40:02
I lived to have grown up in Charleston. It's really Saint Albans.
40:07
My family moved to Saint Albans in the fifty mid fifties. I went to
40:10
uh schools there, Parkway Elementary How deep do you want to go? St?
40:15
The Late Saint Albans Junior High School and Saint Albans High School, and
40:19
then went a couple of years to West Virginia State and started working in radio
40:22
at that time. I started my radio career when I was seventeen, and
40:28
as did I must be the ultimate the optimal time, I guess, because
40:31
I was seventeen when I started. Yeah, and I knew when I was
40:35
a kid the same this was what I wanted to do. And because I
40:40
listened to radio here in Charleston, and who are some of those names?
40:44
But you listened to well, uh, Mike Hammer, Uh of course Jay
40:51
jarrold Uh, Papa Jay at Night. He was about to be inducted into
40:54
the Westernia Broadcasting Hall of Fame in October along with our own Stephen jenn and
41:00
the general manager here Joe Parsons. Absolutely that some of the ones and Mike
41:04
Parsons And yeah, So anyway, that's I got started in high school and
41:10
part time at ninety nine point nine FM, which is w VAF, which
41:15
is V one hundred. It wasn't V one hundred back then. But that's
41:16
how I got when I got started, and I just continued on. I
41:21
mean the door opened and I did stick my foot in. I ran in
41:25
because I said, I know, that's what I want to do. And
41:29
uh so that's what I did. And I thoroughly enjoyed my radio career,
41:35
loving my TV career now. So broadcasting for me has spanned two different uh
41:39
media for news here in the assignment manager at wwk TV thirteen News here in
41:45
the assignment manager at wwk TV thirteen News here in Charleston Huntington. And uh
41:51
yeah, it's it's a busy day every day. But that's what we like
41:53
well, and that's that's part of the excitement of broadcasting in general. Of
41:59
of of again, i've been doing it for thirty five years. Like you,
42:00
I started when I was seventeen. Is that even though and even with
42:04
a talk show, I come in and I's with topics and this is what
42:07
I'm going to talk about it, but things change and it's one of you
42:09
and I were talking, you're going to break. One of the great things
42:12
about talk radio and very parallels very much with with television is it's one of
42:17
the last live things that are out there. I mean, this show that
42:21
I do right now is one hundred percent live, whereas you know, some
42:25
other things in the world of radio and television just the way it is are
42:29
not live. This is one hundred percent live. That's why I enjoy it.
42:31
Now. Talk about this show, five eighty Live. Danny Jones hosted
42:36
the show before I did. But long before there was a Dave or there
42:39
was a Danny, there was a five eighty Live back in that time.
42:44
It was called fifty eight Live. Yes, uh, and it was every
42:46
afternoon from three until six here on on the station. And uh yeah,
42:52
I mean it was when I got involved with it, it was me and
42:55
Stephen Reid No I'm gonna I'm sorry then and then Michael Agnello was the co
43:01
host, and so two different folks I got to work with, and kind
43:06
of we worked the afternoons. It was a three to six show every afternoon,
43:10
three hours of live conversation and topics, and of those topics were local
43:21
and which was good. I mean, we're what a mile from the state
43:23
capital, so it worked out well and we had we had a lot of
43:30
interesting guests. We had uh you know, we had times if we do
43:35
things have people come in who were really on totally opposite sides of whatever the
43:40
topic was in subject matters. So thanks again. Heated a little bit.
43:43
No chairs were you know, zip through the air. So I mean,
43:47
but that's what it was, and it was it wasn't It was a great
43:51
It was a great career. Well, and you have a text here that
43:53
says, I remember Rick and Mike's broadcast from Ground zero on September the eleventh.
43:59
The plaque in the way treading to radio lobby is beautiful, by the
44:00
way, great to hear you again, Rick, admit it, you miss
44:04
this, have a great weekend to the text. Well, thank you.
44:07
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I will. I miss this and always
44:14
will because it was where I started. This is where I got in radio
44:17
in general. And yeah, I mean if there's parts of it that I
44:20
will always cherish in love always always the listeners, Yeah, uh, you
44:24
know make it they really do. They do. And you know, I
44:30
go totally where it's changed a little bit in radio now. It's all it's
44:35
more about the computer, more about the text than what it is. The
44:37
phone calls. I mean, I may take two or three phone calls a
44:39
week, but I get probably thirty texts a day. There's no way I
44:42
could possibly read all the text that I get, and that's kind of how
44:45
it's changed. But I'll have people that will text the show Rick and they'll
44:49
say, you know, I can't believe you said that, or I can't
44:51
believe you believe. But then you know, around Christmas time, I get
44:54
a texted Dave, appreciate the job you do. Have a great weekend or
44:58
something. I have a great Christmas or whatever. You know, that's the
45:00
listeners are what makes us. That's what makes us, and in the world
45:02
of television, what makes it as the people on the other side of the
45:06
screen totally, and it never came closer to being home for me was when
45:13
we did the Dacho coverage in twenty twelve. When you realize how many people
45:19
are listening and how you on the air are affecting their lives, that was
45:24
just a total wake up call for me that, yeah, it is important
45:29
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ten from the Palmar Store Studio five at Elie brought to you by the Thorne
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Hill Eider Group of the Boys Charleston Wchs. Rick Johnson is my co host
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day Richard. Are you ready to play ten questions? Oh? If you
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insist ten totally random, sometimes nonsensical questions, I'll ask the questions your task
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with answering them as quickly as possible, with as little thought as possible,
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much the way I do the show daily at ver audience at Hallman working in
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their cars are in jail as always, no wagering. Rick. Are you
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ready? Yeah? All right? What is your middle name? Eugene?
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The last movie you saw in a theater? Yeah? Uh, hard Day's
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Night the first thing he came about, all right, but it's was What
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was the one radio or television station that you would have loved to have worked
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at? Kazy breakfast foods, eggs, bacon, pancakes, et cetera after
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breakfast time? Yes or no? Yes? Had radio or television not been
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in the cards for you? What may you have done for a career commercial
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artist? Were you popular in high school? These are boring, boring answers.
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I'm sorry, no, okay, Why is Amanda Baron so damn perky
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because she's Amanda Baron? Uh? Last time you had a baseball cap on?
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And what was on the baseball cap? It was? It was a
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It was a camo hat and it had some sort of camo outfit logo on
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the front. Everyone talks about Rick their favorite color. What is Rick Johnson's
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least favorite color? Yellow? Score? On the WV pit game tomorrow night,
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West Virginia seventeen, Pit fourteen, Rick, Congratulations, you have completed
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ten questions. Ding ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding ding. Done
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it? You've done it. We mentioned Rick, some of the greats and
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broadcasting that you worked with over the years. Did we leave anyone out the
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tell me about Don Cook? Oh Cookie? Yeah, I knew Dominan never
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worked with him. I did, and I loved working with Don Cook.
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Don was a was just a great guy, and he I think he tried
49:45
to come off as sort of a curmudgeon at times, a little bit gruff,
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like what do you want in here? Uh? But I knew underneath
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all of that was was a great, big, soft, plush teddy bear,
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and he was. He was just a terriffic co worker for me and
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a good friend I love. Do you remember when talk Line the Hoppy host?
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Now, when it first started? Because I do. I was in
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radio and we care. I mean, I don't remember the exact year,
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but if I am correct, and somebody can correct me if I'm wrong,
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But it was a once a week show. Talk Line was with Hoppy and
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and K Murray, Don Cook was on from time to time. We carried
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it. I was working uh in logan at the time, and we we
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carried it at one point. But I think that's the way it started.
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I don't remember that. Okay, I know that that Don Cook did.
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Uh he subbed for Hoppy when on vacation. Yeah, but yeah, you
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might be right. I don't know. I'll have to look into that.
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Maybe that's who I need to have on as a guest, Hoppy Kerchival.
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I need to have Hoppy to come down to Charleston. I'll have him on.
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But you know how it is when you're prepping for a show and everything,
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all right, So how many years I don't want to have to put
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you on the spot. But now you're doing the television thing. Now you're
50:54
happy as you could be over WWK, great people over there. I mean,
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I love I dealing with We have a great relationship with him. How
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many years you're going to continue in this broadcasting game, I don't know.
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I really don't know. As long as I feel good, I have no
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health issues, I can still walk and chew gum at the same time,
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I feel like I could I could just keep going for a while. Got
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a texture from somebody that said, we can't forget Jack Kane and Jack Kane.
51:22
Jack Kane used to host the fifty eight Live show in the afternoon.
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Yes he did, Yes he did, he and and did a great job.
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And everybody loves Jack Kane. YEA. Everybody who's never met him still
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love. I've never met Jack Kane one time, but I'm friends with him
51:37
on Facebook, watched him on television, listened to the show. I consider
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him a friend and I've never even met him. I mean, that tells
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you something about Jack Kane. Jack Kane is the reels, he really is,
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and he's just a terrific guy. And he's doing well in his retirement.
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And he certainly has hearted. Rick final text says Rick Johnson is a
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legend. I listened to him with Agnello. Thank you that you're gonna be
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forever late guy, thank you, thank you, Rick Man, thank you.
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It's been a pleasure having you on the show today. Thank you.
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Dave anytime man, anytime? Right? All right? How about next week?
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Okay, in case I want to go on vacation. Coming up on
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Monday, it's Mayor Monday, South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullins will be here,
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Knack County Commissioner Ben s Langos here, and Morgan Tenney, the executive director
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of the Putnam County Development Authority. Big economic announcements coupled of them coming out
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of Putnam County. Morgan's going to talk about that. My producer was Hollywood,
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Jeff Petty. Thank you so much. Thanks to all our guests today
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as well. I'll see you Monday. Have a great weekend, and go
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mountaineers. So next time I have fun. I Love somebody w C h
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