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05/31/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Kevin Gertz, Susie Salsbury, Doug Erwin · The Dave Allen Show

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Text three or four nine three five five zero zero eight. Well, we've
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all heard about the problem of youth sports, particularly parents and grandparents in youth
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sports, from the little leagues the high school. It's it's insane. Last
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week, a grandfather here in West Virginia was arrested after pulling a knife on
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a little league umpire, threatening to quote gut him right here. All right,
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do we lose our caller there? Okay? Is he still there?
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Well? All right? Someone who knows a lot about this is Logan High
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baseball and girls basketball coach Kevin Gertz Couch Gertz and I had Coach Kurtz had
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simply had enough, and he took to social media to talk about it last
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week in a rant on Facebook, and I'm going to paraphrase some of the
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posts before bringing in coach. Coach Girtz said, a few bad eggs from
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our fan base are making our programs look bad. Editorial note here he was
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referring to my alma matern Logan High. But you can just as easily substitute
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Capital, Winfield, South Charleston, Herrican any of those in the mix there.
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Back to the rant, I apologize to our opposing teams that have to
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come man and have to listen to the vulgar and disgraceful language from the fans
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on the bridge of the baseball field. It's a complete embarrassment. And he
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went on to apologize to some recent visitors to the baseball field, the teams,
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to fans, et cetera, continuing, if this is you, please
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stay home. We don't want fans like you. Coach Girts joined us right
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now. Coach Girts, good morning, how are you sir? Good morning,
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Dave. How are you doing. I'm doing fine, Thanks for being
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here. A lot to unpack here, and based on your Facebook rant last
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week, which I've posted on Dave and radio and Facebook, you just had
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enough, Coach. Well, it's just, you know, it's everywhere I
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go. If I coach a game, if I go watch a game,
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it doesn't have to be a high school game. It can be a little
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league game, it can be a middle school game, it can be you
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know whatever, people outside the plane field or getting company, you know,
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completely out of control. And it's been on this spiral for a few years.
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Yeah, I've got no problem with passing folding to your team, but
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degrading others is absolutely ridiculous. And it's not just degrading the other team,
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it's degrading the other fans. I've got messages from you know, lifelong friends
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and they say, you know, and it's making Logan look bad because I
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am the one speaking up, but it is the other teams as well,
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the other schools. And it's crazy. We went and played basketball on the
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road and one of our better players went down with the torn acl and the
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and it was being laughed at on the by the opposing sharing section. And
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that's ridiculous. And not to say that it wouldn't have happened here, but
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these small town rivalries are getting way out of control that you know, it's
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just hatred in our society anymore. And it's ridiculous. And and Coach,
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this is a thing that is not you know, you are the coach of
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the baseball and girls basketball team at Logan High School. Uh, but this
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goes on everywhere. As you said, this injury to this player happened at
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another school and and and nine times. You know, Okay, kids are
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gonna be kids. We we we all know that we were all there.
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You and I went to high school together. We we know how some kids
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but a lot of times what you're talking about, these aren't students, Coach,
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these are adults, these are grown rear end adults. And then it's
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it's just out of control, when it's embarrassing and it's driving. You know,
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I talked to a couple of different news stations just driving umpires out,
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but this driving toaches out. I don't know how much longer I have because
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of a situation that happened to me three months ago. But I can tell
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you one thing. I cannot continue to be around this negativity that's uh that's
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going on. And uh, you know, I consider myself a very good
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coach. I love being with kids, but you know, having to deal
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with stuff outside of what I'm in charge of, and that's this year.
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It was twenty six young men, it was fifteen young women, and it's
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just it's ridiculous. You know, when people are thrown out of World basketball
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games that you don't have the crowds of more than a couple of hundreds,
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it's crazy. And you know, something needs to be done where if you
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act that big of a pole in years taken out, maybe you don't come
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back to the rest of the seasoning the fool year. Well, and I
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got a coach, I got a text to the showy said why don't school
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administrators who are at these games remove the rude fans? And they do in
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many cases, but like you said, they just come back to the next
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game. Maybe we need to look at a season long suspension or hell,
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a lifetime suspension. I've got no problem with that. You know, if
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you can't come to a sporting event and act right, I mean, I've
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got no problems if something happens and you know I call that you don't agree
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with you boo Okay, I don't do something right, you boo me.
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Okay, I've got no problem with that. But just the absolute you know,
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becker and back and forth and wanting to fight and that kind of stuff.
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I saw it three or four times. And our baseball games this year
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that I've never really seen it. I saw it a half a dozen times.
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And our girls basketball I see it all the time, and our boys
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basketball, and you know, it happens with what in every sport I go
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watch. My grandson played a week or show ago, and Daddy's taken out
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of that nine and ten year old game. Are you kidding me? What
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are you? You know you mentioned adults and the and the Facebook grant from
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my head was about a couple of our students that don't even play baseball,
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has never played baseball, acting pools. But then adults on the other side
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that stuff too. Then and and and that got out of hand. And
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I can see if you say something to a kid I teach, and you
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say something to a kid in school, they're lay the fireback at and it's
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ridiculous. I don't know what we're teaching our kids. Well, we're not
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teaching them, I think. Coach, that's the problem. Again, we're
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talking with Kevin Gart, Susie baseball coach at look at high school and also
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the girls basketball coaching. The problem with the out of control of fans at
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sporting events. You know, your dad, Roger Gart, somebody, I
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think a lot of um you know, iconic coach in West Virginia. You
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guys have been living in breathing sports. You were born into it. Uh.
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And again we don't want this is not a southern West Virginia problem.
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I mean this this goes on everywhere. Go ahead, coaching. That's the
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national problem. Sure it is. It doesn't matter where you go. And
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and I'm not kind to me, bad play news media, but you know
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it's it's everywhere. That you see on the news and then I mean and
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it's from different states, from somewhere completely away, and and people see this
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and I parmally believe this. You know, somebody watches the news to see
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this. Hell, I can do better. I can make a bigger story.
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And I did something as a fan, you know, a thousand miles
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away. And it's unbelievable what our society has come to. And it's like
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we trying to outdo somebody. That's and social media, as you know,
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plays a lot of it. You're you're right, I mean, the media
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is of which I'm a member, or we're not without blaming um and absolutely
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and I'm not blaming them, but you know you said social media in schools
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and not here, but just anywhere. Kids put a plan together, Hey
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i'm gonna do this, and let's video show everybody, and then the next
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group of somewhere else tries to outdo them and tries to outdo them, and
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that that's what this looks like it's coming to. And it's it's just crazy.
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You know, you ought to be able to come out and watch the
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ball game and enjoy yourselves, because these kids are busting their tails to be
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the very best they can. And uh, you know, I know we
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are at Logan High. I know they are Chapmanville Regional. I know they
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are scot I know they are Winfield. I know they are at Jefferson County.
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I know they are a Bridgeports. Every year these schools go, these
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teams go into it wanting to play for a title. We've been fortunate enough
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to win to the last previous who is and most people thought that we would
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do it again this year. We've got to beat I mean that that's part
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I wintil I played us in the region and that's fine to dandy. You
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know, am I happy about it? But that's what sports is about.
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NBA Miami Heaton number eight team one of the NBA Finals. Should they be
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there on paper not? But they've worked just as hard as anybody else to
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get there. And that's what these kids do. And two of the works
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the hardest most of the time, come out to be the winners. Go
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support them, support to schools. You know, we all want that,
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but we just kind of want what's been going along with it? Yeah,
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all with coach Kevin gertz Um, you know, apparently coach this Facebook rant
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that you didn't get I posted on Dave on the radio. Last time I
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checked, that post had been shared nationwide something like five hundred times. A
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lot of people who have no idea who you are or where West Virginia is.
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Some good fans. And here's the thing, Kevin, I think a
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lot of good fans and a lot of good parents are probably just as disgusted
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about this too, because you know, most people do show up at the
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games and they as as coach Crosby there Man High School said, his quote
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was show up, get a hot dog and or coke, and have a
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good time. Stop acting like fools with officials, coaches and kids, no
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umpires, trying to cheat your team. And he went on to say plenty
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more so. Apparently some other coaches are on board. A lot of them
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are on board with this too. But the majority of fans, coach,
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are people who just show up, like coach Crosby designed there, they just
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want to come up and they want to cheer on their kids. It's the
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grandkids, kids in it from the community. But it's these others that are
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freaking killing it for everybody else. Coach. Yeah, and it's sad,
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you know. And and I had no idea I had that many shares and
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that it was I haven't looked since I posted that. I haven't really been
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back on it. Maybe the next day, but I haven't been on sin.
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But and I'm not doing this to try to get my name out there,
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but I am well known in estateful the coaching I do, and I'm
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hoping that my voice doesn't get me fired, but it helps the fire change.
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Well, then that was gonna be the that's gonna be the thing I
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was gonna close with. Coach is um So, how do we fix it?
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I know that's the that's a sixty four thousand dollars question. But how
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exactly do we fix this? I don't know. I have talked a few
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coaches, you know. Right now, I'm only talking to baseball coaches because
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that's what we're in. But I've got, you know, a bunch of
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basketball contacts. I don't have football contacts, but I do. I know
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how to get a hold of a certain people. I would love to meet
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somewhere this summer bridday or two in a neutral area and discuss this. And
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you know you're not going to have a stake life policy. Maybe you will.
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I don't know, but to try to get this calm down or you're
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going to stop it completely. No you, I mean, you can't control
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what people do, but maybe you can control them never coming back. And
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I've got no with Lifetime band. Ye. The people change, sure they
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change, but they don't always change for the better. You know, a
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lot of these people that are doing this I have the utmost respect for,
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but they just snap, you know, at a certain moment, and it
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makes them look bad and other people's eyes forever. And but then you have
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some that come out and do this daily. And the kids that I was
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talking about, they did this in basketball, they did this in girls basketball,
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they do it in baseball. If that's the only reason you're coming to
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these events is to put the look on you get and getting taken out of
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a gym, it's like the highest or the highest thing of respect to them
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as a high school kid social media, and that's just what ignorant. Let
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me ask you this and then we're I gotta let you go. But all
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right, so when you're in this case, you aren't talking about students.
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Why can't these students be expelled? I mean, I'm not talking about kicked
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down the gym. I'm talking about out for the year. You're a teacher.
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Why can't that happen? I don't know. Uh, you know where
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this happens. At the rant that I was making it. I mean,
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you've been you've graduated from here. You know how the island works. Ballfield
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is in the back corner, and there is a bridge that connects Middleburg Island
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to what we call Slattown. That's where I grew up at bridge as a
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public As a public bridge, we can't stop people from going on Washington game.
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So these people, they're not even buying a ticket. And I know
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exactly, of course I'm from there. What you're talking about. They're not
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buying a ticket. You know, the majority or not. Now I'm not
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saying some don't or something haven't bought ticket and watch it from back there,
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because I'm sure. I mean, I coach every game, so I don't
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know where. But you know that has to be the greatest view, right
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behind home plate when I go to scout, I said, right behind the
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home plate so I can see everything. You know, we will do something
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as a baseball program to help alleviate that. Next year you want to stand
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back there, You're not gonna be able to see, but we're putting stuff
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up to block that view. It's gonna cost us several hundred dollars. But
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in two games, as many people as we have on that bridge, if
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those people have to come out and pay, that pays for this well.
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And so if we work on the kids, hopefully we can work on the
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parents next. Hey, coach, I gotta leave it there. I'm over
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time. I appreciate you joined us man doing good stuff. Thanks a lot,
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coach, Thank you, David all Right, Coach Kevin Gartz of my
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alma mater. Look in high school. It's nine twenty six. Just as
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a follow up here, and I'm like, coach, I don't know what
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the answer is any more than Coach Gertz or others do, but I agree,
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kick the fans out if you have to. It's been done before.
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Give the crowd one morning when they start doing things like this, and then
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you clear out the whole stadium. You clear out the whole stadium, and
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you look at the and I know what he's talking about was a situation with
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students, but he's also talking about situation with parents or grandparents or whatever.
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Kick everybody out, just say you aren't allowed here. This is for the
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kids anyway, Granny, this is not for you, so get them out
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of them all right. MANO got a couple of text We're way over time
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here, Sorry about that, Ryan Texas David. Some moral and social decay
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of our society today. Fans that can't behave themselves that these games need to
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be thrown out. If this is continuous in fraction, they need to be
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banned for life. West Virginia SSAC needs to step in and come up with
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policies that address this ignorant behavior. Thanks Dave, Texas Dave. Studies show
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that people who are obnoxious and degrading at youth sporting events are primarily Philadelphia Eagles
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fans. I think it goes beyond that final text before we go to break.
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This is not says a text or a logan issue. It's a society
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issue. Good job, coach, Thanks for standing up for what is right
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I'm just great, Thank you for being here. What you got going on?
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Well, I bring some good news, bringing good news. We all
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need good news. Okay, well you got We are going to be kicking
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off on Thursday around noon. Our see, there are six or seventh annual
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Charleston Downtown open and this is where we turned Downtown Charleston into a temporary put
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put course and it will be open free to the public. And it is
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so much fun to watch families out there together. It's even fun to watch,
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you know, the later night crowd is they're waiting for their restaurant reservations.
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Just pick up a putter and a ball and go around and play the
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put puck course. It We're gonna have twenty nine holes this year, each
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sponsored by a different business organization and it's all free to play, so there's
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absolutely no charge to the public, and so relieving them. Maybe don't understand
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this. Let let me back up a little bit. So you go downtown,
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you know, and you're going to have dinner at one of the fine
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restaurants downtown. Are you doing whatever it is you're doing downtown and you're killing
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like we have coming up, and you just pick up a golf club yep,
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start wherever you want. You don't have to start at whole number one,
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and then return the putter and the ball. And now if you lose the
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ball sometimes the balls, we'll go out into the street. Let the ball
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go, go get another ball. So how exactly do you lay all this
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out? I mean, what goes into this? Well this I learned about
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have some pretty wide sidewalks in downtown Charles and I don't think this would be
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becomes a great opportunity for the students to learn and then a great opportunity to
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showcase their work. So we build the blanks and they're basically just blank,
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and then the organizations or the businesses will come pick it up and they decorate
25:30
it however they want. They do all the finishing touches to it and some
25:36
of the some of the holes are just amazing, absolutely amazing. And we
25:41
do provide three awards. We have a best Overall Best Representation for business or
25:47
organization and then most fun to play. And how long is this going to
25:51
be going on? It starts noon on June first, and then it ends
25:53
on June twenty first, so it's like a I mean, in effect,
25:57
it's almost like a month long tournament basically. Yeah. And the first year
26:03
that we did it was when Shawnee Park opened and they had all of those
26:07
national soccer tournaments going on, and it was just amazing to see the streets
26:11
filled with all those different soccer jerseys from all over the country and their families
26:17
just that they're really, really enjoying it. What's the response been to this
26:21
in the past, you said, this is the six or seventh year.
26:22
What's the response been in the past. Tremendous. I mean, we have
26:26
twenty nine holes, and you know, regular courses only eighteen holes. But
26:32
we kept getting people, Oh, we really want to do it, we
26:33
really want to do it, so we keep adding and adding an adding.
26:37
I'd say twenty nine thirties probably about the max. Yeah, because after that
26:40
you're going to end up on sixty four. And then that's not a situation
26:44
anybody wants. Well, and you get to buy in from the business community,
26:47
as you said too, and that's a big part of it, because
26:48
you know, without them, this doesn't happen, and this is designed to
26:52
benefit them, that's right, because they're able to showcase their organization. And
26:56
of course we do have two sponsors that off set a lot of the cost
27:00
for this West Virginia American Water and Mountain Care Network, So we want to
27:03
be sure and thank them for their sponsorship because it's only for to pick up
27:08
a brand new hole. It's only two hundred and fifty dollars. So any
27:11
business organization can pay two hundred fifty dollars and have their representation out there on
27:17
the street for almost a month and they just contact you know, the Alliance
27:21
from information on that we're actually sold out this year. Okay, all right,
27:26
but yeah we have. We haven't started this year, but we will
27:30
do that right after this wraps up. Okay, but you'll notice. I
27:33
mean, the one thing that we do tell the business and organizations that prepare
27:37
the holes is you've got to make it. I use the term bomb proof
27:41
because you've got weather and you've children, and I mean we want the children
27:45
out there, but they will trample all over the holes. I mean,
27:48
they want to get down close, they want to look at them, and
27:52
so they get a lot of wear and tear. So we're always like,
27:53
glue doesn't work. You've got to nail it. Screw it, You've got
27:57
to you know, really secure to that wood platform. Okay, we'll get
28:02
back to this in just a couple of moments because I want to get some
28:03
influence some other things going on. Susie Salisbury again for the charleson Ay alliances
28:07
with it all right, So summer is unofficially here with all apologies of love
28:12
and spoonful hot time. Summer in the city. Lots going on in the
28:15
capital city, not just this this summer. You guys are right in the
28:18
middle of all of it. Oh yeah, yeah, You've got the Pride
28:22
Week happening this week, so there's gonna be all kinds of action going on
28:26
all throughout the city. Festival of course, the downtown open will be cleaned
28:30
up before Regottics. We have those sidewalks cleared for that, and then you
28:33
roll into Regatta. You've got Live on the levee, I mean, multi
28:37
fests. It's just it's one thing after another, so it's a great time
28:41
to be and of course the outdoor dining as you said Live on the Levee
28:44
just started last week and the outdoor dining has started again. If people want
28:48
more information about the Charleston Are Alliance and what exactly it is that you do,
28:52
because I've had you and Nicole and others on the show in the past,
28:55
so explain it just for those who may not know. What is it
28:57
that the Charleston Ay Alliance does. We are the Regions which includes most of
29:03
the Canal County and of course the City of Charles and Community and Economic Development
29:07
Organization. We also have an arm which is a traditional chamber of commerce.
29:12
So all of that is wrapped up together. So we do, you know,
29:17
a lot of address in the community development side, a lot of quality
29:21
of life, community revitalization, celebrating the community. On the economic development side
29:27
as business retention, recruitment and expansion, and then on the chamber side is
29:33
more of them, you know, legislative issues, but we've been there too.
29:38
We also have a lot of networking opportunities and we do a lot of
29:44
education. We have women's empowerment sessions and we'll have specific workshops on certain business
29:52
issues that we know the business community is just really wanting to get more information
29:56
on so that's in a nutshell what we do. We're about jobs and God
30:03
in the community. And again this is not just downtown char also we're talking
30:06
this is the whole. The worth that you folks do impacts the entire valley
30:08
and really this part of I mean the whole, the whole thing. All
30:11
right, let's talk about the downtown open again and people can get their their
30:15
their stuff. Where were the businesses again? Um, they can pick up
30:18
their petters and their balls at Adelphia H Taylor Books, Tony the Taylor and
30:23
Art Emporer. Do you have to say Tony the Taylor? Yeah, I
30:26
mean did you have to throw him in their realm? I had to throw
30:29
him. Well, let me say this about Tony the Taylor is and I'm
30:30
a huge football fan. People listen to the show, not Tony is that
30:33
as a fan of that Washington team. But art Emporium, Tracy Down Art
30:40
Emporium, huge Cowboys fan. Oh, I'm going to encourage you to go
30:44
into art Emporium as supposed Tony the Taylor. I'm going to encourage that.
30:47
Now I'm kidding. Tony's a good He has a lot of really really fabulous
30:51
art from local artists there. But Yeah, So we're really happy that they're
30:55
partnering with us because you know, there's a lot of people coming in out
30:57
their doors, you know, swinging golf clubs around and stuff. But they've
31:02
been with us every single year and we're really really pleased to have them.
31:06
All. Right, things kick off at tea off, I guess at noon
31:07
tomorrow, right if at noon tomorrow, and then you can play through January
31:11
to her June twenty first. All right, good stuff, Susie. I
31:14
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Backpack Buddies program. Doug, good morning, how are you. Good morning,
34:46
very well this morning. Thank you for having us, Thank you for
34:49
being here. Let's talk about this program. And I kind of teased it
34:52
a little bit, I guess, Doug. Going into the break, they're
34:53
saying that school's out for I think in Putnam County, where I live,
34:58
I think today is officially the last day. I think I may be wrong
35:00
about that based on the amount of traffic that I drove through this morning.
35:06
It's it's getting close, I'll put it that way, or the lack of
35:08
traffic. I should say some areas it's already out. Of other areas,
35:10
it'll be out in the next couple of days. When these when students go
35:15
home though for the summer. Um you know, sometimes we forget that many
35:21
of those don't have the luxury of going home and and doing the things we
35:24
did growing up, you know, hanging by the pool and riding bikes,
35:28
playing baseball, going home and having a sandwich and having a big cook out.
35:30
That's that's not true for for all these kids done. It's not because
35:36
we have we have such a need in our community where you know, we
35:39
have kids that on Fridays, you know, they receive extra food to take
35:45
home on their weekends, but also they rely on the school breakfast and lunch
35:50
to really as a main source of their nutrition. And then we've got great
35:54
community organizations throughout the school year that does do give them extra food to take
36:00
home for the weekends, and you know, when school is out, all
36:05
of that ends. So you know what backpack Buddy dot Org does is we
36:07
look at that and we say, you know, how can we help kids
36:10
during the summertime to bridge that gap to that summertime that they're away and get
36:16
them back to school in August. And this is I said, it's the
36:21
I referred to it as the Putnham County Backpack Buddies program, But actually,
36:23
do you extend this into other areas, right, we do. We started
36:28
eleven years ago in Putnham County. That first year we did three schools,
36:31
fifty three kids, and it has grown over the last eleven years where we're
36:37
now in five West Virginia counties, including all of Putnham County. Schools participate
36:42
in all of Boone County as well. So how does the program actually work.
36:45
We'll break it down for us. Well, what we do is a
36:47
little bit unique. We started looking at how do we how can we help
36:52
kids in the summertime, and we and we started talking to the teachers and
36:57
the counselors and the schools that truly have the core of their being is supporting
37:02
our kids. And you know, they make sure that they have stuff during
37:06
the school year, but you know, when school's out, they don't have
37:08
that access to the kids. And they've tried multiple things through the years as
37:13
far as hey meet us at the school on Wednesias from six to eight.
37:16
But you know, they might be helping twenty to thirty kids during the school
37:20
year, but maybe one or two could come and because maybe the parents didn't
37:23
have transportation, maybe the parents are at work and it just couldn't make it.
37:29
So what we took a look at is is how do we actually get
37:31
stuff to kids? And you know Amazon, we can order anything on Amazon
37:37
and have it the next day or in two days. So if we can
37:39
fly stuff all around the world, how can we not get food to a
37:44
kid, you know, ten miles down the road. So what we developed
37:46
is a box that we work with the post Office twelve to twelve. We
37:51
put twenty three different items in a box, shelf stable food and we actually
37:55
mail food to kids during the summertime. So every other during the summer this
38:00
year, five boxes, five shipments will go out, food will arrive in
38:06
the mail and at these at these participating students home. So we're ensuring that
38:12
the service and the food is arriving. And I mean, I'm gonna think,
38:15
Doug, that's gonna be pretty expensive, right, It's very ext It's
38:19
just why you're here today. Let's talk about it. But go ahead.
38:22
Well it's you know, there's a cost to delivery whatever, whether yea,
38:25
no matter how you do it, however you do it. So if if
38:29
a parent is driving you know, uh, ten miles fifteen miles each way,
38:34
uh, you know, there's still a cost associated with it. So
38:37
We've worked with the post Office and you know, we you find the best
38:40
rates and you know, the most stuff that we can put in the boxes.
38:44
And you know there it does cost us to to mail it. And
38:46
we get a lot of questions, you know, why do you mail because
38:50
you that's a cost that you can you could apply to buy more food.
38:53
But you can buy all the food in the world, but if you can't
38:55
get it to the great yea. And so many of these kids, and
38:59
I know a little bit about to program, so many of these kids don't
39:01
have reliable transportation. And like you talked about, you said, you know,
39:06
okay, we're gonna be at such and such school, you know this
39:09
Tuesday night between six and eight. Well, good luck and trying to get
39:12
to such and such school, right exactly. And and we and our program
39:17
is really geared to rural areas because of the you know, for instance,
39:22
you know, we do all of Putnam County, uh and we do all
39:27
of Boone County and so you've got you know, we've got over eight hundred
39:30
kids signed up in Boone County and it's it's across the whole county. So
39:36
how do we centralize that? And on the Sherman side or the van side,
39:40
you or Scott, you know, how do you look at that and
39:44
do that logistics? And the Post Office has been a great partner for us
39:47
that we that we give it to them. But but the best thing about
39:51
is is our box. And when we mail it to them, it's just
39:53
a box. It looks like Amazon. It looks like you know, the
39:57
next you bought something off of eBay. So there's no stigmatism to it that
40:00
that Hey, you know, my neighbors getting a box of food. So
40:05
your privacy is a huge part of this is what we do and you trying
40:08
to be as covert about it as possible, but we know that every other
40:14
week our participating families will get twenty three different items in the box. Talking
40:19
to Doug Irwin from the Backpack Buddies program here on five eighty Live. So
40:23
what do you need, Doug from the community, be it individuals, businesses,
40:28
civic groups, what have you? What? What? What? What
40:30
do you need? Well, the big thing what we're we have on the
40:35
first Saturday of every year, first Saturday of June, we always have what
40:37
we have our Collar Community Picking Day in Putnam County where we buy all of
40:42
our food and we pick the boxes that we use all summer. We meet
40:46
on Saturday. It'll be this Saturday, June to third, at ten o'clock
40:51
at the Tas Valley Church of the Nazarene, and we'll have all of our
40:54
food that we need for all summer. So we'll have Have you ever wondered
40:58
what twenty five thousand cans are out? We always looks like, come on
41:01
down and help us pack our boxes. You had my producer Ryan at Ravioli,
41:06
go ahead, cut one. We've got it all and uh, we'll
41:08
be packing over four thousand boxes for for Putnham County this year, the most
41:13
ever that we've ever done. The need that we have this year, we
41:16
have over two thousand kids participating, which is the most ever that we've had.
41:22
And you know, we've been relatively successful over the years. We've we've
41:25
mailed almost to thirty seven thousand boxes of food since the program started and helped
41:30
over twelve thousand kids, So that's in eleven years. So this year we're
41:35
doing we'll mail over between all of the programs that we're participating, we'll mail
41:39
over seven thousand boxes to two thousands. So what you're asking for Doug is.
41:44
You need bodies out there. We need bodies, and so this would
41:45
be great. You know, if you have a civic organization, you know,
41:49
a Kwanas or rotary or something like that. It would be great for
41:53
sports teams. Sports teams, and I'm always preaching this because of my friends
41:58
that have kids in school system. You have to do community service hours.
42:00
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna guess this would probably qualify. It qualifies,
42:06
and everybody gets a certificate that we everybody signs up and everybody gets a certificate
42:10
before they leave noting their participation and come out and we'll pack four thousand boxes
42:17
under two hours. So we need a lot of people out there. We
42:20
need a lot of people, and we do. Putnam County's the first Saturday
42:23
in June. The second Saturday June is always in Madison in Boone County,
42:28
So we'll be there in the Madison Civic Center on June the tenth at ten
42:31
o'clock and we'll be packing over over two thousand boxes there. So either it
42:37
Tastes Valley on this coming Saturday at ten o'clock at the Tays Valley Church in
42:42
the Nazarene or next a week from Saturday on June tenth at the Madison Civic
42:46
Center. So the House of food paid for, I mean grants and donations.
42:52
We have a great donor base and supporters that have been with us from
42:57
almost day one. And but we're all he's looking for more and because you
43:01
know, costs of food has gone up so efficantly and also, um,
43:07
you know, we're looking to expand the program, so additional funding that we
43:12
receive that allows us to go in other areas. You know, for instance,
43:15
we've recently gone into Clay County, uh and we're we're slowly working our
43:20
way into into that area that we'd love to to expand to other areas,
43:24
but depending on the funding and what we have access to. All right,
43:29
So where can people learn more about the program? Got a website? Phone
43:30
number where you got We've got website backpack buddy dot org and go visit there.
43:37
Our contact information is there. But also you'll find us on Facebook,
43:39
uh, backpack buddy dot org, Putnam and backpack buddy dot org Boon and
43:45
again they could use some some manual labor. Uh. This this coming Saturday
43:51
at ten ten o'clock Tay's Valley Church and NAZ rain, and if you're not
43:53
familiar with it, if you take the Tay's Valley, if you're coming from
43:55
Charleston, take the tays Valley exit and and hang at It's very convenient,
44:00
fine left hand side of the road. It's right there on the main drag
44:02
there in Tay's Valley. Huge parking lot, plenty of parking, but you're
44:06
gonna take up a whole lot of it this week. Well, we'll take
44:07
up the parking lot, but the good folks at Chapman Funeral Home allow us
44:12
to use their lot. And everybody park at the funeral home and just walk
44:15
right up the hill and we'll get kicked off about ten o'clock. We'll have
44:20
a great time. Um. It's it's it's pretty active and the whole community
44:23
comes out and you'll see friends and make new friends and uh, and you'll
44:28
learn about the need that we have in our communities. It's it's just not
44:30
um, we have significant needs and uh, you know, we're very fortunate
44:36
to be able to provide assistance to our students during the summertime. Good stuff,
44:42
all right, Doug, I appreciate it. Good luck this week in
44:44
Tay's Valley and also next weekend in the Boone County there in Madison. Thanks
44:46
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coming up on a hoppy ten oh six West ridin the second Districy Congressman Alex
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Mooney is going to be on the show. There's a battle to keep AM
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radios and cars. Have you heard about this? There's a move on to
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no longer put AM radios in new car manufacturers. Now you may, on
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one hand think, well, that's terrible, because how will I listen to
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shows like this and others on WCH as well? Of course we have apps
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available, but it's about more and that. It's about a safety issue and
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Hobby's going to get into that with some folks coming up on the show a
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little bit later on also Hobbies going to discuss this. Did you happen to
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see the young man from Montgomery Phil Bowen on America's Got Talent last night?
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Incredible performance by this guy, and yeah he's advanced to the next round of
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America's Got Talent. If you haven't seen it, it's all over social media.
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I've got to post it on Dave Allen Radio No Chris Lawrence and to
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feature on it as well. Go check it out. Phil Bowen is going
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to be on talk Line with Hobby coming up a little bit later on today.
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Of course, we're going to see you tonight at the Red Carpet Lounge
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for another Working Women's Wednesday with the one hundred starting at five o'clock. Jenny
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Murray and the Proof of E one hundred will be there for that five live
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to visit Generations pt dot com. Some some news in the Ken Carpet
49:53
situation, not much. Tom Sussman, who's a spokesperson for the family of
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the on account commissioner Kik Carper, says that Christia Carper suffered a stroke several
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days before being admitted to the hospital for major heart surgery, and a Hoppy
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tweeted about it this morning. Still nothing new on potential criminal charges in that
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investigation against Carper. Nobody's saying anything at this time. People focusing more in
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his recovery at this point. But that is some new news there, and
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of course if anything new does break there will let you know about it.
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Hobby, also on the show this morning, is going to get into this
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top of the show there's a new poll out from East Carolina University that says,
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and a head to head matchup between Governor Justice and current Senator Joe Manchon
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for US Senate, Joe is in trouble big time. Governor Justice leads by
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twenty two points. That's twenty two points, folks, against the iconic Joe
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Joe Manchon. Now, that's according to this poll again commissioned by the East
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Carolina University Center for Research. I think that, and I hate to speculate
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and try to get into the mind of Joe Manchion. I think Senator Mansion
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may be seeing the writing on the wall here, folks. That's why many
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people think he will not run for reelection. To send it as it stands
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now and again, lots of time between now and then he gets his clock
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clean by Governor Justice, period, and that's why many people are saying he
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will choose not to run. And again he'll do some sort of whether it's
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the no labels or whatever they want to call it, a third party candidacy
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for president, not necessarily, as he said on Hoppy, to win the
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presidency, but just to shake things up. So worth noting there's a long
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time between now and then. I heard this over the weekend. At this
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point in twenty sixteen, the front runners for president were Jeb Bush and Hillary
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Clinton, So keep that in mind, all right, we gotta go.
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Thank you so much. All our guests on the show today, Logan High
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Baseball and Girls A girls basketball coach, Kevin Garts, Suzy Salisbury from Charleston
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Ay Alliance, and also our friend Doug there from the Backpack Buddies as well.
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Come up on the show tomorrow, Canaknate Chemistry. Lance Wheeler is going
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to stop by. Plus there is a new candidate for a house in District
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fifty two. He is going to make his announcement on the show tomorrow.
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We'll see you then. Until next time, have fun and loves somebody.
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