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07/08/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Ric Cavender, Chrissy Ball, Bryan Hughes · The Dave Allen Show

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Welcome to again, big lea pig lea Wigglely hotline three zero four three four
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five zero zero eight. Last week, the Kanawa County Board of Education met
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during their regular meeting and they were asked to name someone to lead the board
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as in being president of the board, and they chose Rick Cavner, longtime
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member of the board, and he joins us now in the par of Marstore
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studio. Richard, good morning, welcome to the show Mourning. David.
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You congratulations, I think I think yeah, sure, No, it's great.
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I'm excited. I know you are. I know you are. But
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anytime you're your time. I mean you've been how long have you been on
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the board. I mean you just got reelective, but how long you been?
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Was elected third term SOS my eighth year. Okay, yeah, so
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so how does it, I mean, explain the process of becoming the president
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of the board, how exactly does that? So it is a that they
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all go not me, not me, not it, not it, no,
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no, no, I mean every two years, every election year effectively
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that we have which we have it, we have someone is being elected from
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to the board every two years right at that July meeting, whenever that first
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July meeting, we are required to nominate and elect a president to serve two
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years. And the president's role and of course the president pro ten which is
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like the vice president, which is what I just was, and really our
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role is to lead the meetings. Obviously you get the gable, get the
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gabble. I don't know if I'm going to use the gavel or not.
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We were joking about that. We do have a gavel there, but no
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one that really used it. I've been there. Yeah, I think you
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should. I think you should think that if things get like maybe unruly,
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I could use it, but never really maybe a bullhorn, yeah, imagine
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that. I don't I don't think I'm the bullhorn president, say, I
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don't. I don't think you. I don't think you need that. So
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so why do you do this. I mean, you have a you have
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a job as executive director of Charleston Urban Works. Folks do fine, fine
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work. Your full time dad involved in ten thousand other different things in the
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community. Why do you serve on a border education? That's a good question.
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I mean, I you know, and I think when I've been on
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before, I made the joke that so many people when I see the mouth,
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they'll say, you know that that's got to be such a thankless job.
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I think that's sort of the reputation that we have as board members is
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that it's like this thankless role. Right. For me, it's not.
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And I can understand when people think that, because I mean, we're elected.
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We don't run the daily operations of the school system. That's up to
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the superintendent, that says or her role, right, and you know,
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our job is to oversee the superintendent, right as any other corporate board does
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with their executive director or the CEO, and to be that sort of link
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with you know, between the community and the school system, right that that's
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why the people elect us to be that link. And I've never really I've
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enjoyed that role because and I think it's a personality thing right, Like,
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if you enjoy talking to people, you enjoy being out and you know,
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connecting with folks, you can really enjoy this role. So I've never once
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woken up been like, God, what am I doing? It has never
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been me. Now, I could see why some people think that, because
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we do get blamed for things that aren't that aren't our fault, right,
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because so much, you know, so many policy related issues are at the
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state level. Right, we can set our own policies with you know,
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we are a subdivision of the state. We can set our own policies as
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long as it is in line with the state. But at the end of
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the day, there's just some stuff that we can't control, and we're the
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ones at the county level. Those local folks sometimes get blamed. So for
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those reasons, I can see what people think it's not a great role.
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But I think and we get along so well, the five board members here
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in Kannall County, and it's we never really have those issues. It's been
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really enjoyable, and it's not always that way. I know, you're friends
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with BOE members across the state of West Virginia, and you know, everybody
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tries to get along. But again, you're talking about five people, You're
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talking about five personalities, five different ideologies. It doesn't have to run as
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smoothly, and it doesn't sometimes, sadly enough, run as smoothly as what
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it does in can On County. That's right now. I would like to
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think that we set a really good example for how you do operate as a
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board. You know, we've all said this a thousand times. The final
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of us don't always agree on everything, but we respect one another and we
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always, at the end of the day come back with the final result,
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which what is best for the students and the faculty and the administrators of Okenwall
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County. Talking to Rick Cavnar again, the President of the Kanaw County Board
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those difficult decisions sometimes. I want to talk about Rick about public schools in
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general. You know, we have more and more parents nationwide that are choosing
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alternative means of educating their kids outside the public school system, from private schools
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to homeschooling, to charter schools, you know, you name it. The
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number of quote unquote again this is a nationwide thing. The number of quote
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unquote non traditional schools for lack of a better term, seem to be going
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up or these parents are choosing other options. But what's your take on that?
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How do you guys fix this? You know, I think that some
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of that is if, if I'm being frank, is due to misinformation.
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I think that there is definitely there is these voice There are these voices out
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here that claim that and not even really focus on education, focused on like,
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you know, what our students are being what they're hearing in their schools,
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and what they're being taught in public school and whatnot. And there's a
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lot of misinformation out there about what what's occurring in the schools. And that's
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I think getting some parents worried and afraid and maybe wanting them wanting to see
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them go have their children go to to other education of other means. Now,
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as far as what's happened here in West Virginia over the past whatever four
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years with the with the creation of charter schools in West Virginia, I'm personally
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and i've been I have made public statements on this in the past, I'm
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as far as West Virginia is concerned, and the way again back to our
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population, I don't think charter schools can really really work in you know,
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a long term setting, you know. But in as far as being a
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public school board member, it's not great because those public tax dollars are still
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being in part paying we're paying to help fund these schools that have absolutely we
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have no jurisdiction over whatsoever, and they create their own charter, they create
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their own bylaws, they have full control over what they're doing, and we're
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still having to give them money. We're talking right now, Dave. We've
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we budgeted over eight hundred thousand dollars that will be funneled through us to go
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directly to charter schools for this coming for this coming school year. For our
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budget year, that equals, you know, about ten teacher positions that we
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may have to turn around and cut or move in some way because of those
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funds that we are required to have to give to charter school. So excuse
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me. I have my own personal sort of philosophical feelings on that, you
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know. But parents do have the right to educate their kids how they see
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fit. I grew up with some homeschool kids and they went on to do
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some great things. You know, it really is up to the individual parent.
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But I do believe that our public schools have a whole lot to offer
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a lot of programming Here in Kannall County. We have a lot of programming
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to prepare students, not just for if they decide to go to a four
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year university, but also if they decide to go into a trade or if
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they decide to go directly into the workforce. There really is something for every
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student in Kannall County, and we have really great people leading those programs.
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We have great virtual programs for maybe those kids who don't do well in a
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in an in person setting. We have a wonderful the Model Virtual program for
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the State of West Virginia so there's a lot of options out there, and
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so I do want to I want people to keep that in mind when they're
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making those decisions. They have a text before we let you go. It
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says speak consolidation. Can you ask Rick if he thinks we really need fifty
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five full boards of education in the small state seems very top heavy with fifty
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five high paid superintendent said administration. I know you can't speak, you know,
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to anything beyond Kanawha County, but this is an argument, or at
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least a statement that's been put out there from time to time by people.
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Do you care to comment on that I've heard. I've heard this argument,
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and I've been posed this question several times. And you know, if you
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take a step back and look at the whole state, and you know,
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you've probably seen some of those studies, those hypotheticals where people will, you
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know, they'll this idea of like you know, meshing three or four counties
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together to create larger metropolitan statistical areas, right, which then will be good
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for economic development purposes, right, because if you have more more condensed,
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more folks in a condensed area, that you can then sort of tout as
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one county versus three separate counties with three separate count of commissions or three separate
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boards of education, or whatever the case is. There could be other opportunities
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economically speaking, business development speaking, that could be beneficial. So I've I've
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looked at both sides of those of those arguments, both of those those viewpoints.
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As far as how we are set up in West Virginia, we are
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one of the few county or excuse me states left in the in the country
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that still operates in a county of just a full county school countem right.
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Usually you see like independent school districts or school district the state of Ohio,
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for example, I've spent when I when I was in Ohio. You know,
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you have county schools and then you have city schools, different superintendents,
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different different boards or commissions or whatever you call it. Funding is set up
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differently all that. Yes, so we are sort of, I guess you
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would say, sort of still in that archaic old school county school system set
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up. But again, as you mentioned, that is a state decision.
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I think as long as we are set up to be county school systems,
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I'm very proud to be a county board member here in Kanaal, we definitely
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have one of the best superintendents, probably not in the state, but in
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the in the country. Well, Rick, class Act. I've known you
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for some time, man, I know you're doing good things out there.
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I appreciate you being here. Any final words that you want to say before
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we leave. I ought to say thank you to my fellow board members for
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electing any president it's you know, and the voters too, because they just
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put you a statements. Thank the voters for coming out strong and choosing to
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keep me for another four years. It definitely means the world to me.
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So yeah, thank you and thank you Dave for having me on. I
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always appreciate you. Rick Cavtor again, the President of the Canawac County Board
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know. I love to talk to the folks from the Allen Creek Alliance.
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I have a big event coming up this Saturday at the Washington District Community Center
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out at Samplant. Chrissy ballas with the group. She joins us now via
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the Bigley Piggly Wiggly houtline Chris in good morning, welcome back to the show.
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Good morning day, Thanks for having me, appreciate it, Thank you
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for being here. Have a good fourth Yes, had a wonderful force is
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relaxing time. Saw some good fireworks and ate some good food. So back
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to the grinds. That's what that's what it's all about now, Chris,
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even on several times in the past. But for people who may not know
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exactly what is this alliance? Is Allen Creek Alliance. Yeah, So Allen
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Creek Alliance more about community development within Allen Creek. So we do blood drives
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fundraisers. Our mission is to improve community access to health, nutrition, social
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and recreation services in Allen Creek area. So we aim to enhance a well
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being of residents while also providing essential resources and fostering those community connections. And
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how did a lot of fundraisers coming up? Well, I was going to
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say, how did this whole thing come about? How did you get involved
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in it? I've been involved with Allen Creek Alliance now for a couple of
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years. So my aunt Laura mark Er, she's been affiliated with Allen Creek
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for many, many years. They go way back, and she actually was
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able to get me involved because I'm interested in community involvement. But it's a
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great organization there. For a while when COVID hit, we were not joining
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a lot of things, but since then we have grown now and we're out
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and about in the community and we want people to learn and know about what
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we're doing here to help enhance resources that we want to do. And then,
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as you know, the Washington Just Community Center building is now complete,
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which that's where we host most of our even I don't want to talk about
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that because it's a I've never been in it, but I have driven by
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it several times and it's uh. If you're if you're in the general vicinity
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around South Ridge, I know that you've seen it several times on sand Planet.
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It's a it's a great looking facility. It is. It's awesome and
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inside it's amazing. It's pretty nice. We have a kitchen. There's also
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basketball, so during the day anyone can go in and play basketball hoops.
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They are open to the public from nine to seven. You go in,
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there'll be a gentleman day or where you sign in and so you can do
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that. We're looking at later on expanding maybe I adding some pickleball and volleyball
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later, but now you can do there's awesome basketball hoops in there. Or
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you can even walk even if you want to do some walking indoor because it's
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so hot outside right now. Anyone is welcome to go inside and you can
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actually do some laps around the court. And it's open to the public.
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I mean, anybody can use it or anybody that does what you're telling me
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exactly. Yeah, you can come in for open gym that is what we
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call it, so open gym during the day for those types of things.
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If you're interested. You can host birthday parties, private events, but that
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is actually through the City of South Charleston, not through Allankirk Creek a line.
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You can do that by reaching out to the City of South Charleston and
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Saturday, talk about it. Yeah, So we have a community yard Selle.
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It's going to be inside and outside, So it's going to be this
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Saturday from seven to twelve. We will have two sessions and you can come
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and shop and grab a bite to eat. We'll have some biscuits and some
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eggs biscuits and some sausage biscuits. And also though we are still accepting people
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if you want to interested in renting a booth, so you can rent outside
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or inside at si dollars. Outside it's twenty dollars for inside. We do
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have tables right now. We do have people still available. Its needs to
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be that we can provide to those who need them. So now, are
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you looking for primarily just people that just want to you know, like like
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you know, yard sale type stuff, you're looking for people to do food
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I mean, or just open to anybody that wants to get a booth right
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or yes, mainly yard sale stuff, okayel people who want to rent a
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booth, because we still have availability for booth rentals. So we're still looking
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to help facilitate that with people renting some booths because we do have that available.
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But if you're interested just to come and shop and check out the community
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center, you can do that as well. And you folks have done things
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like this in the past. I mean as far as you know, you've
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done you've done different different yard sales, inside out and whatever you want to
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call it. You've you've done this in the past, and you've been pretty
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successful with them. We have, yet we've been real successful. Yeah.
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Absolutely, we always have a good crowd come in. Especially, Hey,
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when you have yard tails and food, you can't beat it. So yeah,
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we usually have a good crowd come in for both people coming into shopping
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off of people participating. We do have I like to mention coming up a
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blood drive American Red Cross will be in the Washington District Community Center July thirtieth
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from one to six. Okay, interested in that as well. And I
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can tell you from having talked about blood drives on the radio for the past
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thirty some odd years, summertime tends to be and I'm not an expert,
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but tends to be one of the times that the blood donations normally have a
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tendency to go down because people are thinking vacations, they're eventually thinking back to
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school, They're thinking all these different activities and festivals and so on and so
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forth. Sometimes they don't think about giving blood. So you're giving people an
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opportunity to do that again on the thirtieth. Is that what you said,
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Yes, July thirtieth, one to six. All right, So if people
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are listening right now and they say, hey, I want to get a
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booth, what's the time frame here? I mean, is there a cutoff?
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I mean, do you have so many slots available? What do you
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got? Yeah, so we have flots available. We're still taking floods.
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A cutoff time will be Friday. You can set up Friday evening the night
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before if you don't want to come early Saturday and set up. So we
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are going to be there Friday evening for that. But yes, you still
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can sign up by going to Allen Creek Alliance Facebook page. There is a
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link to sign up there. You'll see the yard Cell. You'll click the
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link go to sign up genius. You'll pay Zia that way and sign up.
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You can also go to our we have Allen Creek Alliance dot org,
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which is a website you can go to as well to keep up with community
22:26
events and sign up for an emails. But yes, either way, but
22:30
if you're interested in the yard Cell, just go to our Facebook page and
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you'll sign up from there. And I've got some information that I posted in
22:36
my preview available on Dave Island Radio on Facebook, so you can go check
22:41
it out there. We'll be talking about it again throughout the week again.
22:44
Give us the details, the time, the place, the address. You're
22:47
up. Yes, July thirteenth is Saturday, seven to twelve, and it
22:52
is thirteen thirteen sam Plant Road, South Charleston at the Washington District Community Center.
22:57
All right, Chris, So you folks do a fantastic job. You're
23:00
doing great workout there. I appreciate you being here. We'll talk again soon.
23:03
Good luck this weekend. That sounds good. Thank you Dave for having
23:06
us here. All right, thank you. Twenty seven minutes away from ten
23:08
again. They're just doing some fantastic things out there with this Allen Creek Alliance,
23:11
and that community center is really, really nice. If you get an
23:15
opportunity, it's thirteen thirteen sand Plant Road, that's where everything's going on,
23:18
So you may want to head on out there and check it out. Chrissy
23:22
Ball again, with the Allen Creek Alliance, there's there's gonna be a lot
23:26
more. I mean, you thought regatta was the be all end. All
23:29
right, Well, there's a lot more things still to come this summer.
23:32
We're gonna be talking about a lot of them, including this Toward the end
23:36
of this week, I've got to have my good friend Johnny Rutherford on for
23:38
Metro nine to one one to talk about pickleball. Pickleball which is taking the
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Well, this weekend they are going toward the end of the weekend. End
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of the weekend, they got this major, major pickleball event happening in Nitro.
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I've actually had had her on the show a couple of months ago. So
24:02
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24:06
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25:07
about Regatta. Here momentarily, but I did mention the fact that the calls
25:12
are coming out for President Biden to drop out of the race. There's been
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at least five to six well high ranking folks in Washington that have come out
25:23
and said it is time for him to withdraw from the race. And as
25:27
soon as I mentioned it, I got a text. So I'm going to
25:30
read this text and we'll go to break and I'll get back into this a
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little bit later on the show. Texas, If you're calling for Biden to
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That was a quote. Look what I'm talking about here, though, is
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they didn't want him there to begin with. And a whole lot of Republicans
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zero four nine three five five zeros zero eight. While we wrapped up Brigata
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late yesterday afternoon, what an event for Charleston. You couldn't have gotten another
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person downtown around the concerts, especially had We had a great time. All
29:48
of our stations had a great time being there. Can't wait to do it
29:52
again next year of it. Chairman Brian Hughes from WWK TV thirteen joins us
29:56
Now, Brian, good morning, Well, good pointed, Dave. You
30:00
still gotta regot it. I said that earlier. I was talking to Rick
30:03
Cavanter and I said, I think this was off the air. I was,
30:07
and I was going to say the words you got and Regott. It
30:08
just came out. You know, it's like you gotta Regot. I didn't
30:11
mean to say you got it, Regott. It. I turned on my
30:14
TV, as I do every morning, Brian. I turned on my TV
30:17
when I get out of bed and I'm having my coffee and turn on my
30:18
TV, and there you are on television. I thought, I thought,
30:22
surely that you would at least take a day off. Have you had any
30:26
sleep in all of the last couple of days for the entire event, I
30:30
pretty much slept two to two and a half hours each night. I mean
30:33
then if I would try and take a mid day short nap, I would
30:37
get phone calls the entire time. So my watchtow man slipped six hours last
30:41
night. I don't believe it. You're not as young as you used to
30:44
be, Brian. You know you know that right well, you know,
30:48
the mayor and I were discussing it. It just feel like it's just it
30:52
was tougher this year. But you know, we pulled it off, and
30:55
that's what matters. Could we call it a success in your in your in
30:59
your eyes? Absolutely we we we believe it was a round uh just a
31:04
round success across the board. And you know what what we've looked at is
31:10
we've looked at it, you know, just just eyeballing it. Attendance for
31:14
each night and such. And the only one that we had that we were
31:17
lower was on the country music night. We don't think it was particularly because
31:19
of music. And he had to be thunderstorm watched it had been issued,
31:22
storms were threatening earlier in the day and and uh, and plus the humiditative
31:26
just through the roof that day, So you know, I think that had
31:30
some factors in it. But you know, collectively, this was great.
31:33
Talking to vendors, a number of them who've been with us all three years,
31:37
we're talking about your numbers were roughly fifty percent higher than what they had
31:41
been in the prior years. And uh, you know, I was talking
31:45
with Tim Beavers over a corporate identity and uh and he said, man,
31:49
on Saturday, he said he was slammed. They had to pull in extra
31:53
people. He said he was a He said it was as guy quote bunkers,
31:57
so bokers knockers. Yeah, that's that's a quote. When you were
32:04
on the show, and I had the mayor on the show, and I
32:06
even had Tim Brady others on the show. We talked about and this goes
32:09
with any event, Brian. It's like, you know, year one,
32:13
when it came back, you're kind of learning what you're doing, Okay.
32:15
Year two you're usually trying to clean up the messes and things you did wrong
32:20
in year one. That this is true of any event, not just forgot
32:22
it. Year three is the pivotal year. Though this was the pivotal year
32:27
because you had two years under your belt. And again based on everything that
32:30
I have seen and everybody that I've talked to, you know, the city
32:34
and you guys knocked it down the park again well, and we greatly appreciate
32:38
that, you know, And we were even even going in about two weeks
32:44
a month to two weeks before, we were starting to write down things that
32:46
need to be fixed for twenty twenty five and and so we've got a number
32:51
of those things. And actually, you know, with our sponsorship packages,
32:54
U you know, we've had a number of people said I want to be
32:58
a sponsor. Now you know, it took them three years to say I
33:00
want to do this or I want to do more, and so you know,
33:04
we're going to have those out, you know, within the next month
33:07
going into twenty twenty five, and we're already discussing, you know, August
33:10
into September, getting these bookings finalized early for concerts and stuff, because once
33:16
we can secure you know, some of those sponsorship dollars when we're looking at
33:22
nonprofit moneies that that people are donating things of that nature, if we can
33:27
do those starting in August in September, a lot of those budgets are finalized
33:30
by October, you know, then we have you know, a basis for
33:34
where we need to be at certain levels. But we think we're in really
33:38
good shape going into twenty twenty five and two next years. You know,
33:44
I think it's going to settle up as a thirty Thursday, Friday, Saturday
33:46
Sunday event, you know. And here's the thing there and Mayor have talked
33:52
about it, you talked about on the show in the past two Brian.
33:54
I mean, everybody remembers the heyday of Regatta back around Labor Day, and
34:00
that's one of the complaints that we get is, you know, back in
34:01
the day it was also a ten day festival. People say, well,
34:04
why isn't it later because so many people have vacations in and around the fourth
34:08
of July it's you know, typically you're a weather guy. Typically you know
34:13
it's oppressive heat and so on and so forth. I think the Mayor brought
34:16
up a really good point. This was, you know, back when I
34:19
was in school, back back in the old days. You know, school
34:22
started the start of the day after Labor Day. It's not that way now
34:25
in most areas. August fifteenth, sixteenth or whatever, kids are back in
34:30
school. And so that's going to cut into that's going to cut into it
34:34
a little bit. But I'll let you speak to that and from the reg
34:37
from the Stern Wheelers perspective as well, because that's something you know a lot
34:39
about. Yeah, So when it was, when it was, the event
34:44
was terminated when the Stern Wheelers left. And you know, and on that
34:46
Labor Day way back when I say way back when, in about two thousand
34:52
and seven, thousand and eight, you know, everybody else filled in the
34:57
gap, and point pleasant took over labor a weekend. And while put pleasants
35:00
tribute to the river, it's not a big event. It's a pivotal event.
35:05
You know, it's you get to you get to essentially go almost halfway
35:08
to Marietta. And it was you know, and stopped there for a weekend.
35:13
So that occurred, and we'd even discussed briefly, just briefly about maybe
35:19
could we negotiate Labor Day weekend with Mary with a point pleasant it just didn't
35:24
make sense because you're right, schools start now middle of August now, some
35:29
of them even almost nearly the second versus almost second week of August. You've
35:32
got college football that you know, back then two thousand and seven eight,
35:39
you know, they weren't starting as early as they are now. Now you've
35:42
got you know, games or even a weekend before Labor Day. So all
35:46
that being said, the attendance just wasn't going to be There would have been
35:50
a touch schooler probably, but you know, that's just where we had to
35:53
conte do do are people making the changes in their vacation plans out? Yes,
36:00
I'm run into a number of people, my uh, my doctor,
36:04
my primary care position. She said, we can't leave on July fourth anymore
36:07
because my son wants to be here for Regatta with all his friends. And
36:13
I've heard a number of parents talk about that, that their kids do not
36:16
want to leave July fourth weekend. Now, uh, you almost to the
36:20
point that they don't want to go to the family vacation, Well, who
36:22
does want to go on the family give it us beside the point exactly,
36:27
because you never want to be with your with your parents the whole time on
36:29
a family vacation. But but they but they like this here. So you
36:32
know what we have and actually the mayor brought this up, you know,
36:35
a few years ago. We're gonna try this and if it works, people
36:38
will start changing their holiday bay holiday vacation plans and they'll stick around here because
36:44
for one thing, it is a vacation and the same you don't have to
36:46
pay for lodging, you don't have to leave, and you're gonna they're gonna
36:50
spend a lot of that vacation money right here in town and that's gonna help
36:53
everybody, the collective, whole businesses, everyone. It's amazing what a dollar
37:00
will do here in town. With Regatta talking to Brian Hughes before we let
37:05
you go, Brian, there was a couple of points I wanted to bring
37:07
up. One of the things that I noticed in uh and doing a lot
37:12
of the social media that I do for myself, and one of the other
37:15
stations here in the building was I was constantly monitoring the social media of the
37:19
city and Regatta and so on and so forth. The number of people that
37:22
commented and said, I've never been to this event before, how do I
37:28
do this? Or where's the best place to see this concert? Or where's
37:31
the best place for this? Because I've never been there before. That's what
37:36
that bringing this whole thing was about. I mean, you know, obviously
37:39
we want to take care of the locals we wanted off, but we also
37:42
want to get heads in beds. As Tim Brady would say, we want
37:45
to get people here from out of town. And when you see people posing
37:49
these questions, Brian and saying, you know, I've never I've never been
37:52
here before, Where's the best place for this, where's the best way?
37:54
I saw a whole lot of that on social media traffic. Brian. You
37:58
know what we did too, And I'm glad you say that, because obviously
38:02
I'm monitoring a lot of social media, have to do my own and everything
38:05
else. And you sell a lot of people who said I wanted to go
38:09
down there, but I just I just couldn't. But I really think I
38:13
want to be there now, And you're right, they're asking a few those
38:15
questions, and you know, we've got there there. I think about eight
38:20
to ten of us that monitors, you know, the Bragata Facebook page and
38:22
then also is the city page. So we can answer questions as are being
38:27
thrown at us and in the posts and such, and we're answering them.
38:30
We're answering almost all of them. But you know what was really neat as
38:34
well. You know you're talking about the heads and beds. You know a
38:37
lot of people who said, uh, and I saw this, and I
38:38
was told about this personally that hey, yeah, I live in Winfield,
38:43
but I got a hotel here because I knew it'd be down here and I'd
38:45
probably have a few drinks and didn't want to drive home, and and so
38:50
they would get a hotel in town and we get there just a short drive
38:53
away. Yeah and smart y smart, Yes, yeah, it's very a
38:57
smart move. But but that is that isy that is spent in town.
39:00
It's it's dollars that stay here, and it's people seeing their friends and having
39:05
a good time. And I got to tell you, you know, we
39:07
all we want to do is bring two hundred and fifty thousand of our closest
39:10
friends downtown, have a little party, and I think we've got that ton
39:14
If you had to estimate, and I know it's very very hard to estimate
39:16
because you don't know how many people are on the river. You don't know,
39:19
you know, and and it's not your job to you're you're a meteorologist,
39:22
you're not an accountant to go how many people would you say was there
39:27
for let's say the the show that had Vanilla Ice, the Isle of the
39:31
nineties with tone, Look, how many people if you had to estimate,
39:35
Brian, would you say, we're there? You know, I will say
39:37
this the street and the bowl here saying the bowl down in the Amphitheater,
39:45
it's very deceptive. But I know, having done the Flow Rider last year
39:50
and and you know the year before with Martina and everything else, the bull
39:54
was completely full down the Amphitheater was and people were dancing in front of the
40:01
JumboTron. And what was the most amusing thing to me was, you know,
40:06
some of them recording the jumbo tron on their phone down there. So
40:10
I mean that was cool. But the fact that it was completely full there
40:14
means you know, and we also don't I think you probably noticed this down
40:19
the boulevard that first block of the boulevard that runs right in front of Hadad.
40:22
We moved the vendors up on the sidewalk to open that lane. It's
40:27
open, essentially an extra lane of traffic and still get it was packed all
40:30
the way back to that area. So I couldn't give you an exact number,
40:35
but I think our numbers are going to be at least in total attendance
40:37
between two twenty five and two fifty and probably on the upper end of that.
40:42
I know our sales numbers were up for various sales points collected. I
40:47
mean first night, second night, they were up. They were knocking out
40:51
the numbers from the previous two years. So I think in I think as
40:54
a collective hole, we are going to be bigger and better than we have
40:58
been over the last two years. And you know it could be almost a
41:02
quarter million people in town and you know, economic impact probably gonna be well
41:07
known for north of thirty five million. Unbelievable. Brian. Before we let
41:10
you go, give me thirty seconds on the weather, because you've got to
41:14
make you as if you're on the clock. We got to have you do
41:15
something. Weather. Give me thirty seconds on this week's weather. Well,
41:19
the next two days are going to be stupid hot and get them. Is
41:22
that a scientific term, Brian, stupid hot? It is? It is
41:27
in my book. And if anybody liked George W. Bushy, and if
41:30
you didn't, he always made up some things. So you know, I
41:32
kind of go with that rule. You can make some things up as you
41:36
go along. But mid nineties today tomorrow, heat advisor at effect from noon
41:39
to five o'clock today, heated excite around one hundred. Tomorrow, I think
41:43
we're going to be solidly around ninety five and our heated excise you are going
41:46
to be ninety eight to one oh two. So another heat advisory, more
41:50
widespread will be issued for tomorrow across the region. Did we get some of
41:53
those thunderstorms on Wednesday from Hurricane Berrel that make landfall about five forty five this
41:59
morning? And we're briefly cool on Thursday? Say cool quote unquote at eighty
42:02
six, but back to the low nineties for the weekend. Twenty percent chance
42:06
for a pop up shower. All right, Brian is always has a pleasure
42:09
to have you in the show man good, Please try to get some rest,
42:12
Okay, I'll attempt that. I was in the midst of a nap
42:16
until about nine thirty five and to go back down for a nephew runner.
42:21
All right, Ryan, we'll talk sou Man. Thanks a lot, sound
42:23
good. Thanks Ache, Brian Hughes again eight eight minutes away from ten Dave
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three five five zero zero Wait. Tex says about Regatta went once and only
42:51
once as a beer is eight dollars and a bottle of water was three dollars.
42:54
Where do we live? My son took three kids to try to enjoy
42:58
Carnival after risk and whatever was almost one hundred and twenty dollars a night.
43:02
Ridiculous, says a texter. Texas if the Regatta ever secures a musical act
43:09
that isn't a one hit wonder who's had a song out of the last twenty
43:13
years. I can only imagine what the crowds will drop. Well, let
43:16
me just say this, as somebody who's promoted a lot of concerts in the
43:20
past, you have any idea what kind of money you're talking. I mean,
43:24
really, it's to work. To use Brian's terms. He said stupid,
43:29
heted stupid, dumb the amount of money. But always like to give
43:34
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43:37
wrap up the show. I got a couple more things we want to get
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Is a Dirtybirds Baseball dot Com Bigleypickley Wiggley Hotline three zero four three four five
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fifty at fifty eight Tony the Taylor Text three zero four nine three five five
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zero zero eight. Hoppy Kirchball back into big chair for talk Line Today.
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Still a want to talk about the governor's proposal to cut state income tax by
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five percent. Vernon Cris Republican from Wood County and the House Finance Committee chair.
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We'll join Hoppy to discuss that. Plus John Decker, Senior editor and
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White House courseponder for Great Television locally on WSAZ on the President's cognitive issues.
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Also on the show today, author commentator and editor Michael Tamaski is on as
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his attorney general and candidate for Governor Patrick Morrissey and State Senator Mike Oliverio loaded
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up show for Hoppy's first day back copy Kerchill in the Encove Insurance Studios in
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the Dale Miller Building in Morgantown, with talk line coming up at ten oh
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six Pigli Wiggily Hotline three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight Tony
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the Taylor text three zero four nine three five five zero zero eight Dave says
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a TEXTA. This has been an amazing month for the city of Charleston and
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Kanawha County with two soccer tournaments and the regatta. Great commissioners and the best
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mayor on the East Coast, says a Texter. Texays ha. Now with
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this Biden administration, I've got two unemployed beside me that order in food every
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night, That's absurd, says a text. All right, back to the
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president. President Biden is the subject of today's commentary, Hoppy's coventary that is,
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and by the way, you can read that at wv metronews dot com.
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The question is should the president step aside before or after the Democratic National
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Convention? And Hoppy's answer is yes, And I think it would be the
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same answer coming from any sane person Hoppy is a poll going on x now,
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the artist formally known as Twitter, and as of when I checked it
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before I started the show, the yes he should set aside folks were way
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ahead. And I watched the interview Friday night that the president did with ABC
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News and George Stephan Ovelis, and I will say this, I saw nothing
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in that interview to clear up any questions about the mental faculties of President Biden.
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Absolutely nothing, if anything, that interview actually made it worse. And
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as Hoppy points out in his commentary, which I said, you can read
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in full wv metronews dot com, the president's approval rating sets in the mid
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thirties and he is trailing former President Trump by at least six points nationally and
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in the battleground states that Biden won in twenty twenty, he is way behind
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in most of those states. Four years ago, Biden was up by ten
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in the polls. Now he's down and he's going to lose to Trump.
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So where do the Democrats turn? First of all, Biden would have to
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step up and step out. That's where it starts, and then it would
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have to go to vice president. In my eyes, vice president Kamala Harris.
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Polls have shown, at least some of them, that Harris beats Trump
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in a hypothetical matchup, and there's simply folks, in my opinion, there's
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no way that you can look at President Biden and think it's a good idea.
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He continues, in this race, I just wish the Democrats would be
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honest with themselves and everybody needs to stop playing the WATERBOUTI is in games.
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So tech says, we'll close with this, should a thirty four time fella
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step aside. Trump shouldn't have been there to begin with. In my opinion,
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I think he's unfit to be the president of the United States. So
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you're not gotta get an argument there for me one hundred percent. But this
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is about Biden. This is not about Trump. Trump shouldn't be there to
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begin with in my opinion. All right, thanks to Brian Hughes for being
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here Kenawah County bord of It.