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05/28/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Bob Thompson, Chelsea Ruby, Morganne Tenney · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 3: five zero zero A This Saturday, Charlie West Music Festival
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Speaker 3: taking over the campus of the University of Charleston. Here
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Speaker 3: to talk about it, West Virginia music icon Bob Thompson
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Speaker 3: and Sarah Wright also an icon. Sarah here, you can
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Speaker 3: also be an icon.
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Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, but don't hold a candle to Thomas.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's an icon. Mob. Welcome to the show. Thanks for
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Speaker 3: great to be here. I think this is my fifth
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Speaker 3: anniversary actually earlier this week of doing the show. I
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Speaker 3: think this may be the first time you've ever been
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Speaker 3: on my show. Pop it took you so long. I
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Speaker 3: know I'm late getting here. All right, let's talk about
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Speaker 3: this big event. It is the Charlie West Music Festival,
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Speaker 3: and again it is happening this Saturday on the campus
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Speaker 3: of the University of Charleston. Sarah want to I want
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Speaker 3: to start with you talk about the folks putting this
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Speaker 3: this music fest on.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So, this music fest is hosted by Fund for the
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Speaker 5: Arts and it is our main fund raiser and it's
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Speaker 5: going to be an amazing day full of live music,
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Speaker 5: great selection of drinks including craft beer and wine, and
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Speaker 5: amazing views there by the capital overlooking the river. It's
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Speaker 5: going to be awesome.
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Speaker 3: Talk about the organization, the Fun for the Arts, what
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Speaker 3: exactly is that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So Fun for the Arts is a nonprofit that
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Speaker 5: raises money for eleven local art groups. And you know,
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Speaker 5: we take great pride in our mission, so we put
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Speaker 5: on amazing events that raise money, and then we take
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Speaker 5: that money and distribute it to our art groups, who
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Speaker 5: then put on great events. So it's a beautiful cycle
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Speaker 5: of sharing where we're just creating all this culture, enrichment
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Speaker 5: and beauty in our community.
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Speaker 3: But Bob, you know, when it's kind of a cliche,
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Speaker 3: I guess and promotions when you talk about music to
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Speaker 3: say there is something for everyone, But there literally is
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Speaker 3: something for everyone at this music festival.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, yes, And that's one of the things that's going
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Speaker 7: to be different about this festival that there is a
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Speaker 7: variety of of music styles but all going to be
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Speaker 7: great music.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And nothing brings people together like great music, you know.
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Speaker 3: And I always say about these events or something about
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Speaker 3: live music, whether I particularly care for a certain genre,
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Speaker 3: and I'm a guy that likes pretty much every genre
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Speaker 3: of music, but whether you like it or not, you
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Speaker 3: get out there and you're fellowshipping and you're having you know,
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Speaker 3: having some beat or having something to drink out there.
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Speaker 3: It's just everything kind of comes together makes for a
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Speaker 3: big old happy day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: That's that's what we feel is our mission as musicians
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Speaker 7: and really as artists, you know, to bring this to people,
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Speaker 7: to bring people together, and that's something and we can
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Speaker 7: all just celebrate life and celebrate being together. And I
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Speaker 7: think that's that's something that we need today especially. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: you're right about that.
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Speaker 4: Again.
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Speaker 3: We're talking Bob Thompson and Sarah right about the Charlie
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Speaker 3: West Music Festival, and I've got the entire lineup posted
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Speaker 3: on my social media if you'd like to see, and
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Speaker 3: just go over to Dave Alan Radio and you can
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Speaker 3: see the people that are going to be performing there.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 3: Gates open around two thirty and you're doing happy hour
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Speaker 3: drinks for five bucks from two thirty to four thirty, right, Sarah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a fantastic price. And during that time you're
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Speaker 5: gonna get to listen to Bob Thompson. He kicks off
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Speaker 5: our live music at three o'clock, so you get to
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Speaker 5: take advantage of those five dollars happy hour drinks and
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Speaker 5: listen to Bob. It's an awesome deal.
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Speaker 3: Indeed it is, and I'll tell you what we're gonna
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Speaker 3: do right now. We'll continue our conversation, but we just
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Speaker 3: happen to have four passes to give to somebody to
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Speaker 3: go to this music festival we're talking about absolutely free
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Speaker 3: Anthony Harmon the A train is standing by, so I'll
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Speaker 3: just say it. If you want to be If you
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Speaker 3: want to go, be Caller four right now at three
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Speaker 3: zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Three
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Speaker 3: zero four, three four five fifty eight fifty eight Caller
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Speaker 3: four right now, I have got a actually I got
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Speaker 3: four passes for you to take into Charlie West Music Festival,
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Speaker 3: which is happening this Saturday on the campus of the
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Speaker 3: University of Charleston. Caller four right now three zero four,
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Speaker 3: three four five fifty eight fifty eight. We'll hook you
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Speaker 3: up with four free passes. And that's quite a bargain, Sarah.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it is, because you're getting an amazing lineup of artists.
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Speaker 5: We have Bob, we have Jocelyn and the Sweet Compression,
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Speaker 5: we have of good Nature, and our headliner is Shwazy.
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Speaker 5: So it's going to be an amazing day.
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Speaker 3: Talk about the individual artists and the type of music that.
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Speaker 5: They do, right, So, Jocelyn and the Sweet Compression is
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Speaker 5: like a funk soul band. They have like this beautiful
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Speaker 5: energy to them. And then of Good Nature. They're out
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Speaker 5: of North Carolina and they're really upbeat, kind of indie alternative.
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Speaker 5: They're going to be a nice transition into our party
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Speaker 5: in the evening. And then of course our headliner is
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Speaker 5: Shwazy and you'll recognize him from hits like Buzzin and
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Speaker 5: Corona and Lime, and he calls himself the King of Summer. So,
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Speaker 5: I mean, what better way to kickstart your summer?
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Speaker 3: You had me at Corona in Lime, I know, the
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Speaker 3: King of Summer. How does one get the title of
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Speaker 3: the King of Summer?
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know, but it sounds like one
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Speaker 5: heck of a title.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about you. You're somebody. I mean,
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Speaker 3: as I said, I called you a West Virginia music icon.
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Speaker 3: I mean, who doesn't know Bob Thompson. I've seen you
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Speaker 3: perform numerous times in various different different settings and whatever,
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Speaker 3: what's in this for you? Why? Why do you still
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Speaker 3: want to do this? Well?
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Speaker 7: We just love performing for people, and especially in a
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Speaker 7: live setting. There's nothing like it. And we have as
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Speaker 7: much fun as we hope the audience does, because for us,
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Speaker 7: it's always a party. And I'm just, you know, blessed
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Speaker 7: to have such great musicians playing in the band. Tim
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Speaker 7: Kurtz beyond drums, Ryan Kennedy you on guitar, and John
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Speaker 7: Ingram on bass. So we have a party all the time,
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Speaker 7: and in a live setting like this over by the River's,
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Speaker 7: it's it's great for us and we love just bringing
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Speaker 7: people together. Our goal is to make people feel better
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Speaker 7: when they leave than they did when they came in.
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Speaker 7: That's our that's our goal, and.
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Speaker 3: We all need more of that these days. I relaxed
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Speaker 3: a little bit and put the put the political stuff
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Speaker 3: behind us and all the strife and the fighting, and
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Speaker 3: just say let's just come out. Let's let's have a
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Speaker 3: good time and enjoy some.
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Speaker 7: Muni, right, And that's something we all have in common.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 3: You're a guy, uh and and I know a little
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Speaker 3: about your career. You're a guy who has as I said,
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Speaker 3: you're West Virginia musical icon. What is it that about
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Speaker 3: West Virginia that appealed so much to you when you
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Speaker 3: came here. Well, when I came here.
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Speaker 7: Uh. Most people think that I learned to play jazz
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Speaker 7: in New York, which was my hometown, But I learned
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Speaker 7: to play jazz here. There was when I was in college.
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Speaker 7: There was a great music scene here in Charleston, a
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Speaker 7: great jazz scene, especially on the West side of Charleston,
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Speaker 7: places like the Crazy Horse Cafe and there was another
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Speaker 7: place called the Palm Gardens. But a lot of those
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Speaker 7: guys helped me along. They passed the music down to me,
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Speaker 7: and uh, I learned a lot about how music should
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Speaker 7: feel and uh uh. So it was a great opportunity
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Speaker 7: because everybody was very generous with the time, taking young
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Speaker 7: players like myself at that time under the dead wing
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Speaker 7: and being sure that we could carry this tradition on.
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Speaker 7: So that's a tradition that I've tried to keep going,
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Speaker 7: you know, bringing younger musicians in and helping them to
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Speaker 7: grow again.
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Speaker 3: We're talking with Bob Thompson Sarah right about the Charlie
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Speaker 3: I'm sure he and three others will certainly be enjoying
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Speaker 3: the Charlie West Music Festival, which is happening this Saturday. Sarah,
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Speaker 3: talk about some of the other events. This is your
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Speaker 3: big event, your signature event, but talk about some of
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Speaker 3: the other big events that you guys do.
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Speaker 5: Fun for the arts. We host two main fundraisers, one
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Speaker 5: being Charlie West Music Fest in the summer and the
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Speaker 5: other is the Capitol Cocktail Classic and the Fall. And
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Speaker 5: the Capitol Cocktail Classic is a lot of fun and
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Speaker 5: much easier to put on. So, for instance, the Cocktail
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Speaker 5: Classic only requires twelve volunteers. When Charlie West Music Fest
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Speaker 5: takes one hundred and forty so but nonetheless, the Capitol
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Speaker 5: Cocktail Classic is a lot of fun. It's a cocktail
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Speaker 5: competition between four restaurants downtown and you go from restaurant
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Speaker 5: to restaurant sampling a food and signature cocktail, then you
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Speaker 5: vote for your favorite at the end of the night.
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Speaker 5: Is a very fun.
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Speaker 3: Event and quite a bit I mean, I know you
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Speaker 3: put a lot of work into that, but this is
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Speaker 3: a little bit different when you're talking about all these
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Speaker 3: musicians and you're dealing with That's why you got somebody
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Speaker 3: like Bob Thompson to be able to help you, help
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Speaker 3: you pull that off, because it takes a lot of
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Speaker 3: people to put on a music Festivoid. Really, I've done it.
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Speaker 3: It takes a lot of people involved.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it does. And we are very grateful to Bob
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Speaker 5: because not only does he play at our event, but
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Speaker 5: he is also a board member and committee member at
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Speaker 5: Fund for the Arts, So we are very grateful to
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Speaker 5: him and all that he does. He is a instrumental
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Speaker 5: part in putting this day together. Thank you, Bob.
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Speaker 3: What's the best way for people to get tickets or
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Speaker 3: to listen to us? Right now?
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Speaker 5: So you can get on our website at fund for
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Speaker 5: the Arts wv dot org or our Facebook page Fund
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Speaker 5: for the Arts West Virginia, or you can buy them
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Speaker 5: at the gate. We make it easy.
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Speaker 3: And I know there's nothing you can do about the weather,
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Speaker 3: but here's what I saw this morning, and a lot
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Speaker 3: can change. It looked like there was going to be
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Speaker 3: rain early in the morning, but it's going to clear
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Speaker 3: out by afternoon. Now a lot can change with that.
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Speaker 5: That's right, We're on. But I am manifesting beautiful weather.
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Speaker 3: your job. Hey, guys, I appreciate you taking time out
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Speaker 3: of your schedule to be here, and we're looking forward
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Speaker 3: to it. Our stations are gonna be there and we're
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Speaker 3: gonna be very involved in it. And I know you've been.
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Speaker 3: You've made your rounds around the building here today talk
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Speaker 3: one hundred and all the others. Appreciate you guys being here.
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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot. Thanks you for having give us the
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Speaker 3: website again, Sarah.
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Speaker 5: That's Fund for the Arts wv dot org or our
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Speaker 5: facebook page Fund for the Arts West Virginia.
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Speaker 3: All right, and we'll see you there again. Gates are
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Speaker 3: gonna open it thirty on Saturday afternoon and mister Thompson
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Speaker 3: and the folks will start off about three o'clock. You've
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Speaker 3: got music of all kinds going till what time ten o'clock.
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Speaker 5: We're gonna be rocking all day.
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Speaker 3: You can go beyond ten.
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Speaker 5: Come on, you know, let's turn it up. Parties just
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Speaker 5: getting started.
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Speaker 3: Right, exactly right, Sarah and Bob. I appreciate you both
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Speaker 3: good morning, welcome to the.
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Speaker 6: Show, Good morning, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. We were talking about having
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Speaker 3: a Sarah and also Bob Thompson on of course Charlie
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Speaker 3: West Music Festival this Saturday on the campus the University
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Speaker 3: of Charleston. Might we see you out there performing?
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Speaker 6: You will not see me performing. That is, Singing is
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Speaker 6: not my thing. I would only be invited once and
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Speaker 6: I would be run off very quickly.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know we were talking. I was talking about
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Speaker 3: my dad with you during the break. My father was
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Speaker 3: a Sunday school superintendent. He would book people to come
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Speaker 3: to the church, different gospel groups and whatever, and about
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Speaker 3: some of the people he'd say, well, you know what
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Speaker 3: the Lord needs clappers too.
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Speaker 6: I am definitely a clapper.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 6: I have an eleven year old Robert, and a couple
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Speaker 6: of years ago, we were out somewhere in the summer,
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Speaker 6: and I like to always ask people when I see them, Hey,
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Speaker 6: where are you from? Is this your first time to
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Speaker 6: West Virginia? And he was telling somebody, my mom's job
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Speaker 6: is to sing country roads. So we do have a
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Speaker 6: lot of country roads coming out of the State Tourism Office,
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Speaker 6: but I am never the one singing it.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's probably a good thing, based on what you've
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Speaker 3: told me. Me too, kid, me too, all right, So
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Speaker 3: let's talk about summer in West Virginia. I mean, are
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Speaker 3: we talked about some events here in Charleston with Charlie
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Speaker 3: West Music Festival, but also festival kicks off today in Charleston,
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Speaker 3: and I'm actually going to have some folks from festival
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Speaker 3: in studio on the show coming up tomorrow. But there's
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Speaker 3: a whole lot going on.
17:03
Speaker 6: There's a lot going on, So if you think about
17:05
Speaker 6: West Virginia, there's always a lot going on. So we've
17:08
Speaker 6: got this incredible natural beauty, We've got all kinds of
17:11
Speaker 6: outdoor recreation, these great mountain towns, where we've got great music,
17:17
Speaker 6: we've got great restaurants, etc. But right now is the
17:19
Speaker 6: time of the year where we also get to add
17:21
Speaker 6: on all those festivals. So we're just wrapping up here
17:24
Speaker 6: the bike races in Charleston, which were incredible. Hats off
17:27
Speaker 6: to the mayor and the Charleston CBB. We're going into festival,
17:30
Speaker 6: the Charlie West Music Fest. Then soon it'll be Regattas.
17:33
Speaker 6: So it's a great time of year. And I don't
17:35
Speaker 6: want to hear anyone around here saying there's nothing to do,
17:37
Speaker 6: because in addition to the natural stuff we've got in
17:40
Speaker 6: this area, it is festival after festival this summer.
17:43
Speaker 3: I mean, and you think about it too, Like last weekend,
17:46
Speaker 3: for example, we had the Vandalia event going on to
17:49
Speaker 3: the Capitol. We had the state track meet that was
17:52
Speaker 3: going on in Charleston, and I know, I'm going to
17:54
Speaker 3: leave something out. We had the pro road bike races
17:57
Speaker 3: that were going on. There were so many things going
17:59
Speaker 3: on just in Charleston last weekend. Graduations, you know, I
18:03
Speaker 3: mean that's not really tourism per se, but I mean
18:05
Speaker 3: graduations were going and so many things going on, And
18:08
Speaker 3: that's the way it is. Pretty much all summer here,
18:10
Speaker 3: not only in Charleston, but all over West Virginia.
18:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, and what was really cool this weekend. So I
18:14
Speaker 6: was over at the Capitol and then I was also
18:16
Speaker 6: up at Bridge Road where they were having the watch
18:18
Speaker 6: party on Monday. But the really cool thing is that
18:21
Speaker 6: you were seeing people in different spots around town. So
18:23
Speaker 6: they were going down to the Capital for Vandelia, they
18:26
Speaker 6: were going downtown, then they were up on the hill.
18:28
Speaker 6: You know, people were moving around and really enjoying all
18:30
Speaker 6: the different things. And I think that's that's a look
18:33
Speaker 6: into what the rest of the summer is going to be.
18:35
Speaker 7: Like.
18:35
Speaker 6: We've got a bunch of incredible groups who continue to
18:38
Speaker 6: put on these different festivals and events, and it really
18:42
Speaker 6: opens up a lot of opportunities for folks who live here,
18:44
Speaker 6: but also for folks who are coming in. Imagine being
18:47
Speaker 6: a tourist, like you said, someone who was in town
18:49
Speaker 6: for graduation and thinking, Wow, this city has a lot
18:52
Speaker 6: going on this last Weekend's that's one of the reasons
18:56
Speaker 6: why this is just a great place to live.
18:58
Speaker 3: Talking again with State Tourism Secretary Chill See Ruby, the
19:00
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19:09
Speaker 3: on the Midday Show with Amanda and I last week
19:11
Speaker 3: and we talked a little bit about people choosing to
19:14
Speaker 3: check out things in West Virginia. You're the state Tourism secretary,
19:18
Speaker 3: you have been for some time, and you say that
19:21
Speaker 3: you learn things daily that are going out of state,
19:23
Speaker 3: but even you didn't even know.
19:24
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's always new things that I find here or there.
19:28
Speaker 6: You know, there's things that we have that are growing
19:31
Speaker 6: and expanding for folks in Kanawk County. I get that
19:34
Speaker 6: all the time. What's new? What have I not checked out?
19:36
Speaker 6: So I'll give you you all one kind of tidbit.
19:39
Speaker 6: Just right outside, just up the interstate a little bit,
19:41
Speaker 6: are the Elk River on the Elk River rail trail
19:45
Speaker 6: is rail Explorers. Rail Explorers opened about a year ago.
19:48
Speaker 6: There the mountain or they're the rail bikes on the
19:51
Speaker 6: railroad train. Have you done them, Dave, No, I have not.
19:54
Speaker 6: Very very cool. We need to get you there, but
19:56
Speaker 6: it's very cool. They're pedal assist. You don't have to
19:59
Speaker 6: peddle too hard. That's a question, I get all the same.
20:01
Speaker 3: Now you're speaking my language.
20:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they actually are kind of battery power, so
20:05
Speaker 6: you have to keep a little motion going. But it's incredible.
20:07
Speaker 6: There's a waterfall up there, so if you're somebody who
20:09
Speaker 6: does the West Virginia Waterfall Trail, you can check off
20:12
Speaker 6: one more waterfall. But a great thing about forty five
20:14
Speaker 6: minutes from here. I will tell folks do not drive
20:17
Speaker 6: there without buying tickets in advance, because it's very, very popular,
20:21
Speaker 6: and a lot of times the different trips throughout the
20:23
Speaker 6: day sell out. But rail exports cool thing right here,
20:26
Speaker 6: not too far from home, that I think folks don't
20:28
Speaker 6: know about.
20:29
Speaker 3: I mean, and again we were focusing primarily on things
20:34
Speaker 3: I wanted to hear in the area. But I mean
20:38
Speaker 3: all over West Virginia I learn I just like you,
20:40
Speaker 3: I learned new things. But here in the Kanawh Valley.
20:42
Speaker 3: I mean, I think a gym that a lot of
20:45
Speaker 3: people from out of state know about and people are
20:48
Speaker 3: just learning about is the Meek's Mountain Trails. Over in
20:51
Speaker 3: Putnam County where I live. I mean, they're killing it
20:53
Speaker 3: over there with it, they are killing it.
20:54
Speaker 6: That's another place where they continue to grow. And the
20:56
Speaker 6: thing that's so phenomenal about that is it is driven
20:59
Speaker 6: by a group of volunteers, super super passionate volunteers who
21:02
Speaker 6: have worked for years and years to make those trails
21:05
Speaker 6: what they are and they are outstanding.
21:06
Speaker 3: Indeed they are. Again we're talking with Chelsea Ruby, the
21:09
Speaker 3: state Tourism Secretary, and speaking of places to go to
21:12
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21:17
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21:19
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21:25
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21:28
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21:31
Speaker 3: on your radar for around the state of West Virginia.
21:33
Speaker 6: So another cool thing just to open the Great American Bunge.
21:36
Speaker 6: So it's up in Harper's Ferry. You actually you're tied
21:38
Speaker 6: into a bungee, you jump into a rock cory. So
21:41
Speaker 6: they have these in Canada. They just opened in West Virginia.
21:43
Speaker 6: Brand new has opened in the last couple of weeks.
21:46
Speaker 6: We're excited about that one. I have not been there,
21:49
Speaker 6: but I hear it's pretty cool.
21:51
Speaker 3: It sounds like it. I mean again, and West Virginia
21:54
Speaker 3: is becoming a tourist destination. But I think we probably
21:59
Speaker 3: need to do a little bit. No, I don't mean
22:00
Speaker 3: you personally, your office, but I mean I think we
22:02
Speaker 3: as West Virginians need to do more to celebrate our
22:05
Speaker 3: own state. Because the rest of the country is already
22:09
Speaker 3: catching on to West Virginia and the things we have.
22:12
Speaker 3: We probably need to do a little bit better job
22:14
Speaker 3: as West Virginians to appreciate the things we have in
22:17
Speaker 3: our own state.
22:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll tell you. Just this weekend, the BBC put
22:21
Speaker 6: out an article of top places to visit in twenty
22:23
Speaker 6: twenty five. West Virginia was the only state to make
22:25
Speaker 6: the list. Super excited to see that. There were a
22:28
Speaker 6: bunch of destinations, but we were the only state to
22:30
Speaker 6: get our whole state on the list. But I'll tell you,
22:33
Speaker 6: when we look at the research of who's coming to
22:34
Speaker 6: West Virginia, what we see is that seventy five percent
22:37
Speaker 6: of people who book a trip book it because of
22:40
Speaker 6: something they saw on a friend or family members social media.
22:44
Speaker 6: So if you think about that for a second, people
22:45
Speaker 6: are making their decision plans. Three fourths of them are
22:48
Speaker 6: making them based on what they see on Facebook or Instagram.
22:51
Speaker 6: So I would encourage all West Virginians not only to
22:54
Speaker 6: get out this summer, go explore your home state, but
22:56
Speaker 6: post a picture inspire somebody you know that lives in
22:59
Speaker 6: a different place, or somebody in a different corner of
23:01
Speaker 6: West Virginia to get out and do something great as well.
23:03
Speaker 3: Now, you were talking when we had you on Metro
23:05
Speaker 3: News Midday with Amanda Baron and I last week. You
23:08
Speaker 3: were talking about some things that are going on for
23:11
Speaker 3: young people in West Virginia. Kids in schools talk about that.
23:14
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, when we're looking at tourism as a whole,
23:17
Speaker 6: we see that the visitation is growing really, really quickly.
23:20
Speaker 6: But what we see is that the employment in the
23:22
Speaker 6: industry is not growing quite as quick So we're starting
23:25
Speaker 6: a number of campaigns to really get people involved in
23:28
Speaker 6: the industry and to get kids at a young age
23:30
Speaker 6: interested in it and say these are jobs I want
23:32
Speaker 6: to stay home in West Virginia for. So in addition
23:35
Speaker 6: to the Governor's School for tourism, which we'll start here
23:37
Speaker 6: on June twentieth, in about a month or so. We've
23:40
Speaker 6: also got a number of things going on. We've got
23:42
Speaker 6: money available for teachers who want to take their students
23:45
Speaker 6: on field trips. We find that West Virginia kids a
23:47
Speaker 6: lot of times they haven't been to places all around
23:49
Speaker 6: the state, and sometimes they haven't even been to places
23:52
Speaker 6: in their own county. So we've got that field trip funding.
23:55
Speaker 6: We've got an online program that's free. It's called Tourism Works.
23:58
Speaker 6: Anybody in West Virginia can take it and get a
24:00
Speaker 6: free hour of college credit just by getting online and
24:04
Speaker 6: taking this class about hospitality. So we've got all kinds
24:06
Speaker 6: of stuff, and I'm hoping that kids across the state
24:09
Speaker 6: are starting to perk up. Their ears are starting to
24:11
Speaker 6: perk up and say, I want to be in tourism
24:13
Speaker 6: when I grow up, and I can do that here
24:15
Speaker 6: at home. There's no reason for me to leave the state.
24:18
Speaker 6: There are good paying jobs in this industry right here
24:20
Speaker 6: at home.
24:21
Speaker 3: I mean, when you think about you have a kid
24:23
Speaker 3: that has an interest in the outdoors, you know, whether
24:26
Speaker 3: it's ATV trails or any of the things that you mentioned.
24:31
Speaker 3: I mean are you really going to be working if
24:34
Speaker 3: you're having that kind of a job and you're having
24:36
Speaker 3: fun doing it. The old saying is is that if
24:38
Speaker 3: you find a job you like, you'll never work a
24:40
Speaker 3: day in your life. I mean, as you said, a
24:42
Speaker 3: lot of young people may not know these opportunities are available.
24:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, they are very much available. So over the next
24:48
Speaker 6: five years, it's projected over twenty thousand annual job openings
24:51
Speaker 6: in the hospitality and tourism sector in West Virginia, So
24:54
Speaker 6: twenty thousand each year for the next five years. So
24:57
Speaker 6: there's a lot of these jobs. Like you said, they
24:59
Speaker 6: are fun jobs. There's a lot of these jobs where
25:01
Speaker 6: you're interacting with the public, you're getting to be outside,
25:04
Speaker 6: you're doing what you love. And the other thing I'll
25:06
Speaker 6: say about the hospitality industry is there's great upward mobility.
25:09
Speaker 6: If you think about somebody who starts as a as
25:11
Speaker 6: a front desk clerk at a hotel, there's a great
25:14
Speaker 6: possibility if you stick to it and you work really hard,
25:17
Speaker 6: that you can work your way all the way up
25:18
Speaker 6: to the hotel manager position. So it's a great industry.
25:21
Speaker 3: The reason why you couldn't talk about the marketing of
25:24
Speaker 3: West Virginia to other states. We spent some time talking
25:26
Speaker 3: about marketing it to our own state. But what do
25:29
Speaker 3: you do to market this? I mean, you talked about
25:32
Speaker 3: that BBC report, which I want to get into that
25:34
Speaker 3: a little bit in depth, but talk about the marketing
25:37
Speaker 3: that you do elsewhere, because the statistics have shown that,
25:44
Speaker 3: like I know what the regatta folks in the CVB said,
25:46
Speaker 3: I mean about how many people that came to the
25:48
Speaker 3: regatta from d C and from Pittsburgh. I mean almost
25:51
Speaker 3: as many as came from West Virginia, which is amazing.
25:54
Speaker 3: What about the marketing aspect of here?
25:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you hit the nail on the head right there.
25:58
Speaker 6: So are two biggest markets and are too fast growing
26:00
Speaker 6: markets are DC and Pittsburgh. We market in about a
26:04
Speaker 6: four to five hour driving distance to the state, so
26:08
Speaker 6: anywhere you can drive in four to five hours, we're
26:10
Speaker 6: marketing heavily there. So our marketing strategy, if you're in
26:13
Speaker 6: any of those cities, you're going to see TV, you're
26:16
Speaker 6: going to see radio, digital ads, social print, You're going
26:19
Speaker 6: to see a bunch of different touchpoints. We never want
26:21
Speaker 6: somebody just to see one ad. So if you think about, well,
26:23
Speaker 6: McDonald's puts out a new breakfast sandwich, like their goal
26:26
Speaker 6: is for you to see thirty or forty ads about
26:28
Speaker 6: that breakfast sandwich. Same thing with West Virginia tourism. So
26:31
Speaker 6: we want folks to see our ads over and over
26:33
Speaker 6: and over again. So in those markets, we are marketing
26:38
Speaker 6: the natural beauty of West Virginia. We're marketing the great towns,
26:41
Speaker 6: the fairs, the festivals, the arts, all these different things
26:45
Speaker 6: in those towns, and they see them layered over. So
26:47
Speaker 6: right now, good example is we just took over Metro
26:50
Speaker 6: Center station on the DC metro line. So right there
26:54
Speaker 6: downtown twelfth in g that entire station, every billboard, every wrap,
26:59
Speaker 6: every wall, well everything in there is wrapped in pictures
27:03
Speaker 6: of West Virginia. So it's all information about the Eastern
27:06
Speaker 6: panhandles that what that specific ones about everything says just
27:09
Speaker 6: one hour away. So we do a lot of these takeovers.
27:12
Speaker 6: We've also got buses wrapped buses going in DC. Similar
27:15
Speaker 6: things in Pittsburgh. That we try to make sure that
27:18
Speaker 6: when we go into a market we make a really
27:20
Speaker 6: big splash, that we make sure that everyone who lives
27:22
Speaker 6: there is seeing our ads over and over again.
27:25
Speaker 3: Can we talk with Chelsea Ruby, the State Tourism Secretary
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Speaker 3: back to West Virginia for a moment talk about the
27:38
Speaker 3: small towns. Every town in West Virginia's got something going on.
27:43
Speaker 3: It's seemingly. I mean, I know of every town I'm in.
27:46
Speaker 3: At the Boone County they have the Coal Festival going on.
27:50
Speaker 3: In my home area where I'm originally from, Logan, they
27:52
Speaker 3: have the Freedom Festival, and they've got like country music
27:55
Speaker 3: superstar Trace Adkins is going to be performing live on
27:58
Speaker 3: the streets. And for every one one of those there,
28:01
Speaker 3: every town in West Virginia has got something. There's an
28:03
Speaker 3: article in the zet mail this morning. I think that
28:06
Speaker 3: was done by the food guy, Stephen Keith about some
28:10
Speaker 3: things going on a Bucan and every town's got something
28:12
Speaker 3: going on.
28:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, there are fares and festivals throughout West Virginia, especially
28:17
Speaker 6: over the summer months and into the fall. I could
28:20
Speaker 6: go on and on about each and every one of them.
28:22
Speaker 6: What I like is that they're all different, that each
28:25
Speaker 6: one of these really has a local flare on them.
28:27
Speaker 6: It's really unique to the area that they're in. So
28:29
Speaker 6: but Cannon just ad their strawberry festival. We've got all
28:32
Speaker 6: these different groups who do things. We've got the apple
28:35
Speaker 6: Harvest festival that'll go up in the northern part of
28:37
Speaker 6: the state when we get into the fall. You can
28:39
Speaker 6: find all these farsom festivals on our website wvtourism dot com.
28:43
Speaker 6: And I'll tell you that if you go to our
28:44
Speaker 6: website and go to that event's calendar, it's the fourth
28:47
Speaker 6: or fifth most visited page on our website every month.
28:50
Speaker 6: So what we see is that West Virginians go there
28:52
Speaker 6: to get their information. But a lot of people when
28:54
Speaker 6: they're in town visiting, they're looking for something to do,
28:57
Speaker 6: they want to go to a local event, and they
28:59
Speaker 6: go in these. So we still find in all of
29:01
Speaker 6: our survey research each year that local events, like becoming
29:04
Speaker 6: a local, living like a local for a weekend is
29:07
Speaker 6: what people want to do. So these fares and festivals,
29:09
Speaker 6: I always tell them when I meet with folks who
29:11
Speaker 6: are organizing, not only are you doing something really great
29:14
Speaker 6: for your community, but you're also providing something really great
29:17
Speaker 6: for guests who are in town on the weekend with
29:19
Speaker 6: your festival.
29:20
Speaker 3: Go back to that BBC article you reference a little bit. Oh,
29:23
Speaker 3: that's that's pretty good stuff.
29:24
Speaker 6: Good stuff. Yeah, you know, it used to be that
29:26
Speaker 6: we never made these lists. And when I first got here,
29:29
Speaker 6: I kind of banged my head on the wall eight
29:31
Speaker 6: years ago saying like, why do these lists come out
29:33
Speaker 6: every day and West Virginia is never on them? Every
29:35
Speaker 6: travel publication does one, and we changed strategies. What we
29:39
Speaker 6: started doing is we invite editors, travel editors and writers
29:42
Speaker 6: to West Virginia. So we just had eight of them
29:45
Speaker 6: who left here about a week ago. We're constantly bringing
29:48
Speaker 6: in more and more of them. And what we found
29:50
Speaker 6: is when we bring these travel writers and editors to
29:52
Speaker 6: West Virginia and host them for a weekend, let them
29:55
Speaker 6: really explore West Virginia, they leave with a completely different impression.
30:00
Speaker 6: The last four or five years, we've gotten all the
30:01
Speaker 6: big lists, We've gotten Lonely, Planet, Conde, NAS, Travel and
30:04
Speaker 6: Leisure USA. Today all these groups are starting to put
30:07
Speaker 6: West Virginia on their list of top places to visit
30:10
Speaker 6: and this weekend, we got to add one more with
30:12
Speaker 6: the BBC.
30:12
Speaker 3: And we were the only state.
30:14
Speaker 6: We were the only state.
30:15
Speaker 13: Yeah.
30:15
Speaker 6: The other ones were city destinations, and they gave us
30:17
Speaker 6: the whole state. And last two years ago we got
30:20
Speaker 6: a similar one with Lonely Planet, which is a big
30:22
Speaker 6: international publication. They did the World's Greatest Places, and they
30:26
Speaker 6: did the same thing. They gave us the whole state.
30:29
Speaker 3: I mean, that's pretty good. I mean when you think
30:31
Speaker 3: about it, because West Virginia, although it is a smaller state,
30:34
Speaker 3: we got a lot going on in every corner of
30:37
Speaker 3: the state. There is something. Quickly and then actually have
30:40
Speaker 3: a couple of texts for you people with questions, but
30:43
Speaker 3: then we'll let you go because I know you got
30:44
Speaker 3: a busy day planned for today. Talk about West Virginia
30:48
Speaker 3: as a food destination because I know here in the
30:51
Speaker 3: Charleston area. Of course we all know about Chef Paul,
30:53
Speaker 3: but there's so many other people in addition to him.
30:55
Speaker 3: He'd be the first to tell you that are doing
30:57
Speaker 3: great things. Huntington is an incredible food town right now,
31:00
Speaker 3: the Morgantown area, Martinsburg. We just had the Mayor of
31:02
Speaker 3: Martinsburg on the midday show what's Tradeon's becoming a food
31:05
Speaker 3: destination as well. And it's not just biscuits and gravy,
31:08
Speaker 3: although there's nothing wrong with biscuits and gravy.
31:10
Speaker 6: Hey, I love biscuits and gravy as much as anyone else.
31:12
Speaker 6: But you're right. So when you look at vacation planning trends,
31:15
Speaker 6: foody culture, foody destinations certainly becoming a trend. We're seeing
31:20
Speaker 6: that as many as fifty percent of people who plan
31:22
Speaker 6: vacations in the US last year planned it specifically to
31:25
Speaker 6: go to a restaurant.
31:26
Speaker 3: That sounds like me.
31:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we when we travel, we plan out all
31:30
Speaker 6: of our meals, we look at all the restaurants. So
31:31
Speaker 6: it's something I can certainly relate to. But what's really
31:33
Speaker 6: cool is that we're seeing that trend e merge at
31:36
Speaker 6: the same time that we're really seeing an emergence of
31:38
Speaker 6: food in West Virginia with all these different restaurants. Last year,
31:42
Speaker 6: of course, we had another James Beard nomination over at
31:46
Speaker 6: restaurant a Breusy here in town. We had chef Paul
31:48
Speaker 6: Wynnet the year before Jim's, and Huntington has gotten a
31:51
Speaker 6: lot of recognition. We've got all these places but then
31:54
Speaker 6: we've got cool other places that maybe aren't the more
31:57
Speaker 6: elevated food we've got, you know, hillbilly hot dogs and
32:00
Speaker 6: places like that. I love Dixie's Dairy things like that,
32:03
Speaker 6: and so we're seeing that those are becoming increasingly more
32:05
Speaker 6: important popular.
32:07
Speaker 3: All I head a text here says ask the Tourism
32:09
Speaker 3: Secretary to take a look at Greenbrier straight from the
32:11
Speaker 3: airport to the Capitol. Need to spend some money making
32:13
Speaker 3: this area shine, as it's the first look to welcome
32:16
Speaker 3: you into West Virginia. And I don't know if it's
32:19
Speaker 3: something that necessarily you can handle, but I think it's
32:21
Speaker 3: a good point.
32:21
Speaker 6: I think it's a good point. You know, I talked
32:23
Speaker 6: to Dominique. I've actually already talked to her today. At
32:25
Speaker 6: the airport. We do a lot of work with them,
32:27
Speaker 6: certainly something that is important. I know they put that
32:30
Speaker 6: new welcome sign in year before last, but I agree
32:33
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Speaker 3: All right, I guess we have no phone. That's what
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Speaker 3: I'm hearing. All I'm not hearing anything. Well, Morgan, we apologize.
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Speaker 3: We don't know what the problem is. Well, are you there, Morgan?
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Speaker 13: Can you hear me? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: There you are there, You are all right.
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Speaker 13: Welcome morning. I don't know what happened.
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Speaker 3: We got you now, that's all that matters. Welcome to
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Speaker 7: Thanks to Dave. Good morning.
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Speaker 3: So the Putnam County Development Authority has purchased a this
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Speaker 3: this big old tract of land, and actually it's it's
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Speaker 3: more than just land, it's a whole dang complex. Tell
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Speaker 3: us about this.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Putnam County Development Authority closed on an industrial building
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Speaker 13: in Putnam County. It's a little bit more than eighty
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Speaker 13: four thousand square feet. This has been many months in
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Speaker 13: the making, and we're just so excited that we are
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Speaker 13: going to have property available for industry. It's it's going
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Speaker 13: to be right in front of the new I sixty
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Speaker 13: four Cologne and Exit Dave. So it's going to be
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Speaker 13: prime for any type of distribution or logistics.
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Speaker 3: So who would be the ideal tenant for this morning?
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Speaker 13: So really, anybody who is going to be distributing goods?
37:41
Speaker 13: I mean, we you cannot get any closer. I mean
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Speaker 13: I can honestly throw a rock to the interstate from
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Speaker 13: the building. But you're going to be right on I
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Speaker 13: sixty four. And then how close we are to the
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Speaker 13: I seventy seven I seventy nine interchange into Ohio. You know,
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Speaker 13: we can be within half of the US population within
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Speaker 13: a day's drive. Any type of good that somebody would
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Speaker 13: be distributing would really be ideal for this location.
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Speaker 3: And again, the area is really growing and it's about
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Speaker 3: to grow even more, and you alluded to it with
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Speaker 3: that I sixty four colloding interchange right.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so it's set to be complete in follows twenty
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Speaker 13: twenty six. It's under construction right now and this building,
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Speaker 13: you know, is going to be right in front of
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Speaker 13: that exit. So our board of directors felt like it
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Speaker 13: was a really good move for PCDA to purchase it.
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Speaker 13: And you know, David, it's great to tell businesses about
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Speaker 13: why they should come to West Virginia, why they should
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Speaker 13: come to Putdham County. But if you don't have anywhere
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Speaker 13: to put them, you don't really have You're kind of
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Speaker 13: a salesman without any product to sell. So we're excited
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Speaker 13: to actually have available inventory to solicit new investment in
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Speaker 13: West Virginia.
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Speaker 3: So how do you go about marketing this place?
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Speaker 2: Morgan?
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Speaker 13: Well, you're helping, so thank you.
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Speaker 6: There's one, there's one, there's one down.
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Speaker 13: But you know what, we've we've actually been working behind
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Speaker 13: the scenes some already at trade before we even closed.
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Speaker 13: We have a lot of folks that are interested in
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Speaker 13: the area. With all of the residential homes that we
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Speaker 13: have coming on the market, but also following the new
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Speaker 13: core project in Apple Growth. But we've also been sharing
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Speaker 13: it with our news channels, so you might see it
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Speaker 13: in the news in the next day or two. But
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Speaker 13: also we've been behind the scenes reaching out to businesses,
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Speaker 13: site consultants in different companies that we think would have interest,
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Speaker 13: and we have some that are already interested, which is
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Speaker 13: really great.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I know you can't tell us a whole
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Speaker 3: lot about it right now, but can you are you
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Speaker 3: at liberty to give us a HNT on any of
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Speaker 3: those it might be interested or not?
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Speaker 13: Well, honestly, honestly, Dave, like I would hate to share
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Speaker 13: anything that wouldn't come to fruition, but I mean I will,
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Speaker 13: I will stand by. It was utilized as a distribution
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Speaker 13: facility before we closed, and that's really it's really what
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Speaker 13: the dirt tells you. It's eighty four thousand square feet,
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Speaker 13: it's got twelve doc doors, it's enough space for late down.
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Speaker 13: You know, it's already remote gated. So if the building
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Speaker 13: just tells you anything, it tells you that it would
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Speaker 13: be ideal for distributions.
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Speaker 3: And what was there before Morgan, what operated out there, so.
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Speaker 13: There was a US Food. They were the owner of
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Speaker 13: the building. They're maintaining their other location on Virginia Avenue.
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Speaker 13: But actually it was built for Continental Cam Company back
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Speaker 13: back in the day, so it was actually a manufacturing
40:28
Speaker 13: plant when it was originally built.
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Speaker 3: So do we have I mean, is it ready to
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Speaker 3: go now? Is it a turnkey type deal or what?
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Speaker 13: So the distribution space is turnkey, somebody could move their
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Speaker 13: goods in tomorrow. The office space is going to be
40:42
Speaker 13: built out according to what the tenant is wanting. But
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Speaker 13: the distribution space is.
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Speaker 3: Ready to go, and you're looking at least in this
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Speaker 3: out I understand. And again I love the fact that
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Speaker 3: you talked about being I think sometimes in West Virginia
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Speaker 3: we forget how close we are to the mate And
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Speaker 3: I just talked about it with the Tourism secretary. How
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Speaker 3: close we are to d C. How close we are
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Speaker 3: to Pittsburgh and Charlotte, in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and I
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Speaker 3: mean a day's drive with as you said, a large
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Speaker 3: percentage of the US population. And we got rails, we
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Speaker 3: got water, we got a lot going for us here
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Speaker 3: in West Virginia.
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Speaker 13: Absolutely, this building is actually just adjacent to a CSX
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Speaker 13: rail line. So it could even be rail served. But
41:25
Speaker 13: you know, sometimes I like to turn challenges into opportunities.
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Speaker 13: States Did you ever travel and you talk to someone,
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Speaker 13: You're like, I'm from West Virginia. Have you ever been there?
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Speaker 13: And their answer is no, But I've driven through it
41:36
Speaker 13: and it's like, oh man, you've got a visit, right.
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Speaker 13: But if people are driving through it, that points to
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Speaker 13: the fact that we are close to everything around us.
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Speaker 13: We are logistically we are perfectly located for companies who
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Speaker 13: want to be on the East Coast.
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Speaker 3: I mean, and I'm not going to be the one
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Speaker 3: to say West Virginia doesn't have its problems, because West Virginia,
41:57
Speaker 3: like all states and all communities and all cities, we
41:59
Speaker 3: do have problems. But we've also got a lot of
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Speaker 3: positive things going on as well. And I really I
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Speaker 3: think it just goes to show you how much potential
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Speaker 3: that there is in this area, and specifically in Putnham County.
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Speaker 3: I'm a little bit biased because that's where I live,
42:14
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm the unofficial mayor of Tayes Valley.
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Speaker 3: They tell me that's what TJ. Meadow's coused me. But
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Speaker 3: people talk about the growth of the area that it
42:24
Speaker 3: saw back in the nineteen nineties. I wasn't living there then,
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Speaker 3: but you reference new Core with New Core coming in,
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Speaker 3: and many of those families are choosing to live in
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Speaker 3: the Putnam County area because we have some of the
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Speaker 3: best schools in the state. We have an insanely low
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Speaker 3: crime rate compared to other areas, great places to dine,
42:43
Speaker 3: great places to shop, locally owned businesses and things of that.
42:46
Speaker 3: Plus you got this right down the road from where
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Speaker 3: I live. You've got this massive housing complex going in
42:51
Speaker 3: that's pretty much going to double or triple the amount
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Speaker 3: of traffic on Taes Valley Road. And people that have
42:57
Speaker 3: heard me say on this show many many times, you
43:00
Speaker 3: never hear me complain about a traffic problem. I may
43:02
Speaker 3: complain about the drivers and the stupid decisions they make,
43:05
Speaker 3: but as far as traffic products, because that's a sign
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Speaker 3: of growth, and that's just another another feather in the
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Speaker 3: proverbial cap of what's going on in the Putnam County
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Speaker 3: and really, for that matter, the entire Advantage Corridor area.
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Speaker 13: We have so much going on, David. Honestly, I'm really
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Speaker 13: proud of my team and my board for being proactive.
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Speaker 13: You know, we've been proactive on housing. I've been on
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Speaker 13: the show talking about that before. So we want to
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Speaker 13: see holistic development in Putnam County. We have over a
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Speaker 13: thousand units being built over the next three years in
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Speaker 13: Putnam County. For housing, we're working on workforce development with
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Speaker 13: starting apprenticeships and we have this Hometown Advantage campaign talking
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Speaker 13: about skilled trades in West Virginia. But then we're also
43:43
Speaker 13: working on site development, like purchasing this property and trying
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Speaker 13: to get new businesses or even help a local business
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Speaker 13: who needs to grow by retaining them with this piece
43:52
Speaker 13: of property. So we see economic development as basically one
43:57
Speaker 13: big pie, right, You've got to focus on all these
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Speaker 13: different areas. And I'm really proud that we have such
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Speaker 13: a small team, but we're really working in all these
44:04
Speaker 13: different avenues to try to increase the tax space and
44:08
Speaker 13: also create jobs. And I'm going to pause for a
44:11
Speaker 13: second too and say I'm increasing the tax space. We
44:14
Speaker 13: don't want all of the tax burden to be on
44:17
Speaker 13: our residents. We know our bedroom community, so that means
44:21
Speaker 13: that we've got to have more private investment in the area.
44:24
Speaker 13: And you know that's one of the reasons that we
44:26
Speaker 13: want to in this building. We want to leave the building.
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Speaker 13: We want to make sure that we're supporting the business community,
44:31
Speaker 13: but also that we're supporting our residents of Pudham County
44:33
Speaker 13: as well.
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Speaker 3: We have a text to the show here. Somebody ask
44:36
Speaker 3: any updates on a business in Fraser's Bottom at Putnam County.
44:38
Speaker 3: Anything new on that front. I know they've been to
44:40
Speaker 3: talk about about a business possibly going over there. You
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Speaker 3: don't have to get into specifics, but is there anything
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Speaker 3: new to report? There?
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Speaker 13: Nothing new to report, There has been nothing solidified at
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Speaker 13: this time.
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Speaker 3: All right, very good? All right. So somebody is interested
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Speaker 3: Morgan in looking at this property, moving their location their
44:57
Speaker 3: business there. What do they need to do?
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Speaker 13: They need to call me three oh four seven, five
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Speaker 13: seven or three one eight pretty easy to find and
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Speaker 13: get a hold of. Just reach out to my team.
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Speaker 13: We'd love to show you the building and tell you
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Speaker 13: why you should locate in Putnam County, West Virginia.
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Speaker 3: than the story coming up on talk line. Older adults
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Speaker 3: should protect themselves against severe respiratory disease. Talk to your
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Speaker 3: the US Department of Health and Human Services. Text says
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Speaker 3: the Tays Valley and Hurricane area need roundabouts. Please bring
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Speaker 3: the roundabouts and eliminate future plans for additional stoplights. Stoplights
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Speaker 3: caused congestion. Roundabouts do not, and I don't disagree with
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Speaker 3: what the text is saying. This person as texted and
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Speaker 3: others have texted the show before about roundabouts. My only
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Speaker 3: thing with roundabouts says you heard me say it before.
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Speaker 3: West Virginians can't handle a three way stop, how are
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Speaker 3: we going to handle roundabouts? So but not a bad
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Speaker 3: idea in theory. Tex says, if you read the story
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Speaker 3: of Elon's rocket ship blowing up all that government money
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Speaker 3: up in flames, kind of some bolic consider an Elon
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Speaker 3: slashing and burning the government. But we got to go
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Speaker 3: to Mars or at least build new missiles, and the
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Speaker 3: guys of going to Mars heaven is real. Jesus is
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Speaker 3: going to be asking a lot of Americans. So you
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Speaker 3: chose building missiles over food, housing and healthcare for the poor,
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Speaker 3: then he's going to open up the trap door in
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Speaker 3: the cloud floor, cloud floor. I don't know how you
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Speaker 3: follow up with that. TJ. Meadows, bail me, man, bail me.
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Speaker 15: Go read your Bible. Okay, I do it every day.
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Speaker 15: Go read your Bible. Okay, Love God, love people. There
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Speaker 15: you go, There you go.
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Speaker 3: It's that easy. So you guys are going to get
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Speaker 3: into the green power story a little bit more on
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Speaker 3: talk On today, right, Yeah, we're going to.
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Speaker 15: Dive into it a little bit. Mitch Carmichael is going
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Speaker 15: to join us at ten oh six. You know, he's
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Speaker 15: been an architect of economic development in this state for
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Speaker 15: some time. And I think that one of the larger
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Speaker 15: narratives in this story is to say, do we have
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Speaker 15: the stomach for this in West Virginia. So, you know,
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Speaker 15: venture capital, private equity place ten bets one or two
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Speaker 15: may pan, right, So it's not really that surprising when
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Speaker 15: you look at it that we've had a failure here
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Speaker 15: with green power, But does the state have the stomach
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Speaker 15: for that? I don't know that we necessarily bail out
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Speaker 15: of what folks like the Economic Development Authority, and those
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Speaker 15: folks do I think, you know, we have some winners.
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Speaker 3: Do we have some losers? Sure, But that's the game.
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Speaker 3: That's the way it works. I mean, it's all based
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Speaker 3: on speculation anyway. I mean, I mean, obviously there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of data that goes into it, but it can
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Speaker 3: sometimes be a crapshoot and it can be that's business. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's business. That's the way it works.
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Speaker 15: Now, this particular company, as you said, a lot of issues.
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Speaker 3: I don't think tariffs.
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Speaker 15: Maybe tariffs was the nail on the coffin, It's not
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Speaker 15: what started this deal, all right.
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Speaker 3: Those guys will be coming up with talk Line ten
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