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04/24/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Dave Casebolt, Crescent Gallagher, and John Rutherford and Company · The Dave Allen Show

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Motormile US one nineteen in Chapmanville. What is the fastest growing sport in America?
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It's pickleball. And I know absolutely nothing about him, but I'm gonna
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learn about pickleball coming up a little bit later on in the show. Also
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Crest and Gallagher from America for Prosperity. It's going to be stopping by the
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studio as a well, and there's several things to get to in the news.
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Hopefully I'll get time to get to him today. We do know that
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or four nine three five five zero zero eighth. What it's Monday, which
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means we bring a different mayor into the fold every Monday. I want to
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welcome in Mayor Dave Case molt from the wonderful city of Nitro. Mayor,
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good morning, how are you good day? Can you here be okay?
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I can hear you fine, man, you're sounding sounding loud and clear this
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morning. Good deal. All right, we got a lot I want to
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cover with you this morning, Mayor. You know, sports complexes seem to
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be the hottest projects going on in the Canal Valley and other areas, and
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you focus about one under construction, which is going to be great. Now
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doing a little research on this, you're gonna have you know, the area's
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newest pool, uh, pickleball and tennis facilities. And by the way,
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program we know that I'm going to learn about pickleball a little bit later on
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the show. But overall us talk about the sports project you got going on
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there, Yeah, Dave. So we're just about in the just last few
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weeks of completing this about five million dollar project. Are welcome centers about two
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weeks from being completed. They expect to hannis the keys the early part of
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may Our Pool's way ahead of schedule. We'll be open. It will be
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opening Memorial Day weekend. And as you were just talking about, we have
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poured the concrete for nine pickleball courts and four tennis courts and five these will
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be top in line courts. You'll be talking to John here in a few
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few minutes about this Sheriff's Association term of Bill w. Hody. There.
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These are post tension concrete courts that are guaranteed not to crack for twenty years
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and have a lifespan of about fifty years. So these will be top line
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courts. Partly the best course in the States. It's amazing how much this
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sport has grown. Again, as you mentioned, I'm going to talk to
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John Rutherford about that and some other folks coming up a little bit later on
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the show. Where for people that maybe don't make it to Nitro very often,
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Mayor, where exactly is all this going to be? Let's physical location?
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This is the new sports complex is located right to our right beside Nitro
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City Park, beside Nitro Football Field where the high school is. So it's
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just right in the center town and you can't miss it. All right,
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good stuff Again, we're talking with the Mayor of Nitro, Dave Casewall,
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on Mayor of Monday here on five eighty live. I know you folks in
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the town. Mayor have been working on getting rid of a lot of dilapidated
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buildings. Later they talk about that. Yeah, we continue to use lots
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of funding from the West Virginia REEP program to remove a lot of commercial and
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residential structures. In fact, we have removed four large commercial structures along Route
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twenty five and our main business district. Thirteen residential structures have been removed.
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We still got one commercial structure and one residential structure remaining on this part of
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our Phase one of our REEP grants. So, yeah, if you've been
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through Nitro recently, it's a completely different The whole face of Nitro has changed.
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It's just we're getting a lot of compliments on and also a lot of
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strong interest into property. And you know, it's always good to see a
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lot of buildings go up, but unfortunately may and this happens across the country,
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sometimes you need to see some buildings come down to make real progress.
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Yeah, these buildings were dysfunctional. They were ten thousand square foot buildings with
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six and seven parking spots. So this is going to create a lot of
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new investment opportunity. And I'll tell you, Dave, the main thing about
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it is that we now control that property, so we can decide what type
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of businesses we want, what is in the best interests of Nitrode And I
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will tell you we are already entertained some very from some very good offers on
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the properties. And what happened sometimes mayor and other mayors I've had on the
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show, and that sayment I've talked about that is, you know, when
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you don't have control of the property and people say, well, why don't
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you just tear it down? What It's not that simple. And we've talked
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about that, you know, with you and others on this show. But
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by not having control of the property, you you just like the definition of
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no control has I mean, it's a whole lot that you can do with
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it, uh and uh and And people say that I want this eatery or
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I want this business to come in or whatever. Till you get till you
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get that property in your possession to be able to tear it down, There's
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not a whole lot you can do about it. Now, there's not,
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Dave, And I'll tell you you know, this is part of our long
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term plan was to start acquiring property down First Avenue for the purpose of removing
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it and I and two things, and I know, sound's kind of crazy.
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When OVID hit, we started the city, we started receiving a lot
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of federal money and we started turning around investing that money in our community.
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And if it hadn't been for the West Year Reef Program to come along when
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it did, then we would own the property, but it wouldn't be down
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yet. So they have kind of energized this whole thing and we're way way
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ahead of schedule and it's very exciting for the whole community. We're talking with
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dirty Birds Baseball dot com. Mayor, I knew Earth Day was last week.
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Lots of things went on with that, but I read about this and
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I thought it was really cool the city that a recycling program with students at
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Nitro Elementary School talk about that we did. Cynthy McGill is a city council
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member and she just does a fantastic job out in the community. And she
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wanted to start a recycting program over the grade school to start to start teaching
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those the importance of recycling. So we put together, she put together and
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a program and we had a contest at the grade school and they recycled for
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the for about for about a month. And uh, it's a program that
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we hope to continue into next year. We're already talking to the principal actually
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Garrett about that and we hope to continue that recycling program next school year.
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And I also understand that there are some charging stations coming up for electric vehicles
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and Nitro is that right. So last week we signed a lease agreement with
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McDonald's, the Nitro McDonald's where we are going to install on their parking lot
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four level three EV charging stations. Nitro will own those stations and we hope
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that we hope to receive we're applying for a grant. We hope to getting
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that money into next next few months and hope to have those installed sometime this
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year. It's it's very people traveling. If you travel, if you do
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like revel, you normally stop at the same place. So to have a
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location that these people know where it's app these EV cars because this is coming.
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The v cars are coming where people like it or not, that's coming.
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So we're gonna have four level three charging stations in Nitro where people can
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pull off. It's right in the middle of our main restaurant areas where a
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lot of fast food and dining areas are so people can stop charge or cars.
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It'll be a safe area. So we're very excited about that and believe
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or not day we're looking at creating about up to a million dollars a year
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revenue off those stations. Wow, that's incredible. And like you said,
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like it or not, it's coming. Nine seventeen talking to me or Dave
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kiss Bold of Nitro Busy summer on tap. You mentioned the pool, you
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got the family drive in movie night coming all four tuesdays in June. You
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got this pickleball tournament. So much going on in Nitro, there always is,
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mayor yeah, I got I'll tell you something else is going one day.
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But it's very exciting. So we have partner with Secured Net to provide
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high speed broadband to a lot of the Nitro community. So Dad, the
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main trunk line has been ran from the Nitro City Bridge down to the Nitro
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City Park. Now they're on the other side of the truck. They're going
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down Second Avenue to forty streets in our forty street and we expect to providing
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high speed broadband to many of the citizens in Nitro by early July. And
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that's that's amazing. I mean it really it really, really is it is.
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You got your fishing going on at right now, and also Boomtown Day
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coming up in the month of September. I know we're kind of jumping ahead.
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I'm just trying to get everything going on mentioned that you have going on
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in Nitro. You know what day for a small town, we do have
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a lot going on. We've got a lot of things that our play,
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but we do have we got a lot of things happened to summer. Actually,
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the community has been fantastic because the ability to the pool has disrupted traffic
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to say the least, that I have received zero complaints about it. They've
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been very patient through this. So we're gonna have a Dick celebration the weekend
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we opened the pool. Uh, the asquires are about to ask quires,
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gonna search some hot dogs and some food and some fireworks that weekend. Then
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we have. As you said, we have the big pickleball tournament that John's
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gonna be talking to you about here in late July. Then Boomtown Days we'll
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be in September. So we have a lot of things or a play,
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plus are movie nights that we have every summer, every Tuesday night during the
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summer. I have a text to the show here, Mare, and I
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don't think that you'd mind for me reading that. Maybe you can offer some
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clarification. Someone wanted to know about the charge for pickleball and tennis, and
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the Textris said, after I go play, I used to grab breakfast.
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If if I go somewhere else, the Nitro restaurants will lose my dollars.
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Is there a charge or will there be for the pickleball yes, so day,
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I think it's very fair price. We're offering a two hundred dollars pass.
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That's all the play for all year long. I will tell you this.
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We put a great beam in so we can cover those pickleball courts and
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make them available year round. But or it's twenty dollars an hour, and
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when you think about it, for the fours and that's five dollars an hour.
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Everybody put in the verson put everybody, but just puts in a little
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bit and you're good to go. Mayor. I know that you folks do
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a great job in promoting everything you've got going on. Just check out social
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media. I know we threw a lot of information because there's a lot of
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stuff going on in Nitro. But you can check out your all your social
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media and websites whatever for the all the information there. It's always a pleasure
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to talk to you, may and we'll talk again soon, all right,
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Dave, I appreciate buddy. Thanks a lot to It's Mayor Dave case Bold
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your right, so also the right for us to talk to our good friend
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Crest and Gallicer for Americans for prosperity. Good morning, sir, How are
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you? Good morning, Dave? Thanks for having may have you moved that
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microphone down a little bed in front of you. There there we go,
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there we go. So everything going all right with you? Yeah, life
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is great. So you talked about the weather when you came in. You
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said that, Well, it's sunny outside and I'm sitting here in a in
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a heavy duty sweater because it's a little chili out there this morning. Can
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you do something about that? I can't do anything about that, but I'm
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a little worried about my garden right now. Yeah, it's yeah, cover
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your plants tonight. That's what they said, there's a freeze warning. I
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think in a fact, all right, christ and I hear this term HR
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one being thrown around a lot lately. What exactly is HR one and why
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is it so important? Well, Dave, I think we all know that
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President Biden keeps waging war against america energy sector. It's nothing new to West
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Virginia, as we've dealt with war on Cole forever. But desplay record inflation,
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rising costs of goods. President Biden doesn't do anything for the American taxpayer
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when it comes to energy costs. So Speaker McCarthy and the House of Representatives
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have passed a bill called HR one, the Lower Energy Costs Act, and
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does a lot of things, and a few of those I would like to
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highlight for you. The first thing it does is speed up or streamline the
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permitting process for these large scale energy projects. So I think we're all familiar
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with possibly the Mountain Valley Pipeline or the Keystone Pipeline, and we know that
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it will bring two billion cubic feet of natural gas to the East Coast every
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day. But they run into a lot of problems. The left has weaponized
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this process where they have to get an environment impact study to make sure that
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there's not a huge impact on the local ecosystem, and every time agencies such
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as the EPA signs off on it, the left, through a group called
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the Sierra Group, sues right and they put the process in court, even
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though the EPA has signed off that this project can move forward, and then
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it gets tangled up in the Fourth Court of Appeals and frankly, these activists
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judges rule that these projects need to restart. So it does nothing for American
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energy, does nothing for the taxpayer, and just lowers our ability to lessen
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our reliance on foreign sources of energy. The other thing it does is it
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class back thirty billion dollars of green cronyism. So ahead of this next election,
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President Biden's trying to cut a cross off some progressive wishless items. He
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wants to show that his voters that he's doing something for the renewable energy and
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he's using taxpayer money to do it. So they we had Americans for Prosperity
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to take an all in energy approach, right. We want to use all
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of energy sources in the United States, and especially the ones beneath our feet
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to lower energy costs for American citizens. And frankly, propping up filled businesses
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through government handouts is not the solution. The Lower Energy Costs Act is a
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lot of other great things like deals with natural gas taxes, that deals with
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energy production on domestic lands. But it's the Republican plan under Speaker McCarthy to
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lower energy costs for Americans in the United States. You know, I was
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doing some research and again we're talking with Crest and Gallagher for Americans for Prosperity
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going five eighty live a Crest and I was doing some research and this over
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the weekend. There are some pretty heavy hitters across the country that are on
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board with this, not just your group. I mean, there's there's a
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lot of groups across America that are getting behind us, and not necessarily groups
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that you would blump together sometimes. Yeah, I mean, Dave this is
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a common sense policy. I'm frankly Chuck Schumer in the United States Senate and
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why we're getting involved in this has said this process is dead on arrival,
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and that's a symptom of a broken Washington. We can't even have a debate
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about the merits of this bill. We can't have a debate or what's good
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and lowering energy costs for the American people. And we all see record inflation,
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we all see the rising cost of goods, and Congress is not doing
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anything because they're not working together lower energy costs. So Americans for Prosperity as
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launched a six figure effort and key states to influence some of these influential senators
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to tell Chuck Schumer to take up this bill. Let's have a debate about
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how we lower energy costs in the United States and let's get something done for
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the American people. It states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona,
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Montana, and here in West Virginia, we see Senator Joe Mansion has not
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doing anything, but he could tell Chuck Schumer to take up this bill.
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And frankly, after the Inflation Reduction Act, it's the least he could do
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for the West Virginians. And I'm gonna I've got a little bit of information
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about Citted mansion. I'm gonna try to get to a little bit later on
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in the show, but I won't take up your time for that. And
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Chris, I don't think sometimes people realize what a crisis level that we are
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at when it comes to our future as it pertains to energy and energy independence.
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I mean, one way or the other, regardless of how you feel,
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we are at a crisis point with energy in America. Yeah, and
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Dave, right now we're seeing in Germany they're having a thought experiment on moving
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away from nuclear energy, and in West Virginia we've allowed through legislation for us
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to explore nuclear options in West Virginia. But right now Germany is experimenting with
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only renewable energy, and I don't think it's working out great for them.
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Right now, we will rely on a lot of foreign sources of energy.
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They control the prices and desplay all of the resources underneath our feet. We
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are not taking an all in energy approach to energy in this country, and
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I mean we feel it every day. The costs of energy is rising.
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Americans have less money in their pocket. And frankly, Congress is not doing
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anything about it. But Speaker McCarthy and the Republicans and the House of Representatives
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have put forth their plan and we can't even have a debate about it.
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I mean, Chuck Schumer has said this bill is dead on arrival, and
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that's just wrong for America. I just don't understand why it is we can't
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have a at least a discussion about it. That's kind of where I am
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on the whole thing. Well, I think you know, it's more about
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political wins at this point. You can't let the Republicans get wins, you
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can't let the Democrats get wins, and you gotta instead use executive power and
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get some progressive wish lists than through President Biden's efforts. And frankly, it's
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wrong. I mean, we should be using common sense approaches and an all
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America's for prosperity. Jason Huffman, who is the state director for your group,
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recently had an op ed published in the Gazette Mail in which he asked
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us, the taxpaying citizens, to say thank you to our legislators if we
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saw him in the post office or grocery store some other public places. Why
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are we thanking our legislators? And let's start with taxes. Well, Dave,
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I think everyone knows that taxes was the number one priority this past session.
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The Republican majorities have done a great job of keeping the budget in check
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and they had record surpluses. So the best thing to do is return that
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money to the American or to the West Virginian taxpayer. We've seen a twenty
23:34
one percent in reduction income tax and better yet, a pathway forward to completely
23:40
eliminate the income tax in West Virginia. So that was a great thing for
23:42
the Megan majorities and Charleston to do and give some much needed relief to the
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taxpayers or West Virginia. And there's a lot of other things I want to
23:52
kind of because I know you guys are very involved in the legislative process.
23:55
A couple other things I want to get your comment on. One of those
23:56
was, and I think I have the number right. Eight should be twenty
24:00
five ninety six. That would allow students to pretty much transfer school to school
24:07
as they wish, with some exceptions. Of course. Now not everyone presdent
24:11
sees that as a good thing, particularly a lot of those in the athletic
24:14
arena. No pun intended. Why did your group see that as a good
24:18
thing? So twenty five ninety six was our gold standard open enrollment bill.
24:22
So essentially, any student that once the transfer schools within their school district,
24:27
within their local region should be allowed to regardless of zip code, as long
24:32
as there's a spot for them. And we found that this bill codifies that
24:36
for West Virginia ends. And it's a good for empowering the parents, empowering
24:41
the students to find the best education that's available to them. So if their
24:45
current schools now working out, they should have the ability to go to a
24:48
school that's in their region that may be a better option for them. Now
24:52
that's about empowering parents and students for the best education for their student. But
24:56
you understand some of the I don't want to say criticism. Maybe some of
24:59
the things that give people pause on that is that it creates a system where
25:03
and let's face a lot of them are going to transfer for athletics. I
25:07
mean, I know there's academic components in that, but the majority presents probably
25:10
going to do it for athletics. But you can see where that would be
25:12
problematic. Do you think that the legislature did a good job of hopefully stopping
25:18
out some of those issues. Yeah, and Dave, we're more concerned about
25:22
the education of the student, right, you should have all the options.
25:25
It's your taxpayer money. If you are a property owner, you're paying property
25:27
tax, and your student is allocate a certain amount of money under that school
25:32
aid formula, and they should be able to use that formula and those dollars
25:34
the best for the student's success. I mean, this is really about the
25:38
student at the end of the day. How do we make sure that students
25:41
successful moving forward and being a productive member of society. Twenty seven minutes away
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from ten, I'm going to talk about certificate of need for a moment for
25:51
medical institutions. I've heard that term. I've had people on both sides of
25:55
the aisle, no pun intended to talk about that on the show about this
25:59
certificate need um get into your group's um take on these certificates of need for
26:04
medical institutions. Well, we oppose certificate need laws. I mean, it's
26:08
a needless board that basically says that doctors can provide access to service and they're
26:17
they're taking the hands out of the free market and frankly making up prohibition on
26:22
expanding medical services in the United In West Virginia, we're one a few states
26:26
that have these con laws. Many of the states in the in the country
26:29
have repealed it. Um. Frankly, it's an outdated system. We need
26:33
access to medical services in West Virginia. Everyone knows that we need more medical
26:37
providers in this state. UM. So we had CENTI Bill six thirteen,
26:41
which repealed a small section of that con this pastime for medical services on a
26:45
hospital campus. And that's a step in the right direction. But we honestly
26:48
have to get rid of all the COO N laws and we're hoping that the
26:52
legislature continues to do that because it's really prohibiting West Virginias and getting access to
26:56
medical care. Where can people are more about your organizations America for Prosperity.
27:02
I've had Jason Hoffman on the show several times. I think that's the first
27:03
time, but you've been on in this realm? Where can people learn more
27:07
about you organization? And what is Americans for Prosperity basically, what's the mission
27:11
statement? Well, our mission statement is to expand freedom and opportunity for all
27:15
Americans. So we are focused on empowering citizens to embolden lawmakers the past,
27:21
good policy, common sense policy that makes sense for West Virginia. And so
27:25
we are right a center group. We focus on legislation that's good for the
27:29
state and moves us towards a path of prosperity that's a better state for the
27:33
work, live and raise a family. But folks can learn about us at
27:36
the doorstep. We're actually out there knocking doors talking to citizens about the issues
27:40
they care about. They can learn come to some of our events, learn
27:44
about us online. Our platform is open and very visible to everyone that's interested.
27:49
All right, Christ, pleasure to have you on the show. We'll
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talk again soon. Thanks for having me, David Ay, thanks a lot.
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pickleball. Is this similar to the compromise that mansion broker to sign the Inflation
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Reduction Act? According to a text, Textra says, Kressa puts his plants
31:40
in the ground before the last frost, and he wants us to thank our
31:42
legislators because he thinks that it had a good job. Well, that's two
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things that lets me know he's full of its. According to a Texter,
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Textra says, Dave, West Virginia produces way more power than it needs even
31:56
when the pleasant plant goes offline. Why do we keep this one online when
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the power produce goes to users in other states via the grid, meaning we
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West Virginians are paying for part of their power bill. According to a texture,
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a monk. According to text all right, and I didn't get to all
32:36
the text. I'll try to get back to I want to welcome in John
32:38
Rutherford, who is the director of Metro nine one one here in the county
32:42
at Pickaball enthusiasts Collee John, how are you? Thank you? Dave Yes,
32:45
very very excited of him at a couple of gentlemen, Todd Fowle and
32:49
Matt Duncan. They're the pickleball player, the pickaball gurus of the Charleston area,
32:53
and they've got me involved in pickleball and I absolutely love it. It's
32:55
great for young ladies, is older men, women all alike. It's a
33:01
great, great game. It's very competitive for all. Gas about the microphone,
33:06
introduce yourself here. Hell, I'm with Charleston Pickleball Club, all right,
33:09
and and Matt Duncan also at Charleston Pickaball Club. Okay. So I
33:14
had Mayor case Bolt from Nitro on the show earlier, and I know that
33:16
they're excited about pickleball there for the uneducated in this sport, as as I
33:21
am, explain to us any of you exactly what is pickleball as best you
33:27
can on radio. I know what's kind of hard to do. Explain what
33:29
pickleball is and how's it, how's it played? A great question the best
33:32
way to probably describe it is it's a blend of ping pong, badminton,
33:37
tennis, racquetball, a lot of different racket sports that you're probably familiar with.
33:45
The nice thing about it is is, um, anybody can play it.
33:49
I've seen I was in a tournament recently where a grandfather and a grandson
33:54
played together and they were competitive. So age sex um, you know it
34:01
kind of pickleball levels the playing field. So explain to us again exactly what
34:08
are the roles? How's it played? So getting that, So there's singles,
34:12
there's doubles. UM singles is played typically like a singles tennis match would
34:19
be UM doubles. You only the serving side UM scores and each player on
34:28
the serving side of doubles gets to serve it then sides out and the other
34:34
team will take over. Similar it's away a ping pong match is played.
34:37
You only you only score when you're serving. And how does the scoring so
34:42
it typically it's one to eleven, win by two, and again you you
34:49
only score on the serving side. And this is something that UH and John
34:53
kind of touched on. This is something anybody of any age can take part
34:57
in, right absolutely, I mean it's so ea easy to pick up and
35:00
if you want to walk on the court, pick up a paddle and play
35:04
and have fun. It's easy to do. But you can also really get
35:07
serious about it and get competitive and take it to an even higher levels.
35:12
And a lot of people are very serious about this. As I said,
35:15
it is the fastest growing sport in America, and possibly because of that,
35:19
because of people of all ages and all backgrounds. And I can't imagine it
35:22
would be a very expensive sport to play. I mean, no podcall for
35:27
something. Right, paddles started, you know, forty or fifty dollars,
35:30
they go on up just like anything else. But you can get started relatively
35:35
cheaply, and public courts are available. South Charleston has done such a great
35:40
job in providing us with a great place to play over at the Jackson Park
35:45
facility. So it's it's easy to just pick up a paddle of ball and
35:50
even if you don't have one, come see us. We'll help you.
35:52
Where are some of the places that people can play locally other than other than
35:54
event in South Charles were some of the other places. So Knas City has
36:00
some outdoor courts that are marked at the tennis center there. UM. Then
36:04
there's a new facility which you had the mayor in earlier, coming up coming
36:09
in Nitro. We can also play at the y indoors. UM Charleston Tennis
36:15
Club is also available if you're a member UM the community. We have Shawnee
36:21
now, yeah, the Shawnee. Shawnee's new right, thanks John. The
36:23
new facility at Shawnee has eight outdoor courts. UM the community centers UM have
36:30
indoor play many days of the week in the morning. So if if you're
36:35
looking for a place to play UM our web, you can find us on
36:38
Charleston Pickleball Club Facebook. Just reach out to us and we'll help you find.
36:43
They also play over in Valley Park, I think, which is down
36:45
for my house. I think over in I think I think there's a pickleball
36:47
facility of Valley Park. There is there's there's a lot of tennis courts they've
36:51
marked for pickle right in the it's kind of like a dual dual purpose,
36:54
right, and that's a little higher, but you still play in like Coonskin
36:58
that has marked now for pickle. Well, there's there's place. It's growing
37:00
so much that almost every city and every County government's making places for us to
37:06
play. Now, as you mentioned, we talked to Mayor case Ball earlier
37:09
from Nitro. Huge tournament is going to be coming up there in July.
37:15
I mean, people are serious about coming to the Kanal Valley for this.
37:19
Yes. Absolutely. That facility in Nitro is going to be the biggest outdoor
37:23
facility in West Virginia. It'll have eight or nine dedicated outdoor courts with the
37:30
ability to convert for tennis courts into eight more pickleball courts for a total of
37:36
seventeen, which is which is just huge. And we're so excited about the
37:42
tournament coming up. It's going to be a great and how many teams are
37:44
you expecting to you again, we're expecting over one hundred, maybe one hundred
37:46
and twenty different people, not just teams, right, yeah, yeah,
37:51
that's that's our goal. Well, and that's amazing, And that's what we
37:53
keep talking about with the sports travel thing, whether it's with the youth or
37:57
the adult those people are not just going to come here and play and go
38:00
home. I mean they're going to stay in the hotels, they're gonna eat
38:02
at the restaurants. And when people has said to me when they talk about
38:06
building hotels, for example in downtown Charleston other areas. People to the show
38:08
said, well, why do we need hotels? And that's why we need
38:12
hotels in this year because there's not enough place that to put all these people.
38:15
We just started registrate registration here in the last few weeks and that's two
38:17
of the first regis registers we had was from Lexton, Kentucky. And then
38:22
we have a young lady from in Missouri who sells the Yala paddles that she's
38:27
actually coming in. She wants to see the facility and be part of the
38:30
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is Dave. My wife's sister is ranked fourth in the country in her professional
38:47
pickleball AID sixty and over group. She travels all over the country to play
38:52
tournaments into teaching. She comes. She needs to come to night rum play,
38:54
all right, I don't know who. I don't know who the text
38:57
rae is, but tell make sure the texture that you're that your wife's sister
39:00
h comes in and uh and and plays the plays in this big tournament.
39:05
And John, I understand and either any of you can answer this to Sponsorships
39:07
for this tournament are still available? Is that right? Oh? Yeah,
39:09
we're always looking for sponsors. We're really excited this this tournament. Uh.
39:13
When pickleball first came in and I met Matt and Todd, we decided to
39:16
have a tournament. It's the Nitro or excuse me, it's the Metro nine
39:20
one one Employees Association that's putting on the tournament. Uh, it's it's available.
39:23
Go to pickleball brackets dot com to register, or you can go to
39:27
the Metro nine one one website and we have a link to it. We
39:30
can register and we have a we have a we have a great tournament plan.
39:35
We have a community to night Friday night, which is free to the
39:37
public. We're gonna have a few food trucks there, food boosts there.
39:42
We're gonna have free pickleball lessons. We're gonna have the courts available to players
39:45
that come in and practice on the courts uh the swim pool. The Nitro
39:50
mayors made the pool available. The pool be open to all the community to
39:52
come swim for free. The splash park will be for free. We're gonna
39:57
we're gonna have the Humane Society there with some dogs for adoption. If someone
40:00
wants to adopt a dog, Metro will pay for all the fees. So
40:05
we're trying to make us a true community event. On Friday night and then
40:07
Saturday and Sunday, Matt and Todd will take over and we'll have our tournament
40:12
and have a great tournament. We've worked real hard with our sponsors. We've
40:15
got over forty sponsors. Now we will be giving away we were talking about
40:21
the paddles a little bit ago for people to play with. We're actually Yalla
40:24
and Seal Kirk Selkirk paddles, the best paddles you can get. Will actually
40:31
be giving away ten of those paddles, ten of each of those paddles for
40:35
total twenty paddles to the people they're registered. So we gets great duor prizes
40:38
for our participants. And one of the dates of this again, July twenty
40:42
first, will be Community Night and it'll be a Friday evening and then the
40:45
twenty second and twenty third of July will be the tournament itself. Will there
40:49
be a cutoff on the amount of teams that you can have? I mean,
40:52
is it unlimited now? With the courts at the city and night droves
40:54
put up, we will be unlimited to bring anyone everyone. Like John mentioned,
41:00
cockball brackets dot Com is the place to make your account and log on
41:02
and get registered for the event. And we're really looking forward to it.
41:06
It's gonna be a great thing again for the area because again you're gonna have
41:09
people that are going to come in. You said, the first person to
41:12
sign up was from Lexington, and there'll be some local people, there'll be
41:15
some out of town people too, and so, I mean, it's just
41:17
amazing to me how how this sport has grown. Every outdoor facility just about
41:22
that I can think of in the state of West virginia's saying we gotta get
41:25
on board with this, we gotta, we gotta get pickleball. If you
41:29
go to Jackson Park during the week in the evenings, there's forty to fifty
41:32
people playing every night. Wow, every night. It's great and one of
41:37
the origins of the sport. I mean, where did this thing just kind
41:38
of pop up? Because I just, you know, one day I'd never
41:42
heard of the next thing. I know, everything that you read is about
41:44
pickleball, I mean, with any idea like where it actually came from.
41:47
So it came from Washington, the state of Washington. It started in nineteen
41:52
sixty five. They were they were playing uh kind of a clause I pickleball
42:00
sport. There was two families that had gotten together and they needed to create
42:05
a sport that their kids and the adults could play together. And they ended
42:09
up building a court in the back backyard and fabricated some you know, makeshift
42:16
paddles and just developed the rules. And it's interesting. One of the reasons
42:21
that the kitchen was developed, which is part of the court, was because
42:24
one of the players was extremely tall and he dominated the net, so they
42:30
had to keep him back from the net in order to make it fair.
42:34
So one kind of neat story about why the kitchen was developed. Okay,
42:37
God had a text of the show. Wanted to know if there are any
42:40
free pickleball courts in the valley over the place. Yeah, they're all the
42:45
only ones that that right now that are paid courts would be Charleston Tennis Club,
42:51
everything else, and the one of Nitro is going to be I think,
42:54
yeah, it's I don't think they've decided, Dave what they're going to
42:58
do with that yet, whether they're going to charge memberships or not. Yeah,
43:00
I think the mayor talked about that a little bit. Oh, you
43:02
guys didn't get to You guys are waiting to go on. You didn't get
43:05
to get But there are plenty of what you're saying, plenty of free places
43:08
to play pickaball. Just find us on Charleston Pickleball Club on our Facebook page.
43:15
Reach out to us, and we'll help facilitate you know, getting in,
43:17
getting you started all right. Recap again. The tournament dates July twenty
43:22
one, twenty second, and twenty third. We have a great sponsorship if
43:25
you're still if you still want to be a sponsor, you're welcome to contact
43:29
us a Metro nine one one, and we appreciate Todd and Matt helping us
43:32
with this tournament. We'll have you on plenty of times between now and there
43:36
because I think this thing is going to be huge, not only for pickleball,
43:38
and I would imagine that you just have people that just enjoy coming out
43:42
to watch. I mean, yes, when you have that many people there,
43:45
you're gonna have some fans there too, right, So we have leagues.
43:47
We have a spring league going on right now. It's interesting that you
43:51
bring it up. And probably the first or second night we had as many
43:54
fans watching as we did people playing. So that's when you say there were
44:00
forty fifty people at the courts that night, that's why. Okay, yeah,
44:04
so quite a few John said just call He did not mean call nine
44:07
one one. Don't call nine one one. They kind of frown up on
44:13
that sort of thing. If you and I want to say, this is
44:15
that's what this terms about. We started this is just fun to get people
44:17
involved in pickleball. But this is just a under the employees of nine one
44:22
one. Also, they do such a great job for five hundred thousand metro
44:25
emergency calls a year and hit those websites and Facebook and whatnot. Again,
44:30
Charleston Pickleball Club is the Facebook page. The website to um sign up for
44:36
the tournament is pickleball brackets dot com. All right, and again the tournaments
44:40
coming up in July will have you guys on again to talk about it between
44:43
now and then. Uh, John gazz I, appreciate you guys being here.
44:45
Thanks a lot. All right, we'll be back right after this from
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Street in Saint Albans. Text says the American Prosperity Representative should have admitted that
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federal COVID money allowed for the tax cuts. Texas Dude, why do you
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launder the AFP dark money group? Only softball interviews every time? Because I'm
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a nice guy. You know what's funny about that? As I had Pushkin
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on the show last week, and I have a text about Mike Pushkin,
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I'm gonna get to got a text I didn't get to. Somebody said,
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why do you always take it easy on Mike Pushkin. It's all about perspective,
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man, It's all about how you perceive it. I guess all right,
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text says when going on a long trip, most people keep their phones
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and tablets plugged in. I wonder how much of an electric vehicle's battery do
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these items drain in addition to the power needed to drive. I don't know,
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Texas, please get Mike Pushkin on to talk about why we keep charging.
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West Virginia's all this extra money to keep these obsolete coal fired power plants
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online, and West Virginia does not need this excess power that we produce.
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Thank you. I want to thank everybody who came out to the Westerndinia Food
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Truck Festival this past weekend at the Putnam County Fairgrounds in Eleanore. Throughout the
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day, somewhere in the neighborhood of about three thousand people were there at one
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time or another. Great food, great music, little rain, nothing major.
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There was a great day all arounds to thanks to everyone who came out
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for that. It's going to be made official this week. The governor wants
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to be the Senator, as in taking the scene currently occupied by Senator Joe
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Mansion An official announcement is set to be made Thursday night at the Greenbrier.
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Story post to wv metronews dot com and the stories by Jeff Jenkins also says
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that announcement time could change, or maybe the meaning of the announcement. We
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don't know you, but as of right now, it sometime Thursday evening at
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the Greenbrier, and you know, being up in the air, one would
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expect nothing less from our governor. Thursday is also Governor Justice is seventy second
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birthday, and this story is gaining national traction. In fact, Politico was
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one of the first media outlets on the national level to cover it. Congressman
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Alex Mooney, we know is already in place. Still not known what Senator
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Mansion is going to do. I said this last week, and I've been
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wrong plenty of times before. But if it's a matchup between Governor Justice and
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Alex Mooney for Senate, I think Governor Justice wins. Now, if it's
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if it's between Governor Justice and Senator Joe Mansion, I think it's a toss
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up, but I think it would favor Justice. If it's Mooney and Mansion,
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no question Mansion wins. But we shall see Alex Mooney, by the
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way, he's going to be on Hoppy coming up on talk line at the
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top of the hour. A couple of quick local notes story posted ww metronews
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dot com and off duty Charleston firefighter it's free von after being charged with first
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events DUI. According to a police they got a call that a driver had
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driven through two fences early Saturday morning at the North Charleston Community Center. The
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driver did make a trip to the hospital briefly. No comment on city officials
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on that arrest. Again. You can read the story at wv metronews dot
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com. Texas so babydog goes to d C well possibly possibly tex says you
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were not easy on Mike Pushkin last week. Well, other people thought I
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was you can't please everybody, you know. I think it was the great
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Rick Nelson and said you can't please everybody, so you may as well please
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yourself. Wild scene at the Charleston South Charleston rather Community Center Friday night during
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an AAU basketball game. A South Charleston police officer was checked out by medical
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professionals for a possible concussion after a man picked him up and through the officer
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to the ground outside the Community Center. I guess the story is the cops
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were there trying to remove some people from the building after what was a very
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very close basketball game there and a Saint Alban's man was charged with obstruction and
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battery on the police officer. He was later released on bond. Story posted
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wv metronews dot com it was a busy weekend to save the least four officials
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around this day. And I guess if you look at when the weather gets
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warmer, and of course this weekend was not too terribly warm, crime and
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things tend to go up. I don't know what's going on with people,
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but it seems like people are just crazier in these days. I mean the
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policing area. We're out of this AU basketball game. We had the Charleston
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firefighter who was off duty, by the way, with this situation there in
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North Charleston. There were several shootings I think over the last several days in
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the Beckley area. Story that Chris had this morning about a violent weekend in
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Harrison County, I don't know what's going on. I just don't know.
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Also, could be a strike against coke by members of the teams with Local
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one seventy five. The union vote unanimously yesterday to strike against Coca Cola consovidated,
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so I couldn't see some difficulty with getting your Coca Cola because there looks
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like there's gonna be a strike with Coca Cola. All right, gotta go.
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Thank you to all my guests today, including Crest and Gallagher, may
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Or Dave Casebolt and Nitro and the guys including John Ruther from talking about pickleball.
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Coming up on the show tomorrow, We're gonna talk real estate with a
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good friend Rich the realtric client post Robie Vanader on this Rivers to Ridgis Heritage
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Trail ride going on over in Putnam County. Gotta go. Follow the news
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of the day wv Metro News dot com and at WCHS Network dot com.
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From my producer Hollywood, Jeff Penny, thank you so much. I'll see
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you tomorrow, Hoppy coming up till tomorrow, have fun. I love somebody.
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