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03/04/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Derrick Evans, Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin, Fred Persinger, Shockley · The Dave Allen Show

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three five five zero zero eight, want to welcome into the show now Canada
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for Congress and of course everyone I think pretty much knows this. Guys.
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I've actually been on the show before before he rose to international fame and fortune,
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talking about Derrek Evans. Good morning, Sarah, Welcome to the show.
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Hey, good morning Dave. Thanks for having me on the show man,
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I appreciate it. Thank you for being here now. You were on
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the show a couple of years ago when you were wandering for running for the
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legislature, a race that you won but then had to step down from.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and address the proverbial elephant in the proverbial room,
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sir, your side of what happened on January sixth, Well, I mean,
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obviously, first, I want to say that the election was stolen from
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President Trump and the American people, and I'm the only elected legislator in the
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entire country. You had the courage to go stand with the American people that
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day to peacefully and patriotically protest. I was not violent, I was not
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destructive. Everything is on video, I feel and go to my social media
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page, then watch the video for themselves. I walked an open set of
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doors. I thank the police officer for his service. The same police officer
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gives me a friendly fist bump inviting me into the building. I said,
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God bless you, sir, thank you for your service. I still less
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than ten minutes inside the public rotunda area, exercising my natural, God given
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right to free speech. Think. The police officer again walked out the same
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set of doors I entered, and the same weaponized deep state that's currently going
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after President Trump. I was the only elected Republican I could get their hands
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on. So they came to my house in West Virginia, riched me away
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from my wife and my four young children, threw me in solitary confinement,
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held me hostage as a January sixth political prisoner. So, if you say
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it was peaceful, and I'm willing to give you a benefit your LEA sure
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part was why did you why did you show up in an army helmet?
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I mean people will only do that, you know, if it's a peaceful
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protest. Sir, Well, you don't normally have Antifa BLM people beating people
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up throughout the summer either, and then the month before in DC, that's
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not something that's very typical either. So most of the people who showed up
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there wearing some sort of helmet or whatever else was there in case they were
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to be attacked by Antifa BLM, which had happened the month before and happened
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through all throughout the year. So that having been said, why do you
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want to run for Congress? Well, I think it's pretty simple. This
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is one of the reddest districts in the entire country. We deserve a Freedom
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Caucus member who want to stand on the national stage and beat the drummer freedom
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not only for southern West Virginia, but for every single god fearing American conservative
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across the country. We don't have that right now. That's what I'm going
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to bring to the table. And quite frankly, this weaponization of government is
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getting out of hand. What they did to me is what they want to
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do to every single conservative Christian across this country. And I'm going to use
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my experience, the terrible experience I went through, take that to VC and
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try to prevent this from happening to other people. So what do you think
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that Carol Miller has not done as a congresswoman. Well, I think we
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should it be easier to talk about the things she has done. She's voted
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to send billions and billions of our tax dollars to Ukraine. She's voted to
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fund the Green New Deal. She helped roll out the red carpet for Bill
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Gates when he came to West Virginia to bring his globalist agenda here, which
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we do not need. She voted to force our military members to force them
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to receive the COVID vaccine if they wanted to continue their career in the military.
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These are all things that I do not stand for I believe in the
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Constitution. I believe individual freedom, individual liberty, I believe in limited government.
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It was up to me, I would like to defund and abolish all
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these federal unconstitutional three letter agencies and return the power back to the states where
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it belongs. Why do you say their own constitutional, sir, Well,
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they are unconstitutional. They are. We have unelected bureaucrats who are creating laws
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and enforcing laws and running our country behind the scenes right now with no accountability.
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The federal government was formed by the state, not the other way around,
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and right now there's too much power at the at the federal level.
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This power is supposed to be originate the local level and work its way up
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where there's actual accountability. Talking again with Derrick Gevins, who is a candidate
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for Congress on five to eighty live in the Dave Allen Show, Let's go
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back to January sixth. Do you have any regrets at all about that day?
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Sir? No, I really, really, I don't not for what
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I did. No, I didn't do anything violent or destructive. I stood
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up for what I believe in. I stood there peacefully and patriotically exercised by
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natural God given rights. I think people have to remember that our rights do
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not come from the government. Our rights come from God, our creator.
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And the Constitution was written for really one reason. It was written to prevent
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the government from infringing on our natural, God given rights. And so I
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was there that day exercising those natural, God given rights of free speech.
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I regret that the most powerful corrupt government in the history of the world decided
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to label me and come after me. I regret that the fake news media
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slung my name to the mud and spread lies about me. But that's that's
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one of the things that's going to make me dangerous to the establishment, to
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the deep state as a member of Congress, and that's why the American people
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are gonna love me. I don't there's nothing this federal government can do to
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me that they haven't already done. There's nothing the fake news media can say
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about me that they haven't already said. I don't have to tiptoe around any
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of those things. I'm not running to make friends. I'm not running to
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play patty cake politics. I'm running to kick in the front door and expose
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the corruption in DC. Why did you plead guilty sir, well, there
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comes a time when you realize that there's no winning in DC. We see
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these corrupt judges, we see a corrupt court system. We have a tainted
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Jerry pool. They recuse them to move it the trials out of DC to
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where if people can get a fair trial, they're excused to give you exculpatory
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evidence, which they're supposed to be doing under the Brady Rule. And so
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I've got four kids, you're faith in twenty four years in prison essentially more.
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And it becomes comes to a situation of you. You look around,
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you say, there's no way to win. How do we lose the least
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amount? That way we can circle back around and live to fight another day.
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And that's what I chose to do. How's the campaign been? Campaign
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is going great right now. We you know, we're excited. We got
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we out fundraised Congress froman Carol Miller last quarter. We believe we're probably gonna
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out fundraised her again this quarter. We're probably getting close to ten thousand donors
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at this point. We're endorsed by General Flynn, Mike Lindell, Veterans for
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Trump, Oil and Gas Workers Association. We think things are looking good.
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Right now, the people in West Virginia are not happy with the current moderate
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if you will, representation that we're getting in d C. Once again,
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this is one of the redistricts in the country. People are hungry and wanting
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someone who's going to stand up and fight back against the deep state who's infringing
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on our rights here in West Virginia, and they know without a doubt that
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I'm going to do that. Where can people learn more about your campaign,
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Dereck. Yeah, they can go to our website Evans four WV dot com.
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That's Evans e V A n S four WV dot com. You can
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head over there learn more about our campaign. You can follow me on any
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of the social media sides, Facebook, Twitter, you know, ax,
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whatever it's called now, all those good places. So yeah, as as
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I do with every candidate, Darik, I'm going to give you what I
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call the final thirty, uninterrupted by me. Why should people vote for Derek
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Avans? Well, First, thank thanks for having me on man, I
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appreciate it. Thanks for asking the tough questions. Saw away from questions Iven,
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I can reach out to me and ask questions as well. But like
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I said, man, this is one of the reddest districts in the entire
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country. We have a very moderate representative. Carol Miller has a sixty five
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percent liberty score right now, meaning she votes with the Democrats thirty five percent
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of the time. One of the things I forgot to mention she also voted
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to help fund abortion through Obamacare, taxpayer funded abortion. I'm running a kick
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in the front door expose the corruption in DC and bring a conservative voice to
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this district to DC. So love, love being on the show, appreciate
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it and looking forward to representing the people in DC. All Right, Derek,
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I wish you the best of luck in the campaign. We'll talk again
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soon. Man, Thanks a lot, Hey, thank you, appreciate it.
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Night nine to seventeen. Derek Evans again candidate for Congress on the Republican
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to say, Yeah, I got a bunch of text to get about Derek
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Evans being on the show, and we'll get to those here in a matter
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of moments. Allow me to say this, I can't possibly read all the
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text that I've gotten since I announced last week that mister Evans would be on
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the show today. It started last week with texts and emails, direct messages
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on social media. Some are upset that I would give Derek Evans time on
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the show, and I've made no secrets on my thoughts on Donald Trump.
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In January sixth, it was probably the darkest day on my time on Earth,
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and that takes in fifty three and a half years, many ways worse
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than nine to eleven, because the enemy came from within this time, not
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from abroad. That having been said, you have to understand Derek Evans is
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a legitimate candidate for Congress a district one. I may not like it,
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you may not like it, but it is what it is. And if
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to be on this show, political candidate or otherwise. Derk Evans people reached
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yes. And if you have a problem with free speech, whether you and
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I agree with what the guests on the show are saying, then it's probably
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is not the show for you. I feel that everyone deserves a voice.
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I catch just as much flak for having Mike Pushkin and Greg Thomas on the
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show as I've gotten with Derek Evans. There are people in this world who
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don't want to hear any other thoughts or beliefs other than their own, and
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that's quite unfortunate. And this show, as long as I host it will
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Think he does. Tex says, kicking in the front door is probably
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not a phrase the guy like Derek Evan should be using, says a Texture.
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Tex says, why what a piece of work. I'd love to see
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his actual proof the election was stolen. He needs therapy and a real job,
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not a seat in government, says a Texas says he's a sucker and
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loser. Trump speaks of anti American, supports dictatorship and takeover of democracy.
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Got news for Maga, It's not going to happen. Tex says If every
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journalist Steve Baker was taken into FBI custody over January sixth, reporting he did
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not participate in the riots. He walked through the doors while the New York
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Times reporter climb through a window. By the way, you can see Capital
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security videos of him inside the Capitol walking around taking photos. Yep, that's
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a dangerous individual. All rights. By the way, asking Evans why he
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wore a helmet, I ask why were the Capitol police dressed in riot gear?
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Before all help broke clues, Conservative rallies had always been peaceful. They
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were always nice, respectful, and cleaned up trash afterwards. Don't see BLM
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or Antifa being that way, do you, says a text Charles trem Or
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Amy Goodwin is here mor than my friend. I'm just looking over this West
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Virginia vacation guide. The almost heaven shines right. Sure, I know I'm
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not here for tourism, but I'm just gonna go ahead and say it.
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Wvtourism dot com. This is a beautiful travel guide. I've seen that.
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It's gorgeous. You can get it for free and it talks about all of
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the wonderful places that you can go in West Virginia if you like to eat,
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shop hike. That was my their free commercial once a tourism person always
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the tourism Yeah, I mean they're just killing it. I mean, you
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know, Elsea Ruby, the secretary and her entire team, they're just killing
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it stuff that I see produced and it's just absolutely wonderful because that's why we're
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actually all, you know, in what we do. We we love where
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we are and you can tell that the people who work at tourism love what
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they do because this guide is one of the best. It's really good.
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I ahead on last week the CEO of the of the Bicycle I Know that
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are coming to Tim Brady was able to set that up. Man. That
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is an absolutely fantastic, huge event for Charles to give it up, it's
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absolutely huge. We are so thrilled to have it, to have secured this
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cycling event and the best bikers in the country, the best bikers. It's
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the biggest week in bike racing. What's really neat about this is the folks
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who win the elite men's and women's time trials. This year automatically qualify for
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the Olympic Game in Paris. That's big. So the folks that you see
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cycling in Charleston, West Virginia, you're going to be able to see compete
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in the Olympics, which is just amazing. Lots of moving parts to get
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this. Obviously, our CVB did an amazing job, and I will give
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credit where credit is due. Also our local cycling community. They're also the
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reason why we got this, you know, to the likes of Teddy Armbreckton,
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Todd Goldman and so many who literally put this together for us and met
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the team when they came in, Jack Hoblitzel Bradley Schmaltzer, and they wooed
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him and they said, we get biking, we get road racing. Let
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us help you that. And the guy who runs the road race, the
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guy who literally sets up and says, okay, we can take this route
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or we should do this route said to us, said to me as late
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as last week, you got great roads. I said, don't say that
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too loud. It's pothole season right now. We're dealing. We're filling a
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lot of potholes right now. But he said, we would have never come
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here, had you not put in the infrastructure in your roads. Now we
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got a lot of work to do for sure, But for the event,
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we're fired up. It's kind of it is going to be wonderful. We
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called it last week, Dave. We came up with the Chris, one
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of the guys who helps run this event for USA Cycling. He said,
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Amy, it's like a rolling regatta, and he's not wrong. It's like
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a rolling regidles. And when you see these bikers go Upbridge Road and down
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Louden as fast as they can several times, several times, I mean talk
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about puke on your shoes, I said last week. And when I had
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the Gillimanana, I said, I want to drive that sometimes. If you've
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ever walked out Bridge Road, and I have, it's hard to walk up
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little bit later on the show. Mayor the Girls and Boys stay basketball tournament
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tip off now with four classes. Quite a tip off tomorrow, the girls,
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the boys next Tuesday. A lot of folks heading into Charleston this week.
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Monk. I'm so excited about it. And I am always reminded when
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I was in high school and I played basketball and we came to States and
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then coming down to watch the boys basketball game, driving down and then driving
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back. My parents would never let me spend the night. It was wonderful.
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It was wonderful then. It's wonderful now to watch these great competitions happen.
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And obviously I'd be remiss if I didn't say yay Charleston. Not only
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do we have basketball, but we just secured football and the one that I've
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really wanted. And you know, Tim Brady laughed at me the second I
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got in a office. It was like the first or second week, I
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said, I want cheer We lost cheer. I want cheerback, because cheerleading
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is a serious sport that brings in serious dollars for the city of Charleston,
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and they did Huntington, and Huntington was a great place, certainly, and
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certainly my hat off to all of the cities who compete in these but I'm
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so thrilled to have not only volleyball back, but football new and also back
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since twenty or twenty eighteen cheerleading fired up about it. I want to ask
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about the football thing before we move on to some other things and what all
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went into that. I know you can't necessarily get into all the specifics,
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but Charleston, I mean, Wheelings had it since nineteen ninety four I think
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it was, and Bluefield was into Ronnington. There was a combo deal put
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together where it would rotate between WVU and Marshall. They kind of worked together
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on that, but Charleston got it back. I mean, what exactly did
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it take to get that? Sure? I think and I'm not trying to
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be cute or coy with this answer. Dave a lot of hard work from
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a lot of folks. Commissioner Slang who called me months ago and said,
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hey, let's do this. Let's put together a team and let's start figuring
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out what are the things that we need to do. Listen, have you
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been to Laidley. You know it needs some TLC. But we've got Joe
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Varney over there and making accommodations and figuring out what are the things in which
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we need to improve upon. And that's what everybody needs to think about when
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we're competing for these events. Listen, it's not just because hey, I
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like this person, or this is about the athletes. It's about the coaches.
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It's about logistics too. How do we feed them, how do we
23:15
get them out? Where are they going to stay? It's not just about
23:18
oh oh shucks, it's in this city, not this city because so and
23:22
so is this person, or so and so knows this person. It really
23:25
doesn't have anything to do with it. It's a competition to get these I
23:29
say all the time. Actually I started with this right tourism. We look
23:33
like the fun people, don't we We look like the Yay. It's a
23:37
business. It's a business, That's what this is. It's a business,
23:40
and it's a good business to be in because the return on investment you get,
23:44
especially for travel sports tourism, is monumental. And you know, our
23:48
CVB team here in Charleston knows that they know it quite well. But I
23:52
will say this, I know Wheeling and I know the island field like the
23:56
back of my hand, Dave. I have been there probably more times as
24:00
many folks have been in Charleston, not only watching, but I grew up
24:03
there. It's it was a great facility and they had what what wheeling special
24:07
sauce is. Uh, like a lot of our communities, they had unbelievable
24:12
volunteers, unbelievable parents of the athletes who also help put that together. And
24:18
so for many and we're gonna have to step up, by the way,
24:22
We're gonna have to prove that because it's gonna have a special sauce that we
24:26
need to make sure we have ours. It's kind of like the dog catching
24:30
the car. Got it now, you got it? And you said it
24:33
yourself. I mean, ladley Field University Charleston Stadium is need some work,
24:37
you bet, and you've got a short time to do it. Absolutely,
24:41
you know, I think and you know I heard Tim Brady say this the
24:44
confidence he has in Joe Varney Ayako that uh, this is a this is
24:48
a an aggressive team. This is a team that wants good and listen,
24:52
there's a lot of pressure to get it right. Okay, Yeah, just
24:55
like you said, we got it, Now what are we going to do?
24:57
But it really takes a lot of that volunteer aspect. It takes the
25:03
parents of the athletes and the cheerleaders and the band members to really come together
25:07
to say, Okay, y'all wanted this, now let's make it happen.
25:11
Surely there is a great return on investment that we have, but make no
25:17
mistake about it, people are going to be watching us with a magnifying glass
25:22
on all of these things and saying we want it back or will take this,
25:26
and so it's a you know, all is fair in love and war,
25:29
for sure, but we've got to put our best foot forward on this.
25:33
Since the last time you were on Mayor, we have a new police
25:36
chief we do in Charlestonia and deputy. Yeah, the interim title has been
25:40
removed. Mister Dempsey is now the chief. As you said, there's also
25:44
a new deputy chief deputy as well. Your comments on those, Yeah,
25:48
Scott Dempsey and Jason Webb are two dynamos. They're absolutely fantastic officers. In
25:55
this interview process and it was time consuming by design. The applic cation was
26:00
extensive by design because I wanted to make sure that moving forward, this is
26:07
the way you are selected. You want to be chief of police by the
26:10
way, you should be able to compete with every single police officer, not
26:12
only in your department, but in the state and across the country. I
26:15
interviewed people within the department, within the state, and across the country for
26:19
this position. Integrity, hard work, and here's the here's the thing.
26:26
I go back to every single officer that I interviewed. Sand's the one who
26:30
was out of the state of West Virginia. I said, if you are
26:36
not the chief of police, who is almost every single part there was one
26:41
guys said, oh, that's a really great question. Let me think about
26:42
that. And I never did every single one of them. We're talking,
26:45
I mean close to nine, said Scott Dempsey. Like that, no pause,
26:52
Scott, Why because he's no Joe. He has integrity, he has
26:57
honor, he's hard working. He's not going to tell you everything you want
27:00
to hear. But I will say that that's one person, right, That
27:03
is one person in an apartment, like a mayor is one person in the
27:07
city. It takes a good team around them. And I know we're going
27:11
to run out of time, but I have to say this. On Friday
27:12
night, I made a call too, because you know, we always hear
27:18
and it does make news when an officer, you know, somebody gets in
27:21
trouble, right or somebody makes a mistake. Oh boy, it's on the
27:25
front page. It's we're talking about it on the radio. On Friday night,
27:29
I called an officer and I want to get into details because I don't
27:32
want to talk about the family because this is a private situation. Officer Adam.
27:37
Okay, Officer Adam will come. I called him because you know what
27:41
he did this past week. He got a call from parents who are parents
27:45
have a child with autism and was having a bad day and needed help.
27:51
They called the Charleston Police Department to help them. An officer Adam went to
27:55
their house and he sat with them and he talked through them and they were
27:59
worried about health issues with him. So he worked through sitting with our MS
28:03
team with this young man who is not having a good day. That's the
28:08
kind of stuff you get in the Charleston Police Department. We just don't talk
28:11
about it a lot. But you know that's something that Chief Dempsey does and
28:17
Jason Webb does, and that's what we're going to continue to do. Sure
28:21
we have bad days, but man, o day, we have more good
28:22
days than we do bad days. Quick text asked the mayor to look into
28:29
cleaning up the housing situation along Crescent Road on the west side between Garrison Avenue
28:33
and Market Drive. This area can be easily observed for my seventy seven Southoun
28:37
Lane looks really deplorable to outsiders traveling through the city. Got it? Thank
28:41
you? All right? Noted, Let's take a quick phone call and then
28:45
and I want to talk about the Woolworth anniversary before we let the mayor go.
28:48
Yes, our friend Jim is here. Go ahead, Jim, Good
28:52
morning, Mayor. How are you? Good morning, my friend Jim.
28:56
How are you most important? Well, I'm going okay. I am now
29:00
in Richie County. I had to have a toe ancicated on my left foot
29:07
because of the insect. Now I'm doing well. I have to have a
29:11
twenty four hour care, which you know. I'm not glord of us.
29:15
I know you're not. Your spirit won't let you. I saw that.
29:18
I saw Amanda opposed to that. Nandrew and I were actually from our team
29:22
in the Mayor's office. We were just talking about you on Wednesday. But
29:26
I am so glad to hear your voice, and I'm so glad that you
29:30
still stay so connected to all of us. You're a shining like Jim.
29:33
I wanted to ask you what kind of TILC is on the books to do
29:37
in three years of auditorium, because then he is a US cheerful icon and
29:45
it don't need to have the wrecking ball, no. I you know what.
29:48
I appreciate your comments more than anything, Jim. I will say this
29:52
safety is number one. And what is happening right now is a total assessment
29:56
to see what needs to be done their short term fixes, long term fixes,
30:02
and what's going to be the cost of making those things happen. So
30:04
we're in the process of that right now, Jim. She has served us
30:08
well, to be sure, but we've got to make sure that we're using
30:12
taxpayers dollars, by the way, to not only make any renovations or to
30:18
reimagine what she can look like in the future. I know this, Jim.
30:22
We're now using it and that's the reason why we found all of these
30:25
things, and we weren't using it really in the past, but starting to
30:27
use it and starting to see what she can provide to us in a great
30:32
return on investment. We got to do a lot of work, Jim,
30:36
make no mistake. I can remember the day, so under civil defense was
30:40
in the basement of the auditorium. You should write a book, Jim.
30:45
Jim should write a book, right, I mean, he should just write
30:47
a book. You should, Jim. All right, Jim, I got
30:49
to get the mayor out of here. I appreciate your phone call though.
30:52
All right, Mayor. It is the seventy fifth anniversary of the World Word
30:55
fire today, so that's one of the reasons why we had to move your
30:56
schedule around a little bit. You're headed downtown. Comment on that, yeah,
31:00
thank you so much. If everybody can just lift up thoughts to our
31:04
family members. March fourth, nineteen forty nine, we do this every year.
31:07
The wool Worth fire, which of course is on the corner of Courier
31:11
and Capitol Streets, seven members of the Charleston Fire Department lost their lives.
31:17
Fifteen injured too critically. When they went into that fire. The first floor
31:21
collapsed and they perished. It is a somber day, but it is always
31:26
a reminder to us that whether it be for personal life or personal property,
31:33
our first responders, police, fire ems workers, they run, they run,
31:38
they do it. We're very well trained. Obviously, technology has provided
31:41
us so many fortunately better resources and equipment, but the passion is still there.
31:48
The passion is the same for our EMS workers. They go in to
31:52
the fire, they go into harm's way to help us. That is a
31:56
true servant's heart, Dave, if there is ever a servant's heart. That's
32:00
what I think of you before me, and that's what our fire department in
32:06
EMS and why we are taking a moment. And apologies for shutting down Capitol
32:10
Street, but well worth it for us to remember not only the families who
32:15
lost loved ones, but our families who kiss their husbands and wives when they
32:19
leave the door every single morning, and to give our deep thanks. All
32:22
right, Maa, I know you get to get out here, and you
32:24
did mention that there's quite a bit of traffic closures at least for a couple
32:28
of hours while this is all going on. Than you. Yeah, and
32:30
then we should be back open. We're shut down now and we'll be back
32:34
open just as we turn the corner here about ten thirty. All right,
32:37
May I appreciate it, Thank you, Thanks for squeeze means thanks a lot.
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and I'm sorry the mayor had to go, But there was a text about
35:54
asking if the mayor was going to bring back doo wop. That's probably not
36:00
going to happen from what I understand, And that really was the decision of
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the mayor. The organizers were the ones that decided to let that go.
36:06
But I will ask her that the next time that she is on the air.
36:08
The problem is there's really nowhere to have it. That's from what I
36:12
understand. All right, let me bring in Fred person in the Voice of
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High School Sports in West Virginia, Sir Frederick, good morning. Your friend
36:19
and frequent broadcast partner, SPEEDE. Bevans and I were talking this morning.
36:22
He asked me to refer to you as the mayor of high school sports in
36:25
West Virginia. Is that a fitting title? You know? I'll answer to
36:28
about anything. Okay. I was introduced yesterday at the SSAC as the legend,
36:34
and I told him that only means you're old. Well that's all that
36:37
maybe I lived everybody else That's exactly right. So Fred, the girls get
36:39
underway tomorrow, and he reminder you can catch the audio from all the gameswv
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found on Charleston's ESPN Radio one of six point seven FM fourteen ninety AM.
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Most of the evening session games here on the WCCHS network. Overall, Fred,
36:54
what are we looking for? We have sixteen of the thirty two teams
36:59
that made it last year, they made it back, and of the four
37:00
state champions, three of them made it back. The only one didn't make
37:06
it back was North Marion. North Marion got beat in the regionals. So
37:10
you know, I think it shapes up to be really, really good.
37:14
I think semifinals could be some of the best semi finals we have seen in
37:20
a long time. And you have some you have some veteran teams. When
37:22
you look in quad A, for example, first time ever, the George
37:28
Washington Patriots, the Lady Patriots, they are the number one seed, that's
37:31
the first time ever. And then when you look on down the eight seed,
37:36
which is the team that George Washington will play as Musselman first time ever
37:39
in the state tournament. The Apple Women. No, it's the Appleman.
37:44
That's the Apple you know. I have a lot of people say, Fred,
37:47
you don't say the Lady Patriots. You're right, I don't. I
37:52
don't say the boy Patriots either. That's a good way to put it.
37:55
You know. If you don't know Lewis County makes it one year, though
37:59
there there's different they're the men it made. They're the men it mads.
38:01
That's right. They Then if you have a different to your name, then
38:07
it's it's yeah, you call it that, But no, if it's if
38:10
it's just the George Washington Patriots, it's the George Washington Patriots. If you
38:15
can't figure out Irene is playing in a girl's game, remember what year it
38:21
is. Fred, I'm old school, and I'll leave it and I'll leave
38:23
it at that. What are some of the teams, Fred, that you
38:25
think could surprise some people this year? We know about the top seeds,
38:29
but who are some teams that you think I could put out an upset?
38:32
All right, let's take it by class all right, and in class quad
38:36
A, I think a team that they'll have to be watching for as a
38:38
team that's got a losing record, that's Huntington. Huntington went to Parkersburg.
38:43
Parkersburg was twenty and four on the season, and Huntington upset them. So
38:46
if you can do it once, why can't you do it again and again?
38:52
I think Huntington has a good shot. I think Greenbrier East has a
38:54
shot in Greenbrier East has to play Morgantown in the first first game in fact
39:00
tomorrow. And there's Codage Greenbery East coach. What is his name? Jim
39:05
escapes me right now. He's gonna be on my show tonight by the way,
39:07
Okay, yeah, you do have a previous show coming up. I
39:09
have a previous show from seven to nine. Yeah, And the governor is
39:14
going to be one of the guests. We have a lot of players on
39:15
there, so we're looking for that. So in in Class Triple A,
39:19
when you look at Triple A, certainly the favorite is undefeated East Fairmont.
39:23
I think without question Pat Jones's Nitro Wildcats, I think they've got a legitimate
39:29
shot at getting there. Wayne Pioneers, they're very, very good. They're
39:32
the number two seed. I think they can get two championships Saturday. When
39:37
you look at Class Double A, you've got the defending champions, the Wyoming
39:40
East Warriors, and I really think somebody's going to have to play awfully well
39:45
to beat Wyoming East. They are just loaded with talent. They have ran
39:50
rough shot over every opponent they've played this year in their class. Williamstown's got
39:54
a shot at it, but I really think Wyoming East is the team to
39:58
beat there. And then in Class Single A, I think the team that's
40:01
almost a guaranteed win can't do that, can you. Cameron Cameron is Camra
40:07
is not a Cameron is a two time defending channel. They have Ashlyn van
40:12
Tassel, who is just an unbelievable player. I saw her play a couple
40:16
of weeks ago at the Partmer Shooting man, she's amazing, great player,
40:20
great player, and so I think they are certainly the team to beat there
40:23
as well. And you mentioned her, But who are some of the other
40:27
individual players that you're looking forward to seeing this year? I think for George
40:30
Washington, Findley Lowen Finley Loewen is a great outside shooter. Fenily is going
40:34
to be on the show tonight, by the way. Also, George Washington
40:37
has a great player in Zanayah Zealous is her name, six one, six
40:44
' two, just a tremendous, tremendous inside player. When you start looking
40:49
at some of the other teams as far as individual players go, Gilmore County's
40:53
got a six foot four You saw them. You saw Gilmore County at Parmer
40:57
shootout too. And the young lady that is to the for inside, she
41:00
plays extremely well. Tucker County's back Macy Helmi is one of the better players
41:05
I think of the state. So we've got some good, good, good
41:07
talent coming up this week and again all the action gets underway tomorrow, and
41:12
of course the boys regionals are going on this week. It is the most
41:15
wonderful time of the year. Fred a busy time, but it is it
41:17
is good. It is good. Yes, and again that preview show with
41:21
Fred will air tonight at seven o'clock. Fred is always pleasure, will be
41:24
listening, and we'll see you this week at the Cattle Seemen Convention Center and
41:28
we get you on next Monday to you get to do the same thing with
41:30
the boys for the Boys teams. Come. How come your co host Larry
41:32
doesn't say a whole lot. Well, Shockley's just hanging out here right now.
41:36
He's going to come on next to uh any time in the presence of
41:42
a legends such as yourself, sir, Yeah, but best thing for me
41:45
to do. Yeah, but what about Fred? Yeah, yes, that's
41:50
right, I missed that too. He thought he was talking about you.
41:55
Yeah, he's talking about me. But yeah, Shockley is gonna be come
42:00
up in the next segment. But Fred always a pleasure man, my pleasure.
42:02
My friend's always good to help you out with your ratings. Yes,
42:07
did they go through the roof with mister p We had a good friend of
42:09
mine last week in the building, Mike Stone, who a logan one of
42:14
the legends of a late seventies logan seams And always I noticed that mister Stone
42:16
always calls you mister Persinger. You've told him repeatedly to call you Fred,
42:21
and what does he call you? Well, I'm so much older than Mike.
42:25
It happens, all right, all right, Fred will be listening to
42:29
night. We'll be listening all week long. Man, thanks a lot.
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being politically correct. We have too much of that crap. Hoppy is in
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Morgantown for Metro News Talk on day ten oh six, entering the final day
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of the sixty day regular legislative session. Brad and Hobby will dive into that
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plas. Tony Kardi is on the show today to talk about their basketball Jared
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Halpern is on Fox News or from Fox News, is on the show today,
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as Israean Schmels, also Fox News. You're going to talk about Super
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Tuesday, which is tomorrow. Talk Line with Hobby coming up at ten oh
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six. So the announcement was made last week that another iconic business was going
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to be closing in Kanas City on the heels of tearing down the Hooters building.
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Last week we learned that Budget Tapes and Records was closing its doors forever
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after fifty some odd years in business. Shockley from her sister Station ninety eight
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seven a Mountain wild, wonderful classic rock, not only a big fan of
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the place, but he also worked there and he joins us now shock good
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morning, Welcome to the show. Hey on our owner privilege to be on
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the what is it? Is it the day Valan or is it? Yeah?
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I call it the show. It's the Day Allen Show on five eighty
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line. Well, it is your gig. Well, I appreciate shock He
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was hanging out with the animal on the morning show up there, and then
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he came down here and he sat here for the whole show. And you
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managed to set through the Derek Evans interview well without saying a word. As
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I said, I used to listen to our bell all the time. And
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you know, aliens, they live among us. It's the same thing.
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It's just a different you know. So Shockley is someone who didn't grow up
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in Charleston. I was still well aware long before I ever went there for
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the budget tapes and records, probably some time in the mid eighties for me,
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the first time I made a trip there because I heard all the radio
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commercials and I saw the ads on television whatever. It was truly a legendary
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business here in Charleston. Yeah, it was. It was the cool place
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to be, the cool place to hang out at. And that is saying
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a whole lot when in the mid to late nineteen eighties, you had the
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Charleston Town Center mall that was there was rocking, had three record stores.
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Still a lot of folks were saying you need to get up to budget.
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The legendary place. It had been there since nineteen seventy two. Dave Pope,
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who is the man who started the place, he had worked at another
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place called Pepperland. And about a couple months ago I ran into Dave and
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he told me a little story about how he was working at Pepperland, and
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that was kind of a lifestyle boutique. If you wanted your clothes and your
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jewelry, you would go to Pepperland. Over top of it was a record
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store called Sites and Sounds, and that was in the Arcade building in Charleston.
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And he said that he was working at Pepperland and he went out of
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town and spizzily he came back and he thought that he might not have a
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job when he came back. So they thought, I'll start my own place
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in kanea city, and it just worked out really well. And there was
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also multiple locations all over Charleston. They were located in the basement of the
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Daniel Boone Hotel and also on Courier Street, and to say that budget was
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quirky, yes, would be an understatement. It definitely was quirky, and
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it was one of those things where, especially in nineteen seventy two and through
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the eighties, there were a lot of things that you were sold there that
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it's kind of surprising now looking back on it, that they were being sold
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out in the open. However, you know, fortunately, I guess you
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could say, when the music business became so stealable, so easy to be
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stolen music, and so the sales took a hit, they had these other
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things that could draw you in, the clothing and the whole lifestyle thing,
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and so that really helped the lifestyle out. That's a good way to put
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it. Yeah, well, I have no doubt that that kept them afloat
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for a good couple of decades. Otherwise a place of business that large would
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know can't hurt you. And you worked there a couple of times there at
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to budget. Yeah, I worked there in the late eighties early nineties and
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it was just wonderful. I mean it was you know, for a rock
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and roller, it was like going to church man and you loved being there.
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You love being a part of it, the whole vibe. I just
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remember always getting my coffee headed there the break room, make our sandwiches come
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out, and we were so passionate about what we did. And also we
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had a Ticketmaster outlet, so that was another cool thing. When Ticketmaster first
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came in, they came to us to buy tickets. So Saturday morning the
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on sales, we had people that covered the whole region. Not only was
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it to Charleston area, you could come to us to buy tickets to Chicago,
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Pittsburgh, Lexington, Kentucky. And I still have people to this day
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that I run into that I met at the camp out for different concert tickets
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Guns N' Roses tickets for Lexington, Kentucky. I met people at the camp
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out for those tickets outside budget because everyone knew that they could go there and
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buy their tickets. It was just a wonderful place and it's, you know,
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a huge hold in my heart now. So so you got to you
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were hanging out there last couple days. You actually did a video that we
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posted on our sister station ninety seven Mountains social media. This is kind of
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personal to you. It hurts badly that that place is not there. And
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there have been several people that have mentioned the candlelight vigil that is supposedly going
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to take place tonight, and they're like, man, are you coming,
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We're gonna play and all of that, and it hurts to my core that
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in a lot of ways, I would rather just be able to be ignorant
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and convince myself that it's still there and it always will be. But Dave
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and weekend Saturdays anyway from Tantal three on nine eighty seven A Mountain wild one
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have gone all day and not done, Shockley, I appreciate you being here.
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Man r Ip Budget Tapes and Records. Yes, shout out to Andie
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Clark from her employee there as well. All Right, we got to go.
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Coming up on the show tomorrow Shady Agriculturre Commissioner Kent leeonhearts on the show,
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We're gonna have more on the upcoming vote in Putnam County for an Emergency
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Services levy, and Melanie Rucker, who's the candidate for Knawk County Magistrate,
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will stop by as well. Hoppy coming up a ten oh six. Our
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producer was the A Train Anthony Harmon. Thank you so much. Bottle the
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