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03/15/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Hannah Gardner, Evan Osborn, Tim Brady, Adam Harris, Ric Cavender, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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let's welcome and our good friend Hannah Gardner from the Kenalis Charlesty Main Association
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with this week's Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week. Hannah, Good morning,
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welcome to the show. Good morning. How are you. I'm doing
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fine, happy early Saint Patrick's day. You know, yesterday I had the
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chance to sit in for a bit with Dave Weekly on the state wide show
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of Metro News Hotlight, and and a name dropped you there a little bit.
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Your talents are now going to go state wide. You realize that,
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right, I mean, everybody's demanding for for more, Hannah, you realize
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that right. Well, I am very honored. All right. I want
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to get to our pet of the week, and again has always picture posted
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on my social media. It's a dog named Menthara. Now you sent me,
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as you always do, the text the night before with all the details
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on Menhara. And you said Menthara. The dog's name is based on a
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video game. And I am woefully old, Hannah. So if it's not
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like pac Man, I don't know what you're talking about. You obviously didn't
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know too, but I'll tell you who does. My producer Ryan Nicholson and
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I have asked Ryan, Hannah, if you'll just give me this opportunity to
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bring Ryan in to explain exactly who Menthara is. Hey, Dave, first
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time on the show, isn't that great? So yeah, Menthara beautiful dog
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by the way, But Menthara is a character from Balder's Gate three, which
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was last year's Game of the Year winner. As far as the character is
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concerned. Not exactly a great person, kind of a villain in the game.
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But yeah, great name for a dog. So we've learned something today,
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Hannah. Yeah, it's a very cute name. I think it fits
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her. Well, she's very very cute. I definitely think it's a very
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cute name for her. All right, Well, Ryan, when I mentioned
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that, I said, I never heard of this. Ryan said, I
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know, I know, I know, And so we put Ryan in there
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on that one. So sometimes you get a call in the experts, Hannah,
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you realize that, right right, exactly? All right, let's get
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to Mensara. Talk about Mensara and Ryan. Feel free just to stick around
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if you have any questions. But since you because I didn't even asked him
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is it Mensara or Mensarah? Because I didn't know of the text. So
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I'll let Ryan stay out for this segment. Two. Uh, would you
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go ahead and tell us about Mensara Hannah? All right, so Mensara she
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is a female. Of course, she is three months. She will again
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we go by our gum and their teeth, so it could be she could
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be around fourish months. She'll be around five ish months, but we've estimated
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her to be around three months. She is Marcus trips and she is vaccinated.
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She's very very sweet. She is a puppy, so she's just a
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typical average puppy as if she was any other puppy. She definitely needs someone
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who is ready for the puppy sage. She's definitely playful. She will sleep
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for a little bit and then she'll play for a little bit, and then
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she'll want to just kind of hang out for a minute. So she's your
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typical puppy, very very sweet. She loves the title. She's not fixed
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yet, but she will be. And we do not know who the mom
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or the dad were because they came in as strange to us, so we're
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not sure on their breeds or anything like that, but they will be larger
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dogs, so she definitely will be a little bit of a larger dog.
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Well, she is an absolute, as Ryan said, an absolutely beautiful dog.
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And again we have the picture post that does always do on my Facebook
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page, Dave alland Radio and also on X you are is formably known as
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Twitter, and you can go check that out on that Dave a seventy of
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a Dave Allen Show on Twitter or X if you will. We'll get back
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to Minhari here in a couple of moments. You have a dog adoption special
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going on now. I understand. Earlier this week I was checking out social
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media. The number of dogs availables one hundred and five. Is that about
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where you are right now? Yeah? It kind of teared taught recently.
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At least between around one hundred and one hundred and ten is what I've really
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been seeing lately, so I know for the longest time it was one hundred
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and ten. But yeah, I think one of five is where we are
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now. It's definitely would be a great opportunity for people to go get their
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dog. Now. I understand that you're doing this is kind of cool.
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It's kind of a spin the wheel kind of the deal to see how much
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that somebody can adopt the dog for. It's anywhere from twenty five dollars off
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to free. Right, Yeah, So we have a little wheel, a
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spinner wheel that's up on one of our front desks when you come into the
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lobby, and it basically just has twenty I think it has a few twenty
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five dollars off, fifty dollars off, seventy five dollars off, and then
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there are two free spots. So if you land on the free spot,
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then you get a completely free adoption on the puppy or the adult dog that
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it is that you're wanting to adopt. So that's really awesome and we're hoping
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that a lot of people come out and give it a shot. As I
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want to talk about spring cleaning for a moment. Everybody's doing spring cleaning,
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you know, or at least they should be present company included. That should
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be when you do this, you don't want to forget about your friends at
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the shelter. So before you get rid of any towels, blankets, anything
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like that, don't throw them out because as we talked about last weekend,
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you can use those at the shelter. Oh yeah, we definitely will use
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any old I mean, if you have like a bunch of bags, toasts
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or anything that you've just been wanting to get through and get rid of.
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The shelter will accept old sheets, old blankets, new sheets, new blankets,
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I mean really just any kind of comforter or something that would give the
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puppies or the adult dogs, and even the catch and kit and something to
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lay on as if it is like their little or something. The smaller little
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blankets are better for our puppy room, and then we have some bigger blankets
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that are better for our tunnels. So we definitely will take all different shapes
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and thousands of blankets and towels. They definitely appreciate it and they definitely get
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used. We run out pretty fast, and as we mentioned last week,
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we'll be talking more about this as we get closer. Your big fundraiser.
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One of the big ones you do with this is really the big one,
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Tuxas and Tails coming up over Capital Market on May fourth. Yes, yes,
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we do have Texans and Tails. It's a yearly fundraising events that we
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have. It's a very fun one. It's one of our most fun ones
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that I think that we have. In my opinion, it's definitely something that
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you can get fancy and come on out. This year. I believe it
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is the Derby theme, So you can either wear I believe we had this
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seam last year, so you can wear what you were last year, or
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you can find something new. And the Derby theme is kind of really good
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for you to wear pretty much a wide variety of different things. So we
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definitely hope to see you out and take us on our social media or on
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our website. All right, Hannah, as always pleasure to have you on
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the show. We'll talk again next week. Thanks a lot, Thank you
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very much. And I also want to say thank you to Ryan Nichols and
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my producer here for telling us the story of of Menthara. How willfully out
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of am I Ryan? When it comes to video games? Uh well you
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can stop right there. A bit of a shameless plug. Check out my
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video game reports on Metro News Hotline. And if I would have known that,
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if I would have known, if had I listened, I wouldn't I
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would know that, right? Yeah? Menora Menthara, men Thara, kind
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of name is Menthara? Anyway? I mean, what does it. Well,
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it's a it's a fantasy name. It's it's yeah, I guess something
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somebody made up. I guess something made up. All right. Menthara is
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the dog's name that we're trying to get it out to this week. Menthara
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is female, three months old, microchip and vaccinated, very very sweet and
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playful. Dog loves attention, loves good naps and cuddler much like Ryan,
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very energetic, not fixed yet what will be? Not like Ryan, So
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it's probably gonna be a larger dog too, So keep that in mind because
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Hannah was talking about that about how the you know it kind of comes from
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a larger family. So just keep that in My picture posted Dave Allen Radio
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rock. Steve Animal and i will be there for the Green Chili Shootout to
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benefit the Charleston Parkinson's Group. Also, a pro wrestling event is part of
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the festivities tomorrow. I had with me this morning, Evan Osborne from Capitol
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Market. Evan, good morning. Good morning, sir Tim Brady from the
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Charleston Convention Visitors Bureau. And Adam Harris, you know him from Mountain Stage,
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but so much more. Mister pro wrestling in West Virginia. Good morning,
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everybody. You like that title I gave you, mister pro Wrestling.
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I'll take it. I'll take it, mister pro wrestling. Mister pro wrestling
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too. Like it. He's now going to require us to call him that
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all the time, mister pro wrestling too. Yeah, we can make sure
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you do that, gentlemen. I appreciate all you guys being here. And
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I just realized this last night with myself, Adam Harris, Tim Brady,
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and Rick Cavender, Who's going to be on in the next segment from Charleston
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Urban Works. We have four members of the Leadership West Virginia class of twenty
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fifteen in one spot. And look how far we've come. I suddenly feel
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much more inadequate. Have we really come that far. I guess we excluded
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him. Yeah, he's not part of the best class. I am.
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Once again, I am the redheaded, left handed stupshaw. Have you ever
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it. Because in all and I'm giving a shout out to our good friend
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Pam Ferris, I will say this without a doubt, I did it.
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We were all classes of twenty fifteen members. The best thing I ever did.
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And I mean I met people that are lifelong friends of mine and Adam
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too that I mean, seriously, if anybody ever gets the opportunity, if
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they're ever nominated to do leadership West Virginia, Brady and Harrison, Cavan and
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myself, we all had a great time, learned a lot, traveled the
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entire state. It was, seriously, in all seriousness, it was the
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best thing I ever did. It was. It was a ton of fun.
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You meet a lot of great people. I ran into Steve Candaris and
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Craig Griffith yesterday over at the state basketball tournament. So you know, you
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see these people, you connect with them and their lifelong friends. Yeah.
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Indeed, all right, ev let's start with you and talk about the overall
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event with the Green Chili shoot if you even rocking the Green Chili Shootout hat
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today, So overall, talk about this event. How did it come about?
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Talk about the history of it. Sure, so we've run the Green
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Chili Shootout almost since the inception of the market, and we had to posit
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in twenty nineteen due to COVID and this is the first year we've had really
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the opportunity in the capacity to bring it back, and we're bringing it back
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big. We have a record number of chili cooks this year. How many
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were talking, We're over fifty hungry I'll be there, and we've partnered with
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the Fantastic Foots at the beverage market. We're gonna we'll be expanding the cracked
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beer selection and then obviously we've added pro wrestling to it. So it's it's
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the whole day at the market. And let's talk about the judging. Because
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you can't I mean, comp you didn't comy, you didn't really have to
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try to yourself. But you asked me, you said, hey, would
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you be interest I said yeah, because I have done a lot of chili
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cookoffs. I mean really, and it's not just it's there's a lot more
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that goes into it if it and this is an officially sanctioned event, is
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that right? So this is an ICs International Chilia Society sanctioned event, and
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the winner will go on to the World Championship later in the year in Myrtle
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Beach. And we have I believe one for sure possibly two returning world champions
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that are participating on Saturday. So now these are there will be some local
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entries, but there are some entries from outside the area too. Right,
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we draw cooks, I believe our furthest one this year is coming from Indiana.
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Okay. So talk about green chili, I mean, because I mean
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I had some ask me the other day. Was that just chili with food
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coloring? Now there's a whole there's a whole lot more to it than that.
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Talk about that. So unlike your traditional Texas red chili, your green
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chili or ver day as it's commonly refer too, it's more of a thing
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more like in the American Southwest. And so it uses traditionally a tomatillo and
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hallapeno base, and then as opposed to beef, it's traditionally going to feature
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pork and from what you do. There is really up to the chefs.
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And so we've got guys that I guarantee you right now are probably roast and
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hatch chili's and a barrel roaster right now in preparation for tomorrow. And it
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honestly in everyone's palate's a little different, but I really prefer it, probably
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to the red it's I think it lends more opportunity for some creativity and it
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runs the gamut from you. You'll get sweet ones to ones that will be
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making you sweat for sure, for sure. But I've always said this,
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good chili does not have to be hot. I prefer hot because everything I
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eat is spicy, but it doesn't have to be if it's got a good
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flavor. That's not for me anyway, And any of you, if you
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guys are chili head, you could weigh in this as well. I don't
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think good chili has to necessarily be hot, as long as it's got a
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good flavor. So if you had the opportunity today until noon, you can
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pre purchase your ticket for ten dollars. They're fifteen dollars at the door,
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So I encourage you to get in. Go to Capital Market dot net.
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You can get go ahead and buy your tasting spin and that'll get you unlimited
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samples of all of the participants, all fifty of them. So and then
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you can purchase beer and wine tickets for five dollars at the door. And
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how does the judging work? Because I've been to this event, but I've
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never been a judge who got me as I said, being a judge tomorrow,
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exactly what am I going to be done? So, given the number
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of participants, it's going to be in two phases. We will have the
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preliminary phase which will narrow it down, and then the next round of judges
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will select the finalists. And it's all blinde These are all random, blind
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samples. You don't know who. Yeah, that's the way it should be.
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Yeah. So, and it's very very structured. They take our our
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head judges and our event organizers are very very strict in how we operate this
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event. We try to keep everything above board well and and generally speaking,
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it's like in the other chili events I've done. I've just did the one
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in Nitro the same day that you had the mac and Cheese cook off that
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I was a judge for that didn't you judge both. I did, you're
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mister judge, Yes, I did, I did both. This is the
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show now sponsored by Ozempics. It should be, it should be. But
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when you when you sample the chili's, I mean everybody, you know,
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it's like one spoonful. You don't add anything to it, no crackers.
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Everybody drinks the same thing. It's all. Everybody drinks water. No beer,
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no no soda anything like that. Everybody drinks water because that way,
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it's all. It's all. Even so for the people that just come out
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tomorrow, the average the average folks, they are not judging or they're not
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entering. They just want to come out and have chili. How does it
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work for them? How does everything? So? With the with the purchase
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of your your tasting spin, you get votes for People's Choice, and so
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the the ICs International Chili Society, we award awards for first through third place.
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Then we also have the People's Choice Award, and then we encourage folks
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to really play up the Saint Patti's theme. So we're awarding a prize for
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the best booths. All right, and uh uh, and the weather's going
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to be great tomorrow. I mean, yeah, the weather's going to be
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absolutely fantastic. And Adam's over here putting his hands up in the air because
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he's all excited about that because of the wrestling event, Tim, I want
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to go to you for a moment from the CBNV. I want to talk
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about the I mean, the impact of an event like this, got the
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pub crawl him on it just more big, big things happening here in Charleston.
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Yeah, and all of that going on simultaneously with the state high school
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basketball tournament at the Colisseum and Convention Center. Uh. And you know,
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big picture, Dave, this is the goal. The goal is to just
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drive activity in the city, not only for for locals, but for for
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visitors. So if you're you're in you're you're here for the state basketball tournament,
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and maybe you're looking for something to do on Saturday afternoon after your team
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finishes playing. If you're in the early game, you can come over to
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to Capital Market and participate in the chili cookoff or attend the chili cookoff.
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Uh. If you're in town for the basketball tournament and you want to hang
23:22
out tonight in a fun atmosphere, you've got the pub Crawl. It's it's
23:25
all about driving activity and just that you know that old cliche of that rising
23:30
tide, right like, it's all over the city. There's there's activity happening
23:34
all the time. And you know with what Evan's doing a capital market and
23:37
and what Adam does in his his real job and his fake job. It's
23:42
it's all of this activity that we're driving in the city and it's and it
23:47
encompasses you know, food, music, art, outdoor recreation, all of
23:49
that stuff. Yeah, all right, Adam, I want to bring Adam,
23:53
Harrison and Richter Pro Wrestling in state of West Virginia, UH to talk
23:56
about the the wrestling event that you have tomorrow as part of the Green Chili
24:02
Shootout. Yeah, Man Regott of Pro Wrestling, which was part of the
24:03
brainchild of our friends at the city, including Matt Sutton, our chief branding
24:07
officer, Tim Brady, with regard of pro wrestling, and the idea was
24:11
kind of just to attach wrestling onto other successful events and try to prove what
24:15
Dave, you and I have known for many years, which is West Virginia
24:19
is a pro wrestling state and Charleston is a pro wrestling city, and we're
24:22
starting to act like it more and more. Now and this Saturday, we've
24:26
got five exciting matches at the first ever Market Mayhem. Whenever regard of pro
24:30
wrestling has an event, we're making history. We had the first ever Sternwell
24:34
Slamboree last summer, hugely successful, followed by slam Plaza. Both of those
24:38
events at slack Plaza. And this is our first ever Market Mayhem and we're
24:42
bringing pro wrestling to Capital Market for the first time ever. All right,
24:45
Saturday, now, somebody comes out and they just want to see the wrestling
24:49
show. Absolutely, how's that going to work? Just bring a chair,
24:52
roll up, bring a chair. I mean, but there's no charge for
24:55
the for the wrestling show. You don't need a spoon to enjoy the wrestling.
25:00
Although if you're gonna go by like Abdollal the Butcher, there may be
25:04
old school wrestling fans what I'm talking about there, so, but but you
25:08
do need to bring a chair for the wrestling fan. Is that right?
25:11
It wouldn't hurt Okay. I think it's gonna be really cool. We're gonna
25:14
be set up right in the center court of Capital Market. Thanks to my
25:17
friend Moose at Appalachian Championship Wrestling, who's bringing the ring, and we're partnering
25:21
with four other organisms or three other organizations uh throughout West Virginia to present regard
25:26
of pro wrestling, it is not a one promotion show. It's actually a
25:29
conglomerate. And uh these four promotions work together really well. And I'm appreciative
25:33
to Gary at ASW and Moose at a c W, and of course Derek
25:37
at Pro Wrestling Conquest and our friend Chance Profit from the Power Slam Academy.
25:41
They all work together to help me. What time is the wrestling hopefully four
25:45
pm bell time. It's gonna follow the Chile Awards. Uh so right after
25:49
that, Ding ding ding, and we're gonna put matches in the ring,
25:52
and we've got a real assortment of things, including tag team match. We've
25:55
got women's wrestling. Micah is gonna be there against Emily j and that has
25:59
some smimifications because we're trying to put together another championship title for Regatta Pro Wrestling,
26:03
and so whoever's victorious this Saturday is probably going to get a shot at
26:08
what will become a women's championship this summer during the Sternmoll Slambrie and of course
26:12
our longest reigning Regatta Pro Wrestling Champion Bishop Baylor is going to defend that championship
26:18
for the first time at Market Mayhem this Saturday, and so whoever wins that
26:22
match is going to inevitably have to defend the belt this summer at Sternmoll Slamboree
26:26
as well. So, I mean, it sounds like it's gonna be a
26:27
great day for the entire family out here. You get the wrestling aspect of
26:30
it, you got the chili aspect of it, and the other things going
26:33
on at Capitol Market that I mean, the everyday stuff going on at Capitol
26:37
Market AVM yep. And again really you know, all of these events were
26:41
born out of supporting our small businesses and our producers, and so literally from
26:45
noon to six, we're bringing the heat all day long. The heat one
26:51
one. Uh yeah, it's the heat. It's all about It's all about
26:53
that. Well, okay, all right, So I gotta ask, what
26:57
is this yat thing that you keep doing. Well, I know you're a
27:00
wrestling fan, and you were talking about rip Rodgers before we came on here.
27:03
Yes, the theme saw that the bumper music there was by the Rolling
27:07
Stones. There's a and that song is it was the It was the theme
27:12
song to the Great Hustler Rip Rogers back in his Championship Wrestling from Georgia days
27:18
about eighty eighty four. And anyone not from the Paleo Eric Earraw will know
27:22
about a show called SmackDown that airs on Friday evenings. It's a professional wrestling
27:27
show at least I think most people refer to that, and Jay Usso has
27:32
been saying, yeat, it's kind of like his thing. Now what does
27:33
it mean? Nobody knows, but the whole arena loves the chanton yeat.
27:38
Yeah, okay, I mean, did you really have to go there?
27:42
I had to, Dave. I mean, you set it up all those
27:45
Hustler Rip Rogers fans out there. I'm going to preemptively apologize for back then.
27:49
I mean, you know, Dave give a mic, Dave taken away
27:52
to Chris So, it's been nice being a guest on here for the final
27:55
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28:21
you don't need a spoon, I thought you made it a fork. I'll
28:22
abdod to the butcher somebody, somebody kind of caught off a lot of said
28:26
here, but have you talked about I mean, we have some fun talking
28:29
about wrestling on here. I know Weekly's a big wrestling fan. You're on
28:32
his show with Cooopa in the afternoon with Hotline a lot. But steis yeah,
28:37
and but but I mean, you know, West Virginia is a is
28:42
a pro wrestling mecca right now. And here's what I'll say. And we
28:47
make a lot of jokes, but you know, wrestling, professional wrestling is
28:51
something that the entire family can enjoy. It's a family friendly show that you'll
28:53
see at Capital Market for market Mayhem. You know, wrestling fans transcend,
28:59
you know socioeconomic class. They transcend age demographics, gender demographics. Some of
29:06
my best friends that are wrestling fans are are CEOs of corporations and and it
29:11
wrestling transcends all of those demographics. And that's what I think we love about
29:17
it, sure for sure, and that's why there's been investment from the city
29:18
into this, you know, try to make it part of the regatta in
29:22
Capital mart market. Yeah. Yeah. At risk of outing myself, I
29:25
had never attended a wrestling event until the the event during the Regatta, and
29:30
I was just absolutely blown away at the cross section of humanity, like laying
29:34
out from before there has always been and to go along with it, you
29:38
guys said, there's always been this stereotype about wrestling. It was just the
29:41
you know, the yahoos and what Maybe it was at one point because I
29:45
first got into the wrestling business, as Adam said in the George Hackenschmidt era
29:48
of the early Night behindres uh uh Stranger, Lewis and I rode together.
29:56
But but but but, I mean, you know, there was a certain
29:59
look to the crowd, you know, uh, but you know, for
30:03
one reason or another, it kind of changed over the years. And that's
30:06
a good thing. I think because, like Tim said, when you look
30:07
out there, you see CEOs of corporations, You see the truck drivers,
30:11
you see the grandmas, you see the little kids. You see it's a
30:15
cross section. It's a cross section of people. I mean, it really
30:18
really is, and it's it is an event for the entire family. And
30:19
I want to ask you about that because you know, wrestling sometimes depending on
30:25
which promotion you look at, you know, it can be come on in.
30:27
Just tell cavan Or to come on in, Caventar, you can come
30:30
on in. He's feeling left out. Rick Cavenor is coming in with a
30:33
steel chair with a run in here. But but so, I mean the
30:37
thing about it is is that some not all shows are family friendly, let's
30:41
face it true, but yours, this one on Saturday, definitely will be.
30:47
You know, I'm not going to promise that somebody won't go through some
30:49
sort of a table or structure at some point. So you got to be
30:52
okay with that. I mean, if you're looking at my family, that's
30:53
just Saturday night. I mean I think it's nothing more than most people were
30:57
used to seeing, perhaps in their own home. Yes, so it's gonna
31:00
be a lot. Yeah, absolutely, it's gonna get the table. That's
31:06
my house. It was Grandma'll get the table. Uh, but we appreciate
31:08
you guys for stopping by. Again, let's kind of recap. Evan give
31:11
us the overall on the On the Green Chili shootout for sure. It kicks
31:15
off at noon. The awards will wrap up at four pm. We're gonna
31:21
transition right into Capital Market Mayhem from four to six and then uh, I
31:26
think you everyone should go check out the pop crawl right so we're gonna talk
31:27
to Rick Cavin about that next and Adam and Tim, I appreciate you guys
31:30
being here. Wrestling is at four o'clock tomorrow. And do you have like
31:33
a website or Facebook? Anybody can check out your Facebook event. You can
31:37
look up Market Mayhem and then also we have an Instagram account at Regatta Pro
31:41
Wrestling. We just announced this morning that the ECW legend, Shane Douglas,
31:45
is going to be there for the meet and Greek. I saw that Shane
31:48
Douglas and I've known Shane for a lot. He was also part of the
31:51
George Hackensmith. Uh. Shane. Shane spends a lot of time here in
31:56
West Virginia too. He's a he's a great guy. The franchise. He
31:59
pays a user fee Charleston. That's good, that's good. All right,
32:02
Evan, I'll see you, got adamal and I will be over there tomorrow
32:06
representing nine eighty seven of the Mountain One. I want I wanted to reiterate
32:09
to that the fund raised from this event are going to be split between the
32:12
market and our good friend George Manahan and the work that he's doing, yeah,
32:16
with the Charleston Parkinston Charitable aspect of that. We want to make sure
32:19
we get that out there. Yeah, And George just does a great job
32:22
with that organization. Everybody does, so he's a he's a media legend here
32:27
in Charleston. So that's where this whole thing comes from. The wrestling event
32:29
part of it is free. It's come out there and check it out,
32:31
Tim Adam Evan, I appreciate you guys being here. Oh. He's pleasured
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Today, tex says Abe Lincoln was a pro wrestler. Legend is he invented
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the jokes lamb. That's a Texter. Tex says Dave. Been traveling to
35:20
Lexi to Louisville. A lot of talk there about Charleston having things to do
35:23
and great concerts for gotta Christmas lights and night life downtown Charleston getting noticed,
35:28
says a Texter. Well that makes Rick Cavander happy. Charleston Urban Works.
35:31
Rick cavenis here, good morning, Good morning, sir. A bunch of
35:34
Yahoo's here this morning. Man Osborne, Harris Brady, Now you and me,
35:37
Yeah, but what do you do with that. I don't know.
35:43
I'm not sure. We were talking about leadership West Virginia earlier. I don't
35:45
know how Pam Ferris put up with all of us, but she had in
35:47
Tony Stroud and Nate Randolph and Jim Hoyer and that group we had, but
35:52
we lived to tell about a year. That was the It was indeed,
35:55
talk about this event tomorrow night, sponsored by your group, Charleston Irban Works
36:00
as well as a Downtown Charlestons Association. Talk about the event overall. Yeah,
36:02
I mean, as you I'm sure you remember. For years we've done
36:05
the Saint Patrick's East End pop Crawl, and with this new organizational structure and
36:08
our new mission, our sort of reformed mission, and our new branding and
36:12
our new name, Charleston Urban Works, we are really focusing on partnerships.
36:15
We're doing all we can to reach out to our community partners more than we
36:19
have in the past. We always have, but we've definitely doubled down on
36:22
that, and we felt like this was a really good way to once again
36:24
partner with the Downtown Charleston Association and expand now the East endpok Crawl, which
36:30
has been going on for twelve years. Right, Yeah, I've got information
36:32
posts about the issues event on my social media pages. So I want to
36:37
talk about this as far as because the first thing people ask is they say,
36:40
well, you know, people like to come out, some people not
36:44
everybody chooses to participate in the alcohol part of it, but suppose to do.
36:46
There is a safety environment, a safety component, I should say to
36:52
talk about that. Yeah. So for this, for the first ever Capital
36:54
Crawl as we're calling it, we are continuing our partnership with Kart. We
37:00
have a trolley running by Kart sponsored by Mountain Say Beverage, and they will
37:05
be on a loop. This trolley will be on a loop of starting at
37:08
City Center right there in front of five Street. It'll go to the Lee
37:12
Street Lounge and then go to the east end in front of the Red Carpet.
37:15
It'll loop from eight pm to twelve a m. For anyone wearing their
37:17
wristbands. Purchased a wrist band to participate in the Capitol Crawl. Right,
37:22
so I come out tomorrow night and my wife and I decided to show up.
37:23
We're gonna take part in this. How exactly does it work? Because
37:27
again, this has always been on the east end now, it's citywide.
37:29
I've got a list of some of the ones that could be taking part and
37:30
then I'll get to that here to Capitol Moments. But how does it work.
37:34
It's you know what, We've simplified it even more. If you if
37:37
you've already registered, you can buy your tickets now. To get your wristbandsmorrow,
37:38
you can go online to our facebook page, to Charleston Urban Works facebook
37:43
page, that Downtown Charleston Association Facebook page. You can go there and follow
37:46
the link and purchase your tickets now or just wait till the day of.
37:49
When you get there, you're gonna go to Black Sheep Black Sheep Burritos.
37:52
That's the starting point. That is the starting point. That's where you get
37:53
registered, get all your stuff. You're going to enter in through the summer
37:57
street patio, not their front door, with their summer streeatia. We'll have
38:00
registrations set up in there. We'll have volunteers air taking care of everybody.
38:04
When you get in, you get your ticket scanned, or you can purchase
38:07
a ticket on site, same price, twenty bucks. You get idd,
38:09
you get your wristband, You get a coozy, really cool commemorative coozy for
38:14
this first year event and three discount beer tickets. Those tickets can be used
38:17
at any of the establishments. If you look on the business list that we've
38:22
made the publish there there is a drink a little orange ticket icon. That's
38:25
the drink that you get that particular discount for with that ticket. Okay,
38:30
And some of the places taking part, and this is just a partial list
38:31
based on what you'd posted on social media, and again I shared it on
38:35
my social media Adelphia Bar one on one. I do want to throw in
38:38
an editor's note there, Woody woulds from my sister station, The Beat is
38:42
going to be there broadcast live for the event from Bar one on one,
38:45
Black Sheep, which you mentioned, Dim, two Brothers, five Street,
38:49
Hail House, Sam's Short Story, Venos Whiskey, Glasses, Lee Street Lounge,
38:53
Empty Glass, Red Carpet, all taking part at the taking part thirteen
38:57
pubs this year. Yeah, biggest we've ever had. It's going to be
39:00
a great time. Yeah. And and remember, and like I was telling
39:02
Woody on their the other day, I mean, you know, it's important
39:05
to remember these most of these places are also restaurants, not all of them,
39:07
but most of them serve like delicious food. Right, so you can
39:10
go and plan your dinner around this as well. You don't just it's not
39:14
just for the drinks, it's for the dinner as well. You know,
39:16
this event has always been a huge success. It's the only event of its
39:21
kind in the valley. We've seen a couple other pop up and like in
39:23
St. Albans, which is great. I'm so glad to see them.
39:24
Yeah, and so you know, this is like I said, I've been
39:30
going on twelve years. This is also a fundraiser for both of our organizations.
39:35
So all the money that is raised for this, that twenty dollars ticket
39:37
goes right back into into our community through you know, supporting our efforts and
39:42
our operations to provide quality programming for the East End, for the West Side,
39:45
and of course with this partnership with downtown Brick Cavenants here for Charleston Urban
39:50
Works reminded the text of the show or service of Fruit Pharmacy and as always
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our phone calls to the show a service of big Lely Pigley Wigley. I
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have a text for you, mister Cavender. Yes, sir, it says
40:00
David. It's not much of a pub crawl if you can't buy a beer
40:04
outside or inside and walk around with an Easton pub crawl used to include that
40:07
maybe mister Cavator can address the change. So glad that that question was answered,
40:10
because I was going to address that anyway, So glad to hear that.
40:13
So you're probably aware of the new Poda that's an effect downtown, right.
40:19
So the way it works with Poda, if you if any vendors are
40:22
outside selling beer, Poda then cannot be in effect. So we thought it
40:27
was more important that folks are in these establishments buying local. In those establishments,
40:31
you know, letting those cash registers ring purchased or drink and from six
40:36
to ten in the downtown district from six to ten, as long as you
40:38
pour that drink into to a Poda cup, which we've sent out to all
40:42
the registrants. What that cup looks like, you can take it outside that
40:45
establishment and walk around outside within the Poda district. And that district is marked
40:49
if you look at the lampposts downtown, it is marked where those parameters are.
40:52
So we felt like it was more important, since this is a small
40:55
business promotion, to keep all of the sales happening inside the gentleman or the
41:00
person who texted you and asked that question remembers back before on the East End,
41:05
PoTA, don't there's no poda that's an effect on the East End now
41:07
or that there never was. We actually shut the area down and sold beer
41:13
outside to kind of like thin out the crowds es basically as it got so
41:16
for lack of a better term, rec it was almost like a private party.
41:19
And what I mean by that price, you just didn't have a lot
41:21
of people coming in, correct, And so you know, and there were,
41:23
like I said, there were a couple of reasons we did that.
41:24
Number one, it got so crowded in those places we got a little concern,
41:29
so we wanted to kind of filter people out and give them opportunity to
41:30
be outside. But now that we have thirteen pubs participating, I feel like
41:34
that's enough to keep all of our participants and all the rest of the folks
41:37
that'll be out to keep them happy and again make sure they're buying local inside
41:43
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quickly, Rick, what else is going on with chelseon urban work? Oh,
42:06
we are in the middle of so much exciting work right now, Dave.
42:08
You know we as far as our public space enhancement initiatives are concerned.
42:12
I've been on here to talk about it a few times. We are getting
42:14
ready to pull the trigger to start construction on our West Side gateway lighting initiative.
42:17
We've had to get through some environmental review stuff, the kind of stuff
42:20
you have to do when you get federal funding that sometimes takes a little time,
42:23
more time than we thought, honestly, but we are well on the
42:27
way that projects. As we've talked about, we'll see all the lamp posts
42:30
in the Oak City district replaced with more modern lamposts and not only shine down
42:35
on the street and provide more safety, but also shine up onto the buildings
42:37
in showcase the architecture. So it's a first of its kind project in the
42:40
state as far as like multi block project for lighting. So we're in the
42:45
middle of that. We're currently in the middle of developing. We've already got
42:51
it developed. We're going to be distributing small business surveys to our businesses and
42:54
that's going to take a few months to do some survey work so we can
42:57
really find out the needs of our business owner on the East end, on
43:00
the west side, so we can shape our work plans. We have to
43:04
know the needs of our businesses are end users, if you will, our
43:07
customers as an organization, to know how we need to do our work for
43:10
the coming years. All right, let's go back to the pub crawl before
43:13
we let you go. Details are available where if you go to the Charleston
43:16
Urban Works Facebook page or the Downtown Charleston Association Facebook page, the full publist
43:21
that we've been talking about is there. There's a QR code you can scan
43:23
there to go to the ticketing page to buy your tickets to that. Now
43:28
we've already sold around three hundred and some tickets, which is not bad for
43:30
an event that promoted a few weeks ago. Yeah, and we'll see a
43:34
lot more on site registrations, we have no doubt. So you can go
43:37
there. Actually you can actually go back to the Saint Patrick's Easton Pub Crawl
43:40
page as well. We went ahead and kept because we have so many followers
43:44
there. You can go there and the information is there as well. There's
43:45
a link you can follow to learn more about it and to buy your tickets.
43:50
All right, Rick, I appreciate it, man. It's always best
43:52
of luck with everything. It's going to be a busy time in Charleston.
43:54
While as we talked about with the Green Chili shootout in the Big Wrestling event,
43:58
going out to Capital Market your event tomorrow night as well, and you
44:01
start at again six pm and like the bars or the pubs, most of
44:07
them stay open past ten pm. Just Hota stops at ten pm, so
44:09
okay, you know, and then of course it'll go to till after midnight
44:12
on the Eastday. And make sure you take advantage of the of the rides
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you, and we end the week with you. Oh what a good week.
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And you were on Hoppy too, That's that is correct. Yes,
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I was on Hoppy, but I'm not here today with the delegate hat On
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come here as the chair of the West Virginia Democratic Party. They talk about
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events that are going to be occurring all over the state tomorrow, and mainly
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about the event here in Kanah County over in South Charleston. That's our the
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Democratic Party county conventions will take place tomorrow. Side of the county convention.
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Well, we encourage all Democrats and people interested in people who want to be
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Democrats to show up. And this is how we don't just select the delegates
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to the state convention, which is going to happen in June here at the
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Charleston Convention Center. That's in June, but we select the delegates of the
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state convention. And it's also where we start adopting planks to the party platform.
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And there could be you know, resolutions could be brought up. But
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this is how we know. This is the small d part of the Democratic
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Party. It's about bringing democracy to the Democratic Party, allowing anybody to show
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up and help shape their party because it is their party. And so it
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all starts at what time again, the one in Kanah County, which is
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really want to talk about it. It starts at the doors open at one
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and the convention starts at one thirty and that is at the LaBelle Theater in
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South Charleston. It's a great facility there, by the way for it,
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I mean that they've done a really good job with it. So what kind
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of turnout are you expecting for this? What kind of thing? What kind
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of thing that normally happens to the well, you know, in years where
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you have contested presidential primaries, obviously there are a lot big I remember back
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in like two thousand and eight when it was you know, Hillary versus Obama,
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there was a huge turnout, and then of course in sixteen when you
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had Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton, there was a great turnout. So in
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years where that's already decided, we already know President Biden already has the enough
49:16
delegate, enough pledge delegates to secure the nomination. He is our party's nominee.
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So it's it's important to remind people it's not just about a pointing about
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sorry about electing the nominee. It's also about updating the party platform and you
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know, creating the party for them. And like I said, it's putting
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the small d back in Democratic Party. So we hope to have a good
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turnout and that's why I'm on here talking to you. I'll be on later
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with Woody during the afternoon show to talk about it then and trying to get
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folks to come and take part in their party. The Dave Islands showing five
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law firm. So I mean anybody that's a Democrat can show up pretty much,
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rank yeah, or anybody that wants to be or wants to be a
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Democrats are the people that want to be Democrats? Say plenty, plenty.
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I get a text to the show, and I don't know again who the
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texts come from, but I get a text from the show a lot of
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times and people will say, well, you know, I was a member
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of the Republican party and they lost me and now I'm an independent, or
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they'll say I was a member of the Democratic Party and I switched Republican.
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I do get text though from people that say, and I get a few
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that say the Republican Party lost me, I became Democrat. They're few and
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far between, but they're there, Mike, I think people are, you
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know, lately there's if you look at the trends, just at the registration
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with the fastest growing group or independence but we but people don't vote that way.
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There aren't a whole lot of independence in all. There are none in
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the legislature and none of the Board of public We don't there are no elected
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independents. But more and more people are registering that way just because they don't
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feel a real affiliation with their party. But this is a way to regain
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that because you anybody can show up and have a voice in what the party
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is and in the party platform and what the party. People often say,
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what do you see for? We'll show up and tell us what you stand
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for. Where the we've been a big tent party. We've always been the
51:05
party for everybody else. And we are holding county conventions across the state tomorrow,
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because we feel that's the way to grow a party and to hear from
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everybody. I'm not sure what they're doing on the other side of the aisle.
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I've not heard about any of They used to have county conventions too,
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I'm not sure they're still doing that. They might just have their county committee
51:21
select their delegates. I mean, both parties have national conventions. Our lead
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up to the national convention is to start the grassroots level at the county level
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and to bring in as many people as possible, and then we send people
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back here to Charleston in June for our state convention, where we will select
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our delegates to the to the DNC in Chicago in August. And that's how
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we do it. Small D Democratic Party one tomorrow at the LaBelle Theater.
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Doors open at one. If you're not registered, it's just showing up early.
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That way you can register and be a delegate, be a voting member
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of the convention, and take place in the in democracy, all right,
51:57
getting part in democracy? Right? So I want to ask you this real
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quick before we go, because it's Friday. I have to ask about some
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fun, say, playing any music anywhere soon. Yeah, I'm actually gonna
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be hosting an open mic night. Glad you asked that at the Clay Center
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next Thursday. I believe it's seven to nine. It's a new event.
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They're gonna be starting like an open mic. I believe it's open for all
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ages. Any young songwriter, singer songwriters out there. I will be hosting
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the first open mic night at the Clay Center next Thursday. All right,
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my best luck with your event tomorrow. Man. Thanks all, thank you.
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Have a great weekend coming up at ten oh six Metro News talk Line.
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