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06/02/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Jamon Schmidt, Senator Eric Tarr, Bruce McGrew · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 2: Want to welcome into the show now our good friend
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  Speaker 2: Jamon Schmid from Good Little Industries of the Summit. Good morning, sir,
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  Speaker 2: and welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. Got a new store opening
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  Speaker 2: up YEP sixteen O three correct Canall Boulevard, west On
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Street opens at nine this Thursday. I think some
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  Speaker 2: of our stations are going to be their broadcasting live
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of days. Tell us about this new store, dude,
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  Speaker 2: so super awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people also know it as
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  Speaker 4: the old drug emporium building, So obviously if you know
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  Speaker 4: the old store. It's a huge facility, and I think
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  Speaker 4: it'll be one of the biggest stores that we actually have.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, like we do, we'll have coffee, it'll be
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  Speaker 4: a big celebration, and we may have some other vendors
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  Speaker 4: out there. But anyhow, I suggest people get in line
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  Speaker 4: because I think there's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Be a lot of people ready to get the stuff
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  Speaker 2: out of The store opens up at nine am on
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  Speaker 2: the Thursday morning, and we wanted people to know that
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  Speaker 2: to Jamal, this is a traditional retail store because you'd
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  Speaker 2: introduce the whole Bin's concept, which has gone extremely well.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about that with you in the past, but
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  Speaker 2: this is not that. This is a traditional what you
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  Speaker 2: would think of as a just a classic retail store exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And a great point because on social media, if you've
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  Speaker 4: seen and we've talked about this earlier, right, it's a
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  Speaker 4: fifty to fifty split. I always say between people who
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  Speaker 4: love the Ben Store more absolutely hate it. And that's
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  Speaker 4: totally fine, and we knew that before we opened the
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  Speaker 4: Bend Store, but we wanted to really bring a new
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  Speaker 4: building for the traditional retail model of racks and tags
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  Speaker 4: and so anyways to have it be in the old
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  Speaker 4: Dragon Portian building. Now, I mean, I think it's a great,
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  Speaker 4: great pairing, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty good sized building as I best. I remember.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, I was in there yesterday and it's crazy
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  Speaker 4: because I realize how big it was. I think the
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  Speaker 4: previous building had high higher racks, and so our racks
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  Speaker 4: are about I would say five foot to six.
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  Speaker 5: Foot feet tall.
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  Speaker 4: Anyways, you can see from the front of the back
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  Speaker 4: it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: What's going to be different about this store supposed to
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  Speaker 2: some of your other locations? Anything any different about the
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  Speaker 2: other than the size? Of course.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So of course one of the biggest locations we have.
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  Speaker 4: But also we are added in are my Career Advisor
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  Speaker 4: kiosk we did it, and also the outlet. It's basically
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  Speaker 4: a kiosk that offers different services resume help, access to
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  Speaker 4: DD two fourteen, basically our mission. We'll have one in house,
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  Speaker 4: which we don't have in all of our locations there,
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  Speaker 4: and then of course we'll also have our mission mobile
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  Speaker 4: vehicle out front to help people with any of the
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  Speaker 4: services we have to offer, Wheels to work program which
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  Speaker 4: is transportation, and several other things that we have.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the things I love about what you
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  Speaker 2: folks do so well at Goodwill is it's not just
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  Speaker 2: about the selling of the stuff. I mean you're selling
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  Speaker 2: the stuff to continue on your mission of doing the
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  Speaker 2: other things and many things people may not even realize
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  Speaker 2: that Goodwill of the su does talk about that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, some of the service that people may not
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  Speaker 2: be aware of exactly.
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  Speaker 4: So what's cool about this too, to add on to
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  Speaker 4: something we're doing for this location as well, is we'll
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  Speaker 4: be doing a little round up thing for this location.
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  Speaker 4: People who rounded up for our stores know that it
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  Speaker 4: goes to our mission, but for those who don't know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll have some stories on our website where you can
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  Speaker 4: scan a QR code inside the store with some of
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  Speaker 4: the financial have and you can read some of the
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  Speaker 4: stories of these individuals that we've helped, whether it be
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  Speaker 4: like an Emmanuel Combs who works for us currently who
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  Speaker 4: had some issues coming up and really just needed a
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  Speaker 4: chance at employment, or even like Lado Koyer, who actually
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  Speaker 4: was our Beckley store manager who's now a district manager
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  Speaker 4: and who literally came out of prison and was looking
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  Speaker 4: for an opportunity. So there's several things we do from
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  Speaker 4: transportation to helping people out of incarceraration or to just
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  Speaker 4: getting people their next steps into employment. And I think
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  Speaker 4: if you come to the store, come visit, come shop,
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  Speaker 4: and then scan the QR code for our round up stuff,
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  Speaker 4: you'll see that firsthand.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to bunch mad again that from goodwill of some
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  Speaker 2: of this new store is going to open up former
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  Speaker 2: drug Emporium location on Thursday and nine am. But Dave
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be an odd question, but it's coming from me.
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  Speaker 2: You should be used to it. Describe the average goodwill shopper,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't think there is such a thing because
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  Speaker 2: everybody it kind of goes across the board. It's people
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  Speaker 2: that are looking for those unique odds and ends that
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  Speaker 2: you can't necessarily find everywhere. It's people that are doing
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  Speaker 2: all their shopping there. Talk about some of the different
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  Speaker 2: type of shoppers you have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think under Goodul discussions, we really whether it's
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  Speaker 4: age or what you shop for. I think they're seven
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  Speaker 4: different categories. But of course your youth, they're typically looking
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  Speaker 4: for those sweet thrift fines, those vintage clothes that their
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  Speaker 4: parents wore, their grandparents wore that are back in style,
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  Speaker 4: and then of course your mom's shopping for the kids.
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  Speaker 4: I think we have seven different categories, and it really
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  Speaker 4: fits the mold of what anybody needs, whether you want
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  Speaker 4: that vintage fine or whether you just need something new
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  Speaker 4: for work or a new suit jacket. I mean anything
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  Speaker 4: is anything you can find a good Will.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how are you on staff? Do you need more staff?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you probably always need more staff, but how
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  Speaker 2: are you on the staffing for the new location.
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  Speaker 4: You're definitely not wrong about always needing more staff. Being
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  Speaker 4: being workforce development, trying to push people into whatever career
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  Speaker 4: they want to go into. We have people always exiting
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  Speaker 4: the door, but we are always having people always come in. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 4: we have enough staff right now, but through grand opening
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  Speaker 4: weekend we'll see what happens. So if you are looking
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  Speaker 4: for a job on the West Side, please contact us.
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  Speaker 2: And again, you guys are such good community partners too,
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  Speaker 2: because you're always involved in everything in the community, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's here in Charleston or whether it's in your Teddy
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  Speaker 2: the Valley location. How many how many locations of good
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  Speaker 2: Will stores are there in West Virginia proximately.
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  Speaker 4: West Virginia is a little bit harder question for me,
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  Speaker 4: only because we have about five to six other good Wills. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we're a federated model, so there's about one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: fifty organizations okay, on the world. But for us, we're
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  Speaker 4: part of Southern Central, Southern and we have about eighteen locations.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and more coming, more coming, And well, we're excited
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  Speaker 2: about having this one in Charleston because that drug and
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  Speaker 2: Poorium location, you know, was such an iconic part of
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  Speaker 2: Charleston for so many years. And I know I was
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  Speaker 2: reading some of the comments on social media. People were
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  Speaker 2: saying how that they hated to see and look, we
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  Speaker 2: all hated to see drug and Porium in a way,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but it is what it is. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a great use of that facility because it
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  Speaker 2: is a it is a huge facility. What are your
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  Speaker 2: hours going to be?
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  Speaker 4: So nine to nine, So we changed our hours this
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  Speaker 4: year to extend it. We used to be nine to eight,
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  Speaker 4: So nine to nine.
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  Speaker 2: Every day, every day, Monday through Sunday. Yes, every day.
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  Speaker 2: So your grand opening again is going to be on Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: nine am. And I know, as I said to a
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  Speaker 2: few of our radio stations, I think you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be broadcasting live over the next couple of days. How
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  Speaker 2: do you do your donations for that particular store?
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  Speaker 6: People?
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  Speaker 2: Are they any different there than what there are the
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  Speaker 2: other locations.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little bit different just as far as the location.
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  Speaker 4: So some of our some of our stords have it
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  Speaker 4: in the back. People know that this location will have
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  Speaker 4: it in the front. So fortunately it won't be hard
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  Speaker 4: for you. If you go to the store and shop,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna see donation center in red letters on the
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  Speaker 4: right side. And also we have a pretty cool graphic
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  Speaker 4: on the doors that say donate here, change lives and read,
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  Speaker 4: and so it'll be hard to mess all right.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Everything will get underway when you open up the
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  Speaker 2: doors at nine o'clock and I'm sure there'll be a great,
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  Speaker 2: great crowd there and then through the weekend. It's good
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  Speaker 2: busy time in Charles, great time to open up a
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  Speaker 2: store with all the people coming into Charleston, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for regatta and for the bike championships and so on
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  Speaker 2: and so forth. Going to be busy time in a capital.
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  Speaker 2: So do you guys are just doing great things? So
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  Speaker 2: I will give you the final thirty or forty seconds
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  Speaker 2: so to sell the storage ron yep.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll have free coffee for those of you who
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  Speaker 4: are in line that morning. So you early bird people,
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  Speaker 4: we got free coffee for you. However many of you
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  Speaker 4: there are, we will take care of that. We'll have
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  Speaker 4: applash and cups. So whether you like a latte or
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  Speaker 4: whether you just like your coffee black like I do,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want, we'll get it for you. And then
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  Speaker 4: also I would say this, there are some amazing fines.
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  Speaker 4: Whether it's signed. There's a signed cowboy, how I can't
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  Speaker 4: remember the name on there. But we're going to post
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  Speaker 4: some pictures of some of the stuff that we found
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  Speaker 4: in the store, so you can get excited for this
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  Speaker 4: there well.
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  Speaker 2: And oddly enough, we just had a text where somebody said,
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  Speaker 2: have you thought about putting up a Facebook page taking
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  Speaker 2: photos of new items you may get donated and place
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  Speaker 2: them on their alert or in order to alert the
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  Speaker 2: public of any shopper that may want to come in
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  Speaker 2: and pick it up. I mean, is that zoo there
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  Speaker 2: you go there?
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  Speaker 7: Right there, right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we took pictures yesterday, so I'll be posting them
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  Speaker 4: up soon.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And where is that Facebook page?
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  Speaker 1: You just?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so Goodwill's summit. You just find it on Facebook
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  Speaker 4: good Will Summit and then it'll pull it up, all right.
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• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Steel Band. They're really really giving. You like southern rock,
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: you like you know, musicians. Eric don't like to be
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: compared to other musicians, but I will say I'm a
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: skinnered guy, greatest band ever. So you like Skinner? Do
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: you like Black Crows? You like that sort of Almond Brothers.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: You're gonna like the Games?
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: Still, I like rock with some energy to it, O
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: loud and in your face.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: There is one thing I mean, anytime I have interviewed you,
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: we learned something new. I would have never saw you
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: as a rocker, but you are a rocker.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, you know you're born and bread right.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, congratulations. It was a tough primary election,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: but the people of the Fourth chose you again.
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I made it through another one. So I
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: want to thank you for the to the people of
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Fourth that's it's had a lot of thank yous to
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: give out there. This one, this one was a fight.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: Labor unions came at me hard and ugly in the
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: in their super PACs and so it's but they lost
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: it there.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: This seemed to me to be and we'll talk about this,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: who have the interview, seemed to be to be a
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: particularly ugly campaign season, not just necessarily yours. And let's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: face it, yours wasn't one of the ones that really
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: got a lot of the attention. You had some attacks
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: lobbed against you, but I don't know that you had
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: the type that maybe some other races did. But uh,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: it was, Uh, it was a pretty ugly primary, it
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: really was.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: It was it was, and I hope, uh we find
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: a better way out of this. That's Republicans can be
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: there and are their own worst enemies, I think when
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: it comes especially these super super majorities we have so
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: some of the stuff I saw across the state where
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: you have such a strong influence from outside money to
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: come in to tell Western Uians how to vote. And
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: then beyond that, I think the between the the far
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: left and far right of the Republican body, the viciousness
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: of that, I think is creating a chasm within the
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: party that we have got to figure a way around.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: When you say, that's an interesting statement there, Senator tar
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: When you say the far left and the far right
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: of the Republican Party, you would think that would be
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: a statement about both sides. But you're saying, in the
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Republican Party there is a far left and a and
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: a far right.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there are. You know, it's I've had We've had
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: a lot of names for I guess what would call
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: it far because I there are a lot of people
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: call me far right. Come serving to send it with
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: me and you'll you'll find out that it's that in
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: far right. I don't take as an as an insult.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: I think you know what it's. It's to me a
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: social conservative values or usually what people associate that with
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: the difference. I think that what I'm saying far right,
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: and a lot of times I've called them counter conservatives
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: because of what you're starting to see right now is
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: because you start to kill Republican leadership with that kind
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: of leadership.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Is that when you have such a a.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Strong avowment towards the social side and a complete ignorance
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: of the fiscal side. When you go down that path,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: you're essentially doing very superficial legislation. And we are one
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: of the most conservative social states in the country by
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: our legislative policy, so we're there. So it's that we
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: got the group that those counter conservative groups that keep
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: trying to one up and one up it because they
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: campaign on it, and the lack of leadership and communication
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: there because of it. When you're getting into social policy,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: everybody's an expert on how they feel. Nobody else is
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: an expert on how you feel. On economic policy. All
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: the experts are considered that come in to develop that.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: So when you disregard that social or the economic side
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: of it, you get into that very individualistic piece of it,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: and so it creates for superficial legislation because you don't
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: have teamwork, and ultimately it ends up in more dependence
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: on government because you start decreasing the ability to create jobs.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: So we have got to fix that. I think coming
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: out of primary elections, I don't think that we have
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: a huge difference that happened in the Senate. I think
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: it could shift and still by fifty to fifty. I
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: think the governor pushed the House even further away from
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: you know, so I think that it's going to be
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: a could be a challenging session. And I've told a
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: lot of people that if the Senate gets it right
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: and the House maintains its posture, then then you could
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: have two of the three that are working together. If
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: the Senate doesn't get fixed and the House stays where
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: it is, I don't see how you have any major
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: wins coming out of it because you don't have enough
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: keeople working together.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: What needs to be fixed in the Senate.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: In your opinion, I think that we need to move
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: leadership into a true leadership activity instead of leadership by title.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: So what we don't do in the Senate is there's
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: now which when we had all the big wins coming
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: that was a collective effort. It was a collective effort,
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: not just in the Senate, but Senate was certainly let
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: it because we'll go in start working on policy shortly
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: after the legislative session as a caucus. Hens in the air,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: make your commitments. We're going to hold you to your votes,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: to your commitments, and go through on in depth policy
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: that we came up with through all the people who
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: brought those problems to us. What happens now is whatever
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: think tank is most popular sends their model legislation. We
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: do not have caucuses that where it's a systematic problem
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: solving goal developing legislative drafting effort doesn't happen anymore, not
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: under this leadership. And that's what leadership of activity is.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Do you place and I want to put words in
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: your mouth again, we're talking to Sindar Eritard, do you
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: place the blame for that directly on the Senate President?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I like Randy so. Randy Smith is a good guy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I think he's in a very tough situation. I think
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: he came in with the best of intentions, and I
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: think he's clawing to hang on to Senate president at
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: every cost right now. I think that's what's happened. I
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: just don't think he's had the skill set that is
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: required by people that sit in that seat that do well.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: What's going to happen with the Senate presidents? In your opinion,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of it. We're gonna have to
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: kind of play the waiting game, you know whatever. But
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: what what do you think is going to happen or
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: what would you like to see happened?
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: So what do I think is going to happen?
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I know it's if you can draw out all the
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: probabilities and they're so close when you come down to
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: see you, we can go every possible way a senator
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: could vote or be pulled or be influenced by the
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: time that they vote these Senate presidential votes when they're
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: competitive or really close to What was like during redistricting
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: is that you really never know what you've got until
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: you got it. And so that's I think it's gonna
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: be that way this time because there's not a clear
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: majority within the Senate now to which way it leans.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: What I hope happens. I hope that when we come
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: to that point for electing a Senate president, that we
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: choose somebody who will actually bring the caucus together both
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: sides of it, because there are people who can do that,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: and that we start working as a team again for
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: the people West Virginia.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Would you like that to be you?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: I no, you know, it's I don't. I don't think
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: it's me. And the reason I don't think it's me
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: is the first time I ran for Center president, it
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: wasn't that I wanted to be Center President. I've got
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: leadership skill. I think that's undeniable if you if you
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: go out and see what my team has done in
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: my private life, the leadership side of it, there's an
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: example after example after example. So I'm a CEO of
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: multiple organizations, have been president of multiple organizations, so and
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: done well.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: The what we have.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: What I did then is that I couldn't see anybody
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: else who had the potential to go in with the
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: challenges on the split. We had to pull a group
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: like that together to an effective end. So that's why
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I ran for Center President period. It was never my
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: intention to going to be that person. So having not
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: got the Center present, I went back to work, came
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: back said, look, you know, I'm going to be a
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: district senator, going to work hard for the district, get
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: things done, get back to a little bit of business,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: you know, because I'm sacrificed an awful lot of private
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: life in that finance chair position. So I went back
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: to do that. The people who were with me, I
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: can be polarizing myself, and so the people who are
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: on that far left side of the Republican Party, they
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: don't like me when it comes to policy. The people
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: on the very far right, they don't like me because
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: when it comes down to policy, they realize that they're
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: going to have to compromise sometimes to get social policy
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: to get the economic policy through.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: And so.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: But there are people who are friendlier with those ones
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: that are polar off, not off, pullar off, who are
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: pushed away by some by my philosophy at times. There's
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: enough of those. I think we can get a good,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: hard center right leadership that gets back to economic policy.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: And I said it a million times, the most conservative
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: thing we can do is to create a job. Creating
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: jobs shrinks government, It shreaks dependence on government. It gives
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: somebody a bigger reason than themselves. It gives them the
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: ability to grow families. It gives them, once you grow families,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: having an accountability to families. That leads to a whole
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: lot of other considers conservative things that happen when you
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: improve family life in West Virginia. So right now we're
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: I don't feel like we're doing that in the Senate.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I feel like we're doing whatever is on Fox News
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: last night. So I think that there are people who
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: have that philosophy who can walk into gum do the
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: fiscal and the social that we're close enough that it
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: may be a one or two vote margin, but I
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: think we could put somebody in there.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: So if it's not you, do you want to throw
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: out some people that you would support in that role?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: People that I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make you,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you know, zero in and this is who I'm supporting.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: But are there a few people in your opinion, Eric,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that that could fill that role or or do you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: not want to say?
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: I think there's a very few. I think there's a
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: very fair enough. I think it's very few. I think
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: it's early. It's way early. Is very early, Yes, it
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: is way early. You know, you've seen a lot of
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: commitments of people coming out behind Randy. Oh, while I'm
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: behind Randy all the way. I tell you what I've
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: been through actually a few presidential elections now because I
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: was up there as an advisor, was involved in all
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: that stuff when it was happening before I sit and senate.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you that when it comes out early that way,
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: it makes it less predictable than more predictable.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Because when they're coming out that early, that hard, you'll
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: have a true A few that are true and close
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: to that that you can trust the other ones. You
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: got to figure out what their play is when they're
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: doing it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's so it happens so often in
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the world of politics. Again, we're talking to Senator Eric Tarr,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: where everything is not so black and white. You know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: we're supporting this person, but are we really We're only
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: supporting this person because we want actually want this person in,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and supporting this person now will lead to like that
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: this person gets in, if that makes any sense. It
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: is for d Chess, Yeah, it is, it really is.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: It is the after the primary election that got so
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: ugly in so many different races. Are you concerned about
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the future of the Republican Party in West Virginia putting
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: it all back together again?
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I think the Republican Party is going to be in
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: leadership for a long time here Western I think, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: there's that boat turned slowly. You look how long it
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: took for Republicans and the process that really by which
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: we came into leadership. It looked for people who don't
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: play attention to politics, it looked like it happened suddenly.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: It was not suddenly. You know that that shift was
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: growing and growing, growing for us to come out to
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: where we're thirty two to two right now in the
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Senate very likely coming now this general election could be
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: the same or less. Maybe it's gonna be in that
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: neighborhood still and in the House being about only five
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: percent of it that's going to be Democrat. It's going
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: to take a long time to shift that majority. So
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: it's I think the Republicans. If we lose it, it'll
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: be It won't be because the Democrats be It's because
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: the Republicans gave it to them, and that's where we
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: got to fix it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: The district that you serve in, Senator has had a
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: heck of a lot of growth in the last couple
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of years. You know, we talked about data centers and
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: new core and so on. So where I live in
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Tay's Valley and you live not far from me, it's exploding.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yet again, how do we keep that up in that area,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: and how do we conversely spread that across West Virginia?
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: You know, And this is where you get to where
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: you get away from think tanks and you actually get
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: to solve in West Virginia problems. You know, So think
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: tanks are these national think tanks and they bring their
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: policies to West Virginia. That's where you get superficial legislation.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: It's getting your legislation. It's not deep. So how we
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: did it to get a lot of this going the
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: first time is when you got when you've got a
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: big fish on the hook. Those big fish have big
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: networks and so they if they get excited enough to
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: drop a billion or ten billion in West Virginia, they're
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: excited enough to tell their friends why they did it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: So when they're telling their friends why they did it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: And I speak this from experience, you guys, I'm sure
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: you've what shark tank. There's a lot of your audiences
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: what shark tank you have? All these entrepreneurs come pitch
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: their ideas to the successful entrepreneurs. I've had that kind
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: of not to that level, but it's in business that
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: comes my way a lot. You have a lot of
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: entrepreneurs come saying, hey, Eric, you know, for love for you,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: help invest in this. We're very diversified and people realize that,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: and so you kind of go through and the first
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: thing that you start doing when you a friend brings
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: you those things, you start looking for the pitfalls because
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: there's a very few wins and a lot of ideas
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: that come your way, and so it's easy to shoot
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: things down. And you start shooting down things and you
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: really say even a person sometimes when you do that.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: So what happens these big fish it doesn't change. It
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: doesn't change if there's three zeros or if there's ten
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: zeros behind it. The process is the same. It's a network.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Then some of you're saying, hey, you should come here
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: and do this because and then you've got questions one, two, three, four,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: five and six. Well, that's where the legislature can really
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: come into play, is if you've got that big fish
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: trust and your legislator's enough or your governor enough to say, hey,
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: if we can get this fixed, I can bring these
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: next companies because it helps them too, right, they're close logistics,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: It helps a lot. That that is momentum that was
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: created in what we used to do. So that's why
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: it's why once you got new Core and once you
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: got Berkshire and you've got to start digging into those networks.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Those networks are as diverse as you can imagine, and
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: so that momentum is what's been going So now We
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: went from having a record three billion dollar investment actually
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: at the time it was two point eight now to
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: record investments at the deck of billions, multiple deck of
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: billions levels that are coming into West Virginia. Those networks
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: continue to grow. But what we have to do is
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: stay in those networks. We have to because everybody's chasing it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: I saw in the news this morning, Boyd County of
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Kentucky's getting a data center. Well, if we want them
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: here instead of there, whether it's data center or whether
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: it's a steel plant, chemical plant, technology plant, whatever it is,
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: that aerospace everybody's competing for that. The way you get
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: the insider trade on it is you get in the network,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: and you have to have CEOs and executives around CEOs,
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: these fortune five hundreds that trust a legislator enough to
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: go to them and say, can you help me get
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: this done? Don't tie my name to it because it's
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: all publicly traded stuff, and so publicly traded things can
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: they Sentiment moves those a lot, and that publicly traded
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: value allows them to invest. So you have to have
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: somebody who trust you enough, be able to understand that
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: they know that you understand how sensitive where the information
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: is coming from is and then how impactful if you
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: get it done right it can be. That's how we
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: that's how we got this legislation. I mean, it's how
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: we did everything from twenty fifteen all the way up
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: to a couple of years ago. So and right now
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: it's it happens, but not at an effective level like
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: it used to.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Got a couple of quick texts before we let you go.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Once is, mister char why can't the state government get
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: together an institute an annual cost of living race for
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: state workers? We fall so far behind, especially with riots
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and inflation.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Well part of its economic development. So that's the way
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations, Thank you, Dave.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate it very much. Thanks for having me now.
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  Speaker 2: You're a longtime educator and give us the summary of
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  Speaker 3: Well, I started This was my thirty fourth year in
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  Speaker 6: And after quite a.
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  Speaker 3: but that's the direction that he gave me, and I
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  Speaker 3: followed and began as assistant principal of course as the
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  Speaker 3: few years of that, then become principal. And I was
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  Speaker 3: principal for leave eight nine years at Winfield High School,
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  Speaker 3: and then got an opportunity to become assistant superintendent, which
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  Speaker 3: again you know about the time we get comfortable in life.
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  Speaker 3: Good Lord tugsas to do something else we got to follow.
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  Speaker 3: So I come here as the assistant superintendent, and then
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  Speaker 3: I've become the deputy superintendent. Last I believe it's November,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, here we are superintendent now. So
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  Speaker 3: I've been extremely blessed. No matter what position I've been in,
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  Speaker 3: God's been good and he continues to do through the
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  Speaker 3: ups and downs. It doesn't matter. But that's been kind
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  Speaker 3: of my pathway through the education field to Bruce.
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  Speaker 2: Magrew again, who is the new superintendent of Putnam County Schools.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we hear a lot about the issues
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  Speaker 2: with public schools, and look, Putnam County schools are certainly
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  Speaker 2: not perfect, no school system is, but they do have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff. There's a lot of good
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  Speaker 2: stuff going on. And traditionally, when you hear these reports
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  Speaker 2: in West Virginia Putnham County generally speaking, depending on which
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  Speaker 2: the state, what are you folks doing so well in
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  Speaker 6: Now, Well, it comes.
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  Speaker 3: Down to student performance, and student performance happens because of
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  Speaker 3: great teachers. They have a support system that makes this
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  Speaker 3: makes a successful overall program for the county, and when
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  Speaker 3: everybody buys in, you're going to have success. But it's
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  Speaker 3: more than just test scores. Test scores are very important,
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  Speaker 3: and there's no doubt everyone wants to be at the top.
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  Speaker 3: We're blessed in Putnam County. But it's more than that
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  Speaker 3: if you've got great test scores, but students aren't prepared
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  Speaker 3: for the future, how.
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  Speaker 6: To handle.
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  Speaker 3: and have a work ethic which society is sadly missing.
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  Speaker 3: Work ethics got to be improved. And that's in every
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  Speaker 3: have been done very, very well here in Putnam County
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  Speaker 3: that's allowed to that success.
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  Speaker 2: You take over for John Hudson, who is going off
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  Speaker 2: into retirement, certainly a well earned retirement. Those are some
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  Speaker 2: pretty big shoes to fill, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's funny. I was telling someone I kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of know what Kevin de Bore feels like at Alabama
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  Speaker 3: after he took over for Nick save and mister Hudson
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  Speaker 3: has been an outstanding superintendent, a great leader. He's been
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  Speaker 3: great to me, an outstanding person more importantly than superintendent.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm thankful that I've been able.
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  Speaker 6: To work with him. You know, he brought me down here, and.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of mad at him because I said, you
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  Speaker 3: got me down here, now you're leaving me.
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  Speaker 6: But I wish him the best. He's a great man and.
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  Speaker 3: He's just been outstanding to work with, and I'm thankful
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  Speaker 3: for the relationship with him, and I do hope he
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  Speaker 3: enjoys this retirement, which I'm sure he will. But it's
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  Speaker 2: As before we let you go as a longtime educator.
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  Speaker 2: Graduation this week at Putnam County School's poke It tonight,
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  Speaker 2: going to graduate Friday at their school. Any advice for
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  Speaker 2: the class of twenty twenty six from you, sir, as
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  Speaker 2: a longtime educator now superintending, Any advice for these young
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  Speaker 2: men and women.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you want to be successful we got to
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  Speaker 3: have your priorities inline. It doesn't matter what you're doing,
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  Speaker 6: There.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't put God first, it'll all all your
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  Speaker 3: human plans will fail. I think it's important no matter
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  Speaker 3: what we do. You know they have a bright future
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  Speaker 3: ahead of them. They've been prepared very well in Putnham County.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it boils down that it's nothing fancy
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  Speaker 3: So I wish the best for these students who are
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  Speaker 6: They're going to do great things.
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  Speaker 2: Ris mcgru the new superintendent of Putnham County Schools, I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you being here being here. Congratulations on the job
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  Speaker 2: and had a great relationship with superintendent the previous Superatimous Rutson.
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  Speaker 2: So anytime you got anything going on, just let us
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  Speaker 6: Here, Yes, sir, thank you very much. Appreciate it Today
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  Speaker 2: Law featuring myself along with thirteen News In Tonight Live
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  Speaker 2: Anchor Amanda Baron will have that for you at noon
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  Speaker 2: today on this show. Tomorrow, we will continue the data
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  Speaker 2: center debate from a Putnam County with Michael Masteller and
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  Speaker 2: also Jill Scarborough from the Brighter Future Learning Center Academy
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  Speaker 2: will stop by and we'll talk to Rob riels I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier about our dropper Snacks event which is here
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  Speaker 2: in our parking not eleven eleven Virginia Street, D's and
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  Speaker 2: Charleston this Thursday, seven am or six pm, brought to
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  Speaker 2: you by the Charleston Dirty Birds. That is all coming
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  Speaker 2: up on tomorrow's show Texas. One of the funniest moments
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  Speaker 2: last night was one of the ESPN commentators saying, what
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  Speaker 2: is it about the eighth inning? With these two teams agreed?
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  Speaker 6: Agreed?
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  Speaker 2: State's softball tournament underway now Little Creek Park in South Charleston,
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  Speaker 2: as we speak as a Quad A and one of
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  Speaker 2: the few actually they get two different games going at
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  Speaker 2: one time, so they're getting into the triple A in
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  Speaker 2: the Quad A over the next couple of days, and
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  Speaker 2: several local teams in it. You can catch all the
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  Speaker 2: action of the local teams on the radio, Charleston's ESPN
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  Speaker 2: Radio one of six point seven f M fourteen ninety am,
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  Speaker 2: and you can listen to all the games and get
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  Speaker 2: the video highlights at wv metronews dot com. Baseball tournament
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  Speaker 2: gets underway this Saturday in Charleston. Look who or in
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  Speaker 2: the Hontington I'm sorry, look who is here? Been in
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  Speaker 2: Charleston for so long? I forgot it's TJ. Metis rocking
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  Speaker 2: the WVU gear today.
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  Speaker 6: I see. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of my all my mind. Yeah, absolutely we
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  Speaker 2: should be. It's been it's just been a great couple.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, I said, Marshall, guy, I bleed Kelly Green. However, however,
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  Speaker 2: I'm that weirdo that says you can cheer for both schools.
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  Speaker 2: I think when they're not when they're not playing each other.
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  Speaker 2: And I got wrapped up in this WVU thing. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I really did I really really did well. It was
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  Speaker 2: great and you know what a way to make baseball exciting? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and down to the finish and over time it was
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  Speaker 2: just great. And it's Kendrick Family Ballpark and Randy's Randy's
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  Speaker 2: Ridge as they call it, Randy's Ridge. I mean where
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  Speaker 2: apparently you know Ethan Collins was last night?
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  Speaker 1: Was he?
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  Speaker 2: Producer?
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  Speaker 18: Ethan was there and he's gonna be on the show
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  Speaker 18: at eleven forty five. We're gonna find out what goes
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  Speaker 18: on in Randy's Ridge. I'll tell you who I saw
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  Speaker 18: more on camera watching the game lesside than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Hoyer. Neil Brown was there too. Neil Brown was
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  Speaker 2: there as well. Well, you got on the show today quickly, so.
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  Speaker 18: Coming up at ten o six, gonna get into that
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  Speaker 18: baseball game, break it all down. We're also going to
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  Speaker 18: talk about that issue with Torris Seva Pushkin. Coming up
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  Speaker 18: on the show, State Treasurer Larry Pack joins US Plus
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  Speaker 18: is Welsh Community Hospital for sale.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out all right. I'll be back back later
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  Speaker 2: today with Metro News Midday. Back on this show tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Producer Ryan Nicholson, thank you so much. Till later, have fun.
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