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06/10/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Merrily McCauliffe and Mayor Scott James · The Dave Allen Show

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Hope everybody had a great weekend. I spent my Saturday on the boulevard
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with Charleston Urban Works in the phone with the Dene. What a grade of
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that that was. I'll have more of that coming up a little bit later
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on. Plus, we got Saint Albans Mayor Scott James is here Jackfest of
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three five five zero zero and let me start with us on this Monday.
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You see her on WOWK TV thirteen. But and she may very well be
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the last person from thirteen that's not been the show. We're gonna change that
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today. Marrily mccauliffe is here, Merrily, good morning and welcome to the
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show. Good morning to you, Dave, and good morning to all of
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your wonderful listeners. How about Chef Paul, goodlove to him, I mean
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absolutely, I mean I had him on the show on Friday. Yeah,
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good luck to him. And again, as I said, on the show,
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and I had he and Evan Osborne on the show on Friday, Merrily,
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it is really putting Charleston, West Virginia on the map. I mean,
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well you put us up there with I mean Charlotte, Atlanta because we're
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in the southeast, reason Nashville and oh yeah, by the way, Charleston,
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West Virginia. And he's such a humble guy. He is. He's
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a fantastic human being. He really really is. And he's been very very
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very good to the show, very good to all that. He's on Hotline
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a lot with the Coop and weekly does a does a great job. So
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we'll all be watching tonight and be following along. And again that event at
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Capitol Mark. I think it's getting close to sold out. If it's not
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already, just contact the folks at Capitol Mark and they'll let you know more
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about that. Now, I know you get this a lot. And I
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got a couple of reasons why you're on the show today, not just to
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talk about yourself, but the name merely, it's not a So what's the
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story? You know what, I'm about to blow your mind. So my
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name is marily mccauliffe, but my real name is here you go, oh
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yeah, my real name is actually Mary Lillian Vance. But I've always gone
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by Merrily. As a kid. My mom had a friend named Merrily,
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and I think what she was trying to do was I think originally she was
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trying to figure out a nickname, and she sort of smushed together my first
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and middle name Mary and Lillian and just was like, oh, you know
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what, let's just nickname Merrily. And it just stuck. So I have
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always gone by Merrily. I thought radio people were the only people that didn't
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use the ruins aliens for sure. I mean, well, it comes in
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handy from time to time, having in eightly, so I will say that.
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And something a lot of people may not know is that you are one
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of triplets. It's true. So I'm a triplet. I'm one of three.
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I have two wonderful brothers. We are fraternal, so we have different
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hair color, color, blood type, personality. They're back home in Richmond
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and other stuff. Let's leave it at that. Well, go ahead,
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that's right. Uh. And they're back home in Richmond, Virginia, and
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they're just they're just wonderful, wonderful folks. They've got one just had a
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baby with him and his wife just had a baby, and then the other
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one is welcoming a baby too. Gender revial party soon, all right.
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And Richmond is home for you. That's where you where you come from.
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And an alum of Concord University Concord. They don't call it campus beautiful for
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nothing. I loved Concord. I really I had such a tremendous experience at
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Concord when I was there, and just a wonderful place, great great people.
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And I think that that sort of started, certainly started with just my
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love for the Mountain state and why I am still here. Do you know
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my producer Ryan Nicholson just let me know he's also from Richmond. How about
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it? I didn't know, Okay, do you guys have like certain language
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that you'll be able to speak that no one else will understand. You know,
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I'm so far removed that maybe he could tell me that. So how
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long have you been with thirteen? Oh gosh, you know what? Actually
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my ten year anniversary is July fourteenth? All right? And where were you
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on television before you came here? So before w w K and Charleston,
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I was actually at fifty nine news WVNSR sister station in Beckley for a few
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Okay, okay, So was this something you always wanted to do? Was
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me on TV? Well? I think it started out doing I was more
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into video editing, and I sort of was leaning towards commercials I liked.
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I visited the ad agency in Richmond, and I really enjoyed doing that.
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So when I was in Concord, I was dabbling in a little bit of
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video editing. But you know, when you're in the broadcasting program, they
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make you do a little bit of everything. But I mean I was also
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doing like I did a little bit of sideline reporting. But really it was
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just I only knew what was going on with our high school. It was
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very just sort of getting my feet wet SOPA, just sort of learning a
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little bit about that. So I had been in front of a microphone,
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but I never would have imagined that this would be my career. And I
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love this so much. I love doing this. What do they have you
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doing now? Specifically on thirteen? Okay, so on thirteen News right now,
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I'm the host of Good Day at four, which is at four pm.
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It's an hour long show. I wanted the sort of our our slogan
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to be good Day at four before the Bad News at five that go over.
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I like it, and then I also do the noon show. So
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the noon show is a half hour show, and then the four o'clock hour
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long is sort of it's refreshing. It's a lot of good, good news
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stories, and we like to highlight folks in the community and the good stuff
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going on. I cut your show yesterday morning on the weekend edition. I
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saw that yesterday morning. That's right. We also have a weekend show.
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I do our Good Day Weekend Edition sort of carries on from the four PM
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and so it's Good Day Weekend Edition, same type of content, and it's
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every Saturday and Sunday morning beginning at eight thirty. Talking to Marily mccalluff again
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I have a reason to have you on the show today. Actually had a
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couple of things that you wanted to bring up. But you've got a big
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community service project that you folks are going to be involved in. We like
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to publicize things going on in the community, I mean, because you guys
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are certainly good to us and publicizing things that we have going on. But
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you got something big going on you wanted to talk about. Yeah, So
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Next Star which is our parent company at WWK, Every year in June they
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have their Founder's Day of Caring, which is when all the stations in the
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country go out and do community service. And we're teaming up with Habitsat for
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Humanity once again, which is such a great organization and doing such great work
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and it's great to be on the job site. We have to build and
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I mean literally build a home, or we'll work in the restore as part
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of that day as well. And so it's giving food who are maybe not
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dealt the best hand an opportunity to have a home. It's a it's a
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tremendous project. So now you guys are actually going to be out there hammering
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and oh yeah, I mean we are fully building a home. Is that
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is that your forte because it's not mine. I'm gonna say, Dave,
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I actually love doing home improvement projects. Really yeah, I mean drywall.
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Uh you know, I'll tell you and I know I'm here talking somebody from
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thirteen, but I don't know how well you know Hannah Klein, it's from
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CHS. Hannah. That's what she does. And that's that's so you guys
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could start a firm, you know, I mean, you know, I
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mean, that's why I had Hannah on the show a couple of months ago.
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That's what she actually does in her spare time is drywall. Some people
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play golf, some people Hannah drywalls. So so you you know, the
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you guys could work together. I mean, yeah, that could be your
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hook. You know you've seen us on TV. Now let us come hang
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out in your house and do your drywall. There you have it. It's
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fun. I mean, my husband and are in the process of renovating our
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home and so I'm just I'm of that mindset where it's like, there's something
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to do, just get it done. And it went from painting to just
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doing everything around that needed to be done. So I sort of inadvertently fell
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into this love of home improvement, good stuff. It's great again that we're
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talking with Marylyn McCollough from A thirteen. So what's the timeframe? What do
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you need from the listeners of my listeners about this project? You support?
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You need donations? Okay? So right, just want to carry a ladder?
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What do you need? Gotcha? So if you would like to donate
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during a NEXTROSS Founder's Day of Cary, you can head to our website wwk
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TV dot com. We have links posted there. But also you can always
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had to habitat for Humanity's website off the top of my head and see what
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they're doing, because they are They really heavily rely on volunteers, so I
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would encourage folks to help them out for sure. And you also, I
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know, are an animal lover. I love animals, I do. And
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our dog, Pebbles, I love her so much. We got her from
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the Canal Charleston Humane Association, which they're doing such great work, and I'm
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so thankful for for what they do in the community, and for all the
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rescue organizations out there for that matter. That's not easy work, and I'm
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so thankful for what they do because the alternative, I don't know where my
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dog would be. We have a little wiener dog. She's a dogs and
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of all kinds, so she's just the sweetest dog. I'm so thankful for
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her. I mean, animals are much better than people in my opinion,
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you know, I say it all the time. I say, I'm not
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so much on people, but animals. Oh yeah. My wife and I
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are are cat people, not that we don't like dogs, but our lifestyle
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is really more conducive to cats because cats are pretty self efficient. Our cat
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never goes out of the house, has no desire to. He looks out
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the window, you open the door, He's like, hey, I mean
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I'm not going out there, you know, as long as he can look
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at the birds. Man that's all. They cared. You also told me,
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and before we let you go, you also said we were talking in
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the green room about what you want to talk about. You want to talk
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about the Humane Association. You also wanted to talk about your project for Habitat
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Humanity, but you said you wanted to thank somebody talk about that our Lord
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and Savior have at it. Well, you know this is this is really
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going to catch a lot of people off guard that have known me for a
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long time. Well, we found out that your name is really not merely
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McCallum. So we found that out. So go ahead, right, we're
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really getting to know me. This is going to catch people off guard that
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have known me for a long time. But I recently welcomed Jesus Christ as
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my Lord and Savior to hang with me. I hope that me proclaiming this,
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that it might encourage even just one person to welcome Jesus into their life
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or encourage them to get to know Christ. He's working miracles in my life.
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And I'm so thankful, Right, are you thankful for my faith?
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Really? And truly good stuff, good stuff. Well, don't let this
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be the last time you're on the show. You have to hang out.
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I've got Mayor Scott James coming in in just a couple of moments. Stuff
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happened this weekend for sure. I mean it's like you're gonna bring about three
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or four thousand people to Saint Albans this weekend. So it's a good to
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have you guys taken part in any of that. Always, you know,
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I know you have people there because you always do in the community. Yeah,
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you know. I was at toward cole well yakfest. I was on
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the then, and it is a party. I mean, that is a
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really good time. So folks, if you're listening and have not attended Tordy
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Cole or have been on the river during this, do it just coming down
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for the party if nothing else. Yeah, but Mary James will tell you
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all about it. But it really is. It's a terrific time. All
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right, Merrily, I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot. You
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do a great job. Man. We're looking forward to having you on the
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show again. I appreciate you, Dave, and you've got great listeners at
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home, so thanks for having me on the show. All right, hang
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Good morning, sir, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave.
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Thank you for having me. It's a hard act to follow. Following
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Marly McCullough, Well, sure it is. I told her, I said,
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you know, maryor Lee, you got a face for TV, I
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got a face for radio. Yeah, that's so. Do I so do
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I So? I suppose before we get anything else, congratulations or in order,
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well, thank you because you you've won an election since the last time
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you were in there. Yep, we won. We were very pleased.
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We thought four to five hundred vote victory would be big, but we won
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bo over nine hundred and people saying I spoke, they like the direction we're
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moving in. What is it and you kind of just touching them? What
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is it about about the message or the work that you and your administration are
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doing in Saint Albans that seems to make voters want to turn out to vote
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for you again. Well, Saint Albans is back on the map and we're
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moving forward. Main Street had what seven or eight empty buildings when we took
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office. Today there's one. We filled three buildings over at the Saint Albans
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Mall, We've brought other businesses in, and you know, we've increased our
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role being O. Taxes tremendously went up over a million dollars in six years.
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In the community. Our size is tremendous and that allows us to do
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more things. We'll put more money into parks and wreck Our police and fire
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department are big priorities and I'll put them up against any department in the state.
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So you know, I'm surrounded with great people, council, employees,
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volunteers. I try to use some common sense and just lead day. Talking
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again with St Albans Mayor Scott James, how's the business climate in Saint Albans,
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Because it seems like every time I'm down there that there's a new business
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coming in of some sort, not only on old Meme but in these surrounding
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areas. I mean, I know you always want more business, but how
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are things going over all? Overall they're going good. One of the issues
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we have is we're so landlocked in St. Albans. One of the priorities
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would be we've got to get some annexation so we can expand and have property
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to bring not just businesses in but also industry. You know, but you
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know that's an uphill battle anytime you go to annex, so that's a big
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chore ahead of us. But the business climate overall is very good. We
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started a program a few years back we being o attacks. First year you
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only pay twenty five percent, second year fifty, third year seventy five percent,
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and in the fourth year you're on the full rate. So you know
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that gives new businesses a little bit of break to put that money back into
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their business and invest in themselves. And I know that you've had quite a
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few demolition projects, oh and sat talk about those. We've torn down over
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forty three structures since I took office. Our building Inspector Marshall Cheney started this
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program where we approached owners of dilapidated structures and we would pay for the demolition
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if they paid the dump fee. Then we took up money from the dump
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fee and put it back into the account to get more houses torn down.
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But because we started that program, we received in the first round five hundred
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and forty thousand dollars in grant money from d EP and the last of that
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was used to go towards the Junior High tearing it down and this round we
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got one hundred and eighty two thousand, and we're in the process of working
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on and get those properties condemned and get them torn down. Talking again with
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for you have the tax line, mayor says, Ask the mayor if they
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plan on getting some pickleball facilities. That's all the rage, man is pickleball.
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It is. We actually are looking at a location in Saint Albans at
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leveling out, repaving and putting up starting out with two pickleball courts. I
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don't have a time frame on it. We've got to get the costs.
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We don't think there's going to be a lot of cost involved. You know,
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you've got to get to netting the polls. You've got to get the
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diagram for the lines. But you know, we have somebody that can paint
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the lines for uce and that would be a good start. Eventually, I
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would like to have probably four to five pickleball. It's in St Albans.
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I mean, it's amazing. It's somebody I know, you're a sports guy.
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It is amazing how popular. I mean, I've got had Johnny Rutherford
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on the show last week. What they're doing over in Nitro right now,
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and I know other areas of the state are getting involved in this too.
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It's huge, it is. It's probably the fastest growing sport that it is
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out there right now. And the good thing about pick a ball and I
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used to play tennis, Dave and I love tennis, but pick a ball
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is a smaller court and people of all ages can plush sure, you know,
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so it's inclusive for everybody. And so that is our game plan right
22:34
now on pick a ball court. I wanted to have you on. I
22:37
always like to have you on and all the mayors for that matter, do
22:38
update things going on in their cities. But your big event is coming up
22:44
this weekend, big weekend for Saint Albans. We got Yakfest June fourteenth.
22:49
June fifteenth, starting at four o'clock on Friday, starts at two o'clock on
22:53
Saturday. Then at eight o'clock Saturday morning, the largest flatwater kayaking event hits
23:02
the river in Meadowood Park out Tornado, travels twelve miles down and gets out
23:07
in Saint Albans. So it's gonna be a huge weekend. The weather's supposed
23:11
to be nice, a little hot, but you're in the water, yeah
23:15
for the most part. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to to coal.
23:18
Well, one thing I recommend, you know, I know a lot of
23:21
people like drinking cold beer going down the river, but have some bottles of
23:23
water too. Yeah yeah, yeah, because you know, I like beer
23:27
as much as the next person, but that doesn't really hydrate you. That's
23:30
kind of the opposite. So you got to have get just a few bottles
23:33
of water to throw in there as well. How many years has this been
23:36
going on the tor to Coal. I think this is the twentieth or twenty
23:40
first year, and like I said, it has been deemed as the largest
23:47
flat water kayaking event in the country. So the Coal River Group's done a
23:51
tremendous job of cleaning up the entire col River system maybe eight miles stretch,
23:56
and they started this twenty twenty one years ago as a fundraiser. It's not
24:00
a race. You know, if you want to go fast, you can
24:02
go fast, but you know, it's turned into a twelve mile party.
24:07
To be honest with you. People sit along the river banks and out water
24:10
snakes, different things like that. There's boats on the river. We asked
24:15
that boaters and people on jets kes please keep in mind we're going to have
24:22
probably eighteen hundred two thousand kayakers coming down the river, so please be careful
24:29
and give them priority, please. And where are these people coming from?
24:32
What are some of the areas Maybe in the past couple of years that you've
24:33
talked to somebody and said, hey, I'm from We've had them as far
24:37
away as Texas come in for the Torticol And so we usually have people from
24:44
about fifteen different states. Of course, a lot of them are right here
24:47
in West Virginia. All over the state of West Virginia, and so it's
24:52
become a big event for outdoor enthusiasts and kayakers, I mean across the country.
24:59
It's huge. As you said, this is the largest one of its
25:00
kind. It is, it is. And then you know Friday night will
25:06
be having Yakfest music playing from four to ten. Now explain to us.
25:11
I've had every year I have you on the show, Mayor. But in
25:14
the case, somebody hit me up today and said, what exactly does yak
25:17
Fest mean? It's a kayak festival. Yeah, okay, but that's just
25:19
the shorten Yeah, yak Fest. There are no real yaks, No,
25:22
no real yaks, but we do have a mascot, kay that's a yak.
25:27
Okay. Yeah. So but you know, I approached Bill the year
25:33
we were running my first term back in March, and I approached him about
25:37
a festival around toward the cold and his eyes lit up. Bill Curry Ye,
25:41
And so we took it from there. We got a committee that does
25:45
a tremendous job and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Last year,
25:51
based on geo fencing, we felt there were approximately seventeen five hundred people on
25:56
Old Maine between Friday and Saturday, so that was a large crowd. We
26:00
have. Our music lineup this year is awesome. Our headliner for Friday night
26:07
is Fletcher's Grove. They've got a big following. The warm up band for
26:12
them is Quiet And on Saturday, music starts at two goes till ten.
26:17
We got Adam Parker and Bourbon Cowboys. At five, Corey Hager, a
26:22
young up and coming star out in Nashville. And then the headliner for Saturday
26:27
night is Bucky Covington. He was here last year, he's coming back and
26:33
it's just gonna be a great time now if people aren't in, and again
26:37
we want to make sure we understand these are two different events, but they
26:40
come together as one. Yes, But if people aren't into the kayaking thing
26:45
and they don't want to do the torticole, they can still just come and
26:48
hang out on the streets, right. Yeah, there's no charts to get
26:49
in. Music is free. Obviously, if you buy something from the vendors,
26:55
you got to pay for that. But you know, we run the
27:00
and things like that from sponsorships. And if it wasn't for our sponsors,
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you know, we couldn't do what we do with theatface, but Dave Allen
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twenty three ninety nine Texas. Are there going to be porta John's tour to
27:21
Coal? Thousands of people floating down the river with nowhere to go? Sounds
27:25
a bit unsanitary. Well again, I don't run the tour to Coal.
27:30
That's col River Group. I don't think they have porta John's along the route,
27:37
but I do know there's some at Lower Falls. So hold it to
27:40
you, just hold it to you get there. Yeah, yeah, Lower
27:41
Falls is about halfway down, so you could get out, pull over,
27:47
use Portajohn's there and get back in and float the rests away and there'll be
27:53
maybe a few porta Johns down at the end where they get out at in
27:57
Saint Aubert. Now, if people want to set up for yackfast like vendors
28:02
and do you have things like that going on there? I mean yes,
28:04
yeah, if food vendors do. You used to have room to get people
28:07
honors at schedule pretty much it's not totally full, but it's pretty full.
28:12
The way people need to do they just go to yakfestwv dot com and there's
28:18
a place to apply as a vendor. And we actually at our last meeting,
28:25
because of price is going up so high, we lowered the prices for
28:29
food vendors and so because the burden on them to make money and make a
28:36
profit was tougher with the price of food and then thing going on. And
28:41
I think sometimes people don't realize that when it comes to food trucks and vendors
28:45
and things of that nature. I mean they people will sometimes complain about the
28:48
prices, but I mean the food costs them more money too with inflation,
28:52
and that's that's exactly why they have to charge more. So if people come
28:56
out for the vendors, I know, we got food vendors. What other
28:59
kind of vendor? Yeah, we got arts and craft vendors. We have
29:02
outdoor vendors. There'll be beer vendors. To drink beer, you have to
29:07
go up, show your id, pay five dollars. It gets you a
29:10
colored wristband and the cup. Then you go buy you beer at whichever beer
29:15
vendor you want. I think there's gonna be three or four of them,
29:18
and one of them this year we got a new when it's Nano Breweries out
29:22
of Charleston. They're going to participate. So you know, it's just a
29:27
lot to do. And like I said, bring you chair, your bag,
29:30
chair, whatever. We got the County Stage at the end of Old
29:34
Main where it intersects with B Street and set up and you know on Saturday,
29:41
guys, if you're gonna participate in tore the coal paddle all day,
29:45
then come on down on Main Street and dance online. It's it's a big
29:48
time party. It is. And I know our sister Station ninety eight seven
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a Mountain Wild, a wonderful classic rock. We're going to be a big
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part of it. My man Steve Annimal is going to be there, so
29:56
you know it's a party if animals there a Steve Steves's on the Yakfest committee.
30:03
Yeah, he's been a big part of it. And uh yeah,
30:07
if Steve's there, you know there's a part always always. We had a
30:11
text here somebody said, do you have a date for the WVU Main Street
30:14
activities August twenty fourth. August twenty fourth, Yeah, start at three,
30:18
run till eight. They're bringing in I know Owen Schmid again, amongst other
30:23
ex the runaway beer truck. Yes, and uh there's going to be I
30:27
guess some of the band there, the cheerleaders, a dance team and uh,
30:33
this will be the third year Ford and uh it from first year to
30:37
second year it grew tremendously and we expect that same growth this year. And
30:41
good, all right, so let's kind of rack him up and shoot him
30:44
again on the on the on the time frame for everything for the torticle and
30:48
also for Yakfest, all right. Yakfest on Friday starts at four. Music
30:52
will play from four to ten, always a little bit of song Old Man
30:56
Yeah on ol Main. Always a little break in between us we switch groups,
31:00
but it's pretty much consistent. Saturday, it starts at two, goes
31:04
till ten. The tour to Coal starts about eight o'clock out Meadowood Park.
31:11
A lot of people drop their kayaks off on Friday evening. We provide shuttles
31:17
from the Loop area and from Center Hardware Area down in Saint Albans out to
31:25
Meadowood Park for people that need a ride out there, and then when they
31:30
get back in town, they just load their Kayak up in their vehicle.
31:33
All right. In social media, you've got websites, you got Facebook,
31:37
you and all that. Some people shouldn't be too hard to find the information.
31:40
No, Like I said, the official website JACKFESWV dot com. But
31:45
we also have a Facebook page, Yak Yakfest Facebook page. And tor to
31:51
Cole I know they have a website also the tort Coal and the Coal River
31:57
Group, but they also have a Facebook. All right, Mayor James,
32:00
It's always a pleasure to have you on the show. We'll be talking about
32:04
Yacfest throughout the week. I appreciate you being here about the luck with everything.
32:07
We'll see you this weekend. Man sounds great, man, look forward
32:09
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America's largest injury law firm. We had a text for the mayor and he
34:23
had to leave, but I asked him on his way out the door the
34:25
text didn't come through to leave. Was on his way out the door,
34:28
I asked him that a Texas said, is the bridge to Meadowood Park still
34:30
under construction? And the answer to that is yes, it is, as
34:36
I said, the text came through just as a mayor was leaving, But
34:37
I did ask him during the commercial break, and that is that is still
34:42
the case, still under construction. Texas is just curious. How did they
34:45
come up with the name yakfast? Is it because that's what you do while
34:47
going down the river? Now we explained that earlier. The name yakfast actually
34:52
comes from that is that is the vernacular of kayakers is is yack. It's
34:59
kind of a short for kayaking, That's what it is. Uh. Coming
35:02
up on tomorrow's show, journalist Amelionizeley is going to be here. Now.
35:07
She's an investigative reporter and she's one one of the true leaders in trying to
35:14
get to the bottom of some pretty troubling stories involving kids in the region.
35:20
You know them all now, from the Kennedy Miller story out of Boone County
35:22
to the horrible story from Cissonville. Uh, she's she's done some really fantastic
35:29
work on these stories, and UH just trying to make sure that someone or
35:37
someone's are held accountable, uh for the complete, the complete breakdown of the
35:43
system, Uh, involving just about every level. And there's a lot of
35:47
finger pointing to go around and and you know, you the the Governor's office
35:52
last Thursday, I think, uh, I think it was Thursday. It
35:54
was one of the days I was away, had a press conference and they
35:57
had some of the uh the governor what isn't there but Chief of Staff Brian
36:00
Abraham was and some others to talk about it, and there's you know,
36:05
it's an unfortunate situation. There are just a lot of fingers being pointed.
36:09
Uh uh. And the bottom line is is that there's probably enough blame to
36:15
go around. And but Amelia has been one of those people. And there
36:16
are several others our own, Brad Michaelhanny's one, Steven Allen Adams, Leslie
36:21
Rubin from over w C, it's just Fox eleven, Curtis Johnson from w
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I mean, the journalistic community here in Charleston has pretty much all come together
36:30
on this story. And I like one of the comments that was made I
36:32
think by Leslie Rubin when she was on with Hoppy on talk line is in
36:37
the world of journalism, of which I am not, I'm a talking head.
36:40
I'm not a journalist, but there's a lot of rivalry when it comes
36:46
to these stories. There's a lot of people trying to get the front and
36:49
be the first to get the story, and and that continues on other stories,
36:52
but this story, pretty much everybody is kind of working together on this
36:58
and it just goes to show you the seriousness of the situation. And we
37:05
just continue to hear about these things. Again, they're brought into like big
37:08
time when you have the story like out of Boone County or out of Sissonville.
37:12
But there's a whole lot of stories like that, maybe not as horrific,
37:15
but there are a whole lot of stories like that that go on every
37:17
day. And so again, Emilia has been one of these people that has
37:21
really been a part of the story. So I've asked her to come on
37:22
the show tomorrow, and she'll be on the show tomorrow. But Dave Allen
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Merrily, it's it's a pretty big deal for Charleston. I mean a really
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is so important that Big Jim couldn't be bothered to attend a press conference on
39:37
it. What a joke I noticed that. I mean, it was quite
39:43
noticeable that the Governor wasn't there. And now again Chief of Staff Brian Abraham,
39:46
who does a great job, was there, and I don't know what
39:51
the governor's schedule was. Again, I myself was out of town when this
39:53
was going on. Not that I cover press conferences regularly anyway, But yeah,
39:59
I thought the governor was very it was well, let me just say,
40:06
I thought he would be there. I really did. I don't know
40:09
how much more he could have added to the situation. And again Abraham does
40:13
a great job. But I thought it myself, just me speaking, I
40:16
thought it was a bad look that Governor Justice wasn't there. Phone with the
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40:27
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40:38
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40:40
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a great time and it's always great getting out of the studio and talking to
41:06
people as we had a chance to do on Saturday. And also want to
41:10
mention quickly and thank everyone who joined Chris Lawrence for Metro News, Mister Outdoors
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41:20
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helping out with that big events. And thanks to everyone. We're we're out
41:28
and about everywhere in the community in the summer anytime, and this is I
41:31
was just I try to keep up. Actually, Jenny Murray in our building
41:36
is one of the people that kind of keeps us all on task. Is
41:38
to the different events going on every weekend in the Canal Valley, not just
41:44
Charleston, but in other areas like Yackfast and Saint Albans and all these other
41:49
there's always something going on. There's always two or three things going on.
41:52
As a matter of fact, you got to sit down and you got to
41:54
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41:59
say there is nothing to do in our part of West Virginia in the Kanal
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Valley, I simply don't get it. I mean I simply do not.
42:06
And a lot of the things are free. Like if you go to Yakfest
42:09
this weekend, if you don't want to take part in the Tour de Cole
42:14
and you just want to go and hang out and listen to music, the
42:16
only charge you have is if you buy food, or you buy beer or
42:19
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42:23
a lot of folks work hard to make those things happen, So hats
42:29
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42:31
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there, we'll be doing well. They did a couple of weeks ago,
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and it was well publicized. I mean, he had on this station all
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the other media outlets, a targeted enforcement, as they called it. And
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I don't know whether or not at help, but I will tell you they
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were definitely busting some people in those areas. I was driving through there one
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day and it looked like a scene from Smoking the Bandit with all of the
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blue lights. I don't I'm not really sure what day it was, but
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it was around noontime a couple of weeks ago, and literally there were probably
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ten police cars on both sides, east and westbound, pulling people over for
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speeding through the construction zone. Remember, folks, the speed limit is fifty
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five through there, So if you're listening to me right now and you're driving
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through that congested area, it's fifty five miles an hour, not sixty,
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not sixty five by five, So just slow down now. That is just
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one part, though, of the project. According to mister packing again.
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It's all part of Cat's storywv metronews dot com. The bridge work that I'm
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referring to now should be done by late fall. Now the Nitro exit ramp
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east of Cross Lanes and the overall widening project. This is the overall project
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from Nitro to Tays Valley. That part won't be finished till sometime in twenty
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twenty five. They say it's frustrating. I know. I travel at least
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five days a week, if not sometimes six or seven, but a minimum
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of five days a week between Tays Valley and Charleston. I know it's frustrating,
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but in the end, uh it is. It's going to be worth
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it, and always look at it like this. We're a lot further along
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now than what we were to keep that keep that in mind. I don't
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know if you've been following Hoppies conversations about the voting issues in Mingo County during
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the primary. Apparently, and these are allegations Democrats were allowed to vote Republican
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ballots, and there are allegations that some poll workers allowed that. Now,
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let's keep in mind though these are just these are just allegations. Investigations are
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being launched into it. And as badly as I hate to say it,
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and a lot of people's eyes, this is just Mingo County being Mingo County.
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Now, that's an area that I that's that's my part of the world,
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so to speak. That this is an area that has had quite an
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extensive history of voting shall we say, irregularities. I mean a lot of
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the stories are part of West Virginia political lore. Now, people selling the
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office of sheriff, remember that actually happened back in the eighties. Lots of
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folks going to jail. And when you hear stories like this, it's just
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another black eye on the area. You know, my native land in Logan
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County. It's actually kind of boring now when it comes to voter or candidate
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fraud, and actually has been for the last few decades, which is not
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a bad thing. But in Mingo County the investigations are being launched. Will
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be keeping an eye on it and totally unrelated. We'll close with this Jeff
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Jenkins as the story post to wv metro news dot com. Secretary of State
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Mac Warner is joining other Secretaries of States from a few other states, Arkansas,
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Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and
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Wyoming in opposition to a measure that they say could federalize state elections. Now,
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this is coming in the form of an executive order from President Biden.
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Secretary Warner says the executive order would allow federal agencies to use federal dollars for
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get out the vote efforts. Now. The order was signed by the President
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in March of twenty twenty one, and mc wardner's calling it unconstitutional, citing
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the Elections Clause of the Constitution, which he says specifically declares that the manner
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of running elections should be left up to the states. And you can read
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all about it at wv Metronews dot com. And I worked trying to maybe
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sometime later this week try to get Secretary Warner on the show. Texas Dave
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Mingo County no worse than Trump says the text. Well that that may very
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well be all right, We got to go. Thank you so much to
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marily mccalloff from WOWKT for making her debut on the show today, and also
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Saint Albans Mayor Scott James for being on the show. Coming up on tomorrow's
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show again, we're gonna dive deep into the situation. These horrific stories have
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come out of Verrius, like Boone County Assistantville involving West Virginia kids. Journalist
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Amilia Nicely will be on the show to talk about that. Coming up tomorrow,
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Dave Wilson is in the big chair for Hobby. Coming up talk Line
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at ten oh six. Have a great, great rest of your Monday.
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