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07/18/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Ric Cavender, Johnny Rutherford, Tristan Leavitt · The Dave Allen Show

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are you, sir? Good morning, I'm doing fine, Thank you for
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being here, and it's time for phone. It's don't it was it was
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I guess postponed for a little while. I was supposed to be made thirteenth
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and that we you know, due to really severe weather forecast, we made
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the decision to move it to July twenty second, So that's this Saturday.
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Yeah, tell us about for people that aren't familiar with because you hear the
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title Phone with the Dome, and somebody may be listening saying, well,
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I don't like beer, I'm not gonna go. Yeah. I find those
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people reprehensible. Now I'm kiddy, I'm kidding, but but you know,
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it's a whole lot more than than just a beer fast. There's a lot
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more to it than that talk about. What's funny you say that because when
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we first started the event in twenty sixteen, people would say, is this
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a phone party? Are you doing a phone party? Well, it's like,
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no, it's not, but no it's not, no, no,
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no, no, it's actually we um we started uh the Capital Region's first
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ever craft beer festival back in twenty sixteen, Phone with the Dome, and
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um, every year it's grown. Excuse me, it's grown. Um.
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It started out at lately Field and it's grown, and now it's so big
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that we now have it on the Canal Boulevard right in front of the state
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capital, in front of the Dome. UM. You know this this event
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historically we have over two hundred beers on tap craft beers even um, even
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more domestic beers if you're into the more you know, simple domestic beers,
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we have those as well, ciders, um, seltzers. The list is
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pretty vast. Uh. That's one of the main highlights is because you know,
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the the crappier industry has exploded so much, it's incredible. It's a
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great show off of all the Appalachium excuse me, all the West Virginia beers
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for sure, all the I think every West Virginia brewery is is represented,
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but also breweries from around the country. UM. We have a lot of
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great food vendors. I think we have eight or nine food vendors signed up.
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Um we have Uh, Charlie Black is going to be our DJ this
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year on the on the City National Bank stage. UM. And last,
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and certainly not least, we have to make sure to think Old Colony Rotors.
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They are the title sponsor of fone with the Dome. They have now
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been this is their second year as the title actually technically third year as a
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title sponsor of of Foam with the dome Um and uh, you know again,
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the event gets bigger every year. Tickets are on sale at Foam CWV
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dot com right now ahead of the event. They are forty five dollars for
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general admission, fifty five dollars for early entry. Of course, the event
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starts at three pm for early entry. For general admission it starts at four
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pm. The event goes till seven pm for everyone. If you decide to
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wait and purchase your tickets at the door, they do go up five dollars,
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so they would be of course fifty and sixty at the door. We
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also have a designated driver ticket, so if you're coming and you want to
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just hang out with your friends and you are the designated driver for the evening,
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we obviously encourage that tickets are only twenty dollars for a designated driver.
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So a lot of different options there. Historically we have between but depending on
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the weather, depending on the year. Between eighteen hundred and twenty three hundred
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people that have attended this event, they have come from sixteen different states,
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and you know, so we're talking a lot of heads and beds and hotels
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of people that aren't even from the region, which is great, and that's
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what all the stuff boils down to. It's great to have a good time
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and all this again we're talking with that with great capital from Charleston main streets.
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It's great to have a good time. But it's all about the economy.
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Man, it's all about as you said, I'm I'm a capitalist.
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It's all about putting the It's all about putting the heads and beds, and
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that's what events like this do for not only Charleston but the surrounding area.
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Yeah. I mean, we're urban economic business development organization. So our goal
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in our mission is to is to enrich the local business community, to encourage
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people to not only shop local, but to to live local, be local,
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be as local as you possibly can, because as we all know,
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the local economy is what drives our communities and what makes our communities what they
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are, right, It's how we keep from being quote unquote anywhere USA,
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right right. So, um, we're fulfilling our mission for several purposes.
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Whenever we put on phone with the dome, that's one of them. Um.
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Also it's a fundraiser for our organization. All The money that is raised
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through this through Front with the Dome as well as our other major fundraisers,
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go right back into the urban community here in Charleston, in Charleston, West
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Virginia, specifically the West side and the East end, helping us fulfill our
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mission to recruit new business to the area of filled up VACAN buildings. You
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know, public art projects, excuse me, esthetic enhancement projects. The list
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goes on. So this is this is obviously important for several reasons. How
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are things going in that department? Let's talk about what you do, you
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know, other than just planning the phone with the Dome, I mean,
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how are things going in and getting businesses to come to the area? These
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small you hate to use it to term MoMA pop because it's so cliche,
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but it is a lot of times what it is. How is that how's
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that expansion going for Charleston. You know, we've seen ebbs and flows.
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I mean it was interesting while the rest of the country was was really most
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of the rest of the country was really impacted by COVID. Small business was
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really impacted by COVID. We saw a lot of businesses closed at the time.
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We didn't see a lot of businesses in Charleston, especially in downtown,
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West, west Side, East End closed a matter of fact, we saw
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some open um. We're seeing some of that residual now two three years out
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from COVID, we've seen a couple of businesses closed. We have a couple
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of vacant buildings, but we also we're seeing some buildings that have been vacant
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for a long time. Um, we're seeing lises getting signed. We're seeing
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new business new whether it's offices, whether it's pubs, restaurants, boutiques.
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We're seeing these slowly filled back up again. So hopefully that trend was very
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short for us, and now we're back on the upswing. That's that is
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our hope, and I think that's what we're seeing. But as far as
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our projects go, I mean, you know, outside of just business development,
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and we've talked about this on air a few times, but you know,
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public space enhancement is a really big part of our mission as well,
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because if the public space isn't where it should be, then it's not going
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to be welcoming for people to come into and shop and eat and hopefully live
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right So our West Side Gateway lighting initiative, we've talked about that a couple
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of times. We're right in the middle of the execution of that particular initiative
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we announced at last August. We're currently in the engineering phase right now.
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We hope to start the construction phase here in the next couple of months.
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We're going to be replacing all of the lamp posts in the Gateway district,
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the Elk City district of the west Side. That's been a problem, I
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think, not to interrupting, that's been a problem, I think for sometimes
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because there's been stories reported in the news on our station and other outlets that
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things happen and not so well lit air. That's right, yeah, I
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mean this project, the number one is safety. Number two is aesthetic enhancement
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UM. Safety is one hundred percent or safety is the number one concern UM.
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We're we're gonna take it from more of an orange tungsten lighting that is
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not very welcoming and inviting at nighttime to a brighter led lighting shining on the
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street. But also what makes this project very unique for the region is that
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the lighting will also be shining up onto the facades of the of most of
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the buildings there, and the colors can be changed it can be changed for
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you know, depending on the time of year, whether it's a holiday.
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Um. This is going to sort of a first of its kind for Charleston
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and it will definitely help brand the area more um but also make it a
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lot safer. So that's an example of a project that we've undertaken over the
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last couple of years. A few years now actually we raised over half a
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million dollars for that project, UM and now we're in the execution phase,
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so that's really exciting. Most of the murals that you see on the on
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the buildings on the East End and the West side. A good example is
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the Dreamer, the guy that's sitting on the bench when you're going into Elk
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City, the huge mural there, UM. That's that that was a project
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of hours. Those are the types of projects that we undertake to make Charleston
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stand out from other cities, to make them feel like a destination and be
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a destination. And so those are just examples of the projects that we that
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we execute as an organization. And again, these events like from of the
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Dome help us raise the money we need to operate to execute those projects.
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We have it. We have a small staff, we have an incredibly dedicated
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group of volunteers and board members that help us execute our projects every year.
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Um, but we're you know, we're a smaller organization, but we're really
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proud of the work that we do. It's amazing to me, getting back
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to the beer aspect of it, it is amazing to me the popularity of
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craft beers and these breweries are the last couple of years, not only in
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West Virginia, but but elsewhere. And you know, people I was in
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I was in Morgantown, you know, for a couple of days at the
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end of last week. And when people walk into an establishment, Um,
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that's if they're not going into an actual brewery, they're going into the local
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pub or the hotel bar or whatever. That's the first thing they're asking.
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They're not they're not necessarily today saying you give me a chords light, metal
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light, bud light, whatever. They're right, they're saying, what what
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do you have local? I mean, and this is such a I don't
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know, it just kind of exploded overnight a couple of a few years ago.
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Well, I mean you may recall, I'm sure you. I mean,
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you pay attention to politics as close as I do. I mean,
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you know, you may recall back in twenty fifteen, Dave, when the
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and I was actually active in this particular bill um when the bill that was
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passed to expand not only to allow for growlers to be filled um in in
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several other types of establishments that allowed for new revenue streams for local business,
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but it was also to encourage the expansion of the craft brew industry. After
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that bill was passed in twenty fifteen, that was a vary by bipartisan effort.
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Like across the board, everyone was behind this. After that bill passed,
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we saw I think at the time there were like nine craft breweries in
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West Virginia, and I think the numbers in the thirties or forty forties or
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fifties. Now I can't remember the exact number, but I mean, of
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course that was eight years ago. But but that really helped at least propel
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um that that whole that industry in that concept. And now I think to
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your point, what you're getting at is that this is this not only is
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is it a culture of its own, but it's also an economy. Yes,
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we're talking about people travel for for hundreds of miles just to try new
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breweries because it doesn't experience and we're show me the money. We're yeah,
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we're concentrating that right here in Charleston in front of the dome this Saturday.
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Right, let's let's kind of wrap it up here phone with the dome.
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Uh talk about where to get tickets? Good as it's foam CWV dot com.
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Um you can. You can purchase and download your ticket right there and
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scan it at the door. You do, say five dollars if you don't
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physically where is that's a great question. Our gate the gate for entry is
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uh near Greenbrier Street. Okay, So we're only gonna have one entrance this
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year. Last year we had two. We had one at California want a
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Greenbrier. Greenbrier was much more trafficked. So we've made the decision to Well,
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when you're dealing with volunteers too, it's kind of hard to have everybody
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spread out everywhere. That's we have wonderful volunteers. Over two hundred volunteers are
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helping us at this event and we couldn't do it without him, and we're
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trying to make it a little easier on them this year. So um,
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yeah, if you if you in. Tons of parking is available at the
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Capitol in the garage there, but also all throughout the streets, um throughout
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the east end, and it's a short walk over to the Green Briar Street
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entrance about right around the Governor's mansion actually is where on the canall Bolivart is
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where you'll see the where you'll see the gate. Okay, good stuff.
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We wish you the best of luck with everything. We'll have to have you
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on again because that's you know, I'm kind of a geek about the stuff.
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No, not beer necessarily but that too. But but the but the
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economic aspect of it, what these things. So I'll have you on again
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to talk about that. I appreciate it of course, like a sam ago.
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And time start to start any time is three pm for early entry folks
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and four pm for general admission. All right, we'll see you there.
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came up in the city council meeting? Yes, as it's top of the
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show. I am. A little bit later on the show, it was
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Ever saying some discussion of the Charleston City Council meeting about that. We've got
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stories posted on all the websites and things of that nature. So yeah,
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we're gonna talk about that a little bit later on. I want to talk
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with our good friend Johnny Rutherford. How are you, sir? I'm great,
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Dave, how are you? I am doing fine? Man that we're
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bringing a whole lot of people into the Canal Valley this weekend. I just
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had Rick Cavetrod talking about Foam with the Dome. A couple thousand people expected
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to turn out for that, but not to be outdone. You got people,
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he said, he had people coming in I think from sixteen different states
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or what had been in the past for Foae with the Dome. You're gonna
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try to top sixteen states. Well, we can't get there, but it's
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our first year of the tournament and it's going to be the largest pickleball tournament
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ever in the state of West Virginia. We have people coming in from six
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different states, Okay, and that's it's it mainly border states because it can't
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be all border because because there's gotta be one because we don't haven't to be
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border states. We've got one from Florida, we got one from Oklahoma,
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and we have a couple from Missouri. Okay. We're it's it's it's been
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advertising nationally and people are coming in because they're excited about the Nitro Complex,
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the brand new complex, and they're excited about Pickaball. So they're coming from
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everywhere. I mean, Nitro is going to be an exciting plays. A
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matter of fact, Joe Stevens from the city's going to join us on the
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show tomorrow. Next Monday, My Mayor my weekly Mayor Monday segments could be
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Mayor Caseball. There's a lot of stuff going on in Nitro. They're great
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to work with. They've they've got a great facility, they've done a good
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job with it. The mayor's great personality and we've been a good team along
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with the staff. So it's been it's been it's been exciting. So what
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a we got going on? I mean, because all starts I guess Friday
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night, right, it starts Friday night. We've done a good job.
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The Charleston Pickleball Club with Todd File and Matt Duncan have helped me a great
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deal. And what we have is Friday Night from five to eight is community
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to night. And they'll be free swimming, free splash park. We'll have
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music there a gentleman named Scott Honicker who's been a Nashville singing He's a local
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guy. I actually know. I worked at an event, not law deal
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with Scott. He played at the Westerndinia Food Truck Festival. Yeah. What
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a great talent he is. Matt Scott's awesome. He's he's wanting to help
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us. Of course you know where we've hired him, but he's wanting to
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help us because it's a local event. They'll be pickleball for the people that
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are in the tournament to get warmed up. There'll be free pickleball lessons for
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those who have never played pickleball, will welcome through, show them the rules
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and show them how to play. We're very excited about that. We'll have
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food trucks, dem two Brothers will be there. Check Filab will be there,
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We'll have the Charleston Safety Firehouse there, will have ConA Ice there.
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Then Metro nine one one will be teaching the kids at the pool and the
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parents how to call nine one one and when to call nine one one.
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That's kind of an important thing when you think about it, because I mean,
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that's something I really hadn't thought about, is how and when to call
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nine one one. And I know that's kind of your field outside pickleball.
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That's your other field of expertise, is the whole nine one one thing.
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That's very important to chance tocate kids on that. And that's dumlad you said
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that. This is sponsored by Metro nine one one and our tournaments called serving
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for safety because our employees serve for safety to all the law enforcement, EMS
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and fire and our citizens every day. So that's that's what a tournament is
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about. And that's what we want to do is educate a lot of the
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children on community night on what to do when there's an emergency in their house,
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if if their parents aren't available. Now to talk with Johnny Rutherford again
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about this big pickleball event. Now, a lot of these events are going
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on on Friday, but Saturday you get people coming in from, as you
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said, all over as far away as Missouri to take part in this tournament.
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Oklahoma, Missouri, Florida. And we have two hundred and thirty two
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players, which is probably fifty to sixty players, more than any tournament every
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in the state of West Virginia. We'll be there all day Saturday, all
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day Sunday. We start at am on Saturday and probably go to five or
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six in the evening the eight am on Sunday and go to five to six
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in the evening. People are welcome to come watch. The mayor has agreed
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to let people watch without a cost to get in of course, to pull
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if you come on Saturdays and then we'll call something Friday night. It's free.
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But bring your bring your lawn chair, bring your chair, come set
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beside the courts, and watch some great pickaball players. Now explain, and
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you've been on the show several times talking about this, but in case people
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may have missed, it explained the whole game of pickaball to us John pickaballs
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across between tennis and table tennis. It's on a smaller chord. It's played
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with a plastic ball. It's a quick moving It's a quick moving sport.
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The great thing about the sport it doesn't matter your gender, it doesn't matter
20:53
your size because the courts lay way, the course laid out, and the
20:56
rules that you could be a I've play with young late or ladies. There
21:02
are sixty six and five foot two and hundred ten pounds and I'm six two
21:04
two thirty and they beat me. It's an amazing game. It's just a
21:07
great game. And that's what's so great about It's a very competitive no matter
21:11
of your gin jewers size, and we're I mean, it's just like suddenly
21:12
popped up over the last couple of years because I had never heard of it,
21:15
and then one of my friends or something maybe I saw on social media
21:19
was talking about playing in this pickaball tourm I was like, what the heck
21:22
is pickleball? And it just kind of I mean, I know it's been
21:25
around for what do you have any idea what the history of the game is
21:26
or where it came from and how the heck it became so popular all of
21:30
a sudden. Personally, I don't The Charleston pickaball clubs are more into that
21:33
I picked. I found it five years ago. I was down North Calina
21:37
on vacation and some friends asked me to play, and I played, and
21:40
I came home and really didn't have anybody to play with. And then I
21:41
ran into the Charleston Pickleball Club and they have a WhatsApp app and we meet
21:45
in South Charleston at Jackson Park and at Nitro and we have on Tuesday and
21:49
Thursdy evenings. We have fifty sixty people playing every every night. It's amazing.
21:53
Well, anything that gets people out of the house and put down devices,
21:56
especially younger people, not to stay type, but to get him out
22:00
of the house, get him to do something, I think is always a
22:03
positive thing. Yeah, you had a good point there too about the younger
22:06
people, because I said myself, I'm sixty six now, which is a
22:08
good sport for some my age. But most of the people that play are
22:14
thirty year old professionals. There's bankers, there's lawyers, there's architects, and
22:18
it's an amazing So it's an amazing social event. And that's what's great about
22:21
it. Whether you've been playing for ten years and you're really good or you're
22:23
new, it's a social event and they bring you in and teach you and
22:26
they want you to be part of it. It's it's that's part of Pickaball
22:29
is the social atmosphere. They move that forward. You know, it's kind
22:33
of interesting. This is kind of deciding to hear one of my good friends
22:36
from from high school. I keep up with him on social media. I
22:41
haven't seen him in I don't think since we graduated high school. We keep
22:44
up on Facebook. And he just placed and actually won his division in a
22:49
nationally recognized pickleball turner but in Arkansas, and he's my age, and he's
22:53
already turned fifty three. So again, I mean, he's still out there
22:57
doing it at fifty three is not old, neither six six bot. But
23:02
you know, I mean this thing is is huge and you can do it
23:04
regardless of your age. Yeah. Right. You know, I've kind of
23:07
stayed out of playing it this weekend, but we needed to play. You
23:10
just didn't want to dominate, right. Well, I'm not sure about that
23:12
exactly, but I stayed out of playing, but we actually had an individual
23:17
sign up that didn't have a partner, So I'm gonna go ahead and play
23:18
with him. He's he's he's in his mid seventies, he's from Pittsburgh.
23:22
He's driving out here to play. So I'm gonna play with him this weekend.
23:25
That's so, that's that's amazing stuff. How long does um an average
23:29
pickleball? Do you is? Do you refer to it as a game or
23:30
a matcher? You know, either a match game. It depends on the
23:36
on their skill level. But it takes probably about about twenty minutes fifteen to
23:40
twenty minutes for a game. And during the tournament, each person will play
23:42
forty six games, so you you know, you get to play quite a
23:45
few games and everything depending on if you if you keep winning, the more
23:48
games will play. And there's it's my skill set. Uh. They have
23:51
beginners, then we have people that are advanced. Then it's also about age.
23:55
It's all about it up to try to make it fair during the tournaments
23:56
and the it's almost it's becoming like tennis or like golf as far as the
24:02
equipment, you know. And I noticed this, as I said, I
24:04
keep up with my friend who lives in Arkansas who just won a big you
24:08
know, nationally recognized turniment out there, and he's always posting things like golfers
24:14
would on his Facebook page, this is my new x J seven paddle or
24:18
whatever, you know. I mean, it's it's that's a big business as
24:22
well. Yeah, you can go to Dicks or when the local sports pleepoint
24:26
and pick up a racket for twelve to twenty five dollars. Once you get
24:30
serious and if you play and you really want to, you get into it.
24:33
The paddles cost anywhere from one hundred and fifty to three hundred and thirty
24:37
three dollars, so it gets expensive. The balls are inexpensive, but the
24:40
paddles can get expensive. You have a hard time. I mean again,
24:42
I'm trying to picture this. Do you like with tennis balls or golf balls?
24:45
But they just go flying all over the place and you lose a few,
24:48
No, if you you have to, if you're good, I guess
24:51
not. Yeah, right, And now they don't because you picture when you
24:52
were young and you're playing with football, a ball with holes all the way
24:57
around. That's what it is. So the distance, the speed of the
25:00
game is very quick because it's close. You're close to each other. But
25:03
the distance and the balls you don't have. You really don't have a problem
25:07
with that. You might have to be not being very skilled knocking it right
25:10
and left, but the balls they pretty much been in a certain area.
25:12
How long did it when you started playing? How long did it take you
25:15
to get pretty good at it? Well? I thought I was pretty good
25:18
in six months. I thought that was pretty good. In six months,
25:21
I was playing with just some close friends. Yeah, and then when I
25:22
got with the Charleston Pickleball Club, the skill level went up. And I'm
25:26
what you call probably a three zero to three point five. I'm I'm an
25:30
average player. And I've been playing for about two years now, a couple
25:36
of nights a week, because I've always I was talking to another friend of
25:37
mine who just happy to pick up the game of golf. And he this
25:41
is a guy who was a high school athlete and everything, and and it's
25:42
forties. He decided to pick up the game of golf. And he was
25:45
telling me last week he said, this is the most frustrating game I've ever
25:48
seen in my entire life. He said, because I was able to master
25:51
baseball as a young man, Baseball, football, basketball, he said,
25:55
golf kicks my butt on a daily or well, however, and he plays
26:00
on a regular basis it's just the nature of sports. I guess five of
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talk about these events, and I did this with the Rick two, I
26:18
always like to talk about the economic impact. And I know it's the first
26:22
time that you've had an event like this, but there'll be people studying this
26:26
and coming back and saying, Okay, what can we do differently next year
26:30
or whatever. But when you've got people coming in, as you said,
26:33
from as far away as Oklahoma and Missouri, that's kind of the theme of
26:37
the day. Going back to what Cavender said, you know, that's gonna
26:40
put heads in beds, and that's gonna put people in restaurants and things of
26:42
that nature. Yeah, we're excited. Like I say, we had a
26:45
good team between the Nitro and the Pickleball Club and we actually went we decided
26:49
to early want to go national with this. The troll through pickleball brackets dot
26:53
Com and pretty much that that company pushes your tournament out and it advertises nationwide,
26:59
and we have six six players coming in from out of state, but
27:02
their families are coming off sea and they're staying at the local and they're not
27:04
gonna play the entire time. They're not gonna play, They're not gonna do
27:07
their match. And leaf we have a you know, yeah, we have
27:08
a few people coming in in their motor homes and they're gonna they're gonna they're
27:11
gonna stay at a local area, so they're gonna have that. And we
27:15
have the motels. Local motels given discounts and just because we say six states,
27:19
but we have a lot of people come from Morgantown and the northern part
27:22
of the state and they can't drop. They will, yeah, they were
27:26
their people also their players also, but they will stay local also because you
27:30
know there's yeah, Bridge Sports a big area for pickleball, uh, the
27:33
Bridgeport and Morgantown, so a lot of them people are coming down to play
27:37
Saturday and Sunday, so they'll be staying in the local hotels too. That's
27:40
what we like to hear. Okay, uh recap it for us again the
27:44
of what's happening Friday night and into Saturday. John Okay Sunday, Yeah,
27:47
Friday, five day, it's free city in Nitro. We have food vendors
27:49
there to purchase food, free swimming, free splash park, free music,
27:55
free pickleball lessons and one big thing. We still have openings for the pickle
27:59
eating content. And well we have Ryan. You listen to this man pickle
28:03
that that's my producer Ryan. He's all about that. Okay. Well,
28:06
Mount Olive Pickle and North Calina and we've worked with them. They sent us
28:07
product and we're gonna in five minutes. Whoever eats most pickles wins one hundred
28:11
dollars cash wow plus a trophy. And then of course all day Saturday and
28:15
Sundays the tournament. We invite you to come out if you have an interest
28:18
in pickleball, if you just have an interesting community events, come out and
28:21
watch it. You'll love it all right, John, wish you the best
28:23
to like man, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. Good
28:26
luck with everything. And this has been a big undertaking viewers. You've been
28:27
on several times to talk about it. We wish you to bet the weather
28:30
looks great this weekend. It's been pure crap, you know. The last
28:34
couple of days and with storms or whatnot, but they say to buy this
28:37
weekend things things start to look up. And again, if you've got an
28:41
interest in this, if even if you don't want to play, just go
28:44
out and watch and just kind of check it out and say, okay,
28:45
this this may be for me and my family. Yeah, and Dave,
28:48
we want to thank you in your station, in your program here for helping
28:52
us make this a success. All right, twelve bust to lut to you.
28:55
John, We'll talk soon. We'll see you this weekend. Man,
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there on Saturday. That is all in Achanon, which is a town that
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we get a chance, I'd go up there and check it out.
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Text three or four nine three five five zero zero eight. Awaiting Tristan Levitt,
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we have Tristan yet? We do not have Tristan yet. All right,
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we are waiting on Tristan Levitt to call us up here. I know he's
34:49
going to be on the show because he actually tweeted about it. I saw
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a tweet that he said he would be on the show. But I've not
34:54
heard from him yet. So hopefully we'll get him scheduled here. We'll get
34:59
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seriously investigated. Again, this is a city attorney talking. The city's HR
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36:23
translated means HR. Again. The story's posted with statements from the city attorney
36:29
at WCHS network dot com if you'd like to read that now. Again,
36:32
it's important to note that these are merely allegations at this point. So they're
36:40
allegations at this point. So we are okay, Ryan, I don't know
36:45
what's going on at person says that they are trying the number and it's not
36:49
happening. We're having phone issues in there or what. So we're working.
36:52
Tristan Levitt is trying to get hold of us here, but he's sending me
36:58
sending me text matches. Says he's trying to get through and it's not working.
37:01
So I don't know exactly what the issue is with the phone. We
37:06
are working. We are effort. He may want to see you can get
37:07
Cooper somebody down here to see what the problem is. But he's he's trying.
37:12
Is Tristan Levitt, who's a candidate for a house. He was traveling
37:15
this morning, from what I understand, and U en up in the northern
37:17
part of the state, traveling on business and he was going to call us
37:20
up to talk about his candidacy, and he says he is trying, but
37:23
it is not going through. So all right, so that's the story.
37:29
Going back to the to the city council situation last night against Shannon Sondergrass city
37:32
council person is asking for an independent investigation. The city has released that statement
37:37
and again you can see it posted at WCHS network dot com. Okay,
37:44
we okay, Well we're still trying to get to Tristan for some reason,
37:47
but we don't have Triston, so let's go to Jerry. You're up on
37:51
five eighty Live. Go ahead, Hey, good morning, Dave. You
37:54
know I knew Tyke when he was a Tyke. I worked with his father
38:00
on the fire department for many years. And you know, I really don't
38:05
have an opinion on what's going on right now, but that's not why I
38:07
called. If you don't mind, I want to go off topic for just
38:14
a Secondly, don't have a topic right now, so go ahead, okay,
38:16
okay. So when I heard you're a guest talking about craft beers and
38:21
all that kind of thing, it reminded me. You know, my family
38:24
had what they called beer joints back in the day. Did you know that
38:30
there was a state law that you could not light up a commercial beer sign
38:37
like Budweiser or Stroves. Back in the day, I used to collect beer
38:43
signs and if it was a really great beer sign, I'll live up beautiful.
38:49
They had to take the lights out as soon as they crossed the border
38:52
of West Virginia because the law said you could not have a Budweiser sign or
38:59
any other commercial sign lit up. So you would see, like in my
39:04
uncle's place, a little sign in the window that was lit up and it
39:08
said cold beer. You were allowed to have a sign that said cold beer,
39:14
but it could not be a commercial sign. And I thought that was
39:17
one of the dumbest laws I've ever heard of. In my wife, you
39:23
may have given me an idea for a future segment, because we've had this
39:27
sort of thing before, the dumb advertising laws in the past, things that
39:30
I've seen in my career in radio. But go ahead, Well, what
39:32
I'm curious about did we did we finally get rid of that law? I
39:37
mean, I don't go in the bars. I've never had a beer in
39:39
my life, But are you allowed to have a lit up Budweiser sign?
39:45
You can? You can? Well, I mean there's too far, far,
39:47
too many of them out there for for it not to be legal.
39:51
I would think, well, I mean, think about the fifties and sifties,
39:54
you could say the same thing that was illegal, and again just the
40:00
dumb law. And I was just curious if anybody knew if that law,
40:05
you know, was finally thrown out. All right, we'll look into it,
40:08
Jerry, I gotta get I appreciate it. Thank thirteen minutes away from
40:10
ten, I think we have Tristan Levitt, Ryan, we have we have
40:14
Triston on the show. Tristan, good morning, how are you? Hey?
40:15
Good morning? I'm well so sorry about the like I wasn't able to
40:19
get through before. Okay, well, you know it's the thousands of people
40:22
to call the show. That's what it is. Well, we're gonna blame
40:23
it on that. How's that. Tristan Levitt is a Republican candidate House of
40:28
District fifty three. First of all, sir, explain what is District fifty
40:30
three? What area we talking about? Sure? So it runs from just
40:35
north the very north tip of Edgewood up over Mink Shoals and then kind of
40:39
runs down underneath the camp underneath the Knskin Park goes along Oak Ridge and really
40:45
all this area just north of the river from the capital, so all the
40:49
way out to Belle includes Campbell's Creek, So just that kind of wide stretch
40:52
north of the river, north of the capitals. Okay, so why are
40:55
you running for office? So my is an original native of Charleston and she
41:01
went to Capitol High School here in our area, and we have five kids
41:06
here in this area, and it just seems like this is a very exciting
41:08
but crucial time for West Virginia to be able to tackle some of these key
41:12
issues like education, like the structure of the state government, some of the
41:16
challenges with PIA or staffing shortages. There's a lot of really important issues.
41:22
And my background as a lawyer and working on a lot of other policy issues
41:27
I think will help me to attack them those issues and try and contribute to
41:30
the progress that again is really exciting for West Virginia right now that we're really
41:35
on the cusp of But there really needs some serious, thoughtful policy consideration.
41:38
What you know, the Republicans have the supermajorities you well know in West Virginia,
41:43
and there's been I spend my time talking about the pros and content,
41:46
not myself necessarily, but the listeners and the textures and whatever callers. Do
41:50
you know about the pros and the cons of that to what do you attribute
41:54
being a Republican yourself? What do you contribute the the rise in the popularity
41:59
of the Republican Party in West Virginia. Two? It's an interesting question.
42:02
I mean, obviously, having had democratic control for so long in this state,
42:07
I think that's that's one element of it, is that you frequently see
42:09
voters turned from one side together some of the some you know, some of
42:14
the those like coal workers and others industries that have been while set in place
42:19
for so long in West Virginia have really been attacked here in our state.
42:22
And so I think that's put a lot of voters up for grabs. A
42:25
lot of cultural issues have really become you know that before weren't the province of
42:30
one party or the other. But you know, someone who is pro life,
42:32
who's pro gun right now, you know, might not feel at home
42:36
in one of the two parties. And so I think I think that's had
42:37
a big impact on the shift. Tristan again, we're talking with Tristan Levitt,
42:42
who's a campaign for a House of District fifty three a candidate, I
42:45
should say, your campaign released some information over the weekend, and to put
42:50
it quite frankly, sir, you aren't doing too badly in the fundraising department,
42:53
and which is not bad since you didn't even start, you know,
42:57
raising money, you know, there for some time. I think you made
42:59
your official candida to see announcement in April. Apparently your message is resonating with
43:04
people pretty relatively early on. Why do you think that is well? I
43:08
think people recognize that, you know, again, experience is really critical when
43:12
it comes to governance, right. It's useful to be able to study out
43:15
issues. It's useful to be able to dig deep. Another piece that is
43:19
really important to me is that I focus a lot on transparency. I focus
43:22
a lot on the importance of oversight and government, and I think everybody can
43:28
relate to that, no matter what part of the political spectrum you're on.
43:31
We all know that, you know, we don't want to see waste,
43:34
farad and abuse in the government. We all know that when good people come
43:37
forward to point out problems, we should listen to those folks. And so
43:38
I think those are all issues that have resonated for people, and I've been
43:42
very grateful for their support, and I want to talk about that kind of
43:45
transition away from the campaign. We'll get back to it here in a couple
43:47
of moments. Again, we're talking with Tristan Levin as a candidate for House
43:51
in District fifty three. You've been making the rounds here a whole lot.
43:54
I know you're on the road today talking about whistle blowing. Explain explained that
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aspect of your life in your career. Yeah. Absolutely So. When I've
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finished law school, I got hired by Senator Truck Grassley on the Senate Judiciary
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Committee in Washington, d C. And my very first within a week,
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I was working with a guy named John Dodson, is an APF agent,
44:15
and he was blowing the whistle on something called the Operation Fast and Furious,
44:17
and that really, you know, again fortuitous, lee set off this very
44:22
long path where I've just worked with hundreds and hundreds of whistleblowers, first on
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Capitol Hill where I worked for eight years, and then into leading to agencies
44:29
during the Trump administration. And so I just have become a very very firm
44:32
believer that you know, you have to be able to protect people who come
44:36
forward to point out waste, fraud and abuse from the government. And that's
44:39
not always a popular issue. One party tend depending on which party is in
44:43
power, which party has the lighthouse, you know, people tend to like
44:46
it sometimes and not like it other times. But I just think across the
44:49
board, it's so important to have those protections. And so we're working with
44:53
some high profile whistle blowers right now. But again, even in those cases,
44:57
it's come down to this thing where people disregard information that they don't like
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or cheer on information that they do like, even if they're not really familiar
45:05
with the details. And I think that's a real problem for just even across
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the board oversight and transparent governance in this country. Do you think that just
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take it back to the state capital for a moment, do you think that
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West Virginia as a whole, I know it's a blanket statement, Tristram,
45:19
but do you think that West Virginia state government as a whole needs to do
45:22
a better job of transparency. I think every state government can do a better
45:25
job of transparency. I think I think that's just a key issue. I
45:29
think some really great things that have happened in the past few years. I'm
45:31
really what impressed with Czech with Quest Virginia, with what the Auditor's office has
45:36
done there. I think there are a number of areas where there is a
45:38
lot of transparency and those are great steps, and so I think I think
45:42
for the legislature to build on those is really important. But again, there's
45:46
no question that in every state, and it's just human nature, right,
45:50
in human nature, it's to kind of not want to always, you know,
45:53
not have someone looking over your shoulder to second guess your decisions. But
45:58
the American people have a right to do that. Certainly the people of West
46:00
Virginia do. So I think there's a lot of ways we could improve transparency
46:02
in the state government. How's the campaign been for you so far? I
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mean out talking to people and shaking hands and doing the whole thing. How's
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it been so far? It's been fantastic. I love talking to people.
46:12
I love hearing their experiences, all hearing their concerns. I also really appreciate,
46:16
you know, right now, people don't always talk to each other if
46:20
they have different political views in our country, so you know, I love
46:22
hearing from people who say I disagree with you on X and Y and Z
46:24
issue. I want to talk about why and those are really meaningful conversations to
46:29
me to walk through those, you know, because you can have so much
46:30
respect for another person, you can agree to disagree, you can you know,
46:35
disagree without being disagreeable. But so it's been a wonderful experience getting to
46:38
know more of my neighbors and better understanding the concerns that people having District fifty
46:43
three. Where can people learn more about your campaign? Tristram, It's Levitt
46:46
for WV dot com. And that's l E A V I T T appearally
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on that right. Yep, that's exactly right. I love it. And
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then fo r okay, So all right, final thirty seconds. This is
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what I call my elevators. Each final thirty Why should someone vote for Tristan?
47:01
Tristan Levin? If I can get your name right, that's my fault,
47:05
Tristan Levin. Why should people to vote for you? I'm absolutely committed
47:08
to ensuring that we do the homework and do the research on the hard issues
47:12
their state faces. We've got great economic news and announcements in recent times,
47:15
but what is left for the legislature to tackle are some really thirty issues,
47:19
and I will put the time and the work into attacking those to get the
47:22
best outcomes for the people of West Virginia. All right, well, we'll
47:24
have you on several times between now and the election next year. I've apologized
47:29
we had a little problem getting you on the air, but we got you.
47:30
You got your message across to the people. We'll talk against intris to
47:34
be safe out there. Thanks so much, appreciate it, Dave. All
47:37
right, thank you. Tristan Levin again, Republican candidate House in District fifty
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also known as Obama and Holder's Gun running remind us there has been no justice
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Rachel Brian Terry who was killed by one of those guns. And as I've
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been we'll close with this, as I've been saying since a whole story developed,
51:10
there is no path back for w VU basketball coach Bob Huggins to get
51:15
back into good graces of the university. The exclamation point in that place yesterday
51:19
by President Gordon Gee on talk Line. Now you can go back and listen
51:22
to the podcast or read the story at WV metronews dot com. And you
51:27
know, there's a whole lot of other non athletic related issues going on,
51:30
as you've well heard. Brad and I talked about it last week on the
51:32
show, with a lot of the funding's coming under or the funding for programs
51:36
going under question with WV, there's a lot of there's a lot of issues
51:38
in Morgantown right now. But getting back to the sports aspect, yesterday it
51:44
was announced at Randy Mazie, the baseball coach, is going to be resigning.
51:46
It's actually going to transition to another role that has nothing to do with
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the Huggins situation though. But Hoppy point blank asked yesterday President Gee if there's
51:54
any chance that Huggins could come back to the program in any way, shape,
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form or fashion. To quote our governor and the President said, no,
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not gonna happen. Let's go back and listen to the podcast uh wv
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metronews dot com if you like more information on that. All right, we
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