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02/26/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Rebecca Tinder, Celtic Calling · The Dave Allen Show

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enjoy some of the nice weather we had here in the valley yesterday. Lots
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to cover this morning, including a little fun a little bit later on the
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show as the Celtic Calling event is returning to Charleston, But I want to
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get to this first. There has been so much talk and maybe I'm as
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guilty of it as anybody else says about these young kids today, and you
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know they don't know anything about current events or government or civics or things like
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that. Well A, let me say that was not my experience in my
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four years or so, but I worked in state government, working for the
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Secretary of State's office, where one of my jobs was to go into public
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schools and to talk to high school kids about the importance of voting when voter
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registration drives and things of that nature. And b I've often been told,
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well, they just don't teach government, and they don't teach civics anymore.
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Well, again, I will say this, if you compare it to where
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it is now as to where it was when I was in school, back
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in the dark ages, we had a grand total of one semester of civics
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and that was taught in eighth grade, not in high school. Or kids
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are about to enter adulthood and enter the voting age they that having been said,
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civics I think is alive and way well and our school system. Rebecca
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Tender is a president of the West Virginia Civiy's Coalition and she joins us now
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on the show. Rebecca, good morning, welcome to the show. Good
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morning, thank you for having me, thank you for being here, and
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not to put you right on the spot from the very get and go here,
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but please dispel the myth that Civics is no longer taught or is important
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in public schools in West Virginia. Well, of course, according to the
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West Virginia Civics Coalition, it is of paramount importance and it is being taught
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in our schools in West Virginia. There are standards for students in elementary,
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middle and high school in the area of Civics and also history. So it
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is being taught and it is a focus of our coalition. And tell me
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about the coalition, about the West Virginia Civic's Coalition, what exactly goes into
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this, and just tell us about the organization as a whole. Sure,
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the mission of the West Virginia Civics Coalition is to create an active coalition of
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civic minded individuals and organizations to foster equitable civic engagement and education in West Virginia
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and to make meaningful improvements to policies and practices in civic learning. So we
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have a group that is growing by the day and individuals can sign up to
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come to our meetings and learn about what's happening in West Virginia. We were
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fortunate enough to get a grant from a civics and created a website which can
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be found at wv's Civics Coalition dot org. And we've created that website,
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and we've also disseminated a need survey which gave us some information on where the
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gaps are and where we could start work to focus to figure out what needs
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to be done in the future for improvement of civic learning in the state.
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And so we also are hosting an event kicking off Civic Learning Week, which
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begins on March eleventh, and so our event will be at the Culture Center
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on March eleventh from ten to one, which will highlight civic learning. We'll
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hear from a number of different civic leaders, including our Secretary of State,
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. We will have voting machines there. There
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will be a fun activity of a scavenger hunt for students and adults to go
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into the museum to find artifacts that represents the different amendments in our constitution.
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And so we hope to be highlighting all the wonderful thing specific education is and
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can do, and make sure that people keep it top of mind, because
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it doesn't get the same attention as some of the other subjects, but it
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is certainly of paramount important. I would agree with that. Again, we're
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talking with Rebecca Tender, who's the president of the West Virginia cifc's coalition,
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about their organization and some of their big events that they have. We'll give
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this may be a loaded question, but in the age of kids having smartphones
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and access to all sorts of news stories, there may be more exciting things
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to them than politics and government. What has your experience been though, in
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dealing with our young people and how much they really care about this stuff?
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Well, it is amazing. I also run the West Virginia We the People
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program, which is a program that puts the Constitution and Bill of Rights into
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the classroom and the culminating activity is a mock Congressional hearing, and it is
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wonderful and amazing to hear from elementary, middle and high school students talking about
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our constitution and how it applies today. For example, in the news today,
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there's news that the Supreme Court is going to be taking on a case
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or actually two cases combined about whether or not the First Amendment applies and how
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it applies to social media. So there is nothing more important to our young
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pe people then social media. They get news and information, as you've indicated,
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from the Internet, and what can and cannot be placed in front of
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them is something that's important to them, and so focusing on what's happening today
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is certainly important to them. And you know, Rebecca, I think we
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forget about the number of young people that actually serve in our legislature in West
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Virginia currently. You know, when I was growing up, it seemed like
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nearly everyone serving in the legislature look like my grandpa. Now in our legislature
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we have quite a few young people serving on both sides of the aisle.
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Absolutely, so obviously there is an interest that caused them to be willing to
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stick their neck out and serve our public in that capacity, and I think
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that's very important. It's very to get our young people involved in again some
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of those groups of my experience in state government, some of those again Republicans
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and Democrats just kind of worked together. They were called the Millennial Caucus at
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one time, you know, and it again it was Republicans and Democrats,
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just a coalition of younger people. Talk about again the event that you have
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covered up at the Culture Center, Well, the event coming up is called
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the West Virginia Civics Coalition presents civic education now more than ever, and it
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will be held at the West Virginia Culture Center right here in our capitalist city
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on March eleventh, from ten am to one pm. And those people who
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sign up, and they can come to our website to sign up, we'll
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get to hear from Supreme Court Justice Tim Armstead, US District Court Judge Irene
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Barger, our West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, and get to interact
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with a portrayer of Senator Randolph Jennings and some Department of Education officials and other
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civic leaders will be there as well with our hands on learning with the voting
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machines, and as I've said before, a constitutions Gavenger Hunt and the museum.
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We will also get a free box lunch and entitled to a mileage reimbursement
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if they have to travel from Afar to get there to attend the event.
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So we hope for it to be a nice collaborative learning environment for students,
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teachers, and community members from anywhere in the state to see what's happening in
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West Virginia and hear about the importance of civic learning. All right, Rebecca,
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I appreciate you being here. Give us that website again for more information.
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It's wv Civicscoalition dot org. All right, Rebecca, I appreciate you
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being here. Good luck with your festivities. We'll talk talk again soon.
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Thanks a lot, all right, hope to see you there. All right.
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Thank you Rebecca Tender again as the president of the West Virginia Civics Coalition
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and appreciate her being there. And yeah, get these young young kids involved
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it's almost time the Celtic Calling celebration. Our man Chris Higgins joins us
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right now to talk about it. Chris, good morning, Welcome to the
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show. Hey Dave, thanks for having me on again. Thank you for
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being here. Yeah. Well, we're into our eighth Celtic Call in this
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year and lots of fun things lined up. All right, tell us about
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it. Well, it's starting on Wednesday, February the twenty eighth goes through
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the Sunday and there's events downtown and a few on the West side East End.
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We go up to spring Hill on Saturday for a five k run had
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in Kana State Forests. For the Irish Road Bowling on Sunday, you know,
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the big day is Saturday. There's events down at Slack Plaza. There's
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what we call the Cldic Village. There's over twenty five crafters. There's music
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and dance on a stage down there. This year we've got a Keldic pageant
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and you could win prizes and be the clan chieftain for the event walking the
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parade. So you know, if you want to be braveheart, dress up
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like William Wallace or a Celtic princess, you know, come on down.
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There's even prizes for the Bonnie Lassie and Bonnie Bonnie lad. Lots of children's
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activities down there. The dog show. You know, if you've got an
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Irish dwarfhound or if you've just got an old matt, dress them up in
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some CLDIC garb and we've got a Cldic fancy dresser thing for the dogs.
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So lots of things going on all over the place. Now you said that
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this is the eighth annual event, Is that right? Yeah? Of course
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everyone skipped one for well, So talk about the history of this event.
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I mean, I know you've been on the show in the past to talk
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about it, but for people are how did this whole thing get started?
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Started twenty sixteen, and you know kind of it was thought up mostly There's
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are a local organization called foot Mad Friends of Music at Old Time Music and
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Dance and they have a concert series and they had a Celtic group coming in,
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so you know, we thought we'd tag some events around that group coming
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in and the Justin Convention and Visitors Bureau thought that was a great idea because
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I have to winter. You know, people are dying to get out something
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and you know, help the downtown businesses and things like this. So you
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know, it brings people downtown. You know, people go out for something
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to eat, and you know it's just a good sort of celebration, you
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know, kind of like starts to outdoor entertainment industry off. Yeah. Really,
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And you know, in anytime you're talking about dealing with the end of
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February early March, the weather can be any number of things. You've probably
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of the year seen snow, rain, sun, temperatures in the seventies,
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temperatures in the thirties, looks pretty good. Though for this week. Well,
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you know when it started, the only things we really had outside we'd
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have like some Highland cows or some sheep, and everything was you know in
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the Canar Main Library or in Rock City or you know the businesses, tailors.
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Everything was pretty much inside. But after the COVID year, you know,
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more people wanted to be you know, do things outside. So that
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was the year that we broke the Guinness Book of Red Cards for the unicorn
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thing and we had Nicole back. I was telling somebody that story this morning.
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I remembered that explain what that world record was that was set. Basically
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the record was the largest number of people wearing a unicorn horn on the top
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of their head. And how many did we have? There were, oh
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it's around four hundred, around four hundred, you know, not earth shadowing,
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but you know that was like we had an event at Davis Park.
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Then we had a parade. That was the first year that we've done those
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and cross fingers. The weather's been nice for these outdoor events. People like
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that, so that's why we've still got the Keeldic Village thing going on this
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year. We've got four pipe bands. If you liked bagpipe bands, you
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know, might be a love hate relationship. But we've got our two local
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bands of Benny Kid and Highlanders and the Canal Valley Pipes and Drums, and
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we've got the group coming down from Elkins, the West Virginia Highlanders and Saint
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Andrew's Pipe bind from Parkersburg come in. So that will kind of make a
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mixed parade. You know, we'll have that clan shift and there's lots of
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civic organizations, you know, kind of other people in the parade. You
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can come down and carry a flag in it, you know, if you
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do have Scottish or Irish and ancestry and you want to kind of put your
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name up their where you family, Todden or whatever, you can be in
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the parade as well. You know, we're talking with Chris Higgins about the
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Celtic Colleague and you know, Chris, this is the kind of thing that
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you would expect to see in a city like a Pittsburgh or or Columbus or
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Charlotte. You wouldn't necessarily expect to see an activity like this in a city,
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even though Charleston is the largest city of the state. In a city
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like Charleston, that's kind of cool to have something of this magnitude in Charleston
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each year. Well it's you know, it's kind of a big undertaken and
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it's of but you know, it's great to have all these like cultural kind
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of events. You know. I like going to the Greek church, you
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know, for the Greek food, you know, and I think more of
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it is a good thing. And you don't have to have a kind of
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Celtic heritage or anything to enjoy any of these events. You know, they're
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just good fun events and you know, kids' activities grown up. You know,
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there's athletic kind of things, music, So it's just a great time
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involvement of the kids. And there's a lot of activities for the kids here.
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Well, you know, the library do some great things. So the
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main library on Capitol Street, they've got a redbearded dragon coming in. If
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you've ever looked at the Welsh flag, there's a red dragon on it.
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So they've got story time. But down at the Slack Plaza event, we'll
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have a mini Scottish Highland game so kids can toss a caber tug of war.
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There's a lot of craft activities going on down there. So yeah,
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a lot of stuff for the kids. But just going back to the it's
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a big you know, the Irish Scottish thing. You know, West Virginia
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is settled by you know what they call the Scots Irish. You know,
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I work up at the cemetery at Spring Here where we have the Kilt Run,
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and if you go around and look at the gravestones and things, you
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know, you will see a lot of Irish Scottish names up there. So
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you know, there is that sort of cultural heritage. And you know when
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people think about the Appalachian music, old time music, fiddles and things,
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it really relates to you know that music, that's what all came from.
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I mean, if you look, I mean, I don't have any numbers
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of back this up, Chris, but I would think that if you if
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you looked at the heritage of the majority of West Virginians, it's going to
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it's going to somehow end up in Scotland or in Ireland at some point.
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So at least a lot of them, you know, some things. Some
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years we've had connections with those things. And we do have a storytelling compatition,
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which is you know, pretty it's kind of like they have the liars
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thing at Vandalia, you know, which is you know, people like the
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gift of the gap telling a yarn, you know, So it's one of
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but you know, probably the music is probably the closest thing connection this year.
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And the music is a is a big part of this because it's a
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big part of the heritage of that part of the world. Because it is
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and Friday night we've got a Kayley dance, which is Kayley it's kind of
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pretty much like a square dance, and you know that kind of stuff comes
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from those countries. The foot Mad organization bring in a chaotic group this year.
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They've got one from Scotland on Saturday night and they are at the forefront
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of kind of you know, new traditional music. But they do have the
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Scots Gaelic Traditional Singer of the Year a few years ago. She's a young
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girl and she's a beautiful voice, so you know that would be a great
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connection. Let's, you know, talk about what obviously, this is an
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event that you know, you have a lot of things for kids and for
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adults, but in order to keep these traditions alive, you've got to involve
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a lot of younger people. Because that's one of the things that they say
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about our society in general, is that traditions and whatnot just kind of go
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by the wayside with the passion of time. But if you get the younger
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people involved in, you're a whole lot more likely to have activities and the
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heritage and things like this continue well. Speaking to that, the library does
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have an Irish Scottish dance workshop for elementary kids. At Rock City, we
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do have a music thing on Saturday morning. There's like a harp Peden sou
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There's a very accomplished harpist playing there and she's going to bring in some folk
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harps. She's got a couple kids, so you know the kids would be
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or older children will be able to play the harps. After that, there's
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a couple who play music and they'll be explained, you know, playing on
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a lot of different instruments, bagpipes and flutes and fiddles and things, and
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they're explain the kind of jigs and reels, and they'll invite they're inviting young
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kids to play. You know, we've got some great young fiddlers kind of
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coming through. Some of them are playing in the Kayley Group on Friday night
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and you know, kind of these young people so busy they're playing sports on
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Saturday. I wanted them to play at the Keldic Village. But we do
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try and you know, get the kids involved with those kind of things.
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Yeah. Again, everything starts on Wednesday, is that right? Wednesday?
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At the bears Den of all places, we have a traditional music session Thursday.
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We've kind of you know, it's not just old traditions. We've got
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a horror movie, a Vampa horror movie from made in Dublin in twenty twenty
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one at the West Virginia International Film Festival, which has a small theater underneath
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Taylor Books. And then Friday. You know, it all kind of goes
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off with a bang. There's the Benny Cadam Highlanders have a tad and ball
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there's a Kaylei at Canal United Presbyterian Church as music at Taylor's, and then
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Saturday Busy Day. The whole schedule is on cldiccalling dot org and there's a
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Facebook site for it Call and which is kind of more updated with things.
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Will Big give a big shout out to day Ballen today and so, you
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know, and we kind of have more sort of like day to day stories
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on that. One of the things I like about this too is that it
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really encompasses the whole city. From what you said, I mean, there's
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basically activities going on in just about every corner of town. Yeah, and
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you know there's local businesses and organizations who kind of put these things on.
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You know, Sam's has had from our Sam's Uptown Cafe has had from the
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start of Celdic Call and a CLDIC branch. Coming back to the church,
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Canal United Presbyterian has a service on Sunday which goes back into the roots of
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clodic history. It's called Kirken of the Tardans when the English band The Plaid
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in Scotland and then when they got it back they celebrated it in church with
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a blessing of the Tardens. But there's lots of organizations like foot Mad Kina
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Library and different people coming together to make this happen. All right, Well,
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Chris is going to be a great a few days of activities and it
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all starts on Wednesday. Give us the website and the Facebook information again,
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that's Celtictcolin dot Org and Facebook cut. If you just search for cold at
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Call and you'll find it on that you'll find it. Chris, It's always
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a pleasure to have you on the show. Looking forward to a few days
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I had the Convention and Visitor Bureau guy Tim Brady on the show talking about
31:25
the fact that Charleston has now been awarded the what was known as the Super
31:29
sixth, the Grade eight, Elite eight, whatever it's going to be called,
31:33
Texas. Those kids will definitely remember they had to play in a high
31:37
school stadium rather than a D one college stadium. I don't know exactly what
31:44
went into the decision, and we talked about this on Friday's show. To
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land, I know, the city of Charles and put together a very very
31:51
ambitious proposal and it was chosen. The city was over Wheeling to host the
31:56
football championship, so that Wheeling had been there since the I mean been thirty
32:00
years it's been in Wheeling was chosen over Bluefield, and it was chosen over
32:04
what I understand was a combo effort between West Virginia University and Marshall University,
32:08
whereas one year it would be at Mila Pushgar Stadium in Morgantown and the next
32:14
year would be at Jones Edwards Stadium in Huntington, but Charleston was chosen.
32:17
It will be at Ladley Field, the University of Charleston Field. And I
32:21
absolutely I will say this though, and I know Tim Brady, and I
32:24
know Tim Brady for a long long time, many many many years. Mister
32:29
Brady and I have known each other. Tim Brady and the folks at the
32:32
CVB and the Mayor's office and all the other entities had got a heck of
32:37
a lot of work to do to get ready. And I'm sure they're up
32:39
to the task. But it's a uh, it's a big undertake. Texas
32:46
Civics absolutely is being taught. Our teachers are doing their job. When student
32:51
achievement showed GPAs higher than four point zero versus four point zero max, the
32:55
question becomes one of lowerd's standards. The number one deficit in civil understanding as
33:00
I see the people of all ages, but especially students, what powers each
33:04
body has? People blaming the state or for city street conditions, to EPA
33:09
being responsible for water bills or just two examples. Plenty of ignorance still around,
33:14
especially in our students, says a Texture. So I got to mention
33:20
this this past Friday night, our sister station of which I am proud to
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be a part of, nine eight seven a mouth in wild, wonderful classic
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rock, we were invited to take part in what started out as a very
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tongue in cheek kind of event in Kanawa City. You know the story by
33:40
now, I mean if you can't. If you don't know the story,
33:43
I don't know where you've been. Because this has made nationwide and worldwide news.
33:46
The Hooters restaurant chain of Kanaa City closed around the time of COVID in
33:52
early twenty twenty and never reopened. COVID probably not the only reason it didn't
33:55
make it, but let's focus on the positive here. A couple of guys
34:00
learned that the building itself in kanas City was going to be torn down,
34:04
and they wanted to honor it and remember all the good times they had there
34:07
by holding this candlelight visual again more or less a joke, and until it
34:13
took off and went viral. And now they already had a charitable event planned
34:17
to raise money for a friend of theirs who's in need of a medical procedure
34:21
or two. So that was previously scheduled for Saturday in Chesapeake. So they
34:27
just kind of, I think, tied the two things together, and to
34:30
say it was a success would be an understatement. At one time Friday night
34:37
with off and on rain, I would say there was at peak around two
34:42
hundred or more people there in Kanas City to pay tribute to the Hooters building
34:50
that's being torn down. And I think that demolition was scheduled to begin this
34:53
morning, I think, And of course, you know, they kind of
34:59
invited to go along myself, Steve Animal and Shockley in a wild wide assortment
35:04
of other people. There was former customers there, there were former employees.
35:07
There were political figures, business leaders. There was a vanload of students from
35:14
West Virginia Wesleyan who came down for this. There were people from the Charlotte,
35:21
North Carolina area that showed up. There were people from South Carolina that
35:25
showed up. There was media from all around the country there and again this
35:31
thing got coverage in the London Times, It got coverage in Brazil. It
35:38
was something to behold to say, the lease And if you just want to
35:42
see how big the thing was, I've got pictures posted on Dave Island Radio
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on Facebook Plus. There are more on the Facebook page of nine eight seven
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The Mountain. It was just a fun night, no problems, no arrest
35:53
or anything like that. And for the people who didn't get it, well,
36:00
this is just me talking. I'm sorry you don't have a sense of
36:04
humor or an appreciation of the important things in life. You know, good
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times, good friends, wings, beer, and well, of course Hooters.
36:15
Hoppy is back in the big chair hosting Talkland Today, followed to day
36:19
off on Friday. Brad mclhanny will be stopping by to get everyone caught up
36:22
on what's going on there at the Capitol. Rynch Smells from Fox News is
36:27
going to be there. Jeff Jenkins is going to stop by the show today
36:30
to talk about the shutdown of alleghany wood products in the state. Tony Careedi
36:37
is going to preview the Kansas State game that I had to bore Hoppy back
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Tendill seven, Sunday Tendal four over one hundred thousand square feet of nothing but
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I've had an opportunity for the last couple of years to go and check it
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the world, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time up there. Hope that you'll
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Hotline three zero four three four fifty eight fifty eight Fruit Pharmacy Text three zero
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four nine three five five zero zero eights. Texas Dave, I guess Congress
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will be under pressure to get a budget passed this week, probably late Friday
38:14
night, under pressure when they've had six months to do it. Tex says,
38:19
what a shocker. Public Service Commission bens over and gives West Virginian American
38:22
Water Company another huge rate increase to top it off. The PSC then acts
38:25
like it's just done the customers a favor. PSC should changed its name to
38:30
USC, the Utility Service Commission. Actually, I had something I wanted to
38:35
talk about with that, and I will get time. I will get to
38:40
that coming up a little bit later on the show. There's a story Jeff
38:44
has posted on the website wv Metro News about that wv Metro news dot Com
38:47
about that rate increase. I'm going to get to that a little bit if
38:51
I have time today. If not, we'll get to it tomorrow. I
38:53
want to go national for a moment. As was expected. Over the weekend,
38:58
Nikki Haley got it handed to her in her home state of South Carolina.
39:01
And you know, it's not unusual for people to lose in their home
39:06
state. It happens from time to time. But former President Trump continues to
39:10
beat her everywhere. Everywhere there's an election, he wins, and he wins
39:15
big. But for her part, Nicki Haley is not giving up. Although
39:22
there are Republicans like myself who do not want another Trump term. But with
39:34
Nicki Haley, there are those of us that say, you know, it's
39:36
time, It's time. It was announced over the weekend that Americans for Prosperity,
39:40
who had been backing Nicki Haley, are pulling their funds from her.
39:46
They are seeing the writing on the wall here that Trump is going to be
39:50
the nominee and he's going to face off against President Joe Biden in November,
39:55
a matchup that the polls have shown almost no one wants. And for what
40:01
it's worth, and we've talked about this on the show in the past,
40:04
polling numbers also show that Biden beats Trump in November, but it probably won't
40:14
matter because most of the hardcore Trump supporters not I said hardcore supporters. I'm
40:19
not talking about ones who simply vote for the guy. I am talking about
40:22
the hardcore Donald Trump supporters, the one that worship of the altar, and
40:29
there are plenty of those. They're gonna say he didn't lose and we're gonna
40:35
be back to twenty twenty one all over again. But again, the polls
40:37
have shown, for what it's worth about polls, polls have shown that Nicky
40:43
Hayley beats Joe Biden, and I had to head matchup so the GOP could
40:52
have some sort of sanity and normalcy in the White House. And make no
40:58
mistake about it, I'm not the big Nikki Haley fan either, but we
41:01
could have a sense of normal back in the White House, but a great
41:07
number of people in the Grand Old Party would rather have Trump. And in
41:13
West Virginia elections, be it on the local level or the state level,
41:16
it's a race to see who can be the biggest Trump lover. I'm more
41:22
like Trump. I'm more like Trump. Trump likes me better. It's pathetic
41:30
in the opinion of this lowly radio host. That's absolutely pathetic. But again,
41:36
I'm way in a minority of most Republicans. So I'll just sit back
41:38
and wait to see what happens, and to see if anyone within my my
41:44
Republican party, uh well, has any sanity left. I am beginning to
41:52
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dot u. S Tex says it's not a big win when forty percent of
44:57
Republicans vote against you and more than a half say they will never vote for
45:00
the adjudicated rapists. As a Texter textays Dave, I'm loving the Trump cult
45:09
bashing. Keep it going. Well, it's just the opinions who not necessarily
45:15
represent those of the management staff or advertiser whatever whatever. The disclaimer says at
45:19
the top of the show, Texas, Dave, you're telling me like a
45:22
card carry member of the Rhino wing of the GOP. I'm guessing you're a
45:25
big supporter of Capitol Romney, Murkowski Collins. Yikes, it's a Texter now.
45:31
I just want a sense of normalcy. I voted for Trump. I
45:35
won't again, but I voted for Trump, you know, and previous two
45:37
ancsent just like to have a sense of normalcy. Trump's souned about it.
45:42
Biden wins in my opinion, But it doesn't matter because you know, I
45:45
mean again, I'm not talking about people that simply vote for Trump. I'm
45:49
talking about members of the cult. They're not all cult members. Okay,
45:51
they're not all cult members. I'm just saying that they're not going to buy
45:55
it no matter what. So here we go anywhere, get ready for January
46:00
seventh. I guess tex says that was a great commentary. Thanks Davi.
46:05
E just my opinion. Tex says Dave. I'm a Republican, I'm with
46:08
you. I'm done with Trump. Not a Haley fan either, but why
46:13
nominate someone that can win? Says a text. I wanted to kind of
46:17
touch on this a little bit and a texture alluded to it earlier, and
46:21
that was this rate increase in the West Virginian American water and what they were
46:25
talking about. And again we have a story posted about at WV metronews dot
46:29
com. The Stay Public Service Commission has approved an average eight percent rate increase
46:34
in water and sewer rates for customers of Westerngian American Water. It's much less
46:40
than what the company had wanted. They actually wanted a twenty two and a
46:44
half percent increase, which would have been about forty one point two million dollars
46:47
overall. So with this new plan, the average customer's bill will go up
46:53
about five sixty nine a month. That's for water, and the average sewer
46:59
bill will go up about five point fifty nine a month. Now, the
47:02
increase actually is already kicked in. It kicked in with your usage with your
47:07
morning shower on Saturday. It wastes a lot of time they were ready to
47:12
go. Jeff Jenkins again when the story posted about it at WV metronews dot
47:15
com. I want to go back to Thursday just for a moment, Remember
47:22
when the country was losing their mind over the AT and T service being out
47:30
Well, Alas and Ryan and I were just talking about this a little bit
47:32
earlier. You're about to get paid a whopping five dollars for your troubles.
47:39
AT and T has all the information posted on their website that you if you
47:45
were one of the ones. It sounds like the attorney commercials now if you
47:47
were injured, but the you if you were one of the ones that was
47:53
without your AT and T service on Thursday, you could qualify for a get
48:00
ready a five dollars credit, which they say is the estimated average cost for
48:07
a full day of service. Now, the outage affected not only phones,
48:13
but also AT and T Internet as well. Now, I'm a Verizon customer,
48:17
and I'm not choosing one or the other. Just so happens in my
48:21
family plan. My wife and I were Verizon customers. We were not affected.
48:25
But it is interesting to see how much our phones totally control our lives.
48:32
Now, I mean, people were losing their minds on Thursday, and
48:37
I get the business aspect of it. I was talking to a friend of
48:39
mine who does radio sales, and he said, well, if I don't
48:42
have my phone, I can't work. I get that completely. But you
48:45
know, our phones now control just about every aspect of our lives. You
48:52
know, you go into a restaurant, many want you to scan and download
48:55
their menus to your phone. Of places, you can't use cash anymore,
49:02
they want you to use an app on your phone. And you know,
49:07
I've often said that if I had kids, in the world ain't ready for
49:10
that. But if I would have had kids, I always said, my
49:14
kid would not have a cell phone until they started driving at the earliest.
49:20
Well, having a discussion with a buddy of mine who just happened to have
49:23
a couple of kids in high school, and he said that phones are now
49:28
required for kids. For his kids, now, they're required for their schooling,
49:34
their apps and things of that nature where they find out all their information
49:38
about their practices and extracurricular activities and so on and so forth. I mean,
49:44
I know, it's crazy the world we live in now. But as
49:45
they say, you can't put the milk back in the carton, and now
49:52
we end of the world of AI artificial intelligence. You know, I get
49:58
emails within this company that I know the person on the other end did not
50:04
write. It's AI. Radio scripts sometimes now being written by AI. I
50:14
have a friend that does radio in the state of Georgia, and a couple
50:19
of weeks ago he sent me some examples of commercials that were done with AI,
50:23
no humans whatsoever. It was his AI. He sent them to me,
50:29
texted them to me, said, give these a listen and no humans,
50:34
AI doing your local car commercial. And and I know that I have
50:39
become that old commercial. Well what do I mean become I've been that.
50:44
I was born old, I think. But I do know this. I
50:47
think I'm one of the people that just longs for a simpler time. I
50:53
still like to call people on the phone. Yeah, I actually like to
50:57
pick up the phone and call people. Or better yet, in the business
51:00
world, if given the opportunity to exchange emails or text or whatever, I'd
51:08
actually rather go see them in person. And I'm a person who doesn't really
51:13
like people. I'd rather do that. I still pay cash ninety five percent
51:19
of the time for everything, and I've never ordered a single thing from Amazon.
51:22
I know I'm a relic. I'll be dead in another twenty years,
51:25
so you don't have to worry about it. Let me close with this.
51:29
Did you happen to catch Charleston being spotlighted on the ABC television show What Would
51:34
You Do? I did not. The show is hosted by John Quinona's and
51:37
the concept is they have actors act out certain scenes in public just to see
51:43
how the public will react to it. Well, last night the ones filmed
51:45
in Charleston aired again. I didn't see it, but our friends at V
51:49
one hundred shared the list of what was filmed in Charleston, and I in
51:52
turn shared that on the Dave Alan Radio Facebook page. You may want to
51:57
go check that out. The filming was done at Black Sheet Burritos and the
52:00
Purple Onion over at Capital Market. Again. I have this schedule posted courtesy
52:04
of V one hundred, so you may want to go check that out.
52:08
All right, gotta go. I will close with this very very quickly.
52:13
No death penalty in the legislature this year, hoppy xing that out that Senator
52:19
Stewart and Senator Blair say they will not. There will not be death penalty
52:22
on the up for a vote in this legislative session. All right, gotta
52:25
go. My thanks to all our guest today, the callers in Texas,
52:29
to Ryan Nicholson, our producer, thank you so much. Coming up on
52:31
the show tomorrow, we're gonna have Canawa County Commissioner Lance Wheeler hear the people
52:35
from the upcoming Tunnels to Tower event, and Alexander Gasserud, who is a
52:38
candidate for Congress. Hobby is coming up from Morgantown to ten o six with
52:43
talk line. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and
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