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04/10/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Shanté Ellis, Alexandra Pfost · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 3: And your calls and texts. Oh, by the way, the
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  Speaker 3: Tulip Festival is going on over at Gritz Farm. Will
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  Speaker 3: So lots to get to this morning, Big Lee, pig
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  Speaker 3: nine three five five zero zero eight. The Race to
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  Speaker 3: En Racism being held on the twenty sixth of this
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  Speaker 3: month here in Charleston, here to talk about a chante
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  Speaker 3: ellis of the YWCA, Charleston Chante. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, how are you? Thank Thank they for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. Tell us all about this
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  Speaker 3: big event. Just give us the overall then we'll break
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  Speaker 3: down specific overall.
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  Speaker 5: This is our ninth annual Race in Racism. So we've
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  Speaker 5: been doing this for the past nine years. It happens
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  Speaker 5: on the boulevard on the west side right above Magic Island.
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  Speaker 5: Starts at nine am on April twenty six, and it.
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  Speaker 3: Is April twenty six, as you said, And this thing
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  Speaker 3: the ninth year, is that right? Yeah, this is our
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  Speaker 3: ninth year and just gets bigger and better every year.
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  Speaker 3: What are some of the things going on there in
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  Speaker 3: addition to the quote unquote race, What are some of
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  Speaker 3: the other things you got going on?
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  Speaker 5: So we have a five k run and a one
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  Speaker 5: mile walk. We also have bandanas for dogs, so because
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  Speaker 5: the dogs like to come about to but we also
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  Speaker 5: have a kid zone and we have other vendors there.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have family care mobile unit, we'll have Starbucks, and
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  Speaker 5: usually people who are not running, who are not walking,
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  Speaker 5: they're there for the mission for sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to say, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: not everybody is a is a runner, and not everybody
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  Speaker 3: wants to walk, but they just want to help out
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  Speaker 3: or they just want to they're there, as you said,
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  Speaker 3: for the mission. Talk about what the mission is.
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  Speaker 5: So we have a lot of supporters, and so our
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  Speaker 5: supporters are there to support our mission and eliminating racism.
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  Speaker 5: This particular race supports our programming with our community Enrichment
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  Speaker 5: program which encourages education, advocacy, and community engagement.
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  Speaker 3: And talk about that kind of do a deep dive
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  Speaker 3: into that, about those programs that you offer with a
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  Speaker 3: community engagement and the advocacy.
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  Speaker 5: So the advocacy, like today, you know, we're you know,
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  Speaker 5: we'll be at the capital. I'll leave here and walk
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  Speaker 5: to the capital. We've done some work with education as
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  Speaker 5: far as understanding your role in democracy and those types
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  Speaker 5: of things. The community can use some supporting.
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  Speaker 3: Where are we? I know this is probably the most
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  Speaker 3: broad question ever, but but where are we now? Chante
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. It gets as her eyes rolled back
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  Speaker 3: in her head. Where are we now as far as
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  Speaker 3: race relations in America? In your opinion? I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: got a way to go, but we've come a long way.
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  Speaker 3: Was that is that a fair statement.
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  Speaker 5: We've come a long way. Okay, you know, it's to
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  Speaker 5: a point where we've taken two steps forward, but we're
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  Speaker 5: we're going several steps back this point. We've showed some progression.
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  Speaker 5: I think for the most part, people want to understand
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  Speaker 5: each other, and that's what it's going to take, understanding
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  Speaker 5: people's differences, especially with the whole DEI scare as you know,
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  Speaker 5: with people the woke virus is what it's being called,
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  Speaker 5: which is not It's part of our society, right, It's
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  Speaker 5: a part of being a diverse culture. It's providing equitable
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  Speaker 5: opportunities for everyone. This is where we at. But that's
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  Speaker 5: going backwards.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, But but we have come a long way,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, but we still got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: work to do.
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  Speaker 5: I think we have a whole lot of art.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's a fairy say what we're
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  Speaker 3: talking to you as chante Elis again from y w
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  Speaker 3: C A Charleston, talk about I know that this is
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  Speaker 3: kind of like one of your big signature events, but
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  Speaker 3: you guys, you folks do a lot of other stuff
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  Speaker 3: besides just event of this event. Talk about that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, So the hye WCA has several programs. So particularly
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  Speaker 5: we have my program, which is the Community Enrichment Program.
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  Speaker 5: We have a Domexica Violent Shelter, we have a childcare center,
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  Speaker 5: we have transitional housing, and then we have our Shanklin
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  Speaker 5: House for the elderly and abuse elderly.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of different things that you do other
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  Speaker 3: than just And the reason I bring that up Chante
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  Speaker 3: is I don't want people to think, well, this is
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  Speaker 3: what they I mean, this is your No.
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  Speaker 5: We are a social service, social services and the service organization.
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  Speaker 3: You do a whole lot of stuff in the community.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me about you personally, I mean you met on
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  Speaker 3: my show in the past, But tell me about Chante.
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  Speaker 5: Well Schante is originally from Brooklyn, New York. But however
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  Speaker 5: this has been my home since twenty six years.
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  Speaker 3: Did you end up here? Do you mind asking how
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  Speaker 3: you are by.
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  Speaker 5: Way of the military?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you for your service, thank you for your support.
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  Speaker 5: So I have a son and I'm a mom and
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  Speaker 5: I am a huge advocate for are the West Virginia state.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's one that I became to know and love.
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  Speaker 3: What is it about West Virginia that you love? And
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  Speaker 3: the reason I bring this up is because you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have we haven't, and everybody knows about the issues
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  Speaker 3: of people leaving West Virginia. But anytime I get somebody
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  Speaker 3: that came here and decided to make it their home.
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  Speaker 3: You said, you're originally from Brooklyn. What is it that
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  Speaker 3: appealed to you about West Virginia that made you want
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  Speaker 3: to stay here and raise your son here?
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  Speaker 5: So I didn't come here by way of Brooklyn, That's
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  Speaker 5: what I will say that. Okay, had I done that,
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  Speaker 5: it might been a little bit okay, okay, fair enough,
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  Speaker 5: it would be a little bit of a culture shop
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  Speaker 5: for me, just a little bit, a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: a coach, Okay. But I think there's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: history here. There's a lot of history. I love being outdoors.
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  Speaker 5: There's so much to do during I mean especially during
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  Speaker 5: the summertime and the warmer months. It's it's scenic, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: And then I think that people who are not from here,
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  Speaker 5: they have lots of opportunities that they wouldn't have in
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  Speaker 5: bigger city.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right. Let's get back to the race in racism.
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  Speaker 3: It is happening again here. On April the twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 3: on the Boulevard in Charleston. It's one of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: events in Charleston. I mean because it's it's a big
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  Speaker 3: not just the race and the walk, but everything that
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  Speaker 3: goes along with it. As you said, all of the
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  Speaker 3: different A lot of folks just come out just to support. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: if a business owner, because we have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: business people that listen to the show, if they want
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  Speaker 3: to get involved, or do you still need sponsors at
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  Speaker 3: this point?
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  Speaker 5: What do you need to Yes, we always look, always
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  Speaker 5: look at a sponsors. So you can go onto our
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  Speaker 5: website at YWCA Charleston dot org slash race all the
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  Speaker 5: details or right at your fingertips. We can use sponsorships,
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  Speaker 5: you can form a team, or if you want a volunteer,
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  Speaker 5: you can do that too, because we do need lots
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  Speaker 5: of volunteers. We need people to cheer on the runners
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  Speaker 5: and walkers.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about those volunteers, It's something I meant to bring
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  Speaker 3: up early and I didn't. The volunteers to pull this
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  Speaker 3: event off. Talk about those folks.
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  Speaker 5: Volunteers are huge in making sure that this event is
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  Speaker 5: a success. So we have volunteers who guide the runners
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  Speaker 5: and walkers in which direction to go. We have volunteers
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  Speaker 5: who come in stuff packets the day before so that
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  Speaker 5: people can pick up our during packet pickup, we have
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  Speaker 5: people who just come out and cheer. So it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be on the boulevard. So if you live on
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  Speaker 5: the boulevard, just come out your front door and help
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  Speaker 5: support the event.
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  Speaker 3: All right. And I know you've got a Facebook page
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  Speaker 3: and you mentioned the website. We wish to the best,
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  Speaker 3: but it's a big one of the bigger events in
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  Speaker 3: the springtime every year in Charleston. I appreciate you being here, Chantann.
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  Speaker 3: end the show, I want to talk about tulips. Now
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  Speaker 3: Gritz Farm of Putnam County hosting their annual Tulip Festival.
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  Speaker 3: Alexander Post is with Gritz Farm and she joins us. Now, Alexander,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, Dave, thanks for having me, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: For being here talk about this big event.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, absolutely so. We are so excited. We're in the middle,
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  Speaker 11: close to the end now of our second annual Tulip
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  Speaker 11: Festival here at Chris Farm. We planted two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 11: tulips this year, which is double what we planted last year.
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  Speaker 11: And you can see the tulips now through the end
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  Speaker 11: of this weekend, the thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I kind of I may have alluded to
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  Speaker 3: the fact that it's about to start, but it's actually
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  Speaker 3: been going on for some time. But you and I
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  Speaker 3: talked a couple days ago. You were a little worried
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  Speaker 3: about the weather when we talked on Monday, right, Yeah, we.
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  Speaker 11: Were a little unsure of what the frost might do
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  Speaker 11: to tulips. We didn't have that last year when we
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  Speaker 11: were doing the Tulip Fest. So I'm happy to report
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  Speaker 11: that the tulips are still standing and in good conditions.
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  Speaker 11: So yeah, they are here, they're alive.
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  Speaker 3: And well they're alive, and well that's good to hear
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  Speaker 3: over two thousand tulips, is that what you said?
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  Speaker 11: Two hundreds?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, okay, all right, I was gonna say just
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and just keep moving the numbers up. That's
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, So we started planting them back in November. We
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  Speaker 11: so we planted double what we did last year. And
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  Speaker 11: this weekend as well as we kind of kick off
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  Speaker 11: the end of the season. So if you come out
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  Speaker 11: so you can come out and get some foods and
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  Speaker 11: ride some trains and see the tulips.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I want to get into because you
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  Speaker 3: a deep dive into the food items good talk about that.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's good food. I know I might be biased,
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  Speaker 11: but it really is awesome. So we have an in
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  Speaker 11: house chef that curates all of our food service, and
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  Speaker 11: we've got our bakery roll in this weekend, so we've
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  Speaker 11: got donuts and cookies and other baked goods and then
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  Speaker 11: our pizza, which we just added last year, so it's great.
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  Speaker 11: It's made on local dough and we've got some other
• 16:28
  Speaker 11: sweet treats in there too. So if you were curious
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  Speaker 11: if you could come out and enjoy some food with Toolips,
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  Speaker 11: you definitely can. This weekend.
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  Speaker 9: I want to.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Talk about Gritz Farm overall, because you know it's I mean,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: it's just I'm in Kanaw County right now, but I
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: live in Putnam County and we may kind of take
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: it for granted. But but talk about everything as in
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: a hole that goes on there at Gritz Farm because
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I know that throughout the year you've got activities going on.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: You might think about it just you know, primarily during
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: the fall, but it's but it's pretty much a year
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: round thing. There's school groups that come in from all
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: over the state to check out all the activities that
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: you got going on there. Just give us the cell
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: job on Gritz Farm.
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  Speaker 11: Sure. So we are a three season farm. Currently, we're
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: open from April to the end of October, and right
• 17:17
  Speaker 11: now we're in our tulip in greenhouse season, so we're
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: also open on the farm with tons and tons of
• 17:23
  Speaker 11: spring plants that you can shop. We'll have some produce
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: ready here within the next couple of weeks. We're also
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: located at Capital Market in downtown Charleston if you want
• 17:31
  Speaker 11: to shop with us there. In the summertime, we host
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: special events like farm to table dinners, have lots of produce,
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: and then in the fall we move to that fall
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: festival season that you were talking about, and that's when
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: we have all the school groups come out and the
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: big festival for six to eight weeks. It's just the
• 17:50
  Speaker 11: place totally transforms into a pumpkin wonderland, So it's a
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: place to be in the fall.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Give me a ballpark figure and I'm not going to
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: hold you to it. How many people would you think
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: visit Gritz Farm on a yearly basis, So we're.
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: Very proud of the fact that we do see guests
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: that come from all fifty states to visit Grits Farm
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: throughout the year. We love being able to provide just
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: a unique experience for people in all the different seasons.
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: And something I didn't mention is we're actually growing some
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: Christmas trees as well here, so we hope in a
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: couple of years to have some trees for people to
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: come out and cut and maybe do some Christmas events too.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: It's become though, Gritz Farm is one of the must
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: see destinations when you kind I know a little bit
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: about the tourism partner part of it over there in
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Putnam County. I mean, it's when people start listing the things,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: the things that go on in Putnam County and really
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: in this part of the state, Gritz Farm always makes
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: like the top definitely the top three or four things
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: you've got to see if you come to Putnam County.
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: Well, thank you. Yeah, we we don't take that lightly.
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  Speaker 11: We try to be better every year. We try new
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: things every year, changing our systems, our flows, seeing what
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: the customers like, what they don't like. That's the most
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: important thing to us is that people are just having
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: a really genuine, authentic good time when they come to
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: Gritz Farm.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Talking to Alexandra posts from a Gritz Farm about the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Tulip Festival and everything else that's going on out there.
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  Speaker 3: give us the details again on the Toolip Festival.
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: Yep, absolutely so. You can come today through Sunday for
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: the official second annual Gritz Farm Toolip Festival. Please visit
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: our website Gritsfarm dot com. We have all of the
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: hours and ticket options. You can purchase tickets at the
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: gate Thursdays and Fridays, but it's online only Saturdays and Sunday,
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  Speaker 11: so be sure to check us out online.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Alexandra I know you're busy. You gotta get
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: by to work. Somebody's got to take care of those tulips.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I guess, go out there and make sure that they're
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: ready to go. And I'm glad they survived because I
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: told the listeners. When you and I talked about this
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: on Monday, you were a little iffy. You were said, well,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: let me get back because I asked you if you
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: wanted to come on the show. You said, let me
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: get back with you in a day or so. But
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I'm glad. I'm glad the tulip survived.
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: Yes, yes we are too. They got a little frosty,
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: but they're still here.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: All right, Good luck with everything. We'll talk to you
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: again soon. Thanks a lot, Alexander Dave. All right, Alexander
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: posted again from the Gritz Farm over in Putnam County.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And you know, I guess, and I've lived in that area,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: not exactly where Gritz Farm is, but on the other
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: end of the county and for eleven years now, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I'm as guilty as anybody else. I didn't realize what
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: a big tourist attraction it was. And the way I
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: found out that it was was when my niece, who
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: was still in high school at the time, told me
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: that she's coming to Grit's Farm and this was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in Logan County, and I'm thinking, why are you coming
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: to Putnam County and she said, well, that's our school
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: goes every year. And then I talked and meet to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: find folks over there and find out, yeah, that they
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: come from all over the state, all fifty states as
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: a matter of fact, to little old Putndham County for
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Gritz Farm. The tulip festival is going on, and lots
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: of good food too. That's how you get me there,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: not the two. I mean, the tulips are, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: nice and everything, but the food is what's what's going
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  Speaker 3: some online chatter about this and uh in case you're wondering.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I did talk to officials with the City of Charleston
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: about this a little earlier this morning, and I first
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: saw some people talking about it. And just so you know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: if you are coming to the town Center in Charlestown,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: parking is now five dollars. It has been raised. Now,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: before everyone goes raising all kinds of cane with the city,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: know that City of Charleston has nothing to do with this.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: This is not on the good one administration's clock. You know,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: this is not you know, I was joking with somebody
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  Speaker 3: from the city. I said, well, it seems like you
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: folks get blamed for everything. This is not. This is
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: a private it's private building and a private parking. They
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: can they charge whatever they want. But obviously it's it's
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: been a little you know, there's been been some questions
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: raised about the about the price of that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: In talking to someone from the city though, as they
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: explained it to me, and again, the city had nothing
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: to do with this, Okay, They just they were just
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: you know, giving me some some background information. Basically said, look,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: that's kind of in line with what parking at similar facilities,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: uh is like at similar facilities across the country, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that may or may not be true, because I've visited
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of shopping malls, but I haven't visited a
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: whole lot that are set up like the Charleston Town
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Center is in downtown try be You know, the Huntington
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Mall is the one that comes to mind immediately because
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: it's the other one that's closest to us. You think
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: about maybe some of the some of the shops out
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: at Trace Fork or South Ridge or whatever, and they
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: don't charge, they don't charge for parking, but when you're
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: in a downtown type setting, it's kind of unique. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: if you go across the country and you look at
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the history of the town center, a lot of those
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: malls didn't make it because people didn't want to be
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: downtown anymore. They wanted to be in the suburbs and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: in the in the areas on the outside of town,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: much like you know Huntington. You know, the Huntington Mall
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: is not in Huntington. We call it that it's not
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: in Huntington. Uh. And then the and the the the
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: shops at South Ridge and the shops at trace Fork,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and you know, they're they're out there, but uh, I
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: guess it just in what I was reading about it yesterday. Uh,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: And there were a lot of questions asked, But I
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: will tell you that I was at the My wife
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: and I were at the Town Center on Wednesday, Wednesday Saturday.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I got my days mixed up. On Saturday,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: we had been out running around and we made an
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: appearance over at the home show, and uh, she wanted
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: to go in and check on something in the Town
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Center and I I was. I was amazed at you know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, and at that time
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: the weather was pretty good, which may hurt mauls. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: don't know at the lack of people that were there.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: There were there were. There was other things besides the
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: home show going on over the coliseum and convention Center.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: For what I could gather based on the on the
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: appearance and the the the age of the kids, there
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: must have been some st I'm going to say, a
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: cheerleading competition or something to that effect going on over
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the Colosseum and convention Center. I did see a lot
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: of the I saw a few of those folks, and
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I saw people kind of as I sat on a
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: bench as most old guys do while they wait for
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: their wives. Inside. I sat there and I watched people
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: walking in and you could tell they were from out
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: of town and just kind of looking around as if
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: to say, what happened here? You know what happened? And
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: we all remember, I guess the town centers in its
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: heyday in the nineteen eighties and nineties. I mean, I
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: knew people, you know from southern West Virginia where I'm from,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: that would make two to three trips a week to
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: the town center. And it was definitely a weekend destination Saturday, Sunday,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: go have dinner, you know, go go to the big
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: stores at the malls and things of that nature. But
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: getting back to the thing here, the raising of the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: of the price to five dollars, it's I mean, I
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: guess the big question. And I'm not trying to be
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: critical to them, because I want all businesses to do well.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: But my big question would be, you know, for what.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And that's not a slam on the businesses that are there,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: because they're doing the best they can. But anytime Starbucks
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: goes out, and I'm not a Starbucks proponent, I prefer
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: my coffee to be local.
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: Uh, But.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: You know it's it's a pretty bad situation. And and
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: we've talked about I've been doing this show for five
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: years and we've talked about it, you know, at least
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: once a week about saving the Charleston Town Center. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: you know it's not and Mayor Goodwin and I have
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: talked about it when she's on the show. It's not
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: going to be. Everybody says, what if you bring in
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: X store that'll save the town Center. That's not happening.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen. A former co worker of mine here,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: former producer of the show, give her a big shout out. Kaitlin.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Caitlyn Murphy was all about bringing David Busters and I
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  Speaker 3: love Caitlyn to death, but that wouldn't have saved the
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: town Center. One single entity is not going to save
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a mall. And uh So in anybody that says that
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: malls are dead, I think you're dead wrong, because go
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: to the Huntington Mall now on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Uh,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: malls are not dead. Maybe that there will always be
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: those people that want to look around, especially people who
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: come from towns like we see in various portions of
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: West Virginia. That come to town for state baseball tournament,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: are come, you know, for some other activity. They come
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: in and they don't have those things in their town.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: They don't have these stores, and they just like to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: look around. And there's always going to be a market
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: for people who want to look round, just want to
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: look around. And we know what online shopping has done
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to two malls and to Mama Pops in general, but
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: there's always a market for them. But I don't know
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: what the answer to the Town Center is. Again, one
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: single entity is not gonna save it. It's not. And
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: the perception of crime in the Town Center really doesn't
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: meet reality. I mean, if you look at the at
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the figures, and I'm not saying there's not been issues
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: with car break ins and things of that nature and
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: homeless and whatever the Town Center, because there has been.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: But if you look at the actual statistics, they they
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: don't bear that out. But that's any more of a
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: problem than it is in another mall, like a Huntington
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: mall for example. So I don't know what the answer is,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: but do know if you're gonna go to the Town Center,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: you're gonna pay five bucks to park there. Tech says Dave,
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• 28:51
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  Speaker 3: that is twenty twenty five, no matter what happens, there's
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: going to be a spin on it. And yesterday that
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: news broke while Amanda and I were doing Metro News
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: midday cheap Plug yesterday, and the text line started lighting
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: up your social media. Your favorite news outlet probably was
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: all about it last night, saying Trump won, Trump lost,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Trump cave. Trump's the greatest thing ever, he goes. That's
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: just where we are right now. That's just where we are.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: So if you're not a Trump fan, and or if
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: you're very very anti Trump, if you're very anti Trump,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: you're going to think that yesterday was a total disaster
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: that he got embarrassed. But if you are a Trump fan,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: you're going to think it was the greatest thing ever.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: And that's that's just where we are. Ain't gonna change it.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: That is society today. That says Capitol More and Justice
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: supported the destruction of our state and country just to
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: get rich. Oh, texasays Dave. Despite being our state capital,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Charleston is a medium sized suburb. No remaining mall in
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: suburban America charges five dollars to park. This fee is
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: to pay the suckers who bought this crumbling garage. It
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: is an embarrassment, says a texture. TEXTA says, raising rates
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: one hundred fifty percent means raising income the same but
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: basic money grab to take advantage of Civic Center patrons.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Well there's other options. You don't have to park there.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: You can park other places if you want. But I
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: understand one hundred percent what the texture is saying. Uh, Texas, Dave.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: You're saying that the town Center garage the smells of sewer,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: that has shaky dark elevators, that's upper decks have waves
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  Speaker 3: in the concrete, that security is scarce to non existent,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: that it's connected to a floundery mall is properly priced
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: because others are price similar. No no, no, no, no,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: no no no, That's not what I'm saying at all.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: I'm saying similar malls. I'm saying that malls that are
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: built and constructed like the Town Center charge similar things.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying ones that are in as bad as shape.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And if I didn't make that clear, that's on me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying ones that are in that bad of
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: shape like the town Center is. I'm not saying that
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: at all. I'm just saying well constructed ones, ones that
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: don't have a lot of the issues, the construction issues
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: and so on, those are charging that amount for downtown.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. I'm not I'm not I'm not
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: giving the owners here a past. No, that's that's that's
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: That's not what I'm saying at all. Tex says day
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: most of the people that parked them all worked downtown.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: At two dollars a day. It was the cheapest option,
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: but now will be cheaper to pay monthly parking in
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: a city own garage. I would say town center parking
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: will be on the losing end. Tech says Trump is
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: pumping and dumping the market, presumably manipulating the market for
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: insider trading, and no one is doing anything about it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Goodbye market credibility. Somebody pointed out to me, and this
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: is a TJ. Meadows thing. He's the financial guru in
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: these parts, not me, but about the whole manipulating the
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: market that the president did. Now, I don't know whether
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: he did or not. I'm just saying that's that was
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: pointed out to me something I was reading last night
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: and a reference to Martha Stewart was made and her
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: time in Alderson in there. Coming up on tomorrow's show Friday,
• 36:04
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• 36:07
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• 36:09
  Speaker 3: It's about time to talk about pickleball and nitro there
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• 36:14
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• 36:23
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  Speaker 3: We'll also talk to stock market, following up on the
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• 37:00
  Speaker 3: get into this a little bit further on Metro News
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Midday later today, and I'm sure the boys at the
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Capitol talk about it as well. The discussion of micro
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: grids continues today now. The House gabbles in at nine
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: this morning, the Senate at ten, and sessions are expected
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: to go way long today as they normally do as
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: we head towards the end. Aaron Parker has a story
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: posted about it this morning wv Metronews dot com with
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: some developments from his story. You've heard that some legislators,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Senator Rupy Phillips among them, aren't exactly sold on micro grids,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: and some county officials aren't either, mainly because they are
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: concerned about funding to the counties that could be lost.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: There have been several county commissioners from around the state
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: that have spoken out against the micro grids, and I
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: spoke to one county commissioner who did not want to
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: do an interview about it, but said, this is a
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: quote from this particular county commissioner that the folks, the
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: county commissioners that were upset at the capitol and pro
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: testing this, we're just wasting their time. His words, not mine.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: And so there are some local groups that are against
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: it too. I had a conversation with guests of this
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: show from time to time. Morgan Tenny from the Putnam
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: County Development Authority, and we are working on getting her
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: on the show, either either on talkline or on Metro
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: News Midday with a man did me later today. I
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: did talk to Morgan the Development Authority a little bit
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: earlier this morning. She was fighting on being at the capitol.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: So expect to hear her on either talk line or
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: on the Metro News midday show, or a combination of both.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: And she and some other folks are a little bit worried.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: I don't say upset, they're a little bit worried about
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: it too. So we'll see what happens between now and
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: the midnight hour on Saturday. Brad McElhenny writes about this
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: one on the website. The Senate yesterday passed a bill
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: that would pretty much keep cell phones, or at least
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: as they are now, out of West Virginia classrooms now
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: again not a total band. Don't get all upset parents,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: and I say parents because it's parents and are more
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: upset about what the kids are. The Senate passed at
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: thirty three to one. The House had passed it back
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: in March. Senate Education Chair Amy Grady, who is an
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: elementary school teacher, spoke out about it and she said,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: and you can read this in Brad story. She had
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: some apprehension about it at first, but had a little
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: bit of a change of hearts on the band. Eight
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: states have similar bands, by the way, and it's all
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: in the details here on a cell phone band. So
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: calm down, helicopter parents, it's not a complete band. It
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: would limit the use of cell phones and other such
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: devices in the classroom during instructional time. And it would
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: man eight that county boards put in some into place
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: some sort of policies for the upcoming school year and
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: requiring counties to document offenses to the West Virginia Education
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Information System. It does allow phones to be confiscated for
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: repeat offenders. Now there are some exceptions to that among
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: those students who have medical conditions that have to have
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: their phones to monitor them, think severe diabetics and things
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: of that nature. This bill was introduced on behalf of
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  Speaker 3: the governor. Now, again, the devil's in the details. How
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: if it's passed, how exactly it's all going to play out,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: No one knows yet because again it all depends on enforcement. Now,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: think back to when you were in school. I am
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: a frequent gum chewer, always have been. Remember when you
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: were in school, and supposedly you weren't supposed to have
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: gum in school, but teachers care and some didn't. And
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: you know what, teachers really enforced it, others didn't. I
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: presume it will be the same way with phones.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: There is talk that it would be done the way
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  Speaker 3: it is done in some other states. That and this
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: is just one idea of being floated around that when
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: when the bell rings instructional time begins, teachers take role
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: if they still do that sort of thing, I don't know. Uh,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And they students when they come in a classroom would
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: be asked to put their phones in a locked case.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: They would be these are individual cases. Uh, and this
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: is what's and I don't want to say, this is
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: definitely what's going to happen. This is what's gone on
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: in other states. They have these locked cases, you know,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: see through, and every student has a number you put
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: the phone when you walk in, you drop it into
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: the case. Uh, it's locked, teacher, and it's out there, teach.
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  Speaker 3: The students can still see the phones and things of
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: that nature. Uh, that's what's that's what's done in the other states.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, who knows how it's all going to
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: work out. It is interesting though, and I've done a
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: lot of research on this that the states that have
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: banned the phones. I know it's going to be shocking. Here,
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: it's the parents that had a harder time dealing with
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  Speaker 3: it than the kids did. Everybody thinks, well, kids can't
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  Speaker 3: survive without their phone. No, no, no. In other states,
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: it's been mommy and daddy that can't survive without the
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: kid having the phone. They had a much harder time
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: with it. And they've done interviews with kids who have
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: said that they said, yeah, it was shocking at first,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: but once they got used to it, they were fine
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: with it. It's mommy and daddy that's the problem here
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: more so than it is the kids, because for some reason,
• 42:47
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  Speaker 3: This is common sense and everyone knows this. According to
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  Speaker 3: a text, tex says, it's not for quote some reason,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: parents want to be connected to their kids at school
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  Speaker 3: in case there's a shooting. Until that stops, the cell
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  Speaker 3: phone thing should not change. Well, it's going to change.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to change definitely. But again we're only talking
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  Speaker 3: about during instructional time. And you know, I try to
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  Speaker 3: put my and again, I get this all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a parent, and I get that. But if
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  Speaker 3: there is God forbid a school shooting, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking you'd probably want to be remain as quiet as possible.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that you want to be picking up
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  Speaker 3: the phone. I'm just saying, every and every shooting shooting
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: is different. I get that. I understand the concern. Okay,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I really really do. I understand the concern that parents have.
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  Speaker 3: But again, as has been in other states, it's the
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: kids aren't the one that have problem with this. It's
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: it's the parents. It's the parents that don't want to
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: let go. And I know I'm the old guy. I
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: realized that. But I grew up in a time when
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: when I got on the bus at seven fifteen, seven
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  Speaker 3: thirty Morney, I didn't talk to my parents at all
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: until three or three thirty in the afternoon. Now you
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: can say times have changed, yes they have. There you
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: didn't hear about school shootings of the nineteen seventies and
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: eighties when I was in school like you do now.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: There were school shootings. There were, make no mistake about it,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: but not not like they are now. And I and
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: I will, I will grant you that, but I just
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I just don't feel that you're that again, not a parent.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I don't think that you're doing your kids any favors
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: by remaining connected to them all all day. I just
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: don't think And it's I mean again, this is you're
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: an instructional time they're talking about Talk to any teacher
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: about this. And I will say this because somebody pointed
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: it out on a previous show to me, and I
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: saw this firsthand when I was in state government, and
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: I used to go into schools and used to talk
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: to kids and talk to classes the teachers. Teachers are
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: going to also have to buy into this by not
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: being on their phones as well. I can't tell you
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: the number of times when I was talking to a
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: class when I was in state government, I was talking
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: to them about civic engagement and voting that I was
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: having a little problem with the kid in the back,
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: and then mainly was because the teacher was on Facebook
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: or on TikTok. If that was the thing, then So yeah, teachers,
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: teachers got some work to do too, uh tex says
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: uh Ooh okay, it's a news tip. I'll have to
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: get that to Jeff and the news department. Thank you
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: very much. Let me see, Texas parents are still covering
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  Speaker 3: car insurance, rent, another cost of living for twenty five
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: year olds because wages have not kept up with prices
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  Speaker 3: and the Richmond consolidated all wealth. Good job, Republicans, you
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  Speaker 3: have screwed an entire generation. Remember this, young people. Republicans
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  Speaker 3: will never vote to increased minimum wage, cap mortgage costs,
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: reduce health insurance premiums, or anything else that will make
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  Speaker 3: your life less expensive. They will say the free market
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  Speaker 3: is a solution. Yeah, how that's worked out for you? Well,
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  Speaker 3: it worked out pretty well for my generation. I can't
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  Speaker 3: imagine being that age and having my parents pay my bills.
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  Speaker 3: I can't. Let me see, Dave, the parents can't depend
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: on the government to notify or protect her their children
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  Speaker 3: from shootings. The phone gives them a tool to call
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: nine to one one to let them know their location
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: in case of emergency. Cell phone, says a textra have
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  Speaker 3: ruined society. Folks would trip and follow the Grand Canyon
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  Speaker 3: because they never saw it coming. Well that's true of
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: adults as well, not just teenagers. Let's go to the
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  Speaker 3: Capitol and let's talk to mister Wilson and mister Meadows. Hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing. Man, you were on a roll there
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  Speaker 3: with the texters, Dave. You know, I say things and
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  Speaker 3: people react. That's what we do.
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  Speaker 9: Are they worked up on the cell phone? Yeah, yeah for.
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  Speaker 3: The most part. And the five dollar parking at the
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  Speaker 3: town center, Oh that's uncalled for. I don't know, is
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  Speaker 3: it five bucks to park at the town So they
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  Speaker 3: just raised the price. Yeah, it's it's five bucks now
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  Speaker 3: to park at the town.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, there's no stores to go to get money somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: There's a few. There's a few, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I got people worked up on the cell
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  Speaker 3: phones because that's what I do, all right. So what
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: do you guys getting people worked up about over at
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: capital today?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we're going to talk about the bill that reorganizes
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: the Board of Governors for colleges and universities across the state,
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: taking away the voting privileges for students, faculty, and staff.
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: Senator Mike Wolfe was going to join us because he
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: said the quiet part out loud during yesterday's Senate floor session.
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  Speaker 8: We'll talk to him about that a little bit later.
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  Speaker 8: Bill Lee will not buy he's asking the pe or
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  Speaker 8: he's asking the state board for a resolution on p E.
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  Speaker 8: I A wells him about the cell phone band bill
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  Speaker 8: as well, Brad. At some point, things are kind of
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  Speaker 8: fluctuating here at the Capitol in the closing days of
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: the session. So we'll have all of that, and who
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: knows what else the show?
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  Speaker 3: Am I going to be on the show today? You
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: said you might need me because it's the possibility. I
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: got plan possibility, I got plans. What plans could you have?
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: I got a show in the afternoon. Now, man, I'm
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: and I'm with the you know I got, I'm in here,
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: I'm in hair and makeup between ten and now.
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: Speaking of that, by the way, I got confused for
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: you again today.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: All right, ten seconds go. Oh it happened again. Somebody
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: can guess.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody went, are you Dave Allen for the evermore?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, all I say is like, no, I'm
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: the good looking when he's the out of them. All Right,
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  Speaker 3: cut is Mike, cut is Mike. We're done. I'll see
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  Speaker 3: you later today and I'll see you tomorrow. Until then,
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  Speaker 3: have fun and love somebody.
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