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01-18-2024 Dave Allen Show on 580 Live: Drop Your Socks Day and Exploring WV's Construction Jobs · The Dave Allen Show

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warnings, watches, advisories, all that stuff is said to kick in this
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see evening, expecting more snow, more eyes, and more cold temperatures.
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Two. Matter of fact, they say that on Saturday, as we're all
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over at the West Virginia Hunting Fish and Show at the Colosseum Convention Center,
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Saturday is actually going to be colder than what we experienced earlier this week.
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So you got that to look for too. But y, they tell me
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that by next Friday we could be sixty degrees. Yeah, that's what they
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said. Definitely in the fifties next week and flirting with sixty and it's all
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going to melt there you go, I have no problem. That voice you
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hear is rob real. We're going to get to him here in just a
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couple of moments plus a little bit later on. Brian Dayton from the State
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Chamber of Commerce is going to stop by and Justin Williams from the Affiliated Construction
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Trades Group. You know, stop me if you've heard this one before.
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West Virginia needs workers and they are working on a program to try to find
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new workers, apprenticeships, things of that in nature. We're going to talk
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So, if you've driven by eleven to eleven, Virginia, Trediece and
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Charleston, there are some crazy people standing outside. Now that's not unusual,
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as this building is surrounded by crazy people, mostly of the employees and some
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of some who frequent the parking lot from time to time. But we'll get
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into that on another show. We are all NuGet with nuts as cold as
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it is. Why are they out there? Well, it's the first annual
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Thornhill Automotive Group Sock Drop, where we're asking you, the greatest listeners in
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the world, to help us put new socks of those in need. We're
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teaming up with the folks at Mountain Mission to make it all happen. All
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of our stations are involved. WCCHS, Charleston's ESPN Radio one of seven three,
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the Beat V one hundred kaz V one To all of us, we're
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all hanging out there and we are, you know, working together to try
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to collect some socks. This guy that's kind of behind this whole thing,
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this was his crazy idea. The head of the crazy idea department here at
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WVRC Media, Charles rob Reel from her sister station ninety six to one,
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Superstar Country kw's host of Up Real Early. Are you I'm tall? It
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does say that on the business card. Now I am the head hooligan in
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charge of creative nonsense. I think maybe I don't know. All I know
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is that the most requested item at shelters and service providers is socks. It
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seems like such a simple thing, and yet just stand out there for five
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minutes, especially if you had to walk through the parking lot and the wet
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and things that had frozen over and the black ice and then it got plaid
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again and now it's wet. Think about how cold your feet are, and
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the carry hoo to sec memorial space heater memorials. She didn't die, no,
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but it's you know, it's right there under your feet, keeping you.
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So if you've got one of those under your desk, thinking about,
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man, my feet got cold this morning. Now, think about the folks
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who are homeless, displaced. Think about the folks who the families who maybe
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can't afford heat, so they need socks. Let's keep their feet Like Lieutenant
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Dantles, take care of your feet. If we can do that, let's
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literally start keeping folks warm from the ground up. That's what we're doing today.
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And we started what six seven, seven hundred and a military always a
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military guy. Well yeah, And in fact, our first benefactor came through
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just after seven with eighty pairs of socks. It started wow, And we've
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had lots of folks come through. The Mountain Mission truck is in our parking
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lot. We're going until six this evening, and what we're seeking is simple
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packages pairs of brand new, never worn, unopened socks. That's what we
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need. Socks. And you're like, well, I can't make it to
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the store, but I could swing by all my lunch hour. We can
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do cash and check donations for Mountain Mission as well, but the focus today
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is socks and you can get them, I mean for next to nothing.
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I heard Jeff talking about to one of the places that he picked up some
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last night. My wife actually stopped my dollar tree and got some socks yesterday,
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so and sent me to work with them this morning. So so here
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again, what we're saying is it's real simple. It doesn't take a lot
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of time, and we're giving you plumb time. And even if you can't
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make it out of somewhere to get some socks, cash and check donations,
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whatever, the folks from Mountain Mission will take that. If you're worried about
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giving us cash, which you probably should be worried about giving us cash,
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then it's real simple. You can you can just put it directly in their
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hands. Man. Which you want to do is yeah, nobody's gonna run
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off to Marty Grass with your cash donation or checks made out to Mountain Mission,
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and especially those socks. And one of the reasons that we pick socks
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is you don't have to worry about sizes. There's basically adult and kids size
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socks and that's it. You don't have to it's not like shoe sizes.
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You'll see on the socks th size of seven to thirteen. Just socks stretch.
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Yeah, it'll it'll be you know, somebody who's got a size fifteen
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shoe is not going to have a problem getting into a pair of tube socks
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that you brought. This is one of the things that we try to make
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it simple, We try to make it easy for folks to get in on
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the giving. I'm so proud of the way West Virginians take care of West
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Virginians and this is another great opportunity to do that. And this was kind
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of your baby. I mean, it is one of those things because all
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in the several you know, dozens of radio stations that you've been fired from
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across the country. You get this opportunity to do this in other markets,
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and it's been this huge success. And as you said, West Virginians are
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the most giving people on the face of the earth. I mean, I
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have no doubt about that. I mean, you were you were here,
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you left, and you came back, and you're not from here, so
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you must like it for some reason. And that's one of the reasons you
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told me that you like it. Yes, seventeen states, three foreign countries,
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and there is no place like West Virginia when it comes to helping our
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friends and neighbors. It's amazing the way people pull together to take care of
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one another. And I've said before, I know there are policy things that
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need to be fixed in these situations. That's not what I do. That's
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not the tree I bark up. I'm just about helping folks and doing our
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best to keep them warm this winter, So come by drop your socks before
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six o'clock. You know, it's interesting that that phrase drop your socks because
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let me tell you something about that and Dale's for our producer day. You
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made me want to standing by on the on the dumb button on this one.
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The last time Robert that I had you on the show and we talked
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about the name drop your socks, Yes, and you alluded to the fact
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that you were in the military. Always say thank you for your service,
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and there was we kind of joked about the term drop your socks because there's
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a lot more to that statement. I'm not going to go into it because
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I kind of liked the job and my boss is producing for the show today,
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so I'm not going to go into the rest of that statement. But
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somebody on X the artist for me known as Twitter, actually did. They
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didn't print it out, they said they said some of the effective I know
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what you guys did there, because there's more to that expression. If you're
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a military person, you know that just dropped your socks. And I'll leave
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it at that. I think the first time through. I said that any
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man who has been through basic training knows what it's all about and is laughing
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maniacally. But I actually ran this by my ex wife who is retired National
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Guard, and she said, they say they say it to them in basic
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training and it it's different. Yeah, to know that they say, you
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know, I shouldn't I should have never married a woman from the National Guard
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because it means she only did laundry once a month and the house was only
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clean two weeks out of the year. But the so apparently they say this
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to women in basic training and such too. So if you, if you
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have served, you're in on the joke, and I do not recommend explaining
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it at work you will end up in HR's office and and the rest of
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the people right now are listening if they're at work and they're about to google
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it, and they're about to get fired, you know, for googling that
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on their work computer the VPN. Do it on your phone, not on
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the Wi Fi? Would you say, Dale? Dale said something to me.
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I don't know what it was. Oh, it's feature in Platoon,
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Yes, yes, it comes up in Platoon. It also comes up in
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Full Metal Jacket, the Great r lee Ermy who really was a drill instructor
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before that film, And none of his lines are quotable on the radio.
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None, not a single one is safe to say on the radio. All
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right. So they say it's going to warm up a little bit out there
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today, and that's a relative term with this. It seems like it's the
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longest week of winter weather forever. But it is going to get in the
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upper thirties before the next snowstorm comes in this evening and enduring air night hours.
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So if you're looking to get out of the office today, come down
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and see us again. We make it real simple. We've cleared all of
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the v well most of the vehicles off the parking lot out there. The
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vans are set up. We're at eleven eleven Virginia Street. It's just stuff
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from Charleston Catholic High School. And we've got our crew is out there from
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all of our stations are out there. We've got the folks from about Mission
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out there as well. Don't even have to get out of your car,
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you know, if you don't want to, you're thinking about going to the
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store and getting all of those French toasts supplies the milk, the bread,
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the eggs. Pick up a package of socks and bring them to us before
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this next round of storm hits, and that will warm your heart as well
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as warm the feet of so many of our needy friends and neighbors this winter.
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You know something we don't talk about enoughing. I'll let you go because
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I know you've got to get back outside. But something we don't talk about.
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You know, your station sety six to one KWS is the raining country
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music station of the year instead of West Virginia. And so that's kind of
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a cool deal, it is. I'm sure we won't repeat now that I'm
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back. You had little to do with it last time. I had remarkably
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little to do with it last time. Shards of glass are great. They
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are wonderful acknowledgments of how hard we work to improve people's lives, whether it's
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in ways like this, collecting socks to keep people warm, or just giving
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you something to sing along with. My goal every time I get on the
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radio in the morning is if you're not in a better mood three minutes after
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you've turned on up real early, then I need to work harder. I'm
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not doing my job well enough, so we just we want you to sing
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along, We want you to have fun, we want you to make going
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We want to make going to work less of a dread for you, and
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we want to help our friends and neighbors too. What it's all about.
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Sorry, again, it's till at least six o'clock or so this evening.
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And again this is one of the Even though this is kind of your brain
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shot, all the stations are out there, We're I'm going to be out
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there throughout the day to day collecting these socks that we're asking for new socks
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packages. Whether you can just afford one package up at the Dollar store,
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or whether you can bring boxes as people have already done. Any donation will
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be appreciated. If you want to do cash, or if you want to
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do check whatever. The folks from Mountain Mission are set up outside with us
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as well. Come by before six o'clock, even if it's one pair that
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you picked up at the check out at your local Parmar store. Yeah,
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cheap plug, got a text here for you, Robert. Yes, Tex
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says off topic, just wanted to ask Rob if he found his mother's Elvis
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concert ticket for the nineteen seventy seven Indianapolis show. I have not what's the
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story here? I don't know this. So the final concert for Elvis in
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nineteen seventy seven was at Market Square Arena. I did know that in Indianapolis,
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and I had been told for a while that I was actually at that
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show. I wasn't even four years old yet, so I take people's word
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for it. But I know my mother was there because one of her prize
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possessions was the ticket stub and it was in her effects. You know,
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I was her executor. So I'm going through all that, and I found
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it in her effects after she died. I have not been back to where
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that stuff is to get my hands on it, but if if I and
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my agent state remember, I will take a photograph of that and post it
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on al Gore's interwebs when I remember to do so. So all right,
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I appreciate that somebody was listening up real early to even mention that. Yeah.
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I just appreciate that anybody listens, especially when you and I are on
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here together, because it's it's fifty to fifty, you know, put us
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like there's a reason why they don't let us on the air. That often
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together. Correct, And I don't even want to bring in Steve animal to
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this because then it's a totally different animal tope, unintended. Ashley has already
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been HR. I mean, it's funny because we're getting I'll let you go,
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but you know it's funny because we're getting ready to go on the show,
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and the and Ashley's kind of miss everything around here, but she's the
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director of HR comes in and just kind of look sadly in the minute she
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walks in. I'm like, I didn't do it. I did do it.
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I didn't do it, both pointing each other at the same time.
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All right, so you're right on the parking lot. Yes, until six
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o'clock this evening. Get those socks out here, and a big shout out
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to the folks that Thornhill Otter Group for making it all possible as well.
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Yes, thank you to Sydney and everybody for megan it possible for folks to
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drop your socks. The WVRC Media inaugural edition. All right, man,
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I'll be out there. I'm gonna I'm gonna extend the show to about four
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or five hours today so I don't have to go out there and stand but
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I'll be out there as well. I'll be out there a little bit later
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on. They all right, Rob Real from our sister station ninety six one
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kW got Superstar Country again, host of of Up Real Early and uh,
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we're out there till six o'clock or so. The Steven and Drop your Socks
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has brought to you by the Thornheloder. Bring your your packages of socks to
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us, and you don't even have to get out of your car. We'll
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have people out there throughout the day today from Rob Station, from this station,
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the News Department, Promotions. We're all going to be out there hanging
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out today collecting those socks. And Mountain Mission is here as well. And
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if you can't get to your local store to pick up some socks, cash
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check, we'll take that as well and it'll be given to Mountain Mission.
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zero eight. Oh my goodness, look who just happened to It's I buy
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it here. It's our good friend Rich Lindsay, how are you man?
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Doing fine? Dave? How you doing? Happy New Year to you?
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Happy New Year. You came in to make a donation for the drop of
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your socks, but you had some information. You stuck your head at a
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door and said, hey, you might want to tell your listeners. I
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said, no, you sit down, you tele listeners. What did you
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want to tell us? Okay, well, first off, everyone listening should
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get down to the radio station and and and donate socks. But you can
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get your socks at the drug and Porium there on Patrick Street because they're selling
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socks at twenty percent off down there. All types of socks, men's socks,
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women's socks, thermal socks, anything you can think of. So there
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you go. Which is a lot being paid for this plug idea? I
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mean there's folks over a Drugg and Poium. I know that. I mentioned
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earlier that my wife picked up some a dollar tree. So there, and
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I'm sure your big lots and places like that, and there's plenty of other
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places. But I appreciate you letting people know that. How are how are
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things going out there? I haven't been outside because it's cold, I mean
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because I've been working prepared for go. Yeah, it's it's still cold.
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After it's still cold. That nothing's changed really, right, But drug and
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Porium twenty percent off on Patrick Street? All right? Rich, I appreciate
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it bad. Thanks a lot. Thank you today. Take care there,
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rich Lindsay yea. I don't know who's going to stop by the studio.
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Sometimes I thought we had security, but I guess not. Justin Williams is
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here the directors to make sure I get your title right, Justin the director
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of act the Affiliated Construction Trades Organization. That's correct, And we're part of
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the West Virginia State Building in Construction Trades, all right, so tell us
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what that organization does. Sure, So we represent about twenty two thousand construction
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workers Union construction Workers in West Virginia and about two thousand apprentices going through those
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fourteen trade organizations that we represent in West Virginia. Okay, all right,
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so we all know, Justin there's a lot of construction going on now in
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West Virginia and a whole lot more to come. And we hear daily though
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of the struggles that business owners have in fighting employees, the struggling if there
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is real, man, Yeah, it really is. And that's part of
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the reason I'm here. You know, We're out there recruiting young people,
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people who want to change careers and have a great career ahead of them to
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join the trades, either through an apprenticeship program or go into one of your
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local union halls and sign up to go to work. That's what we want.
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We want people to go to work. You know, it's a great
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career. You can make a living out of this, good wages, benefits,
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health insurance, a pension, and those all kick in as soon as
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you start. And when you're apprentice, you get paid while you learn the
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trade. And so it's you know, we see our college numbers are going
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down. It's been a big conversation, and so you know, this is
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a great opportunity to get more education in a specific area and make a career
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out of it. What seemed to be the the in demand positions at this
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time. I mean, I know construction's kind of a an umbrella term,
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but what are some of the specifics for some of the top two or three
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that are really you need right now. So we represent fourteen trades and it
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covers the spectrum mostly in industrial and commercial construction. But you know, obviously
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electricians there's a big push for evs and and all the grid infrastructure, just
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general infrastructure, so equipment operators, labors, you know, carpenters, mill
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rights, boiler makers that work in our powerhouses. You know, it's it's
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cement Mason's I mean, really covers the spectrum and it depends on the area
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of the state you're in. Right, So a project like New Core,
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there's going to be probably four or five thousand different construction workers that go through
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there, depending on what process, what part of the project they're in.
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Right, You're gonna start out moving dirt. I have a bunch of equipment
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operators, bulldozers and cranes. Then you're gonna start with concrete, so you
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have cement finishers in there. Then you're gonna start the building sheet metal workers
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putting in electrical and plumbers and pipe fitters. So it kind of just rolls
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through. And you know what's good about these jobs is that, you know,
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people go from job to job to job, but they make a career
21:21
out of it. Because West Virginia has really is in a good position with
21:25
the construction that's coming here. You know, New Core Toyota has been expanding
21:30
year after a year with new projects there in construction, and we work on
21:33
the powerhouse companies. You know, down here in Kanas City there was the
21:36
new cancer building. Now they're doing the training facility. Those are all great
21:40
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or visit Meeks dot us. Justin, I think it's kind of interesting because
22:07
and my listeners have heard me talking about this before as a kid of the
22:10
eighties. You know, they told us, you know, you got to
22:11
go to college, you got to go, you gotta go get that four
22:14
year degree. And and that's not a bad thing necessarily, but there's a
22:18
lot of folks that got that piece of paper in their hand and don't have
22:23
anything to do with it. And I like the fact now that that our
22:29
educators, political folks of whomever are telling people, counselors in public schools or
22:33
probably even re charter to whatever. They're telling people, you got to have
22:37
some kind of training after high school. But it doesn't necessarily have to be
22:42
with all due respect to my alma mater at Marshall University or WVU or State
22:47
or whatever it could be, at any just just get some kind of training,
22:51
that's right. And you know, the best part about ours is you
22:53
go and you get some base level training. Then you go to work and
22:56
you start making money and can you know, paying taxes and being part of
23:02
your community. And so you go and you learn while you're on the job
23:04
from people who've been doing this for twenty or thirty years. Then you go
23:07
back and get more training. And you know, with our training facilities,
23:11
there's jointly administered between the union and the contractor partners, so they're working with
23:15
the contractors who know the projects that are coming kind of down the pipeline,
23:18
and they're preparing the workers for that work. So you know, thirty years
23:23
ago they were building coal fire powerhouses and we were training people to do that.
23:27
We still maintain those, but we're also working on natural gas pipelines.
23:32
We also build windmills and solar farms. We're going to work on natural gas
23:34
powerhouses, I mean, whatever it can be. We want to train those
23:37
people so that they're prepared to not only build it, but we also have
23:41
to maintain these facilities for the people that work in those facilities every day.
23:45
And so it's a really great opportunity to get training outside of that traditional four
23:51
year or even two year college. But one thing that we're working on this
23:53
session and the legislature is to work towards getting an associate's degree when you complete
23:59
in a apprenticeship. So you know, it's a great skill and a trade
24:03
to learn, but if you want to go out and start your own construction
24:06
business, you'll have some kind of college training on that, whether it be
24:10
in business administration or how to bid jobs and learning some of those other aspects
24:14
of the business world that you get in an associate's degree program. So how
24:18
important or how much of a buy in is there from the business community and
24:22
all this it's huge. I mean, we really do partner with our contractors
24:29
and then the owners and developers of these projects. You know, so New
24:33
Core, for example, they bid it out and they want the best bang
24:37
for their buck, and they know when they use one of our partner contractors.
24:40
That's what they're getting because our contractors have a pool of drug free,
24:45
highly skilled, highly trained workers that are going to come in there and get
24:48
their job done on time and hopefully under budget. And maybe even before time.
24:55
You mentioned the word drug free, we all know. Again, I
24:57
talk about it every day. People that are on the show talk about every
25:00
day the problem with the opio eade scourge in West Virginia. And there are
25:06
days that it seems like we may be getting a little bit better, and
25:07
then there are days when we don't seem like we're getting a little bit better.
25:11
How big of a challenge is that, sure, it's a huge challenge
25:15
in every industry. And you know, part of what we do in the
25:18
trades, we do have drug testing pre employment because you're working around heavy equipment
25:22
and around other people, and so you have to be drug free. But
25:26
what we do is we're working with some of these programs, you know,
25:30
Jobs and Hope and Recovery. We've got training and we're working with it's called
25:33
the school Diversion and Transition, which is the kind of the CTE programs in
25:37
the jails, and so they're training people in these industries that we want and
25:42
they can come out and go back to work and be a productive member of
25:47
study, which is really what you know these incarceration you know, when you're
25:51
in incarcerated, that's what you want. You want to be able to come
25:52
back and have a job and then you're not going to hopefully fall back into
25:56
some of those things. And so it's really important to work to get people
26:00
out of bad situations into a job. So where can people learn more how
26:06
to take advantage of this? Sure So our website is wvtrades dot org and
26:10
that has links to all fourteen crafts and information about apprenticeships. Contact information on
26:15
there. So happy to reach out and talk to anybody, all right,
26:18
justin Always a pleasure to have you on the show. And it's kind of
26:21
chaos here right now with Sock drop going out. Had to shoot you an
26:23
email you after day and so we're gonna have to park off site a little
26:26
bit out there because we've got our parking lot filled with vans out there and
26:30
hopefully folks are donating their socks today. So I appreciate you working with us
26:34
on no problem. It's great to you all do these events to support our
26:37
community and it's one of the things our unions do as well. We did
26:41
a big angel tree at our office this year, and so you know,
26:44
it's what's nice about our organization. We represent twenty thousand construction workers, but
26:48
they're local West Virginia workers and they are all involved in our communities, whether
26:52
it be at little legs or churches or whatever it is. So what it's
26:55
all about. Justin Williams again, the director of ACT, that is the
26:57
Affiliated Construction Trades Organization. I appreciate you being here man. Thanks a lot,
27:02
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concerning our last guest talking about construction jobs as drug free include medical cannabis.
30:25
Well, I actually ask Justin before he left because I didn't get the text
30:27
in time. Justin had to leave us, but I ask him that very
30:30
question as it stands right now in West Virginia, and if I'm wrong,
30:36
somebody can correct me. But as and this is according to Justin, they
30:40
test for usage at this point, so drug free at this time if you're
30:45
using medical cannabis as what Justin was saying, and I'm hoping that this is
30:48
I'm sure he knows what he's talking about. I just hope that I know
30:52
that I'm explaining it properly at this time medical cannabis that would be considered not
30:59
drug free. Does that make any sense, Brian what I just said,
31:00
I think so? All right, So that's that's where we are right now.
31:03
Brian Dayton from the West Virginia Chamber of Commerces here, Good morning,
31:07
sir, Welcome to the show. David's great to be back. I think
31:10
we lost saw you a couple of weeks ago, so it'eah to be back
31:12
on and we're in full swing with the session. Now. You see what
31:15
we've added to the studio here. We have a spencer Atkins bibblehead. That's
31:18
super nice. Where can I get one? Well, you know this was
31:22
a gift from from a person over to w WK Rich West, who is
31:26
one of their sales weasels over there. That's we have sales weazels here.
31:29
They have sales weasels there. And Rich is one of their sales weasels over
31:32
there, and he he gifted I did a TV commercial, uh, and
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he gifted this to me. So it's going to set in here, and
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if we keep up with the kind of weather we've had this past week,
31:41
we're going to hang this thing in effigy okay, because we're not feeling the
31:45
spence. Spencer is actually going to be on the show tomorrow. But anyway,
31:48
it's kind of, i'll be honest with you, things kind of creepy.
31:52
Man. It's just it's a true bibble head. It just I mean,
31:55
I know it's a bibblehead. It's supposed to babble, but gosh,
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it's just just constantly bobbles. Man. It's just it's weird. We have
32:00
a Brian Dayton biblehead anywhere. We don't, not that I'm aware of Steve
32:04
Roberts biblehead. Not that I'm aware. I can't tell you what my wife
32:07
hasn't had created on XC and sent in. But you know, true knows
32:10
that is true. All right. So the Dome is the place to be
32:14
this week's session underway State Chamber. I know that you're you can keep an
32:16
eye on things. You're there just about every day. I can tell that
32:20
you've been there a lot because you come in last time you didn't have a
32:22
tie on, so today you've got a tie on, so you must have
32:24
been hanging out there or you're going there later today. I want to talk
32:29
a little bit about something that has been in the news and I know the
32:35
Chamber is keeping a close eye on, and that's childcare in West Virginia.
32:38
Not always the sexiest of topics and session where we've talked about capital punishment and
32:43
cannabis and things of that nature, but childcare, and not to say the
32:46
obvious brind is extremely important and in some cases is crucial to whether or not
32:52
someone takes a job. What's the state looking at on this right now?
32:58
So let me just back up a little bit and give some extra flavor to
33:01
why this issue is so important. West Virginia has the lowest workforce participation rate
33:07
in the country by a few percentage points. A big reason. There are
33:12
multiple reasons to but a big reason is the availability lack of availability of childcare
33:16
in West Virginia, the affordability of childcare in West Virginia, and also making
33:21
sure that those are high quality programs. Just to give an example, the
33:24
average cost that I've talked to a few childcare providers, the average cost is
33:30
about eight hundred dollars. It's a little bit more for younger children. It
33:34
can be a little bit less as children get a little bit older. But
33:36
we're just going to ballpark. It about eight hundred dollars, and that actually
33:39
doesn't cover the childcare centers operating costs. Either or not, it's very expensive
33:45
to run these. So put it this way. If you have two a
33:47
family with two children, and they are making the median household income of West
33:52
Virginia, which is about fifty one thousand dollars, when you look at their
33:57
pay, what's taken out of their pay via taxes, insurance, so and
34:00
look at their take home pay, you're probably talking fifty sixty maybe seventy percent
34:07
is going out the door to go to a childcare facility that is almost unworkable.
34:12
So what you have is a lot of people that have made the conscious
34:15
decision. You know what, I could work for less than minimum wage to
34:19
not see my children or I can tighten our belts a little bit and one
34:22
spouse, you know, goes off to work and the other one stays home.
34:24
We did that with my family when we looked at the cost. So
34:28
that is really driving this whole discussion about childcare in West Virginia. Five years
34:32
ago, the legislature largely didn't really want to pay too much attention to it.
34:37
Now it is a very very high priority in both the House and the
34:40
Senate, so we're very excited about that. There had been there was talk
34:44
I think the mister Wolfull from down in Capbell County I think was the one
34:47
that had was talking about doing some kind of a child like like a tax
34:52
credit or something like that. Yeah, there are a number of bills and
34:54
approaches that are being looked at right now. Senator Rolfles is one of those
34:58
approaches to find a way to provide some extra assistance to those who really need
35:02
it. The Chamber has a couple bills on this topic. Are the one
35:07
that we're really having as a priority encourages businesses to operate these facilities. We
35:14
have so many counties in West Virginia where there aren't enough childcare. I think
35:17
the statistic is there over twenty counties that have less than one hundred daycare slots
35:22
in the entire county. So we have a bill that would provide a tax
35:24
credit to businesses who operate a childcare facility and provide that is a benefit for
35:30
their employees. Another thing that we're very supportive of is permanently changing the reimbursement
35:37
rate for subsidized children from attendance to enrollment. So if you're a private childcare
35:43
provider, you have your private payers. If you have people who are on
35:46
subsidy and sending their children there, the state will pick up that tab.
35:50
Now there is a copay assigned to it. But prior to the COVID pandemic,
35:55
those childcare providers were paid by the state based on attendance. Well,
36:00
if that child and their family they only send that child there for three days
36:02
a month, they only got paid for three days a month, but they
36:05
still have all the staffing there, they have all the overhead, all the
36:07
insurance costs, and so when the COVID pandemic rolled around, it got changed
36:12
to enrollment, and so if the child is enrolled, then the state will
36:15
basically pay for them. Right now, that is set to expire later this
36:20
year. What will likely happen is if that is allowed to expire, you
36:23
will have a lot of private child care providers who, in order to stay
36:27
in business and not go under, will have to greatly limit the number of
36:30
subsidized children that they can take. And those we're talking about families who really
36:35
need this extra help in order to be able to go to work. So
36:37
that is a high priority of permanently changing it from attendance to enrollment. It's
36:42
also very likely that the federal government's going to require that in the next couple
36:45
of years, so it's staying ahead of the game. That is another major
36:49
priority, but it's being looked at. There's a task force that is being
36:52
headed up by Delegate Kathy Heskraus. It's got a number of House members on
36:57
it. There's a lot of incentive over in the Senate to do things.
37:00
So there are a lot of moving parts right now, but I feel very
37:04
optimistic that we can make some real progress on this issue. Brian Dayton from
37:07
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you guys looking at guys and gals and folks looking for under the down You
37:23
know, we're always looking are there ways to make it easier to do business
37:28
in West Virginia as far as regulations or how taxes are applied. That is
37:32
always a top priority. Workforce, which ties right into childcare, continues to
37:37
be something that is all encompassing and it's going to need to take some real
37:40
reform. We have landed so many really big development developments into West Virginia.
37:46
You know, you think about new Core, Procter and Gamble, Owens and
37:51
minor GreenPower, motor company, form Energy, a lot of these, the
37:54
Berkshire Hathway development up in Jackson County, A lot of those things have been
37:59
really impressive wins on the economic development front. But the real concern is if
38:04
we don't figure out a way to solve the workforce problem, it's going to
38:07
be harder and harder to attract these companies there because they've got to have workers.
38:12
And so you know, I think probably any of your listeners, can
38:15
you know understand when you go out to a restaurant right now, you might
38:17
be waiting a lot more because there are fewer servers there. Well, any
38:21
business that we're talking to right now saying I've got jobs open, I've got
38:23
them open, I can't find people for them. So so what exactly,
38:27
Okay, let me interrupt you here. And this is just I don't know
38:29
whether you know the answer to this. If you did, you'd probably not
38:31
be working. You'd just be in Florida somewhere right now, enjoying the great
38:35
idea that you had. But I mean, what are people doing? Brian?
38:39
I mean I've asked him, you know, from the employer's standpoint,
38:44
and I've asked I can't really get an answer. If people aren't working,
38:47
what exactly what are they doing to gain money? Because all the money that
38:52
went out with COVID and all this other that's that's that's gone, that's done.
38:57
There's been significant reforms within the welfare system, entitlement programs, whatever you
39:02
want to call it, that there's not as many people on those roles.
39:06
So what exactly are people doing well to make money. You know, that
39:10
is a good question. I think you have a lot of single or not
39:15
single family homes, but families where there's one income, one spouse stays home
39:19
the other doesn't, and that can tie right back to the childcare issue that
39:22
we've been discussing. There are I do think when COVID arrived, we had
39:28
a lot of people that were nearing retirement age but might have been five or
39:30
six or seven years ahead and just said, you know what, I'm done.
39:35
I'm done, and so we had a greater exodus on the closer to
39:37
retirement people than they were ready for, and they haven't been able to have
39:42
time to backfill that. I think that's been a part of the problem,
39:45
and hopefully over time that starts to iron back out. But Dave, that's
39:46
a great question. What are they doing. The national workforce participation rate average
39:52
is about sixty two to sixty three percent, and we're at fifty five and
39:57
just your listeners understand what that number means. If you are over the age
40:01
of sixteen and you are not institutionalized or in a military so institutionalized to be
40:07
you're in a prisoner or you're in a long term care facility, or you're
40:09
in the military. But if you are over the age of sixteen and not
40:13
in that category, you are considered available for the workforce. The percentage that
40:17
are in the workforce are those who are actively working or those who are a
40:21
collecting unemployment because if you are collecting unemployment, there's a finite period of time
40:25
that you can receive unemployment assistance. But that means that you are actively looking
40:30
for a job. So we're talking fifty five percent of our population sixteen year
40:34
old or not institutionalized. Now, part of our problem is we have an
40:37
elderly population. If you are ninety and you're not institutionalized, you're not in
40:40
the military, you're still considered by that definition available. So that is part
40:45
of our problem, is that we have an elderly population. But it doesn't
40:49
explain the nine percent gap or eight to nine percent gap between the West Virginia
40:52
and the United States. Okay, hey, well I get a text here
40:55
for you. You ready, Okay, right, says does mister Dayton agree
40:59
that old care is infrastructure? If so, asking which major political party put
41:04
forth this idea in Congress? So you know, I would say it is
41:07
just as important as infrastructure, and what we're most excited about, Dave,
41:12
is that this is bipartisan. The Chamber had a bill two years ago during
41:15
the twenty twenty two session that very similar to what we're looking at now but
41:21
different provided tax credits to businesses who started a day care facility. That bill
41:27
passed the Senate. I believe it was thirty one to three, and I
41:29
think it was ninety four to two in the House with a few absent.
41:32
It was overwhelmingly bipartisan. What is going on right now. That task force
41:37
I mentioned earlier, being headed by Delegate Cross, has Democrats on that task
41:40
force as well as Republicans. So this is not a partisan issue and we're
41:45
very very happy about that. This is one of those things that everybody has
41:49
come together and realized we have to tackle this, and I think that's just
41:52
been you know, for a long time, there's been a push to get
41:55
this elevated, and it's elevated. So you know, this is not something
42:00
I'm going to say is a Republican or a Democrat thing. This is bipartisan
42:02
and that's good. What's under the dome today and a hobby is going to
42:07
be there coming up at ten oh six from the AARP Broadcast facility there at
42:09
the Capitol. What are you looking at specifically today? You know, today
42:14
we're continuing to watch the candidate filings every day. It's as interested to see
42:17
who's filing for office. We're we are less than four months away now from
42:21
the primary election, which, aside from a handful of districts in the legislature,
42:25
they're going to be decided in May, so that's something we're paying close
42:29
attention to. You know, we've got meetings set up on again. Childcare
42:32
just continues to be there. Always enjoy having Hoppy down in the Capitol.
42:37
It just adds a little bit of extra atmosphere in the dome, brings more
42:39
energy there. So there's a lot going on. We're also looking at the
42:45
snowstorm tomorrow. See you know what they can try to cram in today,
42:49
and I'd be remiss, I said, the Chamber has a great revent coming
42:52
up tonight. We have our legislative reception right next door at the Culture Center.
42:54
So that's always a great opportunity to bring our members, bring the legislature
42:59
together, to have an opportunity to talk and just mingle with each other.
43:02
All right, Brian Dayton from the State Chamber of Commerce. I'll have you
43:06
on again a couple of times because I want to have you on definitely after
43:08
we have the candidate filings, because the deadline is midnight on the twenty seventh
43:14
to file, and I'm interested to see because I know you guys have done
43:17
some endorsements and probably we'll do some more. I'm interested to see you.
43:21
We'll have you on a couple times before the primary election, but definitely after
43:22
the candidate filings. One of you, I'm too love to talk about it.
43:25
All right, We're going to take a break, Brian. I appreciate
43:28
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Saturday and Sunday. Texas. Why restaurants don't have employees low wages income
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is relying on tips and dealing with the rude and ungrateful general public who don't
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tip, says a Texter Texas day people are Grubhub, door Dash. They
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don't have people to tell them what to do, work at their own pace.
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Just checked. Still having a population exit tex says Dave. When you
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have a politician on your show spewing lies, could we have a hard working
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man or woman on the next day to counter the lies? Think about this
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show if you've not learned this by now in the nearly four years that I've
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been doing this show, is that all types are welcome here on the show.
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I don't turn anybody away that wants to come on the show, and
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you're always welcome to call. That's why we have this piggly wiggly houpline three
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from Fruths three zero four nine three five five zero zero A. But yeah,
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anytime that anybody wants to go, I think got to do is reach
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out to me and let me mention this as well. You know, we
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are in the campaign season right now. As I said, the filing deadline
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will end on Saturday night, the twenty seventh, at midnight, And so
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if your political candidate that that's filed, or you're thinking about filing whatever,
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and you want on the show. Once the candidate filing period is over,
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we're going to start limiting the number of times people can come on because then
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it basically becomes a commercial. So what I need you to do if you
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want to get on the schedule is the best way to reach me really is
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by email, and the email address is Dave dot Allen at WV radio dot
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com. Dave dot ALANWV radio dot com. Just email me and let me
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get you on the schedule, because again, once the candidate filing period is
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over, we can't let people on several times because then it becomes a commercial.
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So we're gonna start limiting people the amount of times. If you're running
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for office, probably probably give you one shot and that'll be at once the
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candidate finally period is over. Drop me an email Dave dot allenwvradio dot com.
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Text says if you value childcare, ask Carol Miller at Alex Mooney why
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they've voted with other congressional Republicans to end childcare funding. Hoppy, as I
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mentioned, is back at the Capital coming up to ten oh six. The
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talk about the high school transfer rule continues. Canaw coundydable to get Dana Ferrell,
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who's a very vocal opponent of the new rule himself an educator and Senator
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Ryan Well, the guy behind the new rules. They're going to have a
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discussion about it, with Hoppy coming up at some point during the show.
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Also, Brad mclahon would stopped by Hoppy ten o six from the AARP broadcast
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location at the Capital, Texas. Burger King and tays Valley has had their
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dining room shut down for several years. The news slash my car is not
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a proper place to eat food. I don't have a table in my car,
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and besides that, I'm driving BK and Tayese Valley's lost a lot of
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money from me over the years. Well, I'm trying to throw Burger King
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under the bus. But then they probably don't have people to work. That's
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probably the reason. Say Republican Party will have their winter meeting this Saturday in
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Charleston, and among the items, well, more than likely they're going to
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be choosing a new chair. As word is it's kind of become common knowledge
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now, is that current party chair Elgri mccardal is going to be stepping down,
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possibly to run for office herself. So they're going to be taking a
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look at that. But also you've heard Hoppy talking about this. In fact,
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it was the subject of his commentary this morning. This move where some
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within the Republican Party want to change the Republican Party primary so only registered Republicans
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can vote in it. Now here's what I mean that I did not phrase
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that correctly. I don't mean that they can't vote. I mean we're talking
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about independence here. If you are a registered independent, nonpartisan, you know,
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whatever, you want to unaffiliated, when you go to vote, you
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can request a Republican or a Democratic ballot. If you're a registered independent.
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The law is in West Virginia, you go and to the poll worker and
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you say, I am an independent, but I want a Republican ballot or
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I want a Democratic ballot. By law, the poll worker is not allowed
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to ask you which one you want. I learned that in my day's some
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secretary of state's office. You can't do that, but you have to ask
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for one. Now there is a move, and I guess it's going to
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be discussed at the state Republican Party meetings in Charleston this weekend. That would
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basically make it if you're an independent, you would not be able to do
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that. Now. The party chair, Elja mccardal, isn't necessarily opposed to
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that, but she is expressing some concern about the timing. And a few
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county clerks are the people that actually run elections in the state. They are
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many of them are opposed to it. In fact, one of those county
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clerks is going to join Hopey at the Capitol today. I will say this
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in closing, I don't know what they've really thought this whole thing through.
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To be honest with you, I think it's a bad idea, especially with
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the time. But you know, I'll say this. Where I'm from in
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southern West Virginia, there are a lot of people that are registered as independent
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because they may think Republican. They have all their conservative they have all the
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Republican talking points, but their heritage is being a Democrat and they just can't
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seem to make that switch over. So it's going to be interesting to see
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what happens. Texas, Dave Island. All types of welcome on my show,
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even liars. It explains why a lot of gops come on the show.
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I put on the show. Whoever asks to come on the show,
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all right, we got to go. Coming up on tomorrow's sho Hannah Gardner
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from the Kenaw charlest New Main Association with this week's Adopt Me Please, sped
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of the Week and Doug Chipolletti on School Choice Week which is coming up.
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Also, Spencer Adkins will be on the show as well. My producer was
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the Boss Deal Cooper, Thank you so much. Hobbies coming up. Drop
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your socks on our parking on here folks will see it tomorrow till they have
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