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06-26-23 -- 580 Live with Dave Allen - Amanda Smith-Ramey, Regatta Update, Chris Walters · The Dave Allen Show

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but a very capable marketing director. We have a man to ray me from
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the Hurricane demanded good morning, How are you? Good morning, I'm well,
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thank you. How are you? I am fine, Thank you for
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being here. I want to talk about what's going on in my adopted hometown.
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Although I'm not technically within city limits, it is on my mailbox.
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It does say Hurricane, West Virginia. I know you guys have some big
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doings for the fourth of July next week. Talk about them. We do.
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Absolutely, We're throwing the biggest party in Hurricane on the fourth of July
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and everything is free. That's the headline. We kick off the day with
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the parade at two o'clock down Midland Trail and over to main streets, and
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then we have three activities all evening long from three to eight pm at City
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Park. And I'll tell you we'll talk about the parade here just for a
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moment. I've been in various parades for various reasons one time or another of
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my life. That Hurricane Parade is a pretty big deal. I mean,
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no matter what the parade is, whether it's Christmas Parade or the fourth or
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whatever, it's it's a pretty big parade. Yeah. We have two parades
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a year, and the fourth of July is certainly um one that people get
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out, get out their patriotic gear, and we'll have everything from you know,
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beauty queens to old cars, to attractors to you know, just families
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coming out and enjoying themselves and decking out their truck and trailer and going down
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Main Street. So it's a great hometown event. And I'll say this too
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about Hurricane and get a little biased because that's the town nearest to me.
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I guess is that you'd be hard pressed to find a town the size of
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Herricane that goes all out for the Fourth of jut we have some big events,
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you know going on. Ripley comes to mind, and some of the
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things that we have going on, But for a town of its size,
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I mean, it's a big time party, and it's an all day party,
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that's right, That's right. And we have not only is you know,
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admission free when we get over to City Park from three to eight,
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but we have things free huskies, ice cream, free snow cones, three
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caught candy, free watermelon slices, hot Doug give aways, t shirt giveaways.
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I mean, you're right, We certainly go all out and we're excited
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to host this with of course, we couldn't do it without our awesome sponsors.
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Um, but we're excited to host this and people come from from all
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around and we're excited to see them. Get those sponsors in there. Do
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you have a list readily available in front of you there? There are so
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many, But I would like to say Cuntnam County Bank is always a huge
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supporter and they make sure we have awesome fireworks, which we can talk about
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fireworks here in a minute. But you know we've got Martin's, Peterbilt is
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always great to us Odell with a donex Walker, christ Or Dodge, Steep
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and Ram tutors, Genos, Rick Epli and Paving. I could go on
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and on. We have Farley's whose sponsors our hot dog eating contests, which
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Dave, we could use the more contestant if you'd like to be in our
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hot dog eating contest. You know, people, because people know I'm a
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foodie, they're always throwing this up to me about joining hot dog contest.
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I'm not a competitive ead. Okay, I'm not gonna I'm probably not gonna
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joining, is it now? This is not a new thing. You've done
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the hot dog eating contest in the past. Haven't you. Absolutely, it's
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always a good time and you know, we put some pretty good prize money
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out there. So, like I said, we could use a few more
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contestants. We have ten slots and I think six or seven are filled right
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now. So if anybody out there is interested, it's hurric and WB dot
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Com Slash hot Dog Contest. Okay for all the details. So how many
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hot dogs in the year's past does the ballpark figure have people down to win
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the championship? Yeah, so it's anywhere from like fifteen to nineteen. I
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think nineteen was our max slash And what timeframe? How long a time with
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the five minutes? Nineteen hot dogs in five minutes? Yeah. Yeah,
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I like my hot dogs, but I don't think myself nor my producer Anthony
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Harmon could do could do that. Yeah, I'd like to enjoy my hot
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dogs, Yes exactly. There are people out there who are really excited about
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it and anyway, Yeah, so we appreciate Farley's for sponsoring that and bringing
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hot dogs over and he's got a big trophy in addition to the prize money
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that we give away. So good stuff. Because we're talking about Manda Ramy,
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who's the marketing director for the City of Hurricane. You mentioned the fireworks.
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Talk about the fireworks. Yeah, so fireworks In years past we have
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let them off at City Park, but the last couple of years we have
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let them off at what we call water Tank Hill, which is just past
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Hurrican Middle School. So we wrap up the party at City Park at eight
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pm so that people can go and find their spot to watch the fireworks from
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water Tank Hill, which it's just about visible from a whole lot of places
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in downtown Hurricane, so you can see the water Tank in the daytime.
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You can see the fireworks at ten o'clock on July fourth. Good stuff.
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And again it's an all day party, as you said, with the parade
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and so many of these activities demand which is great for families. So many
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of these things are free absolutely yeah. And like I said, we'll also
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have free inflatables, free water slid, the spray ground at City Park is
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free admission for everybody, no matter where you live. All day, free
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petting zoo. You know, I could go on and on. We have
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a concert from six to eight pm with Eric burgett Um. He's a Nashville
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recording artist. He's been with us the last couple of years, and he
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is just such so popular. He sings his own songs, but he also
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sings things you can sing to. UM and he'll be on stage, like
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I said, from six to eight. Um. Yeah, it's going to
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be a good time. Indeed, it is. It always is in Hurricane.
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And I would imagine when you have a party like this, an all
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day thing, and have all these free things, that you're going to have
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a whole lot of people that are going to come in from out of the
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area too. And that's certainly is welcome. Yes, absolutely, And I
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should say if you're worried about parking, don't be Um. Park over at
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Herrican High School and we'll have a free shuttle service running all evening long back
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and forth. They'll take you over to the park and then pick you back
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up when you're ready to leave. That's good, That's that's really good because
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sometimes you know me, but people like me who are a little impatient may
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may not want to attend certain events because of the parking situation. But you
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got the shuttle buses there from Hurricane High School. Uh. That that that
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that that make it easy. And I know anytime that you plan an event
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like this. This really isn't all your thing, trying to put it all
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together, Amanda. Absolutely. Yeah, And if anybody out there is interested
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in getting involved, like I said, we could still use hot dog contest
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entries, but also if you'd like to be in the parade, if you
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have a local business or an organization that you'd like to just come out and
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join us. We still are accepting parade registrations hurricanewv dot com slash parade registration
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to get your day on our list. And you've got on you guys,
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just do a fantastic job when your social media, I know, when your
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social media pages that you have everything laid out there as far as time and
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things of that nature. Yep, yep. Absolutely go to get our Facebook
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page or our hurricanewv dot com either one. We've we've got all the details
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on there. All right. Well, it's gonna be a great Fourth of
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July and Hurricane Amanda. It's always a pleasure to have you on the show.
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And we still need people to sign up for this hot dog eating contest.
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Absolutely, and hey, join us down here on Main Street today for
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Mondays on Maine from eleven to We've got some food trucks. Okay, who
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do we have thus far? Food trucks there today? Yes, today we
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have saved by Grace Barbecue, which is always a popular choice. Bite me
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which is Asian street food, and keeps lemonade. And this is something you
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do? How often do you do this? Is it every Monday? You're
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how offen? You do it every Monday? In June and July a few
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more weeks to join us? All right, Amanda, As always, it's
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a pleasure to talk to you. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot,
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Thanks so much, have a great day. Thank you as well. A
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Today, let's talk where gatta it starts this Friday, will run through
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the fourth of July. Next Tuesday. Meteorologist Brian Hughes Captain Brian Hughes joins
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us right now, and I do need to remind you that this forgot to
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How are you man? Well, I don't we don't have a microphone
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on him? Do we have a microphone for him? Hello? Here we
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go? Hello, here you sir, Mike Jack one two three, There
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you go. I'm great. I mean I'm already sleep deprived. I've had
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two naps today. It's it's what, it's nine twenty one. I've had
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two naps to day already, and one was on air. Yeah, who
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is it? As soon as seven o'clock yet I run into the conference room,
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I take like a fifteen minute power nap and then right back up and
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we go again. And so then I went to the boat and had a
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nap, and so now I should be good for the rest of the day,
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all right. And there's a lot the acts of you and all of
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the other folks that do this regatta thing. I mean, you brought it
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back last year, and last year was kind of a learning experience because maybe
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you, I mean that was your first regatta. Yeah, yeah, and
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so yeah, exactly, I've done large scale events before. I've done rock
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fests and country fest and Texas Motor Speedway was in on planning on that.
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But you know, it's just a whole different version of it once you're when
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you're completely immersed in it. So we're excited, you know, we're excited
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about it. Right now, the Amhurst Madison is bringing down, like right
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now, I just got the picture and the video of the of the large
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it's being brought in. They're going to anchor that in. By noon,
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we start moving the sternmo boats, putting them all in place exactly how we
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want for the rest of the weekend and for the rest of the week and
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the weekend, and you know, the carnivals getting in place. We've got
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fuel deliveries coming in from Oliver's out there, you know, to make just
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all kinds of things. There's so many things, a lot of moving parts,
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very much. And again, you know people somebody who said to me
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earlier, they said, well, why are they starting so early. Well,
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because there's two hundred thousand people that are going to be in Charleston,
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and it takes just a little bit of planning to be able to do that.
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Yeah, first thing Saturday morning of the Street Street crew, we're taking
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down the stoplight right there at Summer's Street. And you might go, summers
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the bulletard, You might go, why do you take down a street light?
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Well, do you want a flashing yellow in front of you while you're
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trying to watch a concert? Probably not. It ruins pictures everything else.
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So they took that down. You know, there's so many things it part
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of it too, You've got to think about it. It's actually good to
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get people used to the pattern that this is shut down, here's where you
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gotta go. So so there's a lot of things that are moving parts.
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Like yesterday, last year we had forty five vendors okay, food, all
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kinds of other things. This year we have over seventy. Wow, and
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and we gotta and believe me, we have. We're packing them in right
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there those you know, three blocks and a couple of splinters off onto Summer's
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lately in Quart Street. Just gotta check from the folks at the United Way
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that said to remind everyone about the duck race on Sunday. Listen the rubber
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duck raising, great rubber duck raised. Uh, you know they're going to
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get those ducks, you know, knock them off the bridge. We did
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have I gotta tell that Margaret. I don't know if Margaret's ever told the
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story, but one time the DNR said, why would you do that to
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those ducks? She goes, They're not alive, they're rubber ducks. They
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were completely confused, so going all less next. But as God is my
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witness, I thought ducks could fly exactly absolutely. You know, um,
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I refer to use Captain Brian Hughes. I learned that by watching Mark Curtis's
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show when you and the mayor were on him camp. He refers to you
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as us as the captain. I kind of like it. It's I mean,
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you're the captain of your own of your own ship, of my own
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ship. And then uh yeah, it's you know, I know about every
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single thing that happens with this, with this forgotty. If I can't answer
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it, then we've got issues. But but you know, I've been immersed
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in fundraising, you know, and and there have been a lot of new
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folks step up to the plate and help us out. And Moses is one
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of them. They sponsored the stage. They do it live on the letty,
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but they said, I was told Moses wants to be a part of
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every stage that's happening, you know, consistently, and they signed a longer
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deal so that, you know, what we're trying to do is get people
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involved in multi year deals so that we know this forgot is going to continue.
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And that's exactly what we've got going on. Let's uh talk about the
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actual Stern wheelers. I mean, this is what it's all about. And
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that's kind of your your field of expertise that in weather. Uh but fenty
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I will talk you about the weather a little bit later on. But I
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mean the all these Stern wheelers coming in here, man, that's that's that's
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no easy task to get them all in here. It's not a matter of
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fact. We had yesterday the Chenny B and the Laura Elizabeth Laurna Elizabeth is
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one hundred and twenty foot boat that is twenty four feet wide. It's a
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monster custom built up at East Liverpool, Ohio. They came in yesterday along
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with the Genny B from Rayland, Ohio up there north of Wheeling. You
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know, so these people are coming long distances to be here and to celebrate
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and so this is actually the first This is the second time the Laura Elizabeth
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has been it's Charleston, but this is the first time it's been to a
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regatta. So we and we've got other boats that are coming in from the
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Ohio River uh and some here from the canam River. Uh. You know
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the Princess Margie used to be here, but it had wasn't here last year.
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Has new owners and guess what they're gonna be there. Yeah, so
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Lajah, we had twenty one Sermo boats in total. We believe we're gonna
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have about twenty twenty six at twenty seven and it grows every year, just
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like like you said, with the food trucks and everything. Absolutely and and
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you know the reason we were looking at thirty but we had a couple of
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breakdowns so and and parts are hard to get still so and a lot of
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these are custom parts. You know, these aren't off the show to advance
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auto parts and pick these things up that you're saying, right, yeah,
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you go for some oil and that's about it, and some greaser and you
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know, stuff like that. But everything else is is there's a lot of
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custom parts. I mean, I've had to do the same this year with
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some of the stuff that I've been trying to get and custom I mean,
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listen, I've got it out of the machine shop. They're custom building stuff
19:37
for my transmission. So there's a lot of you know, we put a
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lot of money, a lot of blood, sweat, tears and arguments in
19:44
this with our better half. So you know, that's the way it goes.
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How's the men, because you had a little surgical procedure there and you
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were hopping kind of hopping along the TV or are you good to go?
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Have you? Have you been cleared to play? I've been cleared to play
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essentially the punter position, but I'm not kicking anything, so really I guess
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that'd be the holder. But yeah, I had surgery and it unfortunately the
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it wasn't the surgeon's fault. This is just a matter of way things happened
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for nineteen weeks, uh, and didn't heal right, it wasn't healing properly,
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and so we've had to do extra things to get it there. But
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I can finally walk, So so I'm actually in a shoe finally, like
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a real shoe. Yeah, a real shoe. It, I mean,
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my my big toes about about an eighth of an inch shorter than what it
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used to be. But hey, you know, it just means I can
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get smaller shoes. There you go, save a little bit of money.
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We're talking with Brian Hughes about the regatta which is going to kick off later
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this week, and man, the musical entertainment this year, I mean,
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cooling the gang better than Ezra, Flo Rida, Jody Messina, Kate Boytech
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is going to be there with her. Kates my fellow loganite, and Kate
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actually is going to be co hosting the show with me this Friday. Have
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a different co host on every Friday, and Kate's gonna be my co host
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this Friday, So we're looking forward to seeing her. And if you've not
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seen this, this young lady performed. She's absolutely fantastic, wonderful, wonderful
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and ambassador for the city of Charleston and such. It's the music line up,
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you know, it's it's wide variety, and that's what we try and
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you know, in our discussions last year and obviously this year and in the
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futures, we want to have the widest variety that we possibly can. You
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know, they're bands that we try to get their bands that we're gonna try
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and get next year. It's it's all about getting on you know, them
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knowing to get on the schedule. But I gotta tell you, Patrick Leahy
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over at the Commissions Center and Coliseum, that man can book shows. And
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that's yeah, obviously you can see from what's happened, you know, over
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the last couple of years. And that's and you know they're helping do all
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that. And actually, and that's the thing you got to think about this.
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We're keeping the money local as best we possibly can, and we're doing
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all of our bookings, stage set up, everything is done through or on
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it through the Civic Center. So, okna, excuse me, Commitgeon Center
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and Colts. We're gonna have Chim Brady on from the CVB to mar to
22:07
talk about the economic impact. But for folks that forgot from last year ballpark
22:11
on on what this meant to that not just the city of Charleston, but
22:14
the surrounding areas. I mean, when you look at what we what we
22:17
saw was thirty one and a half million dollar impact, you know, and
22:21
I've told this story over and over again page down at you know, down
22:25
at Sam's Uptown Cafe said if he had he said, if he had had
22:29
five more days of the festival, he would have paid everything off, all
22:33
the notes, everything done. Uh. You know, you just go up
22:37
and down Capitol Street with those restaurants and bars and then all the other businesses,
22:41
and then you go at you know, you look at hotels. I
22:44
just Charleston. Who tells you go to South Charleston. You have to go
22:47
out to Puttnham County as well. Next thing, you know, you've got
22:51
all these people that are hotels, are booked up, restaurants. You know,
22:53
it's it is an impact. We're buying fuel today, you know,
22:57
the carnivals, buying few uh you know today and tomorrow I'm buying fuel.
23:03
We're doing all this stuff and that money is just staying here. Yeah,
23:07
yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right it And of course the family aspect of
23:11
Brian is so important. And you mentioned the carnival and all these other things
23:15
going on. I mean, what's going on at Magic Islands. Talk about
23:18
that Magic Island. We've got tons of bounce houses that kids will have all
23:22
kinds of time to play down there. Plus we've got the skate park exhibition
23:26
that's going to be down there. It's different than last year because we want
23:29
to switch it up, change it up. We've got a foam garage as
23:33
a big foam party that they're going to have on you know, on the
23:37
boulevard down there. The Air Force is going to be here. You can
23:41
try if their three D gaming trailer and just you know, learned to Fly
23:45
and it essentially learned to Fly, and inside that we've got you know,
23:48
the dhhrs Wick program. If you've got your if you've got a new baby
23:53
and you need to do breastfeeding, they've got a place to do that inside
23:56
this tent and everything. So there's so many things for so many people to
24:00
see and do and enjoy, kids to be able to play. It is
24:03
a family friendly event. And then another thing too, you know, you
24:07
would get down down to the concerts and obviously we're gonna have the beer and
24:10
such, but we have we partnered with with a brewery and we're gonna have
24:15
a non alcoholic beer. So if you want to partake quote unquote, it's
24:18
going to be a custom non alcoholic beer that you can buy. So it
24:22
would Stern Charleston term where we got it all over over that again we're doing
24:26
things to try and make things different and better as we go along. I
24:29
liked as I would reference to you're in the mayor's appearance and PG was on
24:33
there as well on Mark Curtis's show over the weekend, his Politics Free show,
24:37
that is what he called it, Inside West Virginia Politics. But the
24:40
mayor told the story about the family from over on the West side of Charleston
24:44
that she ran into in the hotel and she asked them, She said,
24:47
well, where you guys from and they said the West Side. They just
24:51
decided to be right in the middle of everything, so they got a hotel
24:52
room here exactly. We have so many people who live here but are But
24:56
I have friends of mine are They're staying in the hotels downtown because they don't
25:02
want to. They want First of all, you know you have Let's say
25:04
you go to our will watch Crafts beer festival on Friday. It's on Capitol
25:10
Street. You've got your own jumboat trying to watch there. But if you
25:11
go to that, you drink a little extra guess what hotel do it all
25:15
and stay safe and that that's what we are encouraging, you know, don't
25:19
drink and drive, stay safe. You can stay downtown. You know,
25:22
even if you have to sleep in the trunk, you'll be fine. And
25:26
about the hotel, this was also brought up on that interview. If you
25:30
are going to be one of these people, um, you probably need to
25:34
get that hotel yesterday. And I'm talking about if you're going to get one
25:37
in Tay's Valley or if you're gonna get one in South Charleston or wherever you've
25:41
got to because because you know, the four Points completely booked up, we
25:47
know that obviously that's that's the prime location there. But you've got other ones
25:49
for the Marriotte to Embassy suites. And as we said, you know,
25:55
if you're going to come in from Huntington, or if you're gonna come in
25:56
from Ohio, Kentucky have ends. You might have to say, South Charleston,
26:02
you might have to go to Cross Lanes. Uh, you might have
26:04
to step out into the Day's Valley area with a hotel. But the thing
26:08
is we're bringing money into into West Virginia from out of saders. You know,
26:14
around thirty percent of the people who came to the regatta came from more
26:18
than fifty miles and so you had some of our biggest markets where Washington,
26:22
DC you had, you had the North Carolina South Carolina area, a lot
26:26
of the folks who've retired and gone down there, Oh they came back.
26:30
You had uh, Cincinnati, you had Pittsburgh, you had Cleveland. We
26:34
had folks from Georgia, Texas and California. I mean, if people came
26:40
to the regatta to experience, you know, relive it all again and hopefully
26:44
with this can continue anew for the years to come. I got a couple
26:48
of texts your Texas for anyone that will do the foam garage or bring a
26:51
change of clothes and shoes because you will get so much, Yes you will.
26:56
It's one of those things that if you if your kids you wanted to
27:00
play and you want to go experience at all, that's the last job.
27:03
And then you take them home. And when we say take them home,
27:06
listen, you can ride the KRT bus to the to the locations, whether
27:11
it be a big loads the Patrick Street plaza, that's a pickup point that
27:15
you can park the car and ride the bus in saying thing over it lately.
27:18
And then also we have a stop now at the ballpark because the ballpark,
27:22
they're gonna be playing and so they're gonna have their big pregatta party on
27:29
Thursday, and they're gonna have this collectible stern Wild Regatta cups. So those
27:36
we just had a few of them that kind of made their appearance last year.
27:38
But we've got a bunch of them and they're gonna be you know,
27:41
doing that on Thursday. So we've got rides, we've got things to do.
27:45
I mean, essentially with the pregatta party on Thursday, it's at the
27:48
ballpark. It goes from there. Yeah, Check says, uh, what
27:51
about all those that drink and don't get a hotel? Is there an effort
27:53
to watch out for drunk drivers? Well, what there is? Yes,
27:57
there is, first of all, increase in enforcement, and there are a
28:00
ton of officers that we have playing clothes and also you know, in uniform
28:06
all around the area. Plus you can take the intoxic taxi. It's available,
28:10
so there are options to get home without having to drive, and that's
28:14
the important part. One thing I think you've added this year that you didn't
28:17
have in a pass, Brian was the hot dog eating contest. That is
28:18
right, oh Man, Tutors Biscuit World. They came on and said,
28:22
first of all, they've got great hot dogs. They do have great hot
28:26
dogs. A lot of people don't know that. I mean, we all
28:29
love Tutors, and you've been in West Virginia long enough, I'm sure you
28:30
like too. Well, you're one of us. Now. Tutors has great
28:34
hot dogs. They really do. They really. I've always said, you
28:37
know, if you want to just a solid cheeseburger, go to Tutors.
28:41
You can do that. But they've got their hot dogs. And they said,
28:42
you know, and I'm gonna say, let's say, ray, you
28:45
know out there it's at Tutors. He said, any hot dog unique contest
28:49
he's thought as gross, absolutely gross. Didn't want to do it before,
28:52
and I said, only on the fourth of July. It still grows.
28:57
But by gosh, it's American, and that is why you should do it.
29:00
And they came on board. So they're gonna sponsor the stern Will boat
29:03
races and also this hot dog eating contest. And you would be amazed the
29:08
people that have already signed up for it. So we've got it's it's gonna
29:11
be a show, and it's gonna be five thirty on July four. It's
29:15
right on the stage and I maybe the Hosivity Orchestra will play you know something,
29:21
the Bumblebee. Who knows what it's? You know what's I'll tell you
29:23
a real quick story about this and we'll let you Yo Bran because I know
29:26
you're busy. Um. I amc a hot dog eating contest one time.
29:30
And here's the thing about people. Everybody sees it on TV. They see
29:33
Joey Chestnut and they see the Nathans and they think, oh, I can
29:37
do that. I can go down to my local drive in. I can.
29:38
I can throw down five or six. You might throw down five or
29:41
six, but if you're an amateer, you might throw up even more because
29:45
it's not for the faint of heart. Uh. And the and the ones
29:48
that I did because there were no quote unquote professionals there and it was just
29:51
you know, people came down. It was it was like them, I
29:53
won't go I'll save you the the gory details, you know. I had
29:57
earlier. I had a man to Raymon from the city of Hurricane and they
30:00
have their Fourth of July they have a hot dog eating contest going on there
30:04
now. So ideally you could do both. You could both hot dog eating
30:07
contents. I just want to wish you great luck because if you throw up,
30:11
you're disqualified. Exactly exactly right, all right? So where can people
30:15
find out more? Because I know that you got to you got social media,
30:18
you got the website, and people say, well, when is this
30:19
going on? It's a lot to take in. We're gonna be talking about
30:22
it all week. But where is a place to go to get a solid
30:26
list this is what happened at this time and so on. That is on
30:27
our website, Charleston Regatta dot com. It's quite simple. But also also
30:33
you've got Charleston Ricotta get dot com. But then you know our social media
30:37
it's banging with all kinds of stuff and it's happening in matter of fact,
30:40
actually, you're gonna see a ton of social media content this week, you
30:44
know, just leading up to what's happening. But you know, it all
30:47
kicks off on Friday. That's when we have our well watched Craftier Festival.
30:52
Go buy tickets for that. He was incredibly popular last year. We're gonna
30:56
do it on Capitol Street this year. Like I said, the end of
30:57
the street, huge jumbo tron, Enjoy the crappier festival, watched the concert
31:02
on the Jumbo drawn there. All right, Brian, and you're gonna be
31:06
kind of worn out by the end of this week. You're already worn out
31:08
and it's not even started yet, So we wish you the best of luck.
31:11
Bad thanks a lot, Hey, thank you, and we'll be talking
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In Canivate for Knack County Commission, Chris Walters is in studio with us.
34:08
Chris, good morning and welcome to the show. How are you? I'm
34:10
great? How are you doing this morning? Before we got him doing five?
34:13
Before we get into your campaign for county commission, while you're running that
34:16
sort of thing, talk about you. I mean you're pretty well known here
34:20
in Charles who You've had a lot of different hats. But to just give
34:22
us the bio, the quick thirty to forty five seconds on Chris Walters,
34:25
who are you? Yeah? Sure, born and raised here in Kanak County.
34:28
Grew up in Cross Lanes, the love of my life. My wife
34:31
Elizabeth was born and raised here as well. She grew up right by Lola's
34:36
Pizza. I went to Capitol High School. I started my family here,
34:40
went through school here, have a business on Capitol Street, Integrity and Churance
34:45
Group. You know, Canall County has been a passion of mine. I
34:47
love this area, I love the community. The people are amazing and I
34:52
really want to come back here after going to school and at w VU.
34:57
I went to school at Collegium Simmy Toss and Saul Poland. I've been in
35:00
different parts of the world, but you know, West Virginia has always been
35:04
home. It's always called to me. And that's why whenever I laid my
35:07
roots, I made sure to do it here in Knall County. And as
35:08
I said, you know, and you mentioned too, you've been in the
35:12
legislature, in the private industry with your insurance. What do you what have
35:15
you learned and all these things that you think would make it make you a
35:20
good accounidate for Kannak County Commission. Yeah, as you mentioned, I was
35:23
in the legislature. I was a senator here represented Knall County as a senator,
35:27
and you know, I was vice chair of Finance. I know this
35:30
group that's in the legislature now. Craig Blair, the President of Senate,
35:35
was my sweet mate whenever I was a senator and worked with them. And
35:38
I think, you know the relationship with the legislature and the county has been
35:44
rocky in the past, and I think it's something that can be mended where
35:46
we can work together really, really well. And we can create a lot
35:50
of things that are great here for Kenall County. I've learned about different types
35:53
of projects from a unique aspect. Tiff districts is something I think is really
35:59
important, especially when growing a county and you look at some of the other
36:04
areas and how they've done their growth. Like you had a Hurricane on for
36:07
example, earlier today they have eight thousand people. Look how amazing the city
36:12
of Hurricane is doing. Look at all the water parks, all the things
36:14
that they have for their community. We have one hundred and eighty thousand people
36:17
in Kinall County. There's so much that we can be doing by utilizing these
36:22
types of districts. Talking with Chris Walters again, who is going to be
36:24
a candidate for a county commission? Why so early on there? And I
36:29
ask a lot of candidates about this. I mean, you know, used
36:31
to be back in the day it was Labor Day. You kick it off
36:34
at Labor Day, so maybe a little bit before that. Why make the
36:37
announcement so early? You know, you get out early. And the reason
36:39
for that is is these elections cost an abhorrant amount of money to run.
36:45
I mean, it is disgusting how much money gets put into these things,
36:47
not just you know, by the candidates themselves, but outside groups into all
36:51
this coming in. And in order for you to be able to get your
36:53
message out, you have to start fundraising earlier and earlier. The cost of
36:58
poker has gone up, and have enough chips to write my own table ticket
37:01
to sit at the table. So I have to get help. I have
37:04
to get community involvement. I have to do a lot of legwork, you
37:07
know, especially depending on who the other person is that decides to run,
37:10
because I know there's gonna be a number of people that look at running at
37:14
this race. Yeah, and I have to address the elephant in the room,
37:17
and that is the problems and controversy concerning current Cana County Commissioner Kent Carper.
37:22
Of course his health issues and the most important thing right now, But
37:25
there's a there's baggage here and I'm not gonna delve into this too deeply because
37:30
as you and I were talking in to break here here to run your race,
37:32
the Commissioner Carper has been accused of of of of loud behaviors now report
37:37
service and says he was accused of committing that loot act out of Daniel bind
37:39
Parks in an email to the girlfriend allegedly of the police officer that was offering
37:45
or that was investigating um, basically offering her a job right asking she'd have
37:50
any interests in it. There's any of this way into your decision to run
37:54
for county commission. You know, I've wanted to run for a while.
37:57
I've looked at the seat. You know, I have a different perspective of
38:00
what to do here in Kanall County. I've got some ideas that I've looked
38:04
at doing and trying to do that haven't moved forward in the with you know,
38:08
the current way things are going. For example, I want to see,
38:14
and this is pretty amazing to me, right behind Buffalo Wild Wings and
38:16
cross Lanes. If you go down that hill, you hit the Nitro St.
38:20
Albans Bridge. The fact that a road has not been built from right
38:23
there to the Nitro st Albans Bridge, which would open the heart of Saint
38:28
Albans to the interstate exit, increasing property values for everyone in Saint Albans,
38:31
opening up one hundred and eighty acres for commercial development for you know, shopping
38:37
malls, for hotels to service the New Shawnee sports complex, everything. The
38:42
fact that that one road hasn't been built is crazy to me. You know,
38:45
I wanted to run because I see a lot of things that we can
38:47
do that are exciting things for different parts of this community, that we can
38:52
move our county forward. And that's why I got involved. I talked to
38:55
my wife about it, We've prayed about it, and we came together and
38:58
say, you know what, let's go want ahead and do this. We
39:00
love the county, we have a passion for it, and we just want
39:02
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to visit Generations PT dot com. As you said, Chris, there
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may be several people that throw their hat in the proverbial ring. And you
39:22
know, regardless of the current controversy with the county commissioner, I mean,
39:27
anytime that you go in and you try to unseat someone, should you you
39:30
know, obviously make it that far if you try to unseat somebody that's been
39:32
in an office, regardless of party or regardless situation that long, it can
39:37
be very difficult. Are you ready for the fight? Yeah? Absolutely?
39:39
I mean he's been there since I was seven years old. I mean I
39:44
now, I'm a business owner with a family, so great name, recognition,
39:47
a long legacy, everything, and it's always tough to overcome. But
39:52
I believe that working hard, getting out knocking on doors, talking to people
39:57
and showing what I am going to try to do for this county should do
40:00
really well whenever it comes to voters making their decision on who they want to
40:05
represent us. And I hope when you make that decision, you look at
40:07
me, my name Chris Walters, and vote for me and give me the
40:10
opportunity to serve you. Somebody said a text to the show, and I
40:15
think this is a very fair question. And you talked about your proposals about
40:19
possible building that new road there or you know, getting connecting with the Nitrous
40:22
and all these bridge Somebody texts the show and ask for you to identify the
40:27
funding source. So where would the money come from? Things? Absolutely,
40:29
Tift district. So what a Tift district is is this, It's really simple.
40:34
An area that's currently undeveloped and If you look just behind the area I
40:37
talked about the Buffalo Wild Wings and Nitro Marketplace, it's all woods. There's
40:44
literally nothing there. Whenever it comes to development, nothing's being developed there.
40:47
You put a four lane road down there to the bridge, all of a
40:51
sudden you have more area access to be able to build those hotels, those
40:55
shopping complexes, everything. And then by having all those new tenants, all
41:00
those new buildings, everything in there, they're going to be producing money.
41:02
They're going to be paying taxes. Those taxes would pay for that road.
41:07
That's how those work. You know, the City of Hurricane does tiff districts
41:09
all the time. That's where a lot of their money comes to be able
41:13
to grow and do so well. You look at so many areas throughout the
41:16
United States, new ballparks going in those are tiff districts. You know.
41:21
We utilize these financial formulas in order to bring economic development and prosperity for people
41:27
without raising their taxes. And that's really what I want to do. I
41:30
want to see more economic prosperity for Kanall County. I don't want to raise
41:34
people's taxes. I want to look at giving tax breaks, and I also
41:37
want to look at helping business owners, small business owners in this county.
41:40
You know, the County Commission has been doing some to help out small business
41:44
owners. I want to continue that. We need to foster those who have
41:46
opened up businesses here because every time I turn around as a business owner,
41:50
I feel like I'm faced with another fee. I don't feel like I'm getting
41:52
help from from you know, the government officials in the area. It's hey,
41:57
we're from the government, here's what we need from you. Not hey,
41:59
we're from the government. How can we help you? And it's time
42:01
to turn that conversation around. One. Are some other things as we close
42:05
here that you would like to do? Infrastructure projects, water, any of
42:10
the talking points. Absolutely, I've worked with I've worked with some businesses looking
42:14
at coming to Kanall County, and you can't find a great centralized location of
42:20
available buildings available, large plots of land. Speaking about what opportunities they have,
42:25
like take down in the Quincy Mall. Here in West Virginia, you
42:29
have rail, you have barge, you have easy access to the inner State.
42:31
You've got probably one hundred and sixty thousand square feet of available buildings that
42:36
can be moved into. You've got great opportunity for light manufacturing there. You
42:39
have tons of land right between the Walmart and Riverside High School in order to
42:44
develop a new manufacturing facility. I think there's so many places that are prime
42:49
for manufacturing here in this county that we're not getting the word out enough.
42:52
We need to work with our Economic Development Office of the state. We need
42:57
to be sending letters out to try to get more manufact actures to come here.
43:00
And look, you know, since the Trump administration put tariffs on international
43:06
manufacturers trying to bring their goods here, it's opened up the opportunity for so
43:09
many manufacturers to start here in the United States and to develop here in West
43:14
Virginia. We need to do a better job of reaching out to these companies
43:17
saying, hey, this is available. How can we help you locate and
43:21
utilize our amazing workforce we have here. This was the chemical value of the
43:24
world with everyone that we have with great resources and knowledge of that industry,
43:31
and yet we aren't doing more to bring more of that here. We aren't
43:36
doing more to bring manufacturing here where we have able body workers who want to
43:39
go to work, who have these trades and these knowledge and if it's somebody
43:45
that was in the coal fields, they could easily be trained to move over
43:47
to a manufacturer. There's so much we can do in Kanall County, and
43:51
I'm excited to have the opportunity to at least talk about it and hopefully move
43:54
forward and do it if I'm elected as County Commissioner. Chris Walters, It's
43:59
always pleasure to my friend the best of Light team. The campaign will have
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you on several days early, but what have you on several times between now
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here too. What WVU has their basketball coach? Late Saturday night, it
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was announced and broken by our company. Good job hoppying Joe Bracado in the
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team. Then a long time staff member, Josh Eilert, has been named
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as interim head coach. Of course, all this on the heels for former
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coach Bob Huggins arrest for suspicion of Dui going back to Friday, June sixteenth
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and his resignation over that weekend. Now, Eilert has done it all for
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the WVU basketball program. We actually started in the video department and later was
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the assistant athletic director for basketball operations and later promoted to an assistant coach.
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He actually, fun fact, was a graduate assistants under coach Huggins in the
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mid two thousands during coach's only season at Kansas State. Now the story about
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Birds Baseball dot com. Well, it was an interesting interview that I did
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Friday with Canawa County Commissioner Ben s Lango concerning the whole Kent carper ordeal.
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If you haven't heard it, cheap Plug, I would urge you to go
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to WCHS Network dot com. Orty of our social media pages or my personal
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pages Dave Alan Radio and Facebook, or at dave Asebody on Twitter and listen
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to it. Commissier Slango address the email that was released to the public and
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to the media last week between Commissioner Carper and what we're being told is the
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girlfriend of the police officer that was dispatched to the Daniel Boone Park back on
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May fifteenth. The officer was called to the park after a nine one one
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call came in reporting the man engaged in what was called lewd behavior and the
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silver van in the park. Commissioner Carper sent the email to a lady who
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works as an assistant to the county commission asking her if she would be interested
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in a job as superintendent out at Big Ben Golf Course. Now, Commissioner
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Selango said that's not to be taken as an official job offer. The exact
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quote from the show Friday and Again you can go listen to any of our
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past shows at WCHS network dot com or from your favorite podcast provider, or
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on our social media sites, including my personal sites. The exact quote from
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Friday's show said, a county commissioner cannot offer a job to someone without a
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full vote of the commission and continuing again quoting, whatever the email is,
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I can tell you this is Commissioner Silango talking. It can't be an official
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job offer in quote. Now, Commissioner Selango went on to say that the
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personal question wouldn't be offered the job anyway because of a lack of experience in
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quote and again. The story about all that is posted tot WCHS network dot
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com and the show featuring the interview with Commissioner Silango can be heard there,
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as I said, or on my social media pages. You know, this
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is it's kind of interesting because when this story first broke, going back in
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May, well over a month ago, you know, I started, we
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started getting text to the show, calls to the show, what's going on
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with the Carper situation, what's going on? And they're really for the longest
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time, wasn't a lot to report, and numerous media outlets, including our
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own filed foy us. It's a freedom of information acts with everybody trying to
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get information, and it's just now starting to come to light and have a
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up. See you tomorrow Until Dan have fun. I love Somebody