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07/13/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Brian Dayton, Eden Douglas, Craig Blair · The Dave Allen Show

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going to delve into that a little bit later on. It's kind of a
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wild situation over there. We'll talk about that coming up a little bit later
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on, but I want to talk right now with Brian Dayton from the West
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Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Brian, good morning, How are you, sir,
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Dave. I'm great. It's great to be back on today. You
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told me you listened to ninety eight point seven coming in. It's kind of
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a wild ride going on there. I did, I did. I enjoyed
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it a little different and yeah, thanks for the tip on that it's gonna
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be a lot different over the next couple of days and then Monday, Oh,
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it gets to be really different. So we'll leave that alone. Brian,
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it's been about a week or so, I guess since you folks at
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the Chamber released some of your only early Polly numbers since and some campaign finance
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numbers have come out as well. So just in case anyone may have missed
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it, just taken from the top on the on the Polly numbers the Chamber
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came out with last We just just take it from the top there, sure,
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So just to give a little background on it, the Chamber had conducted
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a poll in June of some of the top statewide races in West Virginia,
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and we plan to continue polling throughout the year, up through the primary and
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and quite possibly the general election. But what we really found is that some
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of these races are quite competitive. Others certain candidates are running away. So
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that you know, the big race at the federal level is the United States
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Senate race, and you know the two main candidates. I would say there
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were some others that are filed, but Governor Jim Justice and Congressman Alex Mooney.
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And what we found is that Governor Jim Justice is receiving support from fifty
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six percent of the voters and compared to Alex Mooney at night ten percent and
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the remaining undecided. That is a huge difference between the two candidates. Does
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it surprise you, It really does not. We have seen numbers similar to
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this. Governor Justice is incredibly popular. Ever since the COVID pandemic began,
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he has been in front of West Virginians every single day, and before the
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pandemic, he was in front of them most days, you know. So
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he's extraordinary well, extraordinarily well known. He's been very very popular. So
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it doesn't surprise us that he is setting it fifty six percent compared to his
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opponent at nineteen percent. Right now, what normally happens, and I know
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you were on hot with Hoppy last week, what normally happens when when you
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release these polls is you have the folks that aren't doing so well immediately start
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issuing statements, which I mean, if I were running for office, I
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probably would too, you know, I mean, not necessarily disparaging the Chamber
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of Commerce, but I would say, well, you know they it's still
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early and there's still a variety of things you could say, and so I
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guess I guess you got some of that too, right, Well, absolutely,
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And you know, in fairness, what I would say is polling is
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a snapshot in time, and that goes for any poll. Yeah, it
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is a snapshot in time. So some of these other races I'll talk about
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in a minute, it really depends. This is a very early with the
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Senate race, you are talking about a very well known quantity in Governor Jim
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Justice. So that is something that's going to be important. We do know
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that the Club for Growth has been saying they're planning to spend upwards of ten
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million dollars on this race. Typically, I think what we see with independent
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expenditure efforts, like an entity such as the Club for Growth, they will
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do some polling and they'll see where the numbers are. Then they're going to
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spend some money and they'll come back and they will pull again. And it's
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usually internal, but they're going to see can they move those numbers any If
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they can, they'll spend some more, they'll fine tune the messaging. But
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if the numbers don't move, then a lot of times they will pack up.
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They've got other races and other states they're worrying about. So I think
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does that spend come through for the club for growth? That remains to be
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seen, and it'll just depend on they have been doing some spending. They're
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going to determine whether or not they're moving the numbers, and that's what will
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make their decision. Let's go to some of the other races. Take governor
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for example. So governor, this one is very very competitive. Now,
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what I would say is this is not a name recognition poll that we've done.
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That we've done, but it is driven by name recognition. So you
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have the current Attorney General Patrick Morrisey at thirty one percent, but you have
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House Judiciary Chairman Moore Capito at thirty percent. Both of them have great name
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recognition. The Attorney General has been in what I would say five very competitive
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elections, his three general elections for Attorney General, plus a very competitive primary
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and general in twenty eighteen in his US Senate race, So he is a
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very well known quantity to the state. More Capito he's getting well known in
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his own right, but obviously he's the son of US Senator Shelley Moore Capito,
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who has universal name might in the state as well and is very popular.
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So those two are at the very top. The other candidates right now
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are still in the single day. But again it is early. This is
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a snapshot in time, and we've seen some campaign finance reports and I would
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think it's very possible that some of those candidates have have the funds available to
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really boost their NAMD out and potentially propel themselves into the front of the crowd.
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If you're one of the candidates. Let's think the governor's race, for
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example, if you're one of the candidates is maybe not polling quite as well,
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you know, you're you're down in you know, third, fourth,
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you know whatever. What do they do at this point? Did they just
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start hitting their donors a little bit harder and I know you're gonna finance expert,
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but I mean, you start hitting the donors hardest, saying, hey,
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polling this said, you know the word fourth, I need your help.
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Or do they start reevaluating and saying, Okay, come next year,
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is this thing going to be worth it for me? You know, I
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think there's going to be a mixture of that. You're gonna have to see
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can you raise the funds to be competitive. We've we've talked Steve Roberts so
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many times over the years. Steve's the president of the West Virginia Chamber.
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The old saying was that a million dollars could buy you about ninety percent NAMD
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in West Virginia. How However, I think about everybody has noticed prices have
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gone up, So I don't know that it's a million dollars anymore. Maybe
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it's two, maybe it's three million. But at some point you are going
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to have to have the resources to build your name id, and that's that's
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just a challenge when it comes to a statewide race. It is also going
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to be complicated by the fact that you're going to have a competitive presidential primary.
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Right now, you have presidential candidates, they are going to be running
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ads. Most states around US have a very competitive US in an election coming
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up, and we share media markets with our boards, so there's going to
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be a lot of expense to driving someone's name id up. So I think
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those candidates who are not there, they're going to have to look. It's
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early filing is official filing is until January, so you still have some time
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to see can you raise them dollars. But as that dayline approaches, I
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think people are gonna have to make some decisions. They are they able to
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stay in the race or do they want to do something else? And you
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know, Brian again we're talking with Brian Dayton for the Western Duinia Chamber of
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Commerce. And some of this polling that's that came out last week and also
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some of the things financial aspects of it as well. And when we see
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polling come out, um, you know there were and I had somebody contact
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me or a couple of people did and said that, you know a couple
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of races that weren't mentioned. You know, you didn't get into secretary of
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state for example. You got three people that I'm aware of that are running
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for that state auditor. There's one now that I know and talked to one
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last night that's probably going to get at it um ad Commissioner, etc.
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And with all due respect and you can better explain this than I can,
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Brian, with all due respects. As people running, it's a little early
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and maybe the interest in some of those races just isn't there yet. Yes,
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So the other race, aside from governor, you assented that we did
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poll was the race for attorney general. An attorney general I would say is
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a bit high profile or a more high profile role than some of the other
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offices. Well, it's one of those roles too. If you are the
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attorney general, as Patrick Morrissey has shown and other attorney generals, you have
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a large office. I don't know how many. It's one of the larger
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offices under the dome, but it's usually the one guy you see out there,
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or the one person so that you see out there, but go ahead.
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That is the office where the attorney general they are fighting the USPA and
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so forth, filing important lawsuits on behalf of the state of West Virginia,
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defending our laws. So it is a more public facing office. So we
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did take a look at that race. The others. It is early.
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People were just not paying attention to what we found in the attorney general's races.
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Again, by and large, people aren't thinking about this race right now.
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It is wide open for the candidates. So the two candidates announced our
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state senators Ryan Weld and Mike Stewart, and Mike Stewart came in at twenty
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percent, Ryan Weld at fourteen percent and our margin of air is six percent,
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so they're within the margin of air of each other. But vast majority
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of voters two thirds have not decided on this race. They're not thinking about
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it yet. So that means campaigns are going to be really, really important
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in this race. Whether you're looking at the two candidates you've had. Ryan
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Weld, he has completing his second term next year in the state Senate.
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He's been the majority Web the current vice chair of the Judiciary Committee. Mike
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Start was just elected to the state Senate last year, but he served a
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pretty high profile role as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of West
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Virginia. So he the head of Trump's campaign in twenty sixteen. He's got
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some good name identification from that. Senator Weld is looking at just a portion
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of the northern Panhandle. So right now, what we would say is this
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race is wide open and campaigns are going to matter on it. When can
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we expect more polling to come out from you folks? I mean you do
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this a lot. I mean, at what point do you say, Okay,
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this was the early when's the next one coming out? Or what are
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the plans? Zo? You know, I think it's reasonable right now,
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we haven't set a hard date on what that is, but we're looking in
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the next month or two to have some additional polling. We also know that,
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you know, Metro News always runs out there annual West Virginia poll right
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before Labor Day, so that's going to be another benchmark we're looking at.
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We're looking at not just our polling, but other polling that are coming out
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public from other entities as well. But what we're talking about with in our
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office is maybe the next month or two going back out in the field.
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We want to keep looking at these races just to see how things begin to
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move. Last Friday, for example, we had the campaign finance reports come
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out, so that gave us a lot of information on who's raising money,
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who's not raising money, and so forth. So it's going to be interesting
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just to see who has the resources, how they start to spend it,
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and what's that do start to start moving those races. Had a couple of
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texts here for you. One text says asked Brian Dayton about the reduction and
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inflation since August twenty two, the current rate and the job growth in the
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US compared to West Virginia since then. So it's the reduction and asked Brian
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Dayton about the reduction inflation since August twenty twenty two, the current rate and
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the job growth in the US compared to West Virginia since then. So what
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we're seeing right now is when we look at our overall jobs numbers in West
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Virginia, we have lost some employment compared to a year ago, and that
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is cause for concern and it is something we're paying very close attention to right
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now. Inflation is I would say, inflation is still going up. It's
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maybe not going up as fast as it was, but make no mistake about
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it, it's still going up right now. What I would say, though,
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that is optimistic, is that we continue to land a lot of really
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important economic development projects in West Virginia. We know of some others that are
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likely to be announced in the next few months. So to Senator Blair about
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that a little bit later on the shows, a matter ofyody, yeah,
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and I know, you know, hats off to Senator Blair, Speaker Handshaw.
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They have been hitting the road, so has Secretary car Michaels, so
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many others. They've been out there, you know, hitting the road trying
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to bring businesses into West Virginia, and they're having some success. Actually they're
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having a lot of success, not some success. We are concerned about the
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dipping employment numbers. We are keeping a very close eye on that. One
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of the challenges though, that we truly believe as an issue is workforce.
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And we're hearing a lot of employers that they've got jobs open, they want
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to hire people, they can't fire or can't find people. So that's a
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really big concern for us. That's something we're gonna be looking at very closely
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during the legislative session. What do we've got, what do we need to
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do to really adjust our workforce plan to get more people in the workforce.
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I think that's a big driver in the dippin employment that we've seen. It's
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it's not that you know, you have a lot of people in unemployment can't
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find work, It's that the employers can't find employees. Right now, art
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every day, all right. One of the texts before we let you go
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texted what about Miller as in the son of Carol Miller, Chris Miller.
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So Chris Miller can be on the show, by the way program, No,
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Chris Miller will be on the show on Monday, But go ahead,
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great Chris Miller. You know, i'd say Chris is very very well known
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in Cabell County, Puttenham County, Wayne County, you know, a good
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portion of Kanall County. What's interesting about Chris is the cash on hand that
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he has. So he had a pretty good fundraising quarter. He raised over
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three hundred thousand more capital was writing that ballpark as well. Patrick Morrisey he
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raised a million. No, he was very successful in collecting what I would
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almost call micro donations, so a lot of them were, uh, you
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know, conservative activists across the country that donated. So those candidate campaigns have
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a lot of money. Chris Miller is setting on that. I last looked
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about three and a half million dollars cash on hand. Now a big chunk
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of that is a loan from himself. Yeah, but you know, certainly
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if he decides to spend that loan, I think he has the resources to
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get out and really propel himself into contention. Uh, you know, very
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well known in this area, but there's a lot more of West Virginia that
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he needs to build his name out and a lot of time. Again,
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I've said it time and it used to be Labor Day was the kickoff,
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Labor Day of election, the Labor Day of election here was the kickoff.
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And now it's just you know, it's it starts on day one. Quickly,
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last thirty seconds or so? What else is going on to chamber?
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Because it almost time to talk about the Business Summit? I guess right.
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Yes, we have our annual Meeting of Business Summit August thirtieth through September.
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First. We have a packed agenda, record sponsors, our attendants very well,
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could break records at the pace we're going. We're very excited about it.
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This is a really great event in West Virginia that brings everybody together,
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higher education, policy leaders, business leaders, small businesses, and so forth.
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Brings everybody together for really a discussion about continuing to move West Virginia forward.
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So that event we're just six weeks away. If you want to know
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what we are doing over the West Virginia Chamber, we're doing that, getting
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ready for that. It is an all encompassing role right now. Well,
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good luck Weather. I know it's a big, big deal. All right,
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Brian, we'll talk so man, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot
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texts here on the heels of the interview there with Brian Dayton and the Chamber
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of Conference, tex says the wester Vin Dunia Chamber of Commerce is against religious
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freedom. That says all our citizens need to know about the West Virginia Chamber
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Texas. Mike Stewart abandoned his Senate duties to ride the coat tails the adjudicated
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sex abuser Texas Dayton is completely wrong. Inflation was nine point one in August
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twenty twenty two, it's now three percent. Is that an increase or a
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dcrase? Shame on the West Virginia Chamber for not knowing that. According to
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a text, I'll look that up. Let me see Texas Dave on Monday.
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Can you ask Chris Miller about his family's buffalo farm that his mom,
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our congressional representative, Carol Miller, got three million dollars in PPP loans for
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you know, the loan money she voted to give out and voted to forgive.
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Text says Brian Dayton, sounds I keys and the factive member of the
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Justice campaign staff. I don't know about that. He's just reporting what was
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what was told, all right, real quick here unless something breaks during the
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show and Jeff Jenkins come running in here. I'm not planning on talking about
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former WV coach Bob Huggins on the show today unless something happens and nullified this
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statement. But I do want to correct something from yesterday. As you know,
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no one could possibly make fun of or poke fun at Dave more than
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Dave does, meaning me. Yesterday, I had author Kate Farmer on the
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show talking about some of the problems with her generation with Generation Z. Turns
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out that during almost the entire interview I referred to her and Eden Douglas is
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here. You'll get a kick out of this, Eden. I referred to
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her as Kate Foster, when her in fact, her name is Kate Farmer.
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So while we're all busy shaming gen Z for being lazy, addicted to
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devices, no work ethic at all, you may want to save a little
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criticism for your boy here, who apparently is lacking in the area of reading
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comprehension. Since I called miss Farmer miss Foster nearly the entire interview, and
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it wasn't until I got to thank you email from her after the show that
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I realized i'd called her the name. So to Shay gen Z, her
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name was Kate Farmer, not Kate Foster. Go ahead, Eating, go
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ahead, and get out of your system, because I know you want to
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laugh at that. Go ahead. It's one of those days. It was
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one of those days yesterday I wanted to get that all right eating dougs from
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the dirty birds here. How are you doing, kid, You're doing all
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right, good, doing good, all right, good good. I I
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called them the dirty birds, but in fact, tonight they're gonna be the
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Charlies. Yeah right, yeah, tonight we are the Charleston Charlies. And
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get ready because Saturday night you're gonna be the Pepperoni Rolls. Oh yeah,
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all right, yeah, a long long weekend. Tonight's Dollar Beer Night.
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We're playing as the Charleston Charlies. And then on top of that, we
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are announcing the artists lineup for our down on Dirty Music Festival that we're hosting.
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So tonight during the game, on the fifth inning, I'll say every
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artist that will be at the music festival be announced. There's a couple of
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local West Virginia connections. That's gonna be fun, and that's gonna be on
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the big screen of the video board. You're doing that right, Yeah,
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I have a little sizzle reel. It's gonna be played and so we everyone
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will know. Um, it's a party. It's gonna be a party,
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I mean. And one of the dates that October fourteenth and fifteen, the
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stay Yeah yeah, I mean, tickets are twenty dollars, So why not
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spend twenty bucks and coming party with the Dirty Birds and some Nashville recording artists
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for the day. So that's pretty fun, and we're announcing all of that.
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It's been a long time coming, so we're excited. Tomorrow night is
22:19
Redneck Night, which I cannot wait for. Then it's gonna be one of
22:22
my favorite nights. What can we expect to see it? Redneck Night?
22:26
Oh gosh. So there's gonna be a few things. We're obviously going to
22:29
have stuff decorated. We're gonna set up beer poem behind the press box.
22:33
We'll have that. We also have a mechanical bowl buying the press box for
22:36
people to do thanks to Quantum Sports. And then, um, so this
22:41
is gonna sound really weird, but I thought this idea it would be funny.
22:44
We've got like eight to ten porta potties that are coming and they're not
22:48
gonna be usable, so you cannot use them. The doors are going to
22:52
be off of them, and we are going to set them up up against
22:53
the seating bowl so you can sit in the porta potty and watch the game.
22:57
You can set on the throne and watch watch some baseball. Now,
23:04
let's keep in mind. Okay, although it sounds like a good idea that
23:07
some smart lak like me or Ryan would do, you can only sit on
23:11
there, Yes you pants on? Yes, yeah, sit not okay,
23:15
And I'll leave it at that, all right, I'll leave not usable.
23:18
And we were talking like someone's gonna get drunk and do it and like just
23:22
joke around and do it. And I said, can you imagine being a
23:26
player and like catching a ball or making it a play and looking up in
23:30
the stands and seeing someone using a port Can we play tomorrow night? I
23:33
know it's been Guestonia. Who do we play morning? Southern Maryland? Okay,
23:36
So here's what you need to do. You need to not publicize that
23:38
to them. To the opposition, you need to not you know, we'll
23:41
keep it on this radio show. But we don't need to publicize it to
23:45
them. We just need to see when that you know, that right fielder
23:48
or something just happens to look up in the stands for Southern Maryland, he
23:51
sees somebody sitting on the on the on the device there. Yeah, it's
23:53
gonna be came up with that idea? Was that you as me? You
23:56
came up with the idea of having people said on porta pot he's doing the
24:00
game. I did. It's gonna be pretty fun. Um, we're gonna
24:02
have like mullet contests, Redneck beauty pageant. Um. I don't know if
24:06
you've ever seen the hog calling, but we're gonna do stuff like that.
24:10
There's just so much that we've been putting into this from the southern West Virginia.
24:14
Boy, that's the slight going home. Yeah, you know, you
24:15
know I feel the same. We had a textures and what is a what
24:21
is a trucker's hat. It looks like a baseball cap. There are actually
24:23
two different things. We're doing a trucker hat giveaway. So the front is
24:29
fabric the front of the hat, and then the back of that is like
24:30
a mesh material and it like latches in the back. Yeah, So that's
24:34
the difference. It's got the mash in the back. Yeah. And the
24:37
front of it is gonna have a it's a patch and it's got our head
24:42
logo on it. And then um, we have those like to give away
24:45
to the first one thousand fans in the gates. So that'll be the giveaway
24:49
tomorrow. Um. Then it's Redneck Night and then Saturday we're just turning around
24:53
and having fun all day long with Pepperoni rolls. And that's the official name
24:57
is that the only time the season' are yeah, one time, one night
25:02
only. They'll play as the Charleston Pepperoni Rolls. Those, by the way,
25:04
I mentioned on the show you have to eat those. Those uniforms are
25:07
pretty awesome. Now, will there be merchandise for sale? Says the Dirty
25:12
I'm sorry. The Pepperoni Rolls hats are for sale right now in the team
25:17
store, and we will have replica jerseys for sales the Pepperoni rolls for Pepperoni
25:22
Rolls. Yes, but we are encouraging because all proceeds from this event go
25:26
to a good Will of Canall Valley. So are we're having a contest and
25:30
a festival before the game starting at three, So everything that's made from that
25:36
goes towards good Will of Cannal Valley. And then the jersey auction we're auctioning
25:40
off the game warn jerseys that the guys are wearing, and that's available and
25:42
open now in our live source app. So we're the game war and Ones.
25:47
You can bid one for auction, but you can also if you don't
25:48
want to game war and One, you can get one from the team Store.
25:52
I'm talking with Etan Douglas here from The Dirty Bird slash Charlie slash Pepperoni
25:55
roles what's the Spanish name again? Without because you just played as them like
26:00
a week or so, right last week and then and I'll give credit,
26:03
you know, to not only you, but the entire Dirty Birds team in
26:08
the organization for what you're doing, because you're doing what what what minor league
26:11
baseball is supposed to be, and that is to be fun. You know,
26:15
years and years, I mean, you know, minor league baseball has
26:18
always been popular, but somebody got the idea outside Charleston years ago that we
26:23
need to make this as exciting as possible and as fun as possible. And
26:27
if you go to the Dirty Birds website, which I do so I can
26:30
update. When when I talk about the Dirty Birds, I mean every night
26:34
there's at least like three things going Even when you you're not having people watch
26:37
the game from porta potties and things like that, there's something going on.
26:41
You have two to three things every night, every day, at every game,
26:45
at every game, like the nightly promotions is what we work on a
26:48
lot in the off season, and like Tuesday's yet Tuesday Night we had three
26:52
dollars truly Tuesday Baseball bingo, buy one, get one hot dogs, and
26:56
half price beer. So that's like four things right there. That was just
27:00
on a Tuesday. Then Wednesdays everyone gets to scratch off when they walk in
27:03
and you get either a free soda, a free sub from Steak Escape,
27:07
or a pe Wiggily gift card like there's stuff like that. Thursday's Dollar Beers,
27:11
everyone loves dollar Beers. Or then that's when we play as our alternate
27:15
identities as the Copa brand or the Charlie's. Fridays are a giveaway first one
27:22
thousand fans every Friday gets the something through the Gates, fireworks every Saturday night,
27:26
and Sundays are Family Fundays, so every single day we've got how's the
27:33
attendance bend this season? Really good? Actually? Um, you know we're
27:36
in that those months where people are on vacation and then there's also other events
27:41
going on, but it's fans are still really coming and really supporting us,
27:45
which we loved. And there was a big announcement Yeah I think they're yesterday,
27:48
right, yesterday. Yeah, we're actually partnering with Multifests this year and
27:52
extending it to five days, so our African American Heritage Night that we have
27:57
at the ballpark every year is now part of multi fests. So we're really
28:02
excited about that four hundred and fifty books that'll be given away to kids.
28:06
We're giving away free food to all the children. Um, there's gonna be
28:10
a lot, a lot to happen that night too, and that's August Eith.
28:14
So many things going on, and again I urge you two and I've
28:17
said it when when you've been on the show before, you focus us to
28:19
a fantastic job in your social media because if you that's how you get the
28:22
word out. Um, you know, you got to have a variety of
28:26
things, be at radio, television, you know, newspaper, online,
28:30
Facebook, Instagram, all the things, and you just do a great job
28:33
of keeping people updated. You have scoring updates during the game, except when
28:37
you lose, and I have a ten notes. You don't really do that,
28:40
don't really, we don't really do that. I will say we're coming
28:42
together the second half. We look like a different we look like a completely
28:45
different Wi Street going there for a while. Yeah, and then now you
28:48
dropped two in a row, so we're getting back on track. It was
28:52
a no hitter until the sixth, sending last night, and uh, we
28:55
were really hoping and then we always scored one run of the night, so
28:56
we ended up losing two to one. But we look like a completely different
29:00
team. So the hopes are high for the rest of the good stuff.
29:03
We have to win the second half. Got to Yeah, and you're headed
29:07
down to Savannah, is it right? Yeah, So we're obviously in town
29:11
until Sunday, and then we're flying to Savannah, Georgia on Monday morning at
29:15
five thirty am to play the Savannah Bananas that night in Savannah, and then
29:21
we are boarding the playing Tuesday morning and flying right back here to play Tuesday
29:26
Wednesday, Thursday. So you're gonna do a Bananas game in their house.
29:27
Yeah, and then you're going to fly back for the for the next home
29:33
game on Tuesday night. Well, just go to the dirty Bridge Baseball dot
29:37
com. Check out all the social media sites to Twitter, the Facebook,
29:41
the Instagram, everything. You'll have all the information on there. Because there's
29:42
a lot going on. Charlie's tonight, you're playing to Charlie's Night playing is
29:45
the Pepperoni Rolls on Saturday night? You got Redneck Night going on where you're
29:51
gonna have porta potties in the stands for people to sit. Sit, yes,
29:56
sit sit only sit only to wh the game's gonna be a lot of
30:00
funny. Folks are just killing it. I want to say, you're knocking
30:03
down the park, but that'd be a really bad pun, and I don't
30:04
do bad puns. But you're doing a great job over there. We'll talk
30:07
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33:43
Craig Blair Good morning, sir. How are you very good? I'm happy
33:47
to be back at the Capitol and working. Been in Charleston, West Virginia
33:51
for the last five or six days promoting West Virginia. So yeah, I
33:54
think you've been now, you've been in Seattle for you know, well that
33:58
was before then, Okay, okay, all right, and I let make
34:00
sure you know where you are, all right, So I understand, speaking
34:05
of which, you and several others got back from a trip to Seattle trying
34:09
to sell the virtues of the Mountain States to some companies out that way,
34:12
trying to get some to move here. And I know obviously you can't talk
34:15
specifics, but overall, sir, how was the trip? The trip was
34:20
excellent. Look, we've been doing this now for two years, Brad Smith,
34:24
Gordon ge the speaker, myself, of some of the folks from the
34:29
secretaries from Economic Development and Tourism, things like that, and of and commerce.
34:36
Let me include that. And one of the things I noticed this year
34:40
that's different from the last, and that is is that Corporate America is now
34:46
starting to court West Virginia. Ins to West Virginia court and corporate America.
34:52
And that's a pivotal changing in my opinion, and it's got to do with
34:58
the hard work that's been taken place by everybody. Everybody's working as a team,
35:02
whether it's the legislature, the executive to agencies that are out there.
35:07
We're making ourselves look good to corporate America. The people are looking good and
35:14
it's time for you know, West Virginia has been a bud of jokes for
35:17
many, many, many years, and that's changing. The people outside of
35:22
the state, I actually believe, think better of the state than the people
35:25
inside the state. We're our own worst enemies, mister bud. I've said
35:29
that before and at Present Company included. I told my fair share of West
35:32
Virginia jokes to be in a native West Virginia. But sometimes we're our own
35:36
worst enemies. Yeah, and you've got to be able to laugh at yourself,
35:38
but to actually more importantly, you need to be able to believe in
35:43
yourself and believe in what's going on. And that is actually changing in the
35:45
state of West Virginia. And it's amazing. But we're getting it right of
35:52
whether it's our tax structures that we got here, our infrastructures of our education
35:58
systems are getting better, and it will continue to get better. You just
36:02
got to say to yourself, traditionally we've done it this way, but that
36:08
is not necessarily the way it should be working. We're trying to move into
36:13
the twenty first century and really really get ahead of other states. And I
36:19
said that I was in Charleston, I think said Charleston, West Virginia.
36:22
That's why I m right now. I just spent five days in Charleston,
36:27
South Carolina, and I was with states, whether it would be Texas,
36:32
Florida to West Virginia and all the states in the middle of It's called the
36:37
SLC, the Southern Legislative Conference, and there was abate eighteen hundred legislators there,
36:44
and I spent all my time with dealing with people coming up and saying,
36:49
how'd you do this, how'd you do that? How'd you get your
36:52
pensions the way they are? The list goes on on that, and so
36:58
we exchange information and we learned from each other trying to do better. And
37:01
there is no question about it that when it comes to the southeast, this
37:07
were the strong of growing part of this country. And and I'm happy that
37:15
West Virginia is a component of that. And we're growing it. Talking to
37:19
again with the Center President Craig Blair here on five eighty Live, it's nine
37:22
forty five. So when you're talking to prospective companies about possibly relocating here doing
37:29
some business in West Virginia, what are some of the selling points that you
37:32
tell They've got the economic data, they can see that for themselves. But
37:36
when you're when you're having a having a you know, a cup of coffee
37:38
in the morning or drink at night, or riding in an uber or whatever,
37:44
what do you tell people about West Virginia about the people itself? Okay,
37:49
first of all, we're a small, nimble state, and nimble is
37:53
the key word. There are many times where somebody may be in my office
37:59
that that is coming in and they're thinking about investing in the state of West
38:02
Virginia, and I will actually text underneath my desk and over to Mitch Carmichael
38:10
or James Bailey and say, hey, I've come over here. I've got
38:15
a potential client here, and they stop what they're doing and they come over
38:19
the same way for Brian Abraham down the Governor's office or the speaker, and
38:23
they see that and it puts on a good show, but in reality it
38:31
is what it is. And then when they locate in the state, we
38:36
also well, I ask them all, if you run into a roadbook and
38:40
there's a problem that you see that we could do better, let us know.
38:45
And the reason for it is we may not be able to prevent you
38:50
from having that problem, but we can certainly make it so that the next
38:54
business that comes into the state does not have that problem. So that's just
38:59
one example of the different ways we go by doing things here in the state
39:02
of West Virginia. Now, our biggest asse, you know, our biggest
39:07
positive aspect that we have. Our biggest asset, I guess I would say,
39:09
is our people. And I know that sounds like a cliche to say
39:13
that, but it truly is per cliche. It's spot on. That's why
39:17
they're so hirible outside the state, and this is why so many of them
39:22
leave the state for gainful employment. They would stay here if the job opportunities
39:27
were here. And that's what we're hell bent on doing is making it so
39:31
that we've got these job opportunities for our youth so they can stay here,
39:37
and then that helps with our education system. You're not worrying about school closures
39:40
or Riffin teachers of that you are growing your state, and when the youth
39:46
stays here, then what happens They make babies. I know that I sound
39:52
terrible when I found that, but if you want to have a vibrant colony,
39:57
you've got to have population growth, and there's only two ways to get
40:00
it, and we're working on both of them. Keep our youth so that
40:02
we actually have more children in school system, and then you make it so
40:07
that people want to move here for these job opportunities. Indeed, good stuff
40:12
to the President, Craig Blair. It's always a pleasure to have you on
40:15
the show. And I will close with this. I know you can't jeopardize
40:19
these products of these projects. I should say that you and others have worked
40:22
so hard on to get here. But there really is some good stuff and
40:25
the works and some big announcement's coming soon. I'm exposed to the potential of
40:32
over sixty billion, that's with a B billion, sixty billion of investment into
40:39
the state of West Virginia. And I'm not exposed to all of it by
40:44
any means, but the one that the stuff that I've had in contact,
40:47
and it will change the direction of the State of West Virginia. I have
40:51
somebody coming in at eleven o'clock today of and how I was telling you about
40:54
it. I hope they're not listening, but are already brief of the Secretary
41:01
of Economic Development about it, and said, if you're free, I want
41:07
you to slip over here. And so we'll work that out. And by
41:09
the way, how about the one point two billion dollars that we're going to
41:15
be putting further into the broadband investment in this state. Yeah, that huge.
41:21
We can't we can't mess this up, and we're not going to mess
41:24
it up. It's it's you're going to see the results and everybody in the
41:28
state it's going to benefit from it, and their taxes are going to go
41:30
down because of it. All right, Senate President Blair will let you go
41:34
now. You gotta get ready for a meeting. We will talk soon.
41:37
Thanks a lot for being here, sir, Thanks for having me. I
41:38
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voting for forgiveness still stands. Also seems a bit shady. Chris Miller has
42:24
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President Craig Blair. While West Virginia's workforce participation rate is still the worst in
42:38
the nation, there are a variety of reasons for that, and I know
42:42
you said ask Craig Blair. But I'm going to answer to that right now
42:44
since he's not here, there are I mean, we don't have enough time
42:47
to go into all of the reasons why it is the worst in the nation,
42:51
and it is. You know, part of it has to do with
42:52
a older population. I am one. Let me sis say we tread on
43:00
this lightly. I am one that's questioned sometimes when we talk about the West
43:05
Virginia work ethic, because I don't think it is what it used to be.
43:08
I don't like to work anybody is what it used to be, but
43:13
maybe not so much in West Virginia. Something we gotta work on. And
43:15
again, when we talk about bringing these companies here, and I think I
43:20
mentioned this on the show yesterday, we talk about bringing these companies here,
43:22
we got to bring people here as well. And I know that when you
43:25
say that, and I've had text to the show, people said, Oh,
43:28
we don't want these outsiders coming in. They're coming in, folks,
43:30
They're going to be coming to West Virginia with all of these new jobs and
43:34
all these corporations and billion dollars they're coming. We're we need people. We
43:38
need people to migrate here from other states and other countries, and we're gonna
43:44
have to have it now. I'm gonna take a break. We got more
43:47
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Tex says, like it or not, Biden's Infrastructure and America Rescue Act
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According to a texture, texture says about baseball. Baseball and Charleston used
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to be a real sport. Now it's more like a circus, which is
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fine. I feel like the circus, but some people like like their baseball
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to be taken seriously. Programming notes no hoppy today. Mister Kerswell remains on
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vacation. I will not be here Tomorrow's I've talked about all week. I'm
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head in Morgantown. Well that's after a brief staff off in Ohio. I'll
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be for the there for the Joe's Nose Kids WV Legends Golf Classic given to
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raise some money for West Virginia Children's Hospital to host foundation. I will be
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back on Monday morning. Dale Cooper will be filling in for me tomorrow,
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featuring as always on Friday Friday Funhouse and Ah Gardner from the Canaral Charlest new
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main association with or Dotmi Pleads pett of the Week, plus Jim's Tron making
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a return appearance to the Palmar Stores studio A. Jimbo has been off for
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a couple of weeks because the Levey has been off for a couple of weeks,
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but Live in the Levee is back tomorrow night. I will be back
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Monday with Mayor Monday This Monday, featuring South Charleston mayor Frank Mullins. Also
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as mentioned, gibernatorial candidate Chris Miller, plus a major surprise coming on Monday,
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surprise guests. It's such a surprise guests, folks, that I'm not
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even allowed to mention who it is, the only thing I can say.
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And if you've been listening this morning and you follow me on social media,
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you know that some big changes are happening around the radio ranch here at eleven
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eleven, Virginia's Tree d said those changes that you're hearing with one of our
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stations, we'll take up the second part of my show on Monday. Now
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I can say for years, Woody Woods, g Money and the crew have
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been killing it over a ninety eight point seven to beat. Well, ninety
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eight point seven to beat is now moved to one oh seven three, So
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get used to say in one of seven point three the beats, and that
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means it's a much bigger signal for Woody and the crew to play with.
49:23
I mean, it's it's it's out there. Wood He just kills it on
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that station. It's a fantastic job being the entire crew, and they're going
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to continue to do so. But now the beat is on one oh seven
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point three, so that leaves an opening on ninety eight point seven on your
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FM dial. Just keep listening, folks, a matter of fact, listen
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now, well, no, no, no, no, don't listen now,
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Ryan tell them not to listen. Now, listen at various points too
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out today. How's that I listened to this morning? Normally, I'm Rey,
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I listened religiously to Carry and Chris and the folks in the morning news
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when I'm coming in. But this morning I had to see what all the
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buzz was about. So I flipped over to ninety eight point seven my drive
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in from Tay's Valley this morning, and I was blown away by what's on
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there. Now, it's all over the place. That's all I'm allowed to
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say. All will be revealed on Monday, all right, But if you
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listen today, tomorrow, over the next couple of days on ninety eight point
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seven, you're gonna think what the heck is going on here? Well that's
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kind of my design, all right. So but the major component it's making
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all this happen on our sister station ninety eight point seven will be on the
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show the end toward the end of the show on Monday morning, not if
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I can say about that. Also, I just learned this yesterday apparently,
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and Ryan, I didn't know whether you knew this or not. Apparently,
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the show this year, a little radio shin dig that we do, is
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now on YouTube. Don't get excited. It's not video yet. But if
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you miss the show live, you can always catch the replay of course,
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as you know at WCHS network dot com or on Facebook called the WCHS Facebook
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pages, Twitter pages, Things that Nature, or my personal page which is
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Dave Allen Radio and at Dave A seventy on Twitter. But now Ryan,
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we are available on YouTube. I may have to step it up a little
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take off, Tex says m the federal government is not jabbering Joe, and
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see American taxpayer people seem to forget that. All right, we gotta go.
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Thank you so much to send a president Craig Blair, Brian Dayton from
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the Western Gian Chamber of Commerce, and Eaton Douglas from the Dirty Birds.
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Big happenings over the next couple of days all season long with the Dirty Birds,
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so follow along on their social media and you'll learn all about it again.
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Coming up on Monday, it's Mayor to Day with South Charles Samire,
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Frank Mullins here Google to Try, candidate Chris Miller, and a special surprise
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guest. I'm off tomorrow, Dale Cooper will be in for me. So
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enjoy your weekend and I'll see you back on Monday. Dave Wilson's in the
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big chair for Hoppy coming up at ten zero six for my producer Ryan Nicholson.
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Thank you so much. At some point you gotta flip it over to
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ninety eight point seven though, and see exactly what's going on over there,
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It's it's wild. I'll see you Monday. Tell that fun. I Love
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somebody. H W two four three d r FM, Charles two three Q
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