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04/27/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Andy McKee, Kent Carper, Amanda Barren · The Dave Allen Show

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today. She's actually going to give us an update. I don't want to
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spoil it yet, but Amanda will be with us a little bit later on.
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Plus, of course, lots to get to in the news, the
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big announcement coming from Governor Justice at five o'clock this afternoon from the Greenbriars to
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his future plans. We know he's running for Senate, so I want to
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get into that a little bit later on. Plus several other things to get
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too as well. But I have to say, in the nearly three years
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since I've been doing this show, I've had all sorts of guests on the
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show, from political guests, political figures and athletes and seniors, actors,
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ministers, authors, law enforcement. But I think I can honestly say this
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is the first time on this show, and I'm pretty sure the first time
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in my thirty five years in this business that I have a real life reptile
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expert with me. Eddie McKee is his name, and he is the CEO
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of something called the Reptile House Rescue. Andy, Good morning, Thanks for
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me morning, thanks for having me, and thanks for bringing in a guest
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this morning. As you promised, you brought a friend with you. And
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I've actually just posted a picture a couple of moments ago. I'll give if
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I have it, I took it. I don't know if I posted in.
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I'll get to it here in a couple of moments. You can see
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what we're talking about. And he's got a beautiful creature, a beautiful friend
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with you. Tell us about to who you got here with us here?
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So we brought Mimi. She is very used to the limelight. She's one
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of our educational ambassadors that we have at our place, and she is a
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South American Boa constrictor. Okay, and how exactly did you come to acquire
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Mimi? So, Mimi is one of our rescued animals. She was surrendered
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to us from her owner. Who loves her so much. In the two
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years that we've had her, her owner actually comes back from South Carolina to
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just come sit with her, so we h She wanted to make sure that
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Mimi went to a place where she was going to be loved and taken care
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of. So we we have her there and she's one of our our best
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buddies. Well, I mean a beautiful snake. And I know people are
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saying there's no such thing. Well, I like animals of all. I'm
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not big on people, I'll be honest with you, but but animals.
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But animals I love. And Mimi's been the hit around and I found that
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with snakes that it tends to be oh, I want to pet it.
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Oh, get it the heck away from me. And that's pretty much.
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And that goes across gender lines too. You know. It's like Chris Lawrence,
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mister met mister outdoors in here. Chris said, keep that blank snake
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away from me. That's exactly what he said. Um, and I going
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to save it. In the interest of being a good coworker, I said
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an email out around the building last night telling people that just in case they
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don't like snakes, I was gonna have one in the studio this morning.
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Only in radio do you send out an emails say beware, we have snakes
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on purpose in the studio this morning. But there's a reason you're here other
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than just to show off the snake. By the way, I did just
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post that picture in Dave Allen Radio. If you want to see Mimi,
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the snake we're talking about this morning's posted on Dave Allen Radio and Facebook.
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You're the reptile guy, exactly how does one become a reptile guy? Having
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reptiles? Really? I mean, I've been very fortunate to have been around
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these my entire life. My dad actually started the herpetology program at Huntington High
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School in nineteen eighty six. I was born in eighty five, and I
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had no chance. Yeah, really, and so I've been around these things
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my entire life. Ended up teaching middle school science for a few years and
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developing our herpetology program, which is the study of reptiles and amphibians, And
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we found a need for animals to be rescued. West Virginia doesn't really have
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or didn't have a dedicated reptile and amphibian rescue, so we we filled that
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need and that's been going on for almost three years now, and we've seen
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steady growth and that's why I had you here, Andy and I in full
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disclosure, just Matt. Last week we went at this same event over in
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Putnam County at a business after hours event with the Putnham County Chamber of Commerce.
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And Andy and I met last week in Windfield at that particular event,
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and you're telling about this program that you have going. That's really why I
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have you here today, other than just to scare the co workers, not
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you the snake, but tell us what you're doing over in Valley Park.
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Yeah, so this is a major announcement. I talked about our our growth
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and we have started off as a very small rescue and then we have moved
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into the Huntington Mall and turned an old Lane Bryant clothing store into a kind
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of a rescue zoo. And we are expanding and moving into the former Commons
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building in Valley Park in Hurricane and we are taking that entire building and turning
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it into what will now be known as the Zoology Zone Science Center, and
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this will be a hands on facility. We'll have our animals there. So
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the Reptile House and Rescue will be rebranding to encompass more areas of hands on
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science. But you know, definitely have our our exhibits out there with our
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more than eighty rescued animals um for the public to enjoy. We're very hands
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on. Um. I teach like I learn, and I'm a big add
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squirrel. So if I don't have, you know, something catching my attention,
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I'm looking for something shiny. So um. You know when you have
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a six and a half foot Boa constrictor around you that attends to grab attention.
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Yeah, I got the attention of the boss Dale Cooper, who came
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downstairs to see the snake. I was telling him, Coop, I just
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never know how people are with snakes. I mean, some people are like,
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yeah, I love him, Yeah, I get it the hell away
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from me. It's it's one of the two. I love the snakes.
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As long as he's there, you go, yeah, say that again.
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I don't think we had young Mic there said as long as he's handling it,
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I'm good. Okay, it's it's a it's an attractive snake. Though,
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as far as snakes got that, you don't say every day. She
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said, thank you In snakes she said, Now, would your daughter's just
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something that your daughter would like? You have a young one, would she
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like this? Man? I think she would like to look at it.
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I'm not sure if she would really weird with texture, So I'm not sure
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if she would. But she's young enough to where she I don't think she
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would be scared. I think that she would be interested. Your wife might
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be a different story. Yeah, yeah, my wife would definitely be a
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different story. I think my kid might be adventurous enough, though she might
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take a swimming well. And that's the goal. That's the goal of what
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we want to do. We want to try to destigmatize these these animals.
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Um, and we have something for everyone. We have snakes and lizards and
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alligators and turtles and this is all couper case she missed that. This is
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all going in Valley Park in Putnam County there. Uh, and there they're
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gonna be bringing school groups in and things of that nature. Yeah. I
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think it's fantastic. I think that's I love that type of outreach where you
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get hands on with animals and things. I think it's outstanding and my kid
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would absolutely love it, there's no doubt. Well, that's the whole idea
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behind this game. We're talking with Andy McKee, the reptile guy who has
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Mimi with us and if you want to see Mimi's pictures posted on the Dave
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Allen Radio on Facebook. UM how much UM does a love and appreciation for
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wildlife go hand in hand with conservation because I know your champions talk about that
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absolutely. UM our mission statement is quite literally to inspire conservation through education,
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and I truly believe that, you know, education is the key to not
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only saving these animals but their environment and UM to recognize the different areas of
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science that go into UM our entire biosphere. UM So, our our goal
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here is to inspire that conservational aspect through UM educational outreach, hands on immersive
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learning UM outreach that we that we currently do so. UM. You know
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it's extremely important, not just for UM, you know Mimi in South America,
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but right here on our own backyard. UM. You know, you
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start to mess with the ecosystem and and don't understand what conservation truly is UM.
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And it's a hard concept to grasp if you're not actively looking at anything
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else. Yeah, exactly. UM. So, so that's our goal is
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Now we talked about rescues Andy and how often does this happen? Somebody gets
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an idea and it doesn't have to be a snake, It could be a
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rapt I mean, heck, it happens with dogs and cats. You know,
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they get an idea all this would be a really cool animal to have,
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but then something happens along the way that they either don't want to take
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care of it, don't realize how much responsibility goes into it. How many
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times do you guys get that? Oh? Every day? That is truly
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the reason we have four rescued alligators currently. People get them as little babies
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and they're like alligators or alligators American alligators. Yea, Now, where does
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it exactly does one obtain an alligator? You know, they're legal, believe
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it or not, in the state of West Virginia, it is legal to
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own an American alligator, a king cobra, a kangaroo, and a giraffe
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all in the same house. But you know, it's like it's like like
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a one house Noah's Ark. But just because you can doesn't mean you should
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exactly. So all four of them came from four different households, and they
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came to us and said, well, got too big, and well,
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well, I mean it's an alligator. What do you think, right,
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Like, yeah, I mean it's it's just like having a kid. It's
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a good girl up right. Eventually, you know, the same thing with
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aquatic turtles. People used to be able to get them for a quarter down
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at the beach and you know, before they were outlawed and they don't realize
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they get a you know, as big around as a dinner plate and lived
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for fifty years and pooping on godly amount. So I mean it's described every
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radio person I know. But go ahead, get well you know it happens.
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Yeah, but um, but you know, so they need an outlet.
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So we were very happy to be able to um fill that need and
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um and to be able to continue to u zipun scale. Yeah, yeah,
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I see what you did there with the Okay, I appreciate that.
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All right, So let's talk about Mimi before we let you go. What
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kind of care goes into having and tell us about Mimi bi again, people
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can look at a picture of Dave Allen Radio on Facebook. Tell us about
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Mimi the age and what her what her story was, and what kind of
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care goes into taking care of me. So Mini is um. You know,
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she's a full grown boa constrictor. UM. These are native to South
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America. So the habitat has to mimic their natural habitat because that's how they
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were created to thrive in that type of environment. So different humidity requirements,
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different heat requirements, native to that area. UM. But she came to
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us about two and a half years ago. She's about seven or eight right
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now. But her owner, UM was moved closer to her her family.
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Yeah down south Yeah and um, but she still comes to visit, comes
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to visit almost every couple months and just just to hang hang out with a
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snipe. Set her up a little rocking chair in the back and she just
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grabs her and rocks and pets her and and and my uh and I knew
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absolutely nothing about this, but just what I witnessed out here when you guided
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the building this morning. Am I right and say that this particular creature seems
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to love people? I mean that is that of their nature? Because I
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mean I noticed that she was with with Leah, one of the young ladies
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who works out front. She was all about to lee and hanging out stuff.
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I mean, is that something that's they generally do? So, I
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mean that's a debate between you know, her petologists, is can they feel
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affection? Can they do they have the capacity or something like that. You
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know, the jury is kind of still out on that. I mean,
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I always liken it too. She likes we're like a big warm tree and
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they need warmth. So, but I do believe in the rescues that we've
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gotten, especially when we've rehabbed them and brought them back from near death.
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Um, that they do form a bond, That we do form a bond.
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And I'm convinced that some of ours absolutely know who we are. And
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some of my staff, Um, you know, some of the animals hate
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some of my staff and then love other part of my staff, just like
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other animals. Right, yeah, all right, So let's wrap it up
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and talk about what this project is. I know that you're working with the
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City of Hurricane on some things. Wrap it up, tell us about the
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county. Actually the county and obviously we have partnerships within Putnam County and Hurricane
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UM and we are actively looking for partners in conservation UM, so the zoology
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zone and science. We have a capital campaign of about one point seven five
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million dollars that we're going to be putting into this UM this facility over the
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next twelve months. So we really want to make this a destination location for
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not just the county, but the entire region to bring something new new industry,
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new business, new exciting educational opportunities for for our regions. So we're
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actively looking for UM, you know, partners in conservation through local leadership,
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UM, different grant foundations, UH, local businesses that want to be a
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part of this. You know, Valley Park has hundreds of thousands of people
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and come through their every single year and it's one hundred percent of the demographic
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that we serve, which is family and communities. So UM, you know,
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anything that we can do to be a good community partner UM. You
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know, we definitely want to want to expound on that Where can people learn
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more? Again? Um? So our new website is zoology zone dot org.
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So that is our new website shows how to get involved. I'm still
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working on it. It's just me working on it right now. One man
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show. Right, So I'll wear a lot of hats with some gaiters and
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snake stone and they're true. Yeah, trying not to get bit while working
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on the website. Has that ever happened? I mean, I know somebody.
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Have you ever been injured by one of these? Yeah? I do
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not recommend getting bit by an alligator. It's okay, all right. Note
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to self, do not do not get bit by an alligator? And Andy,
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here. Good morning sir, Good morning Dave. This is the most PC
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show you've ever done. Oh now, why is that destigmatizing snakes? I
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mean, this sounds like something some liberal. Honestly, I just got a
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text to that said, and I'll read the text. Kudos to the man's
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business idea, but it's gonna be tough to destigmatize the serpent. Well,
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you know, you know who's really excited about destigmatizing snake. Who's state House?
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Uh huh, I guess, I guess, I guess. But we
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are going to have a very interesting ride here. I do believe I do
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believe it. I know what you're referring to. I'm gonna get into that
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a little bit later on. It's just the first time that you have ever
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followed a snake. No, I work at the Cornet. I was gonna
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say, I set you up, man, I set you up. You
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know, Okay, it's time to do a joke. A guy comes into
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a bar carrying a bowelt constructor and he's running for us Sunnit, I'll let
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you finish it, Okay, I don't know it's your joke. You tell
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me. Listen, think about joke says you can. Anybody can anything they
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wanted. A guy walks in to a bar and he's carrying a bullet constructor
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and he's running for us Sun and he says, blank, blank blank,
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I don't know. Let your listeners bl didn't know that it was going to
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be I didn't know we're gonna turn this into mad libs this morning. But
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opportunity. It's an opportunity. All right, Well, we'll work on that
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a little bit later. I want to talk about some stuff going on the
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Valley. Big announcement earlier this week out of Institute. Talk about that.
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You know, that's that is an interesting thing. I think we broke ground
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at twenty seventeen. We had a terrible downturn in the economy, they had
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the pandemic. And then when I first heard, when I met with these
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folks, they were telling me that they were going to dissemble disensemble take apart
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a plant in Brazil and move it to the United States. I thought,
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this is public justice because we've been doing that in America for thirty forty years
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really and then, of course, I mean it just it became prohibitively expensive.
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And I will tell you this, that project almost was over, probably
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half a dozen times. My head is off to US Methanol. They hung
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in there. They toughed it out one quarter of a billion dollar investment in
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West Virginia in Kanaw County, and the Kanaw County Commission played a fairly significant
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a role in that. I actually personally signed their building permit, never done
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that before or since. It was controversial. We had protesters and people were
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complaining, and you know how that goes. And I absolutely understand the people
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that live in that community the concern they have. On the other hand,
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you know, this was at one time considered the chemical center of the world,
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and I think there's an opportunity to return to some of that. So
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for those that like to talk about creating jobs, we actually had a role
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in that. The fact that they asked me to represent commissioners sling Gun Commissioner
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Wheeler indicated the US Methanol does appreciate the local government. We helped them with
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the permitting process. We helped them get this done. Now someone says,
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well, they've only got sixty jobs. You've got to be kidding me.
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Those are big paying jobs, and about eighty percent of those job days are
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local folks they've hired. That's awesome. Nobody's talking about that. What's the
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timeline for this? I mean whenever? Yeah, okay, So I mean,
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are we going to add additional to that or what? Well, you
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know, this was called Liberty one, and originally we talked about Liberty two,
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and we were hoping to see that built. You know, perhaps even
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in the eastern part of the county, you know, the old DuPont plan
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area where Camors is and so forth. I don't think that's in play right
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now, but I will tell you this. We had the the Czech Republic
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press there. Now to think about this, as Virginia State University, we
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have two sitting United States Senators, we had the governor, we had International
23:00
Press Corps and in a Low County commissioner and one Lowlei County commission And you
23:06
know what, you can fit that in onto bow constructor Yeah, there you
23:08
go, there's I mean, this is just one Commissioner of the big things
23:12
that we've got going on in the Knaw Valley. I had Mayor case Ball
23:15
from Nitro on earlier this week to talk about their new sports complex, and
23:18
you guys, I know, we're still working out all the details in this
23:22
Capital Sports Center being proposed for downtown Charleston. There's a lot of stuff going
23:26
on here in the valley. Man, don't leave out Green Power, don't
23:29
leave out the Tech Park. You know, the Tech Park. I give
23:33
credit Senator Mansion, then Governor Mansion just got beat up pretty good about that
23:38
when the state agreed to take that over all the all the geniuses compare said
23:44
that would be a big failure. Tech Park is incredibly important to West Virginia
23:49
and it's it's days or just ahead of us. So there are big things
23:53
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com. Count on account Commission President Kikarp's here and I think, uh serve.
24:12
The last time we had you on the show, we talked about this
24:15
deal with with with Breeze to get them flying in and out of West Virginia
24:18
International Yeager Airport. To anything new to to throw in about that, well,
24:23
other than it's it's the first plane hasn't landed yet. The original aircraft
24:30
they were going to use, they decided that they couldn't use a bigger airplane
24:34
becausure wouldn't be the market here. It's gonna be one hundred people. They've
24:38
already changed the airplane to the eight to two zero A two twenty, which
24:44
holds one hundred and thirty six, and they haven't hauled the first passenger out
24:48
of here yet. And again we've got people now odd will never work and
24:52
just be here for a while. Maybe so, but can't we just accept
24:56
some good news occasionally? I think made a third first is when the flights
25:00
acually start, we're gonna have a direct flight to Charleston, South Carolina.
25:06
When's the last time we had a direct flight to Charleston, South Carolina?
25:08
Day? No, I mean it's yeah, I remember when I do not
25:11
when it wasn't never never, you know. Now, speaking of snakes,
25:18
remember that movie the Snakes on the plays. There'll be no snakes on these
25:21
plays, all right, So let's address that just for a moment before we
25:23
let you go. There was a an op ed by a certain writer who
25:29
I don't like to give credit for anything, or even mentioned his name on
25:32
the air UH in the gazette mail this past week that was kind of taken
25:34
to task the whole deal with breeze and what just wasn't totally happy with the
25:40
whole deal. That should have been used elsewhere any kind to subsidized trains,
25:45
Yeah, I mean Amtrak's subsidized. UH. Interstates are subsidized. Everything subsidized
25:52
by the government. The bottom line is this, and I can explain.
25:56
I heard the same thing when we fought very hard to bring in the direct
26:02
flight to Houston. Here's how this works in the airline industry. It once
26:07
they did deregulation. Things changed. When they deregulated airlines. It's more competitive
26:14
market. Some of these flights simply need help to get started. We have
26:18
what there's a technical name for. But here's how it works. The state
26:22
of West Virginia will pay so much, and the Klkanny Commission will pay so
26:26
much in the City of Charleston's in assuming it doesn't break even or loses money,
26:33
it is possible it won't cost a dime. But at the same time,
26:37
for our share mean the Kulcanty Commission, we have done this before.
26:41
That's how we've brought in flights before. We've put in hundreds of thousands of
26:45
dollars for advertising for flights. Let me tell you this, this isn't just
26:49
about getting on an airplane for quality of life, although that's enough for me.
26:53
That's how you bring people in here, that's how you get people to
26:56
come back. But this is about an opportunity for tourism. I have got
27:00
absolute confidence in Secretary Ruby, and I've got absolute confidence that Governor Justice is
27:07
right on this, and we are proud of it, and I'm proud of
27:11
it, and I think we'll be proven correct on this. The worst case
27:15
scenario where we've got a lot of buzz going on nationally that we've got direct
27:19
flights to Charleston, South Carolina, Like I tell everybody, do the Charleston's
27:25
yet both of them, both of them, and I will say this about
27:27
that, and I think We talked about this the last time that you were
27:30
on the show. Is there's been a lot of you in people's mind.
27:33
They say, oh, well I can fly here, or we can fly
27:36
here. A lot of times it's not about outgoing, but it's about incoming.
27:38
Commissioner's exactly what Commietary Ruby and Governor Justice is talking about. And that's
27:45
what I have preached for over twenty years. We are a great opportunity for
27:52
destination tourism. The Sports Complex, Shawnee Park, the new Federal Park in
27:59
New Look at all the opportunities that people will come here to West Virginia if
28:04
you can get him here by air, and this is going to work.
28:08
This is a great opportunity. And yes there maybe some subsidy to it.
28:12
Keith Carper is going to vote for that. I'm proud of that. And
28:17
you know, for this one person complaining about it, I think he compared
28:22
Breeze to Dollar General. I would have compared him to Parmore. Now,
28:29
I don't know if people would that. Your advertiser, Yeah, well yeah,
28:33
well they should like that, Well they should. You just got a
28:34
free play. Well, this is West Virginia. What's wrong with that?
28:37
Exactly right? All right, before we let you go, all right,
28:41
big announcement, I don't you know, I don't expect you to choose side
28:45
handicap now, I just want you to tell me. All right, the
28:48
Governor's coming up at five o'c. Now, five o'clock today, the Governor's
28:52
going to make his announcement life from the grand writers to what he's going to
28:55
do. We all know he's going to run for Senate. You can actually
28:57
watch it on the YouTube channel that is funded that says paid for by Jim
29:02
Justice for Senate. So that pretty much tells you everything that you need h
29:06
to know. Uh so he announced us today. You take it from their
29:10
handicap it certain well all handicap it. Anybody can can lose an election,
29:15
and no one knows who's going to win an election. It's so early to
29:19
say who's going to win. You look at who I think most people consider
29:25
the the opponent in the Republican primary, which will be U Alex Money.
29:30
Yeah, that's that's his name. Ye and he what was he? Congressman,
29:34
congressman um in anyway, I mean, he vanquished Dave McKinley, and
29:41
most people thought that would not happen. Yeah, so he's got a lot
29:44
of bona FIDE's, he's got this huge ten million dollar pick or whatever it
29:48
is. And so you know, arguably Justice doesn't have a chance except for
29:52
one thing, right, baby doc do he's got time I check. Governor
29:57
Justice is considered one of the most popular governors in the count fourth most popula
30:03
in the country according to a recent poem. And he's the most popular governor
30:06
in West Virginia, which is where this race will take place. So there's
30:11
gonna be a lot of money, there's gonna be this started. But I
30:15
will just say one thing, and don't don't take his personal but there was
30:19
a lot of geniuses on this radio show that wrote Governor Justice off on Amendment
30:26
too. You remember that, Yeah, I remember, Yeah, I didn't
30:30
remember. And I believed then and now that Governor Justice knew and believed that
30:38
would hurt West Virginia. He knew, but hurt firefighters, police officers,
30:42
of paramedics, and he went on a barn storming trip. Nobody said anything
30:48
like essence Harry Truman did his whistle stock for so I would not underestimate Jim
30:53
Justice and baby Dog the Republican primary. What about in the if he makes
30:59
a pass movie about Justice v. Mansion, if there is a Mansion in
31:03
the race, he may that's the question mark. And I have no idea.
31:06
I mean, you've heard the same things the whispering campaign that the senator
31:11
for Mansion will not run for US Senate, he will run for presidents.
31:15
And I have no idea. But right now this is going to be a
31:21
very very mean and nasty primary. I was not involved in politics, but
31:29
I remember very well the Archmore and Jay Rockefeller. You know, it was
31:37
interesting, the money and the fight and how that happened. This will be
31:42
similar, but the world has changed, Yeah, and this is one that
31:47
has a lot more national attention to the one that one does. We did
31:49
have a quick question for you. We'll let you go absolutely, a Texter
31:52
said. I asked, mister Carper, if there's a date for the golf
31:56
course at Coonskin to open up. You know, that's a good question,
32:00
and I'll give a dodgy answer on that. Okay, it is going to
32:02
depend on the weather. The last I heard it should be open sometime before
32:09
summer. And that's a very close Uh, stay tuned on that. We
32:14
can ask about it all the time. I think that's an exciting opportunity.
32:17
I give full credit to Commissioner Wheeler. He's spearheaded debt and in along with
32:22
the Parks Board, David Pope and others. That's going to be a very
32:28
exciting thing for Kanak County. I think people are really going to enjoy this.
32:31
Can I account commission President Kent Carper. It's always a pleasure, Sarah.
32:35
We'll talk soon, so will tune. I want to meet Mimi something.
32:38
Okay, Well, Mimi's already headed back to Tay's Valley. But I'll
32:42
make sure we make that happen here, all right, We'll make it.
32:45
We'll make that happen. Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. Eighty
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mile high on vacation Tex, says Your Dave. I'm positive that that's the
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best you and mister Carper have gotten along on the radio yet. Well,
36:12
he's a good guy. I like, can we have a we have we
36:14
kind of have that that relationship. I got a much better relationship with my
36:20
old friend, not old friend, because she's like ten years younger than I
36:22
am. Amanda Baron from WWK, how are you kid, I'm great?
36:25
Thank you, Thank you for pointing that out. Also, yeah, well
36:29
thank you, tend thank you for constantly pointing out that I'm ten years older
36:34
than than than you are thereabouts. I mean, I don't know. We
36:37
don't talk about people's ages on the show, especially females. All right,
36:42
follow today after a snake in concarpera yeah you had a yeah we let off
36:46
with Mimi the a Boa constructor picture posted on the Dave Allen Radio on Facebook
36:50
and then Kent Carper and here you are to liven up to join a little
36:52
bit. Good morning. There's a reason that you're here other than just to
36:57
bring the program a little class following a Boa Constrict and Kent CARPERU. And
37:00
that is. Listeners to this show have heard our friend Jim Brown call the
37:06
show from time to time on a variety of subjects. Jim, being the
37:08
old radio guy he is, um you know, frequently calls and comments and
37:13
just about everything. M Jim has a call to us in a while,
37:16
and we learned through you that our friend Jim Brown has been quite ill in
37:22
the hospital. Happy to report though that he's doing better, but still not
37:25
able to call the show yet. And I know you've been visiting with him,
37:30
getting updates from his family, etc. What can you tell us about
37:32
Jim. Well, the good news is at Jim's home from the hospital U
37:36
and that Jim is tougher than ever. So that is the awesome news.
37:40
The tough news is that Jim really had a rough couple of days there.
37:44
He was in the hospital. He got an infection and so he had to
37:47
go to the hospital. And I talked to Jim yesterday and made sure it
37:51
was okay to, you know, to talk about about him. Yeah,
37:55
I loved him, but and his sister too, has been wonderful, but
38:00
he's had a tough couple of days, So nobody is mentally tougher. What
38:04
God didn't give Jim embody strength, he gave him in mental strength. And
38:09
I just hope that everybody is praying for him and thinks about him when there's
38:15
a great conversation going on and keeps him in his prayers because you know he'd
38:19
want to chime in. But Jim has done so much for our community,
38:22
from getting access so people with different abilities can go fishing in Dunbar, to
38:29
making sure that first responders or nine one one operators are classified his first responders,
38:36
So just caring about people, He really just cares about people. Nobody
38:39
has better scanner ears than Jim Brown. And I'm just praying for his recovery
38:44
and cheered him on right now. Well, Jim has, you know,
38:46
had a variety of health issues, and he's talked about him on the show
38:50
before. He has to pretty much have even before this illness, Amanda,
38:53
he pretty much has to have care all the time, and he's pretty much
38:57
confined to to his wheelchair or its bad on a daily basis. And he
39:01
did call the show on a regular basis, and even you know, Ryan,
39:05
our producer, a couple of weeks ago even said me, No,
39:07
Jim hasn't called in a while. And he's very active on social media.
39:09
And I'll say this to our listeners. I know that if you're a person's
39:13
on Facebook, Jim would like nothing better to connect with you on Facebook.
39:16
So if you have it in your heart, send him a friend request.
39:20
I mean, he spends a lot of time on there. He's constantly sending
39:22
me articles via Messenger and things of that nature. And as you said,
39:24
I know he's listening to the show and he's quite a big fan of yours
39:29
as well. Well. I'm a big fan of his, and he makes
39:32
my job easier. You know, jimmy your stuff on the skinner and he
39:36
calls me and he takes good care of me. You know, he's a
39:39
former dispatcher, radio guy, you name it. He's done it, and
39:45
through it all he's done all of a smile. You know, Jim is
39:49
always up. He's always happy. Even though he has to stay puss,
39:52
he's never stayed still. And I think that's what's so amazing about him.
39:57
He's just a great guy and he's done so much for other people. And
40:02
it's cards, call visitors, that's all, really, really important. He's
40:08
made everybody else feel so amazing about themselves, and I hope it can be
40:13
the same for Jim. Well. And that's what I was going to say,
40:15
Amanda. You know, for somebody that spent their life in public service
40:17
in one form or another, being on the radio, or be it with
40:21
nine one one or whatever he did, he's been there for all of us,
40:24
Amanda, It's time for us to be there for him absolutely. And
40:29
just his sister, Jan his twin sister. I didn't know he was a
40:32
twin. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, so she she is
40:37
such a great caregiver and I've been talking with her quite a bit lately.
40:40
I keep calling her sister every time I talked to her now because we've been
40:43
talking so much, you know. But she's she's a wonderful caregiver, and
40:47
Jim is a wonderful guy. They're a fantastic duo. And just keep him
40:52
in your prayers, but more importantly, make sure he knows that you're thinking
40:57
of him exactly. And like I said, if you're a Facebook person,
41:00
and send him a friend request. And he's very active on Facebook. He
41:02
he likes to post pictures of the two of you together on Facebook from time
41:07
at the time. So let's let's just keep him and in your prayers and
41:10
your thoughts and good spirits. He's a he's a great dude. I mean,
41:14
I did not know Jim until I took this job, but I knew
41:17
of Jim because you know radio. I mean, I can remember him on
41:21
other stations in Charleston, you know, for a number of years doing various
41:23
things, and then his service to emergency responders and everything he does, you
41:27
know, for the community. Just he's an icon here in the Kanal Valley.
41:30
And I know that you and I had talked about him a couple of
41:34
days ago that he's been under the weather. But the good news is he's
41:37
out of the hospital and he's back home again. He's not able to call
41:39
us up, I understand, but I'm sure he's listening this morning. So
41:43
if you get an opportunity, you know, say a special prayer for for
41:45
Jim and his family and all of his friends, send him a friend request
41:49
on Facebook and U and so on and so forth. So how how have
41:52
you been, miss a man? I have a talk to you a while.
41:54
I'm doing I'm doing great, Thank you, I'm I'm wonderful. I'm
41:58
happy that Jim at home. I think that's the in my heart more than
42:00
anything. Right, I'm happy that Jim is home and glad the weather is
42:05
getting nice, and you know, all those good things, and you're excited
42:07
about the regatta. You got a regatta. And I worked with Brian Hughes,
42:13
so you tell me if I'm well. Brian will make sure you're excited,
42:15
whether you want to be or not. He was on the show yesterday.
42:19
All right, quickly, Draft night is tonight. Honestly, literally haven't
42:22
looked at a whole lot of the predictions any inside on your beloved Cleveland Browns.
42:25
I don't know. I honestly don't know anything this year, but I
42:29
will just say it is the super Bowl night for the Cleveland Browns. Happened,
42:32
super Bowl brown Fans, it's our night, enjoy it, and we're
42:37
gonna have a Brown's Cowboys super Bowl right. Oh yeah, I am a
42:43
Cowboys fan. I know you told me that you get ties to Texas too.
42:45
So back in the nineties. Yeah, my mom is from Texas and
42:49
so back in the nineties, in the early nineties when it was always the
42:53
Cowboys in the Bills. My best friend was from Buffalo, and we both
42:58
grew up in Northeast Ohio, and so anyways, so I cheered for the
43:01
Cowboys, she cheered for the Bills. Obviously this her name is Molly.
43:07
Molly and I were on the phone together every day after school from like the
43:09
second we got home. Told we fall asleep on the phone together. She
43:13
put the phone down while she practiced piano. I was at their house all
43:16
the time, but I was not invited to their super Bowl party, I
43:22
swear, and we would just call them prank each other that during the Super
43:23
Bowl the whole time. That was the only time I wasn't invited to their
43:27
house. And kids, now you know, we're probably saying, what's a
43:30
phone? I mean, what's the phone that you actually listened to and not
43:31
just you know, punch numbers on. We were on the phone so much,
43:35
Dave that her parents we had a second phone line at our house for
43:38
my dad's work, they got a second phone line. We wrote the phone
43:44
so much and just to the other day, we remembered the phone numbers to
43:46
it. So there you go. And you know, there was an episode
43:49
of the Break. There was an episode of The Brady Bunch where they put
43:52
a pay phone in the house. That that's really useless trivia right there.
43:54
All right, Amanda, we will be We will be watching as we always
43:59
do. We appreciate you being here and trying to dial down to perkey a
44:01
little bit, will youam You know what someone gave me that advice years ago.
44:04
I'll think about it. Everyone loved to Jim. All right, thank
44:08
you, Matt, we'll talk to nine fifty one. That's kind of an
44:10
inside joke between Amanda and myself. Years ago someone complained about her when she
44:17
was on the other station and said that she needed to dial down the perkey,
44:21
and so that's kind of always been a running joke with missus Barrett and
44:23
I going back in her twenty some years of friendship, has been dial down
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with the discovery of the latest audio tape about January sixth that was played on
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television. I don't know, I'll have to check that out. Texas says
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tomorrow's guests. Host is okay, I suppose, But for me, it's
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never know what could possibly happen. So let the Senate gates again the eyes
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of the political nation, not just West Virginia, but the entire country on
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the Greenbrier at five o'clock this afternoon, as the governor and baby dog will
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announce what's expected to be Governor Justice's run for US Senate. I think,
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now, as I mentioned earlier, we can say with about one hundred and
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ten percent possibility that's what he's doing. Considering that that advisory went out to
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the media saying the message from the governor will be streamed on the YouTube channel
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entitled Jim Justice for US Senate, I think that's probably a dead giveaway there.
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Now there had talked about it earlier. We've been some scuttle that former
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President Donald Trump would be at the Greenbright with the governor for the announcement or
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perhaps a video of some sort. That talk has kind of dialed down just
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a little bit, but who knows. With the governor in the meantime,
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the governor is already on the attack. It gets Senator Mansion calling him out
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for his support of the Inflation Reduction Act, a move that looks like,
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at least on the surface, Senator Mansion regrets or at least the rollout of
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the bill, the way it's going with a Biden administration, the way that
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that's going so far. In fact, there is some speculation that Senator Mansion
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may possibly be working to repeal the bill. That's a developing story, of
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course. And remember on the show yesterday when I talked about how broadcasters and
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anyone who handles advertising we're salivating at the concept of not only a potential Justice
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v. Mansion matchup, with that primary battle too between Jim Justice and Congressman
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Alex Mooney. Well, the TV ads have already started. I saw one
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on my way out the door this morning, and add being run by Mooney
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against Jim Justice the Senate campaign. And now it's worth noting this wasn't like
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a dark money spot or some kind of a political action committee. This was
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paid for by Alex Mooney for Senate, right there on the screen this morning
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as I was getting ready for working heading out the door. So away we
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go. Of course, we will have complete coverage of the Governor's announcement and
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his speech on the air at wv metronews dot com and all of our social
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media platforms. Brad mcleahenny has an in depth story posted at wv metronews dot
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com. Brad was burning the proverbial midnight oil, or at least or maybe
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it was up early this morning. He posted that story in the length.
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Another said four fifteen this morning, we are getting a new driver's license in
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West Virginia. If you want to see what it's gonna look like, just
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go over to the website ww metro news dot com. Kat Skelton's got a
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story about that The new license will feature the new River Gorge Bridge as the
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background. I for one would have thought that maybe dog could have been used,
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but that's just me. So are you committing? Are you listening?
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Commissioner Everett Frasier kind of make that happen quick text says Governor Justice closed down
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the schools during COVID. We should make sure people don't forget that colossal mistake.
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According to a texture, all right, did not get to all the
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Texas morning. I will try to get to them at a later point,
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maybe not tomorrow, but maybe the next week if they're still topical. Gotta
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go. My producer was Ryan Nichols, and Ryan, thank you so much.
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Thanks to all our guest today including Annie McKee, the Reptile Guy and
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Mimi I'm want to see the snake We're talking about posted pictures posted on Dave
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Allen Radio on Facebook. Also Commissioner Kient Carper and Amanda Baron as well.
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Gets well soon. Jim Brown coming up tomorrow again BT Brian Thompson my guest
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host tomorrow our Adopt Me Please pett of the week. We'll have Courtney mccoyd,
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Prospero of the New Fox Nation Reality each Other, Real Hatfields and McCoys
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and eating Dougs from the Dirty Birds Hoppies up next for the News. I
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will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody. H
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