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12/08/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - FRIDAY FUNHOUSE: Guest Host Pat Simon, Hannah Gardner, Dr. Casey Sacks, Rod Blackstone · The Dave Allen Show

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toast on Friday, Funalis is here. Plus we're gonna get a visit from
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the Toastmaster Rod Blackstone talking about what's going on with this Lango law light,
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the night over at Gomart Ballpark. All that and more coming up. Plus
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news is last night three of the four leading candidates for governor met to up
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next hour. My guest toast this week. You know him, you love
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him. You watch him on WOWK TV thirteen news. He's super talented.
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Pat Simon, Good morning, sir, how are you, Dave? I
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am great, It's great. To be here. It's a Friday morning.
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I cannot believe I'm on my third cup of coffee right now, So I'm
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ready, ready to go, Pal, Ready to go. We're gonna get
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into talking Pat Simon about your career, about what you got going on over
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WWK TV thirteen. Plus you get to do the always popular ten questions.
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That's what I heard, and I told you in the green room that every
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answer to those questions will be ice cream, Every possible one will be ice
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cream. Well, that should be interesting. Let's go to our good friend
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Hannah Gardner from the Canal Charles, you made association with this week's Adopt Me
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Please Pat of the Week. Hannah, good morning, How are you?
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I'm great? How are you? I'm doing fine, Hannah, Pat Simon,
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Pat Simon, Hannah Gardner, Hey Hannah. Hello. Hell that's that's
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kind of her signature. Hello. I got it. She's cool that way,
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all right. So we have a picture posted as we always do for
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Adopt Me Please Pet of the Week. It's posted on Dave Island Radio,
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on Facebook and at dave a Actually it saw the Dave Alan Show on Axe
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Artists formally known as Twitter our Dog. This week's name is Cash, So
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Hannah take it from there. Tell us all about Cash. Yeah, well
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Cash. He is a goofy looking guy. He's very he's very very cute,
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very very playful. He's got a lot of energy. He it's I
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mean, I couldn't really tell you what he is. I mean, he
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looks like he's got like Boxer mixed in there, but I don't know what
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else he'd be mixed with. He's around fifty to sixty pounds I think,
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maybe sitting at like fifty five even, I think is what it was.
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But he is fixed already, so he's ready to go home. He's got
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his vaccines, he's good to go on all that, and he is microchipped,
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as are all the animals that come through our doors. But he came
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in actually as a surrender, I believe. Well, originally he came in
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as astray, but he got adopted but the landlord didn't allow them to have
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it, so they had to bring him back. So no fault of his
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own. But we do know from him being out and about that he is
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kind of an escape artist. He does like to get out and venture and
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have fun. So maybe a person with a good fence or a good backyard
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or something for him to run around and get all that energy out would be
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amazing for him. He looks like a prankster too, which I find this
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just so fun to see his picture, Hannah, And so take a certain
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type of owner, like you were mentioning with Cash, because he looks like
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someone with a lot of energy, right, yep, yep. He definitely
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has a lot of energy, and he prefers female dogs over male dogs just
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in general. So if you do have a male dog, of course we
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would recommend a meet and greet. You can bring your dog up to the
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shelter and do a meet and greet with Cash, or if you have female
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dogs, he definitely prefers female dogs, so he would love a good play
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may I'm sure if it's a female that's that's for sure. He's definitely got
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a lot of energy to run out, so it'd be a good idea.
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Now you guys are in the middle there at the shelter hand of something called
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the twenty five Days of Dog muss. I was looking about that on the
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looking around on your Facebook page about that? What is that and exactly how's
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it going? So basically they are just posting a dog every day and telling
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you a little bit about just to try to help get them adopted for the
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twenty five days of Christmas. And it's just a dog mess version, so
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that way everybody can learn a little bit more about each dog that we have.
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And they kind of put the spotlight on the ones that maybe need a
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spotlight just because they're not getting much attention or something. And most of the
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posts on there will tell you about their dogs friendly or people friendly or kids
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friendly, or how much they weigh and stuff like that, kind of like
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how I do on this show. But just in writing, well, it's
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great work that you guys are are doing up there. Now. Next Friday
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the fifteenth, one week from the day, there's something called the I was
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again reading this and by the way, whoever does your el Facebook page,
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you'd do a fantastic job with all your social media. There's something called the
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Tito's Vodka Jingle Brawl. I'm in on the brawling part of the vodka typical
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typical radio guy or typical media guys, as best I understand, the bars
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down in this part of the state, several of them are going to be
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facing off against bars in the northern part of the date now our local bars,
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Sam's Uptown Cafe, Bar, One Oh One, the Blue Parrot,
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Whiskey Glasses, and Venos. It's sort of a fundraiser for you guys up
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there do Umane Association. What can you tell us about it? Yeah,
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so I believe they've done They did something like this last year if I'm thinking
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right, I know they did somewhat of like a bar crawl. But basically,
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yeah, I believe most or some of the donations to help us out
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as well as I think there's going to be like you can wear your Christmas
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letters, you can kind of just go around with everyone and and go to
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all the different bars, and it's pretty much I believe if you want,
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you can like volunteer to help out with it. Even but I personally don't
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know too much about it, but it is on our Facebook. It is
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supposed to be Lost of Fun. I know they did something similar to it
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last year. Very fine. That's off of those local bars in this part
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of the stay and the ones up north for getting involved in that. As
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we close. What are you in need of now? As we head into
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the winter. Each each week you tell us that your need of something up
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there at the shelter because sometimes people want to help out animal causes, but
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they live in a situation where they can't adopt a pet. They you know,
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they they rent, or maybe their yards not big enough, or maybe
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you know there's they have too many animals, like in your case, Annah,
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too many already. What can people do to help out? What are
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you in need of? Yeah, so of course we need donations. I
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know that we could always use some puppy pads, some paper towels, some
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trash bags, some cleaning supplouds, stuff like that. But I know that
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we could use some gloves and stuff too. Blankets and sheets and towels are
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always always accepted. We absolutely always need those. But if you can't donate,
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or if you can't adopt, of course, we always loved having volunteers
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to come out. We have plenty of different areas for people to help volunteer
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in, to come on out and help us get everybody adopted. All right,
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Hannah, as always a pleasure to have you on the show. We'll
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talk again next week. Thanks a lot, Thank you, Thanks Hannah.
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And somebody going adopt cash yes, okay, And we got the picture posted
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as always. Dave Allen Radio and Facebook and at the Dave Allen Show on
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ex The artist will be known as Twitter. Cash is two years old,
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newter, microchip vaccinated. He was a surrender due to landlord issuess. Apparently
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he was adopted from the shelter and there was some sort of a landlord issue,
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so they had to bringing back for first female dogs. Loves to run
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and play and the people watch. Who doesn't love the people watch exactly?
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And look, this sounds like the perfect pet. So yeah, think about
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that. And if you've got some room over in the household, especially some
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good backyard room for him to roam around and so on, go get Cash.
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Yeah. Absolutely, And I mean keep in mind though you're gonna have
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to have a little room for him. As Hannah said, he is an
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escape artist. So and please do not get a dog if you're going to
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keep it chained up. That's because that is absolutely the worst thing in the
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world. If you can't, I mean, if you know going in that
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this dog is going to live its life chained out back, then don't get
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the dog, because that's one of my pet peeves. Do not get the
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dog. But if you got enough room and you got the room for him
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to be able to run and you can kind of keep him in safely without
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chanting him up. Make sure you do. Cash is his name again.
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Picture posted on my social media, so go check it out. Lots of
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energy, the young dog and that's a great name. Cash Cash, am
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your cash like I need more cash. I need more cash in my life.
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bushy tale, big smile on her face as always, collecting toys for
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Toys for Tots today. All right, and again that's just one of the
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many folks that are doing some great things here in the holiday season. We'll
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talk about that a little bit later on. Let's go to doctor Casey Sachs
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for Bridge Valley. Dr Sacks, good morning, how are you? Good
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morning? I'm wonderful. How are you today? I am fine. I've
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got Pat Simon here. I don't know whether you know Pat or not,
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but now you do. Pat Simon from WOWKTV thirteen is my guest, so
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sitting in the seat that was formerly those occupied by you about a month or
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so ago. Oh Pat, I've heard already. You're not as cute as
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I am. There's a lot of truth. There's a lot of truth to
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that. That's a given. Yeah, wonderful to make a new friend.
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Thank you for having me this. I absolutely love your energy too. She's
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got a spark. Jesus, she's got the energy. I'll say that about
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her, doctor secks. What's going on out a Bridge Valley? You got
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so many things going on where do we start this morning? We do,
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we have so many things going on. I think the thing that I am
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focused my morning on is we are in the pre award stage of a big
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three million dollar Department of Energy grant for an industrialized assessment center to help small
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and medium sized manufacturers right here in the valley. So how did this all
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come about? Well, like so many awards, we really do pay a
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lot of attention to what's going on at grants dot Gov. And my team
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has been wonderful at saying, hey, we should apply for that. It's
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a good fit for something we have going on at the college. So one
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of our best programs is Advanced Manufacturing Technology. We see students graduate from that
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program and make on average eighty seven thousand dollars with a two year associates degree.
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It's a terrific program and so anything we can do to help get more
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students into it and more support for it, that's something more interested in.
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That's pretty incredible. What kind of careers are we talking about with that?
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So that's a great question. When you think about advanced manufacturing technology, it's
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not quite as intuitive as nursing. The people who go into AMT A lot
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in this area. Work at geest Stamp, work at Toyota, or get
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GreenPower Motor. New Core is hiring people out of that program. So it's
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manufacturing and it's really putting things together at Toyota. If you go on that
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particular site and go look at that tour, it's all of the automatic transmissions
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that they create in North America right here in West Virginia. I love the
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connection. I love that synthesis between the education community and those companies out there.
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That is so important, especially in this day and age. Right it
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absolutely is. It's one of the big areas of focus here at Bridge Valley
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that we don't have a single program on campus that's not connected to industry somewhere
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in the community and a real workforce need right here in the valley. You
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know, last night the gubernatorial debate, three of the four leading candidates were
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in that last night. I'm not going to ask you to comment on that
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specifically, but one thing that I thought that they all three mentioned at one
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point or another is the need for more programs like this, and that all
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three of those had said at one point or another doctor Sacks that they were
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all on board on this, and I think that's very important that we have
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those under our Capital Dome, no matter who the governor is or who's in
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the legislature or whatever, that they realized that how important that these type programs
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are not only for the West Virginians that are here, Doctor Sachs, but
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also to get people to come here and stay here. Yes, that's so
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true that having education all opportunities is incredibly important. And we have some wonderful
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higher education institutions here in West Virginia, and I'm proud to say that Bridge
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Valley is one of them. I got to tell you, being a veteran
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from the military, you know, and when these veterans they're you know,
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the active duty people come off of active duty and they're looking to make that
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transition right into civilian life. What do you folks do out there to help
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them out. We've actually been recognized as a gold Star institution. It's a
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recognition that colleges and universities can earn by providing extra support to veteran students.
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And so it's everything from dedicated advising, a real reach out to make sure
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people are getting the support that they need. On two of our three buildings,
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we have dedicated lounges for veteran students, and so it's just a dedicated
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space to make sure sort of like the USO but at college. Good way
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to put it. Yeah, we really want to make sure that our veteran
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students recognize how much we appreciate them and want them here on campus and understand
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the skills too, because you know, they don't just go out and fight
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wars. I mean there's a lot of leadership capabilities, a lot of experience
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that they have that carries into the business world automatically. There are your leaders
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and a lot of these businesses get a lot of the templates for their plans
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from the military, for sure, that's for sure true. And depending on
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your mos, we can bring in credit from the time that you spent in
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the military. So it's worth having that conversation also, and doctor Sacks thinking
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we're talking with doctor Casey Sacksterbridge Valley. Earlier in the week, I had
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on Morgan Tinny from the Putnam County Development Authority talking about some programs that they
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are offered with this fame program here in the Kanawh Valley, and I know
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Bridge Valley is a big, big part of that. And again you talked
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about the money, and I hate to make it all about the money,
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but people that know me know I'm the ultimate capitalist. It is sometimes all
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about the money and when you're a younger person. And these programs are open
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to anybody, by the way, but the program that we talked about,
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I'm going to focus now on the younger I mean, I don't know about
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you, but making sixty seventy it ran a year at twenty one, twenty
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two years old without student debt. That's pretty dang cool. It is the
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West Virginia FAME program. I love that Morgan has partnered with us on this.
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She has been a tremendous asset. FAME is the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing
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Education. Bridge Valley brought it into the valley a few years ago, and
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it's really taken off with Morgan's partnership because now the Putnam County Development Authority is
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helping recruit students directly into the program. And so what FAME does is it
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brings manufacturers in to the college and they give students a work based learning experience,
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so they pay students wages. They go work at Toyota three days a
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week, and then they come to Bridge Valley two days a week to do
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their associate's degree. So it's like OJT on the job training. It is
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exactly on the job training and basically in most cases, once they wrap up
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the training, it's like congratulations, here's your certificate. Now go to work,
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Go across the hall and go to work. When we were growing up
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and going through college and that was the hardest thing. I heard Chris talking
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of up this on Metro News this morning, that was the hardest thing.
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It was hard to find a job back then. But these days, there
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are so many opportunities like this to take advantage of, right there are.
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I mean, another program we do it for is in nursing. WVU Medicine
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has come in and created the Aspiring Nurse program and they've committed one and a
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half million dollars a year to pay students to go to school. They need
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nurses so bad. Yeah, Akslly, it's always a pleasure to talk to
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you, doctor Sex, because you've always got a lot of exciting things that
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are going on out at Bridge Valley. And again, where can people learn
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more about any of the things you talked about today Bridge Valley dot edu.
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We'd love to have you come on out to campus all right, And actually
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I'm will put you on the spot, doctor Sachs, because we're friends.
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I can do that. Pat Simon and I, my co host, Pat
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and I were talking before the show about I know you guys are big on
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veterans out there. Pat, why don't you give her your idea and we'll
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just make her commit to it on the air. There we go. I
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love doing that too. We're always looking for solutions to issues that you have
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a number of organizations that veterans belong to, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American
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Collegion, and so on. Where I came from last I was in South
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Texas and there was this group that got together every week at the local community
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college. Group of veterans came together from not only just camaraderie, but also
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to learn more, to be educated about the things that are happening with veterans
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through the VA and so on. Politicians would show up, our government leaders
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and so on to tell us the latest and greatest of what's happening at how
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it impacts veterans. Is that something that you folks would be open to to
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have kind of whether it's a weekly, bye weekly, what have you?
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A meeting area for veterans and their families as well, because they need to
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be in on the information sharing as well. Would that be something you'd be
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open to. Yeah, we actually host lots of outside groups on campus.
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People rent space from us all the time, use space from us all the
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time. The rules kind of depend on if students are involved or not,
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or if a staff sponsor is involved or not. But I would love to
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talk to you about it, Pat, we'll do that's my phone number.
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Thank you, Dave. There you get Can it happened? One other quick
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thing? I promise I'll let you go. Doctor. Somebody texted the show
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and said, given the need for teachers, does Bridge Valley is there a
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time at Bridge Valley may offer teachers degree out there? Is that something maybe
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could be on the radar or how does I mean possibly at some point.
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So new degrees are always on our radar, and we design them based on
23:22
what industry is willing to hire for So if our local area school districts were
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willing to hire people with Associates degrees to teach, then it would make a
23:30
lot of sense for us to open a degree program. Right now, we
23:33
have some Associates degree programs that are more geared towards elementary education. But they're
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very very much about transfer to Marshall and WVU from those programs so that students
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can complete their bachelor's degrees because that's what's currently required to work in the field.
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All right, doctor Sachs, I appreciate you being here. Thanks a
23:51
lot. We'll talk soon. Thank you for having me. Now to Casey
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from The Dirty Birds is here. How are you, sir? I'm okay.
24:37
How you doing? I'm doing. I'm doing. Pat Simon, you
24:41
know how we were going to be coming out of a break, but oh
24:47
no, man, the show goes on. Your your your information is far
24:51
too important. I don't know what's the to deal with the microphone here.
24:52
You may have to hold it. It's not it's radio. Go back,
25:00
go back to your lounge singing days when you're in Vegas. So that I
25:03
ask you to come in there this morning, because as you know, the
25:06
Selingo Law light then continues over Gomar Ballpark and it's actually going on through the
25:11
weekend, through the holiday season. Actually, thanks V one hundred night.
25:14
Is that right? It's twenty first, it's twenty first weeks from tonight.
25:18
Oh okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Well but we're going to make
25:21
it our act tonight. Anyway, we're just going to take it over.
25:22
Well, anybody can take it over. The lottery is going to be there
25:26
tonight. Okay, we've got our good friends with the lottery. How has
25:29
it been so far rod out there with Well, we're estimating that about forty
25:33
thousand people have already come through. She's opened on November seventeenth. Now,
25:37
that also includes some nights where the attendance was pretty low, which included opening
25:41
night whenever it was raining and cold. Rain is the bane of this.
25:45
I mean, we haven't had snow yet, a feeling that a lot of
25:48
people have gone through it first time. We'll want to come back and see
25:52
it in the snow too, whenever that happens, and we'll get it at
25:56
some point, oh yeah, at some point during between. It's every night
25:59
between now and January through January first, so even New Year's Day evening you
26:03
get to sort of close it out with us and bring in the new year
26:06
and close out to the Selango Law. Dirty Birds Light the Night presented by
26:11
Gomarthha And what an experience too to bring the family to check out all of
26:15
these lights. How many lights are we? Over two million? I mean,
26:18
I don't think I keep joking with the kids as they're leaving if I'm
26:22
if I'm at the gate, I'm saying, okay, so was it your
26:23
responsible? Are you count the lights or sometimes joking with somebody who was wearing
26:27
lights, I'm sorry, you cannot leave. That'll leave us with one million,
26:30
nine hundred and ninety nine thousand mine yet. Yeah, but it is,
26:33
it's it's been really remarkable in Andy Shay's vision for it after he saw
26:38
something similar in Florence, Kentucky last year is what really inspired it, and
26:42
he came back and he said, we need to do this. Well,
26:45
it's it's incredible. When I was in Huntsville and Alabama the trash pandas right,
26:49
their team had something similar to this when they just did the startup and
26:53
so on, and I was like, this is going to really take off
26:56
nationwide. I'm just so proud to see you guys is taking it on and
27:02
giving that to the community the way that you're doing but trying something from some
27:06
a place that's different and bringing it here and making it a tradition. Oh
27:11
absolutely. I mean we did that with festival a long time ago, whenever
27:14
we saw what was happening in the other Charleston with their Spiledo festival. So
27:18
yeah, there are a lot of reasons, a lot of ways that people
27:19
can say and have an impact on their community by saying, hey, I
27:22
saw this in this place, can we do that here? That's how the
27:26
car show really got So, I mean there's really no new ideas per se.
27:30
I mean, you know, it is pretty limited. Yeah, yeah,
27:33
So, I mean that's what you do. Again. We had Rod
27:36
Blackstone here talking about light the Night. I had a mayor on earlier this
27:38
week, on Mayor Monday, and she said there at that time, Rod,
27:41
that would have been Monday, there were thirty five different states had come
27:47
to this thing. Thirty that's what they know of. I mean, you
27:49
know, I mean that's incredible. Thirty five different states for the first couple
27:55
of weeks of the first year of this event. And that's her online sales
27:57
only because the crowds have been so big, we can't we don't want to
28:03
slow down the lines by having the ticket taker or the ticket sellers in the
28:07
box office saying, oh, so, what's your what's your zip code?
28:10
Can we register you? I mean, that'd be a great way to be
28:11
able to find it out. But I've been on the gate a few times,
28:15
been in the ticket office once, and so I know that there are
28:18
people that are coming from a lot of different places. So the online orders
28:21
that we can track their where they're called, where they're buying the tickets from.
28:26
That's what that means. Well, that also adds to the allure we're
28:29
talking about making kind of Charleston. One more thing that makes Charleston kind of
28:32
a vacation destination, if you will. I've got family that just came in
28:36
here. A lot of families come over here to visit during the holidays and
28:38
so on, Hey, what can we do? What can we do?
28:41
This is one more of those things to do. Yeah, when I was
28:42
in the Mayor's office, we figured June was the big time to be here
28:45
because you had festival going on. You you'd be leading into the July fourth
28:49
weekend, you'd have a bike there is a biker thing that happened, Pride
28:55
happens at that point. I think there's Alignment Rodeo years ago. So June
28:59
was the big time to be in Charleston, and then October with Fest of
29:02
all Fall and some of the other things that were going on. Now now
29:03
it's also December, Yeah, November, and the whole concept behind any successful
29:10
city that does this sort of thing Rod, as you well know and Pat
29:12
all your travels you know too. Is having things like this year round,
29:17
yes, you know, and having and having and just think, well,
29:19
March is exciting, but so is October, you know, in these cities.
29:22
And that's that's kind of what we're going. I want to kind of
29:25
bring this up, and I want to tread on this lightly because I got
29:26
several texts here about it. Explain the pricing, because I have had some
29:32
text Rod to the show where people have said, it's it's a little expensive.
29:34
I mean, can you address that in any way well compared to what
29:37
well, I mean the question what people have said and and by the way,
29:41
the first text I got said Light the Night is awesome must see for
29:45
everyone. Also great to hear Rod on the program this morning. Thanks signed
29:48
Rod, how'd you do that? But but but anyway, no, I
29:52
mean there have been people that have said, well that for a family of
29:55
four or five, it's a it's kind of expensive. Is there something maybe
29:59
that we could I don't know what you do, because it's going to cost
30:03
for people to come in, But I don't know what kind of solution there
30:06
is to that. Well, and here's the challenge, And this is one
30:08
of the things I've tried to tell people whenever they asked that question, Oh,
30:11
why can't it be free? Well, if only we could get two
30:15
million lights produced arrange programmed for free. I mean, I just learned the
30:19
other night how much the Christmas tree and the middle cost, and then plus
30:22
that was a cost of program it, for instance, So the installation costs
30:26
money, The lights cost a lot. This is a significant investment by Andy
30:30
Shay and the folks that he's working with to bring this here, and it
30:36
would be nice if sponsors would cover the entire cost of it so we could
30:38
have free but that's unfortunately not going to be a reality. And with two
30:42
million lights and all that went into it, eight weeks of labor effectively going
30:48
into producing what you saw there. So it'd be nice if it could be
30:52
free. It'd be nice if there was some billionaire out there that said,
30:55
hey, here, let me give you all the money that you wanted to
30:56
do that. Rod. You never know, because when they see this for
30:59
the first time, they see how successful it is. You may have more
31:02
sponsors coming in next year, so for some discounts and that kind of thing.
31:06
And I think I have a text here that somebody said, well,
31:07
we're not asking for free, maybe just some sort of family pricing, maybe
31:10
a group price. Maybe it's something we can look at it. Well,
31:11
we do have group pricing in fact. Okay, so the best time if
31:15
you want to go when it's the least expensive. It's Monday, Tuesday,
31:18
Wednesday, Thursdays or nine dollars for adults, seven dollars for kids and as
31:23
opposed to twelve and ten, which is normal the weekends and holiday rate.
31:29
But what we do is we use the youth pricing for the groups for those
31:34
nights too. So for instance, folks my church wanted to come and bring
31:38
people across the spectrum to come on Monday night, they get the seven dollars
31:44
discount for the group, And if you order your skating tickets early, you
31:48
also get a five dollars price for a group on that as opposed to the
31:52
regular eight dollars if you show up and want to do it. So there
31:55
are ways to be able to save some money on it. But yeah,
31:56
unfortunately it does cost money. I think you're absolutely right about the sponsors.
32:02
I got that with the lottery. Lottery is one of mine for the baseball
32:05
season and they were all in. They thought this is going to be great,
32:08
so sight unseen, they decided to become a sponsor of it, and
32:12
you can play a lottery game by doing a little thing with a QR code
32:15
in the maze that they're sponsoring, for instance. But yeah, I think
32:19
that will grow in the future and probably be able to be able to have
32:22
some evenings that do that. I would encourage also by the way people get
32:25
their tickets on line. Please because I've been in the box office, I've
32:30
been at the gate to see how the long the lines are, especially on
32:32
weekend nights that are like tonight'll be you know, kind of cool but pretty
32:39
no rain and maybe cool and crisp. Those are the knights that are really
32:43
getting people out. We'll probably have five thousand more people come through here,
32:46
and we've already had about forty thousand, so it's pretty exciting. But then
32:51
there are other nights that are going to be a little less. It's a
32:52
little cool on the weeknight, lower smaller crowds, easier to get tickets,
33:00
easier to go ice skating and not have a huge line to have to put
33:02
up with the to do with the Ferris Field now The other thing is the
33:06
other things that we're having around there, like the ferris wheel, like the
33:09
big slide, like the little train that runs most of the time. Sometimes
33:15
we've had some malfunctions on that. Unfortunately, we're not doing this completely from
33:21
scratch, but there's some growing things that go along with doing this the first
33:23
time. That's cool to have kind of this winter wonderland connection of different kinds
33:28
of things. So this the lights to be a part of other things around
33:31
there for the entire family. Being a father to my kid is thirty two,
33:37
by the way, Zach's birthday is today, by the way. But
33:39
but there we go. Thanks And you know, families are looking for stuff
33:45
like this. Oh yeah, that's wholesome, natural thing. Where can I
33:49
bring my kids to? Like you see the lights and they're illuminating like that.
33:52
It's like an experience. You're building those experiences. This is such a
33:54
cool thing. No, it really is. It's a great it's a great
33:58
thing for our community. I'm glad and he saw it. I'm glad he
34:00
was willing to make the investment because that's really what it was. So that's
34:04
one of the things I don't want to get too defensive about the pricing,
34:06
but it does cost money to do this unfortunately, is going to cost money
34:08
to take it down to But it would be great to be able to do
34:13
it as inexpensively as possible. And I really feel for the folks from the
34:16
poor communities around here and what they can do. But it might be that
34:20
they can get other folks to hey, I want to buy your tickets.
34:23
We've had that happen. In fact, some of the people from my church
34:25
are saying, hey, I want to buy some tickets for so some of
34:28
the people that don't make as much money can come into All right, well,
34:30
it's going to continue throughout the holiday season, every night through January first.
34:37
That includes Christmas Eve and New Year's even Christmas Day. So all right,
34:40
Rod, I appreciate you being here, man, Thanks a lot,
34:44
and just plant this seed. Yes, just like Christmas is December twenty fifth.
34:46
Opening day will be April twenty baseballt here we go. I'm all right,
34:52
and we have a new manager. Give me thirty seconds. We have
34:53
a new manager. PJ. Phillips has won everywhere he's managed six seasons,
34:59
is a man and injury. His teams have made the playoffs in five of
35:01
those seasons. He won the league championship in his first season as the manager
35:05
of the Lexington Legends in twenty twenty one, unfortunately beating us in the playoffs.
35:10
But PJ is a proven winner. He knows how to put a team
35:14
together in an independent baseball and he's We're just excited to have him here.
35:17
And you'll be behind home plate. I'll be back home behind home plate,
35:22
and unlike when PJ was in the visitors dugout, I'll be cheering for him
35:24
every day. You'll be here on his side this time. Exactly right.
35:28
I appreciate you being here. Thanks, talk about see you all at the
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38:23
Where was home for you? Growing up? Where you from? I
38:25
grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. That's in the heart of Cajun Country down
38:30
there in southwest Louisiana. And growing up there you learn so many different ways
38:37
to cook. You know, We've got the gumbos and the jambalayas and those
38:40
kinds of things. So I learned that from my mom and my grandma how
38:43
to cook a good gumbo. But what is a secret to a good gumbo?
38:46
Give me Don't burn the room, Okay, so you get the flour
38:50
in the oil that you're cont that right, Don't burn the roof. Don't
38:53
burn the room. You're constantly stirring that base, you know, but you
38:57
can't burn I've seen so many people just burn it, and you just got
39:00
to stay on it and stir stirster. So, you know, growing up
39:02
in South Louisiana, it was major oil, just like here is coal,
39:07
major oil and gas down there, and we went through a bust in the
39:10
nineteen eighty so it was really tough on a lot of the folks down there,
39:14
but they figured a way to turn it around. Tourism was a big
39:16
draw and still is, and so I got a chance to kind of meet
39:20
so many different people. I went to school at LSU, graduated at ROTC,
39:25
and Ronald Reagan was our commitsment'spilly back in nineteen ninety. So that's when
39:30
I was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and I stayed thank you for your
39:34
service, bank you very much. I stayed in the National Guard. I
39:36
ended up in the Reserve. My last five years, I was an instructor
39:38
at Command General Staff Officer College, So we taught majors how to be our
39:44
future leaders out there and great staff officers. And I did a little combat
39:46
tour out there in Iraq in two thousand and nine. I can tell you
39:50
a story too about that. But it was a great experience in the military.
39:54
And I was doing radio and television as well. So I had kind
39:58
of a dual career going on on part military and so. And most of
40:01
it was radio back in eighty four that I started out, and I eventually
40:06
got into television, and here I am today. Was this something that you
40:08
wanted to do as a kid? Did you think I want to be in
40:10
television. It's funny you asked that. When people say that, it's like
40:15
back in the day, we used to have these stereo systems where you can
40:19
actually plug in a microphone and you can hear yourself, kind of like a
40:22
mister microphone that eventual, Hey, good looking, We'll be back to pick
40:24
you up later, Ryan, I'll explain it to you after the show.
40:28
And so, so I just took to that, and so I started talking
40:31
to the microphone, and pretty soon we were having like these little events over
40:37
at my house and I'm here, I am on the microphone, just like
40:38
introducing these little acts or whatever, people singing or whatever. The kids it
40:43
was kids. I was like eight, and I said, hey, i's
40:45
like the most Little Rascals thing ever. I saw an episode of Little Rascals.
40:50
What's the number to nine? One one? And so so I,
40:52
you know, I said, I could do this, I think, And
40:55
so from then on I thought, I mean, I was very curious.
40:59
So I thought, okay, I like this idea of talking on the radio
41:02
and getting into television and telling stories, and I'm very curious about that.
41:07
And then being a veteran, that's my stick right now. I love telling
41:10
veterans stories about their families as well to preserve legacies. And I think that's
41:15
so important for our generations growing up, and they have to understand the service
41:20
and sacrifices. So many people may what areas have you worked in? I
41:23
always love to ask television, and not so much radio, but television people,
41:28
I like to say, you know, take it from the top.
41:30
Every television market you worked in, Oh, boy, so I actually won
41:36
cut them down so Lafayette, Louisiana. I actually worked overnights at a fifty
41:39
sixty seventy solid gold radio stations and AM station. I work two to six
41:44
AM So Lafayette to Baton Rouge, to Ashville, North Carolina, to Shreveport,
41:52
Louisiana, to Syracuse, New York, West Virginia, so Charleston,
41:59
West Virginia in twenty sixteen, and then I went down to Huntsville, Alabama,
42:02
then South Texas Corpus Christie. I just came from there. And then
42:06
I got a call from Sean Banks, our general manager, and said,
42:07
hey, you want to come back up here to West Virginia. I said,
42:10
I love the people, love the area there. So he gave me
42:14
an opportunity and I so appreciate it. So back here to West Virginia a
42:16
second time. It's amazing to me. And I hear this story a lot
42:21
about people that come to West Virginia that aren't from here and love it and
42:25
want to stick around. I mean, I'll give you an example from your
42:29
own station. Brian Hughes, a frequent guest of the show. You look
42:31
at somebody on the other stations they're that way as well. We have them
42:37
in our building here. You know, Rob Gaveadezer morning show on KWS was
42:40
here left but wanted to come back to West Virginia. If we could just
42:45
get West Virginians to want to be in West Virginia, we'd be okay.
42:47
But there's some reason people from outside here when they come here, they have
42:52
a Tennessee to like it well. And it's one of the best kept secrets
42:57
I think in all of this country, in all of my travels or you
43:00
know, I say, West Virginia, Well, what's there to do in
43:01
West Virginia? Just go there? I promise you, if you make it
43:05
through the fall. In the winter time, you're going to fall in love
43:07
with this place. And during the summertime it's not as hot, I promise
43:12
you. I just came from South Texas. Oh yeah, it was one
43:15
hundred and fifteen degrees out there during the summertime and no rain for the longest
43:20
period of time. Over here, it's just perfect. It's perfect. The
43:22
sights, the sounds, the air, you know, it's it's just just
43:25
so beautiful. But the people make it the best. Text says Pat does
43:30
not have the Louisiana drawl. How did you lose it in college? Yeah,
43:36
so I had a professor and I did have that misshat. I talked
43:38
like this, you know, I had to hold you. And I had
43:44
a professor that said, hey, look, if you really want to do
43:46
this, I'm gonna I can work with you on your dialect and so on.
43:50
So it's not like you're trying to get away from something like that,
43:53
because I'm very proud of that heritage. That Cajun heritage is very proud people
43:58
and in a lot of a lot of points that the people down in South
44:02
Louisiana remind me of the kind people here and the humble people here in West
44:07
Virginia as well. But so he taught me how, you know, going
44:12
through a process to have more of a regional accent and then just you know,
44:19
over time, Dave, you know, doing this job over and over
44:22
and over again, it just becomes you whoever you are. Yeah, I
44:25
don't know. I've I've had people that have told me that, you know,
44:29
I don't necessarily have the Appalachian accent, but then from times it comes
44:32
out. It comes out a whole lot, especially if I get like,
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questions Ten totally at random questions. Please verify you've not seen the questions.
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I have not. These questions were formulated in a lab at an undisclosed location
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professionals, and as always, no wagering. Pat. Are you ready?
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I think that wasn't one of the questions there we won. What was the
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name of your first pet you remember having as a kid, Fluffy at the
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cookout? Burgers or hot dogs, Burgers, beach or mountains both? What's
48:43
in your right pants pocket? My keys? Your favorite month? October?
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Who's your all time favorite athlete? Shoo? Wow? Why would you if
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I said Tom Brady? All Right? I like, I'm the Patriot.
49:02
I'm a Patriots guy, all right, okay, all right, all right.
49:05
I'm not a Saints guy, not really well Saints like, I will
49:08
cheer for the Saints, but I'm a Patriots. That's a that's a that's
49:12
a school yard playground kind of thing. Everybody had to choose a team when
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I was left with the Patriots. That's that's all right. Name a movie
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you can actually quote every practically quote every line from a few good men.
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Why is Amanda Baron so damn perky? You'll have to ask her. Uh,
49:30
that's a running joke. By the way, please uh please don't ever
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put this on my pizza. Anchovies the one place you visited and could go
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back to over and over again and never get tired of it. Anywhere on
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the beach in Florida, You've completed ten questions. Thank you? How cool
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is that? I think it's great. By the way, about Amanda,
49:53
there's no better person to work with. I look, no, but you
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look, you know, you know what I'm talking about. I mean,
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she is what the real deal, right, And she's so professional and she's
50:06
so fun to be around. I just feel so lucky every day to show
50:08
up and kind and she didn't even pay me now, you know. But
50:12
she's that kind of person. She's a kind of good friend. I've known
50:15
Amanda for like twenty years or something like that, and she and I go
50:17
back and forth on sports all the time, you know, she being a
50:21
Cleveland fan and we go back and anytime I see anything that downs the Browns,
50:24
I have to send it to her. But nonetheless, do you have
50:28
any idols in this business, Pat, anybody that you on the maybe network
50:30
let or even local level, that you really looked up to and said that's
50:34
I'd like to emulate their career. I'd like to be more like that person
50:37
than anybody. I don't know if there was anybody like that. I do.
50:40
I do miss the days gone by and radio. I'm one of those
50:45
guys like the Paul Harvey's right, Yeah, really stories that Paul Harvey,
50:49
that news and comment, Paul Harvey, Good Date. You know the stories
50:52
that he told, and you know he embellished a little bit, okay,
50:57
but there were great stories. And I wish that more people knew probably who
51:02
I'm talking about Paul Harvey in the first place, But he's one of those
51:06
guys that you know, you when he talked, you listen, you know,
51:10
and then he'd do page two and he'll do a little commercial break or
51:14
whatever about Buwick or whatever it was. And I just loved his style,
51:19
and I love the way that he enunciated and loved those those stories. And
51:22
you know, in radio, you bring those pictures to life, right,
51:25
punching in with words, what are you give me thirty seconds or forty five
51:29
seconds. What's the average day like for you? Because you do so many
51:30
different things now in the world of television, what's an average day like for
51:35
you? Before we go heck tick it and it begins before I even show
51:37
up at work. There are so many times that, you know, because
51:40
I do like telling stories, so I will go out and shoot, I
51:45
will write, I will edit the stories I tell, mostly about veterans,
51:47
but I do have one coming up about Mountain Stage. Kathy Mattea is going
51:51
to be featured on it, Larry Gross is going to be featured on It's
51:52
the fortieth anniversary of Mountain Stage. So just kind of hectic, just depends
51:57
on what I'm doing in the morning. But then you know, show up
51:59
for work, we have editorial meeting, we talk about the days, the
52:02
stories that we have coming up with the news, and then we just get
52:05
right to it. All right, we'll be watching, Pat, Thank you
52:08
and thanks for this opportunity. Add so much fun. It was great to
52:12
be back. Yeah, I will have you back, just not next week
52:15
because next week I have a filmmaker, Danny Boyd who's going to be on
52:17
the show. Well next week is my guest, is Pat Simon. I
52:21
appreciate you being here. Thank you to all our guests. I'm gonna be
52:22
sticking around because I'm doing the first segment of talk Line with Hoppy along with
52:25
Brad as we recap the good editorial debate in morgantoab from last night. Coming
52:30
up on Monday show, It's Mayor Monday Winfield Mayor Randy Barrett. We'll be
52:32
on the show on Monday plus Delegate Kathy hes Kraus, Go go Army beat
52:37
Navy. All right, we'll see you in just a bit till then,
52:39
have fun and love somebody HS at six point five Tarleston one O four point
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five Cross Lane, WUVRC Media Station. We're proud to live here too.
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I just loved his style, and I love the way that he enunciated and
53:07
loved those those stories. And you know, in radio you bring those pictures
53:12
to life, right, punching in with words. What's give me thirty seconds
53:15
or forty five seconds. What's the average day like for you? Because you
53:17
do so many different things now in the world of television, what's an average
53:21
day like for you? Before we get heck tick and it begins before I
53:23
even show up at work, there are so many times that, you know,
53:27
because I do like telling stories, So I will go out and shoot,
53:30
I will write, I will edit the stories I tell, mostly about
53:34
veterans. But I do have one coming up about Mountain Stage. Kathy Mattea
53:37
is going to be featured on it, Larry Gross is going to be featured
53:38
on It's the fortieth anniversary of Mountain Stage. So just kind of hectic,
53:43
just depends on what I'm doing in the morning. But then you know,
53:45
show up for work. We have an editorial meeting. We talk about the
53:49
days, the stories that we have coming up with the news, and then
53:51
we just get right to it. All right, we'll be watching, Pat,
53:54
Thank you and thanks for this opportunity. I had so much fun.
53:58
It was great. Have you back, Yeah, I'll have you back,
54:00
just not next week because next week I have a filmmaker, Danny Boyd who's
54:05
going to be on the show next week. Is my guest hos Pat Simon,
54:07
I appreciate you being here. Thank you to all our guests. I'm
54:08
gonna be sticking around because I'm doing the first segment of talk Line with Hoppy
54:12
along with Brad as we recap the Good Natorial debate in Morgantown from last night.
54:15
Coming up on Monday Show. It's Mayor Monday Winfield Mayor Randy Barrett.
54:19
We'll be on the show on Monday, plus Delegate Kathy hes Kraus. Go
54:22
Go Army beat Navy. All right, we'll see you in just a bit
54:25
till that. Have fun and love somebodys A twenty six point five on Charleston
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