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Speaker 3: Dave Allen, he a good Tuesday morning to you, and
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Speaker 3: Tony welcomes everybody out to Charleston for the Stern Wild Regatta.
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Speaker 3: talk today. Adam Harris is going to join us. He
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Speaker 3: and others putting together the big pro wrestling event that
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Speaker 3: is always a big part of Regotta. We'll talk to
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Speaker 3: Adam Harris about that. We'll get to your calls and texts.
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Speaker 3: Got several things of the news I want to get to,
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Speaker 3: but I want to Welcome to the show now. Tim
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Speaker 3: Brady from the Charleston CVB Convention of Visitors Bureau, Good morning, sir,
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. Good morning Dave. Always a pleasure
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Speaker 3: to be here, brother.
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Speaker 4: It's a pleasure if you'd open up for Adam Harris too, right, Listen,
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Speaker 4: I like to refer to myself as Adam's valet. Okay,
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Speaker 4: I escort him to the ring, I, you know, make
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Speaker 4: sure he's got plenty of water for hydration purposes.
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Speaker 3: He's okay, yeah, okay. I mean I think if you're
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Speaker 3: going to pull off the valet thing, you need to
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Speaker 3: go old school with like the feathers and the whole
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Speaker 3: deal of the whole boa thing, you know, like Sunshine
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Speaker 3: with gorgeous Jimmy Garvin.
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Speaker 4: In the eighties, I considered myself more of like the
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Speaker 4: Virgil to his ted dB ah, got it, got.
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Speaker 3: It there, you got it? Got it? Okay? All right?
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Speaker 3: And by the way, I do want to ride you.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to be here on Thursday. So I've
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Speaker 3: got Amy Breedlove in the studio with me today, who's
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Speaker 3: just taking notes and watching things, right Amy, all right, right,
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Speaker 3: see she's not. We wouldn't even give her a microphone today.
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Speaker 3: So there you go.
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Speaker 4: Got to earn that, got to earn that, all right.
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Speaker 4: So Regott, I want to start with Regatta Jorce and
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Speaker 4: then we'll get into some other things. I want to
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Speaker 4: talk to you about.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we're only, you know, forty eight hours away
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Speaker 3: from the biggest party in Charleston, quart of a million
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Speaker 3: people come to town. It's going to be great. Weather
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Speaker 3: looks good, hot, hot, good, but no right, no rain.
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Speaker 3: And once we get through today anyway, I know you
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Speaker 3: guys are excited about this at the convention visitor Bureau
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Speaker 3: as well. Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: I mean, this drives visitation, it drives visitor spending, it
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Speaker 4: drives a hotel occupancy. Plus it's just such a positive
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Speaker 4: thing for the community. And we'll talk more about that
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Speaker 4: sort of in this grand scheme of things with Regatta
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Speaker 4: and with cycling. But you know, we talk all the
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Speaker 4: time about economic impact, but I also want to make
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Speaker 4: sure we're talking about community impact, that these are positive
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Speaker 4: drivers in our community making Charleston a better place to live,
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Speaker 4: work and play. So really excited about Regatta. It's going
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Speaker 4: to be a great four days in the city of Charleston.
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Speaker 4: And we'll get back to that a little bit later on.
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Speaker 3: But you mentioned the bike championships that we had back
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Speaker 3: in May, and numbers are starting to come in to
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Speaker 3: a certain extent about that, So hit us with.
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Speaker 4: It, well man, The timing is great because this officially
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Speaker 4: went out as a press release at nine o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 4: You are the very first person that I'm talking to
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Speaker 4: about this, So I hope you feel special.
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Speaker 3: I do. Do you feel special for me? She'd feel
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Speaker 3: more special? Is warm? Give her a microphone? Well, she's
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Speaker 3: sitting behind the board watching what I'm doing.
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Speaker 5: He fair enough.
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Speaker 4: Six point nine million dollars in economic impact. Let's just
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Speaker 4: rip the band aid right off. That's a fifty percent
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Speaker 4: increase from last year. Fifty percent up from twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: Visitor spending up fourteen percent. Visitor spending in the city
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Speaker 4: of Charleston during the eight days of USA Cycling Pro
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Speaker 4: Road National Championships, presented by Spilman Thomas in Battle, accounted
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Speaker 4: for thirteen percent of all spending in the city.
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Speaker 3: So all the of all.
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Speaker 4: The spending happening over those eight days, thirteen percent of
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Speaker 4: it came from visitors from beyond fifty miles or more. So,
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Speaker 4: we tracked about five hundred and ninety one thousand dollars
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Speaker 4: in local taxes paid during that event. That's bed tax,
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Speaker 4: that's B and O tax, that's sales tax, So over
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Speaker 4: half a million dollars in taxes generated in the City
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Speaker 4: of Charleston over those eight days. I mean, it was,
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Speaker 4: it was it. It shattered all expectations. Last year it
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Speaker 4: was four point three four point four million dollars in
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Speaker 4: economic impact, and we knew that it would grow this year.
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Speaker 4: It absolutely blew our expectations out of the water. Just
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Speaker 4: wait till you get to the point when you realize
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Speaker 4: and you know what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, right, because I mean I know, I
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Speaker 3: know that as a joke, because we always say with events,
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Speaker 3: you know, the first year, yep, it's you know, okay,
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Speaker 3: we don't know what we don't know. Second year, we're
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Speaker 3: going to improve on these things. Year three is usually
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Speaker 3: when things start to really really take off. But based
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Speaker 3: on what you've done in years one and two, I
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Speaker 3: think we're on a good trajectory here.
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Speaker 4: I think so too, And that speaks to a lot
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Speaker 4: of things. And it's funny you say the three year
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Speaker 4: the year three model, because Mayor Goodwin and I talk
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Speaker 4: about that all the time. Year one you have no clue,
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Speaker 4: Year two, you're dialing it. In year three, you can
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Speaker 4: pretty much lock in on exactly what you're doing and
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Speaker 4: then really start to amplify some of the ancillary offerings
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Speaker 4: around an event. This does not happen. Speaking a mayor,
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Speaker 4: good one, This does not happen without the full support
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Speaker 4: of the City of Charleston, the Mayor's office, and literally
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Speaker 4: every department of the city has a hand in pro
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Speaker 4: Road National Championships each year, from parking to streets, to
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Speaker 4: sanitation to public works, CPD, Charleston Fire Department, Literally every
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Speaker 4: city department in some way, shape or form touches this event.
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Speaker 4: So this does not happen without the full and complete
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Speaker 4: support of the city. Doesn't happen without great partners and
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Speaker 4: sponsors like Spilm and Thomas and Battle and CAMC and
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Speaker 4: Astorg Motors some of the bigger sponsors. We had fifty
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Speaker 4: eight local sponsors this year. That's engagement, right, That's fifty
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Speaker 4: eight businesses and organizations that came to the table and said, yes,
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Speaker 4: we want to help with this. And we talked about
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Speaker 4: that economic impact six point nine million dollars. That's awesome,
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Speaker 4: and there are all kinds of really great anecdotal stories.
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Speaker 4: But the other thing that I want to make sure
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Speaker 4: we mention is there were multiple local charities that benefited
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Speaker 4: from the event while it was in town. This year,
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Speaker 4: we raised money and awareness for Mountaineer Food Bank, talking
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Speaker 4: about hunger in our community. We raised money and awareness
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Speaker 4: for Big Brothers, Big Sisters. We raised money and awareness
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Speaker 4: for the CAMC Foundation. So local charities and nonprofit organizations
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Speaker 4: benefited from this as well. It's not all about economic impact.
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Speaker 4: It is about that community impact making our community a
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Speaker 4: better place, which will help in the long run drive
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Speaker 4: additional visitation. We're partnering with the Greater Kanav Valley Foundation
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Speaker 4: to create a pilot program this fall that we'll start
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Speaker 4: with mary c Snow where we're going to get bikes
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Speaker 4: into schools and teach kids about bike safety and educate
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Speaker 4: them on cycling and maybe spark some interest and grow
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Speaker 4: kids love of cycling in our community. So all of
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Speaker 4: these things. Yes, the event is great and lots of
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Speaker 4: people came to town and lots of people spent money,
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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, when we look
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Speaker 4: back on the end of this five year contract, I
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Speaker 4: want people to look at it and say hosting that
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Speaker 4: event made our city better.
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Speaker 3: Talking to Tim Brady from the Charleston Convention of iSER
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Speaker 3: Bureau of Dave aland showing five eighty line broad to
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Speaker 3: I want to go back to the very beginning of this,
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Speaker 3: when it was first discussed that this biking event was
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Speaker 3: going to be in Charleston, and obviously you were high
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Speaker 3: on it, the mayor, city council, others, other you know,
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Speaker 3: folks that are in the know, were high on this thing.
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Speaker 3: But even then, you knew it was going to be good.
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Speaker 3: Did you have any idea it was going to be
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Speaker 3: this good for the city at Charleston.
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Speaker 4: I did not, I really did not. I knew it
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Speaker 4: was going to be a great event. You know, We've
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Speaker 4: hosted enough events and enough sporting events and these types
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Speaker 4: of things that you know, we knew it was going
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Speaker 4: to be good and it would bring people to town.
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Speaker 4: I think now that I'm two years into this and
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Speaker 4: our staff is two years into this, we now see
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Speaker 4: this as a transformative opportunity for our city. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you saw this year we developed the Bike City campaign
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Speaker 4: encouraging people to get out and bike, and we're going
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Speaker 4: to continue to build upon that, uh and make Bike
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Speaker 4: City a thing. So I think when we look back
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Speaker 4: on it, As I said, it's gonna we're going to
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Speaker 4: realize that it was transformative for our city, that it
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Speaker 4: opened eyes to possibilities of what we can and can't
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Speaker 4: do in the city, Like what we what can we
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Speaker 4: what can we do if if we all pitch in
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Speaker 4: and grow our volunteer base and everybody is you know,
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Speaker 4: you know, amenable to some road closure.
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Speaker 3: What kind of big things can we do here? What?
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Speaker 4: What are the possibilities? And I would say the possibilities
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Speaker 4: are endless. Not to be cliche, but I think we'll
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Speaker 4: look back on this and say this event changed who
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Speaker 4: we are as a city in a very good way.
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Speaker 3: And for the average person that's listening right now, Tim,
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Speaker 3: I mean, these numbers are great, They're fantastic, and hats
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Speaker 3: off to you and to the city for being able
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Speaker 3: to put put all this Gaven, the sponsors and everything.
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Speaker 3: But what does this? I mean somebody may be listening
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Speaker 3: right now saying, well, you know, I I'm somebody that
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Speaker 3: works in Charleston, I'm somebody who lives in Charleston. What
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Speaker 3: are my benefits from this? Well, let's go back to.
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Speaker 4: The five hundred and ninety one thousand dollars in local
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Speaker 4: taxes generated just by this event. And that's when we
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Speaker 4: talk about tourism being economic development and civic development. That's
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Speaker 4: what we're talking about. So if you're the average person
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Speaker 4: that didn't come out and watch, really didn't care that
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Speaker 4: it was in town, it maybe impacted you a little
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Speaker 4: bit negatively because it madjeor commute to work ten minutes longer.
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Speaker 4: First of all, I would say, come out and enjoy it.
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Speaker 4: You'd have a lot of fun. But also five and
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Speaker 4: ninety one thousand dollars in local taxes generated. That's roads
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Speaker 4: that we can pave in the city of Charleston, that's
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Speaker 4: street lights that we can replace, lampposts that we can replace,
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Speaker 4: that's grounds keeping in beautification efforts that can be supported
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Speaker 4: through that type. So think about if you are that person,
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Speaker 4: look at the taxes that it generates, and also look
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Speaker 4: at the business generated in those local restaurants and shops. Anecdotally,
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Speaker 4: Friday afternoon into Friday night, the night race on Friday
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Speaker 4: from four to ten, the single best shift in the
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Speaker 4: history of Fife Street Brewing from a revenue standpoint, single
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Speaker 4: best shift of any day ever in their history, was
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Speaker 4: that Friday. People were getting tipped out significant amounts of money.
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Speaker 4: That we're working the bar, that we're bar backing, that
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Speaker 4: we're working in the kitchen. That's money that's being generated
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Speaker 4: by the people that live and work in your community.
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Speaker 4: That's putting food on people's tables. That's what it's doing.
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Speaker 4: Not to be overly dramatic about it, but bringing these
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Speaker 4: events to town, concerts at the Coliseum, regatta, state high
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Speaker 4: school football, state high school basketball, concerts, children's events like
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Speaker 4: Disney on Ice, those events, bringing those to town. Yeah
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Speaker 4: they're fun and yeah they're high profile and people see
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Speaker 4: them in its entertainment, it's also how people in our
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Speaker 4: community make a living. So bringing these events to town
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Speaker 4: quite literally puts food on people's tables. That's the benefit
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Speaker 4: of these events.
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Speaker 3: And of course here in a couple of weeks we'll
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Speaker 3: be talking about TBT YEP. That's going to bring people
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Speaker 3: in even after the regatta and just one event like
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Speaker 3: this after another. I mean, Charleston is doing a lot
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Speaker 3: of great things right now. Man.
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Speaker 4: Well, and it's funny because we were talking about it.
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Speaker 4: It took us a little longer to put the economic
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Speaker 4: impact information from cycling together this year because some factors
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Speaker 4: beyond our control, but we got we finally we're getting
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Speaker 4: it all together, and it's like, well, do we release
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Speaker 4: it now with Regatta coming up or do we wait?
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Speaker 4: And I said, you know what, here's my thought. What
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Speaker 4: a great day to announce the economic impact of cycling
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Speaker 4: as we're getting ready to head into the Marquee, the
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Speaker 4: signature event in the city of Charleston each summer. So
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Speaker 4: let's talk about cycling and the positive impact it made
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Speaker 4: as we ramp up and get ready for the literally
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Speaker 4: the biggest event in the calendar year in the city
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Speaker 4: of Charleston. So it's it's a great summer because then,
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Speaker 4: as you said, you follow that up with TBT, We've
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Speaker 4: got some other things cooking for September that I can't
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Speaker 4: wait to talk to you about. And I am sitting
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Speaker 4: on that until God is over. It's just one thing
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Speaker 4: after We are an event driven city and again that's
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Speaker 4: how people make a living in our town. So it's exciting.
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Speaker 4: Six point nine million dollars in economic impact from cycling.
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Speaker 4: Regatta will dwarf that and then we just keep rolling
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Speaker 4: right into the fall.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: We looking forward to talking to you again, man, Thanks
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Speaker 3: a lot, Dave. It is always a privileged to be here.
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Speaker 3: I really appreciate the opportunity you give me to share
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Speaker 3: of the biking for a moment to go to Regatta
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Speaker 3: right now. Big part of Regatta is the wrestling event
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Speaker 3: that is happening on Saturday afternoon. Adam Harris is the
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Speaker 3: guy behind that and he joins us now at morning day. Alay,
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Speaker 3: welcome to the show. Mister Brady asked if he can
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Speaker 3: kind of hang out.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, as long as he goes and warms up
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Speaker 9: the Bentley for me, you know, before we leave, as
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Speaker 9: Virgil should.
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Speaker 3: Ye. I've got the umbrella too. I make sure he
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Speaker 3: does that. When he walks to the.
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Speaker 5: Car, my man, it's a team effort. It's a real
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Speaker 5: team effort.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: So the event is Saturday, that's.
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Speaker 9: Right, not just any event. It is the third Stern
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Speaker 9: and will Slamburrie. And it's been a part. And as
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Speaker 9: I heard you guys talking about the three year program,
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Speaker 9: this is our third year and we're moving the event
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Speaker 9: actually down in front of Hadad Riverfront Park, so a
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Speaker 9: brand new location right there in front of the stage,
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Speaker 9: I should say, at Hadad Riverfront Park. H So, I
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Speaker 9: think it's going to be really exciting. It's a new venue,
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Speaker 9: a new location, and a and a bigger show than ever.
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Speaker 3: All right, So what do we got on the on
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Speaker 3: the lineup? Well, as you know, the first way, he
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Speaker 3: like he does his hands like this, like he's so
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Speaker 3: excited about this. I get it. I mean, I mean,
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Speaker 3: you're you're, you're, you're you're a wrestling guy man, for sure,
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Speaker 3: for sure.
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Speaker 9: Thanks to the Mayor of Charleston, you know, Amy Goodwin
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Speaker 9: and Matt Sutton in her office and Tim Brady who
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Speaker 9: have all convinced them that wrestling is a big enough
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Speaker 9: deal that it should be a part of the regatta.
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Speaker 9: And uh, we take that seriously. We want to present
16:42
Speaker 9: a great show for the people of Charleston. It's a
16:44
Speaker 9: free show three pm bell time. And if you were
16:47
Speaker 9: there the first year, you know we crowned our first
16:49
Speaker 9: ever Regatta Pro Wrestling champion and that was Troy Parker. However,
16:53
Speaker 9: due to some contractual uh uh, contractual what would you
16:58
Speaker 9: say clauses, Bishopaylor instigated an immediate challenge to Troy Parker
17:03
Speaker 9: and took the title from him later that evening and
17:05
Speaker 9: has now held on to it for over seven hundred days.
17:08
Speaker 9: And he likes to say accurately that he's the longest
17:11
Speaker 9: reigning We're god a pro wrestling champion, But man, since then,
17:14
Speaker 9: that was three years ago, man, And since then, Bishop
17:17
Speaker 9: Baylor has stepped in the ring with tons of luminaries,
17:19
Speaker 9: including the ECW legend Shane Douglas. Bishop has really upped
17:23
Speaker 9: his game, and yet so has Troy Parker, who is
17:26
Speaker 9: the super heavyweight striker. He's been in the ring with
17:30
Speaker 9: Calvin Tankman at Conquest. Bishop also wrestled what's his name,
17:35
Speaker 9: the deathmatch guy. I can't think of his name right now,
17:37
Speaker 9: thank you, Nick Gage. So they've all up their game
17:40
Speaker 9: in a huge way. So they are not the same
17:42
Speaker 9: wrestlers they were three years ago, and in fact Bishop
17:45
Speaker 9: is the Boone County Champion out of ASW your alma mater.
17:49
Speaker 9: Then he took that title from Noah Ray, who's still
17:52
Speaker 9: upset about it. And after the market mayhem, there was
17:55
Speaker 9: a match for a chance at the title, and that's
17:57
Speaker 9: when Troy Parker won the fatal four way match. But
17:59
Speaker 9: he took it right out from under Noah Ray, and
18:01
Speaker 9: no Array was not happy about it, challenged Bishop to
18:04
Speaker 9: include him as well as a challenger, and so Bishop,
18:07
Speaker 9: being the fighting champion that he is, is stepping into
18:10
Speaker 9: the sternwill Slamboree for a triple threat Regatta Championship match.
18:14
Speaker 5: That's going to be our main event.
18:15
Speaker 6: Yeah.
18:15
Speaker 3: I mean, you guys are a load. You get some
18:16
Speaker 3: legends coming in for this too.
18:18
Speaker 5: You've seen our posts.
18:19
Speaker 9: Shout out to Matt Sutton who's been handling the social
18:21
Speaker 9: media on Regatta Pro Wrestling's Facebook page.
18:24
Speaker 5: Go check that out.
18:25
Speaker 9: Yeah, we've got some legends from professional wrestling, including the
18:28
Speaker 9: man I just mentioned, ECW legend, Shane Douglas.
18:31
Speaker 3: The franchise.
18:32
Speaker 9: You know, the leader of the Triple Threat is going
18:34
Speaker 9: to be in the house and he's actually going to wrestle.
18:37
Speaker 9: Shane Douglas is going to be stepping into the ring
18:39
Speaker 9: against one of his proteges who maybe learned a little
18:42
Speaker 9: too much.
18:43
Speaker 5: From Shane Douglas.
18:44
Speaker 9: Handsome Nick Hamrick is going to be there to challenge
18:47
Speaker 9: Shane Douglas. They were a team for a long time,
18:49
Speaker 9: but they've since split ways. I think Nick Hamrick's ego
18:52
Speaker 9: has gotten the best of him, and I think Shane
18:54
Speaker 9: Douglas is going to be there to try to bring
18:56
Speaker 9: him back down to Planet Earth. Then George South is
18:59
Speaker 9: going to be an action man. And George South is
19:00
Speaker 9: no stranger to this area. He used to run pro
19:03
Speaker 9: wrestling matches with his friend, the Italian Stallion all throughout
19:06
Speaker 9: West Virginia.
19:07
Speaker 10: Dave.
19:07
Speaker 9: He came to my sister's high school at Greenbrier West
19:09
Speaker 9: High School when she was a senior, and my sister
19:11
Speaker 9: interviewed the Italian Stallion for their school paper. And that's
19:15
Speaker 9: how long George South has been in West Virginia. And
19:17
Speaker 9: he claims to have ran during the regatta back in
19:20
Speaker 9: the day him an Italian Stallion, and he's excited to
19:23
Speaker 9: be coming back to Charleston, and we haven't announced his
19:26
Speaker 9: match up but it's going to be coming very very
19:27
Speaker 9: ston And now let me just.
19:28
Speaker 3: Say this about George South. I mean, he's a true
19:31
Speaker 3: legend in the business. As a matter of fact, if
19:33
Speaker 3: you watched a lot of the old Crockett stuff back
19:36
Speaker 3: in the nineteen eighties, George South was on TV every week.
19:42
Speaker 3: And my guy, the nature Boy, Rick Flair shout out
19:45
Speaker 3: to Rick Flair is going to going some serious health
19:47
Speaker 3: issues right now. Rick Flair said in an interview one time,
19:51
Speaker 3: he said, if you could have a match with like
19:54
Speaker 3: five other people, regardless of where they were in the
19:58
Speaker 3: wrestling business, George South from there. Yeah. And you know,
20:02
Speaker 3: he may not have been a big a name, as
20:04
Speaker 3: you know the guys Rick Flair worked, like Harley Race
20:06
Speaker 3: or Dusty or somebody like that. But that just goes
20:09
Speaker 3: to show you the level of worksmanship that George.
20:12
Speaker 9: He's a journeyman and a lot of people refer to
20:13
Speaker 9: those guys as carpenters because they're so good at their craft,
20:16
Speaker 9: you know. And as you said, Rick Flair, that's the
20:18
Speaker 9: highest praise you could possibly get. And you know, George
20:21
Speaker 9: South grew up watching Paul Jones in the mid Atlantic
20:23
Speaker 9: area and he's a mid Atlantic Superstar. He still wears
20:27
Speaker 9: the mid Atlantic logo on his boots, which is so cool.
20:30
Speaker 3: He's such a.
20:30
Speaker 9: Throwback to an earlier time and I can't wait for
20:33
Speaker 9: the audience in Charleston get to get a load of
20:35
Speaker 9: George South.
20:36
Speaker 5: He's a unique one of a kind.
20:37
Speaker 3: All right, and he got some more legends coming into you. Yeah,
20:40
Speaker 3: that's right.
20:40
Speaker 6: Man.
20:41
Speaker 9: If you were a fan of WCW in the mid
20:43
Speaker 9: to late nineties as I was, you know you're a
20:46
Speaker 9: fan of Marcus Alexander Bagwell aka Buff Bagwell. He's buff,
20:50
Speaker 9: He's still the stuff, and West Virginia can't get enough
20:53
Speaker 9: of Buff Bagwell. He's going to be there in person.
20:55
Speaker 9: He's going to do a meet and greet and a
20:57
Speaker 9: signing after our main event. So if you remember the nWo,
21:01
Speaker 9: or if you remember Vicious and Delicious, or if you
21:03
Speaker 9: remember the American Males, he's one of the most decorated
21:06
Speaker 9: tag team athletes of all time, and he's been to Charleston.
21:09
Speaker 9: No stranger either, man. WCW used to run here back
21:11
Speaker 9: in the day a lot, and Buff bag Well still
21:14
Speaker 9: one of the most popular wrestlers on the scene, and
21:16
Speaker 9: he's going to be there for a special Meet and
21:18
Speaker 9: greet Saturday at the Stern will Slambury three pm, bell time.
21:22
Speaker 3: All right, and I mean you got all these folks
21:25
Speaker 3: coming in here approximately how many people? And you've changed
21:27
Speaker 3: your venue this year, that's right, a new location, yeah,
21:29
Speaker 3: I had Ad. But how many people generally speaking show
21:32
Speaker 3: up to these events out?
21:33
Speaker 5: Oh gosh.
21:34
Speaker 9: Well, Tim has been my crowd estimator for these years,
21:37
Speaker 9: and they have scientific measures for which to gauge these
21:39
Speaker 9: kind of things.
21:40
Speaker 6: Yeah.
21:40
Speaker 4: We use some data provided in part by Show Walter
21:43
Speaker 4: and associates, and we get a lot of photographic evidence.
21:46
Speaker 4: Perry Bennett is always great about getting up high and
21:49
Speaker 4: taking some photos for us. I mean quite frankly, the
21:52
Speaker 4: reason that it's moving to the levee to Hadad Riverfront
21:55
Speaker 4: Park is because slack Plaza last year was just busting
21:58
Speaker 4: at the seams. We had over thirty five people in
22:00
Speaker 4: the park for that event, so you know we're looking
22:02
Speaker 4: for five thousand plus down in the bowl. That would
22:05
Speaker 4: be a for Stern Wheel Slambery on Saturday. And the
22:10
Speaker 4: price is right free show, that's right.
22:13
Speaker 3: Do people need to bring their own chairs? I mean,
22:15
Speaker 3: I know it's hat and there's some certainly kilt in
22:17
Speaker 3: you certainly can.
22:18
Speaker 9: We're gonna put up I think about forty chairs on
22:19
Speaker 9: the ground beside the ring. But then also, as you know,
22:22
Speaker 9: the the bowl down there is meant to be saddle on.
22:25
Speaker 9: You can bring your chair there. I think more just
22:27
Speaker 9: set up on the concrete there. And I'm hoping that
22:29
Speaker 9: will actually be the shadiest part of the day down there.
22:32
Speaker 11: So it may be hot.
22:33
Speaker 5: It's going to be warm, no doubt about it, but
22:34
Speaker 5: we will at least be in the shade.
22:36
Speaker 9: And I just encourage people to to sunscreen up, bring
22:39
Speaker 9: an umbrella, bring some water, and just come and get
22:41
Speaker 9: wild with us at the stern will slammery for one day.
22:44
Speaker 4: It becomes the Hadad river Front Sportatorium. That's I like that.
22:48
Speaker 11: Like that too.
22:49
Speaker 4: We're looking for five thousand people plus inside the sportatorium.
22:53
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I love the sportatorium
22:55
Speaker 3: throwback there. It's going to be exciting. Uditorium actually didn't
22:57
Speaker 3: have air conditioning either, but we have the gentle river breeze.
23:02
Speaker 5: That's no.
23:04
Speaker 3: And I will say this because I was a phone
23:06
Speaker 3: with the dome a couple of weeks ago with all
23:08
Speaker 3: of our stations out there, and yeah, it was hot.
23:10
Speaker 3: It was a couple of saturdays ago. But when you're
23:12
Speaker 3: on the river down there in Dundon, I mean you tend,
23:16
Speaker 3: you do, tend to get that little little breeze off
23:18
Speaker 3: the river out there. What are the odds that somebody
23:20
Speaker 3: takes a bump into the river.
23:22
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know. I don't know about that. I
23:23
Speaker 9: could never I could never predict anything. But yeah, we'll see.
23:28
Speaker 9: I mean, it's gonna get wild. And in George South's
23:30
Speaker 9: book he talks about the Italian stallion thrown him into
23:33
Speaker 9: the river.
23:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's all three o'clock on Saturday. Where's the
23:37
Speaker 3: best place for people to get information? I know you
23:39
Speaker 3: mentioned the social media definitely.
23:40
Speaker 9: Well you can see it on the Charleston sturm Overgotta website.
23:43
Speaker 9: Also at Regatta Pro Wrestling, we have an Instagram page
23:46
Speaker 9: and a Facebook page, and that's probably the best place
23:48
Speaker 9: to get the updates.
23:49
Speaker 5: Just go ahead and hit the bell on the Facebook
23:51
Speaker 5: page that you get.
23:51
Speaker 9: All the announcements, because we're rolling out basically two posts
23:54
Speaker 9: a day from here until Saturday, and so we're going
23:56
Speaker 9: to be announcing a lot of matches in the in
23:58
Speaker 9: the coming hours.
23:59
Speaker 3: Actually and this is in addition everything else that's going
24:01
Speaker 3: on there. Ever got it at the same time, we
24:03
Speaker 3: don't want people to think this is the only event
24:06
Speaker 3: that's going on there. At three o'clock, I mean at
24:07
Speaker 3: that time, you got you know, the food vendors will
24:10
Speaker 3: be set off.
24:11
Speaker 4: We got all kinds of we've got Family Fund Zone up,
24:13
Speaker 4: but Summer Street it's like Plaza. You've got activities in
24:16
Speaker 4: the park, You've got other things. How you've got the
24:18
Speaker 4: carnival going on. You've got all kinds of things happening
24:21
Speaker 4: around the city. And that's the beauty of Regatta to
24:24
Speaker 4: step away from specifically wrestling for just a moment. Sure
24:27
Speaker 4: is whatever your interest is, whatever you are into, whatever
24:31
Speaker 4: you like to do, there is something for you. If
24:34
Speaker 4: you're a wrestling person, we've got that. If you're a
24:36
Speaker 4: music person, we've got that. If you're a beer person,
24:38
Speaker 4: we've got that. If you like to watch little dogs
24:40
Speaker 4: run around in a race, we've got that.
24:43
Speaker 3: If you like fire truck parades, we've got like, yeah,
24:46
Speaker 3: funeral parade, that's that's the favorite guy.
24:48
Speaker 4: We've We've got something for everyone. I know that's such
24:51
Speaker 4: a cliched phrase, but with Regatt, it's true.
24:54
Speaker 9: And even if you know, I love the opportunity to
24:56
Speaker 9: get to present this in a free atmosphere. It's in
24:58
Speaker 9: an arena. It's a place where people comfortable going, they're
25:01
Speaker 9: familiar with it, and the casual fan might walk by,
25:04
Speaker 9: and I hope that we're gonna at least be able
25:06
Speaker 9: to expose them to something that they were never aware
25:08
Speaker 9: of before. And as I said on the grill out
25:10
Speaker 9: the other day, it's like, even if they only stay
25:12
Speaker 9: for one match, sometimes that's more pro wrestling than they've
25:15
Speaker 9: watched in their entire life. And even if they don't
25:17
Speaker 9: become lifelong fans, come next year, they're going to go,
25:20
Speaker 9: you know what, that was really fun. I'm gonna go
25:22
Speaker 9: down for that next year. We got a bite to eat.
25:23
Speaker 4: I promise you. In the three years of this, in
25:26
Speaker 4: the history of this event, we have created wrestling fans
25:29
Speaker 4: in Charleston, West Virginia.
25:30
Speaker 5: Definitely one thousand percent. And I don't think.
25:31
Speaker 3: People, you know, realize what a hot bed that West
25:36
Speaker 3: Virginia is for pros and has been for a number
25:39
Speaker 3: of years.
25:39
Speaker 5: Definitely.
25:40
Speaker 3: But I was at the event a couple of weeks
25:42
Speaker 3: ago over to a Go Mark Ballpark the Hall of
25:45
Speaker 3: Fame event with the real Shoot Wrestling. I kind of
25:47
Speaker 3: stepped away from it years ago, but they asked me
25:50
Speaker 3: to come back to see my good friend, Adorable Danny
25:52
Speaker 3: Ray inducted in the Hall of Fame last yet and
25:54
Speaker 3: asked me to give his speech, and I did and
25:56
Speaker 3: we had a great time over their great crowd for
25:59
Speaker 3: that event and all these other you mentioned asw which yeah,
26:03
Speaker 3: I used to work with, but there's so many other group,
26:06
Speaker 3: I mean various groups around the say to West Virginia.
26:08
Speaker 3: And one thing about this said you kind of bring
26:10
Speaker 3: in gays from different groups too.
26:11
Speaker 11: That's right. Yeah.
26:12
Speaker 9: Part of the deal was with Regatta Pro Wrestling. It's
26:14
Speaker 9: an umbrella organization really just meant to highlight the four
26:17
Speaker 9: organizations that we work with, and that includes All Star Wrestling.
26:20
Speaker 9: They run in Madison most regularly Madison, West Virginia, but
26:23
Speaker 9: also produce the Bash in Beckley every year every June.
26:26
Speaker 9: Then also Appalachian Championship Wrestling who run throughout the state
26:30
Speaker 9: during the summer. They've got the b Dubs season where
26:33
Speaker 9: we do free shows outside at the Buffalo Wild Wings
26:35
Speaker 9: throughout the state.
26:36
Speaker 5: Those are a ton of fun.
26:37
Speaker 9: Then Pro Wrestling Conquest runs in Kanawa City throughout the year,
26:42
Speaker 9: and then also the Power Slam Academy is training pro wrestlers,
26:44
Speaker 9: and so shout out to all four of those organizations
26:47
Speaker 9: because it really is the talent and the combined efforts
26:49
Speaker 9: of all those organizations that make this possible. And I
26:52
Speaker 9: have to shout out Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti House because
26:55
Speaker 9: that's our lead sponsor this year and certainly could not
26:58
Speaker 9: do the caliber of the show that we're trying to
27:00
Speaker 9: do without that support.
27:01
Speaker 3: I mean, these are you know, world class wrestlers that
27:03
Speaker 3: are coming in here and it's a great opportunity. And
27:07
Speaker 3: again it's absolutely free in the had Ads Sportatorium. As
27:10
Speaker 3: mister Brady, if you've.
27:13
Speaker 9: Been hearing about pro wrestling, you should come and check
27:14
Speaker 9: this out. And I think the indie scene is as
27:16
Speaker 9: is as strong as it's ever been. And that's why
27:18
Speaker 9: may Or Goodwin and her team were so interested in
27:20
Speaker 9: highlighting UH pro wrestling because as you said, you know,
27:23
Speaker 9: West Virginia is a wrestling state, Charleston is a wrestling town,
27:25
Speaker 9: and and because of the regatto, we're acting like it.
27:27
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, here's the thing about it is, you
27:30
Speaker 3: talk about the history of wrestling in Charleston. Uh, everybody's
27:33
Speaker 3: got a story about the about the glory days, and
27:36
Speaker 3: you know, Georgia Championship Wrestling, which later became World Championship
27:39
Speaker 3: Wrestling came to Charleston, and they all seem to involve
27:41
Speaker 3: Rick Flair he was around, and Damon's, Joey Damon's and Huntington.
27:50
Speaker 4: Rick Flair and Arna Andersen and Joey's are some legendaries.
27:53
Speaker 4: Everybody's got a story well.
27:54
Speaker 9: And it's similar like that with Buff Bagwell for people
27:57
Speaker 9: of a certain era, because if they came to Charleston
27:58
Speaker 9: to see those nitros in the two thousands, chances are
28:02
Speaker 9: they got to meet.
28:02
Speaker 11: Buff bay Well.
28:03
Speaker 9: I've talked to a couple people who have met Buff Bagwell,
28:05
Speaker 9: you know, in that classic walking over to the Marriott
28:07
Speaker 9: after the show, you know. And I got messages on
28:09
Speaker 9: my page as soon as we announced that Buff Bagwell
28:11
Speaker 9: was coming, like wow, I really I really loved Buff
28:14
Speaker 9: Bagwell in the nineties, you know, Buff Daddy and all that,
28:16
Speaker 9: and uh yeah, I remember my friend told one on
28:19
Speaker 9: the grill out. They said there was a story where
28:21
Speaker 9: this guy got to meet Buff Bagwell, but because he
28:22
Speaker 9: was a heel, and he said something bad about Charleston.
28:24
Speaker 5: He didn't want his autograph.
28:26
Speaker 4: I just wonder when Buff Bagwell comes to town. I
28:29
Speaker 4: just wonder how many little kids are going to go
28:31
Speaker 4: out and say daddy.
28:33
Speaker 3: I don't know about that, it's a possibility. I'm just saying, we.
28:37
Speaker 5: Are West Virginia's wrestling.
28:38
Speaker 3: Town, all right, Adam, I appreciate you being here. Thank you,
28:41
Speaker 3: Dave tim Brady is always a pleasure to have you
28:43
Speaker 3: on the show as well. Three o'clock, that's the time Saturday,
28:47
Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon. There will be some some chairs provided, but
28:51
Speaker 3: if you want to bring your own, that's fine.
28:53
Speaker 4: Oh.
28:53
Speaker 3: We had a quick text here said I love to
28:55
Speaker 3: go to w CW matches at the Civic Center. Back
28:57
Speaker 3: at early to mid nineties, people would be shocked. How
29:00
Speaker 3: fans are women absolutely going back to Buff Bagwell again?
29:03
Speaker 3: Then probably not.
29:04
Speaker 9: Hey, listen, my first show was February fourteenth, nineteen ninety
29:07
Speaker 9: two at the Coliseum and there was a lady next
29:09
Speaker 9: to me, and in the opening match, Harley Race was
29:11
Speaker 9: managing mister Hughes and he helped mister Hughes pick up
29:14
Speaker 9: the win. And this lady she was so mad she
29:16
Speaker 9: was yelling at the top of her lungs and win
29:17
Speaker 9: the match in and she said, chalk that one up
29:18
Speaker 9: to Harley Race. And I think that's where I learned
29:22
Speaker 9: to really just get engaged with the matches, you know.
29:24
Speaker 9: I mean, you can be yourself there or maybe be
29:25
Speaker 9: someone you've never been in your life. At a wrestling show,
29:27
Speaker 9: you can just let out all the troubles of your
29:30
Speaker 9: everyday life, forget about all the struggles anything that you
29:32
Speaker 9: might be going through. That's one of the reasons pro
29:34
Speaker 9: wrestling is so exciting and so popular is because you
29:37
Speaker 9: can just block out all the rest of that stuff
29:39
Speaker 9: and step into the world of professional wrestling.
29:40
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29:43
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Speaker 3: who had surgery. I think it was yesterday, and he's
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Speaker 3: got some health issues coming right now. You don't. You
32:49
Speaker 3: don't live like he did and not have issues, especially
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Speaker 3: but boy, those were some wild times with the Nature
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Speaker 3: when Rick Flair came to Charleston. I remember it pretty well.
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Speaker 3: I've actually done some shows with Rick Flair and my
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Speaker 3: my experiences with Rick where he was just a pretty
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Speaker 3: nice guy as long as he's not drinking, and I'll
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Speaker 4: But this we did a show a couple of years
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Speaker 4: ago over at Dutch Miller. They brought in him and
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Speaker 4: I was in the business for thirty years and that
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Speaker 4: was definitely the highlight. And that night he was he
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Speaker 3: He was fine. He was fine on that night. Bigley
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Speaker 3: Yesterday ground was broken for Clean ceas Seas. That's a
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Speaker 3: show tomorrow. And always I always look forward to having
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Speaker 3: having Senator Mansion on and he's in an interesting position
35:04
Speaker 3: in his life right now where he's doing things in
35:06
Speaker 3: a private sector. When I talked to him last week,
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Speaker 3: he was actually in Canada a bigger limited cell phone coverage.
35:14
Speaker 3: But he's back. I was gonna say, he's back, Yeah,
35:16
Speaker 3: he's he's back Stateside. I don't know when you're talking
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Speaker 3: about Canada if that's accurate. I mean, I guess it is.
35:22
Speaker 3: But anyway, he'll be lower forty eight. The lower forty eight. Yes,
35:27
Speaker 3: thank you, Amy, Amy, Amy Breed Love who's going to
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Speaker 3: be doing the show for me on Thursday. I appreciate that. Yeah, so,
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Speaker 3: But I have a feeling Joe's going to want to
35:35
Speaker 3: weigh in on some of the things going on. I
35:37
Speaker 3: don't know what the status by Wednesday will be at
35:40
Speaker 3: the Big Beautiful Bill, but I have a feeling that
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Speaker 3: former Senator Mansion is going to want to weigh in
35:44
Speaker 3: on that add some other things. So he'll be on
35:45
Speaker 3: the show coming up tomorrow. As I said, you do
35:48
Speaker 3: not want to miss anytime. Joe Manchion is whether he'll
35:50
Speaker 3: actually join us in studio tomorrow on this show tomorrow.
35:54
Speaker 3: The regatta isn't the only big Fourth of July event
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Speaker 3: going on, it's certainly the biggest. But the folks in
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Speaker 3: my town have heard, Hurri I've got big things going
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Speaker 3: on on the fourth of July. We're going to talk
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Speaker 3: to them about that on tomorrow's show. Also a lot
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Speaker 3: of big news lately about West Virginia International Yeager Airport.
36:09
Speaker 3: The CEO of the airport, Domini Grenari, is going to
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Speaker 3: join us on tomorrow's show. And remember I will not
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Speaker 3: being doing the local show or the network show on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Amy breed Love, who you just heard from, voiceover artist extraordinaire,
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Speaker 3: is going to play host for me on Thursday on
36:24
Speaker 3: the local show. That's going to be a show that's
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Speaker 3: entirely devoted to the God. I think mayor a good
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Speaker 3: one is going to become a buy and some other
36:31
Speaker 3: folks to kind of give us an overview of the
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Speaker 3: regatta because it all starts on Thursday. So Amy will
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Speaker 3: be in to handle that and Amanda Baron will stick around.
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Speaker 3: Normally Amanda leaves it too, but she's actually going to
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Speaker 3: stick around to the three o'clock hour before she goes
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Speaker 3: of the year. It is interesting to me, though, when
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Speaker 3: we have these announcements, it seems like that it's kind
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Speaker 3: of a I'm gonna say this, it's kind of an
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Speaker 3: of hundred coal miners losing their jobs from that facility,
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Speaker 14: I just I know the name, and my husband's going
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Speaker 3: Sure that's the voice you hear again? Is Amy Breedlove?
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Speaker 3: for me on Thursday. Are you you're taking notes and everything,
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Speaker 14: It's so hard. How I'm going to do your job?
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Speaker 3: She said, tongue in cheek. Now we're going to be
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Speaker 3: a lot about regatta. It begins on Thursday runs through Sunday.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know if you've caught this or not.
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Speaker 3: In the various interviews that the mayor did on the
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Speaker 3: show yesterday, she was on this show, she was on
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Speaker 3: talk Line, she was our Mayor Monday subject on Metro
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Speaker 3: News Midday. Of course we talk to a different mayor
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Speaker 3: every Monday, and in that segment she was more or
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Speaker 3: less selling Charleston. But we did get in for Gott
45:40
Speaker 3: to talk as well. She has She's laid it out
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Speaker 3: pretty much and that I think I'm pretty sure she
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Speaker 3: said this on the air. If not, I'm going to
45:50
Speaker 3: say it on the air. Hope I don't get in
45:51
Speaker 3: trouble with the mayor, but she is gonna run for
45:55
Speaker 3: reelection at least one more term. Next year is an
45:58
Speaker 3: election year in Charleston, and if she is re elected,
46:02
Speaker 3: she would be on her third term. And it's still early.
46:07
Speaker 3: Don't know if anyone plans on running against her, but
46:10
Speaker 3: I will say it would be very tough to beat
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Speaker 3: Amy Goodwin in Charleston right now, as the last gentleman
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Speaker 3: who ran against her found out. People in Charleston generally speaking,
46:26
Speaker 3: are very happy with the job that she has done,
46:30
Speaker 3: whether it was securing the sponsors to bring back Regatta
46:34
Speaker 3: or the Pro road Bike Championships that she worked with
46:38
Speaker 3: the cv B on. You know, no cities perfect by
46:42
Speaker 3: any stretch of the imagination, but there's a lot of
46:46
Speaker 3: positive energy going on in Charleston. I mentioned this a
46:49
Speaker 3: couple of days ago. I was when we launched Steve
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Speaker 3: at Fife Street. A couple of fridays ago, I myself
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Speaker 3: and Stephanie, one of our producers of Midday, we actually
47:03
Speaker 3: walked down from the station down to Fife Street because
47:07
Speaker 3: a new parking would be an issue, and it was
47:10
Speaker 3: a major issue, and even though it was hot, I'm
47:12
Speaker 3: kind of glad we walked. So we walked from the
47:13
Speaker 3: station down there in that area around Slack Plaza where
47:17
Speaker 3: five Street is, where some of the other places you
47:20
Speaker 3: couldn't have got another person on a Friday night. And
47:24
Speaker 3: you know, not to play class ism here, but it's
47:28
Speaker 3: the kind of people you wanted down there. It was
47:31
Speaker 3: a lot of professional type people, or were older people,
47:33
Speaker 3: or there were young people, people with kids, people playing
47:35
Speaker 3: music out on the street. There's a vibe going on
47:38
Speaker 3: to downtown Charles. Now is it perfect?
47:41
Speaker 10: No?
47:41
Speaker 3: I mean, and the mayor or the police or anybody
47:44
Speaker 3: else here would tell you that. But there's an energy
47:48
Speaker 3: going on in the capital city right now. I've been
47:52
Speaker 3: doing this show for five years. Amy lives out of state,
47:55
Speaker 3: but she comes to visits us on summer. Comment on
47:58
Speaker 3: that a little bit. I mean, that's here half the
48:01
Speaker 3: year and gone half the year. Talk about it.
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Speaker 14: It feels so positive this year. I mean, we've been
48:06
Speaker 14: doing the snowbirding thing for seven years now, and like
48:12
Speaker 14: I think Tim mentioned earlier each year or you said,
48:16
Speaker 14: you know, by year three, but I can tell a
48:18
Speaker 14: difference each year that things just become more positive, more beautiful,
48:23
Speaker 14: more fun, more exuberant.
48:27
Speaker 3: And somebody, I mean like with the with the revamping
48:29
Speaker 3: of the Colosseeem and Convention Center. I mean, we did
48:31
Speaker 3: the reds Caravan there back in January. There were three
48:35
Speaker 3: major events going on at the colos Seem Convention Center.
48:37
Speaker 3: At the same time. You had an A list country
48:40
Speaker 3: artist performing you had the Red's Caravan. Uh, and then
48:44
Speaker 3: there was another event for some reason, it escapes me
48:46
Speaker 3: so what it was, but there was. But you had
48:47
Speaker 3: three Josh Skates was here. You had three major events
48:51
Speaker 3: going on at one time in that particular build. Oh
48:55
Speaker 3: the Honeting and Fishing Show, that's what it was. Oh yeah,
48:57
Speaker 3: that was a honting. So you had the Honey and
48:58
Speaker 3: Fishing Show, you had the Red's Caravan, and you had
49:01
Speaker 3: an a list country singer all playing at the same
49:04
Speaker 3: time in one building. And that's something that wasn't going
49:08
Speaker 3: on ten years ago. And the people that are coming
49:12
Speaker 3: to the Clay Center and the revitalization of downtown, the
49:16
Speaker 3: closing down the streets for dining and things of that
49:19
Speaker 3: aturee again. And am I sitting here with rose colored
49:22
Speaker 3: glasses on and thinking everything in Charleston is perfect?
49:24
Speaker 13: No?
49:24
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. There's issues. There's major issues. But my god,
49:27
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you, I've been doing this show for
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Speaker 3: five years. It's a lot better than and that five
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Speaker 3: years ago was a COVID year. I get that there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of positive stuff going on and a lot
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Speaker 3: of people moving into the area.
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Speaker 14: I have a friend that just lived in she lived
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Speaker 14: in Orlando for forty eight years, and she has family
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Speaker 14: in Saint Albans, and she decided to move to Charleston
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Speaker 14: because she loves the architecture, she loves the music scene.
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Speaker 14: She's already been over to folklore music. I don't know
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Speaker 14: how many times. She's a guitarist, she's a singer. She's
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Speaker 14: been on the road with the Indigo Girls, and she
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Speaker 14: loves Charleston. So she's made her home here living in
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Speaker 14: I think it's saying no Hurricane Hurricane, yes.
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Speaker 3: But loves it.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, and I need to show her Mortar Man.
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Speaker 3: A lot of good things going on, not only in Charleston,
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Speaker 3: but I mean throughout the Kanawh Valley as well. We
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Speaker 3: got issues, Absolutely, we have issues, but so does everywhere.
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Speaker 14: I think my uncle used to say, there's room for improvement.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I tell you there's some great things going
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Speaker 3: on where I live in Day's Valley right now. You
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Speaker 3: can't get another person in there, but we're trying.
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Speaker 14: Gosh, I love valley naturals.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh am I low to say that. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I don't care. You know, whatever you want. I'm going
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Speaker 3: to be off on Thursday. And if you get fired,
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Speaker 3: we'll just have dead air. You know, they'll just think,
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Speaker 3: they'll just think I'm doing there. You can't fire somebody
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Speaker 3: that doesn't work here, Amy, so you don't work here,
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Speaker 3: so you know, so uh you know, there you go.
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Speaker 3: But you did work here back.
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Speaker 14: And then I did, yes, and I got fired, so
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Speaker 14: you know, Okay, you know so. But I've heard that
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Speaker 14: you actually make it in radio when you get fired.
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Speaker 14: So there you go.
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Speaker 3: Do you know I have to say, thirty seven years
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Speaker 3: into business, fingers crossed, and today's still young. I've never
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Speaker 3: been fired yet, not from the radio business anyway.
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Speaker 14: Well, we don't want you've already made it.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean we probably I can nave
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Speaker 3: about four or five people in this building right now
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Speaker 3: that have all been fired at one time or another.
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Speaker 3: But that's we're forgiving lot in radio. TJ. Meadows did
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Speaker 3: not get fired, Uh, did you g Yeah, Well the
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Speaker 3: day's still young for you too.
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Speaker 10: I've never been fired from this company, though, I don't
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Speaker 10: have I ever been fired anywhere.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: I have to think about it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, it's not a big show today.
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Speaker 10: I've failed many times. Just let me tell you that
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Speaker 10: I have failed many times. And you know, honestly, if
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Speaker 10: you haven't failed, you haven't tried.
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Speaker 3: That's a good point.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you need to failure as a friend.
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Speaker 10: And the sooner you realize that, the better off you're
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Speaker 10: going to be, because everybody fails at one point or another.
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Speaker 10: There my wisdom for the day. Jered Halpern, Fox News
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Speaker 10: on the Big Beautiful Bill kicks us off at ten
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Speaker 10: oh six.
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Speaker 3: A lot happening. I was literally just looking.
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Speaker 10: Murkowski just got Alaska back in on these carve out provisions.
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Speaker 10: So if Alaska is getting there's is West Virginia gonna
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Speaker 10: get there? There you go. So we're going to get
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Speaker 10: into that. Al Thompson, remember he's the mayor of Davis,
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Speaker 10: West Virginia. That data center that's being talked about. Big
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Speaker 10: meeting last night. We'll review with him and see what
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Speaker 10: happened and see where they are on that. Mike Murphy,
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Speaker 10: chief of staff for the Committee for a Responsible Budget
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Speaker 10: coming up. Evan Brown on the coburger plea deal. Fred Pursinger,
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Speaker 10: the man, the myth, the legend.
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Speaker 3: I love Fred on the show today, big award for
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Speaker 3: him last night. We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 4: All right, that's coming up on the talk line with
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Speaker 4: Wilson and Meadows. Coming up today ten o'clock ten oh
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Speaker 4: sixty be exact. I'll be back at the Metro News
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Speaker 4: midday with Amanda Baron, thirteen News and Tonight Live anchor
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Speaker 4: Amanda Baron and myself coming up.
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Speaker 3: At noon today. Coming up on this show tomorrow again
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Speaker 3: more on the Hurricane Fourth of July celebration. Dominiqe Gredirea
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Speaker 3: from the West Virginia International Yeager Airport. Big announcements coming
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Speaker 3: out of those folks as well. She'll join us on
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Speaker 3: the show. Amy, thank you so much. I will see
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Speaker 3: you later today. Till then, have fun. I Love Somebody.
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