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06/16/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - ZMM Architects and Engineers, Ray Whiting · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 2: the United States of America, the state West Virginia, the
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  Speaker 3: big news around a state of West Virginia. It's making
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  Speaker 3: bit later on. The federal holiday known as June tenth
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  Speaker 3: is happening this Thursday. Ray Whiteing one of the folks
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  Speaker 3: planning some of the celebratory activities here in Charleston. He's
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  Speaker 3: Senior producer Ryan Nicholson charging things on the on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the glass. This morning, I was talking about
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  Speaker 3: a good friend, Adam Crayson from ZMM Architects and Engineers.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, sir, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, David.
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  Speaker 3: I just said after that, Yeah, buddy, let me tell
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  Speaker 3: you it is kind of difficult to keep the two shows.
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  Speaker 3: I should just say hello, is what I should say,
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  Speaker 3: not afternoon, or just just just just go hi, Adam.
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  Speaker 3: How's it going good to see? All right, So you
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  Speaker 3: guys got a pretty big honor I understand here name
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  Speaker 3: one of the fastest growing firms in North America.
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  Speaker 7: Talk about this, yes, certainly. Before I do, I just
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  Speaker 7: want to echo your earlier comments. Our our thoughts and
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  Speaker 7: prayers are with our you know, neighbors and friends in
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  Speaker 7: Ohio County and Marion County this morning, and certainly all
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  Speaker 7: of the family and friends of Doug's gaff. It's it's
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  Speaker 7: certainly a difficult day and difficult time in West Virginia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: but thank you for having me. Yeah, we're really excited
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  Speaker 7: and we really think This is a recognition of our
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  Speaker 7: clients and the employees of our firm. We're the twenty
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  Speaker 7: six fastest growing architecture and engineering firm in the North America,
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  Speaker 7: so US and CANAA.
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  Speaker 6: We're really excited about it.
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  Speaker 7: It's a we haven't sought these sort of recognitions for
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  Speaker 7: the firm in the past. Somebody recommended we do and
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  Speaker 7: we were excited to see that. We think it's exciting
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  Speaker 7: for a firm in West Virginia to get this sort
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  Speaker 7: of recognition.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that's the first thing I thought was
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  Speaker 3: here in West Virginia. And I'm to face it, we
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  Speaker 3: don't always we don't always make the best list of things. Adam.
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  Speaker 3: You know that as well as this is kind of
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  Speaker 3: a big deal here.
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  Speaker 7: This is a big deal, And like I said, it's
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  Speaker 7: really it's a recognition of the confidence that our clients
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  Speaker 7: have placed in us and the hard work of a
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  Speaker 7: really dedicated team of professionals we have here in Charleston
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  Speaker 7: throughout the region. How many people do you employ, Well,
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  Speaker 7: during the summer, we employ a lot more because we
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  Speaker 7: have eighteen interns this summer, so typically we're about seventy people.
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  Speaker 7: Right now, we're up to almost ninety a really great
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  Speaker 7: internship program that our team's put together, kind of spearheaded
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  Speaker 7: by Jen Wood and Chris Campbell and some of our
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  Speaker 7: engineering staff, John Pruett. They do a wonderful job trying
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  Speaker 7: to create a really valuable experience, and one of the
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  Speaker 7: things we do when they're here is really try to
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  Speaker 7: get them plugged into the community. They've been over to
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  Speaker 7: the Clay Center, they've toured the Woody Williams project over
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  Speaker 7: in Cabell County. They'll get a chance to speak to
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  Speaker 7: the mayor soon and other industry professionals. So we really
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  Speaker 7: try to make it a valuable opportunity for them to
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  Speaker 7: keep them here in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: That's our goal. We want to turn these interns into
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  Speaker 6: our next generation.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's what we need. I mean, we got to
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  Speaker 3: get people to stay here. You know. We get these
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  Speaker 3: people you know in here, and I know that your
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  Speaker 3: company and others have programs like this where you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: the internship's nice, but we need you to stay.
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  Speaker 6: That's right, that's the goal. We joke.
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  Speaker 7: We've educated a lot of really great architects that live
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  Speaker 7: in Lexington, Charlotte, and Columbus, and we're going to educate
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  Speaker 7: the ones that are going to stay here.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, let's face it, Adam, you know you're
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  Speaker 3: in the business. We got a lot of stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of building projects going on, not only
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  Speaker 3: here in the canalv all over West Virginia right now.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, we're grateful for the ones we're working on.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, the Remicton office building, I think people are
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  Speaker 7: going to see great progress soon as the steal starts
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  Speaker 7: to come out of the ground there along the boulevard.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the projects we've had the opportunity to assist
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  Speaker 7: the county with the Shawnee the entrance building, welcome center expansion,
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  Speaker 7: and you know South Charleston with the opportunity to help them,
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  Speaker 7: you know, as part of their Tift District to ultimately
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  Speaker 7: replace the wellness center over there. So lots of exciting
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  Speaker 7: projects and I think that's what's really fueled the growth
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  Speaker 7: that led us to be on this list, is just
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  Speaker 7: the forward thinking attitude of so many of our leaders.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 7: One of the biggest, which we're wrapping up the Designer
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  Speaker 7: right now, the news Consolidated State Laboratory building that's going
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  Speaker 7: to be over at the West Virginia Regional Tech Park
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  Speaker 7: and it's their investment in West Virginia that that really
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  Speaker 7: helped us to land on this list. And we're very
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  Speaker 7: grateful for all of those opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: Talking to Adam Creasing again from ZMM architect and Architects
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  Speaker 3: and Engineers. Let's come back to this, to this specific firm,
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  Speaker 3: the specific list, I guess from this from this group.
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  Speaker 3: And you said you didn't really campaign for this, so
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's just people that are on this that
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  Speaker 3: are that are just keep an eye on what you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: I guess.
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  Speaker 7: So the Zoik Group is an industry leader. They have
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  Speaker 7: a publication that a lot of people in the architecture,
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  Speaker 7: engineering and construction industry follow, and they have various lists,
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  Speaker 7: you know, hot firms, good firms to work for, you know,
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  Speaker 7: these sort of things. They host a lot of trainings
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  Speaker 7: for throughout the industry. And we did we did apply
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  Speaker 7: for it, so there was an application required, but we
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  Speaker 7: hadn't really sought these out in the past, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: I guess. And somebody encouraged us this here. They said,
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  Speaker 7: you know, you guys are really you know, you appear
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  Speaker 7: to be doing well. You know, it's it's really objectively based.
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  Speaker 7: It's based on revenue growth over a period of time.
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  Speaker 7: And so we submitted an application, and again we were
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  Speaker 7: really a surprised as anyone. We hoped to be included
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  Speaker 7: on the list. We thought that'd be a great showing.
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  Speaker 7: But to be included is number twenty six out of
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  Speaker 7: one hundred of the fastest growing firms in North America.
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  Speaker 6: Was it just blew us away a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: And again, none of this is possible without without the
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  Speaker 7: people that are providing us the opportunities to help them,
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  Speaker 7: you know, with these building projects, and of course, you know,
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  Speaker 7: a really committed group of clients because our employees, you know,
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  Speaker 7: we didn't We've organically grown the firm, right, we're more
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  Speaker 7: of a regional firm now. We have offices in Marietta
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  Speaker 7: and Blacksburg and Martinsburg as well as here in Charleston.
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  Speaker 7: But we accommodated this growth, in this growth and service
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  Speaker 7: to our clients without some explosion in staff, right, because
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  Speaker 7: it's hard to find people in talent in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 7: So it's meant our teams really just stepped up to
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  Speaker 7: provide services on all these exciting projects.
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  Speaker 3: And again, Adam, I just think it's really I keep
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  Speaker 3: going back to this. It's really really cool. I'm bringing
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  Speaker 3: the now, how do you pronounce the group? Wig Group? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: just like it looks. The CEO from the Zwig Group
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  Speaker 3: said that this group, that this list was a reflection
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  Speaker 3: of the strength and resilience of the architectural community, and
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  Speaker 3: these companies have achieved remarkable growth while navigating market shift,
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  Speaker 3: talent shortages, increase competition, et cetera. So again, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: like the premier group that's coming out with this list.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's really really is a cool thing for
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  Speaker 3: a West Virginia, especially a Knawa Valley based company to
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  Speaker 3: have this.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's again, that's one of the reasons we were
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  Speaker 7: so excited about it, Like you know, like you said earlier,
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  Speaker 7: we all hate it in West Virginia when we end
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  Speaker 7: up on these lists. You know, they highlight some negative
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  Speaker 7: characteristic of the state. There are all kinds of wonderful
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  Speaker 7: things going on in West Virginia, and we're just excited
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  Speaker 7: to be part of many of those wonderful things.
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  Speaker 3: Like is there like a big banquet you go to
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  Speaker 3: or something there red tie or black tie event or yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately we couldn't get them to have the banquet here,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, we're going to go down to Texas since
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  Speaker 3: September and accept the award and we're really excited about that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Well it sounds like it's good stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: again I think you folks are to be congratulated for everything.
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  Speaker 3: But you've done. What's in the future. You talked about
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  Speaker 3: some of the current projects you're working on. What can
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  Speaker 3: you tell us about some future projects.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're always looking to what's next. You know, we
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  Speaker 7: get that question a lot of you guys seem really busy,
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  Speaker 7: and we're never busy enough because we're always planning. You know,
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  Speaker 7: we're doing the work that's going to happen now and
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  Speaker 7: we're planning for what's next. So some of the exciting
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  Speaker 7: things that are going to come up well through construction
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  Speaker 7: will be this laboratory project that's going to be a
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  Speaker 7: tremendous facility and a great investment the state's making one
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  Speaker 7: of the larger building construction projects. It's been undertaken in
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  Speaker 7: the valley probably in the last twenty five years. And
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  Speaker 7: then South Charleston of course, is planning ultimately to replace
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  Speaker 7: the Wellness Center, and we're really excited to be helping
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  Speaker 7: them with that. We also have some school projects throughout
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  Speaker 7: the region. We're working with Putnham County on Hurricane Middle School.
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  Speaker 7: We're working with Kenawa County on the new elementary school.
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  Speaker 7: It's being built in eastern Kennawh County, a much much
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  Speaker 7: needed project. You're so excited to see that investment being
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  Speaker 7: made in eastern Knon County. And we continue to assist
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  Speaker 7: at Capbell County with school projects and really school districts
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  Speaker 7: throughout the state. It's really the focus of our practices,
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  Speaker 7: the educational designs about half of the work we do.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say that's kind of what you're I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're known for a lot of different projects, but that's
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of your big thing, right.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you know, there's a few kind of specialty
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  Speaker 7: things we do, and we have different people that lead
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  Speaker 7: those parts of the firm. We do hire Edward Chris
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  Speaker 7: Campbell's one of our architects and project managers who leads that.
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  Speaker 7: Mike Phillips leads our medical team, and we do a
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  Speaker 7: lot of work here for Vandalia Health and we do
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  Speaker 7: work across the state in the medical field too. And
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  Speaker 7: then the probably the most surprising recent addition to our
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  Speaker 7: portfolio has been these community gathering spaces. Of course, one
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  Speaker 7: of the early ones was out in Puntdam County where
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  Speaker 7: we worked at Valley Park on their new visitor center
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  Speaker 7: and the entrance to the wavepool. But the Charleston Coliseum
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  Speaker 7: and convention Center, and now these plans for these athletic facilities,
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  Speaker 7: you know, which are really wellness centers, which are really
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  Speaker 7: community gathering faces too. So we really love those projects
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  Speaker 7: because they have an economic development component to it in
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  Speaker 7: terms of tourism, but at the same time they just
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  Speaker 7: improve the quality of life for our neighbors, which they're
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  Speaker 7: really the best projects.
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  Speaker 3: Doing good stuff. Adam, I appreciate you taking time out
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  Speaker 3: of your schedule to be here. What's the website if
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  Speaker 3: people want to go see what you've done.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we actually have it on our website. It's ZMM
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  Speaker 7: dot com and we have a kind of where we'd
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  Speaker 7: link to all the news articles and they're probably be
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  Speaker 7: the easiest way to find it, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Adam, congratulations again. It's always it's always great when
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia can make some sort of a list in
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  Speaker 3: a good way, and for a company that's based here,
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  Speaker 3: and you say, I know you've got offices and other
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  Speaker 3: other locations as well, but it's good stuff. Buddy, Thanks
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  Speaker 3: lot for being here, Thanks so much for having me.
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  Speaker 4: No, I haven't you now with you? Yes, you have
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  Speaker 3: the a big Juneteenth event? What is going on?
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  Speaker 4: Well right now? Originally we won't have everything on one day.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: We decided to move the festivities to Friday because we
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: weren't sure whether the governor will proclaim June tenth that's
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: a holiday. So of course he made it official last
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: week that he's not going to give state workers off.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: So therefore we moved it to Friday, because again, we
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: want people to families and kids and I mean everybody
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: to celebrate with us about Juneteenth. And so again it
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: is very sacred, it's very special to us, to everybody
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: again to this country. And of course it's educational because
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: again a lot of people don't know about June tenth.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: And that's and you're right, you're absolutely right about that,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: because I mean, I've learned a lot about it over
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: the last couple of years, but there's still a lot
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: more to know. Explain June tenth for those who may
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: not know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So in eighteen sixty three, President Lincoln came with
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: the Emancipation Proclamation for the Freedom of the slaves, and
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: between eighteen CC three and eighteen sixty five, slavery was
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: still in effect. But however freedom our Freedom Day in
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: West Virginia was eight was February third, eighteen sixty five. Again,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: slavery was still going on until June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: in Galveston's Texas where a bunch of police officers they said, okay,
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: this is it because it was still going on. And
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: so now that's why how June teenth, June nineteenth became
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: where it is.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: And Texas is again was the last area that this
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: was that this was still going on. And it took
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like it wasn't like now we just posted
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: on Facebook, you know who I mean.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: It took.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: It took time for the information to get.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: To people, right, that's the thing. And so again it
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: wasn't no email or uh postal service, you know, the
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: it's kind of a pony express. But yeah, that was
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: back then.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and you weren't there what you're saying, I
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: was not there? Okay, all right? But why is this
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: such a big deal because for years this has been
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: celebrated or I don't know, I celebrated or I guess
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: it's commemorated I guess is the right word within the
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: black community, and it wasn't really a big thing outside
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the black community. Would you agree with that?
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: I understand what you're saying. And again, what people don't
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: realize is when America became America in seventeen seventy six,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: we were still slaves. And if people will listen to
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Frederick Douglas and it's on YouTube, what does July fourth
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: meaning to the negro because again it was still slaves
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: and so America became America by way of protest. However,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: with with African Americans, again, you had to fight for
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: our freedom. And that's the thing. And so a lot
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: of people don't understand that. And so the history, the
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: history about that is we want folks to know what
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: took place. We're not trying to guilt or shame anybody,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: but just let the records be known that this took place.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: If and again, and listen, it's a black and white thing.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: If we can learn white history, quote, why can we
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: learn black history? And again the banning of books CRT
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and now the boogeyman is THEI why why? And again
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I would love to have a dialogue, a little conversation
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: with anybody to talk about this. And again we need
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: to talk about this because it's not what you think.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: People are putting out these scare tactics about DEI and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: all this CRT is up again it's not like a
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: revolted anything. We just want everybody to come together. We
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: just want to get along and be treated equal.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: And we're talking to Ray Whiting today. Violance showing five
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• 19:25
  Speaker 3: You've got a little bit of age on you, not
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: not a whole lot. I mean, you're not much older
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: than I am. But twenty twenty five, how far have
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: we come? In your opinion, you're a black man in America,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: how far have we come?
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Given the fact that things have been repealed. We have
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: gone back twenty years.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: We've gone back.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: You say we've gone back twenty years. Yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Expound upon that, well, maybe.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Further, because again the president has a re peeled the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: band of segregation. So you look at things like banning
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: people from other countries to come here, and most of
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: all the situation with fifty nine people from South Africa
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: are coming here. And so again there's a lot that's
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: going on and again and of course there's a backstory
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: to it, and and that's what folks don't understand. And
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: of course with the media and as far as these
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: talking points, people just read the headlines, but they don't
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: read the guts of the story. That's why. And again,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: and you've seen again you and I refriends on Facebook,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to talk about it because again, if
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: it's not right, I'm going to mention it. But again,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: people don't understand, and we may see things from two
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: different angles. I can understand what you're saying, the questions
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: can you understand what I'm saying? And a lot of
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: folks are hit out here don't want to understand. They
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: don't want to sit down and talk about it. Because
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: again I had uh had a conversation with somebody about
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: race relations, and within two minutes of the conversation, it says,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: well what about your cargo? But with the violence, okay,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: well what about it? You know, and they can't go
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: any further, they can't expound on that. And I posted
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: so I'm kind of bouncing back and forth, going around,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: but you'll get what I'm saying. So I posted this
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: in light of the shooting in Minnesota and again my thoughts,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: some prayers go out to the families in Minnesota. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I said this, if there was a there was a
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Hispanic or a Muslim that did the shooting, the media
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: will call it terrorism. So in light of the shooter,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: why aren't we calling it terrorism now? So it is
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: again the wording makes it plays a big part in
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: what we think and how we think about the situation.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: And that's that's the problem they've We don't want to
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: come and talk about it. We don't want to face
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: head on because again, if if we come to UH
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: a medium and and really sit down and talk about it,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: I believe that this community we get so much better,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: have a great, great understanding of what we go through
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: and how we get from point A to point B.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I've got a text here I'm gonna read because I
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: know that you're always ready to you get He and
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I Ray and I were texting back for yesterday and
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: he said, I'll take phone calls, and I said, what people,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: as much as I'd like people to call, the don't
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: call as much any more than more texture now. But
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I'll read this text you. It says, Dave, contrary to
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: your guests, I don't think we've gone backwards at all.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: A matter of fact, I think we've moved forward getting
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: rid of DEI. You would say to that, what.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: To the person who texts that, tell me what their
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: definition of DEI is?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: That's the problem, right, I think right there is because
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: everybody's definition of DEI is something is something different depending
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: on where you are in life. Most things, pardon to
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: pun are black and white. You know, I don't mean color,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: but I mean your race. I mean just but it's
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: you know, there's not a lot of shades of gray.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Nobody can seem to define what DEI is on either. Well, no,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: let me say this. The people that are saying we
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: got to get rid of DEI, if you get this
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: guy off the street and you ask him or you
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: asked this lady, you're gonna get two different answers, right
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: and and I And I think I think that's problematic
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: in itself. And I think you probably would agree with
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: that exactly.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: And again, one thing about the I and affirmative action
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: goes it kind of plays in parallel with the I
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: when it comes to the workplace and things like jobs
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: and everything. We just want a fair shot and it's not.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: And that's the thing. Maya Jackson, the former mayor of Atlanta,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: them of years ago they were in the process of
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: rebuilding Atlanta, and his his thing was, I'm not going
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: to give out contracts unless you give these small black
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: companies a chance, like like a subcontract, give them a
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: chance diversity. And so again we I mean again, we
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: just want to level the plant field. We haven't gone uh,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: we haven't gone forward. And keep in mind, Dave, black
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: folks make up three point six percent of population here.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Three point six So just listen, say three percent, so
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: out of one hundred people, three percent of one hundred
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: is but three So let's look at the hostate of
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: West Virginia. How much how much of a factor that
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: we are making in West Virginia? So why do away
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: with the EI? In my opinion? Now, if folks disagree,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: that's their opinion. But the thing is, we just want
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to be equal. Just treat us equal, give us a
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: fair chance. That's it. My greatest I'll say this the
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: greatest scene in cinema history. The Tuskegee Airmen Benjamin Davids said,
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: we are recognized when this suits them. All we ask
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: is a fair chance if we sitting down playing a
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: game of cards and I lose. If the deck is fixed,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: how can I win?
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Do you think that?
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Do you think the deck is stacked against minorities in America?
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I believe? So?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Oh how do we unstack the deck?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: That's that's the sixty four dollars question? Date? Just I mean,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: if we go to the boardrooms and talk to the
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: higher ups in these companies and get their opinion, you know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: tell I mean, I mean, I've seen cases where people
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: with degrees, African Americans with degrees apply for a job
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: in that field, and you have this person won't be
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: here who's white, who don't have a degree, but they
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: are related to say a president of the company, or
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: they're friends with them, and they get the job. You see.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: But but ray is that is that? Is that racism?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Or is that nepotism? I mean, you know I have
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: applied as a white guy.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: I'm white.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you noticed that or not. No,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I had one point. I applied for a particular job,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: not didn't radio in another field, and I didn't get it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And the reason I didn't get it is because, as
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: you said, there was someone who knew someone when college
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: was someone fraternity brother whatever that got the job over me.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I was more qualified for the job, but I didn't
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: get it. But now you know, I mean, can't I
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: think what you described, I don't. I don't see that
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: as racism. I think I see that as there is
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: more nepotism than in that in that example that you gave.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, but okay, here's the thing. There's nepotism. But what
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: if there's no relation. What if there's no they say, okay,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: we're friends that that Now that's where it comes to
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the play. But again, can't can we get past that
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: as a community? Can we get past that and come
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: together and say, okay, here's a fair shot. The deck
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: is not fixed, it's it's legit. Let's let's let's play
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: a good game. Just be fair about it.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Let me read another texture for it. So simply put,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: de I means I have to hire you because of
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: your race instead of your qualifications.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Uh no, that does not mean. That does not mean that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: And again, you can have all the qualifications in the world.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Believe you have a bad interview. You know that that
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: could be a game changer right there. Again, but we
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: know that there there is some descripts there is some
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: picking and choosing in the boardroom and in the in
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: the interview process. It is. And that's all we're saying. Again,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: if to that person who said that, what's the solution,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: then to fix that's what's the solution. So let me
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: let me put the ball back in their quote. What's
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: the solution to fix that?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: But you understand the perception though, of what that person
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: was saying, is that they see that as we talked
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: about the definition of THEI, they see that as I
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: have to hire a person of color, I have to
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: hire a woman, I have to hire somebody from the
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: l g B t Q community. That's how they see it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: But if you're part of that community, you don't necessarily
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: see it that one.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: I look at it as this. If I'm an employer
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: and I'm trying to hire somebody, I'm trying to hire
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: somebody for this position. I'm going to look at the
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: best candidate for that position, no matter what color they are,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: if they meet the criteria. Okay, first, first things first,
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I'm going to invite them in for an interview and
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: we go from there with the black or white, and
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: again it doesn't matter. The higher process is different. Okay,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: it is different, but it's not different. What I'm saying
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: is we have to again, what's wrong. We give a
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: black folks a fair shot first and foremost. That's it
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: now as far as you have to hire, because again,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: now you want to talk about a friend reaction. Now
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: to the Texter who said that, who benefit from a
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: firm reaction the most white women because if you read
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: the letter of the law, white women are considered a
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: minority too.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, You're right. Tex says, a fair chance
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: is equality. Now the big thing is equity. There's a different.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Equality is exactly what you just said, an equal chance
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: or opportunity. Equity is equal outcome. DEI used to be
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: called tokenism and was highly condemned.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: They if you come up with a set of rules. Okay,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: if you come up with set of rules, we can
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: play about the rules. Okay, so we can run a
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: race of one hundred yards, but don't say, after I
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: run the race of the one hundred yards, don't say, oh,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: you gotta do this, but you gotta run an extra
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: ten yards, because that's the gray area right there that
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: we face in this society. And again, a lot of
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: white people don't understand what we go through. But if
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: you talk about it, and again, if we have a discussion,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: they're fine. I can explain to you. I can break
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: it down for you, or, in the words of Denzel
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Washington in the movie of Philadelphia, explain to you like
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: a four year old not to not to assault somebody's intelligence.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: But that's the thing. People don't know.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: They don't know, Dave, you don't know what you don't know.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: The Boss used to say that Texas minorities having the
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: deck stacked against them. It's not like there's a history
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: of redlining of banks not giving loa to minorities. Says
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: a text. I think there's a little sarcasm there saying yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: that's I mean, I think I think they're on. What
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I gather from the SEXTU is that they agree with you.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: That's that's what we're saying. All right. So you got
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: these activities going on in West Virginia day, are you
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: a little upset with the governor that he did not
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: because you know, now Senator Jim Justice made Juneteenth a holiday.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Governor came out on Thursday or Friday and said, because
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: of where it falls on the cavndar in West Virginia
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Day would be that's in code that that's a state holiday.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: June teenth has a federal holiday. Many offices are closed,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: insurance places are closed, some of them are. Anyway, are
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: you what U with with Governor Morrisey his decision.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: I'm disappointed in his decision. Yes, I'm disappointed. Great, I
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: mean again, I just I wish he changed his mind.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Well let's see, Hey, Ray, we got to leave it here.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you stopping by, give us, give us the
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: rundown again of all that, because he got all kinds
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: of stuff going on to city, such a slack Plaza,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: and I actually have a graphic posted about it on
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: my social media if you want to check it out,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: but go ahead.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: So on Thursday evening, we have a journalist come in,
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Roland Martin, who was well known throughout the country.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's he's a heavy hitterer, he really is.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: He's coming to Charleston. Uh, there would be a fire
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: sight check between he and I. It's on Thursday, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: then on Friday again, we have a bunch of events
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: going on at Slack Plaza from noon to four. Uh,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: there would be a parade starting at the King Center
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: starting eleven thirty and again leading up to slack Plaza,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: and then again from noon to four will be a
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: bunch of events going on local acts, poetry, acting and
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: so again, music and so a lot of a lot
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: of groups have participated, so there will be some booths,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: information and everything. So again a lot of groups will
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: be there in attendance to educate, to inform people about
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: June tenth and again the things we can do to
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: be better as a society.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: All right, sounds good?
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Can say one thing, yes, okay, I want to give
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: a shout out to the team who have made this possible.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Miss Jenny claytor Woodson, Karen Williams, Shaniko Smith, Tanya Clark,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Toby Terrell, Dax Miller, Trenton, Samuel, Rita Jones, tell your heart,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Sonya Armstrong, and there's a few others. I forgot the name,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: so please forgive me charge you on my head now
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: my heart. I apologize to the team who made it possible. Again,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Please profs to them, give them love, give them flowers.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: All right, before I let you go, the most important
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: question of all thirty seconds on this how you feeling
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: about Aaron Rodgers being in.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I love it as big a Cowboys fan as I am.
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  Speaker 3: looked like a full blooded dictator sending on that podium.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was Kim Jung stepping out of the crowd,
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  Speaker 3: in Ohio and Marin Counties, and of course the talk
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  Speaker 3: just utterly devastating. We have a gallery of photos posted
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  Speaker 3: and certainly our thoughts and prayers go out to those folks.
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  Speaker 3: And I have to give credit where credit is due
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  Speaker 3: in this divided nation of ours for people to take
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  Speaker 3: any opportunity, tragedy or whatever to dig their heels in
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  Speaker 3: some posts on some of the flooding, on some of
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  Speaker 3: the national news sites that said one particular said, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's what the state gets for supporting Donald Trump. Zero sympathy.
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  Speaker 3: That was on ABC News. So that's where we are now.
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  Speaker 3: But back to Howard for a moment. I love what
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of days. Five or dead. That was
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  Speaker 3: what it was at the time. Now it's up to six.
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  Speaker 3: Others are missing, towns are destroyed. Let's deal with what's
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  Speaker 3: up the heroic work of our first responders and command
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  Speaker 3: Governor Patrick Morrissey for his quick response to our needs.
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  Speaker 3: There's time enough for debate after the recovery and grieving. Well,
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  Speaker 3: said Howard Monroe. I mean, what exactly is wrong with
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: I mean to say, this is kind of where we
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  Speaker 16: I often wonder if we've always been here and the
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  Speaker 16: don't know if that's the case or not, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Both, on both. I mean, when I got text of
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  Speaker 16: Mean, it's just I mean, that's a warped sense of morality.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you real quick about the protesters the
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  Speaker 3: happen in West Virginia. Promise it, Guarantee it. It's not
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  Speaker 3: going to happen. But were you surprised about the turnout?
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  Speaker 3: Because I wasn't there, but I saw the pictures and
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: there was a lot more people there what I thought
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  Speaker 3: there would be. Give me twenty seconds more than I
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: thought there would be, but probably still not enough that
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  Speaker 3: it really swings so now or the other.
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  Speaker 16: Look, people have a right to protest, and the governor
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  Speaker 16: in his tweet talked about that right. He said we
• 52:36
  Speaker 16: weren't going to put up with any vandalism. That's good
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  Speaker 16: and they shouldn't need to bring the state police in
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  Speaker 16: the National Guard into it. I write about that today
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  Speaker 16: at wv metronews dot com. Quickly, what's on the show today? Flood,
• 52:45
  Speaker 16: flood and flood everything you can imagine from Wheeling and
• 52:48
  Speaker 16: Marion County.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I will see you later today I'll introduced midday.
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  Speaker 3: Till then, have fun and love somebody.
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