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11/29/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Rich Kline, Dale Cooper, and Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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today is the opening day of the thing we do I guess maybe a
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couple times a year. It's called we call a WV bargains dot com.
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And what happens is that's a website, wv bargains dot com. You log
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onto that website and the auctions just went live this morning. There are a
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ton of things on there, like things you wouldn't wouldn't believe, I mean,
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just odds and ends and special packages and all kinds of stuff on their
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WV bargains dot com. And you literally you literally bid on those and those
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things can be in your home or you can take them and take them go
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on a trip or whatever they are. And Dale Cooper is going to the
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boss is actually going to stop by the studio to talk about that as well.
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Plus is always your calls antext are welcome. Bit slow going this morning
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if you drive it in from I sixty four, if you're drive an I
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sixty four, there was a three car pile up during the seven o'clock hour
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seven to seven fifteen or so this morning, and it really got traffic snarled.
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I know, I ended up taking ROOT sixty in this morning. Not
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so sure that was much better better, but it's still kind of slow going
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out there, and no, no weather related issues or anything like that other
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than me and cold. It's just we call it I sixty four life.
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So so I just know that traffic is still slow going in some areas this
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morning. If you are traveling, be careful and allow yourself a little extra
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time to get there. Rich the realtor my buddy rich Klein, who he
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and I travel those I sixty four roads together. A whole lot is with
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it's right now, Richard, good morning, How are you morning? How
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are you? Thanks for the heads up on that topic this morning. I
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well, you know, first animal you know are from resissrotation, the mountain
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animal texts me this morning, said, hey, you may want to take
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a look at this before you come in. Of course I always check the
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traffic, you know, before I go in the morning anyway, and so
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I knew you were coming in, so I gave you a quick call this
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morning, said you may want to either phone this one in or you may
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want to leave a little better. But but you made it. I appreciate
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you being here. Yeah, it had gotten a little better by the time
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that I made the drive between the eight and eight thirty. It wasn't as
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bad, but still got some congestion up. Yeah, yeah, and that's
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it kind of takes a while to catch up on that sometime. By the
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way, it just got a text for somebody here who just said that sixty
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four is completely clear now, So there you go. Thanks for the live
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update for now. Yeah, because that changes on a regular But I was
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driving Listen, I'm not here to talk about traffic, but I was driving
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home later last and later by my schedule, which you know is after six
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last night, and on I sixty four westbound near the near the Nitro exit,
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traffic was backed up for and I don't know why. I mean then
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you know that obviously the construction is continuing and we got about another year and
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a few months to go on that, but it was backed up. I
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was I set for thirty minutes and I settled this moment. Don't know why
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it was. That was around seven thirty eight o'clock or so last night.
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One of those things. We can't do anything about the traffic, but we
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can't talk about real estate. That's why we bring our good friend Rich into
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talk with us once a month or so, just talk about some things going
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on in real estate here in the Kanaw Valley. Someone Rich asked me to
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ask you this. Let's say my wife and I are going to sell our
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house. Let me clarify were not. And I say that because with the
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run of houses right now on Putnam County. If you if you say we're
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thinking about it, you have ten thousand phone calls. I've got a sign
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in my yard. I'll put it in your in my car, I'll put
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it in your yard. No it's not it's not at all. But trust
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me, our next move is retirement or downsizing. I'm not looking to move
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anytime soon. But let's say someone is looking. What are some of the
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things that before that I should think about before I decided to reach out to
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reach out to reach the realtor what are some of the things I should think
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about. Yeah, you know, this is a good question, and I
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think to take a little bit of the anxiety out of the process for potential
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sellers, is there are some things you should put your head around. And
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I always say just realistic expectations are probably the best thing to where to start.
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Like, you know, how long is it going to take to sell
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your house? Do you need to do anything to it that are major repairs
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or what can you expect with that, But I'd want to get your get
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your hands on your deed and see who's authorized to sell it. Are you
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selling it just because it's your house and you want to sell, or some
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other folks are selling because you know, I loved ones passed away or something,
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and there's a will involved, and then you know, is there a
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writer survivalship on the deed or sorry on the will. That kind of stuff
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has to be kind of thought through. The realtor should be helping you with
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that to make sure they're asking all those good questions. But I would encourage
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sellers to just have a realistic, realistic expectation around what their house is worth.
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You know, and we have so many websites out there where you and
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I won't call them all out in one of them rhymes with willow, and
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they have those, you know, estimates that are out there what your house
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is worth. And you know, there's nobody from that website going to walk
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into your house and give you a fair appraisal or an evaluation of what your
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you know, what your features are, what your updates are. So I
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just caution sellers to get you know, have that in their head that that's
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what that website said, when your professional realtor comes in and takes a look
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around and looks at all your fee, there's a lot more that goes into
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it. There's a lot more than goes into it. You know where those
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those websites are using algorithms based on you know, just community or within a
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half mile, within a mile, and you could have a you know,
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a mobile home park within a half mile of you that could affect your your
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value. Or you know, your neighbor down the streets sold for a higher
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amount, but they they updated their kitchen and updated their baths and you did
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not. So you can't just loop all that together. Yeah, and that's
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one of the things. And here's the thing, rich. You know,
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we live in an internet world and we have for some time. And I'll
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give it a good example along the same same lines. My brother in law's
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in the car business, and he talks about from time to time how today's
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car buyer is nothing like the car buyer twenty five to thirty years ago.
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You know though a lot of times people show up on the lot the dealership
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where he works and say, look, you know, as a buyer,
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i'm trading in my fill in blank here for and this is what I want.
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Here's what my car worth, here's a cost of new vehicle I'm buying,
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here's the deal, and I'll start to paperwork. It doesn't work that
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way in the car business, and it doesn't work that way in the real
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estate business either, rich because again, there are so many variables that you
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can't get from a website that's correct and uh and you know, bringing to
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parents along, I always think it's a good idea, but sometimes they're still
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in that mind. They haven't bought a house in twenty years, and they're
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still believing that you can go in and with different expectations. And so I
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would, you know, just to start off the process, I would tell
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you to have a you know, kind of a good conversation with yourself and
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your if there's somebody else in the house that's you know, you know,
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authorized to selling, you guys are going to talk about what it really looks
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like and be realistic about it so that there are no disappointments. But they're
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also really you know, it's just easier to meet those expectations when they are
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All right, so rich. So the age old question is why should
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someone use a realtor when they can just do it themselves, especially in today's
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modern air Why? Yes? Why? Why? You know? You need?
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You need a professional in the gap to navigate all of this, all
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of this this information that's coming and to keep you on track. They can
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save you lots of time and lots of money based on their power and their
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ability to negotiate the you know, the the inspections and get you to a
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closing. That used to be. I don't know that this stat is exactly
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howcurate right now, but it used to be that eighty percent of homes that
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were sold by the sell of themselves, sold by owner did not make it
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to closing. So realtors can get involved in that and help steer through that
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process. And it's getting through inspections and appraisals and just those kinds of things
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that help. And you know, we know, we know where to go,
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we know how to help you. We're worth every dollar. Well,
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most of us are out there. I've said this before and I'm not shy
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about that that all reeltors are not the same, you know, but you
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need to get somebody professional involved to help you and take that stress away from
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you. Well, how is the market right now in the Putnham County area
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where you now live, or really you serve the entire Kanaal Valley and we're
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everywhere. But I mean, how's the overall market in this part of the
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state looking right now? Yeah, and it's been slower in the last couple
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of months. It's definitely slowed. I think some of the rate hikes have
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caught up the folks. But this is traditionally the time of year where things
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just slow down anyway, So you kind of couple those things together. The
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inventory has not improved, so it does look like the rates are coming back
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a little bit, so you know, you could certainly talk to a lender
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about that. I think they're under eight now, maybe closer to seven and
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a half, which is helpful. But it's funny that I just heard of
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commercials talked about the rates are going to the REFI loans. I think it
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was right before we came on the air of the refi loans or the applications
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for refis have gone down. Well, of course they have refinance you're talking
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about, Yeah, sorry, the refinancial loans. So but yeah, it's
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just it's been a little slower the last couple of months, but typically maybe
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or a mid February or so, it'll start to gain some traction and get
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into the selling season for the for the spring, and we just need more
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homes. We need, we need more in Putnam County. And look again,
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I spent a lot of time talking about that because it's where I live,
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but I'm in the Kanau Valley as well. But I was in another
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cows in Jackson County last night, and and I was talking to some folks
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in Ripley. They're saying the same thing, and it's because of there.
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They've got Berkshire Hathaway coming in. They're going to see some some new core
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and they were telling this story in this gathering. I was in last night
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that when when the aluminum plants, the kais are aluminum in those ravens,
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would you know when they when they when those first came into being, that
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they really weren't prepared in the community because so many people came to town at
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one time. And luckily what's happening is it's going to be a little bit
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more staggered, I guess when people come in. But we're already seeing people
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that are going into Putnam County. We're both you and I live right now
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directly related to New Core, and there's just not enough houses. Yeah,
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I mean, it's a good problem to have, I guess in theory.
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But well, if you're listening, go build some houses, Go build some
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houses, because if you're I mean, it is a good problem to have,
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But not when there's not a you know, there's nothing on the horizons
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to have them start building those homes. You know. So well, there's
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lots of land that's still available, with lots of land listings are on the
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MLS that developers can snag up and and you know, put some houses in
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and then there are a few, but it's just nowhere close to the demand
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that we need. Well, if you need somebody to serve as your real
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estate agents, this is the best in business right here. Rich the realtor
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me. Connect with the Meeks at meeks dot us. All right, that's
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an easy way to find us, all right, Rich, Well, great
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to see you as always, so hope you and the family had a great
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Thanksgiving and u great Christmas coming up too, So thanks all to you,
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the show now, the Boss, the Cooper Coop. How are you man?
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What's going on? How you doing, Dave? I'm doing fine,
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buddy. Once I finally got here this morning, Oh yeah, I know
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a lot of great crazy uh uh traffic. I always get caught right in
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front of the school, of course, and this morning, for some reason,
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it was worse than it has been as of late. So I had
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a set through like six light cycles. By the time you get like three
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and you're like, are you kidding me? You're starting to regret that last
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cup of coffee you had before you Yeah, that, And then I started
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thinking, well, maybe I should have taken the South Side from mccuorkel or
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walk whatever walked, Yeah, you know, taking a helicopter in something along
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those. The reason I want to have you stopped by today. We kicked
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off the thing or I guess. It went live earlier today and we call
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it West Virginia Bargains and we've done this over the years, used to call
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turtle bids for various forms. I remember turtle bids well before I came to
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work here, and it's a very popular thing explain to the people. Of
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course, First of all starts at the website wd bargains dot com. Uh,
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there's a ton of things on there that people can bid on. It's
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like a three day event and I was looking at in the list. You
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know, it's being updated as we speak. There are just a ton of
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really really cool prize not really prizes because you're buying them, but I mean
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things that people can bid on at unbelievably low prices. Sometimes. What really
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gets me about this and for those of you that have participated or have heard
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the commercials over the years, that things are a little bit different. We
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did launch this morning, however, the bidding periods only three days now.
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We've done it for weeks in the past. Yes, And also there's now
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buy it now option. If you're familiar with eBay or other auction sites,
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it kind of mirrors that, so you can go and see what the butt
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now price is for some of these for some of these things that are on
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there, So that's something to keep in mind. It's only a three day
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window that we have right now, so everything that's live this morning, the
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bidding period is only going to be three days, so you want to be
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aware of that. And then also if it's something that you really want,
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you can check it out at the bot now optioning, you can go and
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get it. And most of these things are sixty to sixty five percent off.
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And in these times of inflation, inflationary period where we've been dealing with
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that for years now, you can look ahead a little bit if you plan
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some and if there's things you need to do, there's a lot of bargains
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that can be had. As the name suggests, there's a lot of bargains
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that can be had at w B bargains. First and foremost, we need
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to pull our resources, we need to get our lunch money together. That
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for about a week or so, I think is all we would have to
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say. Because there is a fire truck for sale, a nineteen eighty one
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GMC fire truck that's for sale, a legitimate fire truck. This is not
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a talk of truck, no no, h it's a real fire This is
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a real fire truck. I think the bed for it now is like sixty
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seven hundred. The buy it now is ten thousand. I think it retails
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for like seventeen thousand or something like that. We hear me out, you
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and I, we get our lunch money together, we put it, we
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put it in the kitty. At the end of the week, we make
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our final bid on this thing, because that will at least be like twenty
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five grand, you know, with our lunch money. And so we win
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this fire truck and then we just slap your face on the side of it.
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It's like the Dave Allen fire truck or the five Dave Allen Show on
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five eighty love fire truck. We just put your face on it everywhere after
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the show. You can drive it downtown Charleston and you know, I don't
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know, like throw hot dogs out of it or something like that. I
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mean, this seems like it's a winning deal to me. When I first
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heard that, and somebody upstairs, one of the sales weasels, pointed that
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out to me and said something about there being a fire truck out here.
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I'm thinking again, Okay, like a cast iron type. Now, No,
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it's a legitimate fire truck that you can bid on. And you know
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I've said before that we have all these wonderful vehicles out here in the parking
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lot, you know from all of our sister stations. Sure we don't have
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a five A. We don't vehicle. Don't talking about that either. I'm
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telling you a fire truck. You know, the first time that there was
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a fire truck and on, so maybe this is the same one. Actually
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there was one in Huntington in a while back. Like that was my proposal
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is that we should get it for HS. Actually is for hotline, you
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know, hotline fire. I figured we could tie it in and you know,
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we could figure it and talking about like throwing hot dogs from it.
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That would fit on our lane perfectly, because that's pretty much that's pretty much
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what we do. But in all seriousness, there's things there like if you're
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just looking, like if you go to a gym membership already or you're looking
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to get a gym membership, you can go and get a YMCA membership right
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now for a year. I think the current breds like one hundred and twenty
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two dollars or something like that. You can get it for for literally sixty
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percent off of what you would normally pay for it. If you're somebody that
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goes to Waves of Fun during the during the summer and it's something you usually
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get your kid a yearly passed for or something like that, again, you
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can go to the site now get that for sixty sixty five percent off it.
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You may not be using it tomorrow, but it's something you're going to
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pay for this summer anywy, so why not get it now. There's limousine
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services, so you know it may not be prom season right now, but
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proms right around the corner. You might want to have a three hour limousine
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service that that's at the site now that you can get here locally for sixty
21:11
to sixty five percent off. There's tons of stuff over there. You go
21:15
to WV Bargains and you can go to Charleston to see all the things that
21:18
are local. But don't be afraid to shop around at the other areas either,
21:22
because you can still make bids on them. You might have to range
21:23
to pick it up if you get like a skid out of Martinsburg or something.
21:26
I mean, you might have to arrange to pick it up. But
21:29
you can do that, and all of the prices are extraordinarily affordable. I
21:33
mean, when you're talking about sixty sixty five percent off of some of these
21:36
things, that's really useful. One of my favorite ones is Eddie's Tires,
21:40
Winfield and PoCA, those things. I think that the buy it now is
21:44
three twenty five one a five hundred dollars certificate, but I think the bid
21:45
on them right now is one hundred and twenty five dollars one hundred and twenty
21:48
five dollars if you get it for whatever you get it for. Having new
21:52
tires are expensive now, I mean the price of tires has gone up quite
21:56
a bit. Imagine being able to get a five hundred dollars certificate you end
21:59
up getting for a couple hundred bucks or something. I mean, you're saving
22:00
yourself quite a bit of money for things that you know you're going to be
22:03
spending money on, if not today, then tomorrow, this summer, or
22:07
whatever it might be. So there's some great opportunities over there. I mean,
22:11
we got tax services from Penny Pinchers, gift certificates from Dunbar Furniture,
22:15
one of our great advertisers in Pew and Pew just mentioned just a couple,
22:21
and there's no way in this ten minute secment we can mention all of them.
22:25
A go kart from West Virginia Auto Sales, a truck driving scholarship.
22:30
Maybe could we discover one day. But this radio thing really ain't working out
22:33
for us. Maybe we should go become truck drivers. And I will say
22:37
this in all seriousness. You talk to anybody in the business world right now,
22:41
there is a definite shortage of truck drivers. They do some I'm familiar
22:47
with this facility down in Boone County. They do some great jobs down there.
22:48
I mean, this is a scholarship that you could bet on for who
22:52
knows how much you can get it for as compared to the what the normal
22:55
tuition rate would be. Absolutely correct, there's so many of those things.
22:59
You know, I have a young dog that loves kidderoos. You can get
23:00
a year past the Kittteroo's for us a substancial discount. There's tons of stuff
23:06
over there. I encourage you to just go check it out at WV Bargains
23:07
because you know, we're all looking at speaking of penny pinchers, we're all
23:12
looking to try to find ways to save money. And this isn't things.
23:17
I mean, there's luxury items in there, don't get me wrong. You
23:18
can find luxury audims, which there's also just so many everyday useful things that
23:23
if you're like, if you look down through they're like, hey, I
23:26
can save sixty percent on this. I can save sixty percent on this.
23:27
I can save sixty percent on this. And if you're in the situation to
23:30
do that in the long term, you're gonna save yourself tons of money by
23:33
taking a look at this. And again it's like, it's a very good
23:36
point that Coop brought up. We're here in the Charleston area, of course,
23:38
but all of our stations in the WVRC media family take part in this.
23:44
So you're going to see things that are coming from one of our stations
23:47
in Martinsburg or Morgantown or Beckley, whatever. And if it's a good enough
23:52
deal, people are willing to I mean, I know, I got a
23:53
lot of buddies of mine, people in my family too, that are car
23:56
people. They don't care to drive to get if they're gonna get the deal
24:00
that they want on their car. I'm not saying that those deals are out
24:03
there but I'm just saying there's a little bit of every I think we hit
24:07
several of them here and again. It's just constantly evolving. So so check
24:11
this out, you know, not only and again sense of urgency here.
24:15
It's only for three days, that's right, that's the thing. Like,
24:18
it's different than what it has been. You think that people aren't like,
24:21
wait, I can get window tenpting for sixty percent off. Let me go
24:22
get that gift certificate. You better hurry if you're looking to get some of
24:26
these things because these things can get a little bit pricey and being able to
24:29
get them for fifty sixty percent off is a huge deal. So those are
24:32
things you want to check out and go ahead and do your Christmas shopping.
24:33
I mean, I mean and again, these businesses that we're talking about here
24:37
in Charleston, these are local businesses too. And people hear me every day
24:41
beating the drums. Shop local, shop, local, shop local. These
24:45
are where we got these things. You know, these are locally owned operated.
24:49
The Limo Service is a local company. Kiddaroo's Pew Furniture, Done Bar
24:55
for these are all local companies. Absolutely. Yeah, you got to check
25:00
it out and if somebody wants to buy us the fire engine. We'll give
25:02
you like a live read every day or something like that. So you know,
25:04
you know what we could get if we put Hollywood Jeff Petty, our
25:07
producer, forbid. What do you think we could get for Jeff Man.
25:11
He's too valuable to even even to even contemplate this situation. Well, I
25:15
mean, but he's got these flowing locks. He normally has his hair up
25:18
in a ponytail, but today he's got these flowing locks. I mean the
25:21
hair should be worth something, right, Jef. I mean it should be,
25:23
But I mean I don't. As you can tell, I do try
25:27
to take good care of my hair. Cascating ahead, let us yes,
25:30
He and Shockley at our sister station, the Mountain. So well, Kop,
25:36
I appreciate. I know you're busy, get busy, the hardest working
25:37
man in radio. I appreciate you stopping by the studio to talk about this.
25:41
But again, it kicked off today and it's going to go through Friday.
25:45
It's WV Bargains dot com. Go check it out. Go just go
25:48
take a look. Or if it weren't go on your lunch hour, you
25:49
know whatever, just get your phone out or your laptop of or whatever you
25:53
got and look at it and there's a lot of cool stuff on there.
25:56
Man agreed, Yeah, go check it out. All right, Yi Cooper
26:00
again, you can catch him this afternoon. Okay, quick preview. What
26:03
do you got coming on on Hotline today? What is today? This is
26:04
Wednesday? Right, Yeah, So Tony Creedy will be on in the five
26:07
o'clock hour. We'll have let's see, we will have some fantasy sports talk.
26:12
We'll be talking about everything that's going on with bold projections for where WV
26:18
is going to go. Dave and I play a game called Pick one on
26:21
Wednesday, So we'll do this that this afternoon at about four thirty's. It's
26:25
it's a huge it's a huge to day of stuff from entertainment industry, all
26:30
of our local sports stuff. We'll talk, We'll do a couple features on
26:33
the high school teams that are going to be in the playoffs this upcoming weekend.
26:37
It's a full gamut of entertainment and sports on Hotline. So you want
26:40
to check us out from three to six. Somebody asked me one time when
26:42
I was talking about the show this, so what kind of show is Hotline?
26:45
My answer was yes, yeah, Well, our favorite thing to say
26:48
is, hey, what's the hot line about? About three hours long?
26:51
It's about three hours long. It's news, it's tech. It no politics
26:53
though, no politics politics. And when we when like when Mansion announced last
26:59
week or two weeks ago that he wasn't going to rerun for that, that
27:03
happened during our show, Like we had to break that. So we came
27:06
on and talked about it, and our listeners right away start sending a section
27:08
no politics, no politics. Man. We didn't make any comments. We
27:11
just had to report the news. So we do do news. We gotta
27:14
do news, but we just try to stay out of somebody had I think
27:17
even xed. I have a hard time saying that somebody xed about it and
27:21
said that. Maybe I think it might have been Chris Lawrence that said,
27:23
it's the most Dave weekly thing ever. Is that you talked about, you
27:26
know, Joe Big national news, Joe Mansion is not going to run for
27:30
reelection. What's your favorite chicken sand It was a national fried chicken sandwich day.
27:33
Man, we had to talk about chicken sandwiches. Absolutely all right,
27:37
Coop, I appreciate you man, Thanks a lot. WP bargains dot com
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Mike Pushkin is here. How are you, Michael? I'm doing well.
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Thanks for having me on. Thank you for being here. Did you Coop
31:23
and I talking about this WV bargains dot Com thing we've got going on.
31:27
I hate to admit that I did not hear you talk. All right,
31:30
just give me thirty seconds. I can't I can't imagine what else I had
31:34
to do other than listen to that. But I'm sure it wasn't work.
31:37
It was five minutes ago. I mean, I thought you might be listening
31:41
to the Careme ram there. Yeah, okay, all right, So we
31:42
got this WV bargains dot Com. All of our stations across the state are
31:47
taking part in this. We got all these great things that you could bid
31:48
on sixty to seventy percent off these prizes, including a fire truck. You
31:53
can win a fire truck. No, we got to buy it. You
31:56
know, you get a bit on it. But now we have a fire
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track, a real, live, genuine fire truck Michael, Okay, I
32:04
mean is that it's pretty cool. That's that's kind of like that kid that
32:07
wanted to win the the the airplane from Pepsi. Did you ever hear about
32:14
that? I don't. There was a commercial back in the eighties we could
32:17
win. They said you could, like, if you had enough Pepsi points,
32:21
you could do you win a Harrier jet. It was a joke,
32:23
but some kids sued Pepsi. Sued Pepsi. I remember this story. Yeah,
32:28
Now, this is a legit fire truck. Okay, good, I
32:30
don't want to see it. You could get a fire truck. I do
32:34
not need a fire truck. Put the sure. All right, all right,
32:36
let's talk some serious stuff here, and let's talk about the West Side
32:39
in the gas situation and last time you were on. You know, that's
32:43
all we talked about last time we were on, as you were one of
32:45
the people it was impacted by that. Let's talk about you personally. Talk
32:49
about me personally. Fine, I'm concerned about other people I know, but
32:52
your gas. Yeah, I believe it was about about a week ago while
32:58
I was reconnected, and it turned out that my furnace did not work,
33:01
my hot water tank did Uh, the way that the gas line runs into
33:06
my house, it goes into the furnace first, all the water because of
33:09
gravity, all the water dropped down into the furnace. However, I have
33:14
a relatively new furnace and it only damaged the first electrical component that the water
33:19
hit, which was a pretty easy fix. I'm very fortunate. There are
33:22
a lot of people who are a lot less fortunate. And your hearing you
33:25
know, the gas has been restored. Well, the gas is going through
33:30
the through the lines, but unfortunately, when water hits these electronic components,
33:34
it fries out whatever it hits. So a lot of people don't have hot
33:37
water. A lot of people are still without heat, a lot of people
33:40
are still without their gas stoves. So there's still a lot of people affected.
33:45
And I will, uh, you know, commend Mountaineer Gas for the
33:50
work that they've been doing. I mean they've been They've had crews over there
33:52
from all over the state working around the clock to restore the the service over
33:58
there. And they have contract with the whole bunch of different plumbers and HVAC
34:02
people who have just been working their tails off going from house to house.
34:06
But it's a big job and they haven't been able to fix everybody yet.
34:08
And it's a good point that you bring up. And I mentioned this a
34:10
couple of days ago, and the term that I use, Mike and I'm
34:13
talking about when they say the gas has been restored. Gas has been restored,
34:16
but customers have not. In many cases, a lot of appliances have
34:21
been damaged by you know, water going through the gas line, which is
34:24
it's not supposed to be there, and it's hitting electronic components. For whether
34:29
it's a hot water tank or a furnace, you have electronic components and once
34:31
the water hits it, Uh, you know, water and electronics do not
34:36
mix, no, And you don't have to be you know, very intelligent,
34:38
like I'm not to be able to figure that out there with you,
34:40
all right, So let's I want to a big shout out to West Virginia
34:45
Health right on the west side Breing United Methodists and the City of Charleston and
34:50
all the other volunteer groups that have really stepped up and helped get you know,
34:53
the space heaters out of people, blankets, hot plates and and up.
34:58
You know, they're serving hot dinner meals every night over at West Virginia
35:00
Health right, and they're really working hard to serve the community and they deserve
35:06
praise. You mentioned Mountaineer Gas and from what I know about it, and
35:12
I've had mister scaff on the show, you know, he's been on Hobby
35:14
numerous times. He's made the rounds of the media when he's not out there
35:16
working because he's literally on the scene, out there seven days a week.
35:21
They're you know, I think that they've done in my opinion, they've done
35:24
a They have done a pretty decent job considering the hand they were dealt because
35:29
this was not from what we know now, and there's going to be a
35:31
lot of investigation and a lot of litigation is going to come out of this.
35:37
There is there's a lot of unanswered questions. There's questions that they want
35:40
answered. But the big question that I keep seeing people ask over and over
35:46
over and over again, it's West Virginia American water. Yeah, and they've
35:50
been relatively silent on this, and maybe it's because they're gonna, you know,
35:52
they're gonna wind up in court and that's where where this Oh yeah,
35:59
I did. I reached out to you know, your friend and mine chairman
36:01
Daniel Linvill, who chairs one of the chairs of the Joint Committee on Transportation
36:07
and Infrastructure, and he agreed and I did a you know, we did
36:10
a press release on it and everything. He agreed to call in representatives FRO
36:14
both West Virginia, American Water and Mountaineer Gas to the next uh, during
36:17
the next interims in front of the committee on the Joint Committee on Tree.
36:21
Will that be the interims that are coming up this month? Yeah? Coming
36:23
up next week, next week, next week. Where are those being held
36:25
in Charles, Charles's Capital. Yeah, but when that when that committee meets,
36:30
hopefully they show up and we can ask some questions. And the main
36:34
issue with with Mountaineer Gas was just the initial lack of communication. If you
36:38
have, you know, over a thousand customers over on the West Side that
36:43
are going to get their their gas shut off, but there was absolutely no
36:45
alert system in place, or if it was, it wasn't used. We
36:49
had no clue. Everybody woke up that Saturday morning not having heat and wondering
36:53
why, uh, that's something we need to improve on. I mean,
36:58
you would think that that would all already be something you would think would already
37:01
be the law that they would be required to have this alert system in place,
37:05
but apparently it is not. It is for the for water for water
37:08
companies, whether it's a public water system or you know, a huge,
37:15
uh, you know, multinational company like West Virginia American Water that they have
37:20
to have an alert system in place for boiled water advisories. But apparently the
37:23
other utilities do not have to have this alert system in place. And I'd
37:27
like to see them, I mean, even you said, even some of
37:30
the smaller companies. I mean, you know, I haven't lived in Logan
37:35
in ten years, but the radio station where I worked down there offered a
37:38
texting services and I still to this day, I just never never disabled it.
37:43
I still get text about boil water advisories and water outages and Logan and
37:46
I haven't lived there in tent. Well, they're required to do so,
37:49
they've had it, they've had it for ten years. Other utilities apparently are
37:52
not required to alert their customers when something like this happens. Well, it's
37:58
something that's going to have to be worked on. And you know, again,
38:01
it seems like there's a lot of fingers pointing right now at West Virginia
38:05
American Water in this and they've had a bad run Michael over the last ten
38:09
years or so, well, I can. I mean, I've been very
38:13
vocal about this. I've always felt that water, of all the utilities,
38:16
that water should still be publicly owned. I think when you take that,
38:21
when companies are are more more responsible to their shareholders than they are their rate
38:25
payers, you have issues and it just seems like not enough, in my
38:30
opinion, not enough is being put back into the infrastructure that brings the water
38:34
to people, and more money is put into acquiring other water systems. And
38:38
West Virginia American Water is buying up water systems in the eastern Panhandle. They're
38:43
buying them up down in Monroe County. That's all over the state. They're
38:46
buying up all these water systems. And what it seems like, at least
38:51
to someone who's just you know, someone who just pays their bill and expects
38:54
to have clean water coming out of their tap, is that they're not putting
38:59
enough back into the infant structure. The textra said, why didn't the city
39:02
had the alarms go off on the west side and then had the residents call
39:05
for information. I don't know if the city was alerted in a timely manner
39:09
at least didn't know the extent of it at the time. None of us
39:15
knew the extent of it. Somebody did, I mean somebody knew the extent
39:17
of it, but not the people who live over there, and I'm not
39:21
sure that the city did either. I'm not sure that Mountaineer Gas may have
39:23
even known. I mean, based on my conversation with mister scaff I don't
39:27
know that they even realized that it was as bad as what it was initially.
39:30
One of the questions I would just like to ask, how long did
39:32
it? I mean, how long did it have to happen for forty six
39:36
miles of water pipe to get? So I'm sorry I forgot we became water
39:38
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39:43
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General Heart where Lumber of Winfield, Mike, there's been a lot of
40:02
the news. I think copy is going to delve into this a little bit
40:05
next hour about this possible shutdown of the postal distribution center out of South Ridge.
40:12
I mean, there's a lot of folks that are it's actually the only
40:15
postal distribution center in the cate of West Virginia that's left, and they serve
40:19
pretty much all of West Virginia and a portion of eastern Kentucky except for northern
40:23
West Virginia, don't serve the Panhandle, but pretty much they serve the entire
40:27
state. And there's talk that they just talk right now, but it's getting
40:31
a lot of play that they may shut that facility down and then transfer to
40:37
transfer those services to Pennsylvania. I know the governor. I think I saw
40:42
where he's paying a letter, you know about this urging them not to do
40:45
that. You're you're taking it well. I agree with the governor on this.
40:49
I would urge him not to do that as well. I think it
40:52
will possibly slow down our services here in West Virginia if our mail for the
40:59
entire state is sorted in Pennsylvania, and you know, not to mention.
41:02
A lot of folks around here work there, and I would like to see
41:07
those those jobs stay here. I'd like to see those people stay employed with
41:12
the Postal Service, and I'd like to see us keep our our facility up
41:15
there and at south Ridge. I mean it's I think Hobby is going to
41:20
have the local the union representative. I think from that organization. On the
41:23
show, I saw that I would strongly oppose any any plans to move our
41:30
facility out of state. Yeah. I don't know anybody that would disagree with
41:35
that. And it's a twelve minute agreement on that, twelve minutes away from
41:37
ten. What else is on your mind? I know that you've you've been
41:40
keeping an eye on some news, did you? But first of all,
41:42
did you have a good Thanksgiving? I had a great Thanksgiving. How about
41:45
did you have a good night to see that you went to see the Jets
41:46
point, I don't want to talk about it. Uh so you Yeah,
41:52
I was. I visited some family up in New York. My mother and
41:57
I drove up to New York to visit fans, and I did go out
42:02
to the meadow Lands on for the first ever Black Friday game, And man,
42:07
that was a demoralizing loss there at the metal Lands. All right,
42:10
I'll leave you alone on that. I think I'll talk any more about that.
42:14
One more thing on the water company, and then we'll take a break,
42:15
and then we'll kind of reset and come back with some things. I
42:17
know you want to talk about. Twit in the news. Texas just want
42:21
to know where Bill Rainey and his klan at the PSC or to force the
42:23
water company, to help the gas company get rid of the Public Service Commission
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does the texture. Well, that's one of the reasons why we're calling for
42:30
an investigation front of the legislature, because you know, unlike the Public Service
42:34
Commission, of legislature answers directly to voters, and I think it's important to
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have representatives closer to the people asked those questions instead of appointed members of the
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public service. And this would be one of those. In this divided time
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that we live in, I would think that with this situation, Mike,
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you could sit down with you and the most right of right wing legislators and
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you'd all be on the same page on this. So far we are.
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It's good. It was good. Like I said, I reached out to
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the chair. Obviously, the chairs of the committee are on the other side
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even though they don't represent this part of the state. You know it
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it is amazing for what they say. All right? I had riched the
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realtor client on the top of the show and answering real estate questions, and
46:00
one question came in, like, we'll take care of this and we'll turn
46:01
over to Mike. Somebody had texted just after Rich left and said, are
46:05
the economics in favor of new built houses? I imagine Holmes won't be built
46:10
if it costs more to build than what the house will be sold for.
46:14
I texted Rich, who's already left. He said, still about two hundred
46:17
dollars per square foot to build. That number seems to me to be dropping,
46:22
but not quickly. So hope that answers the question. All right,
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Mike, what's on your mind? News wise? Okay, Well, I
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think it's something that should be concerning to everybody. It said something that shouldn't
46:34
be It definitely isn't a partisan issue. There was an article that came out
46:38
yesterday, I believe in West Virginia Watch, which I think is a new
46:43
publication and news service here in West Virginia, and they do a really good
46:47
job. And the author of this report, Amelia Nicely, I believe she's
46:53
been on this show. She was on Hoppy yesterday to talk about this,
46:57
and it was in regards to the case, the horrific case that was discovered
47:00
up in Sissonville here in Kanall County not too long ago, with the family
47:06
that had come here from Washington State, I believe, and they had five
47:08
foster children and the two oldest foster kids were being kept in a shack,
47:15
aki in a shed, and they were treating these kids really like slaves and
47:20
forcing them into labor and have miserable conditions. I mean children, these are
47:23
children that can't have no way to fend for themselves. They're in the foster
47:29
care system, and they were being kept in a shed. And the what
47:34
the new, what you know, what just came out was that the West
47:37
Virginia Child Protective Services had been called several times to that residence and there are
47:44
absolutely no records showing that they responded to those calls. So neighbors saw what
47:49
was going on. It's a close knit community up there in Sistonville, and
47:52
that and that part of Sistonville, people all know all their neighbors. They
47:54
didn't know this family, but what they could see were children being tortured and
47:59
forced into slaves of labor at this residence. And they called CPS repeatedly,
48:04
and there are no records showing that there was any sort of response to this.
48:08
I just found the story just just heartbreaking, is gut wrenching, as
48:13
anybody would, and it just to me, it shows that we have you
48:19
know, why are they unable to respond to these types of calls to protect
48:22
the most vulnerable members of our society, children in foster careents because they don't
48:27
have enough workers there. And we're not going to get more workers there if
48:30
we continue to have this lack of priorities and misplaced priorities in state government,
48:36
where you know, we have legislators and a governor that want to pat each
48:38
other on the back for passing a flat budget. Well what does that mean.
48:42
It means we're not paying people to do very tough jobs. And I'll
48:45
tell you, raising the premiums on PIA, raising the premiums on our public
48:51
employees insurance is going to make matters even worse. It makes it even less
48:54
attractive to people for people to work in the public sector. You know,
49:00
people can go get a job at Walmart or McDonald's and not have to see
49:05
horrific stuff like children being locked in a shed. Well, that's where they're
49:07
going to go. And we aren't going to be able to attract people into
49:09
the public sector. And what that means is we can't do We can't have
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the most basic services protecting children in state custody who have absolutely no way to
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fend for themselves. If we can't do that as a state, then we
49:24
are failing it. I read the story and, by the way, very
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nice job of reporting there by Amelia. I don't I don't think. I
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don't think she's been on the show. I don't know her personally. I
49:34
would be more than happy to have her on. But it was a very
49:37
nice well I mean, I say it's a very nice job of reporting.
49:38
I'll say it was as nice as it could possibly be considering the subject matter.
49:43
It was a horrific subject matter which she did. It was a very
49:45
good investigation. It was a very good investigation. So is this something Mike
49:50
as you know, the new session will will gavel in in January. Got
49:52
interims coming up next week. The new session will come in. It's an
49:57
election year, as you know, a lot sometimes been there a long time.
50:01
You know, sometimes not a heck for like gets done during an election,
50:05
Ye're not as much as maybe an off election year. Is this something
50:07
that in your mind forget about parties? Do you think that the legislators are
50:12
now going to take this seriously that we've gotten that they have to do something?
50:15
And I'd say in the strongest possible terms that Dan well Butterby, if
50:21
we can't address this issue, I don't know what else we need to even
50:23
be talking about. From out children in state custody. It's a basic function
50:29
of a state government to do they the best they can to protect these children
50:34
who have nobody else there for them for whatever reason, you know, their
50:37
parents are unable to take care of them. They've been taken away from their
50:40
families. They are in state custody and to have the child protect the services
50:45
called repeatedly over this most horrific of living conditions for these children that were locked
50:51
in a shed out in Cystamville and nobody there's no records showing that anybody responded
50:55
to those calls, and that's not bord. I don't think it's an isolated
51:00
incident. I think that there's just this culture in state government where we I
51:07
think we said in our statement yesterday, we have a lot of folks in
51:09
office, including the governor, who know the cost of everything, but the
51:13
value of nothing. It's all about you know what things cost. How we're
51:17
going to save the state money. We're going to have a flat budget.
51:20
Well, flat budget means that you're not putting money into basic services, and
51:23
there's a whole lot of basic services that aren't getting met, and this is
51:27
just the most egregious example of it. We've got to close out the show
51:31
quick textas Dave, I worked for the Postal Service Remote Encoding Center for ten
51:36
years before we receive visitors from DC to inform us that we were closing.
51:38
It was located on the patio clay side, a clay center side of Lee
51:42
Street post Office. We were only one of three remaining facilities from fifty nation
51:46
wide in first peak. Why is West Virginia being targeted again? Well,
51:51
it's a good question we should ask. All right, Yeah, we'll ask
51:53
that all right. I appreciate you being here, Mike, thanks for having
51:57
me on. Thanks for let's bet on that fire truck. I need to
52:00
bid on it. Yeah, you gotta beid on it. Okay, I'll
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put in an extremely low bid on it and we'll see. All right,
52:06
what's the insurance on that? I don't know. Just go get a it's
52:09
a fire truck. Okay, I'll bid on it. I need a fire
52:13
all right, we gotta go. Coming up till marketing your house. There
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you go. Coming up tomorrow on the show, we're gonna be joined by
52:17
Fred Persinger to talk about the Super six which is in Wheeling this weekend,
52:22
and more as Day two will be tomorrow. Wv Bargains dot com. Hoppy
52:25
coming up, follow the news of the daw Metro News dot com, w
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c HS Network dot com. For my producer, Hollywood, Jeffatty. Thank
52:31
you so much. I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun.
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