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delicate Mike Pushkin with some election results when what happens just over here on Tuesday
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night. Mike, how you doing, man, I'm doing great. Thanks
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for having me on. First of all, I just wanted some of my
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condolences out or my you know. My thoughts are with friend Doug scaff a
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horrible accident while picking up campaign signs down in Boone County. I have texted
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back and forth with him this morning and he seems to be in good spirits,
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and I think he's gonna be fine, but he's gonna have to be
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laid up a little bit. Had a little bit of a problem when he
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was taking signs down, and Dougs contacted us this morning as well and wanted
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for folks to be aware that that he knows that there's still signs out there
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and that he will pull them down. That this isn't like anything option or
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everything. Just to be patient with him because he's not doing so well right
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now. But he's going to be okay, I think, as it was
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multiple snake bites, yeah, copperhead bights, copper heads on both legs.
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Yeah, yeah, so that's not good, Dougs. Dougs seems like he's
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going to be okay. Yeah, we do have a statement from him this
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morning. But if you happen to see one of his signs, feel free
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to take it down, he said, or he's going to be coming around
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and doing that himself. Awesome. Be careful when you're out there picking up
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those signs or out there in general, there's you know, be aware of
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your surroundings. A lot of poisonous snakes out there. It's pretty crazy because
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when I was a kid, there there was a lot of Copperhead sightings,
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and I think that maybe we've lost a little bit of resolution of that because
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we don't se him as much anymore. When I was a kid, that
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was a thing that we looked out for quite a bit. I used to
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see them all the time. Yeah, me too, Me too. Have
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grown up, so man, I know, Uh, election is election is
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over? Of course, Uh, maybe not a lot of surprises. And
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West Virginia in general, maybe if you hear and there, depending on where
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you're at in your localities and stuff. What's your takeaway from a perspective the
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Democratic Party, Well, first of all, I think overall, as we
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expected, the turnout was a lot slower than usual. I think that can
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be attributed to the fact that both of the at the top of the ticket
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on both sides the presidential election was we know who the nominees were going to
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be, so there was not a contested presidential primary on either ballot. And
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also, I think we should mention all the negative campaigning, mainly on the
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Republican side, almost entirely on the Republican side, does drive down voter turnout.
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It does suppress votes when people are just inundated with negativity and just a
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ridiculous commercials non stop. They are not the least bit substantive, just attacking
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the other people for the craziest things. That does drive down turnout. So
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yeah, as we expected turnout was low. We also expected there would be
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a lot more of the Independence would be would be picking up Republican ballots because
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that's where all the money was being spent on advertising. Of course, they
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had more primary elections on their side, so you'd say there was more action
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on that side, although we had some very important primaries on our side as
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well, so it's no surprise that more Republican ballots were picked up by Independence.
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How we feel a lot of those folks were going in there to vote
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against somebody, not necessarily vote for somebody, to vote against somebody, and
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we feel a lot of those independences will be voting for Democrats in the fall.
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I know that. That's I've heard that, and there was a lot
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of a lot of the negativity draws things like that, though that will cause
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somebody to get a ballot to vote against somebody, because and the crazy thing
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is, it's not necessarily that the ads work on what they're talking about.
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People will get mad at the ad and then vote against the person that put
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out the ad that the gain. It does happen like that from time to
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time. Yes, it's just it's crazy to think about it from that way.
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So as far as the Democrats going forward on what you're looking at now,
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as far as as we go into November for the general election, Uh,
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where are you looking to make progress at in West Virginia? Where do
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you think your strengths could be or where do you think that you might be
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able to make some great Well, our strengths are in the caliber of candidates
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that we have, especially with our statewide ticket. We feel that our candidates
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are actually more qualified to do the job that they're seeking. Starting with Governor,
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I'm Mayor Steele, are getting ahead of myself. Mayor Steve Williams from
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Huntington, the only three term mayor. Of course you're there's a term limit
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for mayor in Huntington. He's done his three terms. He's the only mayor
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in Huntington history to ever uh, to ever serve three terms. And he's
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done so because he's done a good job. People over there like him because
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of the job that he's doing, and they've kept re electing him. And
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remember when he when he became mayor the first time, Huntington was in a
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financial crisis, and he has really turned that city around. And uh,
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you know, they're now called what the City of Solutions because of the way
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that they've addressed the op void crisis and h and other issues that affect many
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of our population centers. Steve's done a great job and he's got a great
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story to tell, and I think he's he's more qualified than the Republican nominee
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that that won. And I remember too, I've noticed all the I mean,
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I look at all the money that's being spent on the Republican side and
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between the independent expenditures and the campaign itself that you know, millions of dollars
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spent boosting Patrick Morsey, but they never could get him above what thirty two
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or thirty three percent, about a third of the vote. And I realized
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it's a crowded primary. But still he's got a ceiling. And uh,
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I've got I've got a very good, very good feeling about about Steve Williams,
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and I think he's going to work very hard and uh, and I
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think he will make a better governor and we'll see in the fall. Now
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down we also we had a contested primary for US Senate, and first of
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all, I want to thank Zach Shrewsbury community organizer, and he had a
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big campaign staff and all the people, the volunteers and staffers on his campaign
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did a great job of energizing the voters all over this state. He did
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a great job and he should be proud of himself and congratulate him on a
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well run campaign. Mayor Glen Elliott, another mayor from the city of Wheeling,
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we wound up being the nominee for our party for US Senate. He
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also has a great story to tell and he's done a great job and as
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a two term mayor in the city of Wheeling, it's also done a lot
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for economic development in that part of the state. And also when he was
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I think right out of law school. I believe he was an intern for
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Senator Birds, So he knows how things work in the Senate and he knows
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that the only way he can do that is to reach across the aisle and
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compromise and work with everybody. And I think he's going to make a great,
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great US Senator. We have up and down the ballot that we have
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candidates that are just morequalified to do the job for Attorney General. Teresa Torseevo
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won our primary. Uh. If you were going into into a courtroom and
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you needed a good lawyer, Uh, that's what you're gonna call. Not
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the folks who are running on the other side. Teresa has tons of courtroom
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experience. She has represented first responders. She's represented police officers and firefighters across
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the state and fights to make sure that they get their benefits and their pensions.
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She is She's represented some of the young cadets at the at the State
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Police Academy that are having that are that are not suing the State Police Academy.
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Now she's represented down here in Charleston, I believe for a girls basketball
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teams. Came down here and took up for a girls basketball team that was
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being shut out of being able to play in like the the All Star League.
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She's just done a has more courtroom experience than than anybody that's running quite
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some time. And not to mention, she will be the first female attorney
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general in the state. In the auditors race, this might sound crazy,
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We're actually running an actual auditor Mariannklater has twenty years of experience as an auditor.
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She actually knows how to do the job. And quite frankly, she's
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running against a career politician who's probably been on every ballot in most of my
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lifetime, and we have a candidate actually knows knows how to do the job
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and knows what the job is. So I like her chances. I could
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go on, well, what do you think. I wanted to look at
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the Senate and the governor's race for a moment, because you mentioned with Williams
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and Elliott, two quality candidates that you're putting forward. The uphill battle,
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of course, is you're going for a state wide office against folks that have
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held state wide office, and so your battle is name recognition on that.
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How do you approach that as far as getting the word out there, nobody,
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we all know it's going to be an uphill battle. We know what
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the climate is for Democrats in this state. It's going to be a huge
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uphill battle. But I like that we're leading our ticket with mayors who've actually
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had, you know, been They've made budgets, they've they've balanced budgets for
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their cities. They have dealt with real issues. I mean, it doesn't
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get any more closer to home than the work of a mayor. You can
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ask our mayor here, Amy Goodwin, the amount of work that goes into
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that, and that's the work that actually affects the day to day lives of
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citizens. Uh So, I like that we're leading with our mayors and they
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have records to stand on, and they're in They're very impressive records. They
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have something to run on, that's for sure. Taking a look at the
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other side for just a moment seems a little unusual to me. And I'm
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as as not of an expert is possible in these matters, but it seems
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to me a little odd that once again we lose the Senate president on on
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the other side of the asl for the Republic. It was incredibly I would
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that was the biggest surprise of the night, because first of all, it
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was a three way primary, which would normally favor the incumbent, especially the
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incumbent who most likely I'm pretty sure it has the largest war chest of any
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of any member of the legislature, and he has that and he had that
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war chest because it's been no secret the like pay to play type stuff that's
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been going on in the state legislature lately. If you want to get something
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in front of the Republican caucus in the Senate, we've been told lobbyists have
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to pony up about ten thousand dollars to get in front of the Senate caucus.
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That's how it's been since Senator Blair has been Senate President. So you
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would think with that amount of grift going on that he would have had a
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big enough war chest to fend off not one, but two primary opponents.
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But apparently, I guess people are just tired of that kind of politics and
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he lost. That's interesting. There's a general there's still an anti it's not
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anti established and anti incumbency. It seems like a vane that's running through the
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state. In a lot of ways, incumbents aren't always safe, you're notwithstanding,
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of course, I don't take anything for granted, but no, I
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think people are tired with the way things are being done. And I've been
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on here before talking about it, but you know it, really it bothers
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me that we have this this sort of like pay to play scheme going on
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in our state Senate. So only those who can afford to pony up are
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able to have their side heard in front of the Republican Caucus. You know,
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it's like, we represent people in our district, most vast majority of
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them can't come up with ten thousand dollars, and we're supposed to be giving
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them equal representation too. So that kind of stuff really really ticks me off.
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So I didn't shed a whole lot of tears over Senate President Blair,
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although it'll be interesting to see in the dynamics in the Senate, and I
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think a lot of it has to do with the whoever will be appointed,
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you know, of course to Justice Trump once he's sworn, it'll be Justice
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Trump. Charlie Trump will have to resign at some point, somebody will be
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appointed to that district. And of course if Mark Hunt is able to you
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know, we'll see what happens with the with the auditors race, but somebody
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could be appointed there. But there's a lot that's going to age the dynamics.
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But now there were some very interesting races and that was probably the biggest
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surprise though. So as we look forward in coming up one another year,
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of course, this is an election year, so getting anything done from a
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policy standpoint, I don't know how those things will go about. We're still
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in waiting to see if there's going to be some kind of special session in
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West Virginia as far as finding ways to find any and I know that you
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work very hard in doing that, and many Democratic representatives do o Kaylle Young
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tries to do a good job too, finding trying to find some common grounds
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somewhere to work on to get positive things that help the people of West Virginia
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through what's our outlook on that? In the you say it helped people of
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West Virginia. At very least, we shouldn't be harming them. And right
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now there are a whole lot of people in the state that have this cloud
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of uncertainty over their lives, mainly a lot of it with the pulling the
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funds from the IBB Waiver program. So families and loved ones of people who
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have intellectual and developmental disabilities are just in a state of panic right now,
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and they shouldn't be. That's something we should have left alone. Instead,
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we're waiting to find out if there's a special session, so at the very
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least, the very least to put that money back in into the Medicaid funding
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so they're able to continue to get you know, direct care workers into their
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homes to help them take care to people who need a little extra help.
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So I'm hoping that we have that special session in order to do that.
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I'm not exactly sure when I know, we do have interims scheduled just for
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Monday and Tuesday, just two days of interims, so there is some time
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blocked, you know, around lunchtime, but that's not out of the ordinary
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for them to have no meetings scheduled around lunchtime. There could be a special
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session in there. But we're talking about you know, Monday and Tuesday next
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week and we've not heard anything yet. So hopefully there, you know,
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the negotiations are going on and we can figure out what will be on the
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call and at the very least to restore the money to the IDD waiver program.
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Now, of course, Mayor Williams running for governor and the Democratic nominee
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for governor has been very vocal and persistent in calling for the current governor to
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put reproductive freedom on the ballot, to put on the call a resolution that
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will have a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom and that would allow the voters
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of West Virginia to decide for themselves, just like in many other states where
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it's been on the ballot, and in every other state, whether it's a
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red and it's always actually it's been in red states where it's been on the
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ballot, the voters have been on the side of freedom and they've decided to
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protect that right that women have had in this country for over fifty years.
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So I do support that. Two quick things. One in observation about the
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reproductive freedom going on the ballot. The one thing, regardless of where you
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stand on this, the one thing that I find kind of funny is you
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hear people that talk about at some point in time about letting the people decide,
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and then it seems like that when you start talking about letting the people
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decide, it's like, well, i'm your elected represent that if you elect
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me to make those decisions for you, it's got to be one or the
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other, either the people decide. I mean, you can't play it both
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ways. If you want to throw that out there all the time when it
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comes to making choices about things, using that as a place to retreat to
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when you don't want to actually take a position is kind of weak sauce,
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you know, on an issue this important that affects, you know, so
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many lives, especially the lives of young women in this state. I think
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it's important enough that we let the people decide on this issue, and if
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people are against it, well, then they can go out and vote against
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it, I think. But I don't know what the Republicans are so afraid
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of. And if they feel that this is the will of the people that
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they've upheld by this complete and total abortion band that they passed in West Virginia,
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if they feel that that's the will of people, then let's put it
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to a test and then put it to a vote. Just about ninety seconds
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left. I just briefly because we touched on it just a moment ago and
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in talking about with the waivers and things like that. But as an older
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dad, as with a six year old kid, I'm concerned about the state
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of children in general in it state, whether it be in the foster situations
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that we have, whether it be in other sorts of homes, and even
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in our classrooms. We've seen results from from school choice that have depleted county
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funds. I don't think there's any question that you can that you can point
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to some of these things that are happening. I worry about public education.
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I worry about where I'm going to end up end up with my kid.
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We've been homeschooling up to a point, but we can't. We we're not
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equipped to homeschool past first or second grade or something. You know. We
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need we need educators to help us with that, and I share your concern.
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It really needs to be more of a priority to improve the lot for
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public education in this state, and something that we haven't been we need to
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get. We have only a few seconds left. We need to mention.
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We also need to fix the childcare crisis in this state. That's a workforce
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issue. That is the industry that supports every other industry, so young parents
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are able to get to work, and there's just a lack of options when
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it comes to childcare. And that's because the reimbursement rates are based on attendance
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rather than in roll. We need to base it on enrollment so these places
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are able to stay in business. Every week, it seems like we're losing
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another childcare provider and many, many folks in the state don't have access to
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it, and they're unable to get back to work, and that's something else
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that we need to put on the special session call. It's delicate. Mike
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Pushkin from Conall County. Thanks so much for your time, Mike and your
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evaluation what's been going on. We appreciate you coming on the law grabbing me
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on No probad All. That's Mike pushing coming up in just a second that
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we have Sam Somemerville who's going to be with us. We want to talk
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about the Charlie West Barbecue Fest that's coming up. We're going to talk about
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that, and as well, Tim Brady's going to be here from the Charleston
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CVB. Not only is the Great Bike Race coming through right now, but
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the next couple weeks, we have tons of stuff coming up, so we're
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going to talk to Tim about that. When we come back. We're going
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five five zero zero eight. Sam Somerville has joined me and now he is
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with Charlie West Barbecue Fest, which is coming up, and I can't wait
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to talk about some barbecue this morning. Sam, good morning. How you
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doing this morning? I'm going great, Dale, how are you doing.
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I'm doing very very well. Looking forward to talking about the Charlie West Barbecue
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Fest, which is an annual event in Charleston. It benefits the Bob Burdett
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Center, which provides after school programs for local families. Attendees can purchase barbecue
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from different vendors and sample competition. I'll let you get into the details of
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this thing because it's a great event that's been going on for some time now.
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Thank you. It really is. This is our seventh year that we've
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been doing that. We took a break during COVID, of course, but
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this is our seventh year and it's a little bit different this year in terms
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of location. Usually we have it down in the Boulevard, and obviously because
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of the USA Championship bicycle races, that's not going to happen this year.
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But we've worked with the city and we're going to be at City Center at
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Slack Plaza this year. Oh great, And so it's going to be on
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Saturday from two to seven pm at City Center. So that's just right downtown
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Charleston, between between Summer Street and the mall. You can you can get
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there very easily. I walk by there just about every day I go through
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there. It's a great location, got plenty of room, easily accessible.
23:11
They're seating and everything by. There's a there's a stage that's up. There's
23:15
gonna be a good time. It is. I think it's going to be
23:18
neat. We're really excited with a number of people that that are going to
23:22
be downtown, just a lot of activities we're going to be Actually, if
23:26
you know the transit mall is there in terms of the bus that that's going
23:29
to be close or we're going to be out on that street. There'll be
23:30
p room for people to move around. We will have live music from the
23:34
stage. We have three different groups that will be playing during the day.
23:38
So that's that's going to be really neat. We'll be announcing our sponsors from
23:41
the stage as well. But uh, it's it's always a great event benefiting
23:47
our after school program on on the West Side to Bob or Dead Center.
23:49
What are some of the competitions and categories that people are going to experience.
23:52
Well, thanks that there are basically three different categories that we have commercial folks
23:59
that you know have have either food trucks or have permanent restaurants. They'll be
24:03
coming down participating. We have our competition folks, and they are ones who
24:07
do this on a regular basis. And then we have our backyard competition and
24:12
these are guys who like to that's your smoke pit guys, guys back there
24:17
that do it themselves exactly. They're doing themselves and it's always a lot of
24:21
fun talking with people and just talking about what they're fixing, how they do
24:25
it, and just having it's a great time. What's incredible to me when
24:29
you talk about people about barbecue, and no matter what area you subscribe to,
24:33
I guess if you're like in the Carolinas or Texas or Saint Louis or
24:34
whatever it might be, Man, these folks are like scientists when you talk
24:38
to them, man, I mean they have like the formulas they use and
24:41
the way that they cook their meat and the timing they use and stuff like
24:45
that. It's fascinating to learn about it is and they have their secret recipes
24:48
too, just like you you know so, but but you know, they'll
24:52
be competing in different categories obviously best barbecue, best sauce, best ribs,
24:57
and then the backyard folks have a wild card category in which they fix whatever
25:03
they want and the judges look at that and evaluate that as well. And
25:07
we've really had some interesting ones. We've had smoked duck casadillas in the past.
25:12
We had smoke quale eggs one year, which was really good. It
25:17
was really interesting. So they're really creative and come up with a lot of
25:21
great food. Really, I wonder if you can barbecue squirrel. It seems
25:23
like something you could do that definitely would be a West Virginia or an Appalachian
25:30
barbecue in private. A way to put that together. Tell us a little
25:33
bit about the barber Deet Center. Tell us about what it does, how
25:37
it helps benefit the West Side. Well, thanks, we you know,
25:40
actually, Barbardet Center, we're in our twenty fifth year providing yes, and
25:44
it's amazing and time really flies by, but we're in our twenty fifth year
25:47
providing after school program services on the West Side. We served roughly one hundred
25:52
and seventy five students a day, elementary school students and it's free for their
25:56
parents and they come there every day after school. We have three different locations.
26:02
But the children come to they come there and immediately as soon as they
26:04
get there, we serve them a meal, so you know, they go
26:07
home of a needning having having a full meal, and then we also give
26:12
them a snack prior to the time that they leave. But we have different
26:15
events or activities. Obviously, homework is key. We have certified teachers and
26:22
tutors that work with them on working with them on on homework. We also
26:27
have obviously different physical activities. We have dance, we have team sports,
26:33
and then uh, just all kinds of different activities to help our families and
26:38
their students. What a great benefit to the community it is. It's really
26:42
an awesome program. Uh we've served I don't know, I mean, it's
26:47
amazing the number of students that we've served over the years, and uh,
26:51
really it's it's a way to really help students thrive. We also have summer
26:56
programming so students can come in the summer they keep those skills up. Obviously,
27:00
we focus on a lot of things that will help them later on life.
27:03
We believe not just educational skills, academic skills, but life skills as
27:08
well. Oh that's great, I mean that's what our youth needs and that
27:11
those types of programs and outlets is exactly what we need. So this is
27:15
such a great cause to get involved with. It is and I want to
27:18
really give credit to our staff as well, because I mean, it's it's
27:22
easy. We can you know, you can put kids in front of a
27:25
laptop or a computer and you can do that, but are we have a
27:27
staff that are really that are really vested in this program and they really care
27:32
about our students. And that means a lot for a child coming in knowing
27:34
that they're carrid about that there's consistency, the same people are going to be
27:37
there and and love them every day, and that that is wonderful. Is
27:41
there is it from the past, either from something from the center or something
27:45
from the barbecue event in the past, from the Charlie West Barbecue Fest.
27:48
Is there a standout moment or something that that you kind of always think back
27:52
to when you think about the event. Well, I do think the first
27:56
one we had, which was was on Magic Island, and it's not what
28:02
I would call a standout, but it was great. It was great weather
28:04
on Friday night while we're setting up, but then Saturday the weather came in.
28:07
It was forty degrees and the raining and the wind was blowing. But
28:12
it worked out. We had great sponsors, and we continue to have great
28:15
sponsors, and we we kept on going and so now we're in our seventh
28:22
year. As I said earlier, it's amazing how that works out. In
28:25
the radio business, of course, promotion is what we do. And so
28:27
sometimes you know, you plan for months to show up at a location to
28:30
have a big shind shin dig that you're getting ready to do, and then
28:34
that one day there's a thunderstorm, right, there's rain or something like that
28:37
happens, and it's amazing. It's almost like a Michael Jordan playing with the
28:41
flu or something. It's like, despite the challenges, a lot of times
28:44
you end up just having an amazing event. You get through the other side
28:47
of it, it ends up being really really good. And sometimes that that's
28:49
like a team building thing. It is, and I think, you know,
28:52
you ask about things that stand out. I think the thing for me
28:56
that stands out is it's a staff. It's a chance for supporters of the
29:00
Bobber Desk Center to work together, obviously for a great cause, but then
29:04
just the people you get to meet and talk with and talk about barbecue or
29:08
just things in general, and working with them. It's fun. The one
29:12
great thing about events like this in Charleston, of course, when you run
29:15
into people. Charleston's not a very big town. You always run into people
29:19
you know or people you know that you know, and then suddenly, before
29:22
you know it, you have you know, two or three people standing around,
29:23
you have something in common, and you know, conversation breaks out.
29:26
It happens almost every single time. It seems like when somebody comes up and
29:30
you start talking. When you go to one of these events, it's just
29:32
a good place to go. So that's going to be the Charlie West Barbecue
29:34
Fest that's going to be in downtown Charleston this year. It's going to be
29:38
at Slack Plaza two to seven on Saturday. I remind folks that parking building
29:41
right across from Slack Pause on Saturday is free. You have to go up
29:45
to like the third level I think is where the free parking starts. But
29:48
it's all free all the way up. So if you need somewhere to park,
29:49
there's there. There's the street parking, all kinds of places you can
29:52
get to there from downtown Charleston. Be aware of the bike race. Of
29:56
course, it's going through some of the boulevard and stuff is closed off.
29:59
You want to be aware of that. It's still plenty of access a great
30:00
location in downtown Charleston for the Charlie West Barbecue Fest this year. It's gonna
30:04
be a good time, I think so do. I really appreciate you,
30:07
Tom, Sam that Sam Somerville from the Charlie West Barbecue Fest. You can
30:10
find out more information online. You can just do the search on Facebook for
30:14
Charlie West Barbecue Fest. I also shared the Lincoln social media on our Facebook
30:18
page at WCHS Network on Facebook. You can find it over there as well.
30:22
Thank you so much time for your time today, Sam. Thank you,
30:25
Dale appreciate it. We really appreciate that as well. That is Sam
30:29
Somerville joining us from the Charlie West Barbecue Fest coming up in just a second.
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five fifty eight fifty eight. So, Tim Man, there are so many
34:24
things that are going on in Charleston right now and in the immediate future,
34:30
during the summer and everything else. How's the how's the bike tour going right
34:34
now? The bike the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships. I've done some
34:39
research on that this week, and this thing is incredible. Yeah, it's
34:43
it's an amazing event. We've got two days in the books. We've got
34:45
four days still to go. We crowned two, we actually crowned multiple national
34:52
champions in the last two days, including two elite riders have qualified for the
34:59
Paris ALM bigs here in Charleston, West Virginia. The men's Elite and women's
35:02
Elite time trial winners yesterday were automatic qualifiers for the US Olympic team. And
35:08
you know, that's historic both, you know, in the sense of cycling,
35:13
but it's it's historic for Charleston. We had two Olympians selected and qualifying
35:17
here in Charleston, West Virginia yesterday. That's that's big, that's super cool.
35:21
I encourage anyone that's maybe making your way out to the boulevard. You
35:23
want to watch these uh uh these uh did they call them bikers? Racers,
35:28
cyclists, cyclists? Athletes is a good word. Yeah, Athletes are
35:30
good too. If you want to watch them and be familiar with some stuff,
35:34
you can go to the website for the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championships.
35:37
It's easy to find. It's a great website. They have all the
35:39
resources you could possibly need on there, including a rule book and uh and
35:44
history of records and different things like that. I've been looking through that this
35:46
week. The terminology is a little challenging. You have to kind of get
35:50
used to them. Maybe if you're more used to to cycle cycling and racing
35:53
and stuff. Maybe you know some of that stuff. I'm not so a
35:55
lot of it. I was learning when the go. But you learn some
35:58
of the terminology. You can see some of the giants of the sport,
36:00
so to speak, when you go and look at some of the records and
36:02
some of the time records and stuff, and then you get yourself situating.
36:06
You can watch it like a fan. And I've got a new vocabulary word
36:07
for everyone for today and tomorrow, and that is Criterion, or as the
36:12
cyclists refer to it, krit crit and tonight and tomorrow night is the crit
36:16
in downtown Charleston. That is a tight one mile loop that circles the inner
36:22
part of the city. Everything starts and finishes at the four points by Sheraton
36:27
there at the Levy Stage. Tonight, they'll travel west up Canaw Boulevard,
36:32
They'll turn up Court Street to Lee Street, Lee Street to Summers Summers down
36:37
past City Center at Slock Plaza to Charier Street, where they'll turn left and
36:40
go to Hale Street and then right back down to the boulevard. And they
36:45
will lap that as a pack as fast as possible, over and over again
36:49
for about forty five minutes tonight, and that's going to be super exciting.
36:52
There's multiple heats tonight, multiple heats Tomorrow night racing starts at six point thirty.
36:57
Places to be tonight will be at City Center. It'slock Plaza because we'll
37:00
have a DJ. We've got the new Poda District here in Charleston, so
37:04
you can get a beer and walk around and watch. But you also might
37:07
want to post up on a corner, and I suggest the corners of Lee
37:09
and Summers right there by them two brothers, the corner of Summers and Courier
37:14
by Black Sheet Burrito, or I think the really fun one is going to
37:17
be the corner of Courier Street and Hale Street. They're at Art Emporium and
37:22
the Purple Moon, that sort of area right there, because that's going to
37:24
be a really hard right turn onto a very narrow Hail Street and there's the
37:30
possibility for a lot of let's just say action right there at that corner.
37:32
So those are some great places to watch. Always the start finish line is
37:36
a great place to post up as well. But those are my tips for
37:39
tonight. It all happens after six point thirty tonight. It's going to be
37:43
a ton of fun. Those are great tips because that is part of the
37:45
draw of this is that when you start talking about racing through city street,
37:49
just like in auto racing or anything else, the city becomes part of the
37:52
feature. That's right. The city is a player in this right, the
37:54
city is a character in this movie. And you know, the feedback we've
37:58
gotten from USA Cycling is that, you know, first of all, city
38:01
administration and kudos and all thanks to Mayor Goodwin and her staff, the city
38:07
administration, all of the city departments have been super easy for them to work
38:09
with. But they love the streets here. They love the layout. It's
38:13
flat, it's a lot of perpendicular streets and well paved streets. There's been
38:17
really little to no work that's needed to be done for these guys to race.
38:21
So tonight's going to be super exciting. That's fantastic, and so I
38:23
encourage you to check that out. I think it's a really neat thing that
38:27
we're doing here. So you can check out the races. Who's still going
38:30
to be going to one for the next few days and get to see some
38:32
more of this action as it occurs in real time. Yeah, right,
38:36
Saturday and Sunday are going to be fun as well. Those are the road
38:38
courses. The road races rather thirteen miles through the city of Charleston, Bridge
38:42
Road, Loudon Heights where it's Oak Ridge, Greenbriar. You know, a
38:45
couple of really great climbs winding through the city streets, flat shots down the
38:50
boulevard, a lot of speed, a lot of agility, a lot of
38:52
strength and climbing. So all of the skill sets of these riders will be
38:58
on display this weekend. Like me, and like when you used to watch
39:01
ESPN or something, you would see a West Virginia tourism ad or something come
39:05
on. It would make you a little excited or proud of the state or
39:07
something like that. When I went to the USA Cycling Pro Road National Championship
39:10
website, they speak very highly of like in setting up the situation, they
39:15
speak very highly of Charleston. It's just as somebody, you know, we're
39:17
like that in West Virginia. We want to kind of watch what people say
39:21
about us. They're write up was very nice. And yesterday there was a
39:23
great woman, a great moment, the woman who won the women's leade,
39:28
who qualified for the Paris Olympics. In her post race interview, she talked
39:30
about how inviting the city had been, how great it had been to be
39:36
here, how the great experience that she's had as an athlete visiting Charleston.
39:39
And you talk about tourism commercials, this is a six day long tourism commercial
39:43
for Charleston and in a larger sense, the state of West Virginia. Yeah,
39:46
I absolutely love it. As a long time resident of Charleston who came
39:51
back, I just love what the city has done in the last ten or
39:53
twelve years. It's been pretty amazing. Let's talk about some other stuff that's
39:55
going on, a lot of big announcements recently Live on the Levee, the
40:00
the acts were announced recently Regatta. I think you and Dave has already talk
40:01
about Regatt a little bit, but still giant Regatta yet again for the city
40:06
of Charleston this year. A lot of good things coming up. Yeah,
40:08
certainly we're all turning our attention to those things. You've got Live on the
40:12
Levee, which you'll kick off and I can't I won't speak at length about
40:15
the entire schedule, but I can tell you the one night that I'm really
40:19
looking forward to is the John Ingram's a Tribute night. Talking Heads Man,
40:24
I'm pumped for that. You've got us so good too, man, John
40:28
Za pro. All of the guys that he brings in are pros. If
40:30
you're a Talking Heads fan or just a music fan, that's going to be
40:32
a great night. We've got festival coming up, ten days of art throughout
40:37
the city of Charleston. Obviously you talk about Regatta. You know, everybody's
40:43
talking about the acts on the main stage, nobody, not enough people are
40:47
talking about the incredible wrestling action at Slack Plaza. For the second year of
40:52
the Stern Wheel, slambourree bigger and better than years past, and this year
40:55
sponsored by Gino's Pizza. So we're looking forward to great professional wrestling and oh,
41:00
by the way, some music up on the main stage. That's absolutely
41:04
true. And now I have to give a shout out to my friend Adam
41:06
Harris and the folks that helped with the slamboury down there. I went and
41:08
watched it last year, and I was expecting good quality because I know the
41:14
level of expectation that Adam and those guys have. What I didn't expect is
41:16
what I saw and especially the final match that they had down there. You're
41:20
talking hogh flying, fantastic quality when it comes to sports entertainment, professional wrestling,
41:24
what everybody outstanding. I mean, this isn't like some rinking ding thing
41:29
where you got people up there. I don't know what they're doing. These
41:30
are professional athletes doing very very well. It's a labor of love. The
41:34
guys that are involved. And you mentioned Adam Harris, and you talk about
41:37
Bishop Baylor and Matt Sutton and a whole bunch of other guys that are involved
41:40
in that. And you know, started planning Stern Will Slambury twenty twenty four
41:45
right after last year's ended, and we're going to piggyback off of this year's
41:50
market mayhem that happened a couple of months ago up at Capital Market. But
41:53
it's a lot of fun, it's family friendly, it's a great time.
41:58
If you saw the Perry Bennett photo of the Sternwheel Slambery from on top of
42:01
the City Garage on Summer Street last year, I mean we estimate probably seven
42:06
to eight thousand people and in Slack Plaza for that professional wrestling spectacle last year,
42:12
and we're looking forward to revisiting that and making it bigger and better this
42:15
year. What I love about all of these things is how we incorporate localities
42:19
and names into the names of the like the WrestleMania type events, but we
42:22
marry it into our locality and some way all love all that stuff. Yeah,
42:24
that's right, Slambury, you know, slam Market, Stern Reel,
42:30
Slamboury Market, Mayhem, slam Plaza. My dream is one day to do
42:35
Bash at the ballpark over at Gomart Ballpark in partnership with the Charleston Dirty Birds.
42:38
So that's my long term vision and dream and we're going to work to
42:42
make it happen. But it all you know, continues at Sternwheel, Slambourrey
42:46
twenty twenty four throughout there as well. That we actually have a professional wrestling
42:51
show that we air over on oursis station, Charlestons Sports Radio one of six
42:55
point seven and fourteen ninety called The Grill Out. It airs every Monday at
42:59
one o'clock over there, and they'll be do some coverage of the Slack of
43:02
the Slack lambree So we'll get some interviews and things like that over there,
43:06
so we'll be able to promote that a little bit that's all. That's awesome.
43:08
It's all about long term storytelling for us, and we'll see if Bishop
43:12
Baylor can retain that belt. I absolutely love it. That is that's fantastic.
43:15
Also coming up, Chef Paul's getting ready to start his his his Let's
43:20
get cooking events at the Capitol Market again. That's coming up James Beard finalists,
43:24
who is also providing the food for our VIP hospitality at Steptoe Plaza during
43:30
the cycling road races on Saturday and Sunday. You know, Chef Paul is
43:34
a he's a he's a Charleston treasurer, he's a West Virginia treasurer. He's
43:37
he's just such a great guy to work with and you know, great for
43:40
him. And in what city in America do you have the opportunity to go
43:45
to your your indoor outdoor farmers market slash agritourism destination and see a James Beard
43:52
finalist chef teaching you how to cook and it's sponsored by AARP. We can't
43:57
forget them, gayleien Miller and the fine folks there. But you know,
44:00
we have a James Beard chef teaching us how to cook in our own backyard.
44:02
I mean, come on this, Charleston, the summer is just it's
44:06
amazing, an amazing coupe. Chef fall is such a great advocate of appal
44:09
Asian cuisine and cooking and an advocate for West Virginia. And I love that.
44:15
I want to say we have him on our our state wide show hotline
44:19
every Monday afternoon. And I love when he talks about going somewhere to give
44:23
out of state where he gives presentations, cooking talks. He'll cook for somebody.
44:28
Just recently he went out to Napa Valle cooked them ramps in California.
44:31
He took he took West Virginia rams with He's like, I want to show
44:34
these folks all about the ramps. That's awesome. I mean, they're they're
44:37
they're. I mean that is about as great as an ambassador that you could
44:39
have for the state. Just hey, West Virginia is not all this stuff
44:43
that people have have powdered on us over the years. Look at what we
44:45
do here, the beautiful food that we make and different things like that.
44:49
I really like that. And I got to give a lot of credit to
44:51
to our Commissioner of Tourism, Our Tourism Secretary rather Chelsea Ruby. She created
44:55
a chef Ambassador program and there are several chefs involved, but Chef Paul is
45:00
one of those because she recognized as we all recognize that, you know,
45:02
culturally, food is a big part of the West Virginia story and people will
45:07
travel for food. And Paul going to NAPA and doing that now that that
45:12
for a lot of folks. That puts West Virginia on the radar and now
45:14
we become one of their you know, one of their destinations that they want
45:17
to visit. So you know, Paul's is a great guy, great ambassador,
45:21
and you know, and he's a friend and I appreciate that about him
45:24
as well. Yeah, it's all good stuff that's coming up here in Charleston.
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The chef Paul does a great job as well. Anything else you wanted
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to remind us of before we can cut you loose, you know, I'll
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just say this. You know, we've got four days of great cycling left.
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The city of Charleston has been a wonderful host thus far, and you
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know, I would just continue to say we've worked really hard to minimize any
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impacts from from road closures and detours, build a few extra minutes of time
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into your travel in the next few days. Be patient with us because we're
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doing great things in Charleston and it takes this entire community to make it happen.
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And Coop, thanks to you for giving me a few minutes to talk
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about all the great things happening in our city. Yeah, we really appreciate
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man. Thanks for coming by as always and really looking forward to Charleston and
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From the non zero four seven one six. Blair is out in large
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