January 18, 2024 • 53 mins
Today on 580 Live, we're celebrating Drop Your Socks Day, sponsored by Thornhill Auto Group! Joining us is Robb Reel from our sister station 96.1 KWS to discuss this unique event. Plus, we delve into the world of construction jobs in West Virginia with Justin Williams. To round off, Brian Dayton from the State Chamber of Commerce will provide his expert insights. Tune in for a show filled with community spirit and economic discussions!
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the United States of America, thestate West Virginia, the city Charleston.
This is the Dave Allen Show onfive eighty Live and your host. What
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you enjoyed some sunshine yesterday, becausethe snow's back in the forecast winter storm
warnings, watches, advisories, allthat stuff is said to kick in this
see evening, expecting more snow,more eyes, and more cold temperatures.
Two. Matter of fact, theysay that on Saturday, as we're all
over at the West Virginia Hunting Fishand Show at the Colosseum Convention Center,
Saturday is actually going to be colderthan what we experienced earlier this week.
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So you got that to look fortoo. But y, they tell me
that by next Friday we could besixty degrees. Yeah, that's what they
said. Definitely in the fifties nextweek and flirting with sixty and it's all
going to melt there you go,I have no problem. That voice you
hear is rob real. We're goingto get to him here in just a
couple of moments plus a little bitlater on. Brian Dayton from the State
Chamber of Commerce is going to stopby and Justin Williams from the Affiliated Construction
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Trades Group. You know, stopme if you've heard this one before.
West Virginia needs workers and they areworking on a program to try to find
new workers, apprenticeships, things ofthat in nature. We're going to talk
to Justin about de plus your callsand texts are always welcome. Big Lee
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So, if you've driven by elevento eleven, Virginia, Trediece and
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Charleston, there are some crazy peoplestanding outside. Now that's not unusual,
as this building is surrounded by crazypeople, mostly of the employees and some
of some who frequent the parking lotfrom time to time. But we'll get
into that on another show. Weare all NuGet with nuts as cold as
it is. Why are they outthere? Well, it's the first annual
Thornhill Automotive Group Sock Drop, wherewe're asking you, the greatest listeners in
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the world, to help us putnew socks of those in need. We're
teaming up with the folks at MountainMission to make it all happen. All
of our stations are involved. WCCHS, Charleston's ESPN Radio one of seven three,
the Beat V one hundred kaz Vone To all of us, we're
all hanging out there and we are, you know, working together to try
to collect some socks. This guythat's kind of behind this whole thing,
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this was his crazy idea. Thehead of the crazy idea department here at
WVRC Media, Charles rob Reel fromher sister station ninety six to one,
Superstar Country kw's host of Up RealEarly. Are you I'm tall? It
does say that on the business card. Now I am the head hooligan in
charge of creative nonsense. I thinkmaybe I don't know. All I know
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is that the most requested item atshelters and service providers is socks. It
seems like such a simple thing,and yet just stand out there for five
minutes, especially if you had towalk through the parking lot and the wet
and things that had frozen over andthe black ice and then it got plaid
again and now it's wet. Thinkabout how cold your feet are, and
the carry hoo to sec memorial spaceheater memorials. She didn't die, no,
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but it's you know, it's rightthere under your feet, keeping you.
So if you've got one of thoseunder your desk, thinking about,
man, my feet got cold thismorning. Now, think about the folks
who are homeless, displaced. Thinkabout the folks who the families who maybe
can't afford heat, so they needsocks. Let's keep their feet Like Lieutenant
Dantles, take care of your feet. If we can do that, let's
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literally start keeping folks warm from theground up. That's what we're doing today.
And we started what six seven,seven hundred and a military always a
military guy. Well yeah, Andin fact, our first benefactor came through
just after seven with eighty pairs ofsocks. It started wow, And we've
had lots of folks come through.The Mountain Mission truck is in our parking
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lot. We're going until six thisevening, and what we're seeking is simple
packages pairs of brand new, neverworn, unopened socks. That's what we
need. Socks. And you're like, well, I can't make it to
the store, but I could swingby all my lunch hour. We can
do cash and check donations for MountainMission as well, but the focus today
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is socks and you can get them, I mean for next to nothing.
I heard Jeff talking about to oneof the places that he picked up some
last night. My wife actually stoppedmy dollar tree and got some socks yesterday,
so and sent me to work withthem this morning. So so here
again, what we're saying is it'sreal simple. It doesn't take a lot
of time, and we're giving youplumb time. And even if you can't
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make it out of somewhere to getsome socks, cash and check donations,
whatever, the folks from Mountain Missionwill take that. If you're worried about
giving us cash, which you probablyshould be worried about giving us cash,
then it's real simple. You canyou can just put it directly in their
hands. Man. Which you wantto do is yeah, nobody's gonna run
off to Marty Grass with your cashdonation or checks made out to Mountain Mission,
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and especially those socks. And oneof the reasons that we pick socks
is you don't have to worry aboutsizes. There's basically adult and kids size
socks and that's it. You don'thave to it's not like shoe sizes.
You'll see on the socks th sizeof seven to thirteen. Just socks stretch.
Yeah, it'll it'll be you know, somebody who's got a size fifteen
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shoe is not going to have aproblem getting into a pair of tube socks
that you brought. This is oneof the things that we try to make
it simple, We try to makeit easy for folks to get in on
the giving. I'm so proud ofthe way West Virginians take care of West
Virginians and this is another great opportunityto do that. And this was kind
of your baby. I mean,it is one of those things because all
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in the several you know, dozensof radio stations that you've been fired from
across the country. You get thisopportunity to do this in other markets,
and it's been this huge success.And as you said, West Virginians are
the most giving people on the faceof the earth. I mean, I
have no doubt about that. Imean, you were you were here,
you left, and you came back, and you're not from here, so
you must like it for some reason. And that's one of the reasons you
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told me that you like it.Yes, seventeen states, three foreign countries,
and there is no place like WestVirginia when it comes to helping our
friends and neighbors. It's amazing theway people pull together to take care of
one another. And I've said before, I know there are policy things that
need to be fixed in these situations. That's not what I do. That's
not the tree I bark up.I'm just about helping folks and doing our
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best to keep them warm this winter, So come by drop your socks before
six o'clock. You know, it'sinteresting that that phrase drop your socks because
let me tell you something about thatand Dale's for our producer day. You
made me want to standing by onthe on the dumb button on this one.
The last time Robert that I hadyou on the show and we talked
about the name drop your socks,Yes, and you alluded to the fact
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that you were in the military.Always say thank you for your service,
and there was we kind of jokedabout the term drop your socks because there's
a lot more to that statement.I'm not going to go into it because
I kind of liked the job andmy boss is producing for the show today,
so I'm not going to go intothe rest of that statement. But
somebody on X the artist for meknown as Twitter, actually did. They
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didn't print it out, they saidthey said some of the effective I know
what you guys did there, becausethere's more to that expression. If you're
a military person, you know thatjust dropped your socks. And I'll leave
it at that. I think thefirst time through. I said that any
man who has been through basic trainingknows what it's all about and is laughing
maniacally. But I actually ran thisby my ex wife who is retired National
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Guard, and she said, theysay they say it to them in basic
training and it it's different. Yeah, to know that they say, you
know, I shouldn't I should havenever married a woman from the National Guard
because it means she only did laundryonce a month and the house was only
clean two weeks out of the year. But the so apparently they say this
to women in basic training and suchtoo. So if you, if you
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have served, you're in on thejoke, and I do not recommend explaining
it at work you will end upin HR's office and and the rest of
the people right now are listening ifthey're at work and they're about to google
it, and they're about to getfired, you know, for googling that
on their work computer the VPN.Do it on your phone, not on
the Wi Fi? Would you say, Dale? Dale said something to me.
I don't know what it was.Oh, it's feature in Platoon,
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Yes, yes, it comes upin Platoon. It also comes up in
Full Metal Jacket, the Great rlee Ermy who really was a drill instructor
before that film, And none ofhis lines are quotable on the radio.
None, not a single one issafe to say on the radio. All
right. So they say it's goingto warm up a little bit out there
today, and that's a relative termwith this. It seems like it's the
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longest week of winter weather forever.But it is going to get in the
upper thirties before the next snowstorm comesin this evening and enduring air night hours.
So if you're looking to get outof the office today, come down
and see us again. We makeit real simple. We've cleared all of
the v well most of the vehiclesoff the parking lot out there. The
vans are set up. We're ateleven eleven Virginia Street. It's just stuff
from Charleston Catholic High School. Andwe've got our crew is out there from
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all of our stations are out there. We've got the folks from about Mission
out there as well. Don't evenhave to get out of your car,
you know, if you don't wantto, you're thinking about going to the
store and getting all of those Frenchtoasts supplies the milk, the bread,
the eggs. Pick up a packageof socks and bring them to us before
this next round of storm hits,and that will warm your heart as well
as warm the feet of so manyof our needy friends and neighbors this winter.
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You know something we don't talk aboutenoughing. I'll let you go because
I know you've got to get backoutside. But something we don't talk about.
You know, your station sety sixto one KWS is the raining country
music station of the year instead ofWest Virginia. And so that's kind of
a cool deal, it is.I'm sure we won't repeat now that I'm
back. You had little to dowith it last time. I had remarkably
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little to do with it last time. Shards of glass are great. They
are wonderful acknowledgments of how hard wework to improve people's lives, whether it's
in ways like this, collecting socksto keep people warm, or just giving
you something to sing along with.My goal every time I get on the
radio in the morning is if you'renot in a better mood three minutes after
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you've turned on up real early,then I need to work harder. I'm
not doing my job well enough,so we just we want you to sing
along, We want you to havefun, we want you to make going
We want to make going to workless of a dread for you, and
we want to help our friends andneighbors too. What it's all about.
Sorry, again, it's till atleast six o'clock or so this evening.
And again this is one of theEven though this is kind of your brain
shot, all the stations are outthere, We're I'm going to be out
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there throughout the day to day collectingthese socks that we're asking for new socks
packages. Whether you can just affordone package up at the Dollar store,
or whether you can bring boxes aspeople have already done. Any donation will
be appreciated. If you want todo cash, or if you want to
do check whatever. The folks fromMountain Mission are set up outside with us
as well. Come by before sixo'clock, even if it's one pair that
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you picked up at the check outat your local Parmar store. Yeah,
cheap plug, got a text herefor you, Robert. Yes, Tex
says off topic, just wanted toask Rob if he found his mother's Elvis
concert ticket for the nineteen seventy sevenIndianapolis show. I have not what's the
story here? I don't know this. So the final concert for Elvis in
nineteen seventy seven was at Market SquareArena. I did know that in Indianapolis,
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and I had been told for awhile that I was actually at that
show. I wasn't even four yearsold yet, so I take people's word
for it. But I know mymother was there because one of her prize
possessions was the ticket stub and itwas in her effects. You know,
I was her executor. So I'mgoing through all that, and I found
it in her effects after she died. I have not been back to where
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that stuff is to get my handson it, but if if I and
my agent state remember, I willtake a photograph of that and post it
on al Gore's interwebs when I rememberto do so. So all right,
I appreciate that somebody was listening upreal early to even mention that. Yeah.
I just appreciate that anybody listens,especially when you and I are on
here together, because it's it's fiftyto fifty, you know, put us
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like there's a reason why they don'tlet us on the air. That often
together. Correct, And I don'teven want to bring in Steve animal to
this because then it's a totally differentanimal tope, unintended. Ashley has already
been HR. I mean, it'sfunny because we're getting I'll let you go,
but you know it's funny because we'regetting ready to go on the show,
and the and Ashley's kind of misseverything around here, but she's the
director of HR comes in and justkind of look sadly in the minute she
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walks in. I'm like, Ididn't do it. I did do it.
I didn't do it, both pointingeach other at the same time.
All right, so you're right onthe parking lot. Yes, until six
o'clock this evening. Get those socksout here, and a big shout out
to the folks that Thornhill Otter Groupfor making it all possible as well.
Yes, thank you to Sydney andeverybody for megan it possible for folks to
drop your socks. The WVRC Mediainaugural edition. All right, man,
I'll be out there. I'm gonnaI'm gonna extend the show to about four
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or five hours today so I don'thave to go out there and stand but
I'll be out there as well.I'll be out there a little bit later
on. They all right, RobReal from our sister station ninety six one
kW got Superstar Country again, hostof of Up Real Early and uh,
we're out there till six o'clock orso. The Steven and Drop your Socks
has brought to you by the Thornheloder. Bring your your packages of socks to
us, and you don't even haveto get out of your car. We'll
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have people out there throughout the daytoday from Rob Station, from this station,
the News Department, Promotions. We'reall going to be out there hanging
out today collecting those socks. AndMountain Mission is here as well. And
if you can't get to your localstore to pick up some socks, cash
check, we'll take that as welland it'll be given to Mountain Mission.
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zero eight. Oh my goodness,look who just happened to It's I buy
it here. It's our good friendRich Lindsay, how are you man?
Doing fine? Dave? How youdoing? Happy New Year to you?
Happy New Year. You came into make a donation for the drop of
your socks, but you had someinformation. You stuck your head at a
door and said, hey, youmight want to tell your listeners. I
said, no, you sit down, you tele listeners. What did you
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want to tell us? Okay,well, first off, everyone listening should
get down to the radio station andand and donate socks. But you can
get your socks at the drug andPorium there on Patrick Street because they're selling
socks at twenty percent off down there. All types of socks, men's socks,
women's socks, thermal socks, anythingyou can think of. So there
you go. Which is a lotbeing paid for this plug idea? I
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mean there's folks over a Drugg andPoium. I know that. I mentioned
earlier that my wife picked up somea dollar tree. So there, and
I'm sure your big lots and placeslike that, and there's plenty of other
places. But I appreciate you lettingpeople know that. How are how are
things going out there? I haven'tbeen outside because it's cold, I mean
because I've been working prepared for go. Yeah, it's it's still cold.
After it's still cold. That nothing'schanged really, right, But drug and
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Porium twenty percent off on Patrick Street? All right? Rich, I appreciate
it bad. Thanks a lot.Thank you today. Take care there,
rich Lindsay yea. I don't knowwho's going to stop by the studio.
Sometimes I thought we had security,but I guess not. Justin Williams is
here the directors to make sure Iget your title right, Justin the director
of act the Affiliated Construction Trades Organization. That's correct, And we're part of
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the West Virginia State Building in ConstructionTrades, all right, so tell us
what that organization does. Sure,So we represent about twenty two thousand construction
workers Union construction Workers in West Virginiaand about two thousand apprentices going through those
fourteen trade organizations that we represent inWest Virginia. Okay, all right,
so we all know, Justin there'sa lot of construction going on now in
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West Virginia and a whole lot moreto come. And we hear daily though
of the struggles that business owners havein fighting employees, the struggling if there
is real, man, Yeah,it really is. And that's part of
the reason I'm here. You know, We're out there recruiting young people,
people who want to change careers andhave a great career ahead of them to
join the trades, either through anapprenticeship program or go into one of your
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local union halls and sign up togo to work. That's what we want.
We want people to go to work. You know, it's a great
career. You can make a livingout of this, good wages, benefits,
health insurance, a pension, andthose all kick in as soon as
you start. And when you're apprentice, you get paid while you learn the
trade. And so it's you know, we see our college numbers are going
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down. It's been a big conversation, and so you know, this is
a great opportunity to get more educationin a specific area and make a career
out of it. What seemed tobe the the in demand positions at this
time. I mean, I knowconstruction's kind of a an umbrella term,
but what are some of the specificsfor some of the top two or three
that are really you need right now. So we represent fourteen trades and it
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covers the spectrum mostly in industrial andcommercial construction. But you know, obviously
electricians there's a big push for evsand and all the grid infrastructure, just
general infrastructure, so equipment operators,labors, you know, carpenters, mill
rights, boiler makers that work inour powerhouses. You know, it's it's
cement Mason's I mean, really coversthe spectrum and it depends on the area
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of the state you're in. Right, So a project like New Core,
there's going to be probably four orfive thousand different construction workers that go through
there, depending on what process,what part of the project they're in.
Right, You're gonna start out movingdirt. I have a bunch of equipment
operators, bulldozers and cranes. Thenyou're gonna start with concrete, so you
have cement finishers in there. Thenyou're gonna start the building sheet metal workers
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putting in electrical and plumbers and pipefitters. So it kind of just rolls
through. And you know what's goodabout these jobs is that, you know,
people go from job to job tojob, but they make a career
out of it. Because West Virginiahas really is in a good position with
the construction that's coming here. Youknow, New Core Toyota has been expanding
year after a year with new projectsthere in construction, and we work on
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the powerhouse companies. You know,down here in Kanas City there was the
new cancer building. Now they're doingthe training facility. Those are all great
jobs for construction workers here in WestVirginia. Talking again with Justin Williams,
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or visit Meeks dot us. Justin, I think it's kind of interesting because
and my listeners have heard me talkingabout this before as a kid of the
eighties. You know, they toldus, you know, you got to
go to college, you got togo, you gotta go get that four
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year degree. And and that's nota bad thing necessarily, but there's a
lot of folks that got that pieceof paper in their hand and don't have
anything to do with it. AndI like the fact now that that our
educators, political folks of whomever aretelling people, counselors in public schools or
probably even re charter to whatever.They're telling people, you got to have
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some kind of training after high school. But it doesn't necessarily have to be
with all due respect to my almamater at Marshall University or WVU or State
or whatever it could be, atany just just get some kind of training,
that's right. And you know,the best part about ours is you
go and you get some base leveltraining. Then you go to work and
you start making money and can youknow, paying taxes and being part of
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your community. And so you goand you learn while you're on the job
from people who've been doing this fortwenty or thirty years. Then you go
back and get more training. Andyou know, with our training facilities,
there's jointly administered between the union andthe contractor partners, so they're working with
the contractors who know the projects thatare coming kind of down the pipeline,
and they're preparing the workers for thatwork. So you know, thirty years
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ago they were building coal fire powerhousesand we were training people to do that.
We still maintain those, but we'realso working on natural gas pipelines.
We also build windmills and solar farms. We're going to work on natural gas
powerhouses, I mean, whatever itcan be. We want to train those
people so that they're prepared to notonly build it, but we also have
to maintain these facilities for the peoplethat work in those facilities every day.
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And so it's a really great opportunityto get training outside of that traditional four
year or even two year college.But one thing that we're working on this
session and the legislature is to worktowards getting an associate's degree when you complete
in a apprenticeship. So you know, it's a great skill and a trade
to learn, but if you wantto go out and start your own construction
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business, you'll have some kind ofcollege training on that, whether it be
in business administration or how to bidjobs and learning some of those other aspects
of the business world that you getin an associate's degree program. So how
important or how much of a buyin is there from the business community and
all this it's huge. I mean, we really do partner with our contractors
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and then the owners and developers ofthese projects. You know, so New
Core, for example, they bidit out and they want the best bang
for their buck, and they knowwhen they use one of our partner contractors.
That's what they're getting because our contractorshave a pool of drug free,
highly skilled, highly trained workers thatare going to come in there and get
their job done on time and hopefullyunder budget. And maybe even before time.
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You mentioned the word drug free,we all know. Again, I
talk about it every day. Peoplethat are on the show talk about every
day the problem with the opio eadescourge in West Virginia. And there are
days that it seems like we maybe getting a little bit better, and
then there are days when we don'tseem like we're getting a little bit better.
How big of a challenge is that, sure, it's a huge challenge
in every industry. And you know, part of what we do in the
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trades, we do have drug testingpre employment because you're working around heavy equipment
and around other people, and soyou have to be drug free. But
what we do is we're working withsome of these programs, you know,
Jobs and Hope and Recovery. We'vegot training and we're working with it's called
the school Diversion and Transition, whichis the kind of the CTE programs in
the jails, and so they're trainingpeople in these industries that we want and
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they can come out and go backto work and be a productive member of
study, which is really what youknow these incarceration you know, when you're
in incarcerated, that's what you want. You want to be able to come
back and have a job and thenyou're not going to hopefully fall back into
some of those things. And soit's really important to work to get people
out of bad situations into a job. So where can people learn more how
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to take advantage of this? SureSo our website is wvtrades dot org and
that has links to all fourteen craftsand information about apprenticeships. Contact information on
there. So happy to reach outand talk to anybody, all right,
justin Always a pleasure to have youon the show. And it's kind of
chaos here right now with Sock dropgoing out. Had to shoot you an
email you after day and so we'regonna have to park off site a little
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bit out there because we've got ourparking lot filled with vans out there and
hopefully folks are donating their socks today. So I appreciate you working with us
on no problem. It's great toyou all do these events to support our
community and it's one of the thingsour unions do as well. We did
a big angel tree at our officethis year, and so you know,
it's what's nice about our organization.We represent twenty thousand construction workers, but
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they're local West Virginia workers and theyare all involved in our communities, whether
it be at little legs or churchesor whatever it is. So what it's
all about. Justin Williams again,the director of ACT, that is the
Affiliated Construction Trades Organization. I appreciateyou being here man. Thanks a lot,
good stuff. Thanks Dave twenty fourminutes away from Tama, Dave Island
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Well, I actually ask Justin beforehe left because I didn't get the text
in time. Justin had to leaveus, but I ask him that very
question as it stands right now inWest Virginia, and if I'm wrong,
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somebody can correct me. But asand this is according to Justin, they
test for usage at this point,so drug free at this time if you're
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I'm sure he knows what he's talkingabout. I just hope that I know
that I'm explaining it properly at thistime medical cannabis that would be considered not
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drug free. Does that make anysense, Brian what I just said,
I think so? All right,So that's that's where we are right now.
Brian Dayton from the West Virginia Chamberof Commerces here, Good morning,
sir, Welcome to the show.David's great to be back. I think
we lost saw you a couple ofweeks ago, so it'eah to be back
on and we're in full swing withthe session. Now. You see what
we've added to the studio here.We have a spencer Atkins bibblehead. That's
super nice. Where can I getone? Well, you know this was
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a gift from from a person overto w WK Rich West, who is
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They have sales weasels there. AndRich is one of their sales weasels over
there, and he he gifted Idid a TV commercial, uh, and
he gifted this to me. Soit's going to set in here, and
if we keep up with the kindof weather we've had this past week,
we're going to hang this thing ineffigy okay, because we're not feeling the
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spence. Spencer is actually going tobe on the show tomorrow. But anyway,
it's kind of, i'll be honestwith you, things kind of creepy.
Man. It's just it's a truebibble head. It just I mean,
I know it's a bibblehead. It'ssupposed to babble, but gosh,
it's just just constantly bobbles. Man. It's just it's weird. We have
a Brian Dayton biblehead anywhere. Wedon't, not that I'm aware of Steve
Roberts biblehead. Not that I'm aware. I can't tell you what my wife
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hasn't had created on XC and sentin. But you know, true knows
that is true. All right.So the Dome is the place to be
this week's session underway State Chamber.I know that you're you can keep an
eye on things. You're there justabout every day. I can tell that
you've been there a lot because youcome in last time you didn't have a
tie on, so today you've gota tie on, so you must have
been hanging out there or you're goingthere later today. I want to talk
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a little bit about something that hasbeen in the news and I know the
Chamber is keeping a close eye on, and that's childcare in West Virginia.
Not always the sexiest of topics andsession where we've talked about capital punishment and
cannabis and things of that nature,but childcare, and not to say the
obvious brind is extremely important and insome cases is crucial to whether or not
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someone takes a job. What's thestate looking at on this right now?
So let me just back up alittle bit and give some extra flavor to
why this issue is so important.West Virginia has the lowest workforce participation rate
in the country by a few percentagepoints. A big reason. There are
multiple reasons to but a big reasonis the availability lack of availability of childcare
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in West Virginia, the affordability ofchildcare in West Virginia, and also making
sure that those are high quality programs. Just to give an example, the
average cost that I've talked to afew childcare providers, the average cost is
about eight hundred dollars. It's alittle bit more for younger children. It
can be a little bit less aschildren get a little bit older. But
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we're just going to ballpark. Itabout eight hundred dollars, and that actually
doesn't cover the childcare centers operating costs. Either or not, it's very expensive
to run these. So put itthis way. If you have two a
family with two children, and theyare making the median household income of West
Virginia, which is about fifty onethousand dollars, when you look at their
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pay, what's taken out of theirpay via taxes, insurance, so and
look at their take home pay,you're probably talking fifty sixty maybe seventy percent
is going out the door to goto a childcare facility that is almost unworkable.
So what you have is a lotof people that have made the conscious
decision. You know what, Icould work for less than minimum wage to
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not see my children or I cantighten our belts a little bit and one
spouse, you know, goes offto work and the other one stays home.
We did that with my family whenwe looked at the cost. So
that is really driving this whole discussionabout childcare in West Virginia. Five years
ago, the legislature largely didn't reallywant to pay too much attention to it.
Now it is a very very highpriority in both the House and the
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Senate, so we're very excited aboutthat. There had been there was talk
I think the mister Wolfull from downin Capbell County I think was the one
that had was talking about doing somekind of a child like like a tax
credit or something like that. Yeah, there are a number of bills and
approaches that are being looked at rightnow. Senator Rolfles is one of those
approaches to find a way to providesome extra assistance to those who really need
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it. The Chamber has a couplebills on this topic. Are the one
that we're really having as a priorityencourages businesses to operate these facilities. We
have so many counties in West Virginiawhere there aren't enough childcare. I think
the statistic is there over twenty countiesthat have less than one hundred daycare slots
in the entire county. So wehave a bill that would provide a tax
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credit to businesses who operate a childcarefacility and provide that is a benefit for
their employees. Another thing that we'revery supportive of is permanently changing the reimbursement
rate for subsidized children from attendance toenrollment. So if you're a private childcare
provider, you have your private payers. If you have people who are on
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subsidy and sending their children there,the state will pick up that tab.
Now there is a copay assigned toit. But prior to the COVID pandemic,
those childcare providers were paid by thestate based on attendance. Well,
if that child and their family theyonly send that child there for three days
a month, they only got paidfor three days a month, but they
still have all the staffing there,they have all the overhead, all the
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insurance costs, and so when theCOVID pandemic rolled around, it got changed
to enrollment, and so if thechild is enrolled, then the state will
basically pay for them. Right now, that is set to expire later this
year. What will likely happen isif that is allowed to expire, you
will have a lot of private childcare providers who, in order to stay
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in business and not go under,will have to greatly limit the number of
subsidized children that they can take.And those we're talking about families who really
need this extra help in order tobe able to go to work. So
that is a high priority of permanentlychanging it from attendance to enrollment. It's
also very likely that the federal government'sgoing to require that in the next couple
of years, so it's staying aheadof the game. That is another major
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priority, but it's being looked at. There's a task force that is being
headed up by Delegate Kathy Heskraus.It's got a number of House members on
it. There's a lot of incentiveover in the Senate to do things.
So there are a lot of movingparts right now, but I feel very
optimistic that we can make some realprogress on this issue. Brian Dayton from
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know, we're always looking are thereways to make it easier to do business
in West Virginia as far as regulationsor how taxes are applied. That is
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always a top priority. Workforce,which ties right into childcare, continues to
be something that is all encompassing andit's going to need to take some real
reform. We have landed so manyreally big development developments into West Virginia.
You know, you think about newCore, Procter and Gamble, Owens and
minor GreenPower, motor company, formEnergy, a lot of these, the
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Berkshire Hathway development up in Jackson County, A lot of those things have been
really impressive wins on the economic developmentfront. But the real concern is if
we don't figure out a way tosolve the workforce problem, it's going to
be harder and harder to attract thesecompanies there because they've got to have workers.
And so you know, I thinkprobably any of your listeners, can
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you know understand when you go outto a restaurant right now, you might
be waiting a lot more because thereare fewer servers there. Well, any
business that we're talking to right nowsaying I've got jobs open, I've got
them open, I can't find peoplefor them. So so what exactly,
Okay, let me interrupt you here. And this is just I don't know
whether you know the answer to this. If you did, you'd probably not
be working. You'd just be inFlorida somewhere right now, enjoying the great
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idea that you had. But Imean, what are people doing? Brian?
I mean I've asked him, youknow, from the employer's standpoint,
and I've asked I can't really getan answer. If people aren't working,
what exactly what are they doing togain money? Because all the money that
went out with COVID and all thisother that's that's that's gone, that's done.
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There's been significant reforms within the welfaresystem, entitlement programs, whatever you
want to call it, that there'snot as many people on those roles.
So what exactly are people doing wellto make money. You know, that
is a good question. I thinkyou have a lot of single or not
single family homes, but families wherethere's one income, one spouse stays home
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the other doesn't, and that cantie right back to the childcare issue that
we've been discussing. There are Ido think when COVID arrived, we had
a lot of people that were nearingretirement age but might have been five or
six or seven years ahead and justsaid, you know what, I'm done.
I'm done, and so we hada greater exodus on the closer to
retirement people than they were ready for, and they haven't been able to have
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time to backfill that. I thinkthat's been a part of the problem,
and hopefully over time that starts toiron back out. But Dave, that's
a great question. What are theydoing. The national workforce participation rate average
is about sixty two to sixty threepercent, and we're at fifty five and
just your listeners understand what that numbermeans. If you are over the age
of sixteen and you are not institutionalizedor in a military so institutionalized to be
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you're in a prisoner or you're ina long term care facility, or you're
in the military. But if youare over the age of sixteen and not
in that category, you are consideredavailable for the workforce. The percentage that
are in the workforce are those whoare actively working or those who are a
collecting unemployment because if you are collectingunemployment, there's a finite period of time
that you can receive unemployment assistance.But that means that you are actively looking
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for a job. So we're talkingfifty five percent of our population sixteen year
old or not institutionalized. Now,part of our problem is we have an
elderly population. If you are ninetyand you're not institutionalized, you're not in
the military, you're still considered bythat definition available. So that is part
of our problem, is that wehave an elderly population. But it doesn't
explain the nine percent gap or eightto nine percent gap between the West Virginia
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and the United States. Okay,hey, well I get a text here
for you. You ready, Okay, right, says does mister Dayton agree
that old care is infrastructure? Ifso, asking which major political party put
forth this idea in Congress? Soyou know, I would say it is
just as important as infrastructure, andwhat we're most excited about, Dave,
is that this is bipartisan. TheChamber had a bill two years ago during
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the twenty twenty two session that verysimilar to what we're looking at now but
different provided tax credits to businesses whostarted a day care facility. That bill
passed the Senate. I believe itwas thirty one to three, and I
think it was ninety four to twoin the House with a few absent.
It was overwhelmingly bipartisan. What isgoing on right now. That task force
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I mentioned earlier, being headed byDelegate Cross, has Democrats on that task
force as well as Republicans. Sothis is not a partisan issue and we're
very very happy about that. Thisis one of those things that everybody has
come together and realized we have totackle this, and I think that's just
been you know, for a longtime, there's been a push to get
this elevated, and it's elevated.So you know, this is not something
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I'm going to say is a Republicanor a Democrat thing. This is bipartisan
and that's good. What's under thedome today and a hobby is going to
be there coming up at ten ohsix from the AARP Broadcast facility there at
the Capitol. What are you lookingat specifically today? You know, today
we're continuing to watch the candidate filingsevery day. It's as interested to see
who's filing for office. We're weare less than four months away now from
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the primary election, which, asidefrom a handful of districts in the legislature,
they're going to be decided in May, so that's something we're paying close
attention to. You know, we'vegot meetings set up on again. Childcare
just continues to be there. Alwaysenjoy having Hoppy down in the Capitol.
It just adds a little bit ofextra atmosphere in the dome, brings more
energy there. So there's a lotgoing on. We're also looking at the
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snowstorm tomorrow. See you know whatthey can try to cram in today,
and I'd be remiss, I said, the Chamber has a great revent coming
up tonight. We have our legislativereception right next door at the Culture Center.
So that's always a great opportunity tobring our members, bring the legislature
together, to have an opportunity totalk and just mingle with each other.
All right, Brian Dayton from theState Chamber of Commerce. I'll have you
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on again a couple of times becauseI want to have you on definitely after
we have the candidate filings, becausethe deadline is midnight on the twenty seventh
to file, and I'm interested tosee because I know you guys have done
some endorsements and probably we'll do somemore. I'm interested to see you.
We'll have you on a couple timesbefore the primary election, but definitely after
the candidate filings. One of you, I'm too love to talk about it.
All right, We're going to takea break, Brian. I appreciate
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out to me and let me mentionthis as well. You know, we
are in the campaign season right now. As I said, the filing deadline
will end on Saturday night, thetwenty seventh, at midnight, And so
if your political candidate that that's filed, or you're thinking about filing whatever,
and you want on the show.Once the candidate filing period is over,
(48:34):
we're going to start limiting the numberof times people can come on because then
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Text says if you value childcare,ask Carol Miller at Alex Mooney why
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they've voted with other congressional Republicans toend childcare funding. Hoppy, as I
mentioned, is back at the Capitalcoming up to ten oh six. The
talk about the high school transfer rulecontinues. Canaw coundydable to get Dana Ferrell,
who's a very vocal opponent of thenew rule himself an educator and Senator
Ryan Well, the guy behind thenew rules. They're going to have a
discussion about it, with Hoppy comingup at some point during the show.
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Also, Brad mclahon would stopped byHoppy ten o six from the AARP broadcast
location at the Capital, Texas.Burger King and tays Valley has had their
dining room shut down for several years. The news slash my car is not
a proper place to eat food.I don't have a table in my car,
and besides that, I'm driving BKand Tayese Valley's lost a lot of
money from me over the years.Well, I'm trying to throw Burger King
(50:02):
under the bus. But then theyprobably don't have people to work. That's
probably the reason. Say Republican Partywill have their winter meeting this Saturday in
Charleston, and among the items,well, more than likely they're going to
be choosing a new chair. Asword is it's kind of become common knowledge
now, is that current party chairElgri mccardal is going to be stepping down,
possibly to run for office herself.So they're going to be taking a
(50:27):
look at that. But also you'veheard Hoppy talking about this. In fact,
it was the subject of his commentarythis morning. This move where some
within the Republican Party want to changethe Republican Party primary so only registered Republicans
can vote in it. Now here'swhat I mean that I did not phrase
(50:49):
that correctly. I don't mean thatthey can't vote. I mean we're talking
about independence here. If you area registered independent, nonpartisan, you know,
whatever, you want to unaffiliated,when you go to vote, you
can request a Republican or a Democraticballot. If you're a registered independent.
The law is in West Virginia,you go and to the poll worker and
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you say, I am an independent, but I want a Republican ballot or
I want a Democratic ballot. Bylaw, the poll worker is not allowed
to ask you which one you want. I learned that in my day's some
secretary of state's office. You can'tdo that, but you have to ask
for one. Now there is amove, and I guess it's going to
be discussed at the state Republican Partymeetings in Charleston this weekend. That would
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basically make it if you're an independent, you would not be able to do
that. Now. The party chair, Elja mccardal, isn't necessarily opposed to
that, but she is expressing someconcern about the timing. And a few
county clerks are the people that actuallyrun elections in the state. They are
many of them are opposed to it. In fact, one of those county
clerks is going to join Hopey atthe Capitol today. I will say this
(51:52):
in closing, I don't know whatthey've really thought this whole thing through.
To be honest with you, Ithink it's a bad idea, especially with
the time. But you know,I'll say this. Where I'm from in
southern West Virginia, there are alot of people that are registered as independent
because they may think Republican. Theyhave all their conservative they have all the
Republican talking points, but their heritageis being a Democrat and they just can't
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seem to make that switch over.So it's going to be interesting to see
what happens. Texas, Dave Island. All types of welcome on my show,
even liars. It explains why alot of gops come on the show.
I put on the show. Whoeverasks to come on the show,
all right, we got to go. Coming up on tomorrow's sho Hannah Gardner
from the Kenaw charlest New Main Associationwith this week's Adopt Me Please, sped
of the Week and Doug Chipolletti onSchool Choice Week which is coming up.
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Also, Spencer Adkins will be onthe show as well. My producer was
the Boss Deal Cooper, Thank youso much. Hobbies coming up. Drop
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you enjoyed some sunshine yesterday, becausethe snow's back in the forecast winter storm
warnings, watches, advisories, allthat stuff is said to kick in this
see evening, expecting more snow,more eyes, and more cold temperatures.
Two. Matter of fact, theysay that on Saturday, as we're all
over at the West Virginia Hunting Fishand Show at the Colosseum Convention Center,
Saturday is actually going to be colderthan what we experienced earlier this week.
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So you got that to look fortoo. But y, they tell me
that by next Friday we could besixty degrees. Yeah, that's what they
said. Definitely in the fifties nextweek and flirting with sixty and it's all
going to melt there you go,I have no problem. That voice you
hear is rob real. We're goingto get to him here in just a
couple of moments plus a little bitlater on. Brian Dayton from the State
Chamber of Commerce is going to stopby and Justin Williams from the Affiliated Construction
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Trades Group. You know, stopme if you've heard this one before.
West Virginia needs workers and they areworking on a program to try to find
new workers, apprenticeships, things ofthat in nature. We're going to talk
to Justin about de plus your callsand texts are always welcome. Big Lee
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So, if you've driven by elevento eleven, Virginia, Trediece and
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Charleston, there are some crazy peoplestanding outside. Now that's not unusual,
as this building is surrounded by crazypeople, mostly of the employees and some
of some who frequent the parking lotfrom time to time. But we'll get
into that on another show. Weare all NuGet with nuts as cold as
it is. Why are they outthere? Well, it's the first annual
Thornhill Automotive Group Sock Drop, wherewe're asking you, the greatest listeners in
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the world, to help us putnew socks of those in need. We're
teaming up with the folks at MountainMission to make it all happen. All
of our stations are involved. WCCHS, Charleston's ESPN Radio one of seven three,
the Beat V one hundred kaz Vone To all of us, we're
all hanging out there and we are, you know, working together to try
to collect some socks. This guythat's kind of behind this whole thing,
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this was his crazy idea. Thehead of the crazy idea department here at
WVRC Media, Charles rob Reel fromher sister station ninety six to one,
Superstar Country kw's host of Up RealEarly. Are you I'm tall? It
does say that on the business card. Now I am the head hooligan in
charge of creative nonsense. I thinkmaybe I don't know. All I know
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is that the most requested item atshelters and service providers is socks. It
seems like such a simple thing,and yet just stand out there for five
minutes, especially if you had towalk through the parking lot and the wet
and things that had frozen over andthe black ice and then it got plaid
again and now it's wet. Thinkabout how cold your feet are, and
the carry hoo to sec memorial spaceheater memorials. She didn't die, no,
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but it's you know, it's rightthere under your feet, keeping you.
So if you've got one of thoseunder your desk, thinking about,
man, my feet got cold thismorning. Now, think about the folks
who are homeless, displaced. Thinkabout the folks who the families who maybe
can't afford heat, so they needsocks. Let's keep their feet Like Lieutenant
Dantles, take care of your feet. If we can do that, let's
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literally start keeping folks warm from theground up. That's what we're doing today.
And we started what six seven,seven hundred and a military always a
military guy. Well yeah, Andin fact, our first benefactor came through
just after seven with eighty pairs ofsocks. It started wow, And we've
had lots of folks come through.The Mountain Mission truck is in our parking
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lot. We're going until six thisevening, and what we're seeking is simple
packages pairs of brand new, neverworn, unopened socks. That's what we
need. Socks. And you're like, well, I can't make it to
the store, but I could swingby all my lunch hour. We can
do cash and check donations for MountainMission as well, but the focus today
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is socks and you can get them, I mean for next to nothing.
I heard Jeff talking about to oneof the places that he picked up some
last night. My wife actually stoppedmy dollar tree and got some socks yesterday,
so and sent me to work withthem this morning. So so here
again, what we're saying is it'sreal simple. It doesn't take a lot
of time, and we're giving youplumb time. And even if you can't
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make it out of somewhere to getsome socks, cash and check donations,
whatever, the folks from Mountain Missionwill take that. If you're worried about
giving us cash, which you probablyshould be worried about giving us cash,
then it's real simple. You canyou can just put it directly in their
hands. Man. Which you wantto do is yeah, nobody's gonna run
off to Marty Grass with your cashdonation or checks made out to Mountain Mission,
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and especially those socks. And oneof the reasons that we pick socks
is you don't have to worry aboutsizes. There's basically adult and kids size
socks and that's it. You don'thave to it's not like shoe sizes.
You'll see on the socks th sizeof seven to thirteen. Just socks stretch.
Yeah, it'll it'll be you know, somebody who's got a size fifteen
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shoe is not going to have aproblem getting into a pair of tube socks
that you brought. This is oneof the things that we try to make
it simple, We try to makeit easy for folks to get in on
the giving. I'm so proud ofthe way West Virginians take care of West
Virginians and this is another great opportunityto do that. And this was kind
of your baby. I mean,it is one of those things because all
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in the several you know, dozensof radio stations that you've been fired from
across the country. You get thisopportunity to do this in other markets,
and it's been this huge success.And as you said, West Virginians are
the most giving people on the faceof the earth. I mean, I
have no doubt about that. Imean, you were you were here,
you left, and you came back, and you're not from here, so
you must like it for some reason. And that's one of the reasons you
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told me that you like it.Yes, seventeen states, three foreign countries,
and there is no place like WestVirginia when it comes to helping our
friends and neighbors. It's amazing theway people pull together to take care of
one another. And I've said before, I know there are policy things that
need to be fixed in these situations. That's not what I do. That's
not the tree I bark up.I'm just about helping folks and doing our
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best to keep them warm this winter, So come by drop your socks before
six o'clock. You know, it'sinteresting that that phrase drop your socks because
let me tell you something about thatand Dale's for our producer day. You
made me want to standing by onthe on the dumb button on this one.
The last time Robert that I hadyou on the show and we talked
about the name drop your socks,Yes, and you alluded to the fact
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that you were in the military.Always say thank you for your service,
and there was we kind of jokedabout the term drop your socks because there's
a lot more to that statement.I'm not going to go into it because
I kind of liked the job andmy boss is producing for the show today,
so I'm not going to go intothe rest of that statement. But
somebody on X the artist for meknown as Twitter, actually did. They
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didn't print it out, they saidthey said some of the effective I know
what you guys did there, becausethere's more to that expression. If you're
a military person, you know thatjust dropped your socks. And I'll leave
it at that. I think thefirst time through. I said that any
man who has been through basic trainingknows what it's all about and is laughing
maniacally. But I actually ran thisby my ex wife who is retired National
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Guard, and she said, theysay they say it to them in basic
training and it it's different. Yeah, to know that they say, you
know, I shouldn't I should havenever married a woman from the National Guard
because it means she only did laundryonce a month and the house was only
clean two weeks out of the year. But the so apparently they say this
to women in basic training and suchtoo. So if you, if you
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have served, you're in on thejoke, and I do not recommend explaining
it at work you will end upin HR's office and and the rest of
the people right now are listening ifthey're at work and they're about to google
it, and they're about to getfired, you know, for googling that
on their work computer the VPN.Do it on your phone, not on
the Wi Fi? Would you say, Dale? Dale said something to me.
I don't know what it was.Oh, it's feature in Platoon,
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Yes, yes, it comes upin Platoon. It also comes up in
Full Metal Jacket, the Great rlee Ermy who really was a drill instructor
before that film, And none ofhis lines are quotable on the radio.
None, not a single one issafe to say on the radio. All
right. So they say it's goingto warm up a little bit out there
today, and that's a relative termwith this. It seems like it's the
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longest week of winter weather forever.But it is going to get in the
upper thirties before the next snowstorm comesin this evening and enduring air night hours.
So if you're looking to get outof the office today, come down
and see us again. We makeit real simple. We've cleared all of
the v well most of the vehiclesoff the parking lot out there. The
vans are set up. We're ateleven eleven Virginia Street. It's just stuff
from Charleston Catholic High School. Andwe've got our crew is out there from
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all of our stations are out there. We've got the folks from about Mission
out there as well. Don't evenhave to get out of your car,
you know, if you don't wantto, you're thinking about going to the
store and getting all of those Frenchtoasts supplies the milk, the bread,
the eggs. Pick up a packageof socks and bring them to us before
this next round of storm hits,and that will warm your heart as well
as warm the feet of so manyof our needy friends and neighbors this winter.
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You know something we don't talk aboutenoughing. I'll let you go because
I know you've got to get backoutside. But something we don't talk about.
You know, your station sety sixto one KWS is the raining country
music station of the year instead ofWest Virginia. And so that's kind of
a cool deal, it is.I'm sure we won't repeat now that I'm
back. You had little to dowith it last time. I had remarkably
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little to do with it last time. Shards of glass are great. They
are wonderful acknowledgments of how hard wework to improve people's lives, whether it's
in ways like this, collecting socksto keep people warm, or just giving
you something to sing along with.My goal every time I get on the
radio in the morning is if you'renot in a better mood three minutes after
(11:30):
you've turned on up real early,then I need to work harder. I'm
not doing my job well enough,so we just we want you to sing
along, We want you to havefun, we want you to make going
We want to make going to workless of a dread for you, and
we want to help our friends andneighbors too. What it's all about.
Sorry, again, it's till atleast six o'clock or so this evening.
And again this is one of theEven though this is kind of your brain
shot, all the stations are outthere, We're I'm going to be out
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there throughout the day to day collectingthese socks that we're asking for new socks
packages. Whether you can just affordone package up at the Dollar store,
or whether you can bring boxes aspeople have already done. Any donation will
be appreciated. If you want todo cash, or if you want to
do check whatever. The folks fromMountain Mission are set up outside with us
as well. Come by before sixo'clock, even if it's one pair that
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you picked up at the check outat your local Parmar store. Yeah,
cheap plug, got a text herefor you, Robert. Yes, Tex
says off topic, just wanted toask Rob if he found his mother's Elvis
concert ticket for the nineteen seventy sevenIndianapolis show. I have not what's the
story here? I don't know this. So the final concert for Elvis in
nineteen seventy seven was at Market SquareArena. I did know that in Indianapolis,
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and I had been told for awhile that I was actually at that
show. I wasn't even four yearsold yet, so I take people's word
for it. But I know mymother was there because one of her prize
possessions was the ticket stub and itwas in her effects. You know,
I was her executor. So I'mgoing through all that, and I found
it in her effects after she died. I have not been back to where
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that stuff is to get my handson it, but if if I and
my agent state remember, I willtake a photograph of that and post it
on al Gore's interwebs when I rememberto do so. So all right,
I appreciate that somebody was listening upreal early to even mention that. Yeah.
I just appreciate that anybody listens,especially when you and I are on
here together, because it's it's fiftyto fifty, you know, put us
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like there's a reason why they don'tlet us on the air. That often
together. Correct, And I don'teven want to bring in Steve animal to
this because then it's a totally differentanimal tope, unintended. Ashley has already
been HR. I mean, it'sfunny because we're getting I'll let you go,
but you know it's funny because we'regetting ready to go on the show,
and the and Ashley's kind of misseverything around here, but she's the
director of HR comes in and justkind of look sadly in the minute she
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walks in. I'm like, Ididn't do it. I did do it.
I didn't do it, both pointingeach other at the same time.
All right, so you're right onthe parking lot. Yes, until six
o'clock this evening. Get those socksout here, and a big shout out
to the folks that Thornhill Otter Groupfor making it all possible as well.
Yes, thank you to Sydney andeverybody for megan it possible for folks to
drop your socks. The WVRC Mediainaugural edition. All right, man,
I'll be out there. I'm gonnaI'm gonna extend the show to about four
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or five hours today so I don'thave to go out there and stand but
I'll be out there as well.I'll be out there a little bit later
on. They all right, RobReal from our sister station ninety six one
kW got Superstar Country again, hostof of Up Real Early and uh,
we're out there till six o'clock orso. The Steven and Drop your Socks
has brought to you by the Thornheloder. Bring your your packages of socks to
us, and you don't even haveto get out of your car. We'll
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have people out there throughout the daytoday from Rob Station, from this station,
the News Department, Promotions. We'reall going to be out there hanging
out today collecting those socks. AndMountain Mission is here as well. And
if you can't get to your localstore to pick up some socks, cash
check, we'll take that as welland it'll be given to Mountain Mission.
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it here. It's our good friendRich Lindsay, how are you man?
Doing fine? Dave? How youdoing? Happy New Year to you?
Happy New Year. You came into make a donation for the drop of
your socks, but you had someinformation. You stuck your head at a
door and said, hey, youmight want to tell your listeners. I
said, no, you sit down, you tele listeners. What did you
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want to tell us? Okay,well, first off, everyone listening should
get down to the radio station andand and donate socks. But you can
get your socks at the drug andPorium there on Patrick Street because they're selling
socks at twenty percent off down there. All types of socks, men's socks,
women's socks, thermal socks, anythingyou can think of. So there
you go. Which is a lotbeing paid for this plug idea? I
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mean there's folks over a Drugg andPoium. I know that. I mentioned
earlier that my wife picked up somea dollar tree. So there, and
I'm sure your big lots and placeslike that, and there's plenty of other
places. But I appreciate you lettingpeople know that. How are how are
things going out there? I haven'tbeen outside because it's cold, I mean
because I've been working prepared for go. Yeah, it's it's still cold.
After it's still cold. That nothing'schanged really, right, But drug and
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Porium twenty percent off on Patrick Street? All right? Rich, I appreciate
it bad. Thanks a lot.Thank you today. Take care there,
rich Lindsay yea. I don't knowwho's going to stop by the studio.
Sometimes I thought we had security,but I guess not. Justin Williams is
here the directors to make sure Iget your title right, Justin the director
of act the Affiliated Construction Trades Organization. That's correct, And we're part of
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the West Virginia State Building in ConstructionTrades, all right, so tell us
what that organization does. Sure,So we represent about twenty two thousand construction
workers Union construction Workers in West Virginiaand about two thousand apprentices going through those
fourteen trade organizations that we represent inWest Virginia. Okay, all right,
so we all know, Justin there'sa lot of construction going on now in
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West Virginia and a whole lot moreto come. And we hear daily though
of the struggles that business owners havein fighting employees, the struggling if there
is real, man, Yeah,it really is. And that's part of
the reason I'm here. You know, We're out there recruiting young people,
people who want to change careers andhave a great career ahead of them to
join the trades, either through anapprenticeship program or go into one of your
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local union halls and sign up togo to work. That's what we want.
We want people to go to work. You know, it's a great
career. You can make a livingout of this, good wages, benefits,
health insurance, a pension, andthose all kick in as soon as
you start. And when you're apprentice, you get paid while you learn the
trade. And so it's you know, we see our college numbers are going
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down. It's been a big conversation, and so you know, this is
a great opportunity to get more educationin a specific area and make a career
out of it. What seemed tobe the the in demand positions at this
time. I mean, I knowconstruction's kind of a an umbrella term,
but what are some of the specificsfor some of the top two or three
that are really you need right now. So we represent fourteen trades and it
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covers the spectrum mostly in industrial andcommercial construction. But you know, obviously
electricians there's a big push for evsand and all the grid infrastructure, just
general infrastructure, so equipment operators,labors, you know, carpenters, mill
rights, boiler makers that work inour powerhouses. You know, it's it's
cement Mason's I mean, really coversthe spectrum and it depends on the area
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of the state you're in. Right, So a project like New Core,
there's going to be probably four orfive thousand different construction workers that go through
there, depending on what process,what part of the project they're in.
Right, You're gonna start out movingdirt. I have a bunch of equipment
operators, bulldozers and cranes. Thenyou're gonna start with concrete, so you
have cement finishers in there. Thenyou're gonna start the building sheet metal workers
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putting in electrical and plumbers and pipefitters. So it kind of just rolls
through. And you know what's goodabout these jobs is that, you know,
people go from job to job tojob, but they make a career
out of it. Because West Virginiahas really is in a good position with
the construction that's coming here. Youknow, New Core Toyota has been expanding
year after a year with new projectsthere in construction, and we work on
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the powerhouse companies. You know,down here in Kanas City there was the
new cancer building. Now they're doingthe training facility. Those are all great
jobs for construction workers here in WestVirginia. Talking again with Justin Williams,
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and my listeners have heard me talkingabout this before as a kid of the
eighties. You know, they toldus, you know, you got to
go to college, you got togo, you gotta go get that four
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year degree. And and that's nota bad thing necessarily, but there's a
lot of folks that got that pieceof paper in their hand and don't have
anything to do with it. AndI like the fact now that that our
educators, political folks of whomever aretelling people, counselors in public schools or
probably even re charter to whatever.They're telling people, you got to have
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some kind of training after high school. But it doesn't necessarily have to be
with all due respect to my almamater at Marshall University or WVU or State
or whatever it could be, atany just just get some kind of training,
that's right. And you know,the best part about ours is you
go and you get some base leveltraining. Then you go to work and
you start making money and can youknow, paying taxes and being part of
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your community. And so you goand you learn while you're on the job
from people who've been doing this fortwenty or thirty years. Then you go
back and get more training. Andyou know, with our training facilities,
there's jointly administered between the union andthe contractor partners, so they're working with
the contractors who know the projects thatare coming kind of down the pipeline,
and they're preparing the workers for thatwork. So you know, thirty years
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ago they were building coal fire powerhousesand we were training people to do that.
We still maintain those, but we'realso working on natural gas pipelines.
We also build windmills and solar farms. We're going to work on natural gas
powerhouses, I mean, whatever itcan be. We want to train those
people so that they're prepared to notonly build it, but we also have
to maintain these facilities for the peoplethat work in those facilities every day.
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And so it's a really great opportunityto get training outside of that traditional four
year or even two year college.But one thing that we're working on this
session and the legislature is to worktowards getting an associate's degree when you complete
in a apprenticeship. So you know, it's a great skill and a trade
to learn, but if you wantto go out and start your own construction
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business, you'll have some kind ofcollege training on that, whether it be
in business administration or how to bidjobs and learning some of those other aspects
of the business world that you getin an associate's degree program. So how
important or how much of a buyin is there from the business community and
all this it's huge. I mean, we really do partner with our contractors
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and then the owners and developers ofthese projects. You know, so New
Core, for example, they bidit out and they want the best bang
for their buck, and they knowwhen they use one of our partner contractors.
That's what they're getting because our contractorshave a pool of drug free,
highly skilled, highly trained workers thatare going to come in there and get
their job done on time and hopefullyunder budget. And maybe even before time.
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You mentioned the word drug free,we all know. Again, I
talk about it every day. Peoplethat are on the show talk about every
day the problem with the opio eadescourge in West Virginia. And there are
days that it seems like we maybe getting a little bit better, and
then there are days when we don'tseem like we're getting a little bit better.
How big of a challenge is that, sure, it's a huge challenge
in every industry. And you know, part of what we do in the
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trades, we do have drug testingpre employment because you're working around heavy equipment
and around other people, and soyou have to be drug free. But
what we do is we're working withsome of these programs, you know,
Jobs and Hope and Recovery. We'vegot training and we're working with it's called
the school Diversion and Transition, whichis the kind of the CTE programs in
the jails, and so they're trainingpeople in these industries that we want and
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they can come out and go backto work and be a productive member of
study, which is really what youknow these incarceration you know, when you're
in incarcerated, that's what you want. You want to be able to come
back and have a job and thenyou're not going to hopefully fall back into
some of those things. And soit's really important to work to get people
out of bad situations into a job. So where can people learn more how
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to take advantage of this? SureSo our website is wvtrades dot org and
that has links to all fourteen craftsand information about apprenticeships. Contact information on
there. So happy to reach outand talk to anybody, all right,
justin Always a pleasure to have youon the show. And it's kind of
chaos here right now with Sock dropgoing out. Had to shoot you an
email you after day and so we'regonna have to park off site a little
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bit out there because we've got ourparking lot filled with vans out there and
hopefully folks are donating their socks today. So I appreciate you working with us
on no problem. It's great toyou all do these events to support our
community and it's one of the thingsour unions do as well. We did
a big angel tree at our officethis year, and so you know,
it's what's nice about our organization.We represent twenty thousand construction workers, but
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they're local West Virginia workers and theyare all involved in our communities, whether
it be at little legs or churchesor whatever it is. So what it's
all about. Justin Williams again,the director of ACT, that is the
Affiliated Construction Trades Organization. I appreciateyou being here man. Thanks a lot,
good stuff. Thanks Dave twenty fourminutes away from Tama, Dave Island
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concerning our last guest talking about constructionjobs as drug free include medical cannabis.
Well, I actually ask Justin beforehe left because I didn't get the text
in time. Justin had to leaveus, but I ask him that very
question as it stands right now inWest Virginia, and if I'm wrong,
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somebody can correct me. But asand this is according to Justin, they
test for usage at this point,so drug free at this time if you're
using medical cannabis as what Justin wassaying, and I'm hoping that this is
I'm sure he knows what he's talkingabout. I just hope that I know
that I'm explaining it properly at thistime medical cannabis that would be considered not
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drug free. Does that make anysense, Brian what I just said,
I think so? All right,So that's that's where we are right now.
Brian Dayton from the West Virginia Chamberof Commerces here, Good morning,
sir, Welcome to the show.David's great to be back. I think
we lost saw you a couple ofweeks ago, so it'eah to be back
on and we're in full swing withthe session. Now. You see what
we've added to the studio here.We have a spencer Atkins bibblehead. That's
super nice. Where can I getone? Well, you know this was
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a gift from from a person overto w WK Rich West, who is
one of their sales weasels over there. That's we have sales weazels here.
They have sales weasels there. AndRich is one of their sales weasels over
there, and he he gifted Idid a TV commercial, uh, and
he gifted this to me. Soit's going to set in here, and
if we keep up with the kindof weather we've had this past week,
we're going to hang this thing ineffigy okay, because we're not feeling the
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spence. Spencer is actually going tobe on the show tomorrow. But anyway,
it's kind of, i'll be honestwith you, things kind of creepy.
Man. It's just it's a truebibble head. It just I mean,
I know it's a bibblehead. It'ssupposed to babble, but gosh,
it's just just constantly bobbles. Man. It's just it's weird. We have
a Brian Dayton biblehead anywhere. Wedon't, not that I'm aware of Steve
Roberts biblehead. Not that I'm aware. I can't tell you what my wife
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hasn't had created on XC and sentin. But you know, true knows
that is true. All right.So the Dome is the place to be
this week's session underway State Chamber.I know that you're you can keep an
eye on things. You're there justabout every day. I can tell that
you've been there a lot because youcome in last time you didn't have a
tie on, so today you've gota tie on, so you must have
been hanging out there or you're goingthere later today. I want to talk
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a little bit about something that hasbeen in the news and I know the
Chamber is keeping a close eye on, and that's childcare in West Virginia.
Not always the sexiest of topics andsession where we've talked about capital punishment and
cannabis and things of that nature,but childcare, and not to say the
obvious brind is extremely important and insome cases is crucial to whether or not
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someone takes a job. What's thestate looking at on this right now?
So let me just back up alittle bit and give some extra flavor to
why this issue is so important.West Virginia has the lowest workforce participation rate
in the country by a few percentagepoints. A big reason. There are
multiple reasons to but a big reasonis the availability lack of availability of childcare
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in West Virginia, the affordability ofchildcare in West Virginia, and also making
sure that those are high quality programs. Just to give an example, the
average cost that I've talked to afew childcare providers, the average cost is
about eight hundred dollars. It's alittle bit more for younger children. It
can be a little bit less aschildren get a little bit older. But
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we're just going to ballpark. Itabout eight hundred dollars, and that actually
doesn't cover the childcare centers operating costs. Either or not, it's very expensive
to run these. So put itthis way. If you have two a
family with two children, and theyare making the median household income of West
Virginia, which is about fifty onethousand dollars, when you look at their
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pay, what's taken out of theirpay via taxes, insurance, so and
look at their take home pay,you're probably talking fifty sixty maybe seventy percent
is going out the door to goto a childcare facility that is almost unworkable.
So what you have is a lotof people that have made the conscious
decision. You know what, Icould work for less than minimum wage to
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not see my children or I cantighten our belts a little bit and one
spouse, you know, goes offto work and the other one stays home.
We did that with my family whenwe looked at the cost. So
that is really driving this whole discussionabout childcare in West Virginia. Five years
ago, the legislature largely didn't reallywant to pay too much attention to it.
Now it is a very very highpriority in both the House and the
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Senate, so we're very excited aboutthat. There had been there was talk
I think the mister Wolfull from downin Capbell County I think was the one
that had was talking about doing somekind of a child like like a tax
credit or something like that. Yeah, there are a number of bills and
approaches that are being looked at rightnow. Senator Rolfles is one of those
approaches to find a way to providesome extra assistance to those who really need
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it. The Chamber has a couplebills on this topic. Are the one
that we're really having as a priorityencourages businesses to operate these facilities. We
have so many counties in West Virginiawhere there aren't enough childcare. I think
the statistic is there over twenty countiesthat have less than one hundred daycare slots
in the entire county. So wehave a bill that would provide a tax
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credit to businesses who operate a childcarefacility and provide that is a benefit for
their employees. Another thing that we'revery supportive of is permanently changing the reimbursement
rate for subsidized children from attendance toenrollment. So if you're a private childcare
provider, you have your private payers. If you have people who are on
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subsidy and sending their children there,the state will pick up that tab.
Now there is a copay assigned toit. But prior to the COVID pandemic,
those childcare providers were paid by thestate based on attendance. Well,
if that child and their family theyonly send that child there for three days
a month, they only got paidfor three days a month, but they
still have all the staffing there,they have all the overhead, all the
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insurance costs, and so when theCOVID pandemic rolled around, it got changed
to enrollment, and so if thechild is enrolled, then the state will
basically pay for them. Right now, that is set to expire later this
year. What will likely happen isif that is allowed to expire, you
will have a lot of private childcare providers who, in order to stay
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in business and not go under,will have to greatly limit the number of
subsidized children that they can take.And those we're talking about families who really
need this extra help in order tobe able to go to work. So
that is a high priority of permanentlychanging it from attendance to enrollment. It's
also very likely that the federal government'sgoing to require that in the next couple
of years, so it's staying aheadof the game. That is another major
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priority, but it's being looked at. There's a task force that is being
headed up by Delegate Kathy Heskraus.It's got a number of House members on
it. There's a lot of incentiveover in the Senate to do things.
So there are a lot of movingparts right now, but I feel very
optimistic that we can make some realprogress on this issue. Brian Dayton from
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know, we're always looking are thereways to make it easier to do business
in West Virginia as far as regulationsor how taxes are applied. That is
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always a top priority. Workforce,which ties right into childcare, continues to
be something that is all encompassing andit's going to need to take some real
reform. We have landed so manyreally big development developments into West Virginia.
You know, you think about newCore, Procter and Gamble, Owens and
minor GreenPower, motor company, formEnergy, a lot of these, the
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Berkshire Hathway development up in Jackson County, A lot of those things have been
really impressive wins on the economic developmentfront. But the real concern is if
we don't figure out a way tosolve the workforce problem, it's going to
be harder and harder to attract thesecompanies there because they've got to have workers.
And so you know, I thinkprobably any of your listeners, can
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you know understand when you go outto a restaurant right now, you might
be waiting a lot more because thereare fewer servers there. Well, any
business that we're talking to right nowsaying I've got jobs open, I've got
them open, I can't find peoplefor them. So so what exactly,
Okay, let me interrupt you here. And this is just I don't know
whether you know the answer to this. If you did, you'd probably not
be working. You'd just be inFlorida somewhere right now, enjoying the great
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idea that you had. But Imean, what are people doing? Brian?
I mean I've asked him, youknow, from the employer's standpoint,
and I've asked I can't really getan answer. If people aren't working,
what exactly what are they doing togain money? Because all the money that
went out with COVID and all thisother that's that's that's gone, that's done.
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There's been significant reforms within the welfaresystem, entitlement programs, whatever you
want to call it, that there'snot as many people on those roles.
So what exactly are people doing wellto make money. You know, that
is a good question. I thinkyou have a lot of single or not
single family homes, but families wherethere's one income, one spouse stays home
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the other doesn't, and that cantie right back to the childcare issue that
we've been discussing. There are Ido think when COVID arrived, we had
a lot of people that were nearingretirement age but might have been five or
six or seven years ahead and justsaid, you know what, I'm done.
I'm done, and so we hada greater exodus on the closer to
retirement people than they were ready for, and they haven't been able to have
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time to backfill that. I thinkthat's been a part of the problem,
and hopefully over time that starts toiron back out. But Dave, that's
a great question. What are theydoing. The national workforce participation rate average
is about sixty two to sixty threepercent, and we're at fifty five and
just your listeners understand what that numbermeans. If you are over the age
of sixteen and you are not institutionalizedor in a military so institutionalized to be
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you're in a prisoner or you're ina long term care facility, or you're
in the military. But if youare over the age of sixteen and not
in that category, you are consideredavailable for the workforce. The percentage that
are in the workforce are those whoare actively working or those who are a
collecting unemployment because if you are collectingunemployment, there's a finite period of time
that you can receive unemployment assistance.But that means that you are actively looking
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for a job. So we're talkingfifty five percent of our population sixteen year
old or not institutionalized. Now,part of our problem is we have an
elderly population. If you are ninetyand you're not institutionalized, you're not in
the military, you're still considered bythat definition available. So that is part
of our problem, is that wehave an elderly population. But it doesn't
explain the nine percent gap or eightto nine percent gap between the West Virginia
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and the United States. Okay,hey, well I get a text here
for you. You ready, Okay, right, says does mister Dayton agree
that old care is infrastructure? Ifso, asking which major political party put
forth this idea in Congress? Soyou know, I would say it is
just as important as infrastructure, andwhat we're most excited about, Dave,
is that this is bipartisan. TheChamber had a bill two years ago during
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the twenty twenty two session that verysimilar to what we're looking at now but
different provided tax credits to businesses whostarted a day care facility. That bill
passed the Senate. I believe itwas thirty one to three, and I
think it was ninety four to twoin the House with a few absent.
It was overwhelmingly bipartisan. What isgoing on right now. That task force
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I mentioned earlier, being headed byDelegate Cross, has Democrats on that task
force as well as Republicans. Sothis is not a partisan issue and we're
very very happy about that. Thisis one of those things that everybody has
come together and realized we have totackle this, and I think that's just
been you know, for a longtime, there's been a push to get
this elevated, and it's elevated.So you know, this is not something
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I'm going to say is a Republicanor a Democrat thing. This is bipartisan
and that's good. What's under thedome today and a hobby is going to
be there coming up at ten ohsix from the AARP Broadcast facility there at
the Capitol. What are you lookingat specifically today? You know, today
we're continuing to watch the candidate filingsevery day. It's as interested to see
who's filing for office. We're weare less than four months away now from
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the primary election, which, asidefrom a handful of districts in the legislature,
they're going to be decided in May, so that's something we're paying close
attention to. You know, we'vegot meetings set up on again. Childcare
just continues to be there. Alwaysenjoy having Hoppy down in the Capitol.
It just adds a little bit ofextra atmosphere in the dome, brings more
energy there. So there's a lotgoing on. We're also looking at the
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snowstorm tomorrow. See you know whatthey can try to cram in today,
and I'd be remiss, I said, the Chamber has a great revent coming
up tonight. We have our legislativereception right next door at the Culture Center.
So that's always a great opportunity tobring our members, bring the legislature
together, to have an opportunity totalk and just mingle with each other.
All right, Brian Dayton from theState Chamber of Commerce. I'll have you
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on again a couple of times becauseI want to have you on definitely after
we have the candidate filings, becausethe deadline is midnight on the twenty seventh
to file, and I'm interested tosee because I know you guys have done
some endorsements and probably we'll do somemore. I'm interested to see you.
We'll have you on a couple timesbefore the primary election, but definitely after
the candidate filings. One of you, I'm too love to talk about it.
All right, We're going to takea break, Brian. I appreciate
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are in the campaign season right now. As I said, the filing deadline
will end on Saturday night, thetwenty seventh, at midnight, And so
if your political candidate that that's filed, or you're thinking about filing whatever,
and you want on the show.Once the candidate filing period is over,
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we're going to start limiting the numberof times people can come on because then
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Text says if you value childcare,ask Carol Miller at Alex Mooney why
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they've voted with other congressional Republicans toend childcare funding. Hoppy, as I
mentioned, is back at the Capitalcoming up to ten oh six. The
talk about the high school transfer rulecontinues. Canaw coundydable to get Dana Ferrell,
who's a very vocal opponent of thenew rule himself an educator and Senator
Ryan Well, the guy behind thenew rules. They're going to have a
discussion about it, with Hoppy comingup at some point during the show.
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Also, Brad mclahon would stopped byHoppy ten o six from the AARP broadcast
location at the Capital, Texas.Burger King and tays Valley has had their
dining room shut down for several years. The news slash my car is not
a proper place to eat food.I don't have a table in my car,
and besides that, I'm driving BKand Tayese Valley's lost a lot of
money from me over the years.Well, I'm trying to throw Burger King
(50:02):
under the bus. But then theyprobably don't have people to work. That's
probably the reason. Say Republican Partywill have their winter meeting this Saturday in
Charleston, and among the items,well, more than likely they're going to
be choosing a new chair. Asword is it's kind of become common knowledge
now, is that current party chairElgri mccardal is going to be stepping down,
possibly to run for office herself.So they're going to be taking a
(50:27):
look at that. But also you'veheard Hoppy talking about this. In fact,
it was the subject of his commentarythis morning. This move where some
within the Republican Party want to changethe Republican Party primary so only registered Republicans
can vote in it. Now here'swhat I mean that I did not phrase
(50:49):
that correctly. I don't mean thatthey can't vote. I mean we're talking
about independence here. If you area registered independent, nonpartisan, you know,
whatever, you want to unaffiliated,when you go to vote, you
can request a Republican or a Democraticballot. If you're a registered independent.
The law is in West Virginia,you go and to the poll worker and
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you say, I am an independent, but I want a Republican ballot or
I want a Democratic ballot. Bylaw, the poll worker is not allowed
to ask you which one you want. I learned that in my day's some
secretary of state's office. You can'tdo that, but you have to ask
for one. Now there is amove, and I guess it's going to
be discussed at the state Republican Partymeetings in Charleston this weekend. That would
(51:30):
basically make it if you're an independent, you would not be able to do
that. Now. The party chair, Elja mccardal, isn't necessarily opposed to
that, but she is expressing someconcern about the timing. And a few
county clerks are the people that actuallyrun elections in the state. They are
many of them are opposed to it. In fact, one of those county
clerks is going to join Hopey atthe Capitol today. I will say this
(51:52):
in closing, I don't know whatthey've really thought this whole thing through.
To be honest with you, Ithink it's a bad idea, especially with
the time. But you know,I'll say this. Where I'm from in
southern West Virginia, there are alot of people that are registered as independent
because they may think Republican. Theyhave all their conservative they have all the
Republican talking points, but their heritageis being a Democrat and they just can't
(52:15):
seem to make that switch over.So it's going to be interesting to see
what happens. Texas, Dave Island. All types of welcome on my show,
even liars. It explains why alot of gops come on the show.
I put on the show. Whoeverasks to come on the show,
all right, we got to go. Coming up on tomorrow's sho Hannah Gardner
from the Kenaw charlest New Main Associationwith this week's Adopt Me Please, sped
of the Week and Doug Chipolletti onSchool Choice Week which is coming up.
(52:37):
Also, Spencer Adkins will be onthe show as well. My producer was
the Boss Deal Cooper, Thank youso much. Hobbies coming up. Drop
your socks on our parking on herefolks will see it tomorrow till they have
fun it love Somebodysam ninety six pointfive that in Charleston four point five Cross
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