12-26-2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live: Business Insights and Film Talk with Special Guests

Welcome back to The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live! This morning, we're joined by Brian Dayton from the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce for an in-depth discussion on the latest in business and commerce. Then, we shift gears to the world of cinema with Ashley Stinnett, who will talk about his new film, “The Good Fight.” Tune in for a morning filled with insightful conversations and exciting film industry insights.

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I guess coming up a little bitlater on the show, we're going
to welcome and Ashley Stint to theshow. Ashley a guy that I've known
for some time for the business world, but he's now turning his attention towards
the setup. He has a newfilm, it's called The Good Fight that
he stars in and he's a nativeof West Virginia right here in the valley

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actually from my lava Lette, andhe's going to join us to talk about
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Brian Dayton, Vice President, ofPolise and Advocacy Well the West Virginia
Chamber of Commerce. Brian, goodmorning, how are you, Dave.
I am well, a great Christmasand right in early Tuesday morning. It's
great to be on the show again. This is going to be one of
those weeks where nobody knows what dayit is, you know, yes,
because it's like I've sitt there lastnight at my house and I looked at

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my wife and I've made some referenceto to yesterday being Sunday because I was
off work, and we're like,no, what day is it? And
it's not going to be any betternext week either with New Year's it's any
better. But normally when we haveyou on, we'll talk politics. We're
going to get that a little bitlater on. But I wanted to talk
to you, Brian, about aboutcommerce in the business community, of the

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business climate in West Virginia. Iknow it's obviously way too early to get
a gauge on retail sales and thingslike that from Christmas, but I mean
considered it was just yesterday, butyou know, I was talking to a
friend of mine, Brian, whooperates a retail store in the valley,
locally owned place and he said thateven in the age of everyone ordering from
Amazon and other online portals and withthe malls and so on and so forth.

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And I was surprised, you're goingto say this that twenty twenty three
was going to be his best yearever in retail. South Now, I
know that's not the case for everybusiness or business owners right now, ringing
my hands, ringing their hands,going Dexas guy talking about this was just
one particular location. But that's prettythat's pretty cool. Nonetheless, I mean,
that's fantastic to hear, and weare interested to see what those retail

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sales bring in for the especially theholiday season. But I think there's a
lot of reason to be optimistic aboutWest Virginia right now what's going on in
general. Don't get me wrong,we have a lot of work to still
do, but we've landed some reallybig projects coming into West Virginia. If
you just look at just over thepast, not just the past year,
but the past couple of years.New Course Steel Green Power, which is

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can to be building electric buses herein Kannall County owns a minor mountaintop beverage
Procter and Gambles a few years agoBEFOM Energy. Last year, you start
looking at that, we have securedsome really big investments in West Virginia.
And in many of these cases,most of these cases, in fact,
we were in competition with other statesfor where people were looking to build.

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And so they're now starting to chooseWest Virginia and that's a positive. It
was a couple of weeks ago,was somewhere in the Speaker of the House
was talking. He said, wenow have more potential investments looking to come
into West Virginia than we have theability to provide investment dollars for. And
that's a great scenario because that meanswe get to start picking and choosing what

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we want. Whereas a few yearsago, if you were looking to come
to West Virginia, like, hey, what can we do to get you
here? We need you here.Now we can start being a little more
selective in our investment dollars. SoI think there's a lot of reason to
be optimistic, but there is alot of work to still be bad make
sure that we continue moving forward andbringing those opportunities here. And there have
been people anytime that I have youto come on the show or somebody else

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in the business world, and they'llpoint to this reason or that reason,
but the bottom line is they're choosingWest Virginia. As you said, now
you can and like I said,without fail, anytime i'd ever talk about
this, I'll have somebody that'll textto show and I love my Texters,
and don't get me wrong, thatwill text and say, well, this
is all because of the Biden administrationor so on and so forth. There's

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those that believe that, Okay,to a certain extent. However, they're
choosing West Virginia over Kansas, They'rechoosing West Virginia over New York, they're
choosing West Virginia over Pennsylvania. Fallin the state here, Brian. So
there's something that we're doing right that'smaking sure that these people want to come
to West Virginia, you know,And Dave, I think we have some

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advantages as a state that a lotof others don't. For example, we're
small, which means we're very agile. We're very nimble, you know.
If you need something to happen here, where, for example, takes the
legislature to act, it's much easierto be able to get the West Virginia
legislature together, get them on thesame page, and do what needs to
be done. Then for example,people would be to bring in the California

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House of Representatives or the Pennsylvania Houseof Representatives has over two hundred members.
We can be very fast and agilehere in West Virginia, and that's a
benefit. It's also a small statewhere in some ways everybody knows everybody and
so it's a lot easier just topick up the phone and make the connections,
make those things happen. And alot of businesses are looking for that
in this day and age. Youknow, they're not sitting there trying to

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figure out who do I have totalk to to worry about this permit.
Well, it's really easy to goahead and get them plugged in, make
sure everything's moving and going forward.And as you said, we have a
long way to go. Brian,again, we're talking with Brian Dayton from
the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce.But people are moving to West Virginia and
they're moving to the Kanal Valley.I know that with the Chamber, the

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Youth Senior statewide organization, but you'veseen a lot of growth in the Eastern
Panhandle or in the Morgantown area.But you and I both live in Putnam
County, and we're seeing people movingto that area yet again, almost like
it was in the nineteen nineties.I've got tomorrow, I'll have my good
friend from that area, Rich therealtor client on and they just don't have

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enough houses to go around for people. That it's a good problem to have,
I suppose, you know. It'sabout once a week I get a
text message asking if I'm interested inselling my house out in Putnam County,
and the answers know if anyone's looking. Right now, we're not looking to
move, and I'm gonna talk tomissus Dayton about that, but go ahead.
Yeah, she really runs the house. But you know, one of

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the things is we're finally starting tosee that we've had more in migration than
out migration over the past couple ofyears. Now from a population standpoint,
we're still exceeding ourselves with more deathsand births. Right, that's a problem,
But seeing at least the positive numberson in migration versus out migration has
been good. Everything that we're tryingto do, however, is about bringing

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more people back to the state.Giving that opportunity for when somebody graduates college
that they can stay here and finda job. Look, I graduated nearly
twenty years ago from John Marshall HighSchool. When I could go back right
now and look at the top tenstudents in our class, and I think
there's only one that's in West Virginiaright now because they had to move to

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Charlotte or they had to go toColumbus or Pittsburgh or Washington, d C.
To find employment. The goal hereis to have those opportunities back in
West Virginia so that they don't haveto make that choice. That our students
don't have to leave. So Ithink we're making a lot of pausitive strides
there. We've really improved our businessbusiness climate in West Virginia where ten years

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ago we would have companies that wouldtalk to us and say, there's no
way I'm going to come to WestVirginia. I'm going to get sued into
oblivion if I come here. Wefix those problems. We have really fixed
a lot of our tax issues hereto where it's competitive with other states.
So those are things that really needto fix, and now that we fix
them, we're able to start bringingbringing some stuff in all right, So

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again talking to you, Brian Dayton, who is the vice president of Policy
and Advocacy for the Western Dega Chamberof Commerce. Nine to seventeen. We've
gone this far, we haven't talkedpolitics yet, so you know, I'm
sweating over here because it's time totalk a little politics. A couple of
things. First, news came downmidday Thursday that just after he appeared on
this show, Delegate and Google toCanada More Capital announcing he would resign his

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seat in the legislature to focus onhis run for governor. First of all,
were you surprised by that move?You know, I can't say that
I was surprised. It was reallya question would he stay in or would
he not? And I can understandit from a campaign standpoint, Saying in
the legislature means that you're off thecampaign trail for sixty days. And it

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also means you have a giant targeton your back too, absolutely, and
then you could do something a littlebit you know, controversial, or at
least you could be painted in aposition on a particular bill. I get
it, but go ahead. Yeah, And so you know, it was
kind of a question I didn't knowwhether Delegate Capito would resign or would he
not. He's been a fantastic chairmanof the Judiciary Committee. From that point,

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we saw that was a loss,but you know, he's ultimately leaving
the legislature regardless after this next session, because he's up or out. He
either wins the primary or he's outaltogether right now because delegate terms are to
your terms. So I can't sayit was surprised, but you know,
that's the choice he's made, andit's going to be a competitive primary in
May. And I know that youfolks with the Chamber have been doing some

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interviews with candidates for elections in twentytwenty four. You kind of you know,
I have a formal or informal meetingwith some of the people thinking about
running for the legislature, just kindof gauge where they are, how those
have been going. They've been fantastic. We have a lot of really good
people who are stepping forward right nowto offer themselves to public service, and
that's needed. These are tough jobs. I think a lot of people see

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political jobs and think, oh,that's easy. They're not. You're going
to be facing a lot of toughdecisions. You are going to make people
mad, You're going to make yourfriends mad, You're probably going to make
your family mad on occasion. It'snot the glamorous, easy job that a
lot of people think, but it'sso important. We have to have good
people serving in the constitutional offices.We have to have good people serving in
the legislature because they are making thedecisions that are going to determine whether we're

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going to be able to continue attractinginvestment to West Virginia attracting those opportunities,
or whether that drives up, andthe policies that are pursued can help determine
that whether we go forward or whetherwe go backward. So we've had a
lot of fantastic meetings people from allwalks of life, and it's been I've
really enjoyed getting to know these candidates. But we're wanting to make sure that

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we have people who want to keepthe ball moving forward in the overall goal
of more jobs, more economic development, more opportunity, better education, to
really just keep moving us forward sothat we can ultimately go back to that
goal I just talked about of havingpeople stay here in West Virginia if they
choose I want to talk about endorsementsbefore we let you go. How do

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you, folks with the Chamber makethe decision to endor or a particular candidate
and what are you looking forward incandidates? Sure, so there are a
number of things. Let me letme break it down. There's incomings versus
people who are not incomments. Letme just take incombans first. We have
a very robust legislative scorecard and thatscorecard is based on issues that matter to

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the West Virginia Chamber and its members. And our members are located across the
entire state, all five thousand,and they're in in every industrial sector in
the state, looking for a betterbusiness climate, more opportunity. But that
scorecard is based on those issues andwe pull together several members. It's people
that are there are people that arevery involved at the Capitol, involved in

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the process, and we go throughthose issues, determine how much they weigh,
and then what are the interactions likewith particular legislators. So it is
a member driven process, but thatscorecard informs a lot of our decision making
for incoments on whether they get endorsed. When it comes to candidates who are
not incombents, they don't have arecord, So we have candidate questionnaires that

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really just try to find out whatdo they believe. We're not looking for
people that are going to agree withus one hundred percent of the time,
because that doesn't exist. But we'realso looking for people who are doing it
for the right reasons. Why doyou want to get into this office.
Are you trying to go ahead andachieve a particular goal or are you trying
to go ahead in for a personalreason? And that can be sometimes concerning

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if it's that, or are youtrying to go ahead and do it for
the overall benefit of West Virginia makingit a better place to live, work
and raise a family. So wehave those meetings, and really the best
way to do it is sometimes tosit down and talk to somebody for an
hour or two hours and just getto know them a little bit. Brian,
it's always a pleasure to have youon the show. We'll have you
on again soon. A final question, I guess would be twenty twenty four,

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not talking about the legislative session.I'll talking about politics right now.
What do you see on the horizonfor business in West Virginia in the year
twenty twenty four. You know,I'm an optimist. I think we're going
to go ahead and continue to seesome growth in West Virginia. I think
it could be a little bit difficult, just depending on how the markets perform.
What happens overall with the national economywill affect West Virginia. But I

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think there's a lot of reason foroptimism right now. So I'm going into
the new year with a smile onmy face. All Right, Well,
well, talk to you in thenew year. And we'll also be talking
to you, I'm sure during thesession because you're kind of hanging out at
the capital more than some of thelegislators, are you folks there, you're
always there keeping it eye on.Thanks Brian Dayton again the vice president of
Policy and Advocacy for the West VirginiaChamber of Commerce. Brian, have a

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we're talking about the business climate ofWest Virginia in twenty twenty three.

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Text says, as of today iswhat starts. By Saint Dave. I'm
a downtown business owner. As oftoday, our sales are up twenty four
point eight percent over last year,which was our biggest year ever. For
the period of Black Friday to Christmas, sales were up thirty two percent over
last year. Also, our onlinesales are up fifteen percent over last year.
Of the retailers downtown had great yearstwo and yes, we collect every

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customer's phone number, and we've addedover one hundred new clients who have moved
to the valley. According to aTexter, well, the Christmas season is
traditionally a time for movies, butthere's one premierre in in the area soon
that special meanings of the area.Because let's star as a local guy.
His name is Ashley Stinnett and hejoins me now, Ashley, good morning,
welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave, Merry Christmas, Merry
Christmas, Happy New Year, andall that stuff. So the film is

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called The Good Fight and it starsyou a local guy. We're gonna get
to your background little later on.Also John Schneider, who will be forever
known to the seventies and eighties kidslike myself as Bo Duke, is in
the film as well. Give usthe whole premise of the film that we'll
get into how this came to involvea local guy, but just give us
the whole concept behind the film.Yeah, yeah, thanks for having me

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on this post Christmas survival season.So the movie, this character Luke O'Connor
is he's one of these guys thatjust doesn't want to grow up. He's
like this forever frat type individual.You say that like it's a bad thing.
I know, right, I know. Yeah. When I read the

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script, I'm like, and Iwait a minute, this is eerily familiar
here to me as the world's oldestfrat boy. So fifty three, but
go ahead, go ahead. Sothe guy doesn't really want to grow up.
He used to box. Now hetrains boxers. He is like this
engineer by day, but he hasthis very hard partying life. He does

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having an alcoholic problem and as aresult, he's losing his wife and daughter
rapidly through a lot of just aseries of really bad decisions. And so
the Good Fight, you know,it's kind of like a double meeting there
because throughout the movie, the viewersget a chance to see not only his

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fight, but the surrounding cast theirfights as well. And it's really a
unique movie in that it is aboxing movie, but it is a faith
based movie. So I don't knowthe official rating, would someone would be
between PG and PG thirteen, uh, and that maybe that's just because of
the fight scenes of boxing scenes,But it really is a family film and

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it does start John Schneider. Hecame up and filmed for about a week
in the Huntington, Ashland, Chesapeakearea, and he plays my attorney in
the film, who's helping to guideme throughout this process of making a lot
of bad decisions. I don't wantto give away too much of it.

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The deeper I get into, themore I'm gonna give away some of us.
So you're from Vallette, Yeah,yeah originally. Yeah, how in
the world there is a guy fromLavallette very involved in the business community in
the Canal Valley. That's actually whereI know you're from. Yeah, how
in the world do you get involvedin a film project like this? Well,
you know, I'm kind of showingmy age here. Over twenty years

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ago, I spent some time inWilmington, North Carolina. I always wanted
to be an actor, and Iwas working down there at Screen Gym Studios
in Wilmington, and at the time, I was working on a show called
Dawson's Creek and just really trying tolearn the ins and outs of the show.
Got to do some principal extra work, you know, not nothing too
major. Came back, finished mydegree at Marshall and then would always kind

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of play around with it, youknow, I've always done you know,
some like regional commercial work and justsome things like that. But you know,
would do some short films here andthere. But you know, I
just really got re energized into thisabout five years ago and it's just been
full steam ahead. Even before COVID, the industry was changing with self tapes.

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You know, you would get anagent, they would you know,
casting directors would send companies scripts andthen you would get linked up with those
companies and whatnot. Now there's evenonline plat forms that you can be a
part of to get this. SoI've just been grinding it out man,
for the last you know, probablyseven years, and been really fortunate enough,

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you know. And these are alsothe days where you don't have to
move to LA or New York orAtlanta. You know, again, you
can get these self tape opportunities.You get a script, you audition,
you submit it, you get thepart, you go there, film and
you come back. And now andnow people are living all over the US,
they're not even you know, youtalk to a lot of these actors
now they don't live in LA orNew York, right, I mean,

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but talk about your background in thebusiness world. I mean, you've done
a little bit of everything outside ofacting in the business world. Yeah,
yeah, you know, I gotmy degree at Marshall, ended up getting
a master's at what's now Wheeling University, and have been involved in higher education,
been involved in public relations side ofthings. Yeah, community relations as

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you're an expertise in, and youknow, work for nonprofits, work for
for profits, work for colleges.Uh so yeah, I mean the last
it's funny because people think, well, you know, you do film or
TV work. I mean, thatmust be all you do. And it's
like, that's less than one percent. You know, less you're you're you're
Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon. Youknow that crowd is less than one percent

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every all the rest of us havea real job, a day job.
Not to say that's not a realjob. Yeah, you know, it's
a it's a it's a great opportunity. You get paid for it. It's
it's a neat kind of world tolive in, a neat atmosphere. But
you know, with the film taxcredit that is now in West Virginia,
I'm still in that business mindset.So it's weird. You know, I

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shift when I'm when I'm doing thisstuff. It's still the acting mindset.
But it's still the entrepreneurial mindset.How do we get these productions in West
Virginia to watch? You know,to just add one more conversation to the
economic diversification table. And there isagain we're talking with Ashley Stennett. There
is a move on to try toget I know you're heavily involved to try

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to get more things filmed in WestVirginia via TV shows or be it movies
or whatever. I mean, that'sactually there is a film office, as
you said, in Westernia. It'sactually been there for some time. But
there's really a concerted effort now totry to get these films done in West
Virginia. There really is, andit truly is a rising title. It's
all shit people think movies in themovie industry. You know, we're all

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heavy, heavy consumers of entertainment.I mean, we all have streaming platforms.
You know, we love to watchmovies and TV. But it's still
a little bit of an alien conceptthat we have to reprogram ourselves to not
just be consumers but be producers ofthis. We can do that right here
in West Virginia. If you lookat what happened with Georgia, you know,
twenty years ago, it really wasn'ton everybody's radar. And now it's

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a multi billion dollar industry. It'smasses or Georgia. Yeah, and even
where I've spent time in Wilmington,and I have since been back to Wilming
than to work on a feature film. You know, their economy is growing
because of that. So wherever there'sa film tax credit in the industry lives,
you see an economic boost. Momand pop restaurants, car dealerships,
you know, mom and pop hardwarestores, plus all of the blue collar

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jobs. And a lot of thesejobs don't even require college degrees. And
what people I think sometimes they think, Okay, a film is being done
in West Virginia, Well, theactors are going to come in, that's
it. I mean what it's onehundred hundred and fifty people that come into,
as you said, build sets,to do makeup, to do catering
in these sort of things. Andthose people have to eventually go shopping.

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They're eventually going to go to therestaurants. They're eventually So it's a And
to your point about Georgia, anytimethat you think that Georgia is not a
major player in this watch any televisionshow. Watch through the credits to any
motion picture and see if you seethat Peach logo that they have it says
film. I mean even family Feudis for you know, Steve Harvey,
and that that could be West Virginia. Yeah. I saw this study that

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was done. I think it's maybetwo years old now, but it was
like, of the top one hundredquote unquote big budget films, over ninety
of them were filmed in Georgia,not even in la And I know that
when The Good Fight was filming inHuntington. I believe over well over eighty
eighty five percent of the production crewon that movie. And this is a
feature link film, I would arguethe biggest since we are Marshall. If

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you look at size of cast crew, you know, a celebrities in it,
the budget, but over eighty fivepercent of the production crew in that
movie where Marshall University graduates and Iwatched local businesses, you know, get
the benefits of that production happening.And this started during COVID and there was
a pause in it, so itwas filmed incrementally over like two and a

(27:45):
half years. Yeah. Yeah,I was actually doing little research on the
film on mind and there was acouple of behind the scenes pictures with people
with masks on the whole. Istarted boxing training August of twenty twenty,
and that was yeah, I mean, that was right in the thick of
things for COVID. Did you haveany experience going into this as a boxer?

(28:06):
I had none. Zero. Itwas a shout out to Hella fit
in Hurricane Jace Heller is the guythat got me in shape, got me
in fight or form for that movie. I had none, And I did
learn very quickly that it's hard tomake a boxing movie and not get a
little bit wrecked. So I tooksome shots, right, Well, that's

(28:26):
part of it, but I alsolearned I didn't have a glass jaw.
Well, it's good to know.Now. The movie is being shown locally
as a matter of fact, andI think I've got this right. If
not, you can correct me.It'll be shown at Marque's Cinemas and Huntington
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, andwe'll have information posted on that on the
Dave Island Radio Facebook page. Sothat's I mean, so people can go

(28:49):
and actually watch this movie at oneof those cinemas, right, They can't
at Marquie at Pullman. Friday nightwill be the big kind of like the
premiere night, you know, theback drop pictures with the cast, things
like that. And then but ifyou're in the uh, if you're in
Putnam County, Tayese Valley Cinemas hasnow picked up a showing okay, Saturday,

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January sixth at seven o'clock. Soif you want to catch that showing,
or if you're even you know,on this side of Knawa and you
want to you know, come overto Taes Valley Cinemas. It is going
to show there. So you'll havethe Huntington and Tese Valley showings that weekend.
Okay, And so is this goingto be a widespread release across the
country? How How are people inother areas to see Church? There's a

(29:33):
lot of things happening behind the scenes, and I do feel pretty good there'll
be some good news coming out inthe not too distant future. We are
working on a limited release. Iknow in North Carolina there's there's some theaters
all across the state that's going topick up the movie and then just kind
of go from there. You know, it's the movie's finished and we think

(29:53):
folks are really going to enjoy it. And you know, and and it's
a big deal for the area becauseit was shot here. You know,
most of the post production was donein Nashville, but the movie was filmed
here locally in this area and featuressome local talent, and we just want

(30:15):
folks to have that movie theater experience. It's hard to replicate that. I
mean it is even at the houseyou got a seventy inch you got your
bows or your surround sound, it'sstill hard to replicate a movie theater.
Yeah, there's nothing like it.And you mentioned that the film is a
faith based film. That's been agrowing genre of motion pictures actually over the
last ten fifteen years or something.This is an entire industry on these faith

(30:38):
based films. Yeah, if youlook at the popularity of independent faith based
films, like you know, Soundof Freedom with Jim Cavizl that came out,
Now, that was a little bitof a different genre, but it
was one of those that were justit really hit the scene with very little
marketing and it took off. Ithink recently the Shift has been playing in

(31:00):
theaters. Angel Studios has kind ofbeen carving out their own niche for that,
and you know it does give theaudience, uh, you know,
just an alternative film, just somethingdifferent and again something that you could take
the family to and uh, somethingthat has a lot of meaning and and
a lot of people can relate to, you know it. And that's what

(31:22):
I think this movie delivers. Andfor people that you like myself, that
like boxing in that aspect, Imean it has that in it too,
got a little bit of everything,got the action to have any Is there
any sort of like a romantic plotin there because you got to have that?
Not really, I mean yes andno married, but it's very touch

(31:44):
and go, Okay. I dothink people the journey throughout the movie,
I do think is very believable.I think people will again can can maybe
relate to it personally or I'm surethey certainly know someone or know of someone
that maybe has faced some of thesestruggles. And the good thing is there's
multiple back stories at play, sothere's a lot of character development. You
know, it's it's other people inthe film are facing their own fight,

(32:08):
and so I think people will reallyenjoy that aspect of it. But you
know, I'm excited and I reallydo want to impress upon people, you
know, do some research into thefilm industry. I mean, I we
have everything here but the ocean asfar as locations, and I do think
this is a filmmaker's paradise and wecould see more big productions. Now,

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this certainly was not, you know, a multi multimillion dollar production, but
it was a very big production,you know, certainly for this area.
And we think we can certainly continuewith more than that. Well. And
I think when you look back atsome of the films that have either been
set in West Virginia, Ashley orthat have had a West Virginia touch to

(32:51):
them, I mean they were filmedin like New Jersey, you know,
the Model Man Stop and stuff likethat. Yeah, you know, let's
Tennessee's let's have that here. Imean, as you said, we've got
a little bit of everything here,and we can show that West Virginia is
a beautiful state. Yeah, andwe do have a lot, as you
said, going for everything but anocean. And uh and we're not far
from that, to to speak,not too far. No, we're not

(33:13):
too far. We can make theCanal River look like yeah. So and
I got and I would be remissif I didn't ask you about John Schneider
because again, you're a kid ofthe seventies, as I'm older than you,
but a kid of the seventies.You know, Bo Duke was a
little bit of a hot water lastweek, did did John Schneider? Uh?
But uh, that's that not havingnotwithstanding what kind of guy was John

(33:35):
Schneider. Oh, he was avery personable guy, very personal guy.
Now it's unfortunate because not too longafter filming wrapped his wife passed. Yeah,
and you know, so she wasbattling a major illness obviously, and
but he was he was really verydown to earth, personal guy to be

(34:00):
around. I mean he yeah,I mean he would just he enjoyed his
time here in the area. Hevisited a lot of places, took a
lot of pictures. Thought it wasjust beautiful, and you know, he
was. He was really good towork with, really good to work with.
And the I didn't realize the fanfarebehind him. It was hard to

(34:20):
keep people away at these locations.I mean it really was. Once people
learned about not just Dukes of Hazard, but he had like this. He
has a fan base for Tyler Perry'sThe Haves and the have nots. He
was on that show, was likethe main villain for years, and then
he was in Smallville. So it'sfunny to see all the people that used
to watch Smallville and they remembered,oh, that Superman's dad and so yeah,

(34:45):
generation but yeah, and bo doI mean that was obviously, you
know, a main a main componentof the fanfare, certainly in this area.
But yeah, there's a lot ofpeople that that when realized he was
in town, they saw they wouldbe at a location or something. And
because we didn't do a whole lotof the closed set atmosphere, you know,

(35:06):
we tried to keep it tight,you know, tried to keep a
walk on stuff. But you canonly go so far far. Yeah.
Yeah. And also he was thehe was the mask singer last week.
I was told that he was.I've never watched the show of the Mask
Singer, but I heard people inthe office talking about it that he was
unmasked. I guess as the masssinger last week too. Yeah, So
give us the lowdown on the screeningsfor the motion picture locally against Yeah.

(35:29):
So the weekend of the fifth,sixth, and seventh, Marquee Cinemas at
Pulman Square and Huntington. Friday night'sthe premiere at seven. You can catch
the movie Saturday at noon. Youcan catch the movie on Sunday at four
pm. Nice little post church familyfaith based film. Tickets are on available
online for those showings and then againTays Valley Cinemas on Saturday, January sixth

(35:52):
at six at seven pm. Thesixth at seven. It's hard to say.
Tickets available online, and I wouldencourage folks tickets are you going pretty
good? So I would encourage folksto get online to get their tickets now
if they want to see this movie. And you're a local guy up you
still live here in the area.Yeah, I'm Putnam County. Yeah,
another Putnam County and doing stuff.At least one of us is so Ashley.

(36:15):
I appreciate you taking time at yourschedule to be here. I know
you got a lot of a lotof press that you can be doing around
the area over this. Best luckin future projects, because I have a
feeling this is not going to Ihope it's not going to be the last
one. I think there's gonna bea lot more come out of this film
industry in West Virginia. I appreciateyou being here too. Thanks a lot.
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are you working today? Obviously Iam, Dale Cooper is, but many
are not. It's kind of weirdbecause you know, today is not a
state holiday, but offices in thecity at Charleston, Charleston City Hall,
the Canawa County Courthouse are closed.And and I was talking about this with

(41:44):
somebody the other day. Look,hey, I'm all for people getting rest
and relaxation or time with the familyor whatever is important to them. But
the way the calendar fell this year, here was the scenario for a lot
of people either took off work ortheir companies let them off on Friday or
maybe an early out. I thinkour office here closed around two o'clock Friday

(42:07):
afternoon. Then, of course youhad the weekend with Christmas Eve, Christmas
Day being yesterday, and now onTuesday. Good luck finding anyone in today.
I know a lot of people hereand our building are off today,
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(42:28):
fact, our sister station V onehundred did a pull on their Facebook page
and I actually shared it on DaveAlan Radio on Facebook, just asking people
whether or not they were working todayor this week, and most other people
seem to say no, that they'renot working today or for the rest of

(42:52):
the week. And I would imaginethat a lot of people will be off
on Tuesday, January two as well, many off of course, as I
said, the entire week, includingthis Friday. And trust me, I'm
not hating on this. But assomeone said to me back on Friday,

(43:17):
when did Christmas become a two anda half week vacation? Because that's kind
of that's kind of where we areright now now. You know, in
back back back in my day,when the you know, we were in
school, we always got the weekafter Christmas off. I was usually bored
and wanted to go back to school. But that's that's just me. But

(43:40):
now it has become basically a bigold week, two week vacation. Uh.
And as Americans h in general,uh, we work less and and
with many younger people, many many, the man said, many, not

(44:02):
all. One of the first thingsthat they ask about when being interviewed for
a job is how much time dothey get off? And for many that's
more important than asking how they're gettingpaid. Again, I'm not sitting in

(44:27):
judgment here. I guess I'm justasking the I guess I'm just asking questions
of society. Coop just spoke backto my headphone and said, Oh,
it sounds like you are now I'mnot. I'm just asking questions of our
society that seems to want to workless and less and less. I am
all for people, and what happensat the end of the year is a
lot of times and I know peoplevery close to me that are facing this.

(44:50):
What happens at the end of theyear is they have these accrude days
because they didn't take them off duringthe year, and it's basically a take
them or lose them. And Ihave been somebody who was involved in state
govern meant they realized that working theweek after Christmas was almost pointless because no
one that we wanted to, noone that we needed to see in that

(45:10):
role I was doing in state governmentat the time, was in so it
was pretty much just kind of awaste of time. And I became one
of those people that was taken upbecause there was there was nothing to do.
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gotta go. My thanks to AshleyStint. I want to have more
on that film. I'm kind ofexcited about it. I'm called the Good
Fights Ashley local guys starting in thatfilm with John Schneider. We're gonna have
more on that in the coming days. We get set to have the premiere
not only in Huntingtonry I Learn,but also in Tay Valley as well.
And also thanks for Brian Dayton forthe Western Guinia Chamber of Commerce. Coming

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