08/06/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Shawnee Sports Complex, Backpack Attack

On today's show, several guests from Shawnee Sports Complex to talk about their new expansion, and Woody Woods and Bobbie Spry on Backpack Attack.

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five zero zero. We have a whole lot of folks
in studio with us this morning to talk about some
exciting stuff going on at the Shawnee Sports Complex. We
have with us Kadan County Commissioned President Vin Solango, Jen
Wood of ZMM Architect and Engineers, Mara Boggs from the
Charleston Area Alliance here as well.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Commissioner. We'll start with you, good morning, sir, more show.
Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
And Mara Charles Mary Alliance your first time on the
show than be in here and Jen also, I think
it's your first time first time on the show. So
all right, so Ben, you're the veteran here, so you
can you can tell them what they do, what they
need to say, what they need to do, because you're
a regular here.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
I'm just going to give hand signals and winks and
then I'll just show you where the volume just say
is and otherwise and just start to start talking.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Just roll with it.

Speaker 7 (03:12):
We're in good hands.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
No, you're not all right, you're trouble.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
All right, commission the present, and I want to start
with you because this whole thing was kind of your
vision to begin what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Overall the sports complex. Talk about where we were and
where we are now.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
Well, it started back in twenty seventeen. My youngest son.
It's funny because he's getting ready to go to college
in two weeks. But back when he was nine years old,
he was playing travel soccer all over the country. I
mean even internationally. We went a few times. But so
everywhere we would go, I mean we would have to
stay thirty forty minutes away from the facility, you know.

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So we'd go for a soccer torn we couldn't get
within thirty or forty miles of the facility. For a
hotel room. Restaurants were packed. You'd go just to standard
fast food and the line would be out the door.
And so we kept saying, why can't we have something
like that in West Virginia? And so I remember when
I was appointed commission back in twenty seventeen, the very
first email I ever sent out as commissioner was have

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we ever studied sports tourism here in the kanav Valley?
And there had been a couple of studies, it was
one twenty years ago and won thirty years ago, but
nobody had really ever.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Acted on it.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
And so I took those old plans, did some updated
research and that's how it started. That's how the Shawnee
Sports Complex started. And we people thought I was crazy,
and they were probably right.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, they were probably right.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
But when we designed that facility, the initial sketch was
actually Aladelphia on a napkin.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
And that's where all good ideas come from. Was bar napkin? Right,
that's a fact.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
And I was there with a couple of friends and
then I took that sketch to Adam Crason and he said,
that's terrible, but I think we can do better. And
that's how it started. So we actually when that concept
came up in February of twenty seventeen, we actually broke
ground on that facility in December of twenty seventeen. So

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you go from you know, a sketch on a napkin
to actually breaking ground. Obviously that could not have happened
without the support of the other commissioners. We had so
many public hearings, so much input, and ZMM has been
with us all the way they designed that facility. They
did a just an absolute wonderful job and we're proud
of it. You know, the facilities brought in over one

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hundred and fifty million dollars in economic impact since we
opened in twenty eighteen. We cut the ribbon I think
was in July twenty eighteen, and a lot of those
kids that cut the ribbon back then are going to
be there tomorrow to open the new building. So all
of them. Some of them are going into the army,
some are going to college. But they're all, you know,
back then they were nine years old and now they're

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you know, adults, so they're going to come into.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
So tell us what we got going on with this
now wean't to talk about ZMM architects and their vision
with this to Marrol bring you as well, but Ben,
tell us what's going on actually for this ribbon.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
So it's a five million dollar project. We realized that
we needed a bigger entrance building. We needed something that
we could Obviously, we needed more restrooms because every time
we had a big tournament the restroom lines were long.
We needed upgraded concessions, we needed just a bigger space,
and so ZMM designed this wonderful space for us. We

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got an earmark from our US senators, a former senator
mansion of around three million dollars. Then Governor Justice we
were able to get a million dollars from the state
to do this, and then the county put in a
little over a million dollars. But you know, if it
wasn't for our US senators, if it wasn't for the governor,

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this project would not have happened. And so tomorrow we
get a cut the ribbon on it. We're going to
open it up and it's really going to change the
entire look of the complex, the entire experience at the complex.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
We're very proud of it.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Jin let's talk about jen Wood from ZMM Marketitects and
engineers talking about zm's involvement.

Speaker 8 (06:57):
In this sure so being a part of this is
so important to us, our relationship with the Shawnee Foundation,
with the complex, and as Commissioner said that, we've been
involved from from the beginning, and it's so important for
us to be involved in economic drivers in our in
our area, tourism and sports tourism, which is a huge

(07:19):
part for us. And so partnering with teared on Prey
Construction and Omega to really bring this new phase to
life for the student athletes and the young people in
our community and their families and all of those that
are coming to visit our area is huge for ZMM
as well as for the region. So we've been very
proud to be a part of the project all along

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and to really to the point that the Commissioner made
it made of making this this entrance and giving even
more of an opportunity for those that are visiting to
have that wow of of seeing themselves walk through that
tunnel and to have that experience, but also increased number
of restrooms and increased concessions, and so it's really about

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function of the space because the need has grown so
much in the last few years, but also really providing
a focal point for visitors to see what we have
to offer in Charleston and Kannall County.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
It's nine to fifteen.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
We talked about the expansion of the Shawnee Sports Complex
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how important it is to what you folks do with
the Alliance.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Sure, Dave, thank you. I'll tell you it's one thing
to have big ideas. It's a completely different thing to
bring them to fruition. So this project is the absolute
excellent example of that, and it wouldn't have had and
without Commissioner Selango his vision and tenacity and follow through.
You see that every time you go there. And then

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to bring partners in like ZMM Jen and Adam. It's
just an amazing project, so we're honored to be a
part of. Tomorrow we'll be hosting our monthly business after hours.
We have over two hundred people registered, which will be
just a fraction of those celebrating this momentous project.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Ben, I want to ask you if you can, because
I want to go back and I want to talk
about some of the you know, we talked about.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Where we were and where we are going with this.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
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We're talking about the expansion and the big ribbon cutting
everything going on tomorrow at the Shawnee Sports Complex. Jen
Wood from ZMM Architects and Engineers is here, Mara Boggs
from the trail near your lines and Canawha County commission
President of Ben Selanga. I want to talk about economic
impact here because it's all about is Tim Brady, my
buddy to CVB would say heads and beds and actually
there's another expression.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
I can't say that Tim, and I say, but.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Having a little bit of experience in that sort of
realm of myself, people that you know don't understand. I
think sometimes what a big business that tourism, sports tourism
is and Commissioner Selango, mar either one of you can
weigh in on that.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
Go ahead, Mark Sure.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
I saw a recent study. West Virginia leads the nation
in per capita tourist visits. That's about seventy five million
in tourism annually with sixty sixty thousand jobs. So that's
about a total impact statewide of eight point seven billion dollars.
And so what Commissioner Selango is doing and so many

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people working in the Kanala Valley is making sure that
the Kanala Valley is positioned to get the biggest piece
of that that we can. And sports tourism is an
important part.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah, and you know, Secretary Chelsea Ruby has done an
amazing job. She has been with us from the beginning
and has been a big supporter. She is going to
be at the Riven cutting as well. You know, when
we started this project and we were looking at, you know,
why can't we have something like this in West Virginia.
I remember when we opened the facility. The first big

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tournament we had, which was a us USA soccer tournament
that came in, we sold out forty eight hotels, not
hotel rooms. Forty eight hotels. You could not get a
room within a three hour radius of Charleston Wishman. People
were staying in Kentucky. People were filling up the Chief
Logan Lodge. People were staying in flat woods, and I

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think people actually felt for the first time what it's
like to have, you know, twenty five thousand people in town,
you know, when they're staying there three or four days
in a row. So that very first tournament that we
did brought in thirty eight million dollars in economic impact.
And so at the ten year mark of shawne In
about twenty twenty eight, we're going to approach about a
quarter of a billion dollars in economic impact billion would

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the BEE if you're writing that down at home, and
you know, I think it's a concept that we got
on in my opinion, late, but earlier than a lot
of other communities. So now you see all these other
you know, cities, and you see other counties and not
just in West Virginia but elsewhere trying to mimic what
we've done. So we have to stay ahead of the game.

(14:25):
We've got to make sure that we are bringing new
things to the facility. I think you'll see a lot
of changes over the next few years. You know, we've
got this big facility, the entrance building being opened, We've
got some additional things that are going to be coming up.
We're also trying to enhance the experience for the community,
the folks that actually live there. You know, we've got
the pickleball courts, we redid the basketball courts. We spent

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about three hundred fifty thousand dollars rehabbing the pool. We
spent two hundred and fifty thousand dollars putting the new
playground in, which is massive if you haven't been over
there in the front part of the park, but it's
it's really it's changed chan it's chained sports tourism in
Conaw County to the point where you know it's working
because other communities are trying to copy it.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
And I think it's also important guys to remember that
what is good what's going on at Shawnee also affects.
As you said, at that one turnament, there was not
a hotel room for three hours. So when people come
at me, they have on this show and said, why
does downtown Charleston need another hotel? Well, when your nearest
hotel is Ashland, Kentucky, but it's available, or the Chief
Logan Lodge are some of these places, or you know,

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that's why we need more hotels. And it's also it's
good for the entire area and not just the two
or three miles around the complex.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
And if you look at what you look at what
the Shawnee Sports complexes do, and you look at what
the Charleston Coliseum Convention Bureau, you combine regatta everything else
that's going on, I mean it really packs the weekends.
The first one that we did, hotel or restaurants were
running out of food. I don't know if you remember
that back in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, the first big tournament,

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we had restaurants that had to close early because they
ran out of food, that were so many customers. People
say that when we bring in the USA tournaments, which
is you know, we try to do those about once
per year, and we actually have to combine it with Barbersville.
It's the busiest that their business has been. Whether it's
a hotel, whether it's a restaurant, whatever, sports poism works.

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It's a forty billion dollar a year industry. And I
think we're perfectly situated to get a big piece of
that pie.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
And I brought this up on the show before, being
the kid of the you know, the nineteen seventies and
when we played a road game, it was on the
other end of the county. You know, we weren't going
to Pennsylvania, we weren't going to Illinois. And we have
seen I mean, is it safe to say that we've
had people I guess I'm going to say probably. We've
had people from all fifty states here.

Speaker 6 (16:45):
We had a team flying from Canada, Okay, I mean
we've had teams from other countries. We had a team
come in from South America. I would imagine we've had
teams from all fifty states. But you know, West Virginia
is uniquely situated too, because we're a eight hour drive
from two thirds of the population. You know, you can
be in New York City in eight hours, so so

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many people will come here to stay for a long
weekend or when you're dealing with some of the larger
tournaments four or five days, and it's just it's great
for the local community. You know, people are making money,
the local kids get to play, we get an experienced competition.
We have seen you know, a lot of the kids now.
We have so many kids now that are playing soccer
in college. Part of that is because of the experience

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they're getting at Shawnee and some of the other fields
including Barbersville that they are having turf where you can
play year round. So there's a lot going on.

Speaker 12 (17:35):
It.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
It's really it's a project that I thought would work,
but I had no idea it would work to the
extent that it did.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
I had a texture who sent me an article here.
I can't read the article, but I can read the headline.
West Virginia joins Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, Washington, Illinois and
skyrocketing record tourism boom last year.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Yeah, and that's that's honestly a credit to the amount
of time and money that the state of Western Virginia
is putting into tourism. I mean, it is a focus it.
When you go out of state now you go to
North Carolina, South Carolina, you're seeing West Virginia ads and
people are coming here. They're going whitewater rafting. You know,
you got the new over Gorge Bridge. It's now a
national park. It's bringing over a million dollars or a
million people per year. So there's a lot going on.

(18:17):
And that was our US Senators Shelley Moore Capito and
Senator former Senator Joe Manson made that happen. And so
people are coming here and they're staying here, and you're
and the dividends are you're seeing them now?

Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah, that report I cited seventy five million visitors annually
to our state.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Yeah, in the state that's only got one point six
million people exactly.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
So are we going out there going could you stay
a while? Could you buy a house here?

Speaker 4 (18:44):
You know, talk about that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah, that's that's the whole idea.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
And again I think that it's important for people to
understand that if they will take just any average tournament soccer,
whatever the case may be, a team may play on
Friday afternoon at three and then not play again until
Saturday afternoon at four. So what are they going to
do during that time? They're not gonna I mean, you

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can only scout the other teams so much. You know,
they're gonna go eat, they're gonna go see a movie,
They're gonna do all these things.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
They're going out to the trampoline park, they're going to
the movies. They're doing you know, as much as we
can offer that they're doing it. We're even we'ven coordinated
with the whitewater rafting companies to bust them down to
failable to whitewater rafts. So we want to make sure
that they have a good experience and that they want
to come back. That's the key, you know, when when
they come here from Pennsylvania or New York, or the

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Carolinas or Florida, wherever. We want to make sure that
when they leave here they enjoy the experience and they're
already looking at when is the next tournament at the
Shawnee Sports Complex Because we want them back over and
over and over again.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Jim, let me bring you back in Jim, Jim jen
netwould from ZMAI architects and engineers and you guys have
been as I said, on this thing. You know from
day one with this and and I know you're going
to be a part of future expansions as well.

Speaker 8 (20:03):
It's just such a you know, as we're talking about
all the features of why people would come to West
Virginia and visit and stay, whether it's for the National
Park or for Shawnee or both, we hope and a
myriad of other things for ZMM to be a part
of such wonderful projects that that show our state and
bring people here and help grow the state.

Speaker 14 (20:22):
That's what we're all about.

Speaker 8 (20:24):
We talk a lot about we take the vision and
the ideas of leaders like Commissioner Slango and their vision
and help create what they want to see in their
communities and we bring those visions to life. And so
for us to be a part of the Shawnee Complex
for projects across the state and into Virginia and Ohio,

(20:46):
it's such a point of pride for all of us
in design excellence, but in supporting our communities. ZMM contributed
more than three hundred thousand dollars to the community in
cash donations last year. So beyond providing design services, beyond
having our employees who live and work here, the folks
that work in our Charleston Design studio are also the

(21:08):
families that are out at Shawnee cheering on their you know,
athletes and their family members and you know, going out
to regatta and going out to the activities in the
community because we live here and this is our community
and we want West Virginia to be a great place
to So this is all very very much a point.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Of pride for us.

Speaker 8 (21:25):
And I know that we have a whole group of
folks from ZMM coming out to the ribbon cutting tomorrow
night because this is something that all of us are
proud to do. I know one of the designers, Jure Allen,
who's been involved in this project, grew up in the
neighborhood and for him to know that he's from the
Dunbar area in Kennall County and to get to work
on this project as a young architectural designer is a
huge thing. And that's that's what it's all about, is giving,

(21:47):
giving young people an opportunity to be a part of
these big things that are happening.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Mar I want to go back to you for a
moment to mar Bobs with Charles Near Alliance. I kind
of joke there, I said, with all these people that
are coming in, like double triple the population, we're out
there saying, hey, would you like to move here? But
in all seriousness, you talked about some of you alluded
to some of the efforts of folks like the Charlestonairy
Alliance and others that are trying, really trying to get
these people to say, hey, while you're here, take a

(22:11):
look at what we have.

Speaker 13 (22:12):
Right.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
Yeah, one example the power of collaboration. I mean, that's
really what this is, public private, nonprofit collaboration. But we
actually have the Convention of Visitors Bureau. We talked about
Tim Brady. He's moving into our headquarters soon, you'll have
an office. So we'll be working with him almost as
a new marketing arm for the Charleston Area Alliance to
really market the whole Kanal Valley. And you know that

(22:38):
partnership is just so key, and this is the perfect
example of that.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Been.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
Yeah, you know, the more people we get here to
see it, and we actually saw this during COVID. A
lot of people were not wanting to live in the
big city anymore. I mean they didn't want to live
in New York. They did want to live out west.
They wanted to come here, and we saw some housing
issues you know in a lot of our communities where
folks from out of state will come in and buy
and either try to verbo when they weren't living here

(23:04):
or they were working remotely. But I think you can
do that now. A lot of people can work remotely.
It's not as popular today as it was, say three
or four years ago, but you're still seeing a lot
of folks do it. And we have seen a lot
of people come in from out of town that stay here.
But I'll tell you the the more amenities we offer.
The Shawnee Sports Complex is one of the things that

(23:25):
are local hospitals. For instance, when they're trying to recruit
a new physician and they're showing them what we have
to offer. Obviously they're going to go Mart Park, they're
going to the Clay Center, but they're also going to
the Shawnee Sports Complex because their kids are going to
be playing there, either baseball, softball, you know, soccer whatever
it is, football on the weekends and in the afternoon,
so it's some definitely something that is being used as

(23:48):
a recruiting tool as well.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well. And again I think it's important to remember and Mara,
this is kind of up your ally as well. You
know that when people only work so many hours a
day and the job is going to bring you somewhere,
which you know is completely understandable. But once you're off
at five o'clock or whatever the time is, you got
to have something else to do. And this and the
Kanawh Valley in general does. And we're our own worst enemy.

(24:10):
I mean, let's be honest, you all know this. You know,
we're all West Virginia's we're our own worst enemy. Sometimes
we always talk about the bad stuff, and there is
bad stuff talking about, but there's also a lot of
good stuff to talk about as well. And I do
think it's interesting what you brought up, Commission President Selango,
that when these the hospitals and the others are bringing
in people, you take them out and you let them
see these things like the ballpark.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
You let them see.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
When we you know, if it's during Christmas, when we
do Holly Jolly Browley and Light the Night and these
other things.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Marrow Well.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
A few years ago the city of Charleston received a
grant and formed the Charleston Roots Program, which Aaron new
New standing right over there managed. It brought in thirty
five new remote workers and seventy five family members, so
over one hundred new Charleston residents. You know, you got
to start somewhere with population loss, and the reason these

(24:59):
people came here, we found was the amenities we offered,
the outdoor recreation, the quality of life here. So we're
really looking at that at the Charles Stonary Alliance and
investing in new programs to bring even more people here.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
We've got a text here to the show kind of
related to what we're talking about, says many aren't aware
that West Virginia is a film location destination. Also, celebrities
love coming here too, and they actually sent me a
picture of Dean Kine, Superman, actually attending the Backyard Brawl
two years ago in Morgantown while he took a break
in filming. And several movies have been made here, including

(25:34):
Bridgeport and other areas too. So we'll just got it
all going on here now, Yeah, I mean, I think
it's a place that people want to come in. The
people are nice.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
You know, if you have a flat tire, you're not
going to set there more than a couple of minutes
before somebody stops and helps. I mean, it's just it's
one of those communities where it's very close knit. Everybody
is friendly and they want to help out. And it
doesn't surprise me, you know, when I'm walking down Capitol
Street and then I see Jennifer Garner sitting in a
local coffee shop, and you know, they'd love to come

(26:02):
here and hang here. And it's great for us and
it's great for them. They get a relax, they get
to you know, do the movies, do whatever. And you know,
we're pretty low key.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
And Jennifer Garner comes up says, mister silango, can I
have my picture made with you? Whoa hold on? Now,
you got to see my person. Don't post that you
got to see my person all right before we let
you go.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Let's kind of put a bow on it here, wrap
it up as far as what's going on tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
So tomorrow we are going to start the party around
five PM. I think we'll cut the ribbon around five
fifteen five point thirty, but everybody should try to be
there about five pm. You want to come in and
see the facility. It looks like to me when I
go in, when I see it, it looks like a Major
League baseball park. I mean, I think that was kind
of the concept when they designed it, and it's it's

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absolutely stunning. It really is, and we're very proud of it.
So show up tomorrow around five o'clock and just hang out.
We're gonna have food, we're gonna have of a DJ.
It's going to be a good time.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
I couldn't say it any better than that. Just come
out and meet some new people, make new connections, and
then just celebrate what's going on.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
And this I have the feeling this is not gonna
be the last celebration we're going to have out there,
because the's gonna be a lot more things coming out there.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
As we talked about earlier, we will continue to grow.
That's the goal. Jen.

Speaker 14 (27:19):
We're just happy to be a part of this.

Speaker 8 (27:20):
It's such a point of pride for us, and I'm
excited to celebrate with everybody tomorrow evening.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Jen wood ZMM Architects and Engineers, Mara Boggs from Charleston
Air Lines and Canaw County Commission At President Ben Selango,
appreciate you all being here today.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Thanks a long We'll see you tomorrow night.

Speaker 15 (27:33):
Thanks than thank you.

Speaker 16 (27:34):
Dave.

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Speaker 4 (27:59):
It is back pack Attack Day.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
And is there any truth to the rumor, Ben that
you're only here because you could be the first in
line for a backpack?

Speaker 6 (28:08):
Well, you know my law firm sponsored it, Yes, so,
but we've done that a few years. I've never received
a backpack, so I gotta take that up with wood.
He would, all right, Bobby, Bobby surprising in the other
room there. Bobby's going to come on with me along
with Woody here. Make sure mister Slango and all these
folks get.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
A backpack too. Okay, all right, all right, we'll take
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All right, it is Backpack Attack time.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yes, indeed it is.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
And I appreciate the folks that Slango Law for sponsoring
the eighteenth annual beat Backpack Attack Wood. He woulds from
her sister station, what is seven three to beat us here?

Speaker 4 (30:46):
How are you doing? My friend?

Speaker 15 (30:46):
What's up?

Speaker 17 (30:47):
Dave?

Speaker 15 (30:47):
I've never been in this part. I mean this is
different to me.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, you're you're getting a new studio.

Speaker 18 (30:51):
Well yeah, I got money around here, but you can't
hide a ky TV lights, new microphone headphones that work.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Bobby Spry' is also here with
us as well, a one of our sales weasels. How
you doing, Bobby weasel? Yeah that's what I call.

Speaker 14 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's not what he calls me upstairs though.

Speaker 15 (31:10):
Stuff we can't say on the radio.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
All right, so, uh we we have a colorful language
in our office with you. I'm just I'll just leave
it at that.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
I get it all right, eighteen years ago you got
this idea to do this backpack attack.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Where did the idea come from?

Speaker 18 (31:24):
I think Lisa Bug was born and one of Lisa
kids was born because my kids, well my kids was
in Indiana and my younger ones wasn't.

Speaker 15 (31:32):
Thought of yet.

Speaker 18 (31:33):
But it was like, yo, let's take care of the community.
Let's go get some backpacks. The first person I called
was Tommy orchid Man over at Mulleins. Mulleins.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (31:40):
He took care of us, and I think comas too.

Speaker 18 (31:44):
And we just did this out of grassroots, just going
to people like, hey, man, you want to donate twenty
dollars for a magpack?

Speaker 15 (31:50):
You want to do this?

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Now?

Speaker 19 (31:51):
Is uh?

Speaker 18 (31:52):
Now we've got ben Selango. Look how big that thing
turned into you hear me. Yeah, But it's it's one
of those good, feel good moment's. Dave, you see them, man,
you've been outside. Man, you talking about three hundred four
hundred kids that walk through. And the best thing about
this now eighteen years is the moms and dads that
used to get the backpacks, now they're bringing their kids
for the backpack. So it's one of those things that

(32:14):
just make you smile, make heart smile.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, indeed, and again we're gonna start the lineup about
three o'clock out here on the lot. We'll start handing
them out at four o'clock, six o'clock they're gone. A
couple of quick things. Kids must be present, yes, well do.
He explained that we heard every excuse in the world. Like, Bobby,
I'm talking about every excuse. The only way we can
make this fair is we see your babies. Not only
it's a backpack, but we want to talk to them.
We want to take pictures with them, we want to

(32:37):
hang out with them.

Speaker 15 (32:38):
Mom, you, oh, Dad you.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Oh.

Speaker 18 (32:40):
We've been seeing you for the last thirty years. I've
been in the club with you last night. I want
to see I want to see the little babies that
come through. And that's the reason we do this. We
want to make sure it's fair and we want to
encourage these young folks how a big education is and
take school seriously and.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Talk about how it's changed since then, as far as
the things that are in the backpacks, because I mean
it's you know, education, what has changed.

Speaker 15 (33:04):
Well, Bobby you can tell, I mean, Bobby can say this.

Speaker 14 (33:06):
We oh my gosh, I remember back in the day
we were driving out to Walgreens and stuff and these
things clearful. Now now we've really tapped into the community
to ask what their needs.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
So we go to the schools and the community said,
what do you name me? And you've got a kid
that's in school, now do.

Speaker 14 (33:21):
You she's seven, she'll be in second grade.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
And so the wants and needs of a seven or
even a seventeen year old in twenty twenty five are
not the same as what they were when this thing
started eighteen years ago.

Speaker 14 (33:31):
We're not We're not stuff in these with a ton
of notebooks, so I'll tell you that. So you know,
as we know, everything's electronic now, so we provide pencils,
pencil sharpeners, we do provide notebooks. What I love this
year is that we're doing little first day kids Yep,
water bottles and then fully functional backpacks too.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
And the water bottles is very important because aren't kids
required to have water bottle?

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Their own water bottles?

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Were?

Speaker 14 (33:57):
Now yeah, yep, every day?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, and earbuds. Do we do earbuds one this year?
I believe we did that a year before last. Okay,
And somebody had asked me one time they text the
show and ask about why the earbuds, and the reason
is because in Kanawa County schools ever kids got an
iPad you know I mean, and you have to have this,
so we'll try.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
To get those return to us.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's we talked about Selango Law with he and Bobby
sponsoring this, but there's a lot of other people that
are in. That's the title sponsor, but there's a whole
lot of other people that are that are making this
possible as well.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
Give a shout out to some of those.

Speaker 14 (34:28):
That's great. Well, Yes, Selango Law, we have Master's Law Firm,
the Dirty Birds who are going to be here on site.
Kanall County Preschools, Jet Life Apparel, West Virginia Health, Right
Trojan Landing, Marine and Power Sports, West Virginia Eye Consultants,
Betel and Betel who we all love. They delivered my kids.

Speaker 15 (34:46):
They deliver mine too.

Speaker 14 (34:48):
Greb Dental Group, Mountain Care Network, Charleston Childcare and Learning
Center that's at Sean Showingbaum, Charleston Police Department. Thank you.
They always show up and provide support. Let the kids
see that they're providing a safe environment. I I'm mar
Express Family Care, Health Centers, Shawnee Sports Complex, Health and

(35:08):
what shoot? I always get this one.

Speaker 15 (35:10):
What is it?

Speaker 14 (35:11):
It's the well Wealth Enhancement.

Speaker 15 (35:13):
Used to be this state Wealth Wealth Enhancement.

Speaker 14 (35:17):
Yes, now just wealth enhancement. Okay, ten and ten Norfolk,
Southern PoCA Valley, the Deltas and the Kappas. Shot of Lee?
So what's shot of Lee?

Speaker 15 (35:26):
That's Lisa taking pictures? Yeah, that Lisa taking pictures. Yeah.
At Chris fil House is gonna be out there too.
He called me.

Speaker 18 (35:32):
You know what I like about Garib dinner group and
we don't think about this. They put two brushes and
toothpaste in every bad That's right, that's good stuff.

Speaker 13 (35:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (35:40):
You know how long you've been using your tooth brush, Dave,
be honest, probably too long?

Speaker 15 (35:46):
Grab you one brother, you know.

Speaker 14 (35:48):
Jb Acres is also a sponsor as well. He hopefully
will stop by be helping us pass out some backpacks today,
So look forward to seeing him.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
And that's a big part of it too, is guys,
we always have a lot of folks that did show
up just to help. I mean, because this is a
so when you're talking about giving away well over three
hundred backpacks and people will start lining up. We tell
them at three, but sometimes they line up a little
bit early. Four people outside already. Well one of them,
one of them was Ben Selango because he said he
wanted a backpack. But but but they start lining up,

(36:17):
and we we there's an orderly fashion because we can't
have everybody coming in at one time. And if you're
not familiar, we're where we are on Virginia Street. We're
just up from Charleston Catholic High School. And so we
line them up on the sidewalk out there and we let,
you know, five six in at the time. We'll let
a family come in at a time. But then we
got to stop them, you know, okay now, and I
stopped because we just can't have too many people. And
it's pretty much like Robery always tells me, it's not

(36:38):
a circle. He tells me exactly geometrically what it is.
To me, it's a circle. No, he uses something that
he uses, something smart people use. But so we start
on one end, on the right side of our parking lot,
and we go all the way around and there's people.
There's like, you know, maybe ten or more stations that
are set up there. And when the kids go to

(36:59):
every station they pick up something. And he mentioned about
the Charleston Police Department. I know Lieutenant p Pain's been here.
He's out on the floating around on the boat right now,
so you know he's got his side business returned. He'll
probably show up. He wouldn't surprise me, he would show up.

Speaker 13 (37:18):
I know.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
I had Travis Bayles yesterday from the Charleston Police Department
on the show talking about the National Night Out. So
he said they would make arrangements to be here. But
our point is is that we're not just giving backpacks.
We're sending them around to you know, every station to
pick up something.

Speaker 18 (37:32):
And you know, my sister is a police officer in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, detective for twenty six years now. And
people just think officers are robots, like they are human beings.
They are family, they got feelings. So when you can
bring these young folks around and see an officer in
a setting that's delightful and not mad and angry and

(37:52):
police lights everywhere, they can see that these officers are human.
David Pain is one of my great friends. I go
right on this boat, I hang out with EP. I
text David like but and when we when we put
these young folks in front of them with the event
like backpack. This shows them a different light kind of
like what night out was last night.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
You know, that's the whole idea that they don't only
see police officers when there's something bad going bad going on.

Speaker 14 (38:17):
Yeah, we always wait. I tell people all the time.
Do you not threaten your kids with calling?

Speaker 15 (38:22):
Yeah, that's not a good thing to do.

Speaker 14 (38:23):
Not a good thing. We don't talk.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
About that with the with with Travis Bales for the
police department yesterday about that that exact same.

Speaker 14 (38:29):
Where my mom did it.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yeah, you probably should have.

Speaker 15 (38:32):
Uh, we played football, Dave you know that?

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Did you play football?

Speaker 14 (38:37):
I played.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Did alignment?

Speaker 14 (38:41):
I was center? Did you know evolved?

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Okay, that's a segment we're gonna do.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
We're gonna bring in your favorite radio personality say things
you didn't know about them.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
That's that's what we should What don't we know about?

Speaker 6 (38:56):
What?

Speaker 4 (38:56):
He would?

Speaker 15 (38:56):
I don't know, you know everything an overshare, But go ahead.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
It just got to be something that people would be
surprised to know about what it was away from radio.

Speaker 15 (39:05):
This is easy.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (39:06):
I don't like to hear myself on the radio, Like
if I hear commercials and stuff. Now I listen and
make sure the production and stuff right. Then I just
turn it down once I hear it's good. I don't
like to hear myself.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
On the radio.

Speaker 18 (39:16):
And why I'm in the car. I don't even listen
to my station too much. I listened to the country station.
I make sure we're good right.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Well, in radio, you should listen to the other guys
more than you listen to yourself.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
You know, that's what I listened.

Speaker 18 (39:28):
To better guys than listen to the country stations. Like yeah,
that's a weird thing about me. I do not like
to hear my voice on the radio.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Okay, all right, well we're gonna hear your voice today
a lot because it's the eighteenth annual one of seven
three the Beat Backpack Attack again. It's on our parking
lot eleven loven Virginia Street, Charleston. Will start lining up
about three, will begin to hand out at four.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Kids have to.

Speaker 18 (39:53):
Be the president, no doubt. Can I give a shout
out to Ben Slingo or not? Just what yeah they're
doing over the Shani. I called Ben a couple of
years ago, like Ben, I need somebody for this backpack.
He says, sign me up forever, like this forever, Like
he don't even he just said sign me up forever.
I said, all right, Bob, you're signed up forever. So
shout out to Selango Law. They do a lot of
stuff behind the scenes that nobody knows.

Speaker 15 (40:14):
Being don't like to be.

Speaker 18 (40:16):
I know you see him a lot because he's our
county commissioner, but he does so much stuff for our
neighborhoods that he like, Yo, don't put this up, don't
don't take pictures, don't do that. He just him and
terror just a class act man. I just want to
shot them, Yeah, for real community for.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
All right.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Things start again with the lineup at three and we'll
start handing out the backpacks at four o'clock. Today Selango
Law the eighteenth Annual Backpack Attack. Would he always a
pleasure to have you on the show? Had g Money
made it on the show before you did? He was
on the show Monday.

Speaker 15 (40:44):
I don't like to hear myself talk.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, we've proven that, we've proven that. But is he
gonna be out there with us?

Speaker 15 (40:52):
To be out there?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, a lot of people are gonna be out there,
and I do want to throw this out there too
a while I get everybody in here. This Saturday, we're
going to be a trojan landing marine starting around ten
o'clock giving away one thousand dollars in cash and that
bike too. So that's one of those events that all
the stations are involved in. We have four or five
big events every year, and the backpack attack is one

(41:13):
O seven three. But I mean it's when you go
out there, you're going to see folks from the mountain,
and you're gonna see folks from V one hundred and KWS,
and uh, you know, we're all we're all gonna be
out there.

Speaker 18 (41:23):
I don't think we care about the name on the
front like i'd like the radio station. We don't care
for CHS or ninety six one or one oh seven
three or ninety eight seven. Yeah, we just care about
getting the job done. And let's focus on our community.
And and if it takes all of us, it takes
all of us to take one of us, take one of.

Speaker 15 (41:41):
Us, man, let's just get it done.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Just like the jingle says, we're proud to live here too.

Speaker 15 (41:44):
There you go.

Speaker 14 (41:46):
I've heard that way too many times.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
What he's not from West Virginia, But as they say,
you got here as quickly as you could.

Speaker 15 (41:51):
Right, I'm from here now.

Speaker 18 (41:52):
I moved here when I was nineteen, so I'm on
the other side of the hill, right right, Yeah, he's.

Speaker 14 (41:57):
Been here longer than he it was.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (41:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (42:01):
When they ask me where I'm from, I got two
states I get to choose. I'm lucky. I'm from Indiana
and West Virginia. They say, how I spent half of
my life here? Half of my life there was not
even half. Yeah, I'm more on this.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
I am all right.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
What he was from the beat, Bobby Spry, I appreciate
you being here as West Bobby.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
Bobby's the weasel, the sales leasil.

Speaker 14 (42:17):
Now she's not the only left it all.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
I called it all a call, So they're all called
sales weasels. To me, it's an old term I picked
up years ago. All right, guys, we're gott to take
a break. We'll be back with more right after this
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Mike Stewart is going to be with us day current
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Of course, he's been.

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Under the grilling under the lights in DC trying to
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few days back in West Virginia.

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Talk to him.

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Early thwenty, Mike Stewart is going to join us to
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About that as well.

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out there some more cell phone talk. As you know,
the school systems have put together a plan for how
to handle cell phone usage. Morgan Pemberton as a story
post to wv metronews dot com about how Cable County
is planning on doing things.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
The school board.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
They are approved a resolution during the meeting yesterday afternoon.
Of course, this all goes back to House Built two
zero zero three that was passed this past legislative session
went into effect in July. The superintendent there's Tim Hardesty,
and he says the school system in Cable County already
had a policy, but just need to tweak a bit.
So here's how they're handling it. Quickly, in Cable County,

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phones have to be on silent, and the superintendent once
the phone's kept in the student's locker or otherwise out
of sight. Now, the policy says students will only be
able to use devices for quote learning, if approved by
a teacher or principal, and they're not to be used
for anything considered again quoting anything other than educational purposes. Now,
the policy goes on to say students aren't allowed to

(47:46):
take photos or videos without consent, and they can't use
cell phones in restrooms or locker rooms, and they also
can't use so called blocked website. Now, I am no
tech expert by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone that
works with me will tell you that. But is it
totally out of the question that you just search kids
when they come to the building. I mean, may seem

(48:06):
a little bit extreme, but with all due respect of
what I've seen from some of the counties so far,
there's so many ways around these policies, including if the
student has permission from a teacher or school official to
use it. And it's all going to come down to enforcement.
And just like when we were in school on any
number of subjects, some teachers I think are going to
be harder than others. And what about the cell phone

(48:28):
usage for the teachers, it seems to be kind of
an issue as well. What he woulds, I'm gonna put
you on the spot here, man, We're not always talking
about the fun stuff. What do you just didn't want
to leave our new studio? That's a lot is he said?
I want to stay for a while. What do you
think about it. I mean, you're a parent, you're somebody
that's plugged in. What do you think about it?

Speaker 15 (48:46):
Cell phones is part of our culture now, man.

Speaker 18 (48:48):
I think once you put too many rules and too
many stipulations on, the teacher can say yes, and the
teacher can say no and this and that either.

Speaker 15 (48:56):
As a hardy yes or as a hard no.

Speaker 18 (48:58):
Because how do the teacher pick what student can use
the phone and what students can't use it?

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Well?

Speaker 18 (49:04):
They can't I mean during this I mean they said
a teacher can approve student.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
They can approve it if it's for a certain project.
That's what I'm saying. You're making this thing a cell phone?
And when we were in school, would he and TJ?
You can bring TJ. Meadows is here as well. You know,
you know what teachers you could get by with stuff.
You know, there may have been a rule about no.
I mean, I'm a kid of the eighties. A ruled
about no walkmans in classrooms or no chewing gum or whatever.
You knew first period teacher was okay, whether the second

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period teacher wasn't.

Speaker 15 (49:31):
Right, I agree at TJ. What'd you think? Man?

Speaker 21 (49:33):
So a couple of points and I've made would on this.
You know, my kids have to have an iPad. They
make them have an iPad, certain in kindergarten. Right, what's
an iPad? It's just a big old cell phone.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
I mean that's all it is.

Speaker 21 (49:44):
These things I'm holding up my iPhone, they're not going anywhere.
So better to teach the kids how to use them
responsibly and teach them how to be productive with these
tools than just saying we're going to ban them, because
you're just kicking the can down the road, right at
that point, I mean, these aren't going anywhere.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. What do you got kids?
What age does a kid need a cell phone?

Speaker 15 (50:07):
We said ten at ten?

Speaker 18 (50:09):
At ten at ten, my son can get a cell phone,
but he does have an iPad, and like TJ says,
he can do everything.

Speaker 15 (50:15):
He can call me, he can text me.

Speaker 18 (50:18):
And we might have to go revisit this because he
do have a iPad, and he do have a school
issue iPad that they let you take over the summer too,
So now he got two iPads. We got to worry
about make sure you don't lose.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
But now the school issued iPads, I would And again,
kids are resourceful, they can find their way around anything.
You guys know that more than adults probably can't. There
are certain things that are that are blocked out blocks. Yeah,
I mean, but you know, you know, you know what
you guys kids, you can figure that out somehow. I
would think you gotta check your kid's iPad in their
phone every now and then, and be at your parents, yes,
and monitor what they're doing and have the right security protocols.

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And once they figure out how to get over one
bridge or get over one hurdle, you figure out how
to put another one. I mean, that's I mean, right,
isn't that what our parents had to do? It was
we didn't have the technology, but yeah, there was always something.

Speaker 15 (51:04):
You change our diaries also, man, my mom checked my
diary once for me.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
I would have if you would have told me that
Woody Woods had a diety, I probably would have said.

Speaker 18 (51:16):
I mean, I used to write in it all the
time too, Like I had a diary. Yeah, I wrote good, Yeah,
I want to find that.

Speaker 21 (51:23):
I thought my dad was like king of the Boone
County Mafia because I would come home and be like
eleven o'clock at night and he just looked at me.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
He said y'all were up on Old County roads to night. Yeah,
I know what.

Speaker 5 (51:34):
I know exactly what happened.

Speaker 21 (51:35):
I know who was involved, and he was like eleven
o two and we just been there at ten forty five.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
I'm like, how in the world?

Speaker 3 (51:42):
And that would be easy to do, you know, easier
than either text says some of these kids play on
the school tablets during class to get rid of those
and go back to textbooks.

Speaker 18 (51:51):
I think it's over for textbooks, good tech good I
mean good old school analogy. But they're not teaching textbooks
anymore like you. I mean, you don't even they don't
teach curse of writing anymore.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
So I don't know do they, because I've heard both
they don't know. I don't think they do it all
not Knock County. I mean I don't know about putting
no more any other counties. But no, my kids write
manuscript yeah all right. My kids are learning how to
tight yeah yeah right. I mean, seriously, what's what you
got on talk by today? Kathy Kunkles, she's an independent
energy analysts.

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hundred and forty million dollars is what it's going to cost,
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