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necessarily reflect the views and opinions of five adwchs it's
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Good morning, How you doing this morning? This is the
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Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live. It comes to
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you from the Jarrett Construction Studios, right on time, right
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on budget. Visit Jarrett Dashconstruction dot com. I know I
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don't sound like Dave Allen because I'm not Dave Allen.
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And as you know, he's been on vacation for the
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last couple of days. Let's hope he's not up listening.
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But we're going to carry on without him and have
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a really good show. We have got some good people on.
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You know, it's Wednesday morning. That means Millie Snyder is
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on to talk about the Mediterranean lifestyle. We'll get to
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that in a moment. We're also going to talk some
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more about the Appalachian Outlaw Trail, but I'm going to
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pull when the gentleman Barbie come along. I'm going to
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talk about also what some opportunities might be beyond the recreation,
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the fund the enjoyment. If anybody's an entrepreneur out there,
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we'll tell you what we're looking for and what we
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need to help support the eastern part of Kanawa County
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and also support the Appalachian Outlaw Trail. And it's also
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Memorial Day weekend coming up and they are having some
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fun things taking place. And then a little later we're
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going to talk about apprenticeships. That's one of my favorite
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things because we are teaching skills. The unions are teaching
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skills and paying people at the same time and also
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helping to keep them on the right track. So that's
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what's coming up. So you want to stick around, you
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can call us a guarant on the Guarantee Bank hotline
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at three zero four three four five five eight five eight,
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or Tony the Taylor Text at three zero four nine
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three five five zero zero eight. And Stephanie Paully is
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the producer and keeping us on. And also my buddy
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Ryan Nicholson, whose dry humor is the driest in all
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of the state of West Virginia, and he's really funny.
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You just got to keep up with him. And again,
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I'm Natalie Tennant, as I said, and so let's just
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get to it. If you have calls, if you have
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text please send them along because we are now talking
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to an old friend, and I know you're here all
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the time, and you and Dave. And when Dave said, oh,
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you're gonna have to have You're gonna have to interview
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Millie Snyder. She comes every Wednesday, I'm like, really, we
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go way way back about nineteen ninety.
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It was yeah, No, I think yes. I think it was.
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Because I was the Mountaineer, Yeah, and you were want
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of it Beck.
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And the thought that one of you dressed up like that,
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how could I get.
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It's called it outfit and you have to be a
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student of West Virginia University and try out to be
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the Mountaineer mascot, And that's kind of what it was.
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It was like this this women's event or something, and
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you were you were a woman owned business and one
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of few, especially nineteen ninety, but you started even before that.
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Yes, I came to Charleston, West Virginia in nineteen sixty nine,
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which was just after the covered wagons moved exactly seemingly
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because it was such a long time ago. And when
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I told my family in Baltimore that I'm coming to
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West Virginia, they thought I sent the planet Mars and
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they well, they never came here, and then they came
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to visit, and I was afraid they weren't going to
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leave because they loved it here. And so it was
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a love story for me because they were happy that
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I was here. But I cannot put into enough words,
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however time, however much time there is to say it,
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how grateful I am to be a mountaineer, right to
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be here, and to have had the opportunity to help
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people in the way that I have, which is simply
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to show them what they are capable of doing. You see,
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I can never lose anybody's weight. I have to help
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you lose it. But it's about education and knowing that
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you're important enough to eat in a healthy way and
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after weight watchers. And I only did that for forty
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seven years because I started all of this when I
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was I think four, Yes, because.
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At eighty oh, how old are you now?
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Well, I'm eighty three, and I know I don't look it, no,
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and I don't act it, and I don't feel it,
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and I'm very great for that. But it's also a
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part of the way that I've been eating for so
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many years, because eating healthy has many many benefits. My
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family didn't have all that good health. My father died
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when he was young, My brother died when he was young.
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My mother did make it to ninety three, but my
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mother was She was very unconventional in that she walked
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everywhere that she had to go. Because my husband at
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the time tried to teach her how to drive, and
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when he came into the house and all the blood
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drained out of his face, he said, I can't do it. Really,
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I can't do it. So my mother walked everywhere, and
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that was very unconventional back then, right, And so she
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made it to ninety three years and it was pretty remarkable.
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She lived in Baltimore all that time.
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Oh yes, But the last four and a half months
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of her life, I kind of kidnapped her, didn't kind of.
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I kidnapped her from the nursing home that my sister
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put her in, and I brought her to Charleston, and
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she finished her remaining years in my care at my home.
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Wow and the dogs, and she would just sit outside
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with the dogs and she would speak Yiddish to them,
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and she knew that the dogs understood her. They didn't
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understand her, but they acted like they did because it
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was a lot, I think so it was a little
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bit of a love affair in so many different directions.
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That's just a great story, it is. Why did you
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choose West Virginia? Was it you or your husband that
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said we're going to Charleston.
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Well, we were on the way to Columbus to visit
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some of Harvey's friends with whom he was in the army,
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and the Automobile Club routed us across Virginia because we
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were working for a weight watcher franchisee in Virginia.
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Okay, so we know that you were clear. So when
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did you start weight walking? Not start? When did you
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become working for weight Watchers even before nineteen Oh?
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Well yes, well see I joined as a member in
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nineteen sixty six. But I didn't want to join weight
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Watchers because I did want to fail again. I had
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been failing at weight loss all my life, and so
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when it was my older sister who insisted that I
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go with her, I'm not going to share with you
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the words that transpired between us. They were ugly, they
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were unkind. But Harriet was the chief name caller in
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my life, and none of those words were kind. And
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perhaps she thought that if she could insult me enough
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that would spur me into action. And what it did,
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it spurred me into getting to the refrigerator faster because
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I needed the food and I needed to be I
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wanted all the bad things to be silent. So food
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did that for me. So when it was her idea
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that I joined weight watchers, I said, I'm not going
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to your watcher's weight or whatever you call it, and
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I didn't go. Try to make the story short. And
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around that time, I was dating this guy named Harvey
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and he had a weight problem, and we went out
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to eat a lot, and we went to places that
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served a lot of food, always the two for one.
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And that didn't mean we split it. He had two
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for one and I had two for one. We just
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we just got a lot more food for less money.
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And love will do that to you too, won't it.
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Oh my goodness, it blinds everything. Yes. And so one
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particular night on a Sunday, we always went to Little
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Italy in Baltimore.
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Yeah, And he said.
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To me, any and Harvey had a wonderful singing voice.
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It was just like it was magic. And I met
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him at a singing teachers And that's another story altogether.
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And I have podcasts that are coming out that are
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going to tell this whole story. Oh really, but Harvey
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said to me. You know, in choir practice, I was
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short wended, and here was my opening. I said, Harvey,
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you know you're fat. You need to I don't wait
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a minute, I don't say that to anybody.
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Well wait a minute, why did you say that if
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your sister said mean things to you and that didn't
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Because I.
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Had an ulterior motive, And here it comes. I told
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him that he needs to go to weight watchers because
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he's going to go and he's going to find out
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that it doesn't work. So then with that ammunition, I'm
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going to tell Harriet where she can put the next
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suggestion to join what something? That's I mean, it was
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all in.
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My oh and what happened? Harriet was right all along, wasn't.
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She Well, we're not going to go there.
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See.
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Did you guys yell at each other in Yiddish?
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You ever use sometimes?
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Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
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So I would call her as sugar enough and a
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sugar that means you're a crazy person, and other words
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that I don't think should be said on the air because.
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Somebody will producers we have seven second delay? Do we?
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I think they?
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H they don't. They should have for me, I'm going,
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I'm coming into.
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Harvey promised me that he would go, but it took
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him nine weeks to actually go because in those years
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Wait Watchers only had one nighttime meeting in Baltimore, and
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I worked on Thursday night. I mean, I could have
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asked for the night off, but why do they do that?
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That's why would I do that? That doesn't make sense.
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So eight for nine weeks, he put it off, put
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it off, put it off, And finally on September first,
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nineteen sixty six. You know that the date is emblazoned
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in my brain. And he didn't call me to cancel.
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And I said to myself, I wonder if he's going
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to go to that thing tonight by himself. Now he's
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not with you. You still weren't going imbut going. He's
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got to go and find out it's a joke. It
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doesn't work, because I'm not gonna fail again. If God
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wanted me to be thin, God made me thin.
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You know, and there are folks listening because I want
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to get to that too. So if if you want
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to call in and ask some questions those who know
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about weight watchers too, because Millie knows that for forty
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seven year or longer it's been a success. The phone
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number is the Guaranteed Bank hotline at three zero four
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three four five five eight five eights. Because that's what
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made weight watchers such as success too, not just the
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programs of how to take care of yourself, but that
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inspiration that you come back. Certainly, Harriet probably wasn't the
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leader of it when she's going around being saying mean
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names to people, right.
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But she said it to everybody about something. If you
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didn't do what she wanted, if you didn't march to
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her her step. Yeah, she she had a few choice
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words and phrase.
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She's still around.
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No, Harriet sadly lost her battle to pancreatic cancer in
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twenty fifteen. And although we had a very very difficult relationship,
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I sometimes still think how not sometimes, but it just
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lives in my brain. I'm sad that she suffered so
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to get to her end because pancreatic cancer is pretty
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pretty vicious. Now there's some research that's coming that says
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it could possibly work, but it's after Harriet's time. So
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although there was a lot of ugly stuff between us.
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I never wished her ill in that respect, but I
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don't know whether what her words are Harriet put Harriet
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took me to my first bariatric doctor for appills when
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I was eleven. Nobody does that to a child, but
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Harriet did it to me because I wasn't acceptable. I
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wasn't I was fat, I was useless. I would never
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amount to anything.
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There were bariatric doctors when you were Oh absolutely, my goodness,
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and you were you How much older is she than you?
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She was thirteen years older, Dan, She was born nineteen
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twenty nine.
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So she was twenty four, telling you the eleven year old, right, yeah,
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well eleven plus was twenty four, thirteen years older than they.
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So she's twenty four, you're eleven, and she's telling like
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she's an adult.
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Well that's abroad.
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Well I know I have I have siblings who are
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But I mean, I did anything they wanted me to do.
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If they told me I was going to be great,
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I was going to be great. If they told me
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so wow, okay.
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So I didn't go. I didn't go. And then finally
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when Harvey did go and he didn't call me to cancel,
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and I worked late on Thursday night, that wasn't an excuse.
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When I got to the house, my mother was talking
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to him on the phone and she handed me the
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receiver and he said to me, you're going next week,
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and you know that falling in love stuff. I said, okay, honey,
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what people what people don't realize is I mean. What
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I can't say on the air is what I said
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after I hung.
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On the phone.
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Can't you say that on the air, because those are
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not nice words, even in h Yeah, in Yiddish, in English,
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in any language you want to use. Because I said
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things like this is the ridiculous thing. I'm not gonna
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It's not gonna work. So I went the following Thursday,
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and I didn't like the leader. I didn't like her dress,
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I didn't like her husband. And they tried to sell
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me a food scale and I said, I've never weighed
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my food. He said, well, we weigh our food. So
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I bought a scale five dollars in it.
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Haang, that's a lot.
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And the scale said postal Service. It didn't say weight watchers.
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It said post Service. That bought a scale, and then
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I didn't like the wayre and I mean I just
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didn't like I didn't want to be there.
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And all right, well we're going to find out what
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turned around and how we knew about Millie Snyder. We're
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really supposed to be talking about the Mediterranean lifestyle and we'll.
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Get back and come back.
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or Tony's Facebook page. It is nine twenty four right now,
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and I've asked to get to continue to talk to
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Millie Snyder because we haven't really talked about mediterran lifestyle.
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I've only been doing that for eight years. But I
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did that after weight Watchers, right, But I want to
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go back to the beginning. But so I didn't want
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to be there. I didn't like it. I hated everything. Yeah,
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And then on the first week I went on it,
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and I knew that there's only one way to handle this,
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and that is since I agreed to go, I am
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going to eat as though a famine is going to
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fall on Baltimore City because Weight Watchers is going to
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take everything that I love away. So I went back
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the next week and I thought that I should have
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lost twenty pounds. Oh I did that the week before
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I joined.
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Oh oh, you ate everything every week before.
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You if it wasn't nailed down and not crawling, I
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ate it. So then I joined weight Watchers and that week.
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I followed it. I did everything right. I followed that
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piece of paper. I even weighed my food on that
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stupid scale. And you suffered, and you were, Oh did
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I suffer? My Goodnes the Greek restaurant that made my
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breakfast every morning. I thought they were going to have
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to go out of business because I really spent a
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lot of money every morning for breakfast. But I ate
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breakfast with my mother. But I never told my mother
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what I ate for breakfast when I got to work.
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That was another story altogether. Oh and so I go
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back and I joined at two hundred and four and
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a quarter palms, yeah, and a not very But then
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I was.
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Just kind of giving you anything I could hear.
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I think you were.
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Six eleven too, of fours, five.
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Of course, yes, and very large bones. Look at the
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size of the bones. You've never seen a hand that
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big in your whole. Yours is bigger. No, they're not. Yes,
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it is her hand is her hand is bigger.
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You're eighty three and I'm forty three.
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You are only forty three. Wonderful God, I'm impressed.
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No, let's just say that I take advantage of senior discounts.
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I don't care. If they're going to give them, I'm
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taking them and I a military discount. Do you take them?
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I'm going to start.
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You don't.
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I don't know about them.
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I have to.
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I need to spend some time there everywhere. Okay, I'm
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gonna start Ie Hop. But you don't go to I Hop,
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not anymore.
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You used to.
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It used to be called the International House of Pancakes
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now but they they said, look how much KFC Dougie
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frit Oh. I did that afterwards. That's another story. It's
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on the pop.
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Okay, So how much did you lose the first week?
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The first week, yes, three quarters of one pound, and
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that I'm going to find the leader. See, I didn't
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like her dress the first week. The second week it
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was even uglier, and I told her I won't be back.
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I said it might work for them, but it don't
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work for me. And she called me Millie. Oh, you
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don't like my name anyway.
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She said to you, Millie, you don't like my name.
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No, I said to her, Oh, she called me Millie
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And I said, oh, you must not like my name.
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I don't want to be there. And she was wearing
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the ugly the dress from the first week was ugly.
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The dress from the second week was uglier. And this
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is the.
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Nineteen sixties, nine nine, well, still the sixties.
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But that's when I no, I'm sorry. Yeah, it was
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nineteen sixty six, September first, that was when Harvey joined. Well,
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that's my date was September the eighth. That's that's written
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in an infamy. And so I didn't like her dress,
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and she said do it for me for one more week.
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I say I didn't like her what who?
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What to? Well, that's what I'm saying. Then why why
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did she use that term do it for me?
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Because here she was out of anything else. Because I
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was so angry. You could feel my anger. I don't
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want to be there, and I don't want And the
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reason I don't want to be there is I have
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failed consistently over the years of my life.
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I'm just afraid to fail. You know what in your
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story is probably resonating with other folks. Of course, you
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found so many reasons. The dress is ugly. I have
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to use a ups scale. I don't want to fail again.
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I mean I can, and I don't want to eat.
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I want to eat the food I like because.
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I thing is you told me one time. Remember I
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used to interview you on the morning TV show that
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I could eat a big mac.
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That was it.
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That's all you could eat for the day. But you
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could have that big.
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Mac because and back then, I believe you counted points
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on weight Watchers, which was the concept.
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What do we do now? We still killt points, don't
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we some.
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I don't know. I don't know because now I do Mediterranean?
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Well, tell me why the Mediterranean? Then?
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Well, because when I sold weight Watchers, I was then
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a subject to a non compete agreement for three years.
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And I said to someone who was a nutritionist here
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in Charleston, I want to do what I always did
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because I miss people. And she said, before you do anything, Mellie,
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take a look at Mediterranean. And I did and she
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I bought a book and I put myself on it
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and I followed it for five weeks and I've never
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looked back. I have never eaten better, felt better than
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I feel now. And I am not on a diet.
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If you saw what I had for dinner last night,
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you would say, move over and share it with me.
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What'd you have?
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I had the most magnificent salad, and in it I
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had chicken, I had egg, I had salad, dressing, every
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kind of vegetable you could imagine. And in addition to that,
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I put not queen wha, I put the faroh on it.
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Oh and it was so absolutely delicious. So I've learned
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even more than I learned at weight watchers. I really
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with Mediterranean have learned how to eat and be healthy.
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And it's the hell do.
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We do that? Because I would eat like that if
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it were easy. But no, I went to Fairmont yesterday
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and then to Clarksburg, and you know what I had
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for dinner. Tell me call cessnos pepperwarn and roll with
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everything mixed peppers.
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Well, you were in Italian country.
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I'm always, sister. I'm always an Italian country.
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And Italian and Italian food isn't bad if you know
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how to pay.
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If you walk around like your mother did when you
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go to Italy, you know, their calves are as hard
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as rocks, and they walk everywhere, and they.
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And the real Mediterranean part of the world that they
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don't buy a nineteen hundred things at the supermarket every week.
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They buy what they need for a day or two.
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They aren't big freezers and big refrigerators and everything is fresh,
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and that's what And we can do it here if
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you shop the perimeter of your supermarket and it's all available.
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The perimeter, not the center exact.
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The center is where all the processed food is, and
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the processed food is doing us in. People don't believe
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it until something bad happens, and then there's the right
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and then there's a huge elephant in the room. So
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many people are injecting themselves with GLP and that's not
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an answer that worries you. Why because there's downsides that
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are already rearing their ugly head. And if you use
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something artificial to lose weight, what have you learned? Absolutely nothing?
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And that's the biggest concern. I've been down this road before.
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Remember the days of fen fen and.
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Oh yeah, diet my mom did the you know, diet
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pills and cigarettes.
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Oh well it must have been the cigarettes, right.
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But that's the thing. So we need to help because
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folks will say they were like you, they were mad.
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They know they're not going to do it anything, they're
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never going to lose weight. They don't want to fail again.
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But they've taken they've taken the shots. The they're GLP ones.
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Yeah, and they're losing weight.
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They've lost weight now they feel good, So now what
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can they? Can they go? They can't stay on that forever?
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Now how do they How do they transition to a
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good diet? They need the Mediterranean.
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They need to join and need to learn how to
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eat correctly, because without that, what do you do? It's
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like the sixty four thousand dollars question. I don't know
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the answer. I do know the answer on the Mediterranean lifestyle.
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It's been around forever. It's old and the company that
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supports everything I teach, it's called Old Way.
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You tell people how they can get a hold of
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you and sign up.
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Well, we meet at the American Job Center on Leon
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Sullivan Way Thursday morning at ten o'clock and they can well, actually, no,
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we don't meet at ten o'clock. We made at nine
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point thirty. What was I thinking? And then I have
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a phone number if people want to reach us, go ahead.
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It's six eight one three one three seven seven seventy five.
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And joining us is one of the best things you'll
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that Mediterranean is a diet, it's called Mediterranean diet. I
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hate the word diet, but it's still Mediterranean diet. And
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it's a fabulous way to eat.
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And the phone number to call Millia six eight one
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three one three seven seven seven five Thursday mornings at
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nine thirty at the American.
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Job Center Job Center and it's so close to Washington Street.
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Close to everything that's right. Thank you Millie for coming in.
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I know we got a little off, but the point
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is there that you can do it. And she's one
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who who fought it for years and years and years, and.
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I ain't fight it anymore. Thank you. It is the
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light for me to be with you today.
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Thanks Rag, we gotta do this. I knew you when
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I know exactly. It's nine thirty three, almost thirty four.
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But we need the rain too.
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Now.
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I don't know how that's going to impact these two
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gentlemen who are here, Chris Ingram and Eric Larch, who
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have become household names in the Kunau Valley. Right.
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Absolutely, Yeah, it's one of those things that Chris and
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I are getting ready to throw our phones over the
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hill for looking at the weather. But it's a rain
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or shine weekend for us.
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That's right, I know because there with Appalachian Outlaw Trail,
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it is Memorial Day weekend. Do you remember October fifteenth,
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twenty twenty five when you said we're doing this, we're
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gonna have it by Memorial Day.
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Yeah, yeah, it's been not very many months ago, it
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feels like for us.
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Yeah, I was absolutely flown by. But you know, for
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someone going up there, they can tell the difference. But
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for us, it's like.
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I haven't been up since October fifteenth.
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I drive by it.
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Yeah, you'll be able to tell a difference whenever you
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come up.
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When can I come I legally? I mean it's open
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right now, but there's gates on it.
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Yeah, so we were gated there at the base of
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the hill. We're going to be open fully our grand
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opening later in the year for the trail system in
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the additional add one of the campsites. But this upcoming
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weekend we're going to be doing an event that's just
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to get the locals up there, let them take a
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look at what all we've gotten done, get together, enjoy
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some live music, we've got two days of concerts. We
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have fireworks, professional fireworks Saturday night. We have got a
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bunch of food trucks coming up from Canall City, a
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handful and you know, some from even Clariant and Jackson County,
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some from the other end of Kanaal County to come
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up and join us with a different area of different
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foods and treats.
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We've got some vendors showing up.
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We've got off road activities scheduled for both days, and
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our special guest is the Governor Saturday, I'm going to
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come up and hang out with us for a bit.
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So when you say special off road activities, what do
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you mean.
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We've got some facilities that we've built on site for
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UTV training and then motorcycle training, so we're gonna have
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those open to the public to be able to come
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and run through some different obstacle obstacle courses, some jumps
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and burms and hill climbs and things that we're gonna run.
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All of our our participants that come in rent units
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off of them have to go through these training courses,
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so we're gonna have those open and they're they're directly
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adjacent to our activity and like festival area right, so
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like you can come and watch a concert and you
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can still see UTVs and dirt bikes and full sized
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vehicles traveling on different obstacles directly from kind of the
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event space.
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Okay, I I just thought you weren't running. You're not
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running full trails. This is just the training part.
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Yes, yes, the actual full trails. We're not quite ready yet.
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We still have some cleanup work to do, some signage
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to put out, some ratings to put on the trails,
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things of that nature. Uh, we're getting close, but we're
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not quite there yet. But this is like a little
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preview section that we are. We have ready, so we're
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gonna let people start running that.
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I'm gonna ask this and you can just tell me
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on two months from now. But when will trails be running?
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I think I think we're shooting for later this summer,
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but we don't want to say for sure yet.
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That's fair.
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There's just a lot to get done between. You know,
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our mapping.
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We've got a national break partner on x off Road
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that's been they've had employees down there mapping for the
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last few months, and just a lot of it's a
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lot of trail.
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It's a lot of stuff.
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You know, we got to run every single trail and
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it's not just running it with a GPS, it's they
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have got to stop and take pictures of every obstacle
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to do ratings. They've got to stop and change whether
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it's a tree that's down or it's a mud hole.
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They have to mark every single thing. So, like, we
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just had a guy here over the weekend and he's
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probably has a file of over a thousand pictures and
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he probably only traverse one hundred miles and our trail
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system is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood north
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of three hundred. So, like the amount of time that
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they're actually putting in is really.
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Is really hard.
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And so it's something that's you know, it's it's it's
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kind of like we would like to see it progress quicker.
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But at the same time, if you look what they're
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actually going to produce when it's done, if you're going
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to be able to pull up a map before you go,
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you know exactly every obstacle, you know the trail rating,
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you know the difficulty, you know what vehicle is appropriate
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for that trail. I think we're gonna have a really
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nice polished product when we're actually you know, ready to.
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Okay, Okay, so that's it's exactly why you want to wait.
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So in the meantime, so we know we've got this down,
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there's there's probably never been something like this in the
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eastern part of the county before, except if you guys
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just threw some things together before we knew it. No,
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as far as our event, like this is like an official.
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Yeah, yeah, there's I mean to do a free concert
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with bands coming clear from Nashville all over the Appalachian
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Basin for two nights of free concerts, professional fireworks, you know,
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the food truck gathering, all the big event stage and everything. Yeah,
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I mean there's nothing like that that's went on.
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That's awesome. Okay. So in the meantime, while there are
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folks are you know, chomping at the bit to go
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and be ready to run, there are things that we
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as a community can do. This is the eastern part
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of the county. We're now calling the gateway to the Gorge.
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There's going to people. It will be people on the
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way going there. One stop that you could also have
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is Virginia's Chapelin. If I have time within the next
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eighteen minutes. We'll talk about that real quick. But what
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folks can do this is a great entrepreneurial opportunity for
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people to buy some homes that are on sale up
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along there and make airbnbs. Because you all are saying
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we need lodging.
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Yeah, you know, there's other things like homes that are
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needing rehabbed, you know, that are just vacant. Those homes
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are great candidates. Commercial spaces that are now empty can
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be made into large spaces for people to have lodging.
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So people who have lands that don't want to sell
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it don't know what to do with it, we open
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or open to RV parks. You know, the area really
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needs lodging. The closest city center to lodging right now
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is the city of Charleston, which is great, but we'd
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like to have something closer to the trailhead if possible.
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There's going to be needs for food, there's going to
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be needs for repairs for the machines, retail, so there's
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there's many ways to service the park and we hope
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the community gets involved and benefits.
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From it well. And here here are some of the
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things I went to the community dinner in Campbell's Creek,
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and that's always a little space place for me. It's
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just it's like five minutes from Charleston, so I'm driving
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there and now I look at things in a different light.
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Many times, there are homes that look like they could
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be renovated or purchased. So if you drove up Campbell's
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Creek and then you're like, oh, oh, right, there's a bar. Okay,
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oh right, there is Dollar General. Right there is I
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don't know if it's a fast check at a grocery store.
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And when I go places with my family, like my
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brother in law and brothers, they'll be like, yeah, there
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was an Airbnb, Like oh, let's go.
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To this bar.
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Let's let's go get stuff. Like Campbell's Creek is the
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perfect area to have Airbnbs to then cater to aot.
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Yeah, it's the perfect mix. Like you said, it's very
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close to Charleston. Our trails literally lead right down to
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Campbell's Creek.
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Absolutely, it's a.
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Great spot if you wanted to have the mixture of
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the city life and the woods life. It's the cool
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thing is anything in the Upper Canal Valley.
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That's up those hallows, anything exactly.
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With a route sixty.
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Yep, you can grab let's say in a house or
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a house that you may have that you're looking to
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move somewhere else. And the nice thing about our trail
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system is it's not like it's gated. It's not like
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you've got an inner across from rivers That High. You know,
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we're going to send the out of state people up
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our blacktop road to Riverside High to utilize our facilities.
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But if you had something up Campbell Creek, let's saying
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you rented out that house. These people can go straight
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from their house and go straight onto the trail system.
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It's not gated. You know, you can access it from anywhere.
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Yes, oh man, Okay, So there's my tip of the
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tip of the day, tip of the week because it's
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Campbell's Creek. But then there's a lot of places in Bell.
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I was bidding on something at Bell it was along
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the river. I mean, you all know I'm a big
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talker sometimes in a big thinker. I just don't have
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the money to back it up. And one of my
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brother I'm like, look at that, he said, Natalie. The
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location because it was on the river is worth more
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than that is worth forty eight thousand dollars that I
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didn't have.
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But so there's just riverfront property, that's for sure.
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Well they're all making any more land either. That's what
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we farm people know that all right. So it's Appalachian
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Outlaw Trails. This free this Friday and Saturday. Make your
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last pitch.
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Yeah, Friday, Saturday four twe eleven. We'd love to have
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you out. Lots of great food, great bands. I believe
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there's five three Friday, two Saturday, some awesome fireworks. This
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professional guy, he said, listen, I'm gonna make you a
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show to remember. So great fireworks coming Saturday at ten pm.
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There'll be a lots of activities. You can watch people
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dirt do, dirt drags, barrel racing, rock crawling, hard and
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durea of course for the dirt bike guys. Plenty of
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things to spectat and do and get you a little preview,
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so it'll be really fun of.
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It and totally accessible.
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One thing we've been asked handful of times is, yeah,
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we are an off road park, but you come right
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off for out sixty across from Riverside High We have
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a run stop light right. We have two lane black
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top road that leads you right to the event area.
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So you could bring your low two seater car, you
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can bring a minivan, you can bring whatever you need
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to bring, or you can bring you TV's in. Everybody
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is totally welcome, even if you're not in off roading,
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come join us for the weekend.
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For everybody that's already out in the woods riding on
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the backside of the property, you can still come in
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from the backside of the property if you're in your
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UTV and avoid Route sixty and coming in the backway.
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So this is awesome, right or shine, we got It's okay.
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There'll be a mudball. That's fine too, Right, you guys
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can cover up the bands to just cover the equipment. Hey,
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all right, this is great. This is a this is
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a good weekend. And if you go a little bit
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farther right outside of Glasgow is Virginia's Chapel. It's this
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old Civil War church. It's going to be open for
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the weekend. And that's a great And that's what's so
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great about the Gateway to the Gorge. You have this opportunity,
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but you have history, and you have all kinds of
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events that are taking place. You know, when Montgomery gets
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their splash prow to open. We have all kinds of
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things going on in the eastern part of the county.
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So gentlemen Chris and Eric, thank you very much, and uh,
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we'll keep a track of everything's and we'll be right back. Folks.
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It's nine forty seven.
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but he remains a trusted voice in our community after
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decades of helping people buy, sell, and better understand the
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car market. Larry offers a sincere thank you to everyone
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for allowing him to serve you all these years. Your
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with napkins, four, six and eight dollar biggie deals. How
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you want him at Wendy.
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Rice Participation, Mayberry sink a light, It's a regular bris
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prices making. I read lack at Teiforny and a wife.
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Good morning, it's a hop in morning. I'm telling you
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nine fifty right now. On the Dave Allen Show on
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five eighty Live. This is Natalie Tennant. I'm getting to
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fill in. I'm having a blast, and I hope I'm
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screwed up too much so I get to come back.
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My daughter calls this one of my side quests that
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you know, all the fun stuff I get to do,
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I call them side adventures. People don't understand our quest
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part anyway. The Dave Allen Show is brought to you
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in part by the Charleston Dirty Birds. The Birds are
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playing Today's Wednesday, played last night and tonight in Gastonia
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and then they're back at Gomart Park Friday night to
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again face Gastonia and Friday nights is a bark at
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the park. So visit the Dirty Birds, excuse me dot
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com and uh have some fun. That's a that's a
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good time. And now we are here with Everett Johnson.
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I love talking about apprenticeships. I mean what I consider
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apprenticeships are you're don't you don't know anything, you don't
872
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know your head from my own the ground, but yet
873
00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:44.760
you're getting paid to learn how to put things together.
874
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:48.519
Absolutely, we'll bring people in that has little to no knowledge.
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00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:52.079
We'll put them through our apprenticeship program. Uh it's a
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00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.480
four year program. They'll come to class about five times
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00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:56.760
a year each year and another that they'll be working
878
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in a field with a journeyman carpenter learning it.
879
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Yeah.
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00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.840
So yeah, that's a great opportunity for someone that has
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no knowledge of the trade at all to get them
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through and get them started in a career.
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And you're you're with carpenters and a big day. A
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big day was yesterday.
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Yes, yes, we had our grand opening. We were in
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South Charleston since two thousand and one and our program
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has you know, growed, you know, quite a bit. We
888
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just didn't have enough space. We was teaching classes at
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our center there. We had you know, classes going at
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our council building in the basement in Huntington. You know,
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so we was all over the place. Yeah, opportunity come
892
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up and we jumped on it to buy the church
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down at Nitro in front of the High School. You know,
894
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:48.119
it's almost doubled our space there. So we've got the
895
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:51.280
ability to run about twice a monty apprentices to the
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00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:52.679
program now that we used to have.
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00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:56.559
And you had the open house and what were you
898
00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:59.239
trying to do just show off your new digs or yeah,
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00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:01.800
that's what trying to get people in. This is where
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you're gonna come and learn.
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00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:05.000
Yes, yes, So what we've done is we had schools
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come through Nitro High School, had some folks come in
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West Virginia, Women's Works, we have some of the youth
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build programs that come through. You know a lot of
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00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:15.679
local politicians were there. Yeah, just to show off. You
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00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.440
know what we actually can do, you know, show the
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facility and the kind of train that we do there.
908
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.000
What does someone need to do? And by the way,
909
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:27.559
I was still canvassing. We were still canvassing votes yesterday,
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00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.719
long long ballot or I would have been there pounding
911
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.840
and nail. Where does someone start, like, Okay, what if
912
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they didn't make it to the open house yesterday or
913
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:45.079
weren't you know, didn't have that natural rate that's not
914
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.239
really the right word, but that you know, going from
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00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.519
high school to this or going from community and technical
916
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.039
college to going in.
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So what we do We reach out to a lot
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of the high school programs. We'll go visit and talk
919
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to them. Ye what they do is they apply online,
920
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We'll bring them in. Well, we'll give them an information
921
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:06.039
session interview. The information session talks about all the things
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that comes along within a printice. So you know what
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to expect coming to our program. You know, the travel,
924
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:14.440
you know the work, how how all that goes. So
925
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:16.800
people can make educated decisions on if we're the right
926
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:19.239
fit for them and and and the same for them
927
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:23.599
for us. But they'll go through an interview process. You know,
928
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we have a few activities we have them to do
929
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just to show that they're physically capable of doing the
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work and make sure that they understand, you know, what
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00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:33.639
they're signing up for, right. So yeah, so we bring
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00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:37.639
them in that way. We we do interviews based off
933
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.119
of the workload in the in the local area.
934
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So well, I mean to think about it here, I
935
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am trying to get the whole eastern part of Kanawha
936
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County built up with lodging, whether it's Airbnb, whether someone
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has you know, other ideas an RV park or anything
938
00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:57.360
like that. And these are the kind of people that
939
00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:59.039
we need. I mean, people tell me all the time,
940
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you know, good handyman, but this goes beyond a handyman,
941
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.320
doesn't it. And when you have a skill like this,
942
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.840
I mean, you're getting the job done right, not just
943
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throwing a car. I can, I can put up drywall.
944
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.719
I'm not sure you know what it's going to end
945
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up being, and I know all the process of all that,
946
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.320
but a skilled worker makes a difference.
947
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.480
It does make a difference. You get the job done
948
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:28.719
right the first time. So it's it's great for the contractors,
949
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.119
the end users. I mean, so we got to make
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sure that our workforce has trained well, and that's where
951
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that's what we do, is we'll bring them in. You know,
952
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in the carpenter's side, we we train on about thirty
953
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different aspects of carpentry, whether it be interior systems, building, scaffoling, uh,
954
00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:49.320
you know, welding. It's crazy, I mean the amount of
955
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work that we do.
956
00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:55.119
And so when when someone comes in, do you drug
957
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test them right then? Or I know you drug test
958
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throughout right, explain that.
959
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:01.360
They have to pass the drug test to get into
960
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our program. That's that's probably one of the the main
961
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:07.039
conditions you be able to pass the drug test.
962
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Uh, you don't.
963
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.639
You can't send people out into the field. You know
964
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that are are intoxicated. You know they're going to hurt
965
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.960
theirselves or someone else. So, yes, drug testing is very
966
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:20.119
important to us for sure. You know, they get drug
967
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tested throughout our program. Uh, A lot of contractors when
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they go to a job, they're drug tested. So that
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that is a very very important thing to stay drug free.
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Well. And also the way I understand it, make sure
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I'm correct that you know, if somebody gets tripped up.
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The thing is you could be working and and get
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a back injury, and then you're you're prescribed hydrocodone or OxyContin. Yeah, OxyContin,
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some of those drugs, and those are the ones that
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you can that's what you can become addicted to. And
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it wasn't at not any real fault of your own.
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That's not really fair to say. But it was just
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an injury.
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It was an injury, and and and and.
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It keeps getting But the apprenticeship in the Union, the
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Carpenter's Union is there to help you get back on
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the right track.
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Absolutely first and foremost. We want to make sure that
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our members are safe and healthy, right, you know that
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that is very important to us. And you know we
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have you know, the Lead program where you can get
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assistance for for folks that's get in a situation exactly
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on what you're saying. That is very common where someone
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will have an injury and they'll be prescribed to medication
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they get addicted to it.
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Okay, I'm talking with Everett Johnson who's with the Carpenter's Union.
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We're talking about apprenticeship new new open training center in
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Nitro at the old church in front of the high school.
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And what is where can someone find you? They just
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go on the website.
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Yes, yes, so they can get on our website wvcarpenter
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dot com and that'll direct you to our Eastern Atlantic
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States Carpenter's Technicians.
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Okay uh.
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We went to a big merge here a while by
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about a year and a half ago, we went from
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you know, three carpenter apprenticeship schools in the state of
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West Virginia. We merged in with the mill Rights. They're
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under my umbrella as well. But we have seventeen different
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campuses throughout our entire district now, so it's huge. There's
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forty three thousand members over forty five hundred apprentices. So
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now the training that we provide, we're able to take
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subject matter experts from all different locations, whether it be Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
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West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and they could go to any
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one of those seventeen schools and provide that training for
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the individuals. You know, in a Pacific aspect of training.
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How much would quickly someone make starting out as an apprentice.
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An apprentice dependent on the contract in the local area.
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You know, the Charleston area starts out seventy percent of
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the journeyman rates, so it's you know, twenty two to
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twenty three dollars an hour.
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Wow, plus you know nothing yet are they're bringing you in?
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As long as you're drug free. You're the right fit.
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You have that you understand the expectations. Yes, you're getting
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twenty two or twenty three dollars an hour.
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Yeah, plus benefits. You know there's eleven dollars into a pension.
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We have five dollars and forty cents into a newdi
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plus healthcare.
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Yeah.
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In return, you have to work hard, exactly. I have
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to make yourself available every day. You got to show
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up every day. You know that those contractors are paying
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a lot of money for those apprentices to be there.
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So what they don't have in knowledge, they have to
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have in efor.
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All right, it's wvcarpenter dot com. Evert Johnson, thank you
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for joining us. Great opportunity for men and women out
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there to become skilled carpenters. Thank you, and thank you
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everyone for joining in. We got no fault calls and
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no text next time I'm on. That's all we're gonna do.
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All right, We're gonna take it from the from the public,
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So thank you for joining us. I'm Natalie Tenant filling
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in for Dave Allen as he is enjoying vacation, and
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thank you all for tuning in. And I'm hopeful that
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all I'll see you next time. I get to be
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here next time. So have a good day and stay
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dry and stay safe out there.
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We'll see you.
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A ninety six point five that's in Charleston one oh
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four point five Cross Lane by w VRC Media Station.
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We're proud to live here too.
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The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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necessarily reflect the views and opinions of five adwchs it's
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employees or WVRC Media.
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Good morning, How you doing this morning? This is the
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Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live. It comes to
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you from the Jarrett Construction Studios, right on time, right
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on budget. Visit Jarrett Dashconstruction dot com. I know I
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don't sound like Dave Allen because I'm not Dave Allen.
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And as you know, he's been on vacation for the
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last couple of days. Let's hope he's not up listening.
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But we're going to carry on without him and have
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a really good show. We have got some good people on.
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You know, it's Wednesday morning. That means Millie Snyder is
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on to talk about the Mediterranean lifestyle. We'll get to
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that in a moment. We're also going to talk some
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more about the Appalachian Outlaw Trail, but I'm going to
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pull when the gentleman Barbie come along. I'm going to
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talk about also what some opportunities might be beyond the recreation,
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the fund the enjoyment. If anybody's an entrepreneur out there,
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we'll tell you what we're looking for and what we
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need to help support the eastern part of Kanawa County
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and also support the Appalachian Outlaw Trail. And it's also
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Memorial Day weekend coming up and they are having some
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fun things taking place. And then a little later we're
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going to talk about apprenticeships. That's one of my favorite
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things because we are teaching skills. The unions are teaching
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skills and paying people at the same time and also
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helping to keep them on the right track. So that's
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what's coming up. So you want to stick around, you
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can call us a guarant on the Guarantee Bank hotline
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at three zero four three four five five eight five eight,
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or Tony the Taylor Text at three zero four nine
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three five five zero zero eight. And Stephanie Paully is
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the producer and keeping us on. And also my buddy
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Ryan Nicholson, whose dry humor is the driest in all
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of the state of West Virginia, and he's really funny.
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You just got to keep up with him. And again,
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I'm Natalie Tennant, as I said, and so let's just
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get to it. If you have calls, if you have
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text please send them along because we are now talking
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to an old friend, and I know you're here all
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the time, and you and Dave. And when Dave said, oh,
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you're gonna have to have You're gonna have to interview
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Millie Snyder. She comes every Wednesday, I'm like, really, we
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go way way back about nineteen ninety.
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It was yeah, No, I think yes. I think it was.
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Because I was the Mountaineer, Yeah, and you were want
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of it Beck.
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And the thought that one of you dressed up like that,
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how could I get.
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It's called it outfit and you have to be a
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student of West Virginia University and try out to be
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the Mountaineer mascot, And that's kind of what it was.
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It was like this this women's event or something, and
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you were you were a woman owned business and one
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of few, especially nineteen ninety, but you started even before that.
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Yes, I came to Charleston, West Virginia in nineteen sixty nine,
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which was just after the covered wagons moved exactly seemingly
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because it was such a long time ago. And when
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I told my family in Baltimore that I'm coming to
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West Virginia, they thought I sent the planet Mars and
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they well, they never came here, and then they came
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to visit, and I was afraid they weren't going to
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leave because they loved it here. And so it was
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a love story for me because they were happy that
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I was here. But I cannot put into enough words,
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however time, however much time there is to say it,
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how grateful I am to be a mountaineer, right to
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be here, and to have had the opportunity to help
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people in the way that I have, which is simply
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to show them what they are capable of doing. You see,
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I can never lose anybody's weight. I have to help
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you lose it. But it's about education and knowing that
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you're important enough to eat in a healthy way and
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after weight watchers. And I only did that for forty
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seven years because I started all of this when I
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was I think four, Yes, because.
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At eighty oh, how old are you now?
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Well, I'm eighty three, and I know I don't look it, no,
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and I don't act it, and I don't feel it,
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and I'm very great for that. But it's also a
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part of the way that I've been eating for so
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many years, because eating healthy has many many benefits. My
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family didn't have all that good health. My father died
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when he was young, My brother died when he was young.
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My mother did make it to ninety three, but my
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mother was She was very unconventional in that she walked
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everywhere that she had to go. Because my husband at
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the time tried to teach her how to drive, and
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when he came into the house and all the blood
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drained out of his face, he said, I can't do it. Really,
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I can't do it. So my mother walked everywhere, and
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that was very unconventional back then, right, And so she
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made it to ninety three years and it was pretty remarkable.
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She lived in Baltimore all that time.
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Oh yes, But the last four and a half months
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of her life, I kind of kidnapped her, didn't kind of.
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I kidnapped her from the nursing home that my sister
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put her in, and I brought her to Charleston, and
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she finished her remaining years in my care at my home.
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Wow and the dogs, and she would just sit outside
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with the dogs and she would speak Yiddish to them,
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and she knew that the dogs understood her. They didn't
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understand her, but they acted like they did because it
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was a lot, I think so it was a little
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bit of a love affair in so many different directions.
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That's just a great story, it is. Why did you
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choose West Virginia? Was it you or your husband that
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said we're going to Charleston.
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Well, we were on the way to Columbus to visit
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some of Harvey's friends with whom he was in the army,
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and the Automobile Club routed us across Virginia because we
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were working for a weight watcher franchisee in Virginia.
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Okay, so we know that you were clear. So when
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did you start weight walking? Not start? When did you
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become working for weight Watchers even before nineteen Oh?
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Well yes, well see I joined as a member in
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nineteen sixty six. But I didn't want to join weight
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Watchers because I did want to fail again. I had
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been failing at weight loss all my life, and so
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when it was my older sister who insisted that I
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go with her, I'm not going to share with you
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the words that transpired between us. They were ugly, they
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were unkind. But Harriet was the chief name caller in
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my life, and none of those words were kind. And
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perhaps she thought that if she could insult me enough
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that would spur me into action. And what it did,
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it spurred me into getting to the refrigerator faster because
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I needed the food and I needed to be I
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wanted all the bad things to be silent. So food
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did that for me. So when it was her idea
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that I joined weight watchers, I said, I'm not going
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to your watcher's weight or whatever you call it, and
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I didn't go. Try to make the story short. And
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around that time, I was dating this guy named Harvey
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and he had a weight problem, and we went out
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to eat a lot, and we went to places that
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served a lot of food, always the two for one.
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And that didn't mean we split it. He had two
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for one and I had two for one. We just
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we just got a lot more food for less money.
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Yeah.
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And love will do that to you too, won't it.
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Oh my goodness, it blinds everything. Yes. And so one
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particular night on a Sunday, we always went to Little
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Italy in Baltimore.
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Yeah, And he said.
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To me, any and Harvey had a wonderful singing voice.
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It was just like it was magic. And I met
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him at a singing teachers And that's another story altogether.
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And I have podcasts that are coming out that are
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going to tell this whole story. Oh really, but Harvey
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said to me. You know, in choir practice, I was
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short wended, and here was my opening. I said, Harvey,
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you know you're fat. You need to I don't wait
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a minute, I don't say that to anybody.
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Well wait a minute, why did you say that if
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your sister said mean things to you and that didn't
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Because I.
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Had an ulterior motive, And here it comes. I told
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him that he needs to go to weight watchers because
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he's going to go and he's going to find out
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that it doesn't work. So then with that ammunition, I'm
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going to tell Harriet where she can put the next
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suggestion to join what something? That's I mean, it was
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all in.
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She Well, we're not going to go there.
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Did you guys yell at each other in Yiddish?
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You ever use sometimes?
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So I would call her as sugar enough and a
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sugar that means you're a crazy person, and other words
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that I don't think should be said on the air because.
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Somebody will producers we have seven second delay? Do we?
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I think they?
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H they don't. They should have for me, I'm going,
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I'm coming into.
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Harvey promised me that he would go, but it took
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him nine weeks to actually go because in those years
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Wait Watchers only had one nighttime meeting in Baltimore, and
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I worked on Thursday night. I mean, I could have
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asked for the night off, but why do they do that?
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That's why would I do that? That doesn't make sense.
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it off, put it off, And finally on September first,
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nineteen sixty six. You know that the date is emblazoned
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in my brain. And he didn't call me to cancel.
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And I said to myself, I wonder if he's going
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to go to that thing tonight by himself. Now he's
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not with you. You still weren't going imbut going. He's
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got to go and find out it's a joke. It
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doesn't work, because I'm not gonna fail again. If God
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wanted me to be thin, God made me thin.
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You know, and there are folks listening because I want
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to get to that too. So if if you want
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to call in and ask some questions those who know
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about weight watchers too, because Millie knows that for forty
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seven year or longer it's been a success. The phone
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number is the Guaranteed Bank hotline at three zero four
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three four five five eight five eights. Because that's what
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made weight watchers such as success too, not just the
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programs of how to take care of yourself, but that
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inspiration that you come back. Certainly, Harriet probably wasn't the
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leader of it when she's going around being saying mean
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names to people, right.
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But she said it to everybody about something. If you
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didn't do what she wanted, if you didn't march to
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her her step. Yeah, she she had a few choice
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words and phrase.
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She's still around.
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No, Harriet sadly lost her battle to pancreatic cancer in
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twenty fifteen. And although we had a very very difficult relationship,
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I sometimes still think how not sometimes, but it just
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lives in my brain. I'm sad that she suffered so
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to get to her end because pancreatic cancer is pretty
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pretty vicious. Now there's some research that's coming that says
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it could possibly work, but it's after Harriet's time. So
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although there was a lot of ugly stuff between us.
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I never wished her ill in that respect, but I
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don't know whether what her words are Harriet put Harriet
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took me to my first bariatric doctor for appills when
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I was eleven. Nobody does that to a child, but
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Harriet did it to me because I wasn't acceptable. I
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wasn't I was fat, I was useless. I would never
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amount to anything.
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There were bariatric doctors when you were Oh absolutely, my goodness,
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and you were you How much older is she than you?
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She was thirteen years older, Dan, She was born nineteen
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twenty nine.
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So she was twenty four, telling you the eleven year old, right, yeah,
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well eleven plus was twenty four, thirteen years older than they.
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So she's twenty four, you're eleven, and she's telling like
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she's an adult.
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Well that's abroad.
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Well I know I have I have siblings who are
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But I mean, I did anything they wanted me to do.
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If they told me I was going to be great,
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I was going to be great. If they told me
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I was nott the brett, I was not the breat
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so wow, okay.
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So I didn't go. I didn't go. And then finally
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when Harvey did go and he didn't call me to cancel,
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and I worked late on Thursday night, that wasn't an excuse.
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When I got to the house, my mother was talking
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to him on the phone and she handed me the
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receiver and he said to me, you're going next week,
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and you know that falling in love stuff. I said, okay, honey,
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what people what people don't realize is I mean. What
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I can't say on the air is what I said
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after I hung.
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On the phone.
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Can't you say that on the air, because those are
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not nice words, even in h Yeah, in Yiddish, in English,
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in any language you want to use. Because I said
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things like this is the ridiculous thing. I'm not gonna
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It's not gonna work. So I went the following Thursday,
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and I didn't like the leader. I didn't like her dress,
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I didn't like her husband. And they tried to sell
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me a food scale and I said, I've never weighed
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my food. He said, well, we weigh our food. So
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I bought a scale five dollars in it.
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Haang, that's a lot.
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And the scale said postal Service. It didn't say weight watchers.
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It said post Service. That bought a scale, and then
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didn't like I didn't want to be there.
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And all right, well we're going to find out what
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turned around and how we knew about Millie Snyder. We're
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really supposed to be talking about the Mediterranean lifestyle and we'll.
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and I've asked to get to continue to talk to
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Millie Snyder because we haven't really talked about mediterran lifestyle.
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I've only been doing that for eight years. But I
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did that after weight Watchers, right, But I want to
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go back to the beginning. But so I didn't want
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to be there. I didn't like it. I hated everything. Yeah,
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And then on the first week I went on it,
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and I knew that there's only one way to handle this,
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and that is since I agreed to go, I am
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going to eat as though a famine is going to
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fall on Baltimore City because Weight Watchers is going to
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take everything that I love away. So I went back
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the next week and I thought that I should have
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lost twenty pounds. Oh I did that the week before
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I joined.
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Oh oh, you ate everything every week before.
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You if it wasn't nailed down and not crawling, I
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ate it. So then I joined weight Watchers and that week.
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I followed it. I did everything right. I followed that
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piece of paper. I even weighed my food on that
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stupid scale. And you suffered, and you were, Oh did
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I suffer? My Goodnes the Greek restaurant that made my
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breakfast every morning. I thought they were going to have
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to go out of business because I really spent a
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lot of money every morning for breakfast. But I ate
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breakfast with my mother. But I never told my mother
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what I ate for breakfast when I got to work.
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That was another story altogether. Oh and so I go
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back and I joined at two hundred and four and
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a quarter palms, yeah, and a not very But then
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I was.
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Just kind of giving you anything I could hear.
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I think you were.
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Six eleven too, of fours, five.
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Of course, yes, and very large bones. Look at the
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size of the bones. You've never seen a hand that
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big in your whole. Yours is bigger. No, they're not. Yes,
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it is her hand is her hand is bigger.
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You're eighty three and I'm forty three.
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You are only forty three. Wonderful God, I'm impressed.
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No, let's just say that I take advantage of senior discounts.
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I don't care. If they're going to give them, I'm
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taking them and I a military discount. Do you take them?
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I'm going to start.
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You don't.
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I don't know about them.
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I have to.
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I need to spend some time there everywhere. Okay, I'm
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gonna start Ie Hop. But you don't go to I Hop,
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not anymore.
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You used to.
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It used to be called the International House of Pancakes
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now but they they said, look how much KFC Dougie
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frit Oh. I did that afterwards. That's another story. It's
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on the pop.
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Okay, So how much did you lose the first week?
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The first week, yes, three quarters of one pound, and
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that I'm going to find the leader. See, I didn't
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like her dress the first week. The second week it
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was even uglier, and I told her I won't be back.
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I said it might work for them, but it don't
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work for me. And she called me Millie. Oh, you
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don't like my name anyway.
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She said to you, Millie, you don't like my name.
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I don't want to be there. And she was wearing
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the ugly the dress from the first week was ugly.
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The dress from the second week was uglier. And this
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is the.
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Nineteen sixties, nine nine, well, still the sixties.
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But that's when I no, I'm sorry. Yeah, it was
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nineteen sixty six, September first, that was when Harvey joined. Well,
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that's my date was September the eighth. That's that's written
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in an infamy. And so I didn't like her dress,
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and she said do it for me for one more week.
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I say I didn't like her what who?
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What to? Well, that's what I'm saying. Then why why
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did she use that term do it for me?
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Because here she was out of anything else. Because I
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was so angry. You could feel my anger. I don't
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want to be there, and I don't want And the
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reason I don't want to be there is I have
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failed consistently over the years of my life.
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I'm just afraid to fail. You know what in your
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story is probably resonating with other folks. Of course, you
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found so many reasons. The dress is ugly. I have
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to use a ups scale. I don't want to fail again.
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I mean I can, and I don't want to eat.
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I want to eat the food I like because.
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I thing is you told me one time. Remember I
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used to interview you on the morning TV show that
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I could eat a big mac.
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That was it.
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That's all you could eat for the day. But you
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could have that big.
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Mac because and back then, I believe you counted points
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on weight Watchers, which was the concept.
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What do we do now? We still killt points, don't
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we some.
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I don't know. I don't know because now I do Mediterranean?
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Well, tell me why the Mediterranean? Then?
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Well, because when I sold weight Watchers, I was then
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a subject to a non compete agreement for three years.
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And I said to someone who was a nutritionist here
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in Charleston, I want to do what I always did
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because I miss people. And she said, before you do anything, Mellie,
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take a look at Mediterranean. And I did and she
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I bought a book and I put myself on it
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and I followed it for five weeks and I've never
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looked back. I have never eaten better, felt better than
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I feel now. And I am not on a diet.
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If you saw what I had for dinner last night,
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you would say, move over and share it with me.
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What'd you have?
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I had the most magnificent salad, and in it I
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had chicken, I had egg, I had salad, dressing, every
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kind of vegetable you could imagine. And in addition to that,
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I put not queen wha, I put the faroh on it.
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Oh and it was so absolutely delicious. So I've learned
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even more than I learned at weight watchers. I really
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with Mediterranean have learned how to eat and be healthy.
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And it's the hell do.
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We do that? Because I would eat like that if
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it were easy. But no, I went to Fairmont yesterday
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and then to Clarksburg, and you know what I had
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for dinner. Tell me call cessnos pepperwarn and roll with
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everything mixed peppers.
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Well, you were in Italian country.
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I'm always, sister. I'm always an Italian country.
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And Italian and Italian food isn't bad if you know
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how to pay.
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If you walk around like your mother did when you
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go to Italy, you know, their calves are as hard
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as rocks, and they walk everywhere, and they.
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And the real Mediterranean part of the world that they
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don't buy a nineteen hundred things at the supermarket every week.
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They buy what they need for a day or two.
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They aren't big freezers and big refrigerators and everything is fresh,
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and that's what And we can do it here if
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you shop the perimeter of your supermarket and it's all available.
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The perimeter, not the center exact.
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The center is where all the processed food is, and
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the processed food is doing us in. People don't believe
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it until something bad happens, and then there's the right
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and then there's a huge elephant in the room. So
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many people are injecting themselves with GLP and that's not
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an answer that worries you. Why because there's downsides that
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are already rearing their ugly head. And if you use
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something artificial to lose weight, what have you learned? Absolutely nothing?
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And that's the biggest concern. I've been down this road before.
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Remember the days of fen fen and.
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Oh yeah, diet my mom did the you know, diet
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pills and cigarettes.
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Oh well it must have been the cigarettes, right.
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But that's the thing. So we need to help because
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folks will say they were like you, they were mad.
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They know they're not going to do it anything, they're
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never going to lose weight. They don't want to fail again.
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But they've taken they've taken the shots. The they're GLP ones.
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Yeah, and they're losing weight.
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They've lost weight now they feel good, So now what
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can they? Can they go? They can't stay on that forever?
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Now how do they How do they transition to a
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good diet? They need the Mediterranean.
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They need to join and need to learn how to
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eat correctly, because without that, what do you do? It's
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like the sixty four thousand dollars question. I don't know
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the answer. I do know the answer on the Mediterranean lifestyle.
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It's been around forever. It's old and the company that
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supports everything I teach, it's called Old Way.
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You tell people how they can get a hold of
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you and sign up.
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Well, we meet at the American Job Center on Leon
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Sullivan Way Thursday morning at ten o'clock and they can well, actually, no,
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we don't meet at ten o'clock. We made at nine
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point thirty. What was I thinking? And then I have
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a phone number if people want to reach us, go ahead.
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It's six eight one three one three seven seven seventy five.
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And joining us is one of the best things you'll
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ever do for you. If I have a gall in
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my group who came to me with non alcoholic cirrhosis
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and her neathrologists sent her to the Mediterranean lifestyle. She
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is seventy percent better and she's soon going to get
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a clean bill of health because, like so many that
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are in need of it, she has learned how to
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eat healthfully. This is not a diet. If anyone thinks
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that Mediterranean is a diet, it's called Mediterranean diet. I
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hate the word diet, but it's still Mediterranean diet. And
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it's a fabulous way to eat.
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And the phone number to call Millia six eight one
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three one three seven seven seven five Thursday mornings at
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nine thirty at the American.
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Job Center Job Center and it's so close to Washington Street.
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Close to everything that's right. Thank you Millie for coming in.
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I know we got a little off, but the point
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is there that you can do it. And she's one
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who who fought it for years and years and years, and.
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I ain't fight it anymore. Thank you. It is the
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light for me to be with you today.
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Thanks Rag, we gotta do this. I knew you when
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I know exactly. It's nine thirty three, almost thirty four.
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Now.
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gentlemen who are here, Chris Ingram and Eric Larch, who
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I are getting ready to throw our phones over the
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hill for looking at the weather. But it's a rain
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or shine weekend for us.
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That's right, I know because there with Appalachian Outlaw Trail,
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it is Memorial Day weekend. Do you remember October fifteenth,
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twenty twenty five when you said we're doing this, we're
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gonna have it by Memorial Day.
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Yeah, yeah, it's been not very many months ago, it
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feels like for us.
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Yeah, I was absolutely flown by. But you know, for
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someone going up there, they can tell the difference. But
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for us, it's like.
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I haven't been up since October fifteenth.
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I drive by it.
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Yeah, you'll be able to tell a difference whenever you
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come up.
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When can I come I legally? I mean it's open
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right now, but there's gates on it.
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Yeah, so we were gated there at the base of
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the hill. We're going to be open fully our grand
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opening later in the year for the trail system in
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the additional add one of the campsites. But this upcoming
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weekend we're going to be doing an event that's just
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to get the locals up there, let them take a
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look at what all we've gotten done, get together, enjoy
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some live music, we've got two days of concerts. We
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have fireworks, professional fireworks Saturday night. We have got a
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bunch of food trucks coming up from Canall City, a
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handful and you know, some from even Clariant and Jackson County,
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some from the other end of Kanaal County to come
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up and join us with a different area of different
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foods and treats.
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We've got some vendors showing up.
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We've got off road activities scheduled for both days, and
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our special guest is the Governor Saturday, I'm going to
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come up and hang out with us for a bit.
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So when you say special off road activities, what do
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you mean.
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We've got some facilities that we've built on site for
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UTV training and then motorcycle training, so we're gonna have
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those open to the public to be able to come
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and run through some different obstacle obstacle courses, some jumps
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and burms and hill climbs and things that we're gonna run.
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All of our our participants that come in rent units
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off of them have to go through these training courses,
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so we're gonna have those open and they're they're directly
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adjacent to our activity and like festival area right, so
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like you can come and watch a concert and you
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can still see UTVs and dirt bikes and full sized
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vehicles traveling on different obstacles directly from kind of the
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event space.
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Okay, I I just thought you weren't running. You're not
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running full trails. This is just the training part.
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Yes, yes, the actual full trails. We're not quite ready yet.
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We still have some cleanup work to do, some signage
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to put out, some ratings to put on the trails,
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things of that nature. Uh, we're getting close, but we're
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not quite there yet. But this is like a little
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preview section that we are. We have ready, so we're
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gonna let people start running that.
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I'm gonna ask this and you can just tell me
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on two months from now. But when will trails be running?
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I think I think we're shooting for later this summer,
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but we don't want to say for sure yet.
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That's fair.
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There's just a lot to get done between. You know,
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our mapping.
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We've got a national break partner on x off Road
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that's been they've had employees down there mapping for the
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last few months, and just a lot of it's a
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lot of trail.
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It's a lot of stuff.
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You know, we got to run every single trail and
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it's not just running it with a GPS, it's they
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have got to stop and take pictures of every obstacle
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to do ratings. They've got to stop and change whether
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it's a tree that's down or it's a mud hole.
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They have to mark every single thing. So, like, we
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just had a guy here over the weekend and he's
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probably has a file of over a thousand pictures and
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he probably only traverse one hundred miles and our trail
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system is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood north
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of three hundred. So, like the amount of time that
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they're actually putting in is really.
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Is really hard.
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And so it's something that's you know, it's it's it's
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kind of like we would like to see it progress quicker.
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But at the same time, if you look what they're
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actually going to produce when it's done, if you're going
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to be able to pull up a map before you go,
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you know exactly every obstacle, you know the trail rating,
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you know the difficulty, you know what vehicle is appropriate
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for that trail. I think we're gonna have a really
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nice polished product when we're actually you know, ready to.
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Okay, Okay, so that's it's exactly why you want to wait.
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So in the meantime, so we know we've got this down,
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there's there's probably never been something like this in the
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eastern part of the county before, except if you guys
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just threw some things together before we knew it. No,
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as far as our event, like this is like an official.
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Yeah, yeah, there's I mean to do a free concert
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with bands coming clear from Nashville all over the Appalachian
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Basin for two nights of free concerts, professional fireworks, you know,
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the food truck gathering, all the big event stage and everything. Yeah,
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I mean there's nothing like that that's went on.
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That's awesome. Okay. So in the meantime, while there are
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folks are you know, chomping at the bit to go
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and be ready to run, there are things that we
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as a community can do. This is the eastern part
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of the county. We're now calling the gateway to the Gorge.
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There's going to people. It will be people on the
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way going there. One stop that you could also have
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is Virginia's Chapelin. If I have time within the next
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eighteen minutes. We'll talk about that real quick. But what
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folks can do this is a great entrepreneurial opportunity for
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people to buy some homes that are on sale up
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along there and make airbnbs. Because you all are saying
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we need lodging.
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Yeah, you know, there's other things like homes that are
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needing rehabbed, you know, that are just vacant. Those homes
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are great candidates. Commercial spaces that are now empty can
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be made into large spaces for people to have lodging.
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So people who have lands that don't want to sell
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it don't know what to do with it, we open
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or open to RV parks. You know, the area really
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needs lodging. The closest city center to lodging right now
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is the city of Charleston, which is great, but we'd
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like to have something closer to the trailhead if possible.
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There's going to be needs for food, there's going to
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be needs for repairs for the machines, retail, so there's
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there's many ways to service the park and we hope
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the community gets involved and benefits.
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From it well. And here here are some of the
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things I went to the community dinner in Campbell's Creek,
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and that's always a little space place for me. It's
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just it's like five minutes from Charleston, so I'm driving
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there and now I look at things in a different light.
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Many times, there are homes that look like they could
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be renovated or purchased. So if you drove up Campbell's
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Creek and then you're like, oh, oh, right, there's a bar. Okay,
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oh right, there is Dollar General. Right there is I
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don't know if it's a fast check at a grocery store.
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And when I go places with my family, like my
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brother in law and brothers, they'll be like, yeah, there
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was an Airbnb, Like oh, let's go.
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To this bar.
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Let's let's go get stuff. Like Campbell's Creek is the
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perfect area to have Airbnbs to then cater to aot.
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Yeah, it's the perfect mix. Like you said, it's very
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close to Charleston. Our trails literally lead right down to
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Campbell's Creek.
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Absolutely, it's a.
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Great spot if you wanted to have the mixture of
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the city life and the woods life. It's the cool
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thing is anything in the Upper Canal Valley.
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That's up those hallows, anything exactly.
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With a route sixty.
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Yep, you can grab let's say in a house or
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a house that you may have that you're looking to
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move somewhere else. And the nice thing about our trail
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system is it's not like it's gated. It's not like
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you've got an inner across from rivers That High. You know,
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we're going to send the out of state people up
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our blacktop road to Riverside High to utilize our facilities.
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But if you had something up Campbell Creek, let's saying
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you rented out that house. These people can go straight
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from their house and go straight onto the trail system.
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It's not gated. You know, you can access it from anywhere.
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Yes, oh man, Okay, So there's my tip of the
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tip of the day, tip of the week because it's
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Campbell's Creek. But then there's a lot of places in Bell.
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I was bidding on something at Bell it was along
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the river. I mean, you all know I'm a big
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talker sometimes in a big thinker. I just don't have
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the money to back it up. And one of my
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brother I'm like, look at that, he said, Natalie. The
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location because it was on the river is worth more
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than that is worth forty eight thousand dollars that I
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didn't have.
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But so there's just riverfront property, that's for sure.
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Well they're all making any more land either. That's what
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we farm people know that all right. So it's Appalachian
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Outlaw Trails. This free this Friday and Saturday. Make your
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last pitch.
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Yeah, Friday, Saturday four twe eleven. We'd love to have
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you out. Lots of great food, great bands. I believe
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there's five three Friday, two Saturday, some awesome fireworks. This
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professional guy, he said, listen, I'm gonna make you a
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show to remember. So great fireworks coming Saturday at ten pm.
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There'll be a lots of activities. You can watch people
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dirt do, dirt drags, barrel racing, rock crawling, hard and
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durea of course for the dirt bike guys. Plenty of
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things to spectat and do and get you a little preview,
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so it'll be really fun of.
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It and totally accessible.
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One thing we've been asked handful of times is, yeah,
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we are an off road park, but you come right
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off for out sixty across from Riverside High We have
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a run stop light right. We have two lane black
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top road that leads you right to the event area.
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So you could bring your low two seater car, you
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can bring a minivan, you can bring whatever you need
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to bring, or you can bring you TV's in. Everybody
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is totally welcome, even if you're not in off roading,
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come join us for the weekend.
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For everybody that's already out in the woods riding on
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the backside of the property, you can still come in
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from the backside of the property if you're in your
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UTV and avoid Route sixty and coming in the backway.
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So this is awesome, right or shine, we got It's okay.
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There'll be a mudball. That's fine too, Right, you guys
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can cover up the bands to just cover the equipment. Hey,
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all right, this is great. This is a this is
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a good weekend. And if you go a little bit
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farther right outside of Glasgow is Virginia's Chapel. It's this
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old Civil War church. It's going to be open for
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the weekend. And that's a great And that's what's so
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great about the Gateway to the Gorge. You have this opportunity,
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but you have history, and you have all kinds of
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events that are taking place. You know, when Montgomery gets
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their splash prow to open. We have all kinds of
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things going on in the eastern part of the county.
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So gentlemen Chris and Eric, thank you very much, and uh,
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we'll keep a track of everything's and we'll be right back. Folks.
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It's nine forty seven.
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Good morning, it's a hop in morning. I'm telling you
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nine fifty right now. On the Dave Allen Show on
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five eighty Live. This is Natalie Tennant. I'm getting to
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fill in. I'm having a blast, and I hope I'm
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screwed up too much so I get to come back.
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My daughter calls this one of my side quests that
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you know, all the fun stuff I get to do,
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I call them side adventures. People don't understand our quest
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part anyway. The Dave Allen Show is brought to you
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in part by the Charleston Dirty Birds. The Birds are
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playing Today's Wednesday, played last night and tonight in Gastonia
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and then they're back at Gomart Park Friday night to
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good time. And now we are here with Everett Johnson.
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I love talking about apprenticeships. I mean what I consider
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apprenticeships are you're don't you don't know anything, you don't
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know your head from my own the ground, but yet
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you're getting paid to learn how to put things together.
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Absolutely, we'll bring people in that has little to no knowledge.
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We'll put them through our apprenticeship program. Uh it's a
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four year program. They'll come to class about five times
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a year each year and another that they'll be working
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in a field with a journeyman carpenter learning it.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, that's a great opportunity for someone that has
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no knowledge of the trade at all to get them
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through and get them started in a career.
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And you're you're with carpenters and a big day. A
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big day was yesterday.
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Yes, yes, we had our grand opening. We were in
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South Charleston since two thousand and one and our program
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has you know, growed, you know, quite a bit. We
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just didn't have enough space. We was teaching classes at
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00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.960
our center there. We had you know, classes going at
890
00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:37.159
our council building in the basement in Huntington. You know,
891
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:40.119
so we was all over the place. Yeah, opportunity come
892
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:43.159
up and we jumped on it to buy the church
893
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:45.760
down at Nitro in front of the High School. You know,
894
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:48.119
it's almost doubled our space there. So we've got the
895
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:51.280
ability to run about twice a monty apprentices to the
896
00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:52.679
program now that we used to have.
897
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:56.559
And you had the open house and what were you
898
00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:59.239
trying to do just show off your new digs or yeah,
899
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:01.800
that's what trying to get people in. This is where
900
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you're gonna come and learn.
901
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:05.000
Yes, yes, So what we've done is we had schools
902
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.679
come through Nitro High School, had some folks come in
903
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.119
West Virginia, Women's Works, we have some of the youth
904
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build programs that come through. You know a lot of
905
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:15.679
local politicians were there. Yeah, just to show off. You
906
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.440
know what we actually can do, you know, show the
907
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:19.440
facility and the kind of train that we do there.
908
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.000
What does someone need to do? And by the way,
909
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:27.559
I was still canvassing. We were still canvassing votes yesterday,
910
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.719
long long ballot or I would have been there pounding
911
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.840
and nail. Where does someone start, like, Okay, what if
912
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:39.599
they didn't make it to the open house yesterday or
913
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:45.079
weren't you know, didn't have that natural rate that's not
914
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.239
really the right word, but that you know, going from
915
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:50.519
high school to this or going from community and technical
916
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.039
college to going in.
917
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:54.400
So what we do We reach out to a lot
918
00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:57.079
of the high school programs. We'll go visit and talk
919
00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.960
to them. Ye what they do is they apply online,
920
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.559
We'll bring them in. Well, we'll give them an information
921
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:06.039
session interview. The information session talks about all the things
922
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:08.679
that comes along within a printice. So you know what
923
00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:12.079
to expect coming to our program. You know, the travel,
924
00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:14.440
you know the work, how how all that goes. So
925
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:16.800
people can make educated decisions on if we're the right
926
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:19.239
fit for them and and and the same for them
927
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:23.599
for us. But they'll go through an interview process. You know,
928
00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:25.719
we have a few activities we have them to do
929
00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:28.039
just to show that they're physically capable of doing the
930
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:30.480
work and make sure that they understand, you know, what
931
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:33.639
they're signing up for, right. So yeah, so we bring
932
00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:37.639
them in that way. We we do interviews based off
933
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.119
of the workload in the in the local area.
934
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:42.920
So well, I mean to think about it here, I
935
00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:45.440
am trying to get the whole eastern part of Kanawha
936
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:51.119
County built up with lodging, whether it's Airbnb, whether someone
937
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:55.320
has you know, other ideas an RV park or anything
938
00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:57.360
like that. And these are the kind of people that
939
00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:59.039
we need. I mean, people tell me all the time,
940
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:02.960
you know, good handyman, but this goes beyond a handyman,
941
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.320
doesn't it. And when you have a skill like this,
942
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.840
I mean, you're getting the job done right, not just
943
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.440
throwing a car. I can, I can put up drywall.
944
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.719
I'm not sure you know what it's going to end
945
00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:19.079
up being, and I know all the process of all that,
946
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.320
but a skilled worker makes a difference.
947
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.480
It does make a difference. You get the job done
948
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:28.719
right the first time. So it's it's great for the contractors,
949
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.119
the end users. I mean, so we got to make
950
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.079
sure that our workforce has trained well, and that's where
951
00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.039
that's what we do, is we'll bring them in. You know,
952
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:40.159
in the carpenter's side, we we train on about thirty
953
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:46.159
different aspects of carpentry, whether it be interior systems, building, scaffoling, uh,
954
00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:49.320
you know, welding. It's crazy, I mean the amount of
955
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:50.119
work that we do.
956
00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:55.119
And so when when someone comes in, do you drug
957
00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:57.920
test them right then? Or I know you drug test
958
00:47:58.039 --> 00:47:59.840
throughout right, explain that.
959
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:01.360
They have to pass the drug test to get into
960
00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:05.119
our program. That's that's probably one of the the main
961
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:07.039
conditions you be able to pass the drug test.
962
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:08.119
Uh, you don't.
963
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:10.639
You can't send people out into the field. You know
964
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:13.760
that are are intoxicated. You know they're going to hurt
965
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.960
theirselves or someone else. So, yes, drug testing is very
966
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:20.119
important to us for sure. You know, they get drug
967
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.840
tested throughout our program. Uh, A lot of contractors when
968
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.079
they go to a job, they're drug tested. So that
969
00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:29.440
that is a very very important thing to stay drug free.
970
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:32.599
Well. And also the way I understand it, make sure
971
00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:36.000
I'm correct that you know, if somebody gets tripped up.
972
00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:38.840
The thing is you could be working and and get
973
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:47.920
a back injury, and then you're you're prescribed hydrocodone or OxyContin. Yeah, OxyContin,
974
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:49.480
some of those drugs, and those are the ones that
975
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:52.559
you can that's what you can become addicted to. And
976
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.400
it wasn't at not any real fault of your own.
977
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.199
That's not really fair to say. But it was just
978
00:48:57.239 --> 00:48:57.880
an injury.
979
00:48:57.960 --> 00:48:59.400
It was an injury, and and and and.
980
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.760
It keeps getting But the apprenticeship in the Union, the
981
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:06.159
Carpenter's Union is there to help you get back on
982
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:06.760
the right track.
983
00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:10.480
Absolutely first and foremost. We want to make sure that
984
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:12.880
our members are safe and healthy, right, you know that
985
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:14.480
that is very important to us. And you know we
986
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:17.639
have you know, the Lead program where you can get
987
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:20.400
assistance for for folks that's get in a situation exactly
988
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.280
on what you're saying. That is very common where someone
989
00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:26.000
will have an injury and they'll be prescribed to medication
990
00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:27.079
they get addicted to it.
991
00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:32.920
Okay, I'm talking with Everett Johnson who's with the Carpenter's Union.
992
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:38.199
We're talking about apprenticeship new new open training center in
993
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:41.079
Nitro at the old church in front of the high school.
994
00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:46.480
And what is where can someone find you? They just
995
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:47.800
go on the website.
996
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:51.159
Yes, yes, so they can get on our website wvcarpenter
997
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:54.360
dot com and that'll direct you to our Eastern Atlantic
998
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:55.800
States Carpenter's Technicians.
999
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:56.880
Okay uh.
1000
00:49:56.960 --> 00:49:58.760
We went to a big merge here a while by
1001
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:01.800
about a year and a half ago, we went from
1002
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:04.800
you know, three carpenter apprenticeship schools in the state of
1003
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West Virginia. We merged in with the mill Rights. They're
1004
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.360
under my umbrella as well. But we have seventeen different
1005
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:16.599
campuses throughout our entire district now, so it's huge. There's
1006
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:21.360
forty three thousand members over forty five hundred apprentices. So
1007
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.639
now the training that we provide, we're able to take
1008
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:29.119
subject matter experts from all different locations, whether it be Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
1009
00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:32.960
West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and they could go to any
1010
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.840
one of those seventeen schools and provide that training for
1011
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.840
the individuals. You know, in a Pacific aspect of training.
1012
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:47.800
How much would quickly someone make starting out as an apprentice.
1013
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.599
An apprentice dependent on the contract in the local area.
1014
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.840
You know, the Charleston area starts out seventy percent of
1015
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:55.639
the journeyman rates, so it's you know, twenty two to
1016
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:56.760
twenty three dollars an hour.
1017
00:50:56.960 --> 00:51:00.360
Wow, plus you know nothing yet are they're bringing you in?
1018
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:03.079
As long as you're drug free. You're the right fit.
1019
00:51:03.199 --> 00:51:05.920
You have that you understand the expectations. Yes, you're getting
1020
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:07.559
twenty two or twenty three dollars an hour.
1021
00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:11.800
Yeah, plus benefits. You know there's eleven dollars into a pension.
1022
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.280
We have five dollars and forty cents into a newdi
1023
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:15.079
plus healthcare.
1024
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:15.920
Yeah.
1025
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:18.679
In return, you have to work hard, exactly. I have
1026
00:51:18.719 --> 00:51:20.760
to make yourself available every day. You got to show
1027
00:51:20.840 --> 00:51:23.559
up every day. You know that those contractors are paying
1028
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:25.440
a lot of money for those apprentices to be there.
1029
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:27.840
So what they don't have in knowledge, they have to
1030
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:28.280
have in efor.
1031
00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:31.760
All right, it's wvcarpenter dot com. Evert Johnson, thank you
1032
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:34.719
for joining us. Great opportunity for men and women out
1033
00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:39.679
there to become skilled carpenters. Thank you, and thank you
1034
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:43.559
everyone for joining in. We got no fault calls and
1035
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:46.480
no text next time I'm on. That's all we're gonna do.
1036
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.159
All right, We're gonna take it from the from the public,
1037
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:53.239
So thank you for joining us. I'm Natalie Tenant filling
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00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:56.760
in for Dave Allen as he is enjoying vacation, and
1039
00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:59.760
thank you all for tuning in. And I'm hopeful that
1040
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:01.519
all I'll see you next time. I get to be
1041
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:04.559
here next time. So have a good day and stay
1042
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:06.400
dry and stay safe out there.
1043
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We'll see you.
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A ninety six point five that's in Charleston one oh
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four point five Cross Lane by w VRC Media Station.
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