- Yeah, that song you performed "Take Me Home, Country Road," how's that go? West Virginia ? - Yeah. - It's a good song.- John Denver was just one of those guys that who knows where he would've went long term if he wouldn't have passed, but-
A great example of a guy who had that same mindset and was able to maintain it really well as this mandolin player named Johnny Staats in West Virginia . To me, he's one of the best and he's won all these awards and stuff, and he still works for UPS full-time. And like he could go out and tour with play mandolin for anybody he wanted to, but man, when you meet Johnny,
He later went back to work at the company that his father worked in, the Wheeling Steel Factory, a giant complex on the Monongahela River in West Virginia . But he kept up his saxophone interests in a very different way. Billy True found a way to play three saxophones at once.
Google, but some of the smaller stops, in many ways, have actually been more meaningful; to go to a place like North Dakota where there's nine people, until a few days before. I went to West Virginia and there was only one person on the sign-up list and her name was Nancy. So I wrote to her and said, "Nancy, you have to be there. You can't get sick, you can't skip it, because it's you and me and West Virginia ."
– world -- like Guinness Book of World Records for the largest mosaic in the world, which Dan holds. And it's a tiny town of 5,000 on the border of West Virginia . And it's the kind of thing that I feel like nobody knows about, but in many respects is an actual manifestation of just how excited people build. And Dan is on the cusp.
So can you talk a little bit about how you go about choosing your topics, and if there was anything interesting that So places like West Virginia and western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, if it was a norm-- if it was a different Republican candidate, those areas,
I mean, you know, I imagine there were train wrecks in Europe when I was a kid. You grew up in West Virginia , right?
These are bean poles made out of rebar. This is a shack that -- I shared pictures of this shack from West Virginia that an architect designed. I shared these with Eric and he said, "This would be great for me to build a little shack on my property." So, he took a look at this and built something similar to it on his property. And this is what it looks like inside; it's really nice. And so, I thought this was interesting, his justification
fielding yost walking around the field telling his young quarterback benny friedman in his west virginia draw that's jost's west virginia draw about all the great things that had happened on the field pointing to the different spots on ferry field where various great michigan all-americans had done all
- So Rob sued DuPont again, now on behalf of the 70,000 people around Parkersburg who were unwittingly exposed to C8. And it wasn't just Parkersburg or West Virginia . In the year 2000, researchers analyzed blood samples from thousands of Americans all across the country, and 100% of those samples came back positive for C8
The other is a new civic revival program under the label Unapologetically Fresno. And that we've seen that in West Virginia . We've seen it in many other places, in Mississippi where we spent a lot of time.
his answer was, I don't know that we'll ever see the end of the age of oil, but I do know that the Stone Age didn't end We're seeing solar energy in West Virginia at about 4.7 cents a kilowatt hour.
first one first woman to fly over the Atlantic in my own plane I'm going to Pilot it and it got in the newspaper with her picture and these West Virginia men businessmen Came Calling looking for investment because Lindberg had made so much money going over on his trip it was just a waterfall of cash wow so they were people were looking for other ways
And so what that meant for me going home was the jobs that I had were working on a beer truck and working as a midnight janitor. And so growing up in West Virginia , I thought that my reality was like everybody's reality, which is, from an economic standpoint, what you're actually trying to do is just manage decline as best you can.
I think there will be fields where they do that. Or can public school kids from West Virginia make their way upward?
I started off as a small boy in a farm town. Grew up on the East Coast-- West Virginia and Maryland. Went to Hopkins. Kind of came out to California as a geek and programmer in '89, which seems like such a long time ago now.
Here we also have to build the roads to get to the paths. Another type of resource extraction in West Virginia is mountaintop removal. So let's take a pan over there and start all the way zoomed in.
destruction of the mountains in West Virginia and Appalachia, but also air pollution issues and most importantly, of course, global warming because coal is the most carbon intensive
So Chemours claimed a dose as high as 70 parts per billion of GenX in drinking water would still be safe. - That chemical gets shipped to the same plant in West Virginia .
So we've been mile deep in a West Virginia coal mine.
trying to do is just manage decline as best you can. And so it wasn't until I left West Virginia and I entered the work world, and I was very blessed and privileged to get to spend a couple decades as an entrepreneur, in politics, in government, as an author, till I fully understood that globalization
I mean, you know, I imagine there were train wrecks in Europe when I was a kid. Anyway, in West Virginia , you started out playing at "Jamboree USA," right-- Yeah.
for political reasons once a pilot flying over semi- rural West Virginia
poor Obama won almost every state except for West Virginia and three Mountain
I grew up in the Bible Belt, West Virginia .
his answer was, I don't know that we'll ever see the end of the age of oil, but I do know that the Stone Age didn't end Because there's going to be a lot more jobs putting up solar collections in West Virginia than having big equipment and tear off mountaintops.
And I want to start with the first sentence of the book, which is, "it's 3:00 AM, and I'm mopping up whiskey smelling puke after a country music concert in Charleston, West Virginia ." And this is a book about industries of the future, so take us from mopping up puke in West Virginia to the person who ended up writing a book about what the next wave of globalization looks like.
But in examining the industries of the future, it was important for me from the very outset to do some framing just so that it would be understood that it was viewed through the eyes of a public school kid from West Virginia , who put himself through college by working as a midnight janitor, as opposed to from a position of lifelong privilege.
I think there will be fields where they do that. in any one of those cities than I am to see them in my native West Virginia or something like that.
DuPont dumped the C8 in the water supplies in communities in Ohio and West Virginia .
And cable television, which came about initially in West Virginia in the 1970s, then had, and unconsciously at first, it started dividing people.
The Waltons remember the Waltons The Waltons all lived on a mountaintop in in West Virginia in the depths of the
Connecticut Illinois and Carter one all of the South but also Ohio West Virginia
'Cause the default incentive of the crowd is to conform to some kind of narrative. I was feeling on the way I was 10 years old, Walking underneath the blanket of West Virginia Snow Then walked right by no trespass sign
I work in DC, but I live in the top of a mountain in West Virginia .
Deep south. Like, that's-- when you think of the country's history, you think Mississippi and Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina. And those areas definitely are among the highest, but also among the highest are West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and upstate New York, and parts of industrial Michigan and rural Illinois.
My favorite Chris Sims story is, he's in West Virginia or North Carolina, somewhere that I don't know what states look like in that part of the country.
his answer was, I don't know that we'll ever see the end of the age of oil, but I do know that the Stone Age didn't end companies and some of the other facilities they're developing, even in West Virginia , it's interesting to note they're solar-powered because it's cost effective.
And it was after that, that he bought another racetrack in West Virginia , and about an hour and a half from Washington and Baltimore,
But we have realities, and in a lot of the places in Kentucky and West Virginia , the cost of extraction has become very expensive,
So it's 3 o'clock in the morning. I'm mopping up whiskey smelling puke after a country music concert in Charleston, West Virginia . Why was I doing that?
And in this case, I was at Davis and Elkins college in West Virginia , and I did not
But there is a sense of despair and hopelessness, if you are a mom in West Virginia , that
I mean, the eastern seaboard gets plenty of its coal power from coal mines in West Virginia , but people in Manhattan aren't dealing
depression and at the end of the show you'd see the lights in the farmhouse in West Virginia you see the lights go out
Monsanto. One of Monsanto's main herbicide factories was in Nitro, West Virginia , where they pumped out almost a ton of 2,4,5-T a day.
- It was a discharge pipe, and it had the marking of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. - And the landfill that pipe was draining from belonged to DuPont's massive factory complex outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia , just six miles away. That factory was Washington Works, the first commercial Teflon plant.
So Chemours claimed a dose as high as 70 parts per billion of GenX in drinking water would still be safe. - People don't understand that the stories that you see, for example, what was happening in the community in West Virginia , this is the same chemical and the same things
If you pull up slide number eight, this is the old Green Bank 300-foot telescope in West Virginia .
Senator Robert Byrd, who just passed away a few years ago, oldest living senator from West Virginia .