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01/07/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Girl Scouts, Delegate Hollis Lewis · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 1: The country, the United States of America, the state West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: the city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on
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  Speaker 1: five eighty Live, and your host.
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  Speaker 2: What we've got here is failure with.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Allen, Hey, who's going to Wednesday morning?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. Senior Producer Ryan Nicholson is in
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  Speaker 4: edition of the show coming up. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 4: to a Delegate, Hollis Lewis, Democrat from the fifty seventh
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  Speaker 4: about the upcoming legislative session begins next week. Next Wednesday,
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  Speaker 4: to be exact, As is the tradition, Boddy will gavele
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  Speaker 4: in eleven twelve o'clock or so, and then they'll gabble
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  Speaker 4: out and then that night the governor will give his
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  Speaker 4: State of the State's speech and they get down to business.
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  Speaker 4: Next Thursday, we'll talk to Delicate Lewis about that, plus
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  Speaker 4: the big news in town, you know, the last couple
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  Speaker 4: of days, Charleston Mayor Amy Schuler Goodwin announcing at City
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  Speaker 4: Council during the State of the City address on Monday
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  Speaker 4: night that the City of Charleston is least looking at
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  Speaker 4: some talks with a whole group that owns the Town
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  Speaker 4: Center Mall that would allow the city to take over
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  Speaker 4: the mall. Now we have stories posted about it, of
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  Speaker 4: course wv Metronews dot com at WCCHS Network dot com.
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  Speaker 4: I spent a lot of time on the last the
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  Speaker 4: last twenty four to forty eight hours, especially twenty four
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  Speaker 4: hours talking about it with the mayor yesterday on this show,
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  Speaker 4: and then later I met your News midday. Then I
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  Speaker 4: made an appearance on talk Line with Wilson Meadows to
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  Speaker 4: talk about it yesterday. So we've heard from the mayor
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  Speaker 4: and you've obviously heard from me on it, but I
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  Speaker 4: want to hear from you. We had some text yesterday
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  Speaker 4: and got them in there as best I could. But
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  Speaker 4: towards the latter part of the show today, turn it
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  Speaker 4: over to you with your thoughts on the town Center.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it looks like the city of Charleston,
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  Speaker 4: As I said, that's the plan, and we're sort of
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  Speaker 4: long way away from that, but that the whole group
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  Speaker 4: good possibility that you're going to turn the town Center
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  Speaker 4: over the city. So what does what does that mean? Well,
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  Speaker 4: the city's not in the in the retail business, so
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  Speaker 4: just keep that in mind. That's not what they do.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll talk about it. You can weigh in if
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  Speaker 4: you want to text me anytime during the show courtesy
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  Speaker 4: five zero zero eight, or a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 4: get into all that a little bit later on, but
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  Speaker 4: right now, it's Girl Scout Cookie time. Joe Lgates Girl Scouts,
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  Speaker 4: the Bike Diamond Counsel is here. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely? Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Remember what was going on? You and I were talking
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  Speaker 4: about this off the air, what was going on at
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  Speaker 4: this point last year?
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  Speaker 6: All that horrible snow, all that horrible snow it.
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  Speaker 4: Hit on Sunday and we talked about that. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: a weather geek, so just look over me here last
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  Speaker 4: this time of year ago, on that Sunday, it started
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  Speaker 4: off real gray whatever, and we had snow and we
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  Speaker 4: put ice on top of that. Then we had snow,
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  Speaker 4: basically shut down everything for a couple of days. And
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  Speaker 4: you go from that into this morning and I pull
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  Speaker 4: in out here. I get here about seven or so
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  Speaker 4: at eleven eleven and get out of the car and
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  Speaker 4: I've got a light jacket on. I'm thinking, I don't
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  Speaker 4: even need this jacket. What a difference a year makes.
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  Speaker 7: Right, One thing remains the same. Girl Scout cookies are here.
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  Speaker 4: Trans perfect transition night. So, and you and I had
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  Speaker 4: we're trading emails back and forth a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 4: ago about having you on the show, and you said
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  Speaker 4: at the time, you said, well, you maybe we can
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  Speaker 4: bring a couple of girl Scouts with us, and that
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  Speaker 4: I thought, well, that'll be a great idea. And then
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  Speaker 4: I sort of think, well, they're back in school, and
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  Speaker 4: that kind of goes against everything the girl Scouts are
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  Speaker 4: to bust them out of school to go talk on
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  Speaker 4: the radio, right, you got teach them responsibility.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know, I will say that we do really
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  Speaker 7: try to provide really amazing opportunities. So we do have
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  Speaker 7: girls with us at certain times. I'll come back later
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  Speaker 7: in the season and bring some girls.
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  Speaker 4: All right, But but right now, as you and I
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  Speaker 4: were talking, like everybody's sick at this point.
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  Speaker 7: Right now, I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: Keep the kids away from here for right now. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we got enough sickness going on. He's building, all right,
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  Speaker 4: So do is girl Scout cookie time? By the way,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for the gifts over here. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: What do we have here?
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  Speaker 1: Hold on?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you say explore mores that's the new one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we meant.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, we kick off tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: We've got our amazing lineup, but we're super excited to
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  Speaker 7: offer a brand new cookie, the Explore More inspired by
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  Speaker 7: Exploration and influenced by Rocky Road ice Cream. It's a
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  Speaker 7: great opportunity for girls to sell something new and for
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  Speaker 7: our community to support the girls and offering that cookie.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So it's uh, this is the definition straight
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  Speaker 4: off the box. Poor Ryan, our producers licking the glass
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  Speaker 4: in there right now. I got you, man, I got you,
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  Speaker 4: I got you. Rocky Road ice cream inspired cookies filled
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  Speaker 4: with flavors of chocolate, marshmallow and toasted almond kreme. There
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  Speaker 4: a delicious may make it sound good, all right. Of
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  Speaker 4: course you brought thin Mints as well, So those what
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  Speaker 4: it is the most popular overall? I mean one or
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  Speaker 4: two that.
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  Speaker 7: Locally it's always a fight between Samoa's and thin Mints. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: our customers really show up to show love for those
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  Speaker 7: two specifically, But honestly, we have folks that love every
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  Speaker 7: single cookie, and that's why I'm so excited to offer
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  Speaker 7: the new one.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I am not as big on the thin Mints,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll tell you why. I love mint and I looked.
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  Speaker 4: I just I've never been one that literally liked the
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  Speaker 4: mixing of the two, you know, And that's okay, But
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  Speaker 4: Samoa's and Docy does.
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  Speaker 7: I'm all in next time when I bring the girls,
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  Speaker 7: we'll bring these cookies for you.
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  Speaker 4: Right, all right? So how do they decide, Doyle, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: in a lab, focused groups or whatever. And then they
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  Speaker 4: probably take I think you mentioned this on the show before.
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  Speaker 4: They probably take recommendations from the actual girl Scouts or
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  Speaker 4: what the flavor should be. But what goes into that?
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  Speaker 7: So the National Organization explained that this cookie came about
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  Speaker 7: through national polling. They found that Rocky Road ice cream
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  Speaker 7: is actually the most popular ice cream flavor across the country,
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  Speaker 7: and so in focus groups like you mentioned, they created
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  Speaker 7: a couple of different cookies, and that cookie performed the highest.
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  Speaker 7: Most folks don't know that we actually have two bakers
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  Speaker 7: that create cookies, so different parts of the country have
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  Speaker 7: different cookies. The core cookies like our thin Men's are taglong,
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  Speaker 7: Samoa's those remain the same. But we actually saw that
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  Speaker 7: and both of those bakers, the explore More performed the
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  Speaker 7: best and really got the greatest reviews.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll keep talking because I'm going to open
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  Speaker 4: these up absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'll just go ahead and say that the sale
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  Speaker 7: cakes off tomorrow. We're really excited for folks to participate
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  Speaker 7: and support our girls, you know, girl Scout cookies. It's
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  Speaker 7: it's more than just you know, selling cookies. The proceeds
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  Speaker 7: they help create lifelong opportunities for our girls and provide
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  Speaker 7: life changing experiences.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, keep talking, because I'm distributing cookies right now.
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  Speaker 6: Heck yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So the best way for folks to support the sale
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  Speaker 7: is to go to a local troop or find a
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  Speaker 7: local Girl Scout. If you don't know a Girl Scout
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  Speaker 7: in your region, you can contact the Girl Scouts of
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  Speaker 7: Black Diamond Council on Facebook and we will connect you
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  Speaker 7: with a local troop. We also offer online sales and
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  Speaker 7: so folks can have cookies ship directly to their door.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so I brought in a couple of experts here.
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  Speaker 4: I get Ryan, Ryan, our producer. Is this thing on autopilot?
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  Speaker 4: I guess try you just started on and I hope
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  Speaker 4: it is. Ryan is supposed to be another side of
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  Speaker 4: glasses and Bobby Spry sales. Weasel Uh is in here
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  Speaker 4: as well, And because all right, so if we have
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  Speaker 4: you tried it? Man, Yes, it's good, it's really good.
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  Speaker 4: I really like them, Bobby, I love it.
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  Speaker 8: I wish I had a glass of milk to dip
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  Speaker 8: it in.
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  Speaker 3: That would be good, that would.
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  Speaker 6: Be perfect perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Could you go to some milk, Joel?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, let me be right back.
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  Speaker 4: These are these are very good. They're they're very good.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a little bit more chocolately. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: know what Rocky Road is. It's a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: chocolatey than what I thought they.
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  Speaker 3: Would be there.
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  Speaker 4: But they're they're very good.
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  Speaker 6: It's like a chocolate lover's dream, really.
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  Speaker 1: Cooking.
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  Speaker 8: What are your favorite? Dame mine too?
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  Speaker 6: No, those are the classics.
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  Speaker 8: I've loved coconut since before. I should have loved them.
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  Speaker 8: You know they say it's an old people's old.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing wrong with that.
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  Speaker 4: I told Ryan. Ryan asked me if you were to
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  Speaker 4: bring in Girl Scout cookies, and I said, well, what
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  Speaker 4: I do is I said, if I've got them, you
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  Speaker 4: can have them, all right, Ryan. There's two packages in here,
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  Speaker 4: so so guess what. You get one and I get one. Bobby,
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  Speaker 4: you want to, Okay, I'll bring them up later because
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  Speaker 4: I want to get a photo with Joell, So come
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  Speaker 4: back and get a picture a little bit later, Bobby,
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  Speaker 4: if you don't care. How is the sales of Girl
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  Speaker 4: Scout cookies changed over the years, Because I'm old enough
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  Speaker 4: to remember, and I'm a lot older than you, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember that when they would literally
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  Speaker 4: go door to door, and I don't think they do they.
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  Speaker 7: Do that, so we still do that. We've really kind
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  Speaker 7: of shifted our focus. And of course, you know at
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  Speaker 7: Girl Scott's up Black Time in council, we're so unique
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  Speaker 7: and that the geography of our service region is, you know,
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  Speaker 7: so different than different parts of the country. We cover
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  Speaker 7: sixty one counties across four states. We have areas of
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  Speaker 7: our council where that community door to door sale is
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  Speaker 7: really still important. But then we also offer online sales.
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  Speaker 7: Each girl that participates in the Girl Scout Cookie program
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  Speaker 7: they have an opportunity to put together an online platform
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  Speaker 7: so they can produce a e commerce opportunity for those
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  Speaker 7: looking to support. So there's really different means of participation.
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  Speaker 7: And then of course in the spring, we'll have our
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  Speaker 7: Girl Scout Cookie booths and everyone knows and loves you
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  Speaker 7: can expect those in late February.
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  Speaker 4: I think the whole idea behind selling the Girl Scout cookies,
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  Speaker 4: Joel goes back, if you look in the history, and
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  Speaker 4: you and I have talked about it before, it's not
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  Speaker 4: about the cookies necessarily. It's not even about raising money.
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  Speaker 4: It's about it's about teaching entrepreneurship so to speak.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, So the Girl Scout Cookie program that provides five
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  Speaker 7: life skills such as money management, people skills, business ethics,
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  Speaker 7: and like you said, we're really trying to give girls
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  Speaker 7: that curve that set them up for success later in life.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we've we've had alumni go on and do
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  Speaker 7: great things and went out jobs over other applicants of
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  Speaker 7: job positions because they have the skills that they gain
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  Speaker 7: through the Girl Scout Cookie sale. So you know, you
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  Speaker 7: may look at a Girl Scout and just see it
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  Speaker 7: as like a really cute, fun opportunity for a girl
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  Speaker 7: to get involved, but it's really an opportunity for them
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  Speaker 7: to gain lifelong skills.
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  Speaker 4: The joelgates from the Black Diamond Council of Girl Scouts,
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  Speaker 4: It's a Girl Scout Cookie Time. The Dave Allen Show
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  Speaker 4: love love love. They put three loves in there, love love,
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  Speaker 4: love dosey does even better. Put them in the microwave
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  Speaker 4: for about twenty seconds. Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you find that a lot when you talk about
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  Speaker 4: Girl Scout cookies that people do? I mean, because I
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  Speaker 4: know what the thin mints, A lot of people freeze them,
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  Speaker 4: freeze them. Yeah, what are some other things that you've
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  Speaker 4: heard about people?
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  Speaker 7: So we have a cookie adventureful. It came out a
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  Speaker 7: couple of years ago. It's a Brownie inspired cookie and
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  Speaker 7: people microwave that we in the office we sometimes have
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  Speaker 7: fun stuff where we'll do cooking contest and create different
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  Speaker 7: creations with the cookies. So it's really endless what you
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  Speaker 7: can do with a Girl Scout cookie.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and I would think too again that goes
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  Speaker 4: along the lines if you in your group, you may
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  Speaker 4: have future future restauranteur, future chef there, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: come up with different creations.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: If somebody's listening right now and they want to purchase
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  Speaker 4: Girl Scouts pies but they don't really you know, they
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  Speaker 4: don't have kids, that don't have grandkids, that don't have
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  Speaker 4: neighbors you know, that have kids or whatever. So they're
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  Speaker 4: just listening right and there. So what I want some
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  Speaker 4: Girl Scout cookies? How can they do that if they
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  Speaker 4: if they don't have a Girl Scout that approaches them.
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  Speaker 7: So starting tomorrow, we will have a live link to
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  Speaker 7: our e commerce platform on the Girl Scouts of Black
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  Speaker 7: Diamond Council Facebook page. Make sure that you check that
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  Speaker 7: out so you can have cookie ship directly to your door.
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  Speaker 4: All right, it sounds good. I'm gonna talk to deligate
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  Speaker 4: Hollis Lewis and then the next segment here, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: about'm gonna put him on the spot before we talk politics.
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  Speaker 9: This is Joe L.
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  Speaker 4: Gates from the Girl Scouts. By the way, all right, Hollis,
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  Speaker 4: are you a Girl Scout cookie kund of?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, yeah, I am? All right?
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  Speaker 4: What's your favorite?
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  Speaker 10: Do you have a like the mint? And I like
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  Speaker 10: the Samoa's So yeah, those are those are my two favorites.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Well yeah, all right, so I offered you.
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  Speaker 3: One of them. No, no, not not for bread. I'm red.
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  Speaker 4: This is the new one, Hollis. This is the uh
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  Speaker 4: uh the explore moors. Okay, Rocky Road ice cream inspired
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  Speaker 4: cookies filled with the FLA didn't even get through the
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  Speaker 4: definition and you're already decided. Rocky Road ice cream inspired
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  Speaker 4: cookies filled with the flavors of chocolate, marshmallow and toasted
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  Speaker 4: all the cream.
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  Speaker 10: That sounds really good and with the thin mints, you
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  Speaker 10: gotta put them in the freezing Yes, we we.
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  Speaker 4: We were just talking about that about things that people
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  Speaker 4: do differently because somebody texted and said, with the dosi
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  Speaker 4: does put them in a microwave. I mean, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: a huge sweet seed, to be honest with you, but
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  Speaker 4: I do. I take it another level when it's something
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  Speaker 4: that's heated and sweet. My my wife for Christmas made
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  Speaker 4: this apple crisp thing and you put that in the microwave. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's good stuff. And plus it's apples. They're good for you.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Give us the uh the information because of ol Scott
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  Speaker 4: cookie season is here. Where can people get their cookies?
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  Speaker 4: What's the best way to do?
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  Speaker 7: Contact your local Girl Scout, find a local troop, or
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  Speaker 7: I visit the Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council facebook page.
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  Speaker 7: Starting in late February, early March. We're going to be
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  Speaker 7: having Girl Scout Cookie booths across all of our community,
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  Speaker 7: so keep an eye out, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Joel Gates Black Diamond Council, Girls Cuts, thank you very
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  Speaker 4: much and thank you for letting us be your guinea
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  Speaker 4: pigs here.
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  Speaker 6: Appreciate it. Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Take one of those rocket roads I want to sleeve.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take it for later. You can't have the whole
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  Speaker 4: sleep because because I've already promised my wife that you
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  Speaker 4: get to it. We had a texture that said this
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  Speaker 4: would be a great event during maybe Regatta or West
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Birthday, a West Virginia version of Kids Baking Championship
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  Speaker 4: kid Bakers using Girl Scout cookie.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have Brian Hughes, who is a regatta chairman
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  Speaker 4: on the show coming up on Friday, so maybe I'll
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  Speaker 4: bring that.
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  Speaker 3: Up to Brian.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we can make that happen like it.
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  Speaker 6: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Gates Black down in Council. The Girl Scouts appreciate
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  Speaker 4: you being here. Thanks a lot. Nine twenty two. But
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  Speaker 4: Delegate from the fifty seventh, Hollis Lewis, How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: My friend? I'm doing well. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 4: You didn't know that you're gonna get to come in
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: here and be a guinea pig today, right?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean those rocky roads look amazing.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, but you didn't break over.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't. I didn't. I didn't, you know.
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  Speaker 10: But I think when it's you know, girl scout season,
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: I'm gonna give me a box Atxay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it's time.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: That's what's That's what the Joel was here to talk about. So,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: so you said you're a thin mets count.
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: I'm a thin Mints and I like the Samoa's now.
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: I started a venture out a little bit. But the
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: thin mints are you know, those classes, those are the
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: ones I like the best.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: You have a good holiday season. I had a great
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: sweet you have a good holiday.
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  Speaker 10: Six Yeah, you know, you know it's about the kids.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: So they had a good Christmas and all that. So
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: it was it was really good. I needed at R
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: and R M.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Well, everybody needs it, especially with what's coming up next week. Yes,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: the circus is back, and I say that in the
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: best possible way, but other people have said that before.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Before we get into talking about the upcoming session, I
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: want to ask you, of course, the House seats are
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: up every two years. Are you running for reelection?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I am so. I will be starting campaigning surely
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: after session ends. Ifout pre candidacy, I'll make it formal
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: here in a couple of weeks and we'll get back
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: to work. You'll see me at your door and knocking.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: So why should people give you another chance in the
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: House Office.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: I think what we've been able to accomplish thus far,
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: even though we are smaller numbers, we have you know,
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: stopped a lot of bad bills, and I think I've
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: represented you know, the people on holistically, you know, those
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: people who are working hard every day, working people, those
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: people who have families, those people who want to you know,
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: have a better life. And our focus on what we
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: call kitchen table issues. Affordability, you know, utility rates, lower rents,
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  Speaker 10: being able to buy a home. Those are the foundational
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: issues that most West Virginia's, most Americans are focused on,
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  Speaker 10: and that's what I represent.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of interesting. It's going to lead
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: me into a question, a couple of questions down from now.
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  Speaker 4: But to Speaker Handshaw had gathered some Republican delegates a
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago before Christmas and stated that the
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: primary focus was going to be on jobs, the economy,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: and that was the House speaking that's what you're a
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: part of. Course, you was speaking to the Republicans, not
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: so much on social issues. You're taking that.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, obviously it's funny that there are
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: focus on that right at the you know, our kitchen
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  Speaker 10: table tour, we did the whole state and that's what
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: we were focused on, and that's what we've been focused
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  Speaker 10: on for the last several years, particularly in the House
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  Speaker 10: of Delegates, is focused on again, those foundational issues that
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: most West Virginias care about, whether it's job it's job readiness,
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: workforce development, economic issues, affordability overall. So again the devil's
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: in the details. So we look forward to working Republicans
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  Speaker 10: if they are fo truly focused on issues that are
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  Speaker 10: important to West Virginia's.
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  Speaker 4: That word affordability is thrown out there. That's the key word,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the late twenty five, early twenty six and
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  Speaker 4: across America, you know, because there are issues out there
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: and you can point blame, you can say it's this person,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: that person, this party, that party. Whatever bottom line is
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: is that when groceries are so much more expensive than
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: what they are, and yes, gas prices have gone down,
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  Speaker 4: and we all can appreciate that. However, when you go
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: to your grocery store and everything is more expensive than
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  Speaker 4: what it was this time last year, Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, Hollis's,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: that causes people a lot of pause.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 10: And we can't price people out of the market in totality, right,
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  Speaker 10: because when we talk about affordability, it's not just your
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  Speaker 10: groceries while those are rising, it's your utility rates, it's
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: your ability to go to senior kids to college. It
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: is your ability to afford rent or buy a house.
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  Speaker 10: You know, we have to get back to a point
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  Speaker 10: where we hold not only government are accountable, but private
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  Speaker 10: industry accountable, and we cannot price people out the market
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  Speaker 10: or at the very least right these prices without raising wages.
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  Speaker 10: Those things don't go together. So we have to find
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: creative solutions so that way people can just be afford
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  Speaker 10: to live and have a chance for ulability.
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  Speaker 4: What can what can the legislative body do about that?
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  Speaker 3: Though?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: As a legislator, what can you do about that?
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  Speaker 14: Well?
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  Speaker 10: I think we can again we can focus, like we've
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  Speaker 10: previously said, we can focus on job development. We can
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: focus on you know, bringing industries, making it so where
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: industries feel comfortable coming here, give you know, adequate tax
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: breaks while you know, advocating that those industries hire locally,
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: that those industries are going to be good actors. We
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: can focus on things like PI, where you know, a
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: large portion of West Virginia is under PI, whether you're
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: working for the state or you have a family member
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: who's working for the state and you're under their insurance.
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: So we have to figure out a way to fund
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: that because it's steadily rising. I think there's a five
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: percent raises coming and then potentially in a year or
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  Speaker 10: two it's going to be another fourteen to fifteen percent raise,
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  Speaker 10: So we have to find creative solutions. One thing we've
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: talked about is, you know, legalizing adult used cannabis. We've
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  Speaker 10: seen other states like Ohio have billion dollars in taxable revenue,
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  Speaker 10: so that could be a pathway to you know, remedy
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  Speaker 10: some of those issues. In addition, you know, other issues
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: that are more basic. You know, we have to figure
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: out infrastructure, so our residents have clean water, we have
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: you know, adequate internet service, so those individuals who wish
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: to come to Western who move to West Virginia work remotely,
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  Speaker 10: will feel comfortable doing so. So I believe those are
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  Speaker 10: a lot of the things that we can do at
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  Speaker 10: that level.
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  Speaker 4: I want to go back to cannabis for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: This is something that's been debated. Of course, West Virginia
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: a couple of years ago legalized medical marijuana. That's still
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: kind of a mess. You know, it's still not you
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: know where, it's still not where where it should be.
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  Speaker 4: That's my opinion. But is there enough support for legalizing
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  Speaker 4: cannabis in West Virginia for recreational use for adults?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, again, it's one of the things we would
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  Speaker 10: like to see on the ballot. We've introduced several pieces
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  Speaker 10: and iterations of legislation, whether it be locally, you can
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  Speaker 10: at a county level, individuals in that county can vote
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  Speaker 10: on it. Right, we've seen were medical marijuana. There's thirty
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: four million dollars just sitting around, setting around. Yeah, it
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: could be used for something. Again, that's a drop in
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: the bucket when it comes to an overall state budget,
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: but it can be used for something, so we can
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  Speaker 10: generate that much revenue. And the thing about it is
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: from a you know what did he say? The backyard brawl,
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: the competitive spirit that we hope to implement. We're losing
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: in that because we have individuals who, particularly on our
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: border states, who are jumping across Ohio and you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: getting what they need over there, So why not just
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: keep them home? So I think those are things that
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: we could do and hopefully we can at least get
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  Speaker 10: in on the ballot to have the people voices heard.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going to throw this out there about the ballot
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  Speaker 4: issue when it comes to cannabis because I have a
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  Speaker 4: good friend of mine who to be this is just me, Hollis.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: I tend to be a little bit more libertarian in
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: my views. I don't do it myself, but I don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: think that you can. If you want to do it,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: knock yourself out. So that that's just where I am
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: on that. But I was talking to a good friend
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: of mine who is very, very anti cannabis, and he
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: said to me at one point during a conversation, he said,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: you can't always go putting things on the ballot, because
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: let's go back one hundred fifty years ago, whatever the
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: case may be, if we would have allowed people to
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: put the if we'd have put things on the ballot
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: for the public to vote on that at that particular point,
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: may have voted for things that we didn't want in America.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: We were trying to rid ourselves. And so to that,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: you would say what I mean, I hope we've evolved
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: as a country since then, but go ahead.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: I mean, some things are are more you know, fundamental
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: and I think common sense, you know, some issues that
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: we just need to rid ourselves of, you know, at
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: the highest level possible. And again I want to say
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: this before I go deep, is that you know, marijuana
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: in itself, of adult use, cannabis, it's not going to
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: be the answer to all problems, right it's just so.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's what I hear a lot from a
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: lot of the proponents of this. They say, if we
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: legalize that, we are going to solve every day.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: I don't agree with I don't agree with that, but
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: it is a prong it is something that could help.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: And myself, I'm not a consumer. It's not something I'm
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: meant to But to each his own. But I think
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: as far as on the ballot, I think because it's
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: such a polarizing issue and our sort of plan and
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: methodology in that it's just saying, hey, we want to
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: give it a chance, so maybe let the people speak
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: for that particular issue. And I think it's something that
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: the people in those particular jurisdiction municipalities and counties, they
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: can have their voice if it's not going to be
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: done on a state level, which I think it should
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: just be done on a state.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Level, because I think, in my opinion, if you start
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: doing by counties, I think you create all issues.
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: And you're right, it is, it will create different issues.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: But we're just trying to throw out options to at
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: least give it a chance.
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  Speaker 4: As a Democrat, and there's not a whole lot of
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: you there you know, you know that that's simple numbers.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: There's not a whole lot of you there. How difficult
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: is it for your voices to be heard? I mean,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: one thing I will say about the small number of Democrats,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: and you're going to you and others are going to
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: your fellow Democrats are going to disagree on certain things,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: but by and large, you folks seem to be pretty
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: much on the same page on most things. How difficult
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: is it, though, when you have a wish list as
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: you do and others do, to try to even have
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: a chance of getting it through when the numbers are
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: so small.
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but we walk in, you know, the legislative session
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: realizing that, right, so we realize that a lot of
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: the things and the bills that we draft may not
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: see even committee. So a lot of what we do
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: is defense. And I think what you've seen and what
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: other people have seen around the state. You know, our voices,
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: we try to make them as loud as possible, whether
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: that's on the House floor or just any information through
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: social media. So because we kind of know what we're
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: walking into with, I think we've done a good job
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: of making our voices heard, even though we may not
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: be able to always get bills through. We've done a
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: good job of stopping a couple of bad bills, particularly
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: last session.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: What was giving an example of one or two of
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: those in your.
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: Certificate of need for example, they wanted to uh to
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: to dissolve that. That's one of the things that we
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: were able to quell. It's important, particularly in West Virginia,
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: that we we felt that you have a process as
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: far as opening up hospitals and different things of that nature.
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: Uh So that's one of the things that we were
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: and again until that point, just to give you a
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: little bit of explanation, I think what happens is, well,
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: people say, well, let's open up the market, right, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: it makes sense that we just want to have a
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: market and maybe we can have the best hospitals and
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: emergency room different things come in. But the problem is
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: that they're not going to Mingo County, they're not going
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: to mcdalell County. They're just going to come to Charleston
• 27:55
  Speaker 10: and flood the market. So the the method all in
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: which they would use for you know, dissolving certificately, we
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: felt was inadequate and we felt it was important to
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: still have that because they're not going to come in
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: and try to solve the problems that rule West Virginia needs.
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: So we've been able to stop different things like that
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: and the whole host of other things. So again, I
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: think sometimes the biggest fight is fighting other Democrats. That
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: seems to be yeah, you know, those who don't necessarily
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: understand the process, those who are in a you know,
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: leadership sort of on the back office that that you know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: holding onto an old guard that don't understand that, hey,
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: we need to move forward. This is about as far
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: as on the Democrats, how we have to get people,
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: We have to get candidates, and we have to help
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: candidates get elected or at least give them a chance
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: put them in the best opportunity. So again, so you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: being a Democrat is kind of tough on a lot
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: of levels here.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Well, but I mean this time, you know, twenty years ago,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: we were saying being a Republican in West Virginia is
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: difficult on many levels.
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, but I think they've been done an
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: excellent job of organizing themselves from the top to the bottom.
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: They don't always agree, now that's not you know, crank
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: paint fairy tales. They don't always agree with each other.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: But I think they've all they've they've been able to
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: get on one accord and at the very least support
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: each other through the process.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: You know, I had a high ranking Democrat told me
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: one time that the problem with the Democratic Party, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: you could agree or disagree, hollis, is that we let
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: other people define what we are. In other words, this
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: person was saying, as a Democrat, we let Republicans come
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: in and say, well, this is what a Democrat is,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: and that people have a tendency to listen as opposed
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: to us telling our own story. That was said to
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: me by a high ranking Democrat in West Virginia's to that,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: you would.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Say, I don't know if I would necessarily agree with that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: I think what's happened is that, you know, Republicans, they
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: know how to politic, Democrats know how to govern, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: we know the politic part is what's going to get
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: you in office. And I think what happens is is
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: that too many times on our side we're too fragmented
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: and we don't next again, we do not have to agree,
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: but I think if we can get on one a
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: court and agree on these principles as far as public
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: facing together again, we could fight back door. We can
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: go out and you know, non public facing in the
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: back rooms and scrap it out, you know, and argue
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  Speaker 10: and do all those things. But far as publicly facing,
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  Speaker 10: I think it's important for us to all be together
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  Speaker 10: and to have one movement, and again for everybody to
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  Speaker 10: support our candidates, whether you're in office or trying to
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  Speaker 10: get in office. And I think, you know, as we
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  Speaker 10: get younger and we get new ideas, those things are happening.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 4: In talking not long ago, State Democratic Party chair Might
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  Speaker 4: Pushkin on the show, he talked about in these races
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  Speaker 4: around West Virginia wanting to have a Democrat on the
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  Speaker 4: ballot as much as possible, and sometimes with the numbers
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  Speaker 4: it's not impossible. Other than it's not possible, but that's
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  Speaker 4: what they wanted to do. If somebody were thinking about
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  Speaker 4: running for office in another area, but they say, well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a Democrat, I just don't know what kind of
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  Speaker 4: a chance I have. And maybe not the district that
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  Speaker 4: you are in necessarily, but maybe no. But I mean
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  Speaker 4: in a more rural area where where you know it's
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  Speaker 4: it tends to be more conservative. What would you say
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  Speaker 4: to them, I mean, what would you why, how would
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  Speaker 4: you encourage them?
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  Speaker 10: I would say, let's take the motion out of it
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  Speaker 10: and let's look at the numbers. So I would say, like,
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  Speaker 10: if you're in a house race, you're going to have
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  Speaker 10: a district, you have a locale, and I would say,
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  Speaker 10: what are your preestincts? So if you got twenty precincts,
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  Speaker 10: 's say, let's look at the numbers. Let's look at
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  Speaker 10: the numbers as far as what it took to win
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  Speaker 10: those those particular precincts. What are your biggest preccincts? What
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  Speaker 10: are what is? What does the political makeup in that precinct?
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  Speaker 10: Look at the numbers, because sometimes we just get lost
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  Speaker 10: in Okay, it's red. We just see a red mark
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  Speaker 10: and then we just kind of turn our head. But
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  Speaker 10: sometimes if we dig into the numbers, we can figure
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  Speaker 10: out a pathology to win. Because you may not win
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  Speaker 10: all those districts, you may not win most of them,
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  Speaker 10: but if you possibly get some headway into the bigger
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  Speaker 10: districts that excuse me, bigger precincts, you may be able
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  Speaker 10: to have to have a chance in addition to do
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  Speaker 10: things like you know, get with political strategies, get with
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  Speaker 10: campaign managers, start talking to people, go to community events,
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  Speaker 10: see where you're at. That way, take the motion out
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  Speaker 10: of it a little bit, get more data driven, and
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  Speaker 10: then go from there.
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  Speaker 4: And it's also interesting to point out and if you
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  Speaker 4: read TJ. Meadow's commentary today and he's going to talk
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  Speaker 4: about it on Metro News midday, I also talk about
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  Speaker 4: ten o'clock. You know, the state Republican Party is going
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  Speaker 4: to meet this weekend in Charleston, and I don't know
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  Speaker 4: whether they're going to bring it up or not, but
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  Speaker 4: you know they made the decision within the last year
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  Speaker 4: or so to close their primary. And so if you're
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  Speaker 4: a registered independent, it used to be you could go
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  Speaker 4: in on the primary and say, I am a registered Independent,
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  Speaker 4: but I want a Republican ballot or I want a
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  Speaker 4: Democrat ballot. Well, with the Republican you can't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 4: They closed their Democrats are still open them and so
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  Speaker 4: independence could ask. I'm not I'm not advocating people should
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  Speaker 4: do that or if they can, if they want, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that option so there because your primary
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  Speaker 10: Open, and that's and that's very true, and I think
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  Speaker 10: it's telling that you know, you would you would close
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  Speaker 10: it to that degree. I think it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 10: one of those things that you know, Democrats were open
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  Speaker 10: for all and we want to hear your voice, whether
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  Speaker 10: you're a Democrat or an independent, and it's telling that
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  Speaker 10: Republicans would close it. I think it's a little bit
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  Speaker 10: of fear of kind of you know, fear the independence
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  Speaker 10: and I and again, independence are a large section of
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  Speaker 10: the VOG getting larger and getting larger, and we need
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  Speaker 10: them to come out and I and as far as
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  Speaker 10: the Democrats out, we're telling you we want your participation,
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  Speaker 10: we welcome your voice.
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  Speaker 4: Before we let you go. A couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 4: the governor stated he wants to cut the state income tax.
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  Speaker 4: And over the last twenty four hours, delegate two Republicans
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  Speaker 4: and one Democrat have come on these very airways here
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  Speaker 4: and said that they seem to be a little bit
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  Speaker 4: skeptical or at least had questions about the math.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you on that same thing? I got questions
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  Speaker 3: about the math.
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  Speaker 10: I was told a long time ago when it comes
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  Speaker 10: to you know, just and again this is a little
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  Speaker 10: bit of a false comparison, but when it comes to
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  Speaker 10: personal finance, you can't cut yourself to death. You can't cut, cut, cut,
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  Speaker 10: cut and not be able to live and have a life.
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  Speaker 10: So again, we have those taxes are going to pay
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  Speaker 10: for you know, state funded projects and employment and different
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  Speaker 10: things of that nature. So I am a little bit
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: skeptical about how far we can cut without bringing any
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  Speaker 10: additional revenue in. Because we talk about cut, we talk
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  Speaker 10: about this, we talk about that, but what we're not
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  Speaker 10: talking about is what we're going to do to make
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  Speaker 10: up those gaps and fill those gaps. So I want
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: to hear more from the governor, and I'm sure I
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  Speaker 10: will in the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Tell a good Hollis Lewis. The session begins next Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: You're always welcome on the show, whether it's the session
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  Speaker 4: or not. I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot,
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  Speaker 4: my friend, Thank you, my friend. I appreciate you. You
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  Speaker 4: Meadows will stop by with his aforementioned commentary about the
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  Speaker 4: Republicans closed primary. He's going to weigh in on that.
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  Speaker 4: And if you haven't had a chance to hear the commentary,
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  Speaker 4: if you didn't hear it on the radio or read
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  Speaker 4: talking about, there have been two schools of thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of the Republicans when they close
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  Speaker 4: Others have said that this is going to be really
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  Speaker 4: I will be back though, on Friday's show. That's the plan,
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  Speaker 4: unless something happens tomorrow that I don't I'm not foreseeing.
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  Speaker 4: I am going to be a way tomorrow. As I've
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  Speaker 4: talked about on the show and on the social media,
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  Speaker 4: it's biopsy time. You know how they say it's Toyota
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  Speaker 4: than now it's Girl Scott Cookie season. It's also a
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  Speaker 4: on Friday, and you know I've told the story with
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  Speaker 4: number that I had, and so I'm going to go
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  Speaker 4: try to get to get it, get it squared away.
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm still trying to monetize this whole thing. I
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  Speaker 4: and then to post it online. Actually I actually had takers,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I was. I said it as a joke
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  Speaker 4: that when they do the biopsy and they give you
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  Speaker 4: the picture and whatever. I said it as a joke
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  Speaker 4: Honest to god, I'm not making this up offering me
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  Speaker 4: money if I would put their logo or the name
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  Speaker 4: I said it as a joke, but if people are
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  Speaker 4: abs man always be selling. So we'll see. But on
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  Speaker 4: a serious note, I will let everyone know on social
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  Speaker 4: media tomorrow and on the show on Friday. How it
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  Speaker 4: every day. Huntington Mall also very busy. Appreciate the text.
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  Speaker 4: The big difference though, in that is, and I said
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  Speaker 4: mall like the Charlestontown Center is no more the Huntington Mall,
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  Speaker 4: You really can't compare it to what the town center is.
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  Speaker 4: the other places that are surrounding it. So I think
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  Speaker 4: so it's confusing to me. Why do coal miners leave
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  Speaker 4: the coal sit on their faces when they leave the
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  Speaker 4: mines and go to places such as hospitals or sporting events.
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  Speaker 4: Do wipes not work? Are they not cleaning facility? Seems
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  Speaker 4: unsanitary and lazy. I appreciate your coal country perspective. Well,
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  Speaker 4: is about legalizing recreational weed, you may have a bit
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  Speaker 4: legalizations of meth, crack, heroin, et cetera. Never say that
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  Speaker 4: it will never happen either. Well, I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: a lot of I mean, there are Look, there are
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  Speaker 4: those people that wake up every day and waken bake,
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  Speaker 4: as they say, there are those people wake up every
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  Speaker 4: day and grab a twinkie. You know, I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: that the people that are proponents of legalizing cannabis don't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily fall into that category that waken bake. They just
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  Speaker 4: see the economic aspects of it or so on and
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  Speaker 4: so forth. So I appreciate the text Tex says, unless
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  Speaker 4: state Democrats distance themselves and announce the direction of leaders
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  Speaker 4: of the National Democrats the way it's going right now,
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  Speaker 4: with socialism spreading across the country, then you're never going
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  Speaker 4: to regain control here. Again, I agree, and I will
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  Speaker 4: say this as somebody who's worked on a number of campaigns,
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  Speaker 4: and if I do say so myself, it's got an
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  Speaker 4: actually pretty good track record prior to radio or prior
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  Speaker 4: to this show, anyway of working on campaigns, I can
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  Speaker 4: tell you that if you want to get elected as
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  Speaker 4: a Democrat in West Virginia, a good start. And they're
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  Speaker 4: never going to do this because they won't get any
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  Speaker 4: help for the national Party. The good way to start
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  Speaker 4: would be if you're running for I don't fill in
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  Speaker 4: office here. A good way to start would be to
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  Speaker 4: ounce to the National Democratic Party and what stands for
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  Speaker 4: the National Democratic Party. I don't care who the chair is.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you who the faces of the parties are,
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  Speaker 4: and you know who they are. Unless you stand up
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  Speaker 4: and say I am not a California Democrat, I do
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  Speaker 4: not go along with AOC Chuck Schumer whatever, You're not
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  Speaker 4: get elected you're not getting elected as a Democrat in
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  Speaker 4: West Virginia with certain exceptions, I mean certain little pockets
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  Speaker 4: of West Virginia, Texas in regards to them all, how
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  Speaker 4: about solving another issue too by combining them McNary inside
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  Speaker 4: the mall, specifically for a new animal shelter. It's space,
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  Speaker 4: it's convenient, easily accessible. I would be all for that
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent as an animal lover, as a big
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  Speaker 4: support of the Kennal Charleston Humane Association. However, that's not
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  Speaker 4: going to bring money in, and that's what it's all about.
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  Speaker 4: It's all about bringing money in. But I do it's
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  Speaker 4: a great idea if that goes along with something else Texas.
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  Speaker 4: I thought just this past year that the governor when
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  Speaker 4: he took office was talking big about how our financial
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  Speaker 4: situation the state was not so good and how he
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  Speaker 4: needed to fix it. Now he's talking about lowering the
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  Speaker 4: state income tax. We have no business lowering the tax,
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  Speaker 4: and so we have adequately funded the Department of Human
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  Speaker 4: Services to make sure that children of foster care are
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  Speaker 4: well taken care of. Tex says A lot of people
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  Speaker 4: think beer wine and moonshine are okay. Now you'll never
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  Speaker 4: hear me say weed is good for you, but sure
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  Speaker 4: as heck isn't any worse than alcohol, and its prohibition
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  Speaker 4: is discriminatory. One report estimated approximately one two hundred and
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  Speaker 4: forty three average annual alcohol related deaths in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: The alcohol involved death rate was fourteen point six per
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  Speaker 4: one hundred thousand people in twenty twenty one, slightly higher
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  Speaker 4: than the national average, while heroin accounted for only three
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  Speaker 4: percent of all drug overdose rates. Overdose death rather in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty one. And don't say fentanyl, because if you
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  Speaker 4: regulate weed better, the number of those over deaths overdose
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  Speaker 4: death will come down as as well. Well, I'll say this.
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  Speaker 4: You talk to any police officer and ask them which
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  Speaker 4: they would rather deal with, somebody who's been smoking weed
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  Speaker 4: or somebody who's been drinking. They're gonna say smoking weed
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  Speaker 4: every time. Speaking of which, what happened with a girl cookies?
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  Speaker 21: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Text says And the Huntington mall is in Barbersville, not
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  Speaker 4: downtown Huntington. It's a suburban mall. Yeah. Uh Hey to
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  Speaker 4: the person, a mister step aside, you've had ten years
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  Speaker 4: get stepping yourselves, says a Texter Texas Day tomorrow, fans
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  Speaker 4: Presley Day, taking place at nine thirty am Eastern on
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  Speaker 4: the front line of Graceland. Fans unable to attend can
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  Speaker 4: watch the ceremony online for free via the Graceland website.
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  Speaker 4: So appreciate the information. Big Elvis fan here, TJ. Meadows
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  Speaker 4: are you? Are you taking part in Elvis Day tomorrow?
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  Speaker 21: My friend Elvis isn't dead. He just went home, all right,
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  Speaker 21: all right, so sure, why not? Girls Scott Cookies fan fan, Yeah,
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  Speaker 21: I like girls kin cook favorite favorite ones, the sugar Cookie,
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  Speaker 21: the tree Foils. Okay, for the time, we heard a
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  Speaker 22: Riah Cummings from the West Virginia Department of Education joins us.
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  Speaker 4: All right, speaking of girls, Scott, thank you. Sorry, sorry,
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  Speaker 4: got choked up there. He's the financial guy for the state.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: He sent me some numbers. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 22: We are up against it. Our counties are up against it.
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  Speaker 22: It shocked me. I fell in the floor last night.
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  Speaker 22: When I see what some of our counties are facing
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  Speaker 22: from a financial situation.
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  Speaker 4: He'll detail it and you're gonna go over this wonder
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