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12/31/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Steven Allen Adams, Amelia Knisley, Brad McElhinny, Jeremy Burns · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 5: Dave Allen, Folks, A good Wednesday morning to you, Happy
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Speaker 5: the final show of the year, twenty twenty five. Programming
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Speaker 5: this show tonight. Of course New Year's Eve. A lot
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Speaker 5: of you, probably not me since I'm old, but a
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Speaker 5: lot of people will be going out. I can promise
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Speaker 5: you I'm not going out anywhere as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 5: but it's a tradition New Year's Eve to go out.
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Speaker 5: Miss I may imbibe a little too much and drink
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Speaker 5: working on some medical issues right now. I talked about
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Speaker 5: a little bit on Midday yesterday and I'm making an opportunity.
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Speaker 5: I'll I'll bore you with it a little bit later
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Speaker 5: on in this show. But I'm back today, but not
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Speaker 5: tomorrow or Friday five ety Live a day Valance show.
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Speaker 3: We'll return on Monday. We'll be back later today with
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Speaker 3: Metro News Midday though. All right, So the final day
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Speaker 3: of the years.
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Speaker 6: Here.
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Speaker 5: Time to look back, as many people do at this
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Speaker 5: time of year, but we want to look ahead and
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Speaker 5: we got breaking news I think to get to as well.
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Speaker 5: I want to welcome to the show this morning, Metro News.
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Speaker 5: Brad Michael Honey, Brad, Good morning, sir.
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Speaker 7: Oh hi, good morning and hello to a.
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Speaker 3: Whaling.
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Speaker 7: Yeah you're in studio guest.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Whaling and Grady. The cat's Amelia.
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Speaker 5: If you don't know, Brad, it's a tradition Steve and
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Speaker 5: Brad always gives a big shout out to my cats.
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Speaker 3: Whaling and Grady. Who are well. I wonder what they're doing. Oh,
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Speaker 3: they're sleeping.
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Speaker 5: That's what they're doing right now, because they're house cats
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Speaker 5: and that's what they do.
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Speaker 3: But Brad, thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 5: Amelia nicely from West Virginia watches here. Good morning, dear,
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Speaker 5: How are you good morning? How are you doing your voice?
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Speaker 5: It's not good.
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Speaker 8: It's not I promise this is not from yelling at
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Speaker 8: my children. We've had a wonderful break. I'm just getting
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Speaker 8: over a cold. But thanks for having that.
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Speaker 9: You're good right, I'm great.
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Speaker 3: A love of that going around. Steven Allen Adams, how
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Speaker 3: you do it man.
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Speaker 10: I'm feeling great, man, I'm feeling squirrely.
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Speaker 9: I'm ready to go.
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Speaker 5: We could only hope many people would that Stephen and
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Speaker 5: Dave would would lose their voice. Right, that's only the hope.
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Speaker 10: Ah, people pray for it all the time. But I
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Speaker 10: don't know if I ever have lost my voice.
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Speaker 5: I frequently do, and it's usually like a sinus infection
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Speaker 5: type thing. When it got me, I just lose my voice.
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Speaker 5: I feel like you, Meil, Yeah, I feel fine, no
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Speaker 5: fever or whatever. But I have to tag somebody in,
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Speaker 5: you know, from time to time. All right, Brad, I
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Speaker 5: came downstairs this morning and walked into.
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Speaker 3: The green room.
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Speaker 5: Stephen and Amelia in there, and they hit me with
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Speaker 5: this story, this breaking story. As we are closing twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty five, have you heard the news of you? And
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Speaker 5: I said I I did not. So I'm going to
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Speaker 5: give an opportunity for one of them, either one of you.
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Speaker 5: This show has no format whatsoever this morning. Either one
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Speaker 5: of you to jump in, and Brad, you can weigh
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Speaker 5: in and I'll bring it up in the rear.
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Speaker 2: But what.
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Speaker 3: Have you got? Not a funny joke in my current
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Speaker 3: medical condition?
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Speaker 11: All right?
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, all right, Brad, go ahead, I
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Speaker 3: mean Stephen go ahead.
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Speaker 9: Sure.
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Speaker 10: So our Governor Patrick Morrisey tweeted this at twelve o
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Speaker 10: one am early this morning. Quote I want This was
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Speaker 10: in response to a Mountain State Spotlight tweet looking back
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Speaker 10: at some of their stories from twenty twenty five, but quote,
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Speaker 10: I want to see your stories about the squirrel extermination
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Speaker 10: program where you wasted massive taxpayer resources trying to chase
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Speaker 10: false rumors. Mountain State Spotlight, please address unquote. So this
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Speaker 10: is addressing a I hate to even bring it up
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Speaker 10: because we've all looked into this and it's nonsense. But
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Speaker 10: like the governor sort opened himself up for this one.
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Speaker 10: There had been rumors about employees at the state capital
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Speaker 10: Complex disposing of an exterminating some of the squirrel population
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Speaker 10: on Capitol grounds, the beloved squirrel population in the Capitol grounds.
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Speaker 10: Speculate about some of the reasons. There's some funny stories
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Speaker 10: out there. Ultimately turned out not to be true. But
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Speaker 10: there are some reporters who I believe a file Freedom
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Speaker 10: of Information after request trying to get some additional information
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Speaker 10: about this. So far, it's been kind of relegated within
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Speaker 10: the world of capital dwellers. But but now it's sort
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Speaker 10: of out there now because the governor tweeted it out
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Speaker 10: and sell.
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Speaker 9: But yeah, it's a it's very squirrely.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Well I had heard this.
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Speaker 5: We've had text from time to time about you know,
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Speaker 5: in any time we've had the governor on people, you know,
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Speaker 5: and they text in a variety of things. And that's
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Speaker 5: to be understand no matter who the governor is. And
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Speaker 5: somebody had texted a couple of times, ask about the squirrels,
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Speaker 5: Ask about the squirrel Brad, what do you know about
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Speaker 5: this story?
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Speaker 7: If it's news, it's news to me. Uh So, the
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Speaker 7: squirrels at the Capitol are in great supply and they
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Speaker 7: probably could use a predator. You know, I'm a little
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Speaker 7: curious about the squirrels. A but be whatever massive massive
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Speaker 7: was the word tex tax payer dollars. I'd like that
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Speaker 7: to be further defined, Amelia.
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Speaker 12: I mean I heard these rumors as well.
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Speaker 8: At one point someone told me there were buckets of
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Speaker 8: deceased squirrels somewhere in the Capitol.
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Speaker 12: But yeah, I agree with that.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't the cafeteria. Although squirrels are delicious, is good.
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Speaker 3: I've eaten squirrel Yeah, that's very good.
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Speaker 12: I'm not even really a meat eater and squirrel gravy.
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Speaker 9: It's good.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, I would like to know more about the
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Speaker 8: massive resources because we deal with foyas all the time
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Speaker 8: and yeah, it's typically not uh And let's just say
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Speaker 8: in other branches of government responding to foyas doesn't seem
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Speaker 8: to be a massive overhaul.
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Speaker 10: All I'm saying is during Halloween there was this decoration
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Speaker 10: on the back gay of the Governor's match, and that
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Speaker 10: was just a bunch of little many skeletons were back
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Speaker 10: back there and like on a string, and there was
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Speaker 10: some specator.
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Speaker 3: No, we're not We're not implying that the governor would
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Speaker 3: do that.
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Speaker 10: Now you have looked, I have looked into this. I've
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Speaker 10: asked a few pe people. Look squirrels down with Capitol grounds.
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Speaker 10: There are hawks that kill the squirrels, there's other reasons
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Speaker 10: that squirrels can die on the grounds or whatnot. General
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Speaker 10: services are the ones that usually have to go around
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Speaker 10: pick them up and whatnot. I think everything has led
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Speaker 10: me to where maybe somebody else may do that and
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Speaker 10: spread a rumor that sort of thing. Are there too
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Speaker 10: many squirrels on the Capitol grounds. I don't know, I
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Speaker 10: mean maybe, but I mean.
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Speaker 12: One did jump in my backpack once. That's a real story.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it dropped the dead squirrel in front of my
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Speaker 10: wife Jessica one time I do on Capitol Grounds.
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Speaker 3: It was a gift.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a gift.
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Speaker 3: It was a gift.
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Speaker 5: All right, So we'll we'll just file this under a
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Speaker 5: non story. But again, you know, it probably is now
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Speaker 5: become a little bit more of a story that what
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Speaker 5: wouldn't have been Stephen because of the of the expost.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, it's why everyone should be like me
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Speaker 10: and being bed by ten.
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Speaker 8: I know. I actually saw it at midnight because I
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Speaker 8: was up watching reality TV and I was like, oh,
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Speaker 8: I can't text Steven and Brad because they go to
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Speaker 8: bed normal hours like adult.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, we'll just move on from there. Brand
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Speaker 5: uh what and again, uh, we'll have more information as
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Speaker 5: it becomes available, as we say, as we.
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Speaker 3: Say in the business, not from us.
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Speaker 12: I'm not looking anymore.
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Speaker 5: Don't even get started talking about the China, because I
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Speaker 5: get somebody that texted you all the time that wants
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Speaker 5: me to ask the governor about the China at the
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Speaker 5: at the governor.
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Speaker 3: Look, I will say this, Uh.
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Speaker 5: One of the and I'm not trying to, you know,
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Speaker 5: be in any way, shape or form, you know, mean
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Speaker 5: hearted or whatever. I am happy that we have a
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Speaker 5: governor and a first Lady that are at the Governor's
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Speaker 5: Mansion as the constitution requires, and they seem like they
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Speaker 5: have really really taken to it and doing all the
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Speaker 5: decorating and doing all the things. They're not just a
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Speaker 5: Christmas but year around. So to me, that's refreshing to see.
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Speaker 10: Bringing in the tourists, I think, especially for Christmas was
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Speaker 10: especially nice. It's the hundredth Most people don't stop to
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Speaker 10: realize this. It's the one hundredth anniversary.
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Speaker 11: Uh.
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Speaker 10: This year was of the Governor's mansion from when it
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Speaker 10: was completed.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 10: And I know that, and I've talked to a few
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Speaker 10: people and the governor's staff. They're all about trying to
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Speaker 10: kind of highlight the mansion and showcase. It's one of
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Speaker 10: the reasons they did the tours here during the Christmas season.
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Speaker 10: And it's a beautiful place. If you've never been in it,
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Speaker 10: I take the tour.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Brad in your opinion, and we'll kind of go
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Speaker 5: in this direction right now. Biggest one or two stories
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Speaker 5: that had the most impact in West Virginian in twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty five.
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Speaker 7: No, man, well, you know this is the tragedy involved.
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Speaker 7: This is going to be a bummer. But I certainly
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Speaker 7: think that it's the deployment of the West Virginian National
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Speaker 7: Guard to Washington, d C. Which was a major story
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Speaker 7: in itself, but it became about much more so with
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Speaker 7: the shootings of Sarah Bestrom and Andrew Wolfe. Bextrom of
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Speaker 7: course died on Thanksgiving Day, bringing that tragedy to a head.
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Speaker 7: I mean pointing for so many West Virginians who know
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Speaker 7: people much like her. She was a twenty twenty three
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Speaker 7: high school graduate, had her full life to live, and
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Speaker 7: you know you saw a community outpouring in response to
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Speaker 7: her death. Just just a senseless tragedy. And then Andrew
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Speaker 7: wolf also shot the day before Thanksgiving near the Farragut
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Speaker 7: West metro stop in Washington, d C. And you know
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Speaker 7: that's a tragedy too. He appears to be recovery, which
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Speaker 7: which warms the heart, but it's it's hard to think
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Speaker 7: that his life or his families will ever be the same.
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Speaker 7: And what so I mean to me that that was
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Speaker 7: a major story of twenty twenty five here in the
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Speaker 7: last weeks since Thanksgiving, and anyway, apologies to everyone for
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Speaker 7: being such a bummer, but I think.
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Speaker 5: No, and that's I mean, that's a there's no wrong answer.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I asked for people to kind of weigh
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Speaker 5: in on what they saw.
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Speaker 3: Amelia.
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Speaker 12: I was going to say that one because leading.
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Speaker 3: Let's just all agree on that, that was the story.
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Speaker 3: Stephen Okay, oh for sure, National Guard in general.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, And I was going to say adding to that,
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Speaker 8: I mean it obviously Thanksgiving, it took a turn in
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Speaker 8: a very sad way, but there were a lot of
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Speaker 8: legal questions about it leading up to that too. Something
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Speaker 8: else that stands up to me this year is all
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Speaker 8: the school closures. Yes, and those are some of our
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Speaker 8: most read stories at West Virginia Watch. So you know,
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Speaker 8: it's not just here in Kenall County. It's all over
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Speaker 8: the state and in some of these rural counties. I mean,
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Speaker 8: I have Clay County looking at losing their only middle
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Speaker 8: school for the whole county. It's going to consolidate with
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Speaker 8: her high school. You have school, you have so many
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Speaker 8: elementary schools closing, and so I think just our declining
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Speaker 8: population other factors have played into that, and I think
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Speaker 8: while those may not be the stories you see above
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Speaker 8: the fold every day, those are the stories I think
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Speaker 8: communities are really grappling with this year.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 10: I feel like the religious vaccine exemption issue has literally
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Speaker 10: been with us since beginning of twenty twenty five on,
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Speaker 10: literally from the day after Governor Morrissey took office, because
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Speaker 10: he does other executive order allowing for religious exemptions to
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Speaker 10: the school compulsory vaccine law for school aged children. Then
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Speaker 10: the legislative session happens, we have the governor's build codify that.
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Speaker 10: Of course it dies in the House. Then we have
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Speaker 10: the fight between the Governor and the State Board of
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Speaker 10: Education on the policies regarding that. Then we have the
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Speaker 10: lawsuit filed in Rowley County. We have the preliminary exemption
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Speaker 10: of the preliminary you know, stopping of this sort of thing.
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Speaker 10: You've got the permanent injunction, and now it's before the
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Speaker 10: State Supreme Court, and we're not even gonna get this
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Speaker 10: thing settled until probably the middle of twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 9: So it's been with.
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Speaker 10: Us all year long and really kind of sucking up
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Speaker 10: a lot of the oxygen.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have and I definitely want to get into
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Speaker 5: an area that you specialize in.
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Speaker 3: Amelia.
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Speaker 5: Well, you write a lot about it, I'll say, because
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Speaker 5: you specialize in a lot of different areas and that's
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Speaker 5: the that's the foster care situations.
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Speaker 3: We'll get in a little bit of it.
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Speaker 5: So we're going to take a break. Brad, can you
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Speaker 5: stick around with us? Or are are you off to
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Speaker 5: other duties?
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Speaker 7: The only other duty I have so far as I
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Speaker 7: am again reviewing the year with Dave Wilson.
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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, so you're you're good to
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Speaker 5: stick through the break? Is that what you're saying? So, Brad, Brad,
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Speaker 5: are you okay to stay through the break with us? Okay,
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Speaker 5: Well we may have lost Brad. All right, Well we'll
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Speaker 5: keep the efforting Brad. We'll find out the answer to
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Speaker 5: that question. Maybe the squirrel's got him. All right, we'll
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17:00
Speaker 5: I seventy seven was shut down in Kanawa County this
17:03
Speaker 5: morning because of slick road conditions. Multiple crashes reported there
17:06
Speaker 5: rex reported from mile marker one eleven to one thirteen
17:09
Speaker 5: according to Metro, nine to one one according to deputies,
17:12
Speaker 5: Two vehicles wrecked in a hillside, one structor guard rail,
17:16
Speaker 5: and a rollover crash was reported. The deputies told WCCHS
17:20
Speaker 5: television no relation that the Division of Highways has been
17:23
Speaker 5: called to address road conditions not immediately known if travelers
17:26
Speaker 5: had been injured. They've not provided a timeline for when
17:29
Speaker 5: the interstate will open.
17:30
Speaker 3: That's where we are right.
17:31
Speaker 5: Now, and again, not a lot of snow out there
17:33
Speaker 5: at all. I mean even at dusting a little bit
17:35
Speaker 5: worse where I live in Putnam County than what it
17:38
Speaker 5: was when I got into Charleston, But there is. Any
17:41
Speaker 5: of the traffic folks will tell you there are more
17:43
Speaker 5: accidents when there is a half an inch of snow
17:46
Speaker 5: than when there are ten inches of snow because people
17:48
Speaker 5: just don't think about it and they just don't slow down.
17:51
Speaker 5: So that's an area outside as system bill this morning,
17:54
Speaker 5: Amelia Nicely from West Virginia, watch Steven Allen Adams from
17:57
Speaker 5: Ogden Newspapers. Brad mcilhanney is here, as we think, Brad.
18:00
Speaker 3: Are you still with us?
18:02
Speaker 13: Oh?
18:02
Speaker 7: Hi, I believe I am.
18:04
Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
18:05
Speaker 5: We had a question that somebody called in and we
18:08
Speaker 5: didn't put him on the air, but they had a question.
18:09
Speaker 5: Maybe one of you all can answer this. Do we
18:11
Speaker 5: have any updates on Andrew Wolfe's condition? If you guys
18:14
Speaker 5: heard anything in a while, Amelia, Stephen, I'll let Ameli
18:17
Speaker 5: I'll start with you. Any any updates that.
18:19
Speaker 3: We've heard lately, not lately.
18:21
Speaker 8: I feel like a week ago I saw another encouraging
18:24
Speaker 8: post from his family.
18:25
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the governor I think talked about it. Brad,
18:28
Speaker 3: do you have anything to update.
18:32
Speaker 7: You know now and then the adjutant General Jim Seward
18:35
Speaker 7: provides an update about Wolfe's condition, as does sometimes his
18:41
Speaker 7: mother on social media, and I think all have been
18:45
Speaker 7: positive signs. I mean, he's still in I think really
18:49
Speaker 7: serious shape, has a long word ahead of him, but
18:53
Speaker 7: it sounds like is continuing his recovery in physical rehabilitation's Stephen.
19:01
Speaker 10: I think the most recent update was posted yesterday by
19:06
Speaker 10: General Seward specific prayer requests for Andy. Priest joined me
19:10
Speaker 10: in praying for Andy while he's engaged in intensive rehab
19:13
Speaker 10: six hours a day, specifically for his speech and cognitive ability.
19:18
Speaker 10: So it looks to me like he is just on
19:21
Speaker 10: the rehabilitate rehabilitation train. Obviously long ways to go, but
19:27
Speaker 10: it does sound like there's improvement with every day, so
19:31
Speaker 10: that's wonderful to hear.
19:32
Speaker 5: All right, guys, Speaker Handshaw had the Republican Caucus of
19:38
Speaker 5: the House, you know, not long ago, they had two
19:39
Speaker 5: three weeks ago, had a press conference over they were saying,
19:41
Speaker 5: we are going to focus, uh, not so much on
19:44
Speaker 5: social issues, but on business issues.
19:46
Speaker 7: Now.
19:46
Speaker 5: It's not to say that things can't come up, because
19:48
Speaker 5: things do. But you know the House, and this was
19:50
Speaker 5: not the Senate.
19:50
Speaker 3: This was the House.
19:51
Speaker 5: We are focused on business, commerce, you know, all the things.
19:56
Speaker 5: Likelihood is we cross into the new year in a
19:58
Speaker 5: couple of weeks we begin session. Likelihood that that continues.
20:01
Speaker 5: Brad will start with you, Well.
20:05
Speaker 7: You know, I think one indicator has been the Governor
20:08
Speaker 7: Patrick Morrissey a couple of times has had press conferences
20:11
Speaker 7: emphasizing economic matters. I think it was a good idea
20:17
Speaker 7: by the House Speaker and the entire FUCUS to set
20:21
Speaker 7: a goal and to work toward it as the session begins,
20:25
Speaker 7: rather than just having things unstated. I think you're more
20:28
Speaker 7: likely to actually focus and then you know, we've heard
20:32
Speaker 7: I think very little from the Senate so far. You
20:35
Speaker 7: do have to get things through two chambers, so it's
20:38
Speaker 7: hard to tell when we finally hit the session what
20:42
Speaker 7: the emphasis truly will be.
20:44
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have the Lee Western jam Press Association has
20:47
Speaker 10: its Legislative look Ahead a week from Friday this Friday,
20:51
Speaker 10: where we'll hear from the House Speaker Hanshaw and Senate
20:55
Speaker 10: President Randy Smith, so we should get more of a
20:57
Speaker 10: view from the Senate side of things, hopefully where their
21:00
Speaker 10: heads are at what they plan to do. But yeah,
21:04
Speaker 10: I do think that the message has been received. There's
21:09
Speaker 10: been pulling that the Chamber of Commerce has done, other
21:11
Speaker 10: groups have done. People are interested in better economic conditions,
21:17
Speaker 10: or interested more jobs, or interested I kind of hate
21:20
Speaker 10: the use of this buzz word now, but but but
21:25
Speaker 10: I mean, but it's true though, I mean, affordability is
21:27
Speaker 10: a broad phrase. But people are interested in those types
21:30
Speaker 10: of issues. And sure there will be some that tried
21:32
Speaker 10: to push some social issues. I think State Cenator my
21:35
Speaker 10: Cage Singers is going to probably bold across to every
21:38
Speaker 10: school in the state by the time the legislative session's done.
21:41
Speaker 10: But otherwise, I do think the focus is primarily going
21:44
Speaker 10: to be on improving economic conditions.
21:48
Speaker 12: I agree, I don't think.
21:50
Speaker 8: I do think the House will have that focus because
21:52
Speaker 8: you look at who's in some of the leadership positions
21:54
Speaker 8: in the House, like Delegate jb Acres, even Delegate Warrel
21:58
Speaker 8: who's over the House Health Committee. They aren't usually pushing
22:01
Speaker 8: social issues, even if they might agree with some of
22:03
Speaker 8: those things. So I don't think the House is really
22:06
Speaker 8: going to stray from that. I mean, you never know,
22:07
Speaker 8: it's an election, Ye're right, But I think it's what
22:10
Speaker 8: happens after those bills leave that chamber.
22:12
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean there was not the best.
22:15
Speaker 8: Vibes between the Senate and House last year, or the
22:18
Speaker 8: Legislature and the governor, and so I think it just
22:20
Speaker 8: it's more going to be what happens when that bill
22:22
Speaker 8: leaves the House and how does it go.
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Speaker 3: Menumeil, y'all want to start with you on.
22:38
Speaker 5: The foster care situation. And unfortunately, you know, just like
22:42
Speaker 5: there's two things foster care Peia and they kind of
22:46
Speaker 5: they seem to be side by side A and B
22:49
Speaker 5: or should I say six seven? I mean, don't please, don't.
22:52
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
22:53
Speaker 5: Every now and then I throw something out that makes
22:55
Speaker 5: Ryan just scratch his head, you know, but these two things,
23:01
Speaker 5: it seems like this time last year we probably sat
23:05
Speaker 5: here and said what about foster care and PI.
23:09
Speaker 3: Take it from there.
23:10
Speaker 8: I mean, so I think coming into this session, what
23:13
Speaker 8: is a little bit different is that you have a
23:14
Speaker 8: governor who has vowed changes to the foster care system.
23:18
Speaker 8: And that's not to say that Governor Justice didn't want
23:20
Speaker 8: those things or didn't bring them up, but Governor Morrissey
23:23
Speaker 8: has held now two press conferences specifically calling for foster
23:27
Speaker 8: care reform. He just rolled out a plan to bring
23:30
Speaker 8: about three hundred kids from out of state back in
23:32
Speaker 8: state who are in facilities.
23:34
Speaker 12: We haven't really seen.
23:35
Speaker 8: That focus from a governor, you know, in the last
23:37
Speaker 8: few years. Then you have a group of lawmakers who
23:40
Speaker 8: have already introduced close to fifteen bills about foster care.
23:43
Speaker 8: So we're heading into the session, I think with a
23:46
Speaker 8: very strong focus on this issue. I think the question
23:51
Speaker 8: marks moving forward are money. A lot of these ideas
23:54
Speaker 8: take money. This is not a legislature that has been
23:56
Speaker 8: a fan of spending extra money. Lawmakers are hoping that
24:00
Speaker 8: they can draw down some federal dollars to fix problems
24:03
Speaker 8: like CPS not enough CPS workers, or their caseloads are
24:06
Speaker 8: too high, or they want to put body cameras on
24:08
Speaker 8: CPS workers. Right, They have all these ideas, so I
24:10
Speaker 8: think that's something to move forward. And then also the
24:13
Speaker 8: Department of Human Services has to buy into the legislation,
24:16
Speaker 8: and I've already been told they're not a fan of
24:18
Speaker 8: most of these bills. And to be fair, sometimes lawmakers
24:23
Speaker 8: don't always know how to fix foster care right. But
24:25
Speaker 8: also there has to be collaboration between the branches for
24:28
Speaker 8: things to really work, not blame, not shoving it aside,
24:31
Speaker 8: not saying we'll fix that, don't worry about it, and
24:33
Speaker 8: then they don't.
24:34
Speaker 12: So I think that's going to be the.
24:35
Speaker 10: Thing to PIA specifically. I think whatever they end up
24:39
Speaker 10: doing with PIA, if they do anything, I'm convinced that
24:42
Speaker 10: they may not do anything. But if they do anything,
24:46
Speaker 10: I think they'll make some tweaks, maybe to the spousal
24:48
Speaker 10: search art issue, because that's obviously going up. It has
24:53
Speaker 10: to go up because state code requires it to go
24:56
Speaker 10: up and change based on certain set of metrics whatnot.
25:00
Speaker 10: And the only way you can change that is the
25:02
Speaker 10: legislature going in and tweaking that. I could see them
25:04
Speaker 10: freezing that or someone trying to offer legislation to maybe
25:07
Speaker 10: freeze that to keep it from going up for one
25:09
Speaker 10: more year. But beyond that, I think whatever they do
25:13
Speaker 10: is going to be around the edges.
25:15
Speaker 5: Well, and one thing on the show last week, guys,
25:17
Speaker 5: I had Delegate Andy Shamblin on, and he's in a
25:19
Speaker 5: unique position because he's not only a legislator, but he's
25:21
Speaker 5: also a teacher, a teacher at Nighter High School. And
25:24
Speaker 5: of course they just went through that tragedy there when
25:27
Speaker 5: the student took his own life. That students' parents have
25:30
Speaker 5: gone public and said, you know, to try to warn
25:32
Speaker 5: other parents about these science and things of that nature.
25:35
Speaker 5: And I think the term we talked about terms at
25:38
Speaker 5: this time of year, it's a relatively new term the last.
25:41
Speaker 3: Couple of years, sextortion.
25:43
Speaker 5: This story has gotten nationwide attention because unfortunately, not only
25:49
Speaker 5: happens here, and this kind of happens all over the world.
25:51
Speaker 3: Any possibility because.
25:53
Speaker 5: Andy Shamlin, who is a teacher and a legislator, seemed
25:55
Speaker 5: to be on the show last week very very adamant, guys,
25:58
Speaker 5: that we're going to take a look at something here,
26:01
Speaker 5: a code change or something.
26:02
Speaker 3: Brad, do you have anything on that.
26:06
Speaker 7: No, I mean, I think it's hard in the right place,
26:11
Speaker 7: you know. To me, what is necessary is for kids
26:15
Speaker 7: who are going through something like that to feel comfortable
26:19
Speaker 7: revealing it to their parents or to the police or whoever.
26:22
Speaker 7: And that's it's a big ask because you know it
26:26
Speaker 7: works on embarrassment and humiliation.
26:29
Speaker 8: Senator Chapman, who's over the Senate Health Committee, also has
26:32
Speaker 8: a focus on this issue.
26:34
Speaker 12: So I think this is one bill where we could see.
26:36
Speaker 8: I think companion bills in the House and Senate move forward,
26:39
Speaker 8: so I do think this is an issue we'll see.
26:41
Speaker 10: I'd also point out the Delegate Chamblain Courses also on
26:43
Speaker 10: the House Judiciary Committee as well. Liked delegate has good
26:47
Speaker 10: relationship with with Chairman Acres, so I'd say this has
26:51
Speaker 10: some real shoulders behind it to make it happen.
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Speaker 3: Now let's talk about it. You mentioned it. Twenty twenty
27:08
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27:09
Speaker 5: I had State Democratic Party chair in deligate Mike Pushkin
27:12
Speaker 5: on the Metro News midday program yesterday, and he had
27:14
Speaker 5: told me he had been all of the state and
27:16
Speaker 5: on the phone and on the zoom machine, you know,
27:18
Speaker 5: talking with prospective candidates about running that had The Democrats
27:22
Speaker 5: are very very serious. They see some inroads in West Virginia,
27:25
Speaker 5: mainly because of what some would say would be some
27:29
Speaker 5: infighting among Republicans. I think it's pretty ambitious. As much
27:33
Speaker 5: as I like Mike Pushkin personally, I think it's very
27:36
Speaker 5: ambitious to think that he'll be able to put somebody
27:39
Speaker 5: in all those positions run and that they'll have a
27:41
Speaker 5: legitimate shot at running. But let's talk about the Republicans
27:47
Speaker 5: for a moment. We've had more and more people in
27:51
Speaker 5: some very strong Republican areas on the come out said
27:54
Speaker 5: they're going to run in the primary against other Republicans.
27:56
Speaker 5: Now that wasn't it was that way with Democrats, but
27:58
Speaker 5: always wasn't always that way with Republicans. Is that in
28:02
Speaker 5: any of you, Guessteve, I'll start with you. Is is
28:04
Speaker 5: that a sign that there's issues or is that a
28:07
Speaker 5: sign that we're the controlling party and everybody wants a
28:10
Speaker 5: piece of it and then we're doing well well.
28:12
Speaker 10: I do think it is a sign that there are
28:15
Speaker 10: some fractures within the Republican Party in the state and
28:19
Speaker 10: Republican elected officials. I liking that the light red versus
28:22
Speaker 10: dark red. Light red being who you would consider to
28:25
Speaker 10: be your traditional Republicans pre Donald Trump Chamber of Commerce
28:31
Speaker 10: style Republicans that are into certain social issues but on
28:34
Speaker 10: the fringes, on the edges. But then you've got the
28:37
Speaker 10: dark red, which are going to be more of the
28:39
Speaker 10: far right, new right maga right types that are going
28:44
Speaker 10: to take a harder stance and are going to be
28:47
Speaker 10: kind of liberal on some issues that traditionally Republicans aren't
28:51
Speaker 10: really on, like, for example, like tort reform and stuff
28:54
Speaker 10: like that, and doing some issue trying to pull out
28:57
Speaker 10: some of those tort reform issues. So I think you're
28:59
Speaker 10: seeing that fight play out. A lot of the candidates
29:02
Speaker 10: that they recruited, especially in the Senate on the Republican side,
29:05
Speaker 10: are meant to take on some of the more conservative
29:08
Speaker 10: members that have kind of come the leadership positions in
29:10
Speaker 10: that body. So that's the fight I think you're seeing.
29:16
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I mean, I think what we've seen for
29:19
Speaker 7: the last five years or so, maybe longer has been
29:23
Speaker 7: has been conflicts among the supermajorities themselves. You know what
29:30
Speaker 7: kind of what brand of Republican are you? And it's
29:32
Speaker 7: it's been more that than than fights between Republicans and Democrats.
29:38
Speaker 7: And I mean until Democrats make more inroads, that's that's
29:42
Speaker 7: going to continue. And it's reflected in the closed primaries
29:46
Speaker 7: that Republicans are about to embark on. You know, that's
29:50
Speaker 7: that's a sign that the in fighting, I think, and.
29:53
Speaker 5: The Republicans last year at their convention, guys, they came
29:57
Speaker 5: out and they closed Brad alude to they closed primary.
30:00
Speaker 5: So if you're a registered independent, you know, used to
30:04
Speaker 5: go in be able to go in and say I
30:05
Speaker 5: want to I'm a registered independent, but I want a
30:07
Speaker 5: Republican or I want a Democrat.
30:09
Speaker 8: Bow.
30:09
Speaker 5: The Republicans have said no to that. Their argument that
30:11
Speaker 5: got this, the people that got this passed. Their argument was,
30:14
Speaker 5: if you're a Republican, then you should register as a Republican.
30:17
Speaker 5: If you're a Democrat, you should register as a Democrat.
30:19
Speaker 5: I said that, I think that's going to hurt the Republicans.
30:22
Speaker 5: Some people agree, some people don't agree. I think that
30:25
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party is and Pushkin and others have come
30:29
Speaker 5: out and said, look, you they this is their imaging.
30:32
Speaker 5: This is not what I'm saying. Their imaging has been Look,
30:34
Speaker 5: they don't want you. You're welcome to to come over
30:38
Speaker 5: to us. Do you think there'll be any impact come
30:40
Speaker 5: the primary election.
30:41
Speaker 3: Amelia, I do.
30:42
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know that I have a really
30:45
Speaker 8: good prediction, but I do think we'll see an impact
30:47
Speaker 8: on it, especially with this infighting with the Republicans. I
30:50
Speaker 8: think if this had been done a few years ago,
30:54
Speaker 8: maybe it wouldn't have mattered that much. But now with
30:56
Speaker 8: this fracture that's really visible in the party, I think
30:59
Speaker 8: it'll be interesting. We also have a new voter ID
31:02
Speaker 8: law going into effect before this next election, where you
31:05
Speaker 8: have to have what a driver's a government ID.
31:08
Speaker 9: And we were one photo idea.
31:10
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, and so now like your Medicaid card and
31:13
Speaker 8: some other forms of ID that maybe elderly voters which
31:16
Speaker 8: were a very elderly state would have used to vote,
31:19
Speaker 8: are not going to work. And we were told on
31:22
Speaker 8: the House floor that that, you know, these county clerks
31:25
Speaker 8: can print these new IDs.
31:27
Speaker 12: I would like to verify that's actually something I want
31:29
Speaker 12: to work on.
31:29
Speaker 5: I can tell you, I can tell you I'll go
31:31
Speaker 5: a little inside Baseball Here full disclosure. Steve and I
31:34
Speaker 5: both will spent time in a Secretary of State's office.
31:36
Speaker 5: I can tell you when the vote. The voter ID
31:38
Speaker 5: law went into effect in twenty eighteen. The first time
31:41
Speaker 5: it was used was in the Roads to Prosperity election. Yeah,
31:44
Speaker 5: you could at that time go to your county clerk's
31:46
Speaker 5: office and you could request a free photo ID because
31:50
Speaker 5: I know, because some of us had to go on
31:52
Speaker 5: the road and and put those cameras out there, and
31:56
Speaker 5: they were absolutely free at that point. Very few people
32:00
Speaker 5: we took them up on it, very few people. Most
32:01
Speaker 5: people that came into the county clerk's office said well,
32:04
Speaker 5: I just want another photo ID, and then they had
32:05
Speaker 5: to explain to him, well, this is only for voting.
32:08
Speaker 5: This is not going to get you your ability to
32:10
Speaker 5: get a hotel room or sorry.
32:11
Speaker 2: Right.
32:12
Speaker 8: And I had seen a news story, I think in
32:14
Speaker 8: Hancock County months ago that they got a grant to
32:16
Speaker 8: get the machine to make these voto ideas. So it
32:18
Speaker 8: got me thinking like, well who else needs a grant
32:20
Speaker 8: to get those?
32:20
Speaker 2: Right?
32:21
Speaker 12: So anyway, I just I'm not saying that I'll have
32:23
Speaker 12: a massive effect, but I.
32:24
Speaker 8: Think the closed primary the voter, right, like, there's some
32:26
Speaker 8: things that play in this election that'll be interesting.
32:28
Speaker 3: So even you want to follow up on that.
32:29
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think she's right, and I think look, I mean,
32:33
Speaker 10: Trump nationwide is not popular, but he remains popular in West.
32:37
Speaker 3: Virginia, and zero signed that that's changing in West Virginia.
32:40
Speaker 10: Not no change of that in the state of West Virginia.
32:42
Speaker 10: But do I think, particularly you're more urban parts of
32:46
Speaker 10: the state that Democrats can take maybe one or two
32:49
Speaker 10: House seats, maybe take a Senate seat, perhaps up in
32:53
Speaker 10: the Montegalia Marion County corridor.
32:56
Speaker 9: I think it's possible.
32:57
Speaker 10: I think you might see a few Democratic pickups, not
32:59
Speaker 10: a lot, not enough to break up the super majority
33:01
Speaker 10: and the Republicans, but enough the where it might make
33:05
Speaker 10: somebody raise a few eyebrows.
33:07
Speaker 12: I think that's this election.
33:08
Speaker 8: A Democrat candidate described it to me as a lightning
33:11
Speaker 8: and a bottle moment, and I would agree with that.
33:13
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's no Trump on the ticket or a JD.
33:16
Speaker 8: Vans, I think, and people are very frustrated with national politics,
33:21
Speaker 8: local politics.
33:21
Speaker 12: Why can I not afford my grocery bill?
33:23
Speaker 8: And so those things along with this closed primary, all
33:26
Speaker 8: these things might play in Temacris well.
33:28
Speaker 5: And I'll kind of close with this and Brad, I'll
33:30
Speaker 5: give you an opportunity to wag in this as well.
33:32
Speaker 5: In talking to Pushkin on the mid Day Show yesterday,
33:35
Speaker 5: I said, you know, as a marketing from a marketing perspective,
33:38
Speaker 5: to go in and convince somebody who may be very
33:40
Speaker 5: very strong in their beliefs, you know that I'm a
33:45
Speaker 5: Democrat and I want to run. What they're going to
33:47
Speaker 5: do when they go into some of these areas and
33:49
Speaker 5: they knock on doors and a lot of questions because
33:52
Speaker 5: I've been there, I've seen it, a lot of questions
33:54
Speaker 5: are going to be Okay, you're a registered Democrat, how
33:56
Speaker 5: do you feel about Trump?
33:57
Speaker 3: And when you.
33:58
Speaker 5: Go into some of these hollers and West Virginia, as
34:01
Speaker 5: soon as you say, well, I'm not really a door
34:03
Speaker 5: slams because that's where West Virginia is right now, and
34:06
Speaker 5: it's it's rough. And push Can admitted that on show
34:09
Speaker 5: it's going to be rough to try to convince people
34:10
Speaker 5: to run. Although he says they're doing a good job
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Speaker 5: and I believe him on that, but to to you know,
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Speaker 5: over the last couple of years to say, I am
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Speaker 3: Brad, your thoughts on that, and we'll and then and
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Speaker 3: then we'll let you go. How's that? And and I've
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Speaker 7: Well. You know, I would say the most important election
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Speaker 7: this spring in West Virginia is actually non partisan. There
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Speaker 7: has been a move to try to make those partisan races.
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Speaker 7: But they are non partisan for now, two out of
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Speaker 7: I really think it should be.
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Speaker 9: It should be.
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Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. We'll close with that. Brad.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, and I hope you and the
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 5: I know you're gonna be on talk line with Wilson
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Speaker 5: It is New Year's Eve, though a lot of people
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Speaker 5: are going to be out celebrating, some of us on
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Speaker 5: our couches, checking out about ten and hopefully waking up
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Speaker 5: town to see the ball drop at midnight. But others
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Speaker 5: to drive home after they've had a few too many
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Speaker 5: and with the projected snowfall tonight, just all around never
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Speaker 5: a good idea of but especially when you add a
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Speaker 5: little snow and ice. So it started to Jeremy Burns
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Speaker 5: from the Kanawh County Sheriff's Partment's here and he joins us.
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Speaker 3: Now good morning, sir, and welcome to the show.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, good to be here.
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Speaker 5: First of all, I talked earlier about this traffic situation
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Speaker 5: on I seventy seven around Cistonville, and I know that
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Speaker 5: when you leave here, I think you're gonna go and
39:21
Speaker 5: try to help those guys out up there. There's slick
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Speaker 5: conditions out there this morning. Not a lot of snow,
39:26
Speaker 5: but there's slick conditions out there, and you guys are
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Speaker 5: on it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I've been in contact with the news all morning, and
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Speaker 4: I've actually lost count of the number of recks we've
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Speaker 4: actually had where we have deputies working accidents with accidents
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Speaker 4: happening right beside them. Yeah, so it's pretty bad up there.
39:38
Speaker 4: They have I believe the south Found lane shut down
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Speaker 4: right now. Yeah, just wait on DH show up and
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Speaker 4: salt the roads.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna get better a little bit later on
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Speaker 5: to the day because we're gonna get a little sunshine
39:46
Speaker 5: actually warm up to around four thirty seven forty degrees
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Speaker 5: wearing in general neighborhood. All right, it should be a
39:51
Speaker 5: no brainer, you know, to tell people don't drink and drive,
39:54
Speaker 5: but people do it, and they do it, not just
39:56
Speaker 5: on New Year's Eve, they do it year round. But
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Speaker 5: adding to the fact tonight we are going to have
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Speaker 5: some snow roll in they say after night or ten
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Speaker 5: ocloss couldn't make it even worse. Your advice to people
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Speaker 5: if they're heading out tonight, First.
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Speaker 4: And foremost, we want you to have fun, go out
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Speaker 4: and enjoy New Year's Eve, celebrate, hang out with your friends.
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Speaker 4: But we want you to be responsible. We want you
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Speaker 4: to be safe, and more importantly, we just want to
40:16
Speaker 4: make sure you're not drinking and driving.
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Speaker 5: And what about do you have extra patrols out tonight
40:21
Speaker 5: or I mean, here's the thing. Anytime I talk to
40:23
Speaker 5: anybody from the Kenaw County Sheriff's apart, but I mean,
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Speaker 5: Connaw County is a big old county. I mean it's
40:28
Speaker 5: really it really is huge. And uh, but you're bringing
40:31
Speaker 5: an extra patrol.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, we're gonna put six additional deputies out this evening.
40:34
Speaker 4: And the whole reason for them being out is to
40:37
Speaker 4: target impair driving, right.
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Speaker 5: And what I mean I don't want to give away
40:42
Speaker 5: trade secrets here, but I mean, what as a police officer,
40:47
Speaker 5: how do I mean do you do you there's signs
40:49
Speaker 5: obviously that you look for, but you know, you know,
40:52
Speaker 5: you're veering from lane to lane something like that. Officer,
40:56
Speaker 5: what are you looking at.
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Speaker 4: When you're impaired. You have a hard time first and
40:59
Speaker 4: foremost keeping your car. You've heard between the lines, that's
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Speaker 4: when you're going over the center line, going over the
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Speaker 4: white line on your right. You have people that drive
41:05
Speaker 4: the wrong speed limit. They'll drive twenty miles slower they
41:09
Speaker 4: probably should be, or twenty miles faster. So there's a
41:11
Speaker 4: lot of things that factor into that. But we do
41:13
Speaker 4: our traffic stop. We go and talk to the driver.
41:16
Speaker 4: We look for certain signs. We look for, you know,
41:18
Speaker 4: the odor of alcohol. We look at your bloodshot eyes,
41:21
Speaker 4: and if those symptoms are there, then we I show
41:23
Speaker 4: a step out and do a few field.
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Speaker 5: Spready, if you are, and I'm not trying to give
41:27
Speaker 5: away you know, if this is how you get by
41:28
Speaker 5: with it, that's not what I'm trying to do at all.
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Speaker 3: Don't don't read me wrong. But if you are.
41:32
Speaker 5: If someone who's had a few drinks at a New
41:34
Speaker 5: Year's Eve party or any time and they get pulled over,
41:37
Speaker 5: is it better to just say Okay, I made a
41:41
Speaker 5: mistake here.
41:42
Speaker 3: I mean, it's always better to be honest yeah, front
41:45
Speaker 3: with the officer.
41:46
Speaker 4: But when it comes to New Year's Eve and it
41:48
Speaker 4: comes to impaired driving, we don't show any tolerance. Right,
41:51
Speaker 4: if you're impaired and you're putting other people's lives in danger,
41:54
Speaker 4: you're going up in handcuffs.
41:55
Speaker 5: Heis well, and it's not just about you. And sometimes,
41:59
Speaker 5: you know, you could see situations where someone is you
42:03
Speaker 5: may think that you're okay. Well, what if somebody that
42:05
Speaker 5: is sober crashes into you and and you're intoxic, you
42:09
Speaker 5: can still be charged. I mean even though you weren't
42:11
Speaker 5: necessarily the person that caused the accident.
42:13
Speaker 4: You cannot operate a motor vehicle compaired whatsoever. So whether
42:17
Speaker 4: you're a cause for the accident or not, if you're
42:19
Speaker 4: involved in that, it looks like it's your fault.
42:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred pent.
42:22
Speaker 5: Bottom line is is you know, as you said, sergeant
42:25
Speaker 5: and you were talking with Sergeant Sergeant jam By Burns
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Speaker 5: the Kana County Sheriff's Department, if you want to go
42:29
Speaker 5: out and have fun, if you are going to have
42:31
Speaker 5: a few or one even get a designated driver, put
42:35
Speaker 5: a diet coke in somebody's hand, or a water or whatever,
42:38
Speaker 5: and and.
42:39
Speaker 3: Just and don't take that.
42:40
Speaker 5: And there's too many options out there now, you know,
42:43
Speaker 5: than what there were fifteen twenty years ago, because you know,
42:45
Speaker 5: everybody's got Lyft and Uber and things of that nature,
42:48
Speaker 5: so there's there's just so many options out there.
42:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you plan on going out this evening, go
42:52
Speaker 4: ahead and download your Uber app. Go ahead and download lyfts,
42:54
Speaker 4: set up your accounts, get the app ready, and if
42:57
Speaker 4: you feel like you've had too much this evening, call
42:59
Speaker 4: that Uber.
42:59
Speaker 5: To And sometimes there will be those people that it
43:03
Speaker 5: sneaks up on you. You're to kind of go I
43:04
Speaker 5: thought it was okay, but I'm not. Now, don't take
43:07
Speaker 5: the chance. I mean, if you have a question, even
43:09
Speaker 5: if you don't, just just simply don't take the chance.
43:10
Speaker 5: And it puts if you go out to a bar
43:13
Speaker 5: type setting or some sort of a party, We've seen
43:16
Speaker 5: cases sometimes when even even the people that are serving
43:19
Speaker 5: them could be charged. So you know, just the bottom
43:21
Speaker 5: line is just just be safe or just stay home.
43:23
Speaker 3: And you could also do that as well.
43:25
Speaker 4: Yes, say it home is definitely the safest idea, but
43:28
Speaker 4: just know your limits. You know, know how much you
43:30
Speaker 4: can have and when you feel like you're hitting that stop.
43:33
Speaker 4: Sober up for a while before you go out and drive.
43:35
Speaker 5: All right, Stars Jeremy Burns, Kennaugh County Sheriff's Apartment. Be
43:38
Speaker 5: careful out there yourself, and also on that situation where
43:41
Speaker 5: the roads will kind of slick up on seventy seven
43:42
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43:43
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Speaker 5: in tonight Live anchor Manda Baron and me coming up
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Speaker 5: at noon today. I had a text here to the
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Speaker 5: show and I want to address just real quick, and
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Speaker 5: it said, continued Prayer's Dave, if you were listening to
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Speaker 5: the Metro News Midday show yesterday, and I'm a person
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Speaker 5: that kind of lives my life out in the open.
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Speaker 5: I talked about this on Metro News Midday yesterday, but
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Speaker 5: just in case you may have missed it, not trying
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Speaker 5: to get sympathy or anything like that, just throwing it
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Speaker 5: out there. I've I got a couple of health issues.
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Speaker 5: I'm not planning on checking out anytime soon, but I
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Speaker 5: did how to check up with the doctor and they
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Speaker 5: were concerned about my my PSA levels, and so I
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Speaker 5: kind of, you know, didn't do what I should as
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Speaker 5: far as a follow up appointment, and I went back
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Speaker 5: for a check and they said, well, guess what, They've
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Speaker 5: gone up even more.
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Speaker 3: So I've started this series of you know.
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Speaker 5: Trying to get it, you know, checked out about a
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Speaker 5: pretty high percentage rate that it probably is is cancer.
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Speaker 5: And I'm okay with that because just got to start
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Speaker 5: the treatment or whatever the treatment is.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 5: I go in next Thursday and I will not be
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Speaker 5: on either show. Next Thursday. I will go in for
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Speaker 5: a for a BIOPSYE and we'll kind of see where
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Speaker 5: we are from there.
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Speaker 3: But I appreciate I I put it on.
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Speaker 5: So I mean it's social media official, as the kids
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Speaker 5: would say on a couple of times, and did a
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Speaker 5: post about it Monday. They got a lot of phone
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Speaker 5: calls and texts and things of that nature and people
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Speaker 5: well wishers.
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Speaker 3: And bottom line is is that it's if it is,
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Speaker 3: it's very treatable.
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Speaker 5: It's very and some I've done a lot of research,
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Speaker 5: talking to various people, talking to my medical professionals.
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Speaker 3: In some cases they don't do anything at all.
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Speaker 5: They just monitor it. Other cases they there may be
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Speaker 5: surgery or radiation, or there may be they're doing this
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Speaker 5: thing with seeds now which I don't even want to
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Speaker 5: go there the ability to grow cabbage in places that
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Speaker 5: I don't want to grow it. But anyway, so may
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Speaker 5: look into that, may not look into anything at all,
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Speaker 5: but the but the bottom line is is I'm only
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Speaker 5: The only reason I even put it on the air
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Speaker 5: and on social media to begin with was to tell
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Speaker 5: people that you got to take care of yourself. And
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Speaker 5: I have been one that has been very, very guilty
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Speaker 5: of not doing as much.
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Speaker 3: So I Millie Snyder would be proud.
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Speaker 5: I've still standaluz a little bit more, but I've lost
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Speaker 5: about thirty pounds over the last six to eight months
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Speaker 5: and working on it. As the late great Chris Ria
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Speaker 5: would say, And those of you that are obscure music
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Speaker 5: fans know who Chris Raya.
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Speaker 3: Is working on it. We got this all right.
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Speaker 5: No local show tomorrow or Friday. I'll be back on Monday.
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Speaker 5: Charleston Mayor Amy Stuler Goodwin in studio to give a
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Speaker 5: preview of her State of the City address, and also
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Speaker 5: Dandy Jones will join us on Monday. No Metro News
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Speaker 5: solo on Friday, but I'll be back with Amanda later
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