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teaming up with Astorgatto for that, and on the second segment of the show
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today, we'll be joined by Lieutenant David Payne and the Charleston Police Department,
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and also we'll be joined by some folks from Astrogatto to talk about that.
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All right, So now that we set the stage for you, this one
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to welcome into the show Jessica Hall. She's the director of communications for Hospice
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Care in the area. Their fortieth annual Love Light Tree season is here.
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Jessa, Good, good morning, and welcome to the show. Thank you,
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Dave, good morning, Thank you for being here tell us about this
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program. Yeah, so, Hospice Here's biggest fundraiser is our Love Light season.
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People love it because we hang ornaments in honor and memory of loved ones,
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usually patients that we've had, but it can be an honor and memory
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of anyone. And we're celebrating forty years this year with a fortieth anniversary tree
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at Holly Jolly Brawley. And we also have our usual standing trees at Capital
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Market, at the United Bank and the Main Lobby and at the Hubbard House,
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so people can just purchase a decorative item for the tree or how does
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it work. We actually have our own ornaments that will put okay, loving
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memory of your loved one's name on there. And we have paper ornaments at
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the Market and at the United Bank, and we have a QR code ornament
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that's hanging on our Holly Jolly Brawley tree, So you can go right up
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to it, scan one of those ornaments and make your donation right there and
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we will go and hang your ornaments on our tree. I mean, you
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can't beat that. I mean, who need work for And for forty years
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this has been going on. Now obviously you haven't been a part of over
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forty years. But I mean, do you know anything about the beginnings of
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this, about how it all started. People who patients that we've served in
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their families, they were looking for a way to honor their loved ones,
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especially around this season career. Christmas sometimes can be a hard time if you've
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recently lost a loved one. Even if you haven't recently lost one, that
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reflection of the whole that they have left when you're celebrating with family can be
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hard. So the Love Light Season is a way to just bring a little
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light and honor and remember and share stories about a loved one. Talk about
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again, we're talking with Jessica Hall, who's the director of communications for Hospice
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carry in the area. Talk about the overall work of hospice care. So,
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hospice is such a wonderful service. We are truly there to hold the
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family's hand, the patient's hand, to make sure that everyone has dignity and
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peace and comfort in their final times. That's not just again for the patient,
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it's for the families as well. You and I were talking about this
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before the show. The fami emilies sometimes are in need of the collective hospice
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care work. Even more than the patients are, absolutely and we are happy
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to provide it. We have counselors, volunteers, social workers, CNAs,
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nurses, physicians and all of that is there to support the patient and the
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family. And in fact, our bereavement services for the family start before the
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death of a loved one and go full on throughout the year after the growth
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one has passed. I'm very interested in that talk about how that works.
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Okay, somebody has been deemed you know, they always say hospice has been
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called in or however you want to do the wording on that kind of what
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is said during those services and as far as the preparation goes trying to prepare
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the family for the loss of mom or dad or grandma or whoever. Absolutely,
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So, you know, when we talk about death, we often talk
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about the fact that people aren't necessarily afraid of dying, but they're afraid of
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dying process. There's a lot of things that change in the dying process mentally,
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physically, and it can be very difficult for a family to witness those
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changes in their loved one. So when hospice is called in, and hopefully
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sooner rather than later, because the sooner that we can get in there the
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longer. We have that support for your page, for your loved one and
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for the family, and we come in and we make sure that all the
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medical equipment that you have you have access to it all. We help with
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prescriptions, running errands, we help monitor comfort, and we help. We
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are our social workers that can help with legal matters and helping with finding appropriate
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home care, help if you need twenty four hour care. Our counselors are
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in there to help families talk through grief. We have and in fact,
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our Walls Center we offer bereavement and counseling services to the entire community. Talking
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about the Wallace Center, Yeah, so the Wallace Center Wallas Grief and Education
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Center is actually connected to our administration office now on the West Side, and
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we host therapy and counseling groups throughout the week, multiples throughout the week,
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and some of them are with families of patients who have passed. But they
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are open to the community and in fact, we're often called in if there
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is a need at a school or a business, we'll be called in to
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help facilitate counseling there. Talking again with Jessica Hall, the director of Communications
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Love Light Program. This thing has just gotten so huge, Jessica, over
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the years, it's kind of become a part of the of the Christmas season
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with Holly Jolly, brawling, with everything else going on. Charleston. Absolutely,
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Like I said, it's this time of year is one of It can
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be a hard time for people who have lost a loved one, but we
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have been able just like we try and flip the idea of how you think
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about hospice. Hospice is about living to the max for whatever time you have
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left. It's about dignity and love and peace and comfort and celebrating life and
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affirming life. And we like to do our Lovelight Tree season to help people
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find that hope and that love once again when they're remembering a loved one.
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Where can people learn more about the program. They can visit us at HOSPICECAREWV
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dot org. You can learn about all of our programs, including hospice Care,
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palliative Care, and our new home health program. They can learn about
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our events, including our Lovelight fundraiser, and they can scare QR code ornaments
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over at Holly Jolly Braley. I mean, that's just so cool to me
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right there. That again, when you bring the family out to Holly Jolly
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Braley, you got the QR code. You just take your phone out and
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you got auto mact with make a donation and they know that the donation is
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going. We don't turn anyone away who acquires our service. Most no one
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pays out of pocket. Most hospices covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance.
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If there are expenses, they're all covered through our donations and our fundraisers.
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Well, Jessica again. Jessica Hall is the director of Communications for Hospice
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Care. The forty Dannuel Love Light Tree season is here once again. Give
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us the website again and for more information, it is Hospicecare WV dot org.
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All right, Jessica, we'll talk again in the new year. Merry
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and astorg Otto of Charleston's Toy Drive. Rob King of astorg Otto and LIEUTENA.
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David Paine from the Charleston Police Department are here. Gentlemen, Good morning,
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how are you? Good morning morning, and thank you for being here.
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Guys. I appreciate you being here one day away from the start of
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this thing, and you can jump in at any time I get anything wrong.
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Here Day one, day two, of course, both days at the
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Bennichuetan parking lot of one hundred Corriier Street in Charleston. Lieutenant Paine, let's
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start with you, why exactly is the Charleston Police Department involved in this Well,
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it started really four years ago. We usually do shop with the COP
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and during COVID, basically we didn't have any The FOP didn't have the fund
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to provide for that shop with the COP that year. So I basically went
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to the chief and said, hey, listen, I'd like to have a
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toy drive because I never wanted to go a year without providing toys for the
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kids. And basically I said, hey, I would like to have a
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toy drive. I like to put our truck out and basically just collect toys.
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I was just thinking for just a few kids, you know. He
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said, let's roll with it, and uh, Basically, one thing led
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to another. Contacted some friends at Low's. During the Cassie Johnson funeral,
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we were sitting. I was sitting at the window of the Minnie Keaton parking
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lot and all our blue lights were on. So reminded me of Christmas,
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and I say this, this will be a perfect place basically to have our
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toy drive because it just lit up so well. So I contacted Low's some
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friends at Low's and they provided some bouncy houses and some lights. At that
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time, Rob King had called me and they said they had some money they'd
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like to donate. This is Astorgatto correct, and that provided us the money
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the first year really to really kick this thing off. How many years ago
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was this again, it was basically four years ago. Yeah, this is
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our fourth annual CPD Wonderland Toy Drive and this has just expanded then. This
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last year we were able to provide toys for seven hundred and fifty children and
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this year we'd like to break that and hopefully provide a thousand, a round
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number a thous right, right, So it's it's really grown and it's really
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our way of giving back to the community. That's why we provide the Wonderland
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for the kids to come. Everything is free there. We'll have bouncy houses
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provided by Quantum Sports, We'll have cocoa intreats for the kids Santah, We'll
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have a little present for the kids that that come. And also Chick fil
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A has provided us with one hundred and fifty be our guest cards for the
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first one hundred and fifty people that drop off a new toy. Yeah,
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that's good stuff. I mean, when you rob bu king again from Astorgatto,
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why why is asstor Gatto involved in this rub? Basically when we have
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you come a little bit closer to my troll officer, Cassie Johnson, was
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there a tragedy. Our owner came downstairs and he was like, I want
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to do something to get back to the police officers that are really hurting right
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now. So I got in contact with David Pain and that's kind of grown
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from there. One of my good friends, Scott ellis wins al Co Mechanical.
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He also always matted just whatever astorg Atto does. Okay, he kind
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of silently does an awful lot of stuff in the community, but he wanted
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to also provide. So each year we have that to start with, and
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then different people in clients all donate stuff throughout the process. And you mentioned
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this, and I know I've known Lieutenant Paine for some time, but I
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know he's kind of a shy and humble guy when it comes to this kind
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of stuff. But you said to me Rob before we went on the gear,
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that this was a vision that others had, including Sergeant Paint and you
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guys with Astoor Gear kind of just to condo it, to help out with
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a little bit, but this is kind of his vision that you folks have
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gotten involved with and have grown it even bigger and better. Oh, it's
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been fun to watch. I mean, it's from what we had at the
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beginning to each year, how many people he touches throughout the whole Christmas season
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to kind of bring joy and Charleston. I mean watching the police of the
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truck they drove around and took toys to people that were just walking down the
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street. One of those things that really still in my mind it was like
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that was fun to watch. I mean, it was a neat, neat
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event. Yeah. And did you ever think, though, Payne, when
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you started this thing, or when you know, you guys got involved in
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this, you think, man, it's just I mean, you're talking about
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a thousand that's your goal this year. I mean the heck, let's do
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you know fifteen hundred to two thousand next year. To ever think it would
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get this big, I didn't. I really didn't. Like I said,
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my goal was really to provide kids toys for more than five kids basically,
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and I never really imagined they would get to this big. And it's just
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a generosity of the people in our communities that's really made this really grow.
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Everybody comes out and supports the event and we're just really thankful. Is West
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Virginia not the most giving place all in the world. It really is everything
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that we do, people really come out and support it, and we really
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appreciate that. And I want to give a big shot. I'm going to
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kind of break away from this for a moment. I'm want to give a
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big shot out to you guys because this past weekend, I know it's an
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event that you do, the Tarlet's Police Department and others get involved with every
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year for the kids that are at Women's and Children's Hospital. I saw that
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video. I think I saw it for the first time Sunday morning. Steve
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Bishop from our sister station V one hundred's involved in that. For the kids
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that are hospitalized on Women's and Children's. You basically light up the night for
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them. Talk about that. Oh yeah, Like like Steve says, it's
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magical. You know. We have we have officers from all over the county
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basically come together and we put on what I call the Lights of Love,
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and we basically and that This all started also during COVID where we couldn't go
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into the hospitals, but we still wanted to show the kids that we that
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we appreciate them and really was rooting for them. So I decided to bring
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all the officers together. We did a lighted vehicle parade over the bridge at
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the same time. The Stern Wheels Association provided the boat parade in the rear
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of the hospital so the kids in the back of the hospital could see.
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We dropped them off reindeer headgear lights that shine back at us, and some
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coloring books and they look forward to it every year. Uh. And Sanna
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really has the best position. He says that you wouldn't believe the responses that
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he sees through through those windows. Yeah, it's really good. It was
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amazing. And I've got that video posted because I think you guys had done
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it on the Charleston Police Department social media and I shared it on Dave Island
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Radio, And so if you get a chance, go back. I think
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I posted it Sunday, I think is when I posted it. Go back
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and take a look at that video, and you just see the entire Charleston
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area just lit up with these blue lights. You mentioned the boats that were
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out on the on the river, and these are This was designed for these
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kids that were hospitalized the Women's and Children's correct correct some some can get out
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and this is their only chance sometimes to see Santa up and close and yeah,
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I mean, because you don't you literally lift Santa up. Oh we
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do. We hoist Sand up in the fire truck and he's able to wave
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at every kid in the windows and some kids can't make it to the window
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and so and it really brightens their day. The parents really appreciate this,
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staff really appreciates it. They look forward to this event every year. I
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wanted to give you a chance to talk about that again. We're talking with
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Rob King of Astorgato and LIEUTENO David Baine from the Pain from the Charleston Police
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Department again. This toy drive though, getting back to that, it's tomorrow
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Thursday at the Benny Keatam Shrine on on Coreyer next to the College Team Convention
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Center. And also want to give a big shout out to the folks at
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the Shrine Club. I know I have Chris Witthrow had him on the show
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last week. They're just good, good folks there that are always constantly giving
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back to the community on things like this. They are they anytime we've asked
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them to to use their lot, they've they've been very obligate, you know.
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They they've every they've they've they've helped us out every year. Uh.
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And they also had their I believe Santa's coming to their lot. I believe
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on Saturday. I believe to be busy in Charleston. Yeah. Yeah,
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so, and I think I mentioned you said this last time that I mean
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this toy drive just expands sometimes beyond Charleston. I mean, it just goes
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everywhere, right, Oh, it does. We've seen we we actually put
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the application up on Sunday. I had to pull it within two hours because
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it reached our point where we had to stall it until we actually saw how
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many toys we were going to actually receive. So, but people come as
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far as fair Mind I saw in this apple. So we go outside of
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really the county, you know, we will. If they'll come and get
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it, we'll provide toys for kids all over the state. Yeah, I
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mean it's uh, it is Unbelievablegain Lieutenant David Paine is here, Rob king
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Alsto from Astorgado. So, uh, people are listening right now, guys,
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and they say, look, I want to get involved. I'm listening
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at where we have so many people that listen to the station while they're working
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or they're doing whatever. My business, my family, my church, my
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civic group, would like to get involved in help out of this. What
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can they do well, if they want to donate a toy, of course,
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just drive by Benny Ketom through the lot. They can drop it off.
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They don't even have to get out of their car. Wednesday and Thursday.
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Wednesday and thirty is Thursday, correct, between eleven and seven also in
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those days. Just let me get back up just a little bit of Tomorrow.
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Tomorrow is the kickoff. We'll kick off at eleven o'clock. Sata's arrival
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will be at noon. We have the children from the Discovery Learning Center.
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They're going to come down and perform for SANTAM, and the Mayor's going to
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be there, and our chief's going to be there and they're going to drop
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off toys for for SANTAM. That's going to kick off tomorrow. But you
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can just drive through the lot. You can drop off your toys through our
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website or our Facebook page. There's a donation page there you can donate.
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If you want to write a check, just make it out to our CPAAA
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and then a memo just put toy drive or just give me a call and
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I'll come by and pick it up and whatever it takes and Robo, we'll
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go back to you to kind of close this out here. I mean,
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this is hats off to Astrogatto for getting involved in this. I know you
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guys are all about community and this is what businesses, good businesses do in
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the community. And as give back, thank you. We really have tried
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to kind of just fund this event with David and he brings you kind of
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in. So whether you wanted me or not, Pain Pain's got away that
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way. But I'd like to see us go well past the thousand toys.
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I want them to kind of be able to open up the application process and
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it dwindled where not many people are applying, so it doesn't have to shut
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it off. So we're going to figure out a way to grow it even
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bigger and make it even better so all the kids don't go without a toy.
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Well, and getting getting involved in with our station is certainly a great
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way to do that. And we appreciate to you guys for stopping by the
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program today to talk about it. And I'm gonna give you a double time
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because I'm gonna have you guys. I think a couple of you maybe we'll
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be on here tomorrow to talk about this as well, because when I first
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heard about this, this was something I really I thought, Man, this
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as well the Charleston Police Department and all of our police agencies you mentioned.
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There's an involvement from the from the other agencies and the other municipalities in the
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county and the Sheriff's department, whatever. Everybody just comes to kind of comes
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together to make this thing work day for sure. Anything for the for the
23:47
children, for sure, and we appreciate all you alls help. Yeah,
23:52
So now again tomorrow and Thursday at the parking lot of the Benny Keatam Shrine
23:56
on Courier Street. And it's the first one hundred or two hundred they get
24:00
a Chick fil A get certificate. Correct, it'll be one hundred, the
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firste hundred and fifteen hundred and fifty, the first one hundred fifty people that
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come through, So you got an added bonus there. You could even get
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fed for doing this. So get involved with this folks again. If you're
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listening to us this morning, and your your business, your church, your
24:15
civic organization, just you as an individual, your family, if you're if
24:19
you have the ability to be able to give back, I'm sure that they
24:22
would love to have you. Give us the contact information again, Dave uh
24:26
for for myself, you can get me a call at three or four,
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five, five, seven sixt nine, or you can just visit our Facebook
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page is CHARLESTONWV dot Police. All right, Rob, always pleasure to have
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you on the show. Thanks a lot, ma'am. Thank you. What
24:41
you guys do with the with the Brown today? With John Brown? Where
24:44
is he is he coming in to sleep? Well, he was behind me.
24:48
I was in the I drove the truck for our sister station in the
24:51
Mountain and the Hurricane Christmas parade on Saturday and he was actually behind me.
24:56
Yeah, on Saturday, and he was actually behind me, So he wasn't
24:57
asleep then. Uh. I joked with you guys, because he's a former
25:00
Marshall basketball stand that we're still Marshall people are still you know, glowing in
25:06
the victory that we had over our arch rival. Ohio University on Saturday evening,
25:10
So maybe that's what he's doing this right boy. We'll have Brown probably
25:12
on the show tomorrow. Rob Dave, I appreciate you guys being here.
25:15
Thanks a lot. All right again, that's Lieutenant to David Payne from Charleston
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up on the show tomorrow again we almost spend a little bit more time talking
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about this Charleston Police Department toy drive. I'll have some of the others from
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ass Torogato and also possibly from the Charleston Police Department in on the show,
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Mark, I just totally believe in this program. I don't normally give devote
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something for two straight days, but I'm going to tomorrow, all right,
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so because I just I just think it's a wonderful program the Charleston Police Department
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puts on. So I want to talk about that coming up on the show
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tomorrow later on in the week. Let me see on Friday. Now,
30:00
I do a thing on Friday called Friday Funhouse where I'm bringing a different guest
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host this time around. I'm looking forward because I've known this guy for a
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long long time, probably twenty twenty five thirty years, but I've never actually
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interviewed him on the air, and he's certainly never done anything like this.
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Filmmaker Danny Boyd is going to be my Friday guest host. And I've known
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Danny for various things. He's an interesting guy, wonderful guy, travels all
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over the world, does films, but he's based here in the kanav Valley
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and he is going to join us coming up on the show on Friday.
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Text to get to get those here into capital moments, So mind hims from
30:40
the news. I get text to the show frequently from people asking me if
30:45
there's been any update as it pertains to the Kannan Canty Commissioner Kent Carper situation.
30:51
Now you will recall that the Kanana County Commissioned President, mister Carper is
30:56
accused, accused being the keyword, of exposing himself in public. Now,
31:03
it all happened last May Daniel boot Park, a lady there had complained that
31:07
a gentleman exposed himself while sitting in a van. Now it's alledged that it
31:14
was Ken Carper, and it was alleged that Commissioner Carper later sent an email
31:18
to the girlfriend of the police officer who was investigating the incident and offered her
31:23
a job. And that's been well documented. You know everybody's seeing that email
31:29
by now that again we're talking about his situation that happened in May. Keep
31:33
in mind, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. But if it did happen
31:38
that particular way, that just hours after this incident, that an email was
31:44
sent in effect offering her a job, and it was transmitted electronically, there
31:49
is the key thing there, and you don't have to be CSI to figure
31:52
that out. It's how they get a lot of people on things. Is
31:56
when they put information on an email, and that's how it went out.
32:00
Now others have said whether it wasn't even an opening, and of course the
32:04
family of KNT Carper has talked about his health issues. No health issues,
32:07
by the way, have been well documented and and he's even talked about it,
32:12
and there was families said there was some confusion and things of that nature.
32:15
So but anyway, still it's the story is still out there, and
32:20
as I said, I frequently get text of the show when people ask there
32:22
has been an update. Now, there are some in the in the media.
32:27
Mark Curtis, our friend from w w K TV thirteen, was one
32:30
of the first ones that reported that there are some Grandeury testimonies either going on
32:37
now or have already and are expected over the next couple of days. Now,
32:44
I was told by a fairly reliable source that Commissioner Lance Wheeler is expected
32:50
to testify, and I also heard from a very very reliable source that there
32:57
could be some news breaking on the story perhaps tomorrow. Now, as I
33:00
sit here at nine point forty on a Tuesday morning, as soon as I
33:04
say that that ten thirty, something will come out. But as of right
33:07
now, I'm saying that I have been told that there's going to be some
33:10
news breaking on the situation coming up tomorrow. I can tell you that I
33:15
have Canaw County Commissioner Ben Selango's schedule to be on the show on Thursday.
33:21
Now this was totally this Actually, this interview was set up a long time
33:24
ago about something totally different. But just so happens that Ben Selango is going
33:30
to be an on the show on Thursday. So if anything happens as it
33:32
is associated with the story, I will be asking Commissioner Selango about it,
33:38
and Jeff and Brad of course the entire news team here monitoring the situation will
33:43
have more on the air and of course online if anything breaks. So that
33:47
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paid for working three hundred and sixty five days a year. Also, any
34:24
updates on the senior Charleston police officers racking up excessive overtime pay. No,
34:29
I have not heard any updates on those stories, but if I do,
34:32
I will be sure to pass them along to you. The fallout continues over
34:40
the comments made by Secretary of States and gubernatorial candidate Mac Warner during last week's
34:47
gubernatorial debate with Hobby in Morgantown. Secretary Warner reiterated his claims that not only
34:55
was the twenty twenty presidential elections stolen, but it was, according to Mac
35:01
Warner, by the CIA. Now, as you may imagine, this story
35:09
has now taken on a life of its own and has literally gone national.
35:15
The Drudge Report actually picked up Brad's story Brad mclahenney's story about this, and
35:22
I was told yesterday that Sean Hannity of Fox News was also very interested in
35:30
Secretary Warner's story could possibly reach out to him about being on the show.
35:35
I don't know that was the possibility, is to some information I got last
35:38
night. Now, Secretary Warner is standing by his claims. In fact,
35:45
he will discuss that with Dave Wilson next hour on talk Line. Dave,
35:51
of course is it's in for Hoppy this week and Secretary Warner will be on
35:55
this show tomorrow. So he's not backing down from the statement as a matter
36:00
of fact of anything. He's going on the offense on these statements. As
36:04
I said, Nationally, the story has been picked up chief elections official of
36:08
a state saying that the twenty twenty election was stolen by the CIA, And
36:15
yeah, he's got a story to tell about this, and he kind of
36:17
dropped that on the on the show on the debate with Hopey last week.
36:22
So again he's going to be on I think Top of the Show with Dave
36:24
Wilson at ten o six and then his folks reached out to me about coming
36:29
on this show tomorrow. So you get it with two days from the price
36:32
of one, Dave Wilson Attendo six for Hoppy and then tomorrow around nine forty
36:37
I think is when I've got him scheduled to be on this show to talk
36:39
about it tomorrow. Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, of course, who did not
36:45
participate in the debate last week in Morgantown, is leading in the polls and
36:52
and and quite frankly, seems to be getting the bulk of the attention in
37:00
this in this race, of course, because he's a front runer. I
37:06
mean, he's the one that's raising the most money at this point. So
37:13
you know, I don't want to try to I have been involved with campaigns
37:16
in the past. Never been involved with the mc warner campaign, but I
37:19
have been involved in campaigns in the past, and you're always looking for something
37:24
in a campaign that will make you stick out, especially when you have a
37:29
crowded field like we have of Republicans, which would have been unheard of,
37:35
you know this time twenty years ago. It would have been Democrats this time
37:37
twenty years ago that want to be the next governor of the say to West
37:40
Virginia. And you're looking for something that is going to make you stick out.
37:44
Well, I think mac Warner found it with this, I really do.
37:49
And he's going to ride that pony and he's going to continue to ride
37:52
it. So again he's kind of making the rounds statewide and nationally to tell
38:00
his story on that. Now, Chris Miller, the auto magnate, he
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Networks, mister Miller, somebody told me one time, they said talking about
38:24
name recognition and matter of fact, Howard Monroe, who does a show very
38:30
similar to mine up in Wheeling, Watchdog. Howard Monroe was on the post
38:36
gubernatorial debate coverage that was on the network last week and on the website,
38:42
and Howard Monroe said, well, I've been Wheeling. Not a lot of
38:45
people know who Chris Miller is. Well, when you got that kind of
38:49
money, they'll get to know you real quick. So that's it's gonna be
38:54
an interesting It's going to be interesting to see what happens after the first of
39:00
the year. But again, getting back to mcwarner again, he'll be on
39:01
with Dave Wilson next hour to discuss what has become this huge national story and
39:07
has claimed that the presidential election will stole them by the CIA. Macwarner on
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39:58
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40:00
Capitol yesterday. Interim sessions are of course going on. The interim sessions are
40:06
happening, and yesterday the heads of West Virginia American Water Mountaineer Gas spoke to
40:10
a legislative committee yesterday. Brad's got a full story on that at wv metron
40:15
Who's dot com? And I want to talk about that coming up a little
40:17
bit later on Sure do we start here? Text says, at minimum,
40:25
the email and the timing is bad optics going back to the Kent Carper situation
40:30
and has the appearance of collusion. Let's see what the grand jury does.
40:36
Disclaimer, this is not Greg Thomas as a Texter. Just don't understand how
40:39
a candidate with no personality's leading the governor's race. I get it. He's
40:43
talking about Patrick Morrissey there. And Greg Thomas course has made no secret on
40:45
the show that he's not a Patrick Morrisey fan. God to put two topics
40:49
there together. Text says, I know all local Christmas parades were excellent,
40:55
but a special shout out to Mayor Edwards of Hurricane for another great job and
41:00
parade. Our family had a wonderful time thanks to all. Yeah, I
41:04
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a great job in Hurry, A little biased because I live there, but
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they do a great job. Texas, how good. Here's how goofy mac
41:22
Warner is. The CIA is infamous for overthrowing leftist socialist governments to install right
41:28
wing dictators, examples in the Middle East and South America. So Warner saying
41:30
the CIA and saw a leftist president instead of a right wing want to be
41:36
dictator. He really needs to lay off the lead paint chips. It's t
41:38
extra texted that in yesterday. I don't know what to deal with mac Warner
41:42
and lead pain is again I worked for the guy. I never never saw
41:45
him ingestiny lead pain Tex says mccorner's crazy. He says the text, Well,
41:51
I canna give him a chance to talk about him, Texas. Don't
41:55
give himccoy's lives airtime talking about mac. He blamed the super Court for the
42:00
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corroded enough to get penetrated by a burst water main. And again this has
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46:28
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46:32
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46:37
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47:00
show this Thursday to talk about it again. He was one of those that
47:05
was impacted by the outage. The respective company presidents Robert Burton from Westerrginian American
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and David Lockin from Mountaineer Gas. Burton said that the exact line that malfunction
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was examined just hours before the break, which happened back on November tenth.
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Now, this whole thing was caused by an eight inch water main that was
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installed back in nineteen eighty nine. And if you know anything at all about
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this sort of thing, and admittedly I don't, but I've been learning.
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I've learned more about water mains and gas since November tenth, and I've ever
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ever knew previous to that. It was installed in nineteen eighty nine and that
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is relatively young by water main standards. Now, the normal life expectancy normal
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life is somewhere between eighty and one hundred years, and this one was installed
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in eighty nine. Now, we got some information yesterday and constaut including a
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Brad story at wv metronews dot com, that the first call to the water
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company that was recorded was around one point fifty in the afternoon of the tenth,
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and the crews from West Ridge and the American Water were on the scene
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making repairs by five point thirty. Now, the repairs to the water system
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of West Virgin American Water were completed by the early morning hours of the eleventh,
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and then when the gas company moved in the president of Mountaineer Gas said
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that the gas company started receiving no gas calls, you know, people calling
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complaining that they had no gas and had no heat the evening of the tenth,
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which was the evening of the break, with the first call coming from
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the Papa John's location on Patrick Street. As he said, and and you
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know, we've we've talked about this on the show in the past. Mountaineer
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Gas doesn't have an emergency alert system like some other utilities do. He and
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of course, we've had mos of Scaff on the show in the past two
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who's one of the higher ups there, and mister Scaff has been very very
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forthcoming with the media, not only on this show, but other media outlets,
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television, newspaper, and also on with What Hoppy and the crew on
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talk line. He said that their alert system is going door to door.
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Well, that seems efficient. Both the presidents yesterday said they will be working
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and cooperating with the State Public Service Commission on its general investigation. Now.
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President Burton said that the finger pointing needs to stop. Well, with all
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due respect to mister Burton, good luck with that, because that's part of
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it that's gonna happen. People go to people and people going to talk.
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Now, mister Burton said as of now, more than two hundred customers have
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looked into the company's offer to pay up two thousand dollars in damages, and
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he said so far that twenty six checks have been written for an average of
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sixteen hundred dollars. Now, the president of Mountaineer Gas said fifteen hundred of
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the company's twenty one hundred customers on the West Side were impacted. The company
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is offered a seventy five dollars credit on its latest bill for customers in the
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impacted area, and as of now, there are two class action lawsuits that
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have been filed. I mean, you know, and I've said this before,
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and I'm trying not to be critical of these utility companies, but these
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companies have to have simply put, as people across the board have said,
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whether they're elected officials or whether they're just you know, the everyday customer,
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they've got to have some kind of better alert systems, especially more than going
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door to door. I mean my hometown, my little old hometown in southern
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West Virginia, the utility companies offer a texting service, and they have since
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I worked at the radio station there, and folks, I've been gone from
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that radio station for ten years. This February, our little smaller utility systems
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in Logan County, West Virginia offered a texting service. As of about as
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I said, I've been gone ten years. They started offering this probably two
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thousand and ten, two thousand and eleven, a direct texting service. When
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these things happen, it isn't hard do better, do better? Text,
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says Chris Miller. Will he be doing his own ads like he does for
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his car dealership. You know that would be hilarious. I don't know.
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I don't know. We'll talk to Chris Miller about that on the show.
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To Hey, Dale Miller, thank you so much, Dale, Dale Cooper
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is wrong. Dale There, Neil Cooper's my producer day. Thank you so
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much. Dave Wilson. It for Hoppy coming up. I will see you
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tomorrow. Till then at fud and love Somebody Fight AHSA ninety six point five
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