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12/18/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Chris Tatum, Secretary Larry Pack, Jeff Jenkins, and Bryan Hughes · The Dave Allen Show

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to the show. We've got a lot to get to this morning. Of
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a Parmar Store near you now. There will be soon more and that coming
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up a little bit later on We got the mayor of Barbersville standing by its
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mayor Monday, Chris Tatum is going to join us see newly appointed State Revenue
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Secretary Lady pack will be stopping bibles. Everybody's talking about the weather forecast.
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to stop by to talk about that. Plus your calls and text are welcome.
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Let me bring in quickly though, Jeff Jenkins from the newsroom, because
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story has just broken the last couple of hours about a shooting in the Eastern
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Panhandle up in the Martinsburg area involved in some state troopers. Jeff, good
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morning. What do we know, Well, as sometimes the way these often
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happen, Dave is at police and this case State police troopers are trying to
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execute a warrant on a man. They're in Martinsburg and they were executing trying
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to execute an arrest warrant on battery. And so they went to the man's
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house and men identified as sixty year old Tobias Gainey of Martinsburg winter his home
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last night around ten fifty tried to execute a service warrant he would not come
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out. This is what State Police say. And so the troopers two troopers
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here, Trooper Aad Spessert, and they were talking with Gainey. They were
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outside, he was inside. He would not he would not come out,
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and so then they made the decision to enter the residents. So they had
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the arrest warrant, and so they they went, they entered the resident and
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they police say that Gainey opened fire on the troopers. They returned fire.
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So in the exchange of the gunfire, Trooper Bean was shot four times.
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Trooper Spessort was shot once, and Bean had to undergo surgery last night.
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We don't know anymore. The release from the State Police says that he suffered
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serious injuries, but he isn't fable condition following the surgery, and Spessiert was
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kept for observation after he was shot and they had returned fire on Gainey and
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Gainey was pronounced dead. And so that's kind of all we know right now.
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We hope to hear more from State Police, maybe on specifics of Trooper
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Bean's injuries, but that's kind of the circumstances that have remember repeated many times
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trying to execute a warrant for an arrest and you come up against the armed
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individuals. So that's what appears, that's what happened last night. All right,
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Well, I know, Jeff, you get folks in the newsroom,
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we'll be talking more about and hope you'll have more on to comeing up on
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talk line. I appreciate you coming in and talk about. Thanks a lot,
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Jeff, Jeff Jenkins from the newsroom again this story out of Martinsburg this
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morning about these troopers that attempting to execute a warrant and the troopers were shot.
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One of them appears to be shot one time, the other at least
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four times. And Trooper Bean, as Jeff said, is undergoing surgery this
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hour. Have more coming up in the news throughout the day, and of
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This morning, it's a village of Barbersville. Mayor Chris Tatum is here.
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Good morning, sir, How are you morning, Dave A, thank
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you for being here. Thank you very impatient hanging out. We had to
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get to that news of course, with top of the show. Before I
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forget, let me say Merry Christmas to everyone there and hope everyone has a
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happy and save twenty twenty four. Mayor, Yeah you too, my friend.
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It's a full Christmas in full swing here. As you well know,
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we have our holiday light tour through the park, the Ribbing Christmas light tour.
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If you haven't been, get down here. And then the village looks
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like a Hallmark Christmas card right now, So it's a good time to be
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here. It certainly is. I kind of put a bow, no pun
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intended, Mayor, I'm not that smart, put a bow on the year
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twenty twenty three in the village of Barbersville. What kind of year has it
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been on? What were some of the highlights for you in the village.
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You know, I think the return of regional soccer was a big thing for
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us. Also, the improvements made to our new sports facilities. You know,
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we put synthetic turf and over at our soccer and sports complex. We
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did that with our Little League complex as well. I think, just really
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improving the quality of life for our residents. And then you know, we
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there' s been some big announcements as far as business go, and our avenues
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are are are at a record breaking years, so we're we're happy about that.
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We're happy that things are growing here. You know, we we made
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the announcement about David Busters, which will be the first uh location in the
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state of West Virginia. Uh so we're happy about that. Uh, the
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woodm Center for Careers and Technology at at the All Complex had their ribbon cutting
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as well. We're happy to have that in in our city too. Lots
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of learning opportunities and lots of expanded learning opportunities for students here in Cable County.
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And then of course everyone is going to feel the effects of New Course.
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So we're glad that those folks from New Corps are moving into the area
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and that and that project is getting off the ground as well. Doesn't it
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make you feel good, Mayor to say, and again we're talking with Chris
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tavan The from the village of Barbersville this morning on Mayor mindy, does it
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make you good? Feel good to say people are moving into West Virginia.
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I mean it is great. I mean, you know, the doom and
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gloom has been you know everybody's mantra, I guess for a while. I
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mean it seems that way. It was always seemed like the negative was pointed
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out. But man, we have so many positive things going on here and
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in the state as well. I mean you can you can look at the
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growth in so many places and uh, you know, we're we are happy
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to be a part of that. We're happy that people are starting to talk
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about the willing and able workforce here and realizing that, you know, there's
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talented West Virginias here that can can do all of that and and be those
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be those core employees that they need. You look at the expansion of al
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Con, you look at the you know, the new core thing that I
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just mentioned, and and then you know, Barbarusville itself has been voted the
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top retail and shopping destination, uh top to the top place in the state
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of West Virginia by many national publications. So there's so many good things going
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here Charleston, the valley and and whatnot. It is an exciting time.
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So if anybody, if they're not excited, they're not looking for me to
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be excited about. I would agree with that. And you know you mentioned
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David Busters. It's too bad to my former producer, Kaitlyn Murphy isn't still
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around here because it was her dream to have a Dave and Busters in the
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area. And you know it's not in Charleston, but it is in Barbersville,
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which is not far away, So it looks like they have that coming.
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I want to talk about the impact you mentioned it briefly mayor of a
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sports tourism in the region. You know, last week I had Canawa County
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Commissioner Ben Selango on the show and he talked about the partnership that's been formed
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between Kanawak County and Barbersville. Talk about that in detail a little bit for
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me, how you guys work together and what this has meant specifically for your
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area. Well, you know, logistically it made sense because we had you
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know, when those tournaments started coming here, we have a complex big enough
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to hold that many people because we have sixteen fifteen or sixteen regular you know,
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regulation sized soccer fields. But having said that, people were staying from
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Grayson, Kentucky all the way to Clintennitt. So when Shawnee first made the
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announcement, people were like, oh, we're you know, we're gonna lose
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people. We'll know because what you do is you make the logistics better for
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everyone and they keep coming back. There's enough people that come to those tournaments
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that there's enough ways to spread it around, so to speak. And Shawnee's
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become a great partner with us because of that. So you you just you
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make the plan more aesthetic and more logistically pleasing to those people who are coming
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here. I mean, you're talking thousands of kids in their families. So
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if they're an if they're a half hour away from their game, or fifteen
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minutes away from a game, or five minutes away from their game, and
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you schedule the right people to be in Shawnee at this time, the right
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people in Barzola at this time, and then you know, you each get
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the championship at some point. Then it stays fair, but it also keeps
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those people coming back. So what people are seeing in other areas where those
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tournaments were happening is they had they had the facilities, but there were people
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staying so far away. They're driving an hour and a half two hours to
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get to a game, and they've already traveled in some cases hours and hours
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to get there because they're from you know, they're from thirteen different states.
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So if you can make it just more make it easier for them to get
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to and from their games, to give them things to do shop it whether
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it's shopping things after the after the after their games, after their tournaments,
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or it's something that at their their hotel has the amenities that they need,
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and you can spread that around. They just keep coming back here and twenty
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two million dollars goes a long way. And you can do that all the
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way through that corridor by keeping that logistically sound. And I love this.
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You know that you're talking about Mayor and and and others have talked about here
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in the Charleston Angry as well, this advantage valley thing. I know,
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it's something that you really really buy into. Yeah, well it is.
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I mean, it's it's been said several times, and I think we've all
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used it now to this to this point, but a rising tide lifts off
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ships, and we are we're on we're on the verge of a psue nominie
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for for real, a tsunami for real, because of youth sports tourism.
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It is a multi billion dollar industry and there is no reason that we all
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can't have our fair share of that. Yeah, and then when we had
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the Capital Sports Complex, which is coming it looks like to downtown Charles and
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that's even going to add even more to them. I just think, I
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just think there's so much potential because that is you know, these these people
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are taking their vacations around kids, their children's youth sports schedules. So what
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I mean, what better way than to keep developing for these people that already
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know they've had a good experience here and we keep putting things in the cabinet
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so to speak better for them. I'm all for it. Yeah, got
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a text here for you, says uh for the mayor. Barbersville would be
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a perfect the Barber's, the mall would be a perfect location for golf and
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stuff. Family fun park. Is that something that that you're familiar with?
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I am, and we you know, I go I go to a conference
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a few times a year and it's International Associations shopping Centers and retail and restaurant
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tours and this this conference you can if you can imagine any restaurant or any
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retail, any uh hard goods location, anything you can find in them all,
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anything you find in a shopping center. All those people are there and
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they're looking for places to locate. So we do talk to folks like that.
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We have talked to them. We talked to Top Golf. I mean,
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you know, we we you know, we don't. I know that's
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kind of pie in the sky, but I thought David Buster is six years
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ago and find the sky. So absolutely. We stop and talk to those
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folks and we always tell them, here's what's coming, here's here's what the
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development is in this town here or in these towns in this area. Here's
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the traffic counts, here's the you know, who else is located there,
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Who's who who else is locating here? Coming up? Because they all pair
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well. And if you go, oh, David Buscher's or if you go,
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oh, you know, we have the largest shopping complex in the state
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of West Virginia in that area, you know, it makes people start start
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looking at it. You point out the good, you point out the you
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point out kind of the numbers of where people are coming from to do their
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shopping, to come for sports tourism. They start sitting up to take notice.
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And that's how it all happened with David Butscher. So hopefully, yes,
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we can have somewhere like that. I would love to have somewhere like
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that. They're spin offs of top Golf. That Dave and Buster's saying came
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out, like I said, out of a six year conversation. So I
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don't want it to go that long. Now. The growth, now,
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the growth is to the point where people, you know, some of these
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larger places that we thought were impossible are completely possible. Do you have a
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time frame for the Dave and Busters, Mayor, Well, I would say
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next year, sometime in the spring summer. We're talking twenty twenty four,
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right, yeah, twenty four, Yeah, all right, well, Mayor,
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it's always a pleasure to have you on the show again. Merry Christmas
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to you and everyone there in Barbersville. We'll talk in the new year.
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Thanks a lot. Man. All right, my friend, I'll talk to
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you soon. Thank you. That's Barbersville Mayor Chris Tatum here on the show,
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appointed State Revenue Secretary Larry Pac Larry, good morning to Merry Christmas. Hey,
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good morning Dave and Mary Christmas to you as well. Thank you for
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joining us this morning. Now, you have done a lot over the years,
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and you've appeared in a variety of different roles, even on this show
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as a House member, special advisor to go to Justice, candidate for State
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Treasurer. Yes, and now as of last week, you are the State
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Revenue Secretary, having been appointed to that seat after Dave Hardy was named to
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the judges bench here in Kanawa County, replacing Judge Joanna Tabbitt who tragically passed
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away earlier this year. All that having been second graduations, sir, well,
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thank you. Think I look forward to the to the challenge, to
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the opportunity, and I look forward to trying to continue in all the good
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work that my good friend and the high school high school friend, Dave Hardy,
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so look forward to it, both both of you. The pride of
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East Bank High School? Is that right? Pioneers forever? Now which one's
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older? You were? You were Hearty? I think it's really closed graduate
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graduating the same year. But I think we're like a month apart as far
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as birthdates. Okay, all right, so explain you hear this term thrown
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out their state revenue secretary, and Dave Hardy has been all over the state,
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you know, talking about what and other revenue secretaries have too about what
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exactly is going on with our finances? Break it down though, what exactly
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does the state revenue secretary do? Really? If the state revenue secretary has
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about ten agencies under underneath him or underneath him, But basically, the state
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Revenue Secretary collects our money, collects our tax dollars, and also operates the
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lottery, the liquor and and the beer beer beer agencies. So it is
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basically it is the It is the one entity in West Virginia that that brings
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money in uh and as we say in cabinet meetings, and all the other
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folks in the cabinets spend the money. Now, it's an interesting time to
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look after the revenue of the state of West Virginia. By because in all
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accounts, and we're going to get into some of those that are a little
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bit negative, but all accounts overall, we're doing pretty well. Oh yes,
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I mean that the amount of money coming in the state government is absolutely
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phenomenal. Uh. We had such a good run to last three or four
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years. Uh. Some of us related to Cebrice taxes, but also a
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lot of us related to the economy and how how fast the economy has been
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growing. And we see new businesses coming in from all around the state.
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Uh, more jobs, more business equations, more tax dollars. What would
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you say, and again we're talking with Larry Pack, what would you say?
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We're doing well, we have all these surpluses whatnot, but we still
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have issues with jails and corrections. Uh. And there of course related to
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d h h R. So do we really have these surpluses that the governor
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and others are speaking of. What do you say to those people? Oh,
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we definitely have surpluses. I think here's a question, but but we
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also have challenges. Uh. The when it comes to corrections, mean a
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lot of those issues I really think have been resolved with new with new leadership.
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UH. And and the Governor's made the changes necessary there to bring new
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leadership in and we think a lot of the problems within jails and so forth
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have been uh have been been taken care of. But there is a problem,
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you know, where we have we have such an economy that is on
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fire, there's and so fast is we don't have enough people for the jobs.
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And so the jobs that are a little bit less attractive are a little
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bit more difficult to bring people in and keep people in. But we're doing
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all we can to improve the culture's culture in the jails in the corrections area.
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We think that's really making it making a difference. We like the leadership
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that we have in there now and we think they're doing doing well too.
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But but par again, part of our problem is is we need people to
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come to West Virginia. We need people to come back to West Virginia to
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moved out for a job, moved out because of jobs. We need people
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to come to West Virginia that will help us feel these feel these positions again.
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We're talking with the state Revenue Secretary Larry Pack was just appointed to the
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position last week, and I'm gonna have you put on your tourism hat for
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a moment. I know you're not the state director of Tourism. I mean
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you've had another you've had several roles. That's not been one of them yet.
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But when you say we need to get people to move here, what
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would you say to people that maybe are from West Virginia that moved to you
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know, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Lexington, wherever they move to, to try
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to get them to come back, or those that have no tie us to
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the area, to try to get them to want to move here. What's
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the big selling point? I think big selling point for West Virginia is the
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quality of life. It's it's the low cost loving, it's the culture's the
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people, it's our it's our natural beauty. Uh. There's so many opportunities
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if you if you like the outdoors and so forth. Uh. This is
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really the great I really believe, the greatest place in the country to live.
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Uh. You know my generation, your generation, manty of the younger
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generations, they've all moved out of West Virginia when they got down high school
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because we didn't have the jobs. This is the first time in my lifetime
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that we have jobs, and not only jobs, we have good jobs in
22:33
West Virginia. And as these companies continue to grow here and build here,
22:37
we're going to need more people to come in to fill those jobs. And
22:38
it's a really an exciting, exciting time. So we want the expatriots to
22:42
go back to come back. You know. The SIN program is really has
22:47
really worked well, uh that Brad Smith is put together. Explain Explain that
22:52
program. So the Sin program is basically a program that is tied to particular
22:56
cities. Brad Smith and his wife were just general enough to put a lot
23:00
of money behind it. It's it's ran by w and Our Tourism, you
23:03
know, and it it basically people people apply to come to say it's say
23:08
it's Louisbourg. It's many people come to Louisbourg and they get certain credits and
23:11
certain monies if they come come to West Virginia. And that's been a really
23:15
good program and we have a lot of applications each year. That's is continuing
23:19
to grow. So this is a really good time. And I think if
23:22
from a messaging standpoint, we need to do a better job and we're doing
23:26
we're trying to do a better job to getting that out all across the country.
23:30
But you know, there's not a grandparent. There's not a parent in
23:33
West Virginia that doesn't want their kids and grandkids uh to come come back to
23:37
West Virginia. And we have a jobs at this point. Over the next
23:40
week or so, and of course you saw that Thanksgiving, you're going to
23:41
see a lot of license plates rolling through this area with the Ohio plates in
23:47
North Carolina, Michigan or whatever. We'd like to see some of those transferred
23:49
to West Virginia. Absolutely, and they are coming back. We're we're we're
23:52
seeing it. It's slow, but people are are coming back. People are
23:56
moving in again. The demographic there's numbers take a long there's a long drag
23:59
on, but well, we will like the numbers we see in the next
24:03
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governor for a moment now, Larry, you are someone who is very close
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to Governor Justice and have been for some time. You are, or were,
24:33
I guess, a special advisor to him, if you have to admit
24:37
it. What does the biggest misconception that people have about Jim Justice? Well,
24:41
I still am senior advisor. I think the biggest miss misconception that people
24:45
don't understand is how much he cares for the people. He uses Toby and
24:48
Edith all the time, but he really believes that that if it's not good
24:53
for folks like Toby and Edith, we shouldn't be doing it. He brings
24:56
that to the cabinet meeting, he seen, brings that to the Governor's office.
25:00
He brings that into every decision. Is this good for regular people in
25:03
West Virginia? And if the policy's not good, if it's something that will
25:07
hurt them, we're not going to do it. If there's something helps them
25:10
that we're all for it. That's one of the reasons he was so he's
25:14
so passionate. I buy out the state income tax reduction, because that hits
25:18
everybody, and he believes that that's one of the best ways to grow West
25:21
Virginia. But it's also one of the best ways to help our folks.
25:23
Now, in the midst of all this, I presume you're still a candidate,
25:27
yes, sir, for State Treasurer, Yes, sir, as well
25:30
the current treasure of course, Riley Moore instead this time around throwing his proverbial
25:33
hat in the rain to try to take over the congressional seat held by Alex
25:38
Mundy. With all this other stuff you're doing, why are you still wanting
25:44
to be state Treasurer? Now? Well, I had you know, I
25:45
had two careers in business. One is a CPA for about twenty years helping
25:49
small businesses. In the next twenty years growing businesses myself, and so once
25:55
we saw that company, I was looking for what's next. My wife and
25:57
I were looking for what's next. I still have a lot of energy,
26:00
I have a lot of passion for West Virginia, and public service seems to
26:03
be the best place for me to to apply the talents and energy that I
26:07
still have. Uh. Being a financi person, being a CPA, treasures
26:11
is a really natural place for me to be. Uh, Rolly Moore has
26:15
done a wonderful job, particularly I think fighting back against woke companies who would
26:19
take our money and then work against our economy. In fact, that that's
26:22
got a nationwide presence of teen states that that he's just tied in with his
26:26
efforts will continue to keep that going. But in addition to that, I'm
26:30
a strong believer in in that we shouldn't spend more in our meet and than
26:36
than than we have that Western you can't afford to have its government growth.
26:38
So I'll spend a lot of time on the budget. And the last thing
26:42
is from an economic development standpoint, That's something I've did my entire life.
26:47
Uh, the the Treasurer has to say in those those impacts as far as
26:51
how we spend that money and where we spend that money. So I'll spend
26:52
a lot of time in that area as well. I want to go back
26:56
to your new role of State Revenue Secretary of you officially taking over. What's
27:00
the price? First day? Day's your first day? Yes? Yes,
27:02
and you took off two hours to come in here now twenty minutes say not
27:04
to our what is the number one what's issue number one? If you if
27:08
you set down this morning breakfast table and you had your little legal pad out
27:12
there, things to do today, what's number one? Number one? Uh
27:17
for this because just because of the time of the year, is getting giving.
27:18
Getting the governor's budget ready to present to the legislature into the state of
27:25
West Virginia. We'll do that. I think it's a second Wednesday in January.
27:29
So we've been working. Really, we've been working on all summer.
27:32
I've been a part of that process. We're putting the final touches on it.
27:34
So we've got about two weeks, two and a half weeks to finish.
27:37
Uh, finish that opportunity and get that ready. That's our that is
27:41
really, that's really we'll take a lot of our time over the next sixty
27:45
days. Not only will present it, then we have to be prepared to
27:48
answer questions so the legislature has the information they need to to make their decision
27:52
their termination. You know, the governor submits a budget, but the government,
27:56
but the legislature will passing and amend the budget. So there will be
28:00
a lot of work with the legislature over the next sixty days to be able
28:03
to get that done. That's the number one thing really for the legislature.
28:06
In fact, that's the only thing that we're required to do is pass the
28:07
budget. We want to be a good partner with them and help get that
28:11
accomplished. Larry, So it's a pleasure to have you on the show.
28:14
Hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and good luck in your new
28:18
role. So get back to it and get over there and start to crunching
28:21
numbers and doing what revenue secretaries do. Have a happy new Year. We'll
28:23
talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Thanks Davey, Mary, Christmas you
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for seventy one years. Everybody talking about the weather, but nobody does anything
33:00
about it. Well, Brian Hughes, our good friend, meteorologist Brian Hughes,
33:04
is with us right now. Brian, good morning, Well, good
33:07
morning. Are you ready for a little snow in the region. Well,
33:09
you know, it depends. I was talking to somebody before the show,
33:14
and it depends on which weather forecast you look at. I myself depend solely
33:19
on storm Track or thirteen, but others, but others have said it's going
33:23
to be a lot bigger deal for I guess, well, obviously it's going
33:27
to be a big deal in the mountains of West Virginia. But we know
33:29
weather advisories have been issued for several parts of the air Canall Valley as of
33:32
now is not one of them. So what can we expect, Brian,
33:38
Well, you know those advisories, you know, they're at the discretion of
33:42
the National Weather Services and usually they're pretty good about that. I believe that
33:45
we'll probably at least have a winter weather advisory this afternoon deceiving issue for canal
33:52
parts of Clay County and maybe even back up into Roone or Calhoun Counties additionally.
33:58
But right now winters stow morning for Nikola County and back up the Webster
34:01
County, upper parts of Fay County, because there's gonna be a big time
34:04
accumulating snow. Now here's what we're gonna add down here in the valley this
34:08
afternoon. Like right now, we've got a cold brain out there, but
34:12
as we go into this afternoon, we're talking about two to three, maybe
34:15
four o'clock, you're gonna start to see these little spotty rain showers turn into
34:20
snow showers and then snow squalls because we've got a gusty wind. And you
34:23
know, if you're sitting at home and a snow squall comes by, you
34:27
see the wind whipping around. If the snow comes down, you might get
34:30
it just barely, a light dust, nothing too fancy. But if you're
34:32
driving in it, it's a totally different story. If you you get that
34:36
snowballing right into your base and you know, right up against the windshield.
34:38
It's difficult to drive in and you do that right around oh, I don't
34:43
know, four to six o'clock, it's gonna be havoc on the roads.
34:46
Doesn't particularly mean we're gonna have slick roads because the road temperatures are not too
34:50
bad right now. But it's just the people, you know how they panic
34:52
and they wreck everywhere. Yes, that's what people do. So but but
34:59
you know, but what we're gonna have this afternoon into the early evening hours
35:02
or some of the snow squalls, they'll put down a light dusting. If
35:05
you get a snow squall that runs over to the same area, you know,
35:07
two or three of them in a row, you can get a touch
35:10
more. But that's what we're expecting for this safternoon travel problems. It's as
35:15
we go into the nighttime as temperatures drop. The good thing about the wind
35:21
is that helps to dry the roads out. But still there will be slick
35:23
spots in the morning because we're gonna have temperatures, you know, in the
35:27
mid twenties tomorrow morning. But at snow total you know, around let's say
35:31
Charleston, we have a chance for a dust thing to maybe an inch,
35:36
and you know, maybe as you go on top of a mountain or two,
35:38
you know, away from the river, you might get you know,
35:40
an inch a half or maybe a touch more. But you know we're gonna
35:44
be on the low end of all this Madison logan an inch to possibly two.
35:50
You get up to Clay County in the lower elevations, closer to the
35:53
interstate, you're gonna have you know, one to two inches a higher elevations
35:58
through the four I think Summers ends up with about maybe two to four inches
36:02
worth of snow. You get up to the upper parts of the county,
36:06
maybe closer to the mountain Nebo four inches plus and then you look over to
36:10
the rich Wood you know they could see six inches easily, possibly nearing ten.
36:15
But you go to the very tops of parts of you know, Webster,
36:20
Pocahontas, and also in the Randolph County, and we're talking about totals
36:24
that could be up to a foot in a spot or two, maybe a
36:30
touch higher. This is a been a pretty wild couple of days everywhere in
36:36
the eastern part of the United States, Brian, as far as the weather
36:37
goes, Oh my gosh, tornadoes in the Carolinas. We've had a significant
36:43
flooding wind, the wind you know in the Atlantic, just causing havoc and
36:50
it's slowed down a lot of travel, you know, flights across the country.
36:52
So this is a big storm system. You know. The thing is,
36:55
we've been able to see this for more than a week away, this
36:59
one system, and we knew it was coming. It was just okay,
37:02
could it draw the cold air in? And it is and that's going to
37:06
allow you know, for us to see our first significant snow, especially for
37:09
our favored ski areas and higher terrain. So that's cool that we get that
37:15
out of the way, but you know, we don't see you know,
37:19
we're trying to track the cold and we think we're going to have a better
37:22
winter this year than we've had the last couple of winters. Two things,
37:25
we've got al Nino that's relatively strong and that's going to help draw the cold
37:30
down a little bit further south. And you get a more active pattern with
37:34
tropical style systems coming across the Gulf, the Gulf of Mexico and lifting north
37:38
towards this But as you look at what's going to happen, you know,
37:43
in our neighborhoods. We're actually going to warm up. We could be at
37:45
sixty on Christmas Day with some light sprinkles, but then by the time we
37:50
get to the New Year's weekend, we back down into the forties, maybe
37:53
even in the thirties, because there'll be a couple of storm systems as we
37:57
get towards the end of the week going to the New Year's weekend and right
38:00
there just after New Year's and that could bring us some significant snow accumulations to
38:05
get in the mountains. What to see what happens for the lower elevation unolog
38:08
is Brian Houston. Storm Tracker thirteen is here. I just put a rap
38:10
on this thing, Brian, because you know, I had an old radio
38:14
programmer when I my first couple of years in business told me, they said,
38:16
they people don't want to know is it going to rain or is it
38:20
going to snow. They want to know is it going to rain or snow
38:22
on them. That's because that's all people really really care about when you think
38:28
about it. So let's take it from drive time today. People are listening
38:31
to us or they're you know, heading out to you know, four or
38:35
five o'clock. This afternoon heading heading to the you know, Tays Valley or
38:38
Elk View or wherever it is that they happen to live. Let's talk about
38:42
that drive time and also tomorrow's drive time. Starting at about seven o'clock or
38:45
so in the morning, what can you tell us this evening you're going to
38:50
be running into snow showers and some snow squalls with a west wind and about
38:53
ten to twenty some gus twenty five miles per hour. Now that will produce
38:59
brief white out can conditions if you run in one of the snowsqualls. But
39:01
as far as the communlations are concerned, we're just looking at maybe getting a
39:07
dusting out of each one of those as they come by, very very lightnessing.
39:10
But bridges and overpasses you need to watch as you're heading home link this
39:15
afternoon, this evening, especially as you get past six o'clock and so going
39:19
into the nighttime hours. Still like snowshowers, but especially in the mountains tomorrow,
39:22
we have some slick spots bridges and overpasses, and a couple of spots
39:27
where you know, you just got water that's straining off a hill and it's
39:30
frozen up. But the one thing that you know we're good with down here
39:34
in the valleys as such, is that it is warmer, but the snow
39:37
is going to be up high. That snow wraps up tomorrow in the mountains
39:40
by about the lunch shower. But in the morning we'll have flurries just about
39:44
possible anywhere across the region. All right, well, definitely regardless, be
39:47
careful out there, Brian, I gotta get this in with you real quick.
39:50
You know this coming Friday, I do this thing. I started it
39:53
a few years ago with every Friday, I do the thing i'll call Friday
39:57
Finals. Well, start on this thing a couple of year ago with my
40:00
good friend Mike Pushkin. I bring him in on the last show that I
40:04
do before Christmas, and we don't talk politics or anything like that matter.
40:08
It's forbidden to talk politics. We started calling it the Pushkin and Dave Jewish
40:15
Christmas Spectacular. And what happens is Pushkin comes in, brings his guitar and
40:20
he sings a couple of songs. I've also lined up Kate Boytech, lovely
40:23
and talented singer who I've literally known since she was a baby. We're bringing
40:28
Kate boy Tech in the studio on Friday, and I'm throwing out an invitation
40:30
to all my regular guests on the show to stop by. And you are
40:36
one of those, Brian Hughes. So if you get an opportunity on Friday,
40:39
if you can break away from the office, he'd like to come down
40:42
for a little bit, come down and hang out with us in person Friday
40:45
morning, sometime between nine and ten. We're gonna have personalities from all the
40:47
other stations are gonna come in. As I said, I got Pushkin and
40:51
I've got Kate Boytech. So if you can break away, Brian, You're
40:55
more than welcome to come join us for the Jewish Christmas Spectacular Friday morning here
41:00
on the show and listen. If there's one thing that is for sure,
41:05
you know, I am happy to step out of this building anytime and every
41:07
time I get a chance, and I'm not ashamed of doing everything on the
41:13
road except for you know, including the weather. So I'll be happy to
41:17
drop one by. All right, Brian, We'll see you Friday. Thanks
41:21
for all you do, man. I know for you and Spencer and the
41:22
entire team, it's going to be a busy twenty four hour doesn't look like
41:24
it's going to be that big of a deal for our area. But you
41:28
know, keep watching and you guys will do great. I'm sure you always
41:30
do. Brian will talk soon. Man, thanks a lot. Sound good?
41:34
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41:55
says a textra how the pro life, pro child Republicans will vote on
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that, A big loud noe. Actually, I heard someone talking about this
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and passing the other day. I need to do a little bit more homework
42:07
on that, and I will try to find out what I can about that
42:12
and maybe have Center WillFull on the show to talk about Texas. People can
42:16
say what they want about Governor Justice, but I never saw any other state
42:21
governors recognize and honor every COVID death by reading their ages and locations over the
42:27
pandemic. It's the big little things like that that ordinary people appreciate and respect.
42:32
You've heard me say this about Governor Justice in the past. There will
42:35
be those who don't like him, there will be those that will downright hate
42:38
him, but I and those that love him. At one time he was
42:42
ranked in the top three or four as far as approval rating goes of governors
42:45
nationwide, and he really owned it during COVID and that texture is exactly right,
42:52
and he continues to do these pressers. And although COVID I don't want
42:55
to say COVID is not a thing, because I currently know about five or
42:58
six people that have COVID right now and are suffering through it. But he
43:02
was on his best. He was at his best during that time. Texas
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absolutely right. I'm going to get this in there before we go to break.
43:07
You know, it's not often that all of the stations of WVRC media
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to police were shot at Martinsburg yesterday. Yeah, Jeff and I talked about
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that top of the show. When will you talk about the soft on crime
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policies of the Republican legislature and governor causing the crime wave? Or do we
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only use the silly argument when trying to own the libs? Says a Texter
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notes here people still talking about the comments made a week and a couple of
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days ago during the gubernatorial debate. Of Morgantown, moderated by Hoppy Kurtchibal the
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comments made by candidate for governor current Secretary of State Mac Warner saying that the
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twenty twenty presidential election was stolen by the CIA, Big Tech, etc.
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Etc. Last week, it was learned that Macwarner's chief of staff, Chuck
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Flannery, is resigning his position as chief of staff to Secretary Warner to take
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a role with Senator Shelley Moore Capito. Now that change effective, I understand,
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according to the press release, with the coming of the new year twenty
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twenty four, no reason to directly believe that Chuck Flannery's resignation has anything to
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do with the comments made about the election by Macwarner. You know, you
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have to understand the way that jobs work under the Capitol Dome. As somebody
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who's been there, I somewhat understand it. Chuck Flannery's Macwarner's right hand man,
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and regardless of what happens in the future, whether whether Macwarners elected governor
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not, Corner will not be Secretary of State come January twenty twenty five,
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there will be a new Secretary of State. So one of the bad things
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about being a high ranking official such as that is that every four eight years
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you find yourself looking for a job. So I would suspect that Chuck probably
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saw an opportunity and took it, which now you know, no one can
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blame him for I know all the players here very well. Chuck's a family
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guy and a father, so he has to look to the future, and
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again no one can blame him for that. I'm not so sure I would
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read too much into that. I say that because I saw some social media
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chatter over the weekend about it, and so on and so forth. I
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will say, despite being a Denver Broncos fan, Chuck's actually a pretty good
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guy. And he does have a history with Shelley Moore Capito, having worked
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for her once before. I do think, though, the coming months are
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going to be interesting, as now Chuck Flannery finds himself working for Senator Shelley
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Moore Capito, whose son is now running for governor against a g. Patrick
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Morrissey, car dealer Chris Miller and more capital So, in the words of
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John Lennon, strange days indeed was peculiar. Mama. I was writing an
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article over the weekend from The Wall Street Journal about Senator Joe Manchin Mansion speaking
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last week at the annual CEO Council Summit sponsored by the Journal, and he
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was very to his plans to run for president next year on some sort of
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a third party ticket whatever, no labels, whatever they're calling it. As
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as has been documented, Senator Mansion did say he plans to kick off the
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next chapter of his political career next month by traveling for two months with his
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words, with the hope of mobilizing people like myself who feel they are homeless
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politically homeless, in quote the words of Senator Mansion. And he was also
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asked about statements he'd made in the past. He has set on numerous occasions
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he would likely be the last Democrat to be elected to the US Senate for
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some time from West Virginia, exendy well beyond his lifetime. He's absolutely right
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about that. And he talked about in the interview how much West Virginia has
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changed. I would respectfully disagree with a portion of that with Senator Mansion.
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I don't think that West Virginia itself is or West Virginia's have changed that much.
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I think the National Democratic Party has now Manchin side of the National Democratic
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Party's hostility toward coal production being one of those factors, and again he's right
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there. If the Senator, though, is planning to run for president,
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the poll numbers from the Wall Street Journal don't look too good by more than
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a two to one margin. Voters has said they have an unfavorable pinch opinion
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of Senator Mansion, Democrats and Independence both viewing him in an unfavorable light.
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So I don't know what the future holds for Center to Management. Apparently he's
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not gonna have much luck if he runs for president. But Dave Island showing
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Petty, my producer again will have more hoppy will as well as a new
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scene with this tragic situation Martinsburg where two state troopers were shot. We'll have
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more on that coming up on talk Line. Coming up tomorrow on the show,
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We're gonna talkab a little bit more about this grand opening of the all
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new Thornhill Toyota plus Dave Hardy, the newly appointed circuit judge in Knawk County.
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We'll stop by the show tomorrow as well. Till next time, Till
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tomorrow, have fun, love somebody fighting. As Anty six point five tals
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to one oh four point five Cross Lane on WUVRC Media Station. We are
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proud to live here too,