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02/20/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Angie Gillenwater, Chris Hamilton, Travis Willard · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 5: Dave Allen, Hey, folks, a good Friday morning to you,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. Friday edition of the show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've made it to the weekend Sunday in seventy
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  Speaker 5: five here in the Capital City. I'm going to keep
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  Speaker 5: saying it till it is. Actually, it was a stormy
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  Speaker 5: night in a lot of areas. Rain is moving outs
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  Speaker 5: with us Sunday into Monday. We'll have more on that
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  Speaker 5: coming up a little bit later on It's Friday, meaning
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  Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Angie gilden Water from the
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  Speaker 5: Kenalla Charleston Humaine Association with this week's Adopt Me Please
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  Speaker 5: Pet of the Week. Travis Willard, who is a Republican
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  Speaker 5: running for State Senate in District four, is going to
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  Speaker 5: join us on the show today as well. Chris Hamilton,
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  Speaker 5: president of the West Virginia Association. All that plus your
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  Speaker 5: calls and text are welcome. Bigley Pigley Wiggily hotline three
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  Speaker 5: zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Tony
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to a show. Now a good friend.
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  Speaker 5: Angie gillen Water from the Gonaal Charleston New Main Association.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, ang and welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: It's Friday again.
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  Speaker 2: Thus Friday again?
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  Speaker 5: All right, as always, our pets pictures posted Dave Alan
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  Speaker 5: Radio on Facebook, also the WHS network Facebook page and
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  Speaker 5: on my x page which is at day Base seventy.
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  Speaker 5: We got a beautiful dog by the name of Garrison.
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  Speaker 5: Tell us about Garrison.
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  Speaker 7: So Garrison was actually one of the dogs that was
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  Speaker 7: in our building when the U haul hit the building,
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  Speaker 7: and he was adopted quickly from the U haul's incident.
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  Speaker 7: But he has found his way back to Kha. The
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  Speaker 7: adopter fell on some hard times, so he is back.
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  Speaker 7: He's available for adoption for zero dollars adoption for he
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  Speaker 7: has been completely sponsored, he's neutered, he's vaccinated. He's great
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  Speaker 7: with other dogs. However, if you have cats, you might
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  Speaker 7: want to pass on Garrison, they get along with.
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  Speaker 2: Not a fan. Not a fan, huh.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. And let's see, he's housebroken, he's great with kids,
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  Speaker 7: and he's actually a part of our Tales of Hope program,
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  Speaker 7: which is a really really cool and interesting program. He's
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  Speaker 7: currently at a local correctional facility where inmates are teaching
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  Speaker 7: him basic commands like sit, shake, lay, and they also
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  Speaker 7: teach him some pretty cool things. They teach him how
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  Speaker 7: to retrieve their own leash, which is pretty cool. So
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  Speaker 7: he's down there getting getting a little bit smarter than
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  Speaker 7: he was.
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  Speaker 5: I want to talk about that program because we featured
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  Speaker 5: a couple of pets over the years, Angie, that have
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  Speaker 5: gone through that program. Again, it's called Tales of Hope,
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  Speaker 5: and basically what they do is they take some critters
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  Speaker 5: to some local correctional facilities and put and match him
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  Speaker 5: up with some of the folks that are incarcerated there.
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  Speaker 5: And these kind of programs have been proved to be
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  Speaker 5: hugely successful across the country, and I know you've seen
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  Speaker 5: it firsthand.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, these programs pretty much set these dogs up with
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  Speaker 7: like a basic obedience training, which is a lot of
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  Speaker 7: the times why people return pets to their shelter. Why
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  Speaker 7: people surrender their pets to the shelter in the first place.
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  Speaker 7: So these basic obedience training classes that they get in
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  Speaker 7: these programs set them up for for success from the
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  Speaker 7: point of adoption, which is really great and we're really
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  Speaker 7: thankful for that.
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  Speaker 5: And plus what it does for the folks that are
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  Speaker 5: working with them, the folks that are residents that are incarcerated,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's very very good for them as well.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely with our particular correctional facility we work with, they
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  Speaker 7: will send notes back with the dogs, like once they've
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  Speaker 7: completed their program and they're getting adopted, and these notes
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  Speaker 7: are for the new adopters just like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 7: what I learned about, like, for example, Garrison while he
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  Speaker 7: was with me. These are the tricks he knows, and
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  Speaker 7: they are often the most like peer jerking, heartwarming notes
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  Speaker 7: you'll read.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah and well, and it gives them something, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the folks that are incarcerated, It gives them something to
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  Speaker 5: do other than just you know, staring at four walls.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it actually gives them a purpose. For the
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  Speaker 5: ones that want to do this, and some of the
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  Speaker 5: some of the success stories that I have, I've read
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  Speaker 5: about and seen across the country, Angie, have just been phenomenal.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they, Like I said, it's one of the most
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  Speaker 7: tear jerking and heartwarming things for me is when they
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  Speaker 7: come back and those those notes and just like the
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  Speaker 7: story altogether, it's it's really moving.
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  Speaker 5: Talking to Angie gillen Water from the Connealge Charleston Humane
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  Speaker 5: Association with Garrison. This week's Adopt Me Please Pet of
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  Speaker 5: rescues or volunteers who will trap and release cats for
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  Speaker 5: no charge or just to trap? I can pay to
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  Speaker 5: get them fixed. It's irritating the neighbors. They refuse to
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  Speaker 7: I don't know of any particular rescue groups that will
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  Speaker 7: go out and maybe do the trapping for you. However,
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  Speaker 7: there are New Hope Animal Rescue offers Spain Hooter vouchers
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  Speaker 7: for residents of particular counties to have animals stay and neutered,
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  Speaker 7: So you might want to reach out with them. They
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  Speaker 7: operate through Facebook and email only. They don't have a
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  Speaker 7: phone number or a building you can visit, unfortunately, but
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  Speaker 7: that was New Hope Animal Rescue. And of course you're
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  Speaker 7: always welcome to go to like any type of tractor supply,
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  Speaker 7: any seed store really is going to have traps that
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  Speaker 2: You guys out and about anywhere on this weekend, not
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  Speaker 2: this weekend.
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  Speaker 7: Next weekend is when things are going to start picking up.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well just mentioning it because tomorrow the weather's going
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  Speaker 5: to be pretty good, but then after that's gonna take
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  Speaker 5: another nose dive.
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  Speaker 2: But in the winter that would not end.
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  Speaker 5: So I just thought maybe maybe you might be out there,
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  Speaker 5: but also a little downtime and to do some things
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  Speaker 5: that the shelter is not necessarily a bad thing either.
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  Speaker 5: Tucks and Tails your big fundraiser coming up April twenty
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  Speaker 5: fifth at JQ Dickets and Salt Works.
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  Speaker 2: Better plan on getting those tickets early.
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  Speaker 7: Angie, Yes, I actually spoke with Amanda, who is pretty
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  Speaker 7: much our you know, our leader in texts of Tales.
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  Speaker 7: She's our director of development, and she said there's about
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  Speaker 7: seventy tickets left, so definitely definitely gets them if you
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  Speaker 7: plan on going.
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  Speaker 5: And this is not till April twenty fifth, so that
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  Speaker 5: should tell you how popular that this event is going
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  Speaker 5: to be. And you you haven't correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't had it at JQ Dickinson Saltworks in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Have you.
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  Speaker 7: That's correct. This is a new venue for us, and
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  Speaker 7: I prove I will want am extremely excited about the
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  Speaker 7: new venue and how Touches and Tails, Whiskers and Wildflowers
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  Speaker 7: is going to play out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it is going to be a great, great night.
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  Speaker 5: And again to April twenty fifth, we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 5: it plenty as we head up to. But I did
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  Speaker 5: want to just remind folks they probably need to get
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  Speaker 5: their tickets. They can just go to the website and
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  Speaker 5: get the tickets. You're a website, so there.
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  Speaker 7: Is a Facebook group where you there's a direct link
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  Speaker 7: to purchase tickets. You can also visit the website. It's
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  Speaker 7: kind of hard to find on there. So just type
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  Speaker 7: in tuxes and Tails twenty twenty six on Facebook and
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  Speaker 7: that that will be much easier for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Actually I saw that. It's one thing when I was
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  Speaker 5: preparing for the show. That's when I actually saw that
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  Speaker 5: out there. I keep getting these reminders on Facebook that
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  Speaker 5: says an event coming up that you may like. I
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  Speaker 5: think they're trying to tell me something, Angie.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you need to get those tickets one percent.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I read on your page that you had about
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  Speaker 2: seventy intakes this week alone, so you definitely could use
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  Speaker 2: some supplies.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely seventy intakes since Sunday and it's not flowing down
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  Speaker 7: at all. Peerina Chowel products are always appreciated. Cleaning products
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  Speaker 7: right now, our team is really asking for like steel
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  Speaker 7: wool scrubbers and wet food of any brand, as well
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  Speaker 7: as volunteers that are willing to help clean or if
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  Speaker 7: you're not you know, if you're not able to get
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  Speaker 7: down and dirty taking dogs out on walks while our
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  Speaker 7: team gets down and dirty on cleaning them.
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  Speaker 2: And fostering there. I mean I've talked about in the past.
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  Speaker 5: I've got several friends that do the fostering program and
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  Speaker 5: it's a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great way to help out.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, if you can foster, that is a great way
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  Speaker 7: to have a pet short term and not make that,
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  Speaker 7: you know, fifteen plus year commitment to the animal. I
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  Speaker 7: currently have a foster puppy for Kseyha. It's been wonderful.
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  Speaker 7: We love them. So if you're interested in fostering, please
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  Speaker 7: come up and visit us as well. We could really
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  Speaker 7: benefit from your health right now, all right?
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  Speaker 5: And I did want to mention two that actually we
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  Speaker 5: have a text here why don't Texas, Why don't more
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  Speaker 5: places like children's hospitals, nursing homes and even schools taking
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  Speaker 5: several shelter animals as mascots and support animals.
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  Speaker 7: That is actually a like a really I love that idea.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to put that out there. I don't
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  Speaker 7: know why per se, but I do know like some
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  Speaker 7: places around here, for example, Metro nine to one one,
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  Speaker 7: they had fostered a dog through us and he just
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  Speaker 7: kind of hung out at the nine one one facility
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  Speaker 7: and acted as like an emotional support dog. And now
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  Speaker 7: a couple of years back they adopted him and now
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  Speaker 7: he's just their mascot at Metro nine one one, So
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  Speaker 7: some places do it. I guess maybe why schools aren't
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  Speaker 7: doing it is maybe like a if kids have allergies
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  Speaker 7: or you know, are scared of dogs or anything like that,
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  Speaker 7: So maybe that's why.
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  Speaker 2: But I like the idea of it is a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: And another question for you.
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  Speaker 5: You're quite popular, uh, any update on the progress of
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  Speaker 5: a new shelter.
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  Speaker 7: So we it's something that is just moving at the
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  Speaker 7: speed of a turtle. In the last they are they
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  Speaker 7: are working on paving the road, the driveway per se
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  Speaker 7: of the shelter and breaking ground very very soon. It's
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  Speaker 7: just a lot of you know and you know, crossing
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  Speaker 7: t's dot andys all that, but they are we are
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  Speaker 7: getting a little bit closer than we.
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  Speaker 6: Were on that.
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  Speaker 2: And where's this going to be located? Do we know yet?
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  Speaker 7: So I don't have an exact address quite yet because
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  Speaker 7: there's nothing there, but it is pretty much like a
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  Speaker 7: mile down the road from where the current.
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  Speaker 5: Shelter stays, same general, same general area. All right, Hey, Angie,
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  Speaker 5: it is always a pleasure to talk to you and
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  Speaker 5: keep doing great things you and the team there, and
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  Speaker 5: we'll talk again next week.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely sounded great.
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  Speaker 5: Angie Gilla Wana Canal, Charleston. You've main association with this
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  Speaker 5: week's Adopt Me. Please put it the week again. Go
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  Speaker 5: page or at Dave A seventy and ax and you
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  Speaker 5: can take a look at Garrison. He is almost three
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  Speaker 5: years old, around fifty four pounds. He's neutered, he's housebroken,
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  Speaker 5: great with kids, great with other playful dogs. Do know
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  Speaker 5: he's not a fan of cats. Though he's not a
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  Speaker 5: fan of cats. He's free, has adoption if he's covered,
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  Speaker 5: and he's part of this which I just think is
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  Speaker 5: a fantastic program. This Tales of program where they take
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  Speaker 5: animals from the shelter and they send them out to
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  Speaker 5: a local correctional facility to work. I don't know, to
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  Speaker 5: be honest with you, I don't know who's working with
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  Speaker 5: who here. I think it's mutually beneficial because the prisoners
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  Speaker 5: are working with the animals and they're learning from them.
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  Speaker 5: The animals are working with the prisoners and they're learning
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  Speaker 5: from them. They teach them basic commands and so on,
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  Speaker 5: and so then they fill out basically a report. As
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  Speaker 5: Angie tells me, So when you go. If you've had
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  Speaker 5: a dog that's been through this program and you go
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  Speaker 5: to adopt it, you get a report from one of
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  Speaker 5: the inmates that said, this is what we were able
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  Speaker 5: to do with this dog. This dog can already sit, stand, fetch,
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  Speaker 5: you know, do whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fantastic program. It really really is.
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  Speaker 5: But again, Garrison is our dog this week. About three
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  Speaker 5: years old, fifty four pound male, neutered, house broken, great
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  Speaker 5: with kids, other playful dogs, but not with cats. His
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  Speaker 5: adoption fee is sponsored. He's a great, great looking dog.
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  Speaker 5: He came from the shelter, was adopted out, and the
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  Speaker 5: new owners had to bring him back through no fault
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  Speaker 5: of the dog. The owners themselves had some issues, fell
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  Speaker 5: on a hard times is a way that Angie put it,
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  Speaker 5: and so they surrendered him back to the shelters. So
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  Speaker 5: it's a great looking dog. Go take a look at
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  Speaker 2: Good good stuff there.
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  Speaker 5: Travis Willard, who is a Republican candidate for state Senate
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  Speaker 5: later on the show. Right now, let's go to the
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: West Virginia State Capital checking with our good friend Chris Hamilton,
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: president of the West Virginia Cold Association. Good morning, sir,
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: welcome to the show.
• 16:23
  Speaker 11: Hey, good morning Dave. Thanks for having me on.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. Chris.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: You know, it's been a it's been a world win
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: of a couple of weeks for the coal industry. And
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: we talked about, you know, the meeting with President Trump
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: in Washington, some positive news from the cold industry. But
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: then just a couple of days later, we get worried
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: of about five hundred jobs being cut, primarily logan in
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: Wyoming counties. To so to say, Chris, it's been an
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: up and down week or so for the cold industry
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: would be an.
• 16:48
  Speaker 11: Understatement, absolutely, David. You know, you mentioned world Win. We've
• 16:53
  Speaker 11: been on a world win you know, tour for you know,
• 16:57
  Speaker 11: a decade or longer in this business with you know,
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: last week was especially bittersweet.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: On one hand, we were with the President as he
• 17:07
  Speaker 11: was announcing a number of projects that were going forward
• 17:10
  Speaker 11: to help the state's coal industry and our coal fired
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: power stations, and he was also announcing some other initiatives
• 17:18
  Speaker 11: that were underway. Then you know, by the time we
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: got home, we've heard the news of you know, five
• 17:23
  Speaker 11: hundred plus miners receiving their warn notices in southern West Virginia.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: And that comes on the heels of course of you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 11: a couple of hundred miners up in Tucker County at
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: the Metiki mine the week before. So it's, uh, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: it's we're we're experiencing both sides of that pendulum here
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: within a couple of within a very compressed period of time.
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: But but what it does it underscores, UH, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 11: the challenges that we're looking at currently as an industry.
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: We do have a couple of minds that have that
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: have announced the closure or or cutbacks. We still have
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: a couple of you know, in state power facilities operating
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: less than full capacity. UH. And we have a number
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: of other challenges with getting our coal fired electrons onto
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: the grid and through t j M. And we've noted
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: and our Division of Energy has found that there's some
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: restrictions in those outlets from West Virginia to the to
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: the grid. So there's a lot of things coming together
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: that are very troublesome and present challenges that we're going
• 18:37
  Speaker 11: to have to work through.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: We'll talked to Chris Hamplon again from the West Virginia
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Coal Association. I want to go back to the to
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: the good News for a moment. We had you on
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Metro News midday talk about to talk to some other
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: people's where about it was well about the trip to Washington,
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: UH and the meeting that you had with the with
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: the president up there. What what what was your takeaway
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: from that meeting and the remarks that President Trump made.
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: That day, Well, we just can't express our appreciation for
• 19:05
  Speaker 11: everything that President Trump has done and continues to do
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: to boost the you know, our our coal industry. Uh,
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: there's no question about it. He wants to do everything
• 19:16
  Speaker 11: he's capable of helping us, uh, ensure the long term
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: ability of this industry to continue its employment numbers and
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: to grow it's uh it's coal producing assets, both from
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: an operational standpoint, to be able to more effectively compete
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: on the export market with our strong metallurgical coals and
• 19:38
  Speaker 11: and also uh, you know our coal fired uh you
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: know the power power generators. Uh. You know, he's making
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: money available that under the previous administration was being was
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: being made available for renewable energy sources.
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: Uh.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: And he's he's doing everything he can to you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: make those dollars available to upgrade, modernize all of our
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: coal plants. He's ordered some plants that were set for
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: closure to continue to operate as long as humanly possible.
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: And that's what he wants to see. And he's also
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: interested in new coal, fair generation, new coking facilities. So
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: hopefully we get we can get in line real soon
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: and be real aggressive through our state coal team, which
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: includes the you know, the governor, to our to our
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: minor operators, to our working miners, and and our legislative
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: leaders to formulate a dynamic team with our congressional reps
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: and go after everything we can possibly get while President
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: Trump's in office. It's truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: We've never ever have seen this in our business before.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Christ I got a question on the text line here
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: for you, and I'm gonna go ahead, and I know
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: you're good about about taking questions. It says, does Chris
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: see a huge comeback for coal when all these data
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: centers get powered up and realize that this is alternative
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: energy cannot provide enough power for them. That's a great question.
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: It's a great question. That's pretty simple answer. Yes, we
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: are the battery right here are State of West Virginia
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: for future growth within the data center and other industrial facilities.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: Just like New Core. We have that ability. We have
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: the ability to literally double the output of our existing
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: in state coal fired power facilities, and that will also
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: double the coal supplies. Now, this isn't going to happen
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: every night, but we have a bill in the legislature
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: right now that we've been working on, you know, which
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: provides some incentives to our coal fired power facilities to
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: be able to generate the power for these existing and
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: for new incoming data centers. I mean, we have the
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: ability to plug. We don't have to wait till micro
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: grids are built, which will likely not be completed until
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: a five to seven year timeframe. We can bring data
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: centers in here to the state of West Virginia today
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: and plug them right into the Mountaineer Plant, the John
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Amos Plant, the Mitchell and Harrison power stations up north,
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: and then we can run these plants at the optimum
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: efficiency levels, the optimum capacity levels that they're designed to
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: operate at.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Chris, when we talk about pardon upon fueling the country,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: where does coal in twenty twenty six currently stand among gas, solar, wind,
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: all the other all the other outlets, where does coal stand?
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: You know, we've had a pretty good bump in the
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: burn demands placed on our coal fire generators, mainly because
• 22:51
  Speaker 11: of the inclement weather and the difficulty of other based
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: fuels and intermittent fuels to meet that demand. So we're
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: back up above twenty twenty three percent and you know,
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: that's that's a less than half of where we were
• 23:06
  Speaker 11: twenty years ago, but it's still you know, very very critical.
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: You know, we're going to need every every amp, every
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: electron from every fuel producing source going forward. And we
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: have the ability to maximize our co assets here, but
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: then to add to those assets, you know, with other
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: based fuels and for new and with new coal generation
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: going forward. I mean, the projections out there ten fifteen,
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: twenty years from now are so phenomenal, such an increase
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: in demand that it's going to take everything from every
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: every fuel source to meet that demand.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Chris, it seems to me like sometimes and this is
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: this is an outsider looking in that sometimes that these
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: different outlets for energy mentioned solar, when gas and cults,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: and specifically let me focus on gas and coal, it
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: seems like that there is a bit and I don't
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: know if rivalry is the right word, but a little
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: back and forth sometimes between the gas industry and the
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: coal industry. Ken can both industries work together to do
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: what America needs?
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: Oh, I think they absolutely can, and I think we've
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: shown the ability to do that over the years. But
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: you know, it gets a little bit contentuous when when
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: there's encroachment involved, and by that I mean when one
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: tries to encroach and and take the market from another
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: within certain areas, then that obviously creates conflict. We're just
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: so much better than that. We do not need to
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: be trading one energy job for another, particularly with all
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: this growth on the horizon, you know, and that that
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: really puts a lot of pressure frankly on our executive
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: and legislature, you know, to keep the keep everybody in
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: their lane. And but yet let's, uh, you know, let's
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: develop the kinds of state program here that allows both
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: industries to really thrive. And yes, we think we can
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: see maximum development from both industries. But again, there has
• 25:13
  Speaker 11: to be a pretty pretty strong leadership to keep these
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: industries working together and within their own lanes. You know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: there's a report of a coal fired power plant being
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: replaced by a gas plant up north, and that you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: just causes a lot of a lot of tension and
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: potential conflict. But you know, with strong, strong leadership and
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: with a strong energy strategy, I believe we can you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: stay focused and maximize the output of all of our
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: natural resources.
• 25:46
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  Speaker 2: Chris.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: One final question for you. Anytime that we talk about coal,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: whether I have you on or I have anybody you
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: know associated with call anybody that's touting coal, usually get
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: you know, I get a lot of text or comments
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: online or whatever about we need to move beyond coal.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: You know, coal is so nineteenth and twentieth century and
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: we just need to It's dirty. We just need to
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: put it behind us. To all of those naysayers. And
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: you've been hearing this your entire career, but specifically right now,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: as I said in twenty twenty six, when people are
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: saying it's time to move on to those folks, you would.
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: Say, what, oh, I would say that you know, they
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: really need to, you know, take a closer in depth
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: look at our industry and all the technological advancements and
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: modernization that's that's occurred over the last twenty years. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: when you go into an underground line today, I mean
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: it's a real eye opener. It's a it's a Star
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: Wars tech all of it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: It's like going into the bat Cave. I mean literally
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: It's like going into the back cave from the television
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: show with the with the computers and everything that are
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: down there. Now.
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah, if we call Star Wars technologies, I mean you
• 27:07
  Speaker 11: have you have minds that are completely computerized. High skilled
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: miners uh, you know, operate in these machines from great
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: distances away on little game boys and computerized the you
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: know what. You see your grandson and son operating in
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: these in the bedroom today. I mean, it's just phenomenal.
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: And they're standing of the state. Now, there's still hazards
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: and those have to be controlled, and everybody focuses on
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: industrial mind safety, no question about that. That's paramount to
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: all the other goals. But hey, people come from all
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: over the world to see how we do it here
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: because nobody does it better. There's no better trained and
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: qualified miners than what we have here. And they just
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: take such pride and sophistication in the work that they do.
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: And we're just so proud of them and the same.
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: Look there coal fired power facilities. You know, you and
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: I right by John Aims and see this huge industrial facility.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: But it's state of the art. Also, all of our
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: plants in West Virginia are fully compliant with every single
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: aspect of existing federal law, and we're very proud of that.
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: You ride by, you see a little water, vapor, steam,
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: no admission whatsoever. There's not a you know, there's not
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: a more efficient industrial facility than one of our eight
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: the in state coal plants here.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: All right, it's Chris Hamilton, President Westervirginia Cold Association. Always
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: a pleasure to talk to you and we'll be talking
• 28:35
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• 28:36
  Speaker 11: Thanks a lot, great program, Thank you, Dave.
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  Speaker 5: the States Senate out of district for Good morning, sir,
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning Dave, Thanks for having me, Thank you for
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  Speaker 6: being Explain the district to us. A little convoluted in
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  Speaker 6: West Virginia, weird, right, So it's south of the river
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: in Putnam County, so Winfield, Tayese Valley, Hurricane Scott Depot.
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  Speaker 6: It's Cable County, just a little bit past Milton and
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: parts of Ona. Then it goes north over to the river,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: includes all of Mason County and then the western part
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: of Jackson County, so Ripley, Ravenswood, Evans, Cottageville, that area.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Give us your by. Who is Travis Wilding.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: So I was born and raised in West Virginia. I've
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: spent my entire life between Putnham Mason County. Graduated from
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Point Pleasant High School. My dad grew up in Putnam
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: County out on Red House Hill, so we're really rooted here.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: I did twenty four years in the West Virginia Army
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: National Guard. It truly was the greatest privilege that I've
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: had in my life. It taught me a lot about service,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: not only to my country and my state, but to
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: one another, to my fellow citizen.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Is right.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: I work in finance now, so I run my own
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: business in Tayses Valley. So graduated from Marshall and you see, uh,
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: I also teach it, you see, right, So every every
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: couple of years I'll go back and teach a class.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: And it's just it's just my way to kind of
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: give back and pay it forward as well.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: You mentioned your your military service, what what were some
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: of the things that you learned, uh, in the in
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: the military that you think would transition if you are
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: elected to make you a good legislator.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: So that's a really good question, Dave. And I'm taking
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: kind of the path less less traveled on this with
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: this political campaign. And I'm really focused on values. And
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: that's really at least when I joined the army, they
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: were really, uh, they really pushed that hard.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: It taught me about loyalty, It taught me about duty, respect,
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage. And I really think
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: that those value values don't replace good policy, but values
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: absolutely drive good policy. And I think I think that
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: really has set me apart throughout my life. That coupled
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: with honestly just my faith in general. Right, I'm proud
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: to be a Christian, and those values as Christian values,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: is those military values really I think give me a
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: leg up. Additionally, it gives me the opportunity to work
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: and understand people from various different backgrounds, help get them
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: on the same page in order to accomplish the overall
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: mission right the end state. Beginning with the end in
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: mind is crucial. So again, I think I'm in a
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: unique position. I did spend most of my time in
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: combat arms units, so I have a really heavy operational
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: background from the army's perspective, and again that gives me,
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: It gives me some rare insight on how to get
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: things done in an efficient and effective way.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: So, with all this that you've done, with your military background,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: with your stuff in the world of nants and everything,
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: why do you want to be a state senator?
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: It's we have a lot of opportunity, especially in my
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: district and especially in West Virginia. I really believe I
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: know you just said Chris On there, he's a great guy,
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: and Cole is important, but I really believe that the
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: people are what is West Virginia's number one resource. And
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: West Virginias don't ask for much. They ask for the
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: ability to get an honest day's work. They ask for
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: the ability to send their kids to school in a safe,
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: enriching environment. Right, they deserve somebody that represents them, that
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: is going to respect them enough to give them the
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: truth and not just the canned political responses. And also
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: somebody that doesn't forget who they work for. They need
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: an ally, they need a representative that's going to fight
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: for them and and not minimize their position.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: There are others, including the acumbent running for the seat.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Why do you feel you're the better cam because I
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I understand what it's like.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: I haven't forgotten where I come from. I've had some
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: some rough times in my life. You know, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: I wasn't raised by politics, right, I was raised by
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: West Virginia. I know what it's like to be doing,
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: to be a young man, doing all the right things,
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: working your tail off, and not be able to get ahead,
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: and still have to choose sometimes who gets to eat tonight,
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: me or my children. And it's not for lack of effort,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: it's not for lack of hard work or dedication. It's
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: there are problems that we that exist. And I feel
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: like I kept coming back to the same answer, Dave.
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: If I've got the opportunity to make things one percent
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: better for me, for others, for our children, and I
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: just choose not to take that opportunity, I don't know
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: what that says about me as a man. So for me,
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: it's it's I'm doing it on principle. I'm not doing
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: it out of ego. I couldn't care less about a title.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: I'm there to serve the people of West Virginia period,
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: end of story.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: Would you be open to a debate or participating in
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: candidates forums and things of that nature.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: I think one of the one of the biggest issues
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: we have across the legislature today is that, and honestly
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: just in society that a lot of us have forgotten
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: how to communicate with one another. Right, we can have discourse.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: Discourse is healthy, but we have to be able to
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: work together to come up with it with better solutions.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I'm I'm more than happy to do anything
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: How's the campaign been so far?
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: You know what, It's been a learning curve.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: Like I said, I don't come from I'm really kind
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: of a political outsider in West Virginia, So I'm the
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: learning curve was deep in the beginning, just you know,
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: understanding the ins and outs. But it has been incredibly
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: rewarding being out in the community and actually listening to
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: people and hearing, hearing what they're saying.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: And it is and what are they saying? Travis, if
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: you don't mind asking what what are you hearing? When
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: you were going out door to door or whatever, what
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: are you hearing?
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: From people.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: So, you know, my district's a little unique, right.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: We have a lot of a lot of new facilities coming, right,
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: We've got the new core facility. We've got you know
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: time X that's that's over towards the Ravenswo area. We've
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: got like Frontiers and Fidelis that they're supposed to be coming.
• 37:19
  Speaker 6: You know, they're talking data centers, and people are concerned, right.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: They they they're glad that we are getting jobs because
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: they all want their children and grandchildren of the ability
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: to stay in West Virginian work. But they're concerned because
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: we have a lot of growth coming. We have a
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: lot of new jobs, and they don't feel like they're ready.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: They're concerned that the data centers are gonna affect their
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: water supply. I've talked to a lot of folks that's
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: still they don't have h running water where they live, right,
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: And they don't live out you know, way out in
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: the holler. They they're fairly close to civilization and they
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: still don't have running water. I hear a lot of
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: people concerned about the state of the school system, right,
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: and and some of the things that are coming down
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: the line. People are afraid in some cases to send
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: their kids to school because they don't know what's going
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: to happen to them. That those are the issues that
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: I'm really seeing.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Do you have a website or social medium that you
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: to direct people to?
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I absolutely do.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: The website is Willard for WV, and the Facebook is
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: the same Willard for WV.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: So I'm kind of interested how closely I know that
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: you know, you said you're an outsider, uh, and you're
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: running your business, and you're got a family and so
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: on this sword. But I know that you've been watching
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: as best you can the legislature up to this point.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: What have you thought about this session so far?
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: You know, I see a lot, I see a lot
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: of canned political responses. I see a lot of people
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: that are more concerned with getting likes and views on
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: their social media or than actually providing actual solutions.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Right we talk.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: You know, the the budget or the income tax cuts
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: has been all over the place, and everybody's talking about
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: cutting it by you know, ten percent income tax cuts.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Of course, everybody wants to pay less taxes. But what
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: I'm hearing from from the people in my district is
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: that when they understand that, you know, a ten percent
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: income tax cut for the media in West Virginia. That's
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: that's going to be about two dollars and fifty cents
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: a week for the household extra, right, They would much
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: rather have their roads fixed.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: But it's a good political response, it's it's good media
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: right for them to say, oh, we're going to cut taxes. Well,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: of course, but the people that I'm hearing from, they
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: just they just feel like that's insulting, right, Like they're
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: just there, their intelligence is being insulted because they've realized
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: that there's problems, they're not afraid to work on the problems.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: And again, I think we do have a lot of opportunity,
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: but we have a lot of complex issues here in
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: West Virginia, and I think if people don't understand the
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: problem or they can't come up with a solution, they
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: ignore it. And I feel like that's what's what's happened. Unfortunately.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Do you think that they're over the last couple of years,
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: and this is not necessarily just to the Senate, I'm
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: talking to the legislature in general, conclude the House?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Now, do you think there's been too much focus on
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: social issues?
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, absolutely.
• 40:16
  Speaker 11: Uh.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: On some level, social issues are important, right, you know,
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to say that they're that they're completely irrelevant.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: But we have bigger fishta fry so to speak. Right
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: when we have we still have opioid problems. Right, We
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: still have like we mentioned, people that don't have running water,
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: We have roads that are falling apart. We have a
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: healthcare system that that is struggling. You know, I've got
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: I've talked to several older folks who unfortunately have to
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: choose between their medicine this month or putting food on
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: the table. Those are real problems. The social issues on again,
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: on some level, they're important, but we really need to
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: focus and start working together to actually make some progress.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: And when I say us working together, I don't just
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: mean politicians, right, it's the community. West Virginians are strong,
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: they understand the lay of the land. They're not idiots.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: They will step up. I have faith in them. I
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: know they're my people. They will step up and help.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: They just need some leadership, some guidance, some honesty to
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: get everybody on the same page to work together.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: If you are elected, would you be willing to do
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: some sort of like town halls or you know, I
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: mean as best you can.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, would you be willing to do them?
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: Absolutely? I think you can't lead if you don't listen.
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: And that is a huge missing piece because I don't
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: remember the last time I saw one of those outside
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: of an election year, right, So, but that's incredibly important.
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: People have to be able to have access to their
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: elected officials. They have to be able to share their concerns,
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: share their opinions, because otherwise it's very easy to get
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: disconnected from the people. So yeah, not only would I
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: be open to that, but that's that's absolutely part of
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: my plan as well.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: One final question, and then we'll let you get on
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: with your day, because you do have a job to
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: get to.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: There's that little thing. Thanks, I'll get you out of here.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: The State Republican Party last year opted to and it's
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: their right to do it, opted to close their primary
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: to independence. So if you are a registered independent when
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: you go to the bout in the year's past, you
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: were able to go in and say, Okay, I'm independent,
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: but I want a Republican ballot or I want a
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Democrat ballot. The State Republican Party last year voted not
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: well actually a couple of years ago, and they continue
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: this year not to allow independence to vote.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Do you have an opinion on that?
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: I do, Yeah, you know, I understand that. I understand
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: their thought process, but I don't agree. You know, the
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: beautiful thing about America in my mind is the freedom,
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: and you know, we should have completely open elections in
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: my mind, so you know, if an independent wants to
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: go and vote on the Republican ticket, then they should
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: have that right. So my whole thing is the people
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: are the most important thing, not the politics. So I
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: always default to putting the people above politics.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Final thirty.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: Why should someone vote for Travis Wilden Republican District form?
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: Politics was never in the cards for me. It was
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: never my desire. If people are looking for change, if
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: people are looking for actual solutions to the problems and
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: not just self interest, then I'm their guy. The problems
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: we have today can't be solved with the same mindset
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: that God is here. So I am a political outsider,
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: but I'm not an outsider for West Virginian. So I'm
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: the guy that's going to stand up genuinely, selflessly and
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: fight for West Virginians. And if that's what they are
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: looking for. If that's what the people are looking for,
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: then I'm absolutely one hundred percent the guy. If they
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: want the status quo, then I'm not for them. But again,
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: I think even that statement right, like I want, I'm
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: doing this for the people, and I firmly believe that
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: it's the right path, and I firmly believe that they're
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: going to stand up and I really think that I
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: resonate with them. And if I don't, that's also fine
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: because the people have spoken right, so right, I'm good
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: either way. I'm here to stand up for him. I'm
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: here to fight for him. And I really think that's
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: what people are craving. They just they need an ally,
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: They need somebody to listen, and I'm that guy.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: Travis Willard, Republican candidate for States in a district for
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: appreciate you being here.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Thanks Dave, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 5: To the weather quickly, storms and heavy rain moving out.
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  Speaker 5: Don't think we had a lot of issues in our
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  Speaker 5: texture Texas military values, Christian values, family values still supports Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I've said it before.
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  Speaker 5: Republicans, Magath, Conservatives, they don't understand Irony, says TJ. Meadows
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  Speaker 5: understands everything and he's with us right now. You doing,
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  Speaker 5: my friend, man? Did you marry up? I understand that.
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  Speaker 5: Happy birthday, Ruth. Then pot calling the kettle black there, dude, dude,
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  Speaker 5: I did too, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you're back from the Capitol. How'd that work out
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  Speaker 2: for you last three days?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, no one threw anything at me, No
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  Speaker 2: one came at me. H. So you know that's always good.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that don't have on when you go home. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: that's always good.
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  Speaker 4: I got to tell you hope and budget, budget and hope,
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  Speaker 4: the politics of all that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it all boiled down to. Uh this week.
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  Speaker 4: I talked about it my commentary a little bit. Folks
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  Speaker 4: can read that. But you know, kudos Vernon, Chris. Somebody
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  Speaker 4: has to be the financial adult in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Kudos all right.
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  Speaker 5: DJ Meadows Dave Wilson coming up with talk line in
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you at noon today.
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  Speaker 5: Again on this show Monday, Danny Jones is here, Taylor
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  Speaker 5: jew from the Clay Center, and Attorney General JB. Mccusky
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  Speaker 5: all coming up on the show on Monday. And Happy
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  Speaker 5: birthday to my wife Ruthan celebrating tomorrow. Ryan Nicholson, our producer,
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  Speaker 5: that's the senior producer on the other side of the glass.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much, to see you later. They have a
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  Speaker 5: great weekend. Till then, have fun and love SOMEBODYSA
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