Latest / The Dave Allen Show / 09/10/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Delegate JB Akers, Melissa Stewart, Ashley Alford-Glance
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- 2:00Speaker 3: zero zero. We want to welcome to the show now though,
- 2:02Speaker 3: right off the top, Senator Shelley Moore. Capito, Good morning, Senator,
- 2:06Speaker 3: Welcome to the show.
- 2:10Speaker 6: Senator Capito, Hello, mute, Sorry you had morning.
- 2:18Speaker 3: It's all good, it's all good, it's all good. How
- 2:21Speaker 3: are you, Senator?
- 2:22Speaker 6: You know it is drizzling here in Washington, DC. Is
- 2:26Speaker 6: it raining at home?
- 2:27Speaker 3: Not at all? I mean, we can't. We haven't had
- 2:29Speaker 3: We haven't had rain here in Charleston other than last
- 2:31Speaker 3: Friday night since like nineteen seventy eight or something. Senator,
- 2:34Speaker 3: It's it's been, it's been. It's very dry, and it's
- 2:37Speaker 3: expected to remain that way for like the next week
- 2:39Speaker 3: and a half. Zero rain insight here. Well, it is.
- 2:43Speaker 6: Raining here a little bit, since I guess that's a
- 2:46Speaker 6: welcome thing to green it up. I can tell you
- 2:47Speaker 6: my front yard in Charleston's not looking too good.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I walked through it the other night
- 2:51Speaker 3: and it was not your front yard, my front yard,
- 2:53Speaker 3: I should say. I walked through it in Putnam County
- 2:55Speaker 3: and it was like walking around in Fredo's or something.
- 2:58Speaker 3: Everything was crunching here in Arizona. So what are you
- 3:03Speaker 3: up to today? I get several things we want to
- 3:05Speaker 3: talk to you about, but specifically, what are you doing today?
- 3:08Speaker 6: Well, we're obviously trying to move the President's nominations through
- 3:12Speaker 6: in a better fashion, to go back to the way
- 3:14Speaker 6: we used to do it when we had cooperative, a
- 3:17Speaker 6: more cooperative Senate and leadership work together. And Senator Schumer
- 3:21Speaker 6: has just been obstructing every single one of the President's
- 3:24Speaker 6: team and it's taken too much time. So we're going
- 3:26Speaker 6: to go back to the way it used to be,
- 3:27Speaker 6: where you could put them in a block of forty
- 3:30Speaker 6: or fifty of bipartisan. They've come out of committee bipartisan,
- 3:34Speaker 6: and we're now going through the process to be able
- 3:36Speaker 6: to do that. So that's what's on the Senate floor today, tomorrow,
- 3:40Speaker 6: and probably as we finish up the week. You know,
- 3:44Speaker 6: in my committee, I'm having a hearing on wildfires and
- 3:48Speaker 6: other things on my Environment and Public Works Committee, and
- 3:50Speaker 6: that I'm working hard to make sure that there's no
- 3:53Speaker 6: government shut down.
- 3:54Speaker 3: And then our.
- 3:54Speaker 6: Appropriations bills, eight of which we have out a committee,
- 3:59Speaker 6: including mine, are able to be passed on the Senate floor.
- 4:02Speaker 6: So it's busy time. Plus seeing constituents. I saw the
- 4:04Speaker 6: Parkinson's community came to visit me, George Manahan and others yesterday,
- 4:09Speaker 6: So it's always good to see see folks from from home.
- 4:12Speaker 3: Well, go back to the delay and the confirmations, if
- 4:16Speaker 3: you will, I mean, is this just in your is
- 4:18Speaker 3: I mean to state the obvious? Is this just an
- 4:21Speaker 3: old fashioned politics, the delay tactics.
- 4:24Speaker 6: This is beyond that. If you look at like the
- 4:27Speaker 6: number of nominees that were confirmed by either voice vote
- 4:33Speaker 6: or unanimous consent, for instance, under Obama eight hundred and
- 4:38Speaker 6: fifty six were under Biden's term five hundred and thirty
- 4:42Speaker 6: under this president's term zero. They will not you know,
- 4:46Speaker 6: even ones that come out of committee with full bipartisan support,
- 4:51Speaker 6: they won't let go on the Senate floor by unanimous consent.
- 4:56Speaker 6: And what that does is it just blocks the time.
- 5:00Speaker 6: We can't get to the important issues that we need
- 5:02Speaker 6: to get to. We have to spend so much time
- 5:04Speaker 6: on our nominees. And this is a broken system that honestly,
- 5:09Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer broke at the beginning of this term, and
- 5:11Speaker 6: we're going to fix it.
- 5:12Speaker 3: Talked again with Senator Shelley Moore Capitso, I had a
- 5:16Speaker 3: question here that the news team asked me to ask you.
- 5:20Speaker 3: And I'm always glad to keep the guys upstairs a
- 5:22Speaker 3: little bit happy and has to do with broadband expansion.
- 5:25Speaker 3: The state submitted a proposal to the FEDS for about
- 5:29Speaker 3: six hundred million. The state initially was going to get
- 5:31Speaker 3: one point two billion, but we're told that the Trump
- 5:34Speaker 3: administration pulled back the whole program for review. And this
- 5:37Speaker 3: is what came out, is that accurate.
- 5:39Speaker 6: The Trump administration did pull the program back for review.
- 5:43Speaker 6: I think the governor announced last week and I've been
- 5:46Speaker 6: in close contact with the Broadband Council submitted West Virginia's
- 5:49Speaker 6: new plan according to what the Trump administration. The Trump
- 5:53Speaker 6: administration wanted to look at a if there is a
- 5:55Speaker 6: more less expensive way to deliver this service to the
- 5:59Speaker 6: more rural reachable areas and include some satellite we know,
- 6:04Speaker 6: and we tried to make the case. We had the
- 6:06Speaker 6: head of the Antia who makes this decision, Ariel Roth
- 6:10Speaker 6: is her name, and she was down in White Sulfur
- 6:13Speaker 6: with us where we had a meeting with all the
- 6:15Speaker 6: providers and we basically said, in West Virginia, it is
- 6:18Speaker 6: almost impossible to be served adequately by any kind of satellite.
- 6:23Speaker 6: There's latency, you can't get it. You know, the trees,
- 6:26Speaker 6: the hollers, all of those things and so really we're
- 6:30Speaker 6: trying to make the case that hardwiring or fiber is
- 6:34Speaker 6: the only way to go, which is more expensive. So
- 6:38Speaker 6: they've submitted and this will reach almost every West Virginia
- 6:42Speaker 6: and they've worked really hard on it. The Broadband Council
- 6:44Speaker 6: has and Kelly Workman and her group, and so hopefully
- 6:48Speaker 6: it'll be successful.
- 6:49Speaker 7: We'll know.
- 6:49Speaker 6: I think they have a sixty day period to review
- 6:52Speaker 6: it and then the money should start flowing by the
- 6:55Speaker 6: end of the before the end of the year. But
- 6:56Speaker 6: keep in mind, this has been four years of bureaucratic stuff.
- 7:01Speaker 6: I was going to say something not as nice stuff.
- 7:05Speaker 6: Yeah stuff, And you know, we got people that don't
- 7:09Speaker 6: have service. We've got people that have inadequate service, businesses, individuals.
- 7:14Speaker 6: It's just folks in West Virginia are very anxious, restless,
- 7:17Speaker 6: and waiting for this. So I hope we get our
- 7:19Speaker 6: one point two billion. I'm going to hold the Trump
- 7:22Speaker 6: administration speak to the fire that this is what we've
- 7:24Speaker 6: been promised, this is what we should get.
- 7:26Speaker 3: And of course, last week the announcement was made about
- 7:29Speaker 3: the Ascend West Virginia program comed in it's already been
- 7:33Speaker 3: in the Greenbrier Valley Eastern Panhandle of the Elkins area,
- 7:36Speaker 3: some of other areas. Now it's going to becoming This
- 7:38Speaker 3: is kind of the brainchild of Brad Smith and his
- 7:42Speaker 3: wife at Marshall University and now it's coming to Charleston
- 7:46Speaker 3: and in order to hat now and again when you
- 7:48Speaker 3: talk about in this is your area, when we talk
- 7:50Speaker 3: about the Charleston area, you know, we don't have nearly
- 7:52Speaker 3: as many problems as what some of the other areas do.
- 7:55Speaker 3: But we're trying to get people here into the area.
- 7:57Speaker 3: And they're still hollers and stuff around Charleston, and so
- 8:00Speaker 3: you know, the broadband part of it is a major
- 8:02Speaker 3: major part for these for these folks to come here.
- 8:05Speaker 6: Well, it's necessary because a lot and I say congratulations
- 8:08Speaker 6: to Brad and Lee Smith for putting this together. I mean,
- 8:11Speaker 6: it's so great to have a successful program that's drawing
- 8:14Speaker 6: more people into the state, particularly younger people. And but
- 8:18Speaker 6: they have to have broadband access and it can't be
- 8:20Speaker 6: just minimal service. A lot of these folks have jobs
- 8:24Speaker 6: that they're going to be telecommuting. They have to have
- 8:26Speaker 6: full and vibrant service. You know, in Charleston you can
- 8:30Speaker 6: go out to Cistinville and start to lose coverage. Uh,
- 8:33Speaker 6: and that's just on the outskirts of you know, central Charleston.
- 8:37Speaker 6: So it's it's not like we can assume because it's
- 8:40Speaker 6: the capital city that everybody in Kanauk County is served,
- 8:44Speaker 6: because they aren't. And so I think that's going to
- 8:46Speaker 6: be a major, a major part of the ascent program,
- 8:50Speaker 6: but also of this bad program that should be bringing
- 8:52Speaker 6: the money into into the state.
- 8:54Speaker 3: Before we let you go, because I know you're on
- 8:56Speaker 3: a tight schedule, I want to go back and I
- 8:57Speaker 3: want to ask you you kind of touched on a
- 8:59Speaker 3: potential government shutdown and the need to fund the government.
- 9:03Speaker 3: I mean, we hear every couple of years, we hear
- 9:06Speaker 3: about these things going on. It's almost nonsensical in my
- 9:09Speaker 3: eyes and the eyes and ears of a lot of
- 9:11Speaker 3: listeners out there, Well, what are we doing to make
- 9:13Speaker 3: sure this doesn't happen?
- 9:15Speaker 6: I mean, if I was not where I am but
- 9:18Speaker 6: just listening to your show, I would be rolling my
- 9:20Speaker 6: eyes right now. It's deja vous all over again. It's
- 9:24Speaker 6: the same thing of the thread of a government shutdown,
- 9:27Speaker 6: and I'm going to do everything I can to prevent that.
- 9:29Speaker 6: I've said every single time it's a misery march, it's
- 9:33Speaker 6: a road to nowhere. It hurts people, it hurts businesses,
- 9:36Speaker 6: it hurts our standing internationally because of the uncertainty. So
- 9:40Speaker 6: what we need to do by the end of September
- 9:42Speaker 6: is past what's called a continuing resolution while we work
- 9:45Speaker 6: these issues out. Our big hope is that we'll have
- 9:48Speaker 6: at least three bills in there that we can say
- 9:51Speaker 6: are fully accomplished for the twenty twenty six fiscal year.
- 9:54Speaker 6: Now that doesn't sound like a whole lot from the outside,
- 9:56Speaker 6: but it's three more than we had had over the
- 9:59Speaker 6: last several years. So I'm very hopeful there. We're working
- 10:02Speaker 6: together across party lines, across the House and Senate, but
- 10:07Speaker 6: we've got to get back to regular, regular procedures with appropriations.
- 10:11Speaker 6: This is we're on track to be much more functional
- 10:14Speaker 6: in that area. That means we can have new starts,
- 10:17Speaker 6: we can get rid of programs that are no longer useful,
- 10:20Speaker 6: we can hold the line on spending, we can do
- 10:22Speaker 6: the priorities that I think and the President thinks are
- 10:26Speaker 6: what are in line with the desires of the American people.
- 10:30Speaker 6: And so hopefully no shut down September the thirtieth and
- 10:35Speaker 6: we'll just continue on here in the next two months
- 10:37Speaker 6: to try to wrap the thing up.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Senator Shelley More Cabito, It's always a pleasure to have
- 10:41Speaker 3: you on the show. We'll talk soon.
- 10:42Speaker 6: Thanks a lot, great to talk, Thanks a lot, Thank.
- 10:45Speaker 3: You, Senator Shelley Moore Cabito. It is nine seventeen Todave
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- 13:57Speaker 3: Delegate for the fifty fifth District Republican Jbakers, Welcome to
- 14:00Speaker 3: the show, sir.
- 14:01Speaker 11: It's always awesome to see you. I got a little
- 14:03Speaker 11: pressure today though. In addition to Ryan watched me through
- 14:06Speaker 11: the grat glass, TJ. Meadows is also in there.
- 14:09Speaker 5: It puts a little heat on.
- 14:10Speaker 3: Me to make sure well. I think Ryan's on you
- 14:12Speaker 3: got to watch for I mean TJ. TJ hides behind
- 14:16Speaker 3: the sunglasses. We don't know exactly what's going on in
- 14:18Speaker 3: that head.
- 14:19Speaker 5: Of his that makes him dangerous.
- 14:21Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, look at you. I mean yeah, and he's
- 14:23Speaker 3: got him on the got a secret service agent in here.
- 14:25Speaker 5: He looks like.
- 14:26Speaker 11: I got to gossip with him a little bit. The
- 14:29Speaker 11: business summit the Chamber of Commerce puts on a couple
- 14:31Speaker 11: of weeks ago, so I got to sit next to
- 14:33Speaker 11: him and.
- 14:33Speaker 5: Talk for a little bit. So that was nice. Mm
- 14:34Speaker 5: hmy got to hear TJ unfiltered for a little while.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Tj unfinness. Yeah, tj unfiltered, tj unfilter. It's not a
- 14:41Speaker 3: whole lot different than TJ on the air. You know,
- 14:43Speaker 3: he s the but anyway, anyway, he's a good guy.
- 14:46Speaker 3: Just don't tell him I said that. I hope he's
- 14:47Speaker 3: not listening. All right, So you're running for reelection. I
- 14:50Speaker 3: guess the official announcement was made. I think everybody kind
- 14:53Speaker 3: of expected you would. So what went into the decision
- 14:57Speaker 3: to stay where you are in the House of Delegates?
- 14:59Speaker 11: Uh, well, I mean number one, it's uh. I just
- 15:01Speaker 11: really enjoy working for the people in my district. The
- 15:05Speaker 11: best part of the job for me is actually meeting
- 15:08Speaker 11: people and talking to them and being face to face
- 15:10Speaker 11: with constituents and.
- 15:12Speaker 5: You know, a big picture.
- 15:13Speaker 11: We can talk about this a little bit more later,
- 15:15Speaker 11: but big picture, I really I love and I don't
- 15:18Speaker 11: use that word lightly. I love working on economic development
- 15:20Speaker 11: issues and trying to attract job greater to this day,
- 15:23Speaker 11: or helping businesses who are here expand but helping someone
- 15:28Speaker 11: get their road fixed, or you know, helping with some
- 15:31Speaker 11: smaller local issue.
- 15:32Speaker 5: Uh, just really is satisfying for me as well. And
- 15:36Speaker 5: I like I like people. I mean, you run into
- 15:39Speaker 5: some knuckleheads every once in a while, Dave.
- 15:41Speaker 3: But well, but enough about our building. That's that's right.
- 15:44Speaker 11: I mean, I mean outside of this building, everybody's good.
- 15:46Speaker 11: So I actually really do enjoy talking to voters. I
- 15:49Speaker 11: really do enjoy going to community meetings and being around folks.
- 15:52Speaker 5: I just I like people. So it's, you know, one
- 15:55Speaker 5: of the main reasons I ran for this job.
- 15:56Speaker 11: So that played into it. And then also, you know,
- 15:59Speaker 11: I didn't get into politics. I mean I've I've been
- 16:01Speaker 11: involved in other people's racism, been around politics for a
- 16:04Speaker 11: long time, but I didn't run for office myself until
- 16:07Speaker 11: my wife and our kids had gotten older. Our oldest
- 16:11Speaker 11: daughter was going to college and our twins are now
- 16:14Speaker 11: seniors in high school. So you know, I never would
- 16:17Speaker 11: have wanted to have done this when they were you know,
- 16:19Speaker 11: much younger and they needed both parents around as much
- 16:21Speaker 11: as possible. I think they still need this around, but
- 16:25Speaker 11: so you know, they're they're you know, they're more independent now,
- 16:27Speaker 11: so that also plays into the decision.
- 16:29Speaker 5: And speaking to my.
- 16:29Speaker 11: Wife, she just finished a murder trial a couple of
- 16:32Speaker 11: days ago, you know, Mary Clareakers. And anyway, my thoughts
- 16:36Speaker 11: are still that family. Just terrible set of circumstances.
- 16:38Speaker 3: And I said this with that verdict that came out yesterday,
- 16:40Speaker 3: and to be honest with you, Delegate, I said this,
- 16:43Speaker 3: when the when this horrific crime first took place, I
- 16:46Speaker 3: mean three three lives ruined, you.
- 16:48Speaker 5: Know, since I mean I can think of say senseless
- 16:51Speaker 5: is a good.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Way to put it. I mean, and you know, the
- 16:53Speaker 3: obviously the store clerk that was that was killed doing
- 16:57Speaker 3: and we're talking about the the obviously the situation with
- 16:59Speaker 3: the tobacco show up in North Charles with the two teenagers,
- 17:01Speaker 3: and the clerk was killed complying doing everything that he
- 17:05Speaker 3: was that he was told to do. And now these
- 17:08Speaker 3: other two who were tried as adult, you know, mid
- 17:11Speaker 3: level teenagers and the guilty murder. They get life sentences
- 17:14Speaker 3: with the possibility of parole. Don't know whether that'll happen
- 17:17Speaker 3: or not, but either way, and their lives are ruined.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Even if they do get the parole, their lives, their
- 17:21Speaker 3: lives are ruined. It's totally senseless. But again we're talking
- 17:25Speaker 3: with Jaba because you mentioned economic development. He picked up
- 17:28Speaker 3: an award. I saw that on the social media. What's
- 17:30Speaker 3: that all about?
- 17:31Speaker 5: Yeah, that was And I want to talk about this briefly.
- 17:33Speaker 11: Not so much for the fact that I got the award,
- 17:35Speaker 11: which won't matter to most people, but it was an
- 17:37Speaker 11: award from the Manufacturers Association, which is why it makes
- 17:41Speaker 11: it important to me. And I think, I mean again,
- 17:43Speaker 11: you've got to patch yourself in the back a little
- 17:45Speaker 11: bit when you run a for office and tell people
- 17:46Speaker 11: you accomplish something, otherwise have now reason to vote for
- 17:49Speaker 11: you to keep you in office. So you know, I consistently,
- 17:53Speaker 11: ever since I ran the first time, consistently now and
- 17:57Speaker 11: always will tell people that my focus is.
- 17:59Speaker 5: On you can nomic development and jobs and job creation.
- 18:02Speaker 11: And one of the ways I think that you prove
- 18:04Speaker 11: that you mean that is through the recognition of people
- 18:08Speaker 11: who are job creators. The Manufacturers Association West Virginia is
- 18:12Speaker 11: an extremely important group that represent people from like a
- 18:15Speaker 11: really small bomb and shop, you know, manufacturers who might
- 18:18Speaker 11: make just one small product up to extremely large you know,
- 18:22Speaker 11: multinational corporations who have a presence in West Virginia are
- 18:25Speaker 11: also a part of that organization. So I got one
- 18:28Speaker 11: of their annual legislator awards a few days ago. So
- 18:31Speaker 11: did Senator Robbie Morris here in West Virginia. Then and
- 18:34Speaker 11: a lot who's the House communications director, got a staff award,
- 18:37Speaker 11: which was also nice to see. But that award is
- 18:39Speaker 11: given out to you know, I'm not on their board,
- 18:42Speaker 11: but it's it's their board's way of saying, these are
- 18:45Speaker 11: legislators who we believe are have their eye on the
- 18:47Speaker 11: ball and the right issues, which is economic development and
- 18:50Speaker 11: job creation. So that's an award that again, when I
- 18:54Speaker 11: tell people that's the focus of what I do, that's
- 18:57Speaker 11: a way for me to say, Look, that's not just
- 18:59Speaker 11: me saying it. There's least some recognition there that I
- 19:01Speaker 11: am one hundred percent focused on job creation in the
- 19:04Speaker 11: economy of the state, which has got to get better
- 19:06Speaker 11: and we've got to make to me, the business of
- 19:08Speaker 11: our legislature has to be about business.
- 19:12Speaker 3: But this last session, you know, and I know you're
- 19:14Speaker 3: just one, You're just one of one hundred. There a
- 19:17Speaker 3: lot of focus on things. And I'm talking and when
- 19:20Speaker 3: you talk to people like maybe maybe the Chamber of
- 19:22Speaker 3: Commerce or maybe some of those groups like that, some
- 19:26Speaker 3: pretty conservative Republicans will say that not a whole lot
- 19:28Speaker 3: got done. Yeah, I mean, listen, when it comes to business.
- 19:31Speaker 5: Yes, I mean there was.
- 19:32Speaker 11: I'm one who will say there was some frustration from
- 19:34Speaker 11: me on that. But I'm also not going to say
- 19:36Speaker 11: we got nothing done. You know, the House Bill twenty fourteen,
- 19:40Speaker 11: which has been talked about before it to Mike ur
- 19:42Speaker 11: Griz bill I think has a huge amount of potential
- 19:44Speaker 11: for the state, the one stop you know licensing, the
- 19:48Speaker 11: universal Licensing Bill. You know, we had some things that
- 19:51Speaker 11: were definitely business oriented, so we got some stuff done.
- 19:55Speaker 11: You know, the issues they're more the cultural issues always
- 19:58Speaker 11: draw in more of the media attention. But I will
- 20:01Speaker 11: say we probably did have more of that than if
- 20:04Speaker 11: you're asking me that I'm comfortable with as as it
- 20:07Speaker 11: opposed to focusing on things that are purely about making
- 20:11Speaker 11: the average West Virginia's life better through their you know,
- 20:14Speaker 11: economic prosperity. You know, if I could personally work only
- 20:17Speaker 11: on economic issues every day, then that is what.
- 20:20Speaker 5: I would do.
- 20:20Speaker 3: So talking with Della Goad jb Acres, It's nine twenty
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- 20:36Speaker 3: interims a couple of days ago, and there were there
- 20:39Speaker 3: was a lot of hope in a lot of people's
- 20:41Speaker 3: eyes going back a couple of weeks ago that maybe
- 20:43Speaker 3: while the legislators were in town we might get into
- 20:46Speaker 3: a special session about Peia. Didn't have.
- 20:49Speaker 5: Do you think there was really a lot of hope
- 20:50Speaker 5: from a lot of people that we'd have a special session.
- 20:52Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 20:53Speaker 3: I think I think to get something worked out about Peia.
- 20:55Speaker 11: There was probably, yeah, I mean we obviously that's something
- 20:58Speaker 11: we've got to figure out long term for our state
- 21:00Speaker 11: employees and anyone who's on PA to make sure that's
- 21:02Speaker 11: a stable and sustainable program. But you know, it didn't
- 21:05Speaker 11: seem like there was a consensus on what to do,
- 21:07Speaker 11: so a special session probably wasn't the best thing at
- 21:09Speaker 11: this time. We did still have interims and for folks
- 21:12Speaker 11: you know, who aren't real familiar with interim process, we
- 21:15Speaker 11: don't take votes on issues during interims. Those are more
- 21:17Speaker 11: educational sessions for the members, which is good. I mean
- 21:20Speaker 11: they believe it or not, some of us actually want
- 21:22Speaker 11: to understand and what we're voting on.
- 21:24Speaker 5: Wants to get to a regular session.
- 21:25Speaker 3: What a novel concept.
- 21:26Speaker 11: Yeah, So interims are more of a time when we
- 21:28Speaker 11: have people coming and present on important issues. These are
- 21:31Speaker 11: things that may turn to bills later. So in my
- 21:33Speaker 11: particular committee, I'm the House Judiciary Chairman, which is you know,
- 21:37Speaker 11: not pat myself in the bike. It's an important job
- 21:39Speaker 11: over there. And we had interim sessions on you know
- 21:43Speaker 11: that My committee deals a lot with courts issues, for example,
- 21:46Speaker 11: so we dealt with or took a look at day reports, centers,
- 21:49Speaker 11: community corrections, alternative sentencing, which is important in a lot
- 21:52Speaker 11: of different ways. County jail bills in West Virginia are
- 21:55Speaker 11: exploding a lot of counties. You've heard this camp can't
- 21:58Speaker 11: even afford their jail bill. So I'm taking a hard
- 22:01Speaker 11: look at ways that we can.
- 22:03Speaker 2: Uh.
- 22:03Speaker 11: You know, not everybody should go to jail for every crime.
- 22:06Speaker 11: I mean, you got to be held accountable for sure.
- 22:08Speaker 11: But we have existing community corrections right now. These day
- 22:11Speaker 11: report centers are important part of it. So if we
- 22:13Speaker 11: can keep people out in society while being held accountable,
- 22:16Speaker 11: but they are still productive. Uh, And we're reducing the
- 22:19Speaker 11: county jail bills, if there's a balance there that we
- 22:21Speaker 11: can obtain, then we need to maximize that as best
- 22:23Speaker 11: we can.
- 22:24Speaker 3: I mean we don't. I think sometimes live it in
- 22:27Speaker 3: you know, areas that aren't doing too badly, like a
- 22:30Speaker 3: Canawa County or Poddam County or somewhere or Arount Cabal
- 22:33Speaker 3: County or in this general area. Get into some of
- 22:35Speaker 3: these counties. I mean, like, and I'm not picking on
- 22:37Speaker 3: these people because it's not their fault, but at Clay County,
- 22:39Speaker 3: Work County, Calhoun County, they have a choice pretty much
- 22:43Speaker 3: when it comes to their jail bill. Do we pay
- 22:46Speaker 3: the jail bill or do we pay the power bill?
- 22:48Speaker 3: I mean, and I mean this thing just keeps going
- 22:52Speaker 3: up and up and up, and I don't know what
- 22:53Speaker 3: the answer is, because crime is not going to stop.
- 22:56Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 22:56Speaker 11: Well, and you know, again, just so people understand when
- 22:58Speaker 11: I talk about, you know, maybe community corrections, we're talking
- 23:01Speaker 11: about from non violent offenders who haven't you know, done
- 23:04Speaker 11: anything that's hurt anyone else. These are you know, So
- 23:07Speaker 11: if someone's a violand offender, I'm like, yeah, send them
- 23:09Speaker 11: straight to jail. Obviously, that's that's a no brainer. But
- 23:12Speaker 11: you know, some of these people who are just caught
- 23:14Speaker 11: up strictly in terms of like substance abuse for example,
- 23:17Speaker 11: and you know, they're not drug dealers, but they get
- 23:19Speaker 11: caught with drugs and they're going to potentially want up
- 23:22Speaker 11: in jail. I mean to me, you know, get this
- 23:24Speaker 11: people and some sort of you know, make sure they
- 23:26Speaker 11: can still maintain a job if possible, you know, make
- 23:29Speaker 11: sure they can still pay to take care of their
- 23:31Speaker 11: kids and their family and other things that are important,
- 23:33Speaker 11: because otherwise they just want.
- 23:34Speaker 5: Up potentially reoffending later.
- 23:36Speaker 11: So and again, like you said, some of these these
- 23:39Speaker 11: rural counties, they literally cannot afford their jail bill right now.
- 23:42Speaker 11: So we've got to think a ways to alleviate that
- 23:44Speaker 11: pressure while still also holding people accountable, so.
- 23:48Speaker 3: Out of a texture, thank you for you, It says,
- 23:51Speaker 3: I wanted to say thank you for quickly arranging the
- 23:55Speaker 3: FEMA information meeting their Allen Creek for the twenty twenty
- 23:58Speaker 3: four April floods Texas. Is I just live. I live
- 24:02Speaker 3: past South Ridge in in April, those rushing floodwaters took
- 24:05Speaker 3: out supports under our driveway bridge. We had no idea
- 24:07Speaker 3: would even start to reach out for help until we
- 24:09Speaker 3: heard the notice on this station. Pat on the back
- 24:11Speaker 3: for us that you had put the meeting together. That
- 24:15Speaker 3: meaning you. They helped us so much we were approved
- 24:17Speaker 3: for funding, got the bridge supports place. Thank you again, sir.
- 24:20Speaker 3: It's the small things to make the biggest impact to others.
- 24:22Speaker 11: Oh well, that is that's extremely nice. You know, sometimes
- 24:25Speaker 11: you get text Davy. You might get some after I
- 24:27Speaker 11: leave that aren't so nice, but that one is. Whoever,
- 24:29Speaker 11: that texture was, thank you so much.
- 24:31Speaker 12: You know.
- 24:31Speaker 11: I don't do this for recognition, but I said when
- 24:33Speaker 11: I first came on today that that's one of the
- 24:35Speaker 11: reasons why I like being in office is helping people
- 24:37Speaker 11: in those situations. And so that that was a good meeting,
- 24:40Speaker 11: and that that's from a part of the county in
- 24:42Speaker 11: my district. My district is about half of it is
- 24:44Speaker 11: part of Charleston. The other half is really mostly almost
- 24:48Speaker 11: all of southern Kenal County, which is more rural, and
- 24:51Speaker 11: a lot of those communities get forgotten, and I think
- 24:54Speaker 11: they feel that way, so I try to emphasize and
- 24:56Speaker 11: make sure they know they're not forgotten. And that was
- 24:58Speaker 11: an example of one where I didn't ask them to
- 25:00Speaker 11: come to me. I went to them on that issue
- 25:03Speaker 11: and I organized. We had I don't know a dozen
- 25:05Speaker 11: different people there who were able to provide help and services,
- 25:08Speaker 11: and I said, let's take these people into the community
- 25:10Speaker 11: that's affected, not make them driving to Charleston for this,
- 25:13Speaker 11: So that's take it to them.
- 25:14Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. I thought that was important, and thank
- 25:15Speaker 5: you to that. Texture.
- 25:17Speaker 3: We had another one here for you that wanted me
- 25:20Speaker 3: to ask you about helping make our schools more safer
- 25:23Speaker 3: and maybe doing some policies that would produce severe penalties
- 25:25Speaker 3: for harming our students, teachers, and staff.
- 25:27Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I mean we have.
- 25:29Speaker 11: That's one thing the legislature has done the past couple
- 25:32Speaker 11: of years i've been there, including this past session, is
- 25:34Speaker 11: we have increased penalties for violence against children. That is
- 25:38Speaker 11: something that I'm not going to apologize for. I'm in
- 25:40Speaker 11: favor of those types of penalties. I mean, we talk
- 25:43Speaker 11: about alternative sentenzing for non violent offenders, but crimes against
- 25:46Speaker 11: children we've seen increased penalties, and in terms of school safety,
- 25:49Speaker 11: that's actually very timely for me. Right now, I can't
- 25:52Speaker 11: promise this will happen, but I have been working the
- 25:55Speaker 11: past couple of weeks legitimately on trying to increase the
- 26:01Speaker 11: communications capacity at our schools in the event that there
- 26:03Speaker 11: is an emergency situation. That's something that I've talked to
- 26:06Speaker 11: our county Sheriff Joey Crawford on also some people from
- 26:10Speaker 11: some other first responders responder services, and not sure yet
- 26:14Speaker 11: if we'll get the funding for that, but I have
- 26:16Speaker 11: been working on that, and Sheriff Crawford's great by the way.
- 26:18Speaker 11: I've been trying to work with them on a way
- 26:20Speaker 11: to make sure that our communications systems and our schools
- 26:23Speaker 11: when there's an emergency is it's ironclad and works no
- 26:26Speaker 11: matter what, when you might have people making a million
- 26:28Speaker 11: phone calls in a community to find out what's going on.
- 26:30Speaker 5: So that is something I'm glad that text brought that up.
- 26:33Speaker 5: I didn't intend to talk about that today, but I'm
- 26:35Speaker 5: trying hard to work on those issues as well.
- 26:37Speaker 3: Talking to give a Dell a good Jbiacres before we
- 26:39Speaker 3: let you go. We don't know, I mean, it's still
- 26:42Speaker 3: early on. We don't know whether you'll have opposition in
- 26:45Speaker 3: the primary, more than likely have opposition in the general
- 26:49Speaker 3: action next year. What do you want people to know
- 26:51Speaker 3: about about your term and at you about your time
- 26:54Speaker 3: and off.
- 26:55Speaker 11: I want people to know that I'm always accessible. I
- 26:57Speaker 11: always return phone calls and emails, even during session when
- 27:01Speaker 11: things get kind of crazy. And you know, I mean,
- 27:04Speaker 11: you know, I'm in a party. I'm a Republican. You've
- 27:05Speaker 11: got to run with a party label. But I don't
- 27:07Speaker 11: ask people what their politics are when I talk to them.
- 27:10Speaker 11: I could care less whether you're a Democrat Republican. You
- 27:13Speaker 11: can look at my social media when I get off
- 27:15Speaker 11: here and see that I'm not someone who's a negative
- 27:17Speaker 11: person about politics. I try to always post positive news
- 27:20Speaker 11: and tell people what's going on. So I'm here to
- 27:23Speaker 11: represent everybody who may need my help, and I'm proud
- 27:28Speaker 11: to be, you know, in this district. So I think
- 27:30Speaker 11: that's the most important thing is just making sure that
- 27:33Speaker 11: you know, as tribal and as negative as politics can
- 27:36Speaker 11: be these days, you know I'm going to maintain a
- 27:38Speaker 11: positive presence and I'm going to help you no matter
- 27:40Speaker 11: who you are, and if you need me, I'm going
- 27:42Speaker 11: to talk to you.
- 27:43Speaker 5: And that's just who I am.
- 27:45Speaker 11: And home always going to be and I'm going to
- 27:46Speaker 11: work every single day that I can to make your
- 27:48Speaker 11: economic life better in the state and try to figure
- 27:51Speaker 11: out ways to make sure that our kids and our
- 27:53Speaker 11: grandkids can either stay here or come by home and work.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Delli good jb Acres, and I'll be looking through the
- 27:58Speaker 3: glass in here, and when you look up the term
- 28:01Speaker 3: worst retiree ever, our former general manager who's also in
- 28:05Speaker 3: the House of Deligates, Joe Parsons Greats, showed up here.
- 28:07Speaker 3: He's been here two days in a row and he retired,
- 28:10Speaker 3: but he's getting two days in a row.
- 28:12Speaker 11: He'll never be retired. He's one of those guys. He'll
- 28:14Speaker 11: never give it up. So he's another great guy. People
- 28:17Speaker 11: in his district very fortunate to have him, just like
- 28:19Speaker 11: he's another very positive person as.
- 28:21Speaker 3: Well, and he does but I will say this about him,
- 28:23Speaker 3: he does address a little bit differently than what he
- 28:25Speaker 3: was when he was here.
- 28:25Speaker 5: Full he's entitled to do that.
- 28:26Speaker 3: He's entitled to do that. He's earned it. He's earned it.
- 28:29Speaker 3: Deligaan Aker's always a pleasure to talk to you, man,
- 28:31Speaker 3: We'll talk to Thanks a lot, Thanks for your time.
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- 30:41Speaker 3: ten o'clock. Big Piggly Wiggly Hotline three zero four three
- 30:44Speaker 3: four five fifty eight fifty eight Tony the Taylor text
- 30:47Speaker 3: three zero four nine three five five zero zero A
- 30:49Speaker 3: couple of quick texts where we go to our next guest.
- 30:51Speaker 3: Criminals should be in jail full stop, says a Texter.
- 30:55Speaker 3: Revolving door. Drug dealing is a violent crime, says a texture.
- 31:02Speaker 3: Going back to we were talking about broadband with Synator Capito,
- 31:05Speaker 3: it says uh. Texas says it's not satellite. It's a
- 31:08Speaker 3: directive to use starlink to reward Elon Musk. Why isn't
- 31:12Speaker 3: that corruption, says a texture. Uh text says uh. Maybe
- 31:17Speaker 3: Governor Morrissey Kent tug on Trump's cotail and ask for
- 31:20Speaker 3: another state's National Guard to help in Clay County and
- 31:22Speaker 3: others like it. Uh Tex says, I drove out of
- 31:26Speaker 3: California Avenue downpassed in front of the Capitol, noticed numerous
- 31:30Speaker 3: lawmaker cars in reserve spaces with expired license plates? What's
- 31:34Speaker 3: up with that? That sounds like a full investigation for TJ.
- 31:37Speaker 3: Meadows right there. Why do lawmakers have Yeah, you're like,
- 31:41Speaker 3: you know, you gotta look into these things, your investigative reporter.
- 31:43Speaker 3: Why do all these lawmakers have expired plates? All right?
- 31:46Speaker 3: Look at maybe because well I don't know. Well, save
- 31:49Speaker 3: the conspiracy theories for later. And we talked to Meadows
- 31:51Speaker 3: about that coming up a little bit later. Rob at
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- 31:59Speaker 3: it from Patriot Gardens. Good morning, welcome to the show.
- 32:02Speaker 5: Good morning, Thank you for being here, first time on
- 32:05Speaker 5: the show. Yes, it is right.
- 32:07Speaker 3: Tell me what Patriot Gardens it coming that microphone a
- 32:09Speaker 3: little bit closer. Tell me what Patriot Gardens is.
- 32:11Speaker 15: Patriot Gardens is a program out of the West Virginia
- 32:14Speaker 15: National Guard military Authority the state side where we work
- 32:19Speaker 15: with our veteran and military members and their families, trying
- 32:22Speaker 15: to help them learn not only agricultural I guess practices,
- 32:30Speaker 15: but also look at entrepreneurial opportunities while they're in uniform
- 32:35Speaker 15: or even in retirement.
- 32:37Speaker 3: I actually got very familiar with this program when in
- 32:42Speaker 3: a former life when I was working at SEE government
- 32:44Speaker 3: with the Secretary of State's office, and I remember we
- 32:47Speaker 3: had done I think we'd done some more. It's a
- 32:49Speaker 3: fantastic program. Talk about how it works.
- 32:53Speaker 5: How it works.
- 32:53Speaker 15: So we look at first and foremost our National Guard members,
- 32:58Speaker 15: trying to see where there are a lot of them are,
- 33:02Speaker 15: you know, five ten years out from retirement, so they're
- 33:05Speaker 15: trying to figure out what in retirement they want to do.
- 33:09Speaker 15: As an ag based program, of course we see the
- 33:12Speaker 15: benefits of agriculture for peace of mind, you know, a
- 33:16Speaker 15: diversion from real life at times we all do that,
- 33:19Speaker 15: go out in our gardens. So trying to show them
- 33:23Speaker 15: what self sufficiency could look like for their own family,
- 33:26Speaker 15: but it quickly stares stepped into is this something that
- 33:30Speaker 15: could be a retirement or a side hustle. A lot
- 33:34Speaker 15: of them looking toward retirement or thinking about how do
- 33:38Speaker 15: they continue to serve?
- 33:39Speaker 14: So to us.
- 33:41Speaker 15: The best way to serve is they help feed people,
- 33:43Speaker 15: to help take care of your own family, and actually
- 33:46Speaker 15: engage back in the community. And this is a program
- 33:49Speaker 15: that helps them really start to reintegrate even.
- 33:52Speaker 3: And you see, I would think that if somebody is
- 33:56Speaker 3: a good military person, that they I mean, you know,
- 34:00Speaker 3: if you're in the military and you're good at what
- 34:01Speaker 3: you do, you tend to be very meticulous. You tend
- 34:05Speaker 3: to be I mean, I'm a son of veteran. I
- 34:06Speaker 3: know what my father was like. You know, everything's about time,
- 34:09Speaker 3: everything's about doing things just right. I would think that
- 34:12Speaker 3: would that that would lend itself very helpful to what
- 34:16Speaker 3: you're doing here exactly.
- 34:18Speaker 15: And that's kind of some of our things that we
- 34:21Speaker 15: have found is that meticulous nature, especially when you're you're
- 34:26Speaker 15: catering to the needs of plants and animals, being on
- 34:29Speaker 15: a schedule, being able to look and fine tune some things,
- 34:34Speaker 15: when you're looking at the quality of what you're producing,
- 34:37Speaker 15: what you're growing, that attention to detail. A lot of
- 34:40Speaker 15: times in our civilian culture we're not as on top
- 34:44Speaker 15: of it. When you bring in the military brain. They
- 34:48Speaker 15: are so procedural in nature. It has been an amazing blend,
- 34:52Speaker 15: and we've seen really it help on our local food's
- 34:56Speaker 15: economy here in the state, getting some of these individuals
- 34:59Speaker 15: to become the those producers with high quality produce and
- 35:04Speaker 15: feeding into our local restaurants or other established How does.
- 35:07Speaker 3: That work that you deal with our local restaurants.
- 35:10Speaker 15: We have been blessed with the likes of Chef Paul
- 35:13Speaker 15: and Chef Chase with a Bruisy in ten ten. They
- 35:17Speaker 15: came on board from the beginning, and so we've been
- 35:21Speaker 15: trying to not only on our side do production out
- 35:25Speaker 15: of our urban farm and illustrate what the market opportunity
- 35:29Speaker 15: is for many products that the chefs haven't been able
- 35:32Speaker 15: to find here locally, but then take it the step
- 35:36Speaker 15: further and teach our participants how to grow these things,
- 35:40Speaker 15: and then the chefs buy directly from them. So we're
- 35:43Speaker 15: kind of starting a streamlined approach of Hey, Chef Chase
- 35:48Speaker 15: wants whatever it might be, then we connect a grower
- 35:52Speaker 15: to be then that person who grows it and sells.
- 35:54Speaker 5: It back to the restaurant.
- 35:56Speaker 3: Got a question here for you an of the text line,
- 35:58Speaker 3: does this agriculture program for National Guard members also extend
- 36:01Speaker 3: active duty members who return home to West Virginia after
- 36:04Speaker 3: their service.
- 36:04Speaker 15: Exactly. The procedure we're looking for is anybody who has
- 36:11Speaker 15: a military affiliation cleared down to what we say, one up,
- 36:15Speaker 15: one down. So if you're if your parents served, or
- 36:18Speaker 15: if your child serves, we see that as military family.
- 36:23Speaker 15: So trying to embrace the entire military culture in the
- 36:26Speaker 15: state and bring everybody together around that that gift the
- 36:31Speaker 15: service type mindset.
- 36:32Speaker 3: So yes, anybody talking with Melissa Stewart again from Patriot Gardens,
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- 36:44Speaker 3: Understand you picked up an award.
- 36:46Speaker 14: We did.
- 36:46Speaker 15: We were honored, to say the least, that the Charleston
- 36:50Speaker 15: Area Alliance chose us to be. Let me get the
- 36:53Speaker 15: name here. We received the Jeff Miller Sustainable Development Award
- 36:57Speaker 15: last night.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Okay, and what does that And.
- 37:00Speaker 15: That was looking at sustainability in what is being developed
- 37:06Speaker 15: through our program and really more back to our base
- 37:11Speaker 15: innovations there on Smith Street.
- 37:13Speaker 3: Right across from Capital to get into that.
- 37:14Speaker 15: Yeah, Okay, since we've been more embedded in the community,
- 37:19Speaker 15: I think that is showing some positive attributes to our
- 37:24Speaker 15: program and how we can engage outside of just simply
- 37:28Speaker 15: the national garden our military.
- 37:31Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about this Base Innovations.
- 37:34Speaker 5: Okay, go ahead, explain it.
- 37:36Speaker 15: So Base Innovations it initially spurred out of the mindset
- 37:41Speaker 15: of small business development and how can we help any
- 37:45Speaker 15: of our aspiring service members really go into small business ownership.
- 37:53Speaker 15: So we have a fifteen part or a twelve part
- 37:55Speaker 15: series excuse me, that really handholds them through that process.
- 38:01Speaker 15: So at the end of it, they have a business plan,
- 38:03Speaker 15: they're ready to go to the one stop shop and
- 38:06Speaker 15: actually become a LLC or whatever it may be that
- 38:11Speaker 15: they've determined. With that, we also are putting in a
- 38:15Speaker 15: small commercial kitchen, so we've been working with ZMM. They
- 38:20Speaker 15: have our design contract and we're getting ready to put
- 38:24Speaker 15: it out for bid for construction. So with that said,
- 38:28Speaker 15: any of our entrepreneurs that are looking at value added production,
- 38:32Speaker 15: then we'll be able to utilize this kitchen to then
- 38:36Speaker 15: go from cottage industry to full fledged production.
- 38:40Speaker 3: And that's an incredible idea, it really is.
- 38:43Speaker 15: We're excited about it. It was made possible through Capito
- 38:48Speaker 15: and actually a Congressional direct spending appropriation, so to be
- 38:54Speaker 15: able to see this come into fruition and how it's
- 38:56Speaker 15: going to help our participants and then others too. It
- 38:59Speaker 15: doesn't have to just be a military service member who
- 39:02Speaker 15: can utilize this.
- 39:03Speaker 3: Before we let you go, you don't have to mention
- 39:06Speaker 3: a name, but I want you to give me, off
- 39:08Speaker 3: the top of your head a true one of your
- 39:10Speaker 3: one or two true success stories that you've seen with
- 39:13Speaker 3: this program. Again, no names needed, and I know you've
- 39:15Speaker 3: probably got plenty, but just give me one that really
- 39:19Speaker 3: sticks out as a selling point for this program.
- 39:21Speaker 15: Okay, we have a military family that actually homeschools their
- 39:26Speaker 15: their kids and the husband is still active Guard and
- 39:32Speaker 15: the wife is retired military and they, I think embody
- 39:39Speaker 15: everything that this program brings to the table. They engage
- 39:46Speaker 15: not only in our education and bring their kids along,
- 39:50Speaker 15: but they also then participate in our market, the pop
- 39:53Speaker 15: up market across the street there at Capital Market, and
- 39:59Speaker 15: I think they show how this program can help take
- 40:03Speaker 15: somebody to that next level.
- 40:04Speaker 3: It's good stuff. Remind people where they can learn more. Website,
- 40:09Speaker 3: social media, We're can pete people learn more about we.
- 40:11Speaker 15: Are on Facebook under Patriot gardens. Now it's gardens spelled
- 40:15Speaker 15: not like gardens, but the guard.
- 40:16Speaker 3: So it's g U A r D E n s.
- 40:20Speaker 15: And we have a website at Patriot Gardens.
- 40:25Speaker 3: Dot com and it is guard as in guard not
- 40:27Speaker 3: I mean, not not garden, but.
- 40:29Speaker 5: G U A r D is sir, Yes, sir.
- 40:31Speaker 15: And you know, through any of those outreach mess methods
- 40:36Speaker 15: or even on our messenger with our Facebook page, a
- 40:40Speaker 15: lot of times I'm the one actively answering a lot
- 40:43Speaker 15: of those questions.
- 40:44Speaker 3: All right, Hey, Melissa, it's always pleasure talk to you,
- 40:47Speaker 3: and it's a wonderful program. Anything we can do to
- 40:49Speaker 3: help out our men and women that have that have
- 40:51Speaker 3: served or are serving now, we're one hundred percent behind it. Here,
- 40:53Speaker 3: I appreciate you being here, Thanks a.
- 40:55Speaker 5: Lot, Thank you. I appreciate it hanging out with you.
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- 44:00Speaker 5: Get a life? How many times have I been told that?
- 44:04Speaker 3: In like, I don't know this morning, people in the
- 44:07Speaker 3: office say, get kidding about that. There's a wonderful program
- 44:10Speaker 3: though that's been going on for some time in the area,
- 44:13Speaker 3: and it's called get a Life. And here to explain it.
- 44:15Speaker 3: One of my good friends who has told me to
- 44:17Speaker 3: get a life on several occasions, Ashley offer Glance Putnam
- 44:20Speaker 3: County Chamber of Commerce. Good morning, my brother, and welcome
- 44:22Speaker 3: to the show.
- 44:24Speaker 13: Good morning.
- 44:25Speaker 16: How are you? I don't recall, Well, you're gonna.
- 44:28Speaker 3: Be nice to me now because I'm giving you free airtime,
- 44:30Speaker 3: so you're gonna be nice to me now. And for
- 44:32Speaker 3: people that are wondering why I and I'm meant to
- 44:35Speaker 3: quickly tell the story. The reason that I refer to
- 44:37Speaker 3: Ashley as my brother is because I don't have a brother,
- 44:39Speaker 3: and she and I have been friends for quite a
- 44:41Speaker 3: number of years, and I always thought of her as
- 44:43Speaker 3: the little brother I never had nor wanted. So that's
- 44:46Speaker 3: why she'll always be brother Ashley to me.
- 44:49Speaker 16: Well, I appreciate that, Dave. I think our brotherhood is
- 44:54Speaker 16: something to.
- 44:57Speaker 5: To be old all.
- 44:59Speaker 3: Talk about the program Get a Life. How many years?
- 45:01Speaker 3: Because I mean, I know this has been going on
- 45:02Speaker 3: to Putnam County through the Chamber of Commerce and other
- 45:05Speaker 3: entities for some time under the Treasure's Office is involved
- 45:08Speaker 3: in this, but talk about how long the program has
- 45:10Speaker 3: been going on and exactly.
- 45:11Speaker 15: What it is.
- 45:12Speaker 16: Yeah, So Get a Life program is actually a program
- 45:15Speaker 16: through the West Virginia Treasurer's Office, and it's been going
- 45:18Speaker 16: on for quite some time. I'm not exactly sure how long.
- 45:20Speaker 16: But here in Putnam County, we partner with the Treasure's
- 45:24Speaker 16: Office as well as the Putnam County Schools to deliver
- 45:27Speaker 16: this program to all of our eighth grade students. And
- 45:32Speaker 16: this program is really great because it teaches our students
- 45:36Speaker 16: how to budget. That's something that's not taught, you know,
- 45:39Speaker 16: every single day in our school system, and things that
- 45:42Speaker 16: kids don't necessarily think about and so through this program
- 45:46Speaker 16: they are able to see, you know, how much it
- 45:49Speaker 16: actually costs to live, and what the price of housing
- 45:53Speaker 16: is and cars and insurance and how much the gas
- 45:56Speaker 16: that car you bought is and all of that. And
- 45:58Speaker 16: so they go around a different during the activity. They
- 46:02Speaker 16: go around to different booths and they are given a
- 46:04Speaker 16: budget and a ledger sheet and they have to actually
- 46:07Speaker 16: buy all of those things and then figure out how
- 46:10Speaker 16: to use the money that they're allocated properly. And so
- 46:14Speaker 16: it's really eye opening for a lot of the students
- 46:17Speaker 16: and our chamber members volunteer at the event and always
- 46:22Speaker 16: have a great time.
- 46:23Speaker 3: And I've done this program in the past and it
- 46:26Speaker 3: really is interesting because again, as Ashley said, you know,
- 46:30Speaker 3: they bring in these middle schools that they and I'm
- 46:33Speaker 3: assuming it's going to be at the Armory again, is
- 46:34Speaker 3: that what you said?
- 46:36Speaker 16: Yeah, so it's at the Armory. So this program is
- 46:38Speaker 16: available statewide and anybody that's interested in getting a part
- 46:41Speaker 16: of it can contact the Treasurer's office. But how we
- 46:44Speaker 16: do it here in Pundham County is we bust all
- 46:47Speaker 16: of our eighth graders over two different days over to
- 46:50Speaker 16: the Armory and our volunteers join us there and then
- 46:54Speaker 16: the kids come over as a little field trip, they
- 46:56Speaker 16: participate in the program, and then we send them on
- 46:59Speaker 16: back back to school. But we're able to take all
- 47:02Speaker 16: eight hundred ish approximately. I don't know the exact number
- 47:05Speaker 16: of eighth graders we have in Putnam County this year,
- 47:07Speaker 16: but as you know, it's close to eight hundred through
- 47:11Speaker 16: the program over those two days. So it is we're
- 47:15Speaker 16: really grateful for the Armory for allowing us to utilize
- 47:18Speaker 16: the space, and for Putnam County Schools for being on
- 47:20Speaker 16: board with this program because they handle all the logistics
- 47:23Speaker 16: of getting the students over to the activity.
- 47:26Speaker 3: And so I'll tell you one of my most memorable
- 47:32Speaker 3: moments that I had in to get a life program,
- 47:34Speaker 3: and this is that I did this for several years,
- 47:37Speaker 3: was you know. And the way it works is again people,
- 47:39Speaker 3: these kids, as you said, they go table to table
- 47:41Speaker 3: and they have to buy life insurance, they have to
- 47:43Speaker 3: buy a car, and we give and you give everybody
- 47:46Speaker 3: a lot in life. Okay, you're a single mom, next
- 47:49Speaker 3: kid may be Okay, you are a male married to
- 47:54Speaker 3: you know your wife, and you got four kids and
- 47:56Speaker 3: you have a college education. The next one has a
- 47:58Speaker 3: high school education, next one has a PhD. And it
- 48:01Speaker 3: kind of gives them an idea. But the one memorable
- 48:04Speaker 3: thing that I remember is the one kid that looked
- 48:06Speaker 3: at me, I don't know, five six years ago and
- 48:08Speaker 3: I did this with you and the kid said, you know,
- 48:10Speaker 3: he was like, man, now know why my parents are
- 48:12Speaker 3: always in such a bad mood? And I thought that
- 48:15Speaker 3: was great. That was great. Let's talk about when it is,
- 48:19Speaker 3: where it is, and how people can get involved.
- 48:22Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 48:22Speaker 16: So every year, like I said, the Putnam County Chamber
- 48:24Speaker 16: partners with the Treasurer's Office and Putnam County Schools to
- 48:28Speaker 16: do a two day event. It'll be September sixteenth and
- 48:31Speaker 16: September seventeenth. And if you are looking to get involved
- 48:35Speaker 16: and volunteer at this activity with us on one of
- 48:38Speaker 16: the one or both of those days, you just email
- 48:41Speaker 16: us or give us a call here at the Chamber.
- 48:42Speaker 16: We'd love to get you signed up about a eight
- 48:45Speaker 16: am to a two pm commitment both days, and you
- 48:49Speaker 16: can volunteer for one or both. And it's, like I said,
- 48:52Speaker 16: the sixteenth and the seventeenth over at the Joint Forces
- 48:56Speaker 16: Reserve Center of the Armory as people call it in l.
- 49:00Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's and you're very very good about the
- 49:02Speaker 3: scheduling too, because I mean I've known people in the
- 49:05Speaker 3: past that said, well, you know, I will be there
- 49:06Speaker 3: as soon as I can. I'll be there at at
- 49:08Speaker 3: ten or eleven and I could jump in, or I
- 49:10Speaker 3: could be there both days and I could. It really
- 49:12Speaker 3: is a good time. And you know, without the buy
- 49:14Speaker 3: in from the community, obviously this wouldn't happen. And you
- 49:16Speaker 3: always have a great bank of volunteers, not only Puttnham
- 49:19Speaker 3: County but in the surrounding areas. And they do it
- 49:21Speaker 3: in other counties as well, because I've also done it
- 49:23Speaker 3: in Knall County in the past too. Give me your
- 49:25Speaker 3: phone number again, Ashley.
- 49:27Speaker 16: Yeah, three, four, seven, five one zero, all right.
- 49:31Speaker 3: Look forward to it. I wish I could make it,
- 49:33Speaker 3: but they tie me to this radio board now, you know,
- 49:35Speaker 3: seven or.
- 49:35Speaker 16: Eight hours a day. So real job I got.
- 49:38Speaker 3: I always had a real job. Come on, come on brother,
- 49:41Speaker 3: all right, Ashley, we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot,
- 49:44Speaker 3: all right, I have a great day.
- 49:45Speaker 16: Thanks Dave you as well.
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- 50:24Speaker 3: the local show Tomorrow, We're going to talk to Hurricane
- 50:27Speaker 3: Mayor Scott Edwards. He was my feature on Mayor Monday
- 50:30Speaker 3: that we do on Metro News Midday and a lot
- 50:32Speaker 3: of big things going on over in Hurricane and he
- 50:37Speaker 3: dropped a big bombshell on us on the Mayor Monday
- 50:39Speaker 3: segment the other day about this huge outdoors event. And
- 50:42Speaker 3: again I'm having to do the homework on this. It's
- 50:46Speaker 3: going to be coming in the I think, I want
- 50:47Speaker 3: to say next month to hurricane this major social media
- 50:52Speaker 3: influencers coming in and everybody, and of course I rely
- 50:55Speaker 3: on other people to tell me about these things. But
- 50:57Speaker 3: we're going to talk to him about that. All the
- 50:59Speaker 3: thing I know is lot of people in Putnam County
- 51:01Speaker 3: are excited about this person coming to town, whoever they are.
- 51:03Speaker 3: We'll talk about it with the mayor tomorrow and get
- 51:06Speaker 3: the latest on some further development going out of Putnam
- 51:09Speaker 3: County as well. Let mean not I got a couple
- 51:11Speaker 3: of texts here, Tex says Dave Florida guy here, if
- 51:14Speaker 3: the races were reversed in the Charlotte train stabbage, Charlotte,
- 51:18Speaker 3: North Carolina would be in flames and Al Sharpton had
- 51:20Speaker 3: been cromp. Democrat, liberals and fake news media would be
- 51:23Speaker 3: on a war lot of war footing selective outrage. Every
- 51:26Speaker 3: time I know the story, I'm familiar with it. I
- 51:29Speaker 3: will get into it as best I can at a
- 51:31Speaker 3: later time. But yeah, my wife was actually briefing me
- 51:34Speaker 3: on this story last night. It's a horrible story. That
- 51:37Speaker 3: happened in Charlotte, and I think you probably have all
- 51:41Speaker 3: seen it by now. Texas, Dave, I I've lost confidence
- 51:44Speaker 3: in the GOP. They are worse than the Democrats. Economies
- 51:46Speaker 3: hit rock bottom, and freedoms are being taken away. Independence
- 51:50Speaker 3: for change, Texas. Some kids problem is they have what
- 51:53Speaker 3: my father called champagne tastes on a beer budget. Do
- 51:56Speaker 3: you throw impulse items during the outing, tempted to buy
- 51:59Speaker 3: it or pay your bill? That's actually one of the
- 52:01Speaker 3: things that because you know, when you're thirteen fourteen year
- 52:05Speaker 3: old kid, especially a boy, not trying to stereotype, because
- 52:07Speaker 3: there's girls that think that way as well. They want
- 52:09Speaker 3: that big, expensive car, and so yeah, this is get
- 52:12Speaker 3: a Life program. Let's say, you know, I used to
- 52:14Speaker 3: sell cars. That's what I did as part of my
- 52:17Speaker 3: role play there. I'd say, yeah, you need to seventy
- 52:19Speaker 3: five thousand dollars car out a twenty thousand dollars budget,
- 52:22Speaker 3: and the boys would fall for it every day. Time,
- 52:25Speaker 3: TJ Quickly, what you got coming up on the show.
- 52:28Speaker 7: Today, Hoppy at ten oh six, Coming up an eleven, Dave,
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- 52:40Speaker 7: presentation that was made yesterday from that consultants and.
- 52:43Speaker 3: Interesting what's going happening or not happening in the Raleigh
- 52:46Speaker 3: County courtroom today We're gonna talk about you got to
- 52:48Speaker 3: talk about that as well. The UFOs see you later
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