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10/31/25 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Chris Lawrence, Tom Bragg, Rachel Cope, Dr. Casey Sacks, Tom Susman & Zack Maynard · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 1: The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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  Speaker 2: Of America, the state West Virginia, the city Charleston. This
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  Speaker 2: is the Dave Allen Show on five eighty Live and
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  Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure Milcay. He's kind of
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  Speaker 4: I have come here to chew bubble gum and check
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  Speaker 3: Dave Allen had a good Friday morning to you and
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  Speaker 3: happy Halloween. Welcome to the Show. Friday Edition. Bigley Piggley
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  Speaker 3: Some dates to remember for Tony. November the seventh of
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  Speaker 3: last day to order custom items for Christmas. November the eighteenth,
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  Speaker 3: the end of Bolt sales, save up to fifty percent
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  Speaker 3: off custom suits and jackets. Now, Tony's going to be
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  Speaker 3: closed Thanksgiving Day and the day after on Friday, but
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  Speaker 3: the day after that on that Saturday is Small Business Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: He'ld of course be opened then and December fourth as
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  Speaker 3: the Holiday Trunk Show, they will be open, opening early
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  Speaker 3: today to give their folks time to go out and
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  Speaker 3: do a little trick or treating with their kids. Will
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  Speaker 3: be closing early. I should say visit Best Master Title
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  Speaker 3: dot Calver, Tony's Facebook page if you want more information.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a new state senator in District seven. He
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  Speaker 3: is Zach Maynard. He was named to the position to
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  Speaker 3: replace Mike Stewart, whos joined the Trump administration. Soon to
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  Speaker 3: be Senator Maynard's going to join this later in the show.
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  Speaker 3: News coming out yesterday at the Canaw County Emergency Ambulance
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  Speaker 3: Authority canceling its contract with high Mark Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean for you? We'll talk to the
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  Speaker 3: spokesperson for the ambulance service, Authorty Tom Susman, doctor Casey
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  Speaker 3: Sachs from Bridge Valleys here and of course our Adopt
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  Speaker 3: Me Please Pet of the Week from the canaw Charleston
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  Speaker 3: Humane Association. No Angie Gillan Water. This week she is
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  Speaker 3: off on assignment. Rachel Cope with making her debut in
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  Speaker 3: the Angie roll on the show. Plus, your calls and
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  Speaker 3: texts are always welcome. Let's start by talking high school football.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Lawrence joins us in studio. Good morning, sir, and
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  Speaker 3: Happy Halloween. Same and Tom Bragg is an undisclosed location.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to you too, sir. Hi guys, all right, Chris,
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  Speaker 3: I want to start with you. Happy Halloween. Favorite Halloween candy?
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  Speaker 3: Oh uh, butterfinger? Butterfingers, butterfinger or a pay day?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Do you get a lot of you get a lot
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  Speaker 3: of tricker treaters at Lawrence Mansion. We have in our
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  Speaker 3: little neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: We've got like thirty houses and of those thirty houses,
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  Speaker 6: probably half of them have trick or treating age kids. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: they're usually it takes about thirty to forty five minutes
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  Speaker 6: and they're done. And we're not a big enough housing
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  Speaker 6: development to draw those kids from in the out out
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  Speaker 6: on out the area. We're the first housing development when
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  Speaker 6: you start toward town, okay, but generally they pass us
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  Speaker 6: up to go to one of those big places down
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  Speaker 6: the Hurricane and get on those megaplaces like where you live.
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  Speaker 3: We don't really have a lot where I live now.
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  Speaker 3: The development next to us has a lot, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: they'll trickle in, but we don't have a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 6: And I purposely, in the last several years, have just decided,
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  Speaker 6: you know what, I'm biting the bullet. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: be that guy. I'm going to be that house I
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  Speaker 6: give out full sized candy bar.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: I just go to Sam's and get a big case
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  Speaker 6: of them, and I'm just like, here you go, here's
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  Speaker 6: a full sized Hershey bar. Enjoy it like they did
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  Speaker 6: in the nineteen forties.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. All right, talk about your game tonight.
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  Speaker 6: We got Nitro and Capital on the air well, and
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  Speaker 6: I don't know yet what time will be on the air.
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  Speaker 6: Supposed to be six thirty and then the kickoff is
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  Speaker 6: supposed to be at seven. However, I was told earlier
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  Speaker 6: this week that there is debate about whether they want
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  Speaker 6: to move it back to seven thirty to accommodate trick
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  Speaker 6: or treating. I don't know if they've done that or not.
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  Speaker 6: I need to check on that of course today, but
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  Speaker 6: either way we will be on after the sports line.
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  Speaker 6: It might be an abbreviated sports line, or it might
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  Speaker 6: be the whole sports line. I don't know at this point,
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  Speaker 6: but the matchup is an intriguing one. We saw Nitro
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  Speaker 6: last week against Winfield struggled a little bit because they
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  Speaker 6: came out of the block first of all, making a
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  Speaker 6: lot of mistakes penalty wise. Then they turned the ball over,
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  Speaker 6: coughed it up several times and Winfield got on them. Now,
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  Speaker 6: once they settled down and cut out those mistakes, they
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  Speaker 6: were able to pull away in the second half. Capital,
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  Speaker 6: as always has the propensity to really wear you out
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  Speaker 6: because they've got blazing speed of the skill positions and
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  Speaker 6: you've really got to control day A. Robinson. He is
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  Speaker 6: the main threat out of that Capital backfield. It'll be
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  Speaker 6: interesting to see if they corral him. Nitro on the
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  Speaker 6: on their hands, got a lot of weapons. You might
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of like whack them hole. You might cover
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  Speaker 6: one hole, but like four more are going to burn you.
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  Speaker 6: So that's a difficult team to defend again, So it'll
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  Speaker 6: be interesting tonight following the show tonight or following the
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  Speaker 6: game tonight, will have Metro News Game Night with Fred
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  Speaker 6: and Dave all.
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  Speaker 3: Right on Westervirginia Outdoors. Tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to talk actually it's going to be kind
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  Speaker 6: of like a talk line tomorrow. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 6: about Hunters Helping the Hungry and the way it relates
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  Speaker 6: to what's going on right now with the situation with
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  Speaker 6: the government shutdown and the snap benefits being canceled. Because
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  Speaker 6: obviously it's an important time for the Mountaineer Food Bank.
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  Speaker 6: So we'll have the folks in the Mountaineer Food Bank
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  Speaker 6: on to talk about. I mean, every year they do
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  Speaker 6: the Hunters Helping the Hunging program. It's the largest donation
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  Speaker 6: of red meat to the food bank every year. We
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  Speaker 6: will talk to them this year about how important that is.
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  Speaker 6: Plus a couple of offshoots of that. To defray the
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  Speaker 6: cost of this, they have to get donations to pay
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  Speaker 6: for the processing of the meat, and they've got a
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  Speaker 6: couple of ways they do that. One was last weekend
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  Speaker 6: they had what they call the Governor's One Shot Hunt,
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  Speaker 6: which is a special hunt that is put together and
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  Speaker 6: has been for many I think twenty years now. By
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  Speaker 6: some volunteer organizations and then they have a banquet and
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of a fundraiser that they bring in people
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  Speaker 6: to do that. But Sunday is what they determine to
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  Speaker 6: share the harvest. Sunday where they ask everybody. The Council
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  Speaker 6: of the West Virginia Council of Churches asked everybody in
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  Speaker 6: church in West Virginia on Sunday to give one dollar.
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  Speaker 6: If everybody that was in church on Sunday in West
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  Speaker 6: Virginia gave a dollar, they'd pay for the program like
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  Speaker 6: six times. I mean that that would that That's the
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  Speaker 6: reality of it, And so they try to they try
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  Speaker 6: to get churches to take up special donation to help
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  Speaker 6: pay for it, and those two things seem to have
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  Speaker 6: always helped out a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So enjoy your broadcast whatever time it starts tonight, exactly
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  Speaker 3: will eventually be on the air. That's the plan. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Bragg is with us right now. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing well, Dave?
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  Speaker 7: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing fine? Your favorite Halloween candy? Because I'm asking
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  Speaker 3: everybody now today what's your favorite?
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  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I know, Chris said, Butterfinger. I like
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  Speaker 7: a Butterfinger, but they get stuck in my teeth too much.
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  Speaker 7: I like the I like the recent cups. I like
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  Speaker 7: a good dumb dumb sucker every now and then. But yeah,
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  Speaker 7: probably the recent cups are my number one.
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  Speaker 3: All right? Do you get a lot of trick or
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  Speaker 3: treaters at your place?
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  Speaker 7: You know, not at our house. Our neighborhood has a
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  Speaker 7: ton of trick or treaters. But the way our house
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  Speaker 7: is situated in the neighborhood, it's a little bit off
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  Speaker 7: the beaten path. If you come to our house, you
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  Speaker 7: got to walk back up a big hill to get
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  Speaker 7: to where all the good trick or treat houses are.
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  Speaker 7: So we get a couple of stragglers, but only only
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  Speaker 7: the brave who want to walk back up the hill.
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  Speaker 3: I got you, I got you. I talk about your
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  Speaker 3: game tonight, Tom, And of course your game is Chris's
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  Speaker 3: Games on WCHS. Your game on the Superstar Country ninety
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  Speaker 3: six one KWS featuring feature in Herbert Hoover. What you
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  Speaker 3: got tonight?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Husky's back at home after a long and probably
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  Speaker 7: disappointing trip. If you're a Hoover fan last week to Frankfurt.
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  Speaker 7: Huskies have Parkersburg Big Red's coming to elf you tonight.
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  Speaker 7: I believe, as similar with Chris, I believe kickoff is
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  Speaker 7: at seven o'clock. I know Herbert Hoover hosted a trunk
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  Speaker 7: retreat event at the at the at the school last
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  Speaker 7: night for the people in the community, So I don't
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  Speaker 7: think they're pushing the kickoff back. But you never know
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  Speaker 7: if the trick or treats. It's kind of thrown a
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  Speaker 7: lot of things in flux this week, but I expect
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  Speaker 7: a good game tonight. You know, Parkersburg is a quote
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  Speaker 7: unquote big school playing in the four A classification. Big
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  Speaker 7: Reds have won five games this season. Their ranked number
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  Speaker 7: nine in four A, so a playoff team. But when
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  Speaker 7: you start digging into it, you look at their five wins.
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  Speaker 7: The teams they've beat are combined ten and thirty one
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  Speaker 7: Is two and six, Hurricane two and six, Parkersburg South,
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  Speaker 7: two and six, Riverside one and seven, Cable Midland and
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  Speaker 7: three and six Ripley. They've lost when they've played teams
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  Speaker 7: with a pulse for I guess lack of a better term,
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  Speaker 7: And we'll see what Herbert Hoover has. You know, they're
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  Speaker 7: kind of licking their wounds coming off a loss at
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  Speaker 7: Frankfort last week. The Huskies couldn't really get out of
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  Speaker 7: their own way. They had some sloppy play, some penalties
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  Speaker 7: really affected them. They kind of got beat on. Both
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  Speaker 7: offensive lines, had trouble getting the running game going, which
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  Speaker 7: is such a big part of their offensive attack. And
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  Speaker 7: on the other side of that, Frankfort did. All credit
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  Speaker 7: to Frankfort. That was a really good football team Matt
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  Speaker 7: Murphy and I saw last week. But they run that
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  Speaker 7: single wing almost two perfection, and Herbert Hoover had a
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  Speaker 7: real hard time stopping that. We're doing to be a
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  Speaker 7: little different. It's going to be more of a traditional
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  Speaker 7: look for what you've got to defend versus that single wing.
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  Speaker 7: So it should be an interesting game. I think on paper,
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  Speaker 7: Herbert Hoover would probably be the favorite, all things considered,
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  Speaker 7: but this time of year you never know, so I
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  Speaker 7: expect a good game. Should be a fun one down
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  Speaker 7: and no with you to see me.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be listening. Hey, Tom, I appreciate you being here, man,
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  Speaker 3: thanks a lot, have a great broadcast. You guys. Be
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  Speaker 3: safe tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, thanks Dave. Happy Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: our adopt me please put it the week from the
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  Speaker 3: Cannal Charleston Yumaine Association and here standing in for Angie
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  Speaker 3: Gilla wanted this morning. Making her debut on the show
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  Speaker 3: is Rachel Cope. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 8: Hi. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing fine? How are you? You sound enthusiastic?
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  Speaker 8: Hi, I'm so excited to be able to to be
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  Speaker 8: here and do this. I love talking about our animals
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  Speaker 8: and this is a radio debut for me, so I'm
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  Speaker 8: excited for everybody to hear my voice.
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  Speaker 3: And as always, our pedal of the week's picture posted
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  Speaker 3: on Dave Allen Radio and Facebook, also the WCCHS Network
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  Speaker 3: Facebook page and at Dave A seventy on X Love
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  Speaker 3: the name Rachel tell Us about ka.
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  Speaker 8: Uh kil Basa is like a handful of energy. Everybody
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  Speaker 8: at the shelter loves this dog. He is the silliest
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  Speaker 8: little thing in the world. He is kid friendly, loves kids.
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  Speaker 8: He is a clack clown, which essentially at the shelter
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  Speaker 8: means that he is like he's funny at the end
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  Speaker 8: of day, like he just does things that'll make you laugh.
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  Speaker 8: He's very like jumpy. He is great with other dogs.
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  Speaker 8: He does great in our playgroups. He prefers a playful dog,
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  Speaker 8: so if you do have another dog in your household,
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  Speaker 8: he is of course going to what a more like
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  Speaker 8: playful one, not a senior. He is three years old,
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  Speaker 8: I believe, and he's forty eight five pounds. I think
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  Speaker 8: he's a great little guy. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 8: you saw his picture, but he's got those beautiful multi
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  Speaker 8: colored eyes, that one bright blue eye. He's just an angel.
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  Speaker 3: Now is he three or five? Because I thought you
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  Speaker 3: said five, he's five? Yeah, okay, five? Five okay yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And again I do have the picture posted. Is always
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  Speaker 3: over my social media, so go check it out. We'll
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  Speaker 3: get back to Keil Bossa in a moment. National Cat
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  Speaker 3: Day was earlier this week. You a cat, a dog,
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  Speaker 3: person or both?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I love all of them. I love both. They're
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  Speaker 8: just they're so funny. We have so many fun cats
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  Speaker 8: in the shelter too, What about you.
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  Speaker 3: I like dogs and cats, but lifestyle is more conducive
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  Speaker 3: to the cats. So my wife and I have cats. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: cats are simple. Our cats never go out of the house.
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  Speaker 3: They have no people have heard me tell them the
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  Speaker 3: story before. They were both both showed up at our
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  Speaker 3: doorstep as strays. They have no interest in going out whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: They're They're perfectly perfectly happy to stay in the house. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I want to ask you a serious question here, and
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  Speaker 3: we have a text about it this morning. Earlier this week,
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  Speaker 3: it was reported that the Charleston Police Department helped rest
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  Speaker 3: a puppy that was tied to a rock down by
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  Speaker 3: the river, and they were asking on social media for
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  Speaker 3: the public to identify who did this. Were you guys
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  Speaker 3: involved in this at all?
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  Speaker 8: So you were actually talking to the right person. I'm
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  Speaker 8: actually very good friends with the humane officer that was
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  Speaker 8: in charge with us, and she sent me pictures of
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  Speaker 8: her in the river rescuing this dog, and we currently
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  Speaker 8: have the animal in our care.
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  Speaker 5: He or she.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, we thought he was a boy, but she's a girl.
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  Speaker 8: She's doing great. She is the most loving thing in
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  Speaker 8: the world, if if we could like blankets are always
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  Speaker 8: asked and needed if anybody is interested in donating. But
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  Speaker 8: we are definitely involved in that, and we are giving
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  Speaker 8: the animal the best care in the world.
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  Speaker 3: And so is the animal available for adoption now or
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately not?
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  Speaker 8: They are actively trying to find an owner.
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  Speaker 3: Charges Yeah, well good, and I hope they find that person,
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  Speaker 3: I really really do. And so the animal is gonna
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  Speaker 3: kind of be held as evidence, I guess right now,
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  Speaker 3: but eventually that animal, hopefully will be will be available
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  Speaker 3: for adoption quickly. Are you guys out and about anywhere
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  Speaker 3: this weekend? I know sometimes you do public events on
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  Speaker 3: the weekend. You get anything going on this weekend that
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  Speaker 3: you're aware of?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, We've actually got this thing going on tomorrow. It's
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  Speaker 8: a Tay Valley Petco. We've got a few kittens and
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  Speaker 8: dogs that are gonna be there, and I'm actually going
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  Speaker 8: to be at an adoption event tomorrow at Virginia State University.
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  Speaker 8: We've got a lot of puppies that we're bringing, So
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  Speaker 8: come out and see us.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Rachel, you did fine, You're gonna do okay
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  Speaker 3: when once you learned to get a little bit more excited. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate you being here and we'll talk again soon. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 8: All right, thank you bye.
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  Speaker 3: Rachel Cope again from the Kennel Charleston HU Main Association.
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  Speaker 3: Kia Bassa is our dog, around three years old, super
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  Speaker 3: high energy, just over forty eight pounds, that multi colored eyes, beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful dog. Good with kids and other dogs. Probably more
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  Speaker 3: playful dogs because he is very energetic. So if you
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  Speaker 3: got a senior dog, probably not a good idea. You
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  Speaker 3: can see his picture. It's posted at Dave Alan Radio
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  Speaker 3: on Facebook or at DAYBA seventy one X. Also the
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  Speaker 3: WCCHS network Facebook page. Big Ley Pick Wigley Hotline three
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  Speaker 3: zero zero eight. We are going to take a break.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up a little bit later on. Zach Maner is
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  Speaker 3: good to join us. He is the new state senator
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  Speaker 3: appointed by the governor out of District seven, replacing Mike
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  Speaker 3: Stewart who has joined the Trump administration. Also, Tom Susman
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  Speaker 3: will stop by doctor k cy Sachs. A bridge valley
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  Speaker 3: is on the way next in a voice of Charleston
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  Speaker 1: Tar Family businesses want to thank you for supporting local
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  Speaker 3: At street talk, we get it. You say no a lot, mom?
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  Speaker 9: Can I get a tarantula?
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  Speaker 3: No coffee?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Happy.
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  Speaker 9: Halloween, Morning, Dave, Happy Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So favorite Halloween candy we're asking everybody today.
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, should I be controversial and go with candy corn?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Yes? That would be extremely controversy, extremely controversy. I actually
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not a big I'm not a big sweet seater,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: to be honest with you. But when I don't mind
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: candy corn, it's like one of those things. It's one
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: of those things that people either love or hate. I'm
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: a big blue cheese guy. People either love blue cheese
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: or hate blue cheese. There's no in between, my wife
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: in between on them one. Oh okay, we made some
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: steaks last night. I want to crumble up little blue
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: cheese on top of it all right. But anyway, so candy,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: corn corn, how about you again, I'm not a big
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: sweet seat. Give me meat and cheese and I'm perfectly
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: happy to just just meat and cheese. I will eat
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: about anything. I really, I really don't care. I don't
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: really have a favorite to anything.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: You like dark chocolate, but that's not really halloween candy.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife's the big dark chocolate. I mean, she
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: would gut me in a minute for for some dark
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: chocolate if I had something.
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: That's right, all right?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Uh, So I want to talk about it. An alumni group.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: You said when you were on one of your previous
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: appearances here that Bridge Valley's looking at doing an alumni group.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Talk about that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: So, Bridge Valley's only ten years old, we've never had
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: an alumni association, and so our foundation and alumni association
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: now exists.
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: And so if you are a.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Graduate from Bridge Valley, from Bridgemont, or from Canaw Valley,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: we consider you part of our alumni family.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: And so we have a.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Group now of former students who have put together this group.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: They're actively recruiting more.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: We'd love more folks to join, and so far they've
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: done business after hours. They're really working on networking. They're
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: helping people connect to jobs in the area. They actually
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: want to hire alumni into their businesses. Now that being
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: around for ten years, that's enough that people own some
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: of their own businesses and are interested in recruiting Bridge
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Valley students. So we're pretty excited to have it as
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: an opportunity for people to really re engage with us
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: and come back to the community if they want to.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: It's hard for me to believe that Bridge Valley has
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: been around for ten years. In some ways, it seems
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: like it hasn't been long, But in other ways, it
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: seems like that it's always been a part of the community.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Does that make any sense.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Well, great, I hope that it feels like we've always.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Been here and that's and again, that's one of the
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: things that I love about what you folks do out
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: of Bridge Valley. I mean, again, you're an institution of
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: higher learning, yes, but do you do a lot of
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: other things within the community. I know, you just came
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: off the Pumpkin Drop a couple of weeks ago. That
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: was a massive success. We had you you know, had
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Steve Animal live from there on the mountain. Apologize for that,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: but just so many things that you do within the
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: community that really, in many cases it all ties into
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: higher education, but sometimes it doesn't. You just do it
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: because you're here.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Well, we do it because we're here, but because we
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: really care about the community. Our mission is specifically this region,
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: and we really want to make sure people are working
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: in this region and that they see that there's opportunities here,
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: and we want to make sure that we're the training
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: provider that you think of when you're like, gosh, I'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: sick of working retail or fast food and what do
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I do? Will you come back to Bridge Valley and
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: get retrained for something else?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Talking to doctor Casey Sacks the Bridge Valley. It's nine
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  Speaker 9: Oh it's so fun, well, so you're talking about things
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  Speaker 9: we do in the community.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Family Fun Night is our sort of pre Halloween activity.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: It's a trunk of tree. We have bounced castles and
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  Speaker 5: activities for little kids and face painting. We had our
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: biggest turnout ever this year. It was a part partly
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  Speaker 5: because we partnered with WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals and so
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  Speaker 5: they also did trigger treat for the kids and lots
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  Speaker 5: of the activities. But we had thirty two hundred people
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  Speaker 5: up in South Charleston. Wow, and it was just fantastic,
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  Speaker 5: so fun.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty two hundred people And what sort of activities did
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: you have there?
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Face painting, a bounced castle, pizza, tons of candy, so
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: so much candy. One of the things that I really
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: like that we do is we bring out all the
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: first responders, so South Charleston brings up their fire truck,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: we have a police cruiser. We have our own ambulance
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: that we also do as a mobile classroom, and we
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: let kids walk through those and run the sirens. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: for especially little kids, they might not be thinking already, gosh,
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I want to be a paramedic.
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: When I grew up.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: But sometimes those early exposures can be quite influential, so
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: we're hoping for that too well.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: And what I like about events like that, and I
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: know the City of Charleston does a great job with
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: their police department and other municipalities do as well, is
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: sometimes that kids only see the police, They only see
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: fire and ambulance EMTs first responders when it's a bad situation.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And I think it's an opportunity for them when it
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: comes to police to be able to say, hey, they're
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: not the bad guys. They're trying to help us. But
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: it also gives them an opportunity to check out, you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the cool shiny trucks and things of that nature when
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: it's not an emergency.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: That's great and.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: We want to share those things with people and to
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: get them thinking about, gosh, maybe I would want to
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: be on the fire crew and how do I do.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: That and what kind of activity? What kind of courses
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: do you have for a kid or an adult for
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: that matter that may want to go into that sort
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: of thing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: I mean, I would tell anybody to start with some
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: of the first responder, basic life support kinds of things.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: But we have a full blown paramedic program which is
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: pretty popular, and that's a good choice because even my husband,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: who's retired law enforcement, would say, well you need all
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: you need all those.
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: Skills even in law enforcement, and so a lot of it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: And I would tell anybody who I'm doing career counseling
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: with is figure out where you want to work. You
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: want to go work at South Charleston Fire, Go ask
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: them exactly what they require, and then just do.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: Those pieces with us.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't tell you to do a full blown program
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: if they don't require it, but if they do require it,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: then come do the program with us.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: We'd love to have you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Doctor kcy Saxebridge Valleys here. Let's talk about spring registration.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's that time. So if you're thinking, gosh, I
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: want to change my life and I want to go
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: be a paramedic, or I want to go work in
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: manufacturing or it or any version of healthcare, whatever that
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: looks like for you, it's really the time to come register.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: So November eleventh, spring registration opens, which is colleague next
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: week practically, And that's really thinking ahead for your family
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: and for your life and what is it that you
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: want to do different So if even if what you
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  Speaker 5: want is the career counseling.
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  Speaker 9: Come talk to our team so we really can get through. Well,
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: where should you be studying? What is it that you
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: might want to go do?
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  Speaker 3: And I want to ask you, of course, all the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: news right now is about the partial government shut down,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: and you know, sixteen percent of the population of West Virginia,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: it's been documented, received some sort of SNAP benefits. Barring
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: some sort of a miracle come November first, which is tomorrow,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: by the way, that's going to go away at least
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: at least for a while. That's the way it's looking
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: right now. What's going on out there with Bridge Valley
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: as it pretends to do.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: So we actually we know how many of our students
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: receive SNAP benefits and it's seventy for We have seventy
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: four students on campus right now who receives SNAP benefits
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: and they do win tomorrow. And so we've been We
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: have a food bank on campus all the time. It's
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: called the Nest and so we always are looking for
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: food for the food bank. But you know, we have
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: high school students who are homeless. We have kids who
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: have real needs in the community, and this is exactly
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: who you would want to help. So if you're listening
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: and feeling even a little bit philanthropic. These are people
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: who are trying to help themselves. They're in a training
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: program and they're trying to do better, but they need
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: a little bit of help. So we're thrilled we can
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: do that with our food pantry. And we're certainly promoting
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: the two on one that's coming out of the Governor's
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: office and trying to get people to call two on
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: one if they need food help and food support. We
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: have some great food banks in the community, and I
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: would encourage people to give to any of those if
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: you're in a position where you can. But we are
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: also trying to promote with our other students who aren't
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: receiving benefits, Hey can you bring in non perishables? Can
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: you bring in things to help each other? But we
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: do something called Project Thankful everyday, and we have students
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: who have families that can't afford Thanksgiving sign up and
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: so far we've had twenty seven families sign up. And
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: so these are family keep students but who have little
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: kids and really thinking through how do we do that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: So my office adopts one family and we'll do the
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: full spread for Thanksgiving. But it's those kinds of things.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: So if you don't know who you know, if you're
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: feeling again like maybe it's the spirit of giving in
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: the right season and you want to adopt a family,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: we have that option.
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: For you too.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: And if the public wants to get involved in this,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I mean people listen to that. Maybe don't even have
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: ties to Bridge Valley. What can they do?
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: We'd love to have your support Bridge Valley dot eedu
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: And then on the top right navigate up to the
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: foundation and then we have drop down menus so you
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: can pick whatever it is you're interested in. So if
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: it's the food pantry, you can pick the nest food pantry.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: If it's Project Thankful, you can select that and adopt
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: a family and or call us and come out and
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: we'd love to connect you to students who need some support.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: It really does change people's lives, all right.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Remind people where they can check out anything. Hit that
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: website again repertain.
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  Speaker 9: To Bridge Valley Bridge Valley dot edu.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Doctor Casey says, Happy Halloween. You go out trick or.
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: Treating, thinks I we will give out candy it for.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: You have a lot of trick or treaters at triple about.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: Four hundred and then we turn out the lights.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, and then we're done. Right after that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I can't I can't sit there for more than about
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: two hours.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Shield after failing to get a new agreement as it
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  Speaker 3: predains to reimbursement rates. Tom Susman is a spokesperson for
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  Speaker 3: the Ambulance Service Authority. He joins us this morning in
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the Jarrett Construction Studios. Good morning, Tom, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning Dave.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: How are you this? I am doing and fine, thank
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: you for being here. So give us we get the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: story at wv Metro news dot com. Give us the
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: overall what's this? What's this whole thing about?
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  Speaker 4: So, first off, about seventy five percent of the revenue
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  Speaker 4: for Kanawha County Ambulance comes from PEA, Medicaid, Medicare, and
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: then there's another portion that is this private pay, third
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: party reinsurance or third party insurance from companies like Blue Cross,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Blue Shield, Peak.
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  Speaker 3: Health Plan, others.
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  Speaker 4: We've been working with Blue Cross Blue Shield because their
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  Speaker 4: level of reimbursement for the Kanawa County Ambulance Authority was
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  Speaker 4: below PA and generally for third party payers, and we
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  Speaker 4: talked to the folks from the hospitals, it's about one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and thirty one hundred and fifty percent of Medicare,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: So we were at Medicare, if not below Medicare for
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: a portion at the time. There's a cost to operate
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  Speaker 4: the Kanawh County Ambulance Authority. Those costs have to be met.
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  Speaker 4: We're not asking Blue Cross Blue Shield to cover other
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: people's costs. We're asking them to step up and do
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: for the people that they cover. So let me give
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  Speaker 4: you an example of the number kind of data point. Okay,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: last year, I think for this group of people, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: this would be private pay, third party companies, their self insurance,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: their network access. This is not medicare, this is not medicaid.
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  Speaker 4: I think they paid about one point four million or
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: not paid. We build them about one point four billion.
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  Speaker 4: They paid us about four hundred thousand dollars. Now, if
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: you had a grocery store and you were charging one
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: point four million dollars for services, but people only paid
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: four hundred thousand dollars, you couldn't sustain. We want to
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: have a sustainable operation. The company had a deficit. They're
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: working down the deficit. They're doing all types of changes.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: They've reduced the employment. They are working to refine the
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  Speaker 4: way they purchased ambulances. Instead of going out and buying
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  Speaker 4: brand new ambulances all the time, they're taking the old
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  Speaker 4: boxes and putting them on new chests. I mean, there
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: are steps they're taking to better allocate resources. As part
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: of that, they looked at what people were paying the
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: authority for services. And we're talking about insurance companies and
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: Blue Cross Blue Shield was woefully underpaying the authority. We're
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: not asking for them to get to the one hundred
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: and fifty level of Medicare, but we'd like to get
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: something that would help sustain that agency, and that's where
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: we're working through. The Authority decided that if you're going
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: to do this, give people sixty day notice. We're in
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Medicare open enrollment, so if people wanted to make a
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: change because of this contract dispute, they have plenty of
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: time to do it. Employers are generally making benefit decisions
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: during this period for the coming year. That way, they
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: were on notice because this will not take effect until
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: January one. Hopefully we can work this out and come
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: to some type of resolution, but the authority has a
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: responsibility to ensure that there is long term sustainability for
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: the AMLETCE company.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Talking to you with Tom Susman, who's a spokesperson for
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: the Ambutate Service Authority. Okay, let me give you an example,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: because as you and I were talking doing to break,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: everybody wants to know what does it mean to me?
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: And that's okay. I have Blue Cross Blue Shield and
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: through my through this company w DRC Media metrin Is,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: I have Blue Cross Blue Shield. I am Heaven Forbid.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I have a medical emergency okay, uh, car accident, you know,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: heart attack, whatever, and it's after this January first, what happens.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Well, hopefully we've come to a resolution, Okay, if we have,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: but if we have not, we've not come for a resolution.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: And if West Virginia Radio still has Blue Cross Blue Shield,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: because I'm sure your plan year is January one, then
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: what will happen is you'll probably get the bill from
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: us instead of US building the insurance company, and then
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: you'll have to submit that to the insurance company to
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: get paid whatever they'll pay, and then we'll balance bill
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: you for the difference.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as opposed to the insurance you know, just paying
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  Speaker 3: a percentage or whatever. I mean, the bill is going
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: to come to me and I got to figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to pay.
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  Speaker 13: And it's not cheap, Tom, and it's not cheap. We
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  Speaker 13: don't do this is this is not something that was done.
• 34:00
  Speaker 13: That was done the one thing that Blue Cross does,
• 34:02
  Speaker 13: and we're going to take it to the legislature. So
• 34:04
  Speaker 13: if we're not contracted with one of the other companies
• 34:07
  Speaker 13: for emergent care, they will allow you to assign that
• 34:10
  Speaker 13: benefit to us. So then if we bill them, we'll
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: get paid. Blue Cross Blue Shield does not do that
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: for a non contracted emergent provider, and that's not right,
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: you know, for the scheduled appointments.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: You made a choice on whether you're getting an in
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: network or a non network physician, doctor, physical therapist, whatever
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: for an ambulance. That's not correct. Emergency room is not
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: correct because emergent care. There should be no discrimination in
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: terms of payment for mergent care.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it makes complete sense to me. And
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I know Jeff and the folks in the newsroom did
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: a news story and they actually talked to a spokesperson
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: for Blue Cross Blue Shit, because we want to be
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  Speaker 3: Al Right, so we're looking to January first. What happens
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: between now and January first?
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Well, well, we're going to talk internally. We'll reach back
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: out to Blue Cross to see if they'd like to
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: sit down and have further discussions. And then for folks
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: that are looking at medicare advantage or they're looking at
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: their business insurance, they need to take this into consideration,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: you know, when they make their choices.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: But we're hopeful that this is going to work out.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: This is not the be all end all were there's
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: ever and there are negotiations going on. As which week discussions.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: There were some discussions that are going on, and we're
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: we hope the next week to can to to restart
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: these discussions.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: All right, Happy Halloween.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Happy Halloween to you.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: First, Uh, your favorite candy. First, to your trigger treat candy.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: It's the the caramel corn.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, corn, yeah, candy corn. Yeah. You and doctor Sex
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  Speaker 3: said the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then when I was a kid, I used to
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  Speaker 4: play like I had vampirety.
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  Speaker 3: Well you don't do that anymore. To please tell me
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  Speaker 3: you don't still do that.
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  Speaker 4: I will never ever disclose this on the grounds that
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  Speaker 4: it may incriminate me for future radio interviews.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: All Right, Tom, I appreciate you coming in, and you
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: came in on short notice because again, this story just
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  Speaker 3: broke yesterday and I know Jeffetable. Folks did an interview
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  Speaker 3: with you, but I wanted to have you come in
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: to kind of break it down to people because again,
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  Speaker 3: because you well know, people want to know, how does
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  Speaker 3: this impact me? That's what people want to know.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why we wanted to be sure and give
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: plenty of notice so that if folks did want to
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  Speaker 4: make a plan change, they could make a plan.
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  Speaker 3: All right, and I'll give you like the final thirty
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  Speaker 3: seconds to speak. I may have the ambulance services ory.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want the people to know?
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  Speaker 4: One is that regardless of your ability to pay, we
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  Speaker 3: All right, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot man.
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  Speaker 3: District seven. That announcement coming from the governor. He's former
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  Speaker 3: Delagate Zach Maynard, and he joins us now in the
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  Speaker 3: General Construction studios. Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 18: Congratulations, thank you, thank you great to be here today
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  Speaker 18: in the studio, and thanks.
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  Speaker 3: For having me explain the district.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, so, I mean the you know, we we every
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  Speaker 18: ten years we redistrict in the state of West Virginia.
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  Speaker 18: And uh, you know, we used to the old the
• 40:28
  Speaker 18: old seventh Senatorial District used to be parts of Mingo,
• 40:31
  Speaker 18: parts of Wayne, Lincoln, Logan, and Boom. And with the
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  Speaker 18: population loss and you know, these districts down south are
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  Speaker 18: getting they're getting a little bit bigger. But the district's Lincoln,
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  Speaker 18: All Lincoln, All Logan, All Boom, and parts of eastern
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  Speaker 18: Kanall County and what I would say this Saint Auban
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  Speaker 18: side to the Tornado side of Conall County. So I
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  Speaker 18: explained that as the big ben region.
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  Speaker 14: Good.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, because I'm a frequent golfer there, so so yeah, so.
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  Speaker 3: How's your golf game? Oh man?
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  Speaker 18: You know it's slowly coming along with some well, you know,
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  Speaker 18: I had a golfer tell me it's kind of like
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  Speaker 18: fine wine, it gets better with age.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm hoping.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping. So I needed TJ. Meadows is ours our
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  Speaker 3: resident golfer here. So you'll have to meet TJ. He'll
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: come in after you and you can talk about him.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: You guys can talk golf, all right, So talk about
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: the the appointment. There were three people, and I guess
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: the Executive Committee puts forth three names. Talk about how
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: that processes.
• 41:25
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean we're very fortunate in the Republican Party
• 41:29
  Speaker 18: to have such great candidates. I mean we had ex
• 41:33
  Speaker 18: ceo coal coal mine owners, uh, co operators. Uh, we
• 41:38
  Speaker 18: had you know, Vice Presidence of the Coal Association.
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  Speaker 3: I mean some.
• 41:43
  Speaker 18: Really just great people. And then you know the three
• 41:45
  Speaker 18: names that got picked. Monica Booth just a great person,
• 41:49
  Speaker 18: does really good with uh, you know, domestic violence and
• 41:52
  Speaker 18: stuff and and and and really you know, puts uh
• 41:56
  Speaker 18: puts effort in that. And then we had dust More,
• 41:59
  Speaker 18: who's who's a great I worked with Mike Stewart, you know.
• 42:02
  Speaker 18: So we had really good candidates, and you know, the
• 42:05
  Speaker 18: committee uh took took their time and peaked three names,
• 42:08
  Speaker 18: and those names went to the governor.
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  Speaker 3: And and of course you're a former member of the House. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so some people will start in the House and go
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  Speaker 3: to the Senate. Some people will start, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate. What what do you think having been
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: a delegate lends to this new role? What kind of
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: talk about your experience?
• 42:26
  Speaker 18: Yes, so, I mean one is the is the process?
• 42:28
  Speaker 18: I don't think you know, you you get well one,
• 42:32
  Speaker 18: there's one hundred people in this in the House and
• 42:35
  Speaker 18: thirty four in the Senate. But you know, I think
• 42:38
  Speaker 18: the is you know, how how you get a bill,
• 42:40
  Speaker 18: how do you get the stakeholders, you know, how do
• 42:43
  Speaker 18: you get people around a certain legislation to pass it?
• 42:47
  Speaker 18: Understanding how to do constituent services. I think that's the
• 42:50
  Speaker 18: biggest thing when it comes to a lot of this stuff.
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  Speaker 18: But also, you know, what I've realized too is a
• 42:54
  Speaker 18: lot of the people that I served with that were
• 42:57
  Speaker 18: delegates are now senators, you know, So it's uh, it's
• 43:00
  Speaker 18: good to see familiar faces. But I think as there
• 43:03
  Speaker 18: is an overlap, you know, I guess I'm gonna have
• 43:06
  Speaker 18: an assistant that's going to be able to you know,
• 43:08
  Speaker 18: send some emails, take some phone calls, and in the House,
• 43:12
  Speaker 18: you do all that by yourself, you know, if you know,
• 43:14
  Speaker 18: or we share one, five or six of us shared one, right,
• 43:18
  Speaker 18: so I mean, but also you know we have one
• 43:22
  Speaker 18: hundred you know, we have a lot of Republicans over
• 43:25
  Speaker 18: on the House, and we have a lot in the
• 43:26
  Speaker 18: Senate to where you know, those responsibilities were spread out.
• 43:31
  Speaker 18: You know, you still have to have the same committee
• 43:32
  Speaker 18: meetings and the Senate and that stuff. So but it
• 43:35
  Speaker 18: gets me prepared because I've ran a campaign. You know,
• 43:37
  Speaker 18: I've I've I've done the constituent service I've I've I've
• 43:41
  Speaker 18: done you know, the hard votes and the and the
• 43:43
  Speaker 18: things that is needed to be productive at this job.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Sorry about talking to you. Zach Maynard, who is the
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: new state senator out of District seven. So, what's the
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: process look like when you're actually sworn in because you're
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: not technically the senator. You got the appointment, but you've
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: not been sworn in anything.
• 43:57
  Speaker 18: Yeah, So Wednesday at noon, I'm going to be sworn in,
• 44:00
  Speaker 18: So you know, gonna get the family up for that,
• 44:03
  Speaker 18: friends and stuff and do that. So you know the
• 44:06
  Speaker 18: process is just you know, getting getting the judge. I'm
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  Speaker 18: Stacy Eldridge is gonna be Judge Eldridge is going to
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  Speaker 18: be the one swearing me in on Wednesday. So we're
• 44:16
  Speaker 18: just really excited to get started.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Speaking of family, you got to throw something out there.
• 44:21
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I just yeah, my wife, she turns twenty one today.
• 44:25
  Speaker 18: Oh okay, no, she's turns thirty three. And uh she's
• 44:30
  Speaker 18: my high school sweetheart, love of my life, and we
• 44:32
  Speaker 18: have three we have two beautiful little girls at home,
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  Speaker 18: and I'd just like to wish her a happy birthday.
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  Speaker 3: got all the Logan County, and you got Boom, we
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: got Kanawa, and I mean, and I talked about this
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: with a political figure I have on In some ways,
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of similarities, but in some ways there's
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: a lot of differences, and that's a lot of ground
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  Speaker 3: to cover.
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  Speaker 18: No, I mean, look, I think you might have been
• 45:30
  Speaker 18: my constituent in my old district of when I was
• 45:32
  Speaker 18: a delegate Lincoln, Logan, Boom, and Putnam. You're talking about
• 45:35
  Speaker 18: Chaptonville to Hurricane.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:37
  Speaker 18: Right, So it's the same type of layout for me.
• 45:40
  Speaker 18: But you know, one thing we do have in common
• 45:43
  Speaker 18: is that we are cold country. A lot of that
• 45:45
  Speaker 18: is cold country, eastern Kenall County, Marmett to Montgomery. You know,
• 45:50
  Speaker 18: it doesn't really change from you know, Pexmeal to the Hearts.
• 45:54
  Speaker 18: You know, it's it's kind of the same, we're kind
• 45:56
  Speaker 18: of the same people, same area. It's southern West Virginia.
• 45:59
  Speaker 18: But it is a bit district and you know, for me,
• 46:01
  Speaker 18: I'll have to get out beat on those doors in
• 46:04
  Speaker 18: eastern Kennall County the same I'll do in Man, West Virginia.
• 46:07
  Speaker 18: So I'm excited to serve those people. But there is differences.
• 46:11
  Speaker 18: I mean, I mean that you know, you have alam
• 46:14
  Speaker 18: Creek and that area.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: So that's where that's where our producers from. That's why
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: that that big noise you heard in there, that was
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: from staff of the air producer.
• 46:21
  Speaker 18: She's a alam Aldam creeker. Yeah creek, but no for
• 46:24
  Speaker 18: all all. I mean, just to look at the district.
• 46:27
  Speaker 18: I think it's set up a great a great way.
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  Speaker 18: People have a lot of similarities and now I'm excited
• 46:33
  Speaker 18: to get out and work for them.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: And what do you want people to know about you
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: that don't know you? Because I mean, again, you were
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: in the house, but I mean for some of these people,
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: you're you're brand new to them. So give us a
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: little bit of your your background. I mean, uh, you
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: know what legend. We know you're a former uh delegate,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: But there's more to Zach Mander than just that. So
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: give us your background. Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: So, I mean I grew up in Heart's, West Virginia
• 46:55
  Speaker 18: where I live now. I haven't you know, very I
• 46:57
  Speaker 18: have uh you know, I went down a couple couple uh, well,
• 47:02
  Speaker 18: went down the road to where I was raised at.
• 47:05
  Speaker 18: But no, I went to Chaptanville High School on a
• 47:07
  Speaker 18: state championship there. I always like to throw that in
• 47:09
  Speaker 18: for the for everybody.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Game tonight for Chapmanville Big game.
• 47:13
  Speaker 18: So but no, I mean was a Tiger. And then
• 47:16
  Speaker 18: you know, went on to West Virginia Tech and played
• 47:19
  Speaker 18: some baseball there and got my degree there. But you know,
• 47:23
  Speaker 18: then I started a business, you know, started multiple businesses,
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: and I'm a businessman and and just loved being an
• 47:29
  Speaker 18: entrepreneur and hiring people and trying to you know, create something.
• 47:34
  Speaker 18: But no, I think, you know, looking at this district,
• 47:37
  Speaker 18: it's it's made for It's made for somebody like me.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: I mean it.
• 47:42
  Speaker 18: I'm from Lincoln County. I graduated from Logan County, shop
• 47:46
  Speaker 18: at Logan County, you know, pay my taxes in Lincoln County,
• 47:51
  Speaker 18: banking Boom County. You know, I have a lot of
• 47:53
  Speaker 18: friends in Boom County, and I graduate. I was one
• 47:55
  Speaker 18: of the last classes at West Virginia Tech.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: So I know that Eastern.
• 47:58
  Speaker 18: Commons side and you can find me in the summer
• 48:01
  Speaker 18: probably once every two weeks at Big Ben. So you know,
• 48:04
  Speaker 18: I feel like I really have an understanding of if
• 48:07
  Speaker 18: you call me and you say, hey, I'm here and
• 48:09
  Speaker 18: I need to drink or I need help, I can
• 48:12
  Speaker 18: kind of put that piece together geographically where you're at.
• 48:15
  Speaker 18: But no, I'm I and you know, you know, I
• 48:19
  Speaker 18: think people the one thing I would want to say.
• 48:21
  Speaker 18: You know, I'm a social conservative, god family country. So
• 48:25
  Speaker 18: I think that's a big deal where we come from.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: What's what are you excited to get to work on?
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Because West Virginia is doing well in many areas, but
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: we got we got some struggles. We've got to get
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: people here, you know. I mean that's a big problem,
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: especially in the area that you are from and where
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: you currently reside. I mean, what are you excited to
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: get to work on?
• 48:43
  Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, when when I was alleged, when I
• 48:45
  Speaker 18: first came in as a delegate, you know, we we
• 48:48
  Speaker 18: had financial pains for the state. We were in a hole,
• 48:52
  Speaker 18: and then we went on this great run. I mean,
• 48:56
  Speaker 18: you know, with a former governor Justice and the things
• 48:59
  Speaker 18: that we were able to accomplished, and and you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 18: working with Roger of Speaker Hanshaw and and the Senate
• 49:05
  Speaker 18: presidents that were there. You know, we really I think
• 49:08
  Speaker 18: we financially really took a took the state on the
• 49:12
  Speaker 18: right path. And I think moving forward, you know, we're
• 49:16
  Speaker 18: gonna have to do the same, but we're also gonna
• 49:17
  Speaker 18: have to fix some liability issues that we have. For
• 49:20
  Speaker 18: me personally, what I would like to work on. You know,
• 49:22
  Speaker 18: I'm a vocational guy. I think that. You know, I've
• 49:25
  Speaker 18: always heard stories from my I was raised by my grandparents,
• 49:28
  Speaker 18: and you know, one of the things they always said,
• 49:30
  Speaker 18: you know, when they left West Virginia to go find
• 49:33
  Speaker 18: work out of town, it was one of those things
• 49:36
  Speaker 18: to where if you was from West Virginia, you got
• 49:39
  Speaker 18: hired automatically, automatical because your work ethics. So I think,
• 49:42
  Speaker 18: you know, we're looking at now you can you know,
• 49:45
  Speaker 18: one of the things about like in Logan County, and
• 49:47
  Speaker 18: I think in Boom County too, and maybe Kennall County
• 49:49
  Speaker 18: or in Lincoln County, maybe all of them. But now
• 49:52
  Speaker 18: you have seniors that are graduating with associate's degrees. You know,
• 49:56
  Speaker 18: they're able to go to Southern Community College for the
• 50:00
  Speaker 18: last couple of years of high school and then graduate
• 50:03
  Speaker 18: with an associate's degree. I would like to elaborate on that. Yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 18: I would like for us to have ninth and tenth
• 50:09
  Speaker 18: graders to be able to enroll in vocational school. If
• 50:12
  Speaker 18: you know, blue collar, if you want to go work
• 50:15
  Speaker 18: and be a plumber, be an HVC, be electrician, do
• 50:20
  Speaker 18: those types of jobs. If that's really what you want
• 50:23
  Speaker 18: to do at a young age, we shouldn't stop you.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: And I think if most kids know that, yeah, I
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: mean or not everybody does that knows that, Zach. But
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: I think most kids, going back to my experience one
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: hundred years ago, I knew what time I was in
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: fifth or sixth grade what I wanted to do, and
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: they man know exactly. But they know that they're good
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: with their hands, they know what they're crafty that way.
• 50:42
  Speaker 18: Yeah, they know that they like to work with their
• 50:44
  Speaker 18: dad in the backyard and like to work with Grandpaul,
• 50:46
  Speaker 18: you know, and do those things. But my you know,
• 50:48
  Speaker 18: my biggest thing is I went to vocational school and
• 50:51
  Speaker 18: I went to a four year college and got a degree.
• 50:53
  Speaker 18: It doesn't stop you from doing that. But I think,
• 50:55
  Speaker 18: you know, we asked general. We go and go throughout America,
• 50:59
  Speaker 18: the generationations, and we think that you know, eighteen year
• 51:02
  Speaker 18: old's not you know, we call them a kid now.
• 51:05
  Speaker 18: You know, forty years fifty years ago, we were sending
• 51:07
  Speaker 18: them on planes to fight in wars. Right, So I
• 51:10
  Speaker 18: think we need to give more responsibility to the youth
• 51:13
  Speaker 18: and get them ready to go in the workforce. So
• 51:15
  Speaker 18: I would like to set up programs or set up
• 51:18
  Speaker 18: you know, some legislation that works with that works with
• 51:22
  Speaker 18: kind of you know that works with kind of the
• 51:27
  Speaker 18: trade schools and the community colleges, because if you look
• 51:29
  Speaker 18: at the community college, as Dave, we're set up to
• 51:32
  Speaker 18: do those things, to give those certain certifications and get
• 51:36
  Speaker 18: these folks going in the workforce.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: That congratulations. We've got to cut it short, but I
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: appreciate you taking time. You already scheduled to be here.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: We've got Meadows and Wilson in here. Meadows. Zach is
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: a golfer as well, So you guys got stuff to
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: talk about here. Somen I mean, can you give him
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: any tips? By the way, I'm gonna throw you something
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: out here. I had a text here that said, you
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: told your first lie, you play somebody played Gramble with
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: you and Josh Barker and you got smoked.
• 52:03
  Speaker 18: That's that's probably true. Do you want to Josh is
• 52:05
  Speaker 18: not very well versed and it's a biolf.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Games so that I mean that was from our good
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: friend Brasle It was. It wasn't a scramble. That was
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: our good friend Brad's story. Who set that in?
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: Just say set that to my personal phone? All right,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: you guys, give me ten seconds what you got on
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: the show today? Steam release? All right, eleven thirty three Meadows.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to the Roan County Superintendent at ten oh
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: six on consolidation.
• 52:25
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: I'll be back later day with Metro News midday. Happy
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Halloween folks. I will see you later on midday. Till then,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: have fun and love somebody