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03/31/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Terrell Ellis, Joe Parsons, Tony Hodge · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, Monday edition. A little bit later
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Speaker 3: on the show, Tony Hodge from the State Republican Party
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Speaker 3: will be stopping by. Entering into the next to last
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Speaker 3: week of the twenty twenty five legislative session, We'll get
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Speaker 3: Tony's steak on how he feels the session's gone so far. Particularly,
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Speaker 3: I want to ask him about the relationship between Governor
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Speaker 3: Morrissey and the Republicans in the legislature that's coming up.
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Speaker 3: Plus it's kind of a surprise, but we are I
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Speaker 3: don't have anybody scheduled in between two of my guests
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Speaker 3: today because we get a retirement to talk about here
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Speaker 3: in the But no, it's not me, Ryan, it's not me,
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Speaker 3: it's one of our well, i'll say, one of our
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Speaker 3: most valuable staff members is retiring. But he's the big boss.
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Speaker 3: We're going to try our best to get him to
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Speaker 3: come on the air. Now, sometimes these things don't work.
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Speaker 3: And Joe Parsons is a guy who's been here for
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Speaker 3: thirty nine years, general manager here and he is heading
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Speaker 3: off to a golf course somewhere down south. He's going
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Speaker 3: to be retired once he's done with the legislature. By
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Speaker 3: the way, he's also a delegate. So we're going to
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Speaker 3: try our best to try to get him on the
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Speaker 3: show a little bit later on. Not going to make
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Speaker 3: any promises because for somebody who works around radio, he
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Speaker 3: does not like to be on microphone at all. He's
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Speaker 3: not not your guy. But we're going to try to
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Speaker 3: get him on the show a little bit later on.
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Speaker 3: Plus your calls and text to welcome to big Ley
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Speaker 3: eight fifty eight. Tony the Taylor text three zero four
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Speaker 3: nine three five five zero zero. We want to welcome
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Speaker 3: to the show. Good friend, Cheryl Ellis of Advantage Valley.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Welcome to
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Speaker 3: our new abode.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 6: These are some pretty fancy digs here.
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Speaker 3: Far too fancy for the for a guy from Logan
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Speaker 3: to be hosting the show. I could tell you that.
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Speaker 6: Great congratulations on the new studio, and congratulations to Joe
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Speaker 6: on his retirement.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's thirty nine years.
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Speaker 6: That's a lot.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't have made it one more year.
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Speaker 6: I know, come on, make it even.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, man, the the person the OCD and
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Speaker 3: me doesn't like that I got to do one more year.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, we'll talk about that coming up a little
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Speaker 3: later on Tara. We have all heard the stories about
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Speaker 3: the issues with childcare, not only in West Virginia but
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Speaker 3: across the country. And you and I both know it's
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Speaker 3: a problem.
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Speaker 6: It is a big problem. And for those of you
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Speaker 6: just let me back up for a minute. You don't
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Speaker 6: know who Advantage Valley is what we do. We are
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Speaker 6: a region economic development organization that promotes investment, business attraction,
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Speaker 6: and retention in the Charleston and Huntington metro areas combined.
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Speaker 6: We kind of view ourselves as one market area. And
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Speaker 6: quite honestly, there's been a lot of success lately, and
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Speaker 6: we're not claiming credit for it, but there's been a
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Speaker 6: lot of success by the State of West Virginia and
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Speaker 6: our partners and others to attract new businesses in and
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Speaker 6: we're projecting that there's going to be about fifty three
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Speaker 6: hundred new manufacturing jobs coming into our region over the
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Speaker 6: next five, six, seven years. And you know, for every
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Speaker 6: manufacturing job, there's a spin off of indirect jobs. So
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Speaker 6: really we're looking at thousands of new jobs coming in
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Speaker 6: and thousands of new households. And we've got a childcare
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Speaker 6: problem because right now today, without all those new jobs
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Speaker 6: coming in, we lack about fifty three hundred childcare slots
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Speaker 6: in our region.
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Speaker 3: That's a lot.
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Speaker 6: That's a lot. So then you compound that with all
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Speaker 6: the new jobs coming in, and we always hear employers
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Speaker 6: saying workforce, workforce, we need more workforce, and this is
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Speaker 6: one of the key barriers for people entering into the workforce.
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Speaker 6: So we at Advantage Rally are trying to think through
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Speaker 6: some solutions on how in our region we can help
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Speaker 6: solve that problem.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking to Aryl Ellis of Advantage Valley and
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Speaker 3: I'm interested in how exactly that you're going to go
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Speaker 3: about this because the jobs. I won't say the jobs
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Speaker 3: are the easy part, because they're not the easy part.
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Speaker 3: But sometimes it's those other things that in order to
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Speaker 3: and I know you and I last time you're on
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Speaker 3: a show, we talked about the lack of housing, of
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Speaker 3: housing for these work folks. Sometimes that can be just
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Speaker 3: as difficult as trying to get these manufacturers and these
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Speaker 3: job creators into the state.
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Speaker 6: That's right. I mean, we've identified housing, childcare, and transportation
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Speaker 6: as three barriers to trying to get people into the workforce.
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Speaker 6: So these are three areas that we're really working on,
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Speaker 6: you know, and this is not a problem. Childcare. The
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Speaker 6: lack of childcare is not a part problem for just
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Speaker 6: Advantage Valley, throughout the state, really throughout the country, but
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Speaker 6: throughout the state there's about forty one percent of children
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Speaker 6: throughout the state that don't have access to childcare children
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Speaker 6: under the age of six, and in our region it
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Speaker 6: ranges anywhere from about thirty percent of the camp of
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Speaker 6: the kids in certain counties like Kanan Cable all the
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Speaker 6: way up to ninety percent in Clay County. Of children
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Speaker 6: under the age of six do not have access to
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Speaker 6: childcare in Lincoln and Boone Counties and numbers around seventy
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Speaker 6: five percent to seventy nine percent. So obviously it's an
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Speaker 6: issue and one of the things. So there are there.
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Speaker 6: It's sort of like there's not any one silver bullet.
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Speaker 6: I think, you know, we all recognize we have to
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Speaker 6: be attacking this on all different levels. So I know
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Speaker 6: the legislature has considered things in the past, and they're
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Speaker 6: considering some bills currently that will help and for us
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Speaker 6: in our region, we wanted to number one, understand some
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Speaker 6: of the key issues that are keeping our existing childcare
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Speaker 6: providers from expanding. Some of them are closing. So we
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Speaker 6: number one, we want to understand for those who are
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Speaker 6: already here, what can we do to help them? And
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Speaker 6: number two, how can we help people think about maybe
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Speaker 6: opening childcare businesses. So those are the two strategies that
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Speaker 6: we're employing and so recently we completed focus groups with
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Speaker 6: about twenty four participants from throughout the region of providers
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Speaker 6: who are already in business and talk to them about
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Speaker 6: what are the issues that are their pain points, what
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Speaker 6: are their problems that they're having. One of the biggest
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Speaker 6: ones is staff retention. They're competing with just Target and
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Speaker 6: Sheets and all these other places that are now offering
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Speaker 6: fifteen seventeen dollars an hour, and so they've had to
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Speaker 6: really increase their wages and they're losing workforce to those
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Speaker 6: businesses because childcare is not always easy. And one of
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Speaker 6: the other things that we've discovered those focus groups since COVID,
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Speaker 6: there has been a big increase in behavioral issues among
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Speaker 6: children since post COVID. So now you've got childcare providers
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Speaker 6: who are short staffed and are stressed with dealing with
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Speaker 6: some of these behavioral issues and not always equipped to
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Speaker 6: deal with them, and it's causing a real problem with
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Speaker 6: staff turnover. And what that means is that when people
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Speaker 6: are leaving, when that workforce is leaving, that childcare provider
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Speaker 6: cannot open up as many slots as they are licensed for.
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Speaker 6: So we have providers that might be licensed for one
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Speaker 6: hundred slots but really they're only able to serve sixty
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Speaker 6: kids because they don't have the right staff ratio, and
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Speaker 6: this is becoming a bigger and bigger problem all the
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Speaker 6: way around. So these are some of the issues. And
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Speaker 6: then there are just some financial issues with regard to
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Speaker 6: the reimbursement rates and how they get reimbursed from the state.
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Speaker 6: There's some systems issues there, so we recognize that and
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Speaker 6: we I think have talked about our entrepreneurship program in
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Speaker 6: the past how we work with small businesses trying to
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Speaker 6: get up and running. So through our entrepreneurship program, we're
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Speaker 6: going to be targeting some resources to those existing childcare providers.
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Speaker 6: We heard a story about one provider, a proposed provider,
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Speaker 6: a woman who is going to open a childcare service
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Speaker 6: in her home, and you have to have a smoke detector.
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Speaker 6: So when she went to the health department and did
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Speaker 6: whatever she had to do to get licensed, they said, oh,
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Speaker 6: that smoke detector has to be hardwired by a licensed electrician.
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Speaker 6: You can't just do the yeah in your home. And
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Speaker 6: she's like, I don't have the money to hire a
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Speaker 6: licensed electrician, So she just quit her process and didn't open.
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Speaker 6: We can provide some funding, some mini grants to help
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Speaker 6: people overcome those kind of hurdles. Sometimes it's just small
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Speaker 6: things that you can help with. So through our entrepreneurship program,
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Speaker 6: we're going to do that. But then how do we
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Speaker 6: get people to open new facilities. It's a challenging industry
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Speaker 6: to be in because there's so many regulations and a
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Speaker 6: lot of different agencies you have to deal with. So
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Speaker 6: we have initiated a series of workshops where we bring
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Speaker 6: all those agencies together and we try to simplify an
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Speaker 6: understanding of how you would get open and to explain
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Speaker 6: to people what resources are out there to help them. Actually,
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Speaker 6: there are a lot of resources out there to help
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Speaker 6: childcare providers, and we want to make people aware of that.
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Speaker 6: Through our program. We offer business coaching, loans, technical assistance, money,
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Speaker 6: and mini grants. The State of West Virginia is working
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Speaker 6: with a company called Wonder School. They just came into
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Speaker 6: the state and they're providing business coaching, cash flow planning analysis,
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Speaker 6: and marketing assistance. And we have childcare resource and referral
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Speaker 6: agencies that have a ton of resources. So the point
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Speaker 6: is we're doing all these workshops. We want people to
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Speaker 6: come if they even have a mild interest and learn
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Speaker 6: about how because you can open something in your home
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Speaker 6: and serve six kids in your home, and that would
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Speaker 6: be great. I mean we you know, any any.
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Speaker 3: Number provider, I mean said that's six slots.
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Speaker 6: I had six slots potentially six families that can then
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Speaker 6: go to work. So and that's kind of a low
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Speaker 6: barrier to entry. So we're doing the workshops. The next
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Speaker 6: one is in Putnam County on April tenth at Area
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Speaker 6: thirty four, which is where the Chamber of Commerce is located,
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Speaker 6: at five thirty in the evening. So I hope people
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Speaker 6: will come and learn about it.
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Speaker 3: goes into where you decide to have these things as
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Speaker 3: far as the communities go. I know you said this
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Speaker 3: one's going to be at Area thirty four, in Putnham County.
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Speaker 3: But what kind of work do you do to make
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Speaker 3: sure that you get these out to everybody?
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Speaker 6: Well, we our nine counties within our region, so we
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Speaker 6: will hold one in every county. We held one in
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Speaker 6: Jackson County last month. Knall County is going to be
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Speaker 6: in May, so there will be one in every county.
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Speaker 6: But we're doing twelve, so we're going to go. We
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Speaker 6: haven't decided whether we're going to double up in the
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Speaker 6: counties that have the larger population or double up in
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Speaker 6: the counties that have the greater need, So towards the
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Speaker 6: end of the year we'll make that decision. But there
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Speaker 6: will be three, repeat, repeat counties that we do towards
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Speaker 6: the end of the year.
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Speaker 3: And where can people learn more about these?
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Speaker 6: So go to our website. It's very easy to remember
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Speaker 6: Advantage Valley dot com and you will see a tab
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Speaker 6: up in the left side of the website for childcare.
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Speaker 6: Click on that and you'll see the information about where
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Speaker 6: all the workshops are scheduled and how you can register
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Speaker 6: to attend. If you don't register and decide at the
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Speaker 6: last minute to come, that's perfectly fine. It's just for
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Speaker 6: planning purposes.
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Speaker 3: We like to have you register what was the day
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Speaker 3: of the one in Puttnam County game, because that's the
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Speaker 3: first one you have April tenth.
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Speaker 6: The next one coming up is April tenth at five
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Speaker 6: thirty pm at Area thirty four, which is the Just
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Speaker 6: look up the Putnam County Chamber.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're coming, just for a point of reference,
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Speaker 3: if you're coming from the Charleston area and you get
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Speaker 3: off the Tays Valley, actually you hang a right right
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Speaker 3: across from Liberty Square. One of my favorite coffee shops
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Speaker 3: is in there. I'll get a plug in for Connie
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Speaker 3: with Putnam Provisions and Drip Coffee. They do a great
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Speaker 3: job in there. And thanks to Ashley offer Glance, you
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Speaker 3: know from the from the Putnam Chamber. She's the one
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Speaker 3: that alerted me to this to get in touch with
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Speaker 3: your folks, to get you to get you in here
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Speaker 3: to talk about that. So, I mean, it's great work
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Speaker 3: that you're doing. And I mean that's what Advantage Valley does.
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Speaker 3: You always do great work, but especially for this because again,
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Speaker 3: I mean West Virginia has suffered financially and suffered with jobs,
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Speaker 3: you know, not having enough jobs. Well now the jobs
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Speaker 3: are coming, but we got to have everything that goes
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Speaker 3: with the job, and that's sometimes, as I said at
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Speaker 3: the outset to Terrell, that can be just as important,
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Speaker 3: if not more so.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, And and there are two bills in
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Speaker 6: the legislature that are interesting bills. One would help deal
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Speaker 6: with the staff retention issue at childcare providers, and that
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Speaker 6: would allow people who work at childcare facilities to have
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Speaker 6: their children's childcare subsidized, so it would make it more
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Speaker 6: affordable for them to work at a facility and help
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Speaker 6: out there. And then the other is something it's interesting,
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Speaker 6: a model that we're trying out here in the state.
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Speaker 6: It's the tri share model, and that's where there will
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Speaker 6: be a tri party agreement between employers, the family, and
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Speaker 6: the state of West Virginia to split the costs of
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Speaker 6: childcare three ways for an employee. So there's some legislation
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Speaker 6: going through the House through the House right now. And
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Speaker 6: I mentioned Wonder School, the organization the state is partnering with,
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Speaker 6: and they are pushing that as well with their in
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Speaker 6: the counties they're working. So we're trying to tackle it
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Speaker 6: on all areas, and it's going to take everybody to
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Speaker 6: really try to contribute to.
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Speaker 3: And anytime I see this many people in the new studio,
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Speaker 3: I'm automatically thinking this is an intervention. This is what's
17:47
Speaker 3: going on here, This is exactly what this is. This
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Speaker 3: kind of frightens me a little bit. Joe Parsons, will
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Speaker 3: you have a seat here, force please? And it didn't matter.
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Speaker 3: We got plenty of saints there, any any of them,
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Speaker 3: any of them's give Joe Parsons longtime general manager here
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Speaker 3: and he's held a bunch of other titles within the company.
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Speaker 3: Now you don't need that puns.
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Speaker 10: It's fine.
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna open up the phone line to mess
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Speaker 3: up here because if we open up the phone lines,
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Speaker 3: we might get angry people calling, So we're not gonna
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Speaker 3: do that. A little bit later on, Joe Parsons is
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Speaker 3: announcing his retirements. How long have you been here, Jim?
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Speaker 4: Too long?
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Speaker 11: Now?
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Speaker 4: I have been this may. I'm in my fortieth year.
18:28
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
18:29
Speaker 11: I won't make it, since today's my last day. But
18:31
Speaker 11: I started February third, nineteen eighty six.
18:34
Speaker 3: Okay, and talk about the changes just a few since
18:39
Speaker 3: February third, eighteen eighty six.
18:41
Speaker 11: Well, we didn't own this building or these stations when
18:43
Speaker 11: I started with the company. I started with Metro News,
18:46
Speaker 11: and our offices were up at what was called at
18:49
Speaker 11: the time the Players Club, up on top of the
18:51
Speaker 11: hill near where mcdonnaugh Caverton was located, and we bought
18:56
Speaker 11: these stations. I think in nineteen ninety one my office
18:59
Speaker 11: moved down here. It's been here ever since.
19:02
Speaker 3: What was it that led you to come to work here?
19:05
Speaker 2: Jim?
19:05
Speaker 3: It's a it's a I've heard the story before too
19:07
Speaker 3: many times. It's a kidd, It's a fascinating story.
19:11
Speaker 4: It really is well, it's my wife's first cousin's husband.
19:16
Speaker 3: This is going to require paper, guys.
19:18
Speaker 11: Yes, worked worked for West Virginia Radio Corporation, and I
19:24
Speaker 11: had moved back from Knoxville, Tennessee, and was working for
19:26
Speaker 11: a collection agency, which was an interesting.
19:29
Speaker 3: Career, bustin kneecaps and whatnot.
19:32
Speaker 11: It kind of okay just on the phone, though, but
19:34
Speaker 11: I really wanted to get into sales. And we were
19:37
Speaker 11: at my wife's grandfather's house one weekend and I made
19:41
Speaker 11: the comment that I'm looking for a sales job, and
19:44
Speaker 11: Gary Merten said, I'm looking to hire somebody. So I said, well,
19:48
Speaker 11: how do I get that job? And he said, well,
19:50
Speaker 11: you need to talk to Dale Miller Monday morning in Morgantown.
19:54
Speaker 11: So he proceeded to call Dale and and Dale.
19:57
Speaker 4: Said, yeah, be here a day o'clock.
19:59
Speaker 11: Well, I lived in Ripley still do, and so I
20:03
Speaker 11: left the house at five o'clock in the morning to
20:05
Speaker 11: make sure I got to Morgantown by eight o'clock. Walked
20:09
Speaker 11: into Dell's office and he looked at my resume and
20:13
Speaker 11: politely said, what makes you think you can sell radio?
20:17
Speaker 11: And I told him I said, well, I sold vacuum
20:19
Speaker 11: cleaners for a couple of years, and I'd walk into
20:21
Speaker 11: a complete stranger's house and walk out with two thousand dollars,
20:24
Speaker 11: so I can probably sell whatever you have to sell.
20:27
Speaker 11: And he said, when do you want to start? So
20:31
Speaker 11: that was the beginning and this is the end.
20:35
Speaker 2: What led you to.
20:36
Speaker 3: This decision to want to step down at this time?
20:39
Speaker 11: I'm old, that's the first thing. Now, you know, my
20:43
Speaker 11: father told me one time, you'll know when it's time,
20:48
Speaker 11: and and we'll get emotional it's time. It's been a
20:53
Speaker 11: good run. This is a great company. I've had the
20:56
Speaker 11: pleasure of working with great people, like everybody in this room,
21:03
Speaker 11: Hoppy kerchival Dale Miller, now George Pelletteer. It's a great company.
21:08
Speaker 11: It's been a lot of fun. I'm gonna miss I'm
21:11
Speaker 11: not gonna miss the work. I'm gonna miss you guys.
21:15
Speaker 3: And this is quite a good staff we have here.
21:17
Speaker 3: I mean, I've only been here for five years, but
21:20
Speaker 3: you look around this room, uh, and there's got of
21:23
Speaker 3: people that's been here for for a while. For a while, I.
21:27
Speaker 11: Spend a lot more time with these people than I
21:29
Speaker 11: have my own family.
21:30
Speaker 3: And that's a nature of work. Yes, that's a nature
21:32
Speaker 3: of work. Who wants to say something? Anybody come on,
21:39
Speaker 3: not you, I'm holding you for them, anybody else, all right,
21:43
Speaker 3: Dale Cooper, Coop, come on now.
21:45
Speaker 12: Come in congratulations Joe. Yeah, man, Joe has been one
21:49
Speaker 12: of my mentors here for a long time, not always
21:51
Speaker 12: as the primary general manager. That's come and gone a
21:54
Speaker 12: few times here, but of the people that I look
21:57
Speaker 12: to in my career as mentors that's helped me along
21:59
Speaker 12: in this in the profession, in this job, Joe's at
22:01
Speaker 12: the top of the list for that. There's a lot
22:04
Speaker 12: worse people that you could monitor or model yourself over
22:08
Speaker 12: when it comes to how you conduct yourself and how
22:10
Speaker 12: do you conduct business than Joe Parsons. And I'm glad
22:13
Speaker 12: you're part of the legislator as well. To be honest
22:15
Speaker 12: with you, Joe.
22:15
Speaker 11: I'm going to say something here, Folks listening, you're going
22:18
Speaker 11: to hear a lot of lies from this point on.
22:21
Speaker 3: Dale Dale Cooper's talking about the legislature. I'm sorry.
22:27
Speaker 11: You said it. Dale Cooper's one of the smartest men
22:30
Speaker 11: I know, and I haven't been his mentor.
22:32
Speaker 4: He's been one of mine.
22:33
Speaker 3: Oh goodness, all right, I need I do need to
22:36
Speaker 3: put the headphones on for a minute there, if you would.
22:37
Speaker 3: All right, Ryan, if you're ready, go ahead. Hello, you're
22:42
Speaker 3: on the air, sir, go ahead.
22:44
Speaker 10: Good morning Dave, and certainly good morning happy Joe. Nice
22:48
Speaker 10: to be talking to you on your on your writing
22:52
Speaker 10: off into the sunset day. They're in Charleston. You know,
22:56
Speaker 10: you and I have gotten an opportunity to become friends.
23:00
Speaker 10: We've worked through a lot, a lot, a lot of
23:03
Speaker 10: opportunities and things there in Charleston, and I've been around
23:08
Speaker 10: for a long time like you, and I have to
23:11
Speaker 10: say that there is no better character in a man
23:16
Speaker 10: or a woman in a leadership role ever in my career.
23:20
Speaker 10: You always try to do the right the right thing.
23:23
Speaker 10: You always try to take the high road, and your
23:28
Speaker 10: honesty and integrity are just unquestioned.
23:31
Speaker 7: Uh.
23:32
Speaker 10: It's been it's been a great five years, and I
23:35
Speaker 10: wish you and and Stacy all the best. And I've
23:40
Speaker 10: figured out a way that we really don't have to
23:41
Speaker 10: change anything other than first names. They're in Charleston because
23:46
Speaker 10: we're replacing you with the Parsons, with your son Jared,
23:50
Speaker 10: which I'm sure has to be a very proud moment
23:54
Speaker 10: for you, Joe and wish you all the best, my friend.
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Speaker 11: Thank you very much, George. And I am proud of
24:02
Speaker 11: Jared and what he's done and where he is now.
24:06
Speaker 11: And as I told the listeners, you're going to start
24:09
Speaker 11: hearing a bunch of lives.
24:10
Speaker 4: And there was the first one.
24:12
Speaker 11: Now, George, George, thank you very much. You and I
24:14
Speaker 11: had a private conversation about my decision to retire a
24:18
Speaker 11: while back, and I'm in every word of it.
24:20
Speaker 10: Yeah, well it's I wish you all the best and
24:23
Speaker 10: we'll see you soon.
24:24
Speaker 3: Thank you, George Pellett here bringing this gentleman right here,
24:28
Speaker 3: This is the one that George was just referring to.
24:30
Speaker 3: Because we don't have to change the last name, at
24:32
Speaker 3: least in the office is Jared Parsons will be taken
24:34
Speaker 3: over for the old man here.
24:36
Speaker 2: Good morning.
24:36
Speaker 3: All right, it's your time to say what don't say,
24:39
Speaker 3: whatever's on your mind. Okay, just keep it, keep it
24:41
Speaker 3: to radio.
24:41
Speaker 13: Okay, sure, I'll keep it short. This days about him.
24:45
Speaker 13: I remember growing up.
24:48
Speaker 5: We lived.
24:48
Speaker 13: We grew up in Ripley, which is where my mom
24:51
Speaker 13: and dad still live, and we would listen to AM
24:57
Speaker 13: radio as far as we could from Charleston to and
25:01
Speaker 13: we listened to this radio station here, and I always
25:04
Speaker 13: wondered why, you know, he wanted to listen.
25:06
Speaker 4: To static all the time. It's just like constant static.
25:11
Speaker 13: But as I got older and spent more time here,
25:13
Speaker 13: actually in this building. I worked here when I was
25:16
Speaker 13: in college at West Virginia State and got to know
25:19
Speaker 13: a lot of these people as well. But now I've
25:23
Speaker 13: been with the company for thirteen years, and luckily I've
25:26
Speaker 13: learned a lot from my father. He's obviously meant toward
25:30
Speaker 13: me over the last decade. And it's bittersweet to leave
25:37
Speaker 13: the Eastern Panhandle, which is where I was before today.
25:40
Speaker 13: But it's really I'm honored to following his footsteps, try
25:47
Speaker 13: to uphold the stain integrity that he is. He has
25:52
Speaker 13: built here in this building, and I hope I do
25:54
Speaker 13: you proud?
25:56
Speaker 3: Fred Persinger, That's curious. When's when's tea time?
25:59
Speaker 14: Dare yes, when I'm looking for it. You don't count
26:05
Speaker 14: anymore than you're done. You're finished. You're finished. Joe and
26:09
Speaker 14: I go back. I've been here now twenty four years,
26:14
Speaker 14: and Joe Parsons, we went through. I worked at Beckley
26:20
Speaker 14: Radio Station. In fact, I was one of the very
26:21
Speaker 14: first affiliates Elementro News Radio Network in Beckley, and so
26:28
Speaker 14: I knew the company well. But things happen and companies
26:32
Speaker 14: get sold, and I wasn't happy. And I called Happy
26:36
Speaker 14: and I said, hey, I'm ready to because they tried
26:38
Speaker 14: to hire me several times away from the other company.
26:42
Speaker 14: And I finally said, okay, I'm ready to go, and
26:44
Speaker 14: Joe drove to Beckley. We ate lunch at Bob Evans.
26:50
Speaker 14: I think it's the last time I've ever eaten at
26:51
Speaker 14: Bob Heavens.
26:52
Speaker 3: But well, you're getting ready to here in a minute,
26:55
Speaker 3: we go ahead full circle.
26:57
Speaker 4: Hey, all right, that's good.
26:59
Speaker 14: But Joe, how I feel about him and Stacy and
27:02
Speaker 14: his family. And it's been a great, great time for me.
27:07
Speaker 14: I have learned a lot from the younger mister Parsons.
27:11
Speaker 14: And you'll be missed. There's no doubt you will be missed.
27:15
Speaker 10: Well.
27:16
Speaker 11: I appreciate that Fred, and Fred was one of the
27:21
Speaker 11: hardest sales jobs I ever had to make. He told you,
27:23
Speaker 11: he said no multiple times. But I found out that
27:28
Speaker 11: his company was being sold and we reached out one
27:30
Speaker 11: more time and he said, yeah, let's talk. So and
27:33
Speaker 11: the rest is history. One of the best in the world,
27:38
Speaker 11: Fred Perseiger, all right, thank you, pardon.
27:41
Speaker 15: Hey, all right, congratulations all right, And you know, Joe's
27:49
Speaker 15: a great manager because he strikes the balance between you know,
27:55
Speaker 15: having a heart right and yes, and and also having
28:00
Speaker 15: the having to make the tough decisions too. And so, uh,
28:04
Speaker 15: I appreciate the newsroom, you appreciate appreciates his support all
28:07
Speaker 15: these years and most of him staying out of the way,
28:10
Speaker 15: which is a great thing.
28:12
Speaker 11: Uh.
28:12
Speaker 15: But you know, we're going to miss him in the building, uh,
28:15
Speaker 15: you know, and just uh just you know, seeing him
28:18
Speaker 15: walk down the hall and talking to him and actually
28:22
Speaker 15: not talking so much about the business, but talking about
28:25
Speaker 15: the family, what's going on, how you doing, those type
28:29
Speaker 15: of things. Just some per you know, just some personal
28:30
Speaker 15: conversations too over the years. So congratulations, enjoy it. I
28:36
Speaker 15: don't know why you lost that bet and had to
28:37
Speaker 15: run for the legislature, but anyway, hopefully don't be a stranger.
28:43
Speaker 15: Now that we have all these new all this new
28:45
Speaker 15: studio and everything.
28:46
Speaker 3: He said he wanted to stay until we got the
28:47
Speaker 3: studio complete, and so the studio is, you know, ninety
28:51
Speaker 3: nine point nine ninety nine percent finished. So he's ready
28:53
Speaker 3: to he's ready to tee off now, Jeff Jenkins from
28:56
Speaker 3: the news team, I appreciate you very much. Well, Joe,
28:58
Speaker 3: to look around here.
28:59
Speaker 6: You got a lot of You've got a.
29:00
Speaker 3: Lot of people in here, man, you got people from
29:02
Speaker 3: get back to work well, and you see this giant
29:05
Speaker 3: stack of live reads. I still have to get to today.
29:08
Speaker 3: We have one final person that I wanted to bring
29:10
Speaker 3: in here, and that is the Mayor of the City
29:13
Speaker 3: of Charleston, Mayor Amy Shulter. Good One, Mayor good One,
29:17
Speaker 3: welcome to the studios. Have a seat there, all right,
29:20
Speaker 3: go ahead, Joe.
29:24
Speaker 16: In honor of your belief in the power of radio
29:28
Speaker 16: and your customer focused approached to sales that help build
29:33
Speaker 16: lasting connections between businesses in the community, and in recognition
29:37
Speaker 16: of your work as general manager and senior vice president
29:40
Speaker 16: to ensure Metro News and wv RC operate at the
29:44
Speaker 16: highest standards and are supported by a team of outstanding
29:47
Speaker 16: professionals and are driven by a standard of excellence that
29:51
Speaker 16: defines their success. And in celebration of your nearly forty
29:56
Speaker 16: years of selling West Virginia Metro News and your retirement
30:01
Speaker 16: from WVRC, Charleston Metro News and WVRC Media, corporate and witness. Therefore,
30:07
Speaker 16: I've set my hand to cause the seal of the
30:10
Speaker 16: executive department to say congratulations to an amazing man and
30:15
Speaker 16: a great West Virginian, Joe Parsons.
30:17
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. All right, I got a text
30:25
Speaker 3: here for you, says Joe. I've known you now for
30:27
Speaker 3: thirty years. Are proud to call you a great friend
30:29
Speaker 3: and fourth brother. You've been such a great influence of
30:31
Speaker 3: my career at the West Rginian Broadcasters and personal life here.
30:34
Speaker 3: Always welcome in our group. I wish you, Stacy and
30:36
Speaker 3: the family a beautiful life. Ps I know where you live.
30:39
Speaker 3: Do you want to guess who that's from?
30:41
Speaker 4: No idea?
30:42
Speaker 3: Michelle Christ with the Western Broadcasters Association. Joe on behalf
30:45
Speaker 3: of all of us here. As I said, I'm one
30:48
Speaker 3: of the newcomers here. I've only been here for five years,
30:50
Speaker 3: but I appreciate what you've done for this show and
30:52
Speaker 3: what you've done for every one of the stations in
30:54
Speaker 3: the building. Thank you so much. The tradition that you
30:58
Speaker 3: have set forth here will will continue, but it won't
31:01
Speaker 3: be the same without happy Joe in the building. So
31:03
Speaker 3: let's give Joe Parsons a big round of applause as
31:05
Speaker 3: you can join the Thank you very much to Dave,
31:08
Speaker 3: I pring anything else you want to say.
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Speaker 11: Well, I just keep keep up the work gang. This
31:12
Speaker 11: is a great company. Let's keep it going, all right.
31:16
Speaker 11: And you still got another two weeks in the legislature,
31:19
Speaker 11: so I.
31:19
Speaker 4: Gotta be back over there at about ten thirty.
31:21
Speaker 3: All right, Tell all right, well, I think they got
31:24
Speaker 3: some stuff for you out here in the hall. So
31:26
Speaker 3: let's give Joe a big round of applause.
31:27
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31:33
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Speaker 3: you picked a great day to come in here. Thanks
34:14
Speaker 3: for the peanut butter fudge.
34:15
Speaker 4: By the way, Oh you're welcome.
34:16
Speaker 3: You are known as quite the peanut butter fudge efficient audit.
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Speaker 18: It's pretty good, if I do say so myself. And
34:21
Speaker 18: I heard that Joe Parsons was retiring, and I said,
34:24
Speaker 18: what better day to bring in some peanut butter fudge
34:26
Speaker 18: and share with everybody.
34:27
Speaker 4: What a big crowd here today.
34:28
Speaker 3: What better way to send him off into a diabetic calm.
34:31
Speaker 3: So don't let RFK Junior know that you did that.
34:34
Speaker 18: Well yeah, I uh am more shaming of West Virginia's Yeah, all.
34:40
Speaker 3: Right, We're going to talk about that a little bit late.
34:41
Speaker 3: But thanks for thanks for coming in today. Can I
34:45
Speaker 3: say this studio is really cool. This is the first
34:47
Speaker 3: time I've been in here since you guys redid it.
34:49
Speaker 3: I don't know who did the.
34:50
Speaker 18: Work here, but looking around the room, the craftsmanship is
34:54
Speaker 18: off the charts.
34:55
Speaker 4: This is really really neat.
34:57
Speaker 3: That would be Ken Tennant and his crew of pick
35:00
Speaker 3: and a couple of others folks that did this, Fred
35:02
Speaker 3: and there's a few more that did this. Yeah, it's uh,
35:04
Speaker 3: it's pretty good.
35:05
Speaker 4: Pretty So are we on video?
35:07
Speaker 3: No, we're not on video. Okay, we will be eventually,
35:09
Speaker 3: but we're not on video. All right, So, but but
35:11
Speaker 3: I appreciate you dressing up anyway. Oh and sure, I
35:13
Speaker 3: figured you probably head to the capital.
35:15
Speaker 4: I am all right.
35:16
Speaker 3: So what you mentioned it I did at the top
35:18
Speaker 3: of the uh. And you're you know, at top of
35:20
Speaker 3: the statement, you're you're a very fit guy. I mean,
35:22
Speaker 3: I know you take care of it despite the fact
35:24
Speaker 3: you eat peanut butter fudge, but you also work out
35:26
Speaker 3: and do all that other stuff.
35:27
Speaker 4: I make it. I don't need a whole lot of it.
35:28
Speaker 4: I make it. I do sample it that that that
35:30
Speaker 4: you're supposed to do.
35:32
Speaker 3: What did you make of the RFK junior comments uh
35:36
Speaker 3: to Governor Morrissey and Martinsburg on Friday.
35:39
Speaker 18: Well, Uh, it's it's it's an interesting it's an interesting occurrence.
35:44
Speaker 18: I mean, look, uh, I thought the comments were a
35:48
Speaker 18: little I'll use an old fashioned word, they were a
35:50
Speaker 18: little uncouth. I think you should operate in maybe a
35:55
Speaker 18: little bit better social graces. But I have to hand
35:58
Speaker 18: it to Governor Morrisey. He took it in stride. I
36:02
Speaker 18: think he took it very well. But it's probably comments
36:06
Speaker 18: that should be saved for a private conversation. But on
36:11
Speaker 18: the other hand, the governor has gone public with his
36:15
Speaker 18: response to it, and I've noticed that he's been doing
36:17
Speaker 18: his mountaineer walk each day, and actually there's other people
36:20
Speaker 18: who are get involved in doing that, so I think
36:22
Speaker 18: that's good. I think I give credit to the governor
36:24
Speaker 18: for taking it in stride, because I thought some of
36:28
Speaker 18: RFK Junior's public comments quite frankly, they were a little
36:32
Speaker 18: bit disrespectful.
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Speaker 3: Well, and as I did a little davitatorial about this yesterday,
36:36
Speaker 3: you can check that out on Dave Island Radio and
36:38
Speaker 3: at Dave A seventy on X. You know, you don't
36:40
Speaker 3: know what went on behind the scenes. I mean, he
36:42
Speaker 3: could have told him, hey, I'm going to say this
36:45
Speaker 3: and you play along with it. You don't know what
36:47
Speaker 3: their relationship. I mean, people that would hear some of
36:50
Speaker 3: us in this building talking to each other will thank you.
36:52
Speaker 12: Guys.
36:53
Speaker 3: People think Dave Wilson and I hate each other because
36:55
Speaker 3: the way we go back and forth, we're actually very
36:56
Speaker 3: good friends. So my point is is you don't always
36:59
Speaker 3: necessarily you know, know what goes into people's private relationships
37:04
Speaker 3: and whether they're able to you know, handle that sort
37:08
Speaker 3: of thing.
37:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, I absolutely agree.
37:10
Speaker 3: Yes, but Dave Alan show on five Any Line Bright
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37:16
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Speaker 18: Yeah, I viewpoint with Tony Hodge. It's a podcast that
37:20
Speaker 18: I do. You can follow it on, find it on
37:22
Speaker 18: all podcasting platforms Apple, Spotify, et cetera. And I talk
37:26
Speaker 18: about politics, faith, worldview issues, how our worldviews affect our politics,
37:32
Speaker 18: our culture, things like that. It's very popular. I have
37:35
Speaker 18: listeners all over the country. Most of them are in
37:37
Speaker 18: West Virginia, but I'm in like forty eight to fifty states,
37:40
Speaker 18: and so yeah, go look it up. It's it's fun.
37:43
Speaker 18: I'll be doing a show probably later today. We're gonna
37:46
Speaker 18: be it's gonna be very West Virginia centric talking about
37:48
Speaker 18: the legislature things like that. So yeah, viewpoint with Tony Hodge.
37:53
Speaker 3: I know this is going to be very unprofessional, but
37:55
Speaker 3: it's a way. Do do you see an extra telephone laying
37:57
Speaker 3: around over there anywhere zerophone in here. Joe pars is
38:00
Speaker 3: already showing his age with his retirement. He apparently lost
38:04
Speaker 3: his phone somewhere. So so we're looking for a let's see,
38:09
Speaker 3: I don't uh, I do I do not see it, Steve,
38:11
Speaker 3: I do not. I do not see it. Thank you,
38:13
Speaker 3: thank you very much. Right, we're looking for shows phone.
38:16
Speaker 3: I love live radio, I love live.
38:18
Speaker 4: We have cleared the room, so we're good.
38:20
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Speaker 3: Valley dot e edu. Let's talk about the session so far.
38:30
Speaker 3: What do you think?
38:31
Speaker 10: What do you think overall?
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Speaker 18: Well, you know it's you know, it's it's a session.
38:36
Speaker 18: You know, it's a session. I mean there's been there's
38:38
Speaker 18: been some good things. Uh, there's been some foolishness. Now
38:41
Speaker 18: look foolishness. So look, I'm a political guy. You know
38:45
Speaker 18: when you invite me in, you're gonna get politics. You know,
38:47
Speaker 18: you have your other guests that talk about very good things.
38:50
Speaker 18: I'm gonna come on here and talk about politics, and
38:52
Speaker 18: that's why you invite me on. Yeah, there's been some foolishness.
38:54
Speaker 18: I mean some of the things that the Democrats are
38:56
Speaker 18: doing over there, uh just really just out. I don't
39:01
Speaker 18: want to call them liars, but but they're shirt certainly
39:04
Speaker 18: not being truthful in a lot of things that they
39:05
Speaker 18: say and do. For an example, Kaylee Young this past week,
39:09
Speaker 18: she's a delegate here in Kanaal County, she accused the
39:12
Speaker 18: Republican legislature of not voting to freeze electric rates, which
39:18
Speaker 18: isn't true. What they voted to not do was to
39:21
Speaker 18: discharge a bill out of committee. And discharging a bill
39:24
Speaker 18: out of committee is that's also uncouth. We'll use that
39:28
Speaker 18: word again. It's something that doesn't follow procedure. You want
39:30
Speaker 18: these bills to go through committee, to have the proper
39:32
Speaker 18: vetting that they do that they deserve, and discharge them.
39:36
Speaker 18: Discharging them straight to the floor is very very rare.
39:39
Speaker 18: It hardly ever happens. But she took to social media
39:44
Speaker 18: and implied something that wasn't quite true and said that
39:48
Speaker 18: the Republicans voted to not freeze rates.
39:50
Speaker 4: It's just not true.
39:50
Speaker 18: They voted to not discharge the bill, and so it's
39:53
Speaker 18: untruths like that that get the public confused and people
39:56
Speaker 18: only hear half truths or or not the truth at all,
39:59
Speaker 18: and it infuses people. And I think that's unfortunate because
40:02
Speaker 18: there is a lot of good things going on in
40:04
Speaker 18: the legislature.
40:04
Speaker 4: There's been a.
40:05
Speaker 18: Foster bill, a foster parent bill, excuse me, a foster
40:08
Speaker 18: care bill that was heavily debated on the floor last
40:13
Speaker 18: week and it passed. It's a really good bill. It's
40:15
Speaker 18: not a be a solve everything bill, but it's one step.
40:19
Speaker 18: You know, you have these bills that take steps in
40:21
Speaker 18: certain directions. We've had some economic development bills. We've got
40:24
Speaker 18: that short line railroad bill. I mean, there's been there's
40:28
Speaker 18: been several little things. There's not some big omnibus bill,
40:31
Speaker 18: but there's been several little things that have been really good.
40:34
Speaker 18: But you know, you're going to have the opposing political
40:36
Speaker 18: side put out silliness just to try to I guess,
40:41
Speaker 18: get headlines as what they're doing.
40:42
Speaker 3: Don't you think though, And I'm not going to try
40:44
Speaker 3: to put you in a bad position here, but I
40:46
Speaker 3: mean every session there's a little silliness on both sides.
40:50
Speaker 18: Well, you know, we're politicians and politicians have big egos.
40:55
Speaker 18: You wouldn't run for office if you didn't have a
40:57
Speaker 18: big ego exactly. And so you've got a hundred thirty
41:00
Speaker 18: four people down there, and they all think that their
41:02
Speaker 18: view is the right view. And so when you have
41:04
Speaker 18: that and you have all these different personalities, you know,
41:07
Speaker 18: you will get some silliness. But just the blatant lies
41:13
Speaker 18: that come from the left in this state that we
41:17
Speaker 18: see and I'm not just making this up. You can
41:19
Speaker 18: go to Kayla Young's her public Facebook page and she
41:21
Speaker 18: says what I just told the listeners, and so you
41:24
Speaker 18: can go look at it for yourself, and it's just
41:25
Speaker 18: not true. And so when you say things like that
41:28
Speaker 18: that aren't true, it confuses the public and it's just
41:31
Speaker 18: not good.
41:32
Speaker 3: Talking again with Tony Hodge, Tech says, the GOP potus
41:37
Speaker 3: have perfected out right lies, let alone have truths.
41:42
Speaker 18: Well, I mean, I don't know that the texture would
41:45
Speaker 18: have to give a specific example. Look, everybody in politics,
41:49
Speaker 18: they're going to do things to promote their view of
41:53
Speaker 18: what they want to see done. But I mean, if
41:56
Speaker 18: a texture call it, you know, if they want to
41:57
Speaker 18: call intertext in and give a specific example, that's fine.
42:00
Speaker 18: But you know, this reminds me of what I see
42:03
Speaker 18: going on in politics.
42:04
Speaker 4: It reminds me.
42:04
Speaker 18: You remember the old story of the blind men and
42:06
Speaker 18: the elephant, And so you have five or six blind
42:10
Speaker 18: men and you have an elephant in the room, and
42:12
Speaker 18: they go up to the elephant, and they'll touch each
42:14
Speaker 18: part of the elephant. And one blind man will touch
42:16
Speaker 18: the trunk and he'll say, oh, well, this is a
42:18
Speaker 18: this is a snake, This is a flexible snake. Another
42:20
Speaker 18: blind man will touch the leg and say, no, no,
42:22
Speaker 18: I think this is the trunk of a tree. And
42:25
Speaker 18: another blind man will touch the side of the elephant
42:26
Speaker 18: and say, no, this is a big, strong wall. And
42:29
Speaker 18: then another blind man will touch the tail and say, no, no,
42:32
Speaker 18: I think this is a rope. And then another one
42:34
Speaker 18: will touch the tusk and say, well, no, I think
42:35
Speaker 18: this is a spear. Well, they're all blind. The only
42:38
Speaker 18: person that has the full picture of what it actually
42:41
Speaker 18: is is the person who's not blind and can see
42:42
Speaker 18: the whole picture at once. And that's that it's an elephant,
42:45
Speaker 18: it's not all of these other things. And that's what
42:47
Speaker 18: I see going on in politics, especially on the democratic side,
42:49
Speaker 18: is they're giving the public only a partial truth and
42:53
Speaker 18: keeping them blinded to the full truth.
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46:08
Speaker 3: I've come in for you. Well, are you ready to go?
46:11
Speaker 3: Let's go, We'll do it, Deck, says Dave. A super
46:13
Speaker 3: duper majority leader is blaming the single Democrat for their
46:16
Speaker 3: inability to get anything done. Shows real leadership and integrity.
46:20
Speaker 3: Hopefully Kayla is enjoying the maggoteers this morning.
46:24
Speaker 18: Well look, I mean, this isn't the first time she's
46:28
Speaker 18: been dishonest this session. And you know, quite frankly, I've
46:31
Speaker 18: been pretty quiet about it because you know, you hate
46:34
Speaker 18: to just you hate to have to name names and stuff.
46:35
Speaker 18: But it's it's starting to compile, and so I just
46:38
Speaker 18: think it's as we can handle it. Talking about the supermajority. Look,
46:42
Speaker 18: we can handle it. Not only do we have I
46:44
Speaker 18: mean we have the numbers, we have the voters behind us.
46:47
Speaker 18: The thing that I'm concerned about is the public perception
46:50
Speaker 18: and this perception that they put out there that just
46:52
Speaker 18: is untrue. That's the part that really bothers me. The
46:54
Speaker 18: legislators can handle it, the governor can handle it. This
46:57
Speaker 18: you know, she's no problem, But it's the public. You know,
46:59
Speaker 18: you want the truth going out to the public, and
47:01
Speaker 18: that's my concern.
47:02
Speaker 3: Well, in full disclosure, anytime I always offer voices on
47:06
Speaker 3: the other side. So anytime that the delegate young and
47:08
Speaker 3: she's a regular on the show, is we'll always welcome
47:10
Speaker 3: on the show to refute anything you say.
47:12
Speaker 18: Yeah, Now, in all fairness, and I will tell you this,
47:14
Speaker 18: in all fairness, I'll talk about her public positions.
47:18
Speaker 19: Her.
47:18
Speaker 18: As a person, I like, I've sat down, we've eaten together,
47:22
Speaker 18: not alone, but you know with the other people, I guess,
47:26
Speaker 18: and so as a person I like her, and we've
47:30
Speaker 18: always been very kind and polite to one another. But
47:32
Speaker 18: you know, when you're a public official and you put
47:34
Speaker 18: out public statements. You know, it's open, and those are
47:37
Speaker 18: public statements that I thought were very dishonest and I
47:39
Speaker 18: don't like them.
47:40
Speaker 3: Texas Dave Tony's right. The Democrats have been lying for
47:43
Speaker 3: years of voters are sick of this, and that's why
47:45
Speaker 3: the Democratic Party is done in our states.
47:47
Speaker 4: Well, it's easy, I mean, the evidence is all around us.
47:50
Speaker 18: West Virginia forcefully rejects the Democratic Party mantra.
47:54
Speaker 4: They reject their party platform.
47:56
Speaker 18: I mean, the only place that the Democratic Party even
47:58
Speaker 18: has a slight foothold is in the county that we're
48:00
Speaker 18: sitting in right now, in Kanawa, and maybe a little
48:02
Speaker 18: bit around the university up in Mond County, and that's
48:05
Speaker 18: about it. Everywhere else they're completely and totally rejected. So again,
48:09
Speaker 18: we're not afraid of them. We're not scared of them,
48:10
Speaker 18: but we do want the truth going out to the public.
48:12
Speaker 3: Text says Wow, a Trump supporter calling out Dams for lying.
48:15
Speaker 3: That is truly rich, says a texture tex shows anything
48:20
Speaker 3: going on with the teachers. I've seen where they suspended
48:22
Speaker 3: the rules to move bills out of committee that should
48:25
Speaker 3: have been dad. Some shady crap coming down close to
48:28
Speaker 3: the last days tex says the Senate is our only
48:31
Speaker 3: defense against the guy from New Jersey. That brings me
48:34
Speaker 3: to my next point. We've heard that term thrown out there,
48:37
Speaker 3: the gentleman from the Jersey by Republicans that have said that,
48:40
Speaker 3: that have said that you're worried about any division between
48:44
Speaker 3: the governor versus the legislature.
48:47
Speaker 18: Well, it would be silly for me to come on
48:50
Speaker 18: here and say that there's not people who have issues,
48:54
Speaker 18: because clearly there are and it's in the public. But
48:56
Speaker 18: I will say, going back to my earlier comment, this
48:58
Speaker 18: is politics, and politics is a place for big time egos,
49:01
Speaker 18: and you have people who think that their way is
49:03
Speaker 18: the right way.
49:04
Speaker 4: But what I.
49:04
Speaker 18: Would encourage in what I what I strongly even uh
49:09
Speaker 18: practice myself, is a level of respect. You know, on
49:14
Speaker 18: all sides. I think, I think all sides deserve that
49:17
Speaker 18: the legislature deserves their due respect, and the governor deserves
49:21
Speaker 18: his due respect.
49:22
Speaker 4: And I think when when our.
49:24
Speaker 18: Public officials get their egos out of the way and
49:27
Speaker 18: put the people of West Virginia first, the right solutions
49:30
Speaker 18: and the right uh avenues will be followed in order
49:35
Speaker 18: to do what's best for West Virginia.
49:36
Speaker 4: So put the people first, and you're always going to
49:38
Speaker 4: be on the right side.
49:39
Speaker 3: Texas, Dave, do we do we know the bills were
49:41
Speaker 3: passed that the majority of the people were against. This
49:43
Speaker 3: was done by Republicans. It's all about them and not
49:47
Speaker 3: about the people.
49:48
Speaker 18: I don't understand that comment. I mean, how does this
49:50
Speaker 18: person know that the majority of people were against a
49:53
Speaker 18: certain bill. I mean, that's just an anecdotal comment. I mean,
49:55
Speaker 18: give me some give me some evidence. But we have
49:58
Speaker 18: we have elected a legis and they in our republic,
50:02
Speaker 18: and in our republic they represent the views of the people.
50:05
Speaker 18: If you don't like what they're doing, you know, you're
50:07
Speaker 18: certain you have the right to speak your voice at
50:11
Speaker 18: the ballot box. But we've been doing this at the
50:12
Speaker 18: ballot box now since twenty fourteen, and each time the
50:15
Speaker 18: Republican majority is growing and growing.
50:18
Speaker 3: And there's no sign. I mean, if you look at
50:20
Speaker 3: it from a political standpoint and well, step away from politics,
50:25
Speaker 3: if you just let's look at the movement now, I understand.
50:28
Speaker 3: But if you try to be objective about it, there
50:30
Speaker 3: is no way this is changing anytime soon. Oh no,
50:32
Speaker 3: there's no way. And even on the national front, I mean,
50:38
Speaker 3: the DIM's got a lot of issues. I mean, they
50:39
Speaker 3: really really not saying the Republicans don't. But the DIM's
50:42
Speaker 3: got a lot of issues. And this red wave that
50:45
Speaker 3: started before Donald Trump is it's not going to go
50:48
Speaker 3: away anytime soon in my opinion.
50:50
Speaker 18: Well, and I don't want to get out ahead of
50:52
Speaker 18: my skis or get too puffed up here. But you know,
50:54
Speaker 18: I look here in this room and I see you.
50:56
Speaker 18: There's TJ who's stepped in over here. He's going to
50:58
Speaker 18: chime in in just a minute. I look over here
51:00
Speaker 18: and see the producer, all of us sitting in this room.
51:03
Speaker 18: This will be a Republican state for the rest of
51:05
Speaker 18: our lives.
51:06
Speaker 3: That's a fact I would agree with that. Let me
51:08
Speaker 3: bring in TJ Meadows.
51:10
Speaker 4: TJ.
51:11
Speaker 3: Of course we talk line. We're about to wrap up
51:12
Speaker 3: the show. You agree with Tony Hodge's statement.
51:15
Speaker 22: Yeah, certainly in my lifetime. They have a long way
51:18
Speaker 22: to go. The Dems have a long way to go.
51:19
Speaker 22: I've said, if the Democrats want to get pace and
51:22
Speaker 22: get some traction in this state, they'll become uber focused
51:26
Speaker 22: on business and economic development, which you know moderate conservatives
51:29
Speaker 22: like myself are really focused on. That's their role. If
51:32
Speaker 22: they want to take it. That's their way to gain
51:34
Speaker 22: voter share. In my opinion, I don't know if they'll
51:35
Speaker 22: take it or not. Do you think I'm not think
51:37
Speaker 22: that it's both of these questions we wrap up. I asked
51:39
Speaker 22: this question on the state wide show Cheap Plug.
51:41
Speaker 3: Metro News Midday with Amanda Baron and myself powered by
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51:47
Speaker 3: modern Is the classic West Virginia Democrat dead?
51:51
Speaker 2: Yes?
51:52
Speaker 18: Yes, I mean not literally dead, but that ideology is dead.
51:56
Speaker 4: It's gone. It won't come back in our life.
51:58
Speaker 3: But I was talking about the old school Democrats, the
52:00
Speaker 3: more conservative Democrats. Is that movement totally dead? Yeah, it's over.
52:04
Speaker 3: It's over.
52:04
Speaker 4: Their Republicans now our number show TJ real quick.
52:07
Speaker 22: Give me ten seconds. Not If they focus on what
52:08
Speaker 22: I said, then they have a way forward. But if
52:11
Speaker 22: they don't, yeah, they're dead. All right, Tony, Always pleasure
52:14
Speaker 22: to have you in here.
52:15
Speaker 3: Thanks for the fuddy joy, thanks for the just don't
52:17
Speaker 3: don't tell RF T right, we'll keep a secret.
52:19
Speaker 4: We don't want you shamed, all right.
52:21
Speaker 3: Coming up on the show tomorrow.
52:23
Speaker 22: Uh.
52:23
Speaker 3: The ongoing issues with traffic and construction in Kanas City
52:27
Speaker 3: seem to be getting a little bit better. We're gonna
52:29
Speaker 3: talk to counsel with Chad Robinson about that happy retirement.
52:32
Speaker 3: Joe Parsons, I'll see at noon today. So then have
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