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05/18/2023 580 Live with Dale Cooper - Jeff Jenkins, Brad McElhinny, Rod Reel · The Dave Allen Show

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much for tuning in onto this Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday morning. Man,
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I get my weeks all messed up these days. It's a Thursday morning.
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Sunday, and then I have one that's a ten day schedule that I put
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He'll be back tomorrow for a show, and then actually he'll be off
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all next week and I'll be sitting in all next week for Dave Allen five
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eighty Live. Already putting together some pretty good shows for you for next week,
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So I'm looking forward to doing those things. Today, we're gonna have
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a lot of good information coming in here. We're gonna have the run for
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the Wall. We're gonna get some information on that coming coming up here in
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just a few moments. I hope. We're waiting for a phone call there
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as we have the Wall memorial that is going to be coming through a hurricane
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and nitro later on next next week, and we're going to talk about that
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information, what it means to the state of West Virginia, an update on
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the permanent housing for the Wall memorial, and things along those lines. That's
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going to come up a little bit later on in today's show. We're going
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to get an update on Canall County Commissioner Kent Carper, who is currently in
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the hospital. We'll get an update on that after our initial interview here.
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Later on in the hour, Brad mclini will join me. I know Brad
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was just on earlier in the week, but there's been some some updated movement
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on the debt selling negotiations as it comes from inside the state of West Virginia
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with our two Senate representatives coming inside out. We'll get a little bit on
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that and also what's going on at WVUH with their budgetary issues. We'll talk
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to Brad a little bit about that later on today too, and then at
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the end of the show, I am pleased to bring to you it's going
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to be coming over. Just walking across the hallway is John by the name
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of Rob Reel. Rob Reel is our new morning show host over on Superstar
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Country ninety six one kows that is UH your country music station of the year
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from the most recent wvpa's Rob is back with us. He was with us
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about seven years ago, kind of ships passing in the night as ninety six
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one was transitioning at the time and so was Rob. And Rob has been
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around UH in different areas Cincinnati, I think, maybe in the Pacific Northwest,
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different areas around here. So Rob's as back in Charleston. He's he
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has deployed his morning show up real early with Rob Reel over on ninety six
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one Kobs and Rob will joy us a little bit later on to talk about
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what exactly is what makes his heartbeat when it comes to a classic country music,
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which is of course what to ninety six one airs, and also what
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brought him back to Charleston. And we're just going to get to know Rob
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a little bit. That'll be the last fifteen minutes or so of the program
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this morning, so we are looking forward to that. A few other things
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that we can we can touch on here as we're getting ready for our guests
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to call in. We have a few things that we can get to.
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First of all, I wanted to remind you of a job fair that we
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have coming up, and this is actually today, So this is something that
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you want to be to be aware of. There's a lot of locations around
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the state and the region that can help with this, but this is with
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a Genesis. Genesis affiliated nursing centers are hosting a job fair to recruit positions
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including r NS LPNs cena's clinical leadership and therapist. The fair will provide two
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options for job seekers learn about the job of a direct caregiver by speaking to
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a current caregiver or interview with a recruiter who can make a conditional job offer.
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The event is open for full Tom, part Tom and casual employees and
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attendees can enjoyed free food, drinks, and door prizes. The fair takes
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place today from noon until four o'clock at various locations across West Virginia. You
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can get more information by calling three zero four seven four one twenty three OZ
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two. That's three zero four seven to four one twenty three O two.
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But I can give you those locations here. We have a bunch of them
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locally, so I'm going to get through these again. It's for the Genesis
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affiliated Nursing Centers. This is a job fair that they're having today from twelve
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to four in our local area at the Cedar Ridge Center in Sissonville that is
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on Cedar Ridge Road. I'm not going to give the addresses for each of
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these out. If you need to find out more information, you can you
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can get over to that phone number three zero four seven four one twenty three
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h two. I'll also we'll put something up on social media so you can
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find them on there. You can go over to Facebook page at five AWC
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or WHS network on Facebook and we'll put the information up on there as well
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so you can find it. So the the job fair, it's going to
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take place at the Incissanville at the Cedar Ridge Center, at Dunbar at the
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Dunbar Center, and mar Met at the mar Met Center that's on Sutton Drive,
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and Putman County at the Putman Center when Saville Road, Tay's Valley Center
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in a hurricane on Popular Fork Road, and then in South Charleston on Lincoln
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Drive at the Valley Center going to take place there as well. For all
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of these locations for Genesis job affairs that you can find out more information.
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Once again, the phone number for that is three zero four seven four one
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twenty three two three zero four seven four one twenty three or two. Those
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will be taking place today starting at noon and going until four o'clock. So
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looking forward to to presenting that and for folks maybe if this works out for
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you again, this is for all kinds of things in the nursing center,
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in the in the nursing atmosphere when it comes to different job positions. So
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it is again for our ends lpn CNA's clinical leadership and therapists, and that
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will be the job fair that's going to be taking place today between twelve o'clock
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and four o'clock, So looking forward to that for you to be able to
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check out one that today. We also have a couple of things I wanted
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to let you know about here on the radio stations. With the weekend program
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that we have on WCHS during baseball season, a lot of times that doesn't
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get a chance to get deployed real well, you may not hear a lot
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of the afternoon programming that we have on WCHS during those times. So we've
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added some new programs recently and I wanted to I'm a big fan of the
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When I grew up listening to AM radio, I always listened to a lot
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of times at the nighttime. You listen to them the crazy overnight shows you
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know, had the Art Bell and similar type shows that are still around in
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some incarnation, but back in the eighties and the nineties these things were live,
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and we're really in their peak, and uh, different types of information
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shows. When I've circumvented the country twice driving and I'm always listening to AM
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radio when I've done that, and there's all kinds of shows. Of course,
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you have the RFD type things and and UH and reports like that.
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But I wanted to capture a little bit more of the uh, the quirkiness
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of AM radio's past, and so I wanted to cultivate some new programs.
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And I found a couple of new ones that were airing on the weekends now.
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One of them is called Radio of Yesterday, and that is a program
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that airs on Saturday mornings at two o'clock and then Sunday afternoons at two o'clock.
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And uh. Again, that show's not going to be heard a lot
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during the afternoons during baseball season because of the Reds. But this is a
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replay of what radio was. This is a replay of classic radio plays from
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like the thirties and the twenties and the forties. When you think of things
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like the Phantom and Zoro and stuff like that they do in some of those
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uh little mysteries like what Danny Webb does with Apples of Gold. These are
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similar types of stories to that, just old time radio stuff. A big
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fan of it, and so we've incorporated some of that programming on our weekends
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on WCHS. I've also added like a national geographic type of an animals show.
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It's called Animal Tales that precedes Chris Lawrence's show on the replay on Sunday
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afternoons, and that's just kind of a worldwide view of things that are going
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on in the animal kingdom. It's kind of a fun little show. And
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then we finally added another show. This one is more along the line of
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the Art Bell type thing. It's called Weird Tales that airs on Sunday nights
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at eleven. So if you're like me that used to listen to the radio
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going to bed at night, this is one of those types of shows I
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used to love to listen to. This is sort of like an in search
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of Art Bell type show, Unsolved Mysteries, a little bit of those things
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all mixed in together and talking about these things, and it's a fun shows.
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It presents a lot of fun information. And for me, the sum
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of these shows and adding them to our weekend programming creates a lot of that
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am type of atmosphere that we had, or that I had anyway when I
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was growing up in just some kind of interesting programming that we have on the
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weekends. Unfortunately, it looks like that we're going to miss our connection to
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talk about the wall that is coming through on Nitro. Let me give you
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some information about that. The Todd Taylor is the West Virginia state coordinator,
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and we've been unable to make a connection with him this morning. But the
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angle run for the Wall begins today Wednesday, May eighteenth, and it's coming
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from California and it's going to go through to Washington, d C. The
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first stop is at Valley Park in Hurricane and that's going to be on Wednesday
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for an overnight state. That's gonna be Wednesday of next week for an overnight
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stay, and then on Thursday the twenty fifth, it's a week from today.
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Actually today's Thursday night, Wednesday, So on Thursday the twenty fifth,
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a week from today, that platoon will escort the West Virginia and Vietnam Memorial
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from Valley Park to the Nitro Wars Museum, and the Nitro Wars Museum will
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serve as the new permanent home for that traveling memorial and all of those,
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all of the circumstances around that starts today. The Wall is leading California today,
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it will be in West Virginia headed towards Hurricane pardon me. On Wednesday
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of next week and then on Thursday of next week it's going to move over
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to the Nitro's War Museum over in Nitro and we will get some more information
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on about that. Unfortunately we missed Todd Taylor today, but next week we'll
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get some more information on about this as it starts to come through and looking
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forward to it's permanent home being at the Nitro Wars Museum in Nitro now and
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we're going to find out more about that as we get closer to the event
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That's three or four four four zero eleven O one. We need to take
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We're gonna to get an update on Conon County Commissioner Kent Carper, and
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Good morning, Jeff awre you doing this morning? Well, how you doing?
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Man? I'm doing okay. You know, Dave doesn't take a lot
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of time off, but when he does take time off, it tends to
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be a little bit in cluster. So we have a day this week and
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then we have a regular vacation next week. I mean, everybody needs a
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vacation. So just sliding in here and figuring out the things that we're going
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to talk about. And it's kind of a busy newsday. We have a
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lot of things that are going on. But there has been some news breaking
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about the health of our conn Kune Commissioner Harper. We know a little bit
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of information about that from the statement release less. Yeah, so a long
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time County Commission President, Kik Carper. They released the statement last night saying
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that he was had some personal health issues and that he is being taken care
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of by CMC and he had the total confidence in CMC. And then we've
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learned today that Commissioner Carper is undergoing open heart surgery today. Okay, So
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our thoughts and obviously prayers are with the Commission President and hope everything, you
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know, pray everything goes okay with him on the open heart surgery. We
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were actually in some contact with him this morning and he did confirm that he
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was, you know, he was undergoing open heart surgery today, so that
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would be at CMC Memorial obviously. So um, so that's you know,
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that's what we have and in hope we will get a good report on a
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condition that we can pass that along too, maybe later today. It's always
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tough when reporting on the health of our public officials because you know, there's
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a certain lines you don't want to cross. You want to make sure you
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get the right information out there, so we only go with the most reliable
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information and what we know is true. So that's that's what we know to
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the extent so far, and these things are always a unfortunate uh, touch
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and go for the most part. Something else. I was going to ask
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you about what we had you down. While we had you down down,
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I'm sorry down here, UM, I wanted to just touch base on the
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old Saint Albans Junior Hut that's going to be coming down. I know that's
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a story that we covered yesterday that has a little bit of a I used
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to play basketball over there. I never went there. I went to Hayes
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when I went when I lived in Saint Albans, so they were like our
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rivals. But I used to go to that school a lot so for different
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intermural activities, play basketball, different things like that. So that building's coming
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down, man. So those in Saint Albans obviously know that it hasn't been
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a school for like thirty years, right, and so but it's really different.
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If I've learned anything from the Peyton's Tom and Harvey, is that you
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know, you know, property, Uh, it's maybe it's a little easier
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maybe property like that, but it's it's not easy to demo a place,
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right, I mean in different things. So over the years, obviously the
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school board owned it and then you know, they passed along to someone else,
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and but it never never got torn down. Now from understand other properties
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it used to be the playground and some other things. I mean those were
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kind of other pieces of property on the back side of that we're sold,
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you know, but this is actually just the building itself. And so now
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JB. Mccusky and the d EPJ, the State Auditors Office, Jbcusky,
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State Uditor. You know, they have a new program that a lot of
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municipalits have been taken advantage of some with some money to demolish, you know,
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to take down buildings, and so this is going to fall under that,
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and so it's going to happen in June. They're gonna move the asbestis
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first, which is going to do that, and then they'll tear it down.
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Now, I think i'd ask I had asked h saying always mare Scott
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James previously about that property, and he was hopeful that there'll just be some
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residential homes, you know, maybe a handful of residential homes that will be
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built on that property. So it will be coming down. And it's a
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high profile place, you know, right there Long can Terrace in Saint Albans,
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and so yeah, it'll be coming down in the near view. It's
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been, isn't ire. Yeah, there's no doubt that it needs to.
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My memory of it is forty years ago, of course, so it wasn't
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in quite a pad of shape then. Um, I mean I've driven by
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it since then. It definitely needs to come down. And I'm glad that
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we have these, uh these programs to get rid of some of these uh
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these structures and buildings that because of the day and certain communities they really can
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be quite bad. Well, you know now from eastern Kontall County, so
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years ago, you know, the old East Bank Junior High which was previously
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the East Bank High School, was torn down right along Route sixty one,
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and so you know there's a basically a big green lot there now and has
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been for years, and there's a Dollar General there kind of where kind of
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where the building used to be, but the box side of it. So
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there was a separate building there that was built some time after the Junior High
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was there. It was the it was the art room, and it was
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the band room, and it became like the city hall. It became east
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Bank City Hall, which is it is today. So uh yeah, you
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hate this. You know, these buildings have to come down. So this
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is you know, this is what's going to happen in Saint Albans and uh
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you know, sometime later this year should be able to see it come down.
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Jeff Chiggins from the wcchs Or radio newsroom. I'll cut you loose here
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in just a second because I know that hum, you've got stuff to do
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as well, but always have to check your temperature. Just a little bit
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on Reds Baseball, you know Reds uh first of all, and being the
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home of the Reds here, so we have this is a little bit of
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a fan service for our listeners as well, because if you haven't been listening
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that the Reds aren't great, Okay, and we knew they weren't going to
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be great, but even when we're talking the other day, they've probably been
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a little better than what we expect that they would be. Not meaning that
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they don't give up huge endings sometimes and bad defense sometimes and things like that,
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but they've been able to pull together what pieces they do have that are
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good more often than not. And you know, they're four or five six
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games out of first place in a fairly weak division. But the difference between
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them and others is they got some people pushing from behind, you know,
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down in the minors. Yeah, there's a reason to be optimistic, I
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think, and excited to watch them. Now. They're going to get into
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a pretty heavy pretty got the Yankees for three games. It's been nice if
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they could beat Colorado yesterday in that series, but uh, yeah, they
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got the Yankees for three games. But they're going to have their new city
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connect uniforms on Yeah, what do you think about those? About time with
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them? Okay, well run, I'm okay with limited run. I wouldn't
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want me. They don't. They don't like The softball uniforms at the Rockies
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were oh man, those are horrible. Yeah, and they were. Yes,
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yeah, those are absolutely horrible. I think Weekly said there that might
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be the worst professional sports uniform he's ever seen, which is saying a lot.
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But they were very, very bad. Exactly. Yeah, they're not
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that bad. They're different looking, but they're not all that bad. I
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did also want to mention Coop just the in congratulations to the news team.
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Yes, I want to bring that if and to you too. Wow.
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Then well, you know, the Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards came out
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yesterday and so um and you know, just a good hard work by the
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news team. Um. So we are recognized for three Edward R. Murrow
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Regional Awards. And so our region includes North Carolina, South Carolina, North
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Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. And so
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in the small market radio category, uh, we were for breaking news.
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We won the awards for Breaking News, which was actually the August fifteenth flood,
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the US Route sixty flood we called it, you know, and it
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broke that morning Campbell's Creek, USUS Creek count in hollow Up in Fat County.
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We were literally out in that flood. You were out in that flood.
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Yeah, And so that that happened. Uh, And so that was
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was our breaking news entry and it was recognized with the Murrow Regional Murrow and
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then U the the Morning News again with a long run of newscasts Regional Edward
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Murroughs. And it's got a couple of national where it's got one national Murrow
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too with the Morning News. And then overall Excellence, which is everything that
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WCHS does five ad WCHS does. We've we've won the national award on that
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couple, not overall nationally, just reasonally, yeah, just reasonally, I
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think twice. And so that would be thinking the consensus in the news room,
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if you could win a national for overall excellence, that would be really
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really nice. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm That's where I would like
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to hang that honestly. But but we're very thankful, very thankful to be
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able to work here, very thankful for our community, which I think you
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know appreciates local news. Once local news. I mean, they're very good
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television stations here that do a good job on local news. You know,
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our company has always invested in local news and it's been a trademark of the
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company. H And so someone asking, you know, there's a question about
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AM radios going to right away earlier this week and everything, but I still
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think people are going to want local news. You gotta have the local news.
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And there was a bipartisan bill that was just uh forwarded yesterday that is
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the save AM Radio thing, And there's a lot of e S stuff that
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goes into that with emergency services, but it's free programming that's free to receive
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for consumers and it's an important information gathering step for that and the CHS has
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served that mission for for years and years and years here. And as I
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said at the w vva's when we got our our outstate our News Talk Station
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of the Year award locally or for West Virginia. UM, the thing that
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strikes me about what we do here is you guys work so much on metro
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news as well, and sometimes the entity is obviously combined. But when I
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pull out just what you do on WCHS. You start the morning news an
22:29
hour earlier on WCHS than what it comes on normal and we have five news
22:33
or updates, headline updates in the five o'clock hour. You take all of
22:37
those updates plus all the local news that you could do over twenty local newscasts
22:41
to day. And I know there are newspaper, TV stations and stuff like
22:44
that, but you're not getting live local newscasts twenty times a day with any
22:48
of those other sources. That's just what we do, and you guys do
22:49
it better than anybody. Well, you know, it's been a great this
22:52
station even before we owned it, WVRC Media owned it. I mean,
22:56
this station was known for its local news. Now and it's kind of more
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coe. It's got a peabody. It's got a Peabody's got yeah, I
23:02
mean, yes, what I mean, it's got a peabody from the fifties
23:04
from yeah, from reporting overseas, the reporter that reported overseas, and what
23:10
a great, what a great tradition here. And uh, you know,
23:15
I was looking forward, you know, I mean we're only like four years
23:17
away from our one hundredth anniversary, you know, I know, nineteen twenty
23:21
twenty seven. Man, it's right around the corner. I just did that.
23:22
I just did the ninetieth a couple of years ago, seems like,
23:25
and now we're getting ready for the hundredth. That's incredible. Yeah, and
23:26
so anyway, so thanks thanks to our listeners. Thank you for and we've
23:30
got a lot of loyal listeners absolutely and uh several of them called the newsroom
23:34
and we're glad that they do for information sometimes and so but anyway, Uh,
23:40
hey, got a newscast at Tanna, Jeff, I appreciate it.
23:44
Thanks Jeff Jakins from the WHS in the Metro News news room. We're gonna
23:48
need to take a break. Let me get a couple of text messages.
23:51
Uh in the hopper first, Britt mcquenee will be what this when we come
23:53
back? First of all, when is wch's gonna get new episodes of the
23:57
Sounds Good to Be Music Show? Hey, good question. I think that
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this past weekend was the first rerun that we've ran consecutively. And Aristotle,
24:04
we had a recent unfortunate death in our company. The host of that program,
24:08
Aristotle had been covering for the illness of the person that tragically passed away,
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and so last week we were unable to get a new episode up.
24:17
He will have a new episode this week, so it will be a new
24:18
episode of Sounds Good to Me Saturday morning at eight o'clock. And then Aristotle
24:22
will also be on Hotline Friday afternoon at five thirty for his edition of Sounds
24:26
Good West Virginia, which is a shorter program. It's like eight minutes that
24:30
we do towards the end of the program on Hotline where he highlights local artists
24:34
and also venues they might want to get out to and get out to this
24:37
weekend. And also I'm getting some texts about Commissioner Carper. We're waiting for
24:48
information on his health and in various aspects on that to be confirmed. We
24:52
need to take a break. When we come back, Brian McWhiney will join
24:56
me. We're going to talk a lot about some of the stories that he's
24:57
covering. We're going to read visit the debt ceiling debate just briefly, and
25:03
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Charleston. I'm Deel Cooper thinks a ton for tuning in on this Thursday morning.
28:11
We still have plenty of stuff that we need to get to. This
28:14
uh, this morning including Brad mccahiney is joining us from wv metro News dot
28:18
com, where Brad's been busy at work as he usually is. I got
28:22
to see Brad briefly a couple of a couple of weeks ago. It was
28:26
nice to run into you again, Brad. Brad, how are you doing
28:27
this morning, Coop? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing
28:30
well. You know, my my time gets so compressed that I knew you
28:33
were on five ATY Live recently, but I thought it was it was the
28:37
end of last week and didn't realize it was just two two days ago.
28:38
So thanks for coming back on the program. Oh you know, there's there's
28:42
so much news, and we'll cover a whole different realm of news and you
28:47
and I will talk about it in a different way. Well that's that's a
28:49
good point. I mean, see, he always makes me feel a little
28:52
better about my mistakes, so I appreciate that. So several things we want
28:56
to talk about. I guess, um, let's talk a little bit about
29:00
I guess the updated information for our local senators when our local representatives. I
29:04
guess when it comes to the debt ceiling battle as far as our West Virginia
29:10
contingent goes, Obviously, the House has already done more or less done their
29:15
side of things. We're waiting to see what happens with negotiations here. But
29:18
where do we stand, both from the inside of West Virginia looking out and
29:23
what that means for us here in the state. Well, you know,
29:26
as a nation, we are creeping ever closer to that January, sorry,
29:32
June first X date that they call it where the country will run out of
29:37
money to pay for its current debt, to pay down those bills, and
29:44
that potentially could cause a financial catastrophe potentially globally, so not great. But
29:52
what West Virginia's senators and delegates largely have said is that they believe that these
29:57
negotiations that are now particularly taking place between President Biden and his advisors and Speaker
30:04
McCarthy and his advisors, that they will bear fruit and that the United States
30:11
will avoid this catastrophe. Of course, you know, the most outspoken,
30:15
the most high profile of West Virginia's delegation have been Senator Mansion and Senator Capitau.
30:22
Capitau participated and offered a few words yesterday as part of a group gathering
30:30
of Senate and House GOP representatives. They gathered out front of Capitol Hill and
30:37
and Senator Capito said, look, it's it's should have started, should have
30:41
started talking between the White House and the House GOP majority weeks and weeks and
30:51
weeks ago, but now it is definitely time to get serious. What the
30:56
House GOOP offered, of course, was they passed a will, but would
31:02
curtail the government spending in future years, So two twenty four spending would have
31:08
to return back to two twenty two levels, sort of, you know,
31:15
holding it flat regarding what had been increased spending somewhat related to COVID, and
31:21
then holding the spending increases to one percent a year over the next decade.
31:26
So she largely agrees with that. Senator Capitau does believes it's time to get
31:30
that spending reigned in. Senator Mansion has made similar remarks. You know,
31:37
it's discretionary spending. They don't get into a lot of detail beyond that,
31:42
the idea seems to be, you're not curtailing military spending. I don't think
31:48
there's a political appetite to to curtail the spending on social security or or you
31:56
know, the government run healthcare programs. So what does that leave That's that's
32:01
the big question. And of course Congressman Miller, who was on talk line,
32:07
Carol Miller, another Republican right there with him, saying it's time to
32:12
curtail the government spending. And yes, she believes that future spending should be
32:16
a negotiating point along with the payment of current debt. And I don't know
32:22
that that Congressman Mooney has chimed in for a while, but that's about where
32:25
he was on the matter as well. I find that these are always so
32:30
interesting because you can go depending on the last time that an officeholder from the
32:36
same party that is currently in contention was in office, you could do searches
32:42
for what they said during that time and it's uh, basically one hundred and
32:45
eighty degree different on what the negotiation stands is have you heard I known,
32:51
probably not from especially when they're hoping their negotiation negotiating from a point of strength,
32:57
as the Republicans in the House feel like that they're doing right now.
32:59
But have you caught any whiff at all on this idea to just get rid
33:04
of this debate, get rid of the debt ceiling, and debate altogether,
33:07
that it's a it's kind of a redundancy, and it holds no function other
33:10
than to gum up to the government. The Argina Post had a front paid
33:15
story today acknowledging that there are, you know, these high level negotiations between
33:22
President Biden and Speaker McCarthy and their representatives, but alluding to the possibility that
33:30
President Biden could could, in reference to the Fourteenth Amendment, say that that,
33:40
of course, the United States always has to make good on its on
33:46
its debts and and potentially um use that aspect of the fourteenth Amendment to ignore
33:54
code, which refers to the requirement to take a vote on meeting death ceiling
34:00
requirements. I'm trying to find Sorry, I'm a little mumbling because I'm trying
34:06
to find the phrasing about this fourteenth Amendment possibility. But some some simate Democrats
34:12
are suggesting Biden ought to go that way and cite the Constitution rather than federal
34:17
code to just circumvent Congress. Essentially, It'll be interesting to see how that
34:22
shakes out. My personal opinion is, and I don't care who the officeholder
34:27
is, whoever the opposing party is, it always feels like theatrics. To
34:30
me, they don't hold the same thing seriously when they're in power. It's
34:35
just a theatrical negotiating tactic. I think this should just be jettisoned. It
34:38
just seems to really play no purpose set for this type of fearmongering. UM,
34:45
I don't see where it serves any real point. I'm not an expert,
34:46
but that's kind of my opinion on the thing. I get kind of
34:49
sick of the rigamar role of it. You can check out more as Brad
34:52
covers that story though at w metronews dot com. W metronews dot com.
34:55
I wanted to touch base before we cut your loose, Brad. When the
34:58
WU budget discus relatively drastic measures that are coming from WVU having to implement the
35:06
cost cutting measures they need to reduce expenses through various means. They're going to
35:08
freeze when hiring, travel restrictions, potential budget restrictions as well. The university
35:14
diversity plans to review all the academic programs to identify areas for potential consolidation or
35:20
elimination, which sounds a little bit odd, and they want to reprioritize their
35:23
core mission. All of that just goes to say that they need to find
35:27
a way to save some money. Oh man, well, you know,
35:32
yeah, the major issue with WVU is they have declining student enrollment and they
35:37
have calculated their trend toward lessons student enrollment, and you know, they think
35:43
that they may be out seventy some million dollars under budget here in the common
35:49
few years. So they need to begin to prepare. And so they've got
35:53
to do something on the cost side, which you know, the largest cost
35:58
is employees. What w VIEW pointed out yesterday during a special Board of Governor's
36:02
meeting is that you know, these these are scary times for organizations. If
36:07
you are a long time employee, if you have a mortgage, if you
36:10
have other commitments in the area, you may, as you'd understand, begin
36:15
to worry about losing your job. WVW is pointing out that some of this
36:20
may be taken care of through attrition, through retirements. That it is not
36:25
most employees that they're at all talking about, but it's you know, it's
36:29
going to be some sliver of employment employees, and that is small consolation if
36:34
it's you. So it's it's something you might worry about, But you know,
36:38
I got to give WVEW some credit. They are being very forthcoming about
36:43
their process, about their timeline, and mostly what this Board of Governor special
36:49
meeting yesterday centered on was all right, we want to make it very clear
36:53
to everyone spots along the way that we're going to communicate what of our decision
37:00
points are, what we have to decide. There is a I understand that
37:07
it is a serious financial situation and that it is probably very scary if you're
37:12
an employee. So my heart goes out to those who are experiencing potential disruption
37:16
in their lives. But on the other hand, you know, it's it's
37:21
an almost humorous, very academia way of going about this. We are taking
37:27
a vote on the possibility of evaluating being our timeline, so with the public,
37:36
with being open to the public and kind of being transparent about this process,
37:40
things like the criteria that they'll use to evaluate what programs they're going to
37:45
consider for elimination, or how are they're going to involve stakeholders and other members
37:50
of the university community and decision making process. Although those things haven't been established
37:53
yet, the hope is, and from what it seems like that they're telling
37:55
us, is that stuff is going to be readily transparent for for folks to
38:00
be able to evaluate. Yeah, I mean, if you didn't get to
38:02
watch, I do have a story on our website and at the very bottom
38:07
I just posted yesterday's agenda and it includes this timeline that we just talked about
38:14
us. It's various decision points along the way about what severance packages might be,
38:19
like about how they may assess the necessity for certain employees or certain academic
38:27
programs. And it's it's all there laid out through October, this coming October
38:34
or November. So I mean, somebody has really thought through it, and
38:39
it's it's very detailed in terms of what WVIEW needs to consider and decide over
38:45
the next few months. Now, being public facing and being transparent about it
38:50
is definitely a good process when it comes to things along these lines. More
38:53
continuing coverage of course, like Brad said, you and go to wp metronews
38:57
dot com. You can see his story over there about the budget at WVU
39:00
and more as things develop in that area. Brad, I appreciate your time
39:05
today is always coming on keeping us straight about what's happening from the state politics
39:08
side and UH and just being a friendly voice in the in the darkness.
39:12
Thank you so much for the death ceiling. Yeah, no doubt, Thanks
39:16
Brad, I appreciate it. Man Brad Mquitnie. You can catch his work
39:19
at wv Metronews dot com. That's what we all do to stay up to
39:23
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Welcome back to Charleston, Rob how doing. It's great to be back,
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and you just reminded me I have not hit Hussins yet, So I
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think a pizza crave. Thursday starts the weekend for me, So I think
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the pizza craving will be fulfilled. This safe nice thing about moving back to
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the region, as you get to re explore some of these places that you
42:58
didn't even have time to really get really into your Uh, yeah, it's
43:01
been seven years that I was away. And whether it's inside this building or
43:07
just you know, traffic at at Corridor G or something like that. There
43:12
there are just enough things that are familiar that I feel comfortable very quickly,
43:15
and there are just enough things that are different getting me to pay attention.
43:20
I know exactly how that feels. Moving around does, especially if you're revisiting
43:23
old places. When I came back to Charleston in twenty ten, I hadn't
43:28
lived here since the nineties, and so it was a lot of that.
43:30
And even when I visited my mom, she lives out in Beaumont, so
43:32
I didn't come by Charleston a lot. I would drove straight to her house.
43:36
So when I moved back here, it was a lot of that,
43:37
like is this this street that I turned down? It's like I grew up
43:40
here. I should know, but I don't really remember. What did they
43:43
move the road exactly? Yeah, that's exactly what it feels like. Man.
43:47
I'm so glad that you're back and you're back over at ninety six one
43:51
kbs. Tell me a little bit about the morning show that you're bringing.
43:52
What are folks going to experience when they tune into Rob Reel in the morning.
43:57
So I don't want to get too high flute and quoting my Angelou.
44:01
But my overall purpose, my focus in radio as people will forget what you
44:07
said, they'll forget what you did, but they'll never forget the way you
44:08
made them feel. So to boil it down as simply as possible, I
44:14
want you in a better mood three minutes or less after you turn on the
44:16
radio station. Nine percent of Americans love what they do for a living.
44:22
We are in the vast minority. You and I are one out of eleven.
44:24
That means ten out of eleven people you run into they are going to
44:29
work because they have to go to work, because they have to pay the
44:30
bills. They gotta put shoes on the kids feet, they gotta put food
44:32
on the table, and they are probably dreading that ride to work, whether
44:36
they're dealing with construction on McCorkle or they're trying to fight Cord or g or
44:40
wherever they're going. So I just want to make that better for them.
44:44
I want them singing along. I want give them your reason to celebrate and
44:47
a real interesting fact and have a real good question to kind of get their
44:51
brain going each end every morning. I am not going to get into serious
44:55
politics, famine, fire, pestilence, ringing of hands, snashing of teeth.
44:59
You do that so much better than I could do. That's this ship
45:01
my afternoon show. It's just like that, man, I don't touch a
45:04
stuff. If if people want that, we have a place for them to
45:08
go. But if you just want to crank it up and sing as loud
45:13
as you can and find a way to muster whatever it is you need to
45:17
walk through that door at work, that's what I'm going to bring in the
45:21
morning. That's my goal. I love it. I love the energy with
45:22
it, and and a little bit about designer and when we start talking about
45:25
classic country, and of course A ninety six one just recently won the Country
45:29
Station of the Year in West Virginia from the wvba's which is an interesting win
45:32
because that's a that's an all country format. So that's so it doesn't matter
45:36
classic country, current hits anything like that. This is an all country format.
45:39
So being a classic country station that plays some of the and frankly,
45:44
this is the when I listened to country music most prominently, this was the
45:45
music that I listened to. It's my real pedigree goes back to like seventies
45:51
am Gold type stuff. I was. I went to every concert that came
45:53
through Charleston, so I don't know how many times I saw like Dolly and
45:57
Kenny and the Statlers and oak Ridge Boys and on and on, and I
45:59
saw them dozens of You want to start a knife fight at one of my
46:02
family where you all you here's the grenade you throw in? You go?
46:07
Okay, So Statler Brothers or oak Ridge. I'm so hilarious. That's so
46:10
true. And I'm telling you people are stripping to the waist and duking it
46:14
out. That's the way it rolls. That's my way of saying, who
46:16
has the deepest bases? Harold Harold? Harold is Richard? Well now it's
46:21
Richard, but rest Harold Sultan. But that's a very long way of saying
46:27
that. I come by this honestly. My granddad, who raised me,
46:30
was in a bluegrass band when he was in the army in World War Two.
46:32
My mom's dad was in a gospel quartet in the United States Navy also
46:37
during World War Two. My grandmother was a girls singer in a big band,
46:42
and so I was taught very early. There are two kinds of music,
46:45
Louis Armstrong. There's good and there's bad. That's it. And so
46:50
it's this stuff from whether it's think the career of George Straight, So think
46:53
nineteen eighty one seventy one today is the King from eighty one until really about
46:59
two thousand and six, that's the heyday of George's career. And that's that's
47:04
the ninety percent of what we do. Lots of great sing along stuff.
47:07
You know the words. You've been hearing this your whole life. And I
47:13
have been fortunate enough to play this on the radio, to play this in
47:17
bands too. For whatever reason, people think I'm a good enough singer that
47:21
from time to time I've been able to do that. I've gotten to be
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on the opera a couple of times. But it's just it's something that's in
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your soul. It's bloodborne, I think, and it is as West Virginia
47:31
as it gets when you're One of the challenges with doing a classic music format,
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whether it be country rock or anything else, is when you're in the
47:39
current hits, there's always news being made, you know. There, you
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know, new albums are released. The thing is old artists never died,
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I mean until they do. But but I mean, new albums are not
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all that rare for even classic artists anymore. You did get that stuff.
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But when it comes to providing fresh content, different things like that, is
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it mostly a perspective thing that you try to marry too, because it's not
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like, you know, you can have a story about Dolly every once a
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while, but it's not like she's making news every single day. No.
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But what has made it easy is really social media because you know, we'll
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focus a lot on George today because it's his birthday. Last week it was
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a lot about Dolly because she and Garth were hosting the ACMs. But so
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many of these artists are still on tour, whether they are coming through the
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Municipal Auditorium here or Renfer Valley Entertainment Center. So many of these artists still
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play the Oprey from time to time, and the Opery is maybe the best
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mix of the old and new while they're bringing in new folks like John Party
48:32
and Ashley McBride and Kelsey Ballerini as new members. You still get to see
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Genie, Genie Seeley, and Connie Smith and John Conley and whispering Billy Anderson,
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who's been there sixty two years. That's amazing. And I believe his
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hairpiece has been there for thirty five. That's not nice. But I think
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Bill would make that same joke. Rob Reel ninety six one that Superstar Country
48:55
KWS six to ten on a weekday mornings and one thing. We have a
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couple of minutes left here, so let me let me ask you this question.
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You've had, Like you said, you've had a long career, You've
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had the ability to be able to to meet some of the arts. What
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do you have like a favorite anecdote, like what's like you? You're the
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antidote that you tell a speeches, like the thing that if you wanted to
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make a connection with people industry was, What's the thing you'd like to tell?
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There are a lot of good ones. The one that's coming to mind
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right now is when George Jones passed away in twenty thirteen. I'm working in
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Tarahote, Indiana at the time, and the short version is we had a
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partnership with the TV station and we would go and basically do a CMA Awards
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pregame show. So George had died in April, and they tell me about
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a day and a half before we go, Hey, we've landed an interview
49:45
with Nancy Jones, George's widow, and it's even it's going to be at
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the house. So we make the trip down there and we get to the
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gates and somebody I don't remember who made the joke about please don't ask about
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the grand tour when we get to the so you know, I'm showing the
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photogra Okay, make sure you get shots of that award and that award and
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this is a CMA, that's an ACM, that's a Grammy. Just so
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we're making all the notes, and Nancy couldn't have been nicer, couldn't have
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been more forthright with some of the questions, and she just she kept looking
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at me. She says, you looked so familiar, and well, I
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got to introduce your husband a few times over the years, and you're the
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one who's the marine. Yes, yes, yes, ma'am, I was.
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George did not have a good experience in the United States Marine Corps at
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all. Two years it was all stateside. I think it was in San
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Jose. He did not have a good experience as a marine and would not
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talk about it unless he knew the other person had also been in the cords.
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So I had gotten to chat with him a little bit. And as
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Nancy is sharing parts about their story, she's talking just about how they met
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and how she resisted it first because no sho Jones and his reputation. And
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somewhere in the course of this, I got the opportunity to sing two and
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four Nancy Jones in George Jones his widow in George Jones's house as part of
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this, and to this I will I will be telling that story if I'm
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ninety on a porch. That's all I got to sing. Walk through this
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one with me to Nancy Jones. That's that's first line of the YO bit,
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right there. Man, That is awesome. That is really great.
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I've been to for George Jones concerts and I've seen him twice. Yes,
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that is on brand. Yes, yes it was love Love the concerts that
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I did see even as a young man, but at least song twice.
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Man, Rob, thanks for coming by and introducing to yourself. We have
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a lot of folks that listen to our station that also listens to your station,
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so I thought introducing you so folks when they tune in the morning,
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we'll know exactly what they're listening to. I think it's good stuff, man,
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I appreciate it. Thank you for loving your country with me and getting
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up real early, invest to health and luck till we get together again.
51:54
That's great stuff. That's Rob Real one ninety six one Superstar Country KWS.
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