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John Roberts of Mountain Mission, Steven Allen Adams of Ogden Newspapers, and HOF Inductees Jeff Jenkins & Woody Woods · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 3: had Larry Pack, the State Revenue secretary, scheduled to be
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Speaker 3: Larry Pack for a future show. I didn't want to
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Speaker 3: welcome in John robertson Mountain Mission. No, John, Good morning,
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Speaker 3: welcome to the show.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 3: I haven't talked to a while. How you been man, I've.
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Speaker 6: Been good, been good.
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Speaker 3: Just stay busy as always as always, especially as we
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Speaker 3: head into the the end of the Christmas season, right, yes,
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Speaker 3: I mean you guys are busy year round there, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're busy year round, but Christmas starts for us.
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Speaker 7: About July, as say, August, yeah, yeah, somewhere along and there.
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Speaker 3: And it is time to start talking about these Christmas
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Speaker 3: food baskets that you do in the Christmas Food Basket program.
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Speaker 3: And I know people are saying right now it's not
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Speaker 3: even Halloween yet, but as you said, in order to
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Speaker 3: serve as many people as you do and to get
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Speaker 3: these things out and to get everybody in place, you
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Speaker 3: literally got to start in July and August to get ready.
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Speaker 3: So you're up and running with this.
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Speaker 6: Thing absolutely absolutely.
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Speaker 7: Last year, just for their Christmas Food Drive alone, we
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Speaker 7: supplied food to over twelve hundred and fifty five families.
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Speaker 7: That's all across the Greater Kanaul Valley, twelve hundred and
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Speaker 7: fifty five families with about one hundred dollars worth of
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Speaker 7: Christmas food, topped off with the turkey, potatoes, all the trimmings, dessert.
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Speaker 7: And you know, you don't just run out to the
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Speaker 7: pantry and pull that stuff off the shelf and throw
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Speaker 7: it in a box and give it to somebody. It
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Speaker 7: takes a lot of money, a lot of fundraising, a
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Speaker 7: lot of volunteers, a lot of people, and a lot
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Speaker 7: of time to get this together.
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Speaker 3: How many people are we talking that it takes to
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Speaker 3: pull this off? Like hundreds? Oh?
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Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely?
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Speaker 7: And the day that we distribute the food, we probably
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Speaker 7: have two hundred volunteers helping us for five to six
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Speaker 7: hours distribute the food.
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Speaker 6: So it is.
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Speaker 7: A we've been doing this for whether. Actually I'll say this,
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Speaker 7: we this month we turn ninety eight years old at
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Speaker 7: Mountain Mission.
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Speaker 3: And you've only been there for a few of those. Right, Yes,
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Speaker 3: I didn't started. It was not founded by John Roberts,
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Speaker 3: is what you say? Again, we're talking about John Roberts
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Speaker 3: of Mountain Mission. Take us through the process. How does
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Speaker 3: someone end up on the receiving end of the food baskets?
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Speaker 3: I mean, what is the how? What's the criteria here?
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Speaker 7: So basically, if a family receives any kind of SNAP
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Speaker 7: benefits and they live in Kennall County for us our program,
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Speaker 7: they are automatically qualified. So now we do work with
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Speaker 7: other agencies to make sure that they're not bouncing from
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Speaker 7: agency to agency.
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Speaker 6: So that's very.
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Speaker 7: Important because we only have a limited amount of resources,
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Speaker 7: whether it's money or food.
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Speaker 6: So we have to make sure that we're reaching the
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Speaker 6: right people.
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Speaker 7: So they will They can go online, can come in
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Speaker 7: and fill out an application. There is documentation to prove
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Speaker 7: that they have they if they have income, then we
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Speaker 7: want to make sure that their debt to income ratio
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Speaker 7: is within our guidelines and then.
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Speaker 6: We qualify them.
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Speaker 7: They fill out the paperwork, we send them a card
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Speaker 7: in the mail and that is what we call our
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Speaker 7: approval card. And December the fourteenth they come through. It's
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Speaker 7: a drive through process.
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Speaker 3: They receive the food and what is it actually held at.
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Speaker 7: Well, The distribution is held at our office at sixteen
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Speaker 7: twenty seventh Avenue. They're our main office in Charmpston on
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Speaker 7: the west side, just off of Patrick Street. So it's
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Speaker 7: we the Charleston p D works with us. We shut
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Speaker 7: the street down.
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Speaker 3: You'd have to, I would say, many people coming through.
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Speaker 7: You have twelve hundred vehicles lined up to come through
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Speaker 7: in five hours. It takes some good organization and I'm
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Speaker 7: proud to say that we do a pretty good job
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Speaker 7: getting people through in a timely manner and make sure
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Speaker 7: that we're blessing people, not just show them through like
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Speaker 7: they're a number. We try to treat everybody. We have
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Speaker 7: the Gideons there giving out Bibles. We have other groups
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Speaker 7: there giving out information that may be helpful for health
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Speaker 7: insurance or different things like that that these families mean.
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Speaker 3: So they're not just receiving the food, they're getting a
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Speaker 3: little bit of some other things that condicutate them as well,
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Speaker 3: dot us. All right, so how many volunteers. Now, let's
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Speaker 3: go back to the numbers. How many families we're talking
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Speaker 3: about again on an average basis.
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Speaker 6: Probably around eleven to twelve hundred on average.
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Speaker 3: Okay, And so how many volunteers and where do you
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Speaker 3: get your volunteers and do you need volunteers?
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Speaker 7: We always could use volunteers. We could always use volunteers
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Speaker 7: sorting food, collecting food, organizing the food. But yeah, I
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Speaker 7: mean through this whole process, a couple hundred volunteers we have.
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Speaker 7: We have a handful of people that work year round
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Speaker 7: to help us with this, you know, not just the
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Speaker 7: actual food direct food services, but raising money. We have
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Speaker 7: a group of ladies that that work on Christmas items.
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Speaker 7: They sort items. We have a big Christmas cell which
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Speaker 7: is coming up in November and we will raise money
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Speaker 7: from that and that helps us purchase the food.
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Speaker 8: So we have.
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Speaker 7: Different things like that. So there's a lot of different
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Speaker 7: volunteer opportunities. It may not always be directly with the food.
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Speaker 7: It could be in supporting different phases of the project
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Speaker 7: as we go through the season.
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Speaker 3: And I always like to bring it up about volunteers
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Speaker 3: because there's so many civic groups in the area that
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Speaker 3: love to get involved with these things. There's so many
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Speaker 3: church groups. And for our high school kids, they you know,
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Speaker 3: have to do so many hours of community service in
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Speaker 3: order to graduate in West Virginia, and I think this
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Speaker 3: would be a great, great program. There's a lot of
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Speaker 3: them out there, but it's to be a great one
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Speaker 3: for the high school kids to get involve Absolutely.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we can sign off on their community hours and
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Speaker 7: it helps them and helps us.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about this Christmas sale. This is
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Speaker 3: what I'll always say, and I'll have you on again,
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Speaker 3: uh in November to talk about the Christmas Sale. But man,
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Speaker 3: people look forward to this thing.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely So if I could say this, if if there's
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Speaker 7: somebody out there in need, you can go to our
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Speaker 7: Facebook page at Mountain Mission.
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Speaker 6: In Corporated at a word to our website.
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Speaker 7: At Mountain Mission dot com and get a link to
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Speaker 7: the application sign up and we want to we want
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Speaker 7: to help you, we want to take care of you,
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Speaker 7: and we want to bless you with this Christmas food.
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Speaker 7: So the Christmas Sale is going to run in our
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Speaker 7: activity building, They're adjacent to our main office, uh, November
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Speaker 7: of the seventh through the ninth. This is we have
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Speaker 7: a group of we call them Christmas Sells. These ladies
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Speaker 7: work all year long. They're down there working right now
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Speaker 7: to sort, organize and price things people take vacation. We've
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Speaker 7: already had people calling us, Hey, I want to schedule
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Speaker 7: my vacation to come down and shop, And I think
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Speaker 7: that's pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: What kind of things do you have there? Normally?
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Speaker 7: We have Christmas trees, we have ceramic Nativity scenes, we
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Speaker 7: have ceramic villages, we have all kinds of home decor
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Speaker 7: for Christmas wreaths. We had a wreath last year that
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Speaker 7: was over a five foot in diameter. I mean, it's
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Speaker 7: just really just about anything that you can imagine comes
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Speaker 7: through there. And we also have a vintage Christmas section,
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Speaker 7: so antiques that are Christmas related. We have a whole
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Speaker 7: collection of that right now that we're trying to connect
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Speaker 7: with somebody to purchase. And again, all of this money,
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Speaker 7: it's not that we're just making money to make money.
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Speaker 7: It goes back to help us buy this food, to
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Speaker 7: help these families.
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Speaker 3: John talk about the overall mission up Mountain Mission, Well.
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Speaker 7: We are again for ninety eight years we have existed
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Speaker 7: to help people with their temporary need in emergency times,
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Speaker 7: whether it's someone that has lost a job, a victim,
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Speaker 7: of domestic violence. It could be you know, a handicapped
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Speaker 7: person that's on a fixed income. You know, it could
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Speaker 7: be many many situations in life. During COVID, we our
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Speaker 7: numbers were out of the I mean they were crazy
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Speaker 7: because there were so many people struggling. And you know,
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Speaker 7: it's still happening some. Most of the people have gotten
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Speaker 7: back on their feet, but you still see it happening some.
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Speaker 7: But I can't hardly make up anything, any situation that
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Speaker 7: isn't true that we haven't dealt with. We had a
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Speaker 7: gentleman that passed away right before Christmas a couple of
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Speaker 7: years ago, and he left three children and his wife.
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Speaker 7: He died of a sudden heart attack and he was
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Speaker 7: the only bread winter. The kids had no Christmas, they
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Speaker 7: had no food, They had no health insurance after that,
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Speaker 7: so we stepped in. We helped them for over six
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Speaker 7: months to get back on their feet, till she found
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Speaker 7: good employment and got back on their feet. You know,
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Speaker 7: these kids, you know, they're the victims. They're the silent
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Speaker 7: victims I call them sometimes. You know, they don't have
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Speaker 7: a choice in this. They can't get out and get
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Speaker 7: a job when they're twelve years old. So we need
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Speaker 7: to step in and help them, and we have to
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Speaker 7: do a lot of things ahead of time to be ready.
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Speaker 7: Our pantry can't be bare, our shelves can't be bare.
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Speaker 7: You know, we buy diapers, we help with baby needs
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Speaker 7: and different things like that.
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Speaker 6: But all year long.
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Speaker 7: We do this, but at Christmas time we try to
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Speaker 7: step up and do the extra.
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Speaker 3: All right, give us let's kind of recap here and
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Speaker 3: give us the information about the Christmas gift baskets. Where
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Speaker 3: can people apply for them? I know that you said
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Speaker 3: you have a process and many people will get a
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Speaker 3: card in the mail if they're eligible, but some people don't.
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Speaker 3: So take us from the top here, John, give us
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Speaker 7: So, if you live in Kannall County and you receive
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Speaker 7: either SNAP benefits or your income is below a certain
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Speaker 7: amount depending on how many people live in the family
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Speaker 7: or living the home, you can go to Mountain Mission
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Speaker 7: dot com. You can go to Mountain Mission Incorporated on
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Speaker 7: our Facebook page and pull down an application. You can
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Speaker 7: stop by our office just off of Patrick Street. There
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Speaker 7: our back door faces Pow Hardware is back door. A
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Speaker 7: lot of people know where Power Hardware is, but we're
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Speaker 7: right there. You can come in sixteen, twenty seventh Avenue.
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Speaker 7: Call our office A three oh four three four four
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Speaker 7: three four zero seven and someone will walk you through
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Speaker 7: the process. We want to make sure everybody has a
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Speaker 7: good traditional Christmas meal. I like to say that we
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Speaker 7: help keep the family around the table, create some memories.
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Speaker 7: Put the phones down. Let's create some memories and enjoy
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Speaker 7: each other's company.
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Speaker 3: All right, John, I appreciate you being here. I'll have
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Speaker 13: Steven, good morning, Good morning Dave, thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 3: I want to throw this out there. Since we last talked,
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Speaker 13: That is correct. Yeah, officially as of tuesday, I believe
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17:04
Speaker 3: used the meters and the meters were running out, so
17:06
Speaker 3: that's why they had to get back out. And you
17:08
Speaker 3: worked at the Capitol, you know how those meters can be.
17:10
Speaker 3: So your take on the special session?
17:14
Speaker 13: Oh what what special session? No? I mean, seriously, let
17:18
Speaker 13: me let.
17:18
Speaker 3: Me say when I was talking to Delegate Acres yesterday. JB.
17:21
Speaker 3: Acres was on the show, and he said that was
17:24
Speaker 3: pretty much what they expected. They didn't think it was.
17:26
Speaker 3: They were going to be there for days, and that's
17:28
Speaker 3: good for the taxpayers, you know.
17:29
Speaker 13: I guess yeah, because they still spent give or take
17:32
Speaker 13: thirty five thousand dollars Monday. But that's not the lawmaker's fault.
17:35
Speaker 13: I mean, that's when the governor called him in. They
17:37
Speaker 13: did the smart thing. We I think Brad had sourcing
17:40
Speaker 13: and I had sourcing. We knew that they were going
17:42
Speaker 13: to do what they did. It's a smart move. They
17:44
Speaker 13: got out some of the easier supplemental appropriations out the door,
17:48
Speaker 13: some of the kind of mid level stuff that there's
17:50
Speaker 13: some questions about, went to the House Finance Committee that's
17:53
Speaker 13: doing the heavy lift and all this stuff. They will
17:55
Speaker 13: be back Sunday. Actually House Finance will meet two PM.
17:59
Speaker 13: I belie leave Sunday and they all gabbled back in
18:02
Speaker 13: at six pace.
18:03
Speaker 3: This is the interims that were already scheduled.
18:05
Speaker 13: October legislative interims. But that seems to be the attitude.
18:08
Speaker 13: No one seems to understand why he didn't just wait
18:11
Speaker 13: a week now. The governor said on his briefing yesterday
18:13
Speaker 13: that he didn't. A he said he was gonna call
18:15
Speaker 13: him in for that Monday, so he did. And two
18:18
Speaker 13: he didn't want to wait any longer because of the election.
18:20
Speaker 13: But if the lawmakers were just going to move it
18:23
Speaker 13: to Sunday and October interims anyway, then why didn't you
18:26
Speaker 13: just wait?
18:27
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, if if I were driving out of
18:29
Speaker 3: McDowell County or Berkeley County, you're one of these far
18:32
Speaker 3: away places from Charleston, I might be a little bit upset,
18:34
Speaker 3: you know, I'd want something to do, and you can't
18:36
Speaker 3: go to the town center anymore. It's pretty much dead,
18:38
Speaker 3: so you got to stick around town, grab something to
18:40
Speaker 3: eat or something, at least while you're I guess at
18:42
Speaker 3: least while you're here.
18:43
Speaker 13: Yeah. Some lawmakers didn't even get until toward the end
18:46
Speaker 13: of the floor session. I think Joey Garcia, the delegate
18:49
Speaker 13: of Democratic Delgate out of Marion County, literally got in
18:53
Speaker 13: for the last couple votes and then they gabbled out
18:55
Speaker 13: to six pm, so they had to turn around, drive
18:57
Speaker 13: back up to Pharma.
18:58
Speaker 3: And then come back again Sunday.
18:59
Speaker 8: Yeah.
19:00
Speaker 3: So the governor, Stephen yesterday said that he was hopeful.
19:04
Speaker 3: That was his words, that a tax cut in some
19:08
Speaker 3: form will happen. That was his words, hopeful. My guess is,
19:13
Speaker 3: and you and I talked about this off there as
19:14
Speaker 3: we speak, there's probably some sort of negotiations going on
19:17
Speaker 3: back and forth. Where are you on this? What do
19:20
Speaker 3: you think? Well?
19:21
Speaker 13: I read Hoppies column this morning, and I sort of
19:24
Speaker 13: agree with him. He's got a prediction that this special
19:28
Speaker 13: session will end with no five percent personal income tax cut.
19:33
Speaker 13: Now I don't make predictions, but I do like to
19:36
Speaker 13: do scenarios, and I think best case scenario is the
19:38
Speaker 13: governor gets alas with less than a five percent cut.
19:42
Speaker 13: I could see two point five percent, I could see
19:44
Speaker 13: less than that. That's a possibility. The legislation, the proclamation
19:48
Speaker 13: allows for that. Normally, special session proclamations it's hard to
19:52
Speaker 13: amend if they really narrowly tailor it. But in this case,
19:57
Speaker 13: they left some wiggle room for being able to amend it.
20:00
Speaker 13: I think he either walks out list with less than
20:01
Speaker 13: five percent, or he walks out with nothing that does
20:04
Speaker 13: that hurt him politically, you know, in the next month
20:07
Speaker 13: or so going into the November election. No, I don't
20:10
Speaker 13: think so, but it's certainly something. If I were Glen Elliot,
20:12
Speaker 13: the Democratic US candidate, I would beat the governor over
20:16
Speaker 13: tohead with it, like between now and November five.
20:19
Speaker 3: Speaking of Glen Elliott, what do you make of the
20:21
Speaker 3: governor not wanting to debate his Democratic challenge For Glen Elliott.
20:26
Speaker 13: Well, there's two ways to look at it. From a
20:28
Speaker 13: selfish media point of view, which is I like debates.
20:32
Speaker 13: I like being able to have both candidates side by side.
20:34
Speaker 13: I like being able to compare and contrast views. It
20:37
Speaker 13: makes for good articles, it makes for good writing and broadcasting,
20:42
Speaker 13: and it's interesting stuff. You'll learn a lot from it
20:45
Speaker 13: if you're paying attention to it. From a kind of
20:48
Speaker 13: a pr candidate point of view, I don't blame Justice
20:53
Speaker 13: for not wanting to do a debate. He's so far
20:55
Speaker 13: ahead by most polling, certainly has the most money, and
21:00
Speaker 13: we'll should see some fundraising stuff in the next week
21:03
Speaker 13: or so some of that information come out, just to
21:05
Speaker 13: see how much further ahead he is. He's got every
21:08
Speaker 13: incentive to not do it, and I don't blame him
21:12
Speaker 13: for that. Now, of course, we know that the candidates
21:14
Speaker 13: for governor are now doing debate Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrissey,
21:18
Speaker 13: Democratic Huntington mayor Steve Williams are doing debate with Metro
21:21
Speaker 13: News on October twenty ninth. A little different story because
21:25
Speaker 13: I think their elections are their numbers are a little
21:28
Speaker 13: closer together. So it makes you you can say, you
21:32
Speaker 13: can say morris he could also make that same argument.
21:34
Speaker 13: But in a way, I think it's a different race.
21:38
Speaker 13: So I think a debate helps them. But I can
21:40
Speaker 13: understand governor and not wanting to do it well.
21:41
Speaker 3: And again I've worked on campaigns in the past, been
21:44
Speaker 3: a part of campaign's, been around it, and I've also
21:47
Speaker 3: you know, done this for a few years now, and
21:50
Speaker 3: I understand both sides. I really wish we would have
21:54
Speaker 3: a debate though, just you know, maybe for selfish media reasons,
21:58
Speaker 3: you know, gives us some fodder, gives us some audio,
22:00
Speaker 3: some things to But I but I, but I understand.
22:02
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22:16
Speaker 3: You're you're much better at that than I am. Don't
22:19
Speaker 3: high school, I'd be surprised. I do find it interesting, though,
22:23
Speaker 3: that the governor Stephen has declared the race over. I mean,
22:26
Speaker 3: he said in about the debate, he said, no, why
22:29
Speaker 3: would I want to do that? I'm paraphrasing, why would
22:31
Speaker 3: I want to do that? The the race is over?
22:34
Speaker 3: But yet he's still trying to raise money for his campaign.
22:37
Speaker 3: I mean, editor, you know, and like I said, editors
22:41
Speaker 3: know here. I think it would take a miracle for
22:43
Speaker 3: for Glenn Elliott, with all due respect, to beat Jim
22:45
Speaker 3: Justice in November. He admits on this show when I
22:48
Speaker 3: had him on two weeks ago. But it's going to
22:49
Speaker 3: be a very much an uphill climb. But if he's
22:53
Speaker 3: if the race is already over for the governor, as
22:55
Speaker 3: he says, why does he need to raise money?
22:58
Speaker 13: Well, you know the old adage, I mean, you know,
23:00
Speaker 13: the old yoga barrier barrah ism of it ain't over
23:04
Speaker 13: till it's over, and you should always run a little
23:07
Speaker 13: bit scared. Now he's more Justice is more confident than
23:09
Speaker 13: most as we had seen in that particular briefing where
23:12
Speaker 13: he said it's over. But let's be honest, I'm sure
23:14
Speaker 13: behind the scenes they're not going to leave any points
23:18
Speaker 13: on the table that can't be picked up. So they're
23:20
Speaker 13: going into fundraise as much as possible, because not only
23:23
Speaker 13: does the benefit of this campaign, but also that's something
23:26
Speaker 13: he can shift in the leadership packs and give to
23:29
Speaker 13: other people. It makes him give some political power just
23:33
Speaker 13: beyond his vote in the US Senate. So there's reasons
23:36
Speaker 13: enough to keep doing it. No, I think it doesn't
23:39
Speaker 13: uphill battle for Glenn Elliott. I've talked with him, I've
23:41
Speaker 13: shadowed him. He's taken the race very seriously, but as
23:45
Speaker 13: you said, he understands the demographic.
23:49
Speaker 3: I mean, Elliott is working. I mean he's out there.
23:51
Speaker 3: He's out there, really pounding the pavement. He's trying.
23:53
Speaker 13: It's tough. But nonetheless, yeah, I mean, if you still
23:57
Speaker 13: got a race, I mean, it ain't over till November fifth.
24:00
Speaker 3: I mean, I got a couple of texts here and
24:01
Speaker 3: we'll move on to some revenue numbers. Texas fraud wasted
24:05
Speaker 3: abuse is a huge problem in state government. I'm so
24:07
Speaker 3: glad that Governor Justice and the Republican led legislature called
24:10
Speaker 3: a completely unnecessary and unproductive special session where the agenda
24:15
Speaker 3: and proposed bills weren't even known or discussed beforehand. They
24:18
Speaker 3: are tackling the fraud, waste, and abuse like Champs. I
24:21
Speaker 3: think that was said very tongue in cheek. You pointed
24:23
Speaker 3: out though, that you really can't blame the legislators for this.
24:27
Speaker 3: I mean it's not I mean they're called in. They
24:29
Speaker 3: have to come in, Oh for sure.
24:31
Speaker 13: I mean, look, there's negotiations that go on between legislative
24:34
Speaker 13: leadership and the governor for what goes on a special
24:36
Speaker 13: session calls. They had money to spend. They had when
24:39
Speaker 13: you combine available surplus and unappropriated moneys for the current
24:43
Speaker 13: fiscal year, you got more than six hundred million dollars
24:46
Speaker 13: to appropriate. So they had things that they wanted to do,
24:49
Speaker 13: including money for water and sewer infrastructure projects, matching dollars
24:53
Speaker 13: that can be match with federal dollars, things of that nature.
24:56
Speaker 3: Here's a BMS stuff and fire Department stuff I think
24:58
Speaker 3: on the table.
24:59
Speaker 13: Yeah, some of it could be called pet projects, which
25:01
Speaker 13: the governor said he didn't want to do, even though
25:02
Speaker 13: there are some pet projects on there statues in the rotunda.
25:06
Speaker 13: Maybe not needed, but still that's one of the bills.
25:09
Speaker 13: But yeah, some of this is within negotiation power to legislature.
25:14
Speaker 13: But ultimately, whatever the governor puts on there is what
25:16
Speaker 13: the governor puts on there. If he calls it and
25:18
Speaker 13: puts the things he wants on it, that's what they
25:20
Speaker 13: gotta consider. Now they can vote yes and they can
25:22
Speaker 13: vote no, but it's a little out of their control.
25:25
Speaker 3: All right. So the revenue numbers Stephen released yesterday, and
25:28
Speaker 3: again I do if you tuned in top of the show,
25:31
Speaker 3: I said I had Larry Pack scheduled to be on
25:33
Speaker 3: the show. He got called into a meeting. Completely understandable.
25:35
Speaker 3: Try to get Larry on the show maybe one day
25:37
Speaker 3: next week. So about the revenue numbers, what's what's your
25:41
Speaker 3: take on.
25:42
Speaker 13: Well, depends on how you're looking at it. If you're
25:44
Speaker 13: used to us getting you know, record breaking surpluses, monthly
25:48
Speaker 13: surpluses into ye surpluses, well it ain't great. If you're
25:52
Speaker 13: one of these people that wants us to spend what
25:54
Speaker 13: we bring in, which is normally a pretty conservative concept.
25:59
Speaker 13: We're doing our all right. I mean we came in
26:01
Speaker 13: about two point twenty five percent above revenue estimates. We
26:04
Speaker 13: came in at five hundred and sixty seven point seven
26:07
Speaker 13: million dollars in the general revenue fund for September. We've
26:11
Speaker 13: got about a one point four million dollar surplus as
26:15
Speaker 13: a result of that. Now there's some fudging of the
26:18
Speaker 13: numbers going on. It would have been interesting for you
26:21
Speaker 13: to have Larry Pack in here today because we took
26:23
Speaker 13: some money out of a personal income tax reserve fund
26:27
Speaker 13: in August. In the July and August in order to
26:30
Speaker 13: pay some bills and do some refunds and stuff. We've
26:33
Speaker 13: paid that money back in but as a result that
26:36
Speaker 13: kind of makes our numbers look even better. It looks
26:38
Speaker 13: like we're now about fourteen million dollars into black, but
26:44
Speaker 13: it's also in reality, based on our collections, we're not
26:48
Speaker 13: really fourteen We're closer to about one point four million.
26:51
Speaker 13: It's good, it's you want it to stay at estimates.
26:54
Speaker 13: Some means the estimates are good, but it's not, you know,
26:58
Speaker 13: it's just the question is is it sustainable for a
27:00
Speaker 13: future five percent income?
27:02
Speaker 3: And I think Steven, I think that's where a lot
27:04
Speaker 3: of the pause is coming from. A lot of the
27:05
Speaker 3: legislators on both the Republican and Democrat side that's why
27:09
Speaker 3: you had seen and even we talked about Patrick Morrissey.
27:12
Speaker 3: Even Morrissey was asked for his take on it, and
27:14
Speaker 3: he even came up and said, you know, we just
27:17
Speaker 3: kind of and I hate to keep using this old adage,
27:19
Speaker 3: but pump the brakes a little bit and say, Okay,
27:22
Speaker 3: this would be great. Nobody wants to pay more taxes.
27:25
Speaker 3: We all want more money, you know, back in our
27:27
Speaker 3: pockets and our bank accounts and whatever. But we've got
27:31
Speaker 3: to really look at making sure that we that we
27:34
Speaker 3: can do this.
27:35
Speaker 13: Well, let's take a look at the math really really quick.
27:37
Speaker 13: Larry pac told me back in July that for every
27:40
Speaker 13: one percent of personal income tax rate that you cut,
27:43
Speaker 13: it's about twenty three million dollars. So there's been different
27:46
Speaker 13: numbers spandied about for how much a five percent PIT
27:49
Speaker 13: cut would would be. I put it about one fifteen million.
27:53
Speaker 13: If you take a look at available surplus money and
27:56
Speaker 13: available unappropriate moneies that we have, even when you factor
27:59
Speaker 13: in the special session bills that have price tags on them,
28:03
Speaker 13: we have the money in the short term to pay this.
28:05
Speaker 13: And keep in mind tax years are different than fiscal years,
28:07
Speaker 13: so in reality we're paying if this goes into effect
28:10
Speaker 13: in January. We're paying for it for half of a
28:13
Speaker 13: fiscal year before we get into the next fiscal year
28:15
Speaker 13: when the full cost of one hundred and fifty million
28:17
Speaker 13: dollars would go into effect. Can we pay for this now,
28:20
Speaker 13: this five percent personally cup tax cut?
28:23
Speaker 8: Yes.
28:23
Speaker 13: The question going forward for the next governor and the
28:26
Speaker 13: legislature in twenty twenty five, who will be working on
28:28
Speaker 13: the next fiscal year budget for twenty twenty six, is
28:31
Speaker 13: can we afford that going forward? One time money is sure,
28:35
Speaker 13: we can do it right now, but can we do
28:37
Speaker 13: it going forward? And that's the question.
28:39
Speaker 6: All right?
28:40
Speaker 3: I want to ask you a couple of quick things
28:41
Speaker 3: before we let you go. And I got a text
28:42
Speaker 3: one kid, did you have to catch the vice presidential
28:44
Speaker 3: debate last night? Because, full disclosure, I did not. I
28:47
Speaker 3: was in Huntington for the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. I
28:49
Speaker 3: read a lot about it, and I am going to
28:52
Speaker 3: go back and watch it at some point today. But
28:54
Speaker 3: did you have to catch it last night?
28:55
Speaker 13: I followed parts of it. I also followed some commentators
28:58
Speaker 13: that I follow of on both sides of the political spectrum.
29:03
Speaker 13: General consensus seems to be that it was a civil debate,
29:09
Speaker 13: really civil debate. Now they're hard questions, imagine that, I know,
29:12
Speaker 13: hard questions, but it was very public policy focused. I
29:17
Speaker 13: won't say who won or lost because that's going to
29:19
Speaker 13: depend on what they're all. They always claim victory if
29:22
Speaker 13: you and.
29:23
Speaker 3: Those that are supporting the Democrats side are going to say.
29:25
Speaker 3: I saw on Facebook this morning someone said Walls absolutely
29:29
Speaker 3: trounceteam and then I saw the same thing that said, you know,
29:32
Speaker 3: so that's going to go along part of the party lines.
29:34
Speaker 13: Yeah, for sure. But it seems to me that we
29:36
Speaker 13: saw a debate that we haven't really seen in a
29:39
Speaker 13: hot minute, where both sides were cordial, both got fact checked,
29:43
Speaker 13: both got asked hard questions. Sometimes the answers didn't satisfy people.
29:48
Speaker 13: That makes sense, but ultimately a civil debate and that's
29:51
Speaker 13: kind of refreshing.
29:52
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wow, what a novel concept, No kidding, What do
29:56
Speaker 3: you think about this? I saw several people on x
29:59
Speaker 3: are is formally known as Twitter and Facebook saying, gosh,
30:03
Speaker 3: I wish we were choosing between Vance and Walls as
30:06
Speaker 3: opposed to Trump and Harris. I actually saw that both
30:09
Speaker 3: posted by both sides. People on both sides of political
30:11
Speaker 3: Spectrum that said they wish that those two were actually
30:15
Speaker 3: the nominees instead of Trump and Harris.
30:17
Speaker 13: Well, it makes sense. I mean jd. Vance is very
30:20
Speaker 13: much I would say, like Trump, except without the inconsistencies,
30:26
Speaker 13: without the chaos. For sure, more disciplined, more focused on
30:30
Speaker 13: public policy. He's Donald Trump if he was, you know,
30:34
Speaker 13: certainly less chaotic and more focused on actual public policy.
30:38
Speaker 13: I do think in regards to Walls, I think there
30:41
Speaker 13: is some heartburns. Too late now, but there's some heartburn.
30:43
Speaker 13: I think they some people in the Democratic establishment probably
30:46
Speaker 13: wish they hadn't picked him, probably wish they would have
30:48
Speaker 13: gone with somebody like Pennsylvania governors Shapiro for sure, but
30:53
Speaker 13: he's there and they got to deal with it. I mean,
30:55
Speaker 13: he got asked that question about that controversy or which controversy.
31:01
Speaker 3: I haven't watched it. I don't know.
31:03
Speaker 13: He got asked recently about an issue going on where
31:06
Speaker 13: he had claimed something and basically he just chalked it
31:10
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31:11
Speaker 3: I did see somebody comment where he said he did
31:14
Speaker 3: that comment, but I didn't know what it was about
31:16
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31:18
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31:21
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31:23
Speaker 3: from time to time. You did once. I think you
31:25
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31:29
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31:31
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31:33
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Speaker 3: on tomorrow's show. Last night in Huntington, six new members
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Speaker 3: were inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 3: Just so happens. Two of them are part of our
36:25
Speaker 3: family here what he was from her sister station? What
36:27
Speaker 3: of seven? Three to beat and newsman Extraordinariy Jeff Jenkins.
36:31
Speaker 3: We have both of them in studio with me this morning.
36:33
Speaker 3: I talked to Jeff a little bit, but we talked
36:35
Speaker 3: mainly about Pete Rose. So what are I'm going to
36:37
Speaker 3: start with you? Good morning, welcome to the show, and
36:39
Speaker 3: congratulations my friend.
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Speaker 5: Well, thank you, sir, thank you, Rest in peace to
36:43
Speaker 5: Pete Rose. Wow, man, you think you're going to hal
36:45
Speaker 5: of fay?
36:46
Speaker 3: If I were his family, I tell them we're to
36:48
Speaker 3: stick it if that were me. But that's just me.
36:49
Speaker 3: It's just me me, and you know I haven't put
36:51
Speaker 3: that guy in all right, Well, let's talk let's talk
36:53
Speaker 3: about you. Let's talk about what he was about this
36:55
Speaker 3: art about me? Yeah, not what we're supposed to do. Yeah,
36:58
Speaker 3: all right? Oh man, what lord do mercy? Who are
37:04
Speaker 3: all these people coming in here?
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Speaker 9: Go?
37:06
Speaker 3: What's this all? What's this all about?
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Speaker 15: I knew what he said last night, this was this
37:14
Speaker 15: was his foundation.
37:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, his family, what is his entire family has come
37:18
Speaker 3: in here and uh and apparently everybody's in here. I'm
37:21
Speaker 3: waiting for John Racy to walk in here. We see
37:24
Speaker 3: mister Racy.
37:25
Speaker 4: I'm leaving.
37:27
Speaker 15: Donuts.
37:28
Speaker 3: All right? Talk about all right, what he before before
37:32
Speaker 3: we got something a little special plan for both of
37:34
Speaker 3: you here. But before we get to that, talk about
37:38
Speaker 3: how you ended up in Charleston.
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Speaker 5: Actually, my mother sitting next to me, and I didn't
37:42
Speaker 5: tell her I was coming down here to interview me
37:44
Speaker 5: and my buddy Marcu's beach and we ran a teen
37:46
Speaker 5: club in Fort Wayne.
37:48
Speaker 4: I thought I think I was nineteen.
37:50
Speaker 5: Now we're arguing about this. I was either nineteen or
37:52
Speaker 5: twenty and we just left and we this before any
37:55
Speaker 5: technology on your phone. So we had like map quests
37:58
Speaker 5: that we had to print out. The paper took us
38:00
Speaker 5: about eight and a half hours to get to Charleston,
38:02
Speaker 5: West Virginia. Now with your phone technology, it takes five.
38:05
Speaker 5: But we got here. I went to Hibachi on the
38:07
Speaker 5: West Side. If everybody remember that place over there. Kid
38:11
Speaker 5: Conley Sean Banks interviewed me, and they really thought I
38:15
Speaker 5: was older through my aircheck. The aircheck is what you
38:18
Speaker 5: send a company when you need a job. So I
38:20
Speaker 5: needed a job and Kid hired me on the spot.
38:23
Speaker 5: And I went back to tell my mother and said, Mom,
38:25
Speaker 5: I got a job. She's like, where what are you doing?
38:28
Speaker 3: So she thought it was gonna be two blocks away.
38:32
Speaker 3: You're going to work at Hardy's or something.
38:35
Speaker 5: But I moved up here in April. I think it's
38:38
Speaker 5: April ninety nine, but my work says April two thousand, Astley,
38:41
Speaker 5: can you fix that?
38:42
Speaker 3: I need that for Ashley. Just so you know, last
38:45
Speaker 3: night this was a big deal because he's trying to
38:48
Speaker 3: figure out when he can retire. Yeah, and there seems
38:51
Speaker 3: to be some discrepancy. He spent a little time on
38:53
Speaker 3: that last night. So I mean people when they talked
38:57
Speaker 3: about putting this urban station, rapsation, hip hop, whatever you
39:00
Speaker 3: want to call name. This is West Virginia man, this
39:03
Speaker 3: is not going to work. We got it worked, Yes,
39:07
Speaker 3: it worked.
39:08
Speaker 5: And it's not about me. It's not about me, Dave.
39:11
Speaker 5: It's about the community that we serve. As now I
39:13
Speaker 5: wish I wish I did have the power to uh
39:16
Speaker 5: see bring in twenty people in this office are get
39:18
Speaker 5: in the Hall of fame. First, uh glory go to God.
39:22
Speaker 5: And secondly, it's the community that just bought in with
39:25
Speaker 5: us because we's a brand new format like nobody.
39:27
Speaker 3: Nobody West Virginia has. Nobody's done it.
39:29
Speaker 5: Since nobody did it, they're crazy not to But thank
39:31
Speaker 5: you the job security.
39:34
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no other station like this. And last
39:36
Speaker 3: year we made the move putting taking ninety eight seven
39:39
Speaker 3: and moving some things around, putting you on a bigger
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Speaker 3: stick one of seven three and and of course with
39:42
Speaker 3: apps and people are listening online and you've got But look,
39:46
Speaker 3: if you walked away from this job today, Woodrow, I
39:48
Speaker 3: mean the impact that you've made on the city of Charleston.
39:52
Speaker 3: Forget about the radio thing. This has. This is what
39:55
Speaker 3: you're going to be known for. They're gonna talk about
39:57
Speaker 3: wood he woulds the DJ, which I hate that term.
39:59
Speaker 3: By the way, they're gonna talk about Wood, he woulds
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Speaker 3: the DJ. But what you've done for Charleston, Man's that's
40:06
Speaker 3: the legacy of what he woulds. In my opinion, Dave,
40:09
Speaker 3: we can say that.
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Speaker 5: But what Charles had done for me, Like yo, just
40:12
Speaker 5: the people in this community. Like I'm just a guy
40:16
Speaker 5: from Fort Wayne, Indiana, came here just because I needed
40:19
Speaker 5: a job. I think I was making eighteen thousand dollars
40:22
Speaker 5: a year. I got here's a crazy story. Somebody told
40:26
Speaker 5: me move up to rox Atlanta Hills, one of the
40:28
Speaker 5: most expensive apartments in Charleston. So all my money went
40:32
Speaker 5: to paying my rent when I paid it.
40:35
Speaker 12: But but.
40:38
Speaker 3: But the communitually what he wanted these people here as
40:41
Speaker 3: a process server. Oh yeah, you owe some back rent
40:45
Speaker 3: from two thousand and one.
40:47
Speaker 6: You're probably right, You're probably right.
40:49
Speaker 5: But it's just amazing that twenty five years being in
40:53
Speaker 5: this city, being in the state. And I tell people
40:55
Speaker 5: all the time, all the time, West Virginia is the
40:58
Speaker 5: best state that you ever can raise a family. That
41:01
Speaker 5: the people so nice and and we just here to
41:04
Speaker 5: take care of each other. Man, one by one, we're
41:06
Speaker 5: gonna take care of each other. We're gonna make sure
41:08
Speaker 5: it's right. And if we don't. We gonna try. We're
41:10
Speaker 5: gonna try our butts off to make sure our neighbors
41:13
Speaker 5: are right, our friends are good, and our family is good.
41:16
Speaker 5: So I appreciate this, I really do. I swear I
41:19
Speaker 5: appreciate it. But it's bigger than me and my brother.
41:22
Speaker 5: It is way bigger than me.
41:23
Speaker 3: Man. All right, hang out with me one second, because
41:26
Speaker 3: we got something I want to bring in. Jeff Jenkins
41:27
Speaker 3: here for a moment. Jeff, can you stop? Can you
41:29
Speaker 3: top that story?
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Speaker 15: No?
41:31
Speaker 3: All right, thank you all for coming.
41:33
Speaker 5: Jeff actually pays his bills.
41:37
Speaker 3: Jeff, Jeff, your story couldn't be any different. A kid
41:40
Speaker 3: from Pratt, West Virginia, you know, shout out to Pratt,
41:43
Speaker 3: all twenty five of them. They're in Pratt. I love Pratt.
41:47
Speaker 3: I covered it with Secretary of State's office. But you
41:51
Speaker 3: you grew up with dreams of being on the radio
41:53
Speaker 3: and doing sports. That's where you thought you were a
41:55
Speaker 3: few and you still do a lot of sports. But
41:56
Speaker 3: you thought sports was gonna be the be all end
41:58
Speaker 3: off for you. Talk about that. Sure, Yeah, that's what
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Speaker 3: I thought. Uh.
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Speaker 15: You know, listen to this radio station growing up, you know,
42:04
Speaker 15: listen to listen to the Cincinnati Reds and just you know,
42:07
Speaker 15: listen to a lot of this station, the station my
42:09
Speaker 15: father listened to, you know. But ended up from here
42:12
Speaker 15: in Morgantown and to wv U, and and I got
42:15
Speaker 15: my degree there and started working for our company, this company, uh,
42:19
Speaker 15: you know, interned and then right into uh a part
42:22
Speaker 15: time job, and then uh and then.
42:24
Speaker 4: Started doing news.
42:25
Speaker 15: But sports was yeah, I interned in sports, uh and
42:30
Speaker 15: but there there was no job in sports as I
42:33
Speaker 15: was getting ready to graduate. Uh and so UH started
42:37
Speaker 15: on news and never done news before.
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Speaker 13: Uh.
42:39
Speaker 3: Hard to believe, you know. And they listened to you
42:41
Speaker 3: now that you'd never done news before.
42:43
Speaker 15: Well, if you heard an interview I did with Jennings Randolph,
42:46
Speaker 15: that was awesome.
42:47
Speaker 3: Chris Lawrence played that the other day. A A a
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Speaker 3: student at WVU. You were student at w.
42:52
Speaker 15: I think I was just a couple of months into
42:53
Speaker 15: the job. I sounded like I was in sixth grade.
42:57
Speaker 3: Jennings Randolph, that was awesome.
42:58
Speaker 15: Yeah, I sounded like I was in sick that I'm
43:00
Speaker 15: glad you're here, young man to interview me. Yes, But
43:03
Speaker 15: you know, it's it was a great honor last night,
43:06
Speaker 15: you know, you know, to hear what he say, if
43:09
Speaker 15: we could take part of what he's speech where it
43:11
Speaker 15: talks about community involvement and how important local radio is
43:15
Speaker 15: and can that Yeah, you know, because he hit the
43:18
Speaker 15: nail right on the hiss. I mean it was it
43:22
Speaker 15: was great. I was glad that that he was last.
43:25
Speaker 3: What I want you and then we're going to go
43:27
Speaker 3: to break and then I do have something really special
43:30
Speaker 3: for you here. But what he I want you to
43:31
Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about what you said in
43:33
Speaker 3: that speech last night, the part that you were talking
43:35
Speaker 3: about all the competition and they said radio was going
43:38
Speaker 3: to be dead because of serious satellite and it was
43:40
Speaker 3: going to be dead because of of of Pandora and whatever.
43:45
Speaker 3: What What did you say about that last night? Do
43:47
Speaker 3: you remember?
43:47
Speaker 5: Should I read it verbati? Yeah, I can read it verbata.
43:51
Speaker 5: But it's about uh, it's local radio and local media
43:55
Speaker 5: is very important to our community. It's just about uh,
43:59
Speaker 5: we all can play music. We can play music now
44:01
Speaker 5: from anywhere. We can play music from any object or
44:04
Speaker 5: any technology we got. But are they do their streaming
44:09
Speaker 5: services like iTunes and Pandora. They don't come out of
44:12
Speaker 5: help the community. I'm not dissing them, exem I gotta
44:14
Speaker 5: show axem.
44:15
Speaker 3: I do excem.
44:16
Speaker 5: But that's not a dis to them. But local media
44:19
Speaker 5: is so important, so we can touch a person one
44:22
Speaker 5: by one. This is how you win in radio. This
44:24
Speaker 5: is how you stay in radio. This is how you
44:27
Speaker 5: make a radio station a family. It's a community. It's
44:30
Speaker 5: not like I say on the beat, We're not a
44:32
Speaker 5: radio station. We are a family. So when you love
44:35
Speaker 5: your family, you treat your family right, they gonna treat
44:38
Speaker 5: you right. And it's real simple, man, which you do
44:40
Speaker 5: the right thing in life, it's got to come back
44:42
Speaker 5: to you. It's gonna come back three times fold and
44:44
Speaker 5: what we stand for and to beat us trying to
44:47
Speaker 5: do the right thing and trying to take care of
44:48
Speaker 5: the people that we serve.
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Speaker 3: All Right, we're gonna take a quick break, and I
44:51
Speaker 3: know j I know Jeff, he's over looking at watch.
44:53
Speaker 3: I canna get back in the newsroom. I gotta get it.
44:54
Speaker 3: You just gotta hang with me for two or three
44:56
Speaker 3: more minutes. We're gonna take a quick break and I
44:57
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Speaker 14: I am.
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Speaker 3: We are kind of playing tribute here to Jeff Jenkins
46:54
Speaker 3: and Woody Woods who are in here today to let
46:58
Speaker 3: us honor them a little bit for making the West
46:59
Speaker 3: Virginia Broadcast seen Hall of Fame. But I got a
47:00
Speaker 3: special surprise for you. I'm gonna turn things over to
47:03
Speaker 3: Jim Strawn. Who to Jim, I'm gonna let you sit
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Speaker 3: in the host. Don't don't get comfortable.
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Speaker 17: Dude's Where's happy Parsons. How do I look guys, Dave,
47:17
Speaker 17: thank you very much and it's great to be here
47:19
Speaker 17: on behalf of your United States Senator Joe Manchin the third,
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Speaker 17: Woody and Jeff I have a little congratulatory greeting from him.
47:25
Speaker 17: The Senator loves, appreciates, He truly appreciates how you've honed
47:30
Speaker 17: your craft over the years. Loves and respects both of you. First,
47:34
Speaker 17: I have Woody here on behalf of the United States
47:36
Speaker 17: citizens and of the citizens of the Mountain State. And
47:39
Speaker 17: as your United States Senator, it is my distinct honor
47:42
Speaker 17: to recognize Woody woulds and congratulate him as he is
47:46
Speaker 17: inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame. With
47:49
Speaker 17: a big stage experience and small town community hart, all
47:53
Speaker 17: who meet would he know that he is a natural entertainer.
47:56
Speaker 17: His ability to blend all types of content with an
47:59
Speaker 17: engaging personality has not only earned him a loyal following,
48:03
Speaker 17: but has also solidified the Beat as a pillar of
48:06
Speaker 17: the Charleston radio landscape. He has worked to improve and
48:09
Speaker 17: shape the trajectory of local media in the area of
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Speaker 17: program director. As the first African American male in West
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Speaker 17: Virginia to host a full time FM radio show. He
48:19
Speaker 17: has now broken major barriers, but remains the same humble
48:24
Speaker 17: Woody as we met when.
48:25
Speaker 3: He first got here.
48:26
Speaker 17: There's no better feeling in the world than getting back
48:29
Speaker 17: to the community that helps shape who you are. Woody's
48:31
Speaker 17: leadership and unparalleled commitment to volunteering his time, talent, and
48:36
Speaker 17: energy to this community is admirable. He is a wonderful
48:39
Speaker 17: role model for countless young people, colleagues, and of course,
48:43
Speaker 17: his own loving family. Woody, having been a pillar of
48:47
Speaker 17: the Charleston community for over twenty five years, you have
48:49
Speaker 17: truly lasting impact on the culture of our state. I
48:52
Speaker 17: joined the entire state of West Virginia as we proudly
48:55
Speaker 17: applaud you on this outstanding achievement. I'm honored to wish
48:59
Speaker 17: you and your family good health and much happiness in
49:01
Speaker 17: the days and years ahead. With warmest regards. Joe Mansed
49:06
Speaker 17: third or in the United States.
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, Jim, we'll have to do the
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Speaker 3: pictures later, because what's that clock right there? We got
49:14
Speaker 3: about two minutes to talk because we got one for
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Speaker 3: Jeff two.
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Speaker 17: Jeff on behalf of the citizens of the Mountain State
49:19
Speaker 17: and as your United States Senator YadA YadA YadA is
49:25
Speaker 17: a distinct honor to recognize Jeff Jenkins for his induction
49:27
Speaker 17: to the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Whether it
49:30
Speaker 17: is serving as a chief Capital correspondent or directing broadcast
49:34
Speaker 17: on the Mountain Sports Network, Jeff's dedication to the progression
49:37
Speaker 17: of the broadcast journalism in West Virginia.
49:39
Speaker 3: Is truly admirable.
49:41
Speaker 17: Aptly known as the Voice of West Virginia, Metro News
49:44
Speaker 17: has a per capita reach that extends all other state
49:48
Speaker 17: radio networks in America. Through a blend of news and
49:51
Speaker 17: talk and radio, it has been a go to source
49:54
Speaker 17: in the Mountain state for nearly forty years. For twenty
49:56
Speaker 17: four of those years, Jeff has served as the head
49:58
Speaker 17: of the news division and has only continued to progress
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Speaker 17: under his management. His fortitude and his approach to delivering
50:05
Speaker 17: quality information has set new standards for all media outlets
50:08
Speaker 17: in West Virginia. A highly requested news personality, Chef's work
50:12
Speaker 17: successfully balances network coverage standards with the straightforward reporting that
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Speaker 17: our people deserve. His good character and hardworking personality shine
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Speaker 17: through in all that he does and all that he accomplishes.
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Speaker 17: Having led many others along the way. Jeff, creating opportunities
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Speaker 17: to yourself and for yourself and others to shape the
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Speaker 17: place you proudly call home is an outstanding achievement.
50:33
Speaker 3: It is my hope that you continue.
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Speaker 17: To shape Americas tomorrow from right here in our great state.
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Speaker 17: I'm honored to wish you and your family good health
50:40
Speaker 17: and much happiness in the days and years ahead. With
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Speaker 17: warmest regards, Joe Manchin the third, your United States Senator, Jeff.
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Speaker 3: Congratulations, All right, Jeff, all right, Jeff, any words.
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Speaker 15: Oh, thank you, Thank yous to the Senator very much.
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Speaker 15: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're going to do pictures here if you
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Speaker 3: can hang out. But and would he anything from you
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Speaker 3: real fast? Yeah, tell Hoppy, he'll be delayed today, but
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Speaker 3: go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Actually that's about a minute. So the Senator called me
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Speaker 5: two years ago and I missed the call. I literally
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Speaker 5: I cried like he left a voice message for me, and.
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Speaker 3: I try to call him back, but you can't call
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Speaker 3: a senator back.
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Speaker 5: So hey, thank you, senator mentioned and it has always
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Speaker 5: been a pleasure, and it's always it's always it's always
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Speaker 5: a pleasure that when you get something from the highest
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Speaker 5: in our state and in one of the best senators
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Speaker 5: in the country. I said he should have ran for president,
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Speaker 5: but you didn't like that, Dave.
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Speaker 3: But it's all good.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, and thank you for the people
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Speaker 5: in this room, and thank you for the people that
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Speaker 5: let me bless his microphone for over twenty five years.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate y'all, all right, Jeff.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, Also, you know Senator Mansion him for a long time.
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Speaker 15: You know, known't even when I worked in Morgantown for
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Speaker 15: over a dozen years and he.
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Speaker 3: Was a state senator.
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Speaker 15: And so yeah, thanks to him, thanks to Senator Capito,
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Speaker 15: heard from her yesterday, and so thanks to both of me,
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Speaker 15: and thanks to this great family, our family.
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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, guys, appreciate you, and Hank, I wanna
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Speaker 3: take some pictures here to met Dave Alan Chowing five
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Speaker 3: We gotta go. Hopy Kirch will come it up with
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Speaker 3: and Murphy, thank you so much. Senator Shelley Moore Capito
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Speaker 3: will be on the show tomorrow as well as kenawh
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Speaker 3: Canymmission President Lams Wheeler, and we'll just spend some time
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Speaker 3: talking about a big veterans event in Nitro that's happening
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Speaker 3: over the weekend. Thank you so much. Till tomorrow, have fun.
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Speaker 3: I love somebody,