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It's a Thursday morning, and welcome to five eighty SHS. The voice of
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Charleston and Harvey Peyton is here with the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro, like
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the Peyton's r every Thursday morning at this time, and that means the lines
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are opening questions about the law. Three oh four three four five fifty eight
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fifty eight. Three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Harvey
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has arrived and he got around the wreck and right right safely and on time.
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Indeed, I allow that to the good traffic reporting by Jenny Murray.
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Jenny Murry, who I was coming up gotten on the Interstate at Winfield Interchange
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and I heard about the wreck. Well, then there's a there's an electronic
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sign right around the Bill's Creek bridge there on I sixty four east it said
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accident mal marker fifty five lanes closed. Well fifty five forty five is Nightro
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four. So okay, I'll give this a try. It just got off
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at Nitro and said, you know, the traffic is backed up on the
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rampant institute. I'll just going up through Dunbar. But sure enough, I've
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got on the rampant institute, the on ramp and right that is exactly where
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the accident occurred. Just this truck is sitting upside down and backwards, so
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it's a tractor cab knocked off its bed, actually sitting. I don't know
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what happened. Speed probably was one of the elements, because obvious the vehicle
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flipped and spun and it's blocking the highway and he had to sort of wee
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way over to the right on the berm on the entry ramp to get by.
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Of course, once you get by the that's see there's no traffic because
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it's all backed up miles. But it's gonna take a while more than just
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it's more than a job for just a wrecker. And I'm not sure it's
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hopefully no one was injured. It didn't look good. I mean, if
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there was a driver in there and a passenger, it's looked like one of
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those things where unless they were all built it up securely, you can have
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some injuries. I guess they had a fatality. And sells are also last
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night a car flipped and the driver was killed, and they always wonder when
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you see that, what about seat belts? Where are your seat belts?
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One of the big parts of our business at the Peyton Law Firm is and
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has been for forty plus years is automobile accidents, helping people who are injured
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or who have had family members a loved ones killed in automobile or other vehicular
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accents trucks, trailers, campers, motorcycles. But the biggest change that I've
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seen from the seventies until now is the number of accidents that occur where people
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suffer moderate injury, serious but not life threatening as opposed to devastating facial fractures,
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facial lacerationsphemeral fractures, collapsed chests from a steering wheel. That's all result
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of changes in automobiles. You know, Lapping shoulder belts flat out save lives.
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Fasten your lapping shoulder belt. Don't let anybody tell you differently. And
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it's really good. I mean, my children got me to do it,
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and I was one of the world's worst. I grew up when there were
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no seat belts and vehicles. I would sit on my seat belt or fold
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it behind the seat. It was like sin as a became a a dad
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fastener belt. So it's automatic now. But I mean I have seen it's
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almost assured. When you see an ejection from a vehicle, that's what causes
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people to die. You get ejected. Very few people survived that. There
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have been some I've reported on over the years bub very very key. And
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then I've been involved in cases where one in particular that was tragic. It
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was a horrible accident, horrible property damage. But at the end of the
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day, extremely well renowned forensic pathologists looked at the accident said if this person
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had been wearing a belt. They wouldn't ever have died because they died at
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the end of the accident a sequence, not when they were hit by the
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drunk driver, or not when they went in the other landing and impacked another
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car, but when the car left the road and hit a retaining wall.
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That was the occurrence that then propelled them out of the vehicle. Now,
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the question of my case was when to the belt open. Did they have
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a belt fastened or none fastened. Sometimes they can fail, and some latching
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mechanisms from the particularly the eighties, weren't as good as others and they could
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fail. So somewhere during that accent sequence, it was our position the belt
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failed and at the end of the sequence, the impact with the wall caused
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the ejection. It's just if you're within the sound of my voice and do
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not deactivate the pastor's side airbag. Leave it activated. Although the airbag can
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cause some serious injury, but they save lives. I mean you can if
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you have put your hands in front of your face, you can get a
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pretty severely fractured forearm. A good friend of mine, an artist here in
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town, Paula Clinden, and a wonderful person. She was driving a Meata
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and turned with her left hand, was turning the steering wheels severely to the
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right when the one of the wheels hit the curve and activated the the airbag,
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which was in the center of the column, boom fired through her arm
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and heard her pretty badly. She's made a complete recovery and she's a wonderful
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artist. She lives up here on the East End and TV. She retired
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from Washington State University. Just we're them. I mean, we're in the
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business of helping people recover compensation for injuries, trying to help people get back
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on their feet after they've suffered an injury. Helped guide people through the intricacies
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of automobile insurance, medical insurance. How do you handle leans for Medicaid and
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your own insurance carrier? How do we negotiate those down That's that's what we
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do at the Payton Law Firm, and we're really good at it. But
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our primary concern is with the client. We don't want people to be hurt.
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And I said, well, that would be a really good case.
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Well, it might be a good case from the standpoint how much money a
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lawyer can make. But if there's a person who's dead, who'll never know
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a grandchild, and who'll who'll be missed at Christmas and Thanksgiving for the rest
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of other people's lives. That's not good. That's that's bad. All we're
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trying to do is make the best that we can out of a bad situation.
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And you know, the vehicle's money for that, and we're really good
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at getting that for people. But our wish is we didn't have any business,
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but people didn't get hurt that what we did was adoptions and deeds and
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state planning and real estate purchases for happy families who don't have tragedy. That's
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is not the case, and so we try to fill the niche and do
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a pretty good job of it, actually way better than average, and I
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think excellently. We rank about a nine point seven on a scale of one
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to ten. I don't think anybody ranks to ten because anybody that tells you
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they've never been unsuccessful in prosecuting a case or they've never lost the case is
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lying. What is the key? Harvey and Harvey Payton's with this Peton law
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from three or four three four five fifty fifty three or four three four five
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fifty fifty I would in the number and the lines are open. I mean,
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it's not magic. It What happens is you work hard I mean right,
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I mean the hard work preparing for a case, researching. I mean
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there's no really substitute for that. There's no substitute for that. There's no
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substitute for never stop thinking about a case. I mean, it's an inquisitive
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mind that tells you, you know, let's look at this angle, let's
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look at that, let's talk to this oneness, let's go see this scene.
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Let's you know, and then once you put together in your mind what
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happened here, Well, how are we going to prove this? That's what
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you always have to stop and think, how do we prove this? You
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just can't buy the seat of your pants, go to some seasoned insurance a
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jester who's a person who'sn't responsible for millions and millions of dollars and has someone
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looking over their shoulder and say, well, give me a million dollars.
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Ranswer is going to be well no, So you have to look at every
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situation from the standpoint of well, what first of all, what does my
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clients say about this? And then one of the other facts. Are there
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any physical facts that conform with what the client says or dispute what the client
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says? Are there any other witnesses? Always go and take a look at
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the scene. I mean lawyers that don't go aren't in a position to go
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look at the scene of an accident. I don't don't do their client of
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service. You never know what you're going to see out there. And I
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can tell you one thing you'll find out. If you go look at the
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scene of an accident, you'll have an advantage probably over the other lawyers because
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the defense lawyers they and they're all working for insurance companies who are paying the
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bill. And now these insurance companies have got the defense counsel choked down to
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almost nothing. They dispute their bills, they don't want to pay them.
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Is if you're taking somebody's deposition, the other drivers say, and you can
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say, well, now where were you in releasing? You know where that
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blue house is sitting out next to the road. Well, they're not expecting
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somebody asking that. So now you've got a witness there who doesn't know what
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you know, and they don't know what you don't know. So there,
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so it puts them off guard. You've got an advantage. It's about hard
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work is hard work, and you've got to be fearless soon, and you've
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got to have some nerve. You have to. It's just not a matter
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of shuffling paper and getting some numbers and say, well, let's take your
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medical bills and multiply that time three and I'll see if I can get to
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that, and you give me a third of it and you go on down
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the road. It's developing a relationship with your client and seeing what the true
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nature of an injury is. You know, you can have a lady who
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said, well, she suffered a severe shoulder injury when some I fell from
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the water company left the lid on a manhole loose. Well, okay,
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not a whole lot of medical expenses there, and it's a bad injury.
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But said, well, how does that affect you? So well, the
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other biggest thing is I had to cut my hair. I've always been happy
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with my hair. Well tell me about that. So well, I can't
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raise my arm any above my ear. I couldn't take care of my hair.
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I would always you know, I said, a nice She's brought the
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eastern end of the company. I mean, it's like a part of the
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lifestyle. I haven't keep longer here and I couldn't do it anymore. So
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I'd cut my hair the first time in my life and it'll be that way
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the rest of my life. Well, now you just think about that.
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You know, it's hard to say how does that equate the dollars, but
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it certainly has some value. It's you know, you tell an adjusture.
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Okay, Well here's what you're going to hear. You know, I heard
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this morning on the way up. Unfortunately, I'm apparently Judge Tabbot has a
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health issue that she's now taken a month off. It's kind of gymer.
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I hope all hope and pray for her speedy recovery. Jendit. Tabbot's a
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wonderful person, and before she went on to bench, she was actually a
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mostly a defense lawyer. She worked at these insurance supported law firms. But
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I had a case in Saint Alban's and it was a fall in a parking
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lot, and it was one of those that's well, let's take a look
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at this from the standpoint of liability. It was the hole there. Wanted
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to not see it, but she took in my client's deposition and actually the
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client's son used to work here, and we finished it. You know,
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let's just have a mediation, said and we settled a case before the meetiator
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got there. So because I told her the adjuster, this is such a
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nice person. This exudes niceness. She's just as kind Christian woman. What
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would call you to Colfee say she's a good woman. He's a good old
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woman, and she's hurt and they're gonna people are gonna give hers the money
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and a lot of that has a lot to do with it. And how
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you work with your clients and you tell them that, get their expectations.
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You know. People come in and they read the newspaper. They see,
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well, a woman in Texas yesterday got a billion, two hundred million dollars
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for a porn shaming. So my boyfriend she had made the unfortunate stupid mistake
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of picture taking or filming or whatever people do it. I mean, it
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just happens, and then they broke up and the guy, without her permission,
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publishes these which is unlawful. I think it's unlawful and actionable here in
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West Virginia as well as in Texas by statute. Well, okay, it's
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uncollectible. It's a signal verdict. It's has nothing to do with real world
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situations or what you can expect six people in Bututenham County or Mayon County or
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Knawa County to do, I can increase your probabilities of a significant recovery.
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It can't guarantee it. But you always had to face reality. You know,
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I've talked about this before. What people view as big verdicts, shocking
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verdicts here in Florida, they happen every day. In Dallas, they happen
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every day in Los Angeles and Chicago, New York and New York City.
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If it's just it's a factor, it's a function of the cultural norm where
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you live. But you know, we love doing it. I've loved doing
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it. It's challenging. It's like putting a puzzle together, putting all the
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pieces together. I mean, I remember once we had a case. And
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you know, Western State police are probably the most well trained accident investigators auto
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accident investigated, but the subment sheriffs and city police are as well because they
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get to the academy. But it may be more intense for the state police
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because they a highway patrol function and a lot of counties they are the only
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law enforcement they respond. So they do a diagram and they'll pick a reference
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point and show it. It may be a power pole. Because they all
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have numbers. You can go out in the field and find that particular poll
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number and they measure a distance from there to the air and generally they'll take
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a wheel of measure the width of the readway. Well, you know,
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if you know the width of anything or the length of anything, you can
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scale that down and you can you know, you can go to somebody who
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is a member of the Canall Valley Model Railroad Association and they can scale that
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out for you perfectly, because that's what they do. And that's how you
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build a replica of Thermon or hand Leave or the Dickinson yards and so.
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And you can go online and you can see whatever the exact dimension is of
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every automobile that travels on the roads and inches their centimeters and wait wheelbase.
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So you just get yourself some styrofoam and cutting knife and there you are.
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You've got everything reconstructed. You can put right there on the table. You
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can take people in a deposition and walk them through it. But that's not
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easy. It takes a lot of experience, a lot of time to learn
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how to do that, which is the reason people if they have an injury
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or they at least give us a thought. We don't. We're not big
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advertisers on TV. It won't be because you can't get more business than you
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can handle. But what we get we can handle, and we you do
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a really good job. We love having you here, that's for sure.
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I five ad w c HS and John is on the line, John,
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Jovy Peyton, John, go ahead, thanks for calling, Go ahead,
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sir, all right, good morning. My question involves wills and let me
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make turn ready. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. If a couple had
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a will, and for instance, you know, the surviving spouses part of
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the executor, and they divorce, what is the and then the person remarries,
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what is the status of the original will? It's totally void? Yeah,
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okay, okay, the divorcetion remarriage, I beg a part divorceing remarriage.
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Would to get that will? Right? Okay? All right, that
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was my question. Okay, thank you, thank you, noblem, no
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problem. And actually, in addition to the bulk of our work. We
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sort of take pride. You know. When I went to law school in
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the seventh early seventies, it was a smaller school than it is now.
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There were only two hundred and eighty students, which is about a class of
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working town now, and the faculty took the attitude their job was to train
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lawyers to practice law, to be able to do things, to have an
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exposure. It's almost like the core curriculum. So I don't know how to
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do wills, and I know how to look at a real estate record and
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to read it need and to tell on any restrictions mean and and every lawyer
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that's ever worked with me, I've told him, you know, you've got
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to learn how to do this, and Tom learned how to do it for
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me. And some lawyers said, will know, and they moved on to
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practice elsewhere. Because you've got to be able to help people in all aspects.
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You can't just turn people away. We're here to help people, and
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obviously we like to help people who've been hurt or injured, who've suffered a
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loss financially or to their property, or having a beef with an insurance company.
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But at the same time, if that person is sitting in the office
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like Onethellas said, well, you know, they needed help with a little
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bit of a complicated adoption. Really nice people, you know, and a
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lot of uncommon circumstances. There are a lot of There are circumstances where natural
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mothers are their daughters sisters. Because of the way social security works, so
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security disability. Suppose a child, and you know this happens all the time.
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Young woman. It's pregnant, father not around. They're going to keep
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the child. That's just the way it works. Child lives in the household.
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Maybe the mother then says, you know, I'm gonna move it on.
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I'm gonna get to school. I got a job, but can you
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take care of sissy here they do. Father dies on the job. Well,
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if within six months of his death, the mother, his widow,
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adopts that child, that child then has considered a surviving dependent of a deceased
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worker, and it's entitled so security benefits until an appropriate age. But of
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course there's some time in the future that I mean, they know who they
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are. It's my daughter, but legally is my sister. And so I've
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underwhelmed them. You know, it's almost invariably you know after the they just
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realize after generally after the grandma passes away, everybody's thinking, well, well,
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we just doesn't do this. We know who we are. We just
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like to make illegal. So you don't want to turn people like that,
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Well, you send them to somebody else who doesn't know what they're doing,
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and they tell all we can't do it, or charge three or four or
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five thousand dollars for doing something they want to charge by fifteen hundred bucks for
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it. I see that all the time. I just can't do it.
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I don't have the stomach for it. So we still do a lot of
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like general loss suburban transactional work. I do most of it now because Tom's
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busy with litigation and he's sort of got some big cases going on right now,
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a big criminal case in Cavil County that he's working on, and you
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know, pretty significant civil litigation. But that's what we're supposed to do.
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I'm not adverse to lawyers who advertise. Obviously, this show is advertising rights.
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We ride it off as a part of our advertising budget. It's called
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top of mind awareness. People hear you on the radio, they think of
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your name and they think lawyer. They associate your name with lawyer and hopefully
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if they need a lawyer that's on top of their mind. Television obviously makes
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the phone ring more than the radio does. I know you don't like to
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hear that, but it's just a fact. You know, a big,
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well integrated, well financed, professionally thought out TV campaign is going to make
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the telephone ring. It's also going to cost a million dollars a month sometimes
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and maybe result in a lot of business that you can't Well, you have
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to get big enough to handle it, all right. I find it somewhat
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offensive that people who have their home base in Alabama or Florida or wherever can
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hire one lawyer in West Virginia and saturate the airwaves TV waves with ads about
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how big they are, and people call, I mean they do. I
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think you'd be better off getting your West Virginia based lawyer that's got roots here,
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has actually tried a lot of cases here, So you have a quisom
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about that. But I mean, people are gonna hire who they're gonna hire.
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I can't tell you who to hire. I just say if I would
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ask if people think about the pain the Paintent Law Firm in any regard.
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Yeah, well I'm gonna take a break. Yeah, well come back.
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Maybe we start talk about my coalfield family. Okay, it's a big day
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for me and my coal field fa Okay, good, give us a call.
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on the side eight forty five on five eight wcajas the voice of Charleston,
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Jeff Jenkins with you and Harvey Peyton with the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro three
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h four three four five fifty eight fifty eight three or four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight and we just give a tease like we call on the
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broadcast interests. Two weeks from today, Harvey will be giving his Mountaineer football
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for day, and I've been working on a day and night. I've had
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my sleeve garters and my little green visor on sitting under a spotlight, pouring
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over those stats, learning the names of the players. So that will be
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coming out of that hermetically sealed jar. It's now being held on fucking Weigel's
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Backborchs until the thirty first of August when it will be under unveiled right here.
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Yes, this show at about eight forty five this time, we look
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forward to that now continuing continuing, Yes on our prior vey and I'm just
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gonna talk a little bit about we talk about the Peyton Law Firm. Are
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the people who make up the Peyton Law Firm. Everyone who works in our
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office is a native. I've and grew up within a twenty mile radius of
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the office. That means a lot. You understand people that you deal with.
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My family roots, of course, my grandparents, my mom's parents came
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from Scotland. They emigrated here in nineteen twenty. My grandfather was in the
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British Army. He got shot up when home married his sweetheart and he had
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brothers already here down in Backley working for Raleigh Colan Coke so that's where he
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went. He went to Backley. My mom was born in a company house
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in Raleigh, herd or twin sister, and they had another sister born in
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Raleigh. My grandfather had a little run in with Raleigh Colan coke and they
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can't even went to Price Hill and we had bounced around like miners did in
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the thirties. He got black lung, got sick, moved down Norfolk,
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Virginia with my mom's twin sister, and the pat died young, you know,
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seventy, but he was a hale, hearty black lunger. But my
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other half half our root are down in the well Sun in Cabell County,
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the Peyton's, but mostly down in Mason County. On sixteen malk Creek was
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a family named Holdren. My grandmother was one of thirteen children. And things
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we're looking up in Mason County now. I used to have a big practice
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in Mason County when the circuit was two counties, putting a man Mason.
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That's dropped off a little bit, but still that's a territory that we're really
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familiar with. I saw John Musgrave on TV talking about still fighting the fight.
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John Musgrave. I mean, I want to tell you something. John
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Musgrave is a he said, he almost what you classifies in a how Valley
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hardhead Republican. But John Musgrave was one of the best public officials I have
26:48
ever met or had the privilege to work with. He is a nonpartisan,
26:52
upright, honest, hard working, forward looking personal. John's got to have
26:56
some AIGs on him now. He was lottery director of what twenty years a
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hint of scandal. He had a brother, Raymond Gerald, who was the
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probably an attorney in Point Pleasant, but he's now the development director for Mason
27:11
County. You know, they got a new corps and they have the hydrogen
27:17
fidellas seem's going to be up in the T and T area there. They're
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talking about using a public hunting area to store this underground. Well the T
27:26
and T up there north the Point Pleasant, you know the old ammunition storage
27:30
facility. I guess that's where it's going to be. So that's kind a
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heartwarming for me because the family split. Some of my grandmothers uh well,
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she stayed in Mason County until she met my grandfather. She was a cook
27:41
on a farm and the Peter Couch farm and some of her sisters stayed there,
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but all of her brothers. One of'em disappeared, joined the navy
27:52
and he just never came back when the rest of'em all came here.
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She had a sister Ada that lived up in the Gollybridge, very fella in
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Kincaid that worked for the in Railroad and the Holdrons. They found their way.
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Of the ones that lived on this side the other side of the river
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in Chesapeake, they all worked for Carbon Fuels, and the ones that lived
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on this side of the river lived in Bell and Cedar Grove and worked for
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Valley Camp. So that's all I knew, is that kid. My dad
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worked at the post office. He was the only male. Well, my
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uncle was a queer man in the Navy. He went in the Navy and
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the Second World War, came out briefly and went back and went to California.
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But the rest of'em, we neither worked at Obett or Valley Camp
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or Carbon Fuels or Caldon or like one of them was a meat cutter at
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the Kroger's up in above Bell there. Anyway. Yeah, so today,
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I mean, I've got a very few cousins left, and they're my second
28:47
cousins, because my dad had so many first cousins, but they were all
28:52
so much older, all my dad's age because my grandmother was the youngest,
28:56
that I referred to him as my aunts and uncles, although they were actually
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my father cousins. No. Beth Garton, who's she's one of my last.
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She lives over in Kanaua City. So after her finished today, she
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Beth was like the rest of us. She was going to trim a tree,
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okay in her backyard, so on her own puts a ladder up in
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a tree over a concrete driveway to do. Now you know how the rest
29:23
of this story ends, and it hasn't ended. Well, she's been fighting
29:26
through it. So I'm gonna tell you. I go down to Charleston Bread's
29:30
here, this great bakery at Capitol Street and get some cinnamon rolls, go
29:33
up to Best's house or some coffee and cinema rolls. After we live here
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today, leave here today so we can talk about old times in the coalfield.
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Pete Holding was my grandmother and brother. Actually he had a good job.
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He had a ice house in Belle because he was personnel man for Valley
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Camp, which was pretty good job, Bruce, Bruce. He came over.
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He lived in Cedar Grove. He worked over there. But then my
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favorite cousin slash uncle was Clay holding his nickname. He was rugged, a
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little short wave. See him. He could eat corn on the cob with
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his gums because he'd choose so much tobacco. But he couldn't couldn't smoke,
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just can't smoke underground. So I never saw a Clay without a wadding.
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And he spent that tobacco out and he just he'd eat corn on the coffer.
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Here laid Aroun because his teeth, his gums were like mummified for met
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to pach. Nicest little guy. He could dance, he could sing,
30:27
but then he got you know, by the time he was about sixty five,
30:30
his fingertips started turning blue and you could hear that and it killed me,
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you know, unfortunately. But no, he worked. He worked for
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a long time, his dad, Homer, for carbon fuels. And the
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difference today, I think in the mining industry. And then is I got
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to know Tom and Newton, Jimmy Thomas, Newton Thomas and Jimmy Thomas Hey
30:57
their fathers, along with like Danny James grandfathers started carding Fuels. They owned
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it. They had a gu named Campbell. I think that random minds for
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him. But Newton, Jimmy knew Clay. Oh yeah, hey, Clay
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Rugged. He worked for us for years. I mean they actually knew people
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who worked for him, which I'm not sure that in today's modern era of
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the alphabet soup of IBG Industries or that that's still the case. And although
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there was a clear divide in their minds, like my family's minds, between
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management and labor. I mean it was like they're all umwa men, all
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all of them, all of them, and they liked the boss. But
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you know, there was just like that dividing line, you know, you
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know, I take care. So that's that's how my morning is gonna be
31:45
in. And I've got to go to the to the Western Bar Association is
31:49
now having their annual convention today and Friday and Saturday morning. And I said,
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I'm a past president of the Bar Association. They have a little enter
32:00
on the first night for the past presidents and you get to wear a tuxedo,
32:04
you know. Oh yeah, it's like the Radio Awards, you know,
32:08
And so I'm more Rob Fisher from Ripley is the president of the Association
32:14
this year, and Rob and I've been talking was his to run, but
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to try and emphasize the solo and small practice section of the Bar Association,
32:22
because I tell you, Jeff, we critically need just like we need bus
32:27
drivers and cooks and mechanics and corrections officers, we need some lawyers in some
32:34
of these communities who can provide just the basic services that folks need. Me
32:40
and maybe not exclusively, but to help you know, for instance, we
32:45
have an estate planning seminar that the Bar Association puts on really good material for
32:51
things like how to help people with the states and how to help people with
32:53
Medicaid planning that a lot of folks don't want to do it full time,
32:58
but you want to know something about it. In the spring, we have
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a real estate seminar and we're gonna try and put together. I think Rob
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wants me to try and get on an ad hoc committee to put together,
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you know, maybe a couple of more functions around the state to encourage solo
33:14
or one man offices or small practice, and maybe to work with the law
33:19
school and saying, you know, let's get some small practice small town practitioners.
33:25
Just because you have a practice a small town that mean you're a small
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time lawyer. Yeah, and they're playing smart people around. I mean,
33:31
you don't have to go any farther than twenty eighth Street and nighter to prove
33:35
that's true, because you're not gonna find you it any better than me and
33:37
Tom. So hopefully it will be successful. And now I'll keep you posted.
33:44
Okay, but good, how are we doing on time? Are you
33:45
going doing all? Right? Now? I wanted to get a comment from
33:49
you on in Harvey's with us. There's a time to squeeze in a phone
33:52
call or two three or four three, four five fifty eight fifty eight.
33:54
We've got a couple of minutes just on the cupbox. WVU. I have
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not seen what the review disclosed about the law school that I know. There
34:06
are some program consolidations that are proposed for the law school. Yeah, yeah,
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if I went over all those things, and I yes, it was
34:15
like it was it was almost like refocus, you know. The kind of
34:22
message was kind of right, and I mean, and maybe that's not a
34:25
bad thing the way I look at you know, everybody wants to pick on
34:31
the sick chicken. And you know, you've seen chickens in a in a
34:36
hand a house or in a chicken coop. You know, one of the
34:39
chickens gets sick or it gets it down, and the rest of them pick
34:42
it to death. And so Gordon Gee seems to be like the sick chicken
34:46
now for people who want to find some deflection from the serious problems confront WVU.
34:54
My overall thought, it's a combination of a lot of things. You
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know, the legislature in West Virginia flat budget idea. It just means you're
35:00
cutting the budgets of everything two or three or five percent every year because of
35:05
inflation. You're disregarding legitimate needs for increase funding, trying to make it all
35:09
up with tuition increases and financing that with unbearable student debt. That's what we've
35:16
been doing for like twenty years now. It was President Gee off base ten
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years ago when he said we ought to be a forty thousand student institution.
35:29
I personally think yes he was. I didn't agree with it at the time.
35:32
The massive increase in the number of foundation funded dormitories up there in the
35:39
Sunnyside area. It's not a good culture to me. My oldest grandchild went
35:45
to school there for a semester, and I said, I just think you
35:47
ought to get out of here. You got a liquor store next door,
35:52
You got a convenient store in a dormitory that sells beer. Who say,
35:55
twenty four hours a day. I mean, I don't see this as a
36:01
good thing. I don't see but but you can't undermine your top personnel.
36:07
If the Board of Governor says that Gordon Key is going to be the president
36:10
of Western University until July twenty twenty five, then for the good of the
36:15
institution, we have to hope this all works out. Now. I've been
36:20
on the visiting committee for the College of Creative Arts several times. I didn't
36:24
graduate from the College of Creative Arts. I just gravitated there because of my
36:28
interest in the arts. I've been exposed to three different deans, one of
36:37
whom Paul Crieder moved up pretty quickly to an administrative position. Well maybe that's
36:43
where he belonged. It does seem that there's a good bit of administrative top
36:47
heaviness. Perhaps, But but I I just think we need to take a
36:54
good close look and refocus the whole instant to university can easily handle in Columbus
37:02
forty or fifty thousand students. You're not going to be Pennsylvania State University that
37:06
can have campuses in Philly and Uniontown and Youngstown and sustain fifty thousand students.
37:12
It's unsustainable in Morgantown. It's too big for the city, it's too big
37:15
for the infrastructure, I think. And the consolidates to programs and reduction of
37:22
some programs so that you've got excellence as opposed to quantity. I think it's
37:25
a pretty good idea. I do not agree with the idea that you should
37:30
be a technical career training school particular industries. I don't think that's the function
37:37
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