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- 1:40Speaker 4: Good morning, Welcome to the show.
- 1:41Speaker 3: Hope you had a chance to enjoy what was a
- 1:42Speaker 3: beautiful weekend here in the Canaw Valley. Coming up a
- 1:45Speaker 3: little bit later on, Diana Graves will join us. She
- 1:47Speaker 3: is with the Republican Party here in Kanawa County and
- 1:50Speaker 3: they have a lot to celebrate. Republicans now out number
- 1:53Speaker 3: the Democrats for the first time in Canaw County in
- 1:55Speaker 3: a long long time. So we're gonna kind of talk
- 1:58Speaker 3: about that a little bit with Diana Pla. They've about
- 2:01Speaker 3: to open up their headquarters, so we're going to tell
- 2:02Speaker 3: you all about that. Some sad news broke over the
- 2:05Speaker 3: weekend with the death of Woody Woom Woody Woodroam, of course,
- 2:09Speaker 3: the long time fixture with broadcasting to Marshall University well
- 2:12Speaker 3: over fifty years and some capacity with the university. Steve
- 2:16Speaker 3: Cotton is the voice of the Thundering Herd and he's
- 2:18Speaker 3: going to join us to talk about Woody Woodroram and
- 2:22Speaker 3: his passing and just what a great guy was. I mean,
- 2:25Speaker 3: I was very very good friends with Woody and had
- 2:27Speaker 3: done several projects with them in the pass and I hate,
- 2:30Speaker 3: really hated to hear about that. So we're going to
- 2:32Speaker 3: join be joined by Steve Cotton to talk about that.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Plus tomorrow night is the big Debates, Yeah, Trump, Ann Harris,
- 2:39Speaker 3: we'll square off tomorrow in Philadelphia. We'll try to get
- 2:42Speaker 3: into that if we can't, and your calls and text
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- 2:52Speaker 3: five zero zero eight. I want to start this morning though,
- 2:55Speaker 3: by spending some time talking about the West Virginia Humanities Council.
- 2:58Speaker 3: What is it, what do they do, and who's this
- 3:01Speaker 3: big time guest speaker that they're bringing to Charleston. Eric
- 3:04Speaker 3: Wagner is the executive director of the West Virginia Humanities Council,
- 3:07Speaker 3: and he joins us now to par Bars Store studio.
- 3:09Speaker 4: Eric, good morning, Welcome to the show.
- 3:10Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Dave. Thanks for having us.
- 3:12Speaker 4: So, first of all, tell us exactly what is the
- 3:14Speaker 4: Humanities Council.
- 3:14Speaker 5: I'm to be glad to tell you we are the
- 3:16Speaker 5: official state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- 3:19Speaker 5: That federal agency is our primary partner, and with the
- 3:22Speaker 5: help of the National Endowment for the Humanities and some
- 3:25Speaker 5: support from the State of West Virginia and our many
- 3:27Speaker 5: wonderful members all around the state and beyond, our purposes
- 3:30Speaker 5: is to provide public educational programs in the humanities. I'm
- 3:32Speaker 5: talking about history, everything from national to regional and local.
- 3:36Speaker 5: I'm talking about literature. I'm talking about even down to archaeology,
- 3:39Speaker 5: legal studies, language studies, and so forth. I like to
- 3:41Speaker 5: think of the humanities as all the things that we
- 3:44Speaker 5: do to tell the story of our experience, whether that's
- 3:46Speaker 5: a great, big experience as a nation or a world,
- 3:48Speaker 5: or it's a very local community experience. Wherever you're telling
- 3:51Speaker 5: the story of an experience of people, you're doing the
- 3:54Speaker 5: work of the humanities. And that's what we do every
- 3:55Speaker 5: day of the year. That's a lot, that's a big umbrella.
- 4:00Speaker 5: This this car.
- 4:00Speaker 3: You got your business cards the size of poster paper,
- 4:04Speaker 3: but they explain what it is that you do.
- 4:05Speaker 5: It's well. We use the funding that we receive from
- 4:07Speaker 5: the NH in the state and from our members around.
- 4:09Speaker 5: Our goal is to put as we're an independent, nonpartisan nonprofits,
- 4:13Speaker 5: so we're not affiliated with the state. We are sort
- 4:15Speaker 5: of our own entity and our our primary partner, as
- 4:16Speaker 5: I said, is the NH. We take the money that
- 4:19Speaker 5: we receive through revenue public and private, and we put
- 4:24Speaker 5: that money back out into the state of West Virginia
- 4:26Speaker 5: in the form of high quality educational programming free of
- 4:29Speaker 5: charge to the general public, doesn't matter where you live,
- 4:31Speaker 5: doesn't matter where in the state or beyond. If you
- 4:32Speaker 5: look at some of our digital programs, we want to
- 4:35Speaker 5: deliver that content to West Virginia's wherever they live, into
- 4:37Speaker 5: folks all around outside of the state. The shorthand version
- 4:40Speaker 5: that I like to use is we bring the world
- 4:43Speaker 5: to West Virginia. That is, we bring top quality humanities
- 4:45Speaker 5: and educational programs to West Virginia, and we bring West
- 4:48Speaker 5: Virginia to the world. We tell West Virginia's true stories,
- 4:51Speaker 5: not the stereotypical stories, not the ones people think they know,
- 4:54Speaker 5: not the negative stuff. But we talk honestly and specifically
- 4:57Speaker 5: about the challenges and all the great and wonderful things
- 4:59Speaker 5: that are having. And then here, as anybody who lives
- 5:01Speaker 5: here and.
- 5:01Speaker 3: Knows, I'm very glad to hear you say that, because
- 5:04Speaker 3: so often, Eric, we let other people tell our story
- 5:07Speaker 3: for us. And you know this is what well, those
- 5:10Speaker 3: that know that West Virginia's state and we're not somewhere
- 5:12Speaker 3: near Cono. But but but I mean, we we have
- 5:16Speaker 3: let other people for so many years. And I'm not
- 5:19Speaker 3: turning this into political I'm just saying it is. It
- 5:21Speaker 3: is what it is. It is we let so many
- 5:24Speaker 3: people tell the story of West Virginia when by God,
- 5:26Speaker 3: we have to be telling our own stories. Yeah, because
- 5:28Speaker 3: nobody knows your story like you know.
- 5:29Speaker 5: It absolutely and that's you know, increasingly we've been looking
- 5:32Speaker 5: for ways to let WES to be the platform through
- 5:34Speaker 5: which West Virginians can tell their own stories. One of
- 5:37Speaker 5: my favorite ways that we can do that, and it's
- 5:39Speaker 5: a really good example of the kind of thing we do,
- 5:41Speaker 5: is working with local and county historical societies that you know,
- 5:44Speaker 5: who knows better than the people in those communities what
- 5:47Speaker 5: that history and what that contemporary culture is all about.
- 5:50Speaker 5: So through our grant funding, we try and give support
- 5:52Speaker 5: to programs that are going on in those communities. So
- 5:54Speaker 5: if you've got a regional museum, or if you've got
- 5:56Speaker 5: a county historical society or something like that, you're working
- 5:59Speaker 5: on a project right into the council. We have one
- 6:01Speaker 5: phone number, get you to everybody in the building. All
- 6:03Speaker 5: of our emails are right up there. Talk to us
- 6:06Speaker 5: about grand funding. Let us see how we can support
- 6:08Speaker 5: some of the things that are going on in these
- 6:09Speaker 5: communities to celebrate their history and culture.
- 6:11Speaker 3: And let's bring it in a little closer to home again.
- 6:13Speaker 3: We're talking with Eric Wagner from the Western Indian Humanities Council.
- 6:15Speaker 3: Give us an example of some things that have gone
- 6:17Speaker 3: on here in the Canal valley that people can actually
- 6:19Speaker 3: look at and say, Okay, that was you guys.
- 6:21Speaker 5: One of our most popular programs that it's really easy
- 6:24Speaker 5: to do in the valley is History Alive. We have
- 6:26Speaker 5: a living history presentation program. We have about a dozen
- 6:29Speaker 5: presenters on the roster who can go in. The great
- 6:32Speaker 5: thing about this program, Dave, is that you can put
- 6:33Speaker 5: it on anywhere you have little floor space. So this
- 6:36Speaker 5: gets into the city and the state parks systems, it
- 6:39Speaker 5: gets into local schools, and we send presenters in to
- 6:43Speaker 5: portray people from history, sometimes West Virginia history, sometimes broader
- 6:46Speaker 5: than that, and they'll give about a half an hour
- 6:48Speaker 5: presentation in that character, talking about their history and their
- 6:52Speaker 5: life's work and so forth. Then there'll be a little
- 6:54Speaker 5: Q and a session when we go into school buildings
- 6:58Speaker 5: that the kids always love this part. They get to
- 6:59Speaker 5: ask the character questions, you know, in character, and then
- 7:02Speaker 5: the presenter will step out of character a little bit
- 7:04Speaker 5: and talk to the kids about the research they've done
- 7:06Speaker 5: for these historical figures. So we've got, as I said,
- 7:10Speaker 5: some folks from West Virginia history. In the past, we've
- 7:12Speaker 5: had everyone from Gosh Minnie Pearl to Mark Twain to
- 7:17Speaker 5: Harriet Tubman like to I mean, big big names from
- 7:20Speaker 5: all around, Pierpont, France, Pierpont, some folks from West Virginia history,
- 7:25Speaker 5: and some folks from beyond. To really get in there
- 7:26Speaker 5: and talk to the kids about the importance of knowing
- 7:28Speaker 5: your state and local and cultural history.
- 7:31Speaker 3: And I love when things like that are portrayed for
- 7:33Speaker 3: the kids in school, because you know, you can read
- 7:34Speaker 3: it out of a book, you can read it on
- 7:36Speaker 3: a computer screen or whatever. But when they see a
- 7:38Speaker 3: character that comes in in the full character and comes
- 7:42Speaker 3: to life as you mentioned Harriet Tubman or Mark Twain
- 7:44Speaker 3: or something like that, it really, you know, kind of
- 7:47Speaker 3: I think it tells the story a little bit better.
- 7:49Speaker 5: There's no substitute for being in a room. I mean,
- 7:50Speaker 5: that's one thing we found out during the COVID years,
- 7:53Speaker 5: as you made when nobody could get together, you know people,
- 7:56Speaker 5: it was really in a way heartening. That may not
- 7:58Speaker 5: be the right word given to context, but it was
- 7:59Speaker 5: hard I think to see that the general public doesn't
- 8:03Speaker 5: think of the humanities as a luxury. They think of
- 8:05Speaker 5: it as as a necessity. People love going out to
- 8:07Speaker 5: cultural programs, They love their local museums, They love their
- 8:10Speaker 5: local cultural initiatives in their hometowns, and the excitement with
- 8:16Speaker 5: which people have come back together in person and in
- 8:18Speaker 5: the room has been really wonderful to see coming out
- 8:20Speaker 5: of the set of years that we had recently. Indeed,
- 8:23Speaker 5: folks love it.
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- 8:36Speaker 5: Is that right? Yes? And this is you talked about
- 8:38Speaker 5: some things that are happening in the valley. One of
- 8:40Speaker 5: the things that we've done for since the mid eighties.
- 8:43Speaker 5: Nineteen eighty five, I believe was the first year we
- 8:44Speaker 5: did it was the mccrite Lecturer in the Humanities. That
- 8:47Speaker 5: is a Charleston event and we talk about bringing the
- 8:50Speaker 5: world to West Virginia. That's the big sort of high
- 8:52Speaker 5: profile annual project that we have where we bring in
- 8:55Speaker 5: a national or an internationally renowned could be a scholar,
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- 9:00Speaker 5: about their work. Over the years, we've had Joyce Carol Oates.
- 9:03Speaker 5: We've had Ken Burns, We've had Henry Lewis Gates. We've
- 9:06Speaker 5: had a variety of people from a variety of backgrounds
- 9:08Speaker 5: in the humanities. This year, it would be tougher to
- 9:11Speaker 5: name a hotter writer in the public mind fiction writer
- 9:14Speaker 5: than Perceval Everett. Perceval Everett. If you saw the movie
- 9:17Speaker 5: last year, American Fiction, it was out with Jeffrey Wright.
- 9:20Speaker 5: He wrote the novel Erasure that that movie was based on.
- 9:23Speaker 5: And when that movie won the Best Adapted Screenplay at
- 9:25Speaker 5: the Oscars earlier this year, Perceval Everett became as people
- 9:29Speaker 5: often say, well, it's an overnight success. Nobody knew about him,
- 9:32Speaker 5: and in the next day every this overnight success has
- 9:34Speaker 5: been coming for about thirty years, two dozen novels, you know.
- 9:39Speaker 5: But he is a really, really wonderful writer. I would
- 9:42Speaker 5: say he's worked in a variety of backgrounds, but I
- 9:44Speaker 5: would say a lot of what he does is he
- 9:46Speaker 5: really sort of plugs in on parts of contemporary life
- 9:50Speaker 5: and culture that people think of as kind of strange
- 9:53Speaker 5: or absurd or bizarre, or why does it have to
- 9:55Speaker 5: be that way? Or why do it? Isn't there a
- 9:56Speaker 5: better way? We can do it, you know, and he's
- 9:58Speaker 5: writing really a lot about In this new novel of his, James,
- 10:02Speaker 5: he takes one of what I think is I mean,
- 10:04Speaker 5: one of the really inarguably classic American novels, The Adventures
- 10:07Speaker 5: of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, And if you call
- 10:10Speaker 5: that story, it's about a young, poor, uneducated white kid
- 10:14Speaker 5: in the day years leading up to the Civil War
- 10:16Speaker 5: who is on the run with the enslaved man Jim,
- 10:19Speaker 5: who's the second major character in that book. And Huck
- 10:21Speaker 5: and Jim's relationship is it is a friendship. It is
- 10:24Speaker 5: very complicated friendship, as it has to be. There's a
- 10:26Speaker 5: big difference in age, there's a difference in race obviously,
- 10:29Speaker 5: and so forth. But the two of them together, their
- 10:31Speaker 5: flight from so called civilization really puts them both on
- 10:34Speaker 5: a path where their lives are changed inexorably. They come
- 10:38Speaker 5: to know each other in a way that they could
- 10:40Speaker 5: not simply being within the society that they both inhabit.
- 10:42Speaker 5: They have to go on the run in order to
- 10:44Speaker 5: do that. And this new novel by Perceval Everrett James
- 10:47Speaker 5: takes that story and reimagines it from the perspective of Jim,
- 10:51Speaker 5: who is a secondary character in the story of Huckleberry Finn.
- 10:54Speaker 5: So Jim's story is not a story that huck Finn
- 10:56Speaker 5: could tell in the first person because he didn't live it,
- 10:58Speaker 5: he didn't experience it. This book is really I read
- 11:01Speaker 5: it in a day. The first time I read it,
- 11:03Speaker 5: I absolutely could not put it down. It says so
- 11:06Speaker 5: much about American history and American culture, and American literature
- 11:10Speaker 5: and all the stuff that really deeply involves us in
- 11:13Speaker 5: an awareness of our own history and our own culture.
- 11:15Speaker 5: It is an absolute knockout book. And we secured him
- 11:19Speaker 5: really at the perfect moment. His star is rising, as
- 11:22Speaker 5: they say. He's been the subject of profiles in The
- 11:24Speaker 5: New york Er, New York Times, book Review, Time's Literary Supplement,
- 11:27Speaker 5: just a variety of publications. He's having cultural moment right
- 11:31Speaker 5: now that is well deserved, and we're very, very fortunate
- 11:33Speaker 5: to have him in Charleston and Armorkright lecture every year
- 11:36Speaker 5: takes place right here in the metro valley. That's one
- 11:38Speaker 5: of our real hometown programs for sure. And where and
- 11:41Speaker 5: when it's going to be the Historic Capital Theater on
- 11:44Speaker 5: Summer Street. It is October seventeen, which is a Thursday,
- 11:47Speaker 5: doors at seven. The event begins at seven point thirty.
- 11:50Speaker 5: That's right in line with art Walk and festivefal are
- 11:53Speaker 5: taking place. We're looking for a lot of foot traffic and.
- 11:56Speaker 3: One of the reasons we're having you on early as
- 11:57Speaker 3: well so people can plan for it. It is free
- 11:59Speaker 3: to the public. It is for you, but you may
- 12:01Speaker 3: want to go ahead and make plans of being there
- 12:03Speaker 3: because it's it's not a huge building, right.
- 12:05Speaker 5: It's not a huge it's just just north of four
- 12:07Speaker 5: hundred I think building seats and it's a really great venue,
- 12:09Speaker 5: beautiful venue from dot Bean inside it, it's really really
- 12:12Speaker 5: well put together, and we're yeah, we're expecting a big
- 12:15Speaker 5: crowd and just have really been fortunate to get him
- 12:17Speaker 5: at a great, great moment in his long career.
- 12:19Speaker 3: Do people need to get tickets ahead of time? I mean,
- 12:21Speaker 3: I know it's free event, or do they just show
- 12:23Speaker 3: up or what?
- 12:24Speaker 5: We have never done any kind of reservations. We are
- 12:26Speaker 5: looking at the possibility of setting something up formally, but
- 12:29Speaker 5: we have not made any decisions yet. The way we
- 12:31Speaker 5: have always done it in the past is we put
- 12:32Speaker 5: the doors open and anybody wants to come in can
- 12:34Speaker 5: come in. We'll see like we love to do it
- 12:36Speaker 5: that way. We'll see if we can see if we
- 12:39Speaker 5: can keep it on that level for this upcoming event.
- 12:42Speaker 3: And it's October the seventeenth, the Capital Theater, doors open
- 12:44Speaker 3: at seven, Lecture starts at seven thirty. Where can people
- 12:47Speaker 3: learn more about it? Websites, social media where again.
- 12:50Speaker 5: We got we're on We're across so the social media platforms.
- 12:53Speaker 5: We're on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. The main website
- 12:57Speaker 5: is wv Humanities dot org or all of our news
- 13:02Speaker 5: is right tore on the front page in person wal Ever,
- 13:03Speaker 5: it's gonna be parked on the front page right up
- 13:05Speaker 5: until the day of the event.
- 13:07Speaker 4: It should be a great and this is a big
- 13:08Speaker 4: get for Charleston.
- 13:09Speaker 5: It is a huge get for Charleston. Absolutely, we're very
- 13:11Speaker 5: fortunate it is.
- 13:12Speaker 3: All right, Eric, I appreciate you being here. Eric Wagner
- 13:15Speaker 3: again with the Westerrnginia Humianities Council. The event again is
- 13:18Speaker 3: coming up on October seventeenth. That's a Thursday night at
- 13:21Speaker 3: the Capitol Theater, Downtown, Doors open seven, Lecture starts at
- 13:23Speaker 3: seven thirty.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Eric, thanks for being here, man, I appreciate it.
- 13:25Speaker 5: Thank you.
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- 16:36Speaker 3: later on in the show talking about the legacy of
- 16:38Speaker 3: Whatdye woodrom a legend in the world of broadcasting at
- 16:41Speaker 3: Marshall University, not just in broadcasting but at Marshall in general.
- 16:45Speaker 4: True treasure, and we lost him over the weekend. Steve
- 16:47Speaker 4: Cotton's going to join us to talk about.
- 16:49Speaker 3: That's I want to welcome to the show Diana Graves
- 16:51Speaker 3: with the Canagh County Republican Party.
- 16:52Speaker 4: Good morning, Diana, Welcome to the show.
- 16:55Speaker 9: Hi Jay, great to be here, Thank.
- 16:57Speaker 4: You, thank you for being here.
- 16:58Speaker 3: I know you're a busy, busy per sitting today and
- 17:00Speaker 3: he had to call us up on the road just
- 17:02Speaker 3: to do so safely, which I'm sure you are.
- 17:04Speaker 4: Absolutely It's a good Diana. It's a good time to
- 17:08Speaker 4: be a Republican in West Virginia.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Is it not.
- 17:11Speaker 9: I think it's always a good time to be a Republican.
- 17:14Speaker 9: I enjoyed being one when a lot of my fellow
- 17:17Speaker 9: West Virginians also take the same way.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, Diana, most people think that Governor
- 17:22Speaker 3: Justice is a shoe in to be the next US Senator,
- 17:25Speaker 3: replacing Joe Manchin, who opted not to run, saying with
- 17:27Speaker 3: Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, who was expected to, with all
- 17:31Speaker 3: due respect to Steve Williams, is expected to defeat Steve Williams,
- 17:35Speaker 3: the current Huntington mayor. So not I mean this, this
- 17:39Speaker 3: state is solidly read and getting redder seemingly by the minute, Diana,
- 17:45Speaker 3: it is.
- 17:46Speaker 9: I mean, you can consider it a tendulum swing. Of course,
- 17:50Speaker 9: we were eighty three from ten years pretty solidly Democrat,
- 17:55Speaker 9: but West Virginians have always been a special breed of conservative.
- 18:01Speaker 9: Democrat was the only option for a long time. But
- 18:03Speaker 9: in the hearts of a lot of our people, they're
- 18:06Speaker 9: fiscal conservatives. They're good, thought searing, sun loving, family oriented people.
- 18:14Speaker 9: And really it's just over time they see that that
- 18:17Speaker 9: Washington especially has a standoned those values, and they've just
- 18:21Speaker 9: come home to the Republican.
- 18:22Speaker 3: Party and that those kind of going to kind of
- 18:25Speaker 3: lead me to my next question. Why is it that now?
- 18:28Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I'm old enough to remember when
- 18:32Speaker 3: I've told this story on the air before growing up
- 18:35Speaker 3: as a kid in the seventies and eighties, and where
- 18:38Speaker 3: I'm from in southern West Virginia, we didn't have enough
- 18:40Speaker 3: Republicans to be poll workers, you know, as mandate because
- 18:43Speaker 3: they because there just weren't any. The elections were effectively
- 18:47Speaker 3: over in southern West Virginia in May with the May primary.
- 18:51Speaker 3: Other than maybe president or something like that, but your
- 18:53Speaker 3: local elections, your house or you know, legislator, county commission, whatever,
- 18:57Speaker 3: everybody was a Democrat. Now that is seemingly changing to
- 19:01Speaker 3: the other side. You touched on this a little bit,
- 19:04Speaker 3: but expound on it a little bit. Why do you
- 19:06Speaker 3: think this message of the Republican Party continues to resonate
- 19:11Speaker 3: so much with West Virginia voters.
- 19:14Speaker 9: Well, it's mostly in captured and what I said before,
- 19:17Speaker 9: so West Virginia is just a different breed of Democrats.
- 19:23Speaker 9: Even the Democrats from the Democrats that we still have,
- 19:26Speaker 9: they haven't come yet to the Republican Party, but a
- 19:29Speaker 9: lot of them in their hearts, they really hold to
- 19:33Speaker 9: conservative values, and I think the schism that has been
- 19:37Speaker 9: happening on the federal level is d see various pig
- 19:43Speaker 9: metropolitan areas of the country that progressive progresses have taken
- 19:48Speaker 9: over the Democrat Party and pushed it so far less
- 19:52Speaker 9: that a lot of these people they don't even recognize
- 19:55Speaker 9: their party anymore. They feel abandoned. Also so far as
- 19:58Speaker 9: to say, I think they feel the trade and I
- 20:01Speaker 9: don't blame them, so they feel a lot of them
- 20:04Speaker 9: feels that they have no recourse really but to join
- 20:08Speaker 9: a party where there are candidates that call the same
- 20:11Speaker 9: kind of value as they do, and so they have
- 20:14Speaker 9: just made It's a very moral choice. In a lot
- 20:17Speaker 9: of cases, they have to switch because they're not going
- 20:20Speaker 9: to betray who they are.
- 20:22Speaker 3: I want to again, we're talking Diana Grays from the
- 20:24Speaker 3: Knaw County Republican Party. I want to talk about that
- 20:26Speaker 3: switching parties thing, because there has been a lot of
- 20:30Speaker 3: people outside the elected world that have made the switch.
- 20:35Speaker 3: But there are are also a lot that were Democrats.
- 20:38Speaker 3: I mentioned Jim Justice that switch Republican. There have been
- 20:41Speaker 3: others that have in the legislature and on county levels
- 20:44Speaker 3: and on municipal levels and whatever. I've heard from some
- 20:47Speaker 3: in the Republican Party though, that they are concerned that
- 20:53Speaker 3: leopards don't change their spots, as one Republican once told me,
- 20:57Speaker 3: and that you've got to be aware that just because
- 21:00Speaker 3: somebody has now and are after their name, that they
- 21:03Speaker 3: may just be doing that just to get elected. Is
- 21:06Speaker 3: this a concern with those in power in the Republican Party, Well, yes.
- 21:11Speaker 9: Because we're not stupid, so of course, of course it's
- 21:15Speaker 9: going to happen. You have people who the ones I
- 21:18Speaker 9: have been talking about are people who are switching because
- 21:22Speaker 9: of a moral imperative. But they're of course human beings
- 21:26Speaker 9: without the best votives.
- 21:27Speaker 10: They just want to win.
- 21:29Speaker 9: They want to be in power, they want to be
- 21:30Speaker 9: the ones making decisions. They're going to do whatever it
- 21:33Speaker 9: takes to get there, and those are the people we
- 21:35Speaker 9: have to hear the most because they're power hungry and
- 21:39Speaker 9: they don't care what they have the sacrifice to get there.
- 21:41Speaker 9: So I have been pushing the State GOOP for a
- 21:44Speaker 9: number of years now. When I ran for State GOP
- 21:48Speaker 9: CO chair, one of my platform issues was we have
- 21:51Speaker 9: to help the the electorate determined between those who truly
- 21:56Speaker 9: hold Republican conservative values and those who are wolf wolves
- 22:00Speaker 9: and she was clothing. And it's been a it's been difficult.
- 22:05Speaker 11: You know.
- 22:05Speaker 9: We want to have a great big tense and I
- 22:08Speaker 9: absolutely asbout that value. But I don't I don't think
- 22:12Speaker 9: that that includes throwing every single candidate who hadn't arbecized
- 22:16Speaker 9: their name and holding them, you know, as those they
- 22:18Speaker 9: are all the same value because they're they're quite different.
- 22:22Speaker 4: Well, we saw this before, you know, as you mentioned that.
- 22:24Speaker 3: We've mentioned a couple of times Dana with with the
- 22:26Speaker 3: with the Democratic Party.
- 22:27Speaker 4: I mean when they were in power. Let's take any decade.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Let's say the nineteen sixties for example, not every Democrat
- 22:33Speaker 3: was the same and and it's the same now I'm
- 22:37Speaker 3: presuming with Republicans. How as somebody in a leadership position,
- 22:42Speaker 3: as I said, you with the with the Republican Party
- 22:44Speaker 3: in Kanawha County, how do how do you vet people?
- 22:48Speaker 3: I guess I mean, is it questionnaire? As you just
- 22:50Speaker 3: sit down and talk because.
- 22:52Speaker 4: You feel that it's your job to educate the electorate.
- 22:54Speaker 3: And I completely get that, but but how how do
- 22:57Speaker 3: you actually go about that?
- 22:59Speaker 9: So we in Kanna took a kind of too prong approach.
- 23:04Speaker 9: If you had legislative history, if you had a voting record,
- 23:08Speaker 9: we didn't even send you a questionnaire. We're going to
- 23:10Speaker 9: grade your vote, which one how did you vote to
- 23:14Speaker 9: uphold the values in the Republican Party platform when you
- 23:18Speaker 9: had a chance to really exert your will. So that's
- 23:21Speaker 9: so we did a grading system for those and right, honestly,
- 23:26Speaker 9: some current legislators failed. And then for those who were
- 23:30Speaker 9: seeking power for the first time, we did a questionnaire.
- 23:34Speaker 9: Every single question was based in some meaningful way within
- 23:39Speaker 9: the Republican Party platform. So we and we published their
- 23:44Speaker 9: you know, if they were if they got a certain score,
- 23:47Speaker 9: they were listed as at least conservative, and then if
- 23:50Speaker 9: they didn't, they were marked is not conservative. And so
- 23:53Speaker 9: we're doing our part. If you can't trust the Republican
- 23:57Speaker 9: Party of the state to help voters to like figure
- 24:01Speaker 9: out who has Republican values, who are you gonna look to.
- 24:04Speaker 9: What we found is that people were forced to listen
- 24:08Speaker 9: to every single special interest group that sent a mailer
- 24:11Speaker 9: to their house because they're desperately searching for information. We
- 24:14Speaker 9: don't want that. We want some somewhere for them to
- 24:17Speaker 9: go to say, hey, I want to know what kind
- 24:20Speaker 9: of values this Canada has when they were in power,
- 24:23Speaker 9: how did they vote? Did they really do what they said?
- 24:25Speaker 9: Because canteen promises are very easy to give and they're
- 24:28Speaker 9: even easier to break.
- 24:30Speaker 4: And indeed I agree with you on that.
- 24:32Speaker 3: It's twenty eight minutes away from ten talking to Diana
- 24:35Speaker 3: Graves to Dave Valid Show on five, Adeline brought to
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- 24:45Speaker 4: You folks in Kanah County about to open up a headquarters?
- 24:47Speaker 4: Is that right, Diane?
- 24:51Speaker 12: Sorry?
- 24:52Speaker 9: Yes, I lost you for second.
- 24:53Speaker 4: Okay about your headquarters? You're about to open up a
- 24:56Speaker 4: headquarters in Kannak County.
- 24:57Speaker 9: Yeah, we did. We did open it or you did headquarters? Yeah,
- 25:01Speaker 9: it's that if you know where budget tapes and records
- 25:04Speaker 9: us to be. Yeah, it's over there in Kanash City.
- 25:06Speaker 9: Almost everyone does. It's thirty seven eight mccorco Avenue, Southeast
- 25:11Speaker 9: and we're open Monday through Friday from tens and sixty
- 25:14Speaker 9: pm and then on Saturday from ten to too, and
- 25:17Speaker 9: I want to say, you know, people are complacent because
- 25:21Speaker 9: our majority is so big in this state. But I
- 25:24Speaker 9: want to talk about Kanawh for just a moment. Pana
- 25:28Speaker 9: is not a safe area. Cana and Montagay County. We
- 25:32Speaker 9: have some counties in West Virginia where every vote counts,
- 25:36Speaker 9: and I want to encourage people to turn out to vote.
- 25:41Speaker 4: Come by.
- 25:42Speaker 9: If you're not even sure, if you're registered, come by.
- 25:44Speaker 9: We'll register you right on the spot. And I want
- 25:47Speaker 9: to give some props to the former chair of the KCRAC.
- 25:51Speaker 9: Her name is Teresa Howe. She's running for a House
- 25:53Speaker 9: of Delegates. She's an incredible candidate. She was a former
- 25:57Speaker 9: chair and she really has to play a large role
- 26:01Speaker 9: in flipping Canal red. So I want to make sure
- 26:05Speaker 9: and mention her. She is an excellent conservative candidate and
- 26:08Speaker 9: I want to I want her name out there.
- 26:11Speaker 3: We got a text here to the show. Somebody ask
- 26:13Speaker 3: about to none of this is something that you get
- 26:14Speaker 3: a lot people.
- 26:15Speaker 4: Wanting Trump signs. Do you have Donald Trump signs?
- 26:18Speaker 12: Oh?
- 26:18Speaker 10: We sure do.
- 26:19Speaker 9: Now we have. So if you go online you can
- 26:22Speaker 9: buy some things for thirty, like twenty twenty five. I've
- 26:24Speaker 9: seen them as much as thirty five dollars a pop.
- 26:27Speaker 9: We want to get them out there right so our
- 26:29Speaker 9: zar on sale for five dollars and we absolutely have
- 26:33Speaker 9: them at the headquarters.
- 26:35Speaker 3: Diana, It's always a pleasure to talk to you, and
- 26:37Speaker 3: I do appreciate you tech. As I said, you're very
- 26:39Speaker 3: busy and I appreciate you taking time out of your
- 26:41Speaker 3: schedule to be here with.
- 26:43Speaker 4: It's thanks a lot and we'll talk again soon.
- 26:46Speaker 9: Wonderful thanks gave.
- 26:47Speaker 3: Diana Graaves again a former legislator and she is now
- 26:51Speaker 3: I think the head of.
- 26:52Speaker 4: The Kanawa the Kanawha County Republican Party.
- 26:57Speaker 3: I believe that that is her title, but either way,
- 26:59Speaker 3: she's very involved the Cana County Republican Party and it
- 27:02Speaker 3: is now a red county, which took a.
- 27:05Speaker 4: Lot of people by surprise.
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- 31:57Speaker 3: in Charleston. At the same time, we'll get into that
- 32:01Speaker 3: end of the show tomorrow. News broke over the weekend
- 32:04Speaker 3: that a long time fixture of marsh University tragically and
- 32:07Speaker 3: surprisingly passed away. Woody woodrom just an icon in Huntington
- 32:12Speaker 3: for Marshall University in the world of broadcasting for well
- 32:15Speaker 3: over fifty years. In fact, he had just had the
- 32:18Speaker 3: call on the Huntington Martinsburg game Friday night when a
- 32:22Speaker 3: few hours later he passed away at home. Steve Cotton
- 32:24Speaker 3: is the play by play guy for the Thundering Herd
- 32:26Speaker 3: work closely alongside Woody and he joined us.
- 32:28Speaker 4: Now, Steve, good morning, welcome to the show.
- 32:30Speaker 12: Good morning, Dave, thank you.
- 32:32Speaker 3: Thanks for being here. It's always a pleasure to have
- 32:34Speaker 3: you on the show. But Buddy, I wish it were
- 32:35Speaker 3: under better circumstances.
- 32:37Speaker 12: Yeah, that's for sure. We were in the press box
- 32:40Speaker 12: at Lane Stadium and Virginia Tech when the word spread
- 32:44Speaker 12: and that was yeah, that's just the kick you. And
- 32:50Speaker 12: Woody was one of those guys who was so lively
- 32:54Speaker 12: and was so gregarious and outgoing, and everywhere you were
- 32:59Speaker 12: with him you had that giant laugh and all of
- 33:03Speaker 12: a sudden the realization you weren't going to hear that again.
- 33:06Speaker 12: Was a tough one, just.
- 33:08Speaker 4: A great, great guy. And I know you know, Steve,
- 33:11Speaker 4: when someone passes.
- 33:12Speaker 3: Away that people always say, well, hopefully they'll they will say,
- 33:16Speaker 3: oh he was a good guyer he or she was
- 33:18Speaker 3: such a good person, or whatever the case would be.
- 33:20Speaker 4: But in the case of Woody Woodrum, I mean just
- 33:22Speaker 4: an all around good dude.
- 33:26Speaker 12: Yes, and one who loved Marshall University and Dave, probably
- 33:33Speaker 12: you would be very hard pressed to find somebody anywhere
- 33:37Speaker 12: who spent more time thinking about and talking about this
- 33:42Speaker 12: school than what he did fifty years from the time
- 33:45Speaker 12: in nineteen seventy four he came to Huntington from Winfield
- 33:48Speaker 12: as a Marshall student and he had two distinct careers, Dave,
- 33:53Speaker 12: and both of them go back to that because he
- 33:55Speaker 12: took journalism classes, but he went to work in the
- 34:00Speaker 12: equipment room as a student equipment manager and when he graduated,
- 34:05Speaker 12: that was his career and it was a career that
- 34:09Speaker 12: made a difference that is still seen today. People because
- 34:14Speaker 12: of what he's done for the last twenty years, may
- 34:17Speaker 12: not realize that he was the equipment man at Marshall
- 34:22Speaker 12: in the era when it went from a job where
- 34:25Speaker 12: you do laundry and order shoes to it became known
- 34:31Speaker 12: that how equipment could protect players, and specifically the biggest
- 34:37Speaker 12: thing is helmets and being properly fitted and new technology
- 34:41Speaker 12: and preventing concussions in that but all sorts, you know,
- 34:44Speaker 12: shoulder pads that are fitted properly can help prevent injuries
- 34:47Speaker 12: as well. And he was Marshall's man in that era
- 34:50Speaker 12: and realized and pushed for additional training and certifications and
- 34:56Speaker 12: licensures and deve you hear in the world of sports
- 35:01Speaker 12: about quarterback coaching trees like Mike Leach's in the air
- 35:06Speaker 12: raid offense, and you see where that spreads to and
- 35:09Speaker 12: in broadcasting sports casting Syracuse, all those Syracuse alumps, who
- 35:15Speaker 12: you have that tree. In the world of college football equipment,
- 35:20Speaker 12: Woody is the godfather of a big tree. And just
- 35:22Speaker 12: a couple of examples you had Notre Dame's top equipment
- 35:28Speaker 12: man for several years, just got out of the business.
- 35:31Speaker 12: Ryan Grooms was a Marshall guy. Just last week at
- 35:34Speaker 12: Virginia Tech. Eric Lewis is a Marshall guy. And you
- 35:37Speaker 12: trace all of that back to Woody and the people
- 35:41Speaker 12: who followed him, like Matt Lewis and Rich Warner and
- 35:44Speaker 12: so on and so forth. But these guys are all
- 35:46Speaker 12: over the country. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of their youngsters,
- 35:50Speaker 12: Kyle Poter, is a Marshall guy. So that was a
- 35:53Speaker 12: long lasting and significant contribution.
- 35:56Speaker 4: To the world of sports along those lines.
- 35:58Speaker 3: I just got a text from Bill Woodrum, who is
- 36:01Speaker 3: a very good friend of mine and the and the
- 36:03Speaker 3: brother of Woody, And I'll talk about Bill's statement a
- 36:07Speaker 3: little bit later on, but he tells me that wood
- 36:09Speaker 3: he actually designed the current m on the helmet for
- 36:13Speaker 3: Jim Donnon Yes.
- 36:16Speaker 12: And the list goes on and on and on with
- 36:22Speaker 12: little things like that that make a big and again
- 36:26Speaker 12: unless someone like Bill knows the story and can pass on.
- 36:31Speaker 12: It's the sort of thing that people, even though who
- 36:34Speaker 12: knew it at the time, may not remember. Because then
- 36:36Speaker 12: when the equipment job wore down his body and he
- 36:40Speaker 12: couldn't do that anymore, he made the transition into writing
- 36:44Speaker 12: and broadcasting sports for several years with us on the
- 36:48Speaker 12: Thundering Herd network, and that's where I've got to know
- 36:52Speaker 12: him well. So many road trips rooming together and so
- 36:55Speaker 12: many laughs. And then even when the body again broke
- 36:59Speaker 12: down a little the morning he couldn't travel anymore, he
- 37:01Speaker 12: still was a fixture at everything Marshall, at high school
- 37:05Speaker 12: stuff around Huntington, and he made a difference in a
- 37:08Speaker 12: second career on that side of things.
- 37:10Speaker 3: Talking to Steve Cotton again the voice of the Thundering Herd,
- 37:12Speaker 3: on the death of Woody Woodroum, you know, I never, Steve,
- 37:15Speaker 3: I never met anyone who had a bad word to
- 37:17Speaker 3: say about Woody, and in our business, the broadcasting side
- 37:21Speaker 3: of it, but you know that's a rarity's.
- 37:24Speaker 12: Debit rarity well because he always uh, well, if he
- 37:31Speaker 12: didn't have a smile on his face, it didn't last
- 37:33Speaker 12: that way long. And he would bounce back and be happy.
- 37:36Speaker 12: And Dave, you know, we talked about his physical challenges
- 37:39Speaker 12: as his life went on. A couple of years ago
- 37:43Speaker 12: he had a very significant illness and weren't sure he
- 37:47Speaker 12: was going to make it through that. He ended up
- 37:48Speaker 12: in a rehab facility across the river in South Point, Ohio.
- 37:52Speaker 12: And uh, I remember going over to visit him there,
- 37:55Speaker 12: and that's a rough place. There's not a lot of laughter.
- 37:58Speaker 12: I walked in the door, went to the front desk,
- 38:00Speaker 12: was going about to ask, all right, can you tell
- 38:02Speaker 12: me what room Woody Woodrom's in? And I heard that
- 38:05Speaker 12: laugh down the hallway and I told the guy, nope,
- 38:08Speaker 12: I got it. And I just followed the noise and
- 38:10Speaker 12: was able to go visit him. And he bounced back
- 38:12Speaker 12: from that and had a couple of more years hanging
- 38:15Speaker 12: around sports in Huntington and at Marshall specifically. So and
- 38:21Speaker 12: you mentioned Bill. Bill works in economic development in the
- 38:24Speaker 12: state of West Virginia. Another brother, Jim, and all these
- 38:26Speaker 12: guys worked for Woody in the Marshall Equipment Room to
- 38:30Speaker 12: get their start. Jim went onto a long career in
- 38:33Speaker 12: sports marketing. Now he teaches sports marketing classes and the
- 38:37Speaker 12: Brad Smith College of Business here at Marshall University. So
- 38:41Speaker 12: the Woodroom family legacy is something that we all know about,
- 38:46Speaker 12: and Woody was the one who got it all started.
- 38:49Speaker 3: Indeed, while I have you here, Steve, I would be
- 38:52Speaker 3: remiss if I didn't at least talk a little bit
- 38:54Speaker 3: about Marshall Thurner and heard football. You know, they went
- 38:57Speaker 3: down to Blacksburg on Saturday afternoon, and I don't think
- 39:00Speaker 3: a whole lot of people expected.
- 39:02Speaker 4: Them to win the game. I don't think they played
- 39:04Speaker 4: all that badly your thoughts.
- 39:07Speaker 12: The defense stood tall and held Virginia Tech to three
- 39:11Speaker 12: hundred and thirty eight yards of total offense. A special
- 39:15Speaker 12: teams play against Marshall was a difference maker. First Virginia
- 39:19Speaker 12: Tech touchdowns was on a punt return, but then the
- 39:21Speaker 12: Marshall special teamers got that back by blocking a punt
- 39:25Speaker 12: that went out of bounds at the five yard line,
- 39:27Speaker 12: scored a touchdown. And then at the end of the
- 39:30Speaker 12: game you're trailing, so you have to go for it
- 39:33Speaker 12: on fourth down. A couple of times Marshall had two
- 39:36Speaker 12: long drives down into the red zone, including one to
- 39:38Speaker 12: the six yard line. Couldn't settle for field goals at
- 39:41Speaker 12: that point, had to go for it easily, could have
- 39:44Speaker 12: been a little bit closer. Now Marshall knows it needs
- 39:47Speaker 12: to get more done on offense than it was able
- 39:49Speaker 12: to do in Blacksburg. Now there's a bye week, you
- 39:51Speaker 12: can go back to work specifically on yourself. But after
- 39:55Speaker 12: the open date, a couple of weeks down the road,
- 39:57Speaker 12: Marshall is at Ohio State. So there's another huge challenge
- 40:00Speaker 12: in store next in line for coach Charles Soustein.
- 40:03Speaker 4: Oh, come on, how.
- 40:04Speaker 3: Hard could it be to go to to go to
- 40:06Speaker 3: the Horseshoe and beat Ohio State.
- 40:08Speaker 12: Well we'll find out now, won't. That's what everybody said
- 40:11Speaker 12: a couple of years ago with Marshall.
- 40:13Speaker 3: I still I still remember that that quite well. Hey, Steve,
- 40:18Speaker 3: I know this was a difficult to think getting back
- 40:19Speaker 3: to Woody woodrom and it was difficult for you because
- 40:21Speaker 3: you guys were very close. I'll leave you with a
- 40:24Speaker 3: quick woody woodrom and I've got plenty of woody woodroom stories,
- 40:26Speaker 3: but I'll leave you with one of my Ten years ago,
- 40:30Speaker 3: the city of Chapmanville, in my native Logan County, played
- 40:33Speaker 3: host to the state Little League Baseball tournament and I
- 40:36Speaker 3: was doing some more promotion type stuff. Then the city
- 40:39Speaker 3: hired me and my company to cheap Plug for Dave
- 40:43Speaker 3: Maley Communications, to come to kind of just put the
- 40:46Speaker 3: whole thing on. You know, I mean, the onfield thing
- 40:48Speaker 3: is one thing, but you gotta, you know, you got
- 40:50Speaker 3: to organize, well, who's going to throw out the first
- 40:53Speaker 3: pitch and who's going to do the national anthem and
- 40:55Speaker 3: that sort of thing.
- 40:56Speaker 4: So that's what they hired me to do, basically.
- 40:58Speaker 3: Was to the entire duction around the state Lilllegue Baseball
- 41:01Speaker 3: tournament for a week in Chapmanville. And Wood he was
- 41:05Speaker 3: broadcasting one of the local teams from Huntington, Barbersville, somewhere
- 41:08Speaker 3: down there, and he came down there and the press
- 41:11Speaker 3: box at the end, and this is at the Chapmanville
- 41:14Speaker 3: Regional High School facility, which is a big, massive facility,
- 41:17Speaker 3: not the most easily accessible press box in the world.
- 41:21Speaker 3: And as you said, even ten years ago, Wood he
- 41:22Speaker 3: had some health issues and I got the pleasure of
- 41:25Speaker 3: carrying his cases for him up the I think it
- 41:28Speaker 3: was like two flights of stairs to get to that
- 41:30Speaker 3: press box.
- 41:31Speaker 4: He was very appreciative of it, but I don't think.
- 41:34Speaker 3: A couple of points I had to stop because he
- 41:37Speaker 3: was saying things to make me laugh so loudly that
- 41:40Speaker 3: I was like, what do you want me to carry this?
- 41:42Speaker 3: Or do you not because I can't carry your stuff
- 41:44Speaker 3: and listen to you at the same time. That's who
- 41:46Speaker 3: Woody Woodron was.
- 41:48Speaker 12: That's true. And you know, over the last few days,
- 41:52Speaker 12: you don't go a few minutes without thinking about what
- 41:54Speaker 12: he and you're sad, But then a minute later, I've
- 41:57Speaker 12: got a smile on my face and that is a wonderful.
- 42:01Speaker 4: Indeed it is. Hey, Steve, I appreciate you being here.
- 42:03Speaker 4: We will talk Someboddy, thanks a lot.
- 42:05Speaker 12: Hi. Dave ad One.
- 42:06Speaker 3: Steve Cotton, the voice of the Thundering Herd on the
- 42:09Speaker 3: loss of Woody Woodroam one of the all time just good,
- 42:12Speaker 3: good guys. And as I said, in this broadcasting business
- 42:14Speaker 3: that I've been a part of for thirty six years,
- 42:17Speaker 3: it's hard to find anybody that no one will say
- 42:19Speaker 3: anything bad about.
- 42:20Speaker 4: I mean me included, But Woody was just one of
- 42:25Speaker 4: the good guys.
- 42:25Speaker 3: And I got a text, as I said, I'm very
- 42:27Speaker 3: good friends with his brother Bill, and I got a
- 42:28Speaker 3: text that asked if I could just say thank you
- 42:31Speaker 3: to everyone from the Woodroom family. The outpoint of love
- 42:34Speaker 3: for Woody and their family has been amazing and overwhelming.
- 42:37Speaker 3: That's a text for Bill, the brother of Woody Woodroam.
- 42:39Speaker 3: He will definitely, definitely there's a giant hole in the
- 42:44Speaker 3: Jewels City now at Marshall University first and again, as
- 42:47Speaker 3: Steve said, you know, starting in the equipment room and
- 42:51Speaker 3: then transitioning into broadcasting. And the last thing he did
- 42:55Speaker 3: in the world of broadcasting on Friday night was he
- 42:58Speaker 3: did the call of the Hontington Martinsburg So he still
- 43:01Speaker 3: had that love.
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- 48:49Speaker 4: Guns in America.
- 48:51Speaker 3: The latest school shooting in Georgia last week, and I
- 48:56Speaker 3: touched on this briefly because it was based on a text.
- 48:59Speaker 3: I got to this show that the father of the
- 49:02Speaker 3: shooter in that particular situation in Georgia from last week
- 49:06Speaker 3: is being charged in a big time a second degree murder,
- 49:09Speaker 3: I think is what it was. The question on everyone's
- 49:14Speaker 3: mind is what do we do about it? And every
- 49:17Speaker 3: time that there is either a school shooting or a
- 49:22Speaker 3: mass shooting in a public place, which is kind of
- 49:24Speaker 3: concentrated on school shootings now, people wring their hands and
- 49:29Speaker 3: say thoughts and prayers.
- 49:32Speaker 4: What do we do about it?
- 49:34Speaker 5: Now?
- 49:34Speaker 4: I will state point.
- 49:35Speaker 3: Blank, I'm a gun guy, and you will never ever
- 49:38Speaker 3: hear me blame the gun.
- 49:41Speaker 4: I blame the person.
- 49:43Speaker 3: But with this particular case, there were so many red
- 49:48Speaker 3: flags with this shooter that went unchecked. You've heard the
- 49:55Speaker 3: story now about the FBI being sent to the parents'
- 49:58Speaker 3: house because of threats what couple of years ago and
- 50:01Speaker 3: they found no credible evidence. The FBI comes back and says, hey,
- 50:06Speaker 3: if the parents say he's okay, and we talked to
- 50:08Speaker 3: the kid and we don't see any sort of threat
- 50:12Speaker 3: from him, imminent threat.
- 50:14Speaker 4: Based on interviews to them, what are we supposed to do?
- 50:17Speaker 4: And I get that.
- 50:18Speaker 3: I completely understand what they're saying. Now it's come out
- 50:21Speaker 3: that the mother of the shooter actually called the school
- 50:26Speaker 3: that day warning them that something could happen. I'm like
- 50:32Speaker 3: a lot of you. I bring things up on the show.
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- 51:44Speaker 4: Mark my words.
- 51:46Speaker 3: If I were handicapping this thing, I would give the
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- 51:52Speaker 3: better speaker. She'll went on style points and she's a prosecutor.
- 51:57Speaker 3: But well, totally with whole judgment on that, I guess
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