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two on this Thursday morning at her Are you painting this here with the Peyton
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Law Firm in Nitro. I'm Jeff Jenkins and Harvey's right by my side and
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he's ready to take your call and he questions about the law. Three oh
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four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Three oh four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight. Good morning, sir, well, good morning,
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Jef Jingins. I understand you, uh you grace the wilds of Putnam and
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Mason County this past week. But you did not get a shovel at the
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New Core right now. There are only five hundred and fifty of them,
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so I can't well, I mean, they didn't think the Metro News was
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was one of the top five. They probably they probably let me grab one
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if I wanted one. Probably, Well, yeah, I mean it's it's
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a big deal New Core. It's not a it's not a phantom deal.
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It's not like you know, sonically tuned ammunition or or a billion dollars,
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billions of dollars from the Chinese. This is a solid development on really great
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property, great land down there. You saw it, Yeah, the Apple
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Grave area, that area, it's amazing piece of property is And you know
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from my family on my dad's side or my grandmother's side, my grandmother Peyton.
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I mean they're from like sixteen mile Creek, Henderson's south side couch.
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So you know, all my life that I can remember, had been driving
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up now it was in Route seventeen it's now thirty. It was it was
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the thirty five now it's eight seventeen down the river to Point Pleasant and Henderson
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to visit like my dad's first cousin. I thought call him my uncle because
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he was my dad's in Houston. Kaufman and his wife Emma had a dairy
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farm there, and then his sister Rachel Somerville lived next door at a nice
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farm, and you know, every now and then we'd drive down route to
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to visit some relatives at Applegrove. But you know, it's over the years.
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I just watched Point Pleasant. It's sort of slowly contracted. Once the
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Silver Bridge fell. You know, the traffic used to have to run right
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through downtown Point Pleasant if you were going over to Ohio, like if you
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were on the road to date and you would drive down seventeen. I mean
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Route thirty five was on the north side of the river at that time,
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which is now Route sixty two. It's much worse road, so most people
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would go down seventeen. You'd cross what was called the Shadle Bridge, named
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for the Shadle family. They had the dairy, which is the Mount Vernon
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mansion you see there. Now. Go down Main Street where Vyan turn left
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and go across the bridge at the Silver Bridge right there by the courthouse.
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And didn't a little town called Canaga on the other side of the High River
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and then back down to Point Pleasant now on thirty five, I mean once
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that happened in the fall of sixty seven was yeah, in December sixty seven
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the bridge fell. Well, that just killed traffic three point Pleasus and then
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the new Silver bridge was built across the river. And it's but I look
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for a bounce back, you know. My daughter went down to the Mothman
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Festival. As time said, it was so crowded that you had to stand
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in line for most things. They've got at the old hotel, the Low
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Hotels now changed hands again, it's been revitalized. They've got beautiful if you
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go down to Point Pleasant and go out, go outside the flood wall on
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the on the river side, there's a nice walkway. They have gorgeous murals
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done professionally by an artist from a belief Pittsburgh. And in the two Indie
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museum there at the Point quite interesting, the Riverboat Museum. And I understand
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that now we're going to perhaps have a Hilton Garden or some sort of Marriotte
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affiliated hotel on the other side of the river where Henderson is now, not
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in the the point land there that's owned by mccauslin's and that's probably not going
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to change hands. But right downtown we're Henderson b McDonald's over there until the
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new bridge was built to replace the Shale bridge, and he took the land.
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But good things are happening, and it's good for Putnam County. It's
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actually good for the whole region, as you found out when you drive from
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if you're at the Winfield interchange off of I sixty four, or say you're
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at the Crooked Creek interchange, we were out thirty five and sixty four come
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together, you're as close to the New Core plant as if you're in downtown
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Point Pleasant, because it's sort of that upper loop. You know, the
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High River runs almost due north past New Core. That makes a little bend
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to the east and south, and there's Point Pleasant where the Kanal River comes
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in. But you can cut straight across from Buffalo on what's called Jerry's Run
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and man pop pop right out there at it's the Palmar store, and then
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take it right and you're right there at the plant. So what you say,
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it took you forty nine minutes. Forty nine minutes from the plant parking
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lot to downtown Charleston yeah, in the ring. In the ring. Yeah,
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I wasn't pushing it either, Yeah, it was it was. Yeah.
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I suspect that road's going to be improved. Jerry's run will be because
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you've got so much developable land. You've got Fraser's Bottom, You've got a
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lot of land there at Buffalo. You know, you've got really good industrial
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locations right off the Route thirty five there at the Putnam County Development Authorities Industrial
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Park, which is now starting to really boom again. You know, they
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sold two big parcels last month. We'll see. I mean, it's good
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for everybody. And that's the kind of a big starting with eight hundred employees.
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Well, you never know where that's going to lead. You know,
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when Toyota came to Buffalo, he started what seven hundred employees, Well that's
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almost two thousand, and the attendant industries. There's this trucking company, a
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Rush Transport. There's sort of a captive company with Toyota to the hall where
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there's a recycling company there. There's also over in the industrial park, you
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know, an Italian company that makes wiring harnesses. There's another enterprise in Eleanor
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that makes parts that are used by Toyota. So you know in Puttinnham,
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we've probably got three thousand. Now they don't all to live in Putnam County,
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so in Mason County. Some of them live over in Ohio. But
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hey, job's a job, right, They got to spend their money someplace.
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So it's an exciting time. We look forward to it. It's a
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long way from I first had an open an office in Nitro in May of
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nineteen seventy seven. That's a long time ago, right, that's forty what
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forty five years ago or better. And the only thing at the Winfield interchange
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at that time. Paul Cooper, whose son Steve still has a garage down
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in or bought a repair shop down near Winfield. Paul Cooper had an Exxon
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station which is the bill is now med Express. Across the road. A
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man named Frank shirt Singer had a little truck stop it's now Truck Stops of
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America ta Eddie Row and had a tractor sales. And that was it.
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Mount Vernon Baptist Church, which is ever present, was there on the hill.
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That was it was. The rest of it was this farmland. Calvin
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James had a fishing lake down there which is now Lake Sheedessa Drive surrounded by
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houses and it was a miniature golf course, and I mean that was just
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it. You drive down the valley road and you passed more cows than you
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would houses. And now you know, forty some years later, it's just
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booming and has been could have been booming even greater had we had the foresight
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in the nineteen sixties to overcome the resistance of the Kanawa County Commission and the
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children controlled newspaper bull the Dickinson controlled newspapers and built a modern airport. But
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you never know. That's that's that's a counter factual, but it's it's almost
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painful to think about what could have been had we had a really regional approach
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at the time, and seeing like Huntington, Capitell and Putnam County. Did
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you know, a job here is as good as a job there. If
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you're all in this together, we'll see. So what's happening in illegal Well,
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yeah, three or four given the number here, three or four,
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three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Three oh four three four five fifty
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eight fifty three or four three four five fifty eight fiftyeight, Harvey's here any
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questions about the law. Well this whole there's some things going on about and
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we've talked about this a little bit about the class action lawsuit against in connection
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with corrections right in the state of West Virginia, and so Jojobahasson or Magister
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Judge alba Haasson, you know, Governor Justice and Brian Abraham don't want to
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give depositions, and so I think Albaha Haaston yesterday kind of took a step
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back. So well, let's take a look at this. I mean,
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no one seems to be be able to agree whether they should. So you
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know, I'm going to issue a stay right for the time being and see
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what happens. Yeah, the way it works in the federal system, there's
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a city, there are magistrates. In the state court system are the lower
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level of courts from the federal system. In every district, like this is
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a southern district, it was from in the southern district, we have three
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magistrate judges. Now they're selected by the judges, the district court judges,
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and they serve for a limited term. They're sector reappointment. So down in
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in the southern part of the state, it's omar Ablehusen who's from Princeton.
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Then here got doing Tensley and then Sheryl Efford and Huntington, and the structure
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in federal court as matters of discovery, which is like depositions and irrogatories,
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requests for the production of documents from one party in a civil lawsuit to the
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other side or to a independent third party that has information. If there's a
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dispute that arises there there's a general order that's been entered in the district and
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it's been in place for decades that all those matters go to the magistrate judge.
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The magistrate judge here's the dispute and makes a decision in the form of
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a recommendation that then can be If the parties aren't satisfied, then they can
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go to the district court judge to whom the case is. Aside of the
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district court judges, of course, it's a presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate
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of the United States. That's the first level in the form of federal judiciary.
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So and this is not out of the ordinary. I mean, there
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are any number of cases. I heard Tom on the air last week.
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You are there any number of cases where I mean if you've got a suit
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against a large private corporation and you want to depose the president of CSX,
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you're going to meet with the same response from councilor cs AX. Look,
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you can't just be jerking our CEO up here for a deposition because it has
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this adverse effect on the operations of the entity. So we're not going to
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produce some Somebody has to decide that, and it's in the federal court system
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here in West Virginia. That's the magistrate court judge. So I think it's
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hard not to refer to somebody that you've known, like Omar. I knew
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Judge Apple Houston for a long time. He was actually he was elected,
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I believe, to a circuit, the circuit Mercer County County. Yeah,
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and when I have all the confidence in the world and him to sort this
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out, he said, let's just take the steam off here. Let's say
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everybody quit barking at each other. Let's hear some testimony and decide what we're
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going to at least maybe lay some ground rules, which is what I think
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will ultimately happen. Right, we have a call, Yeah, we got
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a call from Ron. Ron. You're on the ear at Harvey Payton.
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Go ahead, run morning Ron morning guys, how you quite well? It's
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good good to hear you on there, are we? I got a quick
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question. I was out on quarter geez, it's been three months ago,
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and driving home from work one day, and some people inside of me locked
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up their brakes and my first thought is there's gonna be an accident. And
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about the time I thought that I was blindsided by a car hit me in
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the side, And come to find out, the boy that hit me in
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he was a nice young man, but he only had a liar from it.
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Didn't have anybody in the car with him. But make a long story
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short, I mean, I'm three months in and I still don't have my
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truck back. I didn't have any injuries personal injuries, I mean as far
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as physical is concerned, but I've been through all kinds of stuff of this.
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He give me the wrong insurance company. I had to make acclaim with
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my company. Then they found out he had insurance with another company. Is
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there another recoal worse for somebody like me who don't have a physical injury but
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has been through all this situation. Is there no recourse for somebody like me?
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Well, there may well be, but I'll tell you what. It's
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all facts driven. Why don't you do this? You know, we do
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a lot of things by telephone. Now Tom, neither Tom or I are
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going to be in the office the rest of today or tomorrow because we're going
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to We've got a family and get together down in North Carolina. But the
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first of the week, it's call the office and asked to speak to Tom.
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If I'm not there and he let him get the facts. Then there
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are circumstances where a property damage claim can result in the availability of some general
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damages, not all. But we need to find out the facts, and
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you probably don't want to talk about all that on the air. So just
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give us a call of three or four seven five five five, five five
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six, ask for Tom and or me if I'm there, and then we'll
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get the facts and see what we can tell you. Okay, We'll be
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glad to help you. We never charge for that. I mean that's something
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that if someone wants to call and say, do I have a claim?
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Or I have a claim? But is this something a lawyer should get involved
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in? Or I have I think I might have a claim. What's the
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you know what are the parameters, what maybe might I expect? I mean,
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we just do that as a matter of course, because yeah, because
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if we can help you, well, we can always help you. We
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can tell you one way or the other what direction to go. But if
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it needed something that you need the fine end of a lawyer to represents you,
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we can do that. If not, we'll pinch you in the right
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direction to get it resolved. How's that sounds like playing? I appreciate it,
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you know, I just don't. I didn't know which way to go.
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I'm glad you weren't hurt. First of all, you know, I
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called injuries an automobile accidents or you know, like this morning, coming in,
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I called my office because my receptionist is from down in Buffalo and there
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was an accident yesterday that injured a Putnam County deputy from who's from that area.
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You're just really lucky. I mean, you see what happened out on
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Quarter G last week. Someone was killed out there, ejected from a vehicle.
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Another t boat accidents, just too much speed, too much speed and
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too little enforcement. We got the I I was in the slow lane just
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trying to get home from work one day, and all this happened, and
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like I said, here, I am three months in and I'm not sure.
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Well, I'm sure we can do something to I'm sure we can do
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something to help you. If you're talking about that kind of you to give
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us a buzz. Okay, all right, I appreciate it. Thankanks you.
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All right, great question there three oh four, three four five fifty
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Harvey Payton with the Peyton Law Firmace with us and give Harvey call three oh
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four three four five fifty eight fifty eight three oh four three four five fifty
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eight fifty eighth. Let me say you one thing about Ron's call. I'm
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gonna use him to segue into this. Let's yeah. When we first started
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doing this program twenty almost twenty five years ago, I think about twenty five
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years ago, the whole point was number one, to raise top of mind
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awareness about the Peyton Law Firm. Because we we're proud of what we do
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and we do a really good job. We don't advertise on television or on
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mass uber mass media. We do this radio program and a few other things
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mostly through community involvement. What was secondarily is to try and let folks know,
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don't be afraid to call a lawyer. Lawyers are here to help you.
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Now, there are some terrible examples of lawyer gouging, and lawyer dishonesty,
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and the lawyer of abuse. You know, you get someone who represents
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a big vested interest and they just pile up on the little guy unmercifully.
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But you know, look at ninety five percent of the attorneys that I've dealt
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with in my career, across the board, ninety five percent or more.
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Honor the fact that we've been vested with training in one of the learned professions.
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And we owe a duty of loyalty and honesty to the public that we
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deal with, and we owe duty to people that try and help them if
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we can. And so don't be afraid about mantre has always been, don't
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be afraid to pick up the phone, call a lawyer. You can save
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yourself money in the long run by spending a little bit now, or you
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can so if we have a call like Ron Here's had an automobile like so,
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well, what do you do? I mean, it is a perplexing
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situation. All of a sudden, through no fault of your own, things
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change now. In the absolute worst situation, things can change horribly. I
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mean, I represented a wonderful young woman a few years ago who was victimized
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by Route thirty five. Her husband went out to get some pizza for her
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and their little boy, and all of a sudden, the lights went out.
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She didn't know why they're electricity are off? Well, it went off
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because two miles away attractor trailer driver wasn't paying attention and struck her husband's vehicle
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in the rear and killed him. What do you do? I mean,
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nobody knows what they're do in that situation. Here's a gentleman driving home from
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work, he's going to truck he do you know? His life is in
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order, and now all of a sudden, through no fault of his own,
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everything changes. Well, what do you do? So? Uh,
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don't be afraid to ask and to call a lawyer and ask. And somebody
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shouldn't ask you for money to answer your questions or to point you in the
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right direction. With the Payton Law Firm, we've never charged anyone and he
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you hear these big TV advertisers you won't pay us unless we went Well that's
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the norm, that's the norm. Uh, you know, pick up the
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phone, own a call, or send us an email through Peyton Lawfirm dot
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com. There's a tab that only come and I see when it comes in
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and we can get some facts. Because almost everything is driven by the facts.
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The law. The law changes all the law hasn't been written. The
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law changes sometimes in to accommodate shifts in a cultural norm, the way people
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think about things, the way people work. Right, you know in the
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old days when when you had w two workers were represented by unions with the
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primary source of wages in the economy. Well, there's one way to look
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at laws turnings. In today's economy, where you've got an opportunity, an
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entrepreneurial economy, people who are dropping out of the workforce to take advantage of
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opportunities, well you have to look at that differently because the law was pretty
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tough on that those kinds of recoveries years ago. And now you need to
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be more creative. And how you look at seeing that people are compensated adequately
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for an injury. So pick up the phone and call we we do it
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all the time. Either Tom will call back, or I will call back,
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or for there we'll take the call. And you know there isn't a
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full blown attorney client relationship in place. Through a telephone call or through an
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inquiry over the internet. But our rule is strict confidentiality. What you call
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and tell us. If you're talking to either me or Tom in a circumstance
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where you're giving us information to make a decision about how you should act,
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how you should react, how you should guide your future conduct relative to an
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injury, that's a confidential relationship. Nobody's ever going to find out what you
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say to us unless you're calling about committing a crime. And we've seen here
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lately with a couple of lawyers out of Georgia where those those communications aren't privileged.
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And certainly if we can help you, we will. If the biggest
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way to help is to say, look, you don't need a lawyer to
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do this, or look I'm sorry, but even with the changing and evolving
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law, there's not going to be a recovery for that. So that you
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can at least tell the person what their situation is and they can adjust to
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it. That's what we're there for now. If it leads to representation,
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that's good. I mean, you won't get it any better anywhere else than
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you will at the Peyton Law Firm. We've I've been practicing law since nineteen
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seventy four. Come next May I have been practicing for fifty years and pretty
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vigorous practice. I've tried real trials, like where you go in and you
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select a jury and you put a jury in the box and you call witnesses
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and you cross examine witnesses and you argue the case of the jury and you
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get a verdict. Way over two hundred of those, way over ten of
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them were first degree murder cases. I'm five and five on this, which
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is a pretty good record. That's really good record, pretty good, right,
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well, and all it's all involved in the fights. I mean,
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if three of the acquittals were self defense, right, I mean, it's
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just one of those things. There are difficult cases. They are horrible because
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you well, two of them were family members and one was a close friend.
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He's got a fight, They got in a fight, and readily the
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ready availability of firearms. One was a firearm that was in a car and
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I just was in the car for whatever reason. We started fighting around.
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One guy's getting whipped really bad and the gun comes out. They fight over
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that, and absent the presence of a firearm, that wouldn't have been a
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killing. There might have been an assault charge. But mostly it was in
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a fist fight that would have gotten over with. But you know, and
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Tom has tried i'd say a hindred twenty years, including his huge verdicts up
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in Morgan County's drive cases over in Cleveland. He and I tried a big
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case over in Columbus for a railroad worker, got a big verdict. He's
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argued a case successfully down the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. I've
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done some work in the sixth Circuit in Cincinnati and the District Court. But
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that's a jewel in your crowd to have cases argued and decided in both both
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adjoining circuits, the fourth and the sixth. Plus if you look at our
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website, we've got about thirty reported cases decided about the Supreme Court, all
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the way from murder to well talked about Mason County. I got, you
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know, just another unfortunate thing. Young man got electrocute to doubt the Phillips
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pouring plant, and we were grateful enough to represent his wife and kids and
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it came out very very well. I mean, you can see those two
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cases reported because they were appealed by the power cut me and upheld. So
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doing what Ronda did is what you should do. I don't. Let don't
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feel pressured. I mean you feel these TV as a call call, call,
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call, Well, take a breath, take a deep breath. Let
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me just get my feet on the ground here first, let me find out
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what my options are. And then if you want to talk to more than
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one lawyer, that's fine. If you talk to us and you like us,
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you feel comfortable, we'll be representing you. We got another call.
27:26
Yeah, Bob, Bob's on the line. Bob, go ahead, you're
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on with Harvey. Morning, Bob, good morning, good morning. Go
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ahead, Bob. Turned down your radio, don't listen to your radio.
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Just talk to us on the phone. Jeff, is it okay to talk
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about something that doesn't have anything to do with a law if you want to
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ask him. Harvey's usually a good taker on that. Go ahead. Well,
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it's it's more about you, oh about me? Okay. Over the
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years, your station, you Chris Lawrence and all other newspeople a horrible habit
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of calling anything that happens around the corner from Little Page Terras on Route twenty
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one as happening in Sissonville. A couple months ago, a car went through
28:15
a house on Wolf Pen Drive about a mile from Charleston city limits, and
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y'all had that happening in Sissonville. And the latest thing is the two kids
28:29
that were rescued from the barn. You had that in Sissonville. That happened
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if you know where Cistonville High School is. That happened about half a mile
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from Cissonville High School, six and a half miles from Sissonville. And it
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seems like there's just case after case after case of things happening around the corner
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there and it's either in Sistemville or the Sistonsville area. In Sisonville is about
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a mile from the Jackson County line. And the truth being known, nothing
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newsworthy has happened in Cistonville in the last thirty years, but they get in
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the news. Yeah, just about every day. And before I hang up,
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Harvey, yes, I understand you're a graduate of Fairview Grade School.
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That's exactly right, A proud graduate of Fairview, the Hilltoppers, Fairview Grade
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School, west side of Saint Albans. I graduated from Fairview in nineteen forty
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nine. Well, my dad graduated from Fairview in I think nineteen thirty six,
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and my uncle in nineteen thirty nine, and my, oh, that
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was the end of the line. Fairview closed before my grandkids. They live
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over on West Main where I did, but they go to Central because Fairview
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shut down. It was a wonderful play. Was the Roy Farrell principle there
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when you went there? Roy Farrell was the principal. And I have lessons
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that got in my life even today that I learned from Roy Ferrell and some
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that I didn't understand at the time. Have you ever heard the legend of
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CP geis who preceded him? Well, mister geist was the principal and my
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dad was there, but no, not any Your dad ever tells stories about
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a lot of disciplinarian CP. Goh yeah, oh yeah, I heard about
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that. Well. CP retired when I was in the fourth grade. After
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I finished the fourth grade, and boy kids were celebrating. Well, so
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under the heading of be careful what you wish for. Our replacement in September
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was Roy Ferrell and he was a Marine sergeant who had just finished island hopping
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in the Pacific in World War Two. So we did not get an adventage
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and Roy Ferrell gave me the whipping of my life over nothing. And I've
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finished college, passed a CPA exam, and worked in tax and blow and
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behold. Later on, I got a chance to do Roy Ferrell's tax return,
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and I thought, boy, I've got a chance to get even here
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that I didn't And thank you, Bob. We'll keep that in mind.
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It's amazing, you know. At that time, mister Ferrell had his hands
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full. He was from Putnam County. His wife also worked at the school.
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But when I started grade school in nineteen fifty five, it was the
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first year in that end of Pinawa County that schools were integrated. And it
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fell upon Ruy Ferrell and the staff to maintain a calm and accepting atmosphere at
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Fairview Gracel, which he did, and he would come around and I didn't
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think about it at the time, but Fairview, I mean the west side
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of Saint Albans a lot of some of us in an area which is known
32:29
as lick skillet, which because people were so poor in the depression, they
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would lick bacon grease off skellets. And it was a Title one school.
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When it closed, it would have been what was considered a Title one school
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at that time. And mister fare would come around to the classes about nine
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thirty in the morning and bring a tray and he would have commodity cheese.
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You know what commodity cheese is a boxes cut up, maybe some crackers,
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or they have a peanut butter with carrots cut up in it. And I
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thought, that isn't that nice? And I realized later that Roy Ferroll was
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smart enough and empathetic enough to know that when I got breakfast at my house,
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I could walk to grades go I didn't live a quarter mile away.
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That that was the first thing most of some of those kids ever had to
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eat that day, right, And he didn't make a big deal of it.
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It was like here, everybody had one of these, and you know,
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some children ate more than I. Nobody paid any attention because he just
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treated it as a part of the school atmosphere. And then he came in
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when I've learned that I can remember to this day, and he asked a
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child, now, have you been to a movie? Well, they said,
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well, if you were going to go to a movie, where would
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you go as well? The albur theaters. They said, okay, now
33:46
want you to tell me, give me directions on how you would get from
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here. To the albur Theater. And I guess that was the sort of
33:54
part of his military when he was a citizen soldier, like everybody else was.
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I was in grade school. Everybody wore the patches that their parents and
34:02
their fathers had had. I mean I had my dad's he was an aom
34:06
and the Navy, and my uncle was a gunnery mate. So you'd have
34:10
all those patches on your what was in a blue jean jacket. And you
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know, teach children how to give people directions. Well, so I said,
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no, no, no, Where would you go? Do you say
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you'd go to here and you pick out a place that you would know,
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didn't go from there to there? And you know, since that day when
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I was like at the third grade, I've always concentrated, I think,
34:36
to give people directions on how to get from a to b. To think
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in a linear fashion as opposed to a circular fashion. You know, summer,
34:44
fall, winter spring, summer, fall, winter spring, think about
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today, tomorrow and the next day, or this place to that place.
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Good education. I was blessed. I mean I went to grade school where
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they were caring, loving teachers. I went to a in your high school.
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Well, first to Saint Albans and after a year to Hayes where we
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had Dick side Bottom was the principal. Becky Goodwin was my English teacher.
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They really Bill Lepley was the coach, a gentleman named Lewis was just wonderful,
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and high school was the same. I mean, we had this huge
35:17
sense of community, which I think about this morning when I was listening to
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Hoppey's commentary on the transfer rule. Yeah, if you went to Junior High
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you were going to go to Saint Albans High School. That was home.
35:29
That was the whole community. When I you know, if you needed a
35:32
haircut, Oshel Kraigo at that time, I had a barber shop in Saint
35:36
Albans. That's where I went because my dad worked at post office, which
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right across the street from ocal shop. Well, you went in there and
35:43
they knew all the older men. Well, how are things going to practice?
35:47
Who anybody hurt? How are you going to do against Dunbar? I
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mean, it was just a whole part of the community itself, which I
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think is the biggest students They're all seen and recruited talent wise based upon their
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club and travel teams. Anyway, but it undermines the sense of community.
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And what does it do to parents who spend all who spend all their spare
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time with their children on travel teams and AAU teams, looking forward to see
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him play at the high school where they went to school, only to show
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up the first day of school and find five transfers sitting there who take their
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place. I mean, I just think it's horrible. I think copies on
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the right track. Read his commentary today, folks and be positive. Call
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