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09/20/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Millie Snyder, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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Delegates and cy Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin is going to be coming up
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on the show a little bit later on, but I want to welcome in
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Millie Snyder from the Shape Shop. How are you? I am so wonderful.
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Thank you for being here this morning. Thank you. And now I
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think I texted you yesterday that I can't wait to get here to see your
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handsome you did you complimented me and said, because I texted you yesterday to
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remind you that today was your day on the show, and you said,
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I can't wait to see your handsome face. Thank you very much. I
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do have a handsome facet. Onna. You do actually for radio, for
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radio, it's it's perfect, it's perfect. Well, what was that guy
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who used to do with the news. He said, I'll see you on
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the radio. I have heard a lot of people and I can't remember his
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name. I don't know interesting to look that up. Got a little bit
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of an early story of this. I don't know what some technical issue,
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but you know you're here, I'm here, So here we go. Well,
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you know, I have some wonderful I always have wonderful news. But
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what I'm among the things that I'm very excited about is tomorrow we're adding a
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new class for our Mediterranean group. And we have a name for it.
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By the way, It's called fix It with Foods, Pixel with Foods,
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And that's what we want to emphasize that the the problems that so many of
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us have, if we learn how to change our eating habits, we can
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fix the ills that we have in our body. Medication isn't the answer.
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In fact, one of the articles that I shared with my group last Thursday
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night was simply that you can learn morph at the grocery store, at your
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health then at the doctor's office. And I want to make that point even
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stronger if people, you know, want to hear that. And so we
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have had an evening meeting, and we still have that evening meeting, but
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as of tomorrow, we are adding a morning session and that we're going to
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start at nine to fifteen and begin talking at nine forty five. And that's
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at seven oh six Central Avenue. It's inside the building for Shape Shop,
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but it's in a separate room. Okay, So so give us the whole
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idea behind the way these things work. I mean, you come out and
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you just talk to people. You do demonstrations, Well, we have to
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go support. We don't do demonstration, but we have a personal way in
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and we keep track of the great progress that so many people are making.
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In fact, I have one lady who's lost over seventy pounds really and her
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health has improved almost like it is skyrocketed. And her doctor says to her,
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listen, whatever you're doing, stop, keep doing it. And her
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diabetes is under control. So give us an idea of what it is that
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she is doing. I mean, I know it's eating healthful. Okay,
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give us an example. The food that she's eating is unadulterated, it doesn't
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have chemicals and preservatives. It's fresh, clean food. And that's what Mediterranean
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is based on, because when you think about it, all the countries that's
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around the Mediterranean Sea are the kinds of countries that don't Americanize their way of
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food shopping. They have to go to the market on a regular basis.
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They don't have ginormous freezers in their houses, and they have to buy fresh
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food. Well, that way of eating has come to this country. And
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there's a group out of Boston called Old Ways, and they brought the concept
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of Mediterranean eating to our shores. Back when I said nineteen ninety three and
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I became aware of it, I guess it was around twenty fifteen. I
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had already sold weight watchers, and I had just about finished the fact that
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I couldn't do anything in the industry for three years, which is a non
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compete standard thing. But I needed to do what I've always done, which
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has helped people help themselves to do that. And I love that. It's
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a wonderful thing, and it's been a wonderful thing for me for fifty four
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years that I'm in West Virginia. I mean, I came here. You
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weren't even born yet. I came here in nineteen sixty nine, and so
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when I year later, I was born one year later. Oh thank you.
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That makes me feel a little bit better, okay, And so I
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decided that before I can represent something, I need to go on it,
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and I did for about i'd say, almost five weeks, and it was
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a remarkable discovery. I've been eating healthy by weight Watchers for a long time,
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but this took it to so much of a higher level. And that's
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when I said, I'm gonna come back and I'm going to reinvent myself.
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And I started out calling it Millie Snyder's Succeed and we did that for a
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few years, and then we transitioned into the name fix It with Foods,
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which makes the most amount of sense. You can fix the problems in your
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body if you know what to eat right, and what to eat is clean,
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fresh, delicious food. Most people who live the Mediterranean lifestyle eat better
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than they've ever eaten. And you know, I had a new member last
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week, and when she saw on the vegetable page that potatoes are a vegetable,
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she hardly can wipe a smile off of her face because potatoes aren't the
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evil thing that a lot of the people a lot of different I hate to
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say diet plans, but a lot of health plans or whatever lack of that
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you're told. You know, these are the potatoes are absolutely out. And
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that's not the case, is what you're saying with Mediterranean and no, absolutely
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not. And bread is allowed, but good bread, I'm not what is
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good bread? Oh gosh, sour dough bread, rye bread, a pumper
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nickel, a whole wheat bread, but good quality, whole wheat bread where
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you just know that it's the best thing you've ever put in your mouth.
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Yeah, we use in our shop. We use Dave's killer bread when we
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make Pannini's, and that is it is good bread. And when you eat
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a panini and or just make a regular sandwich on that bread, you're satisfied.
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You're full. If you eat white and rich bread. They took all
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the good stuff and they gave it someplace else. I want to ask you
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about this, Millie, and just get this is kind of a difficult thing
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to get into. But in America, we don't we don't necessarily promote healthy
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eating. And we know that you said you talked about americanizing, but somebody
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texted the show and I think this was maybe last month of the month before
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because after you had already left, and it just kind of occurred to me
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for some reason, is that you know, we can get on the way.
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You come on with me once a month and we talk about these things.
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But if, unfortunately, the way it is, if someone is on
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a limited budget, healthy eating in some cases, and you can argue this
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if you want, you can refute it, I would prefer I'd like for
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you to actually is that healthy eating is expensive. And one of the reasons
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why it is that. I know this sounds like sounds like the most horrible
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thing in the world to say, but I stole this from a comedian,
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but it's actually true. America maybe the only land in the world where the
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poor people are fat. And I'm looking at myself in the mirror when I
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say that. All right, so just say you know that, but that's
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kind of where we are because the bad stuff for you, it's cheap,
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and that's why and that's why people go there. So how do we fix
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that? How do we make it more healthy for people people that would like
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to eat healthy but they just simply can't afford it. But I would like
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to show people how they can do it with beans, with fruits. And
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I'm not necessarily saying the most expensive fruits because I understand the concept. I
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understand the difference. But I can show people how to do it on a
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very low cost budget that you could buy a chicken. Now, of course
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there's a lot of have large families, but I can show you how to
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do it with chicken, beans and canned vegetables, some frozen vegetables. And
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it doesn't have to be the creme de la creme, which means that you
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know the top of the food chain. And I would be thrilled, honored
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in fact, to have that opportunity to work with a group of people and
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show them how to do it. Because you can do powdered milk. It
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doesn't have to be already liquefied. There are ways that we can have the
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best of the best, but a little differently, and I would welcome that
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opportunity. And then West Virginia. West Virginia is the oldest state in the
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nation as far as the app with the average ages. Where the oldest state
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in the nation. We have a great number of people that are on fixed
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incomes, whether they're older or not. You know, they're getting governmental assistance
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or something like that. And that's what I think the whole concept behind this
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text that I had received from someone said, Hey, you know a lot
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of people in West Virginia you would like to eat healthy, but unfortunately,
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as I said, they just can't afford it. But you're saying that it
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can be done and you can teach them how to do it. And I
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would like to kind of costs are there for these classes that you well,
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by the way, just to start, it's twenty five dollars and then it's
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twelve dollars a week, and then there's a discount program on top of that.
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Okay, the object is not to make money, it's to help people
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help themselves. Okay, what else you got going on? Well, I
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just want to tell you that our tiny little restaurant at Shape Shop, and
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you've visited us, we are busy every day for lunch, and it's exciting
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because more and more people are discovering the quality of our food. We had
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a whole crowd in there yesterday and want two gentlemen ordered the salmon and I
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know you've had that, Yeah, And when he finished eating it, he
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said, I just had the best salmon I've ever eaten in my whole entire
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life. So it's very gratifying that people are in fact finding us at seven
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oh six central to get too. Plenty of free parking. There's no costs,
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there's no meters, there's park right if you can't walk, farting,
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park right in front of the store. And we also have a handicap parking
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space. We also have a handicap entrance. So I'm excited about that.
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All right. I got a text here waiting on you. Oh good.
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Somebody text and says Millie, my wife has kidney issues and high blood pressure.
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Can your lifestyle help her? Absolutely? Okay, absolutely well, But
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first at number one, I have to be able to have her come in,
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and I need to teach her the Mediterranean lifestyle and I will show her
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how changing the eating will help that blood pressure come down, and hopefully by
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putting in the healthy foods her kidney disorder. And of course I'm not a
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doctor. Yes, I'm not a real doctor, right, nor do you
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play one on TV or radio? No, I don't, But I believe
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that healthy eating can have something impactful happen with her kidney disorder. No,
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I cannot make the statement publicly that yes, we will cure everything. What
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we can do is help some of these maladies get improved, become improved,
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okay. And we also want to reiterate that when you come over to the
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Shape Shop, it's not necessarily you can come there and you can have lunch,
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you can grab you know, I've eaten there many times, as you
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said myself. But you can teach people how to do this in their own
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home. You have plenty of books, You have plenty of literature that they
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can take home with them. I've written a Mediterranean cookbook, I have a
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meatless cookbook. And by the way, if people buy the meatless cookbook and
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they don't like the meatless meals, they can add chicken, or they can
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put whatever they want in it. Because meatless is certainly a wonderful thing.
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But people need to discover that. And that's another thing for low budget living
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and what you can afford. The meatless concept is a wonderful way to change
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your eating with the Mediterranean lifestock. Can you eat red meat occasionally? We
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don't do it like I used to do it in my young what's the biggest
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problem with red me? Because I'm a red meat eater, I'm a steakka,
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I'm fat, saturated fat, and that fat stays in your bloodstream.
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So all of those things okay, and pork is not recommended. Have you
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seen a skinny pig out there? Well, not a healthy one anyway.
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Oh, thank you very much. All right, So where are you going
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to be out in the bat You're always going somewhere, You're always setting up
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shops any places. Yes, we are. We're going to take the food
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truck out in the month of October. Every Wednesday, we're going to be
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at Slack Plaza. And there's a new car show that's going to be come
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into Charleston on October fourteenth. But the unique thing about that car show is
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the cars are going to be set up with things to help disable people be
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less encumbered, and that it's brand new. Okay, there's been car shows
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here forever, but this is a whole different concept. That's Saturday, October
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fourteenth, and our food truck has been invited and we're going to show up.
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All right, good stuff, Give us the address, give us the
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phone number. You're available, and you have a great social media presence out
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there the website. Give us all the stuff for the social media president presence
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is a gal named Tiffany Grayley, and she does a great job with that
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seven zero six Central Avenue, and it's just a little bit past five corners.
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Now some people say they can't find us because they don't know where it
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is on the west side. But for all the years that we were at
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Patrick Street, that was the west side. But we won't have that discussion.
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But anyway, we're very we're yes, it's about a long block and
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a half past five corners and that's where Central Avenue begins at five corners.
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And it's you got plenty as you said, plenty free parking, handicaps as
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well, park right on the street. There's no meters, it's a it's
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just a very easy in and out and if you're looking for something to do
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for lunch, head over there. If you're the people that works in downtown
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Charleston will be over there in almost no time. All the things that we
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will serve and they'll select it from the menu. I believe they'll be very
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happy. We have sugar free ice cream, and of course we have all
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of our sweets are sweetened with stevia. And our muffins are so good that
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I'm they're unbelievable. They were good at Patrick Street, but now they are
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one hundred percent better than that. And that was great, good stuck.
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All right, Millie, it's always a pleasure to talk to you here.
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We'll talk to you soon. Thank you, Davis. Now you have a
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birthday coming up, don't you. Is it saying yes? Next next month?
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Will you be on with us before your what's the date of your birthday?
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Okay, that'd be a rut around the time that you'll be on.
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Good, Then we can have a real celebration. Yes. Yes. The
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best part about turning eighty one eighty one you will be is that on look
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eighty one. No, you don't look at you. No. I decided
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they must have lied to me. I think I was born in fifty two
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instead of forty two. And this one I'm gonna keep telling myself too,
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all right, Millie Snyder for the Shape Shop. It's nine twenty three five
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and delicate Mike Pushkin is here, sir. How are you? I'm doing
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fine? How are you? I've not had enough coffee yet, so maybe
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I'll talk a little slower than maybe maybe I get to I always get lit
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up by people they say I talked too fast, which is funny because I
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think too slow. So but it comes out one of these days. Maybe
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it'll catch up. It'll catch up. Well, first of all, I
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got to get this out away. My thoughts on hear me out here.
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My thoughts are with you and your beloving your Jets following the loss of your
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quarterback Aaron Rodgers. See. I watched Hard Knox during as you and I've
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talked about. I'm a big fan of Hard Knocks and I like Aaron Rodgers.
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I liked him in Green Bay, and I had high hopes for you
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New York Jets. I really thought that we would see a Jets Cowboys Super
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Bowl. And I'm not saying that just because Hope springs eternal. For Cowboy
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fans, Cowboys are a pretty darn and good football team. Now. Boys
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are probably the It pains me to say this, but I'm a football fan.
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I'll watch a lot. I watch that entire game, I watch other
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games. Dallas Cowboys are probably right now and this snapshot in time, they're
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the best team in the NFL right now. Yeah, and it's largely because
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of Michael Parson. It is he's I mean, the guy is, and
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I mean it's like he's five steps ahead of everybody. He's so you can't
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block and he just you know, they call him the game wrecker and it's
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and we had no answer to Michael Parsons. And also our defense was not
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playing up to their building. We have what people think is a top five
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defense, and they were unable to stop the Cowboys on offense all day.
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So if you can't keep can't take the offense off the field, and you
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can't block Michael Parsons, and you're in for a long day. And I
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think you're gonna you might see a lot of that, of course, until
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it gets later, and it's early in the season. Is so we'll see
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what happens with Dallas plays Arizona this week. And the Cowboys always have a
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way to lose these games that they shouldn't lose, and they play Arizona this
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week, so we'll see what they're not losing that game. Well, you
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just name right out of this down and as far as it being the best
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team, and even in the NFC, there's a team in San Francisco,
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but the might have something to say about that, but they're good. I'm
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happy. I'm happy with it. I don't like the Cowboys. It pains
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me to say this, but as in the first two weeks they are the
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best team. Yeah, I want to get your take on this. We've
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got plenty of things we want to get to. And it also give me
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a chance to promote something that we have going on tonight, and that is
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this high school transfer rule. And the reason I say tonight because on Wednesday
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nights, we have a show, the Metro News High School Sports Line.
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All two hours of the show are going to be devoted to talking about this
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transfer rule. And I've talked about it a lot on the show. I've
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had people actually on both sides of the aisle, no pun intended, on
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both sides of the argument. This was passed by the legislature and the governor
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didn't sign it. You know, he didn't sign it. But a lot
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of people are upset about it, Michael. They're saying that this is ruining
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high school sports and West Virginia. Other people are saying, hey, as
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a parent, I should have the right to send my kid wherever I want
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without penalty. Where are you on this high school transfer rule? You know,
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I definitely see both sides of it because it was attached to another bill.
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It was attached to a bill that I didn't think was fair Okay,
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that's saying that if you pull your your children out of school, and then
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of course the money follows them because of this, uh this voucher system that
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the Republican legislature has created and the governor signed. But if you then,
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if you pull them out, then you could then send them to participate in
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any other in extracurricular activities in any of these schools. And that's what was
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referred to as school choice. I just feel that if we're gonna be fair,
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if we're gonna have school choice, it needs to be if you're gonna
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have it, it should be for everybody. I do think it will.
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It will balance out. I mean, the best I'm from what I've seen.
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I've watched some high school football this year. Huntington High is by far
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the best team that I've seen. And they don't have very many transfers.
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They just have a very good program that they've built up. But maybe it
23:52
percise of the proximity to Marshall University. I mean, they have a good
23:55
football team or college football team in town there that they maybe they're able to
23:59
train I train on those facilities. I don't know. Well, for whatever
24:02
reason, they've got a very good team with very few transfers. And then
24:04
you see a team like Late Hurricane who has a whole lot of transfers,
24:08
a lot from here in Kanall County. Well, they, you know,
24:11
came up to GW last week and lost. Yeah, so I do think
24:15
it could balance out. But now you know, well I think it would
24:18
bothered me most of all about the entire issue is that was the longest debate
24:22
that we had in the House of Delegates last session. It was about high
24:26
school sports. That was more important than uh, you know, raising insurance
24:30
premiums on public employees. That was more important than so many other issues.
24:37
And I'll say and I'll say this, and I'm like you, Mike,
24:38
I am a hardcore sports fan. I love high school sports as well.
24:42
But I will say this, as many people that are upset about this high
24:45
school transfer rule, I wish they would be that upset about low test scores.
24:51
I wish they would be that upset about problems in the school. And
24:53
again, I again I'm speaking as a sports fan, but man, I
24:56
would love to see people light up social media about chronic absenteeism. Hoppy did
25:03
a big feature on that this week. We got kids missing eighteen twenty days
25:06
of school a year. That's a big problem. All the teachers, unions
25:11
and the teacher and everybody's talking about that. I'd like to see people so
25:15
upset about that. In addition to the high school transfer. It's rare that
25:21
I'll say this, but we're in complete agreement on that. That's what people
25:25
should be focused on. A very very small percentage, unfortunately, you know,
25:29
very small percentage of our high school athletes are going to are going to
25:33
play in the next year. I mean they're done. Everybody who do get
25:36
scholarships, and that's great, and they should focus on their education when they
25:40
do that, because even less from that percentage are going to make it as
25:41
professionals. So we should be more focused on academics. All right, So
25:47
yesterday the Governor might announced that Hollis Lewis will complete the term of now former
25:52
Delicate Doug scaff who resigned earlier this month. Programming note, Delicate, Hollis
25:56
Lewis will be on the show tomorrow. Your thoughts on the Hollis Lewis.
26:00
I think it was an excellent choice by the governor. I'm proud to call
26:06
Hollis Lewis soon to be delegate soon he gets sworn in. Delegate Hollis Lewis.
26:10
I'm proud to call him a friend. He is a great guy.
26:12
He's a family guy. Uh uh. He's involved with youth sports. He's
26:18
a former magistrate uh uh. He and teaches classes over at West Virginia State.
26:22
I think he used to work for the Charleston Area Alliance. Very well
26:26
rounded individual and he will be a great addition to the Democratic Caucus in the
26:30
House of Delegates. Look forward to serving with him. Your thoughts on on
26:33
Doug scaff stepping down, Well, I think you know. Doug said he
26:37
was stepping down to focus on on business and family. I imagine it would
26:41
be difficult to run HD media and as well as served the public in the
26:47
House of Delegates. And I've enjoyed Doug is also a very good friend.
26:51
I've enjoyed my time serving with Doug, and I wish him the best.
26:53
And and for some reason, I don't think we've seen the last. Oh
26:56
no, you have Scaff and but he's he Doug's a good guy. I
26:59
really I I've enjoyed serving with him. He was our minority leader for a
27:02
couple of sessions, and you know, I don't have enough good to say
27:07
about him. I'm also really looking forward to working with Hollis. I don't
27:11
know whether you win because the decision is made, correct me if I'm wrong.
27:15
I mean, when when we appoint someone, when someone steps down,
27:18
the county Executive Committee submits names to the governors, that we submit three names.
27:22
Okay, Well, somebody asked the question who were the other names were
27:25
submitted? Other names that were submitted by the Canal County and not the state
27:29
party, but the Cana County Democratic Executive Committee as well as of course,
27:33
I believe Hollis Lewis had the most votes in that committee meeting, but also
27:37
an attorney in town named Alex Urban and former state Senate candidate Sam Wood.
27:45
Okay, alright, so Hollis Lewis is the is the new delegator will be
27:49
I guess when he's sworn in, he'll be on the show tomorrow. Tech
27:52
says the issue is not with the score's. It's a number on the number
27:56
of transfers occurring. South Charleston has lost six players. Cha, this is
28:00
are they were skill players and lost that Losing that many is devastated. Forty
28:03
three football transfers in Kanaan County. Well, I think it's an issue that
28:07
we're most likely is going to be addressed in the next session. It will
28:10
be. It will now. Last week, Mike, I had Senator Amy
28:15
Grady on the show, and she's one of the ones that doesn't have a
28:18
problem. She wants to hear all sides, but she doesn't have a problem
28:22
with it. She didn't think it's going to go very far in the legislature.
28:23
Now, the other I know, delicate Dana Farrell was one that was
28:26
really really beating the drum against this thing. Uh, Senator Grady doesn't think
28:30
that it's going to go very far in the legislature next year. And hurricanes
28:33
in her district career. Uh well no, not really. Well yeah,
28:38
yeah, okay, yes it is. Yeah, I was trying to think.
28:41
I get that sometimes I have a tency to get the House and the
28:42
Senate mixed up as far as the district is. But but I was kidding.
28:47
I don't think that's what has affected it. No, I mean it's
28:48
I mean it. Look, the Republican Legislature for years has been calling with
28:55
what they call school choice really and and much of those policies have just been
28:59
detrimental to public education in general. And I don't believe it's it's about school
29:03
choice for them. It's about school choice for some. Okay, now this
29:07
bill expanded that and people are not happy with the results. But I tell
29:11
you, I'm not happy with the results. Are many of these quote unquote
29:15
school choice laws that have been passed over the years, Whether it's the privatization
29:19
of public funds and creating these corporate charter schools with absolutely no regulation or any
29:26
kind of oversight over them, whether it's taking money out of the public school
29:30
system and this voucher system that they call Hope scholarships that has just been detrimental
29:33
to public schools, or just the horrible disrespect and mistreatment of our of our
29:40
of our public school teachers. We're losing in droves, especially to neighboring states,
29:45
to treat their teachers better. So I think it's been an ongoing attack
29:48
on public education. It's going on over the years, and it seems that
29:52
people are just now really paying attention to it because you know, it's affecting
29:56
the Friday night football scores. Texas Pushkin states scaff is a good guy.
30:00
Wonder if Pushkin will change his tune. When scaff goes Republican, you know,
30:06
he's a good that will still be friends no matter what. I mean,
30:07
whatever, no matter what, there's things that are that are more important
30:11
than politics, believe it or not. And that's plenty. I have plenty
30:15
of friends who on the other side of the aisle I disagree with their with
30:18
them on policy issues. Uh, but you know, but they can still
30:22
be friends with people that I disagree with. And right now, and Doug
30:26
resigned as a Democrat and he was replaced by a Democrat, and he's still
30:30
a Democrat. I continue to hear that he's gonna run for Secretary of State,
30:34
and I think he. I think that he will. That's that's what
30:37
I'm thinking. Again, I have no inside. I don't think he's made
30:40
his mind up. And he can come on announce and make he said it
30:41
would be sometimes probably in October when he done. But I don't believe he's
30:45
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30:47
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Canetics of Huntington and Across Lanes delegateds. A Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin is
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with us this morning. I got this just before I went on the air.
34:15
Michael, breaking news. I needed breaking news sounder here. But a
34:22
release came out that West Virginia State Finance chairman, that would be Eric Tarr,
34:25
endorses Alex Mooney Wow for Senate. I'm not going to read the whole
34:30
thing, but basically says I strongly endorsed at Commoney for the US Senate.
34:35
American families, fundamental values, children, constitutional freedoms under attack now more than
34:39
ever. Republicans need to send conservatives to the Senate. Skipping a head air
34:45
Justice Jim Justice says Eric Tarr and the release propelled himself to popularity to be
34:50
a marketing and no substance. Much like Budweiser parading Spuds Mackenzie while aligning themselves
34:57
against American values, Jim Just has directed attention to his dog while he surrounded
35:01
himself and polluted the Governor's office with the political team of Joe Mansion. Some
35:07
of the comments made by in a press release by Senor Financial Eric Tarr thoughts.
35:10
So Senator Tar compared uh Jim Justice to Spuds Mackenzie. Apparently, yeah,
35:15
well, I guess to Budweiser for putting it, for using a dog,
35:20
using a dog, and over substance. According to uh, over substance.
35:23
Well, you know, earlier in the show, I found myself in
35:27
agreement with you that academics are more important than athletics when it comes to you
35:31
know, secondary education. And and I partially I'm finding myself partially in agreement
35:39
with Senator Tar, who I don't agree with on anything. But and I
35:45
definitely don't agree that that you know that you know that Alex Mooney was any
35:49
business in the US Senate, But uh, he's he's he's favoring him over
35:52
Jim Justice. And I would have to I don't think that that Governor Justice
35:58
is up to the task of represent named West Virginia in the United States Senate.
36:01
And you can just I mean, look at the front page of the
36:05
gazette today. They're talking about his properties being auctioned off on courthouse steps all
36:08
over Southern West scaff would be happy. I have a copy of it right
36:12
here. Southern West Virginia is in bad shape right now. And that's affecting
36:15
county governments and their ability to serve people, their ability to perform basic services
36:21
for people, the fact that our governor refuses to pay property taxes nearly and
36:24
let me jump in here. This was a story about Mike Tony and the
36:27
gazette mails this morning. Nearly three hundred Jim Justice properties were auctioned off.
36:31
They owed almost four hundred thousand dollars to DELINQ with taxes. They went up
36:35
for public sale and auctions in June. Roughly ninety five percent of those properties
36:39
sold other buyersuch just over five hundred thousand dollars. That is according to a
36:43
Gazette mail review of these the Auditors Office data. That story in the hd
36:47
HD media is Charleston Gazette mail for Mike Tony. This, yeah, and
36:50
that's that's issues with the governors, you know, his personal businesses that he
36:53
never put in a blind trust. He's still running his businesses. And you
36:58
hear about you know, funns and taxes owed and you know, not paying
37:01
premiums for his coal miners. There are those personal issues, but also on
37:07
as far as being you know, in public service. And I've said it
37:09
many times, but it's true. Every single aspect of state government is just
37:15
is either failing or in complete chaos or just in a complete a culture of
37:22
toxicity under governor justice. And the most recent example, yesterday's h front page
37:30
headline on the gazette was about problems over the Department of Transportation where the governor's
37:36
hand picked Secretary Transportation has refused to yeah, he refused to to remove himself
37:44
to accuse himself from the bidding process when they were giving out very large contracts
37:49
to a contractor that that employs his son U. That's illegal. And you
37:59
know, we've known about this for quite some time, but now it's just
38:00
now coming out because and this is the part that's really troubling, because they
38:05
knew it was illegal. Being the governor's office knew it was illegal and tried
38:07
to hide it and refused to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, and
38:14
I know it gets a bit maybe I don't know why nobody's talking about this,
38:17
maybe because it's a little bit you know, it's it's you know,
38:20
it's I guarantee Alex Mooney's campaign is gonna be talking about it, and people
38:23
should be talking about it because it's illegal, and it's very it's it's it's
38:28
more than just an appearance of impropriety. When you are the one making decisions
38:31
of where state where public funds go and you decide to give it to a
38:37
contractor that employs your son. H that's it's gonna be brought out in the
38:43
campaign, and I tell you it was brought out in the paper. It's
38:45
gonna be brought out whole, I think, but not only by Alex Mooney's
38:49
people, but also I think by a lot of political I mean, because
38:52
justice is miles ahead of the FA. The FOIA is the Freedom of Information
38:57
Act request. That's when a journalist who ever ask you know, the state
39:01
to provide this information and they're required to, they ignore it and when they
39:07
do get around to doing it, well, I think they had to be
39:08
sued over this one. I believe the gazette reporter had to sue for this
39:13
information, which they shouldn't have to do in the United States of America,
39:15
they sue for the information, and what they get a lot of times has
39:21
a misrepresentation of facts, which I personally, I mean, a very easy
39:25
way to call it would be a lie. A misrepresentation of the facts that
39:30
they get when they do get when they do respond to these Freedom of Information
39:32
Act requests, it's a it's going to be a problem. And there's a
39:37
whole whole mess of problems that are coming from that department that I'm hearing about,
39:43
from the Department of Transportation, and that's just one of the completely chaotic,
39:47
toxic departments under Governor Jim Justice. You have the DHR which has been
39:53
a complete miss. You have uh, you know, Homeland Security where we
39:58
have the National Guard having to staff our our prisons. Every single aspect of
40:07
state government right now just in complete disarray under his watch. And now he's
40:10
now he wants to be in the Senate. Going back to the charter school
40:14
issue, Texas, there's an entire board that's appointed by the governor to provide
40:17
oversight to charter schools. Yeah, that's picked by the governor a lot of
40:22
people who were, as most boards are who were Yeah, and it was
40:24
handpicked of people who were who've been proponents of charter schools the entire time,
40:30
and there's been very little oversight of that. Well one thing, I mean,
40:32
I think appoint of a board of Foxes to be in charge of the
40:36
Henhouse. How about that promo promo? Right? So I have to tell
40:42
you yesterday I heard part of an interview with Dale Lead from the West Virginiage
40:45
Case and Association on with Hoppy yesterday and they were talking about this chronic absenteeism,
40:51
which I mean, you know that's that's a major problem for another show,
40:52
and Hoppies covered it in detail. But he was also talking about charter
40:57
schools. And I have not seen the data on this. I'll go back
40:59
and look at it, but it talked about that the scores for charter schools
41:04
in West Virginia weren't as good as what people thought they would be. That's
41:08
not surprising, it's it's not surprising, and I'll get I'll go I'll do
41:13
a deep dive into those on a later show. But you're not a fan
41:15
of charter schools, at all. Now, I'm I'm a fan of improving
41:19
the public schools that we have. I think that education is the great,
41:22
you know, equalizer in our society. And everybody has a shot of of
41:28
of improving their lives. And everybody has a shot at the American dream if
41:31
they just you know, go to school, study, do your work.
41:36
But we got to make sure they have great public schools, for free public
41:39
schools for all the children to attend. I find it. I mean,
41:44
I'm very happy to hear you say that, because you said something there that
41:46
not a lot of Democrats, not a lot of liberal democrats across America.
41:51
We'll say you said everybody has a shot of the American dream. There's a
41:54
certain mindset in this country, Mike, that that says the people, not
41:58
everybody. You're you're getting your definition of Democrats from the wrong news source.
42:04
But of course we believe in the America. Okay, But but I mean,
42:07
and of course we will. We love this country. I never doubted
42:10
it. Well, I never doubted the results of an election. Okay,
42:16
Well I've never you know, condoned people's storming in the US capital. But
42:22
no, we love this country. And and you know, or to be
42:25
portrayed anyway else is just not true. Tech says uh Tars supports Mooney question
42:31
mark shocker, uh Tech says breaking news. Senator Taring Doors is a Canada
42:36
who's credibly accused of stealing campaign and tax money. The Office of Congressional Ethics
42:39
has probably call us to believe Mooney misappropriated funds. Why does a finance share
42:45
overlook financial misdeeds? Tars to invest it in the genitalia of others to know
42:49
what's right invested in the Genitalia. I don't even want to come on that.
42:53
I don't, but I will agree that with the both of the Republican
42:59
front runners for a US senator are incredibly flawed candidates, and he's in the
43:04
texture, is right? Alex Mooney as was under investigation before the Republicans took
43:09
control of the House, I believe, but he was under investigation for misspending
43:13
campaign finance money, you know on Chick fil A and expensive. Now I
43:19
would like to know more about the governor's campaign finance reports, but he fails.
43:22
He refuses. As last I checked, he refuses to report on his
43:27
campaign, So what are we going to see it? Just like he refuses
43:30
to pay taxes. He refuses to pay find he refuses to pay the the
43:34
insurance benefits for insurance premiums for his minors. He refuses to follow the He
43:38
doesn't follow the rules. When it comes to some of the recent appointments that
43:43
he's made, he doesn't follow the rules. And he and he's not following
43:46
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Texas, There's no way on God's green Earth the justice could possibly be less
44:02
capable of performing the duties of representing the people of West Virginia than Fester Fetterman,
44:12
Well, you getting got to wear a suit and tie? Come on,
44:14
man, I think that he's, uh you doing a fine job.
44:16
I'm not going to comment on his wardrobe choices personally. You know, I
44:21
have no problem putting on a on a suit when I have to, But
44:23
on a day like today, when I'm just talking to you on the radio,
44:27
I'm wearing a grateful dead T shirt. Uh, Texas, Texas says
44:30
Puttnham County continues to be an attractive place for people from Kanalla County to come
44:34
to. They've been leaving wacky Knawa for years and coming to quiet conservative family
44:38
or in a Putnam County. Even the student athletes want out of Cana.
44:42
According to a Texter, well are they Are they living there or are they
44:45
just playing football there? Well, there's a lot of people living there.
44:49
I can tell you I live there, and there are more people coming and
44:52
people are moving there. But I've been wondering if the student athletes that are
44:55
playing for Putnam County high schools are their families moving It's a legitimate I don't
45:01
know, are they moving there or are they just commuting or sports. There's
45:07
a whole lot of people moving there because of the new corps. I can
45:09
tell you that. Yeah, Well that's great, and that's all. It
45:13
was all done because of the inflation. Were done at all, not all
45:15
mostly called up well called the Infrastructure Bill that created the infrastructure around the facility,
45:21
which was bipartisan, but let's face at President Trump couldn't get it done.
45:24
Well, let me ask you this about that. And then we got
45:25
to go to break because This was a point I thought that was really good.
45:29
That was brought up by Mitch Carmichael not long on Hot long ago on
45:31
Hoppy. He was talking about that infrastructure bill. And yes, I mean,
45:35
I'm one that admits that a lot of these things were seen in West
45:37
Virginia were because of that. Okay, I agree with that, because however,
45:40
but they're choosing because of the bill which build the infrastructure bill or the
45:44
Inflation Reduction Actor both. I think it's a combination of both, I really
45:47
do, and I agree how many Republicans voted. But why did they choose
45:52
West Virginia though? Because they are all fifty states and the territories were in
45:55
the running. Why are they choosing, Mike, West Virginia because why are
46:00
they choosing West Virginia? Is it because right to work? Is it because
46:07
we have a better workers compensation system? Is it because of any of these
46:08
things? Why are they choosing because of I mean, if you look at
46:12
the states that don't have these anti labor laws like right to work, they're
46:16
generally doing a lot better, and the other states are actually also getting a
46:20
huge amount of investment. There's actually a lot more. You know, recently,
46:23
I went on this I was part of this group. We were learning
46:28
more about how to rebuild parties. And the chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party
46:34
was there and he was talking about all the growth that's going on right on
46:36
the other side of the border. Right on the other side of the border,
46:39
we had the chair of the Maryland Democrator, the executive director of the
46:43
Maryland Democratic Party. He was telling about all the growth that's going on right
46:45
on the other side of the border. So they're not just choosing West Virginia.
46:49
We're getting a good part of it. And a lot of it has
46:51
to do with our senior senator. Senator Mansion was the help was the one
46:54
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had nothing to do with New Core coming here. They were, I mean
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way before that was ever discussed. These projects are coming here after getting conservatives
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in after many years of democratic rule. Was it seventy or eighty years of
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mismanagement? Newcorn was in the works before this act. I disagreed, but
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that pushed him over the over the edge there, and because there was a
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lot of investment into that type of and you know, Newcors a green company,
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and there was a lot of investment in that type of that type of
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energy. But this was in the works though. But but you're saying it's
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it's what pushed it over. It was also I think one of the main
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things my new Cordo was was actually the inflation sorry, was the infrastructure bill
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that President Biden was able to do in his his first two years in the
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office, because they were able to use that to create what was needed around
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the plant to attract Had that not happened, we wouldn't have gotten newcorn.
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There's a whole lot of things going on around that plant if you'd have been
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down an Apple Grove lately in the surrounding areas as well. Mike, what
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are we going to see some Democratic candids start rolling out? We had the
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afterday State Senator Rich Lindsay on the show. He now, so we will
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be running for Circuit judge Kaw County. We know that your friend Steve Williams,
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the mayor of Huntington, is going to be running for governor of the
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Democratic ticket. What are we going to see maybe for some of these other,
51:09
uh other other races we are we are working on. Of course,
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the filing period is in January, and it's what we've spend a good part
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of our days working on or calling prospective candidates, calling members of county committees
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because they know who the best candidates are for different offices in their neck of
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the woods. And uh we are definitely having a lot of conversations and getting
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more and more commitments, and in coming months you we'll hear uh more options
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for voters. But I would just say, you know, there's a lot
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of people that I've talked to are who are fairly fed up with a lot
51:42
of uh you know this nearly a decade of Republican rule with an attacks on
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public education, attempts to pull money out of our public schools, attacks on
51:52
on higher education where consistently uh you know, been underfunding higher education. Now
51:58
we're seeing the results of it with with faculty being laid off, courses of
52:01
study being cut, different majors being cut, People who are upset with seeing
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our flagship university just being completely dismantled and destroyed. We're seeing people who are
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upset with the ongoing attacks on workers. You mentioned this state being a right
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to work state, with the repeal of prevailing wage that the Republicans did years
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ago and making it so tough jobs like building bridges and roads, people get
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paid less. There are people who are who are just who are fed up
52:27
with the fact that we've got eight thousand children in foster care. In the
52:29
Republican legislature and governor have not done anything to address it. So I would
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suggest to some of these folks who are fed up with these backwards Republican policies
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that are driving people out of this state in droves, put your name on
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the ballot, run for office. Let's do something about it. Let's fight
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back. How difficult is it, though, and and I'm not picking on
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the Democrats because this is where the Republican Party was, you know, for
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eighty years. But how difficult is it to get people to sign up right
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now to want to run cause they know that their chances aren't that great?
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Mike. And again, this is where the Republicans were years ago, twenty
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s It was much more difficult to recruit to run into in the minority party
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than it is in the majority party. But we're never gonna stop fighting because
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the people deserve choices, and what the people deserve a better government. The
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people deserve a government that works for them, and it's not working for them
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right now. Under Governor Justice, every single aspect of state government is failing.
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It's just not working right now. So I suggest it. If you're
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as mad as I am, join us fight back. We'll fight with you,
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