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02/08/24 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live: Politics, Potato Chips, and Making Wishes Come True · The Dave Allen Show

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iconic food names in West Virginia talking about Tutors Biscuit World and Mister b Potato
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Chips, and that partnership. Their latest venture is going to help out the
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Make a Wish program in West Virginia. So we get some folks from Make
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a Wish and also from Tutors. I understand we're going to join us to
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talk about that. Plus, former Delegate Joshua Higginbotham has announced too he will
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be running for Agricultural Commissioner in a state of West Virginia, trying to unsee
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the two term Republican as commission Kent Leonhard Higginbotha, Mister Higginbotham is in the
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studio with us. We're going to talk to him, but first I want
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to go to the newsroom. We talk to Jeff Jenkins. Jeff, good
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morning. Horrific crime reported with some just bizarre tales surrounded it in Saint Albans.
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What's the latest. Yeah, so they found two bodies there yesterday said
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all kind of started when two people came into the Charleston Police Department downtown Charleston
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yesterday reported an incident that had happened out a house along Sapphire Road in Saint
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Albans. And and so police responded there. It was unsecured, the residence
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was there, you know, they went in. They found two bodies,
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an adult woman and a teenage boy. And as police were continuing their investigation,
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one of the people that had come into the police station identified his third
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one year old Marcus Guy. He's now been charged with murder. So Guy
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and his girlfriend go into the police station. According to criminal complaint and report,
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something had happened. Police investigated and they found out that and they've charged
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Guy with killing his girlfriend's mother and her teenage brother. Okay, and the
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victim identified as Licia Carnifix. She's thirty nine and the brother fourteen years old.
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Again, the criminal complaint says that he told his girlfriend this and then
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they went to the police station. Also, the criminal complaint says that they
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were shot multiple times and still trying to get at you know, motive exactly,
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you know, some of those the criminal complaints says some things, but
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there'll be more things coming out. But yeah, that's the you know,
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kind of strange thing is that, you know, it was reported at a
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police station, you know, at the Charleston police station. Of course it's
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a Knall County Sheriff's Department case because it's outside the city of Charleston, but
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that's what it is. Guy's been arrested, he was charged, you know,
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he didn't leave the police station. They interviewed him. They eventually charged
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him with two counts of first degree murder and he's thirty one. He's in
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the South Central Regional Jail without bail. It was just, I mean,
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the story broke, I guess yesterday afternoon, Jeff, and again you started
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asking questions about motives and we don't know that at this point, but just
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a bizarre story and all of the events surrounding it. I mean, like
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going to the Charleston Police Fort. We turned himself in at that point.
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It's been a particularly violent time it has, you know, in the last
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several weeks. And you know, we the murder of the nineteen year old
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over at the bakery shop and or Charleston, we had the murder of the
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woman on Chandler Drive at a residence there. So yeah, it's been first
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several weeks of this year. Now as we get into February, it's been
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pretty violent. Yea. Hopefully hopefully didn't stay the way Jeff, as I
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three five five zero zero eight. Former House of Delegates member, and a
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guy who would like to be your next Secretary of Agriculture to Sday Josh Higginbotham,
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Jorge Us, Joshua, good morning, welcome to the show. Good
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morning, Dave, glad to be back on. Great to have you here.
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So, so, why do you want to be agg Commissioner? Mayu?
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Well, First of all, my family and I are ninth generation farmers.
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We moved to what was then the Colony of Virginia in the seventeen hundreds
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and ever since we have been farmers. Our nine hundred acre cattle farm is
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right here in the Canall Valley. We have one hundred and twenty long horned
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cows. We grow corn, soy, and wheat. It's also an event
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venue called the Historic Woodlawn Estate. We had seven thousand visitors from West Virginia
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to our event venue last year, so we're heavily involved in agritourism. I
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think that my legislative experience when it comes to education, economic development, and
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infrastructure is exactly what we need in the Department of Agriculture right now. And
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my family's history of agriculture and working on our farm here locally, I think
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will really really help the department. Here's a dumb question that I'm best at,
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asking what exactly does the Agriculture Commissioner do in West Virginia. Sure well,
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quite a number of different things. The Department of Agriculture regulates not only
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the farms, but also inspections and does health related things for agriculture and grocery
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stores in the state, works with all of the soil conservation districts in the
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state. We live in the Capital Conservation District here in Kannawk County, and
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those are all still elected positions. In most other states, I think a
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little over half now these are appointed positions the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture,
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But in West Virginia it has been an elected position since eighteen sixty three,
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since our founding, and we're producing less agricultural product now than at any
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other point in our history. And I know, with the mountains and our
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geography, it's hard to make ourselves an agricultural icon, but I think that
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if it's done efficiently, especially if we become a distribution hub for food on
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the East Coast, we can be the bread basket of this region. I
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fundamentally believe that. Now, Kent Leonhardt is the current agg commissioner's been on
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the show many many times. You know, you know, can't very well.
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There's another candidate. I'm running Roy Raimie on the Republican side. Mister
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Leonhard has been the ad commissioner for two terms. What makes you think you
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could do a better job? And I don't. I'm not asking to throw
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him nto the bus or anything, but what makes you think that? I
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know you mentioned your legislative experience and maybe your business experience, but overall,
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well, what makes you the better candidate of the other two? I'll put
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it that way. Sure, So, first of all, I appreciate the
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service that both candidates have given to their state, country, and I have
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tremendous respect for both of them. I like both of them personally. I
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would even go so far to say that Kent and I have worked together on
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numerous things when I was in the legislature. I have no personal issue with
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either of them. This is purely a policy disagreement. The focus should not
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be on crowning the queens of fairs, festivals, and beauty pageants, and
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that seems like the ceremonial duty of the Commission of Agriculture in recent years.
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The focus should be on economic development. You want to know why young people
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don't want to become farmers in West Virginia. It's because they don't want to
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live in a rural area. Why do they not want to live in a
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rural area Because the roads are not good, because water and sewer lines are
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not available for them, because there's no broadband internet for a lot of rural
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communities. If you fix the infrastructure and actually focus on economic development and rural
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development, people will want to go to those rural communities Again. Young people
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will want to stay there become farmers. That's why nobody wants a lot of
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young people don't want to go into agriculture nowadays. Have you been out on
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campaign trail you started yet? I have. Yeah, the last six months,
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I've actually been to all fifty five county courthouses. I've met with hundreds
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of local municipal and county state officials. I didn't actually decide to run for
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Agriculture Commissioner until a few weeks ago. I was watching Fox News and I
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saw a story where China is coming into this country and actually buying thousands upon
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thousands of acres of family farmland, and it's a national security threat. They're
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buying farmland that could be used for manufacturing. They're buying land near military bases,
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near major cities, and we're not doing a whole lot of the state
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to stop companies affiliated with China from taking our family on farmland. Once you're
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out on the campaign trail, and you said you've already been out there even
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before you announced that you'd be running. I know you've done several things in
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your life in edition to being a legislator, You've done several other things in
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a world of business. Sometimes though in you're a political guy, you've worked
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on campaigns as well. You know it can be difficult because you know,
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mister Leon Harden has that name, recognition of having run two statewide races,
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and that can be difficult to overcome. How do you overcome that? Sure,
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it's about hard work. I fundamentally believe that. You know, the
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last couple elections he's won because of geography and because he was the incumbent,
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So I do have a geographic advantage. We're going to have more money as
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well. We're raising money, We're going out and being efficient with how we
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spend it, actually reaching voters one on one. That's how I won my
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first race back in twenty sixteen. Nobody thought I was going to win.
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I had fifteen hundred bucks and I went out and personally knocked on about five
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thousand doors in my House of Delegates district right here in the valley, and
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we won, beating the incumbent by twenty five votes. The difference now is
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geography, it's money, and I think that I have a record to run
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on. And frankly, the two candidates are just going to split split a
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lot of Republican primary voters. Is there a Democratic persons on there is not?
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Okay, so no Democrats? So and the finally period's over, So
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this will be it right here. The next Agriculture Commission will be decided in
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the primary. It will May fourteen. You mentioned about your family and your
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background and farming, but otherwise you as just you as an individual, give
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us the bio on Johns Shack and bobam So. I work for Delta Defense,
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which is the service provider to the US Concealed Carry Association, the USCCA.
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I'm a certified Firearms instructor with us CCA. I've been a member for
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about six years now. I go out and recruit and do all the business
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development for the us CCA in this state. I've helped to recruit hundreds of
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church security teams, gun ranges, gun stores, independent instructors, and then
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and of course I do some government affairs work. We've got some bills we're
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working on in the legislature right now. But I teach hunter safety classes,
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I teach concealed carry classes, I do mass shooter preparedness courses, and obviously
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Second Amendment issues are important to rural communities in West Virginia. Hunting rights just
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regular gun owners, people trying to defend their property from those who want to
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do harm to them and their families. That's why I work with the USCCA
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on a daily basis. So that's my BIO. I live in Charleston.
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I live in Kanaw County, very active in the community. I'm an elder
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at my church just down the street. From the studio here. I'm a
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committee member at my local volunteer fire department, serve on several boards of directors,
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including Prestera Health Centers, which is the state's largest mental health and recovery
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provider. And I put my record up with just about anybody. I believe
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that I can do the job. Would you be well want to have a
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debate with the other two candidates if it happens. I'm definitely open to it.
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No one's approached me about it. May or may not happen, but
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you'd be willing to do it? Yeah, Yeah, I'd be willing to
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do it. Hey, I there's social media website anything up and running.
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Yeah, Folks can absolutely find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn.
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Just type in Joshua Higginbotham. You'll find all my social media very available
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and you can send me a text. I'm available to the entire state through
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text. I'm very accessible. Give me thirty seconds. Why should peop vote
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for josh Acobodna for agg Commissioner? Fewer young people are going into agriculture in
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this state. Very few people want to live in rural communities anymore because of
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the poor infrastructure that West Virginia faces. If we want to reform the Department
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of Agriculture, we need a young person in there who is qualified and will
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encourage other young mountaineers to get into the field and work. Literally vote Joshua
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Higgin them Agriculture Commissioner, May fourteen. All right, well, josh we
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wish you the best of luck in the campaign. Man. Thanks a lot.
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here on the session, says a texture. The drinking raw Milk bill,
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according to legislatures, is a personal freedom bill and consumers should be educated on
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the risks involved in its consumption. Which that logic was applied to cannabis legalization.
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At least, cannabis consumption won't potentially kill a person like raw milk consumption
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potentially can. Also, cannabis legalization would be a good source of supplemental revenue,
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unlike raw milk, says a Texter textas this one actually was for mister
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higginbotham, I will he's I promise you he's listening right now. So Josh,
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if you're listening, if you want to text me back a answer to
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this, I will get it on the show a little bit later. But
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the texta said, since cannabis legislation would fall under the Agricultural Department, does
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Josh support its legalization? So all right, Higginbotham, I know you're probably
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listening. If not, I will get him after the show and I'll get
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an answer tomorrow, Texas. Higginbotham's record is exactly we will get him beat.
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Additionally, he can't even win his home county A Putnam zero chance,
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says a texture. Sounds to me, says a textual, like Joshu Warriston
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is starting a new branch of the military than he is about saving farms,
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says a texture. Okay, So they are two of the most iconic names
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in food in West Virginia, mister Bee Potato Chips and Tutors Biscuit World.
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They are combining force for a good cause to help out the Make a Wish
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Foundation. Joe Beth Smith is from Make a Wish and Liz Appling is with
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Tutors, and they both join me now. So Joe Beth, good morning,
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Welcome to the show. Good morning, thanks for having us, and
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also Liz, welcome to the show to you as well. Yeah, thank
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you. Now you guys feel free to jump in here at any time.
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So you take mister Bees and you take Tutors. It does not get more
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West Virginia than that. And now the two have teamed up to make these
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biscuit and gravy potato chips, a little Tutors, a little mister Bees,
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with proceeds benefiting Make a Wish. Now, these ships are available on several
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locations, which I'll get to a little bit later on. But for Tutors,
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why get involved in this? Well, first and foremost, mister Bee
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came to us with the opportunity and was like, hey, we want to
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make this, you know, biscuit and gravy, but Tato Chip, who
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has better biscuits and gravy than Tutors Biscuit World, and they wanted to have
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the proceeds go to a charity. And so we have a long lasting partnership
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with Make a Wish. We actually just finished celebrating twenty five years last year
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partnership. So it made perfect sense for us to get involved with these iconic
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brands. And you know, carry on that Appalachian culture and just give back
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to those who are here native in West Virginia. Joe Beth, I'll go
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to you absolutely. As long as West Virginia, as Make a Wish has
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been in West Virginia, Tutors has been one of our biggest sponsors. So
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as Liz said, we've we've recently celebrated twenty five years with this chapter,
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and even before that when we were our own chapter, Tutors was a huge
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supporter. So West Virginia communities, businesses celebrating and helping out West Virginia children
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is a win win situation for all of them. And I think we're all
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familiar with the work of Make a Wish, but give us just kind of
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give us the mission statement in case for somebody that's not sure. We create
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life changing wishes for children who have been who have been diagnosed with a critical
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illness. So we work together with communities to make that wish happen for kids.
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not had these yet, but I hear they're good. Did you bring us
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some samples to that? We did. Yeah, they're another room. We
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might be able to get someone to maybe come bring us one or something there,
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but they're any other You left them with this bunch of jackals in there.
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I know we brought plenty of bags, though I think there should definitely
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be a few bags left. I mean, I saw Steve Animal from the
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Mountain is roaming around the studio. He never comes downstairs. All he stays
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in his hole upstairs, and and and he comes downstairs via food down here
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or something, you know. But hopefully they'll be a little bit left force.
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All right, So these are available all over and I'm gonna got to
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hit the sponsors first. You can get them at par of our stores.
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Also, uh, that's our studio sponsor. Also uh, Bigley Wiggly stores.
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They're available there, including big Ley Piggy Wiggily, I would presume who's
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our phone line sponsor. But also you can get him at Walmart, at
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Kroger and at Gomart. That is that the that's that's where they're available.
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Yep, all throughout the Mountain state. All right, So so again and
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again the proceeds for that will will benefit Make a Wish. And so how's
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it been? So when would we actually start the campaign? When did it
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go? When it started? He started? Uh, when they've been out
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on the Yeah, we started that in December. They've been out on the
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shelves probably two or three weeks now, pretty much statewide. So we're just
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getting it kicked off now. So it should be available in your local stores,
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so all throughout the state. So we want to be sure and get
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out and get those while you can. I went and looked for the ones
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to bring today and had to hit two different stores. So what they're going
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fast? I want to get in. I'd like to and maybe maybe Liz
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you can explain this to us. I want to give them the science of
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this Okay, So how do you make the chips taste so much like the
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real thing? Again, I haven't had them yet. I'm hoping there'll still
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be some out there get them to taste like the biscuits and gravy too.
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How exactly does that work? Well, full disclosure, they're delicious. Okay,
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I am biased, but I really genuine opinion, I think they're very
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good. Personally, I like them. I just want to that's a secret
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something to do with some spice blending and some things like that. But they
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did a really great job in bringing out that biscuit and gravy flavor. You
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really get that sausage flavor in the chip in my opinion, which sounds very
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interesting, but I really go try it. It just it's hard to describe,
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but it tastes so yummy. Yeah, and they've been doing, I
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know, different types of chips. You know, there's like a pepperoni role
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and there's some some different things. But this is a little bit different because
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again, it's it's a unique idea. Nothing says West Virginia, as I
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said, like mister Be's and tutors. But it's not just about that because
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it's it just goes to show that commitment that these companies like this have to
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helping out West Virginia. Oh absolutely. Mister B has often prided itself on,
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you know, giving back to the communities, as has Tutors. You
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know, both of our brands believe that it's important to support the people who
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support us, and so that's that's our goal. Mister B always wants to
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the phrases tantalize the taste buds of its customers and some unique flavors and things
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that you might not necessarily see on the shelves from other brands. And I
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think they're very successful in doing it. And you know, Tutors was just
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so happy and proud to get to be a part of it and really get
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to you know, carry that app lotch and name on and when it comes
23:57
to Tutors, and again, I mean, this is a brand that was
24:00
born here in West Virginia and it's expanded to other locations. One of the
24:04
things that I hear from a lot of my friends that have moved on to
24:07
other locations, you know, they move out to Texas or you know,
24:11
Illinois or whatever, and they're like, gosh, I miss Tutors, I
24:15
miss it. I miss it. Yeah, you have no idea. Social
24:19
media is something our marketing office, of course, monitors very closely. And
24:23
there are so many comments that come in of bringing tutors here. We wish,
24:26
we wish we saw tutors, we moved away, or you know,
24:30
we're driving through and we had to stop at Tutors to get our tutors fixed.
24:33
So it's one of those things if you've tried us once, you'll never
24:36
forget us. I think that's pretty true in saying that, and it just
24:38
it feels like home, right. Tutors is just like coming home. And
24:42
the same with mister B Chips. I think it's a little bit of a
24:45
comfort food too. And we all have in our own hometowns. We have
24:48
those those iconic places and the iconic tastes. But when you talk about West
24:52
Virginia, I mean you talk about Tutor, talk about mister B. I'll
24:56
go and throw in a little plug for Heiner's Bread. You know, it's
24:57
all one of those things that people seem seemed to love here in West Virginia.
25:02
Talk about your time with Make a Wish and talk about some of your
25:07
your favorite moments with Make a Wish. Okay, we I'm starting uh.
25:11
Well, well into my thirteenth year with Make a Wish uh West Virginia and
25:15
started in a wish department, so started out working on planning the wishes and
25:21
then after a couple of years, moved over to development and promotion. So
25:26
gosh, it's so hard. I think that one of my favorite things,
25:30
rather than being too not being too specific, is in very general to most
25:37
all of our families, if not all of our families, is we always
25:41
include everyone in the family, So not only the wish kid, but their
25:45
parents and their siblings, and you know, so often their siblings have had
25:49
to stay home and been away from mom or dad while while they had to
25:53
stay in the hospital, and it really takes a toll on the entire family.
25:59
So we we include everyone in a wish so they all get to go
26:04
together, they all if it's a trip, they all get to spend some
26:08
time outside of their medical world and enjoy it. So seeing the siblings and
26:15
the parents being able to relax and enjoy a time with their wish kid during
26:22
what is probably one of the hardest times of their lives is the most enjoyable
26:26
for me. And I don't think sometimes people realize Joe beeth that when you
26:33
have a situation like this, like a medical you mentioned the wish kid is
26:37
the terminology that you use. It involves the whole family. And sometimes we
26:41
think about, you know, the mom and dad, but it also affects
26:45
the little brothers, little sisters, bigger brothers, sisters, the cousins.
26:48
I mean this and make a wish is so good as you said about including
26:52
and helping out the whole family. And this because the patient is obviously you
26:56
know, front and center, but nobody lives in a vacuum there. It
27:00
affects everybody as well. Talk about that absolutely they you know, they're scared.
27:04
They're all scared and uh to be have to be away from their sibling
27:08
and there you know, many many of our children have go out of state
27:14
for treatment, uh if they have specialized if they need specialized care. So
27:18
you know, there may be weeks or months that they don't see their sibling
27:22
or or one of their parents. So and it's a scary time. So
27:26
uh, we we pride ourselves in being able to give not only the wish
27:32
kid the strength to get through it, but his entire family and his their
27:37
classmates and their church members and and everyone who's touched by this child, uh
27:44
is also touched by the wish So that's something that's very important to us.
27:48
We when we when we meet a child a Wish child, they get a
27:52
box of goodies from us, but it also includes toys for their siblings,
27:56
t shirts for everybody and the family, So we do all we can to
28:00
include everyone in the whole Wish process. Any way, that you've been able
28:06
to track sales so far, but how these things are doing? I mean
28:08
you said you had to go to two different stores to be able to get
28:11
them this morning. So yeah, we send any numbers yet? Or are
28:14
we are? We? Are we deeming this a big success? I guess
28:18
is what I'm trying to say. I think so far it definitely seems like
28:21
a success. It's a little early to know what numbers really we have,
28:25
but like Joe was saying, they're already gone at some stores. I know,
28:29
I had tried a Kroger last night to try to find a few and
28:30
it was completely gone. So it seems like people are really enjoying it.
28:34
Social media has really taken off with it. People have been excited to see
28:37
it and to try it, and overall all the reviews have been really positive
28:41
and good. They like the flavor, they like the taste, so yeah,
28:45
it's to me it seems like a success. But of course we have
28:48
to wait and see. But so far, yeah, I think it's here
28:52
to say that, and I'm thinking where else I'm getting into the Tutor's kitchen
28:56
right now. I'm thinking where else could we go from here? Because okay,
28:59
we got the biscuits and gravy. One of the things that people one
29:02
of my favorite things at Tutors that people don't often think about is the hot
29:06
dogs. Tutor actually, Tutors has actually very good hot dogs hot dog and
29:10
most people, a lot of people anyway, if they have a hot dog,
29:12
they either want fries or they want a bag of chips with it.
29:15
I'm thinking we take the Tutors chili and we make chips out of it.
29:21
Yes, yes, see what a bad idea, mister b We got a
29:23
new idea. We'll be coming to you with the hot dog, the hot
29:27
dog chili or if you're north of Charleston you have to call it sauce.
29:30
I guess I don't know. The people are crazy, but yeah, do
29:34
you put okay? All right? Chilian girl too and everything. Girl,
29:40
I don't know about relish, but yeah, well it depends on the Yeah.
29:44
So so if that happens, you know, you got to name it
29:47
after me, call it, call it the Day. I mean, you
29:51
got the Ron, you got the mister b or I'm sorry, the mary
29:53
Bee. And you have a favorite biscuit, tutors, I'm a mary Bee
29:57
girl. I love marry be go wrong with it. It's classic. It's
30:00
got your crunch, it's got the softness, it's got the melted all of
30:03
it. It's just so good. What about you. Oh, I just
30:07
love a butter biscuit. Yeah, just biscuit with butter. That's that's nothing
30:11
wrong with that. My favorite. And it's not on the menu, but
30:14
I found that they will because it was at one time, but they will
30:17
still make it for you. Is the Rocket, Ah, yes it is.
30:19
It's actually still on our menu. It's it's yeah, the one,
30:22
the one I freaking and taste Valley. It's not on the menu board photograph,
30:26
but but I ask for it, and sometimes it takes a little longer
30:29
to make it. It does. But the Rocket, it's the steak.
30:32
It's a steak. It's like a it's like a breaded steak kind of biscuits.
30:34
When I first started working at Tutors, I of course wanted to familiarize
30:38
myself with our menu. You know, if I'm going to marketing, I
30:41
want to know what I'm marketing. And of course all of our products are
30:45
wonderful, but the Rocket was one of those biscuits I tried first, and
30:48
I was like, this is actually pretty good. Every now and then I'll
30:49
divert from my marry B, but I stay true, all right. So
30:56
again these biscuits and gravy chips, with proceeds benefiting to make Wish Foundation.
31:00
It's a partnership with mister B and with Tutors, and they are available at
31:03
par Our stores. They're also available at Walmart, Kroger, most Piggy Wiggly
31:08
locations and Go Mart as well. So frequent one of those stores or frequent
31:12
all of them, and you'll be helping out make a Wish. Guys,
31:15
I appreciate both of you for being here today. Thanks a lot. Yeah,
31:18
thank you so much for us. Now, I wonder if there's any
31:18
food left back there for me. We might have to fight them off for
31:22
it left. And remember I get credit for that for the day, write
31:29
it down. All right? All right, guys, thanks a lot,
31:30
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Somebody asking, all right, before I let you go, I got a
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text for you. Okay, So I said, do you still make the
32:00
mister T. No, but mister T, I don't remember that. Mister
32:05
T was a little before my time. I think it was also some form
32:08
of steak sandwich. I would to say it was like steak them. I
32:12
could be really wrong about that, but it was. It was a biscuit
32:15
that existed, Like I said, far before my time. We do still
32:19
have a few fans out there who love the mister T. Like I said,
32:23
we get social posts that there's like always one person or two people that
32:27
are like the mister t back. Apparently it was a fan favorite amongst them.
32:30
But unfortunately we do not have it anymore. Okay, we are always
32:36
you know, open to some lt O opportunities and things, so we'll keep
32:38
it in mind for maybe, I'm sure, but for now unfortunately no.
32:42
All right, all right, we could do tutors and mister b talk all
32:45
day, so we'll schedule a show on a Friday for that where that's all
32:50
we talk about. All right, I guess thanks a lot, will take
32:52
a break. We're back after this. So the Voice of Charleston w c
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eating potato chips and drinking coffee and then going on the radio. They're very
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good, Anthony. By the way, I don't know whether you had a
35:44
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in being on the show today is I think that I could do an entire
36:19
show devoted to mister Bees. Mister Bees, potato chips and Tutors. Based
36:24
on the text that I have gotten today, let me knock out a couple
36:30
of those texts. Texas Dave, Tutor's gravy is spot on, but their
36:34
biscuits are too much fluff, and I do enough stuff needs more salt and
36:37
pepper in the batter. I've often asked for their sausage gravy on side and
36:40
put it on homemade biscuits. All right, So Liz, if you're listening,
36:44
there's your criticism. Not criticism, just a constructive criticism. Texas Dave,
36:50
next trip to Tutors, you've got to try the thundering herd on toast
36:52
and add mayon. AI's life changing, says a texture. H Tex says
37:00
roast beef and melted cheddar. What happened to the cream chicken over biscuit?
37:07
Says a texture? All right again, we're gonna have schedule them back.
37:10
I can see that. I can see that all ready. How come Tutors
37:15
in sultstera burrinas by calling them raps, says tex I don't know, and
37:20
I know Tutors. It's called Bisco World. But I'm a pretty big fan
37:22
of the raps too. I'll be honest with you, I like him a
37:25
lot. Programing note hopies back to the Capital today at the AARP Broadcast facility
37:30
discussing the governor's debt situation. Brad mclhanney will be there for that, plus
37:35
some discussion on student discipline in schools and the Crown Act. Jim Kaufman from
37:39
West Virginia Hospital Association of More will be their hockey Kirchibal from the AARP Broadcast
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location at the State Capitol. Coming up at ten o six. It is
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the final day of the Parmar Shootout Big the Shootout at the Big House at
37:54
West Virginia State University Institute. Again, it's just been a fantastic three days
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and today is the final day of that. Action. Just got underway about
38:04
fifteen minutes or so ago with some of the action again, if you want
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to take a look at the entire schedule, it's posted on my social media.
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It's also listening to Parmer social media pages as well. The first game
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was a boys game with Wart County of Magnolia, and then there is a
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and Liberty followed by a boy's game with GW and Martinsburg, then a boys
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game of Huntington takeing on Parkersburg South, followed by some girls action a little
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bit later. On today, my alma mater, the Logan Wildcats will take
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So about an hour ago there was a public meeting scheduled at the Capitol to
39:04
discuss HB fifty two forty three, or the Women's Bill of Rights. Brad
39:08
and Hoppy. We'll get into that a little bit more next hour now.
39:12
Among other things, it would prevent the term non binary from being used as
39:20
a category on birth certificates. It would place stronger definitions in state code on
39:27
terms such as women, girl, and mother. The bill states plainly that
39:34
a person's biological sex is set at birth and does not include gender identity.
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Or other terms viewed in some eyes as subjective. Any reference to gender in
39:47
state code would be changed to sex under the new definitions. Now. It
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goes on to prohibit what the bill refers to as unfair treatment of female and
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males in certain situations, including providing separate living facilities, locker rooms, bathrooms,
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domestic violent shelters, et cetera, et cetera. The bill also states
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that equal does not mean same now as you imagine. Again, the public
40:17
hearing was scheduled for eight thirty this morning. I did. I have not
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followed up on that to see how that went, to see if it indeed
40:23
took place. Hoppying Brad will have more in that coming up at ten oh
40:27
six this morning, I'm sure as you can imagine, though, State Democratic
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Party Democrats individually, the ACLU and other groups greatly speaking out against. So
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don't know how many we're going to speak at the public hearing, but I
40:43
do know that on there I was actually reading some stuff from the ACLU earlier
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this morning. They were really upset about this. Fairness was for Gidi beat
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another one that was upset about that. Meeting again will set for eight thirty
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this morning the Capitol and Brad and Hope have more in that coming up at
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ten six. Going back to Josh Hegenbotham, let's see tex says Okay,
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I'm not reading that part. Text says Josh Heagenbotam is making a pattern of
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this race just like he did when he ran for Senate. Our citizens don't
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46:36
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could only help. Says, Well, the bad thing about eating potato chips
46:44
in the studio is is number one, the engineers kind of frown upon that
46:46
sort of thing. That's number one, and number two they get stuck in
46:50
your throat, you know. And this time of day, I'm still slamming
46:52
coffee, you know. I mean, even though I've been up, you
46:54
know for five hours now, I'm still I'm still slamming coffee. So but
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the potato chips are good biscuits and gravy chips. No, lie, they're
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actually they're actually pretty good. And they tell me that there are biscuits left
47:05
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and has been for seventy one years. All right. So I had Josh
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Accobotham on the show earlier. I had a texture that said something to the
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effect of, okay, I can't find the text right now. Basically,
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they were asking mister Higginbotham, who's running for Agriculture Commissioner, his position on
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cannabis. So Josh had already left, but I know he was listening to
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the show, and I asked him to if he would to please text back
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in an answer, and this was his response. I support the right of
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patients to use cannabis for medical purposes if it's grown in West Virginia by West
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Virginians. I also do not believe that a legally consenting adult should go to
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jail for simply possessing marijuana. That is what's Josh Higginbotham, former delegate and
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candidate now for West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner, said during his text this morning.
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Let me see text says Higginbotham is as much a farmer as Dave Allen as
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a parent. That's okay. I don't know about that analogy, but no,
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I'm not I'm not a parent. Brad and I talked a little yesterday
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about the auctioning of the Green Briar Sporting Club that's being done to satisfy a
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portion of the three hundred million dollar debt governed Justice and his family businesses have
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with with Carter Bank. The governor lashing out about it yesterday, saying during
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his statement, I don't believe there will be one ounce of anything sold,
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period in quote. And you know, he really can't get into a whole
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lot of details from what I understand, so he can't really say a whole
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lot more than that. But he did say that he does not believe that
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anything is going to be sold. And reports are that members of the greenbriersh
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Sporting Club were getting correspondence from attorneys for Justice referring to their words a so
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called notice of sale. The communication went on to say, again quoting,
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the notice of sale is invalid. The governor somewhat alluding to the politics of
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the whole thing in his statement. As I said, now, one of
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his opponents, Congressman Alex Mooney, is saying that these matters are the public's
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business, which you know, I don't always agree with Alex Mooney on a
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whole heck of a lot. But I do on this because he is the
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governor, and say to West Virginia, and when you're the governor, these
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things are going to be out there, especially when you said you're going to
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put all this in a blind trust. So where are we now on this?
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Well, as I said, the members of the Sporting Club, there
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have been sent letters saying that there could be said. They call it a
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so called sale or something of that effect, as I said earlier. And
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the way this club works, it is a private club that offers memberships to
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people who buy real estate surrounding the Greenbrier. You know, the whole thing
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is really a big mess. But as I referenced yesterday on the show,
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maybe his day before that, the article that was in the Wall Street Journal
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about the governor and his finances last week. I mean, this was front
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page of the leading business publication and one of the leading newspaper publications in the
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world, the Wall Street Journal front page about the He was kind of compared
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and contrast the popularity of Governor Justice, who's now running for Senate, and
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all of his financial issues, and it brought up all these things. But
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as I've said about this. The bottom line is is that no one really
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cares about this in West Virginia. They knew of the governor's financial issues when
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he was running for office, and when he was elected in twenty sixteen.
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I mean, his opponents made issue of this and people still voted for him.
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And this has continued to pile on. It's piled on, it's piled
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on and again. Several months ago he had he was like the fourth,
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their fifth most popular governor in America. He's going to go down as one
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of West Virginia's most popular governors ever, much to the chagrin of a lot
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of people, sometimes within his own party. People know these things about Jim
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Justice, and they don't care. They simply simply do not care. All
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Right, we got to go to dave alachoe A five. Any Live is
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for more information on that. My producer was he a training Anthony Rmon.
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Thank you so much, sir. Thank you to Joshua Higginbotham, and thank
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you to the folks from tutors and from Make a Wish for stopping by the
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show and thank you for the food as well. Coming up on the show
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tomorrow, Hannah Gardner from Kennaw Charleston New Main Association with this week's Adopt Me
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Please spedd of the Week. Stephanie Casey from the West Virginia Grind basketball team.
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It's about time to start hooping it up again with the Grind and Jason
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Huffman for Americans for Prosperity. Gotta go. I'll see you later today at
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