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Let's welcome to the show now, candidate and current magistrate here in Kanaugh County,
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Leslie Grace, Good morning, morning, welcome to the show. Thank
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you, Thank you for me to give us the bio on Lesley Grace.
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So. I'm a retired police officer. I've been with the sheriff'spartment for over
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twenty years. That's kind of where my bread and butter has been. I
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woke up, woke up not too long after Mike System passed away, and
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thought Mike was an honorable guy, sitting on the edge of the bed,
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deciding that I need to be a masherate. Never thought about it one time
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beforehand. The last seven years of my career I worked in the courthouse,
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so working in all the judges upstairs courtrooms. So I think my courtroom is
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more like a circuit circuit clerk. Our circuit courtroom does than what it does
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master. So just kind of getting, you know, getting used to how
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things are done. I've done it for a year and a half. I
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absolutely love it. I mean, you're appointed to the position. I Judge
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Bailey appointed me to the position as Masterate after Mike passed away. I absolutely
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love the job. It's kind of interesting to me because you don't hear that
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a lot that someone has served as both a police officer and as a mastership,
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so I guess you probably have a totally different perspective on it. I
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bring. I like to think I bring some new things to what the county
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needs. One of the things that I realized as a police officer that nobody
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wanted to be arrested in Putnam County because Putnam County sends them to jail.
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Well why don't we do the same here. I mean, I understand the
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jail bill is expensive, but the job as a master is to protect the
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citizens of Kenall County from people that are evil, some bad people, and
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I think one of the ways we do that is by setting a higher bond
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on them and send them to jail. I mean, they got to think
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about it. They gotta have some skin in the game. It's not a
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PR bond, you know. Personal recognistance bonds are fine for some people,
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but I think on the to best suit society as it is today, people
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need to have bonds on them. What's been the most rewarding part for you
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be magistrate Leslie. You know, the idea of helping people has always been
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something that I've been about. So getting an opportunity to actually help people in
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the time of need, when they come into court room and they've you know,
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they're victims of a crime or you know, something's going on in their
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life, being able to point them in the right direction, help them,
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help them move forward through it all. Talk about some of the challenges of
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being a magistrate, you know, trying to figure out how to help people,
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because sometimes you can't. Some people don't want help, some drugs that
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being the way it is today, it's really difficult sometimes for people to see
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that they need help and they don't want to get help. But when they
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do, then finding the facilities to take them and get them in to get
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them help is what it's all about. How's the campaign been so far?
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Well, it's It's funny because when you've never done something before, it's hard
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to judge. This is your first campaign, it is it is so you
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know, you go to every parade, you shake every hand, you meet
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everybody. You try to do everything you can and hope that's enough. What
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do you hear when you're out there knocking on doors or parades or meet the
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candidates from what do you hear from the public. You know, I think
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the public just wants to know they're safe, you know. I mean,
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everybody wants to go drive back and forth to work knowing that everything's going to
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be okay. And some times you can carry that, and sometimes you can
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and it's the times that you carry it that means the most. I think
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sometimes, you know, we all want our law enforcement, our courts,
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whatever level, to be tough on crime, but there are certain there are
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guidelines. Whether you're a magistrate, whether you're a judge, probation officer,
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or whatever, there are certain guidelines that you have to follow them. Sometimes
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I think maybe the public is not aware of that, but I can imagine
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though, And I've talked to several friends that have been in your position,
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Leslie that get a little bit frustrated because they see so many of the same
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dang people. Well, you know, in law enforcement, you say you
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see ten percent of the population ninety percent of the time, and it's kind
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of the same thing as a master in you know. But the trick is
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is if you can catch them early young and get them into some classes and
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get them into some stuff to move past the drugs and move past the rage
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and the things that have got them to where they are at this point of
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their life. Maybe, just maybe it'll help them in the future. I
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want to go back to your career as a law enforcement officer. When when
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you were serving as a police officer here and that you were at the Sheriff's
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office in Kanaha County, did you did you ever think one day that,
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I mean, heck, I might be magistrate at some point. Did you
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ever think about that? Or was it maybe something in your head you've got
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like a mental notebook that you're writing down things, or or at all?
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You know, not one time, not one time as a police officer,
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had I ever thought about it? I know, Mike Saystem when he passed,
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he was he was a very honorable man. And you know I woke
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up on you. Honestly, was four o'clock in the morning. I'm sitting
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on the edge of the bed and the only thing I can think of is
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being a masterate, Like why am I thinking about this? I've never never
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thought about it one time in my life, But it makes sense being being
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a police officer working in the courthouse working for this the circuit judges upstairs,
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seeing how things are done up there, and that I bring. I bring
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that downstairs a little bit different than everybody else because of what I've seen as
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a police officer. I can imagine. I can imagine that Dave Alanchoing five
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twenty ninety nine at your favorite Hudson's location. So what's the biggest problem facing
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the court system today? I mean, I know it's drugs, So it's
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specifically what's the biggest problem with faces our courts? You know? I think
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if we were all on the same page as Masterress, I think that would
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make things a little bit better. I think everybody does it a little bit
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differently, and I understand from everybody has different backgrounds and they bring something different
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to the table. But if we're all on the same page with all of
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it, where we were all working together, we were all in harmony.
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So when somebody comes in, they know what to expect. It's not depending
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on which matter you're in front of what you get. It's all of us
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are doing it the same way. I'm excited about that. I'm excited to
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bring that, you know, to bring a different chapter to Connall County.
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I'm excited about you know, there redoing the courthouse. You know, we
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have we have thirty as most people know, we have thirteen mattress instead of
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instead of the ten. They did a judicial review and realize that Cocaul County
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needs more masterress, so they added three. So we have three empty seats.
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So now the county has to update the courthouse and make the room for
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the extra masterates, which is i mis needed, and it's going to be
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so nice for the for the public to be able to come in and have
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this new facility. I'm just excited about it. There are a lot of
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people, seemingly Leslie running for magistrate this time. I mean my phone rings,
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I've already had a few on I've got a few more coming up.
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There's a lot of people running for magistrate here. Kenna Kenny. Why do
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you think that is? You know, I think I think everybody wants to
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do something different. Everybody wants to make a change, everybody wants to be
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do something positive that. The biggest problem with master court to an extent is
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you have a script you have to go by, and I think that people
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that haven't done it, that haven't set in the seat, don't understand what
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that is. So outside all, I'm gonna make all these changes. I'm
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gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. Well, you can't. You
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know, we have that this is what we have to do, and this
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is what you can do, and you can do these little changes, but
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some of the changes are one to almost send them here, almost send them
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there. You kind of can't. You're just limited by what you're allowed to
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do, and it's just different. I got a text here for you.
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Somebody asked a question, so how do magistrates balance the presumpt of innicence with
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high bond requirements? So if you're a danger to the public, if you
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come into the court on an initial arraiement, you come in front of me
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and you're a danger to the public, then I have to set that bond
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as high as I can because you're a danger to the public. Now,
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the legislators have put laws in place for us to follow. So if it's
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a misdemeanor crime, a lot of times it's three times. The amount of
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the maximum bond or the maximum fine is what you can charge is bond,
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So and sometimes people don't know that. So you'll bring a person in,
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say that it's assault on a police officer, and you know, you put
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them on fifteen hundred dollars bond, and they're like, well, fifteen hundred
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dollars is not enough to assault our police officers. Because ultimately, if you'll
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assault a police officer, you'll probably assault just about anybody. But so you're
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limited on that. You have things that you have to do or that you
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can go to. So there's a guideline of what we have to do,
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and that's how you figure out the guideline. And then there's cases that come
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in front of you where you can set whatever. And so trying to figure
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out what makes the public safe that's the hard part of the job. Talk
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with Leslie Grace again, who is a magistrate currently in Kanaha County, appointed
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that position, but now he's having to run for the office this time around.
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Do you have a website or social media page? Yeah, Leslie Grace
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from Ashering, Okay, pretty simple. Yeah, I like to hashtag keeps
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the big out on the bench. It's a funny story, but well tell
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us. So I'm sitting on the bench one day this gentleman comes in and
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he lays his notebook on the table and he's looking at me, and of
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course I'm game for it, you know. He's just staring me down,
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and I get scrint on my face. And I asked him, say,
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hey, what can I do for you? He just stands there and looks
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at me and he says, well, I have one question for you.
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He's straight up serious. I was like, well, sir, what's your
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question? He said, how many days a week do you go to the
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gym? Well? I go to the gym five days a week, sometimes
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twice a day, just about every day. And he said, he said,
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you can always tell a real man when you say it. And then
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he told me that he played for the Kansas City Chiefs in the sixties.
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So I looked him up because I thought maybe he was pulling my leg a
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little bit. No, straight up, he does. So that was the
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first one, and then the second time, there was a there was a
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inmate that was in the back that was going back out to the jail,
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and he made a comment when the officers come around there was laughing. He
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said, Hey, that guy said you look like Bill Goldberg. So I
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was like, well, you know, okay, if I look like Bill
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Goldberg, and I guess the big guy, the big guy's is so keep
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the big guy on the bench. Yeah. Well, I mean you're a
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pretty impressive looking specimen. I'll say that say that about you. Do you
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care to divulte what your political party gets on me? Because I know people
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will ask so the whole nonpartisan thing. I don't believe that as a as
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a magistrate, that politics should play. However, I'm a Republican, okay,
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okay, And I say that because every time I have somebody on,
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somebody always texts and says, well, you ask him what their party is,
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and so I'm like to say, and some don't. But a simple
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Google search you can figure out who anybody is. So all right, give
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me final thirty, Leslie, Why should people vote to re elect you to
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the office of magistran Kanaan County. I think I've I bring fresh insight to
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what I'm doing. I think that I'm kind of spearheading how things are done.
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As far as you know, the point of the spear is the master
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Court because everything runs through you. Everything that goes anywhere in the building is
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run through a master ron and bringing a fresh insight there and bringing a difference,
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the thought to make a difference, because sometimes we're so busy you don't
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have time to make a difference, but to try to make a difference every
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day and everybody's life. And it's difficult sometimes, but it's a challenge I
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accept and I'm going to win, but I need everybody's vote to do it
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right well. Best of Lexia in the campaign, Thank you sir, not
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nine three five five zero zero eight. Let's welcome and stay. Auditor candidate
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for Attorney General, Jay B. Mccusky, Good morning, sir, welcome
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to the show. Good morning, Dave. I thought I got to read
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the Bigley Pigly Wiggly Hotline promo. But you got any that never gets older,
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You does not get old. Low It's the best. It's the big
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Lee Piggly Wiggly Hotline. That's incredible. So Leslie Grace, I got to
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tell you, And I know he's listening to the radio right now. I'd
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never met mister Grace until today. It's a big old boy. If I
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were to be brought into his courtroom as a as as a potential criminal,
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I think I would probably number one. Not have expected somebody named that to
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look like him, but I would be very nervous about my sentence that he
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does look a lot in Hollywood. Jeff, my producer, is a big
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wrestling fan. He does he could he could be a body double for Bill
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Goldberg. Yeah, I agree, he's a I think I would just go
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in and go guilty. I'm just I'm guilty. Yeah, whatever it is.
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What So, how has a campaign been so far? Fantastic? We
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have been in probably thirty counties in the last month. The excitement for my
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campaign and our message is really really resonating. Before we get into the campaign,
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I want to ask you about your current job, and that is in
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state Auditor's office. What's new there? So? I think probably the two
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things that are the biggest that are going on, actually we'll say three.
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So we are adding cities and counties to our West Virginia checkbook every single day.
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Our local governments have really stepped up and embraced the fact that West Virginia,
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under our leadership, is the most transparent state in the entire United States.
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And they are so committed to transparency and taxpayer education that it's it's incredibly
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heartwarming to watch our local government step up. Second, we are tearing down
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dilapidated buildings at a really rapid pace, which is a huge testament to my
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team of people in the Land Division, along with the deep under Governor Justices
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leadership, our complete transformation of that process. And then the appropriation of funds
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and the plan that we put together is tackling this blighted building problem in a
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way we've probably never tackled before. And lastly, we have an enormous amount
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of very important things coming in the ESG space coming up. We are working
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explain to ESG. Yeah, ESG is environmental and social governance, and so
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it's a way for sort of left leaning people to force private companies to be
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green, to change their business practices in a way to conform to a political
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ideology, and it plays itself out sort of in the realm of stock purchases.
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And so we are working very hard to make sure that and we will
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have some announcements in the coming weeks on this, that tax payers know when
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they are investing if they are investing in funds that have an ESG purpose as
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opposed to a money making purpose. And so we believe that the free market
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should be free that people should be investing in things with full knowledge that there
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may not be a total profit motive in whatever the investment that's being offered.
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Is right if if, if the goal of an investment is to change the
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environment, its goal is not to make you money, and people should,
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you know, in fairness, probably be allowed to invest that way if they'd
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like. But there's probably not a lot of people in West Virginia who do
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want to invest that way. And ESG is just it's terrible for our gas
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industry, it's terrible for our coal industry, it's terrible for agriculture industry,
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JB. There's going to be a new state auditor. Yeah, what Uh,
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what advice would you have for that person, whoever it is. The
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advice that I would give is on that first day, when we have these
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incredibly beautiful offices and I have this absolutely unbelievable team of people that I get
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to work with every single day, I think that we have been an incredibly
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successful administration in the Auditor's Office, and that is just a great testament to
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the people that I am so fortunate to get to work with. But when
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you sit down in the chair that's in this big, beautiful office in the
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Capitol, there's an excitement at that first moment you walk in there. And
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allow that excitement to guide your principles as to what the Auditor's Office is supposed
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over the state's government. And allow yourself to really understand the public service duty
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that that encompasses and come up with several great ideas, write them down right,
21:51
and spend your next three and a half years working towards those ideas and
21:55
make sure that all of them are centered on making the government smaller, more
21:59
efficient, and more effective when it comes to things like infrastructure and schools and
22:03
taking care of people that can't take care of themselves, because the office and
22:08
the people there are really special. And as our state continues to grow and
22:15
attract new young conservative families from all over this country, the Auditor's office is
22:18
going to be a key cog in the wheel that ensures that that that this
22:23
growth continues to happen. Talking again with State Auditor JB. Mcusky, also
22:27
a candidate for attorney general, let's focus on the campaign now, you really
22:33
picked up a lot of endorsements. Yeah. Here lately, I was just
22:36
perusing social media and it seems to be a lot of endorsements. So,
22:37
yeah, why do you think that message of yours is getting out and you're
22:41
picking up all these endorsements. So, like I was saying before, and
22:44
I hate to sort of be braggadocious this way, but I think the state's
22:48
business community, the state's legal community, and the conservative movement around West Virginia
22:52
has really started to see that I am the conservative fighter in this race.
22:57
I'm the person who has the proven track record of making our government work better,
23:02
to make it work faster, to make it work more in a taxpayer
23:06
centered way. And they understand that I have the legal ability and history and
23:11
acumen to take over from Patrick Morrissey, who's been an incredible Attorney General,
23:15
the mantle of being, you know, the country's lead in defending Westford,
23:21
defending our values against people that quite frankly want to see us fail, people
23:26
in Washington and New York and California. But furthermore that I have a campaign
23:33
that is going to win the general election. And at the end of the
23:36
day, all of this is about how do we beat the Democrats in November.
23:38
And I am the one that's going to do that. And I am
23:41
just wildly and completely flattered by the outpouring of support that I've had from the
23:47
business community, the legal community, that the social conservative community for my campaign.
23:52
And we are really ready for this final stretch. Ready to go.
23:56
Your opponent, State Senator Mike Stewart. And by the way, I will
24:00
say that you have put out there a overly positive campaign. Yeah, you've
24:07
been attacked a lot on this show. Actually, my Senator Stewart last week
24:12
he's questioned your experience as far as whether you were battle ready to go into
24:18
the courts. How would you reply to that? Yeah, So I started
24:22
off my career working for a guy named Jay Seculo at the American Center for
24:26
Law and Justice, and Jay is Donald Trump's personal lawyer. He is a
24:32
mentor of mine, and he's also probably the most successful private lawyer in the
24:37
history of constitutional law, having won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court.
24:42
So I began my legal career watching one of the true masters of federal
24:49
court litigation teaching me how to do that. And then I got to spend
24:53
the next ten years of my legal practice very fortunately for a couple of years
24:59
getting to work with my dad, who is a former Supreme Court justice and
25:02
one of the finest human beings I've ever met in my life and one of
25:04
the finest and most respected lawyers in West Virginia. And then I got to
25:08
work at a law firm called Step two in Johnson, where I was really
25:15
really exposed to incredible litigators in both the coal and natural gas space, and
25:21
so I got to work with and for and on behalf of all of the
25:26
people that we're going to have to defend. I did that for a very
25:30
long time, and for the last seven and a half years, I've gotten
25:33
to practice law as the state auditor. And if you don't really know what
25:37
the State Auditor's office does It's hard to really understand why a lawyer is such
25:41
a great can be such a great person for that job, because as the
25:45
Securities Commissioner, I'm practicing securities laws every day. As the land Commissioner,
25:48
I'm working with the legal community in our title search realm on all kinds of
25:56
legal issues that surround land sale process. But I think importantly I have gotten
26:02
to work with our fifty five county prosecutors after we establish what we call the
26:06
Public Integrity and Fraud Unit, and we are the premier and most successful public
26:11
corruption fighting agency probably in state government. And we've prosecuted forty seven people to
26:17
felony conviction just in the six years since we started the PIFU, and the
26:21
prosecutors from around this state are so incredible, and we have really built a
26:26
team of investigators and lawyers that I'm proud to lead. And so, you
26:34
know, I certainly understand why Mike would want to say that. But at
26:40
the end of the day, I went to w law School, I graduated
26:44
very high in my class. I have worked with some of the greatest lawyers
26:48
in American history, and I have practiced law successfully and built a reputation amongst
26:53
the legal community as a person of very very high integrity, great skill,
26:57
and importantly somebody who understands the difference between a bad person and a person who
27:03
made a mistake. And I really look forward to taking my way of being
27:11
a lawyer, which I think is the correct way into the Attorney General's office,
27:14
because a very large portion of the legal community in West Virginia sees me
27:18
as the person they want to be the state's top lawyer. I know that.
27:22
I think it was Thursday last week when I had Senator Stewart on the
27:26
show. He threw out some allegations there or some misshandling of COVID funds,
27:32
and you care to sure and Senator Stewart, I think maybe just has a
27:37
misunderstanding of what happens. So I'm going to read just a sentence from and
27:41
this is the West Virginia Metro News website, which I think is YOURALS website
27:47
I'm familiar. So the first sentence says West Virginia has a four hundred and
27:51
sixty five million dollar question with the federal government based not on any allegations of
27:56
misspending, but instead over WHETHER'SQUOL systems fell short on an obligation to essentially spend
28:03
more money. So it's a liberal talking point. I think that came from
28:08
the Democrat Party, probably to discredit Governor Justice. It's untrue. So this
28:12
is a slow spending allegation. This is and it is. It isn't even
28:18
even on the slow spending side, not one hundred percent true. Our system,
28:22
the way that we have our the way that we fund our schools through
28:25
the school aid formula, was it really contemplated when the federal government was doling
28:30
out this money. And so it takes us a little longer to get this
28:33
money out to the counties. And we will and it's being handled fine,
28:37
and I have full confidence in the Justice administration to make sure this all works
28:41
out fine. But at the end of the day, there was an audit
28:45
done on some of the school board some of the school board spending and they
28:49
found a little bit of misspending a couple hundred thousand dollars and that's horrible,
28:53
but it was found during the audit process. And that's how this works.
28:57
You know, my office has the op debligation of reviewing and looking at literally
29:03
hundreds of thousands of lines of transactions and so we have to both rely on
29:08
our investigatory process but also on the audit process to find to find fraud.
29:14
And to be fair, fraud happens. It happens at banks, it happens
29:17
at grocery stores, it happens at the government. And our our motto in
29:19
our offices is that there is no such thing as a small fraud, just
29:23
one that we find quickly. And in this instance, it was found very
29:26
quickly and people are being held accountable. And so I feel I feel very
29:32
confident in the record that that we have in the office, and I feel
29:36
very confident in our our two finance chairmen in the Governor's office to make sure
29:40
that all this is done properly. And and it's it's it's unfortunate that that
29:45
the situation is being used and the facts are being kind of misrepresented in order
29:49
to score political points, because at the end of the day, it's bad
29:52
for business, it's bad for the image of West Virginia, and and it's
29:56
just as frankly, isn't true. Friday, JB came news that one of
30:00
the endorsements that mister Stewart had received was pulled back because the family of the
30:04
slain State trooper Amingo County didn't appreciate there where as mister Stewart using mister Stewart
30:10
using the death of a trooper for political purposes. You have any any comment
30:12
on them? Yeah, I'm gonna let I'm gonna let them speak for themselves
30:18
on that. I am very very proud to be endorsed by the West Virginia
30:22
Sheriff's Association. I'm very very proud of our record working with county prosecutors.
30:27
You know, I have always backed the blue, but I'm also somebody who's
30:30
a little humble and a little bit quieter than some other politicians, and so
30:36
it is. It's a wonderful thing to find that the law enforcement community of
30:41
West Virginia is very strongly supporting my candidacy. And if they would like to
30:45
speak with you about that, that's fine. But I have an enormous amount
30:48
of respect for Rachel Maynard and her family. They've been through a lot,
30:53
and I'll just leave it at that. Tonight, there's going to be a
30:57
debate held between you and this understood on the campus of West Virginia State.
31:02
What can we expect from the debate tonight? You can expect me to talk
31:04
about my record. You can expect me to talk about why I'm the conservative
31:08
fighter in this race. You can talk. You can expect me to explain
31:11
why I'm the person that's supported by a vast majority of the business community,
31:15
a vast majority of our law enforcement officials, a vast majority of our legal
31:18
community, a vast majority of our social conservative groups. Why I have an
31:22
A rating from the NRA. You can expect me to talk about my record,
31:29
who I am as a person. You can expect me to talk about
31:32
my amazing family, my amazing wife, are amazing small business, my amazing
31:36
kids. But more importantly, I think you're going to expect to hear me
31:40
talk about my intense passion for the people of West Virginia, because we deserve
31:48
greatness, and we are finally at a point where greatness is at our fingertips
31:53
and we just got to reach out and grab it. But we need a
31:57
great Attorney General to make sure that the federal government and liberals from around this
32:01
country do not snatch this greatness away from us at the first moment that we
32:07
have this opportunity to truly transform the lives of so many people that have been
32:13
downtrodden for so long, and rebuild our schools, and rebuild our infrastructure and
32:17
rebuild our population. I just love this place so much, and I am
32:23
so committed to fighting for who we are against people who don't believe in our
32:30
greatness. And you can expect me to talk about all those things, say
32:32
Don and Derm Canada for Attorney General JB. Mcuskey. I appreciate you being
32:36
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I bet most people in those states couldn't point to where West Virginia is on
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Why do West Virginia politicians constantly use those states as the boogeyman? It's tired
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like their platform. Everyone's talking about the eclipse. Now we'll continue the talk
35:57
list. Welcome in Spencer Adkins from Storm Tracker. Spencer, good morning,
36:00
Welcome to the show. Hey, how you doing, Dave? I am
36:04
doing fine. First of all great coverage last week on the big storms.
36:08
How many tornadoes have now been confirmed to the area. I'm changing so far,
36:15
so far, and I think there will be more because they're going out
36:17
to do more surveys. And it's funny because now I'm sitting here thinking about
36:22
the twenty twelve d racho and I'm going, you know, there's a process
36:27
and the reason is that the emergency management has to say, oh, yeah,
36:30
well we've got the stamage over here, Hey, Weather Service, we
36:32
think it's worth you coming out to do that, so like a request process,
36:37
and I'm going, there was so much damage in twenty twelve, you
36:39
know, we probably had more tornadoes back then that we think. But this
36:43
one so far is the one day record for West Virginia, for this service
36:47
area for the Charleston Charleston National Weather Service. But that's because all these sites
36:52
have been requested, so I don't know, you know, going back now,
36:55
I'm going, gee, it was probably about the same thing, the
36:58
same kind of squall line that had a rotation in it. And wow,
37:01
what a day, What a day that was. And now I got what
37:04
let me blow your mind or this As I'm waiting on hold to speak to
37:07
you. I get an update saying that as we were sleeping last night at
37:12
four oh one am, it was a very minor earthquake in eastern Kentucky last
37:15
night. So it was a two point three over in Elliott County of all
37:21
things. Yeah, not exactly really known as a fault line area either.
37:24
So this is great as if we needed more on the eclipse day, right,
37:29
we gotrtatoes, earthquakes and the clipse. So specier. What do you
37:32
think looking back last Tuesday will how will it be viewed historically? Because I
37:37
mean everybody points to I think it was April to nineteen seventy four and we
37:42
were just one day away from that being the fiftieth anniversary of the tornado outbreaks
37:45
we had in this part of the country. Looking back, how will last
37:49
Tuesday be remembered? In your opinion, it's going to be one of those,
37:53
like one of those whoops, because we thought the nighttime was going to
37:58
be something akin to that with a strong long track tornadoes set up and everything,
38:02
and then the morning really came together. I mean some of the models
38:07
and we talked about it. We said, well there's a couple of models,
38:08
say some thunderstorms, I think got together as such a massive squall line.
38:13
And you know, I'm going to say that was a duracho because the
38:16
damage path was way more than two hundred and fifty miles long. And that's
38:20
the thing you can't tell. It's like a tape measure posts event label that
38:25
you can put on. Something you can only tell when you go back and
38:28
stretch that damage path out and go, okay, that kind of qualifies.
38:31
But I'll say it will be eventually remembered, just the whoops duracho, like,
38:36
oh that was kind of we were looking down the road and that got
38:38
us in the morning. But yeah, I mean it'll be historic. What
38:42
can you call it? An outbreak? You know, an outbreak is more
38:45
like the seventy four individual long tracks. This is just a squall line that
38:50
had you know, it's probably gonna end up being a dozen tornadoes on the
38:52
thing, which is kind of different for us. Yeah. Indeed, again
38:57
we're talking with Spencer Adkins from a storm track at thirteen. All right,
38:59
let's get to the eclipse. Break it down in language that simple people like
39:04
myself can understand what exactly has happened today? What's a scientific explanation for what
39:08
has happened today, nothing more than the moon is getting in between getting in
39:14
between us and the sun. And so I was thinking about this. You
39:16
know, the moon is whatever, like four hundred times smaller and all this,
39:20
and you're going, how can it make such a big shadow. Well,
39:22
if you go to a ballgame and some guy stands up in front of
39:25
you, he's not bigger than the entire field, right, but in your
39:30
line of view he is. Yeah, So yeah, exactly. So this
39:34
is a little bit like hey, buddy down in front. But right now,
39:38
looking at Charleston, we're going to be covered ninety two point eight percent.
39:43
The further west you go, like Huntington ninety four percent, and this
39:46
peaks at about three thirteen. Now that's off. Of course, the clouds
39:51
don't get in the way. We see some clearing going on. But if
39:53
you were just to drive just to the western suburbs of Cincinnati, that's where
39:57
you get that one hundred percent covered. You know, this next one is
40:00
like twenty forty four. Of course it wouldn't even be over us at that
40:05
point. But you know, in America, and so I think, you
40:07
know, it's wrong to say this is once in a lifetime, but it's
40:12
you know, pretty rare. Thank you for pointing that out. Thank you
40:15
for because I actually retweeted or reacxed whatever you do on AX now what you
40:20
had said earlier, Because if I make it to the year of twenty forty
40:24
four, I think is what you said the next year would be, I
40:27
would be seventy four years old. There will have been four of those during
40:30
my lifetime, So so so much for you once in a lifetime thing.
40:35
There were four if I make it that far, there will be four during
40:37
my lifetime. Yeah, it's just it's lazy headline writing and being in the
40:43
media. You know, we can argue about headlines and thumbnails and everything,
40:46
but once in a lifetime is that's pretty erroneous. I would I wouldn't say
40:51
that now. So how's this going to be different than what we saw in
40:52
twenty seventeen? Because I was actually in Putnham County when the last one hit
40:57
in twenty seventeen, and to be honest with you, Spencer only it.
41:00
I mean I was I was with a couple of friends and looked outside and
41:02
it was like, Okay, it looks like it's going to rain. That's
41:06
what it looked like. It really wasn't a heck of all of deal in
41:07
Puttenham County in twenty seventeen. How is this going to be different than twenty
41:12
seventeen, and how's it going to be different than what some of us remember
41:15
as kids. I was in third grade in nineteen seventy nine and I remember
41:20
that vaguely. How is this today going to be different than those other two?
41:24
Well? I think it was hotter last time. If I recall,
41:27
right, we were up on the roof in Charleston, and you know,
41:30
it is weird. It just it's like somebody dims the lights a little bit,
41:34
that's all. It's going to be very similar if you have the sunshine
41:37
out And about one interesting impact that we've noticed so is that but if you
41:44
have like low cumulus clouds or you know, like the little puffy ones or
41:46
even mid level, you do tend to see because as soon as that the
41:51
moonshadow comes over, it does cool things off several degrees and those tend to
41:54
part. The ones that get in your way, the high thin ice crystal
41:57
clouds, and there might be some of those, So you know, I
42:00
think unfortunately this time a little bit more cloud coverage, it will not be
42:05
as hot because that was the summertime. If I recall, it was pretty
42:08
pretty warm, so pretty pretty similar. But somebody asked and they said,
42:13
can I drive during that? And I said, yeah, yeah, actually
42:15
you can. Just obviously, hey, don't wear your clips glasses. Well
42:17
drive You shouldn't have to tell people that, spencer, but no, I
42:21
know you did. Yeah that's kind of like don't wear a welders mask driving
42:24
on the street. But uh, you know, just you can drive,
42:28
and the animals can be out and all that stuff. It's nothing more than
42:31
just just envision that at the ballgame. The guy gets up and stands in
42:36
your way. That's the mood coming in between you and the sun and it
42:38
gets a little dimmer. But you mentioned about the animals because I was reading
42:42
all this stuff, people said, don't let your animals out. It's it's
42:45
total bs, right, Oh that is. Animals are fine. They don't
42:49
look that. They never go out and just look at the sun anyhow.
42:52
And then there's so many other like spoofs that go around the internet about like
42:57
oh, turn off all your you know, cell phones, said that that's
43:00
a hoax. I don't even you know, people just want to kind of
43:02
capitalize on that. Here's what I'll say. If you can't get out,
43:07
pick my network, other network, NAS, whatever you can, you can
43:10
watch this stuff. It's all available. It's kind of neat. I mean,
43:14
it doesn't happen that often, you know, so that's you know,
43:16
here's the thing. The Final Four only happens once every year. You know.
43:20
It's check it out. We watch that on TV, watch this on
43:22
TV in the internet. If you can't get out of the office today,
43:25
All right, Spencer, I and another one. I'll close with this.
43:30
You know, everybody says don't look directly into the sun. You should never
43:32
look directly into the sun anyway on any day. Yeah. Look forget what
43:37
Manfred Man Earth Band said where they said, you know what, Mama always
43:40
told me not to look into the eyes of the sun. But Mama,
43:43
that's where the fun is. No, don't believe that song. That's very
43:45
old right, all right, Spencer's always a pleasure, my friend. We'll
43:50
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provided by Fruit Pharmacy, your Hometown Family Pharmacy. Text says, I applaud
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JB. McCuskey for taking the high road and like his opponent who has terrorized
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the family of Corey Maynard for his own political gain and jeopardized the case by
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releasing details of chargeant Maynard's murder on TV that are not public. I'm hoping
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the Ethics Commission will step in and help give Maynard's family peace from Stewart who
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refuses to leave them alone. Tomorrow on the show, Don Miller is here
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from the Reed a Loud West Virginia Program, and also we're going to get
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into the debate over what to do with the municipal Auditorium in Charleston. Matt
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Sutton, who's the chief of the staff to maryer Gooden, will be here
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as well as Adam Crasin from ZMM Architects. They released at least one report
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last week. More to follow, and we're going to get into that coming
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up on the show tomorrow. The Goats Hoppy Kerchiville back in the big chair
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for Mentro News talk Line today as they clean up from last week's storms and
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the subsequent flooding on the Ohio River continues. Hope You will have updates on
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both, including a conversation with the current mayor of Wheeling who's also Senatorial Kennedy
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Glenn Elliott about the flooding Wheeling Island Marshall women's basketball coach Kim Caldwell leaving the
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Herd after only one season. She's headed to Knoxville to coach of Lady Volves
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at Tennessee. Greg Carey of Metro News Sports, we'll be on with Hopey
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to talk about that's also Chris Steyerwaldt is on today and of course more eclip
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Dave. All these candidates supporting Trump. West Virginia lost jobs under Trump.
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The only major legislation un Trump was a fifteen percent tax break for big businesses.
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Biden has brought jobs to the state. Now Republicans want all the credit,
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tex says Dave. Not much reporting on this this morning. The Biden
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administration is considering requiring labels on employ goods made by Israeli sold settlers living in
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the West Bank. The administration reportedly views the label required as the means of
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ratcheting up pressure on Israel to tamp down violence by settlers in the West Bank,
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as well as to show frustration with Nettan Yahoo's Israeli war with moss I.
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Stop there. Just go ahead and place little stars as a texture on
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each item, I wrap them and strike packaging. If approved and implemented,
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This would be a reversal of the twenty twenty policy advanced by the Trumpet administration
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that required goods made in the West Bank be label is made in Israel.
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We cannot be on the wrong side of this, people, says the texture.
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My family and I stand with Israel. So today is total Eclipse Day,
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and I spent some time talking about with my good friend Spencer Adkins.
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But I've come to the conclusion that the older I get, the less I
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care about pretty much anything, and I get upset when anything disrupts my routine.
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As I mentioned during the interview with Spencer, this once in a lifetime
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event has happened already three times during my lifetime. And as I mentioned,
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if I live to the year twenty twenty four, and depending on what time
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of year it is, I'll either be seventy three or seventy four at that
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time, this once in a lifetime event will have happened four times during my
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lifetime. And I didn't really care a whole lot about it when I was
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in third grade, didn't really care about twenty seven, don't really care about
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it that much now. I did talk to a friend of mine who works
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in Indianapolis He and his family actually live in one of the suburbs of Indianapolis,
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and he said it's just been total chaos with the traffic and whatnot there.
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I just I can't imagine. I mean, but again, as I
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told somebody over the weekend, you like what you like. People don't understand
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why it is that, I, you know, obsess over sports or obsess
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over food or whatever the case may be. So I guess everybody. If
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everybody liked the same thing or got into the same thing, I guess it
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would be a very, very boring place. All Right, gotta go.
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Thank you to State Auditor and candidate for Attorney General Jimmy mccusky for being on
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the show today. Also to Leslie Grace, current Canal magistrate and candidate for
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said office, and Spencer Adkins from Storm Tracker thirteen. Remember if you take
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nothing to wait it off of the Spencer Adkins interview, don't drive with the
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clips glasses on or a welder's helmet on. Your pets will be fine.
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This is not the apocalypse. It's something as I said, that happens,
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you know, four times during my lifetime. All Right, tomorrow we're gonna
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spend some time talking about the Auditorium in Charleston, what to do with the
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future of that post. Don Miller from Read a Loud West Virginia will stop
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by as well. Hoppy's back in the big chair coming up at ten oh
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six. My producer was Hollywood, Jeff Petty, Thank you so much.
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I will see you tomorrow. If we're not all dead till then, have
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fun and love somebody. W W two four three d RFN Charleston, W
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