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- 2:29Speaker 3: Want to visit with some folks to start at the
- 2:31Speaker 3: show this morning that are doing an event in Charleston,
- 2:34Speaker 3: and actually we had them on the show last year.
- 2:37Speaker 3: The event is called Guns to Gardens and it's a
- 2:41Speaker 3: community gun safe surrender, meaning if you have firearms that
- 2:45Speaker 3: for one reason or another you don't want any more,
- 2:48Speaker 3: they'll they keep in mind this is a voluntary event.
- 2:52Speaker 3: They are not coming to take anyone's guns or anything
- 2:54Speaker 3: like that. Just so you know. The event is going
- 2:57Speaker 3: to be May third, from one till three at Saint
- 2:59Speaker 3: Mark's United Methods Church or in Charleston, and uh, we've
- 3:03Speaker 3: upgraded the studio since you guys were here a little
- 3:05Speaker 3: bit since last year, and uh, we've act. We've got
- 3:09Speaker 3: signs on the wall to we didn't have that yesterday
- 3:11Speaker 3: when I left. We have signs so that way if
- 3:13Speaker 3: I forget where I'm working, I can look and to say,
- 3:15Speaker 3: oh it's it's metroing, it's w c HS. Let me
- 3:18Speaker 3: start and just have you guys go around and introduce yourselves.
- 3:20Speaker 5: Go ahead, Hi, I'm Robert Ivesak with guns to Gardens Charleston.
- 3:25Speaker 6: And Sarah Gottlieb okay, Dina Moehler, Okay, all right, so
- 3:31Speaker 6: this is the second year, yes, that you folks have
- 3:33Speaker 6: done this before.
- 3:35Speaker 3: We talk about, guys, what the event is. Let's talk
- 3:39Speaker 3: about what it's not. Okay, it is voluntary, as I said,
- 3:45Speaker 3: So just take it from the beginning, where this whole
- 3:48Speaker 3: idea came from, and how how the whole thing works.
- 3:51Speaker 3: Any of you go ahead.
- 3:52Speaker 6: The idea came from a Mennon night pastor slash blacksmith
- 3:58Speaker 6: in Colorado. He saw it to what's the word to
- 4:07Speaker 6: practice the scripture from Isaiah they shall beat their swords
- 4:11Speaker 6: into plowshares, and he began transforming guns and then the
- 4:15Speaker 6: first Guns to Gardens event was held in Colorado after
- 4:19Speaker 6: a mass shooting at a king super there.
- 4:23Speaker 7: It brought a.
- 4:23Speaker 6: Lot of healing to that community, and it just grew
- 4:27Speaker 6: from there we were talking earlier. Now it's spread at
- 4:30Speaker 6: at least in twenty five different states across the United States.
- 4:34Speaker 6: This is the second location in West Virginia. And we've
- 4:39Speaker 6: found that there are a lot of people who own
- 4:41Speaker 6: a gun they don't want and aren't comfortable selling it
- 4:45Speaker 6: for whatever reason, and this sort of event fits their need.
- 4:48Speaker 3: And this is we want to stress to people because
- 4:50Speaker 3: there's a little bit of not on your guy's behalf.
- 4:53Speaker 3: But last year there were some people after I had
- 4:55Speaker 3: you on the show. I think they had some misconceptions
- 4:57Speaker 3: about it. It's why I wanted to start by saying
- 4:59Speaker 3: what it's and then we'll get into it to what
- 5:02Speaker 3: it is. This is not a gun grab, this is
- 5:06Speaker 3: not you're not going to be This is voluntary. And
- 5:08Speaker 3: give us an example of something that would maybe happen
- 5:11Speaker 3: in someone's life that would make them say, look, I
- 5:14Speaker 3: want I want, I want rid of this firearm.
- 5:16Speaker 8: There are several reasons why people relinquish firearms, and when
- 5:21Speaker 8: we went through the training for guns to gardens, we
- 5:24Speaker 8: were told what those reasons were and it was borne
- 5:26Speaker 8: out last year. In our event, we have a lot
- 5:30Speaker 8: of people who have inherited guns who really never wanted them.
- 5:35Speaker 8: We have people who've had a change in their life circumstances.
- 5:38Speaker 8: Especially in West Virginia, you have a lot of grandparents
- 5:41Speaker 8: who find themselves having young children in the home and
- 5:46Speaker 8: they may not be comfortable having firearms in the home
- 5:48Speaker 8: any longer. Sometimes people have developed dementia or some other
- 5:53Speaker 8: kind of mental illness and the other people in the
- 5:55Speaker 8: home aren't comfortable having guns in the home, and very sadly,
- 6:02Speaker 8: sometimes the guns have been used in a suicide. Now,
- 6:06Speaker 8: already this year, we are aware of two widows who
- 6:09Speaker 8: are bringing in guns and one person who's bringing in
- 6:12Speaker 8: a gun that was used in a suicide. So, in
- 6:15Speaker 8: response to the publicity that we've been able to get
- 6:19Speaker 8: out there, we've had people reach out to us.
- 6:22Speaker 3: You want to follow up.
- 6:23Speaker 5: With that, Yeah, it's it's it's amazing when you hear
- 6:26Speaker 5: these stories. And you know, I know when I when
- 6:30Speaker 5: I first got involved with this with Sarah and Dina,
- 6:33Speaker 5: you know, I was kind of like, really people will
- 6:36Speaker 5: just give up their guns who have them turned into
- 6:38Speaker 5: garden tools. And then when we saw the the the
- 6:43Speaker 5: events in Colorado and places like that, so we could
- 6:46Speaker 5: do that here.
- 6:48Speaker 3: Yeah, So talk about the event as it was last
- 6:51Speaker 3: year in Charleston. I mean, because I didn't have you on.
- 6:53Speaker 3: I had you on prior, not and not afterwards. How
- 6:55Speaker 3: did the event go last year in Charleston?
- 6:57Speaker 8: It was smooth as silk. We didn't have a bit
- 6:59Speaker 8: of trouble, We didn't have any pushback from the public.
- 7:04Speaker 8: The people who came came for the reasons that I've described,
- 7:09Speaker 8: and we received twenty six guns and one baby gun okay,
- 7:16Speaker 8: a red Rider.
- 7:17Speaker 3: So so it's called the Guns to Gardens. Talk about
- 7:21Speaker 3: the process of how these become garden tools at some point.
- 7:25Speaker 5: Well, we take the guns first of all, we the
- 7:29Speaker 5: people who bring the guns to the event. They stay
- 7:33Speaker 5: on site until their gun has been completely dismantled and
- 7:37Speaker 5: cut into metal parts that are no longer a gun.
- 7:42Speaker 5: So we never take possession of their gun, and so
- 7:47Speaker 5: they have the opportunity to see it, see it dismantled.
- 7:51Speaker 5: And then we have chopped saws that are used to
- 7:54Speaker 5: cut the metal components down to so it's of a
- 7:59Speaker 5: metal that's available to be re forged into garden tools, jewelry,
- 8:05Speaker 5: community works of art in some places have done with
- 8:09Speaker 5: the metal that comes from the guns.
- 8:12Speaker 3: Talking again about this guns, It's a garden event happening
- 8:15Speaker 3: in Charleston today. Alland Show on five to eighty Live
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- 8:26Speaker 3: to some of the people that came to the event
- 8:29Speaker 3: last year. I mean, we don't want to get into
- 8:32Speaker 3: names or anything like that, but.
- 8:33Speaker 8: Let's just it's an anonymous event first of all, that
- 8:38Speaker 8: you know, we don't ask people their names. So but
- 8:42Speaker 8: we did have one couple who didn't want to tell
- 8:46Speaker 8: us why they were relinquishing the firearm, but they videoed
- 8:50Speaker 8: it being chopped up, and that was pretty moving.
- 8:56Speaker 3: I mean, the fact that I would think that the
- 8:58Speaker 3: fact that they wanted to video it being that I'm
- 9:04Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and glut on a limb here, that
- 9:05Speaker 3: there was some sort of a traumatic event, that's what
- 9:08Speaker 3: we I mean, it would have to be I mean,
- 9:10Speaker 3: and the fact that they cared enough to video it
- 9:12Speaker 3: as some sort of a closure for.
- 9:13Speaker 6: Them, and a lot of people were just grateful it said,
- 9:17Speaker 6: you know, we just again weren't comfortable selling it. It's
- 9:21Speaker 6: been in my closet, and I just this is a
- 9:25Speaker 6: perfect way for me to change this into a useful
- 9:29Speaker 6: tool or a piece of jewelry.
- 9:31Speaker 3: So when people are coming out, what do they need
- 9:33Speaker 3: to know? I've gotta, I gotta I got a gun
- 9:35Speaker 3: in my house. I want to go through this process.
- 9:38Speaker 3: What happens, I pull on to the to the lot,
- 9:41Speaker 3: take it from there. What happened?
- 9:42Speaker 8: Well, you should have it unloaded?
- 9:44Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's number one.
- 9:45Speaker 8: If you're able, yes, because or if you know, like
- 9:48Speaker 8: for example, a widow may not know whether the gun
- 9:51Speaker 8: is loaded or not, and she's not about to try
- 9:53Speaker 8: to figure it out. So we have gun experts on
- 9:56Speaker 8: site who verify that the gun is loaded. Once the
- 10:02Speaker 8: person pulls onto the lot, we figure out how many
- 10:05Speaker 8: guns they have, We ask them if they're unloaded. Irrespective
- 10:10Speaker 8: of whether they say yes or no, we have them
- 10:13Speaker 8: tested to make sure that they are unloaded, and then
- 10:18Speaker 8: they are taken to a chopp saw the people stay
- 10:21Speaker 8: in their car. They're given a shepherd who stays with
- 10:23Speaker 8: them and does an anonymous and voluntary survey of why
- 10:28Speaker 8: they are there, and they are offered gift cards for
- 10:33Speaker 8: groceries in exchange for the guns. Some people take them,
- 10:37Speaker 8: some people don't, and then they watch as the gun
- 10:41Speaker 8: or they have the opportunity to watch. Some people don't
- 10:44Speaker 8: want to watch. But the guns are chopped up while
- 10:48Speaker 8: they are there, and once they are chopped up, then
- 10:52Speaker 8: they are given their gift cards and they're free to go.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Somebody I was explaining this process about having you guys
- 10:59Speaker 3: on the show, and somebody within the building asked a
- 11:01Speaker 3: question about about the about the guns, about about the
- 11:04Speaker 3: security aspect of it. I mean, how do you know
- 11:08Speaker 3: that this is if I'm if I'm pulling on of
- 11:10Speaker 3: a lot and I'm and I'm donating or I'm giving
- 11:12Speaker 3: up this gun? You know, how do you know the
- 11:15Speaker 3: history of that gun? How do you know where it
- 11:16Speaker 3: can How do you know it wasn't stolen or something
- 11:18Speaker 3: like that.
- 11:19Speaker 8: We don't check on that sort of thing. The police
- 11:23Speaker 8: are aware of the event.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, I remember you mentioned that last year
- 11:27Speaker 3: that Charleston police department was a part of this.
- 11:28Speaker 6: Event, right, and are supportive of it.
- 11:30Speaker 8: Yeah, right, And we do record the serial numbers of
- 11:35Speaker 8: the guns.
- 11:36Speaker 3: That was the question that that my coworker asked was
- 11:38Speaker 3: about the serial numbers of the gun that so those
- 11:40Speaker 3: are recorded.
- 11:41Speaker 8: Right, but they didn't ask for them last year. I mean,
- 11:43Speaker 8: we we recorded them, and any event they would care
- 11:47Speaker 8: to have them, yes, we would give it to them,
- 11:50Speaker 8: but we don't associate it with an individual because the
- 11:53Speaker 8: relinquishment is voluntary.
- 11:55Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think anonymous.
- 11:56Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it's interesting that you get the
- 11:58Speaker 3: buy in, as you said, from from the police department. Now,
- 12:01Speaker 3: this event's going on in Charleston that we're talking about,
- 12:04Speaker 3: but and again it's going to be May third at
- 12:06Speaker 3: Saint Mark's from one to three. But it's also you
- 12:09Speaker 3: have another one in Shepherdstown. Is that right?
- 12:11Speaker 6: There was one in shepherds There was one last October,
- 12:14Speaker 6: but that was their second one, and so I would
- 12:17Speaker 6: assume that they'll have more.
- 12:18Speaker 3: And this is going on in how many states?
- 12:19Speaker 5: Now?
- 12:20Speaker 7: Did you say at least twenty five?
- 12:21Speaker 3: At least twenty five? What's your final message to people
- 12:24Speaker 3: that are listening today that may be interested in this
- 12:26Speaker 3: this is your final, your final free commercial for the
- 12:31Speaker 3: eventual all three of you.
- 12:32Speaker 6: You know, if you have a gun that you do
- 12:34Speaker 6: not want and you're able to see if it's unloaded
- 12:37Speaker 6: or not. Either way, you can put it in the
- 12:39Speaker 6: way back of your car and come to Saint Mark's
- 12:41Speaker 6: at one o'clock on a week from Saturday, and you
- 12:45Speaker 6: can watch that gun begin the process of being transformed
- 12:48Speaker 6: into a garden tool.
- 12:51Speaker 8: We're a lovely, lovely necklace such as I am wearing.
- 12:54Speaker 3: Okay on the rad we'll have to get we'll have
- 12:56Speaker 3: to get a picture of that posted on the on
- 12:57Speaker 3: social media. If you don't win that great, if you don't,
- 13:00Speaker 3: If you don't mind that, and Robert, you want to
- 13:02Speaker 3: add anything there, well, yeah, the.
- 13:06Speaker 5: As it says, the guns to garden, but a lot
- 13:09Speaker 5: of different things are made from the metal that you
- 13:14Speaker 5: know was a firearm. Dina's jewelry is just one example.
- 13:19Speaker 5: Raw Tools provided a host of jewelry and garden tools
- 13:25Speaker 5: for sale at First Presbyterian Churches Hope Village last November,
- 13:32Speaker 5: so people got to see the end product of what
- 13:36Speaker 5: our first Guns to Garden event last May was able
- 13:40Speaker 5: to achieve.
- 13:41Speaker 3: That's it's pretty nicely can piece of the jewelry there.
- 13:43Speaker 3: As I said, I'll get a picture of them posted
- 13:45Speaker 3: on the Dave Island Radio and at Dave A seventy
- 13:48Speaker 3: on X. I appreciate to you guys being here. Is
- 13:50Speaker 3: there a place online a Facebook page or website or
- 13:52Speaker 3: whatever where people can learn more about the.
- 13:55Speaker 6: Facebook page it's Guns to Gardens, West Virginia. You'll see
- 13:58Speaker 6: our fly or you'll see pictures of last year's event.
- 14:00Speaker 6: You'll see pictures of raw tools, the blacksmith we group
- 14:04Speaker 6: that we partner with. You'll see a lot of their
- 14:06Speaker 6: products on there too.
- 14:07Speaker 3: And if you go over to my social media, I
- 14:10Speaker 3: have a I actually have your flyers shared on there
- 14:12Speaker 3: when I did the preview of the show. Guys, appreciate
- 14:14Speaker 3: you being here. It's a unique event. It was a
- 14:16Speaker 3: learning when you guys first reached out to me last
- 14:18Speaker 3: year about coming on the show. You know, I'm not
- 14:21Speaker 3: gonna lie. I was like, I don't know if I
- 14:23Speaker 3: want to do this. But then once I learned more
- 14:25Speaker 3: about it, uh, and I learned it's strictly it's one
- 14:27Speaker 3: hundred percent voluntary, you know, for anybody that wants to
- 14:30Speaker 3: do this. And you had you had a great turnout
- 14:32Speaker 3: last year. As you said for your first year, I'm
- 14:34Speaker 3: sure this year will be even bigger and better. It's
- 14:36Speaker 3: May third, one to three at Saint Mark's here and
- 14:38Speaker 3: Charleston guys, appreciate you being here.
- 14:40Speaker 7: Thanks a lot so much. Thanks for having us.
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- 17:50Speaker 12: Oh hi, good morning. It's an honor to be with
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- 17:57Speaker 12: Well, so, first of all, I finally moved five eight
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- 18:08Speaker 12: on I put it on Dave Allen in my contacts,
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- 18:12Speaker 3: Yeah, in the last five years.
- 18:15Speaker 12: Accidentally called Dave allen cell phone number this morning.
- 18:17Speaker 11: Uh huh.
- 18:18Speaker 12: So, uh, you didn't answer, by the way, you did
- 18:20Speaker 12: not pick up. You just left me hanging.
- 18:22Speaker 3: Well, I have my phone turned off. That's I mean,
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- 18:27Speaker 12: Oh that's that's good for a peace of mind. Anyway,
- 18:29Speaker 12: it was it was a challenge just connecting with you
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- 18:35Speaker 12: it's a big deal to be here.
- 18:37Speaker 3: Well, you're a little out of practice. Uh, and we're
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- 19:06Speaker 14: To do.
- 19:09Speaker 12: Stuff assessments of what occurred and examinations of legislation, reminding
- 19:18Speaker 12: yourself and others of things that got talked about early
- 19:20Speaker 12: on that didn't pass. So there's a period of sort
- 19:23Speaker 12: of reassessment after the session, which really also ideally would
- 19:28Speaker 12: be time that you can could take a little time off,
- 19:31Speaker 12: But it often doesn't happen because it's it's a bit
- 19:34Speaker 12: like now, why don't we just go through what what
- 19:36Speaker 12: tornado just tore through here? And what damage did the
- 19:41Speaker 12: political tornado create? Now, now it's a little more because
- 19:47Speaker 12: we are you know, we are transitioning, but the legislative
- 19:50Speaker 12: session is now left behind. We do expect to hot
- 19:54Speaker 12: Morrissey summer, a long hot Morrissey summer of additional special sessions,
- 20:00Speaker 12: but the legislature out of town doing no harm right now.
- 20:04Speaker 12: Congress is currently out, so there has been some Congressional
- 20:09Speaker 12: news during this break, but they're out out in communities
- 20:13Speaker 12: and not doing congressional stuff. State Supreme Court not in
- 20:18Speaker 12: right now, so a lot of we're kind of between
- 20:23Speaker 12: things at this moment.
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- 20:46Speaker 3: Facebook pages. All right, good, I want to get into
- 20:49Speaker 3: this now. The whole NIOSH thing in Morgantown Brad. NIOSH,
- 20:51Speaker 3: of course, stands for the National Institute for Occupational Safety
- 20:54Speaker 3: and Health, and they run a coal mine lung disease
- 20:58Speaker 3: screening program, which is required under federal law. They also
- 21:02Speaker 3: do a lot of a lot of research. Here now
- 21:04Speaker 3: comes word that Senator Capito Brad has written a formal
- 21:08Speaker 3: letter asking for a reversal of cuts to NIOSH and
- 21:13Speaker 3: the union that represents those workers, praising the Senator for
- 21:17Speaker 3: doing that. And in the meantime, a federal judge in
- 21:20Speaker 3: Charleston said to have a hearing on May seventh concerning
- 21:23Speaker 3: a lawsuit against RFK Junior over the cuts. Lots to
- 21:28Speaker 3: unpack here, Brad, I'll let you start wherever you want.
- 21:31Speaker 12: Yeah, that's that's there is a lot to unpack, you know. So,
- 21:34Speaker 12: Niolosh is a significant employer in Morgantown and it does
- 21:39Speaker 12: a lot of work on researching and making recommendations about
- 21:44Speaker 12: ways to make workplaces safer. Among those things is UH
- 21:50Speaker 12: screening and processing of black lung information. If a miner
- 21:56Speaker 12: is suspected of having black lung, they'll get X rays
- 22:01Speaker 12: and they will be assessed at NIOSH, probably in Morgantown.
- 22:06Speaker 12: Niosh will do the screening itself, and then minors are
- 22:10Speaker 12: determined to have black lung, they have the right to
- 22:15Speaker 12: transfer to a job that is not dusty, to a
- 22:19Speaker 12: job within their employer that is you know, safer for
- 22:22Speaker 12: their physical condition that's not happening right now because Niosh
- 22:26Speaker 12: has been those workers have been riffed in Morgantown reduction
- 22:31Speaker 12: in force. They have not permanently lost their jobs yet.
- 22:35Speaker 12: That's coming up in June. Right now, it's kind of
- 22:38Speaker 12: an awkward middle phase. And you know, Senator Capito is
- 22:43Speaker 12: concerned about that. She has been on the phone a
- 22:46Speaker 12: couple of times with Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the new
- 22:49Speaker 12: Health and Human Resources Secretary, who she helped confirm. So
- 22:55Speaker 12: you know, I read into it the fact that she
- 22:58Speaker 12: has now sent a formal letter. I mean, the phone
- 23:01Speaker 12: calls didn't work. Is she just trying to formalize it
- 23:04Speaker 12: a little more? Is she trying to communicate with constituents
- 23:08Speaker 12: a bit more what what her activities are. But you know,
- 23:12Speaker 12: Capital says, these programs at NIOSH and in Morgantown and
- 23:17Speaker 12: the employees and the expertise they bring are important. And
- 23:22Speaker 12: you know, if you love and respect what's hergin as
- 23:24Speaker 12: coal miners, this is important to them.
- 23:26Speaker 3: Well, in your story on the website again it was
- 23:29Speaker 3: the lead story this morning, you've actually got a link
- 23:32Speaker 3: to that letter. Surmise the letter in a you know,
- 23:36Speaker 3: a sentence or two, Brad, what but basically is was
- 23:39Speaker 3: the Senator saying here, so you.
- 23:42Speaker 12: Know, to my ear, Capito is pricky balanced, and this
- 23:48Speaker 12: is often what she says about controversial steps of the
- 23:52Speaker 12: Trump administration. She begins by saying, even the president's vision
- 23:57Speaker 12: to right size our government. Then she says she pivots,
- 24:01Speaker 12: but I do not think eliminating the NIOSH coal programs
- 24:05Speaker 12: and research will accomplish that goal. The Center continues by saying,
- 24:09Speaker 12: the mission and work conducted by the specially trained NIOSH
- 24:13Speaker 12: employees is not duplicative of any other government program, So,
- 24:17Speaker 12: you know, trying to she is supportive of the Trump
- 24:24Speaker 12: administration's work. This is a cabinet official Kennedy who she
- 24:31Speaker 12: voted to confirm, and capitol has continued to express concern
- 24:37Speaker 12: about the level of the national debt. But you know,
- 24:42Speaker 12: again saying that these are not only West Virginia jobs,
- 24:45Speaker 12: but that the health and safety of West Virginia coal
- 24:47Speaker 12: miners is dependent on the work there. So you know,
- 24:52Speaker 12: a bit of a tricky balancing act.
- 24:54Speaker 3: Well in West Virginia. I mean you got to be careful, Brad,
- 24:57Speaker 3: as you know, you cover these folks, and you got
- 24:59Speaker 3: to be careful about doing anything that could even remotely
- 25:02Speaker 3: be seen as critical of the Trump administration in the
- 25:05Speaker 3: trumpiest state that there is. I mean, you got to
- 25:08Speaker 3: be careful. But I think, and again, Senator Kapito is
- 25:12Speaker 3: not the only one that's done this. I mean even
- 25:14Speaker 3: a Congressman Rally Moore has expressed concerned. We had Senator
- 25:18Speaker 3: Justice on the Metro News midday show last week, who used,
- 25:22Speaker 3: you know, in the that Jim Justice style, we can't
- 25:25Speaker 3: we got to be careful and not cut too close
- 25:27Speaker 3: to the fence. That was a new one. I hadn't
- 25:29Speaker 3: heard him say that when he said those exact words
- 25:31Speaker 3: to President Trump about this so kind to kind of be,
- 25:34Speaker 3: you know, careful. You could be on thin ice with
- 25:37Speaker 3: West Virginians if you do anything that looks like you
- 25:39Speaker 3: are criticizing or even questioning the Trump administration. In the meantime,
- 25:45Speaker 3: switching gears who just a little bit, Brad the Governor
- 25:48Speaker 3: was hanging out with RFK again yesterday. I wonder if
- 25:52Speaker 3: he required a weigh in of the of Governor Morrisey yesterday.
- 25:56Speaker 15: Man.
- 25:57Speaker 12: So that's a reference to some comments to exchange when
- 26:00Speaker 12: RFK Junior came to West Virginia talk about with Morrissey
- 26:05Speaker 12: to talk about the signing of West Virginia's bill banning
- 26:11Speaker 12: certain artificial food dies, and there was some discussion of
- 26:15Speaker 12: Governor Morrissey's wage. I watched via YouTube yesterday's appearance of
- 26:22Speaker 12: Governor Morrissey in Washington. He was on stage with RFK
- 26:26Speaker 12: Junior again at the federal action regarding food dies. And
- 26:30Speaker 12: everyone should be really to know that there was no
- 26:33Speaker 12: discussion of anybody's weight, you know what. Our RFK Junior
- 26:39Speaker 12: was at the center of our fire conversation, and this
- 26:42Speaker 12: was an appearance meant to deal with the national move
- 26:47Speaker 12: on artificial food dies. But there was, you know, at
- 26:51Speaker 12: least not on stage, not before the camera, any talk
- 26:55Speaker 12: of these cuts in West Virginia that have occurred under
- 26:58Speaker 12: the watch of our junior, the Niosh cuts. So it's
- 27:03Speaker 12: interesting how RFK is at the confluence of these different events.
- 27:09Speaker 12: The support by the governor and others on trying to
- 27:13Speaker 12: get artificial food dies out of our diets, but the
- 27:16Speaker 12: controversial steps of eliminating West Virginia jobs and enabling the
- 27:22Speaker 12: agency that processes the health claims of miners, the miners
- 27:32Speaker 12: that we love, respecting value who believe that they have
- 27:35Speaker 12: black lung and whose medical records could be confirmed by
- 27:40Speaker 12: Niosh if only NIOSH were doing its work.
- 27:43Speaker 3: Talk have you with Brad mclhanney before we let you go?
- 27:46Speaker 3: Did you happen to hear the conversation that Amanda and
- 27:50Speaker 3: I had on the Midday show yesterday with Attorney General JB. Mccusky.
- 27:53Speaker 3: Did you happen to hear any of that? Brad, humor
- 27:55Speaker 3: me and tell me you did.
- 27:58Speaker 12: I definitely did. Dave and I had a chance to
- 28:00Speaker 12: definitely hear it because Sky was the Metro News backgrounder
- 28:07Speaker 12: to hear raw audio of what he said to you
- 28:10Speaker 12: again this morning on the morning News, but refresh my
- 28:13Speaker 12: memory about what he said.
- 28:14Speaker 3: Well, one of the things that we asked and we
- 28:16Speaker 3: had spent about thirty minutes with the ag so we
- 28:18Speaker 3: had various things we talked about. But one of the
- 28:20Speaker 3: things that we talked about was this proposed meeting between
- 28:25Speaker 3: the Attorney General, perhaps other agencies or other folks in
- 28:30Speaker 3: state government with the nc double A over WVU being
- 28:34Speaker 3: left out of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. And we
- 28:37Speaker 3: asked him, Amanda ask him about that and he says,
- 28:41Speaker 3: and again it was on the Metro News backgrounded this morning.
- 28:44Speaker 3: He says that the NC Double A is coming to
- 28:47Speaker 3: town and that they're going to sit down. I'm presuming
- 28:50Speaker 3: with the Attorney General's office, perhaps others, maybe the Governor
- 28:53Speaker 3: will be involved. I don't know. He's going to sit
- 28:54Speaker 3: down and he wants answers, and I don't think he's
- 28:57Speaker 3: gonna I don't think, you know, mccuskey's a bulldog man.
- 28:59Speaker 3: I don't think is going to give up until he
- 29:00Speaker 3: gets answers from the NC double A.
- 29:05Speaker 12: So I went to the press conference where Governor Morrissey
- 29:08Speaker 12: and Attorney General McCuskey announced that they were questions of
- 29:14Speaker 12: the NC Double A. That was, you know, just a
- 29:17Speaker 12: day after the field had been announced and a day
- 29:22Speaker 12: before the tournament began, and so it's, you know, good
- 29:28Speaker 12: on them, I think to follow up and and continue
- 29:32Speaker 12: to demand answers. I thought there might be no result
- 29:37Speaker 12: at all given the timing. So it's good that they're
- 29:40Speaker 12: sticking up with it.
- 29:41Speaker 3: Apparently they've got a meeting. I mean, that's what mccusky
- 29:44Speaker 3: alluded to on the show yesterday. Apparently they're coming. They're
- 29:47Speaker 3: coming to town and they're going to go hang out,
- 29:49Speaker 3: maybe go to so hose and grab some dinner or something.
- 29:52Speaker 3: I don't know what they're gonna do, but they're coming
- 29:53Speaker 3: to town apparently to meet with Attorney General McCaskey.
- 29:58Speaker 12: Rebook him as a guest so that he can explain
- 30:00Speaker 12: exactly how the NCAA comes up with its tournament field,
- 30:04Speaker 12: because I think it's all a mystery to all of us.
- 30:07Speaker 3: All right, what are you working on today, mister mac.
- 30:12Speaker 14: So.
- 30:12Speaker 12: Governor Morrissey has a series of broadly and there is
- 30:18Speaker 12: one he is traveling to Wheeling today, Independence Hall that
- 30:23Speaker 12: that comes up at eleven. I am I am not
- 30:26Speaker 12: in Wheeling, sir, so I'm hoping that that that is
- 30:29Speaker 12: on the governor's YouTube channel. The Governor and his staff
- 30:35Speaker 12: are good about say they're having things, but then they
- 30:40Speaker 12: don't really give any hints about what the things are,
- 30:44Speaker 12: so you have to sort of read into it. I
- 30:47Speaker 12: would assume he is signing a bill and either it
- 30:51Speaker 12: has something to do with Wheeling being significant, therefore he's
- 30:54Speaker 12: gone on the road, or in this hall might mean
- 30:58Speaker 12: that this is bill that will stake out turf to
- 31:03Speaker 12: protect our freedoms. Therefore the Independence Hall. But I admire
- 31:10Speaker 12: the administration's ability to keep the intrigue going by saying
- 31:14Speaker 12: they're having events but not saying what the events are.
- 31:17Speaker 3: We got big stuff, we just don't we're just not
- 31:19Speaker 3: liberty to discuss what those big things are. And it
- 31:21Speaker 3: sounded like, Brad, you had a little tongue in cheek
- 31:24Speaker 3: there when you said something about liberties. There was that
- 31:27Speaker 3: a little sarcasm I detected there.
- 31:31Speaker 12: I don't know, I mean, well, so, yeah, freedoms is
- 31:34Speaker 12: a word that you hear associated with a variety of legislation,
- 31:37Speaker 12: and if you hear it often enough, then you know
- 31:40Speaker 12: it becomes a part of your working vocabulary. But the
- 31:42Speaker 12: Independence Hall location here makes me think maybe the governor
- 31:46Speaker 12: has he's been signing or advancing policies, has been appearing
- 31:54Speaker 12: at places that are meaningful. So he signed a school
- 31:58Speaker 12: visiplum bill at Ripley Elementary, and I don't think the
- 32:03Speaker 12: message was that the kids there need a little more disciplined,
- 32:05Speaker 12: that they will benefit from not having disruptive classmates. So
- 32:10Speaker 12: school discipline bill in a school. He went to one
- 32:14Speaker 12: of what's used state parks to advance his Mountaineer Mile challenge,
- 32:21Speaker 12: which is for everybody to get out and walk. The
- 32:23Speaker 12: administration is establishing hiking zones associated specifically with the Mountaineer
- 32:30Speaker 12: mile at as many state parks as possible. So there
- 32:34Speaker 12: is a trend of going to meaningful places to make
- 32:39Speaker 12: a splash with policy.
- 32:40Speaker 3: What time is that event schedule for today?
- 32:44Speaker 12: It's eleven am in Wheeling and yeah, by the time
- 32:48Speaker 12: of Metro News midday, maybe we'll know what it's all about.
- 32:51Speaker 12: It could could be semi breaking news on Metro News midday.
- 32:55Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you, let's go ahead and get with
- 32:57Speaker 3: with with the with the producers and maybe we'll try
- 33:00Speaker 3: to get you booked on Metro News Midday today. Murphy,
- 33:02Speaker 3: are you producing today? Murphy's not producing today, so I
- 33:05Speaker 3: guess that's Ryan, uh and Stephanie. So if you can,
- 33:09Speaker 3: uh maybe knock out a maybe reserve a little time
- 33:12Speaker 3: for your friends here on Metro News midday. Could you
- 33:15Speaker 3: think you could do that?
- 33:15Speaker 12: Bran, have people call me people, have your people get
- 33:19Speaker 12: in touch with me. But I will just say, boy,
- 33:22Speaker 12: that's that's two Dave Allens in one day.
- 33:24Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I don't even like that. All right, Brad,
- 33:27Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Man, We'll be in touch. I'll have
- 33:29Speaker 3: my people call your people. All rybody We'll see you.
- 33:32Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Brad Michaelanny, twenty minutes away from ten
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- 36:18Speaker 3: they got a text, their internal text, if you will,
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- 36:26Speaker 3: bosses that today is Administrative Professionals Day. It used to
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- 36:33Speaker 3: So bosses take care of the folks that keep your
- 36:36Speaker 3: office running. If it's not for those folks, then ain't
- 36:40Speaker 3: no office happening. So it is administrative Professionals Day. And
- 36:45Speaker 3: I guess that would be Murphy, that would be probably
- 36:46Speaker 3: Tracy's title up front is that she one of them.
- 36:49Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know exactly what you know. All
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- 36:55Speaker 3: She really, and she didn't pay me to say that either.
- 36:57Speaker 3: She will does a great job for us. So, boss,
- 37:01Speaker 3: keep in mind the name's administrative professionals. Let your folks
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- 37:11Speaker 3: If anybody says anything, tell him that the Dave Allen
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- 38:00Speaker 3: you Texas. For whatever odd reasons, many people, including local media,
- 38:05Speaker 3: it's me like to dog out our legislature procedural issues
- 38:10Speaker 3: or causing damage. They should watch the Colorado legislature. The
- 38:15Speaker 3: Democrat supermajorities in that state run nothing short of a
- 38:18Speaker 3: circus in their legislature.
- 38:19Speaker 12: Oh you know, like, if.
- 38:20Speaker 3: There's any circus scene going on, it's not exclusive to
- 38:25Speaker 3: the Republican party.
- 38:26Speaker 16: It is.
- 38:27Speaker 3: The circuses are being run by whoever's in charge. And
- 38:31Speaker 3: you know it's in talking to people longtime legislators, as
- 38:35Speaker 3: I frequently do, and I'm talking about folks that may
- 38:37Speaker 3: be served years ago. That all right. I talked to
- 38:40Speaker 3: one legislator who shall remain names, who served in the
- 38:42Speaker 3: late nineteen eighties early nineties, And no, it was not
- 38:45Speaker 3: Danny Jones. It was a It was a different legislator
- 38:47Speaker 3: entirely who said the Democrats used to really pull some
- 38:51Speaker 3: blank back in those days. So I think it's absolute power.
- 38:56Speaker 3: I think that's what it is. I think it's I
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- 39:35Speaker 3: due process for unvaxedd citizens who dared to go against
- 39:39Speaker 3: the previous authoritarian regime during lockdowns, Well, well, well, says
- 39:47Speaker 3: a Texter. Master negotiator, Donald Trump is retreating on the
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- 40:01Speaker 3: the deal right there, says the Texter. Tex says, and
- 40:05Speaker 3: if Magas are anything like JB. Mccusky in his ability
- 40:07Speaker 3: to believe things and to sproute incorrect facts about Leonard Skinnard,
- 40:13Speaker 3: we should get some wild spent about Trump's masterful negotiation
- 40:17Speaker 3: skills and how the USA is more wealthy than it's
- 40:20Speaker 3: ever been because of the terrorists. Text says it's awesome
- 40:24Speaker 3: that all those coal miners will get black lung and silicosis.
- 40:27Speaker 3: Capitol doesn't care about NIOSH cuts, rules to lower exposure
- 40:31Speaker 3: limits of hazardous dust, or penalties for the minds that
- 40:33Speaker 3: repeatedly violate safety steps. I tried grace, I tried patients'
- 40:37Speaker 3: texta speaking, I tried to understand it. I tried compassion.
- 40:40Speaker 3: None of it could overcome the hate for others that
- 40:43Speaker 3: motivate so many West Virginians to vote against their own
- 40:46Speaker 3: interest that leopards are hungry for your faces, suckers. Tex says,
- 40:54Speaker 3: why is it that our congressional delegation has to do
- 40:57Speaker 3: a balancing act when addressing something the potus does? That
- 41:00Speaker 3: hurts West Virginia, But when it was Biden, they were
- 41:03Speaker 3: valiantly standing up against government overreach and the worst president ever.
- 41:09Speaker 3: So it's a text, Texas. The best answer the NCAA
- 41:12Speaker 3: can give is play better, get a better coach, and
- 41:14Speaker 3: get a life. Texters are a little angry today. Coming
- 41:19Speaker 3: up on this show tomorrow, drug take back days happening
- 41:21Speaker 3: across the state. I'll talk more about that in a moment,
- 41:24Speaker 3: but we are going to talk about on the show
- 41:25Speaker 3: tomorrow as well. Members of the Charleston Police Department will
- 41:27Speaker 3: be here also tomorrow. Get you caught up on the
- 41:29Speaker 3: latest happenings at Capitol Market with our good friend evn Osborne.
- 41:32Speaker 3: And if you've been listening to the Metro News midday
- 41:34Speaker 3: show powered by Selango Law Chief Plug with myself and
- 41:37Speaker 3: thirteen News In Tonight Live anchor Amanda Barrett, we've spent
- 41:40Speaker 3: some time talking about organ transplants. With April Bean Organ
- 41:43Speaker 3: Donation Month nationwide, We've been telling this story of people
- 41:48Speaker 3: that were helped by the kindness of others and their
- 41:51Speaker 3: families for agreeing to be organ donors. One of those stories,
- 41:55Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest, it really captivated me. Actually, the
- 41:57Speaker 3: lady who was the recipient of a double lung transplant
- 42:01Speaker 3: captivated me. Her name is Vicky Keene and she's pretty
- 42:03Speaker 3: well known here in Charleston. When I did the interview
- 42:06Speaker 3: with her last Thursday, she had me ready to donate
- 42:09Speaker 3: my organs, although she said hard pass on the liver.
- 42:12Speaker 3: She didn't want the liver. She's a fascinating lady and
- 42:16Speaker 3: a real spitfire. She's from here in Charleston. As I said,
- 42:18Speaker 3: we're going to talk to her on this show tomorrow
- 42:21Speaker 3: Metro News Midday with myself and Amanda Baron thirteen News.
- 42:25Speaker 3: In Tonight Live anchor, We're going to welcome in Northern
- 42:27Speaker 3: Dave Dave Wilson to the show today to talk about
- 42:29Speaker 3: a recent commentary he did. Mike Patrick has passed away.
- 42:33Speaker 3: Longtime broadcaster, extraordinary, one of the best to ever do it.
- 42:36Speaker 3: Primarily known for ESPN Sunday Night Football. He was a
- 42:40Speaker 3: native of Clarksburg and he passed away yesterday. Voice of
- 42:45Speaker 3: wu Tony Careed. He is going to join us to
- 42:46Speaker 3: talk about that. Plus there's a horrible story out of
- 42:49Speaker 3: Logan County where parents are charged with abusing their autistic kids.
- 42:53Speaker 3: Aaron Stone of WVW Radio was at the courthouse last
- 42:57Speaker 3: night in Logan for the arraignment of the couple. He'll
- 42:59Speaker 3: join us on the show, and as we do every Wednesday,
- 43:01Speaker 3: will introduce you to this week's Wonderful West Virginia. It's
- 43:05Speaker 3: a feature we do to spotlight people simply doing good
- 43:07Speaker 3: things in the Mountain state. All that and more coming
- 43:10Speaker 3: up at noon with Metro News Midday powered by Selango Law.
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- 43:32Speaker 3: can hurt you quickly. Before we go to break to
- 43:34Speaker 3: the drug takebacks here in Kanawa County, hours tend to
- 43:37Speaker 3: two on Saturday. The locations in Charleston are at Walgreens
- 43:41Speaker 3: six to fifty five Washington Street West, at the West
- 43:43Speaker 3: Virginia Drug Intervention Institute on Capitol Street, at Fruth Over
- 43:47Speaker 3: on Oakwood, Kroger at Ashton Place, Pickley Wiggley five zero
- 43:51Speaker 3: zero three, Mccorkls Southeast, and Drug Emporium sixteen oh three
- 43:55Speaker 3: Canal Boulevard. Those are the Charleston locations, and then throughout
- 43:59Speaker 3: the county, drops have been scheduled at the five detachments
- 44:02Speaker 3: of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, including l Sissonville, Quincy,
- 44:06Speaker 3: Cross Lanes, and St. Albans. Again, we'll have more on
- 44:09Speaker 3: that coming up on tomorrow's show. Dex says Dave Cavano,
- 44:15Speaker 3: Riley and Miller knew what was going to happen when
- 44:18Speaker 3: they voted for Kennedy. This is just the tip ofthy iceberg.
- 44:20Speaker 3: Wait till Trump cuts jobs at the FBI Center and NASA,
- 44:23Speaker 3: West Virginia is going to be a ghost state. And
- 44:25Speaker 3: I am leaving the state myself next year. We'll take
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- 46:09Speaker 3: So the minutes away from ten Welcome back to the show.
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- 46:29Speaker 3: says the markets are are up getting that Trump pump,
- 46:33Speaker 3: wondering what the next dumb thing he'll do to make
- 46:35Speaker 3: the markets go to a Trump dump. That's a text
- 46:39Speaker 3: Textra's on fire today, man, I mean they really get
- 46:43Speaker 3: They got stuff to say and they've been saying it.
- 46:48Speaker 3: Jeff as a story posted on the website from the
- 46:50Speaker 3: Charleston Fire Department. Apparently someone hacked into the email system
- 46:56Speaker 3: for the Charleston Fire Department earlier this year for the
- 46:58Speaker 3: purpose of sending spam emails. The Fire Department is is
- 47:05Speaker 3: going that extra step to let people who receive treatment
- 47:10Speaker 3: through the department's ambulance service to let them know that
- 47:13Speaker 3: there is a slight chance, very slight, that their personal
- 47:19Speaker 3: personal data could have been compromised. The fire departments not
- 47:22Speaker 3: a letter to all the patients that fall into that category,
- 47:26Speaker 3: people that have utilized the services, primarily the ambulance service.
- 47:30Speaker 3: From what I understand, according to Jeff's story, they have
- 47:33Speaker 3: sent out a letter to all of those patients explaining
- 47:39Speaker 3: how it happened and what to do, how they fixed it,
- 47:44Speaker 3: and what to do if they are concerned about a
- 47:47Speaker 3: possible compromise of their important information on the surface, and
- 47:54Speaker 3: again you can go read Jeff Chenkin's story wv metronews
- 47:57Speaker 3: dot com under the surface. On the surface, rather, it
- 48:00Speaker 3: doesn't appear like it was that that big of a deal.
- 48:06Speaker 3: But in today's modern cyber world, you simply cannot be
- 48:11Speaker 3: too careful. So that's why they did that. And again
- 48:15Speaker 3: the stories posted at wvmetronews dot com if you want
- 48:19Speaker 3: to read more about it. Older adult should protect themselves again,
- 48:22Speaker 3: severe respiratory disease, talk to your doctor about flu, COVID
- 48:25Speaker 3: nineteen and RSV vaccines risk. Let's do more get started
- 48:28Speaker 3: at vaccines dot gov. Paid for by the US Department
- 48:31Speaker 3: of Health and Human Services. Yesterday, we got a few
- 48:34Speaker 3: texts after the show on my little I don't say rant.
- 48:38Speaker 3: It wasn't that. Uh, it was just some of my
- 48:40Speaker 3: comments that I made about people complaining about traffic, particularly
- 48:45Speaker 3: in Tays Valley, which you know, again I'm partial to
- 48:48Speaker 3: it because it's where I live and I and I
- 48:50Speaker 3: and I battle it every day. I I just don't
- 48:54Speaker 3: And I had some people reached out to me and uh,
- 48:56Speaker 3: and and said things like, uh, well you must enjoy
- 48:59Speaker 3: setting in traffic. Maybe you don't have anything better to do,
- 49:02Speaker 3: and and well the answer is you're right, I don't. Uh,
- 49:05Speaker 3: but I stay by what I said. Look if, if, if,
- 49:09Speaker 3: your neighborhood wherever it is, is dealing with the traffic problem,
- 49:13Speaker 3: generally speaking, that is a sign of a healthy economy.
- 49:17Speaker 3: TJ Meadows walking into the studio right now, and TJ
- 49:20Speaker 3: is probably saying, is this like groundhog Day? Because I
- 49:23Speaker 3: left you at this time and you were talking about
- 49:25Speaker 3: the same thing, and I come back in and you're
- 49:28Speaker 3: still saying the same thing.
- 49:29Speaker 7: Forgive me, I missed it. What we were we talking about.
- 49:31Speaker 3: I was following up on some of the conversations about
- 49:33Speaker 3: traffic yesterday.
- 49:35Speaker 18: I was just talking with Chris Lawrence in the hallway
- 49:38Speaker 18: about the same thing. You know, he's a Day's Alley
- 49:41Speaker 18: guy too, and we were we were talking about the
- 49:42Speaker 18: widening project.
- 49:44Speaker 3: Okay, that's gonna be going on different.
- 49:46Speaker 7: Thing, right, It's a whole different thing.
- 49:48Speaker 18: Yeah. So like like down where the I guess the
- 49:51Speaker 18: dairy Queen Scott Tays Elementary is familiar. You're my neck
- 49:54Speaker 18: of the They're going to widen that sucker, out.
- 49:56Speaker 3: It's my understanding. Think, are they going to compromise the
- 49:59Speaker 3: dairy queen? Then that's what I'm hearing.
- 50:01Speaker 18: If there's a couple of different options, and I think
- 50:03Speaker 18: if one option is pursued over the other, I do
- 50:06Speaker 18: think it would affect the dairy queen and it would
- 50:09Speaker 18: have to be torn down, is my understanding.
- 50:11Speaker 3: I could be wrong on that. I started messing with
- 50:13Speaker 3: people's blizzards. Man, it's a it's a it's a whole.
- 50:16Speaker 14: You know.
- 50:16Speaker 18: And that's one of the old school dairy queens. It
- 50:18Speaker 18: still looks like an old school dairy queens.
- 50:20Speaker 3: So when somebody made into a drive through a couple
- 50:21Speaker 3: of years ago, and so, uh, you know, I don't
- 50:24Speaker 3: know if you want to take something like that away.
- 50:27Speaker 3: I have heard rumor, I have heard that rebuilding that
- 50:30Speaker 3: would not be economically feasible. Okay, and we'll keep an
- 50:33Speaker 3: eye on it, because that's, as we said, that's your
- 50:35Speaker 3: neck of the woods, my neck of the wood. That's
- 50:36Speaker 3: the mean streets of Tayes Valley where you streets, not
- 50:39Speaker 3: the mean streets of Tayese Valley where where I was that.
- 50:41Speaker 3: I'm on the I'm on the I'm on.
- 50:42Speaker 18: The you're the mayor of Tese Valley if we had,
- 50:44Speaker 18: if Tayes Valley were incorporated. Uh, and maybe we should
- 50:47Speaker 18: talk to someone about this, maybe we should start the movement.
- 50:51Speaker 7: You would be the mayor of Tayes Valley. I have
- 50:53Speaker 7: no doubt about that.
- 50:54Speaker 3: Text here from somebody that lives in Taes Valley apparently
- 50:56Speaker 3: that says we need traffic circles, roundabouts, roundabouts. That's what
- 51:00Speaker 3: they're going to do. Well, listen, let me explain something.
- 51:03Speaker 3: West Virginians can't navigate three way stops. Do you really
- 51:07Speaker 3: want them to go? I mean you ever ever pulled
- 51:10Speaker 3: up to a three way stop? I mean in West Virginia.
- 51:13Speaker 3: I mean it's not pretty.
- 51:15Speaker 18: No, no, it's not. And I'm thinking of the I
- 51:17Speaker 18: guess it's a four way stop. Actually right in Scott
- 51:20Speaker 18: Depot where the Kroger and Chase Bank.
- 51:21Speaker 3: That's the one I get in mind.
- 51:23Speaker 18: Folks do not always navigate that very well. I'm a fan,
- 51:28Speaker 18: actually of roundabouts. I used to to live in an
- 51:31Speaker 18: area and work in an area quite a bit that
- 51:33Speaker 18: had them, and so I'm used to them. I think
- 51:35Speaker 18: once you get used to them, they're extremely valuable. And
- 51:39Speaker 18: I like the way they flow. But to each his own.
- 51:42Speaker 18: I'm sure there'll be a learning curve.
- 51:43Speaker 3: Well we have, we ain't learned it yet in West
- 51:46Speaker 3: Virginia on how to navigate three way stops.
- 51:49Speaker 7: Maybe there's a YouTube video out there for that.
- 51:51Speaker 3: Yeah, so they can watch it while they're driving. That's good.
- 51:53Speaker 3: That's that's exactly what we need.
- 51:55Speaker 7: What do you goney that I've just ruined everything?
- 51:58Speaker 14: All right?
- 51:58Speaker 3: What do you got on the show today? Buddy? Ten
- 52:00Speaker 3: oh six? State Senator Jason Barrett.
- 52:01Speaker 18: He was in DC yesterday with the Governor and RFK
- 52:04Speaker 18: talking about red dye bands from a federal level.
- 52:06Speaker 3: We'll talk with him.
- 52:07Speaker 18: Ryan Schmels on Pete hegseeth I wrote about that today
- 52:10Speaker 18: as well at wv Metronews dot com. That's at ten
- 52:12Speaker 18: twenty three. Will Boye with First Energy on their response
- 52:16Speaker 18: to all these outages and all the work they had
- 52:18Speaker 18: to do. Coming up at ten thirty, eleven six. Brad
- 52:22Speaker 18: Mack is in the house. Coming up at eleven thirty.
- 52:25Speaker 18: WVUS Senior Director of Athletics, John Antonic on Mike Patrick
- 52:29Speaker 18: and his passing. They were buds, so.
- 52:31Speaker 3: We'll talk with him. You have big loss. Happy administrative
- 52:33Speaker 3: professionals day. Couldn't do it without him, couldn't do it
- 52:36Speaker 3: without him. All right, you can't do it without Murphy either.
- 52:38Speaker 3: He's pulling the plug. All right, gotta go. I'll see
- 52:40Speaker 3: you later today. Till then, have fun. I love somebody.