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06/25/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - John Lovejoy, Kathie Hess Crouse, Ericke Cage · The Dave Allen Show

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Last week, it was announced at West Virginia State University President Eric Cage
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is going to join us to talk about that a little bit later on,
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plus lots of the news lately about homeschooling. A big proponent of homeschooling is
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Delegate Kathy has Kraus, and I wanted to I want to get in and
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talk to her because Kathy is one that a couple of her kids she did
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home. Matter of fact, I think she has won now that she homeschools,
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and some others she went sent to public schools. There's all these questions
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about and it all comes in the way of the Kennedy Miller tragedy in Booon
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County. I invited Delegate Crouse in because again she's a proponent of homeschooling.
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She's done it herself. I want to kind of, you know, pick
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her brain a little bit on what's right, what's wrong, and what we
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can do to somehow make the reporting of the whole thing better. So we'll
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get into that a little bit later on. It was came to light over
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a couple of last couple of days that one of the one of the ladies
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involved in the ty Hunt situation has now filed a lawsuit against the City of
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Charleston and the Charleston Police Department. I'm going to talk about that a little
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bit later on. Plus, baby Dog is everywhere. Baby dogs showing up
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all over the state of West Virginia, these capital murals and got to give
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you know, I got to get my take on that as well. But
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Now each month we get a visit from one of the businesses of the
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Meeks Company, good friends of mine out of Putnam County. This morning they're
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going to talk about not one, but two of them. One of the
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sponsors of the show you hear me talk about every day. It's fresh Air,
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one of their sister companies you're going to learn more about. John Lovejoy
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though, is from Fresh Air and he's with us now. John, you're
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the veteran here. Good morning sir, Good morning Dave. How are you.
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I'm doing fine, Thank you, and welcome to the show. Now
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we're going to transition into one of the newest ventures of Meeks here in a
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couple of moments. But I'm going to talk about fresh Air sponsors of this
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show we make the transition. How how are things going in fresh Air house
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business? Things are going fantastic. We're hearing great responses back from our clients
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during this heat wave that just by changing their filters, they've noticed that their
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means and I'm making the I'm making the hand signals of cash here, right,
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it does. It means that it's saving them money because less energy is
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being consumed, and it's happy customers. That's what we like. And with
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this heat and that we've had, and we got a couple like a day
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or so break, it's gonna warm. But they say that this Saturday is
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probably going to be as hot as what last Saturday was. I was having
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this conversation with my wife just a couple of days ago, when you know,
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over the weekend, when it was as hot as what it was.
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I made the commentary. I said, well, I've seen on social media
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people posting, Hey, my my unit's out whatever, you guys can't do
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or you know, you have a fireplace in your home. All these things
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affect probably the candle with the potpourri and all that. So that kind of
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surprises me, really it does, simply because the smoke that goes comes from
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a candle, you know, will you know, go into the air and
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it affects the air indoor air quality, and so things along that line determine,
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you know, what type of filter you need, how often that needs
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to be changed in order to keep your unit working at its peak. And
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you offer this service with fresh air for red residential but for also for any
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Give me a without using a name. Give me a success store you've
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had here recently when somebody, whether it's a business or just an individual person
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will give me a success story. Yeah, individual person just commenting about like
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I said, you know, we're hearing words back that you know, their
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house is staying much cooler than it has in years past since they've switched over
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to Fresh Air filter services. And everybody loves the technicians that come out.
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You know, we're hearing great praises about the professionalism. They love the fact
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fit into their HVAC unit. And you know, they're just really shocked at
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the difference that it's made because they really didn't pay much attention to their air
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filter prior to and you know, so seeing the difference, I had somebody
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today you brought a member of the of the family. If you will,
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I'm gonna let you introduce this gentleman and then we're going to get to know
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this guys. Another service that that the Meek's Company offers, Go aheady,
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it is you know, fresh air. We always like to say that we
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like to give our customers peace of mind that they've got the best indoor air
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quality. Well along the lines of peace of mind. We also have Josh
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Biebe. Josh is our sales guy with our security company. It's Jute Security.
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Now, that's Jute j O O T JO. That's the name of
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the company, Jute Jute And we're going to get in that a little bit
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later on. But Josh, welcome to the show man, Thank you,
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thank you for being here. All right, So I got to ask you,
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and I know that you get this question a lot. Where does the
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name jute jot? Where does Jute come from? So? Juke comes from
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our two owners, James and thor U, and they did some research during
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the time of building the company about five years ago that companies with two o's
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were successful, like Google and others. So it sticks with you. Jute.
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It's a quick, easy name to remember. Yeah, and again I'm
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sure you get that a lot. As a matter of fact, I ask
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you that at an event not long ago. What the heck does jute mean?
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All right? So what kind of services do you offer with you?
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So we have a home security and automation as well as commercial, So any
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type of security system, cameras, different home automation services that you could think
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of or need. We can offer and how big is this business becoming?
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Right now? It's growing very very quickly. We've been staying pretty busy with
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some commercial accounts, but we're just about to switch over into some more marketing
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for some more local houses and different neighborhoods in the Hurricane area and then start
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expanding out of that, but really starting to step into more of the residential.
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So now you're based in Putnam Kenny, but you guys, what's your
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footprint? Where can you go anywhere? We're all along the east coast right
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now, so we have a different locations in the Carolinas that they have.
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We have all over West Virginia will go. So, so when you get
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a call from somebody that says I am thinking about getting a home security system,
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that's just I mean, you know, they maybe they've had some incidence
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in their neighbor but maybe they have it. Maybe they just say, well,
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you know, I think it's time to time to get one. Take
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us through the process. What exactly do you do? I call you and
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I say, hey, I need you to come out and tell me what
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I need. Tell me what that consultation process if you will looks like so
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personally, I like to go out and meet the customer. I like to
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just go and see what your home looks like, see what you're thinking first
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off, and then potentially suggest some other things that I see in the area
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or some other areas that you could be watching out for. So typically what
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I tell a customer is, you know the whole best. This is where
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you live, this is where you're at every day, So you tell me
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what you think needs to be here to be secure, and then I can
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recommend things if I see as well, But really just try to listen to
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the customer and what they need. How elaborate can you go with your systems?
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Is that? Because I know you probably have that person that calls for
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their residence for example, that just calls and says, look, I just
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I just want something really simple. Then you may have somebody if you live
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in a palatial estate like John Lovejoy does, if you say, look,
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I need something to keep an eye on my ferraris or something like John does.
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So what are the differences though? What compares contrast simple to as big
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as you go? You do a very simple automation or home security system for
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around forty dollars a month that just comes with a regular security panels, some
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door sensors, things like that. But you can go as far as connecting
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to Google Smart Home different things like that. You can do whole home automation
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where you're controlling your lights on a timer. Connect and you guys can do
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all that, yes, for the people. Because this sounds really complicated.
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I'm not going to lie to you, Josh, this sounds really complicated,
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But you guys can set all that up and give somebody like a simple control
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on your phone. Everything's an app on your phone. It's everything right there.
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And so I mean, I'm assuming you're traveling somewhere, you can just
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log on and take a look at what's going on at your home. Absolutely,
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I would have hated that as a teenager, That's all I'm saying.
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And me and my buddies would have hated that as a teenager. I'm just
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gonna I'm gonna leave it there. But so again, simple to extravagant as
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possible. Very yes. And you can even set it up like you said,
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for if you have kids, things like that. You can set it
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up for notifications when somebody's coming in or out. You can have it specific
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to you could set door codes to where you know exactly who is coming in
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the house at what time, things like that when they're leaving. So I
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mean you can get it very very complex. Well, we're gonna be talking
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to you more over the next couple of months because I think you guys are
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going to kind of take over from Fresh Air. We're done with Fresh Air
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and we will look to you. Guys have sponsored the show for a while,
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so we'll have you on again next month to get into a little bit
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more laborator tales. John is always it's pleasure to have you on the show.
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And again you talked about you and I were texting yesterday about peace of
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mind in your home. Yes, with this heat, you know you got
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to have the filters to make sure that your your system is running properly.
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But there's no peace of mind like knowing that your stuff is taken care of.
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And that's what you can get from Jute. So joot is the is
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the name of the company Real Supple based in the in the Hurricane area,
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Tays Valley. Give us a phone number, give us a website, working
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people learn more about you. The phone number is six eight one two three
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three four thousand, and our website is www dot protected by jute dot Com.
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Protected by Jute dot Com. Joot Hey, Josh, and John.
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I appreciate both of you guys for being here. Thanks a lot. Hang
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was ready, you know, to to disown mister Webb as a friend,
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and because he just no showed last week and I couldn't figure it out why.
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Well, you know, he he was fishing and he dropped his phone
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in the I think it was the New River. And if you're a person
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live by your phone as far as your all of your appointments or whatever.
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Yeah, it PLoP when all Bill danced there and went to the bottom of
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the New River somewhere. So Rusty is still recovering from that. And he
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reached out to me over the weekend. So Rusty's gonna And the reason I'm
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having Rusty in is because the Normandy commemoration was early this month and he was
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actually there, not in the original Normandy, not that, but I mean
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he was actually there for the commemoration. So I'm gonna talk to Rusty about
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that coming up on tomorrow's show. Delegate Kathy hiss Chraus is here. DELI
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good, good morning. So it learn took me a long time to get
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to you, but I'm sorry. At least got talking about the Frankenberry mansion
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and stuff as I was here. So first of all, I don't think
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I've had you on the air since the May primary, So congratulations on your
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primary win. Now do you have opposition in the general at this moment,
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I have no one. So I am the next delegate in the nineteenth district
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again, okay, and explain again, as I always do, explain what
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the nineteenth district is worth. So the nineteenth district is just within Putnam County.
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It is everything on the or side of the river Buffalo down through Nitro
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and then it comes over and takes in a little bit of Scott Depot on
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the south side of the river. Okay, all right, I ask you
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to be on the show, Delegate, because you have for as long as
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I've known, you've been a huge proponent of homeschooling. Or maybe hold on
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before you interrupt me, let me live before you correct me, I should
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say what you're entitled to. A more correct term for you would be I
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didn't like the way I phrased that would be you're a proponent of school choice.
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Yes, whether it is public school, whether it's homeschooling, whether it's
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charter schools, or you know some we have an array of array available.
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You homeschooled a couple of a couple of your kids, Is that right?
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Because you got right? Do you have thirty seven children now somewhere along that
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line, somewhere there? But my first three all graduated public school, and
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the last two. I homeschooled my son from his first day of first grade
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all the way through graduation. And my daughter was getting ready when I pulled
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them out, was getting ready to go into a second year of preschool.
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And I've homeschooled her all the way through and she just graduated this year.
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All right. So these questions delegate about accountability and homeschooling. Many of them,
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as you well know, come in the wake of the tragedy in Boone
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County with Kennedy Miller. A lot of finger pointing between the governor's office,
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the police, CBS, school system, et cetera. I'm not going to
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ask you to get into any of that, but school officials had stated,
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as best I understand it, and you've been on top of the story from
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day one, that they hadn't heard from the caregivers for the little girl in
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some time that they said that she was being homeschooled, and apparently they hadn't
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heard from her, you know, a couple of years or whatever. So
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what exactly as somebody who homeschooled a couple of their kids, and again you've
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been a big part of this, what exactly are the requirements for those at
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homeschool? So the first requirement upfront is you have to file a notice of
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intent saying that you're going to homeschool. Who does that notice go to?
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That notice by law goes to the superintendent of the county where you reside.
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Okay, So we're just going to say that if you're living right here,
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let's say you're living in in St. Albans or Okay, use that as
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example. So you have to contact the Kanak County superintendent the Supertendent's office and
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say, I intend I got little Johnny here. I know kids don't name
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their kid Johnny anymore, but I intend to homeschool my kid basically. And
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is that like in a letter? Is it an email? On? Normally
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it's a we have letters that are already filled out with all the pertinent information,
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and even the ones we have and the one that was actually used in
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this case, it spells out everything you know that you'll turn in assessments on
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certain years and everything else. So that is that's the first step is to
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begin your homeschooling is filing that notice of intent, and then every year you
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have to do an assessment. And those assessments can either be testing with the
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standardized test that meet state requirements just like the public like the public schools,
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or it can be a portfolio review by a certified teacher. So what did
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you do? If you don't mind my asking, what did you do with
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your and you've got one to your homeschooling now right because no will just just
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graduate. I'm sorry you said that earlier. So what did you choose to
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do? Normally? I chose portfolios because I felt those evaluated my children the
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best I could see where they were at, what work they had done,
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and you sat down that you said, with a with a certified teacher,
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with a certified teacher, and they went over their work for the year.
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So that's like a public school teacher. You just contact somebody at the high
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school. I mean, how does that. We have a large list of
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teachers that will that know the homeschooling law and are going to do the evaluations
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and everything. How long do those and I'm sorry to ask so many questions,
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but how long do those assessments normally take? You sit down with the
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portfolio. We talked a couple hours. We talked in thirty minutes. What
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are we talking? They're usually not and it's a student part of that.
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Did they talk? They can be, they can be. It just all
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depends on the teacher and how they're being doing. Of course, during COVID,
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so many things went virtual. There's so many different ways to do a
23:11
portfolio. You can, you know, you can take pictures of activities the
23:17
kids have done. If you have to show the five different subjects, you
23:21
have to show that they've progressed in certain subjects and that those were covered in
23:25
everything. But you know always through in extra things, activities the kids did
23:30
you took them on, like the clay center, you took them out of
23:33
took them or something exactly exactly. It's different things that they had done throughout
23:37
the year. If they did certain projects, maybe I didn't want to save
23:41
a big trifle board because they did a science project. I took pictures of
23:45
it and would put that in their portfolio for the teacher to look over and
23:48
say, Okay, this is all they did. So you would have that
23:52
teacher look it over. They fill out a form that says they either passed
23:56
the subjects, or they progressed it the subjects, or they did not And
24:02
that's up to the teacher on what they felt if they didn't, if they
24:04
did the correct work or not. So one of the educational requirements to homeschool
24:10
kids. If I decide I have a kid now, I want a homeschool,
24:12
what do I have to be able to do to Heaven forbid my kids
24:18
to teach this kid? What would I have to do? You have to
24:21
show progress in five subjects? Talry about me the teacher? What kind of
24:26
certifications? What kind of qualifications do I have to have as a parent to
24:30
as a parent. You as a parent, to be able to homeschool your
24:33
child, you have to have a high school diploma or equivalent at least.
24:40
Okay, so you don't have to have a college degree. You used to.
24:45
You used to have to have four years above what your child whatever grade
24:49
they were in. So say your child was in high school and you didn't
24:52
have a bachelor's degree, you could not homeschool them. But that is no
24:56
longer true. As long as you have a high school equivalent or high school
25:00
diploma or equivalent, you can homeschool your children. Talking again with Delegate Kathy
25:06
has Krous about homeschooling in the state of West Virginia, Dave Island Show and
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one of the things, and I'm going to give you an opportunity to refute
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this if you wish that you hear about and again, every just like every
25:25
public school is different and every private school, they're all different. So you
25:27
don't want to get into absolutes. But a lot of times people say,
25:30
well, I don't think homeschooling is a good thing because they don't get the
25:33
socialization. Now again with some parents that are homeschooling their kids, that could
25:38
be the case, just like they're not getting socialization if they're going to George
25:41
Washington High School, as could happen, you know, or any other school
25:45
for that matter. But I mentioned on the show before that one of my
25:49
best friends whose name is Kathy and also spells it Ie by the way,
25:52
with k Chef, she and her husband homeschooled their kids and talk to her
26:00
from time to time, and they lived in Logan and she would say,
26:04
oh, well, we're going to Charleston for this, We're going to She
26:07
was gone five days a week doing something with other kids that were like there
26:14
was there were like these networks and they Okay, today we're going to the
26:17
Clay Center. You know, today we are going to Blinter Hassett. I'm
26:22
just using those as examples. There was a lot of group activities that they
26:26
had for kids that were being homeschool We had to quit socializing so we could
26:32
get school work. That's so much out there. School. Yeah, there
26:37
was just so much going on. And I even created the Facebook group the
26:41
unsocialized homeschoolers because I got so tired of people telling me, oh, your
26:45
kids are going to be unsocialized, and I'm like, are you kidding me?
26:47
There's so much out there, So I started this Facebook group to put
26:51
all of the opportunities out there so people would know where to go to to
26:56
take their kid to a class or to a field trip or whatever. And
27:00
even back during COVID, all the proms locally for the high schools were canceled
27:04
and the homeschoolers had their yearly social prom whatever you want to call it,
27:11
And of course our venue kept getting canceled, and we ended up having our
27:15
high school well, our teen social because it was for twelve thirteen and up
27:22
at my farm, and I had one hundred and fifty homeschoolers on my farm
27:30
for a dance music dinner, all of it under a tent, poured down
27:36
the rain right as it was beginning to start, and then it stopped and
27:37
cleared up, so we had mud, we had cars, We had dozens
27:44
of parents exactly, We had dozens of parents, some extra kids that hung
27:48
out because mom was staying to help out, and mom couldn't leave the little
27:52
one behind. So I would say on our farm we had like two hundred
27:56
people for a So how roughly you don't have to give me an exact number,
28:03
but ballpark figure how many? How many students in West Virginia homeschool there's
28:07
about twenty six thousand right now. I want to have six thousand and that
28:11
much as that is ray, I was going to say how much. It's
28:12
because I have people on here from time to time talking about charter schools and
28:18
virtual academies and any things other than the traditional brick and mortar school. And
28:23
since COVID, it's exploded. Have you seen that in the world of homeschooling
28:27
as well? So back in fifteen sixteen, homeschoolers beat private school numbers.
28:33
We became about eleven thousand. At that time, private school was down to
28:37
a little over ten thousand teacher strikes. We went up. I'd say we
28:41
were probably around thirteen thousand or so during COVID. I thought we were probably
28:48
mid twenties because I was busy just trying to help people. How do you
28:53
do it? How do you get started? What do we do? All
28:56
that? Found out that during COVID, from the census had put us actually
29:00
around forty some thousand, that has of course backed off some and with the
29:06
Hope Scholarship and those at homeschool through Hope Scholarship, and then traditional homeschoolers and
29:11
homeschoolers under exemption. See we are currently at about twenty six thousand. What's
29:18
the biggest reason, delegate that you get if somebody contacts you or someone else,
29:22
or what's the biggest reason you hear from parents that they are choosing homeschooling
29:27
Two of them, one being their child's being bullied in school whatever you know,
29:33
whoever it's from, whether it's from other students, staff, teachers,
29:37
administration, whatever the case may be. One of the biggest ones is bullying,
29:42
so the activity that way, and another big one is what's being taught
29:47
or what is not being taught. Collaborating on that all of the different agendas
29:52
that are going through the public school system, parents aren't wanting it. Give
29:56
me an example of something a lot of it now is the lgbt QT agenda
30:03
transgenderism. Telling a child, oh you can, okay, little little Susie
30:11
says, I like to play with trucks. Well, then you've got some
30:14
in the school system that'll say, okay, little Susie you're a boy.
30:17
Well, no, you're just a girl that likes to play with trucks.
30:19
Yeah, you're a girl like me. You know, I was. I
30:22
was a tomboy growing up, but I was far from being a boy.
30:26
But at the time I could see if I had been in school now,
30:30
I would have been pushed to be a boy. And that's far from one.
30:33
So the agenda and and that, that and and bullying, you know,
30:38
the two biggest the two biggest reasons that I see what would and I
30:45
kind of and I kind of got to move along here about this all day.
30:48
But what what's the and we've kind of touched on this a little bit.
30:51
What's the biggest misconception about those who choose to homeschool? Is it the
30:53
socialization thing? That is probably the biggest one. That and uh, it
30:59
used to be that, you know, there were some far far, extremely
31:03
right religious person and the children weren't allowed to socialize with anybody at any time.
31:11
And that that's just the furthest thing from the truth. We cover all
31:15
spectrums. I don't want to I'm not going to ask you again, in
31:19
your role as a citizen or as a legislator, legislator to get into particulars
31:25
here because there is an ongoing investigation. But as I said, you have
31:26
been watching closely, you and others the situation with the with the Miller girl
31:33
in Boone County. Based on what you know, where should the red flags
31:40
have gone up as far as the schooling aspect of it or are you any
31:45
any other aspect that you've seen part of that as far as the schooling aspect.
31:49
From the time the date of the notice of intent being filed, when
31:53
assessments should have been turned in, this child should have had an eighth grade
31:57
assessment turned in and by June thirtieth of twenty twenty three, so a police
32:05
officer, state policeman did a well check. I think it was March ninth
32:09
of twenty twenty three. The child should have had something turned into the Board
32:15
of Education as far as an assessment, be it testing or a portfolio review
32:19
by June thirtieth of twenty twenty three. This young child was found emaciated and
32:25
skeletal April of twenty twenty four, so it had been ten months that this
32:31
note or this assessment had been expected for this child that the school board did
32:37
nothing to check to find out why it was done to me? Did it
32:43
just in your opinion and this is opinion only, did it just fall through
32:45
the cracks? I mean, because is it the job of somebody? And
32:49
I know that our teachers and school board workers are you know, they work
32:53
very hard, but is it the job of somebody in a particular school system
32:57
to check on these things? I mean, Boone County's much attend much much
33:00
smaller than Kanawa County, So I mean, I know they have a lot
33:04
of kids to take care of, but is so somebody should have checked on
33:07
this? In your opinion, in your yes, And it's in the law
33:09
that you know at any time there's one part an exempt or in eighteen eighty
33:15
one that if something's not followed, that the attendance director can do something about
33:22
truancy. And then within homeschool law itself, if the superintendent thinks anything is
33:29
wrong, they always have the option to take it to a circuit court.
33:34
Circuit court, right just like if they were again truant from exactly from a
33:37
public school. Exactly. As we wrap up, as a legislator, and
33:40
I realize that you are one of many in the House and the Senate,
33:45
but what can or should the legislature. Is there anything they could do to
33:49
try to remedy situations like this in the future. I think the laws are
33:53
already in place. This was a this was a people problem, not a
33:59
process in law problem. People in charge did not follow the laws that are
34:05
already in place. And sometimes it's not in the best interest for the legislature
34:10
to step in when there's already things in play, so enforced the laws that
34:15
are theirs. What you what I'm hearing you say? Correct? All right?
34:19
And this is not a this is not an issue with homeschooling. This
34:22
just happened to be one of the factors that just it looks like sadly slipped
34:27
through the Cracksit nobody checked on this tract. And we have had, unfortunately,
34:31
dozens of children over the last couple of years pass away, and the
34:37
majority of those have been public school children. And we're not jumping in with
34:44
everyone to change a law within the public school system because something happened that a
34:52
child has passed away that went to public school. Delikatcathe has Krause. I
34:58
always appreciate you being here and week we will talk soon. Thanks a lot.
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Virginia State President Eric Cage is here. Mister Cage, good morning, welcome
38:19
to the show. Good morning, Dave, thanks for having me back again.
38:21
Thank you for being and thanks for the gift. By the way,
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absolutely in order to get on this show, you have to bring gifts.
38:25
That's the new thing. Delegate Crause. Tonight, I have a nice West
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but she didn't get a mug. I did, and I'll i'll post that
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posted online. A little bit later on all Right, big news out of
38:44
Institute last week. You've talked about it on the show before, but now
38:46
it's really going to be a thing. This Department of Agriculture at State talk
38:51
about it absolutely. You know, we had a wonderful day last Tuesday on
38:54
campus. Governor Justice was there to announce a fifty milligan dollar investment in West
39:00
Virginia State University. He signed a bill which will bring fifty million dollars to
39:06
our campus to build a new state of the art agricultural laboratory, a laboratory
39:10
that I described as a win win for West Virginia because basically what we're going
39:15
to be doing through that facility, Dave, if we're going to be bringing
39:19
together the expertise of West Virginia State as an eighteen ninety land Grand Institution,
39:24
with the expertise of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, and together we will
39:28
be working hand in hand to help solve some of the most pressing challenges that
39:34
we face around agriculture, to help drive innovation and agriculture, to help build
39:37
a sustainable workforce pipeline for agriculture. So I think it's just going to be
39:40
a huge, huge win for West Virginia. And as I said on Tuesday,
39:46
I really do appreciate the unwavering support of Governor Jim Justice, of Speaker
39:52
Roger Hanshaw, of Senate President Craig Blair, and of the West Virginia Legislature
39:57
help us to get this done. It's been a long time. I'm coming.
40:00
It has been president. It has been a true labor of love.
40:05
But what I said on Tuesday was this. You know, the two words
40:07
I use to describe the project and the process were promises kept, Promises kept
40:15
throughout the process, throughout the twist and turns. The Governor, our Senate
40:21
President, our House Speaker never wavered. They're never wavered in their commitment because
40:24
they believe like I do, that West Virginia State University is the best place
40:29
for that facility. We are well positioned again as a landgrand institution to be
40:35
home to that new agricultural laboratory which is really going to help transform agriculture in
40:40
West Virginia. I want to get into the particulars of this lab I mean
40:45
before we talk anything else, that's talk about what's going to be there.
40:49
Yeah, So what I've talked about during our previous conversations is a need to
40:53
bring a School of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources to West Virginia State University,
41:00
and that new facility will serve as a home for this new school,
41:04
in addition to her serving us home to some new enhanced laboratories for the West
41:08
Virginia Department of Agriculture. So we envision in that space having classrooms, having
41:15
laboratories, having faculty offices to support the faculty and the students who will be
41:21
taking part in our new School of Agriculture, and of course the Partner of
41:23
Agriculture will work to make sure that they have what they need in terms of
41:27
the enhanced agriculture laboratories. And now that everything's really the wheels are really really
41:32
in motion. Now now the hard work begins. Now that this was not
41:36
hard getting there, but now you got to actually build a thing. Yeah,
41:38
you know, we are obviously moving to the next phase of the project,
41:44
which is will be actually getting shovels in the ground. And as you
41:46
know, anytime you're dealing with a complex project, you're dealing with a significant
41:52
amount of public resources. There's going to be a lot of additional work to
41:57
be done. But we are already having conversations with the Governor's office and looking
42:02
forward to laying out a clear plan that will allow us to get this project
42:07
moving forward. We have any kind of any kind of a timeframe, you
42:10
know, I think like next Wednesday, just thought it out. I don't
42:15
think it'll be next Wednesday. But we will be moving moving at a very
42:20
very efficient pace. Yeah, And I mean this thing is just going to
42:23
be so huge. I mean, it really is for the for the entire
42:27
valley, the entire state, and the entire part of the country. Really
42:30
absolutely. I mean, we all know that agriculture continues to be a significantly
42:37
growing sector. We know that we all need food, fresh food to eat.
42:40
We know that food and security continues to be a one of the most
42:45
persistent challenges facing not just our country, but with facing the world. So
42:50
this is a much needed facility. Like I said, it is definitely a
42:53
win win. I believe it's a historic investment in West Virginia State University.
42:58
Don't you think it's really interesting though, that what's old again is new again?
43:02
I mean you think about you know, I mean, we're going back
43:06
to the land. To kind of take a phrase for the nighteen sixties.
43:10
You know, we're kind of going back because there's a definite need for this
43:15
now sure. I mean it's really not a surprise to me though, Dave,
43:19
because look, we were founded, as I've said, as a Landgran
43:22
institution, and as a land Grand institution, we have a tripartheype mission focuses
43:27
on teaching, research and community service, but are really our core priority as
43:32
a land Grand institution has been around agriculture. So for litly one hundred and
43:37
thirty three years, that has been our priority. So yes, we look
43:42
forward to getting this lab build and look forward to continuing to ensure that agriculture
43:46
is a priority in the state because I do believe that agriculture is our future.
43:52
What else you got going on in state? I mean, all the
43:55
focus has been on this, but there's always a ton of other things.
43:59
What else, you know, We've got a ton of things happening at the
44:00
university. You know. In some of our previous conversations we talked about our
44:05
focus on cybersecurity, and a couple of weeks ago, we just received from
44:09
Google a megan dollar investment in our cybersecurity program, a program that is not
44:16
even two years old. So what that speaks to is one. It speaks
44:20
to the work that West Virginia State University is doing the excellent work to raise
44:23
our profile, to make sure we're focused on areas that are in demand within
44:30
the workforce. But it also speaks of the fact that people are taking notice.
44:34
People are taking notice that West Virginia State University is on the rise.
44:37
And I've been saying this recently, Dave and I truly believe it. The
44:42
West Virginia State University is undergoing a renaissance of idealism, of innovation, and
44:49
of impact and people are taking notice. So whatever it's cybersecurity, whatever it's
44:52
agriculture, whether it's nursing, whether it's engineering, whatever it may be,
44:58
we are doing it, doing it well. And West Virginia State University is
45:01
well positioned to help drive student success and the help drive economic development in our
45:07
valley and across West Virginia. Well, I'll tell you a personal note here.
45:10
They couldn't ask it for anybody better to be at the helm with this
45:13
thing. I mean, you're done. As a matter of fact, I'm
45:15
not goad and throw his name out there because I know he wouldn't care.
45:17
I just got a text from a very good friend of mine, the esteemed
45:21
Tony the Taylor Anthony Parrenzino, who just said he set textus to my personal
45:28
phone. He says that you are one of the best humans on earth.
45:30
Well, it's interesting that you said that because I have to go see Tony
45:34
today to pick up an item. But Tony's a wonderful person and someone who
45:38
has certainly been supportive of me and of our university. And to your point,
45:44
I am honored, Dave, to be the president of a university.
45:47
You may have heard that our board approved a new five year contract for me,
45:52
and I look forward to continuing the work that we have started, to
45:55
continue to ensure that West Virginia State University is rising and that we are contributing
46:00
to the progress of the mountains. You must like it here. I love
46:04
it here absolutely. Yeah. You'll be sticking around for at least five more
46:07
years, hopefully longer than that. Ry Kh, president of Western new said,
46:10
I appreciate you being here, man, Thanks a lot, Thank you,
46:13
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edu slasht Apprenticeships. Today, the Ty Hunt saga continues. A woman who
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had previously filed a complaint against former police chief Ty Cunt has now filed a
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lawsuit against the City of Charleston and the police Department. The filing coming from
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Knawa County Circuit Court. Jennifer Harless is claiming damages for emotional and physical abuse
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by the former chiefs. She's also claiming the city and the department are liable
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for Hunt's actions. She says the case will probably well, I'm sorry she
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didn't say. Officials say that the case will probably end up in federal courts.
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No comment from the city, and one of the spokespeople from the City
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of Charleston said as of yesterday they had not seen that particular lawsuit. Coming
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up on talk Line this morning with Hobby Churchill, but more of the baby
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dog controversy. Everyone's favorite English bulldog is causing somewhat of a stir by suddenly
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showing up on Capitol murals. Now, this was all revealed last week.
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The governor says it may not be baby dog. Randall Reid Smith is the
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State Department of Arts, Culture, and History Secretary, and he's the guy
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that kind of put this whole thing together. He's going to speak to that
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with Hobby coming up at ten oh six, plus US Attorney Will Thompson,
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Ryin Smells, the Fox News Radio Westernrginiona Secretary of State, Mic Order and
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more all coming up talk line at ten o six this morning. So this
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whole baby dog thing, Uh, if you go and you look at the
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murals, and sometimes it's hard to just get through some of these stories,
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you know, uh with with with a straight face. But if you look
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at these murals, it's sure as anything in the world sound like a say,
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with the governor would make looks like it's baby dog hanging out at you
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know, Seneca Rocks or hanging out at some historical event. Now, Stephen
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Allen Adams are a good friend from Ogden Newspapers, frequent guests to the show,
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pointed out that when some of those activities would have been taking place English
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bulldogs were not even in America at that point. They weren't introduced until until
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years later. There are those that think it's I know, Hoppy did a
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poll on X about it that. There are those think it's incredibly tacky,
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it was terrible, and there are those that think, hey, it's a
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dog, you know, let it go. And I had a I had
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a text about that earlier. It says text, Uh, Texas, David,
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I was glad to see baby Dogs and sister on the Seneca Mural at
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the Capitol. We see the cardinal and the newly introduced Elk on the painting,
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and the English bulldog. In my opinion, Baby's or a baby Dog's
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rendition is a great addition. Thanks as a Texter or Hobby's gonna get into
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that with the man Randall Reid Smith, who's kind of somewhat responsible for the
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whole thing of it up talk line at ten o six, I am back
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with you once again tomorrow. We're gonna have a little rett to talk tomorrow
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plus Trusty Web Attorney. We'll be stopping by the show as well. My
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producer was Ryan Nicholson. Thank you so much, and thank you to all
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of our guests on the show today. If you haven't done so already,
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download the all new Metro News TV app that's all your favorite Metro News programs.
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Metro News for your eyes as well as your ears hobby. Give it
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up after the news with talk Line. I will see you tomorrow. Till
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