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07/24/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Joe Stevens, Patrick Morrisey, Doug Skaff · The Dave Allen Show

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They are owned by one of the same company. Dux Scaffe is also a
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delegate. Is going to join us. He's president of HD meeting. He's
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going to join us. Talk about that a little bit later on the show.
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Also Attorney General on gubernatorial candidate Patrick Morrissey is here as well. You
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know, each Monday we do a segment that we call Mayor Monday. We
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had to bring a different mayor in from the Canall Valley and well, we
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were scheduled to have the mayor of Nitro, Dave case Bolt with us.
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Case Bolt not with us, but we have the next best thing, and
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Joe Stevens from the City of Nitro subbing for Dave the Great case Bolt.
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How are you man, Good morning? And you did all that without taking
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a breath. Yeah, pretty much a professional indicator. I'm a professional pronunciatator.
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Yes, I am. I am indeed sometimes and then sometimes these words
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just don't come out after thirty five years, sometimes the words just don't come
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out. But you're you're a radio guy. You're a rookie. Sign compared
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to you. I am Yeah. July fifth, nineteen seventy five. I've
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been on July fifth, nineteen seventy five, Joe, I was about to
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go into kindergarten. There you go. How do you like that? Like
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that you're a rookie. We don't wanna talk about Ryan, my producer,
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well what he was doing in nineteen seventy five, but thank you for something
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for the Mayorday. It's been a busy, busy weekend in Nitro. I
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mean, because you were on last week talking about the catfish tournament and the
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pickle eating contest and the pickleball tournament. Lots to cover this morning. Let's
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kind of do a little review of what all happened in Nitro last week.
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Well, we had the Metro nine one one safety pickleball Tournament. John Rutherford
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and the staff over at nine one one, they just you know, a
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gold star or a pickaball side head or something like that, but that pickaball
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trophy, but they just they stepped up and just blew it out of the
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court as it may be, and just a great tournament. Two hundred forty
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two total players. Forty four of the players were from out of state.
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Eleven different states came in to participate in this tournament. We had four hundred
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and fifty six total matches for Saturday and Sunday, the community night on Friday
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night. That's a story in itself because that just blew everybody away, and
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everybody was just really really pleased with the condition of the courts. Well,
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the brand new number one and it was the largest tournament in the state of
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West Virginia. The players were taken care of. We had the pool open
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both days, so it was a lot happening, and then Friday night that
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fishing tournament going on in Nitro. But the tournament itself just we're already getting
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reports. You always hear about the economic you know what it meant to the
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economic side of the city and everything. We're already getting reports from restaurants about
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everybody coming in and having their biggest weekend, one of the biggest weekends of
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the year, and this comes on the heels of a softball tournament we had
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the week before. It was the First Responders serving the community tournament. We
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had forty teams from a tri state area. We had a thousand players on
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Saturday, thousand players on Sunday. So a lot of things happening. And
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that's not only in Nitro Dave, but up and down Canal Metro Valley.
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I mean from Barboursville all the way to Charleston. Things are happening and it's
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fun to see. It really is these things. Again, they when you
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have an event, whether it's Forgatta or whether it's something going on in South
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Charleston or Saint Albans or Nitro in this case, or Tay's Valley, whatever,
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doesn't just impact those community show and I talk about this almost every day
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on the show. It impacts everyone because when you have that many teams and
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that many players that come in for that Pickaball Tom, they ain't all staying
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in Nitro, you know, they're not all dining in Nitro, although you
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do have some great places to eat there. They're going to all the surrounding
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areas. We had people as far away as Missouri coming in forward this pickleball
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tournament exactly, and we had a working relationship with the Putnam County Convention Visitors
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Bureau along with the Nitro Visitors Bureau, and we were working on making sure
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we had housing stretching from Cross Lanes to Putnam and all points in between.
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So it was a great time. What was really neat was on Friday night,
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the Community Night, Senator Shelley Moore, Capital US Senator Capitau was there
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and she was the doublest partner of Mayor case Bolts. So it was fun
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to watch her and she's trying to form a league, as I understand up
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in d C and get a pickleball caucus if you if you may. But
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it's it's it was a fun time and all ages, all ages playing and
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just having a really good time. She's gonna be on the show tomorrow,
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so I'm gonna have to ask her how her pickleball game is and how she
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did with Mayor case Ball. She's got a great you know, kind of
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putting in English on the paddle there and I don't know if you've played pickleball
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yet, Um, it's it's it's sort of like a whiffleball. It's kind
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of a cross between tennis and ping pong somewhere in between. And uh,
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and more experienced aged people like yourself and myself. It's right, it's right
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up our alley as it maybe. So I gotta ask about the pickle eating
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contest? How did that go well? Um? As I understand in a
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five minute time period, the winner ate eleven of those big pickles. Eleven
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eleven? Okay, all right? So uh and I what he woods from
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our sister station? What a seven point three? The beat was all excited
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about that. And I don't I think what he was busy on. It
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was a Friday nights that one need to pickolating again. But maybe wood he
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will get in on the next one. Let's talk about this again. We're
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talking with Joe Stevens, who's in for day mayor Dave Caseball of Nitro here
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on five eighty live. I'll talk about this Nitro Sports Complex. How are
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things going there? It's going very well with anything that's new. We got
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some challenges here and there, but we worked through them and everything. But
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the pool, a lot of people did not know what to expect because the
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previous pool had been there for sixty years while it had played out its term
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as it may be, and the new pool is getting rave reviews. People
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are enjoying it and it's going to be open until August the sixth. But
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we're also utilizing the pool for community parties and that sort of thing, and
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you could just call the pool, but again, you know with any pool
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in the area, lifeguards are an issue, and a lot of our kids
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are going back to school and everything, so that, but that's been that's
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been the cornerstone of the athletic complex so far has been the pool, The
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pickleball courts and the tennis courts will now they got a huge shot in the
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arm by everybody seeing the tournament going on, more people now wanting to play.
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Where physically is the sports complex located. For those that may not know,
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the corner of right there at Park Avenue, it's where the pool used
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to be, right across the street from the Nitro Public Library, across the
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street from Nitro City Park, right up the street from the high school.
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Right all in that area, right off of Route twenty five first Avenue.
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There, Nitro is becoming Joe a destination. It's not just a bedroom community
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or just a place where people go drive through to get to somewhere else.
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Nitro is truly becoming a destination. It really is. And with the work
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with the city planner, the Kim Reid and the Mayor and the City Council
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have been doing with demolishing the dilapidated properties and everything and opening up some space
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for new development coming in. We're seeing the phone ring in that area every
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day, indeed, and that's a good thing to see. Is that again?
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Not just drive through? And again I always tile these communities together,
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you know, places like Nitro and your rivals across the bridge there in Saint
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Albans, South Charleston. These are all these are all all becoming destinations,
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you say, rivals. I gotta throw this one out there for you,
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just to remind everybody. September the third, we're shutting down the bridge again.
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Okay. Last year we did it for the first time. We closed
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the Dick Henderson Bridge, the Nitro Saint Alban's Bridge, and on at eight
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thirty until ten thirty, nine thirty, we will be having a tremendous fireworks
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show that both the city and Saint Alban's have combined again together and it will
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be shot off from the boat ramp in Saint Albans. So that's September third,
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and the bridge closes at eight thirty. The fireworks started at nine thirty.
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And see what happens when when people can work together. If you can
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get Nitro and Saint Albans, if you can get those two communities and schools
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and what not to come together for front event like this. Anything are Washington?
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Are you listening? Anything's possible. You know, we've been called to
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the Principal's office a couple of times, you and I through our career and
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everything. So I got a phone call one morning and it was case Bole,
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Hey, come on over to the office, got to see you.
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So I walk in there and there's Mayor Scott James of Saint Alban's and Mayor
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Dave case Bolt of Nitro, of course, and I went, I don't
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know where this is going to be going, but it means w O r
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K yeah. And they said, well, what do you think about us
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combining for this? And I said, well, I've always wanted to shut
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down the bridge, and they said, okay, let's do it. Then
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there you go, there you go. Before we let you go, I
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want to talk to you about Nitro, Joe being the permanent home for the
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Vietnam War Memorial. It is now the it's now in understand the Nitro Museum
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of History and Wars. Lots of folks are showing up talking about that.
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It really is. Just recently, back when the ride for the Wall came
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through, the folks that were handling the West Virginia Vietnam War Memorial decided it
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was time for it not to be a traveling memorial, but find a place
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for it, and they chose the city of Nitro and the Nitro's History and
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Wars Museum. It is now on display and tomorrow actually we're doing a ten
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o'clock news conference. It's it's all it's ready to go, and people have
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been coming by already as we've been setting it up and getting it ready and
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that sort of thing. But people are hearing about it and want to come
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and pay their respect, is what it's all about. It's on the Nitros
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side of the museum. On the other side of the museum is the Wars
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Museum, which has history from Civil War all the way through the latest conflicts.
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All right, Joe, good stuff going on in Nitro is always man
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It's pleasure to have you here always. Let's go oz. I was gonna
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say, let's get a plug in for the Baltimore Orioles. Man, go
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ahead, they're playing, well, let's go out. Well the Reds are
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as well, Yes they are. What we hear was of the redteen seventy
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four games to one Eddie Watt through a three run homer to Lee may Or,
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we would have swept it four games. I was gonna say, there's
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no reason for me to ask when it was that was here. I was
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born, by the way I was in the Reds and the Orioles in the
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World Series. Someday, let's go, let's go. We'll see all right,
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let's go all right. That's Joe Stevens from the City of Night Ros
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producer today was welcome to the show. Attorney General candidate for Governor Patrick Morrissey,
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Good morning, sir. How are you hey? I'm doing well,
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David's good to be with you. Things are looking pretty good here, mister
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a g Before we get into talking to about attorney general stuff, I want
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to talk just for a moment about your run for governor. And I don't
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want to let the cat out of the proverbial bag just yet, but I
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understand that State Auditor JB. Mccuski's gonna be on Hoppy next hour. Talk
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to JB myself Friday afternoon, and there's going to be a big announcement from
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Auditor mccuski coming up on the next hour on Hoppy as it pertains to his
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run for governor. I'm gonna be a good employee of the company here in
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defer to the big dog for the actual announcement. I know my role,
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but let's just say if a guber tour field, I don't know exactly what
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what Jabe's gonna say, but let's just say if the gubernatorial field, Sir,
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were to get a tad smaller to get hobbies going to have the story
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next hour your thoughts on that, because Paul's show mister Morrissey that you're you're
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way ahead in the race for governor. Sir. Look, I'm gonna keep
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working hard. I think Dave, you know this about me. We go
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out, we work hard, we grind, we make sure that we're doing
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great things for West Virginia. And we've been through this before, so you
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know, I know that you're going to see a lot of people over time.
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They're going to try to bring us down and they're gonna try to lower
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our numbers. But I think West Virginia's know of all the candidates in the
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race, I've got the one proven conservative record of getting really big things done,
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whether you're talking about improving educational attainment, protecting jobs. I mean,
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look at what's happening today. We're gonna make an announcement soon about the MVP
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pipeline. And then if you go through all the work we've done to try
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to protect our energy jobs, to protect our manufacturing jobs, these have been
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huge priorities for me, and we actually deliver, So I don't mess around
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with respect to all the political nonsense that I think you see others do.
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But I think you know I like JB. So let me let me give
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kudos and shout out to JB for the good work that he's done as an
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auditor. And I'm not going to get in front of any announcement, but
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I'll just say that we're going to continue to do the same things that West
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Virginians really like, and the other candidates just don't have that same record of
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getting big things done, and we need someone who's ready for the job,
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who's had the experience, who is constantly delivered, and no one else is
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going to be able to say that. You know, there'd be good people,
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they're going to promise good things, but I think West Virginians are looking
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for someone who can deliver on the big, big allergies facing our state.
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I had the group Chrest and Gallagher from Americans for Prosperity on the show last
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Thursday. I think it was mister Morrissey, and they're starting to do some
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endorsements and they are endorsing you for governor. How do you feel about that?
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Look, I'm gonna be very appreciative. I know that a lot of
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these groups are looking for someone who can lead and who gets big things done,
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and so I'm grateful for their support and the support of a lot of
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the other groups that are stepping out. And I think that when once again
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people look at the background, who do you think can best stand up for
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Second Amendment rights? It's not closed, right. Who is the proven pro
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life of candidate, who is defending jobs, Who's going to be best to
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go after workforce participation challenges. I think that's what folks are looking at the
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most, and that's why you're going to see a lot of other groups,
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a lot of other people standing up and supporting me. But look, we're
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the last thing we're going to worry about, are all the PA I said
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that before the race, I'm saying that now. You know, I do
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think we're well positioned to win. But I'm going to ask every single West
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Virginian for their vote because I want them to go back and say, wow,
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look at the record he did his ag Look what he did to fight
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the opioid epidemic in terms of accountability with the litigation related to drugs, and
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then even more importantly, developing a structure to use the resources the right way.
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That's what I want people to focus on. If they focus on the
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record and then the vision going forward, we're going to be in a good
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position. But I'm certainly appreciative for all of the groups stepping up. I
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think he'll see more coming out in the upcoming months and we'll continue to separate
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from the pack. It's not twenty eight. We're talking to Attorney General Patrick
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Sir, and I want to talk about this West Virginia First Foundation.
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I've read a little about it in the news from some news releases to what
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exactly is the West Virginia First Foundation. Yeah, the West Virginia First Foundation
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is part of the overall effort to fight the drug epidemics here in West Virginia,
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and it's part of a structure that was created to handle how settlement money
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is going to be managed and dispersed here in West Virginia. So many people
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listening may recall that I got together with all of the counties and all of
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the cities in West Virginia and we came to an agreement about how all the
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resources would be handled. And then ultimately that approach was not only blessed by
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every single one of the counties and virtually all the cities, but every single
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member of the House of Delegates, every member of the Senate, the governor,
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everyone. Now, for the first time ever, there's a plan to
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attack the drug epidemic, and it's funded. So what this does is it
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sends twenty four and a half percent of the dollars directly to the counties and
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cities. That's what they had asked for. It was a big request to
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them. Seventy two and a half percent, though, goes to the West
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Virginia First Foundation. This is a public private partnership. It is a private
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foundation, but appointments are made through regions who elect members of the board,
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and then the governor, who has five picks as well, eleven picks total
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six by the regions. They were made last week. Five then from the
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governor, I expect that he will be announcing some in upcoming weeks, and
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then we will find an executive director. That search is now under way for
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the executive director, and then we're waiting for the court to decide what the
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attorney's fees and costs will look like. If there's really nothing can happen until
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that occurs, and then the net can be distributed to all the entities that
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are supposed to get their resource. So it's really the vehicle to address the
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drug epidemic, and I'm excited about it because I think we can save a
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lot of lives. Ye, we're talking about Attorney General Patrick Morrissey. It's
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nine thirty here on five eighty Live, and mister Morrisey, this is a
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subject that's a little close to my heart. You know, I started my
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care radio career over thirty five years ago on a radio station that was strictly
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AM. That station no longer exists, you know, AM radio is still
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very viable. The show itself is called five eighty Live based on the nearly
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one hundred year history of the station on AM radio. Of course, we've
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expanded, you know, to FM and ninety six point five and one or
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four point five FM via the WCHS network and of course available on all the
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apps and things that that nature. But but actual am radio is is still
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a thing. Um and and I was doing some radio. Your office is
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a little concerned by the way, Thank you for that about the future of
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AM radio. Talk about that. Yeah, and Dave, you know this,
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And I think that those listenings should know that there is an attack on
23:57
AM radio in West Virginia and across the country. That we had gotten wind
24:03
of a number of these new electric car manufacturers who are going to be moving
24:10
forward and finishing their cars without access to AM radio. But those listening,
24:17
No, am radio is really indispensable here in West Virginia. People listen to
24:22
it. It's important for the emergency broadcast system where people can get emergency news
24:29
and information. I mean, Dave, remember the DIRECTO or remember our Hurricane
24:33
Sandy or the flood in twenty sixteen. No, West Virginians, like every
24:38
other state, might be subject to some really difficult natural tragedies and you want
24:47
to at that time have the ability to reach out through the AM radio network
24:52
across the state. And it's probably the one unifying mechanism where people can get
24:59
information news when the power might be out. And I think that's really important
25:04
for people to know. And so we've asked all these electric car manufacturers to
25:10
continue to rely on AM radio. I'm in the coalition with fifteen states.
25:15
We know that the manufacturers have changed in the past. Forward originally was not
25:21
going to put it in, and then they changed it. And we're hopeful
25:25
that people are going to appreciate the importance of AM radio, not we're football
25:29
games. Not just because basketball games or football games, not just because you
25:37
get to stay up to date on local news, but the emergency system matters.
25:42
Yes, and this is so critical to be able to do outreach to
25:45
all West Virginians and AM radio is a great way to do it. And
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for a numbers perspective, sir, and we'll close on this, around forty
25:53
seven million people every day every week. I'm sorry, forty seven million people
25:57
week still listen to AM radio. So we're still a thing. We appreciate
26:02
you. You're fighting for US Attorney General Patrick Morrissey hiding out. What's the
26:07
rest of the summer looking like for you? I mean as far as as
26:10
campaigning, Well, a couple of things. First, we're gonna have some
26:12
really big news today. I mentioned the MVP pipeline brief that was just filed,
26:18
and we're gonna be talking a lot about that today. We've got another
26:22
huge US Supreme Court brief where we're trying to go after the deep state,
26:26
and we're leading the way because that's what we do. We lead the way
26:30
to fight for West Virginia jobs. So you'll continue to see all of those
26:33
efforts. We're going to continue to try to get this foundation off the ground,
26:38
and then we're going to just keep working hard to protect West Virginia jobs
26:42
and fight the terrible drug epidemic and make sure that West Virginia is going to
26:48
reach her potential. And but things are going very well, but we're not
26:52
going to take it for granted. We're not going to take days off and
26:56
people are gonna watch and wait, and we hope to see people out and
27:00
about. I'm obviously always accessible. I get out and about and I'll be
27:04
at the State Fair, I'll be at a lot of different public places.
27:07
Remember, I'm the guy that's done over two hundred and jefty town halls and
27:11
public meetings, and we're gonna keep doing that journey. General Patrick Morris,
27:15
it's always a pleasure, sir, we'll talk soon. Thanks a lot,
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a little bit later on the show, but right now I want to welcome
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in Doug scaff who was president of HD Media, the guys behind the Gazette,
31:15
Mail and the Herald Dispatch. How are you, sir? Oh,
31:18
it's great. Happy Monday too yet Happy Monday and a bunch of other papers
31:22
which we want to get into a little bit later. You want to talk
31:23
in newspaper and politics. First, Let's talk newspaper. Oh, kind of
31:26
talk politics, Ok, all right, so you know we'll get back to
31:30
politics and just a bit. So. I guess you kind of rock the
31:36
media world a week or so ago when you announced its starting the first of
31:38
August the Sunday paper as we know it is going to be going away.
31:42
HD Media will instead do a paper that'll come out on Saturday and explain exactly
31:51
how is that gonna work and what was behind the decision to do this.
31:55
Well, the newspaper industries continue to involve and we must change the times just
31:57
like everything else, as as adapted with how the people consume their news is
32:01
changing the Sunday pay. Here's a misconception the Sunday paper. Yeah, technically,
32:06
are we going to print a paper on Sunday morning. No, but
32:08
we're taking that same Sunday edition and printing in a day earlier on Saturday and
32:14
combining it with Saturday's paper, which was ourt least red paper sat in our
32:17
thinnest paper. So that big, thick, large Sunday paper will now arrive
32:22
a day earlier on Saturday morning, and we'll have extended times on Friday night
32:27
where all the high school sports will be in it. Who hyperlocal content,
32:30
You're gonna have the same four to six sections. So we're taking a paper
32:34
that was normally twenty eight thirty two pages on Sunday and taking it up to
32:37
forty forty four pages. So that paper is gonna be bigger, badder than
32:39
ever, and it's gonna come out and it's gonna be called the Weekend Edition,
32:43
just like many other publications. The Charlotte Paper did that, The Times
32:45
have done that, The USA Today has done that a long time ago.
32:49
Tampa Bay Tribune has done that. This is continual to evolve in the newspaper
32:52
industry, and that does a lot of things. So now we're able to
32:54
combine a lot of those stories for the Sunday paper. You know, they
32:59
are written two or three days in advance. They're more enterprise stories, they're
33:01
kind of, you know, something that's not as timely, and they're more
33:04
entertaining, and they allow for our readers to now enjoy the paper two days.
33:07
So yes, the weekend edition will start on that weekend though Saturday,
33:10
August fifth, fourth and fifth weekend. It'll be a combined version. So
33:15
the Sunday paper is shifting over to Saturday. So everything you have, the
33:19
ABC, D, E and F section will still be there in a larger,
33:22
thicker paper. You'll just receive it a day earlier. And what's that
33:24
do? It sits in the convenience stores a couple of days longer. It
33:28
sits in the grocery stores, double chance about and longer to enjoy all those
33:30
stories. So there, I think there was a misconception, and I was
33:35
a little bit confused. This is not a combination paper of the Huntington paper
33:39
in the Tarlston paper. I thought that I had the TV stations kind of
33:43
misrepresented that, thinking that we were going to combine the Herald Dispatch with the
33:46
Gazette Mail. That is not happening. That is absolutely not happening. We
33:50
have two separate newsrooms, two separate staffs. We kind of we're all under
33:52
the same parent umbrella like HD Media, just like you have multiple radio stations
33:57
in your company. So what we're gonna do is the center. Geez,
34:00
we'll be there. We can still share stories. We have thirteen papers combined.
34:04
We will share the best stories from all of our outlets and put into
34:07
this one weekend paper. So I think it gives us an opportunity to cover
34:10
the state from a regional perspective too, because we have a bigger and larger
34:15
paper for everyone to enjoy. So you will have on Saturday morning a Charleston
34:20
Gazette Mail Saturday slash Sunday edition in Huntington. You will have a separate paper,
34:25
completely separate Harold Dispatch Saturday Slash Sunday weekend edition. Okay, so glad
34:31
we got that. To clear it up, we have a text here for
34:34
you. It says, I'm a couponner who depends on them to keep my
34:37
stockpile filled, so I'm able to help family, neighbors and charity donations.
34:40
Doug text says a texture, what is going to happen with the Sunday coupon
34:44
inserts? A great question. We actually get the kupons on Wednesday, so
34:46
the cupons will be inserted in that Saturday morning weekend edition. So everything,
34:52
like I said this, everything you get in your Sunday paper will be there
34:54
on Saturday morning. Keupons, crossword puzzles, comics, same color, nothing's
35:00
going away. Your TV guides, It'll have Saturday Sunday all your stuff that
35:05
you can watch on TV. Your editorial pages will actually be a combination of
35:08
Saturday and Sunday editorial pages. First section will be news, second section will
35:13
be life and style sections. There on the town, it's always community pictures.
35:19
The thing that's going to be really exciting is that local, local,
35:22
local sports on high school night, on Friday night, we will have more
35:25
time and more pages to cover more high school sports. So what about press
35:30
time? Because I know that you know, there used to be different editions
35:32
of the paper. You had the city final, and all newspapers have done
35:36
that, and now press time is a lot earlier from what I understand what
35:38
it used to be. So but you're gonna be able to have those on
35:42
you you're saying it's a moving progress. We're actually we're actually looking to extend
35:45
the press times back. Does that mean that the paper may be later.
35:50
The paper will not be later, because we still have certain deadlines we have
35:52
to meet with the carriers, and we mail a lot of papers too.
35:54
I don't know if you knew this day, we put a lot of mail
35:57
papers in the mail and people actually we have to have it to the post
36:00
office about four am, so we have deadlines to meet, a hard deadline
36:02
for the post office so they can it's called bolt mailing, and they take
36:06
the newspapers and actually mail them and people get the newspaper with their mail.
36:08
And that's in a lot of the outlying areas, and you're seeing that across
36:12
the country papers because it's hard. It's hard to find carriers, it's hard
36:15
to find people who want to come to work every day, so we're continuing
36:17
to struggle with that. Delivering the paper has always been a challenge, but
36:22
we struggled with what do you do to preserve the newspaper? Do you raise
36:24
the price? No, we didn't want to raise the price to consumers.
36:29
Do you eliminate employees? You don't want to do that? Do? We
36:31
thought? What the rest of the industry and markets our size are doing is
36:35
combining and picking the day that's the least read, which was Saturday, combining
36:38
it with your other paper and making your best product, the Sunday paper even
36:43
better. Talk about Doug Skaff of HD Media Delica Dugs Haff. We're going
36:45
to get into the political aspect here in a coup of them up. But
36:47
somebody said a text and ask about the Sunday comics, So another now on
36:51
Sunday comics will be there there. We get those ahead of time. So
36:53
what we do when you print paper, you print three fourths of the paper
36:58
is already printed before Sunday. The comics are printed early, the coupons are
37:00
ready to go. A lot of the editorials that come in. The thing
37:04
that we hold the presses for are the sports sections, but everything else will
37:07
be just like Sunday. It's gonna get it a day earlier, so you'll
37:08
have your comics, and then you're gonna have the Saturday comics as well as
37:12
the color comics that come out on Sunday, as well as extra crossword puzzles
37:16
and extra games for and the obituaries will be there as well too, and
37:20
the classified. Nothing's gonna change. You're just gonna receive your larger paper a
37:23
day earlier. And I've read that you guys have bought a series dug of
37:28
newspapers. Of course you already own a series of smaller papers Jonne my hometown
37:31
paper, I think the Logan Banner. But you've also just recently purchased some
37:37
papers I understand in Virginia. Is that right, Yeah, we've got three
37:38
papers. We're expanding into Virginia. The weekly newspapers are alive and well,
37:43
and especially in those news desert areas, you know, where there's not a
37:45
lot of competition. We just bought three papers in Virginia, Grundy, Virginia,
37:50
and we have one called it's called the Virginia Mountaineer, the Lebanon Paper
37:53
down to Lebanon News down to Lebanon, Virginia, and the most recent is
37:57
in Pulaski Pulaski, Virginia called the Southwest Time. So we've got three papers.
38:00
They come out once a week. And what we were able to make
38:04
these papers work because we combine all the synergies and we print them here in
38:07
Charleston and then we ship them down there and mail them through the mail.
38:10
All those are delivered through the mail, and those weekly papers and a lot
38:15
of these small towns, as you mentioned, are are a pretty big deal
38:17
because a lot of times you're not covering news per sect, what's news to
38:22
somebody, but it's not necessarily you're not going to be covering the breaking news
38:24
and those, but you're covering more societal type thing, club type things,
38:28
you know, community of community, evans calling activities. They want to see
38:31
their friends and family and neighbors in the newspaper and what's going on. Those
38:35
are the type of papers that sit on your coffee table three, four or
38:37
five days. And we think this new weekend edition will sit on your coffee
38:39
table three or four days. So it's exciting times in the newspaper industry.
38:43
Nothing's going away. We're combining our synergies. We're just making it better for
38:45
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a future newspapers now Listen, Listeners know, I'm a guy. I'm that
39:13
old school guy. I still have and you and I've talked about this.
39:16
I still have my gazette mail delivered to my house daily, my hometown newspapers.
39:22
I mentioned the logan banner, Oh by you guys used to be every
39:23
day but Saturday. Now that's I think pretty much a weekly paper at this
39:29
point. So, I mean, how are newspapers looking today? Because even
39:34
every every media outlet has changed cable television is not what it used to be.
39:38
Radio is going strong. But we're different now. We reply on more
39:43
on on websites and apps and things of that nature. What kind of changes
39:46
are we seeing in news? I mean, just like in TV, and
39:49
just like every news outlet, we are a news provider who also still prints
39:53
of paper. We are a news outlet that's still prints of paper. Just
39:57
like in TV. They are TV stations who they have web, they have
40:00
digital, they have apps. So we are also evolving with the times.
40:05
We still print a newspaper for those people who love it. I love to
40:07
touch and feel it, and I love the smell of it. It's nothing
40:08
like It's nothing like you know, stepping away from the monitor, stepping away
40:13
from your phone and looking at a paper. It's just kind of a refreshing
40:16
time of day that you can just step away and kind of decompress. But
40:20
the bottom line is newspapers, newspaper companies will be around forever. The way
40:24
that we deliver that news is all that's changing. I've got to check.
40:29
Somebody said, well, the Monday papers still be online only, so the
40:31
Monday paper. Yeah, that we have news seven days a week. That's
40:35
what I didn't say, you know, seven days a week, we were
40:37
producing news seven days a week online, So there will be a Monday E
40:40
edition will come back. The E edition looks like a newspaper, it's just
40:44
online only it won't be printed. So we'll have any edition. And Sunday
40:46
there's a new feature. I didn't even mention. Sunday we're going to have
40:50
an email newsletter of all the stuff that you might have missed through the week,
40:52
like a highlight of all the stuff, as well as anything that happens
40:55
Saturday afternoon and beyond. So you will still receive that in your inbox as
40:59
a as a as a Sunday update newsletter. So that'll just be delivered,
41:04
as you said, to your email, right to your email so have it'll
41:06
kind of summarize all has happened and what you might have missed in also the
41:09
thing that you know saying what about my WV and Marshall Sports. You know
41:13
a lot of those games are at nighttime anyways, and we weren't covering them
41:15
in the Sunday paper as well. So we go online, all that stuff
41:17
will be fresh and we'll be right there on our website the morning. You
41:21
will awake with those digital news and we'll continue to press all that out.
41:23
We'll send it out through email, electronically on your app. We're just trying
41:27
to deliver the news as many different ways as possible, keep it hyper local,
41:31
and go in depth. You know, with this Sunday weekend edition,
41:34
we can go deeper and deeper dive into topics. You know, you're not
41:37
just gonna have a headline. You're not just gonna read a headline. You're
41:38
gonna have a deep dive story with a larger, thicker paper and it's it's
41:43
going to be impressive. I just want people to give it a shot.
41:45
They call me, text me with ideas, shoot me an email, whatever
41:49
we can do. And you know you mentioned the Huntington, Charleston and all
41:52
the other newspapers. The unique thing about us is we can keep people informed
41:55
about what's going on in our region. If there's a new restaurant in Huntington,
41:59
or an event or concert or something going on in Logan or down in
42:00
Boone County, we can inform the region through our various outlets. Talk with
42:05
Doug scaff all, right, now let's talk politics. Get ready to talk
42:07
politics. Oh you love politics? You can't wait. I love politics,
42:10
man, you know, I live for this stuff, all right, So
42:13
let's talk politics. And I've heard rumors. I've heard rumors that Doug scaff
42:21
may may just rumors speculate on that may be concerned a party change. I've
42:28
heard that those are just rumors right now, Dave. I mean, people
42:30
hit me up all the time. They hit me up during session, they
42:32
hit me up whenever there's a bill or something. Maybe I vote don't necessarily
42:36
what the party line wanted me to. I want to be honest. It's
42:38
it's harder and harder to be a moderate, to be a moderate conservant,
42:43
especially within both parties. You know. I think the extremes have, you
42:46
know, kind of come in and taken over the far right and the far
42:50
left. And you'll see that. I've always probably to myself into being a
42:52
moderate independent type leader, but in my position as minority leader, it makes
42:55
it even tougher to do that, because my job as a minority leader is
42:59
to carry the mess siege of the Democratic Caucus. Say, and sometimes if
43:01
you step out and maybe vote how you normally would or with your conscience,
43:06
it's hard to deliver that message on a consistent basis, So I think that's
43:08
the only thing that has changed. So new statement for view on that as
43:12
far I we have we have a special session coming up, about we have
43:15
a special session coming up, I'll plan to be a minority leader. I
43:19
mean, here's what I did promise. I promised to my team back in
43:21
December. You know, we had talked about am I the right person to
43:22
be minority leader as we moved through in the right message and the messenger,
43:27
so to speak. I pledged to talk to everyone in my caucus here over
43:30
the next couple of weeks in the minority caucus about just like I said,
43:32
after session, take a step back, reevaluate and make sure I am or
43:37
the right person to continue in that role. And if not, you know,
43:38
I would gladly step down and give it to somebody else, because it's
43:42
very hard. It's becoming harder and harder to be a moderate in the Democratic
43:45
Party in the state of West Virginia, is in the Republican Party as well,
43:49
and the Republican Party. It's like I used to think that there was
43:52
like twenty percent far left, twenty percent far right, and everybody else was
43:54
in the middle, but that that number on the extremes continues to be louder
43:58
and louder. But I think leadership you have to start. You have to
44:01
lead from the middle. You have to lead from the middle, whether you're
44:04
a Republican or Democrat, and you got to work your way out. And
44:06
I really pride to myself for the last three years is bringing all the people
44:09
within our caucus together to find common ground. So all right, we'll close
44:14
on this. There's been a speculation about Joe Manchin, somebody that you know
44:16
very well. Uh is he going to run for Senate again? I mean
44:21
now national media's picking up on the fact that he may indeed run for president
44:23
on a third party no labels anything like that, based on what I've heard
44:29
your name thrown out there that you possibly could would maybe look at something like
44:36
that, like a like a no labels type thing, any any comment on
44:39
that. You know, the no labels thing is interesting. It's it's what
44:44
created that, you know, the two party system created the no labels he
44:46
created. What I just said is, you know, people want to work
44:50
together. The average West Virginian and American want us to get things done.
44:53
They're sick and tired of the Is it a right idea or left idea.
44:57
And unfortunately I used to say politics was all local and you got to know
45:00
that person. It didn't matter if you had an r D by your name.
45:02
But because of national politics and that label you get, yeah, it
45:06
tarnishes you good or bad either way, it kind of just brand you.
45:09
Uh, you know, and that's that's not always the case. I still
45:13
want people to get to know that person. You know, I walk down
45:15
the street and I don't want people to know if I'm a Democrat or republic
45:17
They just want to know that I do a good job. I'm an effective
45:20
leader. And it shouldn't be oh, I'm not voting for you because you
45:22
have a letter or not by your name. All right, before we go
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special session, got interims coming up? Talk about that. Yeah, special
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session coming up, you know, the uh, the Caucus put a statement
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out there we'd like to see the governor focus get our house in order before
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we spend some of this surplus money. We haven't seen the call yet exactly
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what all was going to be on a byss. It'll be the six seven
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eight coming up Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. I assume it's going to be
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a quick session. Just how to allocate that money, and the governor will
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have that kind of predetermined and it will be set and it'll be a quick
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session. I just hope that we help get our house in order. Every
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time we have these surpluses, we keep seems like we keep kicking. Whether
45:57
you're a Republican or Democrat, doesn't matter. We have corrections issues, we
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have care issues. Yet everybody says Rhodes issues. But our higher education system
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is in trouble. We've continued to cut higher education till we can't cut no
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more. And now you can see the ramifications of it, with our higher
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education institutions looking to cut back and cut programs, and that only affects the
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people West Virginia. Dougs Scafts. Always a pleasure to talk to you,
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man. We'll talk soon, all right, Thanks, Dave, I appreciate
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three or four four four zero one one zero one. I've got so many
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texts to get you all lively bunch today and we'll try to get through all
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these Texas best. I can't Texas. Dave asked morris see how many big
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pharmaceutical company employees or executives has gone to prison for all drug overdoses in our
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states? Texas, There's something a bit dystopian about the image of Congressional millionaire
49:34
Jerryatric's playing pickleball while children in the US starve, education funding gets gutted,
49:38
and the wealth gap exponentially increases. The I got mine attitude will be the
49:44
downfall of the US. Okay, So, and this is a reference to
49:49
that. We're talking about Senator shelleymore Capita, who will be on the show
49:52
tomorrow. Senator Capita taking part or at least being, you know, part
49:55
of the festivities there at the pickleball tournament in Nitro. I mean I don't
50:00
really understand that. I mean she's not supposed to, you know, show
50:05
up at community events. I don't know, Texas. Of course, Morrissey
50:08
wants AFP also known as coke support. That's the Americans for Prosperity their reference,
50:15
and there he wants to access those deep pockets. Also, if Morrissey
50:17
is a big Second Amendment supporter, does he support cannabis users being able to
50:21
own a purchase firearms. Last time I read the Second Amendment, it said
50:24
no infringement. I asked Morrisey if he's proud to have had have delivered attackers
50:32
to the Capitol on January sixth with his robocall Tesla's removing AM radio, says
50:37
a texture. Does Morrisey agree this is an attack from the woke Marxist elon
50:42
musk Texas of California can mandate this talking about AM radio at a senator that
50:49
the mister Morrisey was talking about, they can mandate on cars. Why can't
50:52
West Virginia require cars here have am don't know, don't know. We'll look
50:57
into that. Text says, I think we all have to accept that paper
51:04
versions of the newspaper will soon not exist at all. I certainly hope not.
51:07
I get it, but I certainly hope not. Texas Dave, having
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lived in Logan, you could always tell who read the Logan banner by their
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black fingertips. That's true as a very true statement there, Texas Dave,
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Doug scaff doesn't make any sense with the change of publishing the weekend newspaper,
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Printing the new weekend paper on late Friday or early Saturday cannot have any important
51:30
news that would have happened on a Saturday or Sunday. There's only a money
51:34
saving action from HD media, thanks Dave. According to a texture, Texas
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says Morrissey has many problems and turn people off, his wife being at the
51:44
top of the list. She meddles too much in local politics. It's really,
51:47
it's really a bad look. Texas scaff is going to switch the Republican
51:52
party if he's really Republican. If so, why not change today? And
51:55
so waiting well after the August special session. Way he said sending his way
52:00
out the door. Dave, you'll be the first to know. That's what
52:01
he told me. Uh text says final texts Let's look at this from a
52:05
different perspective. If combining the Saturday Sunday papers the way to go, then
52:07
why do we have separate editions in the first place? All right, gotta
52:10
go tomorrow. On the show, Shelby Moore, Capital is going to be
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her Spencer Adkins from Storm Track of thirteen, not talking whatever, talking band
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stuff. He's a big band guy and there's a big band festivity he's going
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on. He's gonna talk about the plets reach Rich client it makes realty.
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I'm gonna talk about the real estate crisis. We don't have enough available houses
52:25
in Tay's valley. Rich is gonna talk about that coming up on the show
52:30
tomorrow. Gotta go from our producer Ryan Nicholson. Thank you so much.
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