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03/06/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Evan Osborn, Justin Williams, Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 7: Ozmy or from Capital Market is here. Good morning, sir.
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Speaker 5: How are you fantastic? Aside from the snow in.
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Speaker 7: The weather, well, I mean with the winner that we've had,
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Speaker 7: this is not really there. I mean I walk up
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Speaker 7: this morning, look out the window. I had a little
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Speaker 7: bit of snow on the on the roof of the car.
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Speaker 7: Not even any in the grass or anything. But you
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Speaker 7: know it's but I'm like you, I'm over next. Brian
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Speaker 7: Hughes tells me like next Wednesday could be near eighty
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Speaker 7: next Wednesday. I'll take it. I'll take it, all right. So,
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Speaker 7: speaking of which, speaking of the weather report from Capital Market,
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Speaker 7: so this time of year, you know spring's not officially here.
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Speaker 7: I guess the meteorological spring is here. We switched the
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Speaker 7: clocks spring forward this weekend, and think about it. There
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Speaker 7: for a moment exciting time for Capital Market.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, and you know, if you were to consult the
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Speaker 8: Capital Market Farmers Almanac, the unofficial beginning the spring all
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Speaker 8: kicks off every year with the Green Chili shootout.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's coming up March fifteenth.
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Speaker 7: And that's that'll be next next weekend, right prior to
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Speaker 7: Saint Patrick's Day. But talk about spring in general, though,
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Speaker 7: a capital market. I mean this is and I know
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Speaker 7: this because a lot of folks every year when spring
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Speaker 7: gets here, they say, oh, I'm gonna get you know,
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna work out in the yard and I'm going
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Speaker 7: to do this and that, and the place they go
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Speaker 7: usually is here in the area is capital market.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, and traditionally we spend the winter months, you know,
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Speaker 8: in preparation for you know, a very busy outdoor market season.
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Speaker 8: We've always sort of kicked that off right around April first.
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Speaker 8: It is agriculture. It fluctuates usually within you know, two
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Speaker 8: to three week window. Number of variables, most importantly being
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Speaker 8: temperature throughout the winter depends on when and just how
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Speaker 8: much product we're going to get in starting at the season. Fortunately,
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Speaker 8: most of the spring stuff is all produced in a greenhouse,
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Speaker 8: so we do have a degree of control over it.
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Speaker 8: But officially we open outside April first. Past couple of years,
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Speaker 8: as things have shifted, we may have stuff a week
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Speaker 8: or two ahead of schedule or but you can generally
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Speaker 8: full with all of your ferns, hanging baskets.
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Speaker 7: you alluded to it? The Green Chili Cookoff Cookout does?
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Speaker 7: What do you call it? The Green ChIL It's official
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Speaker 7: name Green Chili, the Capital Market Green Chili Shootout. I
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Speaker 7: got the shootout. That was the word I was missing there.
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Speaker 7: It's going to be a week from.
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Speaker 8: Saturday, absolutely, and it is for those that aren't familiar
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Speaker 8: with the event, we'll have more than forty professional and
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Speaker 8: amateur chili enthusiasts. It is an International Chili Society sanctioned event,
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Speaker 8: so the winner in the pro category will go on
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Speaker 8: to the World Championships in October.
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Speaker 7: That's really a big deal because we have a couple
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Speaker 7: of events like that around here in the I mean,
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Speaker 7: we talk all the time about how Charleston is becoming
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Speaker 7: the kanaw Valley region is becoming like a culinary destination.
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Speaker 7: We got at least at least two that I know of,
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Speaker 7: maybe more of these events here in the area that
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Speaker 7: are international competitions, and they people come here from all
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Speaker 7: over to enter their chili's and people locally win and
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Speaker 7: they move on to other.
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Speaker 8: Places I know at this point, and obviously we've got
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Speaker 8: a little over a week to go for registration, but
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Speaker 8: we have participants from six different states, so it's it's
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Speaker 8: a big draw in terms of, well, one, these folks
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Speaker 8: take this incredibly oh yeah, and it's sanctioned by very
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Speaker 8: strict rules and so on the pro side, it is
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Speaker 8: a very regiment and serious process. And then on the
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Speaker 8: flip side, we have the amateur category, which is really
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Speaker 8: it does not have to be green, it does not
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Speaker 8: have to use traditional ingredients. We award prizes for the
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Speaker 8: best booth. It's just a whole lot of fun and
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Speaker 8: so we have live music, craft beer, and then starting
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Speaker 8: last year the addition of Capital Market Mayhem will be
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Speaker 8: returning and that's part of the Regatta Pro Wrestling Series,
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Speaker 8: and that was really born out of the triumvit of
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Speaker 8: local wrestling enthusiasts. Matt Sutton, Tim Brady and mister Adam Harris,
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Speaker 8: and it's been exciting to one launch that event really
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Speaker 8: not shock per se, but bring something wildly different to
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Speaker 8: the outdoor market, and so we're excited to bring that
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Speaker 8: back this year.
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Speaker 7: It was a huge hit last year. I was over
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Speaker 7: there last year, as several other station folks were there
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Speaker 7: last year with the Green Chili cook Off. And you know,
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Speaker 7: I know a little bit about the wrestling business. I
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Speaker 7: was in it, you know, for something like twenty five years,
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Speaker 7: thirty thirty years. I was actually in it, And yeah,
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Speaker 7: I don't do shows much anymore, but I did see
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Speaker 7: a lot of people that I knew and they're like, oh,
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Speaker 7: you know, I was ready to head home after having
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Speaker 7: all that chili and stuff, and they were like, oh,
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Speaker 7: you know, Dave, you gotta come come over to hang
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Speaker 7: out for a while. And man, I mean, the wrestling
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Speaker 7: crowds are always big in West Virginia anyway. But I
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Speaker 7: guess I just wasn't prepared that there'd be that many
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Speaker 7: people on a Saturday afternoon at what was like two
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Speaker 7: o'clock or whatever, at well one o'clock, two o'clock whatever
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Speaker 7: that would come out for that event. And they really
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Speaker 7: really got into it.
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Speaker 8: The yeah, the amount of attendees, and I did want
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Speaker 8: to reader. This is free, open to the public, absolutely really.
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Speaker 8: The only cost associated is if you want to buy
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Speaker 8: either craft beer or a tasting cup for the event,
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Speaker 8: and those are ten dollars if you buy them in advance,
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Speaker 8: and then fifteen dollars.
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Speaker 7: And where do you get the tickets?
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Speaker 8: Capital Market dot net you can stop buy our office
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Speaker 8: or then again you can purchase some day up.
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Speaker 5: So it's but.
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Speaker 7: The wrestling itself. If you want to bring the family
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Speaker 7: out for the wrestling event itself, it's absolutely free. You
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Speaker 7: just walk through the Capital Market and hopefully chances are
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Speaker 7: though you're going to buy something there at the Capitol Market.
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Speaker 7: You're going to go to the you know, take home
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Speaker 7: some chocolate or some wine or something from one of
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Speaker 7: the delicious restaurants that are there. You know you're probably
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Speaker 7: gonna buy some but you don't have to.
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Speaker 5: I don't have to, but I strongly encourage.
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Speaker 7: Because it keep because it pays your salary. And when
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Speaker 7: is the cutoff for people to enter the chili cookoff?
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Speaker 5: I believe that's going to be this Thursday.
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Speaker 7: That would be next Thursday, Yes, yes, a week from
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Speaker 7: the day, okay, because they got to have plenty of
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Speaker 7: time and approximately give me a ballpark. How many how
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Speaker 7: many different chilis you had last year? And the pro
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Speaker 7: and the amateur?
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Speaker 5: So last year we had right at forty and I
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Speaker 5: think we're on pace to top that this year.
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Speaker 7: Right, And we were there last year. I was there
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Speaker 7: with our a couple of our sister stations ninety eight
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Speaker 7: seven a month and also ninety six one KWS was there.
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Speaker 7: Rob and I are going to be there. Steve Animal
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Speaker 7: is going to be there because there's food and I
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Speaker 7: have I don't know. I talked to Canvas Monday night.
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Speaker 7: I don't know whether she actually needs us or not.
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Speaker 7: But we put it out there that if you need
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Speaker 7: judges for the chili Cookoff, we're there. We did it
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Speaker 7: last year.
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Speaker 8: Of the other duties as assigned, I can think of
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Speaker 8: coorselines look exactly right, exactly right, and I love it.
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Speaker 7: I am a chili aficionado, I mean I really and
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Speaker 7: one of the and I've judged. I probably judged one
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Speaker 7: hundred chili contests in my in my career, and I
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Speaker 7: will say the thing about chili is is that there's
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Speaker 7: so many different varieties. I mean, you know, we you
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Speaker 7: and I could sit here and I could think. And
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Speaker 7: even when my wife and I make chili at home,
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Speaker 7: we don't always make it the same way.
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Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever made it the same way.
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Speaker 7: Because you try different things, you know, you try to
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Speaker 7: put different things in it. And there's a lot of
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Speaker 7: different kinds of chili. And this is serious business. And
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Speaker 7: as I said, we started off by talking about the weather.
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Speaker 7: You know, long range forecasts are just what they are like,
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Speaker 7: and this is March we're talking about. I do realize that,
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Speaker 7: but long range the meteorologists say that next week and
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Speaker 7: in the next weekend looks looks pretty good. And uh,
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Speaker 7: you know, you want to have a little chill in
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Speaker 7: the air. You know, you don't want to be like
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Speaker 7: ninety five degrees. You want to have a little chill
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Speaker 7: in the air. And of course you got the craft
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Speaker 7: beer and everything that goes along with it. It's just
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Speaker 7: another thing, another feather in the cap for Charleston and
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Speaker 7: the kanav Valley as a food destination.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, it's been an incredible couple of years, just context
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Speaker 8: of our local culinary scene and just to see it
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Speaker 8: progress further like right now, like we're just a couple
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Speaker 8: of weeks away, I think from finding out if our
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Speaker 8: second ever local chef is going to be a finalist
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Speaker 8: for the James Beards Chef Chase Collier at a Britzzi
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Speaker 8: and it's it's you look back five years and.
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Speaker 7: It's insane to me that a town the size of
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Speaker 7: Charleston would would have not one I mean with you know,
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Speaker 7: and Chef Paul's amazing, and he've been on the show
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Speaker 7: numerous times and Chef Paul is amazing and and so
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Speaker 7: so it's so it's Chase, Uh, but a city the
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Speaker 7: size of Charleston would have not not one, but two
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Speaker 7: folks nominated. Of course, you know, Chef Paul won and
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Speaker 7: uh and we hope that Chase Collier does as well.
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Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's pretty amazing for the capital city.
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Speaker 8: We're fortunate, you know, to have Paul Smith as the
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Speaker 8: culinary ambassacre, not only for the market, I mean obviously
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Speaker 8: he's a tremendous representative for the culinary community statewide, but
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Speaker 8: the opportunity to really now that he's brought home the hardware,
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Speaker 8: to talk about what we can do to continue to
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Speaker 8: elevate and lift up you know, other young up and
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Speaker 8: coming talent and it's sky's the limit really with the
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Speaker 8: group of folks we have right now.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, good stuff, all right, give us the details again
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Speaker 7: on the Green Chili Chili.
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Speaker 8: Shootout Saturday, March fifteenth, Capital Market starts out, starts into
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Speaker 8: four ish Okay. Tickets available at capital market dot net.
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Speaker 8: Ten dollars in advance, fifteen at the door. Plenty of
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Speaker 8: craft beer, lots of other food. Chili's not your thing,
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Speaker 8: hop inside, plenty of food fro.
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Speaker 7: And you said there at least six states have been represented,
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Speaker 7: I mean the six states, and there is the amateurs too.
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Speaker 7: So you folks that are listening to us that are
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Speaker 7: locally that may not be professional chefs, but think you
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Speaker 7: makes some pretty dang good chili. This is open to you,
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Speaker 7: even if you.
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Speaker 5: Make terrible chili out.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I have a great time.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's it's a great time. And to
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Speaker 7: stick around for the wrestling afterwards, for sure, all right.
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Speaker 7: Evan Osborne Capital Market follow them on social media. They
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Speaker 7: do a great job on their social media page and
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Speaker 7: also on the website as well. We'll see you next Saturday,
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Speaker 7: one week from today for the Capital Market Green Chili Shootouts.
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Speaker 7: We'll be there. All our stations are going to be there.
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Speaker 7: We're looking forward to man. Thanks lot, always appreciate it
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Speaker 7: welcome to the show. Good morning, thanks for having me,
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Speaker 7: Thank you for being here. And you came down a
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Speaker 7: little bit early, and I'll let you sit in on
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Speaker 7: that interview there with with Evan Osborne. And I thought
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Speaker 7: that that was really really cool that you set there
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Speaker 7: and didn't drool when we were talking to all that chili.
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Speaker 12: I'm very jealous that you get to judge so many
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Speaker 12: competitions and eat all that chili. I will be there
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Speaker 12: and trying the chili. But you know, I've not had
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Speaker 12: the privilege of being a judge yet, but maybe one day.
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Speaker 7: All right, all right, well, we'll see if we can
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17:23
Speaker 7: What did you What did you learn in the study? Sure?
17:26
Speaker 12: So, you know, I represent union construction workers across the
17:30
Speaker 12: entire state of West Virginia, and we know historically it's
17:33
Speaker 12: kind of been anecdotal. You know, all the jobs we do,
17:36
Speaker 12: all the work we do, have a really big impact
17:38
Speaker 12: on the economy of West Virginia. But we partnered with
17:41
Speaker 12: Marshall University's Center for Business and Economic Research on a
17:44
Speaker 12: study to get the actual numbers of the economic impact
17:47
Speaker 12: that construction workers in West Virginia do to help move
17:51
Speaker 12: our state forward. You know, we're seeing all these announcements
17:54
Speaker 12: for big projects, and you know, the people, the men
17:56
Speaker 12: and women that build those projects are the members that
17:59
Speaker 12: I get a represent and we're excited to talk about that.
18:02
Speaker 12: In the years twenty two and twenty three, there was
18:04
Speaker 12: eight billion dollars of economic activity driven out of the
18:09
Speaker 12: construction industry. You know, that's direct wages somewhere in the
18:12
Speaker 12: neighborhood of two billion dollars of wages and benefits, money
18:16
Speaker 12: going into pension plans and retirement accounts, health insurance for
18:20
Speaker 12: union members, and those people are really the drivers of
18:24
Speaker 12: our communities and this money really shows that an investment
18:28
Speaker 12: into infrastructure, into facilities, when you whether you're building new
18:33
Speaker 12: or remodeling or maintaining some of our historic facilities up
18:37
Speaker 12: and down the Canal Valley, you know, those investments with
18:39
Speaker 12: union workers really paid dividends to the state of West Virginia.
18:43
Speaker 7: Have these numbers and what was the year that you
18:45
Speaker 7: referenced again, twenty two and twenty three? Okay, all right,
18:47
Speaker 7: so those are latest numbers available, are they Are they
18:49
Speaker 7: going up? Are they? What's your take on the numbers? Sure?
18:53
Speaker 12: So, you know right now we're hopeful that they'll continue
18:55
Speaker 12: to go up over the less several years. We've seen
18:58
Speaker 12: major announcements for different type of projects all over the
19:01
Speaker 12: state of West Virginia.
19:02
Speaker 7: Right.
19:02
Speaker 12: So, we've got workers at form Energy and you know,
19:05
Speaker 12: Toyota's always doing expanding and up and down maintenance work.
19:10
Speaker 12: We work in the power generation sector, so we're seeing
19:13
Speaker 12: a number of different power generation projects that are on
19:16
Speaker 12: the horizon. You know, we hear it all the time,
19:19
Speaker 12: the demand for data centers and then the power that's
19:21
Speaker 12: going to power those data centers. So whether it be
19:24
Speaker 12: natural gas powerhouses, maintaining our current coal fire powerhouses, solar wind,
19:29
Speaker 12: you know, it's it's all the above for us.
19:31
Speaker 7: Are our members build it all?
19:33
Speaker 3: Uh?
19:33
Speaker 12: And that's what we're excited about. So I'm hopeful that
19:35
Speaker 12: will continue to go up. With the opportunities ahead of
19:38
Speaker 12: West Virginia. I think we're kind of a blank slate
19:41
Speaker 12: for for continuing to grow and prosper in West Virginia.
19:44
Speaker 7: I don't want to turn this into a political thing
19:46
Speaker 7: because I know you folks are you know, a non
19:47
Speaker 7: part of this organization, but you would you know, you
19:50
Speaker 7: have to be living under a rock if you hadn't
19:52
Speaker 7: seen the stories about tariffs and things of that nature.
19:54
Speaker 7: Is that something that concerns you folks?
19:57
Speaker 12: Sure, I mean obviously if they're going to build something,
19:59
Speaker 12: so a lot of material comes from different places, right,
20:02
Speaker 12: you know, we always support buy American first. Right, We've
20:05
Speaker 12: got still mills in West Virginia and different products that
20:07
Speaker 12: are made right here in West Virginia. We want to
20:09
Speaker 12: buy here in West Virginia. That's part of our goal
20:12
Speaker 12: is about local workers, local workforce, the more you can
20:15
Speaker 12: do locally, you know this day, the better it is
20:17
Speaker 12: for all of us. Right, I mean, it keeps our
20:20
Speaker 12: car lots in business, it keeps our hospitals and doctor's
20:22
Speaker 12: offices full, it keeps well.
20:24
Speaker 7: These are the people that also donate to your church,
20:27
Speaker 7: your little league, your things of that nature, buy and large.
20:29
Speaker 7: These are the people that do that stuff, buy the
20:31
Speaker 7: signs for the little League fields and things like that.
20:33
Speaker 7: That's right.
20:34
Speaker 12: And anytime they need the you know, the lights of
20:36
Speaker 12: the little League field fixed, who do they call. They
20:38
Speaker 12: call one of our union contractors and they volunteer their
20:40
Speaker 12: time and their workers to go out there and fix
20:42
Speaker 12: those lights. So it is you know, it really is
20:44
Speaker 12: about the community. And when you invest in local, skilled,
20:48
Speaker 12: drug free trained workers, it just makes our whole community better.
20:51
Speaker 7: Right.
20:52
Speaker 12: Good jobs helps solve a lot of other issues out there.
20:55
Speaker 7: Absolutely talked about working with Marshall University on the So
21:00
Speaker 7: exactly how did you what was the work like And
21:03
Speaker 7: you don't have to boris with the details of how
21:05
Speaker 7: the sausage was made, but basically how did you arrive
21:07
Speaker 7: at these? Sure?
21:08
Speaker 12: So you know the Marshall's Center for Business and Economic
21:11
Speaker 12: Research is what they do.
21:12
Speaker 7: They do economic studies.
21:13
Speaker 12: They do studies for businesses, for developers, for the university itself.
21:16
Speaker 12: But kind of the basis of it is, you know,
21:18
Speaker 12: you look at the man hours, the work hours that
21:21
Speaker 12: we've done over the last couple of years. You take
21:24
Speaker 12: the collective bargaining agreements to the wages the benefits that
21:26
Speaker 12: are paid to those workers, and you put that together
21:29
Speaker 12: and that gives you the direct you know, economic impact.
21:32
Speaker 12: So that's the two billion in wages, the fifty eight
21:34
Speaker 12: million dollars that's invested into our training and apprenticeship facilities
21:38
Speaker 12: every year.
21:39
Speaker 7: And so that's those numbers.
21:40
Speaker 12: And then you you know, there's these model data scientists
21:44
Speaker 12: do and then they put these numbers in there and
21:46
Speaker 12: that spits out all this other information about you know,
21:49
Speaker 12: kind of the indirect job. So that's the car lots,
21:51
Speaker 12: the grocery stores, the doctor's offices, you with health benefits.
21:55
Speaker 7: We're providing you.
21:56
Speaker 12: Know, doctors and our members and their families with the
21:58
Speaker 12: opportunity to get that ca that they need, be cold
22:01
Speaker 12: and flu season or whatever the case may be.
22:04
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22:06
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22:46
Speaker 7: filling these jobs, these construction workers. I mean, we hear
22:49
Speaker 7: about West Virginia having the lowest workforce participation in America.
22:54
Speaker 7: We are the oldest population and a lot of folks
22:57
Speaker 7: that have that are on the on the old scale,
23:00
Speaker 7: which I'm getting close most of them, not me, but
23:03
Speaker 7: others have done a lot of the manual labor that
23:06
Speaker 7: we talk about with these jobs or whether it's coal
23:09
Speaker 7: industry or whatever, so you know, their body's starting to
23:11
Speaker 7: break down a little bit. How are we doing in
23:14
Speaker 7: getting people to fill these jobs in West Virginia? Couse
23:17
Speaker 7: there and I talk to my friends in industries like
23:20
Speaker 7: yours and any industry. It's a struggle to try to
23:22
Speaker 7: find people. How are you guys doing it? It is,
23:24
Speaker 7: I mean, and we're we're doing everything just like everyone else.
23:26
Speaker 12: You know, we've been for the last several years really
23:29
Speaker 12: ramping up our advertising aspects of trying to recruit people
23:34
Speaker 12: into the trades. You know, historically it was kind of
23:38
Speaker 12: you know my generation, you're told go to college, go
23:40
Speaker 12: to college.
23:40
Speaker 7: Go to talk about it almost every day.
23:42
Speaker 12: Yeah, and so you know, we're working with we want
23:45
Speaker 12: to partner with our colleges, our community and technical colleges,
23:47
Speaker 12: because as you know, it takes everybody. We can't build
23:50
Speaker 12: a hospital if we don't train doctors and nurses. So
23:53
Speaker 12: we have to have the doctors and nurses to fill
23:55
Speaker 12: that facility. We've got to have workers that go to
23:57
Speaker 12: work in the factories to build the manufacturing facility. So
24:00
Speaker 12: it's we have to work together, right. For so long
24:03
Speaker 12: people were competing against one another. Oh, don't go there,
24:07
Speaker 12: don't go there. We you know, this week it was
24:09
Speaker 12: WU Day at the legislature and w and Marshall are
24:11
Speaker 12: working together now, not competing, right, And that's what we
24:14
Speaker 12: have to do with with manufacturing people, with health care facilities,
24:19
Speaker 12: with roads and bridges. We have to be able to
24:20
Speaker 12: build it because we need all that. And we're talking
24:23
Speaker 12: you know, right before housing. Right, there's got to be
24:26
Speaker 12: investments from you know, the state, from private industry, from
24:30
Speaker 12: developers coming in here because we are open book and
24:35
Speaker 12: I think we can really make a difference there and
24:37
Speaker 12: getting people into these trades that are really good careers
24:41
Speaker 12: for people, you know, good wages, benefits, a pension and
24:45
Speaker 12: you can make a whole career out of that and
24:47
Speaker 12: provide for your family and give back to your community,
24:51
Speaker 12: your churches, your little leagues, like we talked about it,
24:53
Speaker 12: and that's what our members do and and so it
24:55
Speaker 12: is it's a good opportunity. We have to get out
24:58
Speaker 12: of the mindset that everybody should go to college. People
25:00
Speaker 12: should do what they are good at, what they enjoy,
25:03
Speaker 12: you know, as the old thing goes. If you enjoy
25:05
Speaker 12: what you do, you never work a day in your life.
25:07
Speaker 12: And so that's what we want. We want people that
25:09
Speaker 12: are hard working individuals who like to work with their hands.
25:12
Speaker 7: You know, it's not easy work.
25:13
Speaker 12: You're right, you're outside, it's cold, it's hot, it's rainy,
25:16
Speaker 12: it's muddy, you know, but you look around and just
25:20
Speaker 12: in the Kanaal Valley that the things that our members
25:22
Speaker 12: have built, training facility for the hospital over in Kanas City, historically,
25:26
Speaker 12: the Clay Center, they're working on, the TC Energy building.
25:29
Speaker 12: It is it's everything. It's community, it's education, it's industry
25:34
Speaker 12: and commercial development and growth. And so the more we
25:38
Speaker 12: get to go to work, the more other people get
25:39
Speaker 12: to go to work. And so it has to be
25:41
Speaker 12: a partnership.
25:42
Speaker 7: And I like and you know, frequently I have people
25:44
Speaker 7: like doctorK Cy Saxlebridge Valley on. I have Erict Cage
25:47
Speaker 7: from West Virginia State. I have Marty Roth from UCE
25:50
Speaker 7: some of these other institutions, and when they come on,
25:53
Speaker 7: without failure, they come on every time and they talk
25:56
Speaker 7: about these partnerships that they're doing with the business community
25:59
Speaker 7: and how they're working with some of these major folks,
26:02
Speaker 7: the you know, the camcs, the Toyotas and some of
26:05
Speaker 7: these people uh to to train up the kind of
26:08
Speaker 7: workers that they need, and in turn, those people have
26:12
Speaker 7: to be employed by someone. They're going to be employed
26:14
Speaker 7: by them, but a lot of them are going to
26:16
Speaker 7: be as you said, justin they're going to be building
26:19
Speaker 7: those facilities. And that's what you that's what you folks do,
26:22
Speaker 7: that's right, and that's what we need, right.
26:24
Speaker 12: We need investment into all the above, right, it's just
26:28
Speaker 12: like the all of the above energy.
26:29
Speaker 7: We need all the above jobs.
26:31
Speaker 12: Like you know, we should never turn down any jobs
26:33
Speaker 12: in West Virginia where everybody needs one and everybody needs
26:35
Speaker 12: a good one, and so you know, that's what we
26:37
Speaker 12: want to do. That's why we did this study to
26:39
Speaker 12: talk about how the construction industry really is a major
26:43
Speaker 12: part of the economy in West Virginia and the careers
26:46
Speaker 12: that that our members have are really helping to move
26:49
Speaker 12: West Virginia forward and keep driving that opportunities for their families,
26:53
Speaker 12: their kids and grand kids in the future. So they're
26:56
Speaker 12: putting themselves on a path of prosperity with jobs that
27:00
Speaker 12: have good wages, benefits where they can take care of
27:03
Speaker 12: their families.
27:05
Speaker 7: And if you had one takeaway from this study, wrap
27:09
Speaker 7: it up at about thirty seconds. Tell me what would
27:11
Speaker 7: that takeaway be from this economic study that you got.
27:15
Speaker 12: Sure, it's just that there's a lot of opportunity in
27:18
Speaker 12: the construction industry going forward for people to get into
27:22
Speaker 12: this industry, for these jobs to be there, and for
27:25
Speaker 12: our developers and for people looking at West Virginia. We
27:28
Speaker 12: have a skilled, train, drug free workforce ready to build
27:32
Speaker 12: your industry. So work with us, Partner with us. We're
27:34
Speaker 12: here to help you. We're here to be a partner
27:36
Speaker 12: in these construction projects. You with our partner, our signatory
27:40
Speaker 12: contractors who help train up our workers with journey workers
27:44
Speaker 12: and apprentices on the job, educating that next generation of workers.
27:47
Speaker 12: So it really as a partnership and that's what we're
27:49
Speaker 12: looking for.
27:50
Speaker 7: If people want to read the findings of the study
27:52
Speaker 7: for themselves, as there are a place this is.
27:53
Speaker 12: Available or it's going to be up on our website
27:55
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27:57
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Speaker 15: boys and girls sports, which to me, the fact that
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Speaker 15: they're out there still I mean, like that's supported by
34:06
Speaker 15: like five percent of the world, right, I mean, like,
34:08
Speaker 15: you know, it's crazy that they're still doing that. You know,
34:12
Speaker 15: the federal government overspending, and that's really both parties, but
34:16
Speaker 15: I mean the Democrats really stepped on the gas with that.
34:19
Speaker 15: Growing the size of the federal government during the Obama
34:22
Speaker 15: administration and during Biden it just went out of control, right,
34:25
Speaker 15: And that's what this that's what's caused this, the need
34:29
Speaker 15: for this doze, you know, Department of Government efficiency. And
34:33
Speaker 15: you know, you just heard Trump the other night during
34:35
Speaker 15: his speech, you know, rattle off some of the most
34:37
Speaker 15: outrageous spending things you could I mean, you couldn't even
34:41
Speaker 15: like most people wouldn't even imagine that could possibly be true,
34:45
Speaker 15: all these things that they're spending millions and billions of
34:47
Speaker 15: dollars on. And so I think, you know, that extremism
34:52
Speaker 15: from the left, which which I share the rights reaction
34:57
Speaker 15: to being frustrated with it, right, I mean, they're you know,
35:00
Speaker 15: they're trying to blow up the traditional family. They're you know,
35:04
Speaker 15: attacking business, they're attacking capitalism, you know, you know, trying
35:10
Speaker 15: to replace religion with all these other sort of things.
35:15
Speaker 15: So I share the frustration. But what that has caused
35:18
Speaker 15: is sort of the far right right to come out
35:21
Speaker 15: and instead of like, all right, you know, what's our plan?
35:23
Speaker 15: What are we going to do? Every single thing they
35:26
Speaker 15: talk about is just a reaction to, well, what do
35:29
Speaker 15: we do to stop that? And so I'm for the
35:33
Speaker 15: stopping that part, right. I think it's just that is
35:36
Speaker 15: you know, that whole it's at this point, it's like
35:39
Speaker 15: a visceral, like emotional reaction to doing something about it.
35:43
Speaker 7: But would you agree, Greg, let me jumping in, would
35:45
Speaker 7: you agree that that the right's taking it way too far?
35:47
Speaker 7: Many right, not all the right? Yes, I mean, and
35:50
Speaker 7: this and what I saw the other night in this speech,
35:55
Speaker 7: although this is probably the most out of control one
35:57
Speaker 7: I've ever seen, I harken back to a few years ago.
35:59
Speaker 7: Would Marge Taylor Green? You know, I think like a
36:02
Speaker 7: hyena in there. So Jesus is about as far right
36:05
Speaker 7: as they go. So this is not I understand what
36:08
Speaker 7: you're saying, but I don't think that we can say
36:10
Speaker 7: that the lunacy is only on the left. There's a
36:13
Speaker 7: lot of loons on the right too.
36:14
Speaker 15: Look, I think what you're seeing is sort of the
36:19
Speaker 15: right fringe yell at like It's like, it's like the
36:21
Speaker 15: rest of America is caught in the middle of the
36:24
Speaker 15: right fringe yelling at the left fringe, right and the
36:27
Speaker 15: left set.
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Speaker 7: I'll say that every day.
36:30
Speaker 15: We're here where I really do believe, you know, if
36:33
Speaker 15: you would look at I've kind of been that. I've
36:35
Speaker 15: seen a I've got a couple of different clients that
36:37
Speaker 15: have been doing some polling, and so I've been neck
36:39
Speaker 15: deep in that for a little bit looking at it.
36:41
Speaker 15: But if you would on a scale of one to ten, say, okay, well,
36:44
Speaker 15: how conservative are you or how liberal are you? You know,
36:47
Speaker 15: with ten being conservative and one being liberal. You know,
36:50
Speaker 15: West Virginia, I think America is at like a six right,
36:53
Speaker 15: maybe six six and a half. I think West Virginia
36:56
Speaker 15: is a seven and a half. For whatever reason, a
36:59
Speaker 15: lot of our legislative leaders, leaders here in Charleston, they
37:02
Speaker 15: think we're at like a twelve and we're not at
37:05
Speaker 15: a twelve, right, I mean.
37:06
Speaker 7: You're talking about Republicans. I'm talking about republic You can't
37:09
Speaker 7: be talking about Democrats. So I'm talking about Republicans right now.
37:12
Speaker 15: I'm talking about people that are registered Republican. I think,
37:17
Speaker 15: and you know this is you hear a lot of
37:19
Speaker 15: those really far right Republicans will say, oh, these guys
37:21
Speaker 15: are rhino because he doesn't support I think the person
37:25
Speaker 15: that says you're a rhino is usually somebody that was
37:28
Speaker 15: a Democrat like six years ago. I mean, honestly, that
37:32
Speaker 15: is who they are, right. I think I would guess
37:35
Speaker 15: that a quarter of the Republican Party in West Virginia
37:38
Speaker 15: right now, or at least a quarter of the legislators
37:40
Speaker 15: up there are former Democrats that were always social conservative
37:45
Speaker 15: that weren't with us on economic issues.
37:47
Speaker 13: You know.
37:47
Speaker 15: These are people that take money from personal injury lawyers,
37:50
Speaker 15: These are people that support labor unions. These are people
37:54
Speaker 15: that essentially were Democrats that didn't support that extreme liberal
37:58
Speaker 15: social agenda, but they agreed with them on all of
38:01
Speaker 15: the other policies that had been in place in West
38:04
Speaker 15: Virginia for eighty four years, which drove us into the
38:06
Speaker 15: ground and made us last and everything and made us
38:08
Speaker 15: you know, I know you were talking with the last guest,
38:10
Speaker 15: is you know brought up you know we're last and
38:12
Speaker 15: worksforce participation because we had these leftist sort of economic
38:16
Speaker 15: policies for decades.
38:19
Speaker 7: And I think that's.
38:20
Speaker 15: Why you know, you're not seeing that at the forefront
38:23
Speaker 15: of this current legislature. You know, right now you've got
38:27
Speaker 15: you know, they're they're they're leading with the social issues
38:32
Speaker 15: as a reaction to the national stuff. You talk to
38:35
Speaker 15: people at the Capitol and said, too, but two wrongs
38:38
Speaker 15: make a right though, Well, I think some of it
38:41
Speaker 15: is writing. I'm with them on like half of that stuff, right,
38:46
Speaker 15: I mean I think half of that stuff is like, hey,
38:48
Speaker 15: we yeah, we should do that. That's probably something we
38:50
Speaker 15: should do. You know, we got to get the boys
38:52
Speaker 15: out of girls sports. And I'm for a lot of
38:55
Speaker 15: those things. But then they take it and like keep
38:58
Speaker 15: going right. It's like it's like you could, you know,
39:00
Speaker 15: let's let's use abortion as the issue. Right, Most West
39:03
Speaker 15: Virginians support the exceptions for abortion for rape and cess
39:09
Speaker 15: life of the mother. That's where most West Virginians are exactly.
39:12
Speaker 15: I'll bet you a quarter to a third of this
39:15
Speaker 15: legislature wants to make it no exceptions at all, and.
39:17
Speaker 7: Why want the Republicans put it on the ballot.
39:19
Speaker 15: Which is a fringe position, right, I mean it's it's
39:22
Speaker 15: you know, I've seen it's fringe.
39:24
Speaker 7: Actually, I just saw a pulled the other day.
39:26
Speaker 15: Ten percent of West Virginians don't think they think you
39:29
Speaker 15: should be able to get an abortion whenever you want,
39:31
Speaker 15: and ten percent don't think you should be able to
39:34
Speaker 15: get abortion at all, even life of the mother, right,
39:37
Speaker 15: that's the French.
39:38
Speaker 7: The minority is being made up by the two fringe positions, correct, Yeah, exactly.
39:41
Speaker 15: And so that's sort of what happens, and I think
39:43
Speaker 15: that's what drives that overreach where right now, especially here
39:47
Speaker 15: in Charleston. Now, you do have some you do have
39:49
Speaker 15: some of these people that i'd refer to them as
39:51
Speaker 15: center right, right. I mean, these are your seven and
39:53
Speaker 15: a half out of ten conservatives that that are for
39:55
Speaker 15: the conservative social issues but also support conservative economic shoes.
40:00
Speaker 15: And what they're what you hear from them is, hey,
40:03
Speaker 15: we just got to get this social conservative stuff out
40:05
Speaker 15: of the way, and then we're going to get to
40:07
Speaker 15: the pro jobs bills.
40:10
Speaker 7: I know there's some out there.
40:11
Speaker 15: I mean, you know, you had mentioned I do work
40:13
Speaker 15: with citizens against lawsuit Abuse.
40:14
Speaker 7: We have a couple.
40:15
Speaker 15: Medical monitorings one and we have some other ones that
40:19
Speaker 15: that would really help improve the job climate here and
40:23
Speaker 15: and there's other organizations that have some out there too.
40:26
Speaker 15: Morrisey's got Morse He's got a permitting bill on the
40:28
Speaker 15: House side that would be that will be helpful for jobs.
40:32
Speaker 15: He's got a licensing bill on the Senate side that
40:34
Speaker 15: would be helpful.
40:36
Speaker 7: But I'm with you.
40:38
Speaker 15: Though, Dave, and that people look at this and say, Okay, hey,
40:40
Speaker 15: I'm you know, I'm with you on some of the stuff.
40:43
Speaker 15: But what are you doing about jobs? What are you
40:45
Speaker 15: doing about roads? What are you doing about schools?
40:47
Speaker 7: And this is where I am Greg, because it's not
40:50
Speaker 7: that I don't think that those other things are important.
40:52
Speaker 7: I've said it on the show a couple of days ago,
40:54
Speaker 7: But I don't think that the average person when they
40:57
Speaker 7: get up every morning, thinks about I mean the one
41:00
Speaker 7: on the fringe. I don't think that they think about, well,
41:02
Speaker 7: what I'm going to be pissed off today about about
41:04
Speaker 7: boys playing girls sports. No, they're trying to buy bread,
41:07
Speaker 7: They're trying to they're trying to go to their jobs.
41:09
Speaker 7: I just wish our legislators would focus on the stuff
41:12
Speaker 7: that value that that is a value to every day
41:15
Speaker 7: West Virginians, not this, not this fringe crap.
41:18
Speaker 15: If they don't focus on it, there's a remedy for that. Elections, right,
41:23
Speaker 15: and so I think I think what happened.
41:26
Speaker 7: I think you.
41:26
Speaker 15: I think that people elected some very conservative legislators that
41:30
Speaker 15: were were just pro Trump. Right, I'm pro Trump, I
41:33
Speaker 15: support Trump's agenda, I want to do it. And they're
41:35
Speaker 15: up here in Charleston saying I'm pro Trump, I'm going
41:38
Speaker 15: to support Trump's agenda, and a lot of the bills
41:40
Speaker 15: that they're doing sort of try to mirror things that
41:42
Speaker 15: Trump is doing. And some of it you can do
41:45
Speaker 15: some of it, you know. I think a lot of
41:47
Speaker 15: these new legends, and we've talked about this before, I
41:49
Speaker 15: think a lot of these new legislators ran because they
41:52
Speaker 15: supported Trump, they want a new direction for the country,
41:55
Speaker 15: and then all of a sudden they end up in
41:56
Speaker 15: Charleston and it's like, oh, gosh, I'm not in the
41:59
Speaker 15: US Senate.
41:59
Speaker 7: I guess I don't have to tell don't get to
42:01
Speaker 7: vote on that. I'm serving out of Wetzel County. I
42:03
Speaker 7: can't build a wall.
42:04
Speaker 15: You know, and so but it but it takes a
42:07
Speaker 15: little But look, that's just part of this process. I'm
42:09
Speaker 15: not against those guys. I'm for a lot of those guys.
42:12
Speaker 15: I'm not against them. It's just it's going to be
42:13
Speaker 15: a process. So will they be able to figure out
42:16
Speaker 15: though here in the next thirty days, which is about
42:19
Speaker 15: all they have left in the session, will they be
42:21
Speaker 15: able to figure out in the next thirty days? All
42:25
Speaker 15: my my constituents do want the social conservative stuff to
42:29
Speaker 15: a degree. They want to, you know, reasonable social conservatives,
42:34
Speaker 15: reasonable con social conservative bills.
42:36
Speaker 7: But what have I got? Am I going to be able.
42:39
Speaker 15: To go back in May, in June and go to
42:42
Speaker 15: the fourth of July parade and see people in my
42:46
Speaker 15: community and tell them, here's what I did to create jobs,
42:49
Speaker 15: Here's what I did to improve the roads, Here's what
42:51
Speaker 15: I did to improve the schools. And my suggestion is
42:57
Speaker 15: a long as you know, probably one of the longest
43:00
Speaker 15: serving political consultants here in West Virginia, to them is
43:05
Speaker 15: you better do something, You better have something to say,
43:07
Speaker 15: and you got thirty days, right, So they need to
43:09
Speaker 15: get on the stick. They need to get after it.
43:12
Speaker 15: You know, this session isn't lost. You're always going to
43:14
Speaker 15: have a couple of weeks of trying to figure it out.
43:16
Speaker 15: They've picked up the pace a little bit, which could
43:21
Speaker 15: be good if they would focus on some other stuff.
43:24
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43:27
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46:35
Speaker 15: Look i'm pro, Life i'm pro, life pro life with
46:39
Speaker 15: as Most West virginians with, rape, incest life of the mothers.
46:44
Speaker 15: Exceptions In West virginia last year we had like we
46:47
Speaker 15: had like no. Abortions, like why are we still pushing
46:50
Speaker 15: bills to address an issue that In West virginia we
46:52
Speaker 15: didn't have last?
46:53
Speaker 7: Year why won't The republicans put it on the? Ballot, well,
46:56
Speaker 7: okay because they know they know they. Lose, YEAH i, mean,
46:58
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47:01
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47:03
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47:07
Speaker 7: decades that we wanted to, have we would have done
47:11
Speaker 7: anything in the world to have for fifty, years and
47:14
Speaker 7: we have, it and it's not enough for certain people
47:17
Speaker 7: because that's their, focus, right that's their, focus all, right
47:20
Speaker 7: tex says there is no pro business legislation going. On
47:22
Speaker 7: they want to Beat, trump so they want to Be i'm,
47:25
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47:29
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47:31
Speaker 15: RIGHT i hope, YOU i hope you AND i are
47:36
Speaker 15: proven wrong and that they. ARE i know they are
47:38
Speaker 15: pro jobs sponsored Because i've worked with legislators to sponsor.
47:41
Speaker 15: THEM i know there's some out. THERE i hope that
47:45
Speaker 15: they will start to pick them up and run them.
47:47
Speaker 7: Soon but you're, Right tex, says does Mister thomas believe
47:49
Speaker 7: honestly That Social security is really paying out millions of
47:53
Speaker 7: people over one hundred and twenty years of? Age he does, Know, well,
47:57
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48:00
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48:02
Speaker 15: a lot of fraud In Social security And, Medicaid medicare
48:06
Speaker 15: and all that, stuff. RIGHT i, MEAN i think what
48:07
Speaker 15: they don't understand is like somebody is filled out of
48:10
Speaker 15: paper somewhere and said that it's not like we actually
48:13
Speaker 15: believe there's somebody out there acting like they're one hundred
48:15
Speaker 15: and twenty. Five there is fraud to a huge, degree
48:19
Speaker 15: and they're going to get to the bottom of. It
48:21
Speaker 15: and for those of, us, WELL i don't know THAT
48:23
Speaker 15: i receive so, security but for those people that are
48:25
Speaker 15: receiving soial security or one day hope to receive so.
48:27
Speaker 15: Security this is a good, thing, Right why don't we
48:30
Speaker 15: want to cut out fraud within social?
48:32
Speaker 7: Security, WELL i think the point is is that there's
48:34
Speaker 7: been a lot of inaccuracies reported that that's come. Out
48:37
Speaker 7: fact checkers of all kinds of, said, yeah there's not
48:40
Speaker 7: as much of this as people think there, is and
48:41
Speaker 7: there's some. Extremes let me knock through. That these greg
48:45
Speaker 7: is just running down the list of cultural war conservative
48:47
Speaker 7: propaganda talking. Points nothing, new same old story of the
48:50
Speaker 7: left Destroying america while the right comes to save. It
48:52
Speaker 7: culture war bs as the wealth gap widens and the
48:55
Speaker 7: majority Of americans lives get worse while a handful of
48:58
Speaker 7: folks consolidate wealth and.
49:00
Speaker 15: Power what Did what did the? Left the left had
49:02
Speaker 15: total control of our federal government for four years and
49:06
Speaker 15: they did nothing but have out of control, inflation raised,
49:10
Speaker 15: taxes grew the size of, government and people's, lot people's
49:14
Speaker 15: lives got. Worse and that's that's the. Reality that's that's
49:17
Speaker 15: a reality for far too Many West Virginian american.
49:20
Speaker 7: Family All, right tech, says we get. It THE gop. Won,
49:23
Speaker 7: strange they a still aren't happy and b aren't. Leading
49:26
Speaker 7: they're still complaining and making things. Worse you all complain
49:29
Speaker 7: About dems to the far, left but you all want
49:32
Speaker 7: get to. Work there's a there's a lot of things
49:34
Speaker 7: that need to get. Done addressing the social. Issues aren't
49:36
Speaker 7: helping folks sitting around their kitchen. Table that sounds. Familiar
49:39
Speaker 7: H and costs are still going up knock, down and
49:41
Speaker 7: that Ain't biden's fault. Anymore.
49:43
Speaker 15: UH i guess that person wrote this text in the
49:46
Speaker 15: first half of our, discussion naughty second half BECAUSE i
49:49
Speaker 15: actually agree with you on some of that that we
49:52
Speaker 15: need a, plan Especially, LOOK i Think trump has a.
49:54
Speaker 15: Plan he's doing a ton of. STUFF i think here
49:57
Speaker 15: In West, virginia what they've done so far has just
50:00
Speaker 15: been a reaction to getting back At. Democrats this, legislature
50:05
Speaker 15: the leaders in this legislature need to come up with
50:07
Speaker 15: a plan to increase, jobs to fix the, roads and
50:11
Speaker 15: to get better school better results out of our.
50:13
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50:21
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50:24
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50:33
Speaker 7: Saying i'm going to help build the border. WALL i
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Speaker 7: i was talking. About tech, says thanks for trying to
50:40
Speaker 7: Keep Greg thomas balance. Today ain't nobody Puts greg in a?
50:43
Speaker 7: Corner tex Says dave talking about things that the public cares.
50:46
Speaker 7: About in regards To, rose there hasn't been a bridge
50:48
Speaker 7: painted in ten, Years, dave the left has far more
50:52
Speaker 7: loonies than the. Right you must look at what each
50:54
Speaker 7: party's doing to put the country. First when you look at,
50:56
Speaker 7: This republicans are far ahead of The democrats and strengthening
50:59
Speaker 7: in this. Country it's common. Sense tex shows The republicans
51:02
Speaker 7: have had a super majority for past ten years and
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Speaker 7: things are getting, worse says A. TEXTURE i.
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Speaker 15: DON'T i don't JUST i don't agree with, that AND
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Speaker 15: i think ARE i think that The republicans have had
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Speaker 15: to control for ten. YEARS i think that in the
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Speaker 15: last ten years they've Made West virginia a normal. State
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Speaker 15: we were way way way out of whack on far
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Speaker 15: too many. Issues BUT i agree with one of the
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Speaker 15: other texters in between there that we need a plan
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Speaker 15: to move, forward and you know we need it.
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Speaker 7: Now all, RIGHT i didn't get to all the. TEXT i.
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Speaker 7: Apologize we needn't want to go to the capitol right.
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Speaker 7: Now let's bring In meadows And. Wilson they are, CONNECTED i,
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Speaker 7: Understand tjan And. Dave are you? There all?
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Speaker 10: Right?
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Speaker 7: Guys are you? There? Yes, morning all, right good. Morning
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Speaker 7: Greg thomas has got him fired. Up Now i'm gonna
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Speaker 7: wind him up and send him Down Virginia street to.
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Speaker 7: You what did you get wound? Up what's he on
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Speaker 7: wound up? About oh, no, no he's not in. Miney
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Speaker 7: he's just he's just speaking speaking the, truth according To
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Speaker 7: Greg thomas and. Me YEAHCAUSE i agree with him on
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Speaker 7: a lot of. It what are you guys gonna talk about?
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Speaker 9: Today speaking of getting wound? Up Eric tar's gonna join
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Speaker 9: us at ten oh, six we'll talk everything.
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Speaker 15: From guardian caps to independent voters not participating in party
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Speaker 15: primaries and everything in.
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Speaker 7: Between all, right, guys we'll be listening to ten o
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Speaker 7: six and Again greg's gonna be on with you guys.
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Speaker 7: TOO i appreciate. It thanks a, lot, man oh thanks
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Speaker 7: for making time for.
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Speaker 11: Us.
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Speaker 7: Sire When Greg thomas is on the, SHOW i do
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Speaker 7: WHAT i. CAN i want to get a couple of
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Speaker 7: more texts. Here What, greg, quickly what do you think
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Speaker 7: about The house being the voice of reason this? Session
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Speaker 7: The senate has always been this ten? Seconds that's that
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Speaker 7: is very true this. Year All, right we gotta. Go
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Speaker 7: Amanda baron will be hosting the show along with me
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Speaker 7: coming up tomorrow ten o Six Metro news Talk. LINE
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