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11/16/2023 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Robb Reel, Chad Prather, Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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about the Senate race. Joe Manchin is out now we're gonna get Greg Thomas's
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take on that coming up a little bit later on. Also, Chad Priyther
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from Huntington Banks is going to be stopping by. We've got a partnership going
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on with WVRC Media, our parent company, and Huntington Banks as it has
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to do with the Special Olympics. We're gonna talk to Chad about that a
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little bit later on. But before we get to all that, if you
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have driven around past our palatial estate here at eleven eleven Virginia Street East and
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Charleston, you have seen that we got all the vans out on the parking
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lot, and we got a lot of our folks out on the parking lot
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as well. And because we are doing our first annual turkey drop trying to
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collect some frozen turkeys or monetary donations for those who need this hobby season,
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they got to kind of put this whole thing together. From a sister station
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ninety six one kws's Rob Real, Robert, good morning. How are you
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now? We're not going to get Rob going down the Mountain. We don't
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have any money going down the mountain. Got morons on my sorry Struther Martin
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in the intro, and it's just been stuck in my head and there's not
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a lot of call for me to get to do my Struther Martin only on
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this show? Can you do the strouther Martin's on my team? Yes,
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I take the blame for putting all this together. The very first WVRC Media
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turkey drop with the big Ley Pigly Wiggly. We are gathering frozen turkeys.
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That's it. There are all sorts of other food drives that do nonperishable food
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items, and those are great. I appreciate support them all. I appreciate
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every single person who donates to every single one of those. But the hardest
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thing to do, the most expensive thing to get for a holiday meal is
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the meat. It is the turkey. And so this is an idea that
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I had seen in some other forms and some other places I've worked, and
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I thought, you know what, I think our friends and neighbors in West
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Virginia would love to help our friends and neighbors in need this holiday season,
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so we are gathering up frozen turkeys. It's I it's that simple, just
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frozen turkey. We have a few parting gifts for maybe if you swing through
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our drive through set up here at eleven eleven Virginia Street East. Thank you
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to Chick fil A in South Ridge and in South Charleston on mccorkor Avenue.
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We've got some art and craft fair passes. I think we had some fun
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stuff, but it's not really about that. It's about the feel good of
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helping your friends and neighbors. Just swing by with a frozen turkey. We'll
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take it right from you. Don't have to get out of your vehicle and
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we'll just we'll load it right up and we will get it to the people
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who need it. And we started at six am this morning. Mac guitar
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Murphy's been kind of manning things out there. The rest of us been going
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out as best we can. And we'll be there till six o'clock tonight.
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And I just happened to be out there in this morning when a gentleman pulled
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in on his way to work and heard about it. And I asked you
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if I said you know, I didn't even get his name. His name
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is Dave too. Well, all good people are named Dave. I asked
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him if I we should hiring him because we have eight thousand other people named
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Dave in this company. We ask can we get him a job application?
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But I asked him, I said, you know, can we take your
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picture? And that's the picture if you go to my social media you'll see
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with Rob and this gentleman out there. He really wasn't about taking it.
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I mean, he agreed to do it. He said, well, that's
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not really why I'm here. I appreciate that because that not everybody has to
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have their faith out and everything when it comes to charitable things. This gentleman
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agreed to do it for us. But that's what this is all about.
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That's why I always say, Rob, whether it's your station, whether it's
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my station, you know, all the others in the building. We have
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the greatest listeners in the world. Here I am. I am blessed to
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be part of the nine percent who loves what I do for a living,
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and everything in life is a trade off. I get to do all sorts
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of cool stuff, be backstage at concerts, every sporting event, you can
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imagine. I've had the opportunity to cover. I've met a lot of really
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cool people. The trade offer that is, I have a responsibility to help
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my friends and neighbors more than just what's you know on our license serve the
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public interest, convenience, and necessity. It is really my job to lift
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as I climb. I genuinely believe that, And so days like today,
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when we can help our friends and neighbors in need with just a little something
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like this one frozen turn, he is not going to break a lot of
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folks, but it's gonna make a lot of folks holidays. So that's why
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I love doing this sort. And if you're not in a position, maybe
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you're on your lunch hour and you can't run over to big Ley Piggly Wiggly
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or any of the other fine grocery establishments we have in the air, we
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kind of like to have people go over there because they're a partnership and that's
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but you know, we'll take what we can get. We'll take cash donations
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as well. We've had several people that have rolled in. Well, thanks
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to those folks that rolled in, gave us a one hundred dollars check.
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We appreciate that. We actually sent the boss, Joe Parsons out shopping this
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morning. So the Boss, the Boss, the big Boss here is out
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to shopping as we speak. I kind of like the idea of seeing Joe
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Parsons push a buggy along Bigley pigley wiggly. But yeah, maybe you just
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go around the office or the work site today and you take up a collection
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and then somebody goes at lunch and makes this happen. Whatever we can do
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to make for a happier holiday, a festive feast. Everyone deserves a little
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joy at the holidays, and so we're doing our best to make that happen.
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And again, this is one of those events we have three or four
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year rob where we're all together on Sunday. We got the folks from V
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one hundred that are out there we got to beat, We got you know,
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the mountains that we're all out there, all out there today and we'll
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be until six o'clock this evening, which is kind of hard on you old
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old morning radio guys. Because I was one for over twenty years. I
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know what you're talking about now, I'm just old. That's exactly what I
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all. Right, So again kind of recapping here. It's w VRC Media
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Charleston big Le Pigley Wiggily drive through Turkey drop at our studios eleven eleven Virginia's
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Treaties to hear in Charleston till six o'clock tonight, collecting frozen turkeys to give
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to those in need this Thanksgiving holiday season, accepting cash to and what you
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kind of alluded to there was we were saying we're kind of keeping running total
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out there. For the first five hundred people that donate, you're going to
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get a coupon for a free breakfast from Chick fil A in South Charleston or
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South Ridge. So that's kind of cool. Hands hats off, hands off,
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hats off, hands on. Heads to Tom men turned into folks for
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making all that happen with Chick filt They always do a great job taking care.
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We do some other things with him too, with free lunch Friday on
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ninety six to one KWUS hashtag shameless plug that they do great stuff for us.
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And if you have questions about all this that we've been talking about,
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I know we've rapid fired a whole bunch of things. I'm used to saying
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ninety six to one, KWUS dot com, any of the station websites B
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one hundred dot FM. You can go to any of all the social media's
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stuff. It's all right there. Look for that goofy Turkey. No,
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I don't meet me and Dave. I mean the actual turkey, and you
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will find out about the WVRC Media Turkey drop with the big Lee Pigly Wiggly
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All right. I appreciate Rob. I appreciate you being here, and I
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get back to work. Yes, sir, there's a little morning show you
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do in the basement. You may want to get back down there again.
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It's unfortunately the kind of music Rob plays doesn't have a free bird or anything
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Randa put on to come here and join us. But again, I do
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appreciate Rob for run it upstairs. Now he's got to get back downstairs and
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hope that his music didn't come to an end. It is the WVRC Media
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Charleston Bigley Piggly Wiggly drive through Turkey drop now at our studios eleven eleven Virginia
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Street to eat east here in Charleston. We started at six this morning and
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Matt Guitar Murphy was out there then we had people running as early as six
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and six thirty this morning. We're gonna do it till six o'clock this evening.
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The weather, if you're looking for a reason to get out of the
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office today, the weather's absolutely gonna be fantastic. Little chili right now,
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but it's gonna warm up. Weather's gonna be great. We'll accept the frozen
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turkeys. We'll accept cash too, and remember the first five hundred people that
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donate get a coupon for a free breakfast courtesy of Chick fil A in South
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Charleston or South Ridge. So it's still six o'clock tonight. All of our
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bit, We're going to talk to Chad Prather from Huntington Banks about a partnership
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with WVRC Media, our parent company, and the Special Olympics. Some news
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broke late late Tuesday night and yesterday, and we all know about the problems
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talked with mister Hampster who's been on the show in the past. I talked
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to Chuck yesterday and invited him on the show, but he politely declined,
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which is understandable, opting I guess rather, I guess he wanted to wait
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to see what the next move of the board would be. So we're going
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to hold off on that until then. So that is a developing story.
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But again, two of the top officials talking about the post folks on the
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I want to get to this just real quick, and that is your
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up, and I think there's a media event tonight. Hours are going to
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Eaton Douglass coming up on the show tomorrow. Chad Prayther joined us right now.
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He's the regional president of Huntington Bank, West Virginia. Chad, good
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morning, How are you hey, Dave, good morning, doing fantastic.
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How are you today? I'm doing fine, Thank you. Welcome to the
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show. By now, I'm hoping everyone has seen the video that Metro News
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was able to work out with Huntington Bank talking about the impact of the Special
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Olympics not only on the athletes, Chad and the families of the athletes,
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but also the community as a whole. That video, by the way,
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available on all of our platforms including Mind, Dave Allen Radio on Facebook,
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and the Dave Allen Chill on X the artist formerly known as Twitter. It
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is a pretty powerful stuff, Chad, very very powerful. You know,
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the team at Pike Wood did a really tremendous job highlighting the just the great
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work that the Special Olympic, Special Olympics of West Virginia is doing for those
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athletes and their families that you know, and highlights a couple of specific stories
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of athletes and their you know, their journeys throughout Special Olympics and and you
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know, one one of the athletes in particular is now living independently and as
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a student at WVU and and just talks about how you know, Special Olympics
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help frame that for her and get her into a position where she could do
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that. So it's it's just a really uh, you know, I think
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powerful and touching video that that was done, and we were proud to partner
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with, uh with pike Wood to put that together. Yeah, and they
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do some incredible work. And again we're a little bit biased here because it's
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kind of one of our sister companies, pike Wood Creative, as part of
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our big w v RC media family here. This program chat is called West
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Virginia Enriched. And I know that you folks at Huntington are are very very
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big part of it. Why are you so involved in this? Well,
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so you know, the idea came that you know, uh, you know
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Huntington. You know, we have a tagline It's welcome and it's a it's
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a simple thing, but it's welcome to all and we you know, we
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believe that, you know, we need to highlight stories of great things that
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are happening in West Virginia. You know, we hear plenty of things going
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on in the world right now that could get somebody down or get their day
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down, and you know, just really want to highlight some partnerships that we
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have across the state, you know, things that we support that are just
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doing really tremendous work that could also utilize some additional support. So West Virginia
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and Rich earlier in the year did a program with the Food Bank and the
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support of the Food Bank with veterans across the states, with thirteen thousand veterans
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who are are hungry. Now we've you know, released this most recent video
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that again came out here over the last couple of days, and we'd love
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for everybody to go check it out and maybe grab a tissue while you're at
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it. It's a pretty moving thing, but you know, really special.
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Olympics in West Virginia is supporting forty four hundred you know, children and adults
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in West Virginia and uh, you know, these these athletes are you know,
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inspiring is the word I use, but it's just an understatement. You
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know, if you go out and you you spend some time with them,
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and you attend these events in any way or certainly volunteer, you're going to
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walk away feeling better about yourself. It's not you know, you think you're
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going to go in and youre, hey, I'm here to help these these
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kids or help these athletes. But you walk away feeling better about yourself because
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you've been, uh been a part of it. And you know, I
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think I think the world can use a little bit of that right now.
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And Chad, it's kind of a situation like who's helping who here? You
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know, it's kind of it's kind of I'm a big animal person, and
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it's kind of like who adopted who from the shelter here? And that's And
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I watched some of the videos when they first I got an advanced copy of
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and then I watched them again when I was prepared for the show this morning.
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Chat as you said, get the tissues ready because uh, and the
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sadness is not part of it. It just inspiring for all of us in
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our day to day lives. Chain Yeah, it really is really really is
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they they? Uh, you know what's cool about it is the athletes.
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Uh, you know, they go by the Moniker of the maximum effort rule
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and so uh, you know, the the only requirement is that you give
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it your all. And you know you can see the you know, the
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pride that comes through with the athletes as they finish their families. It's just
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you know, it's super touching, uh to be a part of it.
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And and really what we hope is that you know, people will will look
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at the video, they'll you know, have the same inspiration that you and
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I had when we watched it and want to get involved with Special Olympics in
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some way. And certainly they can think they can do that with financial support
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or or volunteerism, either of which would be you know, greatly appreciated by
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the by the Special Olympics in West Virginia. But uh, you know,
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really, more than anything, just just want to highlight and raise awareness of
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of all the great work that they're doing at that organization and and these these
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kids and these athletes, it's just it's it's inspiring. As we said,
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and Chad, I will say this too. These athletes and I have known
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several that have taken part. I know their families, these athletes take this
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very very seriously. I mean it's this is an athlete. At the end
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of the day, it's still an athletic competition. And they, I mean
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they they are hardcore about doing their best out there. Oh look, they're
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they're you know, I played sports my all of my childhood. I coach
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teams, done different things. These kids are are going you know, they're
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they're training, They're training many times every week. They're working really hard at
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it. Some of them, you know, hey let me some of them
22:36
are, hey, let me just finish this, and that's such a huge
22:38
accomplishment. But but many of them are, let me improve my time and
22:41
let me, you know, try to win this. And and regardless of
22:45
what the outcome result that they're they're trying to achieve, every single one of
22:49
them and their families walk away, you know, extraordinarily proud, and whether
22:55
they got a ribbon or they got a medal or they you know, whatever
22:59
it is. And the camaraderie is something that's really great to see too,
23:02
all of the the athletes coming together to congratulate one on one another for reaching
23:07
whatever their goal is. It's you know, again, inspiring is the word,
23:10
but inspiring remains an understatement exactly Right now, we're going to be hearing
23:15
a lot more about this collaborative effort between our all of our stations. And
23:18
you mentioned pike Wood and Metro News and all of our stations around the state.
23:22
I know that. I think I heard you on Hoby Show the other
23:25
day, so you're you're definitely trying to get the word out there about this.
23:27
And we applaud you, and we applaud the folks at UH at your
23:32
bank for Huntington there, for for making it making it all happen. I
23:36
know you're a busy guy, uh, and I appreciate you taking time to
23:38
be here. But any any any final words before we let you go chat.
23:42
Well, I really appreciate you having me. The thing that I'd leave
23:45
you with is just go check it out. You know. I think West
23:48
Virginia Metro or wb Metro News dot com would be the place to check it
23:52
out right there on the front page. And and uh, it's uh,
23:56
you know, it's inspiring. It's something that we really want to get the
24:00
word out on all the great work that the Special Olympics in West Virginia is
24:03
doing. You can look for more of these you know that we're going to
24:07
sponsor again. We want to highlight the work we're doing in the community,
24:11
but more so the community organizations themselves and all the fantastic people that they're supporting
24:17
and just wonderful things that are happening in West Virginia in a time across the
24:21
world that you know, we could just use a little bit of that.
24:23
So that's the goal of West Virginia and Riched and we're really proud to be
24:27
part of it. All right, Chad, I'll let you get back to
24:30
work. I appreciate it. We'll talk again soon. Man, Thanks a
24:33
lot, Thanks for having me, all right, take care. Chad Brather
24:36
again the regional president of Huntings and Banks about this program, West Virginia Enriched,
24:41
and again urge you to go to wv metronews dot com and check out
24:45
the videos, as Chad, so that's probably the best place to see it.
24:48
It's being shared on all of our stations statewide and on our social media.
24:51
I've got it posted on the on Dave Aland Radio, on Facebook and
24:55
also on the Dave Allen Show on x. The artis is fally known as
24:59
Twitter. It's it's an amazing thing. It really is and you see these
25:03
athletes and you see what they are accomplishing out there. It's just incredible.
25:10
Hats off to the folks at Huntington Huntington Banks for making it all happen.
25:14
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25:18
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a Republican strategist. Good morning, Dave, What other what other titles can
31:00
we come up? Child advocate? Okay, help people? Like to help
31:07
people? Yeah, you know, Christian all the all the stuff. Yeah,
31:11
all the stuff we got all world traveler, but mainly because of your
31:17
kids being involved in everything we were talking about off the air. I just
31:19
don't know how how parents keep up with everything that their kids do. All
31:22
right, So since we last talked, there's a lot of stuff I want
31:25
to get to it. As always, Greg's always open to take phone calls
31:27
or text. But since we last talked, Senator Mansion is out of the
31:33
Senate race. Worst kept secret in the world. We just it was a
31:34
matter of when he was going to announce it. Some people were surprised by
31:37
as quickly as he announced it because he kind of eluded it would be around
31:41
Christmas at some point, and it just that it didn't surprise people Greg that
31:45
announced it. But it just kind of came out of nowhere on that particular
31:48
day. Now, you may have had advance notice, I know a lot
31:51
of people in the media did not. Now he says, well, he
31:53
was on hoppy yesterday and he may run for president. Your thoughts, I
31:59
definitely think he wants to run for president. If I were him, I
32:02
would run for president. I mean, I think, you know, obviously
32:09
right now with Trump and Biden, they're both polarizing in their different ways.
32:15
Right, So Trump and I'm a Trump person. You know, I got
32:20
a little soft on Trump there at the beginning of the year because I thought,
32:23
well, you know, maybe, you know, maybe it's just too
32:27
much. But like I think there are a lot of people like me and
32:30
our party that were like Trump people. But it was like, I can't
32:32
he do it again? And then it's the Democrats just kept going after him,
32:37
and you know, this witch hunt and all this crazy legal stuff they're
32:40
trying. It really did beef up Trump's support, right because it just made
32:45
his argument for him of like, they're after me because they know I can
32:49
win, and because they know I'm gonna, you know, go and stick
32:52
it to them when I get in there, and all that and and you
32:54
know, so the Democrats wanted Trump to be the nominee, and they're going
32:58
to get their wish. I think they're going to probably regret that all this
33:02
stuff does. Greg and I've said this, and we could be on different
33:06
sides of the Trump thing. That's fine, But I will say this,
33:08
all of this, all this, no matter what happens, all that does
33:12
is strengthen it is. If they if they were smart, just back off,
33:15
you know, I wish you know. The reality is he's right on
33:21
issues right, Like you may not like the style, you may not like
33:23
the different stuff. I look, I don't like the people around him,
33:27
right, I think there are a bunch of grifters and con artists. But
33:31
he's right on issues, right. I mean, he's right, and the
33:34
things he says about the things he says about people are true. Biden obviously
33:39
is way too old. He's way too old. Heck, even Senator Manson
33:44
said yesterday that he's way too liberal. And so I do think there's room
33:51
for something in the middle. I don't think you can win. I don't.
33:53
Look, I don't think Jim I do not think Joe Manchin can win.
33:59
I think, you know, but I do think there's probably a place
34:02
for somebody to run and say, hey, if you aren't happy with that
34:07
and you you know, or if you're not happy with the other sides and
34:10
you want somebody to come in and have this middle sort of voice, I'm
34:13
your guy. The trouble that I think he's gonna have is, you know,
34:19
he needs a platform, right like when you go run for president,
34:22
you have to run as a party. Right. He can't win the Democratic
34:25
nomination. I mean, the Democrats in these big states are lunatics and they're
34:30
absolutely insane. I mean, I mean they are, though I mean,
34:32
like I'm not saying, Look, I think that there are insane Democrats in
34:36
West Virginia, but I don't think the average Democrat in West Virginia is an
34:38
insane person. I think the average Democrat in New York City is they don't
34:45
live in reality. I think the average Democrat in California doesn't live in reality.
34:50
And so I don't think a Joe Manchin could win a Democratic nomination because
34:53
those are the people that control their party, or those liberal big state liberals,
34:59
and he'd have no chance. You know, let me jump in here
35:00
real quick, because I want to mention this and we'll come back to statewide.
35:05
One of the things that I think Greg that's going to be problematic for
35:07
the Democratic nominee for Joe Biden is is the war in Israel. Because last
35:14
night there was yet another instance of at a Democratic function, and I don't
35:20
know ralf the top of my head exactly what what it was was going on.
35:22
People there anti Israel, Yeah, are going after the Democrats right now,
35:29
I mean there, I mean, forget about the Republicans. This venom
35:32
that they have toward Israel is going They're going straight after the Democrats, and
35:37
it's going to be problematic for Joe Biden on when you when it comes to
35:42
some of the more far left parts of the of the of the Democratic Party,
35:46
Dave, you are one hundred percent right. I mean, for the
35:49
people that want to say, like Republicans have a problem with some of our
35:52
far right, you know, proud Boys or whatever, they're anti semii Semitic
35:59
l element of their party is much much bigger than a far right the right
36:04
hand. It's a huge factor and they are really really split on the issue.
36:10
Heck, even what's the Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Senator, he's like way
36:16
out there you know, all of a sudden, like this guy's saying stuff
36:20
I agree with on Israel, you know what I mean? Like, like
36:22
that's when you know the Democrats are going to have a problem that they have
36:24
some people that are actually being reasonable on this issue or or sort of sensible,
36:30
but they have a lot of radicalized pro and it's legitimately pro Hamas,
36:36
which I think is just an unbelievable thing to think that there's that much.
36:40
Dude, there's that. Did you see some of the pictures from the San
36:46
Francisco Uh, you know, the Chinese president was in town and you had
36:51
all these Chinese flags and all this. I just don't think. I don't
36:55
think. I don't think the average person in West Virginia can has a full
37:00
rasp on exactly how much anti American sentiment there is within the Democratic Party from
37:07
in a national perspective, and whether it's whether it's the Israel thing like you
37:12
talked about, whether it's some stuff related to China or some of this other
37:16
stuff. I just don't think they realize how. And I don't know,
37:22
maybe anti American is probably strong. I would just say not pro American.
37:27
Right there, there really are foreign interests right, there's just so much.
37:31
I mean, we were just this globalized country. Uh, and there's and
37:36
especially in these big cities and and whatever. You know. I just got
37:39
I just flew back from Atlanta yesterday and it was down there for a few
37:43
days for a conference, and just even being in Atlanta, man, I
37:45
mean, the the the you know, foreign influence of everything is just so
37:50
tremendous, Uh that I just don't think the average person here we don't see
37:54
it here. Right, It's just not something we see. But you know,
37:58
look back to Mansion, I don't His trouble is he's going to have
38:01
to have a party and it can't It's not gonna be the Democrats. It's
38:04
not gonna be the problem with Republicans. So he's looking for this no labels
38:07
organization that has that that is that has been spending time and money getting on
38:13
the ballot in other states. So he really needs that nomination, his truck,
38:17
his challenge. There is a lot of the people that are within that
38:22
organization are just anti Trump, right, and then there's a there's a section
38:27
of people. There's there's a group of people within that group that really like
38:30
believe in the middle middle way, cause like a third way sort of effort.
38:35
I think Joe Manchin is ideal for their third wave effort. I think
38:38
the trouble is there's some people that think Mansion would help Trump, right,
38:44
and then there's some people. There was another US senator, Democrat, US
38:45
senator that came out the other day that said he doesn't think Manchon should run,
38:50
but he thought Manson would help Biden. And I really don't know.
38:52
I think it's a state by state basis, you know what I mean.
38:55
I was, I was just in Georgia, and I'm telling you know,
38:58
those Republicans down there, they don't like Trump, right, Remember they're they're
39:00
governors in this like blood feud with them and all this stuff. I met
39:06
a lot of Republicans in Georgia this week that were very pro Mansion, like
39:10
they wanted him to run. I mean, they were aware of this situation,
39:13
like they wanted him to run and they want to vote for him,
39:15
you know. So that that's not approach, that's not helping Trump, right.
39:19
So I think it's an interesting thing. But but I look, I
39:22
think Mansion should do it. I think he would like it. I don't
39:25
think he's gonna win. I don't know if he helps Trump or doesn't help
39:30
Trump. But I you know, if I were him, I would do
39:32
it. He likes he likes attention, right, he likes attention. He's
39:37
a social guy. You know. Looked at man, I mean, would
39:39
it be fun though? Right? I mean, you know, somebody's gonna
39:43
fly you around the country. You're staying at nice hotels, You're going to
39:45
these big dinners. You're doing this. Yeah, exactly, man, I
39:49
mean that's I look at it. People like, do you think he should
39:51
do it? And I'm like, if I were him, I do it.
39:52
I mean, I think it'd be fun. But Dave Alancho on five
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Pushkin, But yet you don't hear any conservatives asking for a notice before he
40:20
comes on. So tell me again, liberals, who are the tolerant ones?
40:24
Tex says Greg Thomas sounds like he's given a summary of Fox News talking
40:28
points, same tired, robotic thoughts. What about that? I just say,
40:34
was like a Fox News talking I don't Yeah, I don't even watch
40:40
Greg Thomas. I don't watch. I don't even I don't watch. I
40:43
don't like Fox News. You're not a Fox News. I don't watch any
40:46
cable news. I don't watch Fox News. Like I'm I'm against the uh.
40:52
Look, look, this is one of the reasons, you know,
40:54
I know I always kind of jab morrisey here and I'm gonna go ahead and
40:58
do it. Oh good, Like That's the reason I don't support Patrick Morrissey
41:02
is I don't think Patrick's actually a real conservative. I think what he does
41:06
is regurgitate Fox News talking points. I think that's the kind of campaign.
41:08
You really don't like Patrick Morrison. Look, I just I don't think.
41:12
I don't think he actually knows what the governor's supposed to do. I don't
41:15
think he should run for Look, I don't he should go run for something
41:19
at the federal level. That's what he should do. It's what he wanted
41:22
to do, it's what he should have done. And I just don't think
41:23
he should run for governor. I don't think he actually knows what the governor
41:25
is supposed to do. I don't think I don't think he can get along
41:29
with people well enough to be an effective governor. And I care about the
41:32
state. I've been very involved in the conservative movement for almost a quarter of
41:37
a century now here, and and I hate to see it get And I
41:42
literally think the conservative movement would be set back with a Morrissey governorship because I
41:45
think he would be a terrible governor. I think he'd be very ineffective,
41:50
and I think he would set us back. And I think we've made a
41:52
lot of you know, we've we've done it that the Republican Party has done
41:55
a lot since we've taken over the control of Charleston. And from all aspects
42:00
right, we've done, you know, whether it's you know, abortion,
42:06
we've done a bunch of you know, constitutional carry and the pro pro gun
42:09
stuff. We've done, the stuff to rate in the liberal you know,
42:13
union stuff we've done. We've done a lot of legal reform, We've we
42:17
just did a big the state's biggest tax cut in history. We've done a
42:22
ton of stuff, We've got a lot of momentum. But I do think
42:24
there's a lot of things that mean they need to be done from him a
42:27
gubernatorial administrative standpoint, and you need a leader that's going to be able to
42:30
go in and work with everybody to get that done. And it's it's just
42:34
not him. And I think that's the thing. Right. I think there's
42:36
a lot of politicians and this isn't exclusive to Morrissy here, but I do
42:39
think there's a lot of politicians we have, we have a lot in the
42:43
legislature just really don't understand state issues. They just got really excited watching Fox
42:49
News and decided to run for office, and so you know, and look,
42:53
and that's great, right, that's great. I just think once you
42:55
do it, then you've got to kind of reassess and say, Okay,
42:59
you know, now that I'm here, what do I gotta do? Right?
43:00
Like, are there things that come up on Fox News that you can
43:04
do in Charleston. Sure, there are there's things that come up in Fox
43:07
News that you can do in any county courthouse or any municipal election. But
43:12
most of those issues are federal issues that need to be handled at that level.
43:15
And so look, I just want to see you know, yeah,
43:20
it's ok it's okay to watch Fox News, right, it's okay to watch
43:23
you know, it's not okay to watch MSNBC. But like it's okay to
43:27
watch Fox News, it's okay to do that stuff. I just I worry
43:30
about the people that govern from those talking points. And so when somebody says
43:35
all Greg's Thomas is doing, that's literally the opposite of what I do.
43:37
I don't like that. I don't. I don't. I don't do it.
43:39
I don't like it. Let me throw out a wild political rumor that
43:44
I heard a couple of days ago to get your take on. With Joe
43:47
Manchin out of the race for Senate, now, the poll numbers are out
43:52
mark blanket chips out with the pole he talked about on HOPPYSJ. At the
43:54
election we're held today, Governor Justice is at sixty one percent, Mooney is
43:59
at twenty eight percent, eleven percent or undecided in that Senate race. What
44:04
if someone proposes to me the other day, Patrick Morrissey decides not the run
44:08
for governor and instead runs for Senate. You know that rumors out there.
44:14
I'm not saying he shouldn't he should have done it. He should have he
44:16
should have done it to begin with. Okay, this here, this,
44:21
it is a good look. Obviously, I'm not in the I'm not in
44:23
the Morrisey camp, so I can't tell you if that's like the in validity
44:27
or not. Right, Yeah, but here's why that didn't happen. That
44:31
didn't happen, And and actually brought up the Mark Blanconship poll. And Mark
44:36
did a question on there about Club for Growth, right, and Club for
44:39
Growth is this big national conservative organization that has come in it was had said
44:45
they were going to spend five or ten million dollars for Mooney and five or
44:49
ten million dollars for Morrissey, and you know they're going to do all this
44:52
stuff. They have not spent that money yet and one of the things that
44:58
they are but but they came out early to support Mooney, and Morrissey was
45:04
kind of counting on that group for their support. So that's really why he
45:07
didn't do it. Like there's only so much national money to kind of go
45:09
for the conservative candidate, so he knew he wasn't going to get that.
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And the deal was and if you remember, we talked about this before the
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deal was, and this is Morsey did not want to be governor. But
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the deal was, Okay, hold off, don't run against Mooney, you
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know, make it the three way primary, run for governor. We'll support
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you for that. And then he was going to run against shelleymore Capitau.
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And because the Club for Growth people don't like Capitou, then he was going
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to run against her in the next Senate election. And so that's sort of
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why that didn't happen. There was this like behind the deal, behind the
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scenes sort of deal, and so that's why that didn't happen. Now that
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Moaney's so, I don't know, maybe maybe they'll revisit it. And here's
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the second part, and who got to go to break what I've heard The
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part of that is that Morrissey gets out of the governor's race instead run for
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Senate. Mooney then gets out of the Senate race and then runs for his
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old seat against Riley Moore. I don't give me thirty seconds. Riley would
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beat him. And look, I've personally talked to Mooney and he said he's
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not going to do that. Okay, So it's Rumors Man nine fifty three.
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for having Greg Thomas on the program today. He's a man with common sense.
48:49
Thanks Ask Tex, says Ask Greg who he supports for governor? Anybody
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but Morsey? Anybody but Morsey? All right, you heard it, you
48:57
heard it in press. I want to turn to the Secretary of State's race.
48:59
The current and holder of that office, Mac Water, is running for
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governor. Greg. We all know. Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood was on
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h ear earlier this week. He's in former delegate House Minority Leader and head
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of hd MED Doug scaff Is, in Delegate Chris Pritt, former Legislator Ken
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Reid. Now it seems another Warner, former GOP state chair Chris Warner,
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maybe I in the office. Hoppy wrote about it in his commentary today.
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He's expected to make an announcement on December the seventh, which coincidentally is the
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same day of the first gubernatorial debate. They had to form into Greenvironer,
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but this is the first actual debate featuring Chris's brother Mac, who will be
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on that stage with others. Your take on Chris Warner, Doug Staff,
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any of the Buffer secretary s you know, I know, I actually don't
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know. I do not know Ken Reid very well. I know all of
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the rest of those people personally, and I like them all. I would
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say, and look in Chris and I. Chris and I have been friends
49:51
since two thousand and two, so Chris and I go way back. I
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think a lot of Chris. You know, look, and I like the
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Warners. That the one thing, you know, the Warners are very though
50:04
much like a grassroots kind of party driven folks rather than big time fundraisers,
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right, I mean, fundraising has always been the challenge for them. But
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I do think that that they just they just have such a statewide network.
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They're known as conservatives. They know a ton of people. I think it's
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gonna be tough for the other folks to come in short of having a lot
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of money to be able to run a good campaign against against a Warner.
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Uh. You know, I do think you know, can read Ken Reid
50:31
has spent some you know, I don't he's the one. I don't know.
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He has spent big money on some other races before, so I don't
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know. I mean, I think he has the potential to put in money.
50:42
Uh. You know Scaffs, the scaff family has successful businesses here.
50:46
You know, I think Doug Doug would have a chance of spending a lot
50:53
of money, right. And so that's where you know, if you remember
50:57
a year ago and I talked to Hoppy about, Hey, I think if
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you're running for governor, you gotta have an you gotta have a million dollars
51:02
in the bank if you want to run for government. And and I still
51:05
believe that I think we're almost at the point for these down ticket races for
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the other constitutional officers, where unless you're a big name like Warner with the
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statewide network, you're gonna have to have a half million dollars. Does Chris
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Warner hurt hurt mac though in your opinion Warner fatigue? Or does it help?
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I don't know, you know, I think there's Uh, I don't
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know. I'm I just don't know. I think I think there's probably it
51:37
helps and hurts with different groups, right, it helps and hurts with different
51:39
groups. I think there's some people that probably look at it like, hey,
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you know, I don't know. I think it helps and hurts.
51:47
Uh. But I look, I think if Ken Reid or I think if
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Ken Reid or scaff want to have a chance here, they're gonna have to
51:55
spend like a half million dollars. What about Brian? Look? I like
52:00
Ryan a lot, and I say the same thing about Brian, as you
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know, how are you gonna go get them? You get to go get
52:04
the money, right, You got to be able to get the money to
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compete, because now you've got somebody with the state wide network, it'll be
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it's uphill for sure. But he's a great guy, all right. Greg
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is always a pleasure to have you on the show. I appreciate the opportunities.
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