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10/04/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Mark Ryan, Walt Hall, and Jeff Jenkins · The Dave Allen Show

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about several things. Of course, Walt, if you know Delegate Hall,
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rule in high school sports. We're going to talk about that with some other
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things with Waldhall as well, and coming up a little bit later on,
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Jeff Jenkins is going to join us from the newsroom. It was about twenty
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four hours or so ago that this horrific story came out of Sistinville with these
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two kids that were found locked in a barn and were forced to live there.
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There was another child that was living in a house Squalor. It's an
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absolutely horrible story, and kat skeleton of our news team actually was there yesterday.
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We're to talk to Jeff about that coming up a little bit later on
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as well, plus your calls in text to welcome. Yeah, Kevin McCarthy's
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out in Washington too, So I'm going to try to get into that as
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well. You know, I usually try to bring a little humor into just
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about any subject we talk about here on the show, but with this one,
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to be honest, it's kind of find a hard even for me to
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find anything humorous about it. And while you may think that human trafficking is
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something you only hear about in foreign countries, maybe see on the news or
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in a movie or whatever, it takes place in America. And also it
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takes place in West Virginia every day, and it's going on as we speak.
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There's going to be a summit on the subject of human trafficking held in
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the Toyota Hall of Bridge Valley Career and Technical College at South Charleston on October
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the eighteenth and nineteenth. Sponsored and folks that are a big part of this
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are the group West Virginia Faith and Freedom Coalition. Mark Ryan is on their
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board of directors. He joins us now, Mark, good morning, welcome
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to the show. So much for having ten Did you just get a little
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closer to that microphone if you would there for me. You told me off
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the air had been a few years since you did radio, so a couple
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of years, but great, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. Tell
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us about your role in the summit and this training session and a little bit
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about the faith and freedom called issures you a little background of how I got
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involved with this. About ten years ago, there was a private group that
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worked the southern border and they the mode of operation there was to assist border
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patrol in detaining illegals. But of course in that there was heroin, terrorist
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drugs of every kind, weapons and so forth. But over the course of
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the years, and this is what I had learned then and what brings me
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to being a part of this now, is that the smuggling and the trafficking
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of human beings and then therefore children and women, and that was the short
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story on the border. From there, I knew I had to get involved,
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knowing that these horrific things were happening in our country and now they're you
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know, reported in every state. It's the second largest growing industry in the
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world, and of course West Virginia is back up. Yes, the second
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fastest growing industry in the world is human traffic. Yes, okay, I
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just want to make sure I heard that right now, Yes, yeah,
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so right now, there's about two million children that are in bondage or traffic
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as we speak, and just some of these other stats just to get out
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of the way. But as I said, child sex trafficking has been reported
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in all fifty states. Two million are taken into sex trafficking each year online
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children. I'm sorry when online solicitors target children one out of every nine,
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which is which is very alarming and very concerning, especially if you're a parent
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and you have a children that have access to the internet, and and they
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do and they and they live in a digital world and and every given time
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there's a half a million uh predators that are that are seeking uh to do
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to do harm. So uh, these terrible stats obviously are there. They're
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trending in the wrong direction. West Virginia is vulnerable because we have a broken
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foster system, high level of poverty, high rate of drug abuse, and
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of course the interstate system brings, you know, unfortunately a terrible environment for
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traffickers to to pray off of our off of our children. And there's this
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event is going to be held. It's kind of a I guess a summit
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educational series. What's the best way to describe what's gonna be going on.
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It's training, it's educational, educational preparedness and training. Uh. One of
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the missions is to unite all the churches, unite all the educators, bring
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our government leaders together to bring forth tougher legislation. As we talked about last
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year. Rep. Steel, Delegate Steel had brought forth bred and Steel,
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Yes, and the House bill was very aggressive installed in committee. It didn't
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make it out in committee. We're going to push for the reintroduction of that
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bill or similar language to pass so that West Virginia has as a tough bill
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that rivals Florida and a couple of the other states which penalize anybody that's involved
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with trafficking up to fifty years now. When I know that's going to sound
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like a really dumb question, but I'm kind of good at dumb questions.
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When you talk about human trafficking, what is the exact definition of human trafficking?
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Because I mean, obviously it's going to be trading bodies for money,
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I would think, but there can be a whole lot more into it than
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that. What is your definition or what does the group or the definition of
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exactly what human trafficking is? I mean, I would just simplify it as
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slavery is literally taking somebody into You have labor trafficking, which happens a lot
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with cartel activity that bring people into the United States to work to work off
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their entry. And then of course you have sex trafficking, which essentially is
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what it states. It's just very simply just modern day slavery. And so
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how did the whole concept mark of this having this event out of bridge,
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how the whole concept come about one of Faith in Freedom's core issues. And
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of course this is a non political, non religious event because we invite everybody
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to participate because it's an all hands on deck type of it's two day event.
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Is that right two day event? So we knew for West Virginia,
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with the Faith and Freedom Coalition or my fellow board members executive director Curtis Workman,
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it was very important that we put together a pro to call everybody in
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West Virginia to the table and say, hey, we've got a big problem.
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And so I called on some incredible educators from Florida that have done a
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global and national series to train law enforcement, educate church leaders, educators from
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across the board programs that are effective for the communities that reach the families so
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that families can therefore protect their children. So we know that this is not
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just important for this summit, but we want to continue this in perpetuity so
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that West Virginia becomes a leader and truly fighting this this terrible thing. And
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how many guest speakers do you have? Approximately about seven or eight with a
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couple more, probably a total of ten from from veried backgrounds as you said
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that, but that are all experts in one way or the other that they've
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either had experience with this or And who are you hoping to attract out there?
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I know you mentioned a little bit of that, but I know you
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want to you want to get some some political people, you want to get
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some people in the churches there. But I mean it's pretty much open to
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anybody that wants to come, right it is. But you do have to
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register. You have to register. But we are what we're doing is we
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would like all of our leaders of the state to come in Governor's office,
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Attorney General's office, delegates, members of the Senate, pastors, priests,
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the board, educators, both private and public, because we would like the
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conversation to take place so that we can break down any other channels that have
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distracted us before, so that we can work together and collaborate on really just
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tackling the issue and the group that's coming in to present. They've been successful
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in doing these programs, law enforcement training, Speak Up program for the church
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which identifies issues in the community if somebody is unsure or that their child may
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be targeted or there's an incident. So this just it's preparedness education and then
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therefore taking action to really just thwart what's happening here in West Virginia. Is
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there any kind of education either bark with this particular event or in other works
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that the group and others have done for the kids, I mean, for
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the for the teens or something, Because again, we live in a world
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now it's a lot different than what and I'm probably much older than you,
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but we're basically in the same age group. I would think it was a
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lot different for us. Growing up. We didn't We didn't walk around with
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a device in our hand all the time. I mean, the Internet wasn't
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even a thing, you know when I was a The Internet did to becoming
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thing till I was an adult. As I'm old. Uh So we didn't
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walk around connected so to speak, all the time. But kids from the
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time and mommies and daddies, I mean, I'm a good and call some
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of them out, not all. They thill a device in their hand when
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they're when they're three years old because they don't want to take care of them.
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They would rather have a babysitter and much maybe you know, and to
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be fair, maybe it's the way it was with television during my generation.
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I guess, I don't know whatever, but kids are connected and teenagers and
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they're on all these social media platforms. They're almost connected in all they're waking
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hours. So is there some sort of an education that you offer, either
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at this or other to teenagers and say, look, not everybody is your
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friend that you're playing a game with online in Texas or something. When we
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do it's specifically in the church and the educational platform training sessions. But you
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touched on probably one of the most important things is parental involvement or parental neglect
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in the sense. So what I know now and if I were to say
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anything to parents who are listening out there, is if you have a child
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under seventeen, I would make sure you know anything and everything that they're looking
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at in terms of the Internet, I would spare no expense or just take
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any an don't take any risks allowing your child to be literally have unfettered access
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on the internet, because this is where this is where trafficking begins. This
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is the this is the distribution hub for them to get access not only to
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your child, but perhaps to your home and then therefore you know other problems.
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Well, it's going to be a fascinating a couple of days out there.
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And again it's October the eighteenth and nineteenth at Bridge Valley. How do
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people sign up? But they want to interest I got somebody listening right now
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as part of a church group or an elected official or something like that.
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What do they need to do to sign up and learn more information about so
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they can register at Wvfaithanfreedom dot com. It's WV Faithanfreedom dot com. And
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then also we certainly were accepting donations because we would like to continue this educational
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series and perpetuity for the following years. All right, well, Mark,
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Mark Ryan, you're one of the board members there with what's Virginia Faith and
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Freedom Coalition. I appreciate you taking time to join us to go to that
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Della wall Hall joins us around the district fifty eight, Yes, Sir,
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District fifty eight Republican now District fifty. How are you, sir Walter?
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Hey doing well? Dave doing well? Thank you doing good man, Thank
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you for being here. So you've been kind of a busy guy here late.
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What have you been up to, Walden, Well, what have you
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been doing? Nothing's changed being a delegate because I'll say this unknown Walt for
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a number of years, long before he ever got into the world of politics,
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and you are one of the busiest guys I'd ever met in my entire
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life before you got into politics. Now we added that job that you have
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under the dome down there, and you just tripled it a little bit,
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right, just a little bit. It was being busy, but then there's
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busy and accomplishing something right, And what have you been doing? Hey doing
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well. It's good to be back in the office with the insurance portion of
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my life and entertaining clients and looking for new prospects, still serving the community
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through the Rotary Club, a city council and Vice mayor of Saint Albans and
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now serving obviously as the House of Delegate in District fifty eight. So either
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keeping me busy and I try to accept every invite and imitation to a fair,
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festival or women's group meetings wherever it is the best, or they feed
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you. Well, they're very attentive, and uh, it's it's a great
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experience you were out of hanging out of the senior center? Is that what
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I understand? I have been quite a bit, not because of your because
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you're not there yet. I am not there yet. I'm still trying to
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write down that number you said about pains and I'll take care of you on
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that there. I know them well, So I'll talk a little bit later
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on currently going through some therapy for ostio arthritis and versities and both shoulders.
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So well, we got your hookup with the folks at NATICS, but so
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senior centers. Well, I was invited to have a passion for helping our
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community seniors and UH an issue within the Canall Valley UH Senior Services was brought
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to my attention. So I'll be spending a good deal of my time and
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energy learning more about what they've told me, what they've shared with me,
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which is a possible gap in funding should I say, less funding than they
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were originally promised. And how did that happen to me? Just well with
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the it's just the d HHR separation, and I think the monies that came
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down during the COVID days, we were feeding about every senior or request that
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was accepted at the Senior Center Canal Valley Senior Services. You know you're talking
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about thousand meals a day. Oh yeah. And being in my district is
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the Hansford Senior Center and the West Status Senior Community Center in Nitro, so
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we both participate in the nutrition program. And now with the COVID money expiring
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and being depleted, now we have to find new and creative I don't I'm
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not sure if we as legislators can do anything about it. But I'm here
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to bring a conversation to the table and see how we can assist and help
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and bring food to the folks that need it the most. Again, we're
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I know Walt that you're a big Saint Albans guy, uh and Mayor
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Scott James is going to join me on the show Friday. But there's some
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big events going on there in the s A in the St. Albans area.
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You get the fall Yall's going on this week? Yes, a lot
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of law. You know, there's always something going on in your part of
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the world over there. Well we Scott, Mayor James. You say it's
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the best kept secret, but the secret's god as much of a secret anyhow.
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Right, Well, fairs and festivals are important to Main Street America.
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I believe bringing folks down and out and enjoying the shops in the restaurants on
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Main Street has a special fell and Saint Albans is unique and very fortunate to
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have a lot of occupants in those buildings these days. And it's a lot
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to do with how we change some ordinances and made it more business friendly.
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And Saturday is the fall Y'all Festival. It's the chili cookoff. I spoke
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with the board member last night and we have twenty five participants in the chili
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vendor. Our business through Morris Insurance, will have a booth there and the
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fire departments kind of challenge each other in the local area. So from twelve
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to five on Main Street and Saint Albans there'll be a live entertainment, a
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lot of good spicy hot chili, and ten the temperature is actually going to
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start to feel like come this week, I feel like fall and some craft
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beer vendors and just be good pleasant day. Yeah, I think the high
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on Saturday was going to be well, not too bad, about sixty for
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the high on Saturday. It's what they're saying. But the good news is
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is as looking at the weather forecast here, there's no chance of rain.
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The rain is going to be I think Friday, Friday night or so very
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good. You know those events, Dave, just to give a shout out
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to these Those are hosted by the Streets of Saint Albans on city property,
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but the nonprofit groups and volunteers are the ones who organize these events. It's
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a big shout out to the ones who meet And last weekend, when we
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had two weekends ago, believe it was, was the Saint Albans Train Day
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and Debbie Austin Brown and the Saint Alban's Chamber put that on. We had
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close to two thousand kids and parents on Train Day over there along the tracks.
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Your Fall You Off Festival as a big event. Mountaineer Main Street was
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a big event. So you know, we're constantly getting three five thousand people
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outdoors volunteers organizing these events. And I don't think people realize, to follow
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up on your point, they're nolling good. I don't think people realize that
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when they when they show up at an event, whether it's in Saint Albans
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or Charleston or Hurricane or wherever it is, there's a whole lot of work
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went into that. A lot of work went into that, and and unfortunately
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what happens is that you don't always have enough volunteers, so you end up
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having a lot of the same people that are and you know this because you're
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big on public service. You you have a lot of people that are doing
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a lot of the same things. I was talking to my buddy here in
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the building, Steve Animal from our sister station, the plug for the all
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New ninety eight seven The Mountain. I was talking to him at an event
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yesterday and he asked him if he was going with us last night. There
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was an event in Huntington, the Broadcasting Hall of Fame last night. Well
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I didn't make it, so it wasn't me, but Stephen Jenny into first
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couple to ever, first team, first team ever. Yes, and also
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our boss got to give shouts with both Joe Parsons. But I did want
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to say this that I was talking to Steve yesterday. I said, you're
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going to make it down there. He says, no, I've got one
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meeting that goes until six point thirty and then I got to leave that meeting
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and go to another one. And that's just that's the kind of way.
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It's just kind of the way it happens. It's always been who is volunteering
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for these events. He should be committed. I'll say that for Steven.
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But all right, I gotta I gotta throw this out here. Walt,
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and I know that you've been asked about it and ask about it constantly,
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and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on it, but
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I did want to get your opinion because people that know you know you're a
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sports guy. Your your big sports get played sports and big sports fan and
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whatever. Lots of talk in West Virginia boys this transfer role as it pertains
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to high school sports. Uh So it was passed by the legislature. You
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know, some were on board, some weren't. And now there are those
25:49
that are saying this has been a just unmitigated disaster that we're having all these
25:55
lopsided scores. There are other people that say, well, you know what,
26:00
you should be able to send your kids to whatever school that you want,
26:03
just like you could if they had a better ban program or better academics,
26:07
or whatever the case may be. I know you've been hearing a lot
26:11
from your constituents. Where are you on all this? I mean there's a
26:15
little bit of both. I mean, because there's I mean I see it
26:18
well as good and bad. Yeah, I mean I think there are good
26:21
and bad to both points. But what say you? It's been well documented
26:26
that I opposed House Bill twenty eight twenty. I have done multiple interviews and
26:33
newspaper interviews to share my opinion. I've spoken out against and I'll continue to
26:44
listen to my constituents and their concerns and thoughts and ideas. But at this
26:48
point, as much as we've all discussed the issue, it's not started out
26:55
very well. These scores are one actor. Injuries and safety are my biggest
27:04
concern. You have ninth graders at one hundred and twenty five to one hundred
27:08
and forty pounds playing against kids that are two fifty to two seventy five to
27:14
eddy seniors. So it's hurting the fabric of community. It's stripping pride away
27:21
from that community spirit on both sides. And I will continue to listen to
27:29
my constituents. I'll continue to talk about the issue and hopefully make some changes
27:37
to the bill, but at this time, I don't plan to elaborate or
27:41
speak any more on the topic. Let's evaluate it, Let's gather some data
27:48
and analysis after the school year football games four quarters. We've only gone through
27:52
football seasons. We've gone through one quarter of a school year. There are
27:56
a lot more sports and activities and band performances to occur throughout this school year,
28:03
so I want to evaluate it after this full calendar year and see how
28:11
it plays out. Hadn't started out too well. But I think at this
28:15
time this will be the last I discussed it. And I appreciate the question.
28:21
Thank you for bringing it to the forefront. I think it's on everybody's
28:23
tip of their tongue. Yeah, thank you for asking. Yeah. And
28:26
one other thing I will say about that and we'll move on, and that
28:30
is that in the session next year, will it be what is your take
28:34
on what it'll be brought up again? Because I've had some members particularly of
28:37
the House of Delegates, Dana Ferrell being one of them. He's a regular
28:41
on the show. Dana Delegate Ferrell has said this is we're bringing this up,
28:45
We're talking about it. I had sitting or Ami Nicole Grady, good
28:48
friend of yours, good friend of mine that was on the show. Senator
28:51
Grady says, I'm not going to go anywhere. This is a work in
28:55
progress that we're only as you said, we're very early into this. We
28:57
are not even got into basketball season. Yeah, there are people that although
29:03
you know, injuries can happen any of the sport, there's not generally as
29:07
horrific injuries and basketball as what there's a football, but they say that's going
29:10
to be an even bigger problem for basketball. It's an election year next year,
29:15
so that has to be factored in. Sometimes. I know you're relatively
29:18
new at this, but you've been around the process for a long time.
29:21
Sometimes controversial things don't get brought up in election years because nobody wants to,
29:26
you know, wants to weigh in on anything that could cost them their job.
29:30
Do you look in your crystal ball. Do you think it'll be brought
29:33
up in the legislature this year? Do you think it has a passive chance
29:37
of being reversed or staying the same or I will leave the reversal issue in
29:45
the hands for our elected officials that represent their district, and if their constituents
29:53
have an issue with the bill or support the bill, then they should reach
29:59
out to their elected official, the candidate. As you say, it's electioneer
30:03
for me, I listen for me. I'm in my community. I hear
30:07
what's going on. So will it be brought up? Delegate Ferrell and I
30:15
have been behind the push. I believe it will do. I believe it
30:18
will gain strength and be overturned. That's in the hands or the fingers of
30:26
the elected officials when they push the green or red button. But to start
30:30
the process, I believe a reasonable fella or gal would say, call your
30:36
elected official and express your opinions so they can vote according to the people.
30:41
That's what we're elected to exactly. Community right, and for the people that
30:45
have been highly upset about this one side or the other. Yah, it's
30:48
great to post it on Facebook, but that's not going to change anything.
30:52
It's great to call me or text me, but it's not change anything with
30:56
me. Contact your legislators one way or the other. There are people out
31:00
there that say, hey, this is we love this. They talk about
31:03
freedom and sports and freedom to be able to do what they want. If
31:07
you want to, just contact your legitlator, that's because that's who's gonna make
31:10
the ultimate decision. All Right, what's gonna happen with Walt Hall in twenty
31:11
twenty four? What do you? Well? You go? I hope to
31:15
survive the day, seize the moment right, and wake tomorrow and continue my
31:22
drive and passion for what I believe in. Okay, you know, there's
31:26
three areas that I like to focus on in life and outside of my religion
31:34
beliefs, and my family and my community are the more specifics. I tie
31:41
it down into the ICE mentality I ce I being infrastructure and technology, And
31:48
as you know heard from Delegate Linvill yesterday about Starlink, I was on that
31:53
committee that took the tour with those folks. We were on top of the
31:57
Capitol beside the dome on a very hot day. How are you with heights
32:01
and well, I fortunately didn't look over. I didn't need to look up
32:07
either. Yeah, I was looking at this little disc that was automatically,
32:12
pneumatically moving from side to sideun till it landed on the satellite that was above
32:15
us, one of forty five hundred. So that's a topic. I'll continue
32:20
working on broadband in Saint Albans. We passed at City Council, so we're
32:23
gonna make that investment. C being community through parks and recreation, our youth,
32:29
our seniors, and the final E letter is for economic development tourism.
32:32
I'll continue to fight and look for ways to find dollars to enhance our community
32:38
in those three areas. So said about Walt Home, nobody's going out work
32:43
you man, You're out there working hard. Well. Appreciate the compliment.
32:45
And you'll see me at a place near you soon. Shall let you Parmar.
32:52
There's not there yet, you will be so, all right, Del
32:58
good Wald hall Man, It's always a pleasure talk to you. He's available
33:00
on social media. You're always on social media. You can reach out to
33:02
him that way, you know. And I've got concerns about anything. We
33:07
talked about transfer roll or anything else. I mean, just he's like the
33:09
most of the accessible guy in the world. Contact him. I have one
33:14
of seven Facebook pages, so you've can find him a nonprofit with one of
33:17
them. Yeah, I shout out to The Southern Legislative Conference was held in
33:21
Charleston, South Carolina, this past year, and West Virginia is now going
33:24
to be the host of the twenty twenty four Southern Legislative Conference that occur on
33:30
July twenty first to the twenty fifth, and we'll have over fourteen hundred legislators
33:35
from fifteen states. Okay, the green Brock County area, and what an
33:39
honor and a way to show off our state and welcome some colleagues from around
33:45
the East coast. All right, we'll talk about it as it gets a
33:47
little closer. Walt, I appreciate you being here, Della got Walt Hall.
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Winfield. Jeff Jenkins from the newsroom joins us right now, Jeff. About
36:50
twenty four hours or so ago, that's when we learned about this horrific story
36:53
from the Sissonville area where two people are facing charges of gross child neglect after
36:59
two kids found locked in a barn and another in a loft area of a
37:02
home, all in terrible condition. Jeff, the pixel of the barn and
37:07
the accused posted in the storywv Metro News dot com. What a horrible,
37:14
horrible story, buddy, Yeah, I mean we're the criminal complaint has a
37:17
good bit of information from the sixteen year old girl who talked to investigators who
37:27
was locked in the shed and said that, you know, that's kind of
37:30
a common thing, that they've been locked in the shed. And so the
37:35
sheds described no running water, there was a kind of like a camp or
37:39
potty in there, a table, maybe a couple of chairs. There's been
37:44
no food or anything like that. And this said that she said that they
37:47
had been fed earlier that day. And then our Catherine Skelton went out and
37:54
talked to a neighbor who, you know, one of the neighbors had called
38:00
in uh to police and had reported that, you know, maybe they want
38:05
to check this out, and that's how police got on it. Uh.
38:07
And so the neighbor said, you'll you'll see the kids, uh doing a
38:10
lot of chores, uh, farm type chores. Yeah, because they had
38:15
a lot of animals. Yes, Catherine's notes, I mean we're not talking
38:19
about dogars and cats, exotics some exotic animals. Yeah, exotic animals out
38:22
there. And uh. The neighbors said that this couple moved in not too
38:30
long ago and uh, and that they're from Washington. And we were able
38:36
to confirm that, uh that the license plate on the vehicle on a van
38:38
out there, it did have the state of Washington. So we're trying to
38:42
follow up today and Chris Lawrence is working on this just about you know,
38:46
have there been other calls? You know, the neighbors said that CPS had
38:52
been called a few times, uh, and there had been nothing had been
38:57
at least as far as they know, there're no no check had been made.
39:00
So again, these were adopted kids. So they have a total five
39:05
kids that were adopted. There were three there and two in another location.
39:09
So the two teenagers were in the shed and then the and then a third
39:17
who was younger. They have like a like a log cabin out there,
39:22
and there was a loft in that low cabin and that's where they found That's
39:25
where they found the other child. This is an unbelievable story. I mean,
39:31
you know, again, I was like a lot of people. I
39:35
was here at the station yesterday listening to you know, I know, Chris
39:38
and I think yourself were on hoppy a couple of times talking about this because
39:42
it just broke about twenty four hours ago. Well, so what do we
39:44
know about the adults in the story and how the heck well, I mean,
39:49
there's so many unanswered questions, and you hate to speculate because things are
39:52
going to come out. But you wonder, I mean, people don't just
39:54
get this crazy overnight. You wonder how and the heck were they even allowed
39:59
to adopt kids if they I mean, unless they just suddenly snapped. And
40:05
Hobby brought up a good point yesterday. Hobby said, you wonder what goes
40:07
through people's minds that makes them think this is okay that we can keep human
40:15
beings, let alone teenagers in a barn in a shed. A barn is
40:21
not even the best way to describe it. I think it was a shed
40:22
more than anything, you know, more than anything else. But what do
40:27
we know of anything about these about these people, Well, that's what you
40:30
were trying to find out, right, you know more about them, and
40:34
you know both both in their sixties, uh so, both older, and
40:37
then from the criminal complaint, you know they they had come back. The
40:43
way that you know police make contact with them is that they have come back
40:50
to the property and the police were there and they started talking to them,
40:53
and then they charged them. And one of them said that the kids like
40:58
to be locked up in the shed. Unbelievable, they like it. That
41:02
was the quote in the criminal complaint. Yeah, and so the police are
41:08
called and that, as you said, the people I read it. I
41:12
think of the story and against great story posting w as good as it can
41:15
be, I guess, and considering a situation postingwv metronews dot com that they
41:17
were fed at around like six in the morning. That was feeding time.
41:22
Again, this is humans we're talking about in a barn, in a shed.
41:24
Feeding time was about six o'clock in the morning. They'd been fed and
41:29
then the adults, I guess left. What's really telling to me? And
41:34
I don't want to get in this very early. It's easy for me to
41:36
sit here on the side of the microphone or you to point fingers whatever.
41:37
But neighbors are saying that CPS was contacted numerous times and that nothing was done.
41:44
Now again, investigation continues. But if that is true, and we
41:50
all know they're well documented, Jeff with the problems with CPS and a lack
41:52
of workers. But if that is true, in my opinion, there needs
41:57
to be criminal charges fouled against CP. Yes workers. If this is true,
42:00
well we're gonna try it. That's what we're trying to chase down.
42:04
Yeah, you know, and sometimes that's quite honestly, not the most easiest
42:07
thing to chase down. So we're we're trying to chase that down to see
42:10
if in fact CPS was called or who was called? Uh and and you
42:17
know the in the sheriff's departments also, I think looking into that very thing,
42:22
uh, to see, you know, to see, you know,
42:24
how extensive was this. I mean, what we know is you know,
42:30
criminal already. I mean they've been charged, but was how long had this
42:35
gone on? Right? You know, I had it gone on since they
42:38
had you know, they had moved there, which the neighbor said was I
42:42
think about five or six months or something like that. I had to go
42:45
back and check the story for the exact details. But you know, well
42:50
it could be could be one of those things. Once you you know,
42:53
start peeling back the onion, you know, you find out even more information
43:00
on this. Uh. The thing that I thought of, just what crosses
43:05
your mind, was that case in California, now several years ago where now
43:08
these were there, these were the adoptive children of this couple here in Kanawk
43:14
County, but you remember the biological children of a couple that were just kind
43:17
of held prisoner in their own home in the in the couple of girls eventually
43:23
sneaked out and snuck out of the window or whatever, and they found but
43:29
you know, according to the criminal complaint, according to deputies, these the
43:31
children were now nourished, the hygiene was, you know, in bad shape
43:39
as you would imagine it would be. Uh and you know, just all
43:44
signs of alleged abuse here. And so that's what they've been charged with the
43:49
lact So now where are the kids? Now? Do we know where the
43:50
kids? CPS? So they're in custody, Okay, yeah, yeah,
43:53
yeah, I mean they took them for you know, under and even Saul
43:57
because I kind of proves the Canal Animal Shelter social media because I usually shared
44:02
it on my Facebook page and Dave Allen Radio, I saw that there were
44:06
a couple of the exotic animals. I guess worth the shelter. I guess
44:07
they took them as well. I mean, I'm assuming it was the same
44:10
one. You see animals like that. There's not that many of them running
44:14
around. Jeff, A horrific story. I appreciate you and Chris and Kat
44:17
and carrying the entire team working on it. I'm sure we'll have more throughout
44:20
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44:22
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45:00
investigation, as you have said, it's far from being over, and as
45:06
I don't want to appeel like I'm piling on CPS with all the problems this
45:08
organization has had, and again I'm not the fault lies with the with with
45:13
these you know, these people, and I even even hesitate to call them
45:17
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45:21
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45:32
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45:37
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about accused and CPS workers of not doing their job. There are a lot
47:50
of variables to go into these investigations. Awful easy to say they should have
47:52
stopped this after the fact. That's very true, and I will own that
47:57
and I will apologize for that. I guess you would just hear a store
48:00
story like that. You know you just latched out because this story. I
48:01
mean, you know when they say the CPS was called and nothing was done,
48:07
that's very true, very good point made by the texture. We should
48:08
not present company included, should not jump to conclusions because we don't know exactly
48:14
what happened there. So I will dial that one back, but I will
48:17
say that if if we found that there was negligence that had should roll.
48:22
I'll put it that way. That's a big if so uh point well made
48:24
by the texture Texas. Dave. You'll have to bring charges against the governor
48:29
and the legislature then for gross criminal negligence after years of doing nothing to solve
48:34
the CPS staffing problem. According to a texture Textas says, do they happen
48:37
to know how long these parents and air quotes have had these children? Horrific
48:42
to think how these how long these kids may have been treated like that?
48:45
Quick before we go to the phones, Jeff, just give me one second
48:49
on this story. Post to wv metro news dot com at around two twenty
48:52
this afternoon. Your cell phone, it's going to go a bit crazy.
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Just be warned that FEMA and conjumption with the FCC is conducting a test.
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tenfoil hat wears. I actually read this online from a seeming a normal person
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that said this was all part of a much larger plan, and that you
49:22
should not making this up now, that you should turn your phone off and
49:29
take your kids out of school, that it was all related to COVID vaccinations
49:31
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49:36
somebody. Just know that's not true. It's not related to the COVID vaccines.
49:42
It's a test that they do every few years, a national test.
49:45
Two twenty or so. This afternoon, your cell phone's going to get an
49:47
alert. Uh and uh so there you go. Let's go to the phones.
49:52
Jim, you're on five IDEA live. Go ahead. Hello, how
49:55
you doing well? There's my friend. I was starting to get a little
49:58
bit worried. Man. Well, there's been some ups and downs, but
50:05
I had some surgery and everything is looking up all right. Well, that's
50:10
good. What's on your mind? Well, there was a second incident in
50:15
the Sissonville area about neglect of small children. And the sources tell me that
50:23
the Jenner Landing apartment, which is next to the spark plug factory, there
50:31
was a baby that was found outside there. I guess you would say one
50:40
of those bouncy type seas yea. And the lady picked up the baby and
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she thought about just taking the baby to her apartment and calling the deputies.
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But sources say that there was a two arrests out there. Okay, so
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it's bad, you know, on a systemlee community, but it's just sad
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that it happened in the same areas. All right, Jim, I appreciate
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your call. Thank you very much. We will look into that. Text
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says, going back to the Faith and Freedom interview at it earlier. Why
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does the Faith and Freedom Coalition support and adjudicated sex abuser talking about Trump?
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I suppose, And the texture goes on to say, I get all my
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advice on sex abuse from a group that gives a platform to a sex abuser.
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Faith and Freedom Coalition is a scam. I don't, I mean,
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I don't know who if they it's it's not what I was here to talk
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about, not what Mark was here to talk about. But all right,
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a couple of quick notes from the website. I am quickly running out of
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time here. Of course, the Kevin McCarthy thing is unbelievable, that this
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is happening, you know, with a few times, I mean just I
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don't even know what to say about the whole Kevin McCarthy thing, other than
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to read a text I got earlier that says I still can't believe Gates and
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his posse joined in with the Democrats to take down a Republican leader. Unreal
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Republican Party. Gonna have to get this ship in order or it's going down
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in flames real quick. All Right, we gotta go. Coming up on
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the show tomorrow, there is a new film out called Impossible Town. We're
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going to talk to the folks from that. Also, the people behind the
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scare View Hot and House will be here as well. See you tomorrow.
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Till then, have fun, Love somebody ASA ninety six point five. That's
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