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05/30/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Rich Kline, Paige Withrow, and Tony Hodge · The Dave Allen Show

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vacation last week. Coming up on the show of This Morning, our friend
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Rich the Real declines here to talk about the real estate market in the area.
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Paige Wthrow is here from the West Virginia National Yeager Airport Folks to talk
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about the first Breeze Airways flight out of Yeager, which is happening tomorrow,
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and State Republican Party coach heir Tony Hodge is here as well. Enjoy my
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time off with my wife on the beat somewhere. Although it was about twenty
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degrees cooler where I was and what it is what it was here last week,
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but it's back to the grind and it seems like forever since I've been
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here. It was Friday, May the nineteenth, if you're keeping score at
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home, and since that time. To be honest, and you know,
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I try to unplug when I'm on vacation. But the biggest story around the
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Charleston area. And let me see if I get this straight. It was
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announced the comedian Dave Chappelle is coming in concert, but is accused of leude
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behavior in a parking Canaccounty Commissier Kent Carper. No wait, I may have
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that. I may have the two big stories mixed up. I apologize for
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that. So the Kent Carper story probably the worst kept secret in Charleston.
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All that week, most of us in the media started hearing about the allegations
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of allegations important to remember, of leud conduct on part of Commissioner Carper Monday
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of that week. We were getting texts to the show about it as early
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as Tuesday. But until you have something to go on, a journalist or
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media member, you're really setting yourself up for a hard fall if you go
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on mere allegations, because, let's face it, with all due respect to
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our law enforcement officers in the area and talking to fellow members of the media
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while I was gone, you know, law enforcement for one reason or another,
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there's not exactly been forthcoming with this whole thing. What may or may
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not have happened on Monday, May fifteenth. Finally, on Friday of that
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week, just before I went on vacation, and don't read too much into
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that. WOWKTV went with the story on what little they or any of us
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had. Hoppy on that day brought it up with Knaan County Commissioner Ben Selango
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on talk line. Commissioner Selango's appearance on Hoppy, by the way, was
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already scheduled well before these allegations were reported, allegations that everybody knew about,
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and they went with that. On that Friday morning at eleven o'clock, Hoppy
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brought it up to Commissioner Selango. Into his credit, he did address it.
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So where does it stand now? There's not much to report and there
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probably won't beat for some time. Commissioner Krper, frequent guests and friend of
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the show, was admitted to the hospital later in the week, as you
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well know, for heart surgery. Into my knowledge, he is still recovering
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at the hospital now. Last week his family issued a statement through a PR
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firm, same baseically that the actions that were alleged to have taken place by
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Commissioner Carper, whatever they were, may have been brought on by a medical
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condition. Seems, you know, a little suspect, but I'm not a
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medical professional, so I'll leave that up to those folks. I will say
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I wish Commissioner Commissioner Carper the best in his recovery. But in the words
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of Ricky Ricardo, he's got some explaining to do once he's able, and
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I will, like every other media personality in this city and state, afford
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him that opportunity to tell his side of the story should he choose to.
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But as for now, I guess you're caught up totally ever related to any
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of that. Let's welcome back in our good friend, rich klient rich the
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realtory, if you will, for Muk's Realty with an update and what's going
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on in the world of real estate here in the Canal Valley. How are
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you, Richard. Good, good to see you back. Thank you for
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coming back on the show. Last time you were on, and a lot
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of realtors have talked about this as well. We talked about the inventory or
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lack thereof of housing in the Canal Valley. Has it changed months since last
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time you were on. Not much, not much. I ran some numbers
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this morning and in the last well certainly just our total inventory of the eleven
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counties that are Connavaldwar Realtors cover there are four hundred and ninety current active listings,
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so that's maybe a little bit up from the last time, maybe by
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ten or fifteen or so, but not much. That's um we'll get like
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here's here's an example. In seven days or so, we had sixty two
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new listings hit the Canavaldawarre Reltors out of eleven counties, total of sixty two,
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and we had sixty eight go pending. So it would say go pending.
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I mean, I know what that means. Would explain that to people.
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So that's a contract or an accepted contract on a sale. So someone
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puts her house in the marketing goes pending when they get it, when they
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actually accept the contract. So of the sixty two that went live, brand
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new listings and then an additional sixty eight go pending sale. So what's the
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reason there's many more buyers? I mean, but I mean, why this
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big you know you've been doing real estate for a while. Why why this
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sudden shake up for lack of a better term, in the market where everybody's
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going crazy. We were joking in the green room, but it's to the
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point now in Tay's valley that if somebody takes their curtains down to watch them,
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they've got like five realtors and and ten perspective buyers show it up and
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you're like, I'm just cleaning my curtains, man. Yeah, you know,
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it's it's really just about the demand. So there's it really is,
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in my opinion, linked to the to the inventory number that people get that
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feeling like holy moally that house is on the market. We're never going to
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find some, you know, somewhere to go. People move for various reasons.
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And I was talking in the green room to your upcoming guests just about
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the you know, there are still people out there who want to buy.
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Lots of folks um don't have to sell, so they're just sitting tight and
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wait, kind of waiting the storm out, so to speak. The storm
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has been going now for a little while. So and as a reminder of
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my one of my favorite scenes, it's just you, you know, you
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date the rate and then marry the house, so rates will come down at
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some point. You can always refinance the rate, you know. But some
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people are just riding the storm out because they don't have to go. But
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there are lots of people who still have to buy. They're going somewhere.
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They're either getting married and moving, or their job changes, or they're relocating
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to the state, and those are those are still buyers, and they know
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the inventories low, so they're anxious to get it. And there's there's still,
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you know, an abundance of buyers out there, even when the rates.
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You know, right now, if you go to if you're a good
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credit score and you're a good DTI or debt to income ratio, you're still
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at seven one according to our buddy Eric Smith this morning. So you know,
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that's a big number from where it was a couple of years ago,
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but it's not a big number generally speaking over the course of time, and
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again I believe it'll come back down. We're talking to a rich client of
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Meek's realty. He joins us from time to time to update us on the
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real estate market here in the Canal Valley five eighty live. It's it's nine
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to sixteen, okay. So let's say rich, my wife and I decide
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that we want to take advantage of the market situation and put our house on
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the market. We know, first thing to do is get a quality realtors
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such as yoursell But what do we need to do to get the house ready
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to go on the market. There's always this. It's kind of like with
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a car. My brother in laws in the car business, and it's always,
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well, the car needs some repairs. Do I fix it first or
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do I let the prospective buyer or the dealership take care of it? Is
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it's the same and realty. What do we need to do first? Yeah,
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that's a great question. And get this I get this question all the
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time. And you know, obviously you want to get a professional realtor in
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there to help guide you on what you should and shouldn't do. There are
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certain things I don't believe that are necessary, particularly with the state of the
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market. You know, some of those larger repairs. I don't think you
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remodel bathrooms and you know, put seventy thousand dollars in a kitchen kind of
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thing prior to selling. But in terms of the of the general deferred maintenance
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things, that'll be the things that will slow the sail down if you can
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get into some of the deferred maintenance things. But some of the probably the
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low hanging fruit, which you would do. I tell people make sure all
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the light bulbs are burning. I would give the house a good cleaning.
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You'll be surprised of what we see. And some of the listings would go
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in. I minimize your furniture, don't get rid of all your furniture.
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That's another question that comes up. Should I go ahead and just sell my
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moving sale and that kind of stuff? And I would tell you not to
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do that. It shows much better when it's stage, when you have se
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at least something at it. I mean, I couldn't recall with my wife
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and I looked at houses, you know, walking in and I just don't
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have that much imagination, you know, I got to see what it's going
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to look like, right. But that's what your realtor will help you with,
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you know. But I would tell you to minimize the furniture. If
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you've got over stock and your furniture and some of the rooms that make the
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rooms seems smaller, I would remove that stuff. They also some of the
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advice will come out to get rid of some of the personal items, like
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personal pictures of your family, you know, you just have to keep.
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I don't know that I would get rid of all of that kind of stuff.
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But you don't want anything that you wouldn't want to post on social media
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because there's gonna be lots of people coming into your so if there are,
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you know, pictures of kids that you don't want out there, So don't
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leave the credit card laying around, don't leave passion credit cards and fire arms,
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things like that kind of thing. But and then minimize all of your
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closet stuff, make your runs to your charitable donation and thin out that stuff
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so that it looks like there's plenty of space in your room or in your
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house. Fresh paint goes a long way, so I will I always advise
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folks to go ahead and paint and make it look and paint in neutral colors,
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don't put anything crazy in there. But that's kind of where I would
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steer people initially. Rich. I know, the market now is unlike any
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market we've seen. We talked about the earlier in the past, but in
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general, how long might I be looking at like get some serious offers and
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eventually a sale on my place? Yeah, So depends on where you are
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and your and your specific area. If your house is sellable and you've done
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those things, you're you know, you're defer maintenance things are done, You're
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gonna have a home that's going to be hot. You're talking about a couple
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of days or so in Putnam County, maybe up to a week in certain
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other areas, but the days on market for the average is less than seven
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days. And you mentioned Funham County. Of course, you know, you
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folks are all over the Kanalla Valley, but you live in Putnham County.
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It's how I know, you know, being a fellow Putnham County. And
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it's it is about to explode once again in Putnham County. I wasn't there
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in the nineteen nineties. I guess when the big explosion happened in the nineties
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into two thousands, and it's sort of leveled off. It is about to
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get real in Putnham County yet again. And and and and for what most
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people are telling us, mainly because of new Core, it's going to be
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even more with people flooding into Putnam County. Yeah. Well, and as
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population grows, there are other areas that support that. The ancillary positions,
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the doctors and you know, surgery centers that just went up, and hurricane
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that is new like that kind of stuff is coming and um, it will
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create a boom and it will create traffic. It's already created. Try and
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turn left on. But you know, we really need costability to go down
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so that the builders out there in the world, and if you're listening,
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please build us some poms to sell. But it's the cost of building has
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to go down and be reasonable for those guys to make some money. Rich's
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always a pleasure to talk to you. Give us your contact information. Working
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people learned about Rich threeal turn, I'm glad to talk to three or four
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nine three two seven four eight Eight's the best way to reach me three or
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four nine three two seven four eighty eight. You can also get me a
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Rich kleiin sixty six at gmail dot com. All right, man, we'll
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talk again soon. Thanks a lot. Hey, how are the Pirates?
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How are your pirates doing right now? Because they were, I'm mean doing
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Pirates fan, I'm not. I thought you were being to Pittsburgh. I
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mean I can know you a lot of times to Pittsburgh. Yeah, just
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it's it's stealers and Penguins. Not a Pirates not a Pirates fan. Okay,
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Virginia International Yaker Airport Page. Good morning, How are you? Good morning?
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I'm good. Thank you for having me today. Thank you for being
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here. And I know it's a busy time for you folks. A matter
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of fact, you ducked out of a meeting to do this interview, and
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I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Sure, Dad, you're welcome.
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We're excited. I'm excited to talk about our new flight option. So
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tomorrow is going to be a big day on the hill. Tell us what's
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going on. Yeah, tomorrow is a big day. We're very excited to
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welcome Breeze to Charleston with new direct flights to Charleston, South Carolina and Orleano,
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Florida. And let's talk about the whole timeline here page. How did
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this whole thing with Breeze come about? Yeah, well, you know,
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we unfortunately lost their risk with Spirit Airlines, but we are staff worked quickly
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with members of the Governor's staff, the can Algana Commission, and Charleston.
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You know, we all work together to bring Breeze to the airport, and
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we're very excited to have them. So what will people see at the airport
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tomorrow? What's the timeline of events tomorrow and what's going to happen there.
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We have a very early kickoff tomorrow morning, so Charleston, South Carolina arrives
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actually at eight thirty in the morning. We're going to have a gate party
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for our passengers all day long. We'll have another flight coming in around three
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from Orlando, so we'll celebrate that as well. So a lot of celebrations
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for our passengers tomorrow. And this is just the beginning, with the promise
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of much more to come in the future. Is that right? It is?
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Stay tuned for more exciting announcements for other direct routes. Hopefully we might
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have an announcement for you tomorrow, say stay tuned, all right, they'd
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be good, that'd be good. So so far, what does the public's
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response, bet? I mean, this news first came out a couple of
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months ago, and there's a lot of who applause, you said, with
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a lot of the political folks up there and you folks at the airport,
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and everybody's excited about it. What's been a response from the public though so
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far it's been great. So or the demand for Orlando has been so great
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that they've actually uped that weekly from two times a week to four times a
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week. So the demand to Orlando is there. We're starting to build that
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demand for Charleston, South Carolina. It's a great place to visit. So
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do you guys haven't booked your summer vacations yet? Looking the Breeze um,
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they're a great airline with, you know, great options for flights. What's
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a flight to Charleston, South Carolina looked like as far as time wise?
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Approximately? I don't expect it to be exact, but how long does it
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taket to fly there? Approximately? About an hour? Okay, well it's
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so somebody who drove south to a vacation spot last week. I would definitely
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be taking you up on that, I think, and plus, I believe
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it or not, I've never been to Charleston, South Carolina. Here.
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It's a beautiful city. It's an area that I would I'd like to visit
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and Paygona. A lot of people worked hard to make this happen. Do
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you want to want to throw out some some some kind works for some people
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that made this happen. Yeah, we're you know, it was truly a
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part ownership. We all work together with you know, the Governor's staff of
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State of West Virginia, the Kenong County Commission, a city of Charleston.
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I mean, so many people is thinking for bringing this wonderful airline to Charleston.
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So we're just so grateful to everyone. Page we had before we let
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you go, we had a text to the show. Someone asked the texts
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at the beginning of the show when I asked you were going to be on
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asking if you can comment on any plans for expanding the airport the airport itself,
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Is there any anything planned, anything can comment on? Or is that
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not your department or what? No, not this time too early in that
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environmental study right now, so nothing we can really say right now. Well,
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I know you'll keep us updated when it happens, if and when it
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happens, right, absolutely, we will absolutely keep you updated. Oh what
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page? I wish you the best of luck with everything tomorrow. And you
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said that flight comes in at eight thirty? Is that right? It does?
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So if you're looking to book a trip this summer, you can book
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now at libraries dot com or the other apps. All right, page with
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row West Virginia International Yeager Airport. We'll talk soon. Best to luck with
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everything tomorrow. Thanks a lot, Thanks so much, see you later.
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the glass, and I have Tony Hodge, who's the State Republican Party co
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chair in studio with guests this morning. Tony, Good morning, How are
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you sir? Good morning, Dave. I'm glad to be here. How
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are you? I am fine? This airport stuff, man, this excites
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you because people may not know this about you. You're a pilot, I
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am. I see you on the Book of Face. Man, you're just
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flying all over the play. How how did you get into that? I
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don't know. I mean, I think it's it's a lifelong passion that I've
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had since I was young. I remember flying with a guy named five dollars
22:02
Frank. Some of the listeners might know who that is. His name was
22:03
Frank Thomas out of Fayetteville, West Virginia. And you could go up there
22:07
any day of the week, anytime, pay the man five bucks and he'd
22:11
give you a flight around the New Vic Gorge area and the New Vic Gorge
22:15
Bridge. So I used to do that as a teenager, and that kind
22:17
of sparked my interest. And you know, you get life gets moved along,
22:21
you get married, you have children and things like that, and things
22:22
kind of get away from you. But when COVID hit, I said,
22:25
you know what, I'm gonna follow after my dream, go after it.
22:27
And I did, and we've been flying now for a couple of years.
22:30
It's it's been a lot of fun. But I will tell you about this
22:33
airport announcement that's really interesting. Like you, I've never been to Charleston,
22:37
South Carolina, and this connection, you know, might make a way for
22:41
me and my family to go. But she also said that there was Orlando,
22:45
and that would have been nice because I just got back from Orlando over
22:47
the Memorial Day weekend and I actually drove over to Cincinnati to take that flight
22:52
down. A lot of people do that. Yeah, yeah, and so
22:55
out of Charleston, that'll be really nice. But on top of that,
22:56
what I'd really like to see, and this is my home for West Virginia,
23:00
is that these flights aren't just an outbound way of thinking about things.
23:07
But I want Charleston, West Virginia to be the destination. And I think
23:10
that can happen when we have the right leaders in place, the right mindset
23:12
in place. We need instead of Charleston, South Carolina. We need those
23:17
guys coming up here and we need to make that happen. So I'm optimistic.
23:19
I love it. You see the way he just smoothly transitioned into politics.
23:23
There, that's why you're the man. There's this guy you got with
23:26
you here? Tell tell us about this kid? Well over here to my
23:29
left, I have Hayden Hodge, who happens to be my son. He's
23:32
a high school student at Hurricane High School, and he likes to fly.
23:37
He likes politics. Pretty smart kid, say, Hi, Hayden pretty much
23:40
just take after my dad. There. Yeah, thank you for having me
23:44
on today. It means a lot. Well, thanks for being here.
23:45
I appreciate that. You know, Tony's a regular on the show. And
23:48
Tony so you're not as enteresting to me as the listeners or the listeners as
23:52
this young man is. So we'll talk to you in a minute. Tell
23:56
us about Haydan Hodge, tell us about you. Well, I'm a student
23:59
at Hurrican High School. Just graduated or not just graduated, just got out
24:03
of my sophomore year at high school. That's why I'm here today. I
24:07
don't have school today because I didn't have to take the finals. Um.
24:12
I really like to read, and like dad said, I really like to
24:15
fly. I would actually like to go to the Air Force Academy after I
24:18
do graduate and hopefully be able to go there to learn how to fly for
24:22
the Air Force. So that's one of my dreams. Now, you're already
24:27
involved in politics to a certain extent, I mean, on the outsides a
24:32
little bit. But you know, when that's your dad, you don't really
24:33
have much of a choice. Although, to be fair, I think if
24:37
you didn't have an interest, and I don't think he'd probably push you too
24:40
much. But but why has um? What is it about politics that fascinate
24:45
ate you? Because I've known you for several years since you where I actually
24:47
you're taller than I am now, but most people wakes up Tony. But
24:52
I know you've been involved in politics, had an interest in it for some
24:53
time. What is it about politics that interest you as a young man?
24:56
Well, I really do think that I get that political mindset from my dad.
25:00
I feel like most of that interest comes from him. But I would
25:06
say that one of the things that really really interests me is history. I
25:10
really love history classes. I take them every year at school, and just
25:15
the history of our country really fascinates me. And then learning how the early
25:21
founders of our country and learning the politics behind that. I guess that's really
25:25
intrigued me to like politics now. So, like you know, all the
25:27
founding fathers and the first political parties, that really interests me. So so
25:33
when you look back at the at your histories and your studies of the founding
25:36
fathers, what do you think the founding fathers would think of America's a day?
25:42
I think it would be split. I think that's a loaded question.
25:47
Yes, I think that you would have one half who would be kind of
25:52
like, Okay, some of this stuff I don't get because you can imagine
25:56
people from that time period not understanding where we're at now, because even the
26:00
progressives back then, I don't think they would have ever imagined being as progressive
26:06
as we are now. Um, and I don't think the progressive fifteen years
26:10
ago wouldn't, so you can imagine how bad it'd be for those in the
26:15
in the late seventeen Yeah, and then the other half would kind of be
26:19
like, what in the world we we tried so hard to keep traditionalism and
26:26
now we are so far progressive that even the progressives of that time period would
26:30
be shocked. So like people like Hamilton and the Federalist Party, I think
26:34
they would be completely bewildered. And then the Democratic Republican Party and and Jefferson
26:40
and Madison and then I feel like they would be kind of like, I
26:42
don't know if we were really pushing this far. Uh So that's where I
26:47
think it where they would stand on that. So, now you mentioned that
26:49
you want to do um eventually go into the air force, in the academy
26:53
post that once that is that is that? Do you want that to be
26:57
a career do you want to transition add into I would like that to be
27:00
a career um and then after I retire, I would like to to go
27:06
into politics. Politics has been a lifelong dream for me. I've always wanting
27:08
to be involved in it. And then I think that personally, I have
27:11
like almost a moral responsibility to get into politics because with me, my Christian
27:17
beliefs are very strong with with me, I I you know, christ is
27:22
that he means the most to me, and I feel like it's my moral
27:25
responsibility to spread his word and to uh, you know, make the make
27:30
the world a better place through him. And I feel like the most or
27:33
the easiest way to do that is through politics. What level of politics would
27:37
you see yourself doing, you know, governor, senators, the Supreme Court.
27:41
I mean, I would like to I would like to maybe start lower
27:45
and then work my way up, so I know that I would need experience
27:48
to do the bigger stuff, So I'd probably start in like state legislature and
27:52
then just move up from there. Okay, Tony, there's really no reason
27:56
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the area that it's really a great program to provide things for students that don't
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necessarily have a lot during the summertime. And so one of the guys that's
31:56
over that program, it's going to join us. And we've all seen not
32:00
only here but nationwide, for lack of a better term, the epidemic that
32:06
we have going on with parents out of control parents at sporting events. A
32:10
good friend of mine, who is a high school baseball coach outside the Kanal
32:15
Valley, did a Facebook post about it, and this thing has gone viral
32:19
nationwide. The guy's name is Kevin Gertz, and he's the head baseball coach
32:22
at Logan High my alma mater, but he's also the head girls basketball coach,
32:28
and he just went on a rant last week about youth sports, not
32:31
necessarily about the youth part, but about the parental aspect of it and how
32:37
these parents, many of them, are out of control at games. And
32:40
so Kevin did this random post on Facebook last week and it went viral across
32:45
the nation. And so Kevin Gertz, the head coach of Logan High baseball
32:50
team and the girls basketball team, is going to join us to talk about
32:52
that on the show tomorrow. Tony Hodges here, State Republican Party coach here.
32:55
Son Hayden is here as well. Tony, let's go back to old
32:59
dad here from went and I want to talk about some upcoming races within the
33:01
Republican Party. Now. To be fair, as a Republican Party co chair,
33:07
you know you don't take sides on anything, but I just kind of
33:12
want to get your opinion of the races for governor. We have Attorney General
33:15
Patrick Morrison, Della get More Capital, Secretary of State Mac Warner, State
33:20
Auditor J. B. Mccusky out of dealer Chris Miller. That's just a
33:23
few. There may be more that'll get in. That's a lot of names,
33:29
Tony, and a lot of personalities to try to keep in check.
33:32
It is very strong personalities and a lot of times you'll find that people who
33:37
run for office they naturally bent toward having a strong personality. But I will
33:42
say that all of those candidates that you just named are they're fantastic candidates.
33:45
I mean, we have these are a list people in our state. They've
33:50
all have proven leadership abilities in the areas that they work in, and I'm
33:54
really proud that all of those guys have stepped up. Obviously, you know,
33:58
the state's gonna have to choose one. There will only be one winner.
34:00
But you know, we ought to be proud because, as you know,
34:04
we've talked about it in a million times, but there was a time
34:07
in the state where you know, the Republicans had a hard time feel in
34:09
the ballot. And now we have more people than really we need applying for
34:14
each of these jobs. And but we're you know, they're interviewing with us.
34:17
They're out there interviewing with us. We hire them, and us meeting
34:22
the voters. You meant the voters, yes, yes, the vote.
34:23
I didn't want people to think that you meant the Republican leadership that I'm interviewing
34:28
with, which they do to that to a certain extent, but the ultimate
34:30
people to do the hiring, so to speak, will be the voters.
34:32
That's what I meant. Yeah, the voters of this state. And I
34:35
have the utmost confidence in our voters. Um and whoever they choose primary next
34:39
year, you know, that's who we're going to back as a party and
34:43
we'll be all in to defeat the Democrats. Would you like to see less
34:47
people? I mean nobody's gonna would. I mean some of those people that
34:51
I mentioned will probably withdraw, but by the time the primary, because it
34:53
becomes a money factor, they're simply not able to raise the money. And
34:57
I've had Greg Thomas on the show and others that have said they get to
35:00
such and such date and we realize we don't have enough money in the bank.
35:04
We're wasting our time. Let's go back to our other job. Let's
35:07
go pursue something in the private sector or maybe a different position or whatever.
35:10
Would would you like to see less people running? Oh? No, I
35:15
actually think it's better if there's more people. I think the more people that
35:17
are out there, the more ideas are getting thrown around. And I think
35:21
the more ideas that get thrown around, the better off we are. Now.
35:23
Uh. You know, for me personally, if I was going to
35:27
run for office. Uh, you know, I might be nervous if I'm
35:30
getting into a race with five people or six people. But there's other ways
35:32
to look at that. Sometimes you might say the more of the marrier because
35:36
then in a primary race you may you may come out the winner with you
35:38
know, twenty one percent of the vote. Um, you know, yeah,
35:42
it's it's we've seen that in House of Delegate races, even over I
35:45
live in Putnam County. That that's happened before, back when we had multi
35:50
member districts, and so you know, there's a lot of different ways to
35:52
look at it. But no, I think I think the more of the
35:54
marrier. Uh. Probably, like I said, more ideas getting thrown around
35:59
out there is better for the state as a whole. And there's talk now
36:04
that it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that our Democrat side for governor that Huneyton
36:07
mayor Steve Williams is is going to join. There's added speculation now that Canon
36:14
County Commission Commissioner Ben Selango may give it another run. There may be some
36:19
other candidates on the Democratic side. Does it make any difference in your opinion,
36:23
Well, the Republicans are going to win so it really doesn't matter.
36:27
I mean, they can if they want to go in and waste a bunch
36:29
of money, that's that's on them, you know, And that's fine if
36:31
that's if people have that kind of money to go in and spend a million
36:35
dollars just to basically flush it down the drain, and that's what's going to
36:37
happen. I mean over in Huntington, it's the opioid capital of the country.
36:42
We all know what's going on in Huntington, and we know who's been
36:45
at the helm over there. Uh In as far as uh County Commissioner Silango,
36:51
you know, he ran once for governor and really got beat bad.
36:53
Like it was embarrassing. It was totally embarrassing, and I thought it was
36:57
really interesting. I was listening to your show last week or two weeks ago,
37:00
and unbeknownst to me, I did not know that Commissioner Selengo's wife,
37:05
who's also an elected official, has switched to the Republican Party. And I
37:09
listened to the conversation you had on the air about that, and I thought
37:14
that was very interesting and I'm still a little puzzled there. But be interesting
37:19
if Sealingo got in running as governor and his wife, who's actually very prominent
37:23
in her role or position, has switched a Republican for reasons unknown to me.
37:29
And you know, it's interesting about that because when I've had Greg Thomas,
37:32
Republican strategist on the show in the past, you don't want to count
37:36
their chickens before they're proverbly hatched yet. But Gregg says that a lot of
37:40
the Republicans, and I'm not talking about what you do as far as a
37:44
party, but I mean the outside people are going to be looking at more
37:47
races like county commission, at more races like judges, And even though they're
37:52
nonpartisan, you know what their parties are, as simple search in the Secretary
37:55
of State's website will tell you what their parties are. So there is really
37:59
no such thing as nonpartisan per se. You're you're registered as a party,
38:02
or you're register no party. You know, and that a lot of attention
38:07
is going to be spent more in those because the thinking is is that there's
38:10
no reason for a lot And I know you don't want to take anything for
38:14
granted, that's not what you do, but you don't want to necessarily spend
38:17
all the time and energy on races for governor when the Republican is going to
38:21
win no matter who it is. In some people's eyes that in the Senate
38:24
scene, we don't know what Joe Manchon's going to do yet, but it's
38:28
either going to be Justice or Mooney. That's what a lot of people think.
38:31
Your thoughts on that before we move well, yeah, I mean I
38:34
think you don't want to take any race for granted, and that means governor,
38:37
senator, or city council. I'll tell you yesterday I spent a little
38:42
bit of time in Fayette County, West Virginia, and up there they're coming
38:45
up on their municipal elections, which there's a lot of municipal elections around the
38:49
states this year. Yeah, and so we're you know, got a little
38:52
bit of focus on that. But it's interesting because they are, you know,
38:55
not labeled Republican or Democrat. You know, it's supposed to be nonpartisan,
38:59
but clearly so when you're driving through Fat County, you can see clumps
39:02
of yard Science and those people, the little clumps, the good old boys.
39:07
You know, they're all running together as a ticket, and you know
39:08
they're all Democrats because they've been pasted Democrats in Fat County for years and years,
39:13
although some of them now are registered unaffiliated, which is kind of a
39:15
sneaky way to get in there. And then you have the other guys who
39:19
are Republicans who are trying to make inroads into that system that's been in place
39:23
in that area for a very long time. And so we're very hopeful that
39:27
we'll get some Republicans there on a local level. That's Fat County for an
39:30
example, but we're looking at races all around the state and I'm talking about
39:32
some of the other battles. And again, Republican State Party co Chair Tony
39:37
Hodges here, Hayden Hodges here, when we get back, you're not off
39:38
the hook yet because you have text. Wait. I want to get to
39:42
you once from your mom. This has clean your room, But we have
39:46
Tony. Three Republicans have announced their attentions to run for Secretary of State.
39:51
At least one Republican is running for state auditor. The battle for Attorney General
39:55
between a couple of current state senators, Mike Stewart and Ryan Weld, is
39:59
going to be ugly. In fact, it's already ugly. Both have been
40:01
talking smack against each other on this show and other places to Mike Stewart,
40:06
by the way, we'll be on Hoppy today to probably fire the next shots
40:09
in that in that race, I'm sure, and I say that to say
40:13
this, much like the Democrats had to face for eighty plus years in the
40:16
state. You folks, you folks in leadership, have got your work cut
40:21
out for you. As I as I referenced earlier Tony, to try to
40:24
keep every one somewhat civil with each other and then when primary season is over,
40:32
everyone can kind of hug it out and become friends. Again. That's
40:35
a big job. It is. It is you have to bring unity,
40:38
and that's part of being in leadership is knowing how to get everybody rowing in
40:43
the same direction. You know, you mentioned the attorney general race with Mike
40:47
Stewart and Ryan Wild who are both sitting state senators right now. I know
40:51
both of those guys. I've talked to both those guys. They're both great
40:53
guys. The neat thing about the Republican Party is we have you know,
40:58
it's a marketplace ideas in our party, and that's what we wanted to be.
41:01
We want it to be sort of a free market atmosphere. And it
41:04
doesn't have anything to do with, you know, whether Mike Stewart's a good
41:07
guy or whether Ryan Well's a good guy. Let's talk about their ideas and
41:10
let's let the best ideas win. So that's what we're looking at. And
41:13
whoever the voters think has the best ideas and is the best to sit in
41:17
that office, that's who they vote for. But they're both great guys.
41:21
And I'm here to tell you we have top notch candidates, all of them,
41:24
all the way around the board. And I kind of hate the primary
41:27
that we have to do this, but it is something we have to do.
41:29
And then afterward, we're going to get behind our candidates and we're going
41:30
to promote them and we're gonna beat the Democrats. And I hope that you're
41:36
right. And I don't mean that necessarily. I'm not taking sides here.
41:39
What I'm saying is I hope that people can come together. And I would
41:43
say that if that were Democrats, because I just I like everybody to get
41:45
along, man, you know, And I wish and I hope that that
41:49
is the case, but it's not already. Now. The governor's race,
41:53
I think is going to get a little uglier. But I think this Attorney
41:58
general race and it's as I said, between Stewart and the world, it's
42:00
already started. And I think you're gonna have you work cut out for you
42:04
healing some wounds there. I could be wrong, and I hope I am,
42:06
But I think you're gonna have your work cut out for you. Tech
42:08
says Dave. Are you running a dog's line? Sounds like a lot of
42:10
grooming going on there, like you're grooming your son. Well, Hayden can
42:15
speak for yourself. But before I let him speak up on that, I
42:19
mean, I'll just tell you as a father, I we are my home.
42:23
Our home, Minor Jusica's home is open. Just like I said to
42:27
ideas and thought, not controlling or anything like that. I let my children
42:31
make up their own mind on you wouldn't believe on a host of different things.
42:36
Now, obviously we guide them, you know, in the right direction.
42:37
We wanted to be good citizens and all that, but as far as
42:42
the way they want to lead their lives, their political thoughts, they're even
42:45
a lot of times with their religious thoughts. We are an open home.
42:46
We talk, We talk about the deepest questions you can imagine and nothing is
42:51
off limits. As a father, one of the things I've always told my
42:53
children is no question, no question is off limits. Don't ever be embarrassed
42:59
to come in out ask me something. Don't ever be don't ever feel like,
43:01
oh, Dad might think differently if I ask this or that, ask
43:05
it, ask away, Because while they're under my care, I want to
43:08
be able to, you know, have give them answers and tell them the
43:13
things that that they're wondering about. And I would rather have them come to
43:15
me while they're in my care than go to some person well they barely know,
43:20
and who who knows what they're gonna tell them? Ask away. So
43:22
hey, then you can add on to that if you want. I disagree
43:25
with my dad on several issues, and some some of those issues I can
43:30
I want to know what those issues are. Well, I might not go
43:32
there because some of them you might want to keep the car. Well,
43:38
some of them they can actually, like me and Dad could actually get into
43:42
like you know, So I don't want to say heated, because then that
43:45
sounds like, you know, we get into an actual heated discussion. But
43:49
we can get into it sometimes about some things absolutely that we disagree on.
43:52
I can I could name five right now. I'm not going to, but
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I could. Um, I want to book you on the show by yourself.
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Um. But yeah, I mean there are several things that you know,
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I disagree with my my dad on my mom and my brother, My
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brother with UM because they they promote, you know, freethinking, and I
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think that that's really important. And you know, he asked if you were
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running a grooming salon, but I don't. I don't know if you're influencing
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me at all. Um. And then my dad, you know, obviously
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he teaches and he influences, but in a in a fatherly way, not
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in a controlling way. So I don't see well. And as you and
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I will say, this will go to break as a young person too.
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And I know you've probably heard this to like all young people are. You're
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tired of hearing it. Your your your thought process is going to evolve over
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the years. The things that you think at how do you fifteen? Things
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that you think at fifteen are not necessarily good to be the things in the
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way you think at twenty five or thirty. I mean, I'm I'm fifty
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two and and and I may change my my thought process has changed on some
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things the last couple of years. So you know it's just you know,
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it's ever evolving. Text says, listening to this young man speak with conviction
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on his love of Christ and of freedom, tells me one thing, Mom
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and Dad, you did good. God bless good luck with this young man.
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Yes, they did well, Mom, better than that. All right,
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we're gonna take a break. I guess the more texts to get two
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Network family of stations. Tony Hodge, who's the State Republican Party co chair,
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its son Hayden in the studio as well UH Texas Day. The Air
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Force has one hundred forty one bombers. Does your young Christian guests think that's
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a not for us? Or do we need more bombers to drop bombs on
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our enemies? And what our founding fathers think it would be okay to let
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the families of their former enslave people fly them or is that too progressive?
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Oh boy, well, I think that there is when it comes to the
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bombers. I think that there's an aspect of defense there. And I don't
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think that Jesus is against defense of a country. In fact, one of
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his disciples disciples was a Jewish zealot who was one who would you know,
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go after the Romans in that time period. Obviously he doesn't condone violence,
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but when you're when it comes to defending the lives of the people in your
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country and fighting for a moral good, there's a certain responsibility that you have
48:45
there. And the last time we use those bombers was whin so and then,
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um, what was the other thing that he said? I've already gone
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off the text here, let me keep talking. I was saying, okay,
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oh, here it is, and what our founding fathers think it would
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be okay to let the families or their former enslaved people fly them or is
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that too progressive? Ah? Yes, well, you see back then it
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was it was almost I hate to say it, but it was almost commonplace
49:12
for those in the South to have slaves. Is that a good thing?
49:15
Absolutely not? But can you really judge them based off the standards of today's
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time period? While that was absolutely a horrible and egregious act of slavery,
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was is it fair to judge them based on what we know now? Texas
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Democrat changing republic Democrats changing registration to runs Republicans. I don't like it.
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So it's a texture. What goes into that process Tony. We just had
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a delegate down in a Westpayette County. I think Delegate Pritt, who had
49:44
been a Democrat who changed his party to Republican. Now, to be fair,
49:46
Delegate Print has changed his party a lot of times thirty some, I
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think, is what what I was told. So what do you think about
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people being advantageous in change parties because they because the winds of change have come
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about. I mean, nobody really knows what's in a person's heart. I
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guess what kind of process, as in Republican leadership do you guys go through
50:10
when somebody changes party. Is that something that they consult you about? Do
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they do it on their own? Is it fifty fifty? How does that
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work? Well, that's interesting that you bring that up. As far as
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sitting lawmakers or people who who are in office, a lot of times if
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they're going to switch, they will reach out to us and talk to us.
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And we like that because we like to talk talk these things through and
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talk about it. So in the case of Delegate Prit, you know,
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I had a personal conversation with him, as did Elgin, the my counterpart,
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and you know, we talked to him, and you know, people
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people change. You just said it a few minutes ago. You were telling
50:45
Hayden, you know, what you think right now at fifteen might not be
50:49
what you think at seventeen or nineteen or twenty five or whatever. And people
50:52
have changed. So here's my thing is, I feel like you have to
50:54
give them the benefit of the doubt. The interesting thing about a public official
50:59
is they have to put their opinions on the record. So we're gonna know,
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we're gonna know what what Delegate Print does, We're gonna know what a
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lot of these other people who change what they do, you know, just
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like Senator Glenn Jefferies, Senator Mark Hunt. You know, all of these
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people have changed parties and coming up in the next session. Well, we
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had a few of them this session that that proved to be very reliable,
51:21
you know, solid in our party. But that's that's coming up. And
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but but at the same time, you'll have people who who changed just for
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uh, just just for political advantageous reasons. And you got to watch that.
51:32
All right, quick question, all right to Senate battle. We don't,
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as I said, we don't know what Senator Manson's gonna do as of
51:37
yet. You're gonna have Jim Justice. We know that Congressman Alex Mooney's and
51:40
we know that Chris Rose is in primary. Conventional wisdom would be that the
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top two are going to be the ones to choose. From your quick thoughts
51:46
on that, not asking you to choose, but what do you think about
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the race? Thirty seconds? Uh? What I think about the race is
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Joe Manson said that he's not gonna lose any race that he enters, which
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tells me he probably won't run because he's the Republican's gonna win the race.
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The Republican will be the next Senator. Tony Hodge, the co chair of
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the State Republican Party, appreciate you being here as always, Hayden, thanks
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a lot and a great job. So much better than your old man,
52:10
so much better. All Right, we gotta go get the growing problem of
52:15
violence and youth sports. It's hit close to home. We're gonna talk about
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that coming up on the show tomorrow. Plus the Charleston are your alliance folks
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are here and more on the Backpacks Buddy program as well. My producer was
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Hollywood Jeff Petty. Jeff, thank you so much, Hoppy coming up,
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I will see you tomorrow. Until they have fun. I love somebody.
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