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10/03/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Chris Withrow, Tricia Ball, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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Coming up on the show a little bit later on, We've got a
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lot to get to this morning. Stad Democratic Party chair Delicate Mike Pushkin is
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going to be stopping by a little bit later on. I don't know if
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you saw this or not, but Huntington has been named, of course,
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Huntington part of this whole Advantage Valley movement has been named by US News and
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World Report as the number sixty six best place in America to live. We're
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going to talk to Trucia Ball, who's the president of the Huntington Regional Chamber
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of Commerce, about that a little bit later on. Chris withthrow from the
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Benny Keaton Shriness. You're going to get to him in just a couple of
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moments. I do want to say again, though, congratulations to all the
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inductees for the Broadcasting Hall of Fame ceremony tonight in Huntington. Our own Stephen
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Jenny from V one hundred going in the Hall of Fame as the first ever
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team to be inducted at the same time. They're going in thirty four years
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they've been together on the air of V one hundred. They're going in the
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Hall of Fame that I had the big bosson around here. Joe Parsons is
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going in the late legend in the world of broadcasting in the Charleston market.
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Big Poppet J. Jerald is going in. Mike Parsons, who was kind
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of the architect behind the old MSN Mountaineer Sports Network, is going in,
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as is Tom Taggert. Great night tonight at the Museum of Radio Technology and
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Huntington's ceremonies free to the public. Understand, Hoppy, you got into a
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little bit on the show yesterday, so I just want to take time before
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we get in anything else to say congratulations to all the Hall of Fame members,
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including our own people here from eleven to eleven for going in to the
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Hall of Fame. Let me bring him a good friend. Chris Withrow right
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now from the Benny KEATAM Sean, Chris, good morning. Do you think
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one day I'll be in the Hall of Fame? Do you think I'm Hall
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of Fame material? I do, Dave. I mean you should have already
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been your You've been overlooked for years. Yeah, years, you're just saying
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that, aren't you? Good? Warning to you? How you doing?
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I'm doing good. I apologize for it being an inferno in here. Apparently
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I don't know we forgot to pay the air conditioning building. It's eight thousand
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degrees in here. Poor Ryan, our producer is pushing buttons on the other
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side of the oven mits on right now, that's how hot it is in
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here. Right now. I apologize. Oh, it's okay, it is
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a little ball The heat doesn't mess your hair up, Chris exactly. You
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know, I do say that because Chris is ball by choices at the hair
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for radio for sure. Well I get to face for radio. So what's
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going on with the Benny Keaton Shrine, my friend, Well, we've got
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a lot of things coming up in October. October fourteenth, we have are
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very very very awesome outdoor Bonanza show that we've been doing for years. It's
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a great opportunity to come out and win some wonderful prizes and help support to
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Benny Keatam Shrine. On October the twenty seventh, we have a trunk or
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treat event out for all the children. It's open to the public. There's
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no charge for that. Come on out. We're gonna have the Charleston Police
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Department, the Charleston Fire Department, and a lot of our corporate partners in
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town are going to be joining us and joining up and having some tables set
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up with some really nice treats and some fun and food and activities for the
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kids. So please grab your child, your grandchild, your niece and nephew,
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you come on out. That's on the October the twenty seven. It's
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going to be around the six o'clock time frame and we're really excited about it.
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And then Saturday the twenty eighth, the Broomstick Ball. It's going to
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be a costume party for as. It is gonna be fun and we're gonna
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have signature cocktails and and and giving away prizes for the best dress, and
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we're gonna have a really good time. So that's uh, that's all in
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store in October. But the main thing that we're looking at right now,
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as we've talked in the past, is is our hall is open for rentals
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and we have been so busy we are already booking all the way out until
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twenty twenty five. So is it too late if somebody needs to rent a
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space for a Christmas party, because that happened to occurred to me last night.
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You have some times available depending on when you're gonna get it, but
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I would say that you need to act quickly they are filling up. How
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many people can you hold down there? Up to three ninety nine? So
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we say all right, so if you are a company, you listen to
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us right now. Maybe you're looking for a place to have your your Christmas
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party, This would be a great up to three hundred ninety nine good say
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four hundred, four hundred. All rights are short, that's lung as are
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smaller, but up to four hundred people you can have there in the Shrine
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and Coryer Street. Plenty of free park, eat and everything. Great place
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to have your your Christmas parties and get together. Absolutely, and don't forget
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I guess we have a big concert coming up this weekend. There's concerts everywhere,
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and please come in make a donation, you know to the Shrine Park.
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You're not going to find better parking well let parking lot. You're gonna
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be in the front door. It's gonna be easy way in, easy way
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out. We'd love to have you and keep us in mind. Again,
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we do things all through the week. We're available for rental Monday through Sunday
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and we can do everything from little tiny two three ten five people up to
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I say again, four hundred people and we would love to take the opportunity
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to show you around and take care of your events. Let's go back to
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a couple of those events in particular, you're talking about that kind of a
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trunk or treat type event that you're going to be doing it. I give
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us a date for that again. That's gonna be on October the twenty seven,
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and now as that's open to any any kid in the area. Absolutely,
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and we're gonna have a lot of corporate partners, some of our financial
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banking partners, like I said, the Charleston Police, the Trulston Fire Department's
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going to come in and step in, and then of course all the clubs
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and units that the Highlanders, the Clowns, the Oriental Band's going to be
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there. So it's gonna be a lot of fun and a lot of great
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treats. And we've got some local restaurants that have decided that they donate some
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food, so we'll probably have some refreshments there too, plus all the candy
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and fun and music. So we're gonna have a good time and get back
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to this broomstickball again because I just love saying the broomstick ball. Broomstickball.
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Yeah, it's gonna be really fun. You know, it's a costume party.
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And again we we're gonna have some signature cocktails, some spectacular cocktails if
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you will, and there's gonna be a great DJ with great music. Please
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come dressed. You know you don't have to, but we would love to
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have you there. You can well, we'd like to have you come dressed
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and cost him Okay, please please. It ain't even that kind of party,
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No, it's not so. But you can get your tickets directly from
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a shriner or at one hundred Courier Street. And if you want to call
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in, you can call in at ery Co three zero four three four three
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nine four zero five. And that again is for the broomstick ball, but
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there's no charge for the trunk or treat. Okay, it's going to be
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a lot of Give him a call if you need a place to book a
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Christmas party, because I mean again, and you've got a full kitchen,
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full kitchen. Actually we have two. We have a full kitchen load kitchen
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and the server kitchen. And it's very nice. And I mean anybody,
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like I said, if you got to your company a family get together,
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don't invite those people to your house to trash it. Go trash your place.
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That's right, absolutely, and we would be happy to take care of
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you. And again we've got all the tables and linen's everything that you need
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that you would find in any other traditional rental hall. We have it and
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we do a really good job with it. So we've had several class reunions.
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East Bank just had theirs last weekend, and and we've had DuPont as
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I mentioned before that and this is we have a much smaller you know,
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temple down in my hometown and Logan, but that's where we had our class
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reunion, a couple of our guys, a couple of folks in our graduating
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class of Shriners and we had ours at the at the much smaller shrine temple
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and Logan back in Gym. Yeah, the the Logan Shrine Club or they're
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awesome. They've got a great building. They do a lot of work for
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us uh and they do a good job. And you know the mission for
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people that don't understand what we do and the main thing is we we get
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together and we raise money to help children and we directly support the Shriner's Children's
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Lexington and Shriner's Children Dayton. So all the things that we do, it
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seems like we have a lot of fun, and we do, but we're
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having fun with a purpose to raise money to help the children. We have
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over six hundred patients from West Virginia that are actively in the hospitals today getting
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world class treatment. So every time that you come to an event, or
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you book a party, or you even just step out on the parking line
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so you pay for parking, you are helping us do our mission and to
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help the kids of West Virginia and especially here in Charleston. All right,
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Chris, give us the phone number again. It's Ery Coote three Z row
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four three four three nine four zero five. All right, Chris, always
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a pleasure to have you on the show. Apologize about the heat in here
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this morning. Again. You don't realize that in October it's as hot as
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it is, but it isn't. Please put your pants back on. All
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right, You can leave now, Chris with Row from the Benny Keatam Shrine
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little later round delegate and State Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin is going to be
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here. Do you want to get a couple of notes and from the Charleston
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City Council meeting last night? Jerred Lewis as the stories posted on the website
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at wv Metronews dot com at WCHS Network dot com. PODA the Public Outdoor
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Designated Area, which I have probably on more than one occasion, referred to
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as the Public Outdoor Drinking Area, but that's not what it is. U.
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PODA did pass the City Council last night allowing me people in certain areas
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of the city who want to purchase drinks. Certain areas of the city certain
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hours of the day, certain times that they will be allowed to do that.
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Again, Jered Lewis has got the storywv Metronews dot com and at WCHS
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Network dot com. It passed nineteen to seven and it could be implemented as
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early as November. And really the one that kind of caught my attention was
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this new media policy adopted by city council last night. Now the media in
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person covering this the council meetings and what the meetings being streamed. You know
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a lot of members of the media, they don't actually go there and cover.
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They set in the office and do it, which is understandable, especially
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when you're trying to cover two or three meetings a night, as some of
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our media members are. So the media that covers these meetings in person have
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been moved around just a little bits, and those who are not members of
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the media, meaning the public will not be allowed on the chamber floors for
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thirty minutes before or after the meeting. Now, as I said on the
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show in the past, I don't cover city council meetings for the station.
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Pushkin's here will join him here in a capital moment. So you may have
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missed this, but a city in our region was named by US News and
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World Report as the sixty six best place to live in the country. And
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I said he was Huntington, West Virginia. Tricia Baald is the executive director
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of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Converce. She joined this now. Tricia,
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good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave, thanks for
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having me, Thank you for being here. Now. I read this last
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week. It just kind of showed up and I was doing some radiing on
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this, and I think it's worth noting. We're going to get into this
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in detail a little bit. But to Huntington name as the sixty six best
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city in America to Live by US News and World Report. This is not
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something that you folks lobbied for. I mean so because a lot of times
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with these surveys, you know, you see well, you know, there's
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campaigns and then this was this. This kind of came as a surprise to
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you as well. You just kind of got the award, right, Yes,
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And it was a ranking. So what USCS and World Report did.
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They took the top one hundred and fifty populated m says in the country and
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ranked them with the methodology where they looked at four different things, so quality
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of life, value, desirability, and job market. And they waited each
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of those differently with quality of life being the highest, and then we came
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in, like you said, at number sixty six based on that methodology.
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And am I correct? There were there any other cities in West Virginia that
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made the list? There were not, so just the jewel city as they
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say, right, yeah, and I will say so, it's not just
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Huntington, West Virginia. So it's the Huntington Asland MSA. So that covers
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five county so it's Boyd and green Up County, Lawrence County in Ohio,
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and then Cavalan, Wayne County, and West Virginia. So it is the
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full MSA and okay, Huntington, but that's but that's still I mean it's
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a pretty big deal. And as you are the director of the regional Chamber
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of Commerce, I mean that's still a pretty big deal. Absolutely, we're
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thrilled. And the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce we serve both caval and Wayne
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County, so two of the five counties that are considered in that MSA.
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So I'm very excited about this. Now, in case you were wondering,
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green Bay was number one, with Huntsville, Alabama, Raleigh, Durham,
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North Carolina, Boulder, Colorado, Sarasota, Florida, Naples, Florida,
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Portland, Maine, Charlotte, Colorado, Springs and Fayetteville, North Carolina rounding
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out the top ten. That's pretty good company trasition, Yes, it is.
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So the next question is what do you do with this information? I
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mean, how do you market it? So I'm on the board for had
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Coast and the Huntington Area Development Council and Advantage Valley. So those are two
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economic development organizations whose mission is to attract new business and industry to the area
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and to get our current businesses that we have here to retain them and expand
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those. So I think this will be key moving forward as we attract new
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businesses to the tri State, to Advantage Valley, when we respond to RSPs
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to make sure this is something that we're sharing with them, and then also
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from a chamber of perspective. So our mission we have three cs. One
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of those is cultivate growth, and that's all about creating an environment where businesses
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can thrive. And to do that, you know, we need our businesses,
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not just people to work at those businesses, but obviously people to shop
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there, eat there, you know, whatever it might be so I think
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something that I would like to do as a chamber is work with our counterparts
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across the MSA to promote this, to help attract residents to the area,
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our partners at the CBB to attract tourists to the area. Well, I
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mean, it's certainly I think something worth undertaking, and you folks are doing
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a fantastic job there. Again we're talking Latricia Ball from the Huntington Regional Chamber
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of Commerce, and want to have you back on again the copital weeks because
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I know you have some things coming up with the kind of collaborative efforts with
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the Charleston Ay Alliance and the putting them it's putting them chambers, So I
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won't have you back on again here in a couple of its. But congratulations.
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Even though you know it's not just Huntington, it's the surrounding areas,
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it's the it's it's all the whole old thing. There still a pretty big
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feather in the KAPA and I could see you definitely moving, especially with new
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corps coming in with all these other things going on, I could I could
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see this as definitely being a great marketing tool, Tricia. I appreciate you
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being here. We'll talk to you a getting here in a couple of weeks.
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Thanks a lot, sounds great. Thank you Christian Baul again the director
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the Democratic Party channel agant. Mike Pushkin is here. Good morning sir,
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How are you? Good morning? Up? It's a little balmy in here,
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you think so? Please? Were you doing hot yoga before I got
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here? Uh? No, no I was. I was not. But
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I'm just please keep your pants on, Please, please keep your shirt and
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your pants on, okay, because I'm not making any promises. I mean,
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it is hot. It is like a thousand degrees in here right now.
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Poor Ryan, he's got a worker's comp claim going in there right now,
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trying to push buttons on the board. It's hot in his room too,
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it's probably hotter. Well, he's got more equipment and there. Thought
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we'll be two here. They're working on it, and I just said they're
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working on Michael. Uh, so i'll tell you sorry. I got a
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text last night. Now, i'd already schedule Mike could reach out to me
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last week about coming on the show, and I always try to accommodate to
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my good friend here. So I got a text last night from mister Pushkin
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saying he was going to be on wsa Z, And immediately I thought,
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he's replacing mister cartoon. You can't replace mister Carson. So, in fact,
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are you going to be replacing mister Carson? There is no replacement for
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the great Jules Huffman. Yes, it was an icon of our youth.
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Yeah, and uh, you know that would be a dream job. But
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now you can't replace mister if you if you're cartoon, can I wear the
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Beever custom? Yeah? You got it? All right? Good? All
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right, all right, So let's get serious for a moment here, serious
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as we get this investigative report by Sarah Sagar of w SAZ Television. The
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story posted this morning on the WSAZ website and they've been reporting on it since
22:15
July that that contracts have been awarded tens of thousands of dollars in contracts to
22:22
an engineering firm that employs the son of the head of the Department of Transportation
22:29
for the state, mister jimmy Riston. Catch us up from there and share
22:33
your concern first of all, Yeah, that's what caught my attention as well,
22:36
was the excellent reporting by Sarah Sagar or w sa Z. And uh,
22:42
you know, and this report, this is a follow up the story
22:45
last night that I was interviewed for. It's a follow up to several other
22:52
stories that she's done. And you know, they're saying hundreds of thousands.
22:56
I think that's just a tip of the iceberg. There are stacks of con
23:00
tracks where he is the final selection, he being Secretary of rist it's the
23:03
final selection. Uh, that's being awarded to the firm that employs his son.
23:08
It's more than hundreds of thousands. Let's say it's a millions. So
23:12
what is I mean a lot of money. It's it's it's it's taxpayers money.
23:17
It's your money, folks, and and we should be good watch dogs
23:19
of the people's money, and we need to know, uh, you know,
23:23
who is the recipient of that money and why they're being selected over other
23:27
firms, and even when there's an appearance of conflict of interest, uh that
23:33
that's wrong. And there it's not just me saying it, it's according to
23:37
federal and state law, which is very clear on this. I saw the
23:41
story last night when when you texted me, I was I actually just got
23:45
in and U and I flipped it over and I watched the story and there
23:48
were some questions, Mike, I think about some of the documentation that was
23:52
being presented there. Do you care to go into that because it was I
23:56
walked in and I saw the story, and I saw their attorney I guess,
24:00
being being interviewed, and it just seemed, Yeah, there just seemed
24:03
to be a little bit of confusion or about some of the documentation, and
24:07
there was and jumping any time there was like one piece of documentation this is
24:12
this is the first piece of documentation, But the documentation that went to the
24:15
meeting was something else. I mean, can you I caught that interview as
24:18
well, and they replayed it last night in the story from last night,
24:22
and yeah, I know uh Nate used to work over at in the House
24:26
Judiciary. I know him a little bit. He looked like he might have
24:29
been sitting in a room room with this temperature. He was sweating a little
24:33
bit during that interview, and I feel bad he was putting that position to
24:36
go out there and have to cover for the rest of the department. And
24:40
what it appeared to me and anyone is paying attention to this, is that
24:45
they've produced two separate sets of documents that are in contradiction, that they contradict
24:51
each other. Only one can be true. Either he was at the meeting
24:56
or he wasn't. But the the reporter, Sarah Sager, had voided the
25:03
Department of Transportation and received one set of documents, and then they realized that
25:08
they had messed up, in my opinion, and went back and got affidavits
25:11
showing that there were different people at these meetings and they just don't match up.
25:15
But you're only allowed to have one set of facts. Only one thing
25:19
can be true. And that's why I've called Last night during the when I
25:23
was on that station and talking to Miss Segar, I called for a federal
25:29
investigation because we can't. We can't trust to the Justice Administration, especially his
25:34
Department of Transportation under Secretary Risk, and we can't trust them to police themselves.
25:40
We can't trust them to hold themselves accountable. They produced two separate sets
25:45
of documents trying to cover their tracks. You know, it's often said,
25:48
it's not the crime, it's the cover up. It's what it appears to
25:52
be. So you know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it isn't. That's
25:53
why we're calling for a federal investigation. Get some outside eyes on this,
25:59
and be stewards of the people's money. So when you say you call for
26:03
a federal investigation, Mike, and again, anybody, I mean exactly anybody
26:07
can do that. Exactly what does that entail? I mean just literally pick
26:11
up the phone, call and say, hey, come down, take a
26:12
look at this. I mean, there is procedural thing. I mean,
26:17
how does it work federal highways, whether it's I mean, I'm not going
26:21
to go into all the different ages you're looking at this, whether it's the
26:22
US Attorney's office. We're just saying there needs to be a federal investigation.
26:29
Period. Do you think that, of course he's got a you know,
26:32
Governor Justice. I mean, you know, I'm not implicating him at anything,
26:34
but I'm just saying, when you're the governor, anything that happens under
26:38
you is on your watch. Do you think that that his opponent, because
26:45
he's going to be facing Alex Mooney in that Senate seat, is is something
26:48
that you think I might askuse you be spokes more for Alex Mooney? But
26:51
but do you think that this is something that would be brought up in a
26:52
campaign? I mean, I would think it would be I cannot speak for
26:56
the Mooney campaign. Well, would be the end of the world if he
27:00
did, But go ahead, Yeah he is. Yeah. Obviously the governors
27:03
has been more focused on on running for Senate, and he's more focused on
27:07
getting an office in Washington, DC that he's not likely to show up at,
27:11
just like he's not likely to show up at his office here in Charleston.
27:15
And and that's the problem, Uh, that he's very hands off.
27:19
And it's not just the Department of Transportation where we're uncovering this culture of corruption
27:25
over there. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Day.
27:29
I've got letters and and seen reports of just just horrible behavior over the Department's
27:37
Transportation, UH, corruption cover ups. And that's just one department. And
27:41
we have the DHHR that the legislature had to step in and split up because
27:45
it was completely dysfunctional. And when the DHHR is dysfunctional, it hurts up
27:49
some of our most vulnerable members of society eight thousand children in foster care.
27:55
And the legislature and the governor have done very little to address this situation.
27:59
And it's the dysfunction at the DHHR. We've had a ongoing scandal with the
28:03
state Police, UH that was largely ignored by this administration until until the media
28:11
put it in the you know, put it out there for the public to
28:14
see, and they had to address it. Are our prisons are are in
28:18
a state of emergency. Uh. Just every single thing that this governor has
28:22
touched is just you know, turns it's the reverse mightas touch. I didn't
28:26
want to say what it turns to on the police, don't but it's you
28:30
know, every every single aspect of state government is in disrepair under this governor's
28:34
watch. And over the Department of Transfer. What was just the latest What
28:38
would you say though to people, Mike, and I'm not I'm not piling
28:41
on you here. I'm just gonna ask question, what would you say to
28:44
people that would they would hear you on the air this morning and just say,
28:47
oh, this is just politics, This is just the head of the
28:48
state Democratic Party chair who's got a beef with the other side. What would
28:52
your response to that? It is true that I am the chair of the
28:56
of the Democratic Party. But the reason I ran for that the position and
28:59
the reason I ran for a House of Delegates to begin with us because I
29:02
love West Virginia and I and I hate what's happening to it right now.
29:07
So so what would you like to see done here? You've called for a
29:10
federal investigation? Are you just setting back to wait to see if that actually
29:12
happens? Or would you want mister I mean, in perfect world, would
29:18
you want mister Risson to resign? Or what would you like to see?
29:19
How I would like for the truth to come out. I think the public
29:22
deserves to know how their money is being spent, who's getting it and why.
29:27
Well, well we'll find out. It's a very interesting story. And
29:32
again just go it's it's posted on the wsa Z website and you know it's
29:37
and this is something that just didn't pop up. I mean, as you
29:40
said, this investigation. I mean I was reading the story this morning on
29:42
their website from Sarah Sagar and it I mean this. They've been looking to
29:45
this, I guess since August, right at least starting in right. Yeah,
29:48
it's it's not new, it's but they're they're uncovering more. And then
29:52
when those uh competing sets of documents came out, that was that was enough
29:56
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here. Tech says Mike. Uh, mister Pushkin is right. We can't
33:25
trust Justice no more justice for West Virginia. I'm glad that someone sees it
33:31
that way. It's I mean, actually it's unfortunate that that's where we are.
33:37
But they've proven time and time again that they are not going to hold
33:40
themselves accountable. So we need that outside investigation to do that. Tech says
33:45
far right. Alex Mooney is forever grateful to Mike Pushkin for all of his
33:51
help in his primary against him. Justice, Are you helping Alex Mooney?
33:55
No, I'm trying to. I really like to help the state that I
33:59
love to the truth, and I think that the state deserves a full time
34:02
governor. Uh we just we just like we deserve a full time senator.
34:07
Uh if since he's running for Senate now, I've served in the in the
34:13
legislature under the entire tenure of Governor Justice and seeing just how hands off he
34:17
is and as we know, in any in any part of life, Uh,
34:23
you know, when when the cat's away, the mouse will play.
34:27
When the boss doesn't show up and nobody's held accountable over there, bad things
34:30
happen. And then and said, every single department and state government is complete,
34:35
completely discomplete disarray right now, every single you're saying every single part of
34:40
every every part. That's that's pretty big allegation. Well, let's see corrections,
34:45
State Police, d HHR, now the Department of Transportation. We could
34:51
go on. Tex says a Democrat just called for other politicians to be good
34:55
stewards of the taxpayer of money. Thanks, I needed a good life too
34:59
small. Well, I'm completely believed. I mean, back when the Republicans
35:05
were in the minority, they were the ones that were clamoring for transparency and
35:07
they were right. But now that the tables have turned, you can't get
35:13
this administration to respond to a foyer request. And when they do respond to
35:16
a foyer request, a lot of times there's misinformation on it. Some folks
35:21
would call that a lie. But but is it fair though, Mike,
35:24
because you say, under the under the Republican leadership or you know, when
35:30
they're in charge, But I mean, is it because I mean, it's
35:31
it's no secret that that I don't think that Eric Tarr and Craig Blair and
35:37
Jim Justice are hanging out together. It's no, it's no. I mean,
35:39
Atar is doing everything he can to make sure that Justice is not going
35:43
to be the next center how I don't know how you I would invite your
35:47
friend, the finance chair, Eric Tarr, who was also a frequent guest
35:52
on the Shower, would invite him to join me in calling for this federal
35:54
investigation. I just don't know what's going on in the world. I mean,
35:59
last night that Charleston City Council, Mike, we have this debate over
36:01
this whole media and I'm using air quotes media thing, and and I'm looking
36:07
on X and I've got people from the ACLU shining it's signing with, signing
36:12
with with Shannon Snodgrass, the city council person, Shannon Snodgrass, and I
36:16
got two of the more liberal members of Charleston City Council and steel Hammer and
36:20
Solomon that are on the side of you know, voting. It's just the
36:23
whole world's gone crazy, man, It's just the whole world just gone freaking
36:28
crazy. Politics makes strange, I guess it does so let's get a press
36:32
conference. You and Eric tar together in a press conference calling for colling for
36:37
a federal I would join him. All right, all right, all right,
36:38
are you listening, mister Tarf, All right, here we go.
36:44
Uh, let me see Texas. See what Republican control gets. Corruption and
36:49
mismanagement of DHHR department, transportation, sex abuse to the state police and absentee
36:53
governor, widespread constitutional violations of prisons, increasing gun deaths, increasing participation,
36:59
support for directionist right wingers, and a hyper focused on the genitalia of kids,
37:05
many other abhorrent policies. I to make West Virginia last two years of
37:07
democratic control of the federal government brought the historic investment, growth and opportunity to
37:13
West Virginia. That's right out of the democratic handbuck that that was a text.
37:15
It was a text. Somebody a fast texture. Chapter two. That
37:21
was that was a text. Pushkin said, everything this governor touches turns to
37:25
blank, singing a completely different tune when he signed the medical cannabis bill in
37:30
the Law four nineteen twenty seventeen. Interesting, I'll tell you what. I
37:35
was one of the main ones who worked on the medical cannabis bill. It
37:37
wasn't the bill that I wanted. We could have had a much better law.
37:40
Of course it was that was not that at the time. Was not
37:44
the governor's fault. He was. He wasn't there. He was hands off
37:46
as usual. But yeah, I was there sitting next to him at the
37:50
bill sign him because it was something that I worked on and something that I
37:52
felt that people who suffer from the qualifying conditions that can be helped by this
37:58
treatment. I thought it was some and that they deserved, they deserved to
38:00
be able to try whatever makes them feel better. And you've gone on the
38:04
record because people you know and we all know Jim Justice started out as a
38:07
as a Democrat, and people have texted and called the show and said that,
38:10
you know, as you didn't have problem with him when he was a
38:13
Democrat. Actually you did have a problem with You did have a problem with
38:16
you personally, did have a problem with him over I mean, and I'll
38:22
give credit where credit is due. There's been there's been some good, but
38:24
there's been a whole lot of bad. But I believe it was during his
38:28
first year, uh, when he was more present at the legislature, when
38:32
he was a Democrat, where we disagreed with him on a tax plan,
38:37
and just it wasn't we did just blindly follow the leader. We disagreed with
38:42
him in principle and something that he was doing, and we stood up to
38:45
him. Then Texas became a Republican Texas Pushkin is going to get a full
38:50
time governor either more See or Capital. Well, you know, you just
38:53
had a right before I came on, you were talking to Tricia Ball over
38:58
at Huntington and talking about how Huntington now was listed. We've gotten some good
39:02
news in West Virginia, Huntington listed as one of the top places to live.
39:07
I'd tell you it was not making those types of lists. It wasn't
39:09
making lists for the good reason. Before Mayor Steve Williams became mayor, Uh,
39:15
they were they were having a hard time making ends meet. They weren't
39:19
able to pay first responders, they didn't have enough police officers on the night
39:23
shift in Huntington. And then Mayor Williams came in and has really turned things
39:28
around in Huntington. And now now now they're making good news. Now now
39:30
they're making West Virginia proud. So I can say that he's gonna be making
39:35
a formal announcement soon. I think he's got an excellent story to tell.
39:37
He's already man, and I would not I wouldn't count him out because he's
39:44
got a great story to tell and he's been a great mayor, and I
39:45
think he would be a great governor well, speaking of governors, and this
39:49
interesting that this text came through. There is going to be tonight in Morgantown.
39:52
There's going to be a gubernatorial forum of the Republican candidates. And I
39:57
find it very interesting because this text are metch and Morrissey and Capito this And
40:02
I was talking to somebody up there. I made a little phone call just
40:05
before the show this morning. I was actually talking to somebody in Morgantown about
40:07
this. This is going to be out at the lake View Country Club on
40:10
Cheat Lake out there, and it's going to be a forum much like they
40:15
had in at at the Greenbar as part of the business summit. Because I
40:21
was told and if I am wrong, I will correct this, but I
40:23
was told by this person I talked to in Morgantown this morning that neither more
40:29
Capital or Patrick Morrissey, the current Attorney General, will agree to a debate
40:35
that the other two Warner and Miller actually want a debate, but that and
40:39
if I'm wrong, they can get with me and I'll correct it. But
40:43
I was told by somebody pretty much in the know that those two candidates,
40:45
more Capital and Patrick Morrisey do not want a debate, that they prefer the
40:52
the forum type thing, much like they did at the Green Bar, where
40:54
they can just discuss. Do you have any comment on that? And that's
40:57
wrong, I'll correct I thought when I found in arresting about this forum that
41:00
they had at the Greenbrier that I think it was held like ten o'clock or
41:05
eleven AM during a working day when most West Virginians really are unable to tune
41:13
in or attend. It was like in the middle of the day when most
41:15
people are working, and actually a lot of people who work for eleven can't
41:17
afford to go to the Greenbrier to watch it in person. E there.
41:21
Now they're having it at Lakeview Resort. Why don't they have it as something
41:23
as more accessible as the average West Virginia have it at Walmart. That's where
41:28
they should have it, Tech says Bob Evans. Tech says many of the
41:35
supposedly corrupt individuals and state government right now are mostly lifelong members of your Democratic
41:39
Party, and many of them switched over to the Republican Party only recently purely
41:44
for political expediency. Well, no, I disagree with that statement. It's
41:51
I'm not even looking at it from that perspective. I want West Virginia to
41:54
do better. That's why I'm so happy to hear about the good news from
41:58
Huntington. We have a mayor who has done all the right things and has
42:01
really turned the city around. Uh. I like hearing good news about West
42:06
Virginia. I'm born and raised here. I love this state more and I
42:08
can even express. And that's why it's so painful and so sad to see
42:16
so many aspects of state government that are failing. Because when those when those
42:20
departments fail, when the DHHR fails, real people get hurt. Eight thousand
42:24
children in foster care, some of the most vulnerable members of society, kids
42:28
that have nobody else to take care of them, being left at hotels around
42:32
the state because they're because that that division is in such disarray. And now
42:37
we're learning of this like this unchecked corruption at the Department of Transportation. We're
42:44
millions of taxpayer dollars flow in and out of that department, and we're hearing
42:47
of a secretary that is the final selection that he gets the final say so
42:53
on whether or not that money goes to his son. I think everybody can
42:59
agree, whether you're you're Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever, everybody can
43:02
agree that's at least, at the very least has an appearance of conflict of
43:07
interest and it needs to be addressed and there needs to be an outside investigation.
43:10
Texas West Virginians are going to have two terrible choices for senator. We
43:14
can only blame the state for attorney. Republican a party that has been producing
43:17
terrible politicians as of late. According to a texture, Texture says, Jim
43:23
Justice is sympathetic that he still does remote press conferences because he's scared to death
43:28
the follow up questions and accountability. Republicans say nothing about this. Let me
43:35
just say there have been a few Republicans that have come on the show that
43:37
have called the governor to task for that, mister Tarr being one of them.
43:42
So there have been some. But go ahead at the rare instance where
43:45
you're going to find me in agreement. Here we go again. I'm telling
43:47
you the world's coming to an aindance cheer. Well, no, but it's
43:52
right, is right, and everything else is open. Courts are open,
43:57
schools are open. Everything's been open. Everything's been open for a while.
44:00
Why can't the governor have real press conferences? And the reason isn't And that
44:04
texture hit the nail right on the head. Doesn't want to answer questions,
44:07
wants to be able to control the flow of this fake press conference that he
44:12
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44:15
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hometown family Pharmacy. Mike Pushkin is here. Did you happen to catch any
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of the former president in court yesterday and any thoughts on his effort on the
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efforts to remove him from the ballots? I did not catch any of that.
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I was working very hard yesterday and I didn't watch any of the court
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proceedings. I believe that the effort to remove him from the ballot. The
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one filing the lawsuit is a Republican candidate for president. I don't know,
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but he is a Republican. I think his name is Castro, and he's
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a He's down in Texas. He's running for president. I don't think he's
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going to make any of the debates, but he is the one who's filing
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the lawsuits in certain states. Yeah, and it's and even the most I
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think he'll be successful. Probably not. That's about all I can say about
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but agree it's coming from a Republican Any of the and even the most ardent
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Trump haters are going to say this is going to go nowhere. And I
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will say this, this is just me speaking. You know, people know
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how I feel about Trump. I don't want Trump to be the nominee.
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I think he is going to be the No, I don't want it to
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be the nominee. But I don't support this backdoorway of trying to get it.
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I wish the Republican people would just look at that stage and say,
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anybody but Donald Trump on that say, well, okay, maybe not Roza
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Swamy, maybe not him, but but but anybody else, you know,
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completely, even Chris Christie. I mean, I'm kind of a Christy gap.
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You should go to all of these Republican Executive Committee meetings and Republican clubs
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and get up this passionate. They don't sure they'll listen. No, they
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don't listen. To me any thoughts on the next thread of a government shutdown.
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I mean, because we just kicked the can down the road for forty
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five days and now we got this battle between you know where I guess h.
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Gates is going to try to get McCarthy out in As. I don't
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think he's going to be successful in that. I think that, you know,
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I disagree with McCarthy on just about everything, but I think that he
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was able to He said he was the adult in the room. If they
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want to try to remove him for being the adult in the room for a
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change, he's usually not. Uh, well, then they go ahead and
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try. I don't think they're going to have the votes to do it.
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That's what I think. Texas dave the money for these contracts, going back
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to the Jimmy Ristin story, are going to Risk and Sun. Are not
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going to rist and Son, I'm sorry, not going to rist and Son.
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It's going to a company where his son is employee. There is a
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big difference typical Pushkin spend Off. I wish I had the federal statute,
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but it mentions that even if it employs a it's in violation a federal statute.
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It's pretty clear whether that's the company's owned by his son or whether he
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has worked there and he's worked there for quite some time. It goes against
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federal statute. This isn't my opinion, this is federal law and state.
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I just don't do I mean that that's this is my take on the whole
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thing is just just don't do it. I mean, don't even give the
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appearance of impropriety. I mean, I know it's probably a lot of money,
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you know that you're gonna be believing on the table, But don't.
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In this era where you know you have a target on you constantly, don't.
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Just don't do it. And I it's often said that the cover up
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is often worse than the crime I received. I've received letters about this,
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and I've been following it. I didn't speak up publicly until the news story
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the other night where it appeared that the department produced two conflicting sets of documents.
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That's an issue. That's a big issue when they're when they're trying to
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cover their tracks. So if they didn't do anything wrong, why are they
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trying to cover it up? Texas Dave, how did you take the nasty
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glare from the New York from the New York Ag at Trump yesterday and the
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smiles and laughter for the judge like Trump or not. These behaviors from these
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civil employees pathetic and downright obvious. Texas says, not holding press conversas,
50:45
not answering questions, hiding out seems like Governor Justice is just following bunker Biden's
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twenty twenty lead. Only downfall is now we see the nightmare uniform voters put
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our republic in in that regard. You're saying, basically, by not holding
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press conferences, this is what Joe Biden did in twenty twenty by not making
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public appearances and so on and over. That's what the that's what the texture
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is getting to there. Well, I disagree. I think that the governor
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should open up as press conferences actually uh stand and be able to have a
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back and forth with the press. He doesn't do that, hasn't done it.
51:21
Instead of press conferences, we get these, you know, televised campaign
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events several times a week. Tex says, I agree about the fake press
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conferences, but I blamed the media journalists for allowing it to go on.
51:32
They don't have to participate in that foolishness. The media can camp out of
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the governor's conference room if they were really serious about their job. So let's
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blame the media. Well, I blame the governor. Okay, I think
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it's time open up your press conferences. Yeah, I mean again, we
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at when COVID was going on and he was, you know, providing the
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information and so on and so forth. At one point we just stopped carrying
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it. Originally we were doing it live, but we just stopped carrying it,
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you know, for that, as did many other people as well.
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They cover it, but they don't. Let's try to carry it live,
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all right, Mike, I appreciate you being here. Man is always thanks
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a lot. Hey, thanks for having me on. You have a great
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riskard all right. Coming up on the show, they get the air conditioning
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fish for your so do I Coming up on the show tomorrow, we're gonna
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talk about it very serious topic. That's human trafficking. That's coming up on
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the show tomorrow. Plus Delegate wald Hall is going to be stopping by as
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ten zero six. I will see you tomorrow, probably wearing shorts tomorrow,
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you know, probably wearing shorts in here tomorrowening of the air conditioning figs.
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All right, I gotta go see tomorrow. Till then, have fun.
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