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09/28/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Matt James, Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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about it throughout the morning. Turn practice effectively shut down and because of an
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accident there and probably possibly some hazardous materials there in an area around well,
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let me tell you this. Just go to the Facebook page, to the
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We've got everything laid out for you on the website and also on our
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social media pages as well. In a situation on the West Virginia Turnpike coming
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up a little bit later on, and the one of Greg Thomas is going
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to join us and we're going to talk a little bit. Well we always
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talk politics from Greg Thomas, but there's something else that we want to get
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into with Greg, and that has to do with this opioid settlement that was
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announced and uh, well, Gregg and a few others are a little upset
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about the amount of money going to a turn and specific attorneys that are benefiting
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from that. Greg Thomas is going to join us to talk about that a
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little bit later on, but before we do that, it is homecoming weekend
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in Hunteyton Marshall getting ready to take on Old Minion Saturday afternoon at the Jone.
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Matt James is the executive director of Alumni Relations of Marshall. When he
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joins us, now, Matt, good morning, Welcome to the show.
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Hey Dave, good morning, Thanks for having me, Thank you for being
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here. You know, I almost feel guilty for having you on. The
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show is latest Thursday, because homecoming activities, Matt have been going on all
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week on campus and all around Honeyton. Talk about what's already gone on around
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the Jewel City as it relates to homecoming. Hey, yeah, you know,
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we've had a great week already and we're only halfway through, to be
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honest. And so Monday we kicked off our annual homecoming festivities with the twelfth
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annual Unity Walk and that is basically one big family reunion for all of our
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Herd family. We gather at the rec Center, we split into two and
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half of the family marches down third avenue, the other half down fifth,
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we converge on the plause at the fountain and we ounce the homecoming court.
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So that was pretty exciting. Our student organizations have been competing all week in
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the annual thunder Cup competition, which is pretty fun. They raised money throughout
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the week for local charities. They also compete in trivia. They had chalcoa
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Walk because we have I think a cool theme this year at super Marco level
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Up, so we're playing off of the recent Mario movie also leveling yeah,
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and leveling up to you know everything. With our new president, Brad Smith,
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he's really taking Marshall to the next level. So we've had a lot
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of fun so far, and we've got a big two days coming up too.
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So yeah, here we are on Thursday. So what's happening over the
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next couple of days leading up to game time. Yeah, so tonight we're
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gonna be Our athletics family is actually going to be putting rolling out the outdoor
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basketball court again. I think it's the second time they've done this. It's
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called Hookston Huntington, and so our student athletes will be downtown at six o'clock
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for some pregame festivities. And signing some autographs down at Pullman Plaza here in
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downtown Huntington, and then at seven o'clock they'll do a little showcase with the
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basketball teams. For you. It's going to be a lot of exciting things
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going on there this evening. You actually, I plan I'll be in there
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this evening. So what do we got going on Tomorrow and into Saturday?
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As I said leading up to kick off, Yeah, so tomorrow is our
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big day. So for about the past ten years, we've had our parade
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on Thursday night, and that wasn't really you know, conducive for many of
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our alumnis. So that's what's exciting for the folks I get to work with
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every day this year is many of them will be in town tomorrow night.
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So our parade we'll kick off at six o'clock. It starts downtown on Fourth
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Avenue around the Keith Albey Theater. It's going to come all the way down
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Fourth Avenue, take a right at campus at Old Maine, and then an
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immediate left on the fifth Avenue, coming all the way down until you get
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to Harless Field. There's a bonfire that follows the parade, and you know
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the community is invited to all of these events. We hope they'll come out.
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The weather's supposed to be great. I should mentioned too, we're bringing
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back the twenty fifth and fiftieth class reunions. Those are at four o'clock tomorrow.
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We've got about one hundred folks that are registered for those. What's exciting
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about that is the pandemic, you know, kind of killed those events for
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a while, and we didn't we weren't able to have those. We're really
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excited to bring back the classes of nineteen seventy three and nineteen ninety eight.
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Yeah, that's good stuff. Director any Here, we're talking with Matt James,
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who is the executive director of Alumni Relations at Marshall University. Is the
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Herd and everyone around there gets ready for homecoming. Matt this weekend. Now,
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what about Saturday? What about game Day? Well? You got yeah,
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so game days are big day. Kickoff's at three thirty. We've got
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a great conference opponent, no du We're gonna get a Herd win. But
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before that, at twelve thirty, we have our family and alumni Telgate and
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that'll be taking place in the green space between Edwards Stadium and the football practice
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facility. It's right behind McDonald's. It's twenty dollars a person. It's all
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you can eat and all you can drink beer, and we hope folks will
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join us. We're going to be back there from twelve thirty until kickoff at
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three thirty. And again there's a game in there somewhere. As we said,
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the Herds have been looking really good this season. And I will say
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this Matt as a as a son of Marshall, you know, homecoming.
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With all due respect to all the other colleges in the state, it hits
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a little different at Marshall. And I don't know that there's any school that
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values it's alumni more than what Marshall University does. Talk about that, Yeah,
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man, I couldn't agree more. I was actually having this conversation with
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one of our alumni yesterday, Lucy and Call. She's actually the daughter of
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the athletic director who was on the plane in nineteen seventy and so I think
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everything goes back to what happened on that day right in November of nineteen seventy,
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but it's everything that's happened since then. We haven't let that define us.
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And so we talked about you know, homecoming is that time of the
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year for us, with our unique story that we get to pause and celebrate.
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You know, November is really somber and we pause and reflect and remember.
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But there is so much positive going on right now on our campus.
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Much of it is coming from the leadership of Bratt Smith and Christian Spears and
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athletics, and you know, I'm just excited to be a part of it.
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But yeah, man, it does hit differently, and I think it's
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because there's just something unique about our story. I would agree with that.
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And you know you can. I can tell you I've been on vacation places
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and I'll have a Marshall baseball cap on or Marshall jersey or something, and
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somebody will This actually happened to me. I'll beach a couple of years ago.
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I'm walking down the boardwalk and I've got a Marshall baseball cap on,
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and someone stopped me and started talking about Marshall University, you know, and
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Myrtle Beach because and and Marshall also has a lot of alums all over all
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over the country. They get together, even the ones that can't come in
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for homecoming, they get together and they watch games and they and a lot
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of other colleges do that too, and I certainly respect that. But it's
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just amazing, you know, to me when when when you believe Green and
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white, you really believe Green and white. Oh yeah, man. And
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our alumni base is powerful just over the last year since I've been in this
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job, so I'm like two weeks shy of being in this job for a
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year, it's slown by. We've doubled the number of alumni chapters. Again.
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I think it's just because our folks want to be a part of this
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excitement. They want to be a part of what's going on. So,
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like you said, we're rallying around athletics. There's a lot of excitement going
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there. So we have game watching parties. But piece folks were also raising
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money for scholarships for the next generation of students. You know, President Smith,
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our Marshall for all Marshall Forever plan. You know, in fifteen years
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we're gonna have students graduating debt free, and that's going to take all of
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us, you know, towing in the same direction. And so I just
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can't say enough about where we are as a school and where we're going.
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Yeah, exactly right. And I'll tell you as somebody who was a Marshall
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student back in the early nineteen nineties, it's I was here when they built
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the stadium, when they built the jone, and and how much it's grown
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even since then. And a couple of years ago in a former job I
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had, I had got a chance to get people a tour of Huntington and
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I was going, I was driving town like you know how greer at a
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third Avenue when I was appointing that this wasn't here when I was here.
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This wasn't here when I was here, This wasn't here. It's it's totally
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it's totally changed now. On the field, Marshall, of course, coming
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off that big one over Virginia Tech last week, our running back Rachine Ali
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is the reigning Sun Belt Conference offensive player of the week. It's going to
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be a great, great game I think this weekend against as you said,
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a conference foe in Old Dominion that's kind of kind of turned into our one
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of our newest rivals because it's really not that far away, so they're probably
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gonna bring some people pulled up too. Is there a convenient place, Matt
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where people can go online your website or social media or whatever where people can
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kind of see all these activities that we talked about. Yeah, that's a
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great question. So they can find us on Facebook. All of our stulves
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on Facebook. It's alumni and foundation. The university also has a website where
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everything is listed. It's Marshall dot etu slash homecoming. If you just go
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to the Marshall page and type in homecoming, you'll find everything we just talked
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about. Matt. I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to be
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here. I know it's a very, very busy day. I didn't dare
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to try to get you on the show tomorrow because I know you're going to
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be really tied up. The only reason I got you on this morning is
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because it's relatively early. You just getting things going there. Matt. I'll
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be down there tonight and through the weekend. I will see you later,
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my friend. Thanks for being here, all right, man, I appreciate
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you. Go hurt nay absolutely. Matt James, Executive director of Alumni Relations
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talk to Greg here in just a couple of moments, if you'll bear with
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me for just a moment. You know, from time to time I do
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something I call daviatorials, where I attempt to wax poetically. I've never succeed
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on a ticular topic that I feel kind of passionately about. Yesterday it was
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announced that one of my brethren in a world of talk radio, one of
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the best. More than that, at a moment, Tom Rotten of w
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VHU Radio and Huntington, was relieved of his duties really through no fault of
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his own, more because it works for an evil company in iHeart Radio,
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that couldn't care less about quality programming or being a part of the community.
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In fact, if you listen to their stations in a variety like we do,
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of different stations and their abuilding in different formats and whatnot, but what
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you may find interesting is that very few of those people are actually located in
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West Virginia. They've basically, again my opinion only mine, basically destroyed an
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industry that I've been a part of for thirty five years. Their ultimate goal
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is to eliminate all local radio programming, because they think that radio consumers would
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rather hear announcers out of Dallas or somewhere rather than in their own hometowns.
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Now, Tom Rotten and I could not be any more different politically. I
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consider myself to be a more moderate Republican. Tom is and was so far
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right that Greg Thomas Mark Tarr may say, Man, that guy's really really
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far right. But Tom was one of the brotherhood. He and I met
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in college at Marshall on the college radio station WMUL. I was a news
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guy, he was a sports guy, and we remained friends after that.
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Again, Roten and I were very different politically, and even though I didn't
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agree with him on about ninety percent of what he said on the radio,
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he was a true home grown radio guy. Then companies like that want a
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silence, not for political reasons, some would think, but for the bottom
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line. And and you know, I'm the king of capitalists. People know
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that. You know that about me, but not at the expense of crapping
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all over quality local programming which love him or hate him, Tom Roten offered,
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So I just say, you know, Shame on you, iHeart.
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Shame on you for what you've done to this industry, and shame on you
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for doing what you did to a guy again that I couldn't be anymore different.
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is here. How are you, my friend? Doing real well, doing
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real well? How are you? Thank you? Thank you for being here.
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You know you and I get to talk political stuff. We'll get that
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a little bit later on, but we'll talk about this opioid UH settlement and
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and and some of your your criticism and Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, the group
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that you're a part of, and their criticism towards the millions of dollars and
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attorneys fees, and that's subtle. But now i'd like for you, Greg,
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if you would to take the story from the top how this whole thing
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came about. Then we're going to kind of break it down and tie some
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other people into it. But but but take the story from the top.
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So so this lawsuit, this isn't a typical lawsuit like you would call down
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to you know, somebody on the Yellow Pages and call up and say,
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hey, I you know, uh, you know, I was in a
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carrect I need you to sue somebody. This this is what's called a public
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nuisance lawsuit. And what these are. These are filed on behalf of governments.
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And this in this particular lawsuit was you know, a catch all of
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everybody in the opioid industry that had done anything to kind of promote the opoid
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you know, devastation that that hit our state. So the state of West
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Virginia, UH filed suit. And that's you know, through the Attorney General's
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office. A lot of different cities and counties filed suit. And and Patrick
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Morseley he's filed a lot of these claims like this. You know, he
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this this isn't the first public nuisance lawsuit he's filed. He's he you know,
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he this is a tactic that he uses quite a bit. Uh.
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There was actually this this same claim was filed in federal court, but was
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dismissed if you remember, I think that was like last summer and it was
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dismissed. So, but the way it worked on the state level, it
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was filed in state court and the State Supreme Court sent it to what's called
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a mass litigation panel. So they essentially signed three judges to a panel to
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say, hey, here's this really really big case that's going to take a
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lot of a time, a lot of attention, and you know, we
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want to make sure we have uh, you know, season judges that will
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be on this. And there were and there were three judges on it.
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Initially there was Judge Alan Moates, Judge Derek Swope who's from down in Mercer,
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and there was actually Judge Hutchinson who's now on the State Supreme Court,
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so he was initially on it, but once he was appointed to the State
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Supreme Court, they removed him from this panel and they just left the two
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judges. So at that point, Judge Moates was the lead that was sort
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of the head judge on it, and he appointed Morrissey to sort of be
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the lead attorney. Right. It was like, okay, look, you're
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you represent the states, you're the biggest, you have the biggest client.
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When you're the attorney general, you're basically the top Yeah, and and and
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you know and you you know, so you're you know, the claims that
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you are making of damages so to speak, or you know, hey,
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here's all the bad stuff that you've done to the state, and this is
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why we need uh, you know, compensation for for what's been done for
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us through this opoids. And so he had two roles in that. One
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role was to negotiate the settlement, right like, you know, you know,
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head the case once they said, hey, we're going to settle this.
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You know, you negotiate the settlement with all the defendants. But the
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second part of it was to work out the attorney's fees. And so that's
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you know, we're not here to you know, we we don't get involved
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in cases like while they're going on. Yeah, in our organization, we
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don't go in and say, hey, you should have filed it. Should
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you know, maybe after the whole thing's over, we really go in and
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say, hey, gosh, that was whatever. But that's that's not what
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we're doing here. What we're doing here is saying, okay, you know,
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this was a nearly billion dollars settlement nine hundred mill and so, uh,
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you know, there was a this was a this was a five week
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trial and at the end of it, we we ended up with this settlement.
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Uh. And so the way it works with the Attorney General's office like,
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uh, he essentially sends out like an RFP. Right, it's like,
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okay, you know we're gonna hire. You know that he doesn't do
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it internally. You know, these are pretty complex cases. They don't do
22:23
it internally. So they say, hey, who can do this? And
22:26
so four different law firms submitted RFPs. He picked two. Uh. Those
22:32
two firms were Rusty Webb here in Charleston. Uh, and then a firm
22:37
named Motley Rice, which is a big national firm out of South Carolina that
22:41
does this kind of stuff all over the country. There's actually a big national
22:45
lawsuit with the same issues that were also part of and Motley Rice is the
22:52
lead attorney on the national lawsuit, which would essentially be the same kind of
22:55
things. Right, it's the same elements, the same you know, the
22:57
same legal theories that they have. And that's that's actually going on at at
23:02
a federal court up in Cleveland. So what what's happened though kind of to
23:07
update everybody. So all that goes on. So last Friday, Judge Wilkes,
23:12
who was a you know, a judge that used to serve in the
23:18
in the Eastern Panhandle, must be like senior status or something now, came
23:22
in and essentially reviewed all of the information about the attorney's fees and approved it
23:30
right so that there was a settlement and this is what I this is actually
23:36
what something we're trying to get a little clarification on is exactly like you know,
23:40
what information is sent to Wilkes for him to say, Okay, yeah,
23:41
I approve this or don't approve it. But Wilkes essentially approved it on
23:45
Friday and sent out a thing saying, you know, one hundred and forty
23:51
one million dollars are going to attorneys for their work on this cases. One
23:56
hundred and forty one million dollars. Repeat that, one million dollars, which
24:06
is literally like about what you know, we keep talking about flatline budgets in
24:11
the state, and like, that's how much money the state didn't spend every
24:15
year to over the last five or six years to give us the biggest tax
24:18
cut in state history. So we're talking about a lot of money. Two
24:22
of the firms, the Rusty Web Firm and Motley Rice, received nearly fifty
24:29
million dollars each. And so, uh, you know that came out on
24:33
Friday. We put out a statement on Monday essentially saying like, hey,
24:37
we think this is we think this is outrageous, this is an excessive amount
24:41
of money. We were very critical of former and not all your listeners will
24:47
remember, but many will. But you know, former Darrel mcgrawl, this
24:49
is what he did, right, So, like our organization was very critical
24:53
of mcgrawl when he did this stuff. Uh, it was a big campaign
24:57
issue with mcgrawl when Morrisey was elected, right, so this was something that
25:00
was like, hey, elect our guy and we won't do this kind of
25:03
stuff. Well that that didn't end up to turn it out to be the
25:07
case, uh, as often often is with the career politicians. So you
25:12
know, we come out with a statement saying, hey, this is crazy.
25:17
Uh, you know, and Morrisey responds with, you know, as
25:21
he often does with personal attacks and things like that, because that's sort of
25:23
his style. But but the other thing he did was he sort of threw
25:27
the other attorneys under the bus. Right, So, like he hired two
25:30
attorneys, but all those cities and counties that we talked about, they hired
25:33
their own attorneys and so they get money too. So then you know,
25:37
some Morrisey goes on Hoppy yesterday and kind of he defends he's essentially I think
25:42
his position at this point is he's defending his lawyers, but saying the other
25:47
lawyers they may not deserve all the money they got. My lawyers do,
25:48
but I don't know about the others. Let me let me champion, let
25:52
me read the statement, okay from this was a statement that his office put
25:56
out. And as you said, Greg, and again we're talking with Greg
25:57
Thomas H. Morrisey was on Hoppy yesterday, but this was a statement he
26:02
said. It's absurd and flat out asinine for an uninformed and conflicted individual,
26:08
I'm presuming that would be you, Sir Gregory, to give his take on
26:12
something he knows nothing or very little about. Learn the fact before making assumptions.
26:19
Uh. It sounds like I knows a lot of the facts and the
26:23
one that you know, the things that I don't know, we're asking questions
26:26
on and getting information on. But that's that's what you know. That's what
26:30
bullies do, right, I mean that's the kind of sting coman. Patrick
26:33
Morrisey a bully, absolutely, you know, that's what bullies do, and
26:37
that's his style. Uh, you know, he's just he's trying to one
26:41
hundred million dollars to two lawyers. Is indefensible. It just is. It's
26:45
not it's not a defense. I mean that that is. It shocks the
26:48
conscience. It's such an outrageous thing to say, and and for him to
26:52
go out and continue to do this. So anyway, So so that's what
26:56
he'd been doing. But all of a sudden, now the pressure is building
26:59
up, right, and he is having a go on hoppy and you know,
27:00
everybody's talking to him, and there's stories on Metro News and the Record
27:04
and ever, you know all, you know, all I'm getting all kinds
27:07
of comments and people I hadn't heard from in five years. I saw on
27:10
TV last I was like, my wife said, Greg's on TV. Well,
27:14
and so a good segue to this part. So, so Mark Kurtis
27:17
calls me and says, hey, do you want to talk about this now?
27:19
Political WWK? So I go on and do it. And so he
27:23
had interviewed Morrisey, right, before me. So as he's interviewed me,
27:27
and he's like, what do you have to say about it? And I'm
27:29
like, look, you know, uh, one hundred and forty one million
27:32
dollars is outrageous. The fifty million dollars, you know, fifty million dollars
27:34
to an out of state, big time Democrat law firm is outrageous, you
27:38
know. And so he says to me, what do you think we should
27:42
do about it? And I'm like, well, I don't know if there's
27:45
anything we can do about it right now. What at a minimum, we
27:49
need to, you know, revisit this process, figure out how it's done,
27:53
you know, make sure that this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
27:56
Right And and the point of this, everybody is for the hundred and forty
28:00
one million dollars. Like we're not saying it goes back to the defendants.
28:03
It should go to the public. This was a public nuisance lawsuit. There
28:07
are a lot of people impacted by this, and that's where the money deserves
28:10
to go. So essentially, Patrick Morrisy is saying, I think the money
28:15
deserves to go to lawyers and not the people. That's what he's saying.
28:17
There's no other. You can be uninformed if you want to be uninformed.
28:22
But that's the own that's the way that this goes. And so Mark Curtis
28:26
says to me, he goes and I said, and he goes, Well,
28:29
he says to me, well, you know, Patrick Morrisey told the
28:32
Attorney General told me that he wants these fees cut in half. And you
28:36
know, I stepped back in my eyes get wide, and I'm like,
28:38
well, you know that's interesting because he's the one that negotiated the attorney's fees
28:42
with the with the court. And so the story so Mark's you know,
28:47
so the WWK story comes out last night and Morrissey said in the story that
28:52
he wants the fees cut. They did not say by the fifty percent,
28:56
as Mark had told me kind of personally when we were doing the interview that
29:00
he won him cut in half, but he did say he wanted him cut.
29:02
And I've had a bunch of people call me last night in this morning
29:04
and say, how would we even do that now? And what I have
29:08
found out, uh, you know, not being you know, if I'm
29:12
uninformed out something, I can go and become informed on it. And I've
29:17
found out that the there will be a hearing on October thirteenth at two o'clock
29:22
in Courtroom four. That's the Ceremonial courtroom on the second floor of the Cana
29:27
County Courthouse. Uh. And it's a notice of hearing regarding the distribution of
29:32
settlement proceeds from the West Virginia First Qualified Settlement Fund. So essentially, you
29:38
know, they they you know, they there's this settlement of the what kind
29:44
of fees they're supposed to have. It's been kind of preapproved by Judge Wilkes
29:48
and now it has to get the final approval by by Moats and uh and
29:52
Swope here and so you know, we've got a little time. You know.
29:56
So for those people out there that think that, you know, not
29:59
all all of this one hundred and forty one million dollars should go to you
30:03
know, personal injury lawyers and big time Democrat out of state firms like Motley
30:07
Rice. Uh. You know, I'd call the Attorney General's office, I'd
30:11
call your local legislator. I mean, I think there's you know, I
30:14
think there is a little bit of time to get some information in here.
30:18
And if Morrissey truly believes what he said about you, know, hey,
30:19
I think the settlement funds need to be cut. You know, maybe there's
30:22
something he can do. Maybe maybe he is helpless here. You know,
30:26
maybe he is, but maybe he isn't right, And so I think there's
30:30
an opportunity for our leaders to get involved and try to make sure we secure
30:36
as many funds as possible to help those that have been affected by this opioid
30:40
crisis. Talk about this the law firm of Motley Rice, not to be
30:45
confused with Motley Crewe, which that would make an awesome law firm, by
30:48
the way, But talk about this law firm and a little digging that that
30:52
you did on them and some of their ties. Well it doesn't take much
30:56
digging. You know, you can google Motley Rice, uh political affiliation or
31:00
Democrats or whatever there are. Motley Rice is one of the biggest law firms
31:04
in the country South Carolina basin, Yeah, outside of Charleston, South Carolina.
31:08
They handle big time lawsuits like this right there. You know they come
31:14
in and that you know, they were very involved in the tobacco legislation from
31:18
twenty years ago or whenever it was. They are They are the lead counsel
31:22
on this open would legislator the federal openwood legislation right now. But they're also
31:27
the largest. Uh. Their law firm donates more to Democrats and liberal interest
31:34
than any other law firm in the country. So this is a very very
31:38
liberal, big time democrat law firm. Uh that you know that Patrick Morrisey
31:44
is is you know, hired to do work on behalf of the state of
31:47
West Virginia. And but now why, now, how does that process work?
31:49
Greg Because I am totally ignorant on this, How does that? How
31:52
does that process work? That that he that he chose you of this law
31:56
firm. Because I say this because you know, mister Morrissey, when he's
31:59
been on this show in other places, has said he's the only true conservative
32:04
running for governor. So as if he is the only true conservative running for
32:07
governor, why would he, I mean, how would he go about employing
32:12
this particular law firm out of out of South Carolina. It's known, it's
32:15
known for that's that'd be a good question for him and voters, I guess,
32:20
I mean, I you know the way it works, and I talked
32:22
about this earlier. You know, he puts you know, Morsey essentially puts
32:24
out an RFP that says, hey, yeah, we're gonna do this,
32:27
We're gonna do this lawsuit. They would come in though, and say,
32:31
you know, hey, we're the national expert on this. That's why you
32:35
need to hire us. Right, But would he have the right to again
32:37
explain this, I apologize for my ignorance here, but so would he have
32:42
the right if he did his research to say, no, we don't want
32:45
to utilize ya. Yeah, No, he wouldn't have to utilize him.
32:47
He could have hired somebody else. I mean, I think he'll you know,
32:50
I mean, I'll let him, you know, say why he hired
32:52
him. You know. But look, this is a you know, this
32:54
is a national law firm that knows how to do this stuff, you know.
32:58
And I look, I've to a lot of low I've actually talked to
33:00
a lot of attorneys on both sides of this, you know. You know,
33:06
Uh, this is something that we certainly followed while it was going on,
33:08
but it's something that we have obtained a lot of information on in the
33:12
last week. And I've had people on both sides of it kind of reach
33:15
out and give me some background on what's going on with it. I look
33:19
and and I'm not trying. Look, I'm not trying to say here that
33:22
there aren't attorneys that did a lot of work, right. I mean there's
33:24
even Tony Magestro, Who's somebody I'm politically opposed to. You know, nine
33:30
times out of ten, and as I've called around about it, people are
33:34
like, hey, man, Tony did a lot of work, yes,
33:36
right, like you know, and and yesterday yeah, and you know.
33:39
Look, so I'm not we're not throwing everybody. You know, now Majestra
33:45
would be one of the ones that Morsey was thrown under the bus during his
33:47
hoppy interview. So I'm not Look, I'm not I'm not trying to say
33:52
they didn't do a good job. I'm not trying to say they didn't do
33:55
a lot of work. I just don't think they did. One hundred and
33:58
forty one million dollars is worth the work, right, Like That's what it
34:01
is. So I you know, that's all we're saying. I think we
34:04
need to review this process. If there's anything we can do now before October
34:07
thirteenth at two pm, uh, if there's anything we can do to to
34:14
change this, we need to try to do that. And if and if
34:16
we fail and if you know, we come up short and one hundred and
34:20
forty one million dollars goes to personal injury lawyers instead of to affect it people
34:23
affected by the opoyoids in cities and counties in the state, you know,
34:28
as they try to fund to to overcome this crisis, then what can you
34:32
know, the legislature needs to step in and figure out what do we do
34:36
to make sure something like that doesn't happen again? Right, And so you
34:39
know, so that's just you know, we're uh, we appreciate the opportunity
34:44
to bring attention to it. We know, you know obviously it's you know,
34:47
it's on the TV, it's on you know radio, it's on the
34:50
news. I mean, it's it's out there. And I would think it's
34:52
going to continue to be out there until October thirteenth to two pm, because
34:57
you know that'll be when it finally goes down. And and I'm I've heard
35:00
people involved with this West Virginia first, you know organization that are like,
35:05
hey, you know, thanks for kind of doing this, you know what
35:07
I mean, it's uh, you know, so you know it's it's it's
35:12
not something that's uh, you know, there could be political aspects to this.
35:15
You know, nobody else has sort of chimed in on that, uh,
35:19
you know, and I think there'll be a time and place for that.
35:21
I think right now it just needs to be how can we make sure
35:24
as much money as possible goes to those affective That's that's what we need to
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four zero one one zero one. Greg Thomas is here. Tech says,
38:59
this is how Greg Thomas campaigns for people. He's getting paid to attack Patrick
39:02
Morrissey. No surprise here. I'm not getting paid by any uh, not
39:07
getting paid by anybody in the governor's race. And that's a follow up text.
39:10
Another tech says, ask Greg which gubernatorial candidate that he's working for.
39:15
I'm not working for any of them, not working for any of them.
39:19
I'm look, I'm personally friends with Chris and uh and Moore and Mac.
39:24
I like them all. I think they're all deserving of the opportunity to serve
39:30
as governor. Tex says shameful that what these attorneys have done this is the
39:37
people's money. And I wouldn't go as far to say shameful. I like
39:44
they're doing their job. They're doing a lot of work. I mean,
39:45
it's not it really is the system in the way this goes. It's just
39:52
do we have to continue to do that? Right? I mean that like,
39:53
that's the thing. It's like. And I think the part that people
39:58
are missing here is that it a public nuisance lawsuit like this isn't Hey,
40:02
there's a bad company that that spilled something into the water, or here's a
40:07
you know, here's somebody that that sold a product that's defective and you got
40:12
hurt by it. That's not what they're doing. They're saying that, look
40:15
that you know, just what you did caused all this public turmoil and all
40:19
this stress and all these things. You know, caused the police and the
40:22
fire and the hospitals to spend all this money and do all these things to
40:28
you know, kind of fix the problems you created. So you owe us
40:30
some money, right like. But but that's the thing. It's it's a
40:34
public nuisance lawsuit. It's not like a Hey, I'm trying to get money,
40:37
and if I get money for you, I get I get paid to
40:38
do it. You're you're filing the litigation on behalf of the public. It
40:43
is, and that that collar is right. It is the public's money.
40:45
Tech says, good to the campaign finance reports, and see who's paying the
40:49
win agency Greg's company. Then you can see who's paying Greg trash candidates on
40:52
the radio. I guess so, man, I mean, I think you
40:55
know I've worked for I've been a consultant for the American Tort Reformists Association since
41:00
two thousand and uh, two thousand and two, maybe two thousand and three.
41:06
I've you know, run Citizens against Lawsuit Abuse. Actually, I think
41:08
i've rained listens as lawsuit abuse before I started doing the work for ATRA.
41:14
But I look, I've been you know this, this has this had I
41:17
mean, and this is you know, I'm sure this is like Morrissey or
41:20
Morrissey's campaign got texting that to you, but like I have no idea.
41:23
Well, it wouldn't be any of his friends because he doesn't have any,
41:25
but like it would be promo, it would be this would be uh,
41:31
I'm not working for a candidate. If I was working for a If I
41:35
were working for a candidate, I would say, I'm working for a candidate
41:37
and here's what I'm on behalf of. But I'm not doing that like this
41:40
is but lawsuit abuse is something I've done for twenty years. I mean,
41:45
we did the report on more on mcgrawl when he did all this stuff before
41:50
Morrissey got elected. I mean, this is everybody. I mean, I've
41:53
said this on your show before. I recruited Patrick Morrissey to run for Attorney
41:58
General because we didn't like Darryl mc all because of stuff like this, and
42:00
now you're tying Patrick Morsey. It's you know, look at you can't.
42:07
It happens to politicians when they're in office, you know, and they see
42:10
opportunities to do stuff and and you know, it's a tough cycle to break,
42:15
you know what I mean. Look, Patrick Morsey isn't the first person
42:17
that did this, right. I'm not blaming Patrick Morrisey for the opraold crisis.
42:22
I'm not blaming Patrick Morrisey for uh, you know, the way this
42:25
all is structured. I mean, he was on the radio yesterday essentially saying
42:30
like, hey, you know, if it wasn't me, they'd have gotten
42:32
paid thirty percent. Well maybe so right, maybe under mcgrawl they would have
42:37
gotten thirty percent. But but the state what voters said, we don't want
42:40
that, right, we don't want that. We want something else. And
42:44
so that's that's where that's why we're going to continue to speak out and and
42:49
the goal we have a goal here, and we have it when we actually
42:52
have a deadline. In the deadline, as I said earlier, is October
42:55
thirteenth at two o'clock at the Ceremonial Courthouse. And if anybody out here that
43:00
says, we need more of that money to go to people that deserve it
43:05
and not to out of state personal injury law firms that are the biggest Democrat
43:07
law firms in the country. You should do something about it. You should
43:10
call somebody who will that go in front of who who will here, That'll
43:14
be the That'll be Swopes, and that'll be those two. That'll be the
43:16
two judges on that mass litigation panel. That'll that'll be who oversees that tech
43:21
says, Facts says, no one was held to canable, no one with
43:22
the jail if it was a drug dealer, that would take all your cash
43:27
and property. The two tiered system, Uh, there's one for the rich
43:30
and one for the poor. I look and that's what I'm saying earlier,
43:35
Like our organization we can't get we don't know, we don't get involved into
43:39
the legal theory of all these cases. What we do is we look at
43:43
it when it's all said and done and say, hey, is this something
43:45
that you know they you know, you know, what is the public effect
43:51
of this? Right? Like we can't get in the middle of every case.
43:52
And when we don't get in the middle cases, but it's just you
43:55
know, are. We are singularly focused. This has nothing to do with
44:00
politics. We are singularly focused on making sure that as much money can go
44:07
to the public as possible and not to these personal these out of state personal
44:12
injury law firm tex says day one hundred forty million plus would go a long
44:15
way towards repaying the eight hundred million dollars A legislatures siphoned or stolen from West
44:21
Virginia State University over the past several decades. University deserves better. The legislature
44:25
is in the wrong. They don't. Okay, I don't really know what
44:29
that has I saw a headline about that the other day, but I don't
44:31
have any idea what it's about. It all right, Okay, we answered
44:36
that one day for once Thomas actually made sense. Well, well got that,
44:43
buddy, even a blind squirrel man. Yeah, don't get that.
44:46
Debate started because Hobby did that a couple of weeks ago. And what the
44:49
exact phrase. Let me ask you this before we go to break how much
44:52
of an issue. I know you said you're not taking sides into gubermentorial ranging,
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but do you see a Chris Miller more cap oh, Mac Warner do
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you see any of the other leading Republicans using this in a campaign. Is
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this something that they would consider using if you were. You said you're not
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working for him, but if you were, is this something that you may
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use against Morrisey in a campaign? I would, But I'm an attack dog
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man. I use everything. So as Hoppy said, you'd run over your
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mother if you thought you could get a vote. That's what Obby said about
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you. I would. Here's what I think I would. I think this
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is a little down in the weeds and you'd have to spend some time thinking
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about it. I think when it would become clear cut is if the law
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firms receiving the money all of a sudden are giving campaign contributions to Patrick Morrissey.
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Like that's where you know what I mean? Like, I think this
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is this is policy, this is how do we do this? This is
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you know, you could go to saying like, well, he should have
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handled it better. You could you could do that politically, and maybe you
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could you can make some ground up on it. I think that it's a
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political no brainer. Is if you see all these and we have all the
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names, right, so I think if you would get all the names of
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all the law firms, and then go back and look at the next couple
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campaign finance reports and look at some of his outside independent expenditure groups like that
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Black Bear Pack and others, and say, if you start seeing the same
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names of the lawyers that got the money that are given money back in campaign
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contributions, that's probably the political opportunity that the candidates, the campaigns would have.
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from ten. Greg Thomas is here, Texas. Is it possible that this
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law firm, Motley Rice Law Firm, is great at their job? Does
48:30
Greg think we should base every aspect of our daily life at our own political
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persuasions? Sounds like Motley Rice did their job. News flash, Lawyers are
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expensive. I do think. I do think Motley Rice did their job.
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And I think that throughout this I haven't said that. I just what I
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don't think is they did fifty million dollars worth of a job, right and
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like whatever, like and not only that, but this is a copycat lawsuit
48:55
that they're doing in other places, right, like, so how many times
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how many times do they need to be fift paid fifty million dollars for the
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same idea? Right? And so do I think they deserve to be paid?
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Absolutely? Do I think they did a good job. Absolutely. You
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know, you've got a big you know, they're the lead counsel on this
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big federal thing. They're going to get a whole lot more than fifty million
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dollars out of that too, Right, So it's not I understand, it
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is expensive. I understand they deserve to get paid. I understand and admit
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that they did a good job. But if you want to go out there
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and I just I think that if you took the average person, not an
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average person, if you took anybody and we grabbed a hundred people and we
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brought we brought one hundred people off the street into this two pm October thirteenth
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in the ceremonial courtroom of the Canon County Courthouse and had them sit there and
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listen to the lawyers say I deserve one hundred and forty one million dollars.
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I don't think you could find one of the hundred people that would would defend
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it. I just don't. It's one hundred and forty one million dollars.
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I don't know what the number is, but I know what it isn't and
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it's one hundred and forty one million dollars. Let me ask you. I'm
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gonna play Devil's advocate here from moment. You're a capitalist, I'm the ultimate
50:07
capitalist. I say that all the time on the show. Why should you
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put a cap on things? I mean, it's because it's it's because because
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it's public money. If this was a it goes back to Dave, I
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think it's a good question. It goes back to the fact that this is
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a public nuisance lawsuit. Okay, this isn't This isn't private. This isn't
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a private thing like this isn't like if this were purely capitalists and it was
50:30
a private lawsuit, that's you know, based on plainiffs against a defendant and
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then and then they got to negotiate it. But the Attorney General is negotiating
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on behalf of Yeah, okay, that's what this is about. That's why
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we're here. If this is you know, hey, if it had been
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a private thing whatever, probably complain about it. But the reason that we're
50:52
so intent on this and the reason that I'm not going to let up until
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two pm on October thirteenth at the ceremony. Can you hit that one more
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time. It's just it's important. It's important to know that there's a deadline
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on this. Whether you're a politician listening, or an elected official or whoever,
51:07
there is a deadline. We have a couple of weeks to try to
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do something to get these resources into people that need the resources. Tech says,
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the dollar amount is as ridiculous just paying a million dollars to someone who's
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spilled hot coffee on themselves. It's the same kind of thing. But but
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even that, right, that's McDonald's. That's not the taxpayer. Yeah,
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this is a tax payer acounts our money. This is a public nuisance lawsuit
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if that's what it's supposed to be for, and we're going to continue to
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file these, we need to make sure that they're not huge financial windfalls for
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out of state personal injury law firms. Tech says, listening to these text
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sounds like Fag's office workers are busy texting. I don't for the record,
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I've said before, I have no idea who's sending these tax out I mean,
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I just get a text on the screen so yeah, look, it's
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and I think that right. I mean, I've talked to one hundred people
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about this, and one hundred out of one hundred thinks it's outrageous. And
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I guarantee you that one hundred out of one hundred listeners that aren't working for
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the Attorney General's office or a personal injury law firm getting money from this think
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the same thing. All right, Greg Thomas, I appreciate you being here.
52:07
Coming up on the show tomorrow, guest host will be Speedy Bevans.
52:10
Chris Lawrence will be here to talk high school football. Hannah Gardner with our
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Adopt Me Please pet of the Week on the show tomorrow, Evan Osborne from
52:16
the Capitol Market and Rick Cavna from Charleston Main Streets. We're loading up for
52:20
Friday fun House tomorrow. Greg, thank you so much. We're gonna be
52:23
talking to you and others on this for a long time until one date again
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two o'clock. Luck all right, Hobby's coming up next. I will see
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you tomorrow till then, have fun. I love somebody to see h two
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