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07/27/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Glenn Yeager, Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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you now, there will be soon. Republican strategist Greg Thomas is going to
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join us a little bit later on in the show. We got lots to
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talk about. I want to get his take on the whole deal with the
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with the Attorney General's race. We've talked about it, I think every day
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since happened. But we had our state auditor, Jabe mccusky, who opted
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out of the governor's race to run for AG. We're gonna get to Greg's
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opinion on that, plus some other things going on as well. But I
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want to welcome into the show Glenn Yeager, a good friend from Valley Outdoors.
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How are you, sir, Hey, Dave, thanks for having us
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in. This is great We've talked to you on the phone before, but
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to be in studio is much better to see you face, is it?
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Well, I don't know about that. Is it everything you thought it would
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be? This wonderful studio? It's nice. It's nice for nineteen I don't
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know what more you want from for nineteen sixty one. It's pretty nice.
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So well, we got upgrades coming. Ryan tells me we have upgrades coming.
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We're gonna put cameras and everything in here. So I can't I can't
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wait till till that happens, he said, tongue in cheek. Um,
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I want to talk about of course, you place Valley out Doors. You
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get to be anniversary sale going on this week. It actually, I guess
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starts today, doesn't it. It doesn't starts today. We are we're trying
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to be very cognizant of the fact that it's it's tough out there, man,
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it's tough out there right now, and people aren't able to spend the
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money that they were in the last couple of years because the government's not handed
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out you know, there's there's not those incentives and whatnot. So what we're
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the one is we're just giving back We're saying, look, if you come
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down, you can buy any Sig Sour, any Smith and Wesson firearm in
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our inventory in the building for our absolute dealer cost. If you put that
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with a already established manufacturer mail in rebate, you can buy those things cheaper
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than I can. There, you go, good lord, It's time to
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get down there. And then on Saturday we try to we have a little
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customer appreciation event, have everybody down, have fireside grill out of Tay's Valley.
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They cater it um. It's a it's a nice event. You all
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have to come down check us out. We do a full blown midget wrestling
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with the ring, the whole bit. Man, it's we don't spare any
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any brain cells on this one. That's one way to put it. Now,
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I want to talk about what you had to go through to get this
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place opened, because I remember, I think that's when you were on the
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show with me a couple of years as it was uh and you were trying
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to to get it open. Talk about the process of opening. One would
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think that it's America. One would think, you know, as long as
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I'm not you know, doing anything illegal, I should be able to open
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up a business. It sells legal products. But that wasn't your case.
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Talk about them. I'll tell you what, Dave. You know, the
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fact of the matter is Putnam County came out and made national news as being
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the first county in the country to become a sanctuary county for Second Amendment.
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Um. So that that's why all the things that went on there was quite
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quite a shock to us. I wanted to explain for the people the number
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what exactly did go on. What exactly went on was we we had a
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we were told to proceed with the building of an already existing structure to remodel
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by the counting engineer. Now this is off Mount Vernon Road. This is
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where right now, and it's actually in my front yard, Dave, Yeah,
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I can't get away from it. Literally literally yeah. Yeah. Built
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the biggest guns store in three states in my front yard. Literally. Yeah.
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Anyway, So, um, we perceived it along told to bring our
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when we were done, to bring our finalized plans, and they would write
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up the sign permit, you know, and the and the new occupants to
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permit. But in the interim that man was fired. Now I want you
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to understand the people in that office, the Planning Commission Office. They are
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honest. Um. They they heard him give me the okay, but they
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also had concerns, so that being their job, I assume, and they
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called us out for things that we had no idea. They basically tried to
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hang me a three million dollars already invested, no one having it. Couldn't.
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I mean, I had to be done. So you know, we
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ended up having to go to court, but the courts saw it the right
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way. And by the grace of Guy, we're open. And I tell
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you, Dave, Um, we've got We've got plans. Man. I'm
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actually looking at building a whole new shop next year and putting a fourteen lane
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indoor range. Stated in the art, we're gonna have a destination location in
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Tay's Valley. It's something that we can use, something that's safe, and
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something that something to be proud of. And I think it's already a destination.
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And again we're talking with Glenna Yeager of Valley Outdoors because and I think
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I told you the story. Around the Memorial Day holiday we had my wife's
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family came in from North Carolina and her sister and her husband and her husbands
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a big outdoors guy, and I took him over to your place and he
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was absolutely blown away Glynn, because he said, you know, I live
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in North Carolina, in a rural area of North Carolina, but not far
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from uh from from Charlotte, and in areas like that. He said,
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we have nothing like this down here, and he said, we have absolutely
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nothing. But Dave, to be honest with you, I think, um,
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you'll find that nobody has anything because they're not crazy, which may or
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may not be I got. I was an insurance for twenty four years.
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I really didn't know exactly what I was doing, and I may not have
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done all the homework quite necessarily, but we've learned. The tuition has been
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a little high, but we do. We keep five point two million dollars
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with inventory, and if we don't have it, you don't need it.
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Yeah, And what exactly are you going to find when you come into your
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store? I mean, in our store, you're going to you're gonna find
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something for everyone. But we have the hard to get things. We have
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those microtech knives that I think there's two retailers in the entire states that has
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We carry bench made knives, just quality products and literally every fireharm manufacturer that
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you can think of. We keep in style. Yeah, and the anniversary
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still be a great time to go check it out because it starts today and
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runs through Saturday, all day Saturday with great food and so on and so
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forth. There's one more thing, Dave I was wanting to mention for us
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for this event. We also do we sell electric bikes to Quiet Cat and
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if anyone knows anything about electric bikes, those are top of the line.
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However, there a bit cost prohibitive. I didn't really realize this until we've
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got fifteen thousand dollars of them, and then like thirty four bikes. It's
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like, oh lord, So what we're doing this weekend in order to let
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everybody have a shot at it. We're selling raffle tickets to one of these
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the best, the best, completely decked out. I'm talking cell phone holders.
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There's even a utility card. These bikes will go up to sixty miles
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on one batary, self contained motors so that you can't get sand and water
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and these types of things in it. But we're gonna give everybody a chance.
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So it's twenty dollars per ticket come down, or six tickets for one
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hundred and we're gonna give that thing away Saturday evening at the customer appreciation event.
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All right, good stuff. I talk to Glennieager again for Valley Outdoors.
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I want to move away from business just for a moment. We get
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back to it. You know, Glenn, between your ads here and your
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television commercials, obviously you're you're a pretty interesting guy, much more than just
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an outdoors store. An outdoors guy you have occasionally and I don't want to
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put words in your mouth, but we kind of talked about this at the
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top of the Seven. Glenn, you butted heads from time to time with
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some of the establishment of Putnam County. Well when you sometimes, Dave,
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I think you find that when when you try to do things that you think's
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right, sooner or later you're gonna step on somebody's toes because ultimately, um,
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a lot of these people in government, whether it be it looks like
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it's the county level or at the national level, they seem to be in
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there for a other purpose than serving the people. And I serve our county.
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I serve on a board that has absolutely no power. We try to
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hear customer, not customer. Uh. We try to hear um from the
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public. Places from the public, we try to hear when they're it's it's
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the Putnam County Planning commission Board. But really what we're up there for,
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I think, is to get tomat us though to us so the commissioners don't
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have to or they get less up though to them later. But the people
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that are on the board with me are incredibly smart people. There's lawyers,
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there's bankers, there's financial investors, and there's there's there's your letting your neighbor
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next door. They're just a whole walk of life. It's on this board
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and really a lot of a lot of thought goes into what we do,
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and it means pretty much nothing because they can take they can take our recommendation,
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or they can or they cannot. It's it's it's there. It's the
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commissioner's show. But I'll tell you, Dave, that the thing that needs
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to happen not just in Putnam County, because I've I've found some things that
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just made me shake my head to think, you know, I thought we
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were a little more progressive than this, or a lot more. But there's
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some things I think that that people can take away at any stage of government.
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And that's that you are there for the people. You're You're not there
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to serve special interest and to do the type things. And if you do
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what's write first, the rest of the stuff will fall in line. No
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one seems to be willing to work together. No one seems to be willing
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to come down to the middle. I mean, I don't care. If
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we don't work together day, we're never going to move anything forward. It's
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been sad, Glenn that you may consider running for office at some point.
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I've heard, I've heard possibly county commissioner. You know, they have to
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be honest with you. Have enough to do in my life. I have
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twin fifteen year old little girls that believe you me. They're they're they're a
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handful. I have a new business. Um, but I'll tell you if
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if it's what it takes to get something straightened out, we'll explore it.
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Hopefully, Hopefully we won't have to. Hopefully we can just get some get
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some things done and get some people in line to where it's not such a
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oh not such, it's not controlled by special interest. Squdge budge. Okay,
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what is it, Glenn that drives you and I've said this is somebody
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about you. The other day I said, you would be a passionate guy
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if you worked at the car lot or you worked at McDonald's. You're just
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a fiery guy. What is it the drives Glenn Egg, Well, I
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think it's my family. You know, I didn't grow up. My mom
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and dad didn't raise any Indians, you know what I mean. It was
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kind of from the beginning. Um, I was raised the work, and
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that work was it was something my uncle's, my grandfather, was something everybody
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did. And you were kind of my family. You were kind of judge
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based upon your ability to perform, you know, So you fall into that
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pattern. Um, I've had to teach myself other things. But Dave Wood
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drives me is to just is just to try to get it right. I
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don't like to I don't like to half budd anything just and I don't like
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losing. I don't care if it's you know, I don't want you,
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but I don't like it. We're gonna play Jackson or whatever it is.
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Until you're gonna win. You're gonna win. Well, I don't know about
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winning, but we sure try to give it a try. Man. It's
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but at the same time. At the same time, winning is great,
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but you can't do it by stepping on other people. You've been there.
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Yeah, well, you gotta get an impressive facility there in Tay's Valley.
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And again you just take the Tay's Valley exit to exit to thirty nine.
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Just take a Mount Hurting Road. It's not hard to find. Right behind
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the Burger King. Yeah, you gotta go around to wal Rings something.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, for some reason, I don't know exactly why
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that is. I used to live in that area, and they've got it.
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I mean, I guess they can do they can do whatever they want.
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But but you kind of kind of go kind of you said when you
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take the Tank's Valley, actually go up to Walgreens and it's just a straight
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shot from there and you can't miss it out Again, the anniversary sale is
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going to be going on starts today. What time you close tonight? Tonight
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we'll close at seven. We're gonna be opening ten to seven Friday, and
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then Saturday we close We're ten to five because we have that customer appreciation event
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And what time does that You should also mention nation, Sorry I forgot my
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buddy here okay, Um, we also do live music at that event.
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And John Harrison I don't know if you know him, but him and his
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friends are incredible. Um, so they'll be live music at the event.
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We're gonna they'll be fun and had by all. Um, it's a good
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time. I mean, come out early because we close her down pretty early,
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because you know I'm old. Yeah, well, I'm right there with
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you. He's got free food, he's got music and micro wrestling. That's
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what it's called microstling. But let me tell you what. This is our
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second year having I can call whatever I want because I wrestled him last year.
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Oh yeah, you wrestled the little people, sir. I got beat
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up. Yeah, and it wasn't much of a match either, Dave.
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They got they got a bad guy, Glenn. How tall are you?
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I mean funds and I'll tend them on. You down? And you got
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taken down by by little people? Well a little bit. I mean,
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I mean I got hitten by I mean I got hit by a chair.
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But what nearly as bad as what happened to my poor buddy Russ that works
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on the allright, tell the story. Go ahead, Hey, you just
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need to get on Facebook and look at it. I can't I can't really
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even tell it. I've been holding those pictures for a year and I released
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them this week. Okay, so where can we see those? On Valley
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Outdoors WV Facebook page, you'll have some still pictures, and be sure to
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check out the video with Old Russ and make sure you tell him when you
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see him. Okay, all right, all right, Glenn, It's always
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a pleasure to talk to you, my friend. Good luck with everything this
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weekend, and we'll talk to you so I'll have you back on again soon
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because I have a feeling that you're not done in uh talking politics. I
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got that feeling, Dave. Here's the thing with politics. You know what
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one set of rules. Everybody plays by them and hit this, they're administered
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equally. Let's try that, all right, Glenn Yeager, glad. I
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doing well. How are you been doing? I do? I'm doing well.
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Greg. I feel facially hair inadequate though with having having Glenn Yeager on
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the show and now bringing you in here and I'm just here with my rapidly
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grain goatee. I just feel like I feel so woefully inadequate. Grad.
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I just tripped my down a little bit too, just to I mean summer,
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I keep it a little thinner, but I mean he's he's going a
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little stronger than I am. Yeah, I mean Glen's Glen's Uh, He's
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he's an interesting gay summertime man. It's it's a defortable off, all right.
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the Governor's rates. Greg been rumored for some time. Um, and I
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will quote Della getting State Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin on this. When he
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was on the show yesterday, he said, State Auditor JB. Mccuski has
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entered the transfer portal, the governor's transferred portal. He'd served honorably as state
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auditor. Mucho respect really from both sides of the aisle. I mean the
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Demostrats, I mean they all think everybody he's done a great job. But
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he announced some time ago he was not going to go for reelection to state
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auditor, but was going to run for governor. Now fast forward to Monday,
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Greg when he announced he would not seek the Republican nomination for governor,
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but would instead run for attorney general, pitting him in a Republican primary against
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a couple of state senators and Mike Stewart and Ryan Weld. Weld, of
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course, was was being the key word a very close personal friend of Jab's,
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and when he was on a hoppy on Tuesday, Ryan Weld said he
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felt betrayed by Jab's decision. What do you make of all this? Um,
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I don't I don't know if how much of a place there are for
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feelings and politics. But look, I think j mc he's a clear favorite
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now, right, I mean he's he's been elected statewide a couple of times.
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Uh, he's raised what five six hundred thousand dollars for his campaign.
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That's now, you know, just transfers h into the attorney general's race.
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Um, I'm sure you know. Look, he's gonna have three times as
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much money as them, he's gonna have three times a better name ID,
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and he's a likable guy. Um, you know, one of the other.
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And look, I'm friends with all three of these guys. Um,
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I think they all three would do a good job. They're different though,
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for sure. I think uh, you know, I think on the if
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you would just look at sort of the policy spectrum, Uh, Stuart's on
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the far right, uh mccusky sort of center right, and Weld is more
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of a moderate. Um, so look, these guys start calling him both
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moderates. Yeah, Stuarts has a lot of stuff. Um, you know
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he does. I mean, you know, I mean, I mean from
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Stewart's perspective, he probably looks at it and says, well, I'm you
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know, I'm more conservative than you j B. And JB probably looks at
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it and says, well, I'm more conservative, you know, and and
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so look at a three way primary. I tend to think that in West
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Virginia we're a center right state, though right, I mean, especially in
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a general election, we'd be more center right. You know, A lower
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turnout primary, you know, kind of probably helps the most conservative candidate.
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But there are so many Republican primaries that are going to be contested on the
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ballot this year. I think we're gonna have the highest turnout ever, you
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know, So I think, you know, so, I think if you're
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you know, you know, I think it's illegal to bet on races in
21:47
West Virginia. But if it we're legal to bet on racis in West Virginia,
21:51
I think mccusky would be the odds favorite at this. See here's the
21:55
thing about Mike Stewart. Mike Stewart still got that Trump thing. He was
21:56
the head of the Trump campaign in twenty sixteen for US Attorney m and he
22:02
went in and he knocked off Ron Stallings in that district. And you know,
22:06
Ron it runs a very good friend of mine. Um I found it.
22:11
I mean a lot of people didn't give Mike Stewart a chance in that
22:12
race, and he went down and he cleaned I mean, for all due
22:15
respect, he cleaned Ron Silience Clock, somebody who had been there for a
22:19
while, that was well liked by both sides of the not the most liberal
22:22
guy in the world, now Stewart tried to paint him, is that Uh,
22:26
and but he you know, he wasn't. He was the most liberal
22:29
guy in the world. But but you know, kudos, Mike Stewart did
22:30
a great job in that race. Look, the reality is, all three
22:33
of these guys have pretty good resumes. I mean, you know, Stewart
22:37
had you know, Stewart's been a long time uh you know, corporate lawyer.
22:42
U he has, was a former state party chair, he was a
22:48
former US attorney. Um. You know, I was the consultant on the
22:52
Trump campaign here and actually got Stewart, you know, helped Stewart become the
22:56
co chair of that campaign. I mean, so you know, look,
22:59
I've been friends or story years, twenty years. Um, you know,
23:03
he's he will work hard at this. Uh, he is the most conservative.
23:07
He'll be aggressive. Um. I think it, you know, I
23:11
think my perspective on it just as of today, right, I mean you
23:14
look at this and say, okay, as of today, you know,
23:18
and here we are not a year out, but what nine months or ten
23:22
months or whatever it is now, Um, you know out you still got
23:26
to go run a campaign. Yeah right, He's still gonna run a caampaign,
23:29
and you know, so he'll be aggressive. Um. You know what.
23:32
Look man, well, you know, well's been in the state Senate
23:33
a while. He's he's in Senate leadership. Uh, he was in line
23:37
to become the Senate Judiciary chair. Uh, he opted to get out and
23:42
make a run statewide. Um. You know, he's got a good resume.
23:48
He was a he was a prosecutor up in Brook County. Um.
23:51
And JB was you know, also a corporate attorney who served in the House
23:55
of Delegates and then served you know, did a great job as the auditors.
23:57
I mean, I look, this is one of those things that up
24:00
to this point Republicans have not had much of a bench right new ground,
24:07
and so now all of a sudden, you know, you've you legitimately have
24:11
three qualified people for attorney general. And I think each one of them would
24:17
do a good job. I least think the Republican primary voters are going to
24:21
have to go out and say, Okay, what do I want my attorney
24:23
general to do? And I think that you know that that'll be the case
24:27
that these guys each have to make. You know, I just think that
24:33
you know, the things that you look at when you first start out a
24:37
campaign, right is what kind of resources are going to be able to put
24:40
together? And what's your starting name? I d those are two things that
24:42
mccusky has this an advantage today. I want to talk for a moment and
24:48
we kind of go back and forth with Greg talking about national stuff and local
24:52
stuff, but on a national front, Greg, the majority of Americans,
24:56
and it's been proven in several polls, don't want Joe Biden to be the
25:00
president. They don't want to and a majority uh don't want Donald Trump to
25:04
run either, So across the board, regardless of party, Greg, they
25:10
want other people. But barring some unforeseen miracle from God above, those two
25:15
are going to be the nominees. I think that is the case, and
25:21
I think that's really the reason. And there's been you know, and you
25:25
know, I've talked about this. We probably talked about this six months ago,
25:29
and I was like, I don't know, if you know, I've
25:32
been saying for a year, the Joe Mansion is not going to run for
25:34
US Senate. Whenever he cast that vote against Build Back Better or well for
25:40
the revamped Build Back Better, which they end up calling. You know,
25:42
we started calling it the Green New Deal, they called it the Inflation Reduction
25:48
Act. When he cast that vote, that to me was the clear signal
25:52
he wasn't running again for US Senate in West Virginia, which I which I
25:56
one hundred percent still stand by and totally believe. Um. At first,
26:02
it was like, you know, there were rumors about this no label party
26:06
run and all that stuff. Uh, I think he's doing this. Um,
26:10
I know people that he has talked to. I think Joe Manchin's gonna
26:14
run for president. Okay, I think he's gonna run for president on this
26:17
no Labels ticket. Um. I'm not looking. I'm not gonna support him,
26:22
but I think he should do it. Um. I think he should
26:25
do it. And for a couple of different reasons. One, you know,
26:27
on our side, you know, we we've on the Republican side,
26:32
we've Trump was the disruptor, right like Trump was the one that came in
26:34
and was like, hey, this direction you all are going and the stuff
26:38
that you're doing, Um, you know this is the wrong direction. I'm
26:44
gonna here's what, you know, I think the party should be more populist.
26:47
I don't want to you know, want to focus on America first stuff,
26:49
right, you know, uh, domestic over foreign policy kind of you
26:55
know perspective. Um. And that's what that's what Trump was. Within the
27:00
Democratic Party, they have not had a disruptor, right, And they're set
27:04
up differently though, Right. They stick together more than Republicans do. I
27:07
mean just by nature. Right, it's sort of the you know, sort
27:11
of socialist sort of concept, you know what I mean, Like they just
27:14
do right, that's the thing. It's like, we're going to stick together,
27:15
you know, the unions, the trial lawyers, the you know liberal
27:19
groups, the enviros, they all find a way to kind of keep everybody
27:22
on the on the same page. Um. So it's harder to have a
27:26
disruptor come in. And that's sort of where Joe Manchin comes into play here,
27:30
right, I mean they you know, and and look he voted for
27:33
their Inflation Reduction Act and they just screwed him on it right, I mean,
27:37
everything he wanted in that bill, they lie and he feels that way.
27:41
He should feel that way because they either duped him or lied to him
27:47
or both. Um. And so he's upset about it. He should be
27:51
upset about it. UM. And I look, I don't know if that's
27:53
the reason he's running. I'm sure in the you know, somewhere in the
27:56
back of his head it is. UM. But I would just say,
28:00
kind of as you started off this conversation, right, it's there's there's just
28:04
a majority of people that don't want either of these other two guys, and
28:08
so that creates this opportunity. UM. No, Look, I don't think
28:11
that. I don't think the country is in a position in a state right
28:15
now to have a third party actually win. But I do think we're in
28:19
a situation where third we're all where other parties can get significant amount of votes.
28:26
Um. So who does it help? I don't know. You know,
28:27
I should because I've seen both sides, and I've seen people that do
28:30
what you do for a living say it's absolutely is going to assure that Donald
28:33
Trump is going to be the next president. But I've also seen people that
28:37
said, Okay, this is gonna help Biben. I think I think it's
28:38
it'll be a state by state basis, right, I mean it's you know
28:41
that you know, we don't elect we don't elect it on popular vote.
28:45
You know we do we do it. You know, we have the electoral
28:48
College. We do it on a state by state basis. So you'd have
28:51
to go in and look at that. Um. I tend to think it
28:53
probably helps Trump, but you know, I just don't know. Um.
29:00
And also, you know, if you look at the kind of person Joe
29:03
Mansion is, he likes campaign right. A lot of these politicians they don't
29:07
like it. You know, it's all I got. He loves it.
29:11
Mansion is a people person and anything that gets him out and gets him get
29:15
Some politicians run from it like a fire. But Mansion if anything that gets
29:19
him out and talking to people and shaking hands, he loves it. He
29:22
likes meeting people. Um. He loves attention, right, he loves attention.
29:27
He loves doing those interviews. And I mean, what what gets you
29:30
more attention than running for president under states? Like nothing? So he loves
29:33
attention. He likes people. Um. You know, he's good at you
29:37
know, and guess what Man, when you run for president like that,
29:40
and man, they're flying you around in a private jet and you're showing up
29:44
at hotels and giving speeches and going to fundraisers and having events. I mean,
29:48
it's it's probably pretty fun, right. So, like, if you're
29:52
it's gonna be your that's gonna be your swan song, you know, because
29:55
he's not gonna win. I mean, there's there's no way the way he
29:57
wins. But if that's gonna be your your your final actor in two minute
30:02
warning in the fourth quarter, it's not a bad way to go out.
30:03
That's that's the way I run. If he does run against Justice, and
30:08
Justice gets by a Mooney, which everybody thinks he will in the primary,
30:12
I say he loses handily to Jim Justice. What say you, I Mooney
30:18
beat him handily too. You think that, Yeah, there's no way,
30:21
it's just that's over. I mean even for Joe it's over. Um,
30:25
there's just no you know, we're we're a Republican state. It would take
30:30
us nominating somebody really really bad that made a lot of mistakes and had some
30:33
sort of fatal flaw. Um. You know, look, I mean obviously
30:37
right now, Justice is ahead in those polls. I think, Look,
30:41
I think short of a Trump endorsement for Justice, that race will get closer.
30:45
I mean, I think that'll be I think by the end of the
30:48
year that's a competitive race because he had a lot of ground to make up.
30:52
But I'm also if you heard the show yesterday, I had Rob Corneili
30:56
gets on the show yesterday and Rob was talking about he said, there's gonna
30:57
be a lot more things coming out against Jim Justice. Justice has never had
31:03
somebody really take the hide off of him, right, I mean, it's
31:06
never had a campaign that. I mean, He's had a couple of shots
31:08
taken at him, but nothing that really was a sustained sort of effort.
31:14
Uh. There's a lot of resources out there behind Mooney with this um what's
31:18
the Club for growth? Yes, and stuff like that. Like look,
31:22
so I I think you I think they can make this a competitive race and
31:26
then on I don't know, Justice would have to mess up, I think,
31:30
you know what I mean, Like I think Mooney. Um, you
31:33
know the thing about Mooney is he votes right right like he you know I
31:37
talked before about like the center right position of West Virginia. Mooney is aligned
31:42
with Republican primary voters on policy ninety nine percent of the time, where Justice
31:48
is a little more establishment Republican on that stuff. So, you know,
31:52
but look, Justice has ridiculously high name I dum, you know, and
31:56
and things have gone very well in the state, you know, with all
32:00
the you know, legislative priorities and policies that have been enacted, and things
32:04
are going well in West Virginia. And Justice has been the beneficiary of that.
32:07
And he does a good job of staying out in front, right,
32:09
I mean, he does a good job of getting the attention and doing the
32:12
stuff. Um. So I look, I think, you know, I
32:15
do think that race will be competitive, but either of them would beat Mansion.
32:19
But he's not gonna run anyway. All Right, we gotta take a
32:21
break. We'll leave it down. I want to no, no, I
32:22
actually I want to ask you one question before we go to break. Is
32:25
there any path forward as far as president goes for anybody other than Donald Trump?
32:30
I mean de Santis. I read an article this morning that they say
32:32
that they say that Tim Scott is gaining ground. De Santis would probably be
32:36
the only one that would come. I don't I don't think De Santis.
32:39
Now, I think it'd be more likely to be Tim Scott or somebody than
32:43
to sain Us at this point. I mean, you know, like you
32:45
it's one thing to like gradually sort of increase your stuff, which is what
32:49
he was doing. But once you start going down, yeah you don't.
32:52
It's it is. Yeah, there's no you don't. There's like a bounce
32:57
back. Okay, all right, we gotta take a break. You gotta
32:59
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35:54
Texas. So if I donated to JB when he was asking for donations for
35:58
his run for governor, how would I get that back? Since I support
36:00
another candidate for AG You don't I know, I think you can't know.
36:04
Well, I don't think you legally can, but I bet if you just
36:06
called him an asked you all right, I will give you this fine up.
36:08
And I'm kid know. I've been in situations like that though before.
36:12
I mean I've I've worked with campaigns where somebody had switched and they you know,
36:17
essentially sent out a note or something that said, hey, you know,
36:21
I'm planning on doing this if you you know. Yeah, I think
36:23
if somebody is in that feels like they're in that situation, I think they're
36:28
I think that they're fine to call. All I can do is say no,
36:30
tech says ask Greg Thomas. If loring of inflation from nine point one
36:35
percent in August of twenty twenty two when the Inflation Reduction Act to three percent
36:38
as of June twenty twenty three, is in fact a reduction. Has this
36:45
person been to the grocery store? Like, do you have any idea how
36:50
much stuff costs? That's an outrageous thing to say. I mean, is
36:57
it better than the worst ever? I guess, but like that's just an
37:01
outrageous thing to say that. Like that, really that was the point of
37:06
that was to to to reduce inflation. I mean it just like I really
37:14
do think that if it were and look, I like Trump, I still
37:16
like Trump. I'm going to vote for Trump. Um. I don't think
37:19
Trump is our best chance to win the general election. Um, but I
37:23
think if it were anybody but Trump, we would cruise through this election this
37:28
general. Yeah, because because of the because of inflation, because it's just
37:30
the cost and because of the everyday hurt it is put on people. Um
37:35
No, look, I think Trump still may win, right. I just
37:37
think you know a lot of you know, there's just you know, it's
37:40
Trump, right, there's just all these other you know, emotions and you
37:44
know, feelings and all that stuff. A couple of text and we do
37:46
have a phone call to get to what does Greg think about Glitch McConnell.
37:52
I'm glad this person brought it up because I actually have had like five conversations
37:57
with people about this. Here's what I think about it. Um. I
38:00
think it is incredibly sad that when some of these politicians get older. And
38:06
I've said this about Biden before, uh, and I'll say about McConnell right
38:09
now. Uh, this is the situation where family members should step up.
38:15
It's time. But there's but but now there's so much like, let me
38:21
think of how much power Joe Biden has, how much power Mitch McConnell has,
38:24
how much benefit there is to all the people around him, family,
38:28
friends, go, work, whatever, Like that's why they kind of just
38:31
keep letting this go. Um. But I think it is incredibly sad.
38:37
Uh. And I think that it diminishes their um, you know, like
38:42
a legacy. And I said the same thing about Reagan's second term, and
38:45
I think that's you know, uh, I was a little too young to
38:49
say that, probably, but um, I mean I was there for it.
38:52
I just wasn't able to comment on it. You must, and so
38:55
not that much different. All right, we gotta, I gotta, let
38:59
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Tommy, you're on with Greg Thomas. Go ahead, Okay, we lost
39:14
Tommy. Tommy, if you're listening, you want to call back, That
39:15
is fine, Texas. Greg must have never heard the old saying Democrats fall
39:20
in love, Republicans fall in line. I guess had flipped with Republicans cult
39:24
like devotion to Trump. I hadn't really heard that before, and I just
39:30
I don't I'm not saying that isn't true. So that hasn't been true somewhere
39:34
but here from what I have seen, in West Virginia. It has been
39:37
the exact opposite. It has been the Democrats found a way to stick together
39:39
and the Republicans were the ones that always just kind of were splintered. And
39:45
so I had not heard that. But look, I think you've got a
39:51
point though on the cult liked thing for Trump. I look, I still
39:53
like Trump right Like I like, as I said earlier when I was talking
39:58
about Stuart being the co chair the camp Pain, I was a paid consultant,
40:00
like I was the person that Trump campaign paid in West Virginia to organize
40:05
that stuff back in twenty I started working with them at the end of twenty
40:08
fifteen. I worked through twenty sixteen. I still like Trump. I will
40:13
vote for Trump. I just don't think Trump is our best candidate, our
40:17
candidate most likely to win the general election. Tech says greg The primary in
40:22
West Virginia will be dominated by conservative voters. West Virginia is not a center
40:27
right state unless former Democrat term Republicans are trying to paint the picture of West
40:30
Virginia's political landscape. I mean, this person doesn't I guess you just don't
40:36
understand what center right is. I mean, I you know, I'll use
40:39
abortion as the issue to show you where West Virginians are right. So what
40:45
we passed, you know, we passed the ban on abortion, and then
40:49
there was a movement among the far right in the legislature to have no exceptions,
40:54
right. So I would say that, you know, there's probably a
40:58
moderate Republican view you right, where I don't know, you allow abortions up
41:01
to so many weeks, right, So that's sort of the that's the moderate
41:06
Republican view. The far right Republican view would be abortion with or no abortion
41:10
with no exceptions. And the center right position would be ban abortion with exceptions.
41:16
And that's what I mean by a center right state. I mean,
41:21
it's not you know, I think you were. I mean, and I
41:22
look, I've got tons of polling data to show this. You can tell
41:25
by what the legislature does. Um, you know, West Virginia is truly
41:30
a center right state. And even in the primary, and I get you
41:35
know, if you had a really low turnout primary, the far right could
41:37
have more influence. But with all these contested elections, I just I just
41:43
don't see that being the case. I think it's I think it's I think
41:45
the I think the candidate that the clear that runs the best campaign and clearly
41:50
identifies themselves as center right is in the best position to win. All right,
41:52
I think we got Tommy back. Tommy, you're on with Greg Thomas.
41:54
Go ahead, Yes, thank you for the prior interruption, Yes,
41:57
sir, go ahead. Mister Stewart has said that he would like to expand
42:05
the role of AG to include more real criminal and law enforcement. How do
42:12
you guys feel about that? Is that the critical issue in this particular race?
42:16
And do you, mister Thomas, either a gentleman can tell you who's
42:22
all going to be running for Secretary of State, auditor treasurer. I think
42:25
Commissioner Leonhardt, who's the trying to find job in the farming, is the
42:30
only guys seeking real action. I think right now he is. No.
42:34
No, I think there's a guy I think, look, I look,
42:37
I like Kent too, sir, um. But I know I think there's
42:39
a guy who you may be ring before from like Huntington or Wayne count Cavill.
42:44
I think he's like a form I think the guys from again that I
42:47
know. I know the Secretary of State. You got delicate Chris Prett,
42:50
that's running mister Reid Ken Reid. Putnam County Clerk Bryan Wood was one of
42:54
the first people to announce auditor. I'm hearing some names don't out there.
42:59
I know Deli, Caleb Hannah has announced he is going to run. Rob
43:04
Cornelius is teasing it on the show yesterday. So we do have some other
43:07
people out there. But come back to Tommy's question about the ag Yeah,
43:09
absolutely, UM, look, I think it is unlikely that the legis I'll
43:15
go ahead. I think it's a very good question, Tommy. Um,
43:21
I think it's unlikely the legislature would expand the powers of Um. Of that,
43:27
it kind of goes back to mcgrawl, right, I mean mcgrawl,
43:29
Darryl mcgrawl always wanted this, but he was crazy and the Democrats like wouldn't
43:34
let it happen. Um, I don't think. I don't think Morrissey ever
43:38
made a real push for that. He may have mentioned it or something,
43:40
but I don't think he ever made a real push for it. UM.
43:44
Stewart obviously, having been a US attorney done that stuff, kind of threw
43:47
it out there is like, well, I think we need to do this
43:50
too. Um. I just don't think this legislature is not about expanding powers
43:54
to state government. I don't see them doing that. Um, you know,
44:00
I just I think it's something No, look, I do. I
44:02
think Stuart's right about some of the things he brought up. We probably do
44:07
need some stronger prosecutors. But I think the way to handle that is by
44:10
electing better county prosecutors. And I'd like to get to some cant I don't
44:14
know if we're going to get to everything I want to get to, but
44:15
I got several more texts to get to. I wanted to bring it back
44:17
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to make sure people know about this. Greg. There's gonna be a public
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hearing tonight starting at six concerning needle exchanges in Charleston. Yes it's back again.
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Story posted on the WCHS network dot com website. This is about plans
47:31
to possibly do a needle exchange program on the West Side now. This particular
47:36
meeting will be held tonight at the Goodwill Prosperity Center Virginia's treat West, sponsored
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by the Women's Health Center of West Virginia. Our news department reached out to
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the Women's Health Center of West Virginia and they did not comment. The governor.
47:46
Of course Greg last year's side to build that requires programs to get a
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state license and for the programs to operate on a one to one exchange system,
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or at least try to. So if you're against this, and many
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people are in, I mean the polling shows that that they're against it,
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show up tonight at the Goodwill Center on the West Side and tell them no.
48:08
You know what, most people do that are against these liberal policies in
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the cities. As they move out of the cities. They have moved to
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Saint Albans, they have moved to Elkview, they have moved to South Charleston,
48:20
they have moved to Putnam County, they have moved somewhere else. I
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think that I think that you're going to see a huge Republican year, probably
48:29
the biggest Republican year for in Kanaw County in the last hundred years next year.
48:37
And it's going to be I think one of the look, I think
48:39
it's a little bit of this is just Knaw County catching up with the kind
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of the red wave of the rest of the state. Um, but I
48:46
think a big factor is just that, you know, the city of Charleston
48:50
has become this little mini San Francisco and it is so liberal and so left
48:55
and so just out of control. And but that's what right, Like,
49:00
you're talking about it on your show, and people read about it in the
49:02
paper. Um. And I think that's one of the things that is sort
49:06
of accelerating this move to the right for the rest of the county. Um.
49:09
And I think you're going to see another Republican county commissioner. I think
49:14
you're going to see a Republican prosecutor. And and and look, not just
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and not these fake Republicans either, you know what I mean, some of
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these people that are just switching parties. Um. You know, because I've
49:23
had a lot of people bringing that up to me. Right It's like,
49:25
hey, you know Tara Slango switched to Republican. Or you know this one
49:29
prosecutor candidate, you know that the one that I don't know our name,
49:32
but the one that announced, um not switzeror the other one, you know,
49:37
a sort of a Silango plant type person or whatever. Um. You
49:40
know, what we did in the state Senate last year was we had sort
49:44
of like a a sort of survey system, like a you know, a
49:47
questionnaire that you gave people that kind of that helped us. It helped it
49:52
helped the State Senate weed out some of these fake Republicans that were literally just
49:57
switching. And look, there's a lot of people that have switched parties,
50:00
but they didn't switch, you know, they actually switched their policy, you
50:06
know what I mean, Like the pendulum has swung and they've come with it.
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The ones that have just switched and are still just Democrats. There's ways
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for us to weed that out. But I think that's really what's going to
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happen. And I think this, you know, need to exchange and stuff
50:17
like that. That's the stuff that that's the stuff that's gonna be the five
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four zero one one zero one. Tech says no Democratic disruptors. Greg Obama
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knocked Hillary off her throne before she got double team by burning and trump manchion
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will be a spoiler. Plane and simple. There are not enough voters in
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America to support a viable third party nominee unless it's Trump. At this point.
50:49
Follow up is Greg sniffing glue question mark Obama was center right, O
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West Virginia is like a very rare state blood rhett blood read far right.
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I disagree with both of those, especially the Obama Party. Go ahead.
51:04
I don't. I don't. I guess I just don't. I mean,
51:05
I can see what they're saying about the Obama disrupting thing. Um. I
51:10
just think that like that he sort of was the disruptor. He beat Hillary,
51:15
but then the entire party just became what they were, right, Like
51:17
they just like it was like everybody in the Democratic Party at that point was
51:22
like, yeah, you know what, we'll just go with that, you
51:23
know, so they all sort of switched. I I see what you're saying
51:27
about him being the disruptor, um, and I think I agree with that.
51:31
Uh. Text says looks like Greg Thomas is getting paid by Jab's campaign.
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Asked Greg if he's getting paid by any campa. I'm not getting paid
51:37
by anybody running for US Senate, governor or attorney general. Great to hear
51:43
Greg Thomas on the show this morning. He's a man with common sense suggestionably
51:45
needed in the political world. Thanks. Oh there you go. Thanks,
51:49
let me see, uh pushing for another needle exchange when died to become acceptable
51:52
and encourage to get into addictions, says a texture one. All right,
51:59
Greg, it's fun man. Thanks a lot. I appreciate the opportunity.
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All right, we'll talk again soon. Coming up talk Line with Hobby Kirchill,
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and you can follow the news of the day w v Metronews dot com
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Stay cool, stay cool like Greg Thomas. Folks, I'm out the door.
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I will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and loves somebody
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