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10/29/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Joel Hoekstra, JB Akers · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 1: the United States of America, the state, West Virginia, the city, Charleston,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Dave Allen Show on 580 Live. And
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  Speaker 2: What we've got here is failure to communicate.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Allen.
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  Speaker 2: upper 70s. Clear and cool tonight, upper 40s. Sunny, nice tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Highs in the low 70s. High school football Friday night
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  Speaker 2: who's hoping you will reelect him, is going to join us. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: your calls and texts are always welcome and other stuff
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  Speaker 2: in the news. Guaranteed Bank Hotline 304-345-5858. Tony Vitale, our text.
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  Speaker 5: 304-935-5008.
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  Speaker 2: Trans-Siberian Orchestra in town at the Charleston Commonwealth Convention Center.
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  Speaker 2: We may very well be used to calling it by
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  Speaker 2: its new name, the Vandalia Health Center by that point.
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  Speaker 2: The show is coming up on December 3rd, 730. Joel
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  Speaker 2: Hoekstra is a guitarist with TSO, and he joins us
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  Speaker 2: now via the Guarantee Bank hotline. Good morning, sir. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. We're looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 2: you folks in the capital city on December 3rd. The
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  Speaker 2: tour is called the ghost of Christmas Eve, the best
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  Speaker 2: of TSO and more. And it's all new this time around.
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  Speaker 2: And I was looking at your tour schedule, Joel, pretty intense.
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  Speaker 2: 97 shows, 56 cities in 42 days. That's some pretty
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  Speaker 2: hardcore touring right there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a labor of love, though. It's all good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can't complain when you're doing what you love.
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  Speaker 3: And certainly looking forward to.
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  Speaker 4: Getting out there.
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  Speaker 3: If you haven't seen TSO before, The Ghost of Christmas
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  Speaker 3: Eve is a story that's on the front half of
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  Speaker 3: the show.
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  Speaker 4: It's a very unique show.
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  Speaker 3: So it's obviously accompanied by music, so a rock opera,
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  Speaker 3: if you will. And The Ghost of Christmas Eve is
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  Speaker 3: a best of or a greatest hit. So it's a
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  Speaker 3: great opportunity to come out. and, you know, get acclimated,
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  Speaker 3: hear the songs that made us who we are today.
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  Speaker 3: And then the second half of the show, it's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more of like a concert format where it
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  Speaker 3: focuses on the magnitude of the production. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we like to think we're nice to listen to, but
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  Speaker 3: it's an amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Show to look at.
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  Speaker 2: It's a spectacle, man.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a video wall the width of the arena.
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  Speaker 3: We've got an incredible laser light show happening, tons of
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  Speaker 3: pyro going off.
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  Speaker 4: We've got moving.
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  Speaker 3: Hydraulic lifts that the performers play on off and out
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  Speaker 3: over the audience or in the back of the arena
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  Speaker 3: going up.
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  Speaker 4: To the upper deck.
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  Speaker 3: At times we'll run down into the crowd and play
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  Speaker 3: directly in front of you, hand you a guitar pick
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  Speaker 3: and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: It snows indoors.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, last year they even incorporated drones. flying around
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  Speaker 3: the performers and taking various shapes and lighting up. It's
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  Speaker 3: just incredible to be a part of it. It's just
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  Speaker 3: some guy who started out to play guitar.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to your background here in a moment. I
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  Speaker 2: said to somebody earlier, if you've never seen TSO, calling
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  Speaker 2: it a concert is really underselling it, Joel, because it
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  Speaker 2: is a true experience.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely an amazing production to be a part of.
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  Speaker 3: I like to think of it as a show more
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  Speaker 3: than a concert. It's really entertaining. Those that don't know,
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  Speaker 3: it's really an all-ages experience. It's a big family experience
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  Speaker 3: for many. I mean, we've become a holiday tradition for
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  Speaker 3: so many. It is, as a guitar player, very unique
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  Speaker 3: to look out from a stage and see really young
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  Speaker 3: kids out there, and they love the visual aspect of
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  Speaker 3: the show. They can be genuinely entertained by all the
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  Speaker 3: pyro and the lasers and how fun it is to
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  Speaker 3: look at, all the way to people like myself who
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  Speaker 3: are like, hey, this is a great rock show to be.
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  Speaker 4: At, and it's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: And then the older audiences that love it for the
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  Speaker 3: holiday story puts them in the holiday spirit. So it's
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of different things. You know, you could
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  Speaker 3: ask a lot of people, what was your favorite part?
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  Speaker 4: You'll get a different answer. So, yeah, again, super, super
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  Speaker 4: cool to be.
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  Speaker 3: A part of, man, especially the longevity. This is our
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  Speaker 3: 30th anniversary. And we've now sold over, you know, 20
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  Speaker 3: million tickets as we've been doing this. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of incredible to be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about your background.
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  Speaker 2: You've been with the group, I think, since 2010. Tell
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  Speaker 2: us your background and how you arrived to be part
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  Speaker 2: of the group.
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  Speaker 3: You know, surprisingly, it might be the only conventional thing
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  Speaker 3: about TSO, but it was pretty conventional. The guitar player
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  Speaker 3: was going to take a year off, and I had
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  Speaker 3: a couple people in the band recommend me, and I auditioned.
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  Speaker 3: I had two auditions, one with the music director, and
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  Speaker 3: then my callback audition was with Paul O'Neill, who founded TSO.
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  Speaker 3: Set up so many great things. I guess I can
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  Speaker 3: drop the charity aspect into it here, that a dollar
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  Speaker 3: from every ticket sold goes to local charities. And we
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  Speaker 3: make sure we work with local partners so the money
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  Speaker 3: is well spent, that it goes to people truly in need.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's something we feel another feather.
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  Speaker 4: In our cap with that.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing is that after the show, there's an
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  Speaker 3: open signing line for everybody to come meet us. And that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with the last free meet and greet you
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  Speaker 3: saw at a concert these days.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Paul set up a lot of really smart things when
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  Speaker 3: he set up TSO. And it's helped us, despite being
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  Speaker 3: really successful, have like a really good connection with the
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  Speaker 3: fan base. You know, it feels still, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: like a friendship, you know, like a part of a
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  Speaker 3: holiday tradition to be on a first night basis with
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  Speaker 3: so many of the fans that have been coming for years.
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  Speaker 4: It's cool.
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  Speaker 2: And you talked about that charitable aspect of it. Over
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  Speaker 2: $ 20 million you have raised. And I love the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you said, Joel, that it is, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: city you go to, it's a local charitable organization of
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  Speaker 2: some kind. Over $ 20 million for local charities when you
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  Speaker 2: come into these towns. That's pretty cool stuff, man.
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  Speaker 4: It is, man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's a lot for me to
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  Speaker 3: love about playing this, being a part of TSO and Um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I was just a kid who started off
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  Speaker 3: playing guitar and hope to make a living playing guitar.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't necessarily see myself being able to play for
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  Speaker 3: arenas and be on this stage, this giant production and
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  Speaker 3: obviously have, you know, thousands or millions of fans. I mean, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's a cool experience to be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: Who were some of the folks that, uh, when you
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  Speaker 2: were growing up and you were playing guitar that you,
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  Speaker 2: you looked at and said, that's, that's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff I want to do. Are there anybody, any of
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  Speaker 2: those people for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of funny because I have the right
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  Speaker 3: background for playing with TSO because my parents are classical people, right?
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  Speaker 3: And they started me out really young, I think, hoping,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe it'll be a virtuoso. I was on
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  Speaker 3: cello and piano and I just wasn't into it. I
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  Speaker 3: just wanted to play baseball. And when I got to
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  Speaker 3: be 11, I discovered the beauty of rock music. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I heard ACDC and I saw Angus Young and Back
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  Speaker 3: in Black. I guess seeing ACDC on the early days
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  Speaker 3: of MTV was kind of my Beatles, Ed Sullivan moment,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that the older generation references so many times.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing him was like, wow, I want to do that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be that guy. Um, so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I asked my parents for.
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  Speaker 3: A guitar and I don't think they knew what was
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  Speaker 3: in store, but, um, you know, soon thereafter when I
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  Speaker 3: was cranking out Black Sabbath riffs, they were like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my gosh, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Get back to the cello, son. Get back to the cello,
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  Speaker 2: which you can do Black Sabbath on the cello too.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it anywhere. We had a question. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, uh, that came into the text line here.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you're very short on time. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: let you go up to this. Uh, where does the
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  Speaker 2: name come from? Trans, Trans, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: any idea where they came up with the name?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny because there's obviously that, I guess, recognition
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  Speaker 3: of the trans nowadays is such a different thing.
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  Speaker 4: Since 30 years ago when this started out.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a reference to a railway, the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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  Speaker 3: Paul O'Neill liked it because it was amazing and spectacular
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  Speaker 3: and that it brought so many people together. He saw
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  Speaker 3: these concerts or shows as a way to bring people together,
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  Speaker 3: that there was something in it for everybody, all ages,
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  Speaker 3: everybody was welcome.
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  Speaker 4: And hopefully something.
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  Speaker 3: That appealed to everybody, sent everybody away going, that's the
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  Speaker 3: best show I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he saw all this, man, which.
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  Speaker 3: Is incredible, because I think a lot of people were
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  Speaker 3: like scratching their heads going, huh?
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  Speaker 4: You think this is going to you think this is
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  Speaker 4: going to work? This is going to be a holiday tradition.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, he he knew the whole time and
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  Speaker 3: wanted it to be something that lived beyond him.
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  Speaker 4: And here we are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we lost Paul, you know, some years back
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  Speaker 3: and and we still are, you know, going after trying
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  Speaker 3: to make him proud.
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  Speaker 4: And it's really more successful than ever these days. So.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible to be a part of once again.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking forward to seeing you again December 3rd here
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  Speaker 2: in Charleston, the capital city. Joel Hoekstra, a guitarist with TSO.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you being here, my friend. We'll be seeing you
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  Speaker 2: here real soon. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Real quick, if I.
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  Speaker 3: May slip in, everybody, when you get your tickets, please
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  Speaker 3: go to TSOTickets.com. We've gone out of our way to
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  Speaker 3: make tickets more affordable for everybody. We understand, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the current state of things for everybody. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have all these markup sites online, all
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  Speaker 3: these resale sites.
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  Speaker 4: Avoid it.
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  Speaker 3: Go to TSOTickets.com if you want to come to the show.
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  Speaker 3: We've got five different price points that are all under
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  Speaker 3: $ 100 a seat. on there you know i think as
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  Speaker 3: cheap as something like 60 bucks or something like that
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  Speaker 3: so you know we can make it more affordable if
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  Speaker 3: you want to bring the family we know it's a
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  Speaker 3: family event all.
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  Speaker 2: Right appreciate you being here we'll see you at the
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  Speaker 2: show thanks a lot now you've got more interviews to
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  Speaker 2: get to so let's go so good so get to.
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  Speaker 4: It all right thank you so much man.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely 919 again tickets are available tso tickets.com and i
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  Speaker 2: love the fact that they're doing it that way that
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  Speaker 2: they're avoiding all of the second, third, fourth party, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it's called, ticket venues, TSOTickets.com. And again, over $ 20 million
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  Speaker 2: has been given to local charities when they come into
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  Speaker 2: these towns. So hope to see everybody there. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of our listeners are going because our stations have all
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  Speaker 2: been giving away tickets to the show. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a great, great night over at the Vandalia Health Center.
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  Speaker 2: Still going. working on it. It's the Ghost of Christmas Eve,
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  Speaker 2: the best of TSO and more. All new show Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: December 3rd at the Coliseum Convention Center slash Vandalia Health Center. Great, great, great.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a fantastic show. Tex always wondered
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  Speaker 2: why they do not include local children's choirs for the performance. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll pass that along to them. Text Dave earlier this year,
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  Speaker 2: I texted To your show, after one of the several
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  Speaker 2: accidents on the interstate exchange in Charleston, I made the
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  Speaker 2: Danny Jones and yourself then both said that would not
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  Speaker 2: be effective. Well, Department of Highways has now done that.
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  Speaker 2: This time next year, we'll see if it helps. I
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  Speaker 2: drive that stretch shoe and from work every day already
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  Speaker 2: legitimately feel safer with everyone or most people slowing down. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I hope that they are. My, you know, the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing about lowering the speed limits was, again, people, it's
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  Speaker 2: also illegal to drink and drive and people still do it.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, so my point was, as Danny and I
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  Speaker 2: talked about that, we just simply didn't know. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it's only been a few days, so we don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it's what it's going to be. But we were
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  Speaker 2: just I don't know that in my experience and I've
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  Speaker 2: been driving around a lot last couple of days. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen people slowing down, but, you know, maybe they will.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we start getting law enforcement out there and maybe
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  Speaker 2: The guy that's with me this morning currently represents District 55.
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  Speaker 2: He is J.B. Akers. He joins us in the Jera
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  Speaker 12: Congratulations again. I know you've been getting a lot of
• 16:32
  Speaker 12: congrats on social media, but I just want to tell
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  Speaker 12: you in person, good for you on your induction.
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  Speaker 2: You came in just to tell me that. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it. I don't want to mess it
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  Speaker 2: up after that. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Give
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: us the bio on J.B. Akers. Let's pretend that someone's
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: listening today that knows We know you're in office, but
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: doesn't know anything about your background. Tell us about JB
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  Speaker 2: the guy.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, so my family, I wasn't going to do a
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  Speaker 12: bio today, but it's easy to do because I've got
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  Speaker 12: to talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: From time to time.
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  Speaker 12: My family, blue collar family, growing up, I had almost
• 17:04
  Speaker 12: no one in my family who had gone to college.
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: My parents always stressed education and bettering yourself. So I
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  Speaker 12: went to college. I went to law school, and that's
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  Speaker 12: where I met my wife, Mary Claire Akers, who's a
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  Speaker 12: judge here in Kanawha County. Thankfully, that was the best
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  Speaker 12: decision I made, if nothing else, because I got to
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  Speaker 12: meet my.
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  Speaker 2: Wife in law school.
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  Speaker 12: We moved back to Charleston right after school. We could
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  Speaker 12: have gone anywhere with those degrees and gotten jobs somewhere else,
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: but we didn't want to. We wanted to stay home
• 17:30
  Speaker 12: and be around our family and our friends, and we
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  Speaker 12: do genuinely love this state. And so I came back
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  Speaker 12: here and opened my own office. I've got a law
• 17:38
  Speaker 12: office downtown. We have three kids who we raised here
• 17:42
  Speaker 12: in Kanawha County. They all went through Kanawha County schools.
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  Speaker 12: All three of our kids are now in college, which
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  Speaker 12: has been super depressing the past couple of months because
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: we're now empty nesters.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: And also empty bank accounts at this point.
• 17:52
  Speaker 12: That's all three in college. That can be a little challenging.
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  Speaker 12: So when people talk about affordability, I can relate for
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: a lot of different reasons. But our kids are wonderful.
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  Speaker 12: And I'll tell you this, like where they grew up
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  Speaker 12: in their neighborhood and their friends had a great friend group.
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  Speaker 12: It makes me appreciate this place even more. So our
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  Speaker 12: kids are super happy. My wife and I are super happy.
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  Speaker 12: And I've been in the legislature now for several years
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  Speaker 12: and I'm super happy doing that job. And, you know,
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  Speaker 12: I do appreciate the privilege and I mean that sincerely.
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  Speaker 12: I think it's a privilege to serve in that position.
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  Speaker 12: I really, really enjoy the constituent service as part of it.
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  Speaker 12: I always tell people that if you want to be
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: in politics, I think it should be a requirement that
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  Speaker 12: you like people. That may sound like a kind of a,
• 18:35
  Speaker 12: you know, no brainer, but I think you should really
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: enjoy talking to and being around people if you want
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: to be in office. So when people call me with
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: an issue, and it's the same reason I became a lawyer,
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: like I had no lawyers in my family whatsoever. And
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: my dad was an electrician. My mom went to nursing
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: school later in my life. Stepmom's a teacher. My stepdad
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: was a small business owner. But I thought being a
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: lawyer meant you could go help people. That was a
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  Speaker 12: perception I had. And in politics, it's the same way.
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  Speaker 12: So when people call me with a real issue in
• 19:03
  Speaker 12: my district, that is actually the part of the job
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  Speaker 12: I like the most.
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  Speaker 2: So with all those things, though, I mean, you talked
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: about helping people. What was it that went into your
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  Speaker 2: decision to get involved in politics to begin with? Was
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: it just the helping people aspect that you said?
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  Speaker 12: I mean, that's a big part of it because I
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  Speaker 12: do enjoy talking to folks and helping them figure out
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  Speaker 12: solutions to challenges. But it's also, you know, I do
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  Speaker 12: think in a lot of ways the state has, we
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  Speaker 12: have moved in the right direction in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, we finally have more in-state migration for the
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  Speaker 12: first time in decades in West Virginia and That's mostly
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  Speaker 12: in certain areas, though, like southern West Virginia, no doubt.
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  Speaker 12: We're still seeing problems with people leaving the state in
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: southern West Virginia, but there are places where it's gotten better.
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  Speaker 12: We've definitely had some very large economic development announcements the
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  Speaker 12: past several years. That's all good, but I'm still personally
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  Speaker 12: just very impatient, and I want to say that. see
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  Speaker 12: the state do even better. And I don't think I'm
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: the person who has every single answer, but I'm a
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  Speaker 12: hard worker. I'm very open-minded. And my main passion and
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  Speaker 12: goal as a delegate has been to work on economic
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  Speaker 12: development and job issues. I think that is the rising
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  Speaker 12: tide that lifts all boats. So there's nothing that's more
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  Speaker 12: satisfying to me than seeing mainly, frankly, an existing West
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  Speaker 12: Virginia business succeed and be able to expand and hire
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  Speaker 12: new people. But also if you bring in a new
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: business from somewhere else, those are the things I like
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  Speaker 12: the most. But aside from that, Dave, also on the
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: people side of it, I've got a real big public
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: safety focus in the stuff that I do. My position
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  Speaker 12: in the House is I'm the House Judiciary Chairman. And
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: a lot of what we do there obviously revolves around
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: the legal system. So, you know, from my And people
• 20:34
  Speaker 12: can look this up, like they wonder what we've done.
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: A lot of times you see online, maybe, Dave, if
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: you read the comments, people will complain, say politicians don't
• 20:40
  Speaker 12: ever do anything.
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  Speaker 2: They don't care.
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: I don't think everybody feels that way, but there's some frustration, obviously,
• 20:45
  Speaker 12: and I get it. But if you look at my
• 20:47
  Speaker 12: record specifically, you will see, I'm not patting myself on
• 20:51
  Speaker 12: the back, but you have to talk about what you've
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: done so people know you've actually accomplished something.
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  Speaker 2: That was going to be my next question. What are
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  Speaker 2: you most proud of?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, some of the economic development legislation, like we
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: had a Small Business Growth Act that we passed last session.
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  Speaker 12: I was a lead sponsor of the House version of that.
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  Speaker 12: And that was specifically focused on existing West Virginia small businesses. Because, again,
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  Speaker 12: I'd like to have five more new course deals in
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  Speaker 12: West Virginia somewhere. That's going to be a phenomenal large
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  Speaker 12: employer in the state. But what I would also like
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  Speaker 12: to see as much or more of are the existing
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  Speaker 12: small businesses in the state grow. So we had a
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  Speaker 12: Small Business Growth Act that I was a lead sponsor
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  Speaker 12: on the House version.
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  Speaker 2: That got passed.
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  Speaker 12: That'll be a very helpful piece of legislation for small business.
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  Speaker 12: But on an issue that people don't like to talk
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: about as much, but it's necessary, a lot of the
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  Speaker 12: child protection stuff and child welfare. I've personally, again, it
• 21:38
  Speaker 12: sounds like you're bragging, but I've got to tell folks
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: what I did so they have a reason to vote
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  Speaker 12: for me. We had first of its kind child protection
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  Speaker 12: or child welfare legislation that went through this past session
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  Speaker 12: that I was the lead sponsor on. It's built an
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  Speaker 12: idea that I've been working on for years. that I
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: think will have significant benefits in the abuse, neglect, foster
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  Speaker 12: care system. I'm very proud of that bill. That's not
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  Speaker 12: something a lot of folks really want to spend a
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  Speaker 12: ton of time on because it's not as glamorous, but
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  Speaker 12: it's extremely necessary, obviously. We also had some first of
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  Speaker 12: our kind legislation that I got some amendments to that
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  Speaker 12: I was also proud of. It was a drug kingpin law.
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  Speaker 12: And we're now West Virginia at the time that that
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  Speaker 12: passed was only the second state in the country that
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  Speaker 12: had that legislation codified. And that focuses on high level
• 22:23
  Speaker 12: drug traffickers who are bringing drugs in the state. Like
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  Speaker 12: I'm someone, I don't think the solution is to throw
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  Speaker 12: everybody in jail who uses drugs. I mean, I think
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: there's some folks who legitimately need help. But on the
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: high level drug trafficking, drug dealing side, I've got no
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  Speaker 12: sympathy for them. So we have a drug kingpin law
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: that I was personally responsible for putting a piece of
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  Speaker 12: legislation since I've been there, which I think is helpful
• 22:44
  Speaker 12: on the public safety side. And then there's some other stuff, Dave,
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: that may not be huge needle movers for some people,
• 22:50
  Speaker 12: but I think are still important to people. I think
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: this is something that you may appreciate because I know
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: you're an animal lover. And one of the reasons I
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: want to make it back next year is I had
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  Speaker 12: a first of its kind bill last year that made
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: it through the House, didn't pass the Senate, unfortunately, it
• 23:03
  Speaker 12: never took it up. But we, number one, increased the
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: penalties for animal abusers in that piece of legislation. Then
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: a companion bill would have created a first of its
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  Speaker 12: kind animal abuse registry that in West Virginia, similar to
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: the sexual abuse registry we have now, but this one
• 23:18
  Speaker 12: would have applied to animals. So that if you are
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: someone who, you know, sells animals, or if you are
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: giving away pets maybe to someone, you want to check
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: online and say, well, is this somebody I should give
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: a dog or cat to, or is this someone I
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: should sell one of my animals to?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: You could see if.
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: They've ever been registered online as a previously convicted animal abuser.
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: So that was a first of its kind piece of
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: legislation that I wish it passed last year. It made
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: it through my side. So I'd like to come back
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: and get that done. So anyway, my point is, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: I could list lots of other stuff, but I think
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: it's important for people to know that personally, I work on,
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: I almost kind of hate to use this word, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: I will, like I work on normal stuff that people
• 23:59
  Speaker 12: want us to focus our attention on. I work on
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: jobs issues. I work on educational issues, infrastructure. I work
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: on a lot of child protection stuff. I work on
• 24:09
  Speaker 12: stuff that involves protection of, you know, women, we had
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: a sexual, um, extortion bill that went through last year.
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  Speaker 12: And I'll tell you this, I know we probably have
• 24:16
  Speaker 12: a ton of time, but I'm always very responsive to
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: people as well. If they call me directly or email me, uh,
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: we had, I'm not going to name the family cause
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: I don't want to endorse myself with someone's name, but, uh,
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: we had a horrible situation in Nitro about a year
• 24:29
  Speaker 12: ago where, uh, a young man was sexually extorted online.
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  Speaker 12: You know, this story, you know, the family, uh, super
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: nice family. I feel awful for those people. Uh, but, um,
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: Delegate Dana Farrell, Delegate Andy Shamblin as well and I
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: got together and we amended our state's laws with regard
• 24:47
  Speaker 12: to sexual extortion. So hopefully that won't happen again or
• 24:50
  Speaker 12: if it does, the penalties are worse. But that was
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: something we did in honor of that family. And we
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: have some other laws we're going to try to change
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: this coming session if I make it back along those
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: same lines. There's another thing going on now. Please, please
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: talk to your kids about this stuff. It's extremely important.
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: There's something new going on or new-ish. It's called sadistic
• 25:06
  Speaker 12: online exploitation. where you have people online who aren't trying
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: to extort anything from someone by obtaining personal information from them.
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: They're literally obtaining personal information, embarrassing photos or things like that,
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: and then just trying to encourage people, the victim, to
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: hurt or even kill themselves with no request for anything
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: in return. It's not extortion. It's literally the term law
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: enforcement uses is sadistic online exploitation. So I've got a
• 25:31
  Speaker 12: bill lined up already to deal with that. What is
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: the gain from that? Just sick satisfaction. It's truly just
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: sick and evil. So there are those things that, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: protecting people who can't protect themselves.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Is a big focus of mine as well in my work.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: What's on your, if you are reelected, again, we're talking
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: with Delegate J.B. Eggers, what's on your wish list for
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the upcoming session? Or what would you like to get
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: accomplished over the next two years if you're reelected?
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  Speaker 12: I mean, number one is always improving the economy of
• 26:00
  Speaker 12: the state. that is, you know, if people make a
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: better living, then we, you know, affordability is the number
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: one issue in the election this year from my point
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: of view and rightfully so. If people make more money,
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: things become more affordable. I want people to have as
• 26:15
  Speaker 12: many good paying jobs here as possible so that our
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: kids and grandkids don't have to leave. That's a recurring theme. Now, again,
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: there are parts of the state where people are moving into,
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: but down in that area, Dave, I think it still
• 26:24
  Speaker 12: can be challenging. We For me, my wish list is
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: going to be primarily anything that improves the needle on
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: the economy of this state, allows people to make more money,
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: to raise their families, keep their families here. And that's
• 26:38
  Speaker 12: my primary focus.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: And it has been the whole time I've been there.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: What are you hearing out on the campaign trail as
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: you're out at candidate forums or door knocking or waving
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: signs or at the church or the supermarket or wherever
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you may be?
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: What are you hearing from people? Yes, I mean, I'm
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: very active on the community. I went out and did
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: a lot of door knocking earlier this week. And I'll
• 26:56
  Speaker 12: tell you, Dave, people are generally very positive towards me.
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: And I do think most people are nice anyway. In politics,
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: sometimes that cannot be the case. But people are generally
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: very positive to me. And I will say, again, I
• 27:08
  Speaker 12: think that I maintain a very positive campaign presence. You
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: probably don't follow my campaign page. You're too busy doing
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: other stuff. But all I do is talk about positive
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: things about myself, positive things about my community, things I
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: would like to get done. I don't say negative things
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: about others. I think that does help. People tell us
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: that's what they want us to do. And so that's
• 27:28
  Speaker 12: what I do. I maintain a positive campaign presence. So
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: people are nice to me, by and large. I will
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: tell you that the voting numbers right now are interesting.
• 27:37
  Speaker 12: There are some areas where you're seeing high turnout and
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: there are other areas, I'll tell you, like if you
• 27:40
  Speaker 12: live in Southern Kanawha County, you need to get out
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: to vote. So your voice is heard. Some of the
• 27:45
  Speaker 12: numbers down there are lower than we usually see. So
• 27:47
  Speaker 12: if you're a Southern Kanawha County listener, I would highly
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: encourage you to get out because it's important. I know
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: some folks think, oh, my vote doesn't matter. But in
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: the primary area, there were several races in the state
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: that were decided by five votes or less. I mean,
• 27:58
  Speaker 12: there were a couple of primary elections decided by like
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: two votes, four votes. So if you're a voter and
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: you're wondering whether your vote matters or makes a difference,
• 28:05
  Speaker 12: I can promise you with 100% certainty.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: That it does. You have a website or social media? Yeah, jbacres.com.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Real easy.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Final 30. Why should someone vote to reelect J.B.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Acres?
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  Speaker 12: I love representing people. I dedicate my time to this
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: job for a reason. It's because I want to see
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: people's lives improve. I love the place where we live.
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: I focus on real issues. I focus on things that
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: people tell me are important to them. And the primary
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: thing that people tell me they want us to focus
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: on is improving the economic welfare of the state. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 12: that has been the thing that motivates me and drives
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: me the most. And I'm super accessible. I respond to
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: emails and phone calls and was doing that last night
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: when I left my real job, quote unquote, downtown. And,
• 28:52
  Speaker 12: you know, I get back to folks and I just
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: enjoy I'm a people person and I just love what
• 28:57
  Speaker 12: I do, man. So I'm privileged if if you vote
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: for me, it's an honor to serve in this job.
• 29:03
  Speaker 12: And I just can't tell you how much I enjoy it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: And I want to continue to do it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Delegate J.B. Akers, he's the incumbent in House Seat 55.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you being here. We'll talk soon. Good luck to you.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Thanks for your time.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Tom Takubo has cared for West Virginians at their hardest
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  Speaker 7: moments as a lung and critical care doctor right here
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  Speaker 7: at home. In the state Senate, he brings that same approach. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: Not partisan politics. Just results.
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  Speaker 13: The savings are on all summer long at Walker Chevrolet
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. 20 minutes away from 10.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Thursday morning. Thank you so much for hanging
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  Speaker 2: out with me. My name is Dave Allen. That guy
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that you vote either on
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  Speaker 2: Chris Lawrence and the rest of the news teams will
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  Speaker 2: and more in Morgantown. So check us out. Again, we'll
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  Speaker 2: go live just after 7 on Tuesday night. Back to
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  Speaker 2: early voting. It continues, as I said, through Saturday. You
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  Speaker 2: can early vote at the Voter Registration Building in downtown Charleston,
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  Speaker 2: the Crosslanes Detachment. of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department, the
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  Speaker 2: Diamond on the West End, Marmette Town Hall, St. Albans
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  Speaker 2: City Hall, the Systemville Library, and the South Charleston Community Center.
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  Speaker 2: Early voting continues this Saturday. I have not early voted yet.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: My wife and I, it's kind of our thing. I
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: haven't actually voted on an election day in a number
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  Speaker 2: of years. And it's mainly, not that I'm against it,
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  Speaker 2: as we would say in Southern West Virginia, it's just
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  Speaker 2: my schedule. just doesn't allow. So I have been doing
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  Speaker 2: the early voting thing the last couple of years. We'll
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  Speaker 2: probably go do that. I'm going to say probably this Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we live in Putnam County, so we will
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  Speaker 2: either be going to the courthouse in Winfield or the
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  Speaker 2: Valley Park Conference Center. And so get out and vote.
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  Speaker 2: Make your voice heard. Texas, a huge thank you to
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  Speaker 2: JB Acres for helping me yesterday. I have sent so
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  Speaker 2: many emails and made numerous calls trying to get help
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  Speaker 2: and he's the only person to reach out to me
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: and help. Appreciate that. Text Dave, our state has gotten worse.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: We want lower utilities costs, lower food costs, and change
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: in how we put people on the Public Service Commission.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: They should not be appointed, and corruption has to be
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: stopped and investigated. One of the interesting things that I
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: find in election commercials, whether they're on radio, whether they're
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  Speaker 2: on television, online, or whatever, is the number of political
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  Speaker 2: people And again, I'm not hating on anybody, not taking sides,
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  Speaker 2: certainly not trying to offend anybody that would possibly advertise
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  Speaker 2: here by any stretch of the imagination. But so many
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  Speaker 2: people that say, I am going to work to lower prices.
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  Speaker 2: And every time I hear that, I just scratch my
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  Speaker 2: head and go, exactly how are you going to lower prices?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, exactly what's going to happen? Now, you could
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: talk about policies, and there have been several of them.
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  Speaker 2: that have led to some of the prices that we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing right now, trucking, obviously diesel fuel, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: So I get that aspect of it. But when I
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  Speaker 2: hear somebody running ads that say, I'm going to lower
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  Speaker 2: prices or I'm going to work to lower prices, well,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the guy that's in the White House also promised that
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: too and see how that's working out. So I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 2: There are no more tickets available. That's why we tell
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  Speaker 2: They're gone. It is going to be a great time
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  Speaker 2: at the ballpark tonight, and for those who got your tickets,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be seeing you tonight starting at 6 o'clock. This
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  Speaker 2: is the 20th year that Light the Night, I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: my Halloween and Thanksgiving stuff. It's an Easter hunt. It's
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  Speaker 2: an Easter egg hunt. That's what it is. This is
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  Speaker 2: the 20th year that Trick or Beat has been done,
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  Speaker 2: and again, it's over at GoMart Ballpark. First session will
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  Speaker 2: start at 6 o'clock tonight, and it just gets bigger
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  Speaker 2: and better every year. But we start about a month
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  Speaker 2: in advance telling you, okay, the tickets will be available
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  Speaker 2: at this date. And then when we have the tickets,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: we say the tickets are available now. And without fail,
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  Speaker 2: love our listeners, but we got a giant sign hanging
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  Speaker 2: out on the door out here that says it's sold
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  Speaker 2: out because people wait. the last minute, and then they
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  Speaker 2: don't get tickets, and then we have to be bad
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  Speaker 2: guys and turn people away because we don't have enough
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  Speaker 2: stuff to go around. So that's why we tell you
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  Speaker 2: get your tickets in advance. But they're gone now. They're gone.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: If those do have your tickets, we'll see you over
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: tonight at Goldmar Ballpark. They put each of us in
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: different positions there. So if you come out, I will be,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: myself and Missy from our sales department, we will be
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: manning the gates. We'll be the ones letting you in.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: So if I haven't met you, I'm looking forward to
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: seeing you this evening at the ballpark. Coming up later today,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Metro News Midday with Amanda Barrett and me. The voice
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: of the Mountaineers, Tony Caridi, is going to stop by.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Mountaineers have a bye this week, but Mr. Caridi's been
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  Speaker 2: on the road. He's been on the road with GoMart,
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  Speaker 2: helping them to distribute over 17,000 books. Now, he was
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: at Bell Elementary School on Tuesday. He was also in Braxton, Raleigh,
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  Speaker 2: Cabell Wood, and Mon County. It's Tony's new book. that
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: he's written is called, it's a kid's book, Watch Where
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: You Put Your Feet Down. So Tony Caridi is going
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: to join us to talk about the tour, talk a
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: little mouth-to-mouth football as well, again, as they have the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: bye week this week. Hoppy Kirchival is here. He's out
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: with a new commentary. You can read that at wvmetronews.com
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: if you didn't hear it on air this morning. Jeff
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Jenkins has the news. The folks from the United Way
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: of Harrison, Doddridge, and Grant County areas are going to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: stop by the show today. Alan Sexton, Boone County School Superintendent,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: is going to be on the show today as well.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And we told you on Tuesday's show, about a little
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: controversy down in Greenbrier County, and it had to do
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: with a meet the candidates forum. The folks, it's an
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  Speaker 2: online news publication. I don't know if you call it
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  Speaker 2: a publication if it's online. It's an online service, I guess.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: And it's called Real West Virginia. They had a meet
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  Speaker 2: the candidates forum scheduled in Greenbrier County. And the guy
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: behind that, a guy named Stephen Baldwin from a legislator,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: but I know very well, Stephen Baldwin had said that
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: all of these Republican candidates agreed to show up and
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: then they backed out. Well, So I let him talk
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  Speaker 2: about that. Well, I heard from, as you may guess,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: the Greenbrier County Republican folks, and they said, well, we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to tell our side of the story. So Ben Anderson,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: who is the head of the Greenbrier Republicans, is going
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to join us on the show to tell their side
• 39:16
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  Speaker 15: This is Kanawha County Delegate Tristan Levitt. I grew up
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  Speaker 8: When you step into a courtroom, you deserve a judge
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  Speaker 2: in our utilities and watch prices come down just like
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  Speaker 2: our phone companies years ago. Competition. Says a texter. I
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: kind of missed this yesterday. I had to leave after
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  Speaker 2: the local show yesterday, as I've told you folks. It's
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  Speaker 2: been an interesting week for me from Tuesday night being
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  Speaker 2: inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame to
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  Speaker 2: yesterday heading down to Logan County to bury my stepmother
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  Speaker 2: who passed away last Friday. So kind of the good
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  Speaker 2: and the bad. So I left yesterday as soon as
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  Speaker 2: the local show was over. Didn't do midday yesterday. I
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  Speaker 2: was kind of out of a loop taking care of
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: family things down there. So I kind of missed this
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  Speaker 2: the lead story this morning, wvmetronews.com. Downtown South Charleston was
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  Speaker 2: under a shelter in place for about an hour or
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  Speaker 2: so yesterday afternoon when a chlorine cloud formed at the
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  Speaker 2: Salinas plant. Now the wind, from what Jeff Jenkins reporting says,
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  Speaker 2: the wind pretty much took care of it. That's according
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  Speaker 2: the others there, started around 2 o'clock, and the shelter-in-place
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  Speaker 2: South Charleston. Been doing these kind of meet the, we
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  Speaker 2: call them meet the candidate type interviews for the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks here. But folks, the election is Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Early voting continues through Saturday. Election day is Tuesday. So
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: if you have not reached out to me as a
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: candidate and not gotten, I give every candidate one free interview.
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  Speaker 2: And then I turn you loose in the green room
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  Speaker 2: so the sales weasels can try to shake you down
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  Speaker 2: for money. uh that's the way the whole thing works
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  Speaker 2: uh you need to get with me i mean like
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: soon because i have got one candidate on tomorrow county
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: commission candidate that'll be on the show uh tomorrow i've
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: got two uh scheduled for monday i'll space them out
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  Speaker 2: as far as you know i don't like to put
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: two candidates back to back unless i have to certainly
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: not two candidates running for the same office Um, so, uh,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I got two on Monday and I don't have any
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: schedule for election day. I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: don't like to do election day because they think it's
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: too late at that point, but I'm just telling you,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a candidate and you've not been on with
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: me and you want to, uh, I'll try my best
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  Speaker 2: to squeeze you in. Should be able to do it though.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Drop me an email, dave.allen at wvradio.com. That's the best
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: way to get ahold of me. dave.allen at wvradio.com. Do
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  Speaker 2: my best to get you scheduled. Election day is Tuesday.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: The text says the chlorine cloud was kind of reminiscent
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: of the infamous 2007 blue haze in Charleston. So on
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: to the Alyssa Middleton case. Now, and I didn't get
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: a chance to get into this yesterday, Kanawha County Chief
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Judge Kerry Webster is saying that Prosecuting Attorney Deb Rusnack
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: did not follow proper protocol in asking to be removed
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  Speaker 2: from the Alyssa Middleton case. Now, you'll recall on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutor Rusnack filed a motion requesting that she be let
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: off the case and that there be an appointment of
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  Speaker 2: a special prosecutor due to alleged threats from supporters of
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: the family and friends of the late John Lucas. And
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Alyssa Middleton was the ambulance driver accused of intentionally hitting
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  Speaker 2: and killing Mr. Lucas earlier this year. The motion was
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: submitted to Webster, which Judge Webster says was improper. Judge
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Webster says it needs to instead be filed with Judge
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  Speaker 2: Dave Hardy. Um, and, and basically from what I know
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: about the story and I know about as much as filing, uh,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: motions as, uh, as this chair does over here. But
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: from what I know about it is, is that it
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: seems like it was sort of a, like a clerical
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: error or something. So they're working to get that taken
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  Speaker 2: care of. And, uh, you can, um, read more about
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: it at wvmetronews.com. The bottom line is though, and this is,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think this is the fault of anyone that
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  Speaker 2: is this case is not going to happen anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I truly believe that. And as much as
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  Speaker 2: the community wants it to happen yesterday, there is a process,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: and it's not going to get underway anytime soon. There
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: was talk of a change of venue, which is warranted.
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  Speaker 2: I understand it. I mean, I completely understand that discussion.
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  Speaker 2: But that's being held up because there's a case before
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court's The Cochran case that kind of hangs
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: in the balance with this case, what's going to happen
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: in the Alyssa Middleton case. So and now this with
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: prosecuting attorney Deb Rusnick saying that she'd been getting threats.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Her office staff has been threatened. Now, by the way,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I just would be in all fairness. The family of
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: John Lucas is denying this. And I'm just saying what
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the allegations are, and I also wanted to put that
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: they have denied it, that this is happening. But Deb
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Rusnick has said that she's had to have police presence
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  Speaker 2: outside her home. And let me just say that if you,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: regardless of everybody wants justice in this case, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: But if you are making comments like that or online,
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  Speaker 2: you're certainly not helping the K. And as I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the other day, when Deb Rosnick on Monday, late Monday,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: filed that motion as early as like the next day
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: on some of the news sites, there were people making
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: those same statements saying we're going to get justice one
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: way or the other. I understand the sentiment. Everybody wants justice.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: But that's what's causing the delays in the trial are
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: statements like that. The best thing people can do is
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: just sit back and just wait for the process to
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: play out. The legal system never works at the pace
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: that we want. And I completely 100% understand that. But
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: just let it play out. Dex said, I would like
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: for you to have an independent middle class voter on
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: before election to find out what his or her concerns are.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can interview myself then. Because I consider I
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: am a registered independent. I used to be a Democrat,
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: used to be a Republican. Now I'm an independent. Maybe
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I'll do that on election day. Maybe I'll interview myself.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: So the judge, as a texter, is not going to
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: come down on those threatening a prosecutor, but on her
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: for not going through proper protocol.
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Question mark. I got to mention this. This has caused
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: a little, we'll end with a fun thing this morning.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: This has caused a lot of discussion within our office today.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: I posted a picture on my X page yesterday and
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: on my personal Facebook page too. I mentioned I went
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: down to Logan yesterday, went to one of my late
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: stepmother's favorite places to eat, free mention there for Parkway Drive-In,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: ordered a big old batch of chicken livers. I mean,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: you know, just like a pound. Sorry, Millie Snyder had
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: a pound of chicken livers yesterday. Absolutely delicious. On our call,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: we have a production call with the talk line boys
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: and the video people around 8 o'clock or so. I
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: learned that Dave Wilson, Northern Dave, absolutely loves chicken livers.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Learned that TJ Meadows, native of Boone County, absolutely despises
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: chicken livers. Learned that Chris Lawrence, who is as Southern
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: as you can possibly get, Appalachian Southern, hates chicken livers.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: But yet Daniel Woods... who was from Mon County originally,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: was practically choking on his spit when he saw the
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: picture of the chicken livers because he likes them so much.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: That'll be a debate away from politics sometime. I'll steal
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: weeklies in or out. How's that? I'm in on chicken livers.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: All day I'm in on chicken livers with some coleslaw.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: I had onion rings with mine yesterday covered in hot sauce.
• 51:59
  Speaker 12: I'm in.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Got to go. See you later today on Midday. Back
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: on the show tomorrow. Until then, have fun. I love somebody.