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10/22/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Stan Howell, Sarah Mitchell, JB McCuskey, Ryanne Ball, Scott Dempsey · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 2: along on social media, too. Coming up, the West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Book Festival this weekend at the Vandalia Health Center, formerly
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  Speaker 2: the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center. I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 2: now trying to get used to it. OK, I know
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  Speaker 2: it's not it's official, but not that. Anyway, we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that momentarily. West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is here.
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  Speaker 2: We continue to introduce new candidates for the upcoming election.
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  Speaker 2: Election day, of course, November 3rd. Early voting going on now.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Ryan Ball, who is a candidate for
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  Speaker 2: circuit judge in Putnam County. Also, the new police chief
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  Speaker 2: in Charleston is set to be sworn in today. We
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  Speaker 2: talked to him on the show a couple days ago.
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  Speaker 2: The retiring chief, Scott Dempsey, is going to stop by
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  Speaker 2: later in the show. West Virginia Book Festival is Saturday at,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, the artist formerly known as the Coliseum
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  Speaker 2: and Convention Center. Kanawha County Library Assistant Director and co-chair
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  Speaker 2: of the book festival, Sarah Mitchell, joins us this morning
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  Speaker 2: in the chair of Construction Studios to talk about it. Sarah,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: And you told me this is the first time you've
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  Speaker 2: been on radio, right?
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 2: You've done podcasts, but never radio.
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  Speaker 7: It is my very first radio show.
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  Speaker 2: Is it everything you thought it would be so far?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And more.
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  Speaker 8: And more.
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  Speaker 1: And more.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It's all happening Saturday. What time do you open up
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  Speaker 2: over there?
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  Speaker 7: 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: To 5 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: And for people that have never gone, kind of run down,
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  Speaker 2: you got a booked up schedule here. See what I
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  Speaker 2: did there? You got a full schedule, I should say.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about it all.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we have something for everything, everyone. So we have
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  Speaker 7: something for the adults, for the families. We have bestselling
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  Speaker 7: authors coming in. We have Rosalie Hazlett, who's an illustrator.
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  Speaker 7: We have Kate Quinn, who writes historical fiction. We have
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  Speaker 7: Margo Lee Shetterly, who wrote Hidden Figures, which brought to
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  Speaker 7: light Katherine Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So that's amazing. We also have Craig Johnson, who's a
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  Speaker 7: Huntington native, you know, went to Marshall. And then we
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  Speaker 7: have R.L. Stine, who wrote Goosebumps. I mean, best way
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  Speaker 7: to go into Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly. I love it, the way that you
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  Speaker 2: do the authors every year at the book festival, because
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  Speaker 2: you have so many different genres, different varieties of people
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  Speaker 2: that come in. What goes into deciding who comes to
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  Speaker 2: the book festival?
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  Speaker 7: Well, first off, we hear from the people that attend.
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  Speaker 7: We have a survey that people attend and we write
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  Speaker 7: those names down. And then we also see who's doing tours.
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  Speaker 7: And we have a great selection committee that kind of
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  Speaker 7: goes through it and finds and weeds out and says, okay,
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  Speaker 7: we want something for everyone. In addition to that, we
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  Speaker 7: have program proposals. So local authors can submit in requests
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  Speaker 7: of what they want to present. So we can give
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  Speaker 7: that chance to promote on a national stage for those
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  Speaker 7: local authors.
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  Speaker 2: It's so important.
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  Speaker 3: And I know.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime that I've gone in the past going through and
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  Speaker 2: you see in all the quote unquote big name authors,
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  Speaker 2: but those local, those regional authors are always a big
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  Speaker 2: part of it as well. I know they're happy to
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  Speaker 2: be there and people are happy to talk to them
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  Speaker 2: and see them there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that's our chance to promote them. We have
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  Speaker 7: a author this time, Alyssa Davis, who writes about dragons.
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  Speaker 7: We have a, um, author called JC Moore that wrote
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  Speaker 7: some horror author books, which is great again for the
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  Speaker 7: Halloween theme. We have DH Anderson who wrote her first
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  Speaker 7: book and she's going to be presenting. We have writing workshops.
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  Speaker 7: If you're that inspiring author and want to be one
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  Speaker 7: of our program proposals in the future, you can come
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  Speaker 7: and learn how to write and work on your writing yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Did I hear, uh, I think somebody told me that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: One of my good friends, Dream of Denver, is going
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  Speaker 2: to be there. Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Or did I?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I actually talked to her agent earlier this week,
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  Speaker 2: and he had thought that she might be there. So, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's a work in progress.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll leave it there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we also have a marketplace where people, authors purchase tables,
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  Speaker 7: and they sell their books. And we have a lot
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  Speaker 7: of different publishers, and they bring in different authors.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe.
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  Speaker 10: Possibly.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe going to be on one of our marketplace tables.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of marketplace, I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: book sale.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that my wife lives for every year. Every
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  Speaker 2: year we are coming to the book festival and we're
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  Speaker 2: coming for the book sale. And I've been told that
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  Speaker 2: that's where I'm going to be Saturday afternoon at some point.
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  Speaker 7: That is wonderful. And especially in the afternoon, we have
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  Speaker 7: our box sale so you can get them for even cheaper.
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  Speaker 3: I'm familiar.
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  Speaker 1: That is good.
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  Speaker 7: Bring a wagon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: We want you to take as many books. As many
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  Speaker 7: books as we can get into people is the greatest.
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  Speaker 7: And another great thing is all the money made from
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  Speaker 7: the book sale goes back into the library for us
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  Speaker 7: to present more programs. And it's just awesome. It helps
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  Speaker 7: the community out when you buy books and more people
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  Speaker 7: have books.
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  Speaker 2: Again, we are talking with Sarah Mitchell. who is with the,
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  Speaker 2: your official title is Kanawha County Library Assistant Director and Co-Chair.
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  Speaker 2: How long have you been doing this?
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  Speaker 7: This is my ninth year of doing the book festival,
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  Speaker 7: and I love it. I love seeing kids' faces when
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  Speaker 7: they come in. I love seeing just the smiles and
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  Speaker 7: the enjoyment of the written word. And West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio,
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  Speaker 7: people coming in just to celebrate the book.
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  Speaker 2: Is this something that's been a lifelong passion of yours personally?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You don't go into a field like this, I would think,
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  Speaker 2: unless you have an interest in reading and literature or
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  Speaker 2: something that you've always been a big deal to you.
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  Speaker 7: So I was actually a struggling reader. I have dyslexia.
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  Speaker 7: And so this is something that when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 7: I was a struggling reader. And then I found that
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  Speaker 7: book that I really, really loved and got me into reading.
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  Speaker 2: What was that book, if you don't mind my asking?
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  Speaker 7: Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. So that
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  Speaker 7: was the book that got me into love reading. And
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  Speaker 7: then I just really enjoyed how it led me to
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  Speaker 7: different places in the world. And so that's what got
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  Speaker 7: me to be a librarian. I actually attended the book
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  Speaker 7: festival before I started working for Kanawha County Public Library.
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  Speaker 7: And so this is just a great event and I
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  Speaker 7: can't speak enough about it. And it's free.
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  Speaker 2: It's free.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that we talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: on the show about reading, Don Miller, Read Aloud West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia is a frequent guest on the show. And she
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  Speaker 2: talks about that, about just finding that one thing as
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  Speaker 2: a young person that interests you, whether it's fantasy, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's superheroes, whether it's football players, farming, whatever the case is.
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  Speaker 2: Find that one thing and get them hooked, and they're
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  Speaker 2: pretty much hooked after that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we have a whole section dedicated to children. So
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  Speaker 7: we have Silly Safaris is coming and they're going to
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  Speaker 7: have live animals. West Virginia Public Broadcasting is doing a
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  Speaker 7: session about how to write music for kids.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, and then we're going to have a bunch
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  Speaker 7: of different tables about different community partners that are available
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  Speaker 7: for kids and families with STEM activities, crafts. And we
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  Speaker 7: also have a costume parade. So if you want to
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  Speaker 7: test out the costume a little bit before Halloween, get
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  Speaker 7: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: More use out of those expensive costumes. How does that work?
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  Speaker 7: So you just show up in your costume, and it
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  Speaker 7: is at 1115. We have music. We have characters that
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  Speaker 7: are going to be there, and they walk around the
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  Speaker 7: whole book festival area in their costume. It is a
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  Speaker 7: wonderful experience.
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  Speaker 2: It is always a great event. It is the West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Book Festival over at the Coliseum and Convention Center,
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  Speaker 2: which will one day be the Vandalia Health Center. We're
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  Speaker 2: kind of working our way toward that. October 24th, give
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  Speaker 2: us the hours again.
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  Speaker 7: 8 to 5.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And where can people, if they want to go on
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  Speaker 2: ahead of time and get like a little map, because
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  Speaker 2: there's so many, there's so many. How many total vendors
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  Speaker 2: do you have, booths, just approximately?
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  Speaker 7: I'd say 45.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. There's always a
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  Speaker 2: lot there. And with those 45... they got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of space there. I mean, they got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff that they're bringing in. So it's a great, great,
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  Speaker 2: it's a great event. It's a, it's a big, big
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  Speaker 2: boost to the local economy because people come from all
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  Speaker 2: over the region for this, to have all those authors.
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  Speaker 2: And what other opportunities with those authors that you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: do you get it? Even the regional authors, do you
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  Speaker 2: get an opportunity to sit down and just talk to
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  Speaker 2: them and just, you know, maybe purchase a book, maybe
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  Speaker 2: talk to them about the book, little one-on-one, the white lighter,
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  Speaker 2: the writer's workshop, the costume parade, the book sale, You
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  Speaker 2: got everything going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. You should come.
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  Speaker 2: I will be there. I told you I'll be there.
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  Speaker 2: Be there that Saturday afternoon, toting books out of there, probably.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Sarah, I appreciate you being here. Sarah Mitchell again,
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  Speaker 2: and everything goes on at the Connell Seaman Convention Center,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be this Saturday, and admission is free.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the great things about it. Appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: being here. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for saying my name right, Dave.
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  Speaker 3: Just saying. Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Who knows?
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about some stuff keeping your office
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: busy as of late, including earlier this month. You were
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: out of the Midwest to announce a lawsuit against OpenAI.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Several other states and agencies were involved in that. Talk
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: about that. Talk about what exactly this is all about.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. So there's a few really important things here. The
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: first and the most important is that OpenAI with their
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: chatbot GPT was offering a dangerous product to West Virginia consumers.
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: And one of the key things that the West Virginia
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: Attorney General's Office does is that we protect West Virginia consumers,
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: particularly the most vulnerable, which is children, elderly, etc. And
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  Speaker 6: that product was being used and was prompting kids to
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  Speaker 6: take dangerous actions. In certain instances, it It taught children
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: how to commit suicide. It counseled them to take dangerous
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: sexual risks. It gave them advice to take actions outside
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: of their parents' purview. And it sort of stepped into
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: the place of what a parent should be doing with
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: a child. And we are going to hold them accountable
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: for marketing and offering a product that was unsafe to
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: our consumers.
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  Speaker 2: And this is, I'm presuming, similar to.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Suits that you've been involved with with uh you know
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: with with facebook and some of the other entities like
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: that but i don't i don't know that they actually
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: maybe it's not dave because i don't know that they
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: actually instructed kids to do certain things am i right
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Uh well actually talk about social media it it the
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: social media is a little different than the ai okay
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: so the social media um is a lot about addictive
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: nature right to So one of the biggest problems with
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: social media is, A, data aggregation without any attribution, meaning
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: that they're taking... and using and essentially stealing and selling
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: data that they collect from young people, but also the
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: incredibly addictive nature of the way that social media is
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: and the way that the algorithms were intended to essentially
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: force children to need to continue to use it because,
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: as we all know, if you are not a customer,
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: you are the product, meaning if you're not paying for something,
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: you are the product of what you're using. And so
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: social media really centers around that, as well as providing
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: avenues for dangerous people to communicate with kids under sort
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: of the cover of darkness. And we've talked about this
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: a little bit before, but this whole idea that sexual
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: predators can mimic the profiles of young people to earn
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: their trust and then find them and assault them or
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: abduct them, etc., Social media creates an enormous amount of
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: danger that way. Chat GPT creates danger because it acts
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: as a trusted friend. And so children will get on
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: there and they will ask it questions. You know, I'm depressed.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: What do I do if I want to kill myself?
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: What's the best way to do that? You know, how
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: do I how do I express these these hormonal urges
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: that I have? And what we know is that computers
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: don't have values. Human beings have values, and the values
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: that the CHAT GPT had were created by the people
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: that created it. And if it was instructing, and it
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: was instructing children to do things that are well outside
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: of the bounds of what any rational person would instruct
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: a child to do, we believe that creates an inherently
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: dangerous product.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a personal question now. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: know we have a lot of folks that are listening
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that are parents or grandparents. You're a parent, some lovely,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: lovely daughters there. How difficult, and maybe they're not old
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: enough yet, because you want them to be able to
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: use these tools because in our school system, it's already
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: almost required, and there's no sense that that's going to
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: go away, JB, anytime soon. So how do you have
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: those conversations with kids, though, and try to put some
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: guardrails in place? How does that work?
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: It's a great question, Dave. And it actually gets into
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: the second part of what I wanted to talk about perfectly.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: So AI isn't going anywhere. These suits are not designed
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: to eliminate AI from the lexicon of what's happening in
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: our economy. What we know is that AI is going
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: to cure cancer. It's going to revolutionize our defense infrastructure.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: It's going to give people throughout our country access to
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: educational and research opportunities that in a remote way that
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: never existed before. AI is going to, in our future,
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: make life way better for a whole lot of people.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: But it has to be done safely. And so the
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: intent here is, one, to make sure that this product
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: is safe for kids, and two, to start to give
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: confidence after we're done that we can move forward boldly
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: in AI in this country and so that we can
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: make sure that we are the ones that are setting
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: these parameters. But the thing that would be the most
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: dangerous in all of this is if we allowed China
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: and Russia and Iran to be the leaders in AI
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: and force their value set on what AI is supposed
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: to be doing down the throats of American consumers. So
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: we are trying to create a safe product that we
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: know is going to exist ad infinitum. And on top
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: of all of that, the rest of the infrastructure that
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: comes around AI is going to involve enormous amounts of
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Western Virginia energy. And so, you know, there are huge
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: opportunities for the, you know, the construction of lots of
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: new coal and gas fired power plants right here because
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: of the AI revolution. And one of the things that
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: I've said and I truly believe, is that AI is
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: the first technological revolution that is going to bolster blue-collar
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: jobs and eliminate white-collar jobs. And that is because the
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: infrastructure that goes around it is going to be done
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: by union electricians. It's going to be done by pipefitters.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: It's going to be done by construction workers and line workers.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: And those are the jobs that that truly are going
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: to explode as we build out our AI infrastructure. So
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: it's really about creating a safe product that can be
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: used properly because its benefits are truly astronomical.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: But in West Virginia, every time you turn around, JB,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: we report on it all the time. It's people saying,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: we don't want these centers here. We don't want this here.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Well, I think we're going to have to have a
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: long and hard conversation in all of our communities about
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: whether or not we want that kind of infrastructure here.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: But what we do have and what is going to
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: be coming no matter what is we have to make
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: three times more electricity in this country than we make
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: right now just to meet the demands that are already
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: being purchased. And in order to do that, the only
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: chance we have is with carbon fuels. And West Virginia
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: is truly uniquely positioned to from a transmission standpoint, but
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: mostly from a fuel standpoint, to become the nation's leader
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: in providing that electricity throughout the country in order for
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: this AI revolution to take place. And the train is
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: down the tracks, and I think it is really incumbent
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: upon us as leaders to make sure that we maximize
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: this opportunity to completely change the economy in the future
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: for every West Virginia child. And I believe when you
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: look at companies like Hope Gas and AP, and you
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: look at places like EQT, and you look at places
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  Speaker 6: like Core and Tarot, They own and have the capacity
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  Speaker 6: to provide this fuel on the ground right now using
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: West Virginia workers. And and the opportunity is just it's
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: astronomical for us to become the nation's battery. And we
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: want to make sure that the product that this electricity
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: is going into is safe.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Talking again with Attorney General J.B. McCuskey. It's 930. The
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  Speaker 2: I have a couple of texts here for you if
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  Speaker 2: you don't mind, sir. Sure. One says, Dave, related to
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  Speaker 2: the recent nuclear facilities and material handling disposal issues, Please
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: ask A.G. McCuskey, is it common or if it's common
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: for a sitting governor to defer associated legal opinions regarding
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: state code prior to signing documentation obligating the state to
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: his office, or are they dependent upon their opinion and
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: or in-house legal counsel?
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: That, my friend, is an excellently worded question that would
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: be a lot easier for me to answer if I
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: were reading it. But I think the gist of that
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: question is, whether or not I needed to have been consulted.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: That's kind of what I'm gathering. And the answer to
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: that question is I did not need to be consulted
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: on that. And that is what the governor did, in
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: my opinion, was well within his purview under the executive powers.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Where he had wanted, in my opinion, certainly we could
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: have provided it. But the governor has a lot of
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: leeway to direct those kind of issues from his own office.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: On the social media and the AI and the whole
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: thing we were talking about earlier, someone asked about Grok
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: about that. Grok?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, G-R-O-K.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: That is X's version of chat GPT.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And is there anything on your office or any of
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the other entities that you deal with across the country?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Has there been anything there with Grok?
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all I can say with confidence is that the
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: OpenAI case is the first one.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: All right. Very good. Very good.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: You've also joined some other folks in the settlement against
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Snap Finance. I want to make sure people realize that's
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Snap Finance, not Snap Fitness, which we all know here
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: in the Valley.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: You know, I hadn't even contemplated how confusing.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That might be.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Well, you don't live in my head.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: It's like Houston's airport being called Hobby and the other
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: one being called Houston International Airport. They both have H
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: in them. I've actually gone to the wrong airport.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: At least once.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Well, we had a guy here that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: This is Snap Finance. And what I would.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: If there are any consumers of Snap Finance out there,
• 24:40
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• 24:43
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• 24:46
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• 24:48
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  Speaker 1: That you have.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Any scams on the horizon? I mean, anything? There's always
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: something new. Anything... Anything new and exciting in the world
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: of scams?
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think right now, and this is something that
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: you should probably speak with our Secretary of State, Chris Warner,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: about as well. But there's always scams around voter registration
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: problems right now. This isn't necessarily consumer stuff. They're not
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: usually asking for your money. But your vote is the
• 25:22
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• 25:25
  Speaker 6: And do not let anyone talk you into or out
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: of voting or try to talk you or explain to
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: you that you may not be registered or you're in
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: the wrong place, none of those calls are going to
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: be happening from anybody other than a county clerk or
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: the Secretary of State. So if you get a call
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: that is trying to dissuade you from voting, that is
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: trying to explain that your voter registration is expired, those
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: things are almost always scams. This isn't the purview of
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  Speaker 6: the West Virginia Attorney General's office, but we do everything
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: we can to support our Secretary of State to make
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  Speaker 6: sure that every West Virginia voter is ready to go
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  Speaker 6: out and make their voice heard because it It truly
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: is the most remarkable part of our constitutional republic, and
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: I hope every single person gets to the polls in
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  Speaker 6: the next couple weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary Warner will be on midday today. He's got a
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  Speaker 2: tour throughout the Kanawha Valley here going to some early
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: voting locations, so he's going to join us during the
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  Speaker 2: Which one are you?
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  Speaker 6: I have to give a speech in Washington, D.C. on
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  Speaker 6: Election Day this year, and it is ridiculous. Truly remarkable
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  Speaker 6: to me that these folks are having a an Election
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  Speaker 6: I almost always I don't believe I've ever early voted.
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  Speaker 6: I might have once. I usually vote on Election Day.
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  Speaker 6: We like to take the kids up there. The polling
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  Speaker 6: this year we will be going down to the courthouse
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  Speaker 2: All right. Attorney General J.B. McCuskey, happy belated birthday. It's
• 26:57
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Dave, thanks so much for having me and everything you do, buddy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm born and raised in West Virginia. I was
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: born in Oak Hill, grew up there, graduated from Oak
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Hill High School. I went to WVU for undergrad. I
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: got my undergraduate degree in political science, was a four-year
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: member of the Pride of West Virginia Mountaineer Marching Band.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: And then went on to get my law degree from
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: WVU as well.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: What was it that interested you about the legal field
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: in general?
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll be honest, it was kind of chosen for
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: me at a young age. I've always been a bit
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: of a talker, had a bit of an argumentative streak.
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: Which could be good or bad.
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: I had a teacher tell me, I think, in first
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: grade that I should be a lawyer when I grow up,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: and the idea stuck, and here we are.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: So with that, why do you want to be a judge?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Because not all attorneys... They're happy being on the other
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: side of the bench for their career, and they have
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: long and storied careers. Why did you decide to go
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: that direction?
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: Well, I've spent over 12 years now practicing as an attorney,
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: and I've appeared in front of a lot of different
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: judges in the state. And I think that the various
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: areas of expertise and the experience that I have makes
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: me particularly well-suited for the role.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: What are the biggest issues facing the court system today?
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: I think the child abuse and neglect cases.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Those cases take up an overwhelming majority of every judge's
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: docket across the state. And they're very serious cases because
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: they deal with children. And these kids' future, they're West
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Virginia's future. So we need judges who understand how these
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: cases work and can make sure that the decisions they
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: are making are in the best interest of these kids.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: What is it about, and I agree totally with what
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: you're saying, but what is it about you that you
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: think would maybe give you maybe the edge or something
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: as far as knowing how they work?
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Well, I've spent a large part of my career working
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: on those cases. I was a public defender for seven
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: and a half years where I started out only doing
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: those cases. Then when I moved to the Kanawha County
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Prosecutor's Office, I started out there prosecuting child abuse and
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: neglect cases. I've also worked as a guardian ad litem.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: So I've worked in these cases from every side. I've
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: worked with parents who have lost their kids. I've worked
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: with kids who have been removed from their home. And
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: I've worked with the Department of Human Services trying to
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: figure out how to best serve these kids. And so
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: I think the fact that I have that background on
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: all sides of these cases will help me make the
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: best decisions for these children as a judge.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would imagine it gives a little insight,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: as you said, because you've been on all phases. And
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: it's not easy. It's 100% not easy.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: No, these cases are never easy. None of them are
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: cookie cutter. A lot of people think that they are.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: A lot of them deal with parents that have drug problems.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: But all of these cases are unique because all of
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: these children are unique. And they all deserve a judge
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: who can hear the facts of their case and make
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: decisions that are going to best suit them to have.
• 34:03
  Speaker 11: A prosperous future.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: How's the campaign been so far?
• 34:07
  Speaker 11: It's been great.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've really enjoyed getting out and meeting people in
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: the community, talking to people. You just mentioned the Fright
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Market in Putnam County tonight at Valley Park.
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: I plan to be there giving out candy.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I've done a few of these trunk or treats now,
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: and they have been such a joy to do. I
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: love seeing kids in their costumes. So it's been really
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: good so far.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Well, and if you are... Out there tonight, be sure
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: to visit our radio stations. Maybe a t-shirt in it
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: for you.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: I love a free t-shirt.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I will be on the other end of the county tonight.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: As I said, I'm going to be at Eleanor at
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: the Hometown Advantage event over there. But I think at
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the park tonight, I think V100 and The Mountain are
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: going to be there. Stop by and say hello. Awesome.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: When you've been out on the campaign trail, maybe it's,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know whether you're going door to door, you're
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: just talking to people or whatever. What do you hear
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: from the people about the current state of the court system?
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: You know, what I've heard over and over again is
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: that people are ready for a new perspective. People are
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: tired of seeing the same individuals hold every position of
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: power for years and years at a time. And I
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: think people are really looking for new voices who can
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: come in and give, like I said, a new perspective
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: on what's going on.
• 35:19
  Speaker 11: And I think I'm that candidate in this particular race.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: What do you hear from the people about the not
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: necessarily the personalities, but the actual court system. I mean,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: about the way it works. They want it to be
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: more fair and balanced. They think it's too harsh. It's
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: not harsh enough. And a lot of this stuff's written
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: into code. So a judge really doesn't, you know, you've
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: got guidelines you have to go through. What do you
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: hear from people about that?
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I think you hit the nail on the head
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: when you said fair and balanced. People want to know
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: that if they have a case in front of a judge,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: that that judge is not going to go into that
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: case with any type of bias or preconceived notions about
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: which side is right or wrong. They want a judge
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: who's going to be able to listen to all of
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: the facts, apply those facts to the law, and make
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: a decision that is fair and impartial.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: You have a Facebook or social media thing?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: I have a Facebook page, Ryan Ball for Putnam County Judge,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: and I've got a website.
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: It's ballforputnamjudge.com.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: All right. This is something I do with all of
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: my candidates. It's called The Final 30.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Not timed. Why should someone vote for Ryan Ball for
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Putnam County Circuit Judge?
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Well, I think that I'm the only candidate that can
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: say that I'm ready to take the bench on day
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: one and hear every single case that would be on
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: my docket. I have not practiced law in Putnam County.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: I'm currently a prosecutor here in Kanawha County. And before that,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: I was a public defender in Jackson and Rome counties.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: And so I can take the bench on day one.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: I don't have any conflicts. Every single case and every
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: single party that appears in front of me We'll start
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: off with a blank slate. I won't be dumping my
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: cases off on another judge to hear because I've been
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: involved in them previously in any way.
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: And I think that.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Will help me keep the cases rolling, keep the docket
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: moving smoothly. Nobody's docket is going to be bogged down.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Cases are going to be heard swiftly. They're going to
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: be heard justly. And I'm ready to do that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Ryan Ball, candidate for circuit judge of Putnam County. Appreciate
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: you being here.
• 37:16
  Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you for having me.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Best of luck with the campaign. Thanks.
• 37:19
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 37:19
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  Speaker 2: to welcome to the show now retiring Charleston Police Chief
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Scott Dempsey. Good morning, sir. Welcome to the show.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Dave. Thank you very much.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here. Man, you know, you walked
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: down the hall here. I went out to get you,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: and you got the suit and tie, and I said, man,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: surely this is not how you're going to spend retirement.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: You get out of one uniform and effectively get into
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: another one?
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Well, when Dave Allen calls me to say, hey, I
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: want to be your last interview, I've got to dress up, man.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: There's no other way to do this.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: I'm your last interview, really?
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: You are my official last interview. And I'll tell you what,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: it was a great privilege.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you being here. We had you scheduled,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: you know, the other day. I was trying to get
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: you and the new Chief Webb on at the same time.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: You had some issues with the family. I explained that
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: to the listeners. Hope everything is going well. But this
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: is it, man. You're riding off into the sunset.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: This is it. You know, I'm very grateful. been very
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: fortunate to, to have great friends and great relationships with
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: everybody I've worked with over the last 25 years. And
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: they had me a little sending off yesterday. And, uh,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: you know, the ones that I truly loved come in,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: they give me a big old hug, give me a
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: great send off. And I couldn't ask, have asked for
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: a better send off than that. It was just, it
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: was very humble. And, um, you know, it really, it
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: really hit me then at that point that, Hey, this
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: is it. I'm walking out the door.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you when it's really going to hit you
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: is when you're first official. I mean, because today you're
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: still doing– you're still technically the chief right now?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Technically, yes. Until Webb gets sworn in later today. So
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: you're still technically the chief. When it's going to hit
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: you is maybe tomorrow morning when the alarm doesn't go off.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: That's true. And my phone isn't making all these weird
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: and loud, obnoxious noises. Yes.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: When you take that phone and chuck it into the
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Kanawha River, which by the way, we don't recommend.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. It's still department property, so I will
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: still respect that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: When you turn it in and have a personal phone,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: how's that?
• 43:21
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: How's that? Absolutely.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: So what are you most going to miss about being
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: a police officer?
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: You know, the people, the people that I've worked with,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the people in town, the people that I've got to
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: know over the last 25 years. I've, again, like I said, I've,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I've formed some really great relationships and I've, I've always
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: had a good way of just making friends ever since
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: a kid. And I took advantage of that, uh, ever
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: since I've been a, ever since I swore in as
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: a police officer. And, um, I think that's what I'm
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: going to miss the most is just those connections with people.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: I still run into people that I met when I
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: was a patrolman out here and I'll be in a
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: store buying a drink or, grab my lunch and I'll
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: come up, Hey, I haven't seen you for years. How
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: you been? And so those are some of the things
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to miss.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting because the other day I was,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: when we were talking to Jason Webb, the new police
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: chief is going to be sworn in later today. I
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: asked him for like a couple of good stories. And one,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: he told me that really stuck with me was a
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: young person, a younger person that he had arrested for DUI.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: And the, I think it was a lady came up
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: to him, ran into him in a restaurant or store
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: in some sense and say, Hey, I want to thank
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: you for what you did because you, you basically turned
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: my life around. I realized that I was on the
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: wrong path. And because of that arrest, I got better
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: for it and it made better decisions in my life.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Do you have any stories like that where you've encountered
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: somebody that maybe you had a, um, that you dealt
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: with in the past, whether you arrested and pulled them
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: over or whatever, and that they came back later and
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: just for, or, or maybe a parent or somebody said,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: thank you for doing this for my, my son or whatever.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: You have any stories like that? Several. Actually, there, there's
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: been several times that, uh, I've ran into somebody that
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: I've either personally arrested or like you said, a parent
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: have come up to me and they'll update me. They'll, Hey,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: you remember so-and-so and you arrested him for bringing a
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: gun to school or bringing this thing to school or bringing, um,
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: just walking down the street and doing this stupid thing,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: no matter what it was, I've gotten a lot of
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: updates and, Hey, he's doing well now he's in college,
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: or she's going to become a nurse or whatever the
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: story is. I've got plenty of them, but yes, to
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: hear that is very rewarding because ultimately that's our goal
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: as a police officers to change those behaviors and try
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: to help mentor people to do the right thing and
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: to become a, A good citizen and just a good person.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: And to hear those stories, it really warms your heart
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: just because that's what we're here for. We're here to
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: serve and we're here to make things better.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Dr.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Scott Dempsey, again, who is retiring as the city of
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Charleston police chief. And you were chief for how long?
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Well, technically, I was since August of 23.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, but you were a 25-year member of the force, right?
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just over 25.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say to a person who's thinking about
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: going into law enforcement, thinking, hey, I'm kind of on
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: the fence. I might want to do this. What do
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: you say to that person? You know, this job is
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: not for everybody, and it's not an easy job. If
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: it was, everybody could do it, obviously. But if you
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: have integrity and if you have the drive to help people,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: if you have dedication and the spirit of teamwork, we
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: want you. And you're definitely a good candidate if you
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: have those things. And this is, I joke with our
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: new hires, and I literally, the first thing I tell
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: them is, you just bought the front row seat to
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: the greatest show on earth.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's true. Whenever people drive by an accident or
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: they see the police are out in numbers somewhere on
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: the street, they're breaking their neck to try to look
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: to see what's going on. They're on social media. Hey,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: what's going on on this street?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You get to know that. You get to know what's
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: going on behind the scenes. You get to follow up
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: with it all the way to the end. And that's
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: very rewarding for people who want to just get out
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: and do this type of job.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: What do you think is the biggest, Scott, the biggest
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: misconception that the public has about police officers?
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of misconceptions about being a
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: police officer, of course. I think the biggest thing is,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: is that we're out to hurt people. that's probably the
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: biggest misconception that I could think of. That couldn't be
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: the case. Now, have there been bad people in this profession? Yes,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: but there's been bad doctors, bad lawyers, bad preachers, teachers.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: So unfortunately, you can try our best to avoid that.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: But sometimes if we run into those, we obviously try
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to take care of that before it happens and try
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: to train our guys right to make them do the
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: right thing. But that is a big misconception that that.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: I would love for everybody to know that that's not
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: the case. We're here to help people. You know, no
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: matter what type of action we have to take, we
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: react to a lot of things sometimes. We just don't
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: go and act. We have to react to certain situations.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: And I just, that misconception of that we're just out
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: to hurt people, that's not correct.
• 48:28
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  Speaker 2: what does retirement look like for you?
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: You know, I've got a new boss. Her name's Sarah Dempsey. Okay.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: And I should have invited her here as well because
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: she's got an itemized list for me at home, but No,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: I'm joking, of course. She's my biggest fan, as well
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: as my children. But, you know, I'm just going to
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: take some time to enjoy life for here a little bit.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: And then, you know, of course, I've got some plans
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: later on. I'm going to continue working. But for now,
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to breathe the fresh air. air and
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: drink warm coffee in the mornings and try to find
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: something to do around the house.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be half cold coffee in your
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: cup holder, you know.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: On the run.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, on the run from somewhere. I'm going to resist
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: the temptation to make a donut joke there because my
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: friends are law enforcement officers told me one time, we
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: don't really like those jokes.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: You know what? I embrace it because who doesn't love
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: a good donut, right? No matter what profession you're in.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: There you go. Everybody loves a good donut.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Everybody loves a good donut. I got a text here
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: that said, Chief Dempsey, if someone does want to go
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: into law enforcement, but you guys have been demonized so much,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: there are calls to disband and defund police. What do
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: you tell people about that? I don't think that's an
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: issue at all here in Charleston, West Virginia, but I
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: understand what the text is saying.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure. I understand that text because nationwide we did
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: see that.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: And the good thing about it is the city of
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Charleston did not defund anybody. As a matter of fact,
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: they increased our funding for better equipment, better training. And
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: that's one thing that we've been able, Jason and I
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: have been able to do with Mayor Goodwin and her
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: senior staff was to have those conversations and to ask
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: for those increases because that's so important to help train
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: our guys, give them the right equipment, give them the
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: tools and resources they need to go out here and
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: do the best job they can.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you like a final 30 seconds
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: or so to just thank whoever you want to thank.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: This is your, it's your final interview, man. Uh, uh, so, uh,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: just what's on your mind.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, my family, they, they have been
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: my biggest support system without them. I could not have
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: done this job at all period from patrolman all the
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: way to chief. So, uh, I really thank them. And, uh, I'm,
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: I'm a man of faith. So I really like to
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: thank God. Um, but, Also, everybody I've worked with, they've
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: been so great to me. They've really supported me in
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: my adventures here, and I'm really going to miss them,
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: and I can't thank them enough for what they've done
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: for me.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Chief, I can tell you it's been a pleasure to
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: work with you over the years. Our paths may cross
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: again at some point. You always come in with a
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: smile on your face no matter what's going on. You've
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: always been accessible to the media, and I'm sure Jason
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Webb will be as well. Chief, it's been a pleasure.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Same back to you.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Chief Scott Dempsey, who is retiring as the police chief
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: here in Charleston. All right, we got to go. Talk
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: line coming up 10.06. I'll see you later today on Midday.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Until then, have fun and love somebody.
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