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03/30/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Eric Tarr, Shawn Zuniga, Danny Jones · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 1: The country, the United States of America, the state West Virginia,
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Speaker 1: the city Charleston. This is the Dave Allen Show on
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Speaker 2: Dave Allen, Hellian Monday Morning, to you and welcome to
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Speaker 2: of wanted to move on to some other things, and
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Speaker 2: so we wish them the best. Want to welcome to
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Speaker 2: the show now a Republican State Senator from the fourth
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Speaker 2: Eric tar Good morning, sir, and welcome to the show.
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Speaker 4: And good morning day. Glad to be back.
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Speaker 2: Last time we had you on it was just after
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Speaker 2: the session. And today though you get your one interview
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Speaker 2: that we offer to all candidates, the one free interview
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Speaker 2: I think you got to pay for. But before we
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Speaker 2: get to candidate for re election to States Senate Eric Tarr,
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Speaker 2: I do want to ask you about the announcement Friday
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Speaker 2: about the data center coming to the Buffalo area Putnham County.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Google's making a huge investment in Puttnham County down there,
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Speaker 5: and we have several data centers, as you know, coming
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Speaker 5: across the states, and there's an.
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Speaker 4: Awful lot of discussion about it.
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Speaker 5: People that are concerned and people that are excited, so
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Speaker 5: it's kind of back and forth. Have had a good
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Speaker 5: chance sit down and talk with the people from Google
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Speaker 5: and see what their plans are there as well, and
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Speaker 5: as a resident in Putnam County, you know, looking into
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Speaker 5: what all this means for our family or neighbors and
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Speaker 5: everybody there.
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Speaker 4: So I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 5: I think it's a good thing for the counties where
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Speaker 5: just looking at the economic side of things and want
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Speaker 5: areas that have had this of investment come to them
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Speaker 5: through the big names in data centers. It's a significant
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Speaker 5: income household that that last that comes into those communities.
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Speaker 5: So there's so many there's so many jobs that come
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Speaker 5: off of it. They produce anywhere from six to nine
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Speaker 5: jobs to come off those they average six figure salaries
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Speaker 5: when they come in, tax based increases significantly, and then
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Speaker 5: a lot of the things, there's so much misinformation that's
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Speaker 5: out there floating around. So doing my own research and
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Speaker 5: looking at trying to see, okay, what's real, what's not,
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Speaker 5: and then actually talking to the you know, the developers,
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Speaker 5: the people that are going to actually making the investment
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Speaker 5: what they are, the people that are already serving them
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Speaker 5: as Western businesses that are looking to be vendors there,
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Speaker 5: they're it's it's I think it's in you. You weigh
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Speaker 5: all the pros and cons. This is going to be
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Speaker 5: a very heavily pro thing for the county and for
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Speaker 5: the stake.
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Speaker 2: And again the further details will be released. I know
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Speaker 2: the release went out on behalf of the Governor's office,
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Speaker 2: but also several other political folks and the Putnam County
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Speaker 2: Development Authority. Uh let us know about it a little
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Speaker 2: bit early as well. So, I mean, this is one
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Speaker 2: of the county commissioners of Putnham County text me Friday morning,
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Speaker 2: a Senator and said, it's probably probably the worst kept
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Speaker 2: secret ever. You know, we knew this was coming, but
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Speaker 2: and there are concerns and I and here's what I
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Speaker 2: know about it is that there are going to be
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Speaker 2: meetings held where where residents can come out and they
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Speaker 2: can ask questions get their questions answered by reputable sources.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 5: And this is something different from Google the way they're
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Speaker 5: doing this within Google themselves. When when I got to
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Speaker 5: sit down chat with them. One of the things that's
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Speaker 5: different about this data center compared to others as far
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Speaker 5: as the planning goes, is this is very early for
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Speaker 5: them to come out and make the announcement, to come
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Speaker 5: out and say they've done the land purchase. Usually they
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Speaker 5: usually don't make these announcements until there's a shovel to
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Speaker 5: ground and getting ready to groundbreaking. And so one of
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Speaker 5: the reasons they said they wanted to do it this
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Speaker 5: way is just to show how transparent they're going to
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Speaker 5: be about the process. I mean, they've come in, we're
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Speaker 5: buying the land. That's a that's a significant early announcement
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Speaker 5: relative to any other data center they've done.
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Speaker 4: And they've got thirty two of them.
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Speaker 2: All right, So let's the reason you're here today, though,
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Speaker 2: as I said, is we like to give any candidate
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Speaker 2: that wants an opportunity to come on the air, and
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Speaker 2: you are running for reelection to State Senate. For those
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Speaker 2: who may not actually know you, give me the bio of.
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Speaker 5: Veritar Okay, yeah, it's you can find this. I would
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Speaker 5: tell you too if you if you go on to
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Speaker 5: either Facebook or my website websites Eric J. Tarwbsenate dot com,
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Speaker 5: or you can go or my Facebook and it's what
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Speaker 5: Eric J.
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Speaker 4: Tar W State Senate.
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Speaker 5: If you check those out, there's a video it's about
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Speaker 5: six minutes, really goes over this. I'm going to break
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Speaker 5: it down a little bit that what people really don't
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Speaker 5: know about me and my family, if they'd really only
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Speaker 5: met me in my tenure as a senator. Is that
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Speaker 5: you know, from the until I was about twelve years old,
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Speaker 5: my family and I didn't have a home. We caught
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Speaker 5: her own and we lived in borrowed beds uh bared trailers,
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Speaker 5: borrowed houses. Twelve years old, my dad nine had it.
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Speaker 5: We're near an old lumberyard. We took rough cut lumber,
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Speaker 5: doug the footings behind, mixed concrete behind, built house, a
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Speaker 5: little small house out of the rough lumber.
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Speaker 4: And then.
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Speaker 5: I got married in high school, had my first child
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Speaker 5: five days after high school graduation, special needs child. And
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Speaker 5: then going on from there, me and my wife went
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Speaker 5: on to college together. We've been married thirty five years
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Speaker 5: now graduation. Yeah, thank you appreciate that. That's a yeah,
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Speaker 5: I'll be thirty thirty six years. Sorry, married thirty six years.
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Speaker 6: Don't get it wrong here.
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Speaker 5: Man, I hope Natalie misses this show. So, but married
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Speaker 5: thirty six years, be thirty seven this year, and we
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Speaker 5: have three kids now. So through those let's started. My
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Speaker 5: first business was twenty four, working through college. There were
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Speaker 5: times I was working four jobs at a time. It
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Speaker 5: was nose to the grindstone all my life. That's all
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Speaker 5: I knew, and I enjoy that. I'm a bit of
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Speaker 5: a workaholic, so I enjoy the work. Once we started
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Speaker 5: our first business there in Tayese Valley, Generation's Physical Therapy,
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Speaker 5: and then it took off, and so I eventually went
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Speaker 5: back and got my doctor in physical therapy. I was
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Speaker 5: head a bachelor's and health science and a physical therapy
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Speaker 5: license at that point Masters and Business Administration became one
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Speaker 5: of the first five orthopedic specialists in physical therapy in
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Speaker 5: the state of West Virginia and held a lot of
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Speaker 5: positions throughout nationally and state level within the Physical Therapy
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Speaker 5: Association and a local organizations like Chamber of Commerce and
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Speaker 5: those type things. And now our family portfolio of businesses
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Speaker 5: is portfolio of small businesses spans the state where we
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Speaker 5: have businesses all the way from down in Barbersville to
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Speaker 5: Willing and I actually have one in Grace in Kentucky,
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Speaker 5: two one outside the state, and it's over thirty small businesses.
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Speaker 5: They span the range from car dealerships to hardware stores,
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Speaker 5: to physical therapy clinics, to gyms stores to retail residential leasing.
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Speaker 5: It's a pretty diverse portfolio of construction and development.
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Speaker 4: And I love business.
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Speaker 5: I just I love going out and creating something, watching
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Speaker 5: it grow, helping people develop people. It's a passion on
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Speaker 5: the development side of things. I've been an adjunct professor
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Speaker 5: at multiple universities, including University of Kentucky, Western University, Marshall University,
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Speaker 5: East Tennessee State. So there's what people really don't see
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Speaker 5: is kind of what it brought me to hear. And
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Speaker 5: so what happened in twenty fifteen when the Republicans took
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Speaker 5: majority as recruited to come up and be their chief
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Speaker 5: policy advisor. And so that's really how the level I
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Speaker 5: got started with within the Senate was that I had
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Speaker 5: relationships with several of the business people who had won
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Speaker 5: positions that won state Senate seats that year, and when
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Speaker 5: they came in, they were really going to see how
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Speaker 5: fast they could get things turned around, because anybody was
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Speaker 5: around that time here now remember that, you know, we
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Speaker 5: were worried about turning the lights on into the Capitol.
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Speaker 5: It was really upside down the budget and so I
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Speaker 5: started taking thumb drive home with me on budget on
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Speaker 5: the evenings. In twenty eighteen, ran for the seat, got
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Speaker 5: elected in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 4: By two thousand and twenty one, I was.
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Speaker 5: Financed chair for the State of Western and the Senate
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Speaker 5: and as in really an architect or key men and
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Speaker 5: a lot of the policy that's got us where we
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Speaker 5: are now with regards to the tax cuts, over a
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Speaker 5: billion a year in tax cuts now that I got
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Speaker 5: to write the formula down for that. The economic development
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Speaker 5: that we change went from investing a million dollars a
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Speaker 5: year in economic development to six hundred million dollars at
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Speaker 5: our peak and still investing strong. It's produced an awful
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Speaker 5: lot of this and so much other pieces of legislation.
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Speaker 5: You see video coming out today on my Facebook about
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Speaker 5: third Grade Success Act, something I was able to work
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Speaker 5: with Sender Grady on where we increase funding to public
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Speaker 5: schools by one hundred million dollars a year to teach
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Speaker 5: kids to read. It's very, very focused, very specific. So
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Speaker 5: I bring business to the Senate.
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Speaker 2: What what message do you deliver went to your constituents
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Speaker 2: when you're out campaigning? I heard you telling somebody in
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Speaker 2: the early as you were out doing some door knocking
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Speaker 2: and things of that, mate, what message do you give
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Speaker 2: to the average person when you when you when you're campaigning.
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Speaker 4: You know, in a Republican primary.
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Speaker 5: One of the things I really want people to know
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Speaker 5: is that I'm I'm as conservative as they come.
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Speaker 4: Early am.
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Speaker 5: It's I'm pro life, pro Second Amendment, pro family. A
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Speaker 5: man's a man, a woman's a woman. Marriage is between
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Speaker 5: a man and a woman. That's that is my upbringing,
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Speaker 5: That's who I am at the core. The reason I
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Speaker 5: run for Senate is because of what I can bring
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Speaker 5: at an expertise level that West Virginia needs. And so
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Speaker 5: you know, it's we have so much opportunity to grow
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Speaker 5: this state and we've been losing.
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Speaker 4: Population forever the past couple of years.
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Speaker 5: With policy that has been implemented in twenty fifteen, we
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Speaker 5: finally have more people moving into the state than moving out.
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Speaker 5: We have record investment that's coming now and with that
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Speaker 5: eventually comes children with those families, and so you'll start
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Speaker 5: seeing where we as we get a younger population. From that,
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Speaker 5: you'll start seeing where we our death rate is not
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Speaker 5: increased over our birth rate, which will then is starting
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Speaker 5: with population growth and that's coming. So it's what I
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Speaker 5: bring is business expertise as honest as a day is long.
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Speaker 5: I'm a man of integrity and I've been bringing results
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Speaker 5: since twenty fifteen, and before that, I did it in
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Speaker 5: our professional business life.
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Speaker 2: Where can people learn more about your campaign?
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Speaker 5: You know, you can go to the Facebook. You can
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Speaker 5: really go on Facebook there. It's like I said to
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Speaker 5: Eric J. Tarr State Senate, if you search that on Facebook,
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Speaker 5: you'll find the videos down there if you scroll down.
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Speaker 5: Just a couple of weeks ago, I think we put
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Speaker 5: on there a video that's very informed about me and
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Speaker 5: my family and my life, that has our whole family
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Speaker 5: and friends talking about talking about me essentially in our family.
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Speaker 5: And then you can go to my website websites Eric J.
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Speaker 5: Tarwvsenate dot com, and that video is on there as
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Speaker 5: well as all my positions on all kinds of policies
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Speaker 5: you might be important to you. You can go in
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Speaker 5: there and see what my position is, and my voting
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Speaker 5: record will demonstrated.
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Speaker 2: Final thirty, as we do with every candidate. Why should
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Speaker 2: someone vote to re elect Senator Eric Tar.
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Speaker 5: You know, I think that you want somebody who's going
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Speaker 5: to make the decisions you would make if you knew
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Speaker 5: what they knew. And so when you come up to
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Speaker 5: the Capitol, I have you'll recognize when I'm up there
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Speaker 5: that I'm a go to guy when people are looking
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Speaker 5: to develop policy that's confusing, they show up in my
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Speaker 5: office and ask for help. I'm a guy who can
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Speaker 5: influence other votes that when you go up it's more
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Speaker 5: important to be able to influence people around a good
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Speaker 5: idea to move Polsey through than just be one vote
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Speaker 5: and be a loud voice, as Greenhorns don't get that
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Speaker 5: when they come up there. So I've got the relationship,
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Speaker 5: the knowledge, the expertise, and I've got the record to
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Speaker 5: show that I'm the guy that can move Senate District
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Speaker 5: four ahead aggressively and I've done it.
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Speaker 2: Senat Eric Tarr, appreciate you being here, my friend. Thanks
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. Nine twenty two Guarantee Bankhountline
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Speaker 2: three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight
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Speaker 2: Tony the Taylor Text three zero four nine three five
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Speaker 2: five zero zero Texas, From mister Tar, I know a
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Speaker 2: lot of people like me are sick of drastic rises
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Speaker 2: and animal abuse and neglect cases in the state, such
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Speaker 2: as case such as cases such as Sweet Peeps from
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Speaker 2: Dunbar and of course the evil tragic loss of Stubbs.
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Speaker 2: What's going to take to get the legislature to actually
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Speaker 2: focus on the safety of these animals and make them
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Speaker 2: a priority. Enough is enough, Texas. Tar and I don't
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Speaker 2: agree on everything, but he always let me know where
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Speaker 2: he stood on things.
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Speaker 9: Why.
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Speaker 2: I always appreciated that. And he was a great financial chair,
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Speaker 2: says a Texter. Hey, if you have a child who's
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Speaker 2: Jones coming up a little bit later on on the show.
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Speaker 2: I want to welcome in to the show now from
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Speaker 2: the City of South Charleston at Sean Zunaga. Welcome to
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Speaker 2: the show.
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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me. I it was good to be here.
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Speaker 2: All actually gets some big stuff coming up to the
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Speaker 2: Farmers' Market in South Charleston this Saturday.
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Speaker 9: Yes, we're actually very excited to kick off year two
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Speaker 9: starting in April.
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Speaker 6: First.
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Speaker 9: We had a very successful year one, so we're looking
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Speaker 9: to be this Saturday at the Market's at Easter event,
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Speaker 9: kids can walk through our Bunny trail candy trail and
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Speaker 9: collect candy with their Eastern baskets and everything.
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of like a trunk retreat, except for
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Speaker 2: the rabbits with rabbits. Now, if a business or people
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Speaker 2: want to come out to be vendors, I know you're
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Speaker 2: gonna have your normal vendors there, but can they can
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Speaker 2: they still take part of that?
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Speaker 9: Yes, fifteen businesses and places come to set up for that.
17:03
Speaker 9: But if you're still interested, they can email me or
17:07
Speaker 9: call me. My emails s Zuni at ceesheistroscent dot com.
17:10
Speaker 9: They can call me at three zero four five five
17:12
Speaker 9: two ninety seven eighty.
17:14
Speaker 2: And for those who have never been to the farmers
17:16
Speaker 2: market in South Charleston, and it's fantastic. I've been there
17:19
Speaker 2: several times, but give us a lowdown on the farmers market.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so we find a lot of great success so far.
17:25
Speaker 9: We have all of our farmers coming back from last
17:27
Speaker 9: year with Gritz Farm, Gritz Midway, Keen Quality Meets with
17:31
Speaker 9: all your beef, hog and pork needs, Parson Rich Farms
17:35
Speaker 9: with all your paltry needs, honeydew produce, and Muddy Mountain
17:39
Speaker 9: Flower farms. So we have everyone coming back this year.
17:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's great. There's a lot of parking, very
17:47
Speaker 2: easy explain to people where it is.
17:49
Speaker 9: It's very very easy to get to right off the
17:52
Speaker 9: exit four thousand and six more Cocoa Avenue in South Tresson.
17:55
Speaker 9: If you're not familiar with the area, I like to
17:57
Speaker 9: tell people's right across the street from Bob ad By Wendys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all you need to tell them. Yeah. And
18:03
Speaker 2: one of the things too, about the about the farmers
18:05
Speaker 2: market and you're going to open up I think you
18:07
Speaker 2: said on April first, for your regular hours. What are
18:09
Speaker 2: those outs?
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Speaker 9: Yes, it's starting April first, seven days a week, money
18:12
Speaker 9: through Saturday nine am to six pm and Sunday twelve
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Speaker 9: to four.
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Speaker 2: Okay, if somebody wants to come out and be a
18:18
Speaker 2: vendor for the farmers market, like cause I know you
18:20
Speaker 2: have different vents. Sometimes you have those that are there
18:22
Speaker 2: every week, and then sometimes you have those that are
18:24
Speaker 2: just there a few times. How do they get involved
18:26
Speaker 2: in this?
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Speaker 9: We have a website Southtrucks some farmers market dot com
18:28
Speaker 9: and there's a vendor application you can fill out on
18:30
Speaker 9: those go straight to my email and we continuously look
18:33
Speaker 9: at those.
18:33
Speaker 6: Only Willy Bakley's basis.
18:35
Speaker 2: And you were telling me that I guess that you
18:38
Speaker 2: were at a conference with some other farmers markets and
18:40
Speaker 2: got some pretty good news from there.
18:41
Speaker 10: Yeah.
18:42
Speaker 9: So we went to the Farmers Market Association conference and
18:46
Speaker 9: they laid out their metrics for gross sales for the
18:48
Speaker 9: markets in this state and we were top three in
18:51
Speaker 9: the state and twenty twenty five, which.
18:53
Speaker 2: Is pretty good concerning you just started yes, yeah, yeah,
18:56
Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty good stuff right there, because there's
18:58
Speaker 2: there's farmers markets that's been around a lot longer than
19:01
Speaker 2: that that didn't do as well. I mean, what's the appeal?
19:03
Speaker 2: What do you use it? What we mentioned earlier.
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Speaker 9: I just think I think the two biggest appeals are
19:07
Speaker 9: is location, and I think the other thing is, uh,
19:10
Speaker 9: it's safe. People keep you know where, it's very safe area.
19:14
Speaker 9: And you know, one of the comments that I got
19:16
Speaker 9: from one of our food truck vendors is that is
19:19
Speaker 9: she feels safe being there without her husband, and that's
19:22
Speaker 9: I think that's a big compliment and kind of shows
19:25
Speaker 9: how safe the area is right there.
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Speaker 2: And we're talking about the South Charleston Farmers Market in
19:30
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19:31
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20:05
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Speaker 6: Let's sees eleven am to two pm for the event.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's run down again everything that's going to be
20:12
Speaker 2: going on Saturday.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so we'll have tractor rides, the Easter Bunny. You
20:15
Speaker 9: can have pictures of the Easter Bunny face painting inflatables
20:19
Speaker 9: or Canny Easter Bunny Trail. You can walk through collect
20:23
Speaker 9: Canny with your Easter baskets from eleven am to two pm.
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Speaker 2: And there's no charge.
20:29
Speaker 6: You no charge it's all free.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, unless you want to buy something and then
20:32
Speaker 2: you got to pay for it. Yeah, preferably you got it.
20:36
Speaker 2: And I mean again, you just have so how many
20:38
Speaker 2: vendors do you have on average on an avacate.
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Speaker 9: Zone on average? So we have our pop up vendors
20:43
Speaker 9: on the weekend, so we can have anywhere between fifteen
20:45
Speaker 9: to twenty on weekends.
20:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, and during the week so during the week of
20:49
Speaker 6: about about eight to ten.
20:51
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and e the information is available.
20:53
Speaker 9: Where at the either cityside Troussing dot com or they
20:56
Speaker 9: can go to Southwarton Partestmarket dot com.
20:58
Speaker 2: All right, And what else is exciting going on in
21:00
Speaker 2: South charlest I know you're keeping a close eye on
21:02
Speaker 2: everything there, you and Mayor Mullins. What's any any other
21:06
Speaker 2: news on it?
21:06
Speaker 9: So of course we got park Place going on right now.
21:09
Speaker 9: Kroger is looking to open in late June. Right now,
21:13
Speaker 9: We've got a couple other structures being built Mission Barbecue.
21:17
Speaker 6: They'll start building soon.
21:19
Speaker 9: And I think I think the great thing about it,
21:21
Speaker 9: I think the Mary touchlas the other day is a
21:23
Speaker 9: great thing about park Place. It kind of opened up
21:25
Speaker 9: other development areas in the city. You know with Jefferson
21:29
Speaker 9: Park and in spring Hill as well.
21:31
Speaker 2: And again we're looking about that Kroger about the middle
21:33
Speaker 2: of June, right, yes, and it's going to be the
21:35
Speaker 2: only Kroger like that in the state of the state. I mean,
21:38
Speaker 2: this is a what's it called again, Kroger market place,
21:40
Speaker 2: Kruger Marketplace. Yeah, I mean because it's got everything.
21:43
Speaker 6: Ye, it's one hundred and twenty two thousand square feet.
21:45
Speaker 2: Right, all right, Sean Zen. Again, it's always a pleasure
21:48
Speaker 2: to have you on it show, and I appreciate you
21:49
Speaker 2: being here. And again everything will be at the Farmers Market.
21:52
Speaker 2: You open up your regular hours on April first, Yes,
21:56
Speaker 2: but this event is going to be Saturday, This big
21:59
Speaker 2: Easter event over there starts at eleven. Fun for the
22:02
Speaker 2: entire family, So come on out and enjoy it. Appreciate
22:04
Speaker 2: you being here, man, Thanks a lot.
22:05
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Yes it is. Yeah, that's another yeah.
22:11
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Speaker 2: I always love talking to former legend slaters, both Republican
25:01
Speaker 2: and Democrat, to kind of get their read on the
25:03
Speaker 2: current state of k I was going to ask you
25:06
Speaker 2: about that I.
25:07
Speaker 10: Sat next to him at in UH Judiciary Committee.
25:16
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you if you got a
25:17
Speaker 2: thought that you got served.
25:18
Speaker 10: Together, and he was. And we used to have the
25:26
Speaker 10: a show that we would put on the press would
25:28
Speaker 10: put on for the legislator every year called the Fourth House,
25:33
Speaker 10: and I would do everybody else would read scripts and
25:36
Speaker 10: I would do actual imitations of people and I did
25:40
Speaker 10: Rick Staton and.
25:42
Speaker 2: We'll give it to us now, okay, all right. If
25:49
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't ask him about it tomorrow when
25:51
Speaker 2: he comes on the show.
25:52
Speaker 10: I can't put it in a context. But he was.
25:57
Speaker 10: We were doing an environmental bill once and I remember
26:00
Speaker 10: he said on behalf of all the brown water drinkers
26:04
Speaker 10: in Roaming County. You know, I can't do it like
26:08
Speaker 10: I did it. I didn't understand. Yeah, but I used
26:10
Speaker 10: to do him. I did ted Klausner from the green
26:13
Speaker 10: Borough and but we have a lot of fun and
26:20
Speaker 10: really really entertained, you know.
26:23
Speaker 2: I don't, Danny, I don't remember. I mean I remember
26:27
Speaker 2: reading about that, you know, and seeing skits on television
26:30
Speaker 2: and so on and so on. I'm not so sure
26:32
Speaker 2: you could do that today.
26:34
Speaker 10: And I'm not sure they had the sense of humor.
26:37
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Yeah, I mean, because that was I mean,
26:40
Speaker 2: from what I know about that and what other legislators
26:42
Speaker 2: that I've talked to have said that, that was a
26:45
Speaker 2: time when people didn't get their feelings hurts as easily.
26:49
Speaker 2: And I don't know. There are certain political figures now
26:53
Speaker 2: and again Republican and Democrats, for the few Democrats that
26:56
Speaker 2: are there, that that would that would take it personally
27:00
Speaker 2: and nobody took those things, you know, I mean from
27:03
Speaker 2: what from what I've been told I was there that
27:05
Speaker 2: they just didn't take it personally. It was it was
27:07
Speaker 2: meant to be a joke and have fun with him.
27:10
Speaker 10: And quite frankly, I made him roar. Yeah, I didn't
27:12
Speaker 10: make him laugh. I made him roar and uh don
27:17
Speaker 10: gracial then he was public television. He and I were
27:21
Speaker 10: very close friends. And he would do uh kiss kiss,
27:28
Speaker 10: and I would get down and grab him by the
27:31
Speaker 10: by the leg. I'd be down minster speaker, you know,
27:36
Speaker 10: I'd be I mean, it was just fun. And and
27:41
Speaker 10: I remember Natalie ten at one time. You know they
27:46
Speaker 10: had the song uh brick house commodore sim well, they
27:52
Speaker 10: had Vics Brouse.
27:56
Speaker 2: Nice. So why did you not spend more time in
28:00
Speaker 2: state government?
28:04
Speaker 10: I didn't fit. I didn't. I mean, I enjoyed being
28:10
Speaker 10: in the house. I enjoyed being a reporter. But back then,
28:17
Speaker 10: you back then you had to have a reporter. Now
28:19
Speaker 10: you don't because it's all electronic, and.
28:28
Speaker 2: You just to folks that may not understand what you
28:30
Speaker 2: meant by reporters.
28:31
Speaker 10: Well, I mean I went up there and worked for
28:35
Speaker 10: your competitor radio.
28:36
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, okay.
28:38
Speaker 10: I we still have reporters, you know, I have as many,
28:41
Speaker 10: but they don't step up at the front table, right yeah, well, no,
28:44
Speaker 10: some do, some do well. I had my meran.
28:48
Speaker 2: Not nearly as many as what used to do.
28:50
Speaker 10: And I would pluy but you can do it from here,
28:53
Speaker 10: everything everything to broadcast, yeah yeah, And I would plug
29:00
Speaker 10: in my mornts. I had a morant, which is a
29:02
Speaker 10: recording device, pretty antiquated, antique, and I had a microphone.
29:14
Speaker 10: I kept the flag out there to promote, so already
29:18
Speaker 10: I'll do it for here, I mean, if I was
29:20
Speaker 10: still doing it. But I think the thing I enjoyed
29:25
Speaker 10: doing the most was the lobbying for the municipal League,
29:32
Speaker 10: because you can ask. I mean, I heard Lisa Dooley's
29:37
Speaker 10: working for the Attorney General. I need to go apparents here.
29:43
Speaker 10: She was our director. I mean, I took charge and
29:49
Speaker 10: I kind of ran the lobbying part of it.
29:53
Speaker 2: Here's what if I had to take a guess, And
29:58
Speaker 2: don't take this wrong way, Danny, This is a compliment.
30:01
Speaker 2: It's a backhand a compliment, but it's a compliment. You're
30:03
Speaker 2: a guy who likes being in charge, you know, and
30:07
Speaker 2: I don't know that a being a member of a
30:10
Speaker 2: one hundred person body really really fits you, and that's
30:13
Speaker 2: not necessarily a bad thing.
30:15
Speaker 10: Well, I sat next to Vernon christ and I got
30:21
Speaker 10: to be real good friends. We still are, and Peggy
30:25
Speaker 10: Miller and Bob Burke who passed a long time ago.
30:33
Speaker 10: Mark Carmon's running for the Senate. But you got to
30:37
Speaker 10: remember I was drinking back then, so I made it
30:41
Speaker 10: a good time.
30:43
Speaker 2: Well, there's still enough of it going on there, so
30:45
Speaker 2: you may not be there.
30:47
Speaker 10: Do they really? Okay? Well, but I didn't let that
30:52
Speaker 10: getting away of I doing my job. But really, when
30:57
Speaker 10: you're twenty out of one hundred, you know, if we.
31:01
Speaker 2: Were as the Republicans were at that time.
31:03
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you. Well, what happened was John Hatcher,
31:08
Speaker 10: who passed in the last year he was became a
31:11
Speaker 10: judge down in fat County. He would if we beat
31:19
Speaker 10: him up on Judiciary, well, the build never make the floor.
31:25
Speaker 10: It just wouldn't make the floor. He wouldn't let us,
31:28
Speaker 10: he wouldn't go down the floor and fight it out,
31:31
Speaker 10: even though they had eighty twenty. If we beat him
31:34
Speaker 10: in Judiciary wouldn't make the floor.
31:37
Speaker 2: It's a totally different time too, And I like talking
31:40
Speaker 2: to those legislators. As I said, I like to talk
31:43
Speaker 2: about ones the ustless serve, but I also like to
31:45
Speaker 2: talk you mentioned Bernard Chris to some of the ones
31:47
Speaker 2: that were there then and are there now, because then,
31:50
Speaker 2: you know, you got your story out, you know, via
31:53
Speaker 2: the radio stations and public television and the three stations
31:57
Speaker 2: in town, and the Gazette. Of course you had the
31:58
Speaker 2: Daily Mail at that time some other publications as well.
32:01
Speaker 2: But the difference, one of the differences is now is
32:04
Speaker 2: that voters have direct access. They could always call or whatever,
32:09
Speaker 2: but now they have direct access to our legislators via
32:11
Speaker 2: social media and via email and things of that nature.
32:15
Speaker 2: But also one of the differences is legislators now have
32:20
Speaker 2: ways of getting their message out. I mean, and you
32:24
Speaker 2: look at somebody and I'll just use her as an
32:26
Speaker 2: example because I know she wouldn't mind. You look at
32:28
Speaker 2: somebody like delicate Kaylee Young from here in Kanawa County,
32:32
Speaker 2: who has quite the following on social media, not only
32:36
Speaker 2: but I mean on TikTok and all these other different
32:38
Speaker 2: forms and not of that nature and these and so
32:42
Speaker 2: it's just a different time now, because if there is
32:45
Speaker 2: a no vote as opposed to waiting for it. Then
32:49
Speaker 2: the person can just get on social media and so well,
32:51
Speaker 2: I tried to get this through for you, but so
32:53
Speaker 2: and so blocked it. I'm not saying that Kayla doesn't necessarily,
32:55
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying.
32:56
Speaker 10: That's it's just a different Let me tell you, I
33:01
Speaker 10: think the legislature is fortunate to have jb. Acres as
33:06
Speaker 10: Chairman of the Judiciary Committee period. Okay, Why because I
33:12
Speaker 10: think he's a quality, one quality person, and I think
33:19
Speaker 10: he's so smart.
33:21
Speaker 8: You know.
33:21
Speaker 10: JB is so such a sharp guy, and he doesn't
33:26
Speaker 10: have to be there, you know, and I kind of
33:30
Speaker 10: got him into politics. So I'm I think the legislature
33:35
Speaker 10: is lucky to have somebody of his caliber that is
33:40
Speaker 10: willing to serve up there.
33:42
Speaker 2: Have you been following the debate over the data centers
33:45
Speaker 2: in West Virginia?
33:46
Speaker 10: Oh?
33:47
Speaker 2: The whats data centers?
33:49
Speaker 12: No?
33:49
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know, the big announcement came out that
33:51
Speaker 2: Google is going to build one in the Buffalo area
33:54
Speaker 2: Putnam County.
33:55
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I know.
33:56
Speaker 2: And of course they've been battling it in Tucker County
33:58
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth, and it's it's a
34:00
Speaker 2: hot button topic and talk to centator tar about a
34:03
Speaker 2: little bit earlier. He's one hundred percent uh in favor
34:06
Speaker 2: of him, and they've they've talked about him in Mingo
34:08
Speaker 2: County and different places like that. I mean, I just
34:11
Speaker 2: was kind of curious because they do create jobs, a
34:14
Speaker 2: lot of jobs. They're they're massive facilities, and people, I
34:18
Speaker 2: think sometimes Danny, they think that, well, this is something new.
34:21
Speaker 2: There's been data centers in the Charleston area for years.
34:23
Speaker 2: You people just didn't know what they were, you know,
34:26
Speaker 2: but these data centers are something I mean, and now
34:29
Speaker 2: that we are relying more and more on cell phones
34:32
Speaker 2: and AI and whatever. My what I have always said
34:36
Speaker 2: about this is if you people will that will say
34:39
Speaker 2: we don't want data centers, we don't, okay, well then
34:42
Speaker 2: stop using your iPhone, stop don't use AI, you know, because.
34:45
Speaker 10: Why why would they not want data centers?
34:48
Speaker 2: Because well, there's environmental concerns. What environmental concerns. They they
34:54
Speaker 2: utilize a lot of water in certain areas, they're they're
34:56
Speaker 2: they depending on the type of data center, they could
34:59
Speaker 2: be noisy, and I think and then there's those that say, look,
35:02
Speaker 2: we're not against them, we just don't want them. I
35:04
Speaker 2: mean they're not building a data center in downtown Charleston.
35:06
Speaker 2: I mean it's going to be these centers are going
35:08
Speaker 2: to be out and more remote area. How many jobs, well,
35:12
Speaker 2: it all depends on how big the data center is.
35:14
Speaker 2: I mean what they tj what they say the one
35:17
Speaker 2: in Putnam County about one hundred or so jobs, four hundred,
35:20
Speaker 2: four hundred jobsdal yeah, yeah. And the construction of them
35:24
Speaker 2: is I mean that brings a whole lot more people
35:26
Speaker 2: in the construction job is to twenty okay, two thousand
35:35
Speaker 2: different you know, different construction jobs.
35:39
Speaker 10: Back when I was in the legislature over on the Senate,
35:44
Speaker 10: I mean you had some real quality legislators. I mean
35:49
Speaker 10: Chuck Chambers was one. These are all Democrats. Bob Burke
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Speaker 10: my leader, he was another. But over in the Senate
35:58
Speaker 10: and I think he's the best legislator I ever saw.
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Speaker 10: Was Lloyd Jackson. He was a Democrat from Lincoln County
36:07
Speaker 10: and he won't do anything now, he won't serve, he
36:12
Speaker 10: won't of course, let everything's gone Republican. I think he's
36:17
Speaker 10: on the board of the Clay Center, and we wouldn't
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Speaker 10: have a Clay Center for wasn't for him. I was
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Speaker 10: a spokesman for the mayor of Charleston, Kim Melton, and
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Speaker 10: behind me were John mclarity and Newton Thomas. God blessed
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Speaker 10: both of them. And I was a spokesman for it
36:40
Speaker 10: and we were losing it and Lloyd stepped in and
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Speaker 10: that was it.
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Speaker 2: Don't you think it's interesting you mentioned Lloyd Jackson. Earl
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Speaker 2: Ray Tomlin is another one, and Earl ray served for many,
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Speaker 2: many years, you know, and one of the one of
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Speaker 2: the youngest people ever elected of a legislator. Legislator, He's
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Speaker 2: spent a lot of time there and of course eventually
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Speaker 2: became governor. Do you find it interesting that so many
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Speaker 2: political figures have just I mean and granted Lloyd Jackson,
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Speaker 2: Earl Ray Tomlin, they've they've they've earned their time away
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Speaker 2: from the spotlight. But that so many that probably could
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Speaker 2: serve just walked away and said I'm done because I've
37:16
Speaker 2: had some conversations with some people close to course, I've done.
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Speaker 2: Earl Ray tom On my whole life, he's one hundre
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Speaker 2: percent done. He's checked out, doesn't even pay attention to
37:25
Speaker 2: doesn't think about it. He's whits his time, you know.
37:29
Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But but but still. I mean, do you think find
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Speaker 2: that's interesting that there's so many of the old I
37:35
Speaker 2: don't want to say old school, but older school political
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Speaker 2: figures Danny that have just say yeah, I'm done, I'm out,
37:41
Speaker 2: I'm done.
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Speaker 10: You're looking at one. Well absolutely, yeah, I uh, I
37:47
Speaker 10: mean I can't imagine doing to do again. I mean
37:50
Speaker 10: that's just.
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Speaker 2: What would it take to if somebody came to you.
37:53
Speaker 2: And I know you've got other things going on in
37:54
Speaker 2: your life right now, but if somebody came to you
37:57
Speaker 2: and said, Danny, we want you to run for house,
38:00
Speaker 2: I'll just put th it out there for a house.
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Speaker 2: What what would it take to get you to run
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Speaker 2: or what? Or what would your objection be to not running?
38:07
Speaker 2: Because I know you're not going to do it, But
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Speaker 2: what would your objection be?
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Speaker 10: Phillal ethics report for one.
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Speaker 2: Thing, darned old ethics.
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Speaker 10: Uh, that's something that I helped, right, Yeah, well there
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Speaker 10: was no ethics until we we did that in eighty nine,
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Speaker 10: the ethics legislation. But I'm done with that. Yeah, it's
38:29
Speaker 10: none of your business. I mean that I might not
38:36
Speaker 10: get the committee assignment I wanted, I was able to
38:39
Speaker 10: get it. When when Bob Burke was the leader. There
38:45
Speaker 10: was one vote. There was twenty of us and there
38:48
Speaker 10: was one vote that that put him over the top,
38:52
Speaker 10: and that was mine. I said, you can have it.
38:55
Speaker 10: I want your disiary committee. He said, you got it.
38:58
Speaker 2: So one switch gears here for a moment. Let's get
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Speaker 2: to the war in Iran. Do you think we'll see
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Speaker 2: troops on the ground in Iran?
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Speaker 10: I think that if we see one boota on the ground,
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Speaker 10: the presence in trouble.
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Speaker 6: Why is that?
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Speaker 10: Well, I just think politically it's not a good fit.
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Speaker 10: I mean, just you're just given all the ammunition to
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Speaker 10: your opposition. You've already done it. I mean, it just
39:39
Speaker 10: it won't work. It just won't work.
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Speaker 2: Do you think Iran retaliates somehow on American soil? And
39:45
Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about a couple of loan wars,
39:47
Speaker 2: I think sympathizers. I'm talking about an actual orchestrated attackers.
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Speaker 10: No, no, but it'll be lone wolves. Yeah, they're already here, David,
39:56
Speaker 10: we had an open border for four years, I mean
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Speaker 2: where they're going to be honoring Vietnam era veterans. But
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Speaker 2: Cecil Roberts, former UMWA president, is going to be the
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Speaker 2: keynote speaker. He himself a a Vietnam vent, a Vietnam veteran.
43:40
Speaker 2: You had a story you wanted to tell.
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Speaker 10: Well, I'm just when I got back from Vietnam, I
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Speaker 10: went I spent the summer in California and it was
43:51
Speaker 10: I drove a bus. I mean it was, it was
43:55
Speaker 10: a cakewalk. And then I got out August twenty six
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Speaker 10: of nineteen seventy one, and the next two days later,
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Speaker 10: I was enrolled at Marshall, and Marshall wanted to make
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Speaker 10: me live in the barracks or in the dormitory. I said, no,
44:14
Speaker 10: I'm not going to happen. I've already got an apartment. Well,
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Speaker 10: you're a freshman. I don't care. I'm twenty one years old,
44:22
Speaker 10: I'm a Vietnam veteran. I'm not going to live. And
44:24
Speaker 10: they said finally, okay. But what I remember was, and
44:29
Speaker 10: I told this story before I thought it would help
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Speaker 10: me get a girl and get a job, and it
44:38
Speaker 10: didn't do either. People didn't want to hear about it.
44:44
Speaker 10: I don't know all these stories about people getting sped on.
44:46
Speaker 10: Maybe they did. I didn't.
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Speaker 2: If you didn't experience it, you didn't. I didn't experience
44:52
Speaker 2: but a lot did and possibly some didn't as well.
44:55
Speaker 10: But it didn't help you. I mean, being a Vietnam
44:58
Speaker 10: veteran did not help.
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Speaker 2: You, not maybe the way it would when the World
45:03
Speaker 2: War II veterans came back.
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Speaker 10: Oh, the the benefits were better. They paid for your
45:09
Speaker 10: college education and your expenses. We got one hundred and
45:13
Speaker 10: seventy five dollars a month.
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Speaker 9: That was it.
45:17
Speaker 10: And I mean, I mean, I have no regrets about
45:25
Speaker 10: my service. I was shocked when they put me in
45:29
Speaker 10: the Marine Corps. I can't tell you the feeling I had.
45:32
Speaker 10: I almost fainted. I said, they can't do it. But
45:37
Speaker 10: I'm glad I did. I mean, it's it was a
45:41
Speaker 10: good branch of service to go in, and I had
45:45
Speaker 10: a great experience being in the service. I wouldn't trade
45:48
Speaker 10: it for college education, not for a minute.
45:52
Speaker 2: Tex says, the more lying Trump administration goes on, the
45:55
Speaker 2: more I'm realizing the open borders for four years and
45:58
Speaker 2: flood of illegals are lies. Trump lies and conservatives are
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Speaker 2: scared people.
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Speaker 10: That's not true. Now, I'm not about him being a liar.
46:06
Speaker 10: I'm not going to get into that. But the border
46:09
Speaker 10: was wide open for four years period. I mean, the
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Speaker 10: numbers don't lie.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas, I don't blame any of you for not
46:20
Speaker 2: getting back into politics. It's a lot more toxic than
46:23
Speaker 2: any of the time I can remember. A lot of
46:25
Speaker 2: people of all parties are rude, disrespectful, and just play
46:28
Speaker 2: nasty when talking about individuals with different opinions and views.
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Speaker 10: You wait and you know something. That's what I wanted
46:34
Speaker 10: to say. I kept trying to think of court one
46:39
Speaker 10: of my least favorite senators at Chris van Holland. And
46:43
Speaker 10: then of course humor and they quote when they think
46:48
Speaker 10: they won something. And we have a legislator who's passed
46:52
Speaker 10: now and she's very liberal, but she was a very
46:55
Speaker 10: good friend of mine and would help me on bills.
46:59
Speaker 10: Her name was Pat White. She's in Putnam County, and
47:04
Speaker 10: one time I won an amendment, you know, and she
47:09
Speaker 10: came out of her chair and she went down and
47:11
Speaker 10: shook her finger in my face. She said, no gloating.
47:16
Speaker 10: I never forgot that. You don't gloat. You don't gloat
47:19
Speaker 10: when you win because you're gonna lose. And the Republicans
47:24
Speaker 10: are going to lose so many seats this time. Look
47:27
Speaker 10: at all the retirements.
47:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually I heard a report on ABC News
47:31
Speaker 2: about that this morning that I mean, there are any
47:34
Speaker 2: credible amount of people that are just choosing not to run.
47:38
Speaker 10: I'll tell you there's one one one congressman I want
47:44
Speaker 10: you to watch. He's one of my favorites, but I
47:47
Speaker 10: don't think he's gonna be re elected. It's a guy
47:50
Speaker 10: named Mike Lawler. You know who he is. He has
47:53
Speaker 10: a beard, yeah, New York, and he won in Abiden district.
47:59
Speaker 10: He's a very attractive person, I mean as a person,
48:02
Speaker 10: as somebody that talks and everything. But if he gets beat,
48:07
Speaker 10: the Republicans are going to have a long.
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Speaker 2: Night Texas High days. So according to Danny, a lone
48:12
Speaker 2: wolf terror attack would be the result of four years
48:15
Speaker 2: of an open border. I guess under Biden, I've heard
48:18
Speaker 2: about sleeper terror cells of the US at least since
48:20
Speaker 2: nine eleven. Do the Iranian terrorists come up through Mexico?
48:23
Speaker 2: Or fly directly into the US.
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Speaker 10: No, we had people from all countries, Afghanistan, Red, China,
48:31
Speaker 10: that all countries that came across that Mexican border. I'm
48:35
Speaker 10: not making this up. And I'm sure they came from Iran,
48:39
Speaker 10: and I'm sure they're sleeper sales. I'm I'm I'm not
48:45
Speaker 10: making that up. Because I noticed it when it happened.
48:48
Speaker 10: They would bring it up. I said, what, No, they're here.
48:53
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you if you saw any
48:55
Speaker 2: of the coverage of the No Kings rallies from around
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Speaker 2: the country on Saturday. Definitely, of these, they've had the biggest,
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Speaker 2: most widespread, and more people took part. Your your take
49:04
Speaker 2: on the No Kings rallies, Well, people are having fun.
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Speaker 2: I'll say this, Danny, My wife and I were in
49:11
Speaker 2: Huntington Saturday, not to protest. We just happened to be
49:14
Speaker 2: in Huntington, but we were driving around an area uh
49:17
Speaker 2: and uh, there was about in this area of Huntington.
49:20
Speaker 2: It was around Pullman Square. There was about about one
49:22
Speaker 2: hundred or so protesting there, and.
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Speaker 10: One time many were at the capitol about it.
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Speaker 2: I think about one hundred is what I've been told.
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Speaker 10: Is that all?
49:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe more. I wasn't there. I wasn't there.
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Speaker 10: Wow, they had him, they had him in the room Italy.
49:37
Speaker 10: I mean they had they had him in Europe and Danny.
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Speaker 2: I'll say this. I am all for people's right to protest,
49:43
Speaker 2: no matter what they're protesting. I applaud people for standing
49:45
Speaker 2: up for whatever they believe in. However, I have to
49:47
Speaker 2: say I'm not sure what the point is. I mean,
49:51
Speaker 2: I know people are upset with the President Trump and
49:53
Speaker 2: the policies, the economy, to the war in Iran, you know,
49:56
Speaker 2: all of it, I guess. But if you go back
49:59
Speaker 2: to the protest, let's say over the racial quality or
50:03
Speaker 2: civil rights, meaningful change came from those things, right, I'm
50:08
Speaker 2: not so sure what this accomplishes to be. I mean,
50:11
Speaker 2: you surround yourself again, every right to do it, but
50:15
Speaker 2: you know, we are against President Trump, we are against
50:17
Speaker 2: these policies. Okay, what I mean, what do you expect
50:22
Speaker 2: is going to happen?
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Speaker 10: Well, and it makes them feel unified.
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Speaker 2: But I understand, but unified to what? To what end?
50:30
Speaker 10: It's a feeling? Yeah, that's all it is.
50:33
Speaker 2: I mean, nothing is going to change, Nothing's going to happen.
50:36
Speaker 10: It's gonna and give people like up Chuck humor, a
50:40
Speaker 10: lot of encouragement.
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Speaker 2: Texas, if you paid attention to Philadelphia this past week,
50:45
Speaker 2: you would have seen a group of anti American shills
50:48
Speaker 2: hoping military members came home in caskets. These loans were
50:51
Speaker 2: so violent, evil that even John Fetterman called them out
50:54
Speaker 2: and condemned them. Texas, there were easily hundreds of people
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Speaker 2: state Capitol on Saturday. I'm shocked you'd be soft based
51:02
Speaker 2: on this. Okay, I'll known that. I don't know there
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Speaker 2: was I saw with my own eyes one about one
51:08
Speaker 2: hundred and Huntington. So if the textas says that there
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Speaker 2: were that there were several hundred the capital, I'll go
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Speaker 2: along with it.
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Speaker 10: And people try to get me to go those things
51:16
Speaker 10: I said, I don't do. I do politics. On the radio, DJ.
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Speaker 2: Meadows coming up with talk line, what do you think
51:23
Speaker 2: no kings enter out, I'm out.
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Speaker 12: Look, they have every right to protest. You don't have
51:30
Speaker 12: every rate to do what we saw in LA, which
51:32
Speaker 12: is you know, violence, throwing things rocks.
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Speaker 10: Over the weekends, over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're talking about January sixth for a moment.
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Speaker 12: Well, hey, you didn't have a right to throw rocks
51:43
Speaker 12: on that then I agree. You know, civility is.
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Speaker 10: They were throwing rocks.
51:49
Speaker 12: Yeah, police office. Yeah, I was at KABC's website checking
51:52
Speaker 12: it out. Yeah, throwing rocks over the.
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Speaker 2: Week, KBC TV or Radio TV. Okay, the voice of
51:58
Speaker 2: Los Angeles for now. When when Danny goes to California,
52:02
Speaker 2: Danny will be Danny Jones, the voice of Orange County
52:05
Speaker 2: of KF All right, what do you got?
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Speaker 12: Quickly got Albert right from WVO coming up, Eric Tarr
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Speaker 12: talking about data centers. We're gonna get into dirty jobs.
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Speaker 12: You know what a data center electrician makes.
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Speaker 2: It will shock you.
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Speaker 12: We've got that with Mike Rowe gonna use a clip
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Speaker 12: of his Okay, yeah, all right, so we'll shock you,
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Speaker 12: all right, shocking, shocking, I say, not literally.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 2: I'll be back later today with Metro News Midday. Danny,
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Speaker 2: thank you so much, see on the show tomorrow. Till then,
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Speaker 2: have fun and love somebody.
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