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06/13/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Sarah Wright, Mike Pushkin · The Dave Allen Show

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Coming up a little bit later on the show, we have delegate and
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State Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin. It's going to be here to talk about
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a variety of the interesting thing about the interview with Pushkin, we actually set
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this up like a week or so ago, and then the Trump indictment came
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down on Thursday, and so obviously he's gonna spend some time talking about that.
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That's actually not why he was here though. Is here to talk about
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something else, But we'll get his take on that. He was on Hoppy
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yesterday. We'll put a little bit more of a local flare on it.
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Will Dela get to the stad Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin coming up a little
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bit later on, But let's talk about some wine and jazz. Wine and
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jazz music festivals part of festival happening this Saturday afternoon, starting at three on
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the lawn of the University of Charleston's campus. Part of the funds Funds for
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our West Virginia. Sarah Right is executive director of that group, and she
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joins us. Now, Sarah, good morning, how are you. Good
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morning? Thank you for having me, Thank you for being here. First
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of all, gotta get your opinion of the Trump and Diamond. Now I'm
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kidding, we don't. I'm not. We're not talking. We'll say that
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till nine twenty. Okay, now that's coming up. That's no, we're
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not gonna be talking about that. Um. This is Saturday at University of
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Charleston, and a big shout out to your co presenters Spellman Thomas in Battle
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making it happen. It's gonna be a great day, you see. Absolutely
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Yeah, We're gonna have a day field of wonderful music, food and drink.
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So we look forward to seeing everyone there. It's gonna be a good
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time and it always is. And I mentioned your co presenter there, the
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firm of Spellman Thomas in Battle. But there are so many others that make
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this whole thing possible. We're proud to be a part of it here at
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WVRC Media, the Charleston cluster of stations here, but so many others make
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it to make this a reality as well. Absolutely, we have a wonderful
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lineup of sponsors. Dutch Miller is new to the group. WSA see.
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We just have a wonderful group of supporters. And because all this is for
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a wonderful cause. Many people don't know that Wine and Jazz were raising money
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for that event for our eleven local member arts groups and talk about those arts
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groups and exactly what it is that they do. Yeah, so fun for
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the arts. We really our motto is to provide one gift for all the
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arts, and we support our eleven member arts groups by providing operational support to
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them. And it's really something that we take very seriously. Let's do this.
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I'm in kind of a good mood today, despite the fact that Pushkin's
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going to be here a little bit later on. I'm actually in a pretty
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good mood. So here's what we're gonna do. I just happen to have
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Sarah a couple of tickets for the Wine and Jazz Music Festival this Saturday,
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starting at three on the campus at the University of Charleston. Two tickets,
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and I'll give them away now to call her number three three or four three
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four five fifty eight fifty eight three or four, three four five fifty at
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fifty eight if you're caller number three right now, Hollywood, Jeff Petty is
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standing by, and we will give way a couple of passes to the Wine
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Jazz Music Festival. Caller three right now, three or four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight three or four three four, five fifty and fifty eight.
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Caller three, right now, I'm gonna hook you up with a pair
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of tickets and operators as they say, Hollywood, Jeff Petty standing by right
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now, good looking for caller three, and I'll hook up with a pair
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of free tickets. Sarah, Let's talk about the amount of work that goes
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into this. This is a huge events. You've got a lot of moving
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parts here for the musicians to the displays. Talk about the work that goes
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into them. Absolutely. You know, Wine and Jazz is such a large
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event. We require a large number of volunteers, which we value immensely.
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Our board and member arts groups all come together to pitch in and make this
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event possible. So yeah, it's a big event, but very worthwhile.
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We are looking forward to having such a wonderful day. Talk about the musical
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aspect of it. You can't have a wine and jazz fest without music.
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So let's let's state the obvious and get into it. It can't all be
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about wine and so although that's not a bad thing, let's talk about the
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Uh, let's talk about the music and the people that you have performing.
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Yeah, So we have an amazing music lineup this year. So the music
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starts at three o'clock and runs all the way until ten o'clock. So we've
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got a full lineup of very talented musicians. So first up, we have
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Hot Jazz of Charleston, who is a local group of very talented musicians who
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will be kicking off the event. Up next, we will have the very
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talented Holly Forbes and you might recognize that name from a the hit TV show
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The Voice. Yeah, Holly's fantastic. I actually had a chance to m
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see some events that Holly did last year when she was out touring with with
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with some other folks and uh and and she's just a treasure to be around
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too. She's just such a genuinely nice person she is and we are so
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happy to have her on board. Then up next we will have wine and
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Jazz staple Bob Thompson, yeah, yeah, crowd favorite. We're so happy
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to have him back this year. And then after Bob, we have a
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group from Pittsburgh called The common Heart and they performed on Mountain Stage about a
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year ago and man, they blew people away. And really they're backed by
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popular demand because people loved them so much. And then our headliner is called
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Moonhooch, and man, they have a sound unlike anything Charleston has heard.
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It's a show that you are not going to want to miss. I've seen
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them in concert with my husband like three times, and we love them.
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So what kind of I mean? I know it's jazz, but I mean,
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can you give me like a little bit of a flavor of what to
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expect from it? I mean, I love the name Moonhooch. I have
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to say I love that so well. Moonhooch will have you dancing. Let's
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just put it that way, like be ready to move like because they have
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it's just such a unique style. Really you can't compare it to anything else,
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but just be ready to come and dance is all I can say.
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Their show packs a lot of energy, and yeah, it's a lot of
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fun. I understand. We have a winner of our tickets Hollywood. Jeff
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tells me it's Greg Talbert from Charleston. So Greg, congratulations. He just
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want himself a couple of free passes to wine and jazz. So Greg enjoyed
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the show. I'm sure he's going to enjoy that. Great Talbert and Charleston
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was our winner, so congratulations to him. Now let's talk about the wine
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part of it. How does that work? Yeah, so we have an
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amazing wine lineup, so honestly, we have something for everyone. We have
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wine available, we have domestic beer, craft beer, and Seltzer's, so
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even if wine is not for your taste, we have something for everyone.
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But we do have a wonderful selection of wines. So we look forward to
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seeing everyone turn out. And I know a lot can change between now and
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then weatherwise, because you're at the mercy of the weather. But I was
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just looking ahead here at the weather. It looks pretty good for Saturday.
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There's some chance of rain over the weekend, but as of right now,
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what I just looked at here looks pretty good for Saturday. I gotta tell
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you, I am not looking okay, don't look I'm just like, oh
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gosh, well, too much can change. But I mean, but right
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now it looks good for Saturday. Yes, good, I'm glad to hear
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you say that. Fingers crossed. Yeah. Um, And let's talk about
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the ticketing. How exactly does that work. I know that you've been kind
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of pushing tickets in advance. You can still do that. I think you
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can still get your tickets in advance. Absolutely, Okay, your tickets in
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advance, so you can get those through our Facebook page Fund for the Arts
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West Virginia, or you can purchase tickets on our website ww dot Fund for
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the Arts wv dot org. Okay, but you can also buy tickets the
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day of the event at the main gate, So we have multiple ways that
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you can purcha take and there's not a chance, I mean, I wouldn't
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think that this would be sold out because you have such a huge campus there
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at the University of Charleston, and it truly is one and big shout out
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to to to doctor Roth and the folks are at University of Charleston and Gail
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Carter, who's one of my favorite people that worked over there. They just
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do a fantastic job with this event and it's really one of the one of
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the in my opinion, one of the more beautiful settings in Charleston. It
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is so our event is very unique in that fact that you know, taking
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place on the lawn, it's just such a beautiful venue. We're so happy
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to be there, all right, And where can people learn more? I
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know that you got the Facebook. I was kind of stalking the Facebook page
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there to get some graphics to put up on my Facebook page. So let's
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set the Facebook page, website, whatever you got. Yep, you can
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hit us up on those two places. All right, good to go,
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And again the proceeds go to a wonderful cause, your Arts organization, which
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is a fantastic thing. Absolutely, they're the driver behind all this and the
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reason why we do what we do. Sarah Right is the executive director of
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the Fund for the Arts, and she's the one that's over this thing.
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The Wine and Jazz Music Festival as part of festival this Saturday afternoon, starts
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at three on the lawn of the University of Charleston's gonna be a great day,
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lots of great music. And as Sarah said, even if you're not
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into the wine thing, that's fine. There's plenty of Seltzer's plenty of beers
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or soda, that's what you were water or whatever. Absolutely, yes,
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all right, good stuff. We will see you there. I know our
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stations are going to be there, and we're proud to be a part of
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it as well. For such a great cause and a beautiful setting. The
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weather looks good. It's all good. Brian Hughes media roles. Brian Hues
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tells them it's going to be okay, okay, counting on Brian. All
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right, Sarah, good luck with everything. We'll see you Saturday. Thanks
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Cit Democratic Party chairing Delegate Mike Pushkin joins us, Mike, good morning,
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how are you? I'm doing well? But how could I possibly be the
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man? If you're the man? That's true. I'm glad to hear you
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say that. Promo material, Jeff, write that down promo. Yeah,
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we're always looking for things like that. Uh, we're talking about whine and
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jazz a little bit earlier. I am just now at this ripe old age
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of fifty two discovering jazz music. I probably should have done it a long
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time ago. I like the classic stuff I'm become. I'm a huge Coltrane
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fan. Yeah that's my Yeah, that's the good stuff right there. That
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early sixties, late fifties, early six miles Davis stuff. Yeah, I
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like it. I'm gonna hit you right off the top rope here with this
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from Mike. Uh, is there any truth to the rumor that you're gonna
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be taken over as host a Wheel of Fortune now that Pat say Jack's retiring.
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You know, I'm I'm not allowed to talk about it yet until until
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the deal is finalized. But yeah, so you know, if you're looking
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to buy a VOW, I mean, guy, that's your cap right here.
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All right, all right, I feel like Mike, I'm kind of
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becoming an afterthought for you. You know, I got you, I get
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you to David Hoppy had you on yesterday. Man, I made you and
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I can break you. Well, I'll keep that in mind. Um.
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And he also left me with some faulty head yesterday, and it seems like
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I have him again today. Well you know, he says, yesterday Mike
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was on with talk Line and he does his when he does his hits,
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he does him here from the studio. And I thought I was being a
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nice guy, and I plugged the headphones in for I wasn't even here.
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And so apparently there was some sort of an issue with the headphones and you
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thought I'd sabotaged, and there still is. Well, there's another pair of
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headphones over there. Maybe we can get Hollywood Jeff Patty to see if he
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can get another set of headphones in here forest and we'll see what the what
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the issue there is? Are those any better? Yeah, they're working.
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In reality, we actually set this interview up, as I mentioned of a
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listeners earlier. UM, I think it was like a week ago today.
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We set up because you wanted to talk about something else entirely, and we
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are going to talk about that. We'll get that a little bit later on.
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But the big story, of course, is the Trump indictment. Former
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president is due in a Miami courtroom today facing thirty seven criminal charges for refusing
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to turn turnover classified documents, etcetera, etcetera. Um, your take here,
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and this is your challenge, Mike and I actually you already have a
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phone call. Wait now, you'll get to that here in a couple of
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moments. Your your take is to talk about this without mentioning the state Republican
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Party. Okay, well, I'm glad that you mentioned that he was in
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there. He's being charged with a failure to turn them over or refusing to
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turn them over because that's really the I believe the seriousness of of the of
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what's in the indictment. Of course, you know, everybody is uh,
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you know, innocent until proven guilty, and then the president deserves that uh
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that uh, you know, right, as well as anybody else the former
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president does. But I think it was said by uh Bill Barr, not
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exactly a liberal, you know, William Barr was the President's own choice for
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Attorney General, served as and and he was never fired by the president.
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He went all the way through the end with the president and he said,
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if half of what in that indictment is true, then the president his toast
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his exact work. He said that on Fox News. Yeah, we'll take
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a phone call. Sure, all right, Don, you're up with delegate
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and the state Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin. Go ahead, Don, Yeah,
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good morning, guys. I just want to give my hats off to
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the Department of Highways. Uh. Spoke with Mike earlier last week there and
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he told me it's gonna be on today. But I just want to get
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that out there because Washington Street on the East End all the way down to
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the interstate excellent job. Department of highways and one other thing. Uh,
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we've got to get some legislation passed. Mike and I have spoken about this,
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but it needs to get out there in the public about the uh these
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companies that come in and rent apartments out to our working poor. Uh,
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you know, people that can only afford you know, and it's really difficult
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on him before seven hundred dollars a month. But they're turning into slum lords.
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And this is not only happening in Knaul County. This is happening in
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Putnam County and I'm sure probably all over the state. And the name of
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the company is well, we don't need a name of the company. Yeah,
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we don't need a name of the company, but go ahead. Yeah.
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Well, anyway, it's out there that these people are slum lords.
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They come in from out of state, buy up all these apartments and everything
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where most of our working poor live. And what they do is they try
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to come in and get more out of the property by evicting the people with
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leases. They had it for a lower price. And the company that originally
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owner of these apartments wasn't excellent company. Might you want to come in on
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that? Was this a company that owned h the Regal Yes, sir,
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I thought it was too probably name in the company. Dave doesn't want me
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to. I agree with you a hundred. We're sent on this done.
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I think we need to have some stricter regulations on some of these big out
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of state conglomerates that are buying up properties and not treating their tenants very well.
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And that was one of the problems with the Regal Apartments. If this
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is the same company, and I think it is, but if it's not,
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I apologize. But I mean those tenants done. And Mike, I
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mean when that story first happened, you know, back first of the year
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with that fire, I mean they said that they had had numerous issues there
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and that they had been reported and apparently they had gone unresolved. Well,
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not only that, Dave, but let's just look at the folks up at
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City Park where most of his hood run. And these hood inspectors allowed us
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housing development people to go without hot water. Yeah, you know, as
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somebody drove a cab for years and was in and out of all, you
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know, a lot of different parts of town for years and you know,
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would go in. Sometimes you have to help people with their help people with
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their groceries or help somebody who had a hard time walk in and out of
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their their dwelling. I can tell you that I think the city park looks
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to be in worse shape as it's ever been, and and it's from some
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huge out of state conglomerate has bought it up. And I think, yeah,
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I agree with you, we need to have stricter regulations. But if
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we're gonna do it at a state level, we're also going to need to
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have more people in the legislature who who care more about the people who are
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who are paying the rent than the people who are collecting the rent. And
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that's the issue. Well, and not only that, but but Mike and
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I know that you're willing to pick up the ball and run, but what
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about our county commissioners? Come on, Ben Slin, guy, let's get
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in here. You know, we got to get these folks involved. They
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have got to start helping our community, all right, don We appreciate your
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phone call. Thanks a lot. We're talking. A lot of it falls
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on you know, how to do more stricter inspections as well. So I
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don't think it's necessarily so much on the local level as much as it is
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Let's go back to the Trump indictment for a moment, Mike, um,
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and you know you won't, as you well know, here a lot
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of arguments from me, as I said, as a Republican, I wish
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Trump would just go away. And then with George John Bolton, who was
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also a Republican former national security advisor to Trump, he is, you know,
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he's begging for Trump to withdraw from the twenty twenty four And only one
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of the presidential candidates on the Republican side, that's Asa Hutchinson, has even
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uttered a peep about this, at least that I've heard. They're not even
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talking about Chris Christie has oh has he? Okay, why he's he's been
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an anti Trump person for a long time. But I know when he was
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trying to be the attorney general, he wasn't. But but but I mean
22:53
he was ahead of the Trump transition. Okay, now you're right, then
22:56
Trump turned on, but there was there was a fun but Asa Hutchinson of
23:00
Arkansas, who has I have as much a chance of winning presidency as Asa
23:03
Hutchinson does, with all due respect to him. But Asa Hutchinson came out
23:07
immediately and denounced this. A majority of Americans, though Mike, according to
23:12
several polls, say they don't want Trump or Biden to be there. Your
23:18
thoughts on that, Well, we'll see what happens during the primary process.
23:22
But I know that one candidate where members of his own party are lining up,
23:27
maybe not the people running as First of all, I don't know who
23:30
Asa Hutchinson is. He was a gun of Arkansas. Okay, look,
23:33
well sorry, I should know that. But we have members of Trump's own
23:38
administration, former members of his administration, who are lining up to say that
23:45
this guy should not be running. He should not be the nominee. He
23:48
is detrimental to the country and detrimental to the Republican Party in the long run.
23:52
In the long run, But you have Republicans in West Virginia who are
23:56
climbing over each other trying to offer blind support for before even I mean,
24:02
and they were doing this before the indictment was unsealed. They had no idea
24:06
what the seriousness of these charges were. Yeah, but they just could not
24:08
wait to get out there and be the first ones to put out a statement
24:12
in blind support for this man. Well, and it's and it's And I
24:17
said this on the show before Mike with the Republicans in West Virginia, out
24:19
of which I am one, it tends to be who can be the Trumpiest?
24:23
You know, I love Trump more than It's almost like kids, you
24:26
know, wrapping their arms around their mommy and daddy saying, you know,
24:29
with their siblings saying, well, dad loves me more. Now he loves
24:32
me more. And and it's I'm not a fan of it. And maybe
24:36
that's the politically expedient thing to do. We know that Trump is still very
24:40
popular in the state. Maybe that's the politically popular thing to do. Maybe
24:44
it's doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, but it's not the right
24:45
thing to do. If you read uh, these indictments, and if you
24:49
read the seriousness these charges, and if you really care about this country,
24:55
you know these documents are classified for a reason. Okay, they're extremely sent
25:00
set of documents, and the reason that we have to keep these things out
25:02
of out of enemy hands is because real lives are at steak, and they're
25:06
the lives of our men and women who serve in the armed forces, and
25:10
the lives of men and women who serve us in the intelligence. But Trump
25:17
doesn't seem to care a whole lot about that. He's waving these things around
25:21
in front of these guys who were writing a book. For one of the
25:23
tape that came out, I'm not sure if you heard it where he was
25:27
waving these around and reading them and sharing these documents with these guys who are
25:30
writing a book about Mark Meadows, and who knows who else he shared these
25:36
with. And the reason that they need to be kept confidential, like I
25:38
said before, because the real lives are at steak, and a lot of
25:42
those are lives are men and women in uniform. Unfortunately, if you look
25:47
at Trump's record, he seems to have always had a problem with with people
25:49
in uniform, whether it was John McCain who who he said horrible things about
25:56
where he was running against John McCain was. You know, I don't agree
25:59
with John McCain politically on a lot of things. He was very very part
26:02
of the right. I did not always agree with him, but I respected
26:04
his service. Yeah, and that's the last thing I would see anybody attack
26:08
as his love of this country and his service in Vietnam for somebody who didn't
26:14
even serve, and coming from somebody who was a draft dodger, Donald Trump,
26:18
it's he's always had a problem with people in uniform and it's unpatriotic.
26:22
Twenty six minutes away from Tim, let's go to the phones, and Brad,
26:26
you're on with delegate and sat Democratic Party chair Mike Pushkin. Go ahead,
26:30
Hey, Mike, Hey, Brad, just answer the question he asked,
26:34
what is your thoughts about the majority of Americans don't want Biden as their
26:38
president. Just answer the question. He's got nothing to do with Trump's got
26:42
nothing to do with anything else. Just to answer that question. I'll hang
26:45
up and listen. Well, the majority of Americans voted for him in the
26:48
last election you're talking about twenty twenty four. Mike, Well, we'll see,
26:52
we'll see what the answer the poll that counts as the poll that happens
26:55
on election. But again, and we'll have a primary. Right, Well,
26:59
nobody's going to run. Nobody, if any substance, is going to
27:02
run and gets Biden if anybody runs at all, you know that so far
27:04
nobody nobody is, but you know, there could very well be a primary
27:07
in a few people. But there's some I mean, Mike, let's go
27:10
over this though, okay. And in the first two years, okay,
27:15
of of of the Biden presidency, you had an the bipartisan inflation build that
27:19
passed, something that Trump couldn't do in four years. Talked about it every
27:23
other week, was inflation was? Sorry? Was infrastructure week? Sorry?
27:27
I said it was infrastructure week. Was unable to pass an infrastructure bill?
27:32
He was. Biden was able to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which you
27:36
know, like it or not, HASH has UH resulted in a lot of
27:41
investment here in West Virginia. Every other week you were hearing about a ribbon
27:45
cutting or a groundbreaking on a new UH facility going into West Virginia. It's
27:49
going to provide jobs. Uh. It's no coincidence that all this happened during
27:56
the first two years of Biden's presidency when he had when he had democratic control
28:00
of both houses of Congress, in the House and in the Senate, and
28:03
they were able to pass this all these huge bills that were able to,
28:08
and a lot of it put money directly into West Virginia. And that's what
28:11
we're benefiting from. Right now, let's go back to the phones of Tuck
28:15
to Jason, you're on with delegate and say Democratic Party Chair Mike Pushkin,
28:18
go ahead, does that kicked the door? Pushkin? Kick the door?
28:23
Pushkin? I've never been called up before. I think that's Caputo you're talking
28:27
about, not Pushkin. He does is get on there and slam people.
28:33
You know, he forgets about all the stuff that the Democrats had all these
28:36
years to do stuff and make West Virginia grade again and never did for forty
28:41
eight eighty three years. And then he gets on there and acts like his
28:45
party's the one that's gonna save us. All my god, give me a
28:51
break. All the politics is full of crap, including you, sir,
28:56
Well, all right for your call and talking to you. I'm not known
29:03
for kicking anything. That was That was Caputo, That wasn't you. Yeah,
29:07
well that's a whole other story. But there was a recently, the
29:12
Census put out, like the US Census put out a report breaking down even
29:18
in more so the twenty twenty census, and it showed we have been losing
29:21
people since the Republicans have been in charge of this state. It did not
29:25
happen before while we were not growing at the same rate as other states for
29:30
the first time. Now we're we're the state that is losing population greater than
29:33
any other state. And a lot of this has to do with Republican policies
29:38
that have been pumped out of the That's a bit of a stretch onto that.
29:41
How is it a stretch? It matches up? I mean, how
29:44
is it? I mean, yeah, there have been people leaving West Virginia,
29:47
you know, but I mean, are you really going to point the
29:48
finger at Republicans on this and say that they're solely responsible for it? Well,
29:52
I would have to say it has a lot to do with their policies.
29:55
It's been since they've been in control and passing some of these bills that
29:57
have been just running people out of the state. And about this, A
30:00
lot of the bills that they've tried, whether it's right to work, making
30:03
us a right to work state, getting read or prevailing wage that that did
30:07
not have the desired effect. It hasn't brought people to the state. When
30:14
they were repealing prevailing ways, it said we're gonna be able to build two
30:17
schools for the price of one. Well, we don't have to build as
30:19
many schools because we have less people bringing their families here to live, so
30:25
we have less schools, we have less students. At WVU, we've had
30:29
to eliminate some of the most important programs they have up there. Their master's
30:33
programs in elementary and secondary education have been cut because enrollments is down. Because
30:40
we have less people in the state. We have less in state kids going
30:44
on to the university and less less out of state kids being sent here.
30:48
And when they pass some of these ridiculous bills, and then if a parents
30:52
and some other state have fifty states to choose from and where to send their
30:55
kids for college, well they're not sending them here now. And a lot
30:57
of that has to do with some of the cowards legislation is coming out of
31:00
that state capital under Republican control. And let me knock out some texts here
31:03
before we go to break. Going back to the property issue that Don brought
31:07
up, what about the airbnbs that are removing housing and driving up the price
31:11
for residents. Can we get some legislation that will help build communities and not
31:15
tourist traps. Yeah, I agree, but once again we're gonna have to
31:18
have some people in office who have their priorities straight and they're not just beholden
31:23
to somebody out of state corporate interests Texas. You know, Pushkin seems like
31:27
a common sense guy on local issues. Then as it pertains to statewide issues,
31:32
he starts his more liberal lean. However, when he speaks on national
31:34
issues, has far left liberal propaganda oozes out. His take on Trump sounds
31:38
like a CNN echo chamber. No chance he grows the West Virginia Democratic Party.
31:44
It's not my take on Trumps. Read if you read the indictment.
31:48
They're pretty serious charges there. And it's not wait, and it's not me
31:52
as the not just me saying it as the chair of the West Virginia Democratic
31:56
Party. It's a whole host of people who Trump had hired and it worked
32:01
with in his administration. You know, Bill Barr didn't just say that that
32:08
that, you know, Trump was a toast of half of these half of
32:12
which in the indictment is true. He went. He said Trump does not
32:15
have the discipline, he does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear
32:20
thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system. It
32:24
is a horror show. When left on, it is a horror show.
32:28
When left to his own devices, he will deliver chaos. That's coming from
32:31
Bill Barr, somebody that Trump chose to be his attorney general and served with
32:36
him up until the end. The former White House Communications director A. Lisa
32:43
Farrek Griffin said Donald Trump is wholly unfit for office and a clear and present
32:47
danger to democracy. Those are pretty strong words, and then says the Republicans
32:52
please take him on. That's what she says. Apparently the Republicans in West
32:55
Virginia haven't gotten the memo on that. Chris Christie said, if we had
33:00
a child. Chris Christie was a fairly conservative governor in New Jersey running for
33:05
and he also led the Trump transition team after Trump was elected in twenty sixteen,
33:09
and he said, if we had a child who conducted themselves like that,
33:13
we'd send them to their room, not the White House. I could
33:15
go on all right. One more text before break, Mike says A texture
33:20
Biden kept classified documents in his unsecured garage, and when they were discovered,
33:24
he gave them back without question. And that's that seems to be the whole
33:30
thing with this indictment is is that he didn't give them back. The Trump
33:34
didn't give it. Mike Pence also had had documents in his possession that he
33:38
shouldn't have had, and when they were discovered and he was, he gave
33:42
them back. That's the problem. But when you had a willful and intentional,
33:49
unlawful retention of classified documents, that's the problem that Trump's gonna have,
33:53
all right, because not just me saying it, I mean, it is
33:57
a very serious charge. It should be taken. Gotta take Broz, We've
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36:55
Dave Mary Trump, Trump's niece wrote a book Sander uncle was the most dangerous
37:00
man in America. I am familiar with that. Tech says, I'm sorry,
37:05
but I'm more in favor of Joe Biden the Donald Trump. Actually,
37:07
it will be a shame. If those are our choices as well, they're
37:10
going to be the choices, says Dave Side. Question for Delia Pushkin,
37:15
how's Aaron Rodgers heading to the Jets going to impact the AFC East. Well,
37:19
I think it's going to have a quite a great impact on the AFC
37:22
East. I think that we could possibly win the AFCs. You know,
37:27
the Jets have the longest playoff drought of not just of any team in the
37:30
NFL, of any team in professional sports. Really, yes, has it
37:36
been that long? I think there was there was a hockey team and I
37:37
can't remember which one. There was a hockey Maybe it was the Kings who
37:42
had a long drought, and but they went to the playoffs. This thing
37:45
went to Stanley Cup playoffs this year. And yeah, the Jets have the
37:49
long I think since twenty ten. I believe they've had the longest playoff drought.
37:52
And I think that's going to change. Jets Cowboys super Bowl. Man.
37:57
You know, if if that's the case, I think we should both
37:59
go. I don't think we're gonna have to worry about yeah, Text says
38:01
Cowboys Uncle, text says Farah Griffith is co host on the View who did
38:06
not like Trump before when she worked for Pence. Try again, okay,
38:09
were when we try again? I'm not sure who that is. I don't
38:14
want to Sarah Griffin because she was a communications director for Trump and she was
38:17
the one that asked Republicans to take him on. What about Mike Pompeo?
38:22
Was Mike Pompeo on the view. Mike Pompeio was Trump's secretary of State,
38:27
and he has said we need more seriousness, less noise, and leaders who
38:30
are looking forward, not staring in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood. Um.
38:36
You know, I think William Barr once again, Bill Barr said that Trump
38:39
is not the victim in this case. He likes to put himself out there
38:43
as the victim, the victim or the h you know, men and women
38:46
in uniform who he's putting harm's way and people who he referred to, you
38:52
know, in a past interview when talking about his his um, you know,
38:59
failure to answer the call when he would to get it. When he
39:01
got out of being drafted into Vietnam, he referred to the people who went
39:06
as chumps. This is not a patriotic man. Tex says all this talk
39:10
of democratic control for eighty years con vdly ignores the fact that West Virginia's decades
39:15
of prosperity the time the Republicans want to get back to, was under solid
39:19
democratic control. Why are they so dumb to not recognize something so obvious?
39:24
Text says the GOP protects business. The last two businessmen West Virginia elected turned
39:30
out to be besides anistic, racist buffoon president and a plane buffoon as a
39:35
governor, and not very good businessman from what we're turning. No, I
39:38
mean, if your property is getting auctioned off down in southern West Virginia,
39:44
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Month to you and Mike. Why does the legislature choose not to acknowledge equal
40:00
rights of the sixty eight thousand LGBTQ plus adults and children in this statement?
40:06
Why does the legislature not this legislature does I would acknowledge the civil rights and
40:12
the human rights of all West Virginians and all Americans. We should all be
40:16
treated equally under the law. Tex says, the Inflation Reduction Act has kept
40:20
inflation around longer than it should have. Scratching my head. Actually, no,
40:24
it's it's been. It's it's slowly a little bit too slowly. But
40:28
it has reduced inflation and it reduces actually reduces the debt. And you know,
40:34
they call bills about a lot of different names, and back during when
40:37
when Bush was present day, a bill that actually created allowed for more pollution
40:42
to be called the Clear Sky's Act. So the name of a bill doesn't
40:45
always say exactly what it's going to do. But what the Inflation Reduction Act
40:47
did do is it put a lot of investment into West Virginia. And we're
40:52
seeing the results of that when you see about you know, form energy or
40:57
whether it is a new core or whether it's all the facilities we're hearing about
41:02
every other week is sometimes a couple of times a week, these announcements we're
41:06
hearing a lot of that is because of the investments that were made possible because
41:08
of the Inflation Reduction Act. It's been a success. You actually asked to
41:14
be on the show to talk about something. As I said, you reached
41:16
out to me before the Trump and diapid You want to talk about doctor Raoul
41:21
Gupta and his return to Charleston. Yeah, I think that that hasn't been
41:23
talked about enough. That we have a Charleston, former Charleston resident, a
41:29
former head of our health department here and who also went on to be the
41:35
director of the Bureau for Public Health on the state level, who was chosen
41:43
by President Biden to be the director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy.
41:47
He is the drugs are for the United States of America, and he's
41:52
from right here, and that could really be beneficial for us here knowing the
41:57
seriousness of the drug problem that we've had in West Virginia, and we've really
42:01
been the epicenter for this epidemic, and it's it's great that we have one
42:06
of our own in there as part of the President's cabinet working on this.
42:09
And he came back to visit um last week and he, you know,
42:15
when he met with a lot of healthcare professionals, and he met a lot
42:17
with a lot of the folks at the City of Charleston. M I do
42:22
think it was unfortunate that there weren't enough meetings with with state leaders and namely
42:28
the governor, and uh, this is not a political issue, should never
42:30
be a political issue. Addiction doesn't It doesn't care whether you're a Republican or
42:36
Democrat. It affects every single one of us here in this state. And
42:40
it's it's a serious issue, and it takes uh, you know, serious
42:45
minded people who want to put the issue above politics in order to have real
42:50
solutions. And it's it's notable that on the same day that the governor made
42:54
this announcement that he's going to send fifty troops to the southern border, was
43:00
alls today that he canceled his uh um, the Council on then Advisory Council
43:07
on Substance Abuse, the Governor's Council was was the meeting was canceled, that
43:13
Director Gupta was supposed to be attending, and he still came here anyway and
43:16
he met with Mayor Goodwin. Was that political in your in your opinion was
43:20
that ACANA signed motives to something, but the timing was awful strange um that
43:24
uh, you know, somebody who's in a competitive Republican primary for US Senate
43:30
decided to cancel a meeting with somebody who's in the Biden administration even knows that
43:34
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43:37
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Birds. Mike Pushkin is here Texas to your day. I didn't beat Trump
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the first time without even needing to campaign. Trump being the Republican nominee again
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is the very best option again for the Democrats. Uh Textra says, I'd
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love to see RFK Junior versus A Santas in a showdown in twenty twenty four.
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I'd like to know Pushkin stots at RFK Junior. Never been a big
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fan of of of RFK Junior. He's always he's been, you know,
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really anti science his whole career, and he is absolutely nothing like his father.
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Texas in the country A three hundred and sixty one million. It's sad
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that Biden and Trump are the best we can do. Having said that I'll
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vote for Biden every time over the draft dodging adulterous buffoon, Textra says,
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and there it was waiting for someone to throw the old reliable race card,
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instantly making the Texter's argument irrelevant. You had something you wanted to bring up,
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you told me during the break there. I'm not sure. I don't.
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I think it was back talking about, like you know, politics on
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on a state, go to local level, and it recently came out.
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I think it was wallet Hub put out a report that ranks West Virginia dead
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last that says our our economy is dead last. I mean, we used
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to be able to say thank God, thank God from Mississippi. They're not
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even second to last, I believe anymore. Uh. Somehow they've found a
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way to improve, and we've found a way to get worse. And I
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think it's important to note that has all been under a Republican rule. But
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that, Mike, don't just happen overnight. No, They've happened so consistently
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since twenty fourteen, and even more so under this governor. And it's look,
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you know, I work up there in the legislature and I see how
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little, how how little we see of the governor. And when the boss
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is away, bad things happen. And that's why you have, you know,
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a jails and prisons that are so understaffed that we've had to call in
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the National Guard. And that's why we have eight thousand children in foster care.
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And we always can't seem to alleviate that problem, can't seem to pay
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state workers enough to get people to work to help these these kids. That's
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why we have a teacher shortage, and then we wind up our flagship university
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is cutting the master's program to train new teachers. That's why we've had to
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completely dissemble the largest department of state government, the DHHR, because it was
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completely dysfunctional. You know, we had to call our call up and talk
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about the paving of Washington Street. Well, let me tell you something.
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I've been getting some interesting letters from some folks over at the Division of Highways,
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and from what I'm reading, they have a completely toxic atmosphere over there
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under the leadership of put that in air. Quotes of Secretary Riston, who
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was a buddy of Jim Justice, who was put in charge of a transportation.
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Our government, our state government is not working properly right now, so
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it should be no surprise when a study like this from Wall It Hub comes
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out and puts us dead last. We know we were promised a rocket ship
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ride and uh, you know we never got off the launch pad. And
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the Democrats and this is the and this is the person who wants to represent
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us in the US Senate. He can't show up in Charleston. Is he
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ever going to show up in DC? It'll be an embarrassment have a seat
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that once belonged to Robert Byrd go to somebody like Jim Justice. He's gonna
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be the Senator in my opinion, Well, I don't. I don't think.
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So he's got a primary to get through, and then well, I
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mean, and we're not going down. I mean, I mean, let's
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face it. I mean, I mean, the polls show he does to
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Alex Mooney. I mean, and who's also you're not a fan of Alex
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Mooney either mine? He stretch of the imagination. That'd be an answering question.
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If you had to vote for one, which one would you do?
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I won't put you in that position. I'm not going to vote in the
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Republican I know. But I tell you this, Alex Mooney checks more boxes
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in a Republican primary when you're talking about just Republican primary voters. And I
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think that that poll wasn't done correctly. That pole was a pole of general
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election voters, not Republican primary voters. So I think I think it's gonna
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bean. This is not gonna be a walk in the park for Jim Justice.
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It's going to be especially with the amount of money that's going in to
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support Alex Mooney, He's not gonna do you think about match and possibly run
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for president? Um, I don't you know. He said he's gonna make
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his mind up of what he's gonna do, uh later this year, and
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I believe him. I don't think he's made his mind up, but I
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don't. I don't. Also don't think he's gonna run for president. You
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don't think you're run for president? No, I don't. When was what
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was the last third party attempt? Well, he's not gonna win. He's
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not gonna win, and he knows that if he does decide to run,
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that's not what it's about. I think whatever he does, he's gonna he's
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gonna win. And that well he said that. He said when he gets
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into race, he's gonna get in it to win it. Why else would
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you get into quote said the quote the day he put out there said whatever
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I decided to run for, I'm going to win. I don't know that
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he runs for anything at all. I'll be honest with him. I don't
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know. We'll see Mike. Always a pleasure to have you on the show,
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sir. Thanks, always pleasure to be here. We'll talk again,
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Sue coming up on the show tomorrow. Doug Cippeletti from the West Vind Universual
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Academy, and you're a good friend. State Senator Rupy Phillips will be on
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the show tomorrow as well. Yes, my dear friend, your friend,
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you, you and Rupert will be on the show tomorrow. Follow the news
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of today wv metronews dot com and at WCHS network dot com. Hopeykirch will
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coming up with talk Line. Eric Tarr, another good friend of yours,
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is going to be on talk Line today and also more of the Trump indictment
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as well. Follow the news of today all day and long again w v
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Hollywood Jefatty, thank you so much. I will see you tomorrow and join
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