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W c HS. The Voice of Charleston has asked the lawyer Harvey Patons in
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studio with us this morning three four five fifty eight, three four five fifty
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fifty Harvey, good morning, how you doing this morning? Get help?
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If I was any better? It was like two of me to enjoy it.
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I was out about really early this morning. I had to run by
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the office and Nitro to retrieve. I've had this hermetically sealed mayonnais jar that
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has been stored on fucking wagonal's blackboard for the last sixty days, in which
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I had sealed and hidden my WVU for full So I what about to pick
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that up so I can have it. So we need to set aside about
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five men here at the end of the show. Tom and I have a
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bit of a not real competition. But he picks Marshall and I picked WVU.
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He's Tom graduated undergraduate school from Marshall University, as it all three of
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my kids. So he set that aside, and then I was driving up
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through Nitro and just such a beautiful morning. And the city has embarked upon
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a really aggressive program, the City of Nitro of removing dilapidated and outdated number
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one residential structures and then primarily along First Avenue commercial structures. Buildings like there
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was a two story former office building retail at the corner of twenty third Street
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and First Avenue. Well that's okay, that's fine, We've got ten thousand
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square feet of space. But it was built in the twenties when nobody had
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a car. There's no parking and the building next to it. And so
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you've got parking that's just pulling off First Avenue where the traffic's heavy, and
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it's not conducive, only conducive to really low rents and trouble getting tenants and
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no money for upkeeping maintenance. And so from twenty third Street to twenty fifth
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Street, now we've got this beautiful open expanse of property that I'm sure it
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will be developed. And then down at thirty ninth Street this week another house
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went down which opened up another really nice spot. There was in a house
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on the thirty first Street that was demolished. So the city of Nitro,
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I mean, problems were solved at a local level, have taken the bull
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by the horns. Howcuch the money comes from the Feds, but it comes
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channeled through responsible officials like the mayor and sat Alban's and South Charleston and Mayor
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Goodwin, you know, to do good for the locals. And then I
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came up past well Larry Dawson. Larry bought the next door to his dealership
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was the Nitrous Shade Nawding, which was run by John Jibbo for decades and
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his grandfather before that and John retired and shut the business, so Larry bought
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that and he's remodeled the building into nice high end office space that's on the
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market to be retailed. And right next to that, Dollar General just built
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a new Dollar in General. It's not Macy's, it's not a department store,
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but it is a nice new Dollar General, affordable, plentiful shopping for
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people in the areas. And Nitro, I say they're on the upswing,
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but this is a pretty much sustained growth over the last several years. And
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just as said I've come back to West Virginia, which was in twenty ten,
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Nitro has evolved immensely over that time. Well it's it's revived. You
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know, when when I first opened an office and Nitro grew up in Saint
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Alban's and the idea that I was going to spend most of my life working
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in Nitro would have been anathema to a Saint Alban's High grad nineteen sixty seven.
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But Nitro and Putnam kind of been really, really really good to me
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and good to the rest of the Peyton family, my son Tom. But
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at that time, you know, Monsato was going great guns. Apex FMC
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chemical, Kincaid Enterprises over there with kim Form John Amos had eighteen hundred,
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two thousand men, very few women. The railroad had a switching yard down
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there that was stocked with the full crew and two locomotives. And then a
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nineteen eighty came and we said the Moose Lodges it had thirty five hundred members,
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which I think is sort of a symbol of what happened in America.
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You know. We started with, well, let's worry about inflation, which
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during the first two years of Reagan's administration was higher than it has been the
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last two years you're replacing now is down to about three percent. It was
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five percent at the end of the second year of Ronald Reagan's first term.
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So the solution of that was shipping overseas, move manufacturing overseas, so you
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can bring low cost products back to sell and make the American a consumer class
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as opposed to manufacturing class with cheap price as well at beats inflation, but
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also does is the Moose Lodge and Nitros closed. YEA. There used to
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be thirty five hundred men and women who followed the construction trades or worked in
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industrial settings. Manufacturing, the railroad, chemicals, agg chemicals, machinery,
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and it was through allowing unlimited mergers and acquisitions and emphasizing and easing the ability
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to do business overseas by multinationals who don't care where the dollars come from.
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They're green. Well, he just gutted America and now Nitro, who took
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a while to adjust to that. I mean, Nitro was on its heels
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and we've adjusted and we've got a great good mayor, great city council,
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good people at the development authority, a hardcore of business and businessmen who've been
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there and are willing to work hard, just like in Saint Albans and South
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Charleston and too to read Charleston, and Charleston's got a bigger it's a bigger
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fish to fry. And up on the eastern end of the county, the
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Chesapeake and marmatt you've got to just take the bull by the horns and make
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the best of it. And we've Nitro has come a long way and it's
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going to continue to grow. And you know it's near the interstate. People
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think, well, you know, Taco Bell has been a big deal.
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That's a big deal if Taco Bell comes to town and takes the place of
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World War One quincent hut that have been converted to an auto parts store,
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and an eroding retail that once housed one of the best hardware stores in the
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state, and a dress shop that was second to none, but it's been
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vacant for decades. I mean, if if what replaces that is a brightly
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lit, well maintained Taco Bell, that's help, right, you can't make
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fun of that. So I was driving through there this morning a lot of
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good thoughts, and got on the interstate and came in this morning thinking about
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iceberg ice. I heard on the radio that well if a former short term
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West Virginia resident in the official capacity, Stewart, who spent a little time
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down at Alderson, was being criticized for a picture taken in front of an
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iceberg on some sort of a tour ship around Greenland. Well, I think
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I'm in the same boat. I had some iceberg ice when I was up
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in Canada. This time it's commonplace along the coast the Labrador Sea between like
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Labrador and Greenland. You know, this time of year, you get a
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lot of icebergs floating through there, and you know den alda party, the
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lady who is the ground person in Goose Bay, her significant other Stevo,
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works over on the coast, and you know, iceberg drifts in the all
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horse collar and bring it ashore chopping up, and so he bought a cooler
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of iceberg ice over the camps. We could try it. And you know,
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it's just it's clear and really hard, and it doesn't melt as quickly
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as you know city water ice. You know, it's a big It's not
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a big deal. I mean, it's just to say this is iceberg ice.
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So I have to admit that I skip that story. But when I
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ran across it on my news feed and everything else, I was like,
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you know what, the nothing's finer than a crisis. Its minor. I
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don't think. I want to no, no, I agree with well,
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I want to ask, is what was really what's the what's the issue with
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what she did is if it's supposed to be sacred or was did she some
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occult group of spiritualists? I guess think that you know, harvesting and iceberg
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out of the Labrador Sea vialas of the rights of indigenous people, which is
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nuts. Uh? I mean, I don't know. I'm like, I
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just read them because it tickles me to see how nutty some Yeah, that's
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just dreams are about the environment and particularity of it. I I was soundly
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criticized by a West Coaster at the fishing camp at Labrador a couple of years
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ago because I refer to Danelda as an eskimo. An he from proceeding for
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me that that's worse than the inn word, and that's degrading, and so
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I think of my mind. Well, when I asked an eld, I
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said, you know, you're your logocies obviously indigenous. I said, you
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know, are you in all? No, I said, bide the mom's
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an eskimo, that's what she said. I got in the car, I
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said, I apologize and I said, oh, that's stupid. Forget that
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guy. Well, I'm not saying that to justify the use of the N
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word, but no, no, but it is, you know, some
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it's countering. It's counteractive and counterproductive to a degree. So it seems like
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if you if you swing at the at the at the if you swing at
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the pitches outside the strike zone, you can't help but to but to strike
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out when you get a pitch that you can hit, you know, I
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mean, and I think that over leveraging things like Martha Stewart using ice kind
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of diffuses maybe more relevant messaging. Well, you got to follow up on
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your analogies. That would be sort of the Manny sanghean of message, A
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man who never saw a pitch he didn't right exactly, robbed deer somebody along
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those lines. Judge, Yeah, that's what you were talking here informing me
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that a little before we took the just have a new judge and Braxton,
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well I think it's Braxton Clay. Oh, maybe it's just Braxton. Might
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be Braxton Clay and Webster, Uh, young man. I don't know.
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Tom knows that has dealt with the gentleman. And he's you know, it
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seems like a CEA level lawyer. He practices uh in a solo or small
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practice in the Braxton County. And that's because judge also retired. Uh.
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And then here in Kanau County, Judge Bloom announced his retirement after long years
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of dedicated service and nay of Judge Abraham I think is the spouse or Brian
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Abraham who's governor Justice is chief of staff or General counsel whatever. Uh.
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Her appointment was announced by Governor Justice, who my astipation, threw her under
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the biace unfairly. I mean, his announcement was, well, she's a
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fine Christian person for a judge, and the tone deaf way that Governor Justice
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has to certainly a devotion to the Christian religion is no negative. More spiritual
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and devoutness and sense of proprieties important, however you get it. But she's
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replacing Dude Bloom, who is a prominent and developed member of the Charleston Jewish
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community. So you know the implication from the Governor's like, well, we're
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making a change for the better here on religious grounds, which I found just
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to be awful and tone deaf, but not uncharacteristic of mister Justice unfortunately.
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But then I went on to say, and I went up appoint a conservative
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judges because the business community and here is happy with it. Well, it
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didn't take Judge Abraham long to take that albatross from from around her neck by
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saying what she needed to say and was forced to say by the Governor's tone
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deaf and inappropriate announcements. Look what my personal beliefs are, they have nothing
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to do with how I'm going to judge cases. Is the important thing is
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fairness and progress and which is correct, and that she's certainly entitled the benefit
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of the doubt. We hope that she has a good careers judge. She'll
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have to be re elected I think next year, or elected, not re
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elected the first time. And I suspect there'll be some since she's not a
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Knock County native and I don't know what constituent she has here, I suspect
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there'll be some lawyers from the Charleston Conlock County are hell through their hat in
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the ring for that spot. I want to see what happens. But again,
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I mean I thought, can you imagine that person being in the United
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States Senate, the person who didn't craft, he just makes it up,
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made up that announcement with two utterly tone deaf and inappropriate statements. How that's
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going to reflect on West Virginia if that person gets to the Senate. It's
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a good question. Yeah, wells in conjunction with what's happening at WVU.
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I mean, we have been the We have been the subject of the Wall
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Street Journal, the Washington Post, for Magazine, New York Times, The
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Atlantic, monthly. I've read articles in all those publications in the last two
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weeks, at editorials in the Charleston Gazette, and equally bone headed and tone
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deaf statements from the Senate Finance Chairman, which just makes us look bad.
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And of course to me, this is going to happen at WVU, right,
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it is going to happen. Gordon Geys not going to be discharged.
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The Board of Governors, which is largely a creation of Jim Justice, is
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not going to discharge Gordon Gey, and Gordon Guy's not going to resign.
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He He's a man of big ego for better for worse. We'll know five
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years from now, you know what the effect, if long term, on
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WVU and its reputation and its ability to deliver its obligation as a land grant
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university is. We're not gonna do this year next year, and people are
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entitled of their thoughts about it. Wasn't there a I remember when SHAWNA.
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Johnson was here and she would have me come in when she would fill in
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for Hoppy. Sometimes I would sometimes sit in with her every once in a
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while and we would do talk line and one of the guests that we had
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on was talking about, and this was seven eight years ago at least probably,
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and it was there was a fairly massive tax cut that was coming down
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for in West Virginia, were a reallocation of the way taxes were going to
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be allocated. One of the big things that we're getting hit was the amount
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of money that was going to WVU. And it was as short at the
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time that this wasn't going to have any downstream effect, that this was all
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part of budgetary concerns, and it was, you know, faithfully steward the
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economy and things like that. And I had read some pushback when that this
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could hurt higher education in West Virginia a decade down the line, and I
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asked the question about it, and I wish I could remember, I could
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go back and find the archive on it. But it was basically like,
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this isn't a problem. We've already looked at all this and I just can't
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help but to wonder what decisions have been made in the past that have led
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to this kind of because it's a pretty stark story when you look at it
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as a whole. I mean, it's somewhat unusual. Well, it's a
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perfect storm of mistaken projections, predictions for the future. Some people, they
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say, just willful ignorance on the legislative side of the agenda. And it
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started with Joe Mansions forty million, four hundred million dollar business stacks cuts.
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Yeah, that's gonna make us the magnet for the entire country. And instead
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we've got eighty thousand, ninety thousand fewer people now than when that happened.
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And then it was you know, it was the just face it. It's
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the right wing, right, ultra right wing of the Republican Party that seems
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to have somehow put the middle of the road, right centered Republicans to sleep,
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who simply think that that are one universities that offer a broad based liberal
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arts and professional education or somehow hotbeds of liberalism to threaten the existence of the
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country. And therefore we're gonna choke them. And you don't have to do
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any more than to listen to Senator, I'll burn the house down to save
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a baby finance chairman. To hear that, I mean, I heard it,
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and and if I thought it is if you're in more sitting up in
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Morgantown in an eight hundred grand a year in a house for you and your
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significant other, who we all pay for, traveling at will and building a
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medical im through acquisitions. You don't really have a whole lot of incentive to
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go peeve off the legislature. And that's just my thought. But I mean
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I accepted because it's going to happen. There's just a big difference. I
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mean, I went to graduated in nineteen seventy one from undergraduate school. Two
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weeks ago, I had lunch with two of my classmates at Larry Lafon and
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Doug scaff You know, we're still closest, closest, closest friends. Today
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they're on their way to Clay County to visit hire them Kimby Lewis, who
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was a eight year old. I was because we're all friends and we've all
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been really successful, and we all graduated from a land grant university that had
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a core curriculum and prepared people to be thinking, reasoning human beings, not
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necessarily job training for a particular slot. But then again, that was a
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student body of about ten thousand, even though it was bloated by the Vietnam
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War, because people one of those two s deferments, you know, And
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I thought, well, here we are we've got twenty four thousand students.
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Now it's fifty years later and with a hundred thousand fewer people in West Virginia,
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and the baby boom was crested and gone. It's just I don't like
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the culture. I was be honest with you. My oldest grandchild what WVU,
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which I was happy about only for a semester, and I went up
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to visit that. I think, I just get a bad vibe here.
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These rabbit hutch dormitories that the university financed the building of over in Sunnyside.
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No sense of collegiality, no sense of commonality. There's a convenience store and
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the first floor that sells beer up till two o'clock in the morning. There's
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a liquor store next door. It's just a big research university that's supported by
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a student debt from about twenty thousand undergrads who were jammed into these dormitories.
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I didn't I didn't like it. She transferred, went to a smaller school,
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was perfectly happy. Is prospered now. But then when I mentioned at
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a meeting of one of the college's advisory boards, I said, well,
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we just didn't like the culture, at which point the one of the administrators,
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So why didn't you call Gordon? Thought okay, but what would Gordon
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do about it? Maybe give her And I mean, who's here, I
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mean he's the president university's and suppose I'm a parent that doesn't know somebody who,
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says Calgren. I just started to get the feeling over the last couple
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of years that this place is becoming too identity driven. And I've got one
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small thing that's always stuck in my mind since back in the early two thousands,
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because I sort of you know, I'm not gonna die rich Man,
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I'm gonna give everything I've got away except what my wife needs to stay in
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her after I'm gone. But we were lucky enough to go to some of
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these Foundations events and one of the things they always said, they've got a
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cookie cutter that stamps out the flying WV and they found a way to make
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them two tons. So part of it's blue and part of its goal flying
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wvs sugar cookies. They're like a staple every place. Well, last fall,
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we would to see a game, got sit in the press box and
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I look at the tray and there aren't any flying WV sugar cookies. There
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are cookies, but they're in the shape of a bow. Time and I
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told my wife has said that's not a good sign. To me, that's
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not a good sign. And then I see where the same thing happened in
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Ohio State. I mean, that's too much identity driven administration for me.
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I apologize, and I'm not trying to pick on a sick chicken. Gordon
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Gey's done a lot of good things at the university, and I'm not saying
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this is all his fault or that he should be removed, but some people
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have There's been some bungling in volved here to get to this point. This
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restructure could have been done over a period of years. There's a phrase that
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I use a lot in the law business and in talking to juries. When
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you find yourself confronted with the bad situation, it's easy to draw a bull's
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eye around a bullet hole. Oh yeah, right, so it's easy and
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how to come back and say, well, I gave a speech in twenty
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fourteen where I said this, or I said in two thousand and sixteen this
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was gonna happen. Well, okay, but this is twenty twenty three and
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the meat axes out. Why wasn't this addressed over a period of time.
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But again, well let's do this. Let's get up breaking, let's see
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defamation, yeah, he did, and not not unlike I think one of
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the judgments that was rendered against another of the the Trump team. I guess
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you could call it Reddy Giuliani. It's to me, it's just a tragic
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largety Giuliani is going to suffer the fate of everybody else that Trump has used
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time election workers, were committing some sort of shenanigan, which the Secretary of
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State of Georgia investigated throwing and said, no, that's not true, that's
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not what happened. It's not true. And so Juliani goes back and repeats
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this lie time after time on his Fox What have I wouldn't call Fox News,
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the Fox Network after not on the news shows. Don't let a nye
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on the news shows, right right, They don't let anyone there anymore,
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right, And he two ladies suited him o case he had publicly defamed him.
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He accused him a felonious conduct which had conclusively been proven to be a
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lie. And during the lawsuit the discovery process, there was some requests made
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for while if you say this is true, and you keep saying it give
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us the information, and he turned over what the judge described as some statistical
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gobbled gig that said nothing. And then, to avoid further inquiry, he
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had admitted that he had said these things in the response to Discover it didn't
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want to produce him because he didn't have it, And the judge said,
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okay, then default judgment is now rendered against you. Two reasons. You
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didn't comply with Discovery and now you admit it bad faith. We're just gonna
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try it on damages. I mean, they'll light him up in Georgia.
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But the guy's broke and everybody to pay. He's just a cast off.
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Yeah, I just we have a cost song you. We're coming to you
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in just a moment. But the thing that I keep on thinking about was
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something like that, regardless of anything else you say. Imagine being just a
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regular, humble, everyday family and having somebody like that drop a bomb in
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the middle of your life. I can't imagine what those people had to go
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through because of the rabid loyalty that the narrative of the Heat spins. Yeah,
28:42
and the people that that gets out of the woodwork. Those people's lives
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were ruined because of that, and I'm glad he lost. I mean,
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frankly, that's just that's pretty terrible stuff. Song is on the launch's a
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question for Harvey this morning? Song you good morning. How you doing this
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morning? Okay, how are you? I'm fan? Yeah. My question
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is my mother is a widow and we're trying to do some financial planning for
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her, and she has most of all her assets with beneficiaries listed, but
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we're wondering about her home. She purchased her home back in the sixties Thinkeen
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sixties, and so we were wondering about that. Transferring death for her deed
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or if it would be better to go with an irrevocable trust and to all
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of her assets in that or what you would recommend I would recommend. I
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mean, she has beneficiaries designated on all of her other so those are non
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probate transfers. I would I favor a transfer on death deed because it now
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it leaves the her in control of her home. If she decides she wants
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to sell her she wants to change beneficiaries, she can do so, but
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it doesn't transfer an immediate ownership interest until the moment of her death. When
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your mom passes away, you just go to the asset, there's office with
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a death certificate, execute a simple form, and the tax tax listing has
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changed to your name. I mean, that's just It really is almost to
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me a no lose situation. We do them all the time. The legislature
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here in West Virginia they allowed this starting in twenty fifteen. It makes your
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house a nonprobatee asset but keeps you in control, which even I think psychologically
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means a lot to It did to my mother. You know, she didn't
30:33
want to give her house away, or she want to have her car,
30:36
but she want to leave the car set out front, even if she couldn't
30:37
drive. So I would my preference, my leaning would be in favor of
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a transfer on death deed simpled up, prepared. It's not going to cost
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you more than about four hundred dollars to have the document prepared and pay the
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recording costs, and it's done. And then if she changes her mind,
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she can revoke it. She can borrow money against the property to get a
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reverse mortgage, sell it if she wishes without asking anybody else's permission, which
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I think is significant. Okay, but that would that wouldn't protect her against
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like the Medicare in case you would have to get into a nursing home though
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with it or well, of course, her homes is not an asset when
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you consider it for eligibility for Medicaid. Medicare, of course is a is
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an entitlement, and there's no lookback on Medicare. But no, a person
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is in long term care for more than sixty days and they qualify for Medicaid
31:33
assistance to help with prince nursing home or long term care, then there's an
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asset test and it doesn't affect your ability to keep the home, I mean,
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but it could give the Office of Medicare Medicaid Services the right to ask
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for some of their money back from her estate once she's gone. And that's
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whether that is superseded by a transfer on death need in West Virginia still up
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in the air. I haven't seen any case where Medicare and Medicaid Services had
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made any attempt to enforce a look back against the TD. But to say
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they might not in the future, I can't guarantee that. Well, let
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me ask you this. If she does, if we do the TD,
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does it reset her tax her property tax rate like like a lot of times
32:23
they once it's transfer of ownership, ownership, it just stays. She stays
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tax in her name, she keeps her homestead exemption. Okay, it doesn't
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affect the tax on her property at all. Okay, okay, well perfect,
32:37
all right, Well, thank you so much. I appreciate the information.
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Sure, I appreciate the call, thank you song, Thanks for the
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phone call that leaves a line open if you want to get in and talk
32:44
to Harvey threes or a four three four five fifty three four five fifteen fifty.
32:46
However, is it time for your predictions? Six minutes left in the
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show, Yes, six minutes left in the show. Now, at the
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Patent law firms, the botto is we're here to help people, and there's
32:59
no case bigger than the lawyer the nearcase at any given time, and the
33:02
lawyer has a duty to think about that that way on. While we do
33:06
primarily litigation or adversary work and auto accidents insurance claims representing plaintiffs, we're also
33:15
problem solvers and some of that involves making predictions about what we think would happen.
33:21
So I don't want to be completely bound by this, but here is
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my fearless forecast for the Mountain Air upcoming season Number one Penn State, Saturday
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night at seven o'clock. I hate to say it, but I've been a
33:30
state college three times when we've had good teams, and it's been since the
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nineteen fifty since the Mountaineers won a game in state college, and twenty twenty
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three is not going to be the year. However, I predict the line,
33:45
which is twenty one points. The Mountainers will cover, but they're going
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to be a thirty one seventeen on the bottom end of it. A big,
33:54
physical defensive line for Penn State's going to throw idle the running game,
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hold the score down for us. And they got a pocket passer quarterback sixty
34:05
five kid. You know we've got an undersized defensive line. He's gonna have
34:09
a little bit of time. I'm say I can see him putting up thirty
34:13
one points mostly in the air. Yeah. Then we're gonna come home with
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du Kane. I didn't know Dukine and really had football. I think of
34:22
him as basketball honestly. So yeah, I guess they have a football team
34:23
to a big train villains. Yes, so better be a win, right.
34:30
Fifty two thirteen and they're gonna get some points. Pittsburgh. We're gonna
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put a licking on him. Thirty eight twenty seven. It now here's the
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game that I've hinges the season, Texas tack. I have to have been
34:40
to Lubbock and Texas TeX's been to Morgantown. Last time they came to Morgantown,
34:45
they humiliated us after we looked like things are coming up Texas. TeX's
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gonna take a beating in this one, but it's gonna be a high score
34:52
forty two thirty five. We'll hold him off in the fourth quarter, turn
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around the next week and get to TCUH. Good team, good team,
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forty two fourteen. I mean, we'll come up with high expectations about Texas
35:09
fort Worth. It's a closed in stadium. It's just hard to play down
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there, and they're good. They're probably more talented we are going there from
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Texas. But then we go down to face Old Dana in Houston. I
35:22
think we can beat them and will in a close game. Twenty eight twenty
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four. Come back home with Oklahoma State down, Mike Gundy starts starting to
35:30
fade, and we beat him out there last year. We're gonna beat him
35:34
in Morgantown this year. That's my thought. Not by a whole lot,
35:39
but we'll beat him in Morgantown. U SEF you know they can, they're
35:45
take they're getting raised. Look they're a c USA teen, right, there's
35:49
still a c USA team. We're just gonna put it on him. I
35:53
think on the road it's hard to do. But forty two seventeen by you,
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good solid program, not up to snuff. Not Lavella Edwards teams coming
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to west, we're coming east. They got to cross two time zones,
36:08
Mountain time, the Eastern time, and we're gonna beat them. We're gonna
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walop, not walop Cincinnati. I think we'll have a close game with Cincinnati
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and Morgantown and squeak it out. It would be a good result, it
36:22
would be. And then then you know, when you're playing Baylor on the
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road. I've been down to Baylor What's football games three times. It's a
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hard place to play, hard place to play, a lot of tradition.
36:34
And they're from Texas and you look at their roster and they're all from Texas
36:37
and they just play incredibly hard. And we'll hold our own. But I
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think it's a twenty four seventeen loss on read for eight and four. Man,
36:45
Man, then we're gonna face Kentucky in the Liberty Bowl. You got
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it all the way down to the Liberty Bowl and facing Kentucky then that I
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mean, I think that anybody in the state would take eight and four.
36:57
Oh yeah, I mean they take eight and four. Lock it in today
36:59
and be happy about it tomorrow. So you've got to get Texas Tech,
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and you've got to get either UCF and Houston on the road. Yeah.
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If you lose all three of those games, then you're five and seven,
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right, So you gotta gotta get a little magic at home, and you've
37:15
got two road games. Uh, Houston, I mean they're they're a wild
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card. UCF, I think it's a wild card. They're you know,
37:25
they're there's two cusa game. Neil Brown's the coach in twenty twenty four and
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not well at eight and four. He is had to a seventies eight and
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four, seven and five. Maybe I think you're okay, depending on the
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mix of the winds and the losses six and six are below. I don't
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I don't know, well who's gonna pull the trigger on that I mean that's
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