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12/10/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Bob Thompson, Adam Harris, Jason Huffman, Shawn Zuniga, Kerri Carte · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 5: five five zero zero want to welcome to the show now,
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Speaker 5: legendary musician extraording their Bob Thompson. How you doing, my
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Speaker 5: friend great good to be here. And and this guy
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Speaker 5: Adam Harris is here too.
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Speaker 3: Emotional support.
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Speaker 5: Adam Harris from Mountain Stage is here as well. Thank
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Speaker 5: you both for being here today.
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Speaker 3: Join to the world.
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Speaker 5: Thursday and Friday night starts at eight at the Culture
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Speaker 5: Center on the Capitol Grounds, produced by Western India Public
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Speaker 5: Broadcasting in the Mountain Stage.
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Speaker 3: How many years has this been going on by this
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Speaker 3: will be our thirty third year. And what led to
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Speaker 3: the beginning of it? I mean, where did the old
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Speaker 3: idea come from?
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Speaker 6: Well, the idea actually came from Don Wafer, who was
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Speaker 6: a producer at that time at Public Broadcasting. He just
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Speaker 6: made a suggestion and so we gave it a try
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Speaker 6: for a year and it took off and people came.
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Speaker 3: So thirty three years later, here we are. Yeah, they
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Speaker 3: keep coming. How's it changed over the years.
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Speaker 6: Well, when we started out, we started with guests from
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Speaker 6: within the region and now we have guests from all
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Speaker 6: over the all over the country.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 6: Our guess like this year is the great Catherine Russell.
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Speaker 6: So but it's progressive. We have added to the band
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Speaker 6: this year. We'll have a guest trumpet player, James Moore.
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Speaker 6: So we've done things like that.
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Speaker 5: But let me tell you about James Moore. James Moore
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Speaker 5: is a is a very good friend of mine. He's
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Speaker 5: the president of West Virginia Wesleyan University. There's not a
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Speaker 5: lot of university presidents that say oh and on their
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Speaker 5: business card and oh, by the way, I'm a music
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Speaker 5: guy too. He's a fantastic human being. He and I
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Speaker 5: been French for years, but he is. He's a real
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Speaker 5: deal when it comes and you played with the best
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Speaker 5: of them, and you are the best of them, so
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Speaker 5: you know he's the real deal.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a great trumpet player. So we call his
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Speaker 6: his West Virginia Westerland presidency his day job.
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Speaker 3: And this is a fun job he does on the weekend.
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Speaker 3: He does a great job.
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Speaker 8: Or that my job.
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Speaker 5: Adam talk about Adam Harrison Mountain say talk about Mountain
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Speaker 5: Stage and Public Broadcasting about their involvement with this.
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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, sure, so, I mean a lot of the
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Speaker 9: people who work on Mountain Stage to produce those shows.
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Speaker 9: We do twenty four live events a year. We all
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Speaker 9: kind of team up to work with Bob to produce
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Speaker 9: Joy to the World as well, and so a lot
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Speaker 9: of the same people are involved. And we also were
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Speaker 9: taping for television on Thursday night and that'll air next year,
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Speaker 9: and we take both nights for radio. And so Bob
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Speaker 9: and his team actually just edited last year's performance for
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Speaker 9: broadcast this year. And so like with every show, Dave,
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Speaker 9: as you know, there's a million details, yeah, to take
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Speaker 9: care of because it's not just a live event. It's
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Speaker 9: a live event with tickets, with rooming lists, and then
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Speaker 9: we have to do the set list, the playlists, the editing,
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Speaker 9: and that's all a huge undertaking, and Bob, you know,
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Speaker 9: steps right back in to help edit those broadcasts for
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Speaker 9: next year and so and I should tell folks to
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Speaker 9: try to look for the broadcast of last year's show.
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Speaker 9: Judith Owen, who's a Welsh singer now based in New Orleans,
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Speaker 9: and she brought her own horn player with her and
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Speaker 9: it's one of the best shows we did. Judith is
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Speaker 9: an amazing performer. She's a great singer and dancer and
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Speaker 9: even did like a heartbreaking song at the piano by herself,
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Speaker 9: so really engaging. And Catherine Russell, who is our guest
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Speaker 9: this year you can come see in Charleston Thursday and Friday,
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Speaker 9: is an incredible jazz and blues singer. And it's in
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Speaker 9: her blood, like right, Bob, Her dad was a bandleader, right.
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Speaker 6: Her dad, the late Great Lewis Russell, was the pianist, composer,
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Speaker 6: band leader and he was also Louis Armstrong's musical director
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Speaker 6: for many years.
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Speaker 9: So I mean talk about a lineage there in her blood.
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Speaker 9: You know, this music is in her blood. Plus you
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Speaker 9: know she's done studio and live work with folks like
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Speaker 9: Paul Simon, David Bowie. She toured with Bowie's band as
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Speaker 9: a backup singer Steely Dan exactly. And she's the tops
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Speaker 9: of jazz and blues singers. And she was just telling
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Speaker 9: me yesterday she went to her first Grateful Dead show
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Speaker 9: at the age of fourteen.
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Speaker 3: So she is diverse. She enjoys much more.
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Speaker 5: I mean you when you mentioned David Bowie and Steely
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Speaker 5: Dan and all Side and Grateful Dad and what more
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Speaker 5: could you want in there too?
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Speaker 3: And now she's playing with our with our folks here in.
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Speaker 9: Charleston and what I'm saying is world class musicians right here.
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Speaker 5: talk about the folks in your band that are going
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Speaker 5: to be playing the local folks.
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Speaker 6: Right, actually great, Ryan Kennedy will be on guitar and
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Speaker 6: he's fantastic. Yeah, John Ingram another fantastic. Yes, he'll be
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Speaker 6: playing bass, and Tim Courtz on drumon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So that's that's my regular band. So we'll all be there.
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Speaker 5: So talk about the rehearsals for you guys for this show,
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Speaker 5: without the without the extras, without mister Moore and the
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Speaker 5: h and the others. But just talk about you your
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Speaker 5: gas preparation for this show.
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Speaker 6: Right, Well, we've had one rehearsal, that's all.
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Speaker 3: We're good. But we talked about it in line for
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Speaker 3: the bathroom, said you want to do this song, that's fine.
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Speaker 6: But now today actually we'll rehearse the band and then
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Speaker 6: we'll bring Katherine Russell in afterwards and rehearse with her,
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Speaker 6: and then we'll have a chance for a little run
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Speaker 6: through tomorrow before the show at the Culture Center.
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Speaker 5: Now for people that have never seen the show, and again,
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Speaker 5: this has been going on for thirty three years, we
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Speaker 5: know it's a Christmas show. But what goes into picking
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Speaker 5: out what songs you do because you can't obviously you
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Speaker 5: can't do everything.
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Speaker 3: What styles will you be doing?
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Speaker 6: Well, we do jazz arrangements of Christmas songs, and that's
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Speaker 6: that's the way we approach it. And you know, doing that,
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Speaker 6: we have to be careful not to take them out
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Speaker 6: too far, you know, because these songs belong to everybody
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Speaker 6: and everybody you know, they're classics. So we try to
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Speaker 6: stay somewhat in the lane of the original concept of
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Speaker 6: the song. But we'd like to add our on flavor
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Speaker 6: to those things to make them different.
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Speaker 5: Christmas songs are in some ways like the national anthem.
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Speaker 5: People don't like you messing with what's in their head.
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Speaker 5: But the thing about it is the arrangement that is
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Speaker 5: in my head may not be the same arrangement that's
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Speaker 5: in your head.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, people.
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Speaker 9: Cherish those songs and they cherish the arrangements too, and
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Speaker 9: that's why what kind of like what Bob is saying
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Speaker 9: is that you've got to stay close enough that everybody
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Speaker 9: hears what they love, that's.
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Speaker 3: Something that's new and interesting to them. Hopefully. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be it's gonna be a great concert.
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Speaker 1: Again.
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Speaker 5: It's actually two nights over at over at the Culture Center,
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Speaker 5: and you can get to we you know, try to
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Speaker 5: get your tickets in advance if you if you can
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Speaker 5: and talk about the ticket information.
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Speaker 9: Sure, yeah at wvpublic dot org slash joy that's where
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Speaker 9: you can go. Or if you just type Enjoy to
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Speaker 9: the World Thursday or Joy the World Friday, you'll get
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Speaker 9: the link. The tickets are all sold through event right,
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Speaker 9: and there are I think gonna be thirty five dollars
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Speaker 9: at the door, and there should be some available. We're
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Speaker 9: selling very well, but I think there'll still be some
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Speaker 9: seats available. What is general admission and the showtime is
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Speaker 9: eight o'clock. So I think we opened the doors to
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Speaker 9: the theater at seven point thirty, and I believe the
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Speaker 9: lobby will probably open at about seven o'clock.
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Speaker 5: And so Thursday night to night at the Christmas Parade
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Speaker 5: Chris Charleston, so people can can when they finish up there,
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Speaker 5: just head on over there to the show. And if
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Speaker 5: possibly the fact that doesn't work for you, then then
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Speaker 5: go check it out on Friday, and we're gonna have
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Speaker 5: although with the rain today some of it may melt.
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Speaker 5: But there's more snow on the way they say for
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Speaker 5: Thursday night into Friday, So as long as we don't
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Speaker 5: get too much, we'll have a little bit on the ground.
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Speaker 5: And look, I have said this before, there is no
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Speaker 5: and I'm not a snow lover by any stretch of
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Speaker 5: the imagination, but there was no beautiful building in my
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Speaker 5: mind than the West Virginia State Capitol at Christmas time.
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Speaker 3: Wunder's snow on. Yeah, that's quite beautiful.
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Speaker 1: It's time here.
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Speaker 3: Adam.
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Speaker 5: think Bob Thompson would have been.
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Speaker 3: Oh my, oh my.
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Speaker 9: Well, you know, Dave, you're a classic lover of wrestling
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Speaker 9: as I am, and so I mean, I think we
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Speaker 9: could compare Bob to let's see a mixture of let's
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Speaker 9: see Bobo Brazil and Arilla Monsoon.
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Speaker 3: How about that? Yeah, all right, he's a heavyweight. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's a heavyweight. He's a heavyweight, and you don't want
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Speaker 3: to make him mad. He might seem like a lovable giant. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to get on Bob Thompson. No, Hey, Bob,
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Speaker 3: it's always a pleasure to have.
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Speaker 5: out to the show's Thursday or Friday night or I
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Speaker 5: mean go to both. You could absolutely, You'll probably change
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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 5: So you got to follow up Bob Thompson. Any musical
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Speaker 5: ability for me and whatsoever?
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Speaker 3: Well, I can sing real good, but I don't do
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Speaker 3: it for free, Okay, all right, So you're serious, you're
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Speaker 3: you're a singer. Yeah, I've been known too, okay too
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Speaker 3: all right now.
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Speaker 5: So to say, you're not like me or like a
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Speaker 5: lot of people with these karaoke singers that think they're
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Speaker 5: good but they're really not.
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Speaker 3: You're really good. No, I only sing in dive bars. Okay,
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Speaker 3: it's man after my own art, all right.
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Speaker 5: Yesterday House Speaker Hanshaw and others had a precedent of
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Speaker 5: the Capitol talking about their legislative agenda. Want to get
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Speaker 5: to yours in just a moment, I own business, jobs, etc.
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Speaker 5: Sounds like speaking your language absolutely.
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Speaker 14: I mean, I think when it comes to what we
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Speaker 14: need to do in West Virginia economic competitiveness and jobs.
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Speaker 14: That's the number one priority I think that lawmakers should have.
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Speaker 14: And it really does mirror a lot of what we've
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Speaker 14: talked about in terms of theme and prioritization when it
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Speaker 14: comes to our legislative agenda and Americans for Prosperity we
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Speaker 14: released last week. We've been doing this since twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 14: and we look at it as a roadmap for policymakers
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Speaker 14: that don't want to tinker around the margins. They want
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Speaker 14: to be bold. They want to rapidly transform West Virginia
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Speaker 14: into a better place to live, work, and raise a family.
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Speaker 14: And so we see that as kind of You know,
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Speaker 14: when you look at West Virginia from an economic competitive standpoint,
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Speaker 14: it doesn't do us any good just to catch up
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Speaker 14: to our other surrounding states because we face so many
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Speaker 14: as socioeconomic headwinds. So we've got to beat them decidedly
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Speaker 14: on competitive competitiveness. And so we think we got a
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Speaker 14: roadmap to get there, and it's exciting to hear lawmakers
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Speaker 14: are reading from the same handle.
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Speaker 3: Pathways is prosperity what you're calling it?
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Speaker 10: Right?
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Speaker 3: That is right way to prosperity legislative a joke. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: let's go over some of them.
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Speaker 14: Sure, absolutely, So I think top top of mind for us.
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Speaker 14: You know, anytime the state is running a surplus, that
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Speaker 14: means you're taking too much out of the private sector.
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Speaker 14: We have one hundred and thirty million plus surplus, and
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Speaker 14: so what we'd like to see is a continuation of
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Speaker 14: tax cuts, specifically targeting the personal income tax. We know
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Speaker 14: that West Virginia passed one of the most hissed work
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Speaker 14: tax cut, largest in history tax cut a couple of
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Speaker 14: years back. But since then, states like Kentucky and Ohio
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Speaker 14: have seen that market signal and began to lower their
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Speaker 14: rates and so as we continue to compete for jobs
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Speaker 14: and citizens, we want to keep down the road of
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Speaker 14: eliminating our state income tax fully.
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Speaker 5: Okay, why is I mean? And you've been on the
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Speaker 5: show of the last couple of years, we've talked about this.
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Speaker 5: Why is that so important to you?
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Speaker 14: Well, we know that from the data and the research,
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Speaker 14: all signs point to cutting the income tax is a
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Speaker 14: large mover when it comes to bringing jobs and people
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Speaker 14: to the state. We know that we have just broke
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Speaker 14: even basically, we got out of the demographic winter that
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Speaker 14: we had faced for several years and not that long ago.
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Speaker 14: West Virginia was the only state in America where less
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Speaker 14: than half of our population was working, less than half
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Speaker 14: in work worse participation. We're now at fifty five percent
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Speaker 14: workforce participation.
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Speaker 3: What do you attribute that too?
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Speaker 14: Pro growth policies that we've passed in the past. I mean,
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Speaker 14: you know, if you think about you know, whether it
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Speaker 14: was creating the gold standard for educational freedom in the
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Speaker 14: country by passing the Hope Scholarship, or enacting the largest
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Speaker 14: tax cut in state history, of things like having the
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Speaker 14: best regulatory environment for the creation of independent microgrids so
16:47
Speaker 14: we can unleash American Energy Abundance lawmaers done tremendous work.
16:51
Speaker 14: We've cut red tape, we've We've done a lot of
16:53
Speaker 14: good work. But we can't rest on our laurels. And
16:55
Speaker 14: that's really our core message in Americans for Prosperity. We
16:58
Speaker 14: got to keep our foot on the gas when it
17:00
Speaker 14: comes to beating the other states in the backyard brawl.
17:04
Speaker 5: And I think sometimes maybe here in Charleston again we're
17:07
Speaker 5: talking with Jason Huffman from Americans from Prosperity. I don't
17:09
Speaker 5: know that maybe that we see it as much in Charleston,
17:11
Speaker 5: but it's a serious issue when you get up in
17:13
Speaker 5: the Eastern Panhandle with folks crossing that line to go
17:16
Speaker 5: over to d c or go over to Maryland, or
17:18
Speaker 5: go over, you know, to Virginia in Pennsylvania. I mean
17:21
Speaker 5: I sawalking to a friend of mine yesterday who's you know,
17:24
Speaker 5: for years that they live in West Virginia, but his
17:27
Speaker 5: father crossed the border and went to Pennsylvania to teach
17:32
Speaker 5: because he can make more money there. We see it
17:34
Speaker 5: maybe in the River cities in Ohio as well.
17:36
Speaker 14: Yeah, And I'm glad you brought up education because that's
17:38
Speaker 14: another key pillar of what we would like to see
17:40
Speaker 14: done this legislative session. Obviously, with the Hope Scholarship set
17:44
Speaker 14: to expand in twenty twenty six to all school aged children,
17:46
Speaker 14: that's forty five thousand kids who will be become eligible
17:49
Speaker 14: for the Hope Scholarship. That's huge that that is a
17:53
Speaker 14: true opportunity for families to be in powered to find
17:56
Speaker 14: the right educational pathway for them. But in the same token,
17:59
Speaker 14: we want to look at the government run school system.
18:03
Speaker 14: So when it comes to you know, we spend over
18:06
Speaker 14: four billion dollars annually on K through twelve education in
18:08
Speaker 14: this state, we think that we spend enough on public
18:12
Speaker 14: education as it is. We would like to see it
18:14
Speaker 14: right sizing of public education system and specifically for this reason,
18:18
Speaker 14: we've continued to see student population decline. Oh, there's been
18:23
Speaker 14: a lot of scapegoating of the Hope Scholarship as to
18:26
Speaker 14: that being the catalyst for it, but we've seen enrollment
18:29
Speaker 14: declining for decades and this is a problem that is
18:31
Speaker 14: not unique to West Virginia because birth rates across the
18:33
Speaker 14: country are declining. Instead, what we would like to see
18:38
Speaker 14: as student enrollment declines is not what the trend has
18:43
Speaker 14: been traditionally, which is an increase in spending on education
18:46
Speaker 14: and an increase specifically in administration administrative bloat. We think
18:51
Speaker 14: we need to see some right sizing there, and specifically
18:53
Speaker 14: we want to see those dollars that are saved as
18:56
Speaker 14: a result of that go back to classroom instruction and
18:59
Speaker 14: teacher pay well.
19:00
Speaker 3: And that's what it was gonna bring me to my
19:01
Speaker 3: next point.
19:01
Speaker 5: One of the things to Speaker Handshaw Jason talked about
19:04
Speaker 5: yesterday was was with teacher and service personnel pay raise
19:08
Speaker 5: They there are that they've got a number out there
19:10
Speaker 5: that they're looking at that that that was definitely part
19:13
Speaker 5: of it. And where would you folks be on that.
19:15
Speaker 3: Well, from our perspective, that's great.
19:16
Speaker 14: I think we need to be competitive when it comes
19:18
Speaker 14: to how much we're we're paying our educators. They do
19:20
Speaker 14: hard work, but we don't want to see any more
19:24
Speaker 14: money go into the government run school system. It's four
19:26
Speaker 14: billion dollars more than four billion dollars already, and so
19:30
Speaker 14: we need government to live with its means, even when
19:32
Speaker 14: it comes to the government run school system. And so
19:35
Speaker 14: sure we should be paying teachers more, but that's got
19:39
Speaker 14: to come at the expense of right sizing. What is
19:42
Speaker 14: essentially out of control spend on K through twelve education.
19:45
Speaker 5: But there would be those I'm a push I'm not
19:47
Speaker 5: gonna push back. I'm just gonna play Devil's advocate a
19:49
Speaker 5: little bit because I think you and I are on
19:50
Speaker 5: the same page in this. But there would be those
19:52
Speaker 5: that would say, look, you know, our test scores are
19:55
Speaker 5: although we have improved in certain areas our test stores,
19:58
Speaker 5: test scores still when you compare to other states, aren't
20:01
Speaker 5: what they should be, and we're just not getting enough
20:04
Speaker 5: funding for teachers to do what they need to do
20:06
Speaker 5: in the classroom. To that, you would say, hogwash, Okay, look,
20:09
Speaker 5: thanks for having If you.
20:10
Speaker 14: Look at the states that spend the most on per
20:12
Speaker 14: pupil education, New York is the top of the list, right,
20:16
Speaker 14: their educational outcomes aren't any better, and so we have
20:19
Speaker 14: is a systemic problem anytime. That and the reason you
20:22
Speaker 14: see the big push across the country that really started
20:25
Speaker 14: in West Virginia but now has gone to twelve other states.
20:27
Speaker 14: Even more than that, you can't have a one size
20:30
Speaker 14: fits all approach to education. Every kid is different. Any
20:32
Speaker 14: parent will tell you that.
20:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you talk to a parent that's got
20:35
Speaker 5: three kids, I'll tell you there's three different personalities there.
20:37
Speaker 14: Absolutely, And so for the crowd out there, the special
20:40
Speaker 14: interests that look at the education system like a jobs
20:42
Speaker 14: program for adults instead of a way to educate our kids,
20:45
Speaker 14: I would say that enough's enough. We spend enough on
20:47
Speaker 14: government run education. It's time to tighten our belt and
20:49
Speaker 14: right size that system, which is why we're calling for
20:52
Speaker 14: a moratorium to be instituted on increases in government run
20:56
Speaker 14: school spending.
20:58
Speaker 3: What are the that's your projection for how that's going
21:01
Speaker 3: to go? Do you think you got a lot of
21:02
Speaker 3: support for that?
21:04
Speaker 8: Well?
21:04
Speaker 14: I think that when it comes to education, spending traditionally
21:07
Speaker 14: has gone up. But somebody's got to. Somebody's got to,
21:09
Speaker 14: you know, be the one to John the Baptist this
21:12
Speaker 14: thing and get out there and say we have a
21:13
Speaker 14: problem here. The math doesn't math. We have six hundred
21:16
Speaker 14: and twenty nine school buildings in this state for a
21:18
Speaker 14: population of less than two hundred and forty thousand kids.
21:21
Speaker 14: That math doesn't math well.
21:23
Speaker 5: And look, we've talked about it on this show and
21:25
Speaker 5: on other shows as well. In the state, as we
21:27
Speaker 5: speak right now, I think the state school board was
21:28
Speaker 5: meeting at nine o'clock this morning. And one of the
21:30
Speaker 5: things that they're going to be looking at is they're
21:32
Speaker 5: going to be talking about closing schools in certain counties
21:35
Speaker 5: or a few counties that were listed. We just came
21:37
Speaker 5: off a closure in Rome County. I know, in my
21:39
Speaker 5: native land there was a closure of a school. This
21:41
Speaker 5: was more of a structural issue though. Down in Logan County.
21:45
Speaker 5: We everybody wants that school Jason in their community. I mean,
21:49
Speaker 5: everybody wants those smaller schools. The school is the hub
21:52
Speaker 5: of everything. That's where your scouts meet, that's where Little
21:54
Speaker 5: League registrations go on.
21:56
Speaker 3: So I mean, it's it's.
21:57
Speaker 5: The hub, that's the hub of everything. However, it's a
22:00
Speaker 5: model in my opinion, that just doesn't work anymore, having
22:04
Speaker 5: these schools in every community with a declining population. If
22:08
Speaker 5: our I mean, look over in the Eastern Panandle they're
22:10
Speaker 5: going to build a new high school. Okay, that's a
22:12
Speaker 5: different but the rest of the state is not Western
22:15
Speaker 5: is not the Eastern Panandal.
22:16
Speaker 14: Well, I mean, maybe those smaller community schools could work
22:19
Speaker 14: out better if we didn't have this gargantuan administrative cost
22:22
Speaker 14: associated with K through twelve education. And that starts in Charleston,
22:25
Speaker 14: but goes out to the county level as well, And
22:28
Speaker 14: I think to some extent, when you look at education
22:31
Speaker 14: as a whole, we're moving in the right direction. But
22:34
Speaker 14: you know, we need to give localities, We need to
22:37
Speaker 14: give teachers and schools specifically a cleaner slate when it
22:41
Speaker 14: comes to their regulatory environment. There is so much red
22:44
Speaker 14: tape and nonsense from Charleston that school teachers face, and
22:48
Speaker 14: they're not able to really individualize education around each kids.
22:51
Speaker 14: So we would like to see a comprehensive deregulation of
22:54
Speaker 14: the government run school system so that they can compete
22:57
Speaker 14: with some of these school choice options that exist now.
22:59
Speaker 3: I mean some of the examples in your opinion and
23:01
Speaker 3: your studies of some of some of the red tape
23:05
Speaker 3: that need to be eliminated. For as far as teachers go.
23:07
Speaker 14: You can think of seat time requirements, curriculum requirements, just
23:11
Speaker 14: an accumulation if you will, of red tape over the decades.
23:15
Speaker 14: But if it was up to me, we'd go into
23:16
Speaker 14: Chapter eighteen and eighteen A and just hit delete on
23:18
Speaker 14: anything that doesn't have a federal matching dollar. That's probably
23:22
Speaker 14: the more I won't say extreme, but it's the more
23:27
Speaker 14: old approach. I don't necessarily know that we get there,
23:30
Speaker 14: but we're working with lawmakers to think through some of
23:32
Speaker 14: the logistics and economics of this situation. And there's been
23:38
Speaker 14: a lot of interest, frankly from state lawmakers in pursuing
23:42
Speaker 14: some deregulation in the government run the school system.
23:45
Speaker 5: With the And I know that Americans for Prosperity is
23:48
Speaker 5: a nonpartisan organization, but with the current makeup of the legislature,
23:54
Speaker 5: you know, West Virginia is a red state. Went Republican
23:57
Speaker 5: in twenty fourteen and no sign it's going to go
23:58
Speaker 5: back anytime anytime soon.
24:03
Speaker 3: There seems to be within the Republican Party.
24:05
Speaker 5: And we talked about this a little bit on the
24:06
Speaker 5: show yesterday, there seems to be, you know, and look,
24:08
Speaker 5: this happened with the Democrats when they control for eighty
24:10
Speaker 5: three years too. There are divisions are so there are
24:13
Speaker 5: those that are are far right and those that are
24:15
Speaker 5: just kind of center right, and so on and so forth.
24:18
Speaker 3: No different than when the Democrats were in charge.
24:22
Speaker 5: How is your group able to work with all parties involved?
24:27
Speaker 14: Well, I think it's because we're consistent on our principles.
24:30
Speaker 14: People know where we're coming from our philosophy is really simple.
24:34
Speaker 14: The way to achieve more prosperity is to unleash more
24:38
Speaker 14: freedom and opportunity, and so you do that by making
24:42
Speaker 14: a state more competitive economically, cutting taxes, cutting red tape.
24:45
Speaker 14: You know, one of the things that we saw this
24:47
Speaker 14: week that I thought very was very interesting some numbers
24:52
Speaker 14: on the sort of nexus between cutting red tape, cutting
24:56
Speaker 14: rules and rags that exist that that, in my opinion,
24:59
Speaker 14: many of them are necessary, and the growth in our
25:03
Speaker 14: gross domestic product. If you would go in and cut
25:06
Speaker 14: say ten percent of the rules and rags on the books,
25:08
Speaker 14: that would be six billion dollars in gross domestic product growth,
25:13
Speaker 14: And for an economy that only has eighty billion dollars
25:16
Speaker 14: of GDP right now, that would be huge. So extrapolate
25:19
Speaker 14: that out over you know, ten twenty thirty forty. We
25:22
Speaker 14: have seen some estimates that say the low hanging fruit
25:24
Speaker 14: is somewhere between thirty and forty percent of rags that
25:26
Speaker 14: are on the books could be cut. That would be
25:29
Speaker 14: an eighth of our economy. So we're excited about the
25:32
Speaker 14: prospect of that. But you know, when you take a
25:34
Speaker 14: data driven approach to things and you look at things
25:36
Speaker 14: from a principal first standpoint that that's how we're able
25:40
Speaker 14: to really work with folks even across the island some cases.
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Speaker 5: We did have a text here, and I'm going to
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Speaker 5: read this to you and get your feedback on it.
26:04
Speaker 5: So how much of that funding all these other states
26:07
Speaker 5: get for their schools actually goes towards the education of
26:10
Speaker 5: their children instead of the indoctrination of them and turning
26:12
Speaker 5: them into a little activist. If you notice, their test
26:14
Speaker 5: scores really do suck.
26:16
Speaker 3: So it's a text.
26:17
Speaker 14: Well, that's an interesting question. I don't necessarily have statistics
26:20
Speaker 14: on the other states, although I will say that when
26:23
Speaker 14: it comes to the organized labor unions within our government
26:26
Speaker 14: run school system across the board across America. You know,
26:29
Speaker 14: American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association. You have
26:33
Speaker 14: but to read their national platforms to understand the level
26:37
Speaker 14: of kind of Marxist philosophy that is in there. And
26:40
Speaker 14: I say that pretty bluntly, but I mean it's public information.
26:43
Speaker 14: You can get a hold of it in fact check
26:44
Speaker 14: me if you don't like what I said. We want
26:47
Speaker 14: to get away from that. We want to get to
26:49
Speaker 14: a point where parents are empowered. We have one of
26:52
Speaker 14: the best open enrollment laws in the country, so you
26:54
Speaker 14: can put your child in any public school you want.
26:57
Speaker 14: It's not the case that you're zoned your government assigned
27:02
Speaker 14: zip code school. This is where you have to go anymore.
27:05
Speaker 14: So we've put the accountability into the hands of parents,
27:07
Speaker 14: so they can go and find that education in the
27:10
Speaker 14: government run school setting, or they could go to the
27:12
Speaker 14: educational freedom route. So really this is about not having
27:16
Speaker 14: a captive audience in education, not having a one size
27:19
Speaker 14: fits all approach, but really empowering parents to define the
27:22
Speaker 14: right education for their kid.
27:23
Speaker 5: You know, one of the things that I don't hear
27:27
Speaker 5: in what you've gone over today, and I didn't hear
27:29
Speaker 5: speaker Handshaw speaking about yesterday. I had Brian Dayton from
27:33
Speaker 5: the Chamber of Commerce on the show yesterday and he
27:34
Speaker 5: kind of followed up put you know, talking about with
27:36
Speaker 5: Speaker Hanshaw said, one of the things that I did
27:38
Speaker 5: not hear is what would be the quote unquote the
27:41
Speaker 5: social issues speaker Handshaw didn't speak about it. When Brian
27:45
Speaker 5: Dayton was on the show yesterday, he didn't talk about it.
27:46
Speaker 3: You and I know you've got a lot.
27:48
Speaker 5: Of papers in front of there, so we haven't got
27:50
Speaker 5: to everything, but you haven't talked about.
27:51
Speaker 3: It to me.
27:53
Speaker 5: This is me speaking. That's a good thing. I think
27:56
Speaker 5: we need to stay out of it, and that's that's
27:57
Speaker 5: just my opinion. You don't have to agree.
27:59
Speaker 14: Well, what I would say is this, You're in an
28:01
Speaker 14: environment right now that West Virginia's read and becoming redder,
28:06
Speaker 14: and primary elections are what drive electoral results. The general
28:10
Speaker 14: election doesn't matter a whole lot in West Virginia, and
28:13
Speaker 14: so I think for a lot of Wallmakers, they're responding
28:17
Speaker 14: to that Republican base. They're responding to those primary voters
28:20
Speaker 14: hopes and aspirations for what.
28:22
Speaker 3: They will do.
28:23
Speaker 14: And quite frankly, I don't necessarily think, you know, you
28:26
Speaker 14: hear a lot from the establishment business community if you will.
28:31
Speaker 14: They decry the work that folks are doing in the
28:35
Speaker 14: legislature on quote unquote cultural issues. We don't work on
28:39
Speaker 14: those because there's enough folks that are already focused on that.
28:42
Speaker 14: But I don't think that you can't have a situation
28:45
Speaker 14: where you can do both as a lawmaker. You know,
28:47
Speaker 14: say for every ten economic bills you have, you have
28:50
Speaker 14: three or four social issue bills. Sixty days session is
28:54
Speaker 14: a short timeframe, but I think that if we could
28:56
Speaker 14: get lawmakers to get on the same page, it could
28:59
Speaker 14: work a lot more efficiently from a time management standpoint.
29:03
Speaker 14: So I kind of I think it's a bogus notion
29:06
Speaker 14: that you can't go and do both. I frankly think
29:08
Speaker 14: that individuals who are decrying lawmakers working on social issues
29:13
Speaker 14: really don't understand the electorate that they're being held accountable by.
29:16
Speaker 5: You talk about the primary election, though, I mean, the
29:18
Speaker 5: Republican Party in West Virginia basically said to a great
29:21
Speaker 5: number of people independence that we don't want your vote
29:24
Speaker 5: by closing their primary.
29:26
Speaker 14: They did do that, and I think that's going to
29:27
Speaker 14: obviously change the makeup of this election. I think, you know,
29:31
Speaker 14: there's gonna be a lot of people that go to
29:33
Speaker 14: the polls on election day in May and say I'd
29:36
Speaker 14: like a Republican ballot please, and they're not gonna be
29:37
Speaker 14: able to get that. So hopefully there'll be a lot
29:40
Speaker 14: of educating of the public done by the Republican Party
29:43
Speaker 14: as they put that into their bile alls and platform,
29:47
Speaker 14: what have you.
29:48
Speaker 3: But in the long run, I don't necessarily.
29:51
Speaker 14: Know that it's going to have that much of an
29:53
Speaker 14: impact in the out year elections where people have had
29:55
Speaker 14: time to switch parties. You know, the Democrat Party had
29:58
Speaker 14: their primary closed for sometime, and I think when they
30:01
Speaker 14: were in the majority for that eighty three years that
30:03
Speaker 14: they ruled the state with an iron fist. I think
30:05
Speaker 14: you saw a lot of folks who were conservative that
30:07
Speaker 14: were probably registered Democrat so that they could vote in
30:10
Speaker 14: the primaries that matter. So I think you'll see some
30:13
Speaker 14: sort of evolution of what we've seen in the past.
30:15
Speaker 5: All Right, I'm gonna give you I'm putting the crown
30:18
Speaker 5: on your head, okay, and I'm saying you are over
30:21
Speaker 5: the legislature.
30:22
Speaker 3: You can get any one seene.
30:24
Speaker 5: I know you've gone over a lot of things, but
30:26
Speaker 5: one single thing that needs to be done.
30:30
Speaker 14: Well, I hear people don't like the idea of kings.
30:33
Speaker 14: I tend to be one of those people as well.
30:35
Speaker 5: So this is a virtual world where now this is
30:38
Speaker 5: a make believe world. Here's what's the number one thing.
30:41
Speaker 14: Well, in Huffman's VR legislature, we'd eliminate the personal win
30:44
Speaker 14: income tax as quickly as possible, but not quicker. And
30:46
Speaker 14: when I say that, I mean I want us to
30:48
Speaker 14: be physically responsible. But we know that when you cut
30:51
Speaker 14: the income tax, people come to your state. It creates jobs.
30:54
Speaker 14: You can't have a situation where you have a government
30:56
Speaker 14: surplus after the historic tax cut if you didn't get growth.
31:01
Speaker 14: So we're growing and we'd like to see that growth
31:04
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Speaker 5: Text says Trump said he's all about making America affordable again.
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Speaker 5: Sadly and predictably, his followers won't realize his policies are
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Speaker 5: the cause of the economic woes, and they will back
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Speaker 5: I have heard today.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad I could put a smile on your face.
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Speaker 5: Texture Tex says, I believe the Texter was referring to
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Speaker 5: the indoctrination centers of Turning Point USA creating conservative activists
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Speaker 5: in our schools s. As a tankster, texas day, we
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Speaker 5: need to hold lawmakers accountable this session. We want lower
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Speaker 5: prices on food utilities and a change and a public
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Speaker 5: service commission. We want to say who's on that board.
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Speaker 5: It's failing the people.
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Speaker 3: As a tankster, Tex says, we don't have a problem
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Speaker 3: opening charter schools, but close public schools. Let's put a
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Speaker 3: stop to that. Tex says we need to.
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Speaker 5: Go back to the days when we brought Toyota the
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Speaker 5: you know truck plant, spark plug plant, plane plant, Procter
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Speaker 5: and gamble plant. Not seeing this with Republicans in charge
35:31
Speaker 5: and social issues not jobs. Well I would push back
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Speaker 5: on that a little bit. I mean, all you got
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Speaker 5: to do is take that short drive and see new core.
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Speaker 5: Texays just checked on population growth in West Virginia. Both
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Speaker 5: stayed in federal state. West Virginia is not growing in population.
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Speaker 5: There are areas of West Virginia that are growing.
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Speaker 3: Tex says.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Florida state out of it, Texas state out of it,
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Speaker 5: Ohio state out of it. And now look, they all
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Speaker 5: have overwhelming Muslim takeovers in their districts, so we can't
35:59
Speaker 5: stay out of it. When it comes to social issues
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Speaker 5: as a texture, Well, this guy is going to stay
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Speaker 5: out of social issues altogether. Shane and Zanaga from the
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Speaker 5: City of South Charles and ain't doing my.
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Speaker 17: Friend good good, Thanks for having me today.
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Speaker 5: Anytime you want to come in, you want to answer
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Speaker 5: any of the text, You're more than welcomes.
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Speaker 3: That's the rest parts. I'll stay silent. That's all right.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about Christmas in South Charles and get some
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Speaker 5: things going on at the market. I understand farmers market
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Speaker 5: and some other things a break it down for you.
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Speaker 17: Coming up this Friday, we have our Holiday Jolly Market
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Speaker 17: with Josh Pantry, so he'll be there from six pm
36:31
Speaker 17: to eight pm weather from meeting. Of course, we know
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Speaker 17: we got some snow coming possibly on Fridays, we'll keep
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Speaker 17: a close eye on that. And then Saturday we have
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Speaker 17: our Christmas Market Festival. We'll have a petting zoo, holiday
36:42
Speaker 17: workshops and of course shopping, food vendors and things like
36:45
Speaker 17: that going on. So come to this weekend to the market,
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Speaker 17: and we also want to encourage folks to visit our
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Speaker 17: lights at the Little Creek Park six pm at nine
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Speaker 17: pm through Christmas Eve.
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Speaker 5: And then this past week you had a pretty good
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Speaker 5: looking Christmas parade. I'm normally there, but we had another
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Speaker 5: station event I had to attend. Most of our stations
37:04
Speaker 5: were there, but it was a great event.
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Speaker 17: It was a really great turn. I think we had
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Speaker 17: about one hundred entries, so it was a pretty big parade,
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Speaker 17: but it turned out great.
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Speaker 5: Talking about some of the other things going on in
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Speaker 5: South Charleston, I mean we just keep seeing, you know,
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Speaker 5: I mean, not necessarily related to Christmas. Man, we just
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Speaker 5: keep seeing every day that there's something new popping up
37:21
Speaker 5: in South Charleston. I think the mayor has done a
37:23
Speaker 5: great job on that, and you folks in the marketing
37:25
Speaker 5: that have as well talk about some of.
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Speaker 17: The new Yes, it's definitely growing. We just actually opened
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Speaker 17: up a new business yesterday called Antie's Pearl's Honey Pot
37:32
Speaker 17: at four fifteenth Central Avenue. And I believe the mayors
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Speaker 17: he's averaging about two businesses a month right now that
37:39
Speaker 17: are opening in South Trost and so it's definitely growing.
37:43
Speaker 17: And as far as the new shopping center, if you
37:45
Speaker 17: drive by there right now, you'll see Kroger. They basically
37:48
Speaker 17: how they're building up and prey construction. You'll see they're
37:52
Speaker 17: putting some structures out that there will house about seven
37:54
Speaker 17: businesses like Sketchers, Harey mcgoo's and Nothing Bunt Cakes, and
37:59
Speaker 17: they'll be four others as well.
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Speaker 5: And I know we just had Small Business Saturday a
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago, and I think I had you
38:04
Speaker 5: on to talk about that. But talk about some of
38:06
Speaker 5: the small but you don't not necessarily need to, you know,
38:08
Speaker 5: give them a plug as far as the business is good,
38:10
Speaker 5: but talk about the number of businesses that you have.
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Speaker 3: There's small businesses in South Charlestown.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, so, I mean I think most of ours are
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Speaker 17: pretty much small businesses and kind of like what I,
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Speaker 17: you know, tell people is it's very important to support
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Speaker 17: them because I, you know, I think that thriving small
38:25
Speaker 17: businesses create thriving communities. So it's always good to get
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Speaker 17: out and support local.
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Speaker 5: UK to Sean Zonig again from the city of Charleston,
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38:57
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of I want to go back to
39:05
Speaker 5: your your your smaller park that you have their little
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Speaker 5: little park, little creek talking about the lights there again.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, it's just our second annual lights at Little Creek Park,
39:15
Speaker 17: so we actually added more lights this year and we're
39:18
Speaker 17: gonna add additional lights for years to come. But it's
39:23
Speaker 17: a we f had a pretty great turnout so far.
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Speaker 17: I get the numbers that come in weekly. I think
39:29
Speaker 17: we've had about three or four hundred folks already go
39:31
Speaker 17: through already. So come out and visit those through Christmas
39:36
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Speaker 5: All right, And of course you guys do a great
39:40
Speaker 5: job in your social media, so just follow the City
39:42
Speaker 5: of South Charleston. John's always a pleasure to have you
39:43
Speaker 5: on the show. Good luck with everything this weekend, and
39:46
Speaker 5: if something happens you do have to postpone what you're
39:48
Speaker 5: doing Friday night, just let us know and we'll get
39:50
Speaker 5: in on the air for we hopefully that's not the case.
39:51
Speaker 5: A little snow, you got to have a little snow around,
39:53
Speaker 5: but you don't want to put people we don't we
39:54
Speaker 5: don't want we had earlier this week. We know that
39:57
Speaker 5: or what the Eastern Mountains are gonna get, which isn't
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Speaker 5: all out blizz what they're going to be getting, We're
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Speaker 5: not getting that here.
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Speaker 3: All right, Sean. Always pleasure having the show man.
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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, thank you, all right, A nine forty seven.
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Speaker 5: From ten on a Wednesday morning, rainy Wednesday rain is
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Speaker 5: set to move in here, and then later it's going
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Speaker 5: to change over to some snow with dropping temperat You're
42:31
Speaker 5: not expected a whole lot of anything for our area
42:33
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Speaker 5: up your Christmas parades tomorrow night, or if you're going
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Speaker 3: We could get some snow here.
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Speaker 5: Camp Virtual Tape Breakfast was Satday. Carrie Cart joins us
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Speaker 5: to talk about it. Carry good morning.
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Speaker 3: And welcome to the show.
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Speaker 10: Good morning.
43:05
Speaker 3: How long has this been going on?
43:07
Speaker 10: This is our twelfth year, all right.
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Speaker 3: So tell us all about it.
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Speaker 5: For people that don't know about Breakfast with Santa, it
43:11
Speaker 5: can't Virgil tate well.
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Speaker 10: For twelve years now, we've been hosting a breakfast with Sanna.
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Speaker 10: We started out with pancakes and sausage pictures with Santa
43:21
Speaker 10: as well as pony rids. For twelve years, that's all
43:25
Speaker 10: been five dollars each. We have never raised our prices.
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Speaker 3: You can't beat that. That's a pretty good price.
43:33
Speaker 10: That is a pretty good bargain. We'd like it to
43:35
Speaker 10: be a community event. We like it to be affordable
43:37
Speaker 10: for families if they can come out enjoy the facility,
43:40
Speaker 10: see Santa. This year, we're thrilled we're adding a artisan's show,
43:46
Speaker 10: so we're going to have vendors that are going to
43:47
Speaker 10: be selling homemade West Virginia products. They'll be there from
43:51
Speaker 10: nine to three. Everything will be homemade by independent vendors,
43:56
Speaker 10: and then our Breakfast with Sanna is nine to noon.
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Speaker 5: How many kids or family members give me a good
44:04
Speaker 5: ballpark figure of how many go through this thing every year?
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Speaker 10: We serve at least three hundred breakfasts every year, right,
44:11
Speaker 10: And we had a really nice turnout.
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Speaker 5: All right, And of course none of this would be
44:15
Speaker 5: possible because without volunteers, I know, you got a lot
44:17
Speaker 5: of folks from the business community and from other places
44:20
Speaker 5: that help out with this.
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Speaker 10: Absolutely calls meet and Hurricane is a great four H
44:26
Speaker 10: supporter of Camp Virgils Hate. They always donate our sausages.
44:31
Speaker 10: We usually get our pancake mixed donated. This year is
44:33
Speaker 10: coming from Cracker Barrel. We have our four H volunteers
44:38
Speaker 10: in Canall County helped come out and man the event
44:43
Speaker 10: and serve the pancakes and clean up. And Southern District
44:47
Speaker 10: Horse Camp all of their volunteers come out bring the
44:50
Speaker 10: ponies so that the kids can have a pony ride.
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Speaker 5: It's all good stuff. It's all good stuff. And again
44:56
Speaker 5: it's Saturday morning. What time does it start again?
44:57
Speaker 10: Remind me it starts at nine a m.
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Speaker 5: What's what seems to be the big hit every year?
45:03
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean anytime you got pony rides. I mean,
45:05
Speaker 5: for me, the sausage and pancakes will be the big
45:07
Speaker 5: hit if I you know, even even as a kid.
45:09
Speaker 5: Uh but I but I will say this that the
45:12
Speaker 5: pony rides are always a big deal. What are some
45:14
Speaker 5: of the other big things that people put smiles on
45:17
Speaker 5: youngun's faces.
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Speaker 10: Oh, well, you know, of course, it's always the big
45:21
Speaker 10: man in the red suit Santa Clause. He almost always
45:24
Speaker 10: brings Missus Claws with him, so you get to meet
45:27
Speaker 10: both of them. But we also have free activities for
45:30
Speaker 10: the kids this year, so they can come out and
45:33
Speaker 10: make a gift for a family member or themselves. They
45:35
Speaker 10: can decorate a gift bag that is free of charge.
45:39
Speaker 10: So it's something else that you can do that will bake, uh,
45:44
Speaker 10: break your bank and let your kids do an activity
45:47
Speaker 10: out there, you know, while you do some shopping. And
45:50
Speaker 10: it's been a great event.
45:52
Speaker 3: All right.
45:53
Speaker 5: Remind people where they can get more information. You got
45:56
Speaker 5: social media? Got a website?
45:57
Speaker 3: Is our place out there where people can get more information?
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Speaker 10: Absolutely can't. Virgil Tate has a very active Facebook. We
46:04
Speaker 10: post everything on there. You'll see daily posts reminding you
46:07
Speaker 10: of where in the location, can't. Virgil Tait is located
46:11
Speaker 10: between Cross Lanes and Cystinville. Everybody thinks it's way out there,
46:15
Speaker 10: but it's about barely ten minutes from Cross Lanes, so
46:19
Speaker 10: it's not a long drive and it's very pretty drive.
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Speaker 3: All right, Kerry, appreciate you being here. Good luck with
46:24
Speaker 3: everything this weekend. We'll talk soon.
46:25
Speaker 10: Thanks a lot, all right, thank you so much.
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47:23
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47:34
Speaker 3: We will start at seven o'clock.
47:37
Speaker 5: Tex says a new course Steele was all because of
47:41
Speaker 5: the money Biden brought to the state with infrastructure bills
47:44
Speaker 5: to give millions and tax breaks to new Core to
47:47
Speaker 5: build here. Well, partially true, partially true because their talks
47:51
Speaker 5: were already happening with New Core before that. Tex says,
47:56
Speaker 5: I am calling on all independent voters to make changes
47:59
Speaker 5: in our state law, all makers this election year. It's
48:01
Speaker 5: getting worse in our state. The problem, appreciate the text.
48:04
Speaker 5: The problem is is that if you're an independent voter,
48:08
Speaker 5: you can't vote for any Republicans. Now, you can vote
48:10
Speaker 5: for Democrats if you want, but the Republican Party pretty
48:14
Speaker 5: much made that well known that they did not want
48:16
Speaker 5: independent voters voting in their primary. So if you're an
48:19
Speaker 5: independent voter, when you go to the polls for that
48:23
Speaker 5: primary election. And I liked what Jason Huffman was talking
48:25
Speaker 5: about earlier about educating people. We've been talking about this
48:28
Speaker 5: for some time now. Just know, if you're an independent
48:32
Speaker 5: voter and you go in the past, you've always gone
48:35
Speaker 5: to your polling place on primary day or election day
48:38
Speaker 5: or early voting, and you said, I am an independent,
48:40
Speaker 5: but I want a Democrat ballot, or I want a
48:42
Speaker 5: Republican ballot. You can no longer do that for a
48:45
Speaker 5: Republican ballot. You do it for the Democrats, but not
48:48
Speaker 5: for Republicans. So just know that it's good. And if
48:52
Speaker 5: this Texture says that they want to make changes and
48:54
Speaker 5: if they want to vote for Republicans. Maybe Texture was
48:57
Speaker 5: referring to just voting for Democrats.
48:58
Speaker 3: I don't know. They can still do that.
48:59
Speaker 5: But you're a Republican or if you're an independent, I
49:02
Speaker 5: should say, your choices are going to be sparse on
49:05
Speaker 5: election day. Maybe a school board been on what county
49:07
Speaker 5: you're in school board or or something like that, a
49:09
Speaker 5: nonpartisan race, but you ain't going to be voting for
49:12
Speaker 5: a House of Delegates or anything like that if you
49:14
Speaker 5: ask for because you're not going to get a Republican ballot.
49:16
Speaker 3: DJ Meadows is here. How you doing, my friend Someboddy.
49:20
Speaker 3: I see that you had Joe Manchin on the show.
49:21
Speaker 5: Yeah, Joe Manchwell not today, tomorrow, Okay, okay, I've just
49:24
Speaker 5: looked at it during the break there. So Senator Mansion,
49:26
Speaker 5: former Senator man I guess he's always a senator, and
49:28
Speaker 5: we referred to him. The proper thing is to always
49:30
Speaker 5: refer to somebody by their title. So or do you
49:32
Speaker 5: refer to him as the former governor or the former
49:34
Speaker 5: secretary of state or former legislator?
49:36
Speaker 7: I mean, he did it all. I think Joe led
49:38
Speaker 7: the band.
49:38
Speaker 3: He's going to tell you. He's going to tell you
49:41
Speaker 3: call me Joe. That's what he normally does, That's what
49:42
Speaker 3: he's always sid But Joe bnschell will be on the
49:44
Speaker 3: show Tomorrow's what's on Joe's mind? Well, you know, there's
49:48
Speaker 3: always something on that he's not always And I think
49:52
Speaker 3: what I'll say is this, I don't want to give
49:55
Speaker 3: too much way.
49:55
Speaker 7: I want him to give things away. He can talk
49:57
Speaker 7: about what he wants to talk about. But I think
49:59
Speaker 7: Joe Manchin is in a unique position to be able
50:03
Speaker 7: to espouse as a former senator, as a former governor,
50:08
Speaker 7: and to be able to do so in a clear
50:12
Speaker 7: tone that is free of political ambition. He's not running
50:17
Speaker 7: for anything, so whether you want to call him a
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Speaker 7: party elder or just an elder because he's not in
50:23
Speaker 7: a party anymore, I think there are lessons and he
50:27
Speaker 7: has learned those lessons over time, and there are opinions
50:30
Speaker 7: that he can share based on his experience that are
50:33
Speaker 7: applicable to the things that we're facing today. And I
50:35
Speaker 7: think that's what he's going to continue to do. I
50:37
Speaker 7: think that's what he'll do tomorrow on talk Line, and
50:39
Speaker 7: I think he'll continue to do that not only in
50:41
Speaker 7: West Virginia, but at a national stage. He was great
50:44
Speaker 7: on News Nation in that roundtable.
50:46
Speaker 3: That they did.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, So I think when you have someone who
50:50
Speaker 7: can speak freely and not be bothered by whether or
50:54
Speaker 7: not they need to be re elected or what they're
50:57
Speaker 7: going to do next, I think that's insightful.
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Speaker 3: I think we should listen, all right, what you got
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Speaker 3: on the show today.
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Speaker 7: So coming up ten o six, Roger Hanshaw is going
51:04
Speaker 7: to be on the show. That ambitious agenda that he
51:05
Speaker 7: laid out yesterday. We're going to talk about that. I
51:07
Speaker 7: have a few questions I want to pose. Uh Charlotte
51:10
Speaker 7: Lane from the PSC you know, she was in front
51:12
Speaker 7: of lawmakers at interims and said we're not going to
51:15
Speaker 7: close coal fired power plants. We're going to get into
51:17
Speaker 7: that issue with her. Uh, Joe bro is back. He's
51:22
Speaker 7: going to stop buying Metro News Player of the Year.
51:24
Speaker 7: We're going to outline that as well. So that and
51:26
Speaker 7: a whole much more on today's show. And he votes
51:29
Speaker 7: for Joe bro to be the Metro News Player of
51:30
Speaker 7: the Year. You know, he ought to be after that
51:32
Speaker 7: hit he took.
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Speaker 3: A little tumble during the they're in the state championship
51:36
Speaker 3: the other day.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know what, just like the hardest working
51:40
Speaker 7: man in sports broadcasting, he comes back and wants to
51:44
Speaker 7: do the game.
51:44
Speaker 3: And the hotel he went back, He went back to
51:47
Speaker 3: the stadium to pick up his equipment and then went
51:50
Speaker 3: back to the hotel and watched it and was still
51:52
Speaker 3: pumping out stories, uh you know from the hotel room.
51:54
Speaker 3: So well, you know what, that's that's how the old
51:56
Speaker 3: school guys do it, man, That's the way we do it,
51:58
Speaker 3: all right.
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Speaker 5: DJ Medows and Dave also coming up with Metro News
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Speaker 5: talk Line at ten oh six. I'll be back on
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Speaker 5: this show tomorrow and I'll see you later today on
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Speaker 5: Metro News, Midday with thirteen News and Tonight Live. Anchor
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Speaker 5: Manda Baron had me till then, have fun and love
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