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08/10/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Michael Ervin, Fred Albert · The Dave Allen Show

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three five five zero zero away. But first let's start with some big happenings
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in Saint Albans this coming Saturday there in the land of the Red Dragons.
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The Saint Alban's Heritage Festival is going on, and Michael Irvin, a business
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person there in Saint Alban's, is joining us. Talk about that now,
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Michael, good morning, how are you? Good morning and doing well?
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Thanks for having me on, Thank you for being here. Tell us about
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this heritage festival. It runs I understand from noon until seven right there in
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the heart of Saint Albans. And by the way, I'm gonna go ahead
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and get this out of the way, because I know you've heard this your
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whole life, being the Cowboys fanatic than I am. How many times have
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people compared your name spelled with an ee to that of the playmaker Michael Irvin
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to the Cowboys spelled with an eye? How many times does that happen?
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It's got to be in a thousand sin well, one thousand and one.
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Go ahead, yeah, yeah, And I got one of the jersey's Michael
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Irvin jerseys and needs to wear that all the time. Okay, all right,
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I'm a big you know, people know me now, I'm gonna been
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Cowboys fan. It's a it's a sickness to me. But anyway, let's
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talk about this festival. This weekend. What exactly is the Saint Alban's Heritage
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Festival. Yeah, so Saint Albans Heritage Fest you to be called Founders Day,
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and it was an event sponsored by the Saint Alban's Historical Society, and
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then last year there wasn't going to be one, and so a group of
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us, just regular Joe's got together and said we need to we need to
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put something together because you know, we're getting ready to celebrate our hundred and
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fiftieth anniversary last year. And then but this year we wanted to continue it
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going going on, and we went ahead and joined up with the Saint Albans
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Historical Society where it should be. So it's kind of taken the place of
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the old Sounders Day. And what it does is it celebrates the rich history
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of Saint Albans and it promotes what Saint Alban's has to offer now and so
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does a couple of things. You know, it celebrates what we have had
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in our history and what we're looking forward to in the future. Again,
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we're talking with Michael Irvin and you're a business owner in Saint Albans, is
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that right? Yes, Silent Core of a coffee company with my wife and
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uh today actually marks our fifth anniversary. Well, I want to give you
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an opportunity to plague your business because I mean some amazing things are going on
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with businesses there in Saint Alban's. I have Mayor Scott James on the show
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usually once a month to update its on that. But I mean between you
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and my good friend that Brian over at the tap, I mean, there's
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a lot of great things going on in Saint Alban's there are you know,
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it's it's come a long way. Just in the past five years, we've
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seen a number of businesses open up on Main Street and people are getting behind
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that that revitalization idea of bringing back the old small town and you know,
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making our hometown a place where our kids will want to come back to and
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want to grow up and grow a family. And so you know, it's
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been it's it takes a community. It takes a lot of people that are
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geared towards that same idea to make it happen, to make it work.
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Talk about your coffee shop. You said that you've got your I guess fifth
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anniversary going on. Now give you a free plug here for that coffee shop.
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Caul River tell us about it. Yeah, so we're in a coffee
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shop in a rosary. We have four what I call iterations. So we
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have the South Charleston location, we have a mobile truck, and we have
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a kiosk inside to Charleston Coliseum, and but our main locations is in Saint
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Alban's. It will always be our headquarters and that's where our rosary is.
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And so we get to wholesale our coffee all over the state and uh,
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you know, you can sign it up and down Charleston as well. But
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you know, one of the sutle things is we want people to have an
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experience that is positive, not just you know, not just to have to
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sup of coffee, but their inspiring scenes. We jump into the vision and
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know that their dollars will directly affecting our communities. Well, it sounds like
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your place maybe pet friendly. I'm here some dogs? Are you or is
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are you at at home or something? Because we have dogs going on the
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background. Yeah, I know, it's all good. It's live radio.
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Man. I love it. I love it. So as a as a
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small business owner, when you have these things like the heritage festivals and and
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everything, what do you get out of that and as far as bringing people
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to downtown and maybe checking out some of your businesses like yours or some of
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the others. Yeah, so it gives us a chance to showcase what what
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Old Maine is becoming. It also gives us a chance to give other small
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business owners that maybe work out of their house or work you know, maybe
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have a mobile food truck that can come and set up and and so we
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have that going on. So we'll have vendors through vendors and a lot of
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local artists, and it also showcases our local music artists as well. So
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we'll have live music and everyone that's going to be forming. A lot of
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them are kind of on the younger side. They're all hundred forty, you
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know, between the ages of eighteen and forty, and you know, a
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lot of them have a bright future. So anyway, but that's kind of
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what like what we get out of it. But but it also shows people
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that man sin Alvin's is a place to go to. It's a destination town.
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And I know that the mayor has talked about that quite a bit,
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but that was kind of a goal five years ago, is to give people
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something to do, some word to go and uh, and I think,
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you know, it's becoming known now we've already you know, all the time
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we have people that come just to experience the coffee shop or go down to
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the tap or the drumming us of the cafe and in the cupcake place.
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So it's just there's a lot of a lot of cool things happening in the
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future. Is bright. You know, we'd have you know, if I
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had more time, I would have more businesses. Well that's a good thing
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to have. I mean, it's a good thing. Have you had problems
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finding workers for all these businesses, because I know across across America it's a
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problem. It is. That is the biggest struggle. So that that's what
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my struggle is when I think about opening other locations is staffing, and not
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just staffing in general, but quality of staffing and making sure that we can
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pay people what they're worth. And so you know, we've we have not
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you know, we've we've paid people a way more than minimum wage because being
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a barista is a skill that you learn and skill you can take with you
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all over the world. And but you know, and I know we're not
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the only people that struggle with that, But I feel like we're always hiring
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and we're always interviewing people, and you know, the struggle is just making
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sure people are dependable and uh you know that they show up. That's been
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our main issue. Yeah. Yeah, Well and you're certainly not alone in
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that, Michael, because it's it's happened all across America. All right,
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let's get back to the Saint Alban's Heritage Festival again. It's happening this Saturday's
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or a place where people can learn more about the activitis. Got a Facebook
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page or any place they can go to, Yes, this is Saint Alban's
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Heritage Festival Facebook page. Go there. We do have an event and we'd
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love it if you share it, if you like it, respond if you're
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going, and in there it'll tell you the details. So we have a
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cruise in happening. So last year we had a big car show. This
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year's just to be on a smaller scale. So we have a cruise in,
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we have food trucks, we have craft vendors, we have the farmers
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Saint Alban's Farmers Market and we'll be on Main Street for this event and Main
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Street will be closed starting at eight a m. A Saturday, morning on
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the twelfth, and even later that night we have a dedication of a new
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music stage on Main Street, The Dobbs Stage is what it's called. And
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so there's gonna be some mood music again starting at seven, and so it's
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gonna be a great day of festivities celebrating the history of Saint Alban's but also
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what it is now and where we want to go with it. All right,
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well it sounds good. It's gonna be a great day there and Saint
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Albans a night too. Michael Irvin, I appreciate you taking time out of
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your schedule to join us today. Thanks a lot, absolutely, thanks,
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have a great day. Thank you as well. Michael Irvin again one of
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the folks behind the Saint Alban's Heritage Festival formerly Founder's Day that's going on this
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Saturday. Starts at noon, runstal seven or later, live music and all
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Ryan Nicholson is our producer to day. I want to welcome to the show,
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Fred Albert, good friend from the American Federation Teachers. Mister Albert,
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good morning. How are you, sir? Good morning, Dave. I'm
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well. How are you doing? I'm doing fine. First of all,
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thanks for the gift he brought me. And Ryan, he brought me a
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stra reliever. Do I seem stressed? I've got to. It's a nice
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little thing, says Ready, read and write West Virginia on it. I
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got a little stress reliever. If it was a little bit heavier, I
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could just throw it through the glass thereby. Now all's good with me,
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how about you, buddy? Everything is great. It's the most wonderful time
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of the year. School is starting up in many counties. I think teachers
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are going back Today. I've been traveling around the state, have been meeting
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with new teachers, and there's always hope. It's so good to see young
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people who have answered the call to this profession that I love so dearly,
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the teaching profession, which I say makes all other professions possible. Monday,
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I was in Kanawa County at their new teacher orientation and saw two of my
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former students who are now teachers, and that always makes me feel very proud
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for them. Well, that's good. And you know how long were you
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a teacher in the class? I taught for thirty years, twenty of those
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my last twenty years been in middle schools. Okay. I always it's interesting
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to me when people and who was it? Who is it that I have
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on the show that you've texted a couple of times? Wasn't McKenzie McKenzie,
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Spencer and Douglas? Yeah, Eaton Douglas from Yeah, you had both of
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those eating they're both regulars on the show. McKenzie with the Fest of All
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and Eaton Douglas with the Dirty Birds. And when I've had them on the
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show, you've actually texted me and said, hey, mister Albert. Mister
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Albert says, Hello, when when you see your students, your former students
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that have achieved good things like those two ladies have and others have, I
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mean, that's got to give you a little bit of a sensor pride,
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even though you're not solely responsible for it. But it takes a team,
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you know. But I do like the fact that they remember me, and
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apparently I did something right. I didn't ruin them. I would like to
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think that I helped them along on this journey that they're now answering. One
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young man I'm most proud of that I talked with on Monday. He actually
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had worked for the city. That's where I last had a conversation with him,
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and then he became a custodian for Knall County Schools and now he is
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a certified teacher with that's also he's had a very interesting pathway to what he's
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doing now. But I have heard from several teachers where he will be teaching.
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He already taught some last year there, I think mostly for the whole
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year, but he's considered a new teacher because he's been hired full time in
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that position, actually teaching behavioral disorder students. But they love him. They
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said, he's doing a great job. And I'm not surprised because he was
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a great student. He's one of those students that stick out in my mind
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of he was always doing the right things. And I've had so many teachers
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again, we're talking with Fred Albert from the American Federation of Teachers. Fred,
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I've had so many teachers and educators that have told me, you know,
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from that they see a kid in kindergartener first grade, and they see
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this young man, this young lady is going to achieve great things now.
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And there's there's a flip side of that sometimes and those people go into radio,
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those people that because because I get that a lot from, you know,
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my former teachers. I'm friends with my kindergarten teacher on Facebook and she
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said, I always knew that you would do something running your mouth. So
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that's it. Well, you know, I taught kindergarten one year back in
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the day I had my very first job. I was riffed after my first
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year, and riffed means reduction in forms of course, and I didn't not
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know that that happened to teachers back then. But the next year in order
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to have a job, I taught kindergarten half day and I was a half
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day librarian at two different schools. But one of those kindergarten students I will
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never forget him. He came up to me and extended his hand on the
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first day and said, I need to introduce myself kindergartener, and he did.
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And then years later I saw him at the Capitol. He came up
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to me and he stands about a head taller than myself, and he said,
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mister Albert, you may not remember me, but I am. And
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he told me who he was, and he is a teacher and a football
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coach and very successful. That's awesome, that's good stuff. I must have
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done something right in kindergarten. Also, you learned him up good, learned
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him up, learned him up good. All right. So you were telling
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me as you came in, and I had seen some of this on the
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news, that there were some some test scores came out yesterday and it shows
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a positive It shows that we're moving in the right direction, which is always
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hopeful. That's where we want to go. We know we have a lot
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more work to do, but echoing what President Paul Hardesty said, this is
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encouraging because we're moving in the right direction. I think the overall math scores
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were up by two percent, and I think the same with the reading scores.
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The science scores maybe not so much, but it looks hopeful. Rone
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County had, and a small county like Rone County, kudos to them.
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They had some of the most significant games. I think they went up by
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like five percent in math and reading. You know, there's an initiative that
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most people are excited about called Ready Read Write through the State Department of Education.
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There were some symposiums held this summer. I was fortunate enough to be
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able to attend the one in Charleston where we had over six hundred educators there,
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and they were excited. They were excited about the initiative of Ready Read
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Write. Teachers want their students to be successful. I've yet to meet a
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teacher who says I don't care. They care and they want their students to
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do well. So this is encouraging. As you look over the test scores,
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I still haven't had time to dive down really deep into all of the
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things that are on that page, but it doesn't look like our charter schools
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our public charter schools did as well as our public schools kids. So I
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know they're new and they've got some growing pains, but I think our public
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schools do a nice job and they're going to continue to do a nice job.
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Gred Albert for the American Federation Teachers is here. How are we doing
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unrecruiting teachers and west? It is a tough sell right now, you know,
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talking about having hope. I was also in Cable County at their new
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teacher orientation. They had over a hundred in attendance there. I was on
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my way to Wood County that same day and about ten miles out of side
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of the event where the event was being held, I got a phone call
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to go home because they had a storm and flooding there. So I didn't
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get to the Wood County new Teacher orientation. But it's it's a tough sell
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because most of the personnel directors that I've spoken with have said, we still
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have openings that we are struggling to feel. We've got to we've got to
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support our teachers. We've got to take this profession lifted up. And it's
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a great profession, it truly is. There are many many rewards besides money,
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so we've got to make it more inviting. But I'm concerned that we
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are losing some of our newer teachers. They're just leaving, you know,
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it's not necessarily people who are eligible for retirement. The numbers aren't out.
24:18
I've talked with several personnel directors around the state and they don't have their numbers
24:22
yet. They're still struggling to fill spots. So we'll have to see in
24:27
about, you know, a couple more weeks how many are still having holes
24:33
in their employment. But I hope last year we had over fifteen hundred openings
24:40
that were only filled by teachers who were not necessarily certified in the field they
24:45
were teaching. So that's concerning. Every student deserves a highly qualified, certified
24:52
teacher in their classroom. I would agree for add and again, the sixty
24:55
four million dollar question here is why aren't more people wanting to go into the
25:00
profession. And I'll follow it up but saying, if you took a poll
25:03
on kids maybe in grade school in West Virginia or anywhere for that matter,
25:07
let's say the fifties, sixties, or even when I was in elementary school,
25:10
which would have been in the nineteen seventies and asked them, what do
25:12
you want to do when you grow up? A large number of those students,
25:17
kids I remember, would have said, be a teacher. Why isn't
25:19
that the case now? Well, I think there are several reasons for that,
25:23
Dave. One of the reasons they've lost we've lost respect for those people
25:30
who are in front of the classroom. We've lost respect for everybody in Society's
25:34
another show we have, and that's a shame. But our teachers have such
25:41
strong influences on our young people, on our students, and I think all
25:45
of us could look back on our school years and say so and so really
25:52
put me on the right path or along with my parents, because I had
25:55
great parents and I'm fortunate they helped me determine who I am today. But
26:03
like you said, we've lost respect and a lot of professions the law enforcement
26:07
in other areas, doctors, lawyers. But it's just tough and money,
26:17
you know, you've got to compensate people fairly. And many students, especially
26:22
math students who are really good in math, they see they can make a
26:26
lot more money if they go to work in a private industry using their great
26:30
math skills, so we have to look at all of those the whole package.
26:36
It's just tough. It's truly our public school numbers in West Virginia.
26:41
Are you folks losing teachers to charter schools and things? I don't think we
26:45
are that that draft virtual schools. They're just they're just leaving the profession totally.
26:49
They're going to general or they're going to other states, or young teachers
26:53
see the pathway to making more in their profession moving into administrations. So we've
27:00
had several who have because our principles are leaving also, and we've had several
27:07
bright, young, great teachers who are now becoming administrators. And we need
27:11
good administrators as well. But for the sake of losing them in the classroom,
27:17
it's it's discouraging. How are we looking at our surrounding states, because
27:21
that was something that was always reported that you know, if you have somebody
27:23
that lives in a border state, maybe in the Eastern Panhandle or something,
27:27
or you know, they could go over to another state and make more money.
27:32
Where are we at That still exists? However, this is a nationwide
27:36
problem. We have teacher shortages and service personnel shortages. Bus drivers, cooks,
27:41
custodians all across the nation. And I think there that comes back to
27:47
the respect issue, because as we were growing up, we respected those in
27:52
authority and those who were in the teaching profession and other professions. That's been
27:59
somewhat lost. I was sad to hear the other day the young six year
28:03
old who shot the teacher in some county in Virginia showed no remorse for doing
28:08
that. And I'm like, how in the world did we get this.
28:11
I heard a clip on the news yesterday morning on the morning news. You're
28:15
on the station where this is a six year old kid that said, I
28:19
shot that blank dead. I mean expletive. It wasn't an accident, he
28:25
said, I shot that be dead. I cannot imagine. But you know,
28:29
hopefully, hopefully we're not going to stay in that place very long.
28:33
I don't know how we get out of it. Fred, Well, we've
28:36
all got to pull together. We have to lift up this profession. One
28:40
thing that at the symposium, and I tell everyone this everywhere I go.
28:45
Weston Keishnik is a great motivational speaker. He came to the symposium here,
28:51
the invest symposium that the State Department put on in Charleston, and I remember
28:56
at the end of his talk, he put up a chair on this age
29:00
and just very casually sat down and talked to all the teachers there, and
29:03
he said this, don't set yourself on fire trying to keep everyone else warm.
29:10
And I thought, that's what we do. Many times. Teachers are
29:14
worn out. They get burnt out because they take care of their caregivers,
29:18
they take care of try to take care of everyone. And then he said
29:22
this, which I think is also something we need to remember. Check on
29:26
each other at the end of the school day or during the school day.
29:30
Check on your colleagues and make sure they're all right. And I've been preaching
29:33
that same sermon everywhere I go. We need to check on our people to
29:37
make sure they're okay, because these are very trying times for all of us.
29:44
I would agree, Texas Day, you should do a show where listeners
29:47
give props, thanks, and shout out to those teachers that made the biggest
29:51
impacts on their lives. I'll do that as we get a great as we
29:53
get closer to the school term. That's a good idea, texture I appreciate
29:57
that, all right. So, speaking of the school term, that's coming
30:00
up. What are you looking at this year? I mean, well,
30:03
we're looking at having a good year. Hopefully it will be somewhat of a
30:07
normal year in relationship to what we've experienced over the past three years. We're
30:15
excited. We look, you know, to do our best. We're very
30:18
excited about the Ready Read Write initiative. We want our children to be able
30:22
to be successful with reading. Reading is so important. Writing is important,
30:27
and they all fit in with My favorite subject of course is math. But
30:32
if you can't read and you can't write, you can't answer a reading math
30:36
problem. But we're hopeful. We're hopeful that we're gonna be strong, Our
30:41
schools are going to be safe, and our students are gonna love coming back
30:45
to school. They're excited. I call it the most wonderful time of the
30:49
year, and I think as I've traveled around, I'm seeing excitement in our
30:55
educators. They're ready to come back and they're they're looking for a great year
30:59
and our test scores are going to be even better at the end of this
31:03
school year. Best of luck to you and all the educators out there.
31:06
You're doing good to work man. I appreciate you. Thank you Dave.
31:07
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teachers because they're being attacked by right wingers during the pandemic, just like nurses
34:16
were as well. We're also you know, I mean, you could set
34:22
here and I don't disagree totally with what that texts are saying. You could
34:25
set here and you can make a list of all the reasons why people wouldn't
34:29
want to be a teacher. You know, Fred and I talked about the
34:31
respect. There was a time that being a teacher was and you know,
34:37
it's just a bigger problem with society, man. I mean, I've told
34:39
the story before. You know, when I when I was a kid,
34:43
if I came home and I looked at my mother or father and I said,
34:45
well, mister so and so or missus so and so is picking on
34:51
me. I was automatically presumed to be wrong because I'm a kid and they're
34:55
an adult. And we've somehow gotten away from that. You know, I
35:00
don't know. I don't know how you fix it. I really don't.
35:02
And you've heard me say before there's a couple of professions that I don't know
35:07
I would do for any amount of money. One is to be a police
35:08
officer, and other is being a teacher. Because of the lack of respect
35:12
that you have for both of them, I really do believe that the days,
35:15
the hours are counting down until this epic matchup. It's Jordan Malone,
35:22
It's Steelers and Cowboys, It's Yankees and red Socks. It's the Midnight Express
35:25
versus the Rock and Roll Express. I'm talking about Pushkin v Hodge, State
35:30
Republican Party co chair Tony Hodge taking on State Democratic Party Chair and Delegate Mike
35:35
Pushkin, no holds barred fight to the finish next Tuesday, starting just after
35:40
the news at nine o'clock here in five eighty five, and I'm taking up
35:43
the entire hour for this discussion. I'm going to play a small part,
35:46
but like you, I'm mostly going to be the nosy Voyer relegated to the
35:51
sidelines for this one. And that's not to say your input isn't wanted,
35:54
because it is. Should be a good show, though, texting phone calls
35:57
from you, Dave Nation always welcome on the show. Actually, next Tuesday,
36:00
looking forward to it, Mike Pushkin, Tony Hodge, they get the
36:04
whole fifty. Whatever the show is after Commarte fifty two minutes, I think
36:07
it is after commercials next week. It's going to be a lot of fun.
36:13
And speaking of things you can look forward to, tonight is the Nights
36:15
on the Hill at West Virginia International Yeager Airport, as a quarterback club of
36:20
Marshall University here in Charleston, presents the annual Paint the Capitol City Green,
36:23
sponsored by the good folks of bald Toyota. I don't know that Charleston has
36:29
seen quite an event like this. And I'll go ahead and I'll put every
36:31
promotional cliche out there, bigger and better than ever, a thrill a minute.
36:36
We'll sell you the full seat ticket, but you're only gonna need the
36:38
edge, you know, whatever you want to say. I'm gonna be serving
36:42
as MC along as my main man, the semi legendary Steve Animal from our
36:45
new sister Station nine eight seven of the Mountain Wild Wonderful classic rock. He
36:50
and I did this last year, and the best of my knowledge, we
36:52
did not get arrested, and we were acting and managed to go through TSA
36:59
and everything. Editor's note, Football coach Huff will not be at the event
37:04
tonight, and I talked about this on hotline with Dave Weekly yesterday. There
37:07
was an emergency within the family of one of the Marshall assistant coaches. So
37:13
coach Huff since his regrets, he is not going to be there tonight.
37:15
He's going to be serving his running backs coach during the herds practice tonight,
37:21
So but all the others should be there. The majority of all the other
37:22
coach is going to be there. Coach Coach D'Antoni is going to be there.
37:28
And anytime you give D'Antoni a live microphone, you know it's going to
37:30
be a whole lot of fun. And the cheerleaders are going to be there.
37:34
It just gonna be a great, great night. So if you get
37:36
an opportunity to come join us, tickets will be available at the door.
37:38
They're sixty bucks apiece. It's at the bill no flight school at the airport
37:43
and getting the good folks into Baltwoo to make it all possible. I forgot
37:47
to mention Brad Smith, Marshall President, is going to be there. The
37:50
athletic director, Christian Spears, just a whole lot of Hurds fans, and
37:52
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it all up to WV Charleston is a
37:57
marshalltown there. I had to get that off my We'll see everyone tonight at
38:00
the airport. Now, I just said, let's try to sell some tickets,
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known as Chase, there's been a story that many It's been a story that
38:24
many people have been obsessed with for some time. Jeff Jenkins has the story
38:29
posted this morning WV Metro News dot com. Marcus Dudley was the police officer
38:34
in question. Now he was an officer in the Chapmanville Police Department, but
38:37
actually lived in South Charleston. He now lives out of state after he was
38:40
fired by the Chapmanville Police department. The dog went missing on April eleven,
38:46
and when the dog went missing, Officer Dudley reported the disappearance of the dog
38:52
to the police in South Charleston since that's where the officer lived. He Officer
38:58
Dudley claimed the dog jumped the fence. Police have said that they have proven
39:02
that that did not happen. Now, Marcus Dudley was due in court yesterday
39:07
after being indicted. He did not show up yesterday, and can Circuit Judge
39:15
Duke Bloom issued a warrant for the arrest of Officer Dudley. He has until
39:20
eleven this morning to make an appearance. Aerk Kerry huda Sek is following the
39:23
story closely, will have updates whether or not he shows up. Now.
39:30
Dudley's lawyers say because he's living out of state, he had transportation issues getting
39:35
back to West Virginia. Well, one thing's for sure, you better get
39:38
his butt back there by eleven o'clock this morning. One way the other you
39:40
get a bus or something get here. So we'll see if he's there or
39:44
not. And as I said, Carrie is monitoring the story, will have
39:45
an update. I think she's going to join hobby on the talk line to
39:50
talk about it a little bit more so. This is a story that started,
39:52
you know, in Logan County, and you know, my home county.
39:57
I have some insight into this. I actually met Officer Dudley a couple
40:00
of years ago. I was visiting a friend who was with the Chappinville Fire
40:05
Department and Officer Dudley, who was then employed by the police department, came
40:07
in. I was introduced to him, didn't have the dog with him at
40:10
the time. It seemed like a nice enough guy. He was a military
40:14
guy originally from Georgia, so he and I kind of hit it off because
40:19
I told him the story. I was born at Fort Benny, Georgia,
40:21
where my dad was stationed in the military, and we talked a lot about
40:23
that. As I said, he seemed like a nice guy, but I'm
40:30
afeared as the old timers were saying, we're not going to find the dog.
40:37
If you know anything at all about fully trained canine officers, they don't
40:40
go missing, they don't jump fences, and they don't get stolen. They
40:46
are fully trained to make sure none of those things happened. The dogs I'm
40:51
talking about, and being from a smaller area you hear stuff, and it's
40:55
pretty credible stories that are out there about what happened to Sadly the canine officer.
41:00
I am not going to put it out there, but let's just say
41:02
the court system won't have a difficult time in sorting this one out and getting
41:07
a severe punishment or Officer Dudley. My opinion, my opinion on he certainly
41:13
deserves it, and well once if he does, if he's convicted to prison
41:19
when they find out what he did, He's gonna you don't have a bad
41:22
day. I'll just say it and leave it alone. Carry who is again
41:25
following the story closely. We knock out a couple of texts here. Let
41:30
me see Texas Republicans defund education. Republicans get on the radio to bad mouth
41:37
the public school system. Republicans fight tooth and nail not to give teachers raises,
41:42
and incomes day to say Republicans aren't a problem. No, that's not
41:46
at all what I said. That's not even close to what I said.
41:50
I said. This goes back well before. This has been going on for
41:54
some time, and I am not going to give my Republican breadth in.
42:00
I think there's things that they should be doing and could be doing better.
42:04
Yeah, there I said it, But now that's that's not my like.
42:07
There's nobody in the world has more respect for educators and law police officers than
42:14
I do, and especially educators. The good ones are really, really good.
42:19
And in our society right now, the teachers are all. You know,
42:24
you don't have an idea. Most of us don't what being a public
42:30
school teacher is like in West Virginia now, or for that matter, anywhere
42:34
across the country, because you are asked to not only teach science, English,
42:38
math, you are also asked to be a social worker. You're asked
42:42
to be a a quasi parent. You're asked to teach them skills that they
42:45
don't get at home because a lot of parents are just crabby parents. A
42:50
lot not all, obviously, not all, but a lot are. And
42:52
so when these kids show up to school, these kids that are in school
42:55
now, they face things horrors that you and I be in a jen kid
43:00
can't even imagine what these kids are going through. But you know, I'm
43:02
not going to give the Republicans a pass on this. They should be doing
43:07
more and could be doing more. And when as it comes to public education,
43:10
I agree, oh hardly, Texas. Dear Dave, did I miss
43:16
here? At the top of the show was today's topic, How old is
43:20
too old? It's twelve tales to another when I'm getting to it, got
43:22
a lot of stuff to get to, all right, But I did want
43:27
to pose this question, and I just want to kind of keep as president.
43:30
Not all people of the same age act the same way. We all
43:35
know that, But is there is there an age that's too old to be
43:38
president? A majority of Americans don't want either President Biden or former President Trump
43:44
to be the nominee for president in twenty twenty four, but unless something changes,
43:47
they will be. And one of the reasons people cite that they don't
43:52
want either one of them, and there are variety on both sides, but
43:54
one of the major reasons his age. And it's not the only reason,
44:00
but it's one of the reasons. So how old is too old to serve
44:05
for president or any major political office for that matter. You know, people
44:09
have questioned the faculties of Mitch McConnell, of Din Feinstein. Remember when people
44:16
said Senator Bird wasn't exactly hitting on all cylinders in his later years, nor
44:22
President Reagan in his second term. So there's the question, and I got
44:27
plenty of responses to get to Sorry I didn't get to it sooner, but
44:29
sometimes you know, radio happens. Should there be an age limit to be
44:35
able to run for president? Or you know, go ahead and say higher
44:38
office? You know those Senate in there as well. Should there be an
44:43
If we know that there is an age minimum going to be thirty five to
44:45
run for president, so let's say, should there be an age max?
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Texas. I agree there are many good teachers, but I personally know several
47:42
that are lazy, horrible people, and the national and state unions have caused
47:45
many people to lose faith in the profession. According to a text or one,
47:50
more on this and I'll get back to the age thing, tex says
47:52
we need more discipline in our school's period. I would agree with that.
47:54
We also need to support our teachers and administrators and give them the highest pay
47:59
that we can afford, says a text. All right, so how old
48:02
is too old to run for president or to service president? Tech says no
48:07
one over seventy should run or should serve. Tex says, seventy five is
48:14
the age. Other Texas seventy four is the age. Texas as well,
48:19
I just think that people need to be tested or something, because one person
48:22
can be eighty and be mentally and totally there, but another person's sixty.
48:28
Not good point. Tex says, that's a hard question. There is a
48:30
minimum age to run, but all are seventy five year olds? Are all
48:35
seventy five year olds the same person? Not all forty five year olds are
48:37
the same people. There needs to be some sort of a neurological test that
48:42
is put forward by a doctor. Texas says a lot can change medically and
48:45
physically cognitively in four years. Mister Reagan still appeared razors sharp during the eighty
48:51
four reelection campaign, but we all know how that he had declined by the
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time he retired in nineteen eighty nine. We've all seen photos side by side
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of how much even younger presidents such as Clinton, Bush and Obama aged while
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in office. Perhaps the hardest job in the world. It takes a huge
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toll. Tech says, it's about performance, not age. Tech says,
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you know, I think, no matter the age, they should have to
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take a cognitive test. I mean, my husband's grandma is one hundred and
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four and still has her mind. Text says got to get term limits to
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prevent dementia from spreading more. Tech says you shouldn't really impose arbitrary restrictions on
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the will of the American people. They should be able to vote for whoever
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they want. The problem is that people aren't paying as much attention as we
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would like, But slap it. An age limit on presidents is just treating
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the symptom without treating the disease. Texture says, I believe the age to
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run is sixty five. Should not be above sixty five. I think seventy.
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Says the texture should be a max. Should be the max to run.
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Tex says no. However, there should be an immediate constitutional amendment and
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the president has to be human, as the robots are pretty close to having
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a say in things according to a texture. And I think it's a really
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good point when you say not all people of the same age act or had
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the same personalities the same abilities. I mean, look at Senator Joe Manchon
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now, regardless of what you know people you may think of Senator Joe Manchin.
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I'm not talking about his policies. I'm not about just the guy.
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Joe will be seventy six years old in a couple of weeks. And you
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may not like Senator Manchion. Maybe you do, but one thing about Senator
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Manchion, no one would ever question his mental capacity at his age. The
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guy is incredible. He is the most incredible politician I've ever seen. And
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what I mean by that is the way he conducts himself in public. Again,
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not talking about policies. I'm just talking about the politician. Man shakes
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hands of everybody. He remembers that he meets you one time, he remembers
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you, he remembers your mother, he remembers you know what you do for
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a living. He knows and he's pretty sharp. A matter of fact,
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I was talking to one of his staff members yesterday. He was a good
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friend of mine and he's been with Senator Mansion for several years. He says
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that younger people can't keep up with him. So I don't know that age
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is necessarily the thing. I don't know. Programming note, Senator Manchion will
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be on Hoppy at ten o six this morning. President Biden will be eighty
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three years old. Later this year, former President Trump is seventy seven years
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old. So again I don't know where I am on this is should there
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be an age max? We knew again there is an age, there's an
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age minimum, but what about a max? Maybe it is that we need
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to do cognitive testing on them. Tex says, as far as a test
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for age for president, the voters should have enough sense to research the candidates.
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So well, yeah, Wot'll leave that alone. Tex says, I
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think the issue of politicians not representing their voters would be fixed by getting big
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money donors out of the process, though he won't be representative of everyone as
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long as the Coke and above, the Cooch brothers and they buffet types are
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throwing money into politics. All Right, we gotta go. Thank you all
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my guests today. Coming up on the show to Mark. Kelly Steele from
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the Putnam County CVB is my guest host. Tomorrow. Hannah Gardner from the
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Humane Association will be here as well as Jim Shrowan talking live on the Levy.
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My producer was Ryan Nicholson. Ryan, thank you so much. I
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will see you tomorrow. Till next time, have fun and love somebody w
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