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01/31/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Steve Animal, Robert Stonestreet, Kate White, Amy Nicole Grady · The Dave Allen Show

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show, Senator Amy Nicole Grady is to join us. Also, the newest
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member of the Canaw County Board of Education, Kate White, is here going
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to spend some time with some folks with the Marshall Quarterback Club, including my
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good friend in a frequent tag team partner, Steve Annibal from a Sister Station
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ninety seven to a mouth in Wild, Wonderful Classic Rock. The Marshall Quarterback
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Club presenting their annual Valentines event happening at Embassy Suites in Charleston coming up here
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in a couple of weeks. Robert stone Street is going to join us to
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talk about that as well. But before we get into all that, we
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got breaking news. Let's go to the newsroom. Jeff Jenkins is with us
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right now. Jeff fla good morning, lead story and photo posts aw Metronews
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dot com pleece and Charleston investigating a murder at the Tobacco and Pipe Shop on
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Seventh Avenue. Breaking details Just in the last thirty minutes. Where are we
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on the story? So there's been an arrests made, so police have now
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identified the victim in this The clerk was killed. He's a nineteen year old
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from Dunbar. Kate and Martin was shot multiple times last night at Tobacco and
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Pipe store which is on Seventh Avenue over in North Austin. And police also
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so they released the name and also announcing that they made an arrest overnight.
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A fourteen year old boy was charged with the murder and the robbery. And
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they say that from their investigation, which I'm assuming it's probably some video surveillance,
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that the fourteen year old entered the store and he brandished the gun,
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demanded money and merchandise. They say the clerk, the nineteen year old victim
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here complied, did not show any aggressive action toward the fourteen year old,
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and as a fourteen year old is walking out, this is the allegation.
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As a fourteen year old was walking out, he fired multiple shots and killed
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the nineteen year old and then ran. Police had originally released information last night.
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Again, this all happened right around eight forty last night. They originally
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released some information that said that the suspect was in dark clothing, had a
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mask on in those type of things. So that was the original information that
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came out. But they rested him at like one thirty this morning. The
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fourteen year old and not much more Besides that, because he's obviously a juvenile,
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I would think at some point they would move and then this gets down
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the road a little bit, but at some point they would move to having
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tried as an adult. But we'll see, we'll see where that goes.
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But it's pretty shock. That's pretty shocking in itself. A fourteen year old
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committing a murder and allegedly robbery and a murder there in North Charleston. Unbelievable.
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I mean, it's a shocking story anyway when it first broke, you
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know, late last night about this robbery, and that's the second murder in
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Charleston, and the other one she's also tragic, but it was it was
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a domestic I mean type of thing, and so you know, and makes
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it no less serious. Sure, yes, but the story out of North
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Charleston, I mean, out of the tobacco shop. I mean, you
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have a fourteen year old who's charged in the murder and a nineteen year old
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who apparently and again will all work all this out at some point the police
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will, but apparently complied, as they tell you in situations like that,
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please, you know, just comply, give them what they want. And
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the nineteen year old ends up getting killed. Anyway, it's a tragic story.
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Again, we've got stories posted about it on the website WCHS Network dot
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Comedy. You and Chris and the team been working on it real quick.
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Yesterday we learned that the wife of Senator Mansion, Gail Mansion, was injured
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in a car accident in Alabama. She's in stable condition. Any update on
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her condition, well, the update there is a home with Alabama police now
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report that the guy who hit her and her colleague that was with her in
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Alabama was actually being chased by police. So there was a pursuit going on,
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had been going on for several minutes, and they were chasing this suspect.
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Uh and who would refuse to stop. And so that's that's who was
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in the wreck. That's who calls the wreck. And they hit gil Mansions
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vehicle that she was in and the colleague from the Appalachian Regional Commission that was
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with her. Uh. And again she's in stable condition, but enough to
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be hospitalized, obviously injured enough to be hospitalized and cap as a precautionary measure,
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the senator said, But it so we find out a little where it's
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it's home with Alabama Polace, which is just a suburbist right outside Birmingham.
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Uh and uh, but yeah it was. It was actually a suspect in
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a police pursuit. Okay, And again those stories and more posted it at
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our website' wv metronews dot com and wchsntwork dot com. Jeff, I appreciate
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it, man, thanks a lot, all right, Dave Allen showing five
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coming up a little bit later on So Kate White, the latest member of
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the Canawg County born of education. I want to bring in now Steve Animal
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from her sister Station nine eight se of the Mouth and Wild Wonderful classic rock.
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Steven, good morning, how are you? Robert stone Street is with
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as well. He's with the Marshall Quarterback Club. Robert, good morning,
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how are you. Good morning, Dave. I'm well, how are you?
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I'm fine? Thank you gas for being here. You know, it
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is Marshall Day at the Capitol. It is. I saw that this morning
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today and I've got Robert here because this is an annual event that the Marshall
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Quarterback Club does. This year it's moved over to Embassy Suits. It's the
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Valentine's Day events and for some reason, for the second consecutive year, you've
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asked Steve and myself to MC this event. I don't know what you're thinking,
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as I mean, were you were you not there last year to see
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what we did last year? But we're honored to do it. I mean,
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Steve and I both Marshall guys. We are very very happy to MC
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the event and possibly get the police call. Now I'm kidding to buy there
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for the drinks and the food. Talk about this big event, Robert,
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go ahead, sure, thanks. This is our nineteenth annual event coming up
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on twenty years now. It's hard to believe. We have this event every
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year the Marshall Quarterback Club at Charleston. We support primarily the Marshall football team,
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but all athletics as well. They'll be at Embassy Suites on the seventeenth
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starts at six. Tickets are available through herd Zone. If you go under
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the Big Green Events tab and we're selling table sponsors, you can be a
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white table sponsor for two thousand dollars. That get you ten tickets to get
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in, and your tickets do include dinner, beer, wine and soft drinks
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all complimentary with that. And then table sponsors also get some drink tickets.
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If you want a little harder edge to your drinks, you can have tickets
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called Down Calm Down Cash Bar as well. But we have a have a
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DJ who's a great DJ, lots of dancing and has some excellent auction items
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too. There always are, i mean some incredible auction items and that go
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along with this thing. I mean, can you give us little preview of
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some of the auction items we have? Sure, so we've got the live
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auction is usually the biggest hit. One of the items here is a trip
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to the Ohio State game that's coming up, and it's not only just a
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trip to the game, but you will fly over on the Marshall Flight School
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plane O cool, and go to the game and back from there, so
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it's a day trip. You get to fly on the plane, you get
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to see the herd play Ohio State. That's probably our marquee five auction item.
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And then where it is, we're going to have a seventy five helmet
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that will be up for live auction as well. And there's always all kinds
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of signed memorabilia and things of that nature. And it's a it's just a
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great night all around. And again the location in the past different hotel.
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It's moved over to Embassy Suites this year, so I'm sure those folks will
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will do a fantastic job with that. And what is the theme this year
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for the dinner? This year's theme is the Green and White Knight. It
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is always Valentine's but this year we're encouraging folks to dress and your best green
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and white. You're that animal. Yeah, maybe your wife has something action
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wear, you know. Yeah, that's an image I'd like to get out
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of my head. But but but that's the theme, The Green and White
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Knight. Obviously that goes without saying, but again they're asking for the best
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of the best in green and White to come out to support third and proceeds
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benefits ro Seeds benefit, the Big Green, the Marshall Quarterback Club of Charleston
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and the Marshall football team. Okay, it's and there's always some coaches that
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come out for this thing. And again, this is one of those big
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events in Charleston. You know, we do paint the capital city green up
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to build No Flight School each August, I guess and Steve and I also
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have the pleasure of MC and that and this thing is just one of those
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premier events in Charleston that even people that aren't necessarily the biggest hardcore Herd fans
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in the world will come out for because it's just a dang good time.
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Robert, it is an excellent time. You don't have to be a Marshall
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fan. Will please come out and enjoy yourself. We will have the Marshall
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coaches. Coach Huff will be there. We expect the new offensive coordinator Seth
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Dagi to be there as well as the defensive coordinator Jason Seymour and other coaches
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are invited to yeah, and Marshall alumni are more than welcome to come to
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this and that's kind of the push on this too, is to get people
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from this area to participate in all things green and white. And here's a
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good night to do it. Yeah, and it's not till what's the date
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again, it's February seventeenth, which is coming up two weeks from Saturday.
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You can buy individual tickets for one hundred and seventy five dollars, or again,
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you can be a table sponsor. There's different levels of table sponsor.
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No, what's the deadline for the table sponsors? Because I know you have
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to do things like programs and things of that nature. So is there a
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deadline for this sort of thing. We don't have a hard deadline, but
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pretty much the week before I'd say the Tuesday Wednesday before or the event would
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be the deadline for table sponsors. Okay, we'll have you on again to
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talk about it, to get Steve Animal and I will be serving as EMC's
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again. It's just going to be a fantastic night as always as we get
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ready to celebrate Valentine's Day. And so missus Dave Allen and missus Animal,
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I love the way that's miss missus Animal. They get their night out on
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the town too with us, they do, which is kind of fabulous.
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I mean, I think so I'd like to put myself up maybe on the
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silent auction thing, but I don't know if i'd go. Probably probably not
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Dave, Steve Animal his wife would be the first one not to be at
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Otto. Probably. Yet you take it. You got to feed him and
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get keep him in beer. You do it, all right, Let's kind
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of recap before before we let you go Robert again daytime. Where can people
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get tickets that sort of thing? Sure, Saturday February seventeenth. The event
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starts at six, it runs till midnight. You can get tickets at herd
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zone dot com under the tab for Big Green Events. And it's all gonna
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be at Embassy Suites this year. That's right, all right there there,
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looking forward to it again. We'll have you back on again as we get
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a little bit closer, because it's a big event kind of close to mine
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and Steve's hearts as well. And this guy and I are going to do
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what we do there on that Saturday night. I don't know exactly what that
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is, but We're going to be a photo booth there again. Yes,
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there will be. We can have our picture taken. That was a big
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hit last year. That that again, all proceeds benefit the Big Green Robert,
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I appreciate you taking time at your schedule to be here, man,
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Thanks a lot. Thanks Dave. Robert stone Street again from the Martiall Quarterback
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Club. Adam, It's always a pleasure to have you here as well.
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Thank you. I'm going to just roll in this chair. He's excited because
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we have a bigger studio than what he does up there there. But they're
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actually going to be remodeling this studio. I understand it's going to be a
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whole lot smaller, so I'll have one. I guess besize it. That
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was fun. Yeah, all right, he's still You have have the guy
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that's something shiny or something with wheels, and he's good to go. All
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right, Robert, I appreciate you being there. Man. The day Island
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I want to get to before we get to Kate White, and it says
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yesterday I heard Dave mention a drawing for tickets to see Jordan Peterson. I
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was driving, didn't get to write down the website I searched and have not
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found it. Can you please repeat that again? Yes, it's real simple.
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It is our website WCCHS network dot Com again www dot wcchsnetwork dot Com.
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Go to there and you can register for tickets to see Jordan Peterson and
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I'll have that coming up a little bit later on on the show. Last
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week, the Canawacundy Board of Education now it's a new member. It's Kate
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White, who'll be replacing Ryan White, who will instead be running for the
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Western Gin Intermediate Court of Appeals. Several names were submitted to the board and
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they chose Kate White. Missus White, who is actually away at a conference
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right now, but it's taking time out of for schedule to be here with
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us today. Kate, good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning,
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Dave, thanks so much for having me. I'm in the big city
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of Charlotte this morning. So Charlotte, North Carolina. How's the weather down
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in Charlotte, because it's not too bad right here. It's pretty commy.
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It's rainy and dropping down. Last night I hit some snow, so it
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was oh really okay, we haven't had snow here in a couple of weeks.
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We had a couple of flourries last night, so well that completes the
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weather report. So Kate congratulations on being named to the school board. Thanks
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so much, Dave. I really appreciate it, and I really appreciate support
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from the members of the board and the folks who reached out. I'm really
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excited to get in to learn and you know, be a good listener and
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build some consensus and do some good. Give us your background. Tell us
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about Kate White. Sure. I was fortunate to be born and raised in
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West Virginia. I'm from Elkins and Randolph County. Went to public schools there.
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I went to college at Carnagie, Mellon and Pittsburgh and came back.
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Was a Mere cors Vista for a year, and then went to College of
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Law at WU. After that Vin Charleston clerk for judges Duke Bloom who retired
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last year, and then I've primarily worked at Legal Late of West Virginia.
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I'm an attorney there, but I also am a state wide manager of programs.
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It's a nonprofit law firm. What do you see as the biggest issue
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facing Canon County schools as you head in, I know you just got there,
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you're still learning. You know where the where the restrooms are, in
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the in the in the board office, and things of that nature. But
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but but what do you see as the biggest issue facing Knon County schools?
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Katee, The biggest issue is that continue to client of our student population and
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really how that impacts the bottom line and the fiscal future that we face.
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You know, with the clining student population means that the schooid formula, we
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don't get the funds that you know we do when we have more students,
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and unfortunately that impacts staffing, that impacts our ability to fix our buildings.
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You know, we've got sixty some schools across the county and they have a
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lot of needs in different ages, and so you know, the staffing and
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the school building that I think are particularly some of the biggest problems are facing.
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So I guess the big question is why do you do this? I
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mean, why would you want to be on this good? You know,
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And I've told the story on the store on the show before. My cousin
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was a former school board president in another county and he always said to me,
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telling you cheek, He said, everybody should have to serve on the
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school board. It's like serving on the jury because it can be a lot
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of headache, but it can also be very rewarding. So so what is
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in this for you? Why did you decide you wanted to serve when you
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when you were giving the appointment, they reached out to you. Sure first
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and foremost. You know, I'm a parent. I have three kids in
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Kennall County schools. So I see the impact of our wonderful teachers every day
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when they come home and how they help my kids meet their needs. They
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have friends and I see it with them too. You know, I think
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fundamentally, as a community and quite frankly as a state, we've got to
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invest in our kids in our future, and one of the most important foundations
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they can have as an education and having a caring adult in their life,
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and for a lot of kids that is their teachers. So the opportunity to
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give back, to contribute, to bring the background that I have, and
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you know, my desire to just try to help make sure we're meeting kids
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all their needs where they are is just something that really drove me to want
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to do that. And you know, we've seen the numbers go down in
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Kanawa County and we've seen unfortunately, I know, no one likes to lose
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their schools and their communities because the schools, particularly the elementary schools, are
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always seemed to be kind of like the hub of the community. But sometimes
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it is it is required and their schools have to be shuttered. Unfortunately,
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no one likes to see it happen, but it does happen, and so
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those are some tough decisions that you may be very well be making in the
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future unfortunately. You know, those are absolutely things that I think the school
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board has to look at. They have to have a balanced budget, and
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so when you only have so much money, you know, you have to
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consider all those things. You know. Staffing is a real challenge too.
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We've got a lot of kids that are still recovering from COVID. You're just
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facing a lot of challenges at home, and so making sure that we have
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enough teachers to meet their needs, but that our teachers aren't overwhelmed and are
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getting support they need too. So, yeah, there are real significant challenges,
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but I do think that there is an ability to make a difference and
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to make sure that you know, we're supporting our students, for supporting our
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teachers and doing the best we can, you know, for all Kanauk County
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residents. Because the education supports everybody in our community. And again we're talking
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to Kate White, who's the newest member of the Canaw County Board of Education.
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And we've seen Kate over the and I'm not going to get into this
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argument, but we've seen over the last couple of years that more and more
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parents are are choosing alternate methods for educating their kids, be it charter schools
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or more you know, or remote learning or whatever. There's various different names
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in various different ways that they do it. What do you do, And
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I know you're not in the advertising business, but what do you do to
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tell parents that, hey, public schools are are the place for most kids
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to be right? I mean, I think that as a school system,
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we have done a better job and can continue to do a better job of
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touting our own horn. You know, we've got students that are doing amazing
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things, going on to amazing careers and amazing colleges, and we just have
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to keep making sure parents hear those messages. Sure, there are things that
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can always be better and improved, and I think we always have to work
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to do that. But yeah, we've got to continue to get the message
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out there about all the really good things that are happening here, and we
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also got to make sure we keep our kids here in West Virginia. We
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want them to stay. We want them to be educated in college and career
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ready, but we also want them to stay here and see the good that
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they can do in their community and contribute back to West Virginia and before we
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let it go. You know, I spend a lot of time on this
22:17
show being the old guy in the room talking about right when I was in
22:18
school and whatever, but it has changed. My generation was told everybody has
22:22
to go to college. Everybody had and they spent time in high school telling
22:27
us about what colleges we need to go to and now and I am very
22:32
thankful for this. Kate, there seems to be more of an emphasis on
22:33
yea, if you want to go to WVU Marshall State, you see whatever,
22:37
that's fine. But if you also want to go into one of the
22:40
one of the trade schools, you want to learn an occupation outside of a
22:42
traditional four year institution, the public school system makes that pretty easy as far
22:48
as transitioning into those one hundred percent. And that's so important because you need
22:52
to give all students, you know, like you said, college isn't for
22:56
everybody, quite frankly, and on a student that you know that kids have
22:59
to take to do that is just really cost prohibitive. So making sure that
23:03
we're supporting and working with our college community colleges and making sure that the trades
23:07
are supported and quite frankly, can make a lot more money is really important.
23:11
And we need those folks in our community to help take care of things,
23:15
you know, in our homes and our businesses and in our state.
23:18
Well, Kate, I know you're busy, as you said, you're at
23:19
a call us up from a conference today. We'll let you get back to
23:22
it. Kate White, the newest member of the Canau County Board of Education.
23:25
Thank you, good luck and let's have you back on the show again
23:27
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25:17
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here, and then we're going to Amy Grady Texas here, David reference to
31:23
mister Peterson show buzz is buzz good or bad? For example, every time
31:29
you interview Kent Carper, it's a train wreck. But I can't keep my
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ears off of a TEXTA. All right, let's check in with Senator Amy
31:37
Nicole Grady, who's live at the Capital as we speak. Senator, Good
31:40
morning, welcome to the show. Good morning day, Thank you today.
31:42
I am doing fine. Thank you for being here. I told the listeners,
31:45
you know, uh, this must be your lucky day because you get
31:48
to talk to me now and Hoppy coming up and talk loud. Some feeks,
31:52
some folks would absolutely give anything to be interviewed by both of us in
31:56
one morning. And you get it. You get it, You're the lucky
31:59
one. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how to contain my
32:01
excitement. So it is very definitely the best part of my day I can
32:06
Yeah, she said, tongue in cheek. You know, it's not nice
32:08
to lie as a politician or a teacher. Just so you know, just
32:14
so you know, I want to say this about speaking of teaching, and
32:17
I had actually had Kate White on, who's the newest member of the Canaw
32:20
County Board of Education. She was on the segment just before you, Senator
32:23
Grady. The listeners know that before you were a legislator and you continue to
32:27
be a teacher. What are some of the legislative initiatives for teachers and the
32:31
school system that you and others under the DELBO been working on. So far,
32:37
we have been working on a lot of Thanks Dave. You know,
32:38
we actually worked with the department this fall to put out an email with like
32:45
a legislative survey about issues that teachers feel like that need to be addressed.
32:50
We had respondents from I think where there were about twenty two hundred respondents and
32:55
that represented fifty five different counties anywhere from a beginning teacher to teachers forty plus
33:00
years. And it was a very quick one. So I'm hoping the next
33:02
one we do will have you up in more responses. But the things that
33:06
they sent us back were things we wanted to focus on, behaviors, student
33:09
absences, their workload. You know, they talked a lot about we have
33:15
too many trainings and we feel like that they're repetitive. So those things are
33:19
things that we have addressed and I have addressed in bills that I've introduced personally,
33:23
because you know, it's important to listen. I'm also in the profession,
33:27
so I agree with all of those things. But they also mentioned,
33:30
you know, a lot of things that we can't change legislatively, like student
33:34
apathy was one. How you can't legislate it. You can give as student
33:37
as much as you need to in front of them, but you can't force
33:39
them to learn it. You know. They also mentioned that print parent involvement
33:45
is very low, and so you know, that's another thing we can't legislate
33:49
printal responsibility. We have to that has to be something that somebody wants to
33:52
do. So we're trying to address the issues that they gave us. And
33:57
discipline and behavior was the major one you've heard. We've talked about it before
34:00
and then you've heard me talk about it on Hobby as well. That that's
34:04
something that needs to be dealt with. And again, I know you and
34:06
Hopy are going to get into the results of that survey a little bit to
34:08
further during your segment with him a little bit later on, but I want
34:12
to I want to ask you as a teacher, and you brought up a
34:15
very interesting point there, and again we're talking with Senator Amy Nicole Grady,
34:16
who, in additionally being a legislator, is also a teacher. So I
34:21
know you can't legislate parental involvement, but as a teacher, and I don't
34:24
want to give away trade secrets here, but have you ever had the opportunity
34:29
or you ever had an instance, Senator where you've had to had to pull
34:34
a parent or a grandparent aside and just say, look, we're doing all
34:37
we can here, but we really need you and the family more involved than
34:42
home. I know it's a very touchy subject and you don't want to get
34:45
into rate telling people how to raise their kids, but if you ever had
34:46
to have that conversation with someone, Absolutely every year that I've taught, I
34:51
have, you know, and a lot of times David's I want to say,
34:54
for the most most of the time, it's that they don't realize the
34:59
importance of being involved at home, and they don't or they're overwhelmed with other
35:01
responsibilities. I mean, right now, we have parents and grandparents are who
35:06
are busy working a job in the evenings, or working two jobs, or
35:09
kids are also involved in a lot of things. You know, it's sports
35:13
in the evenings, and they don't feel like they have the time they need
35:15
for schoolwork, so they feel like it's a separation. You know, you
35:19
do school work at school and then at home we have all these other responsibilities.
35:23
So I've had that conversation almost every year with a parent or more about
35:29
the importance and how they can help in our small school. I'm really encouraged
35:32
though, because we often have parents that reach out and say what can I
35:37
do to help? And that's always encouraging. You know, we're a very
35:40
small school, very tight knit community, though, and I think that makes
35:44
a big difference. And you mentioned that kids have so many responsibilities today and
35:49
so many other activities. I've been told by a lot of educators. You
35:51
can agree or disagree with this, Senator Grady, that there are students that
35:55
it's either a feast or famine. You have a kid that is involved in
36:00
way too much from sports to other activities, or they're involved in absolutely nothing,
36:05
and when they go home, they get that constant reinforcement from you and
36:09
the educators or maybe their classmates whatever, and then they go home to horrendous
36:14
situations that you and I can't even imagine. In many cases, and they
36:16
go home to nothing. Do you find that to be the case? It
36:19
could be one or the other. Oh, absolutely, And I'll tell you
36:22
in fourth grade, my first first year or two of teaching fourth grade,
36:25
I would send homework occasionally and the kids would come back and it wouldn't be
36:29
completed. And these were kids were you know, I knew their parents loved
36:30
them, and I knew they cared, but they had other other things that
36:35
were on their mind. So you know, it was a wasted bit of
36:37
time. And I started learning my students and a lot of my students live
36:40
in poverty, and realized that they're not worried about getting their homework finished,
36:45
you know, those other things they're worried about. They're worried about if they're
36:47
going to when they're gonna eat, if they're going to eat, where they're
36:50
going to sleep. Maybe they don't have their own bedroo own bedroom, and
36:52
they sleep on the couch and the parents have friends over until eleven or twelve
36:57
o'clock at night and they're trying to sleep on the couch. You know,
36:59
those are situations that we don't really think about. With these kids, you
37:02
know, they're not thinking about us. Even when they're at school and they're
37:06
supposed to be learning, they're not thinking about learning, or they're not thinking
37:09
about how they're going to do on a test. They're thinking, Okay,
37:12
when's lunch. I'm starving. I haven't eaten since yesterday at lunch. Who's
37:15
picking me up from school today? You know, I don't know who it's
37:16
going to be. Where am I going to sleep tonight? Where am I
37:19
going? Where am I staying for the evening? You know, all these
37:21
things are on their minds. And the kids who are involved in a lot
37:24
of sports have parents who I feel like push them, you know, But
37:29
the others and the other k in the other cases, they don't. They
37:32
really at school is where they get everything they need. Again, talking to
37:37
Senator Amy, Nicole Grady and we and we talk a little bit about two
37:40
about homelessness with our with our students, and homelessness is not necessarily what you
37:46
think of when it comes to our kids. It's not necessarily someone who's living
37:51
on the treets. Admits to somebody that doesn't have a permanent home to call
37:53
their home. Yes, and we have when we take a survey of our
37:58
homeless students. If they are living somewhere other than with their legal parent or
38:02
guardian, they're considered homeless. And we have a lot of families that live
38:07
like the mom, the dad, and the kids all live with somebody else
38:10
in their family, you know, like two family households, and those that
38:15
family would be considered homeless. And so you know, not having a space
38:17
of your own also has its negative effects on our students and their learning.
38:22
Exactly before we let you go, and I know you've got to get back
38:24
to it again. You're going to be making an appearance on Hoppy coming up
38:29
a little bit later on. I want to talk to you about your future,
38:32
about what you are going to do. This is a re election year
38:36
for you if you choose to run. Are you running for reelection? Oh?
38:38
Absolutely. I love this job. I feel like I'm helping people.
38:43
I feel like that that's my focus. My focus has always been how can
38:46
I help and how can I push West Virginia forward? And you know,
38:51
Dave, I always say when people always ask me about that, I always
38:52
say, you know, sometimes the best part is when I help somebody behind
38:57
the scenes that might seem like something little to me, but it's something and
39:00
huge to them and they maybe nobody else knows it, but they know it
39:02
and I know it. It's just such a good serving feeling. You know
39:07
that you're serving the people and you're helping somebody, and that's that's something I
39:10
want to continue to do. So, yes, I am definitely in the
39:13
race, and I'm in at twinette, give me like thirty seconds or so.
39:19
I'm not going to time you before we let you go. Some of
39:21
the things during your tenure that you have done, not just based on education,
39:25
but other things that you done that you're particularly proud of. Well,
39:29
that's one that I just mentioned. The little things that I do to help,
39:30
you know, And I try to make sure my door is always open.
39:34
I stay in contact with with the people in my district. I'm always
39:37
open to even somebody has different ideas. I get complimented all the time on
39:40
that they feel like they can come and share their ideas or thoughts with me,
39:45
even if we might not agree. That at least I'm going to have
39:46
respectful conversation. And I think that's important. I think that we have to
39:51
listen to each other, even if we have opposing opposing arguments on things because
39:54
I might open their eyes or they may open my eyes as something I never
39:58
saw, you know. So I feel like looking at it from different perspectives
40:00
is something I'm really strong at and I pride myself one just trying to do
40:05
the right thing, and I always do. I know, you can't focus
40:07
on making somebody mad, because somebody's always going to be mad at you in
40:12
this position. But I just try to make sure I do the right thing.
40:15
And when I feel like I do the right thing, I can lay
40:16
my head down at night's sleep and that's you know, that's where I want
40:20
to be. So that's that's kind of one I want everybody to know about
40:22
me, is that that's where my focus is. Well. The best of
40:25
luck not only under the dome for the rest of the session, but also
40:30
in your bid for reelection, Senator Amy Nicole Grady appreciate it as always,
40:32
you be in here. Thanks a lot, Thanks Dave. We'll talk to
40:35
you soon, all right again, She'll be on with Hopy coming up a
40:37
little bit later on. They're going to get into the particulars on this survey.
40:42
And I know Hoppy's talked about it a little bit, but some of
40:44
the Some of the things that I read in the coverage of this, of
40:49
the survey that was done, were astounding. I'm going to get into one
40:52
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three five five zero zero eight are we're talking about the Jordan Peterson appearance at
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the Municipal Auditory. We come up on February seventh and we are giving away
41:07
tickets. Go to the website WCCHS network dot com and you can register.
41:10
We'll be giving away a bunch of tickets on Friday. I understand there was
41:14
a computer glitch there and Coop being Coop has worked on it and he's got
41:19
it fixed. So I appreciate the texture who texted in and said that there
41:22
was a problem with that. It is fixed now. So you can go
41:25
to the website if you want to see doctor Peterson at the Municipal Auditorium on
41:30
February seventh as part of his we Who Wrestle with God tour. The tickets
41:35
the ticket to link is fixed now. Go to the website. Our website
41:38
wcchsnetwork dot com slash talk tickets and register to win yourself free tickets. We're
41:44
going to be giving those away this Friday. It's an online kind of a
41:46
deal. You got to go to the website again. There was a bit
41:49
of an issue with the link coop. Because he's a genius, was able
41:52
to figure it out and we got it fixed. So you can go there
41:53
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doctor Jordan Peterson at the Municipaudatorium coming up on February seventh. I also want
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Marshall. President Brad Smith is going to stop by. You're going to see
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a whole lot of green old Yesterday was Blue and Gold Day for the Mountaineer,
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So today it's Marshall Day at the Capitol again. President Brad Smith will
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be there as others will be Marco a whole lot of green and white there
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at the Capitol today. Also on the show, Chris steyerwa will be stopping
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by it now on this show Tomorrow House speaker Roger Hanshaw is going to be
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on the show tomorrow. Plus, we're gonna spend some time, spend a
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lot of time talking about education here as of late, and we're gonna spend
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Wiggley and texting services provided by Fruit Pharmacy, your hometown family Pharmacy. I'm
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going to go back to this teacher survey that Senator Grady alluded to, and
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as I said, she and Hoppy are going to get into this a whole
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lot further on talk line. I think one thing that really stuck out to
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me when I read this and in talking to Senator Grady this morning, was
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the number of teachers that say only about five percent of the parents or guardians
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of their students were actively involved in the process of education. Now, let's
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think about that for a moment. And again I always have to say,
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not a parent, child free by choice. But I'm not a parent.
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But you put a kid on a school okay, who my kid? And
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kids don't ride school buses anymore. That's another pet peeve of mine. That's
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another story for another time. So you send your kid off to school,
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and a lot of parents, not all, but a lot of parents insist
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on the school system and all the work. And it's been proven from study
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after study after study that the work that kids do at home related to school
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work is just as important as being in the classroom itself. Now I'm not
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necessarily talking about homework per se, but having a parent that sits down with
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a kid and says, what did you learn today? What did you do
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in school today? How are your relationships with your teachers, how are your
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relationships with your classmates? That sort of thing. I had a former neighbor
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of my wife and I that was a public school teacher, And this is
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going back several years ago, and I learned a lot about the school system,
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even though I don't have kids. By having Tracy as our next door
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neighbor, and she would tell me she was a high school teacher, and
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she would tell me that at parent teacher conferences, many of them were quite
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simply a waste of time. Because in parental involvement is important. Don't get
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me wrong, the parents who needed to come out there were the ones that
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didn't show up. And the ones that did come to the parent teacher conference
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that did take an active role in knowing what their kids were learning in school,
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those tended to be the ones whose kids were doing okay. And again,
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yeah, I'm not trying to downplay that. I mean, you should
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always be involved in your kids' education. But you show up at a parent
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teacher conference and you look as a as a parent, and you look at
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the teacher. Teacher says, yeah, Johnny's doing fine. He's he's got
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an a, does everything we ask, does all his homework, does everything.
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Whereas the other kids, you know, the parents and grandparents many cases
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simply just simply don't care. And I'm going to go out on a limb
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here and bear with me. I guess it's one of another one of those
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day vittorials. Right, We got to get some music for the Davitorials,
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I think I would say, and I base this nothing more than just on
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speculation, having been on this yere earth for you know, fifty three years,
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that about ninety five percent, if not more, of the problems that
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we face in this country simply go back to one thing. And it's not
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drugs. Well, you know, drugs factor into it, but I'm talking
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about the much much larger picture here. It's people having kids that have no
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business having kids, kids that they don't want or at this point in their
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lives they cannot afford, whether it's financially, whether it's mentally or otherwise.
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It's kids having kids at a young age or does not don't necessarily even be
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at a young age. It's kids having kids or adults having kids, I
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should say that simply are not in a position to raise said kids in their
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life. You know, employment insecurities, legal issues, so on and so
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forth, and of course drugs and mental health issues play a large, large
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part of that. And then they send the kids off the school and somehow
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our teachers, and make no mistake about it, there are some bad teachers
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out there. There are some awesome, wonderful, great teachers out there.
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As well. They're expected now to be everything to these kids. They're expected
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to teach them math, smelling, history, computers, but they're also expected
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to be their counselor. They're also expected to teach them about hygiene. They're
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expected to teach them all of these things because mommy, daddy, grandma,
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and grandparents simply aren't involved. And our government, our government doesn't make it
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any easier because in some instances they reward this behavior by handing out checks to
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people that have kids. You know, I don't know how you fix it.
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All I do is complain about it. I don't know how you fix
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it. But it's majorly, majorly a big problem. It is, and
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my heart goes out to educators for having to try to deal with it on
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a daily basis. All Right, we gotta go Dave Island Show and five
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stopping by. Also, we're gonna talk pre k still continue with education.
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Johnny Ferira of the pre K program Kawa County Schools will be here. Hobbies
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live at the Capitol next, see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun
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