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one oh five eighty see a jest the Voice of Charleston and good Thursday Morning
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two. I'm Jeff Jenkins with Harvey Peyton and the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro.
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That means the lines are open. Any questions about the law, give
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us a call. Three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight.
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Three oh four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. I was out last
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week, but previous several weeks before that. Tom, your son's been in
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here during the show. Here, you're during the show today. My reuniting
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with you if it is indeed, after several weeks last week I had Coop,
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Well, Tom and we sort of look at our calendars from week to
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week, and if I have a reason to be in Charleston in the morning,
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it's much more convenient for me to get here early and go. Tom
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has a reason to be up here, or neither one of us have a
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reason to be here. It's like, well, I want to go to
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the Nautilus today, so I'll get to the radio or Tom's is all.
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I'll do it because I want to go to the State House or the Federal
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building. We've adjusted. Actually I saw George George Yeah, George Pelletier.
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George Pelletier. That's I've met him before. Yeah, he took well,
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he didn't replace Dale Miller because Dale Miller was irreplaceable. Right, he has
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assumed the duties or some of the duties that Dale Miller provided to the was
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it West it's w VRC MEDIAVRC media, sir. Yeah, he's here for
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the I thought, oh, this is not good. The shadow of the
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aders here somebody's heads are gonna roll. I don't know. He's here for
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the baseball tournament. Yeah, he's gonna watch it. Yeah, it's gonna
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take in the metro news operation of that. Yeah, it should be a
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fan. It's a fast paced games. They the high school teams, they
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don't use the fifteen seconds. No, I don't think so. But they're
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playing on an altar field down, Yeah they are. Which is gonna make
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a difference. I suppose. I'm assuming that the all turf, it's maintenance
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expense. It's much less he had to maintain a professional grade. When you
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have to meet a lot of high standards to have a minor league affiliated major
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league affiliated base ball club. I always got to trouble, you know,
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Walt pal Park about the smoothness of the field. And it's an all your
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job. I mean, that's an all your maintenance. If your grassy be
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tended every it's like a golf course. If you don't cut the grass,
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it's not a golf course anymore. If you don't keep the endfield in good
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shape, and you don't keep the outfield in good shape and level up and
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your warning tracks, it just loses its zingyah. And I think what it
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does too is win and if and there won't. I don't think there's gonna
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be any rain delays. This lake this weekend into the weekend doesn't look like
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but in the past the baseball tournament, I mean you got to wait for
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the field to be This would make rain delays much each assume when they put
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the grass that when they put the turf down on the field, they've got
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it humped in a particular wasting to squeeze you it end of the drains and
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get get the water off the service. That's the way they do in the
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pros. I think most pro stadiums now, even the underweather grass. Yeah,
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yeah, so gosh, it's good to be here. Came from Nitro
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this morning and big news in Nitro yesterday it was we finally got the pool
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opened. The pool well, you know, the Nitro municipal pool was long
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in need of replacement. Opened in the nineteen sixties to the credit of the
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city of Nitro. You know, there were very few municipalities that had public
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swimming pools in the sixties. The city of Saint Albans, where I grew
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up, had new public swimming pools. They had private swim clubs, and
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there was no real human cry to build a public swimming pool because gosh,
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the colored people could go over to Institute and swim if they wanted to,
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they couldn't swim with white people in a public pool. In Saint Albans,
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Nitro forge ahead and opened a public pool, which was to their credit in
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the sixties. I mean, that's one of the black marks on the city
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of Saint Albans is that there was obvious reason for the isolation of public housing
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and the refusal to construct a municipal swimming pool with racism and the desired out
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to isolate the people of color in the Ammandaville area or in the uptam Creek
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area, and people who couldn't afford to belong to the private swim clubs.
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We all lived on the west side, so I would walk to Saint Albans
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and get the bus which left every fifteen minutes, and rout at the institute,
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go to the pool, or if you had a big day, you'd
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get the bus up the Route sixty instead of going through Institute and get off
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and go to Rock Lake. The Rock Lake was a little more expensive than
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the pool was at Shawnee Park. The old fairgrounds. But you were,
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you were up in the upper end of the valley. I was Pride had
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a swimming pool. Yeah, yeah, we had a public swimming pool.
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And well, I tell you something about Nitro are in there and they got
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the pickaball ports. I mean, there's there's things happening. I mean there
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have been over the last several years. There, yeah, there have been
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and it's yeah, the city administration is to be complimented for that. And
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of course we've got a hardcore of good citizens down there, businessmen and women
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that helped make the city run. Saint Albans is in the shadows either.
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I mean I grew up in Saint Alban's and you know that Saint Albans struggles
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a little bit with the transition of housing. You know, it's a Saint
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Alban's always had about three thousand more people in population than than Nitro. But
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and the problem at Nitro had with transition and housing, say twenty years ago,
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is now sort of affected Saint Alban's. That is that men and women
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who had good job who worked at Monsana, they worked at Viscos, Ohio,
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Apax, maybe worked on the railroad. They would live and they buy
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a nitro bungalow and remodel it and fix it up, or build a small
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house up in Valentine Circle or the upper end Capox Street, Canal Avenue.
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Well, you know, so often happens people age, they die, Usually
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it's the widow who's left there in the hall. They they hold on until
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their time comes. Their kids generally live away from here or don't have room
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for another house. And what often happens is those homes are gobbled up and
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used as rental properties. And you know if they pass minimum standards their section
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eight, well that's not a good thing in volume home ownership and pride in
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your neighborhood and your city is I think it's a big part of you know,
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what holds us all together, what knits us together as a civilization.
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And so for a while we saw, you know, a declining housing stock,
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visibly declining. Now the current administration took that bull by the horns and
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they got an enforcement officer and started enforcing building foods and standards, which the
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City of Saint Albans is now doing to you. And there are areas in
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the city of Saint Alba's up in Ordnance Park which when I was in high
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school that was like a he's like a baby factory. There were kids everywhere
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Up in Ordinance Park. It was inexpensive affordable housing handed to the bus lines.
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Big part of the peace will live there. Worth Carbid carbad had one
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eight thousand employees and probably fifteen hundred of them lived in Saint Albans. So
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the city, I think Saint Albans is confronted that they lost their main street
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identity when the Saint Albans Mall was built overrun some property it was that big
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area was owned by the railroad. Yeah, at one time, just like
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city the roadside park in Saint Albans. There's still a reverter clause in that
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deed that says the railroad gets that back if it's not used as a park.
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But then now Main Street, old Main plazas that's held their own.
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There is a business on Old Main Plaza called Chandler floor Covering, and Annie
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and Patty Chandler have done business in Saint Albans for sixty three years. Think
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about that, forty six years in the same location floor covering, carpeting,
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etc. And still active and strong to enny the other days into them and
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they were saying, oh yeah, they're they're they're tickled with the new activity
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on Main Street to think the mayors have got things going. My daughter lives
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and she actually lives in the house that I lived in. My grandmother lived
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there when I grew up in Saint Alban's and she's pretty excited. Her kids
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go to the Alban Arts Center and they go over the list of the music
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on the old main Plaza. So thank you know, things are happening and
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add into the Valley night Drum are particularly proud of because now we've got If
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you've been down there lately, you'll be surprised how wide open First Avenue is.
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We had a terrible old building that but how's the Casto Hardware and Van
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Buren's which was a high end women's clothing store and auto parts. It was
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quite viable. Well, those businesses moved. The Castos Rusty's mom and dad,
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they decided to retire. The store closed. Patty van Buren, she
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retired, her store closed and the building sort of fell to disrepair and was
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there for a couple of decades and then Lo and behold, Taco Bell takes
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an interest. They by the building. The city had purchased the building with
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the intention of doing the demolition themselves, and Taco Bell appears as we'll demolish
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it, we'll build you a new store right here, and just changed the
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whole appearance of First Avenue. So then the next two blocks between that and
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the Nitro Supermarket, we're the old usual, you know, the ten thousand
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square foot building with eight parking spaces because it was built in the nineteen twenties
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and demolished them. And so there's we haven't seen it yet, but the
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mayor says, and I believe him, that they're getting contacts all constantly about
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some development on those lots. May even they may end up blocking off a
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street or two. So they got a lot more frontage, which I know
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it's going to be. It's going to be assisted by a brand new expanded
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interstate in Bridge. Oh yeah, that project is coming right along. That's
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that is one of the incredibly well managed project. Even the there's a little
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you've got to be careful when you take the Nitro exit. I never take
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the Nitro exit if i'm going I'm with the old school. I don't want
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to drive past where i'm going in turn around and come back I get off
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an institute right because I drive straight to my office. If I get to
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the Nightry entertains, I'm going to mile past the office and driving back to
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it. But yeah, that's you've got to wash because the exit is much
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farther to the east than it was previously. But other than that, I
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mean, they're moving right along. They've got their hanging the steel on the
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new bridge that's going to replace the old bridge was demolished. And if they
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moved with the same dispatch they did on building the old new bridge and all
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baby will be open next summer. It looks to me like we're going to
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have, you know, eight lanes so that when you get on in Saint
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Alban's going eastbound, you do not have to If you're going to Nitro,
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you don't have to merge right. Same way with Nitro. If you're going
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across the bridge to the Saint Alban's interchange, you don't have to merge left.
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You just stay in that lane. Yeah, entrance to exit would be
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a great thing, life saverer. I mean, there have been a lot
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a lot of people injured and we had some a couple of fatalities unfortunately on
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that bridge because of the traffic and because of the congestion there and because of
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the short entry ramps. You know, there's one accountant here in Charleston.
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He was severely injured. His wife and a couple of his stepkins were killed
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in an accent right there at the Saint Alban's interchange. Fog and a short
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entry ramp put them right out, and then the traffic in front of a
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truck, right. Yeah, it's terrible. Three or four three four five
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fifty eight fifty eight. Three h four three four five fifty eight fifty eight.
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on five, Baby wcaj as divorcee of Charleston, asked the expert and our
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a century. We're right there right, twenty five years pretty closed. Next
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year we'll mark the quarter century mark. Next year we'll actually mark the half
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century mark. For me. That's May the twenty eighth, nineteen seventy four.
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It was the Tuesday after Memorial Day in nineteen seventy four. I was
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admitted to practice in West Virginia at that time. And it shows you how
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far the profession has come, and all for the better. I might add,
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thought that the profession was in the tank. It wasn't. There were
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any number of excellent lawyers providing services legal services all across the state. Most
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of them trained at either one of two schools, WVU or there was a
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contingency that went to Washington Lee University down in Lexington, Virginia. And not
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surprisedly, we had some Harvard grads, you know, sprinkling of those folks
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who could afford it. We're smart enough. There was probably a dozen or
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two dozen Harvard long graduates here and Unington, in Charleston and in Mingo County.
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Zane gray Staker was a hard regret. So, but in order to
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be admitted to practice law, you had to maintain a CEA average in law
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school. So we had what was called the diploma privilege. If you attended
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West Virginia University, what you did and you graduated in good standing, which
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meant you had a c averager better than you were, then you met graduation
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ceremonies. Commencement ceremonies were the second week in May, and you went down
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to Charleston the next week. We came down here and went up to the
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Supreme Court Chambers on Mass and John Hoblitzel, who at that time I think
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was part of the Young Lawyer's Division of the State Bar, got up and
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just no individual isabos say, I woo the admission of the class. That
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there were ninety of us or ninety six of us. And so you lined
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up, and Tom Tender was there and gave a little talk about the State
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Bar, and you got a little bit and you got a license. You
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got it there, it was signed by the Supreme Court justices. I said
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you were a JD. A. Doctor jurisprudence, and you went out and
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you could victimize the world that had been the rules from the inception. Well,
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it was a good thing to a degree because it gave the lawyer.
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It was sort of a post World War two things. Your job is to
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get yourself educated and get out in the world and start making a living and
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raising a family and providing a service. And you know, by receiving your
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diploma in early May and your license to practice in late May, you therefore
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had a six month advantage over someone who had to wait and take the bar
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exam. Now, students at WU who graduated but with less than a SEE
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average could practice law if they had to pass the bar. And you know
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during the whole time that the diploma privilege was the prevailing rule in West Virginia.
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The passage rate for w graduates when they went to Pennsylvania or Ohio or
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Kentucky or over into DC and took bar exams, because that's where it was
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on par with every other a school in the area. It wasn't as if
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the education was inferior. Exipinitely gave us a lag up. The guys from
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Worceston Lee always thought it was unfair because Worston Lee is a much higher esteemed
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law school. Whether they deserve it or not, I can't comment because I
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didn't go there. They had to wait around take a bar. Well.
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By the mid eighties, early nineteen eighties, the Supreme Court had changed,
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National sentiments had changed. There were only about three states in the Union that
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still had this exclusionary diploma privilege. And so we then adopted the bar exam,
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which now you know, the bar exam is held in guns in the
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summer. It gets your grades. And these kids that passed the bar admitted
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in October. The passage rate and I thinks about seventy percent. You can
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take it as many as three times without any refresher. I think after the
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third try you have to wait a year before you can take the bar exam
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again, and you may have to do some refresher. Well. Then about
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the same time in the eighties, it was really controversial in the existing bar.
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The leadership of the state bar said, you know, we need to
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make sure people stay up to date. Times are changing and things are changing.
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We've adopted these rules of civil procedure that are essentially new. The federal
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courts have adopted new rules. The supreme courts all around the country are handing
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down decisions that are doing away with things like sovereign immunity and familiar immunity,
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and arbitration is becoming a thing, and so we're going to have mandatory continuing
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legal education. Well that was voted on, i believe twice by the entire
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membership of the state bar and rejected. There was a lot of resistance from
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the establishments. Say, look, I've got a license now and I don't
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have to do any thing. I don't have to spend any money going to
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these meetings and hearing people talk, and I know what all I need to
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know. Yadda, YadA YadA. All the reasons that he resists change well
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eventually passed, and now everyone who has an active license and practices his law
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he had to have twenty four hours of continuing legal education every two years.
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It's on a rotating cycle. There are reporting years like next year's and even
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numbers, so it's a reporting year and the rule is I think it's about
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six or seven of those hours have to be on topics of ethics and office
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practice and or which is pretty good. You know, it keeps people up
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to date. Particularly in the computer age. For instance, today, the
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Western Trial Lawyers Association, which is now called the West Virginia Association for Justice,
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we're having our annual meeting at the Embassy Suites here in Charleston. I'm
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going there as soon as I finished today, and some part of the topics
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are well. I think Justice Haley Bunn is going to be there this afternoon
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to bring us up to date on the Supreme Court changes and e filing.
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There's going to be a big session on e filing to make sure we kind
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of get up to speed because now we've got e filing everywhere the Supreme Court
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has e filing. The rumor is Canawa County's gonna have e filing. There'll
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be the last county to implement that, and I guess that maybe that's a
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plan. It's a tougher nut to crack. I'm often sort of tongue in
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cheet critical of the Canaw County system that we've resisted e filing for so long.
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But in fairness to Clark Gatson, who's quite competent, and all the
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folks that who work there, they're quite competent, quite busy. It's a
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Canaw County is a difficult circuit. You've got a lot of administrative procedures.
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It's a capital city, it's the most populous county in the state. You've
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got ten magistrates or eleven, so you've got appeals. There have probably eight
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municipal courts that are active. They got appeals for those courts, so it's
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you know, it's a bigger job to get that going e filing and say
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it was in Putnam County where we've got a nice population about sixty five thousand,
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really competent clerk's office. But the workload for two judges, you know,
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one family court judge, three magistrates. It's just different. And we
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hope that guy is implemented same because it's a huge help. It's a huge
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savings to clients. I tell you I went yesterday, Harvey, and I'll
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just share this. Yesterday's my my wife Jackie's wedding anniversary thirty seven years yesterday.
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Congratulation than you heard that, yes to her. I OutKick my coverage
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very much on that and very blessed. But I was yesterday because you've talked
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about this, and I was sad how easy it is. I was trying
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to go back and find my marriage license right in Montague County, right because
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I got married to Montague, got married in Morgantown, so I just didn't
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elect you know, electric filing search in Montingay County. It showed me the
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marriage license although it had not been copied, but it showed me where it
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was in the deed book online. I mean, very easy. And then
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you know, we bought it. We lived in Morgantown for years, so
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we bought a house there and that was all copy, that was all there.
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I actually saw the deed that I signed. I saw everything that I
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had signed. Kind of cool. I mean it took it took me less
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than five minutes, right had I had occasion, probably three weeks ago,
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helping someone about a piece of property in Greenboroer County and the question about some
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indexing. Well I can set up my desk and talk to them on the
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phone, and the initial interview and just look at it here it is.
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Yeah, people call us questions about the states, and some folks from down
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to Mingo County with a pretty sizable a state issue, and ma'am, you
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know there there are the records of Mingo County that we can look at.
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Now, some of those records like marriage licenses and death certificates, you may
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be able to only see the page because there is on those old documents there
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is identifying information, a date of birth and a social yea that you have
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to go to the clerk's office in person, pay a five dollars cash fee
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and get a copy. And you have to be either a party to the
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transaction, a family member or a representative of the deceed or a party to
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the marriage or you have to take a letter. Like if I want to
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get a death certificate for that is relevant to a case that I have,
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I type a letter to the clerk and say, you know, dear clerk,
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I am so and so I represent and we need a copy of the
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steps dethertificate because and closes five dollars and you get them. So yeah,
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that could be that. Even in Mond County when you couldn't see the marriage
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license, it just gave you a book on pages because it's not available online.
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Because I'll tell you they're there every second, every minute, every nano
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second of the day. People trolling online, be careful, be careful,
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John que public what you put online now secure sites and secure payment sites.
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I have a lot of cam confidence in your PayPal and that escape and others.
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But you know you have to You just have to watch like a hawk
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these emails, anything that comes from the IRS, or supposed it comes from
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the Social Security Administration or now the latest thing is, hey, you're we
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regret to inform you that your Netflix account has been placed on hold because we
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cannot verify your billy information. Please kick the click this link. They are
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there looking every second for some chink in the little crack in the security cybersecurity
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space, and if they find it, you can have a whole lot of
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problems. I mean, I was frauded on my Social security. That's why
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I started to draw mine. I was I was going to wait till late
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seventy. Well, I have a friend because I've done a lot of Social
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Security work and the SO Security office down here in Charleston, and she just
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sent me a letter. On the letter please call me at this number.
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So it's a strange. I thought it was a scam. So I call
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it said on no, it's not a scam. Where we did you apply
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for your old age pension? I now, well I didn't think so,
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because you know, I've looked here and at that time I was approaching the
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age sixty nine. I was really lucky, you know, I had several
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years that I did really well, so I would get the back's benefit,
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which is, you know, it's not insignificant. Someone had accessed through some
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staff to my dub in social and submitted an online applicant. It came forwardseas
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came from Africa, right. They eventually determined that said we just had to
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freeze your account. And then we got to talking and she said, you
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know, why are you waiting so well because my benefital go up And said,
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well, let me just work that out. For your benefital will go
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up by X number of dollars. But if you I didn't know this,
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he said, if you do apply, you get six months back pay.
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So it was September. Went over the same security office in Saint Alban's maybe
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application. I said, you know, they said on that's oh yeah,
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you'll get and they showed me the number and I thought, oh wow,
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said you can't make that up. You can't live long enough to make up
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the difference. But maybe you can. But it's rare. I mean,
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it's all actual warial. And that was on a Thursday and Saturday I got
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to notice from the Putnam Cuddy bag there's this wire transfer. But you just
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have to be so cautious. We don't even take social security numbers anymore.
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We may take xxxx last four and put them in our attorney's notes with respect
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to clients, and we blought them out on medical records because I mean,
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we think we're secure. We have an IT person, and but you never
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know. Somebody cracks in there and the next thing you know, you've got
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a one hundred and fifty or two hundred clients who've got personal information out there.
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And that's why we have to ensure ourselves against security breaches. We actually
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carry a lot of live of the insurance to protect us our firm in case
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we're breached and someone's injured by a the security breach. Yeah, side of
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the cl you get twenty four hours you report. It's voluntary self reporting.
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Some people criticize that anyone else you gonna have, mean your lawyers. You
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should be able to tell the truth about when you pay your taxes based upon
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self reporting, right, and the fear of prison keeps you paying. And
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you know on the two year cycle, and you can carry over some hours
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like same years I would do when I was like president of the Bar Association,
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attend all their functions because sort of you know, if you're the president
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or you're on the board, you really should attend the functions. And at
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the same time, I've always tried to go to the trial lawyer functions just
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for the camaraderie and you learn things. So always had a way more hours
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than I needed. I don't I don't write now because I think and I'm
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going to keep my license active, I know, until the next year,
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because if you get to the State Bar annual meeting, you get a certificate,
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right, that's what you get for fifty years a half. So well,
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first of all, the provis you gonna live that long. That's what
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a Mileston I mean, it's it's fifty years. But you know, of
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course, last this time last year, I didn't think of be any problem.
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And then in August and I'm an up up here in a intensive care
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at c AMC with bleeding to death with a dissecting a order. Now it's
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better now, but you know, we may or may not link that the
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Mountain of football, but well, it kept me out of the stadium for
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about three games. My prediction is going to come out early this year.
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I think it's hey, they got some game tis some night. Here's an
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interesting stat in Harvey's with us, and the lines are open three or four,
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three four, five fifty eight fifty eight three or four or three four
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or five fifty fifty eight in questions about the law, and he got any
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legal issue, Call Harvey right now, three or four, three fifty.
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But the seven thirty game that Westernton will play against Pitt will be the first
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night game, true night game at home under Neil Brown. I mean those
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things used to be commonplace. Yeah, that's that's surprising. I hadn't thought
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about that. And you know we have a really good record at home at
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night. Yeah. Well, I remember dreams as clear as a bell because
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cart Goodwin's dad, Steve, was still alive at the time, and it
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was a Thursday night game against Virginia Tech and we were I don't know what
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the deal was, but I was invited up to the whatever Geese house is
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called Blaney House. Blaney House. Yeah, they have us a little much
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much munch before the game, take a bust out. Eryl Bones good One
30:44
was with me, So we were sitting outside the foundation box in the open
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air about the middle of the third quarter. He said, Marvey, did
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you just smacked me as I said, smacked me as hard as you can
30:55
because I can't believe this. Yeah, I mean they were an overwhelming favorite.
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We beat the dogs, not out the back of that day. I
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think thirty four to fourteen. Yeah, Rod, right, Yeah, it's
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Rich Rode and who I would take back tomorrow. Let me say this,
31:10
he made the biggest well, he says, the biggest mistake he ever made,
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rich as is going to Michigan. Said the rich the biggest mistake you
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ever made was not going to Alabama. He could have been down there right
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now where brother Saban is. Now. I'm not saying Rich Rodriguez is the
31:23
caliber coach at Nick Saban, but yeah, that was a huge feather in
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the Mountaineer's captain, the crazy thing. And a friend of mine has a
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big house up here in Quarry Creek, and they called around and said come
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on up. This was like in February or March. Said, you know,
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Ralph, you're not calling me out of goodness your heart. He said,
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yeah, you gotta bring some money because we gotta try and keep this
31:45
guy. Well, he's crying. Rich Rod just crying and I love it
31:48
here. Why can't we do this? And I was singing the mount you
31:51
know, singing country roads, and everybody's was shoving these checks and well and
31:56
he turned then he turns down the job. I think you guys were waiting
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outside the locker room up in Morgantow when he talked of the team. You
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hear them all cheering. You know, five months lay aries out like I
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smoked through the key's damage your trust. But we'll see. I mean,
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it's the problem with that after honestly is it's it takes not a bit of
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consideration of the fans, you know, tbds to be announced, to be
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determined times for gamesis how can you play? And the hotels in Morgantown,
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unlike some other places, rip your sideways with the mandatory two nights stay.
32:35
I saw like a posting yesterday when that pick game time came out, there
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was already a posting of what a hotel was in Morgantown. Oh yeah,
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oh it's it's it's upward seven hundred dollars or something. Yeah. You can
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go to euro Suites, which is a nice hotel and they have licensely on
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Friday night they have a little get together for the fans and hot dogs and
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stuff, mandatory two nights over six hundred bucks. I'm night. Now,
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you know people who only absorb that so long. It is one of the
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poorest states in the Union, and hard working people are almost factored out of
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the ability to get a seat on the lower level of the colis the ndacy
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of basketball game. You got to fork over like eighty bucks on a ticket
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service because you can't buy there are no there are no lower level seats available
33:25
other than a student section. I mean, I've been a donor for decades
33:30
and we finally you know, I've got two lower level seats and sex one
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sixteen and two floor level seats. But you know, you have to just
33:38
get into the lottery and go on line and pick your seats together. And
33:42
you think there are no other seats available, So somebody gets in their car
33:47
down in blue Field, they draft Morgantown to sit at the very tippy top
33:52
of the coliseum. Now it's still a good seat, because it's a great
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arena about It's just I don't know how long that can last. Yeah,
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And it's a tremendous problem with college athletics and college attendance we've seen with WVU,
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although it seems like the law schools in a pretty good shape. The
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law school, I don't know about the new dean. The law school at
34:09
West Virginia University when I went there was run by mostly conservative, old white
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guys. Trank Cleckley was there, who was a ray of sunlight to teaching,
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Harvard guy teaching evidence, and Johnny Fisher, who was later the dean,
34:28
teaching real property. Londo Brown, who was married to devil Aance Hatfield's
34:31
daughter taught property and wills and trusts. Had Henry Collins teaching tax, Wimo
34:37
Morris and try mean. These guys knew what they would do as professional,
34:42
professional law professors, and they had been there for decades and they made no
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bones about it. Our job is to train lawyers. Because you've got this
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diploma privilege. You've got to be ready to get the concepts to be earned
34:53
to think like a lawyer and solve problems the day you walk out the door.
34:59
And we didn't have any foreign service obligations or esoteric topics like sustainability and
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d ei what you have now. It was just grinded out and learned to
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be a lawyer and beat some creativity out of you know, to my class,
35:17
we had I guess our shining star with John Chambers. Chambers has gone
35:23
as far as I think anybody else ever has from whus the president CEO of
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Cisco Corps. We founded at Cisco Corporation. It's a really great gay is
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a good guy. Undergraduate in law school, Quiet sat in the back row
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right beside me and we worked crossword investment. You can get the Daily Mail.
35:38
The Statehouse edition of the Daily Mail got to Morgantown all about noon.
35:45
Say it's campered out to the book exchange. Get the Daily Mail, and
35:50
if you had an afternoon class, the crossword was pretty good. You had
35:52
in the morning, you get the Gazette. Well, nobody once read the
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Morgantown paper. If you were from the valley at that time, you get
35:59
the hard copy. The Mountain edition came out first thing in the morning,
36:02
and the State House edition came out in the afternoon. Well, so you're
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going to continue an education today? We are, Yeah, and that today
36:12
and tomorrow. It's a two day affair with as they have a little dinner
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of this evening because they elect, we elect new officers and people get to
36:20
give up the gavel and hear a little speech. It's a really good organization.
36:25
It's a voluntary bar. There are the defense trial counsel is the counterpart
36:31
of the trial lawyers, but representing banks and insurance companies, a bunch of
36:37
really great guys. We're all litigators, so everybody understands each other. I
36:39
mean, it's this idea that there's a lot of animosity between trial lawyers and
36:45
defense counsel. It's just not true. It's not that you're peeling around.
36:47
It's not to just sell out your clients. It's just that you respect.
36:51
You know how hard to work at it. I mean it's hard work.
36:53
It's stressful, and you know it keeps you up at night a couple of
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three o'clock in the morning think about a case. And so if you know
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how that works, you respect your opposition. And if you don't, you're
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going to get in trouble because you'll slip up. You'll think you're the most
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important, smartest lawyer in the world. And when you start thinking that,
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you're about ready to take a big tumble. Now we've got a minute left.
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We've been through that at the Payton Law Firm because in fifty years,
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I've won cases that I thought, man, I'll never get a dime out
37:22
of this case, and like ready to Trappano told me once, and you're
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not a very good lawyer to tell you to lose the perfect case. And
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I've done that too. But we I've been doing it almost fifty years.
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Tom's been at twenty plus. And we take great pride and individual service to
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