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09/12/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Nichole Christian, Susie Salsbury, and Brad McElhinny · The Dave Allen Show

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here. Interims continue plus with each day comes, it seems like a new
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information about the mascoon on a WVU. Brad and I are going to delve
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into that a little bit later on in the show. If you heard yesterday's
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show, and if you didn't, we'll shame on you. You can go
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back and listen to it on demand at WCHS network dot com or on our
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Facebook an X page of social media, so on and so forth. Former
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Delegate Doug scaff was on the show speculated in his future. Thank you pretty
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much spelled it out yesterday. What the future is going to be? Go
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back and listen for yourselves. We'll get into that a little bit later on.
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But I want to welcome in to the show right now a couple of
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my favorite people in the world, Nicole Christian and Susie Salisbury from the Charleston
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Area Alliance. Nicole, good morning, how are you? Good morning?
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David? At least you didn't say Chevy. I did so, Actually I
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did. I did say Chevy. That's what happens, you know. Here's
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a little behind the scenes information. Okay, we got new information to tell
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the people about the Thornhill Auto Group, and I printed it off when I
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have all these other papers here, and when I printed it off, I
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throw away the old copy as well as the new copy. And I just
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realized it about ten seconds before airtime. So I'm calling up my email on
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my phone with these you know, fifty three year almost fifty three year old
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eyes here who still can't see out of buy vocals after my third pair.
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And I'm trying to read it off my phone. So there you go.
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But thanks for embarrassing me. I can I got a wife to embarrass me.
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I don't you know they've thinking to make fun of me. I don't
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need you, but anyway, it's beside the point. And Susie, welcome
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back to the show. Good morning, Thank you for having great to have
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you folks with us. Big day, he's a big day for the Charles
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scenario night you got a big lunch and going on talk about them. It's
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actually it's one of my favorite days because it's an opportunity for us to stop
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and thank that so many people, organizations and projects that go on in this
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community that really make it such a great place to live, work and play.
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It's that we love our community of the Awards, and it is happening
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today four thirty pm at the Downtown branch of the library up in the third
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floor. It'll take about an hour and we will be awarding ten different folks
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and groups for their outstanding work. For example, we will be providing an
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award for Community, Best Community Celebration, Best New Development, Best Redevelopment.
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We actually have two redevelopment projects this year. We're also honoring you may recall
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Jim Thomas, and we started an award probably twenty five years ago to honor
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his volunteer work in this community. So it's called the James R. Thomas
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Outstanding Volunteer Awards. We're going to be honoring somebody with that award. We
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also have ad the Charleston Awards, so we have ten different ones. But
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we do this celebration a little bit different. So it's not your typical put
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up a power point and I said it was lunch and it's actually it's actually
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not yet dinner time. A little reception, your reception, okay, yeah,
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but it's not your typical awards program. Like I said, it will
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be about an hour, but we do it through a form of the arts
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and each year we invite back some previous award winners to help us in presenting
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the awards the next year. So this year, last year we honored Arts
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to the Max individual, we honored Matthew Jackfort, the composer, and so
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he's coming back and he's gonna be our entertainment. So if you've always wanted
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to come and hear some of Matthew Jackford's original work, come today. It's
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free at four thirty. And how are these awards voted on? We have
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a committee, we have a subcommittee, and we have a Community devote committee,
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and we have a subcommittee of that that we really work year round,
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and we compile a list and we look to see what kind of projects are
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going on in the community. Most of these are projects that were completed by
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the end of twenty twenty two, so we already have a list ready for
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next year because there's so many projects going on. And again, there are
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so many things going on here in the Charleston area. So how long how
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many years of the sixteenth year sixteenth year have there been any And I would
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imagine there probably had maybe some repeat winners from time to time. I mean,
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Pete, where do you try to go for somebody different every year.
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How does that work? We go for somebody different every year? Yeah,
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and that's the beauty. I keep a big spreadsheet and every time when we
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get the subcommittee together and we sit down, you know, it's like,
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Okay, what's going on. Well, let's look back, and I've got
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that whole spreadsheet there shows exactly who was one what who was our entertainment,
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where we held the venue and all of that. So we moved the venue
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around. The library was one of our Redevelopment Award winning projects last year.
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So we're hosting it in the library this year. And I will say that
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if you haven't had an opportunity to see the library, it's been open for
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some time now, but it's absolutely a show place. I mean, it's
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really really is. It's one of the It's one of those hidden gems,
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I guess because people think, oh, it's a library, but there's there's
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there's a whole lot more going on there than that than just books and materials.
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It's it's a great community space. I mean, you know, Dave,
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we're in rotary meets there. It's it's, uh, what they've done
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with that facility. It's so welcoming and engaging. It's it's fantastic and and
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it just goes back to when you think about the premise for these awards,
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it's about recognizing all that's happening in this incredible community. And it takes more
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than just one person or one group. So this is our opportunity to to
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help showcase what's going on, but to really think all those that are supporting
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this, you know, the future and development and the growth in our community.
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I mean, it's it's amazing. We do have a lot to celebrate
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here. I get on the show Money through Friday, and we complained about
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things, you know, from time to time, that's the nature of it.
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But we do have a lot to celebrate here in the Canal Valley well.
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And you know, these programs are not possible without the sport of our
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sponsors, Like you have sponsors here for the show, Dave, I mean,
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we we are so thankful for the sponsors of these programs. Uh Spellman
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Thomas in Battle is our title sponsor, and then we have three other sponsors.
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We have our reception sponsor, which is ZMM Architects. We have Susie
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help me out here, Family care House Centers, is our music sponsor,
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and then the Federal Homelone Bank of Pittsburgh is our artist sponsors. Well,
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we actually commission an artist each year to create the awards, so the awards
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are never the same. We use a different artist every year. They're fantastic,
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they're beautiful, and it's so exciting and funna see. I think half
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of the excitement is the unveiling of the awards and then we usually try to
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put them in a poster too, so it's it's a lot of fun.
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It's it's really feel good. And listen, we get enough bad news and
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stuff that we have to deal with on a regular basis. It's a celebration.
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This is you know, let's celebrate the positive that's happening and what else
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we have going on with the alliance. Well, I did want to mention
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Dave, thanks for the opportunity, but we are open right now to accepting
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new tenants in our small business incubator. Incubator has been around since the eighties
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and it's a great space. It's a low cost space for entrepreneurs who are
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just getting started or who have not been in a commercial space before. It's
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our office building over at eleven sixteen Smith Street. We have three floors of
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incubator space and depending on the size of what the entrepreneur needs. But it's
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really fun. We just were reading about one of our former tenants who graduated
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out of the incubator, Watkins Design Works, will be celebrating their tenth anniversary
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in December. So the incubator is it is designed to help get those businesses
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and and even nonprofits up and running to be successful. So three oh four
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three four four two five three Drew Dunlap, he can take anyone on a
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tour and we're happy to help be you know, continuing to provide this needed
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space. Indeed, indeed, and uh so what else? I mean?
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You guys always got business after hours business. That's why I saw that this
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morning. I was kind of leading you into that business after hours of Thursday.
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Is that right? And Goodwill is our host. This is the bluelt
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Business after hours. So this is a take on a kick off. What
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am I trying to say? Full tailgate tailgate party? I'm sorry, it's
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what I started with the with the show Nicole spread to you apparently. Yeah,
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so I couldn't help a day if I climb, but every yit yeah,
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so it'll it'll be a great time, goodwill over just uh you know,
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close to downtown here. They've got all kinds of fun stuff planned encouraging
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everybody you know, certainly come right after work in your business attire or dressed
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in your favorite team attire and show your your team spirit. Getting ready for
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the backyard brawl this weekend. We were just talking about that before the show.
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So it looks like the weather's gonna be great for both the business starting
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in the backyard starting to feel like fall. I mean it is football weather,
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which I love. All right. Where can people learn more about any
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events going on with Charleston and your alliance? Get us the website, social
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media, phone numbers, whatever you got uh social media. We're on all
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of the social media platforms. You can find the Charles Snary Alliance on Facebook
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and Instagram, on LinkedIn, Twitter. Our website is Charleston Area Alliance dot
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org and the phone number three zero four three four zero four two five three.
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We're happy to help her answer any questions and the awards will be getting
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in a way at the library at four thirty this afternoon. That's correct,
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it's fin it's free, it's free. It's free. That's a cool thing
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about it, Like a nice little reception to come out there and see and
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celebrate people doing good stuff in the community. Nicole, Susie, it's always
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a pleasure to have you here. Thanks a lot, Thank thank you,
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good morning. How are you, sir? Hey, good morning. Dave's
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doing pretty good. I'm want to go and get this out of the way
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now, fake news, fake news, fake news, all right, I
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just I want to get that out of my system. So you have called
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me fake news, and I returned the same to you. Yea, yep,
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I cast stones at your restaurant and I declare it terrible. Yet I'm
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gonna come in and sit down and demand some biscuits. That's a very good
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analogy. Leave it to media folks to come up with analogies about food.
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So you know, I said, that's kind of an insight. I'm I'm
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gonna address something about that a little bit later on. But we got bigger
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issues than biscuits, although I don't know if there are any bigger issues than
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biscuits, Brad, And that is that's at the top of the show.
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It seems like every day there's another piece of news out of Morgantown and it
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doesn't revolve necessarily around Neil Brown or Bob Huggins. So what happened yesterday that
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you were covering brand, Well, where do I even begin? That's true?
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True, So I mean, I hope everybody's familiar with the context.
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WVU is right in the middle of a bunch of paintball cuts programs Tapley staff,
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and those are going to be finalized later this week by West Virginia University's
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Board of governors. There has been a backlash that included a vote of no
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confidence against the current president, Gordon Gee, And so yesterday, what we
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thought was going to happen was that Gee himself and the Vice President for Strategic
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Initiatives, Rob Alsop, would address legislators. So, you know, timing
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is the key to everything, and this was going to be big moment.
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Alsop did speak and had a lot to say, and his tone was pretty
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interesting, vigorous tone. He was not there and what he apparently told faculty
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Senate on a zoom call yesterday, so the faculty WVU is that he's got
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some hip problems maybe having or is preparing for some hip surgery, so he
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did not make the trip to Charleston. Interesting timing, but he wasn't there.
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So nevertheless rob Alsop, who's his number two. Alsop is riker to
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gis Picard. So he goes in and tells the legislature, members of the
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Finance the Joint Finance Committee that w VU is experiencing pain, but is going
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through these cuts in a thoughtful and procedural manner. There of course, has
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been sort of a push on why doesn't the legislature provide more money to Cushing
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Wview so it can buy time or so it doesn't have to go through all
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this right now? What Altop said was we would happily accept state money.
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Who wouldn't, right, But if it's to be one time money, he
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doesn't think that that wouldn't necessarily solve w View structural problems, which are related
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at least in part to fewer and fewer students each year. Theew very well
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could be right back in the same situation next year. So his point was
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the university has to act now to address those structural imbalances in the budget and
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try to come out of it in a in better shape heading into the next
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budget here and Bratt, I know you've been keeping a close eye on this,
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and you've talked about and of course Hoppy has been covered it at length.
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I was able to listen to the majority at least the first hour of
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Hoppies Show yesterday, and Dave Wilson covered in Hoppies absence, and all eyes
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in the state have been have been on this thing. There's just so many
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different angles of this story. And like I said, it's kind of making
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light of a little bit. But every day, every hour, there is
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something new that comes out with all of these problems at w VU, and
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and there's you know, I had Senator Tarr and last week. I know
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he was a part because interims are going on to get to that with you
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here in a couple of moments. But it seems like there's so many different
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factors that have a voice in this. You know, you talked about President
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ge but you also talked about mister Olsop, and then then there's the faculty,
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and then there's the Board of Governors, and then there's the you know,
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the students themselves and they had a protest last week. I mean,
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there's just so many different nuances to the story brand, and one of them
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is what is President Ye's status. He's beyond obviously the typical retirement age.
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Recently signed a one year extension into twenty twenty five for his contract. But
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he's on the seat. A lot of blowback from faculty and students. Clearly
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there was a vote of no confidence last week. Often, but not always,
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following that kind of vote of no confidence, the president of an institution
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will find that it's untenable to remain. So. Larry Road, delegate from
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Kinnau County, a Democrat who had been in years past the leader of West
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Virginia State's governing board, said, look, in my experience, when there's
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a vote of no confidence, eventually the president leaves. Should we begin now
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to have a national search for the leader of the flagship institution? And also
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pushed back on that, he said, the assertion is that there's going to
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be some sort of change, and I want to address that. He said
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that Gordon Ye is the guy until further notice. He said that Ye and
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the administration are fulfilling the will of the Board of Governors, which asked for
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this transformation, essentially to examine and carry out the cutbacks and I'll stop continued
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by saying, our president has the full support, I believe, or significant
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support from the Board of Governors. They asked for this, meaning the transformation,
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and they'll consider it on Friday. He Alsop did say that as WFEW
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comes nearer to the end of Gordon Guy's contract, he does expect that sort
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of national search, but the time is not now well and again as I
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talked to him, I met Sina tar Was on the show was this last
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week, and as I said, he made comments Chester Days, as have
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others, that there's a lot of attention on this story. And it's not
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just BRAD as you well know, in West Virginia. This is getting headlines
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Forbes, Pittsburgh Post, Washington papers I think have all done stories National,
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CNN, Fox and maybe have all done stories possibly on this cause it's not
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just that they're looking on it like, oh, look at these people in
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West Virginia. What they're looking at is that many of their institutions BRAD in
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their respective states are looking at many of the same issues that we had at
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WVU. Yeah, WU is Canary in the coal mine, so to speak,
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you know, talking about that coverage. One of the hopes at WVU
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is to bring in more students, and so that is one of the ways
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West Virginia University is assessing its programs. Which ones are the ones that students
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are enrolling in, that they that they envision as their majors, that they
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see career paths in the university is moving forward with a roughly three percent tuition
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increase, so trying to strike that balance. But students represent dollars. Unfortunately,
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sorry students, but you do. It is it's a business. I
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mean, it really is. And I think that maybe sometimes we get ahead
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of ourselves. We don't think about that it is a business. It is
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in many ways. It's a it's it's it's tough to strike that balance.
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It's it's a business. It's right now. The basic problem is the university
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has more expenses than it has money coming in. And one way to address
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that would be to recruit and retain additional students. That that cascade of bad
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publicity in the Pittsburgh Paper, in the New York Times, in the Washington
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Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education probably doesn't help a view with recruiting
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in those areas. If parents are reading those stories, not great, but
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uh, you know, eventually, the w View does hope to be on
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firm or footing. This shall pass in terms of the being on the hot
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seat of bad publicity and w VIEW at some point hopes to get its feed
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under it to settle rally and encourage more students to attend well. And this
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is not a situation with like you know, those folks in Philippe at with
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Alders and abroad us. I mean, they're not going out of business anytime
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soon or anything like that. This is the Staint's Land Grand Institution. I've
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been here forever there that the institution is not having a fire sale at this
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point. But but but to your point, as West Virginia's we continue to
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move and try to get more people to come into West Virginia, Brad and
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a lot of these economic development announcements that we have each day about trying to
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bring more people into West Virginia, even those that maybe don't have kids that
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are going to be going to college or or they don't. I mean,
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it's got to be that's one of the one of the selling points of any
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state is going to be higher education, not only WVU, but Marshall and
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State and and and and all the others as well, and you've got to
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try to sell that and people associate I mean, I'm a Marshall guy,
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but people associate West Virginia University with Bean the state university. That's just the
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way it is. And when you are trying to go out to we had
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that big delegation just went up to Seattle not long ago to talk to people
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in California and even across the world. When you see those headlines, it
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doesn't it doesn't mode well for selling the state, right. Yeah. You
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know, if you are the flagship the land grant institution, you've you've almost
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got to be all things to all people. So you've got to provide those
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degree programs that are up and coming the jobs of the future, but also
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lean somewhat towards you know, the classics. Whether the philosophy program pays off
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or not, whether the literature program pays off or not, there's something to
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be said for for churning out students who are well versed in those those formative
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aspects of culture and education. And so the World Languages program is the one
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that really gets the attention. And you did make the decision to spare some
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of those from the shopping block Spanish, for example, but many of them.
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The university apparently intends to provide online in potentially in collaboration. You might
26:14
be a student at WU taking your Russian course or whatever presented at another campus
26:22
somewhere else, also potentially talked about a cooperative agreement with other Big twelve schools.
26:29
But you know that when we talk about it around my dinner table,
26:33
we say, but what is the VIV you doing with the languages programs?
26:37
Don't we need to turn out, in a global economy students who are familiar
26:41
with and well versed in other languages. And so that's the kind of balance
26:47
that I think it's hard to strike right now. All right, So where
26:49
are we as far as the interims go, Brad, we'll kind of move
26:52
on to close with that. Interims are are continuing? Is that right?
26:56
Still going on? This morning? The Department of trans Rotation presented some practical
27:02
aspects and I'm going to have to go back over this in my notes,
27:06
but you know the condition of the highways clearly hits home with people, especially
27:14
if it is their road. And so there was some discussion this morning about
27:18
what is highways doing, what is the progress, particular attention to mowing and
27:25
mowing equipment. I am probably not there's probably not a whole lot of sizzle
27:30
regarding our conversation me and you, Dave. But I just think that's that's
27:33
really practical and people can relate to it. You know, if you mow
27:37
your lawn or if you notice the side of your highway and whether it is
27:42
properly mowed or not. The Highways Department is paying close attention to that and
27:48
wants to do better, has gotten an increased amount of equipment to deal with
27:55
that mowing that should bear fruit in the spring. And then the thing that
28:00
I was watching right before going on with you is DHR is in the middle
28:04
of that split into three agencies that the little bureaucratic more bureaucratic than knowing is,
28:11
that's for sure, But you know, the state legislators need to pay
28:15
attention to that to make sure it is as smooth as can be. A
28:18
lot of West Virginians participate in the programs that DHHR offers, and they certainly
28:26
don't want to see everything get messed up as the chairs are rearranged, and
28:32
so the Health Committee with the Senate and the House listening right now to what
28:38
progress is being made on that split into three. It's it's a local person,
28:45
by the way, who is in charge of much of that, Doctor
28:47
Sherry Young, the interim director of DHHR, and is going to move into
28:53
the leadership role of the singled out Department of Health when all this is said
28:59
and done well. Brad will be following along on x the Artists formerly known
29:03
as Twitter, and on the website mv metronews dot com as well. I
29:07
appreciate you taking time out of your schedule and go and UH and and study
29:11
more of the riveting UH committee there on. On mowing. Yeah, I'm
29:15
gonna have some mowing follow ups here. Person. All right, thanks a
29:18
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Brad and now we're kind of you know. I mean, it's again not
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the most riveting thing to talk about what's going on with with with highways and
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mowing. But as somebody who travels this state a whole heck of a lot,
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I'll be doing that today as a matter of fact, a whole lot
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today. Uh. There's a lot of work going on. There's a lot
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of construct action, there's a lot of paving, there's a lot of mowing
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going on in wester Ndinia. We complained about the roads, but I can
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dot com for details. Tex says we need to understand what land grant university
35:09
means. It's a university created to receive a grant of federal land for the
35:14
purpose of providing education to the working class. To call WVU a business betrays
35:19
its land grant status. The focus of land grant is educating everyone. Wvu's
35:24
focuses on making money while also being unaffordable to so many. According to a
35:29
texture, Yeah, I mean you hear that term thrown around a lot,
35:32
and I had to do a little research on exactly what land grant institution means.
35:36
But the texture is absolutely right about that. But at the end of
35:39
the day, it is still a business. I mean, we don't like
35:45
to say that education is a business, but it is. We don't like
35:50
to say that healthcare is a business, but it is, because it's all
35:53
about dollars and cents. And when WVU is operating as at a deficit like
36:00
it is, and again all this blame can be thrown around, it is
36:07
what it is. And I know I hate using that term, but it
36:09
is what it is, and it's a business. And when you operate a
36:13
business the way that West Virginia University has been operating over the last few years,
36:17
and we did you know again, they just didn't get into this overnight.
36:21
It's been that way for a while. Then you're gonna have problems.
36:23
You can't you can't operate your business this way, can't operate you know,
36:27
your automotive repair shop, you can't operate your family's budget that way because you
36:32
can't run into problems. And then that's what they're doing. They're running into
36:37
problems right now, big doings and this is a kind of a story.
36:39
It's unfolding right now in the drug world this morning here in Charleston. Reports
36:44
are that nearly twenty warrants were executed this morning by the Charleston Police and the
36:47
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Now. It happened at
36:52
around six this morning at the Vista View Apartments thirteen hundred Renaissance Circle Drive here
36:58
in Charleston. Charles Police set to issue a statement that they haven't already we
37:02
will have. I've overheard a conversation Jeff and and the team. We're working
37:06
on the story right now. So if there's not something on the website now
37:09
or on social media, there will be soon. We expect to have a
37:12
statement. If it's not already, may have already been, uh, may
37:15
have, But so just follow the follow the news on that and we'll keep
37:22
you updated as well as as on the website and on the social media.
37:29
The WC television reporting that math, fentnel and other numerous drugs as well as
37:34
firearms were seized. So score one for the good good guys, Great job
37:37
off, Anthony. I was having a problem hearing you there. Did you
37:39
we have a call? Okay? We got a call. Let's go to
37:43
don You're on five AD Live. Go ahead, Hey, how are you
37:45
today? I'm doing fine, sir? How are you? Oh? Pretty
37:49
good list. I'd like to comment about the Gordon situation. Yes, sir,
37:52
I am sorry if you you be more in to now, if you
37:57
don't think this is all at the Sea accord. Look what Kenny Bass uncovered
38:01
about him? What in twenty sixteen or so, his how he spent money.
38:07
He's been right off. I'm not gonna say I don't know that he's
38:10
been fired from any universe, but he's been shown the back door under shady
38:16
circumstances Ohio State, I think Vanderbilt, or there was a couple of other
38:22
ones where he just spent more money than he was worked. In my opinion,
38:28
he did. I mean when my son went up there in twenty fourteen
38:31
to twenty seventeen, every every time tuition come due in two or three months,
38:38
you would get another one where that we made a mistake. He owe
38:42
us another thousand dollars, another five hundred dollars, and it just seemed like
38:45
they were he has Anybody could have seen this coming, and I'm sure people
38:53
did see it coming. And everybody's just in denial because they let it happen.
38:59
Well, I'm on the as skid. Let let me jump and ask
39:00
you a question. You said your son was there and just a couple of
39:02
years ago. Is that right? Yes? Yeah, okay, So what
39:06
is Okay, it's somewhat well, congratulations to your son. So what is
39:10
what? What's his take on this? And I say that because he's somebody
39:14
that was actually on campus, whereas the rest of us are not. We're
39:16
here in the Charleston area, but he's actually on campus. What's his take
39:20
on the whole thing? I had not talked to him about it. Uh,
39:22
he lives he lives in Mobile, Alabama, So I haven't gotten a
39:28
chance to talk to him. King on him. I mean, this isn't
39:30
something on my upfront part, right, I get it. I get it.
39:34
Well, yeah, but what I hear you all talk about, especially
39:37
Hoppy Hoppy. I don't know Hoppy. Him and I have talked about it
39:42
over the years. And I remember in twenty fourteen when my son was uh
39:46
first went up there. Uh, and I think that's when President he came
39:52
is twenty fourteen. I don't know the exact year. But what we'll go
39:58
with that. Yeah, he lowered a tuition for out of state students,
40:04
I believe, and he kind of raised him a very small amount for his
40:07
state. I remember that kind of chapped me a little bit too. And
40:12
all you have to do, I'll tell you something else, doctor Drake.
40:16
He's the one that replaced him at Ohio State University. If you can read
40:20
between the lines on an interview he did where he said, finally we're starting
40:23
to get our budget back under control and starting to break them. And then
40:32
let's not verbatim, but if you read that, that is on the hills
40:36
of Nordon Gee, okay or grifter Gee is out all right? All right,
40:42
don he makes some good points. I appreciate your phone call. Thanks
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of Winfield, Tex says Dave. I noticed the governor and all the flags
41:01
that have massed on nine to eleven, but invited the masterminds to play golf
41:06
at this hotel resort. Something is wrong here. According to a texture,
41:12
Texture says, Lincoln would be a rhino in today's radical Republican Party, extremism
41:16
is the currency of the modern goop. They excuse the attack on the Capitol,
41:22
support partnering violent criminals who committed today's conspiracy, and openly suggests another civil
41:27
war and political violence. You know, that's not true of all Republicans.
41:32
Texture, that is not true of all Republicans. But I will say extremism
41:36
is a problem. It is a big problem within the Republican Party. It's
41:39
also a big problem within the Democratic Party. I'm not trying to play what
41:43
a baodhism, but i'd actually, you know, I sat down this morning
41:45
in my computer and sometimes I get an idea and I just roll with it,
41:49
and I wrote out all this stuff. I don't know whether I'll get
41:51
to it, but I'll save it for a future show. Because I heard
41:53
something yesterday that my good friend Danny Jones was on with the Hoppy yesterday and
42:01
he was talking about where we are now and where we were as I kind
42:07
of alluded to this a little bit yesterday too. In September eleventh, as
42:10
we commemorated that day yesterday, September eleventh, the two thousand and one compared
42:15
to where we are now. Danny's take was, and I agree that we're
42:19
in a dark place in America right now. And I don't know that I
42:27
have seen the attitude, attitudes, if you will, of America on both
42:32
sides and just as a whole, be any worse than what they are now.
42:37
And no, it's not because of Joe Biden. No, it's not
42:39
because of Donald Trump. It they're factors, and the strong feelings towards both
42:45
are factors. But it goes much deeper than that, and well before that,
42:52
So I'll maybe get into that a little bit later. Ron, all
42:57
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five five zero zero eight text says, is there any news on the investigation
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of the incident involving the Honorable Kent Carper at Daniel Boone Park. I have
46:02
not heard. I'm not exactly sure where that investigation is right now. I
46:08
do not know Texas. All Republicans aren't white nationalists, but white nationalists cozy
46:14
with Republicans, and you never hear Republicans announcing the white nationalist. Take from
46:20
that, what you will well, this Republican denounces white nationalists. I'm only
46:23
one, but I'm just that guy. But I will Texas nice both sighting
46:29
the extremism problem. Show me where the Democrats attacked the Capitol and the leaders
46:32
of the Democratic Party support the attack. Unless you can, there is no
46:37
comparison. Did you see the video yesterday when? Now this is not to
46:40
try to equate this to what happened on January six Do you know my feelings
46:45
in January sixth? But did you see the video yesterday where several folks and
46:51
I think they were HIV activists did a sit in at Kevin McCarthy's office yesterday?
46:58
Did you see again not comparing the two? There are two different things.
47:00
But yeah, no, I'll hold true to that there is extremism on
47:05
both sides. I mentioned yesterday my interview with a former delegate and an also
47:09
state senator, and I say former delegate because he resigned on Friday, Doug
47:13
Scaff. The same thing I said yesterday holds true today. Doug Scaff will
47:16
run for something else, in my opinion, possibly secretary of state. He
47:21
certainly sounded like a secretary of state candidate yesterday on the show and speaking of
47:25
that office. Current Putnam County Clerk Bryan Would, who was one of the
47:29
first to announce he would be running for the office of Secretary of State,
47:30
will be on the show tomorrow. Delicate. Chris Pritt is in the race,
47:35
as well as former Delegate Ken Reid. I would think that Brian Wood
47:38
would have a lot of statewide support from from county clerks and people like that.
47:46
But you also have to ask yourself this question, and that is what
47:52
party will Doug scaff be. There continues to be speculation that mister scaff and
47:57
he kind of was very coy with it yesterday, that he may be changing
48:04
parties from from Democrat to Republican. One thing is for sure, he didn't
48:08
ask for my political advice, but I'll give it to him that it would
48:12
be very, very difficult for Doug Scaff or anyone else to get elected in
48:19
West Virginia as a Democrat on a statewide level period. Like it or not,
48:23
West Virginia is a super red state and getting reader by the day,
48:28
and again starting this was starting before Donald Trump, and as mister scaff said
48:35
yesterday on the show, a lot of it is based on the national identity
48:37
of the Democratic Party and what it's become. Period. One of our own
48:45
is getting into the political arena. Joe Parsons, who you don't hear on
48:50
the air, but trust me, he's here serving as the general manager of
48:54
the Charleston cluster of all the WVRC media radio stations here at eleven eleven,
48:58
announcing yesterday he will be running for the House of Delegates on the Republican ticket.
49:02
Now, this is the sixties delicate district made up primarily Jackson County Delicate.
49:07
Steve Westfall is currently in that seats. He, mister Westfall, not
49:13
running for his seat again, is said, choosing to run for Jackson County
49:19
Commission. I want to give credit where credit is due to my fellow media
49:23
scumbag Steven Allen Adams VOGDA Newspapers for an excellent op ed that he released yesterday.
49:30
You can find it easily online or on Steven's social media, Wheeling Intelligence
49:35
or newspaper other papers as well. He was talking about something that I have
49:39
mentioned, that is the fact that there are many who when they don't like
49:46
the results of something, be it a news story, being a pole in
49:50
this particular case whatever. Even admittedly when mistakes were made in doing, said
49:54
Paul, talking about the West Virginia Pole and Research America Rectory Pass and whatnot
49:59
that you label it and the organization behind it his fake news. And again
50:05
you know, rex Repass, Research America made a mistake, and the Polly
50:07
Metro News was a part in publicizing that. That showed Attorney General Patrick Morrissey
50:15
wasn't as far away in second place as was originally thought. The poll showed
50:21
more capital about the race for governor Republican ticket. The pole showed more Capito
50:25
in first in the poll for the Republican nomination for governor, followed by Attorney
50:30
General Morrissey, Auto magnate Chris Miller, and then Secretary of State Make Warner.
50:35
Originally reported that mister morrissey support level was at twenty three percent, when
50:39
later it was discovered it's actually twenty seven percent. Capito was still in the
50:44
lead, but perhaps the bigger winner overall was the always popular candidate undecided,
50:50
because that's where most people, well obviously most that's where a lot of people
50:54
are right now in the race on the Republican side for governor, many are
50:58
undecided. Now. Morrissey called out the polling and Metro News, as did
51:02
Secretary of State Mike Warner and you throwing out the term fake news. And
51:09
by the way, I shared Steven Allandam's column on my social media pages in
51:14
the case you'd like to read it for yourself. And thank you, by
51:16
the way, to Stephen for referring to Metro News is being fair in the
51:22
middle of the road. Appreciate that although I'm a very very very small part
51:27
of the big picture of Metric an hour a day part. As a matter
51:30
of fact, I appreciate that. You know, mistakes were made in the
51:32
polling, apologies were issued and hopefully we can move on. Brad alluded to
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this though earlier. Is he and I did our segment earlier in the show.
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As I said, they never call us fake news when they reach out
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to us asking for airtime. It's funny. It's funny how that works,
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tech, says Dave. I am a Republican who denounces white nationalism. Well,
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I see there's two of us. Now, there's actually a lot more
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than that. All right, gotta go. Thanks to all my guests for
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being on the show today. My producer of the A Train, Anthony Harmon,
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thank you so much. As well, coming up on the show tomorrow,
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say Senator Amy Grady is going to be here, and as I said,
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Republican candidate for West Virginia Secretary of State current Putnam Kenny Clert Brian Wood
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will be on the show tomorrow as well. Follow the news of the day
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w Metronews dot com, WCHS Network dot com. Two Denny Harmon, thank
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you so much. Enjoy your Tuesday. I will see you tomorrow till Dan
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have fun. I love somebody whs am A six point five, Then Charleston
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one O four point five Cross Lanes, w BRC Media Station. We are
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proud to live here too,