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03/13/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Dr. Casey Sacks, Greg Thomas · The Dave Allen Show

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place. It's coming up on the show a little bit later on. As
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I mentioned, it is day two of the State boys basketball tournament at the
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Kytle Seeming Convention Center. We'll talk about that just a little bit. Plus
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Republicans strategist Greg Thomas we'll be stopping by as well. Always interesting to get
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mister Thomas's take on things. Always interested in talking to this person too.
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It's our good friend from Bridge Valley, doctor Casey Sachs After Sacks. Good
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morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave. How are you
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today? I'm doing fine, Thank you for being here. You're here via
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the Big Lee Pigly Wiggly Hotline this morning. You guys just did something on
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Monday, aptly named It's called Meet the Majors Monday. Now, as I
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understand this, each week you take to your social media and whatnot and you
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talk about some of the majors that you offer at Bridge Valley. So let's
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get into some of those different majors that are off for just a few great
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yes. So we try really hard to help people in the community understand some
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of the offerings that are available here at Bridge Valley. On Monday, we
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focused on Highway Engineering Technology. It's actually a really cool program. The Department
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of Transportation started it with us. So when people are interested in working on
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highways, bridge maintenance, all kinds of repair, they go through our program.
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And most of the employees from the Department of Transportation are actually who are
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in the program, although anyone is welcome, and that's what we focus on.
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How do we fix highways And there's a lot of that that is going
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on around the state and a lot of the needs to be done. And
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you travel a lot around the state as do I. I think you know
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exactly what I'm talking about. Doctor, That's true. I mean, we
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all hate those potholes. And this is a really dedicated group who are thinking
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about the civil engineering that really goes behind road maintenance and construction so that we
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can have great roads and do those improvement projects well. And it's one of
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those things that we talk about AI all the time. I don't know that
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that is going to be replaced by AI. There's always going to be potholes,
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and there's always going to be drivers that complained about them, like you,
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like me. So this is something that's always going to be needed.
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It's almost like a guaranteed jobs. I would think that's a great point.
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Even if Google is driving your car, it's still a car on a road.
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Somebody's going to be complaining about it. I don't Yeah, now you
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have a big Founder's Day gala, come it up, and I understand you
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were telling me that that's sold out. Now it is. We're so excited.
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It's the first time we've ever done something like this before, and it's
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our ten year anniversary. We're so we're having a big celebration at the Clay
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Center and we're sold out. So we were thrilled. Thank you to the
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community for all the support and outpouring. It should be a really fun night.
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Yes, I'm sure it will be. And I've also noticed that you
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guys been taking the show on the road lately. I saw where you were
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going to kill last week. Talk about the importance of taking the message and
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the a bridge value out to the people, so to speak. So my
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team is incredible. They're really committed to getting out to businesses and to schools
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as our main way of just getting the message out. So the same way
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you mentioned we talked about our majors, we want to do that face to
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face that we found the best way really to get the message out is to
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talk to potential students and to their families and to really help people understand what
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are the jobs that could be available if they take advantage of these opportunities.
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And so you're exactly right. Last week we had a team out at Okhill.
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Sometimes we take students with us, sometimes we take employers with us.
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The FAME partnership has been amazing at that the employers from the we've talked about
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FAME before, the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education, both Toyota and NEWCRE frequently
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so staff out to schools and two companies to help tell people about advanced manufacturing
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technology. But we try and do it for all of our programs. You
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know, you think you might want to be an accountant. Let's get you
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to talk to somebody who's in account so that we can really help you understand
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the value of the program. Here at Bridge Valley tat to doctor Casey Sacks
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of Bridge Valley. This morning, the Dave Island Show in five eighty Live
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Husband's Pizza dot com for delivery, pickup or for dying in. Along those
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same lines, Doctor Sachson, we'll talk about outreach that you do with high
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schools. Now. I know frequently you'll host high school students on campus for
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various activities, giving them an opportunity to get no Bridge Valley a little bit
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better? How do those generally go? Gosh? So we love having high
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school students. Anything that we can do to help people really understand what does
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that outreach? What does it look like on campus? We frequently host groups
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here on campus. So one of the things that students particularly like is the
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new nursing wing. They can go in and see the mannequins and some of
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the simulations. We have one mannequin that can give birth. It really looks
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like a hospital wing. So bringing in groups of students to see what authentic
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learning environment this is has been a really great strategy, and high school counselors
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frequently like to bring groups of students here on field trips because it's a good
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way to help students think about college and think about their future. And you
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don't have to travel hours and hours away to be able to do that.
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Any chance, you could bring that mannequin that can actually give birth into the
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studio next time you hear because Ryan and I want to see that. Oh,
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you can come visit Dave. She's really gross. Well, I guess
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the whole childbirth thing is I guess, But that's beside the point. You
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recently did a transfer fair. What is that? So we have some really
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terrific articulation agreements with various four year institutions in the area and across the state,
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and so we try and bring those groups in to really talk to students.
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So we set up our main atrium as a fair environment and advertise to
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students to help them know, you know, if you're thinking you want to
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transfer to marshal or to WVU or to State, come here and talk to
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some DeFore one of those institutions and to really get an idea of Gosh,
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if I'm in the Highway Engineering Technology program right now. And I might want
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to study to complete a bachelor's degree online? Who has that? How do
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I get in? What is it that I need to do? And so
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having those transfer fears provides all those people in the same space at the same
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time, So it makes it easier for students to talk about their options and
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think about what they might want to do next. I want to close by
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talking about the acronym, if you will, that probably puts fear into the
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hearts of parents and grandparents and students, and that is FASSA. Yeah,
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what exactly I mean? We hear this term in the news, and I'm
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not so sure it was such the big thing back when when I was in
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college one hundred years ago that it is now. But explain what FASA is
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and what is all what's all the I don't want to say controversy, but
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what are all the issues with FASA going on right now? And third part
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is what's Bridge Valley doing to kind of help out? So the FASTPA is
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the free Application for Federal Student Aid. It's the federal paperwork that students and
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families fill out to get access to federal funds that help you pay for college.
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It went through. Interestingly, it went through a simplification process. The
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federal government tried to make the form easier, and so what you've been hearing
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about in the news is that the form isn't easier. In changing it,
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it's changed all of the kind of back side coding, the information that goes
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from the federal government to schools about how much money students should be getting.
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And I don't think the federal government appreciated what a big lift changing the form
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was going to be and the impact that that would have on families. And
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so the it side of it has broken several times. They've had to do
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revisions. It's not been a smooth rollout, and so what you're hearing in
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the news is that families are really frustrated because you'll get on that federal website
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to try and fill out the form. And it was frustrating from me when
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I was a student, because my parents didn't go to college and we didn't
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know how to fill out that form, and so it felt a little scary
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anyway, because it's about money and it helps you figure out how much you're
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going to be able to afford to go to college. And so it already
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is kind of scary, and then to have the website break and to have
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it not work right, it's just very frustrating. So good hearing about Okay,
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well, that's what I'm going to say, because I've seen a simple
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scroll through social media of parents or grandparents saying that they're just, you know,
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almost literally pulling their hair out over this thing. And I just didn't
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know exactly what that was all about. But you do offer help in that
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department, So we offer help, and so I think that part's really important.
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But we're also your most affordable option for higher education. And so if
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families are frustrated and thinking, gosh, I don't know what we'll do for
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the fall, because the fast will lets you gauge how much federal support and
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how much loan support you'll get to be able to go to school. If
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you're thinking, gosh, I don't know, please don't give up. Come
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Bridge Valley for a year and then transfer. We just talked about the transfer
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there. We're the most We truly are the most affordable option in the area,
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and it's a great opportunity to come here and then go to Marshall,
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or come here and go to State or go to WV. We have transfer
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agreements with all of them, and so rather than continuing to pull your hair
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out, they take a deep breath and just say, I know, my
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kid can live at home for a year and they'll go to Bridge Valley and
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then we'll transfer the credits and it's going to be okay, all right,
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Doctor Sachs, It's always a pleasure to talk to you. We will talk
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again soon. Thanks a lot. Great to hear from you, Dave.
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Yeah, as always, doctor Sachs of Bridge Valley College. I always appreciate
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talking to her. And if you need more information about anything, just visit
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sir, Good morning Dave. How are you fine? Man? Did you
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catch the world win of the show I had with Rob Cornelia's not all of
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it, but parts of it. Yes, you guys like friends hang out
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together. I'd Rob and I have been friends since two thousand and two,
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worked on some stuff together and just always been buddies. And yeah, man,
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he's a he's a super smart guy. He's a super funny. He's
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an interesting fella. He's a radio guy, so he's got that going for
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him. You know. As a matter of fact, he was heading up
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to cover the mac turnament up in Cleveland for Ohio University. He's the colored
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guy. He's just all over the university. I like you see. I
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like him, but I like it because you're calm sometimes most most of the
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time, all the time, not all the time, all right, So
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let's get to it, greg The legelative session wrapped up Saturday night. We'll
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get into some specifics a little bit later on with overall thoughts. If you
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had to give it a letter grade, Gregory, what would it be?
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Uh, I'd say a ce. It started out it it was probably less
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than a sea, and I think they kind of saved it at the end
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to get a handful of things done. H you know, we talked about
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this last time. It was just a really tough year. I mean you
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had a ton you know, you had from the governor to you know,
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attorney general and treasurer and all the you know, judiciary chairs and everybody was
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running for something else. And and not that I think that they were.
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You know, some people were probably doing things to help their campaigns. I
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think a lot of it. It was just they just weren't as focused on
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what needed to be done. But it doesn't that normally happened during a campaign
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years, not to this degree. I mean, you know, I think
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you I think you must always have it. But look, we've had other
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campaign years before since the Republicans took over, and they weren't this bad.
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I think this was just there was a ton of that. You know,
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we sort of were at the end of the checklist of really big you know,
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up until this year, you know, we had been the most conservative
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legislature in the country session here. You know, I think if you probably
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average them all out, we still are. But this year here was definitely
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definitely not a very conservative session. Really, I don't think so. I
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mean they not the things that passed, not the things that passed, I
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mean government pay raise, what's conservative about that? You know, the the
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the the conservative things we did get done were really watered down, you know,
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so I it wasn't look but again that's why I say a C.
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I mean, I just don't think it's it's not an F where it's like,
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oh my gosh, we got to go elect all new people. It's
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not a you know, d's like just really really poor. This was like
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some stuff we're done. But it's definitely not an A and definitely, you
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know, to me, it's just kind of like, all right, we
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didn't do a lot of harm. We didn't. We did a little bit
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of good. You know, I'm hopeful that, you know, I'm hopeful
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we don't have sessions like this very often. Were you surprised Greg that some
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of these and again the sexy stuff is what makes the news. I mean,
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that's just the way it is. I mean, the majority of things
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that are passed of a legislature are bipartisan, you know, but that a
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lot of that doesn't get talked about because it's not it's not click bait,
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you know, it's not it's not what people want to talk about, budgets
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and things of that nature. But what got a lot of the attention was
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Women's Bill of Rights or whatever they called it, the Library Obscenity Bill,
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and all none of that stuff passed. Well, it goes back to what
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we talked about last time. We have we really need an organized social conservative
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organization in West Virginia because I think if you would have gone and grabbed like
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three of those things and written real bills and found out like what other states
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did and done that professionally, you would have passed those three bills. The
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problem was there weren't three of them. There were fifty of them, and
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they were ham handed. They was not much thought put into them. It
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was just, you know, every buddy had an idea. You know,
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somebody had been watching Fox News and came up with an idea and wrote it
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down on a napkin and took it down to bill drafting, and a bill
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came up and we debated it, and all those bills made it out of
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House Judiciary, and then after it got out of there, everybody looked at
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it and was like, what is this? What is this even supposed to
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do? What are we doing this? I'm a legislator. I was talking
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to a legislator who shall remain named us earlier this morning and he told me,
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he said, look, we know a lot of these things aren't going
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to pass, but we just like it to be seen that we're working on
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it. I just I guess, I guess that's just people that aren't used
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to getting things done in their life. You know, like who would do
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that? Who would just spin wheels? I mean, you have sixty days,
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I have an agenda, have something you want to do, go get
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it done. I mean we had done that, and you know we've done
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that in previous sessions. I mean why you know, why do that?
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Now? You think the sessions too long? No? I what I like,
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I tell you what that you know, there's some states that do it
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where they do a ninety day session sixty or ninety days one year, and
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then the next year they only do a thirty day session, just focused on
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a two year budget. And I would really like that. And really,
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I mean, as best I understand it, Greg, all they're required to
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do is get the budget. Yeah, I mean they don't have to do
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anything else. Well that I would have given that a bee. The budget
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you mean, I mean no, if we have just done a bud,
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just done the budget, I'd give them that a bee rather than the sea
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work that they did. I mean, but look, you know, the
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unemployment the thing was as good. You know, it's more of a re
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employment now rather than just unemployment. I mean, we have to decide what
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we want to be as a state. You know, we're going to be
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the kind of place where people come and work and we and we're it's an
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environment where people come and can have careers and have real jobs and be able
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to provide for their families. Or do we want to go back to yesteryear
22:52
and be the kind of place that says, hey, we'll take care of
22:55
you, will give you a very minor subsistence living and you don't have to
22:59
do anything. And I think that the reemployment bill gets toward that. We
23:03
had fixes with brim. You know, we passed some legal reform stuff that
23:07
was good. They eliminated the tax on social security. You know, there
23:14
was some prescription drug stuff with pei A that was good. You know.
23:18
So gun parts are no longer taxed. I mean, I don't know if
23:22
you knew about that or not. Gun parts. Gun parts Apparently we were
23:26
already not taxing guns. But for the people that assemble their own you know,
23:32
AR fifteen's and stuff, their parts were taxed. So that's no longer
23:34
tax you know. There was there were two amendments actually, you know I
23:38
talked about this before. You know, there were two amendments to put an
23:41
amendment on the ballot. There were two bills to put an amendment, two
23:45
resolutions to put an amendment on the ballot. One of them made it through,
23:48
which was the Youth in Asia one. The one that didn't was the
23:52
one that I was associated with. That the one about the non citizen voting
23:55
bill, which was a group that we had worked with and brought in here
24:00
and it was actually the thing that was being debated at midnight. Then it
24:04
just sort of run out of time. Clock ran out. Yeah, So
24:07
hopefully that'll be Uh. I think that's any because you uh, we had
24:11
we had an especially from the National Organization. The National Organization was in and
24:15
you know, we had almost overwhelming support for it. Uh. It was
24:18
just one of those, you know, things that gets caught up. There
24:21
was sort of a clerical error at the end and caused it to sort of
24:25
come up last minute. But we're pretty hopeful that that's going to be on
24:27
the May Special Session call. And look some of these other things that were
24:32
brought up that ran out of time, you know, given that they're going
24:34
to have to come back and deal with sort of the supplemental budget. You
24:37
know, I think I think the May Special Session call could have some could
24:41
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25:07
within the Republican Party, Because here's what. I didn't spend a whole lot
25:11
of time at the Capitol this year, but from what I what I in
25:14
talking to people that were there and talking to people kind of off the record,
25:18
I heard a lot of well, the House and the Senate just don't
25:22
get along, and there was some rumbling about the House Speaker Handshaw spending too
25:26
much time talking to the to Democrats, which I think that's what you're supposed
25:30
to do, is you're supposed to kind of work these things out. But
25:33
we have a lot of people with this mindset that if you're talking with the
25:37
other side, you're the enemy. Uh So that's something we got to give
25:40
by. But do you think there's too much made a division within the Republican
25:42
Party? Uh? There obviously is some division. I just think the people
25:47
that are being divisive are there's not that many of them. They're just very
25:52
vocal, right, They're the ones that always run to Facebook. They're the
25:55
ones that you know, go on the podcasts and talk all the time.
25:59
So I think it, you know, I definitely think there are there There
26:02
are divisions as there would be when you have these mega majorities that we have.
26:07
I just think it's it seems worse than it is because there are so
26:11
many there are the ones that are being divisive or just very loud. And
26:18
so look, I think some of those people are going to be will lose
26:23
their elections, right because some of them, they're not up there to pass
26:26
bills. Man, They're really just up there to get attention. And I
26:29
think you know, maybe the other people that sort of are on those Facebook
26:34
pages like that. But if you're you know, in if you're in Upshur
26:40
County, how can you possibly want Robert Carnes to be your senator? Right?
26:42
I mean he's not on it. You know, they's been taken off
26:45
of the committees. You know, every bill that he would bring up would
26:48
fail. He's never really passed anything ever. Like, you know, if
26:52
you're from there, why would you want that to be your senator? And
26:56
so I think I think there's a couple of people on the House side like
26:57
that too. I think that Henry Dillon Dude from Wayne County's probably in that
27:00
situation and in a few others. But you know, so I there is
27:07
division, it's just you know, you've just got some really vocal people that
27:11
honestly aren't trying to pass bills. They just you know, everybody does that
27:15
for a different reason, right. I mean, there's one hundred and thirty
27:18
four people there, So there's one hundred and thirty four different reasons or why
27:21
you run for legislature. But you're always going to have a handful that just
27:25
want to be heard. You know, some people like the sound of their
27:27
voice more than others. That's that's very true. And so and that's and
27:32
looking and as you know, I mean I do a lot of candidate recruitment
27:36
in the state. I probably do more than almost anybody else. And and
27:37
so you know, I just I'm just sensitive to that. And I know
27:42
it when I'm sitting there talking to somebody, and I'm always a little hesitant
27:45
if somebody is just like you can tell too, right, I Mean,
27:48
it's not like it's there, They're not even really trying to hide it.
27:52
It's just like I want to say this or I want to do that.
27:55
I'd rather have somebody say I want to make sure I'm heard, or I'd
27:59
rather have somebody say I want to make sure this gets done, rather than
28:00
I want to make sure I've heard, and we have a handful of people
28:04
now, I just want to be heard. And it says something to where
28:07
we are as a society. We're not going to play amateur psychologist. But
28:11
everybody's got social media, and everybody's a star, and everybody's an influencer.
28:15
And there's certain people that in the legislature, and they're some I'm sure of
28:18
the few Democrats are there, there's probably a few on that side too,
28:22
that it's all about them and it's not about the greater good. Tex says
28:26
the session needed the presence of a governor who's not scared to veto the dumber
28:29
bills. Instead, we get an absentee governor campaigning for US Senate. Well,
28:33
look, anytime you're I wouldn't use the word absentee. I mean,
28:37
it's obviously, you know, you sort of are any lame duck situation though,
28:41
when you're you're only have so much time left, you're running for something
28:45
else, that's just sort of you know, we're he's term limited though,
28:49
right, I Mean, it's not something he could just say I'm going to
28:52
run again, you know. So it's kind of a decision that was made
28:55
for him. So I you know, look, I think he wasn't.
29:00
Uh, I mean, he certainly had an agenda though, right, I
29:03
mean he had an agent. I mean, you know, the governor is
29:04
the one that was really pushing the pay raises. The governor was the one
29:08
pushing that social security tax that got that got taken care of. So I
29:12
mean, I you know, I think he had a decent session. But
29:18
you know, I don't there. I do think there's a lot of people
29:21
he doesn't. You don't really have to be there, you know what I
29:22
mean, Like he doesn't have you know, his rule. Shouldn't you be
29:26
greg? I mean, come on, I mean shouldn't. Shouldn't the governor,
29:30
whoever it is, be there, uh be there walking around? And
29:34
uh? You know, so I tell you what I tell you. How
29:37
about this, We're gonna We're gonna have a new governor next time. Yes,
29:41
And I'll come in like two weeks after the session starts, and we'll
29:45
talk about whether we think it's a good thing the governor is actually there.
29:48
About that, I think it depends on who's elected. Well I do too,
29:52
but that but let's have that discussion for that. Fair enough, speaking
29:55
to which if somebody sent me an article. Friend of mine sent me an
29:56
article just before the show this morning from see It in Politics, and I
30:00
had heard something about this, and this is on the national level, but
30:03
it kind of goes along with what we're talking about here with division within the
30:07
party. House Speaker Mike Johnson is in this article, and basically the headline
30:11
is many Republicans planning to skip the House GOP retreat, which is going to
30:15
be at the Greenbrier. I understand because they're grumbled about the location and they
30:19
don't want to spend time with each other. It's like an old married couple.
30:23
You know, we've been married for fifty years and the last thing I
30:26
want to do is spend time with you and driving across country. I don't
30:29
like that part of it, man. I you know, actually I talk
30:33
about this a lot. When I started out back when Rob Cornelius I first
30:37
met, you know, twenty two years ago. I knew Democrats right there
30:42
were people that you could talk. I mean you might not have gone and
30:45
had lunch together, but if you saw them out, you had conversations.
30:48
You were taught. Heck, there are people that were really involved in Democrat
30:52
politics back then that now have other jobs that I'm friendly with, you know
30:56
what I mean. But the tone is different, though, Man, the
30:59
tone is different now. I mean even among people, just as you brought
31:02
out, I mean just among people in their own party. I just don't.
31:06
I don't know, man, I just I don't understand the like going
31:08
and just not being able to get along with somebody enough to have a conversation.
31:12
I mean, heck, man, you know who I'm buddies with,
31:15
Mike Wolfel, you know when it like probably about to be the only Democrat
31:18
senator left, and he's a nice guy. Like we you know, we
31:22
don't agree on a whole lot, but like we get along. That's what
31:26
I'm saying. I just I don't. I don't like that aspect of it.
31:29
And I may say things on here that you know, this this is
31:32
a show. I don't know if you know wrong, but this is like
31:33
an entertainment This is on the air. Yeah, so it's like it's like
31:37
a news and entertainment show. So you gotta say some things. And I
31:41
know you're gonna have collars and it's fun and it's whatever, but like,
31:45
you know, if somebody's actually here and you're gonna you can have a conversation
31:48
with somebody. So I don't like that. I don't. I don't like
31:51
that at all. I don't like the fact that you said earlier, you
31:55
know, oh gosh, Roger's talking to Democrats. Well whatever, you know
31:59
what I mean, Like, well, I had a text about that.
32:01
This is speaker. Hanshaw did far more than talk to the other party.
32:05
He actively conspired with them. I mean, I wasn't in a conversation,
32:07
so I can't. I look, I don't have any evidence of that.
32:10
I mean, I guess i'd have to see what they're talking about. But
32:14
you know, I think that's Look, I think I think Hanshaw does.
32:17
That's a hard job. I mean, I think Hanshaw's really Harnshad is a
32:21
really good guy. He's a really starting to imagine and that's a really really
32:23
hard job, much harder than being the Cenate president. Let me do the
32:30
sex will go to break this, says. The Westervirginian workforce participation rate in
32:32
June of twenty fifteen was fifty four point five. It's fifty four point seven
32:37
as of January twenty twenty four. Why have Republicans been ineffective in increasing the
32:43
participation rate, and don't blame the federal government without also hold on, don't
32:46
blame the federal government without also talking about the Republican president and Republican Congress.
32:52
It's the federal government. I mean, it's the federal government said don't do
32:54
that. But they said that though, because they know that's the reason.
32:58
I mean, it'd be like, you know, having an argument with somebody
33:00
and like taking out their best argument and saying, well, you're not allowed
33:04
to say the thing that it actually is. It is that the federal government
33:07
makes it to where people don't have to go to work. That's why there's
33:09
a low participation rate. And to be honest with you, in West Virginia
33:14
it had been you know, super low forever. You know, we'd had
33:17
the lowest workforce participation rate in the country. They started taking that in February
33:23
of nineteen seventy six, and we had it every year that the Democrats were
33:28
in control, every single time. And this again, able bodied people.
33:31
This is not eighty year old or whatever this is. You know, Look,
33:35
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33:38
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the primary election a little bit. As you and I have talked in the
36:36
past, a lot of elections in this state, greg will be decided in
36:39
May rather than in November in the general, just as it was a lot
36:45
of times when the Democrats ruled for the past eighty years. What are you
36:49
looking at as far as some of these primary elections go, And we'll get
36:52
into the let's talk local at this point, we'll talk about governor and senator
36:57
and everything else. Like, let's talk about local. One that really hasn't
37:00
gotten too hot yet, but I think it eventually will gonna be this county
37:05
commission seat here. You actually have a Republican primary and a Democratic primary.
37:10
Natalie Tenant is up against longtime serving Commissioner Kent Carper. And you know,
37:20
I I don't talk to a lot of Democrats during the day. I mean,
37:23
I mean I do. I mean I know Democrats, but it's like
37:27
I don't talk to a lot. I don't really know sort of what they're
37:30
up to. I think it's sort of I mean, they're obviously not unified
37:34
behind Carper. You wouldn't have a big name person running against him, right,
37:37
So I don't really know, you know, what's going on there.
37:39
I think it'll be interesting to see who doesn't come out and support Carper,
37:45
you know what I mean, Like last time, I'm sure he ran,
37:46
or last time Selango ran or whatever, they all kind of got unified behind
37:51
one or the other. That didn't happen this time. So I think it'll
37:54
be it'll be interesting to see who doesn't help Kent. You know, whether
38:00
they publicly oppose him or not, I doubt, but you know, the
38:04
fairy fact that they're not helping him will probably be an indicator of where they
38:07
really were on the race. You know, on the Republican side, you
38:10
got Dwayne Duncan versus Chris Walters. I know both these guys personally. You
38:16
know, it looks like Dwayne's kind of come out of the gate early and
38:20
pretty strong. You know, he's running radio ads. He's you know,
38:22
I got a mail piece already. You know, I haven't seen as much
38:25
from Chris. Uh so we'll you know, and Chris had you know,
38:30
Chris was won some and lost some, and so we'll kind of see,
38:34
you know, see how that race goes. The prosecutor race, you know,
38:37
is just on the Republican side, you got Morgan sw Ser versus Debrusnik
38:44
Switzer's running more of a grassroots campaign. She's the conservative in the race,
38:47
sort of the Republicans Republican choice. Rusnick is already in the prosecutor's office.
38:54
Uh, sort of new to politics, at least of the elective politics.
38:59
Uh. But she's the one getting support from Selango, which a lot of
39:02
which has turned a lot of Republicans off, you know what I mean.
39:06
It's kind of like, why is a Democrat, you know, county commissioner
39:08
getting involved in the Republican primary side and so. But but Selango's raised a
39:15
bunch of money for so you know, I think she's gonna have more resources.
39:17
But Switzer a sort of the the you know, the conservative in that
39:21
race. Uh. Let's see, you got a state Senate race between Eric
39:29
Nelson and Chris Pritt. You know Chris Pritt, who's in the House of
39:30
Delegates. Nelson had been a delegate for a long time, he's been in
39:34
the Senate for a little while now. And Nelson, you know, lookt
39:38
Print is a very hard working candidate. But Nelson's a good campaigner. You
39:43
know, Nelson puts pretty good campaigns together. He raises decent money. You
39:46
know, he's he's got a pretty good voting record in the Senate. I
39:50
think he's gonna be tough to beat there, but you know, but Print
39:52
will work hard, no doubt. Uh. And then actually Print's wife,
39:55
Kelly Pritt. This is probably the only family law one that's gonna be competitive,
40:00
is his wife, Kelly Pritt is running against the Laura Van Meter and
40:06
so that's one of those ones. It's just a Republican versus Democrat race,
40:09
you know what I mean? And not that family family law judge gets all
40:13
that, you know, a ton of attention, right, but I think
40:15
that. But it is interesting because whenever I have one of these candidates on
40:20
and it's nonpartisan, it's non political or whatever, I always get a text.
40:23
If I don't ask what's their party, everybody wants to know whether it's
40:29
on the ballot or not. They want to know. I'll use that as
40:30
a segue into the circuit court race, because you know there's where there's eight
40:35
circuit court seats now in Kannaw County. Obviously one of them. I'm very
40:38
involved in the Ashley Dean versus Jennifer Bailey one. You know, we're where
40:44
Ashley's the you know, young conservative Republican and and Bailey's sort of the older,
40:52
you know, longtime Democrat, you know, liberal judge. And so
40:55
that's you know, that's one that's officially non partisan, but obviously it's you
41:00
know, I think it'll be pretty kind of a clear choice type thing.
41:05
And and and that's one that you know, look, I well, I
41:08
don't know how much I'm supposed to get into it because there's all these like
41:10
rules and stuff. But you know, look at most, nine times out
41:16
of ten, the best candidate running the best campaign, with the best political
41:21
environment wins, you know. And and so that that's you know, that
41:25
that's kind of what you have to look at with races like that. And
41:30
then the other one is that the open seat is Richard Lindsay, who was
41:36
a Democrat state senator, so this is an open seat. And then the
41:39
republic on the well, again that's the non partisan one, but the Republican
41:45
candidate in that race is a guy named Eric Cantrell who works in the prosecutor's
41:47
office. He's up from like Elkview. You know, that's one that you
41:52
know, Look, Lindsay's a liberal guy, but he's a nice guy.
41:57
He's raised okay money, you know, Cantrell kind of got a late start.
42:01
You know. Look, I think if Ken Trell can put some money
42:04
together and let people know that he's sort of the conservative Republican choice in that
42:07
race, that could be competitive. But you know, it's not like Lindsay's
42:12
a you know, kind of a repulsive liberal guy, you know what I
42:15
mean. He's just you know, he's a nice guy. He's just you
42:17
know, he's just a he's a liberal Democrats, you know. And then
42:22
you know, a couple of delegate races I think will be competitive too.
42:25
We got some really good delegate candidates on the Republican side. Jb Acris doesn't
42:31
have an opponent. But then you've got Tristan Levitt, who I know comes
42:35
on the show every once in a while. He's a really strong candidate.
42:37
And then Mark Carter, who is a longtime friend of mine and really really
42:42
strong candidate that that it's going to become an excellent, excellent delegate. And
42:47
then the other one, I'll just say because you had her on the show
42:52
earlier, is Casey Sachs is running for school board here and can a count
42:55
under Bridge Valley. She's done a great job of separating the two. I
42:59
mean, he's not she's not talked about her campaign. She's not come on
43:01
as a candidate. She wants to talk about Bridge Valley when she's we are
43:05
very Kidnall County is very, very fortunate to have somebody of her caliber running
43:10
for uh school board, you know, with that kind of background. She
43:14
was appointed uh, you know, she was appointed on the uh you know,
43:19
by and she actually worked in the Bush or the the Trump administration and
43:22
the Department of Education. She's done a great job with Bridge Valley. I
43:28
think she's an absolute superstar candidate. And so to look at you know,
43:32
I think that's a you know, that's a lot of that's a lot of
43:36
stuff for There's a couple of Democrat races in there, but like that's a
43:39
lot of reasons for Republicans to come out and vote. And so I think
43:44
you're gonna have huge, I don't want to say huge. You're gonna have
43:47
better than usual turnout in the Republican than the Republican primary, you know,
43:53
which is going to help the Republican candidates and those non partisan races. And
44:00
you know, I wish I mean, obviously I wish Trump would have been
44:02
you know, I wish we would have got to, you know, had
44:05
a competitive presidential which you know, I guess Trump got the it's over.
44:08
It's over now. So but look, there's still just going to be a
44:12
ton of people that want to come vump for them. Man. I mean,
44:14
you know, they love them, dude, they love it. And
44:16
we'll go to break on this. I have the TV on here as I
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Valley, Texas. Dave Dear Lord Natalie Tenant versus Kent Carper two stinkers.
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I think I've seen this episode of South Park. I just I just read
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them. I just you know, I haven't heard almost anything on that race.
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And again I'm not a Democrat. I don't vote the Democratic primary,
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so I don't have a lot of skin in the game on it. But
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like, I just haven't heard anything on it, you know, which I
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to me, that's sort of telling, though, because you have this long
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term incumbent running and you have it like there aren't a lot of people going
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out there and saying much about it. So so we'll see. I mean,
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I have no idea. Tex says, is no wonder they can't pass
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legislation if they all hate each other. According to the text from earlier in
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the show, Tex says, day we need to thank Biden for all these
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jobs coming to our states, green jobs Republicans didn't want, you know,
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that's somewhat's true. I mean, I think it's probably more of a wash
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given that some of the you know, the harm that they do, the
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harm that the Biden administration has done to the real energy industry. You know.
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So they have brought in some green jobs, but it's pales in comparison
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to the amount of you know, other actual energy jobs we have in West
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the People dot com. Let's quickly talk about the governor's race. It's starting
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to ramp up with the TV ads. I saw the Miller ad. I've
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seen Morrissey ads, Capito ads. Not so much mac Water yet I'm told
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that they're coming. You know, it's it's guns, it's flannel, it's
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Yate, Trump, bou Biden. I mean, look, here's here's what
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I think. I think that I've heard that it's a very competitive race between
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between Morrissey, Miller, and Capito, and which wouldn't surprise me. I
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think the reason that you're hearing all of that stuff first because it is early.
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I mean, we're sixty days away from the election. You know,
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the average person, you know, your listeners care about this stuff, or
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they wouldn't be listening to sort of this kind of show. But the average
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person isn't sort of ready for that yet. And so you know, your
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listeners have to remember you're on the front end of sort of the focus of
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a campaign. But I think what you do early on in the campaign is,
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you know, you sort of go out there and you talk about the
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issues that are that are everybody else talks about, right, what you want
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to do? If I'm Chris Miller, I'm want to go out there and
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say, here's where I'm at on guns, Here's where i'm at on abortion,
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Here's where I'm at on that stuff, because those are the issues that
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most Republicans care about, so they want to know you're at least with them
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on that level. Once you establish that level, though, right, every
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you know, are you for Trump? Are you for this? Are you
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for guns? Are you for babies? Whatever? Then there's sort of the
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next level of like, all right, you know, what about some of
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the other issues, and eventually you'll get to what are you going to do
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as governor? Right? But that that's the last piece to it. So
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I think that you know, and I do other talk radio shows, as
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you know, and I think that people like you listeners are ready for part
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three already, but the average voter watching television is still at part one.
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Maybe, right, they're all interchangeable, with a due respect to all of
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them, And I consider myself to be friends with all of them, well,
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okay, most of them. So so here's the deal. I mean,
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they are all saying exactly the same thing as you said, but it's
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different. But they're saying it in different I don't know, maybe it's just
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because I know them too, but I but you can tell in different ways,
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right, I mean, like Morrissey's saying the same stuff because he always
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says the same stuff, right, Like Morrissey goes and kind of talks about
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the issue of the day, hits two or three highlights, and that's what
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he does, you know, more kind of more capital goes back to like,
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hey, here's what I did in the legislature. Here's the kind of
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things I work on. You know, we all know a you know,
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mom's a US senator, so we know kind of where her political background is.
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And I think he's kind of coming from this like hey, you know,
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we sort of know where he's coming from. And you know, looking
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Chris Miller, you know, is the new new to politics guy. Obviously
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he has his own money and he's pushing for it. But I mean his
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TV ads man have been awesome. Yeah, I mean really really well,
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he's got a little experience in that round I think he's connecting with voters in
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a way that the other guys can atablish. He's just got to get that
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name recognition outside Charleston. That's the problem. Greg. It's always a pleagu
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jav in the show Man, Thanks a lot. I appreciate the opportunity,
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Greg Thomas. Republican strategies. Coming up on the show tomorrow. The Mayor
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