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10/17/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Tom Minturn, Brad McElhinny, Mac Warner · The Dave Allen Show

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zero eight. Well you may have heard that Chick fil A at South Through
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it is closing. Well it's it's a temperate calm down, folks. It's
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just temporary, but it's serious business in the in the world of chicken.
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When you go messing with the people's Chicken. Tom Minturn from Chick fil A
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joins us right now, Tom, good morning, How good morning, Dave.
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How are you, sir? I'm fine, Thank you for being here.
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It is serious business man, it is start talking about shutting down the
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Lord's Chicken. Do you realize that, right? Yes, sir, yes,
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all right, been told, not threatened quite, but just been told.
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It's like, what are we going to do? Yeah? So tell
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us the story here. Why is what's the deal here? Why is it
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closing temporarily? Honestly, it's been twelve years we've been open. We're just
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we're doing a little refreshed, a little remodel to get us. We have
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a drive through door and most of you, if you've been to the new
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restaurant mccorkoro Avenue, you'll see the drive through doors. Just give us some
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more space. Actually had the bad news. Will be taken out our playground.
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Not sure, I just been saying on the air. Oh no,
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you might get some text messages or calling in that one. So, but
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yes, taking out the playground just to provide more seating, Just providing more
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because when we open up our drive through, it's going to take away some
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of the seating. So we just need to replace that seating back. So
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we're growing, we're progressing. It's a good thing to be in a gross
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mind. How long has it been open up there? Twelve years? Twelve
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years November third, so okay, and so there hasn't been any I'm presuming
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there's not been any major upgrades during that time frame. Right, there's a
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little things here and there, minor, minor, minor little things, right,
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new dining, in furniture, those kind of things. That's about it.
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So what kind of time frame were we looking at now? Is it
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closed? Now? It is closing on Saturday, close on Saturday. Okay,
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we'll be well, what was I got to ask you because I'm just
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weird about this. So was it just like at the end of the business
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you just closed close to five o'clock? So did you have to run run
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people out of there? Or what did you do? Kind of we kept
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four warning and fore warning and we kind of said we knew we'd be busy
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up and had Grandma put down the chicken. You're out, yes, exactly,
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pretty much say we can't serve anybody any more people. So, okay,
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it was it was good our team. We needed a little bit of
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time to get everything ready, to get things we didn't move some stuff over
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and make sure we did. All of our team is still employed. They're
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just going to the Corcory Avenue to we made sure they're taken care of.
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So I know that was a concern. I've already gotten questions from from the
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public saying, hey, are they going to be taking us? Of course
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we're we do. I think we can't, sir. Our team is taken
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care of. So so what kind of time frame toim are we talking about
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here? Approximately about two and a half weeks with any remodel, So I
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just said go ahead, it might as well make it three because you know,
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no remodel happens according to the time, friend, it never does.
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That say just give us twenty one days, right, yeah, I mean
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so. So in the meantime, as you you kind of mentioned there time,
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there are other chick fil as where people can get their fix between the
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other men. Yes, sir, you can always go to our other rest
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of mccorkory Avenue. Alan Smith is the under the one in the mall.
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He he'll be open as well. So either one of us will take great
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care of you, and so it'll be good and so growth is good.
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And even though it's kind of across the road, of course, the big
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announcement yesterday was about that section of road opening up across the way there at
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Trace FOURK from Jefferson Road. So that's even though as I said, it's
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across the way, it's gonna it's going to impact two as well a little
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bit. Yes, it will ease your access, Yes, easier access.
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That way you can get your chicken chicken faster and quicker. That's the main
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thing. That is the main thing. So tell me about about your background
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this. How did you get in the Chick fil A business? That's that's
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a great story. So I started with Chick fil A in Lynsburg, Virginia.
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I graduated from I went to graduate school at Liberty University. But you're
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a local guy, a local guy from I'm from Fayette County. I grew
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up there and then moved away for a little bit, and I moved a
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little bit around the country. I wan my first chick flame Clumbus, so
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High was there over five years. I had the opportunity to come home to
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Charleston. As soon as I got the opportunity, I jumped on album to
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be home, and I told people, I'm doubly blessed get to do what
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I love to do, sell chicken, impact people's lives, and then also
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get to do it by home in Charleston. So here is the million dollar
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question. What is it that makes Chick fil a so popular? In your
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opinion? I honestly think it's I mean, our food's got to be great.
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People don't come for the food, but they come back because of our
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great service, just because we want to make sure we take great care of
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you. What is the secret to getting people in and out of that drive
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through as quickly as what you do? It's a system and its efficiency.
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It's just making sure it's honestly making sure everybody knows what they're supposed to be
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doing. So right, talking again with I mentor of Chick fil Ay,
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they closed the Southridge location Saturday at five o'clock two to three weeks. That's
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which kind of what you're looking at, you know, hopefully. I mean,
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you know, we're already in the Christmas season. I mean, we
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like it or not, we're not even Halloween yet, but I know you
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definitely want to be up and running, you know, in time for the
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Christmas shopping, which is already going on by the oh, yes, exactly.
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Well probably not for us, but for some people. Yes, I'll
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say most of mind starts. My wife Bear takes December tenth. After that,
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you're working on that right now. That's exactly. So when people come
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out for the first time, you're planning, like any kind of ribbon cutting,
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or you're just going to say, hey, we're open, come see
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the new location. Now we're going to plan on we'll do something for a
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regrand opening. Try to make it as let's say, as big as possible,
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to make sure and we do not have all the plans ironed out,
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but when we're doing something fun for the public, will make sure it's a
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big announce once everybody knows we're reopening. And so as I say that we're
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reopening, one of the things I'll make sure that I'll say, well,
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we need more people, so we're in a growth we're in a growth mode.
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So and we pay well, we offer benefits for one K we offer
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all the all the good benefits. Then it's a full package that you can
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get with us. So one of the things Tom that I have noticed about
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about Chick fil A is it seems like that a lot of the employees stay
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there for a while because in the world of fast food, I know you
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don't like the term fast food, but but it is what it is,
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and people kind of bounce around there McDonald's or Wendy's or you know, different
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places whatever. But it seems to me like there's not as great a turnover
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at at a Chick fil A as are it's some other similar locations. That
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is true. We're about half the national average, and a lot of it
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is we pay I mean, honestly, we pay well. We start fifteen
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sixteen hours an hour, and then you have the abilities to earn up earn
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more. And then except just the fact we offer all the retirement benefits,
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we offer insurance, and that's for all team members. That doesn't you know,
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we don't we don't. We don't say it's not just for leadership.
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So making sure we're very clear of that. And so we always say,
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you know, people will come work with us and they stayed because of the
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culture. We have a really healthy cult or we focused on making sure that
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we are very competitive at the same time have a great team environment. So
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one question I want to ask you is about the breakfast that there was introduced
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to you several years ago. The breakfast continues to be really really hot for
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Chick fil A. It does, it does, and people always ask me.
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I said, what's your favorite thing? And I'm like, I said,
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it just depends. Is gonna be my next question? Sorry, he
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wasn't trying to get ahead of you, but I'll say, it just depends.
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Like our spicy biscuits amazing, Our chicken minis, the little rolls,
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the honey butter on them are great if you want to go to the healthy
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side, which I like to do sometimes. The egg white grill is amazing.
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A least have a lot of great so that we have a lot of
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great products. Our britos are great. I'll say, it's just our chicken
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biscuits are phenomenal. It's our number one seller, so that and chicken minis
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are back and forth to number one sellers. And one of the great things,
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one of the several great things about Chick fil A is the your willingness
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to give back to the community. I mean, that's a big part of
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not just your stores, but stores nationwide and worldwide in giving back to the
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community. To talk about that, but our founder, our truck. They
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always says, you cannot give God. So I feel like we always have
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just a personal level. We always have money set aside, like we're these
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for situations whenever, uh, there's a crisis unfortunately. You know, even
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when the South Charleston Fire Department in their truck was an accident, like we
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were able to jump on board and help make sure all their team was fed
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quickly because we were you know where we all we had the That's one area
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we get back. Then. We love to support schools and support the students
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and student athletes and student organizations, just to be able to give back to
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them to make sure that we're able to help them. We do a lot
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of fundraising as well, but just just like to give back to the community
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because they're the ones. They're the ones that come and support us, So
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we want to be able to give back just who we are. What goes
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into deciding Tom where a Chick fil A goes because I know every community would
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love to have every little hollow in your you're sort of a country guy as
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am. I What goes into deciding where you put a Chick fil A?
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Because I know people always say, well, I want this in my neighborhood.
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What, yes, what there's a that goes into it. Oh,
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there really is. And one of the things is kind of kind of like
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people were, we do things a little different. We have a real estate
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department that comes out of Atlanta that does all the selection of all the site
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selection. But I will say this, they're usually looking for anchor stores,
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three or four good anchor stores. They're also looking for high traffic areas and
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looking for places, you know, get close to the interstate, close to
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university, close to hospitals, those kind of things are you know, where
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they have a good population. That's the main thing. And one thing is
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people don't know about sick fl A's. We build only according to cast flow,
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so we're not a We don't take a lot of credit out. We
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just build according to cast It's a really important thing for us to make sure
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we make the right decision. A couple of texts here. One says you
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won't find better Chick fil A's than Tom's. They are the best. Oh
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wow, that's a huge compliment. Thank you. There you go. We
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try our best, tech says Ask him why they don't put the menu side
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to the very beginning of the lines of the drive through, I always order
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the same thing because they take your order before you see what they have.
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Oh, it's a great question. Uh. Part of it is we feel
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like that a lot of the people already know what they are aware of our
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brand and know know what they uh. And ironically enough, they're actually their
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testiness in some places, they're not even putting menus out because they really people
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already know what they want and know the Chick fil A brand well enough.
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Now, I don't I don't want to say as a step of arrogance,
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we don't. We don't want that to happen, but you know, if
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it's uh, we can definitely make that change. Some I'll do is ask
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for a menu. We'll get them a menu. So there you go,
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all right, Uh, Tom mentioned I'm going to ask you this final question
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before I go, because I have a couple of friends that are in a
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similar business to to yours. And was there any product that Chick fil A
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introduced that didn't work? Oh? Wow? Oh, I will say there's
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a couple of them that have gone away, right, yeah, lot,
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And there's so much that goes into that and deciding what to keep on the
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menu and what what what let me okay, I'll ask this part of the
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question. What is the top selling thing in the menu? Chick fil a
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chicken sandwnce, just a simple chicken sandwich. I mean I say that in
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the fry, the fries are the top selling because fries go with all the
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menu, right, yeah, items, So fries, Like eighty percent of
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people who order launch menu lunch items get order fries. So it's a huge,
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huge, But if you think about just the entrees, it's going to
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be the chicken sallence so, and then the nuggets. Okay, just the
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just the simple stuff. People like that. People like that. All right,
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So again, let's recap. You closed on Saturday at five o'clock out
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at South Ridge, looking at a couple of weeks before you're going to reopen
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bigger and better than ever. That's right, we're hoping, we're hoping to
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reopen. I'm thinking it'll be about three weeks, but it could be is
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at least two and a half, so okay. But sometimes when you're in
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the you know, in the construction business, or you're you're relying on other
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people, and especially since COVID, you know, I mean, supply chain
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issues are still a thing. I mean they really are. And it's the
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smallest little thing sometimes that you can't get Tom Metro Chick fil A. I
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appreciate you being here. We'll eagerly be anticipating your opening here in a couple
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of weeks. Thanks a lot, Thank you, Dave. Appreciate your time,
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all right, thank you. Hang out with me here for one second.
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Chick fil A, text says, and hopefully Tom is listening. I wish
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his restaurants would offer self served condiments again. It's annoying to have to ask
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for every little detail of an order, says ay Texters, Welcome in Metro.
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Newsy corresponded Brad mcwhenney, Brad, good morning. Are you a Chick
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fil A fan? Yes? And I was going to ask you some hard
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hitting journalism, Dave. Have you had one of those hot demento sandwiches?
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No? I was actually just talking about that with one of the sales weasels
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upstairs. I said, I have not tried that yet. I'm anything pimento,
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anything hot, I'm in. I'm gonna have to do that, but
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I'm not gonna do it at south Ridge because they're closed for at least a
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couple of weeks. But now I have not have you? Have you had
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them? Yeah? Pretty good? You know, good addition to your repertoire.
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Typically, if I am getting fast food, it's because I'm in the
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car and I got to go somewhere. So the pimento makes it maybe a
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slate challenge to eat while driving. I kind of thought about that. I
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kind of thought about that, but it's it's a worthy variation on your Chick
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fil A habit. Okay. Nice, And you know, speaking of sales
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weasels, it seems like it's up to them to send that an email sometime
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soon and say, hey, there's Chick fil A hot pimento sandwich is in
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the green room if anybody wants to. Well, Unfortunately, my good friend
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mister Mintern did not bring any samples in today, so that was the first
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thing that as they found out who I had on the show, that was
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the first thing they asked. But he's busy, you know, so we'll
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give him a passage. But I will say this that when we do various
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charitable efforts up here, when we've raised money for we just did the deal
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with Children's Hospital and so on and so forth, the folks at Chick fil
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A time mentored and the team were awesome to you know, provide food for
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not only us, but our sponsors and other guests in the buildings. So
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they're really beg into that. So we'll give them a pass on that.
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Brad. You posted a story at the website yesterday about the jail crisis in
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the state. Correcuis Commission Billy Marshall quoted in the story that now our vacancies
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are under a thousand yeay, but still, Brad, not nearly where they
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should be. Talk about that, yes, so you know, there was
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a legislative interim session in August where a couple of things were done to try
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to use the staff and crisis in the jails, essentially additional money toward starting
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pay and changing pay skills for COREAGS officers. But that hasn't really set in
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yet. I mean it's it's we're at the beginning phase of that potentially bearing
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results. And in the meantime, the correction system has been trying to do
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things to make these jails jobs enticing for folks, or at least to do
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a better job of letting people know that employment is possible. You know,
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if you're looking for a job, think of us. So some of that
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is incrementally bearing fruit. And as you said, the update to lawmakers yesterday
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is that at one time across the state the openings in the correction system were
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one. Now they're at nine hundred and ninety, so a little bit better
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here and there and on the whole. We's Virginia lawmakers were encouraged by what
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they heard yesterday. We're talking with Brad mclahanny. Of course, the governor.
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Brad declared a set of emergency more than a year ago because of all
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the shortages in the jail system in the state, and that allowed the National
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Guard to get in there to help. But it certainly is they'll tell you,
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I know that they're glad to help. They'll do whatever they're told,
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but certainly not what they're supposed to be doing. And if anything that happens
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in West Virginia, the National Guards, they've got the responsibility to make it
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better. So that's been the case with this for more than a year.
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August of twenty twenty two, Governor Justice declared an emergency. That emergency is
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actually still in effect despite the bills that meant to raise pay for corrections officers.
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So still an emergency and still the National Guard in what's Virginia's prisons,
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jails, and I think the juvenile centers too. I will say, just
21:38
to clarify for anybody who hasn't been paying total attention, they are not generally
21:44
serving as the actual guard, but they're doing support roles in the jails that
21:49
open up other actual correction system staff to do the frontline functions. What Billy
21:57
Marshall, the Corrections Commissioner, said, yes, is that over time the
22:03
system hopes to reduce the number of National Guard members in the jails and some
22:08
of them. You know, National Guard can be a part time role in
22:14
your life. So in some cases it could be the folks who have had
22:18
that experience in the jail system. Maybe you're looking for a full time job
22:23
and so some of those National Guard members potentially could be brought on as as
22:27
jail system employees. Well, brand interims are continuing today. Anything in particular
22:33
that you get your island today. There is a meeting going on right now
22:38
a review committee of the Department of Health and Human Resources, so a couple
22:45
of things. You know, you might remember that the legislature decided to break
22:48
DHHR into three Well, that is an ongoing activity. Sherry Young, who
22:56
is the interim DHHR Secretary and who will head up Department of Health when there
23:00
are three divisions, is speaking to lawmakers. This is a meeting that last
23:07
nine to eleven, so I'm not sure when Sherry is speaking. Another aspect
23:11
of that that's not on the agenda, but it would fall within the realm
23:15
of DAHHR oversight. You know, Metro News and Chris Lawrence of our staff
23:22
in particular, has taken a look at that tragic story at Assistantville where kids
23:29
were being kept under unimaginable conditions in a shed, and the question has been
23:34
did Child Protective Services respond adequately to reports they heard? Chris and other reporters
23:41
have had a hard time getting answers from DAHHR, and so you know,
23:47
we hope to hear from our legislative friends to bring some pressure on DHHR to
23:52
answer those questions as well. That's the topic of Hoppy's commentary today. If
23:56
you didn't hear that, it's on the website to read. Hoppy is also
24:02
having the House Health Chairwoman Amy Summers as his final guests of the day eleven
24:07
forty five, and that's the topic that they're talking about. Why DHHR could
24:14
discuss its own actions or lack of action without bringing embarrassment or further scrutiny on
24:22
these children. The question is about DHHR as an agency. So you know,
24:30
we in the media operating the public realm, and the legislators who represent
24:36
communities around West Virginia have a stake in that question. And I hope it
24:38
comes up at this meeting, and it certainly is on talk line well,
24:42
and again I don't want to be accused of you piling on because Lord knows
24:45
that the DHHR folks are hard workers, you know, just like any other
24:48
profession. For the most part, you know, ninety nine point nine percent
24:51
of them are hard workers and trying to do what's right. But again,
24:55
the neighbors have reported, and it was all public record and the police report,
25:00
Brad, that the neighbors reported that they had called several times, and
25:03
that apparently, I mean, you don't always when you say nothing was done,
25:06
you don't always know. We do know that the police actually came out
25:08
there and saw that everything was okay and went from that point on. So
25:12
you know, I got accused of kind of piloting on them, and I
25:15
apologize for that. But yeah, I mean, you know, the the
25:18
lack of something out there, and as you said, you can release I
25:23
would think, as somebody who's done pr you can put information out there without
25:30
jeopardizing any further investigations, without jeopardizing or as you said, embarrassing these these
25:36
kids that have been through hell out there and and maybe to make sure that
25:38
this hopefully doesn't happen again. Brad, we haven't had you on since perhaps
25:44
the worst kept secret in West Virginia politics was announced last week. The Doug
25:48
scaff switching from Democrat to Republican to run for Secretary of States. Though both
25:55
of those happened within a day or so of each other, we all knew
25:56
it was coming. I talked to Doug about it and just trying to get
26:00
the timing right. Your your thoughts on mister scaff switching from Democrat to Republican
26:04
and now a run for Secretary of sake, well, best of luck to
26:08
him, you know it, as he has said, there have been several
26:14
party switches, but it's very rarely, if ever, been the leader of
26:18
the Democratic Caucus in one of the chambers. Going pretty quickly from leading the
26:26
Democratic Caucus to saying I'm going to run statewide as a Republican, that is
26:30
quite a switch. And even more than the switch itself, the reaction to
26:36
the switch, I thought was incredibly interesting because you know, if if ever
26:41
there was a cause for a beer summit between Tony Hodge and Mike Pushkin,
26:45
two of your favorite guests, well let me jump in here one second.
26:49
Okay, With Tony, it's not going to be a beer segment. It
26:52
will be a glass of milk. Okay, And I also know that not
26:56
with Pushkin either, So we're going to have to have a a a coke
27:00
or an iced ta summit between the two, but go ahead, the iced
27:03
tea summit will include mutual skepticism of Doug scaff and his political philosophy because the
27:14
Republicans. And it wasn't Tony I'm name dropping him because he's a guest on
27:17
the show. It was Elgim mccartial, the state GOP chairwoman, and then
27:22
Pushkin on the Democratic side, both sending out press releases within minutes of each
27:27
other, just you know, jumping off the top rope and Doug scaff and
27:36
you know, both both essentially saying that he had been a regular on the
27:42
Democratic side for you know, some of these hot button cultural issues in West
27:48
Virginia, and so that's something that the Republicans don't want to see, and
27:52
the Democrats were saying, you know, look, hypocrisy. So I have
27:57
no judgment on that matter himself, but I did take note of both the
28:02
press releases that you know, it was it was WWE tag team between the
28:10
Republicans and the Democrats. It's see as an old school wrestling fan, you
28:15
know, I try to get as many old school wrestling tidbits as I can
28:19
there. This is a kin to Oleie Anderson teaming with Dusty Rhodes. This
28:22
is what this is good in one of the all time one of the all
28:26
time great angles. I want to try to get this in a little bit
28:30
later on the show. Got Mac Warner coming up here momentarily, but we'll
28:33
close with this, Brad. There was a new poll out that was conducted
28:36
prior to mister scaff getting in the race for Secretary of State that shows the
28:41
person currently in the lead in the race for Secretary of State hasn't even declared
28:45
he's running yet, although there is some speculation that he will. And I'm
28:48
talking about Chris Warner, brother of Macwarner. Chris, of course, a
28:52
former state and the Republican Party chair, that's been rumored for some time that
28:56
he was thinking about getting in the race. He issued a statement, I
28:59
think maybe not long ago, saying that he had no interest in the statewide
29:03
office. I keep hearing that it's that's it's possible. And this new poll,
29:07
which I'm going to get into a little bit later on from WV Statewide,
29:11
has got Chris Warner in the lead over Brian Wood, Chris Pritt,
29:17
and some of the others. Now, again, this was issued before Doug
29:19
staff officially got into the race, and Chris Warner is not even a candidate.
29:25
Your take on that, well, it seems like maybe this would be
29:30
encouraging. Yet sixty and you're not even a candidate, So you know you're
29:37
saying that makes me. It eases my guilt a little bit though, because
29:41
I wrote a story for the Metro News website about Doug Scaff's entry into the
29:47
Secretary of State's office, and I listed the people to my knowledge who are
29:52
candidates, and that's Ken Reid from the Eastern Peniandole Brian Wood, the put
29:57
mc canny clerk print the delegate from Kannak County. And I did not put
30:03
Chris Warner in the story. And this morning when I saw that poll,
30:07
I thought, oh, is he a candidate? I feel bad. I
30:11
didn't. I didn't. I didn't include it. But if he's not a
30:15
candidate, then I can, I can, I can put my guilty baggage
30:18
down and it's okay, Well, no one is officially candidate till January anyway,
30:22
so you can always go with that. That's what I'm going with,
30:26
you know, it's I'm going to switch from a from wrestling references to auto
30:30
racing references. And Chris Warner very well in this case, could draft off
30:37
of the Warner name which has been established in that office now over over two
30:41
terms. And you know if he does, if he does decide to get
30:45
in, he's clearly got a good chance and some neighboring mission. Brad,
30:52
I know you'll be keeping eye of the interims today and we get that meeting
30:53
going on right now. As you said, we'll be following along on the
30:57
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Good morning, sir, how are you? Good morning Dave. Good to
35:10
be with you before I get in to what you're actually here to talk about.
35:15
I want to bring this up to you. Last Thursday we had another
35:16
person jumping into the race from the job you currently hold Secretary State. That
35:21
being done scaff Now we know Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood has said he's running.
35:23
Can read another former legislature running, as is the current Member of the
35:27
House, Chris Pritt. There are rumors that others may get in. We
35:30
talked about that earlier. It seems like a popular job to run for in
35:32
twenty twenty four. I'm going to keep this really generic here, sir.
35:37
Regardless of the person running, what advice might you have to anyone who wants
35:42
to be the next Secretary of State, Well be ready for being in the
35:47
middle of a lot of action both nationally with regards to election integrity and security.
35:53
West Virginia has made a name for itself. Our kirks have done a
35:58
fantastic job in cleaning up ODER registration lists and that sort of thing Da've tacket
36:04
in. Our Information Technology department has become recognized across the United States as being
36:10
a leader in the cybersecurity arena. Our Fusion Center has done a great job
36:15
with regards to keeping us surprised of cential threats, you know, hacking and
36:22
that sort of thing. And then I can cross over since I have the
36:25
Fusion Center on my mind in that's regard to what we just announced last week,
36:29
and that was Businesses Against Human Trafficking, an initiative that is involving all
36:35
of our one hundred and forty three thousand businesses and charities across the state where
36:38
we're trying to keep people informed about watching for human trafficking, be aware that
36:46
this does happen. And so that's why we're involving the businesses. We've had
36:51
a great response already to that, and so that's what I love about this
36:55
job is there are so many aspects from the elect which creates a lot of
37:00
attention to businesses or involvement with all the businesses across the state. There's always
37:07
something bubbling in the second day of State's office, and now we're into artificial
37:13
intelligence and generative AI, these sorts of things. We're using this leveraging technology
37:19
to make the customer experience more user friendly and more productive and consistent in the
37:24
advice that we give to businesses across the state. So it's an exciting job.
37:30
Put your seatbelt on you ready for a lot of activity, would be
37:34
my advice to anybody looking for this job. Sir, you've been around politics
37:37
for a while, as have I, and you'd have to admit that social
37:40
media has changed everything about the world of politics, and not always for the
37:45
better. Now I would say that social media has changed the whole world for
37:47
the worst. That's just me being a grumpy old man. I was interested
37:52
to read that your office has issued a warning of sorts to several of the
37:57
largest social media platforms. I mean that they need to treat all candidates fairly.
38:02
What exactly did you mean by that? Well, I appreciate you talking
38:06
about this, and social media has changed the world. I think a lot
38:09
of people have made the analogy to as much as Gutenberg's printing press did and
38:15
that changed the world and led to the Reformation and that sort of thing with
38:20
the Bible and putting that in the hands of the common person. Well,
38:22
now the common person can put a message out to the world in a matter
38:27
of seconds with the Internet in today's world, So it really has changed the
38:32
world of news and information around the world. So anyway, the power of
38:37
these companies and I'm talking Facebook, Google, Twitter, from all these online
38:44
media platforms have I know, an unusual amount of power and reach. So
38:51
think of it. I like to think of them as basically a utility company.
38:53
And so my analogy would be, why should a company determine what is
39:02
truth, what is valuable, what's not valuable, and used their enormous power
39:08
to influence an election, either for a candidate or against a candidate. And
39:13
so what I'm talking about is like the deplatforming that occurred when Twitter took President
39:16
Trump off of its platform. They were determining what the people got to hear
39:22
and what they didn't get to hear. And then you go to the other
39:24
side, which is the Hunter Biden laptop that Facebook suppressed the story at the
39:32
request of the FBI. So there are two levels of problems here. One
39:37
is the Facebook doing it and the second is the FBI encouraging Facebook to do
39:40
it when they knew, in fact that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
39:45
They knew that at the time, but they suppressed that to help Biden get
39:49
elected in the twenty twenty election. So that actually influenced the outcome of a
39:52
presidential election. So what I'm saying is here in West Virginia, we went
39:57
free in fair elections. Either these companies need to be neutral and fair in
40:04
their application of spreading information, or they need to report this as a campaign
40:08
finance contribution if they favor one side versus the other. That was the essence
40:14
of the letter. And so think of I use the utility company, but
40:17
maybe the phone A phone company is a better example. If the phone company
40:22
is tapping your line and hearing you talk about politics, and they say,
40:25
oh, we don't like their particular politics, so we're going to cut off
40:30
their service. Or a bank that looks at your checks and sees how you're
40:34
spending your money towards a certain political campaign or issue and say, oh,
40:39
we don't like the way you do that, so you can't bank at our
40:42
bank anymore. That's the equivalent now with what these social media companies are doing.
40:45
And so either it gets technical with Section two thirty protection, which allows
40:52
a company to not be responsible for what goes on its platform. So that's
40:59
what the internet companies have enjoyed the privilege of. But then when they start
41:05
to exercise their own power and say we're going to promote this or through an
41:08
algorithm suppress a story. Let's say COVID nineteen and vaccinations. We saw that
41:15
occurring here a couple of years ago. An online platform shouldn't be able to
41:19
determine whether you can say a vaccine is good or bad. It's either a
41:24
conduit that simply lets you put on whatever you want and that way it remains
41:29
neutral, or if it starts to suppress one or promote one, then I
41:34
think that's when they enter it. They stopped being neutral, They've started advocating.
41:38
And in the elections world, which is I'm the chief elections officer for
41:43
the state, I'm saying, if you do that in West Virginia, if
41:45
you favor one side versus the other, you need to report that as a
41:50
contribution in kind as a campaign or an independent expendster on behalf of a candidate
41:54
or a campaign. Now, you know, again, let's be clear,
41:58
you aren't talking about limiting at least, this is the way I read your
42:00
press release, limiting what individuals post, like what Dave an And post or
42:05
mac Warner or the individual post. You're talking about algorithms and things of that
42:09
nature. You know you're talking about them suppressing certain things. Now you sent
42:13
this warning letter to the largest of the platforms, Facebook made a Twitter now
42:17
known as Zach's Truth, Social Rumble, and even Google. Have you heard
42:22
back from any of them? I have not, and actually I probably don't
42:28
expect to, because we did this three years ago with Facebook. We've been
42:31
asking Facebook to be transparent for a number of years and they've blown us off,
42:35
and I expect that's what they'll do here. But when I have a
42:37
candidate complain, and I have had candidates in the past complain that their messages
42:44
are being suppressed, probably through algorithms, when they use a certain term,
42:47
then that kicks it into somebody's spam spam versus going into their actual inbox.
42:52
Those are the type things that I think are happening. When that happens in
42:55
the future, after we've put them on notice with this, then I think
43:00
that we will probably use the powers of the SEC, the State Elections Commission,
43:04
to call them in and have them either testifying or oath or show us
43:08
the algorithms we're unforced that transparency that they're right now are not providing us.
43:15
So let's talk about campaign for governor. How's it going. It's going great.
43:19
I think things are The word is spreading and I'm getting out there all
43:23
over the state, getting great reception everywhere we go. But we've been talking
43:28
about that. She has been talking to teachers. I've been in a number
43:30
of schools and I'm hearing all the problems with hiring teachers, keeping teachers,
43:35
the respect that teachers are not getting and they need to have, they need
43:37
to be able to The discipline situation is out of control. The wokeness that
43:44
has occurred in some places, not everywhere, but in some places is out
43:46
of control. Had a teacher that said that she just couldn't take it anymore
43:51
when she referred to girls as girls versus students. And somebody complained that this
43:55
wokeness and they have to be careful what they say and how they say it.
44:00
We teachers just wanted people to teach. And so I'll be a governor
44:04
that will be the education governor and provide those teachers the respect to pay that
44:07
they're due, and let parents have a voice in the school and the curriculum,
44:13
all those sorts of things. But we have problems, you know,
44:15
talking about the correction facilities and National Guard DHHR, child of Protective Services.
44:21
We have problems all across the state that need to be addressed. I plan
44:24
to tackle those. I'm going to use my military background where I've handled crises
44:29
before and handled large agencies before. I worked in Afghanistan for five years.
44:34
I've dealt with broken societies and problem societies. I worked at the Supreme Court,
44:38
the Attorney General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Women's Affairs,
44:43
so I'm accustomed to working with large agencies. And that's what a governor does,
44:47
is he manages the large state agencies. So I'm really looking forward to
44:52
it, and I'm excited to use what I've learned in the Second State's Office
44:55
and apply at the governor level to help all the state and to address streamline
45:01
and make these state agencies more efficient, just as we've done in the Secondary
45:06
of State's Office. Secretary of States and Canada for Governor Mac Warner. Appreciate
45:10
you being here. As always, We'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot,
45:14
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by Putnam County Bank or Relationships Matter. In the voice of Charleston W.
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Cahs, I need to quickly correct something I said on the show yesterday.
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I quoted some poll numbers that were given to me from a online media outlet
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West Virginia state Wide. They were correct numbers and a poll for governor,
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but the poll itself was a bit old, and I do apologize for That's
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what you get for not checking it out for yourself. It was sent to
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me by a friend, no ill intent, just just a mistake that hav
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him and said, this is not a mistake. The same outfit, wv
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Statewide News is out with a fourth quarter telephone poll for Secretary of State,
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and I've kind of referenced this a little bit earlier. Editors note they will
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be releasing poll numbers for state Auditor, AG and governor throughout the week.
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This poll, as I said, though was for Secretary of State. Calls
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were made to Republican voters who have voted in at least three of the last
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four primary election and the poll shows that Chris Warner, brother of current Secretary
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of State Macwater, in the lead in the race for Secretary of State,
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even though Chris Warner isn't even in the race, some widespread slat wide sports
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speculation that he might be. The poll had Chris Warner at sixty four percent,
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Delegate Chris Print a distant second at fourteen percent, followed by former Legislator
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Can Raid at eight percent, current Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood at six percent,
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Steve Harris, Kenny Mann, and a few others are rounding out to
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the bottom. Some of those aren't even candidates. The poll was conducted before
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new Republican Doug scaff in the race, and it is worth noting that again
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some of those have not even declared that they are in the race. Five.
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general hardware and number of Windfield. Charleston City Council met last night. Jared
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Lewis story post to wv metronews dot com. Council has approved millions of dollars
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from the unassigned fund balance to now be used for several projects, including the
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proposed Capital Sports Center and the Public Safety Center. Several other projects are part
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of this, including demolition projects, turf to be installed at the North Charleston
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Community Center, converting street lights to led, and some heating and cooling and
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roofing projects for the Kanaus City Community Center. Now back to the Capital Sports
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Center. Five million dollars will go toward the proposed project. The mayor quoted
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in the story saying that revenue is up in the city and expenses are down.
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Another day of fun travel in the area yesterday and again this morning.
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I was one of those. It was caught up in the backup on I
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sixty four West yesterday near Saint Albans A box truck ryan carrying Blue Moon beer
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overturned yesterday. Took several hours to get things back to normal. They're a
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big shutdown this morning. Sixty four Westner Milton. People slow the blank down
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it's that simple speed limit is fifty five and this morning, with the mist
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and light rain, as I was driving into the life for seven or so,
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really it should be even less than that. Cool you jets, just
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slow down. Unrelated, the new bridge connecting Jefferson Road directly to the Tradesport
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Shopping Center is now open. Governor and baby Dog, along with the first
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lady there yesterday. Highways Commissioner Jimmy Riston out there cutting that ribbon there yesterday
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as well. Let me knock out some text here. Text says mcwarner has
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done a tremendous job and he would be an excellent governor if Republicans replace a
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man like that with scaff lord help us. According to a texture, why
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would Republicans want to elect mac Warner when he worked for Hillary Clinton? Says
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a texture? Know about that? Make Warner name the school of specific woke
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miss to let him keep sniffing his Jesus. All right, that's it.
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That's There's only one person ought to be rude, crude, craft an offensive
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on the show, and that's the host. All right, So we're done
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with that, all right. My producer was Ryan Nicholson. Thank you so
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much, Thank you to Tom Mintern from Chick fil A for stopping by Brad
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McIlhenny and Secretary of State and goubernatorial candidate Mac Warner coming up on the show
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tomorrow. The Never Rude Crude Craft an Offensive. Millye Snyder from the Shape
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Shop will be stopping by State Senate candidate Jerry Forren Is on the show tomorrow,
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as well as Mackenzie Spencer from festival which is continuing. I got a
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schedule posted at Dave Allen Radio on Facebook. Hobbies coming up next. I
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will see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody. Whs
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