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07/05/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Julie Britton, Morgan Switzer, Tony Hodge · The Dave Allen Show

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on the show, we are loaded up today. Coming up on the show
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a little bit later, ROD have a candidate that is good to be announcing
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what they are doing in twenty twenty four. It is a surprise and this
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person and people that are working with called in text and said, hey,
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come on the show and I want to announce my candidacy. I said,
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okay, that's fine, we'll let you do that. Tony Hodge is here.
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He is the CoA chair of the State Republican parties. Going to join
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us a little bit later on the show as well. Tony and I always
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have fun when we're on together. We agree on something, some things we
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don't agree on, and that's okay too. So we had a lot to
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get to this morning. I want to bring in Julie Britten, who is
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the director of Resolve Family Abuse program and she's here to talk about Girls night
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Out. How are you, Julie? I am good. Thanks for having
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me, Thank you for being here. Yeah, it's an excited Did you
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have a good Let me start by the getting the stuff out of wod you
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have a good Independence holiday and everything good and good. Absolutely enjoy Regotta just
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gets to GM down to Regotta for anything. I stepped outside and it was
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super hot. Oh you gotta recout of it. Maybe later, so I
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did from afar, I got yeah, I got it, I got it.
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All right, let's talk about Girls Night Out. You know, traditionally
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it is one of the premier Charleston events, since one of those things that
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everybody looks forward to. It. When is the big date and what's the
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theme and where's it going to be held? Give us a particular. The
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big date is August twelfth, from six to ten at the Truston Coliseum and
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Convention Center, going to the Big House. Huh yoh yeah, we're going
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big. We're going big. And the theme is the Roaring twenties do the
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Charleston. So I've been waiting on this theme since twenty twenty, so okay,
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I did about this. It's going to be a big night. Um,
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so we've got music, drinks, food and auction items, but it's
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it's all a party with a purpose for a good cause, for what we
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do at Resolve, and sometimes in a good year it can be twenty percent
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of our budgets. So it's a huge night. It's a huge fundraiser for
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us, and it allows us to provide so many crucial services for Canal Boon
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and Clay County for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Let's talk about what
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exactly goes on there a girls' night out. I mean, it's a big
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party. And now you've got this nineteen twenties team, we get that,
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but what exactly people have never been there before they're going to buy a ticket,
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what exactly can they expect to see when they come other than a lot
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of fun? We know that, oh absolutely, So of course a lot
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of fun. First of all, it is the way that our decor committee
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comes in and decorates the Civic Center and coliseum is absolutely amazing. So it's
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going to be a beautiful night. We take a theme each year and just
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decorate to the hilt and we have a live DJ, so DJ EJ He's
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amazing he comes out and does our music. We'll have UM, free drinks,
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free food. We'll have a signature cocktail for the evening. Um food
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provided by the Civic Center, but also some local vendors come in and donate
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foods. So there's food stations and just there's food. Absolutely, and then
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we have an amazing auction so um. We have some fabulous volunteer that,
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with some help, puts together just so many auction items, um, one
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of a kind things, trips and all of that, and just the auction
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itself is amazing. So and it's just a night where women can get together,
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be safe, have a party, take an uber home and just support
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other women in support the community. So it is a party, but it
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absolutely is. It has a purpose. Yeah, you've used that tagline for
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years. Party with a purpose. Yeah. And again we're talking with Julie
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Britten, who's a director of Resolved Family Abuse program about Girls Night Out coming
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up in next month. Then there's a reason why I have Julian a little
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bit early and I'm talking about that a little bit lat and Rob. But
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you only want to break down the programs. What kind of programs are you
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raising money for a few girls? Absolutely so we are the licensed domestic violence
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services provider for Canal Boone and Clay County. We have a sixteen bed emergency
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safe house where we serve men, women and their families, and we also
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have court advocates in each of those courthouses in Canal Boone and Clay filling out
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a domestic violence petition. It's sixteen pages long. And while it's not incredibly
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difficult for anybody coming in on the worst time, worst day of their life,
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it's going to be um. They need some support. We are there
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to absolutely support and help people get through that process. We have free counseling.
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We have a full time and a part time counselor now um to be
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able to move people into a violence free life, and we have support groups.
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We have a monitored visitation and exchange program, and along with our sixteen
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bed emergency safe house, we also have a four room pet pet shelter called
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the Rough Huge at Hope House where victims survivors capering there. I'm so upset
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that I didn't figure that out. That was one of our board our board
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presidents. Somebody who loves bad puns. That's a good one. Yes,
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the Rough Uge at Hope House. I love it, and I was again
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just heartbroke and that I didn't come up with it. So victims and survivors
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can bring their pets, and it's the first one in the state. We
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hope there are going to be more. We're working with other providers to make
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sure that we don't remain the only one. We absolutely want to share that.
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So we have a lot going on. We have a staff at twenty
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six between full time and part time, and at our safe house we are
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fully staffed twenty four to seven. We provide all the meals, so that's
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about thirty thousand meals that come out of our shelter in a kitchen that's about
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as big as you know, your average kitchen at home. So we have
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a lot going on, and it's we support in shelter anywhere between one hundred
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and fifty and two hundred people a year and then program a lot about two
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thousand. So it's we have a lot going on, and we have this
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amazing community that continues to support us. It's it is amazing the amount of
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people, number one, that that work behind the scenes on this thing doing
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the volunteer you know, volunteers that come out but also the people. As
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I said, this has become one of Charleston's signature events. And having done
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this show now for three years, I can tell you know every year there's
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three, four or five events in Charleston that are the big things, you
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know, and this we just came off one with Forgotta, but this is
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another one, much smaller scale, but still a lot of work goes into
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this. And again we're talking with Julie Britten, who's a director of Resolved
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Family Abuse program about Girls Night Out. Now, there is an incentive I
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understand for people to get their tickets early, is not absolutely so early bird
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ticket sales end next Monday, July tenth, and so tickets right now until
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the tenth are one hundred and fifty. They'll go up to one and seventy
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five after that and the date, the date of there'll be two hundred.
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But what you can also do before or the tenth is become a hostess or
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a sponsor. And on July eleventh, we have it's sort of our run
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up party to a party with a purpose. We have a hostess, an
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exclusive hostess and sponsor party that happens July eleventh. It's going to be at
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the new nine hundred on Lee, so you get to see what sort of
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work has been done there and some amazing views downtown. So it really is
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important for those folks who want to get the most bang for their buck to
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come in early before the tenth and either get your tickets and save yourself twenty
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five or fifty dollars, or also become a sponsor and or a hostess.
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And so the hostess they have their own special spot within the party where they
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have some special perks that are just for them. Good. Yeah, and
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where can people in our more information get tickets and they can do anything they
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want to do, get tickets, become a sponsor, become a hostess at
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gnowv dot com. So it's gnowv dot com. Absolutely, that's a place
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to be. Now we're gonna have you on at least a couple of more
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times, you know, between now and the big event. Give us the
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date for the event again, because it's all the coliseum and convention Center,
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but one isn't it is it's August twelfth, from six to ten. And
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this is just as I said, folks, one of those things in Charleston,
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and it's not just Charleston because as you said, you know your services
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covered canaw Boone and Clay County, but you draw in people from from Putnam
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County, from from Rome County. People come from all over the state for
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this event because it is a big old party with a purpose, absolutely and
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just so much fun. Um and absolutely you get your money's worth. It
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is just um. It's you get your money's worth and you also get to
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support what we do. So it's an amazing too. For what do us
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a website again, gnowv dot com. And you guys do a fantastic job
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on social media too, so it's out there everywhere. Julie Britten, director
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of Resolves Family Abuse program Girls Night Out that's coming up with a month of
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though us kind of teased it, and so we had a big candidate
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announcement a lady by the name of who's been on the show before in various
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roles. Her name is Morgan Switzer. Morgan, good morning, How are
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you? Good morning? I'm great, How are you? I'm fine?
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Thank you for being here. So I guess the cat is now out of
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the proverbial bag. You're here to make an announcement, So I am going
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to back up and let you make the announcement. Have out. Oh my
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gosh. So I am now running for Canall County Prosecuting Attorney and I'm so
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excited to announce that today. I know that it's kind of spread by word
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of mouth, but now I'm officially saying it and I'll be filing tomorrow,
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so I'm super excited. Give us before we get into why you're running,
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give us a background on Morgan Switzer. Who who are you? Well?
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I am a single mom raising a five year old son, Max, who
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turned six in August. It's unbelievable, and I am a very dedicated attorney.
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That's what I've always wanted to do. And you know, growing up
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here in Canall County, I was out for a little bit and moved for
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school, but I came back and I never want to leave. I really
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do love this community. I live here with all my family. I'm raising
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my son, so you know, I'm just a Canall County born and bread
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girl ready to make a difference. So talk about why it is specifically that
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you want to be prosecutor. You talked about your things into community here and
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that's great, but why is it that you want this particular role as prosecutor?
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Well, first of all. There are several reasons. But first of
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all, I know that office, and I think it's important to say that.
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You know, at sixteen or seventeen years old, I started interning there.
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That's when I fell in love with the work. That's when I knew
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that I had a talent for it. And you know, I don't know
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why God gave me the gifts to do it, but he did. And
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I feel like it was laid on my heart to run and to make a
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difference in Knall County. And so I know that office. You know,
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I joke with some of the people that still work there that I have a
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very close relationship with I said, you watched me, you know, grow
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up. You watched me, you know, as I was a dumb kid,
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and you watched me go to college. Then you watch me go to
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law school, and you know, most importantly, they watched me become a
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mother. So I really did grow up in that office. And I'm very
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very thankful to have been so close to it and to know so much about
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it. And you know, without going into just the blanket talking points that
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I have, because I was so nervous, Dave, I know I've you're
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great, but I was so nervous. My gosh, yeah, absolutely no
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reason to be nervous. And you've been on the show here before, No,
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but this is different. This is a big deal. And I think
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it's you know, you're putting your whole self out there to be di sected,
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you know, And I think that just shows how much I really want
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it, how much I love it. I'm willing to, um, you
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know, put everything out on the table and and try to get where I'm
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going, where my goal is. Can We're talking with Morgan Switzer, who
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has just announced that she is going to be running for prosecuting attorney here in
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Kanada County. It's nine twenty six, so so last week there was another
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candidate that announced that she's planning to run for prosecutor as well. There could
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be even more coming on the coming months. You know that we just never
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know how many people are going to run. What do you think makes you
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the best person for the job. Well, um, I'll go back again
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to the you know, I knew that office, I grew up in that
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office. But also I bring a fresh perspective. I think I could bring
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a fresh perspective to that office. You know, there has been the same
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crowd in that role, in those roles, you know, at the courthouse
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and at the prosecutor's office for decades, and I think that it's just time
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for something new. It's time to bring a fresh perspective. I have so
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many awesome ideas. I'm super excited about it. And you know, I
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think that sort of getting people in that office that are experienced trial attorneys that
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you know, want to be aggressive and to step up to the bat.
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You know, we just have too much crime in can All County and in
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Charleston especially, and I think that we just have to change the way that
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we do things. You know, it sounds kind of cheesy, but we
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aren't as we always were, so we can't do as we've always done.
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It's time for a change. We have to move forward. And you know,
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I tell people all the time, if there's somebody with more passion for
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the work that the prosecutors do, you know, I would love to meet
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that person because it's it takes passion first and foremost, because it's not a
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nine to five job. And I you know, when I did do that
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job, I was a boot on the ground prosecutor. I knew that,
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you know, you can't always do the work that's required of you. When
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you're sitting behind a desk, you can't. And you also can't stop working
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at five. You know, crime happens outside that nine to five window,
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and sometimes you have to go and find people and find witnesses and show them
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your face, you know, let them see you outside of the comfort zone
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of the office to really gain their trust. And you know, I think
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trust is another important thing that we have to encourage here and in that office.
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Transparency. You have to know who your prosecutor is, and so many
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people that I've talked to don't know. It's so important to know who your
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prosecutor is. I mean, being able to inspire the community to talk to
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you about really what's going on. This is a ac county of over one
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hundred and seventy thousand people I think by a twenty twenty one census, and
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there's no way that one person can know all that information sitting behind a desk.
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You have to get out into those communities. You have to talk to
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people, and you have to encourage them to talk back, you know,
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And I think that's you know, I've got a website. It's not up
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yet. Okay, Well, you can see my picture, but it's not
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about Yeah. Yeah, we got to do some work on that. That
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was gonna be my next question of a website, Facebook, Instagram, Facebook
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page. Switzersecutor. Yeah, I have time, but also I wanted to
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get that up there before today because I want people to talk to me.
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I want you to ask me questions. I want you to reach out because
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I think knowing your prosecutor, knowing who is going to step into that office
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and what their ideas are. You know, I couldn't tell you in ten
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or twelve minutes all the exciting things that I want to do, but I
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can if you reach out to me, you know, tay you, We'll
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go to lunch, We'll talk anything and everything is encouraged. I want you
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to reach out and talk to me. I'm talking to Morgan Switzer again,
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who is just announce that she's gonna be running for prosecuted Attorney. Five eighty
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member SPC. Explain to us, and this may sound like a really dumb
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question, but for those that don't know, what exactly is the role of
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a prosecuting attorney in a particular county. Yeah, so there's actually not one
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role. It's a very multifaceted position. And one of the most important positions
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is to protect the victims of crime, okay, and to be an advocate
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for them in their position. That is the most important thing. You talk
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to the people that have been affected directly by the crime that you're prosecuting.
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You get to know them, You get to know exactly what they went through
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and that, I mean, that's the most important part. But the prosecutor
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has so much discretion too. That's why you want to really get to know
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your candidate and trust your candidate, because they make decisions like who to charge,
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how aggressively to pursue cases, you know, whether or not to go
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to trial, or to offer some kind of plea bargain or plea deal.
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Is you know, people either either make those decisions with you know, careful
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thought, or they or they jump the gun. And I think that a
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lot of times the prosecutors that we currently have have done a great job.
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But I think there's just more to do, right, There's more work to
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do. I think that we can continue education. There's a lot of continuing
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education opportunities to go and learn what you know, people on the national stage
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are doing as far as prosecution. But you know, I think I just
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got off track a little bit. But victims of crime are the most important,
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talking to the people that have been directly affected. And you know,
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I think there's an argument to be made that every single crime committed in Knall
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County, you know, the Canall County citizens are the victims there. So
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our communities shouldn't be accepting, you know, criminals being committing crime. You
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know, we shouldn't accept that as a way of life. We have to
23:49
do better, We have to get more aggressive, and we have to protect
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our friends and family that live here. Again, we're talking to Morgan Switzer,
23:56
all right, so give us the elevator speech. And again you've touched
24:00
on it, but I always like to wrap up any candidate segment with a
24:03
thirty to forty second why should people vote for Morgan Switzer Prosecuting Attorney of Kanon
24:10
County next year? Listen, I'm so excited about it, I really am.
24:12
And I think the most important thing that anybody could take away from this
24:15
is that I am extremely passionate about the work. I love the work.
24:19
There's a phrase that I'm going to be cheesy for the second time in this
24:22
interview. I'm cheesy every day about it. But they say, if you
24:27
find a job that you love, you never work a day in your life.
24:30
I promise you. You know, the three years that I was there
24:33
every single day prosecuting crime, I never worked one day in my life.
24:37
I loved what I did. I worked on weekends, I stayed after hours.
24:41
I loved the work. I loved making a difference. And you know,
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I'm just a fresh new perspective that can take this county forward. But
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like I said, if you want to talk to me, ask me the
24:52
tough questions, get to know me. Please get to know me. Go
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to Morgan Switzer dot com. There's there'll be an email link there. Get
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on my Facebook and I would love to talk to you. Just get to
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know me, We're gonna have you on the show as well as anybody else
25:07
that's running for office several times between now the election and next year. So
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have you thought if you thought about your campaign strategy yet? And here's the
25:14
reason I asked this is because prosecuting attorneys and things like that, they're not
25:18
necessarily like a typical officeholder. You know, you're not running for delegator,
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mayor or something like that. So have you got kind of a strategy yet?
25:26
Just get out and meet as many people as possible or you know,
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I really am trusting the people that are helping me through this. I'm so
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honored and flatter to have people really cheering for me. So I'm trusting them.
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But also I can't lose here. And the reason is because I'm not
25:42
even talking about the campaign. I'm getting out in Kanaw County and places that
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you know, I don't often visit. People you know, exist outside the
25:51
confines of Charleston, right, And I think I get I get to meet
25:55
so many people. I can't lose. I get to meet people, talk
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to people, and so you know, but they'll realize very quickly if they
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haven't realized in this interview that I'm no politician. I never intended to run
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for anything, but I can tell you right now that I am willing to
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put everything on the table to do this job. I love this job,
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and I really can't wait to see you know whatever he thinks. Wish is
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the best. A long thank you so much, talk to you. It's
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four four four zero one one zero one. I will have a question here
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for Morgan Switzer, and I don't when I have somebody on the show for
29:30
the first time, because they're nervous enough anyway. I don't like to pepper
29:33
them with a lot of questions. So I appreciate the text or texting into
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a specific question from Oregon that's gonna come at a later time when we when
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I have candidates on for the second or third time, when they're on for
29:45
the first time, be it Republican, Democrat, whatever, I don't like
29:48
to Maybe it's just the way my interview style. I don't like to hit
29:51
them with all these questions. I like to give them an opportunity, get
29:53
their feet a little wet, and talk about, you know, just who
29:56
they are and that sort of thing. So I I'll ask those questions next
30:00
time she's on or anybody else's running for that office as well, but not
30:03
initially the first time I will answer this without Texa Dave, did you did
30:07
I miss it? Or did you ever say what parties she belongs to?
30:10
She's a Republican. Indeed, she is speaking of Republicans. Tony Hodge,
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State GOP CO chair is here. How are you, man? Good Man?
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I'm just thinking, Wow, we got great candidates just coming out,
30:23
coming up from all over the place. So that was really good to listen
30:26
to her interview. I'm glad she's stepping up to run for public office prosecutor
30:32
in Kanalla County. I'll tell you there's no the depth of the Republican candidates
30:37
just as gets deeper and deeper and deeper. It's great. I want to
30:40
get into that with you a little bit later. I'm p also got a
30:41
couple of other things I want to talk about as well. I do want
30:44
to throw this and I don't necessarily need your opinion on this is what something
30:47
I meant to do before I went. I took a day off, man,
30:49
so I'm my mind's all messed up. So we just wrapped up Regatta
30:53
last night. And and no matter how you feel about it, I know
30:56
there's a lot of Regatta haters as well as people a love that you can't
31:00
argue with the numbers. Last year, upwards of thirty plus million dollars was
31:03
pumped into the local economy. I mean, the show's brought the people out
31:07
that flow right A concert Saturday night, I'm told brought the kind of numbers
31:11
that Alabama and the Beach Boys did back in the day. Time will tell.
31:14
But now the cleanup begins. Steal some streets closed today, so just
31:15
be patient things. We'll get back to normal here in Charleston, whatever normal
31:19
is. I kid about that. That's not a slap againt Charleston. I
31:23
was just kidding about that. But I will say there were some questions raised,
31:27
and I'm gonna ask you to address this, Tony at Monday morning.
31:32
City council meeting as to what exactly happened to a lot of the homeless in
31:36
Charleston as Regatta was getting under way. Actually had a text to the show
31:38
about it this morning. Reportedly, there was a sweep made the day before
31:42
Regatta began to pick up some of the homeless from the city streets and Charleston
31:47
and take them into custody. Basically, the cops started in forcing the eleven
31:49
o'clock curfew in city parks, which in my opinion, that should have been
31:53
doing all along. And no, that's not a slap against our police officers.
31:59
It does beg the question though, that if we can do that before
32:00
Regatta, why can't we do it every day? Charleston would be I think
32:06
certainly a lot better off if we did. I'm told that they went after
32:08
people who did have active warrants, which most of the police would tell you
32:12
is the majority of the homeless in Charleston. Great job, officers, and
32:16
if this is true, it's do it every day now. Predictively, there
32:22
were some un city council that a voice their displeasure about the way it's handled.
32:25
So and so for bottom line is if they weren't breaking the law by
32:29
defining the ordinances, or they had active warrants and lock them up rand over
32:35
all right, I just wanted to get that out there, and I'm going
32:37
to be discussing that entertail a little bit later on. Tony, I appreciate
32:39
you being here. I want to get into this with you. And this
32:44
was this ordinance passed in Putnam County last week about Putnham countymmission. It was
32:46
past three to nothing a county. Of course, for you and I both
32:52
probably reside. The ordinance basically says, and you were the county commission meeting
32:57
last week, and I was not that nois would be allowed at events where
33:01
drag performers are performing. Now this comes on the heels no pun intendons.
33:07
See what I did there, Tony, of what I'm told was the second
33:12
Putnam Pride event that took place at Valley Park a couple of saturdays ago.
33:15
I stay to my opinion on it before you get to yours. You're the
33:17
guest today, and I always think my guests opinions are more important than mine.
33:22
Also the opinions of callers and textures as well. But hear me out
33:25
here. I thought it was a mistake for a couple of reasons, and
33:29
here's why. Number One, if it goes to court, which it will,
33:34
it's probably going to lose, and it's going to cost the county a
33:37
lot of money. Number two, the financial aspect and the message that it
33:42
sends the companies wanting to do business in Putnam County and like it or not.
33:45
And I'm not one tony. As you well know, the flies to
33:49
the adversity and inclusion flag that often. But I should be an honest here,
33:52
and I tend to be have been more libertarian here. I guess I
33:55
don't really care so much what people do in the personal lives if it doesn't
34:00
pack me. But other businesses when they're looking at coming in, they actually
34:04
do look at that sort of thing. And number three, please listen carefully.
34:09
I do not support letting kids attend anything that is vulgar elude. Let
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me just say that. And I'm told by some people that I respect greatly
34:16
as invendors that were there. I wasn't there, that there was nothing lude
34:21
or obscene about what went on at that particular event. Again, I wasn't
34:23
there. I was just told by some people whose opinions I do value.
34:28
So what was passed by the Commission would not have prevented a Pride event or
34:32
future Pride events from happening. In fact, I'm told that planning is already
34:37
underway for the next Pride event next year. So that having been said,
34:43
I know you were one that supported this, and I respect your opinion on
34:45
that, sure turn. Now, yeah, Dave, well that's a good
34:49
rundown of your thoughts on that. But we do disagree a little bit on
34:52
this. First of all, I will say that the ordinance does cover keeping
34:59
minors out if it's loud or I've seen behavior, and so that's a that's
35:02
a big distinction there. But you know, I mean I disagree with you
35:07
on a couple of fronts. The one thing would be on on the business
35:10
aspect you you speak about, um, you know, this might deter businesses
35:15
and stuff. I for one, have never um encountered a business when they're
35:19
looking to move into a new area or expand or something like that, if
35:22
they if there's a litmus test on whether there's drag shows or drag shows that
35:28
would allow miners to attend. So I just don't say I think I think
35:31
what I was alluding to, and I agree with what you're saying. I
35:34
think what I was alluding to was more of what they considered to be inclusiveness
35:37
and things of that nature. Again I'm not I'm not big on that term
35:40
either, but okay, I understand. And then the other part, the
35:44
part about the financial aspect of it, now that that's actually a uh an
35:50
argument that I've seen come from from both sides of the aisle. You know,
35:52
you're you're you're on you're on the you the Republican side, and I've
35:57
seen it on the Democrat side. In my opinion, when it comes to
36:00
protecting children and what they're exposed to, finances aren't aren't an issue to me.
36:05
I don't if you know, as a parent, I am less concerned
36:12
about the financial aspect of it than I am you know, keeping the minds
36:15
of children from being corrupted or anything like that. And I think I said
36:21
last time I was on the show, you know, we have in general
36:22
in our society and our American side society, we have guardrails that protect children
36:29
against um you know, these sorts of things like like I think last time
36:32
I used the example that we have rated our movies. You know, Hollywood
36:36
puts ratings on movies to alert you know, the general public and parents,
36:39
Hey, this might be appropriate for your children, or this rated our movie
36:43
might not be appropriate. And so we already have these guardrails. But in
36:45
this particular case, I think I would err on the side of caution,
36:49
air on the side of protecting children. Our children need to be protected.
36:52
And you know, I was talking with the gentleman this past weekend. We
36:55
were visiting with friends over the fourth of July weekend, which I had grateful
37:00
by the way, I hope you did as well. But we were talking
37:02
and he was talking about how, you know, it's so interesting how these
37:08
uh, these groups that want to go this direction. They seem why what
37:14
is the deal with targeting children, you know, say, ages ten to
37:16
fifteen or whatever. And the reason is because if they target them young,
37:21
get them while they're young, and get their minds conditioned to think this way,
37:24
that will pass on their thought processes to the next generation. Well,
37:30
I'm all about protecting the children against silly behavior like that. If adults want
37:35
to do that, have at it. You know, adults can do what
37:37
they want. We already have rules where we keep children out of let's say,
37:40
adult entertainment centers right and things of that. And that was the argument
37:44
from the ACLU people that were at the meeting. Again, I wasn't there.
37:46
I just I saw the experts. The ACOU people said it forced the
37:52
rules that are on the books. Well, I have no problem adding loot
37:55
and obscene drag shoal, But who defines what loot and obscene is? Though?
38:00
That's the that's the I think that's the question. I'm not trying to
38:01
be argumentative. I'm just saying that what went on there at the Putnam Pride
38:06
event, from what I'm told, was not lud or obscene. Yeah,
38:09
I and it may not have been. I didn't go to the Putnam Pride
38:14
event, obviously had no interest in going. But I do support their right
38:17
to be able to hold their events. I mean, whatever goes on in
38:22
a public park, if if if if they rent, if these groups rent
38:24
the shelter and have their events or whatever, I'm all about that. I
38:28
have no problem at all. I'm obviously not going to attend it. I'm
38:30
not going to take my children. But I mean lud and i'b scene.
38:34
I mean, what, how do you know an adult entertainment center? How
38:37
do you define that? As lud and obscene. I think it's pretty obvious.
38:40
Everyone knows what's lud and obscene. I mean, it's the same way
38:44
they put ratings on movies. It's the same way we would determine an adult
38:46
entertainment club from a quote unquote non adult entertainment club. You know it when
38:52
you see It's like someone said, I think with pornography. I forget who
38:54
said it, but they said, it's hard to define, but you know
38:57
it when you see it. Can We're talking with Tony Hodge, who is
39:00
the State Republican Party co chair Texas. The government needs to put up some
39:06
guardrails to protect children from pastors and priests. Now that's a group of people
39:09
parents should be scared to leave their kids around. I said that on the
39:13
show last week, and I cut all kinds of holy heck for it because
39:16
I said, and Tony, and you know this, Statistically speaking, your
39:22
kid is more likely to be groped, molested, whatever the word is by
39:27
a minister than they are a drag queen. That's a statistical fact. Well,
39:35
you know it's a logical red herring. I mean, what we're doing
39:37
is just distracting away. You can have all the statistics that you want,
39:40
does it draw away from the fact that children should not be exposed to loot
39:46
and obscene drag queen performances. It doesn't matter what statistics you have. It
39:51
doesn't change the fact that children should be protected from that. Children should be
39:54
protected from all child predators. I don't care if they come from the church,
39:58
if they come from the the drag queens. I don't care where they
40:00
come from. We need to protect our children. Thirteen minutes away from tenor
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40:12
get away from that for a moment. I want to And I talked a
40:15
little bit to Tony last week with Danny Jones about this, and that was
40:17
some of the recent cases from the US Supreme Court. I think you took
40:21
to Twitter and said, and I'm paraphrasing, you said you were very proud
40:24
of what the Supreme Court did or something to that effect. Affirmative action,
40:29
college loan forgiveness, the whole gay wedding website thing. You're a fan of
40:34
the Supreme Courts and you're not, well, yeah, this is the greatest
40:36
Supreme Court of my lifetime. The three new appointments that we've had, the
40:39
three most recent appointments have changed the face of the court. I think it's
40:43
brought sanity back to America. We're able to reverse some of the silliness that
40:46
we've had over the years. As far as the was it the cake the
40:51
cakes case or website? Well, what it was was the situation. And
40:55
if I get my facts here wrong, somebody could tell me. But basically
40:59
what it was as you had a website designer website that was asked to design
41:06
a website for a gay wedding and they declined. I support that one hundred
41:10
percent. You should be able. Now, they didn't say that they declined
41:14
to support the person. They didn't say they wouldn't do a website for them,
41:19
if for their company or whatever. They said they wouldn't do a website
41:22
for a for a gay wedding. And I think that's when and I've solved
41:24
even I even seeing liberals come out against come out for this and say,
41:29
yeah, I agree with that. You should be able. You know,
41:31
if if I hire somebody to come and cut my grass, okay, or
41:35
they had the right to look at and go, yeah, that's too much
41:37
yard for me. I don't want to do it right, you know.
41:38
And I think it's a similar situation. So that's what that case was.
41:43
That case was about a website designer was asked to do a website promoting with
41:47
all the details or whatever, a gay wedding. They opted not to.
41:51
They did not refuse to serve the person. They just said I shouldn't have
41:55
to do that. And Supreme Court degree, yeah, I mean, this
41:58
case wasn't about someone, say, owning a restaurant that where anyone can come
42:01
in and sit down and eat. Well. In that case, you know,
42:04
it's it's a little bit different. But here you're talking about using your
42:07
creativity, you know, your creative creations in order to promote a certain thing.
42:13
And in that case, the Supreme Court said, no, he can't
42:15
compel someone can't force someone to use a creativity, whether it's a cake or
42:19
a website or what have you, to do something that's against their moral convictions.
42:23
Um, as far as affirmative action, I mean, you know,
42:25
just bringing fairness into higher education. You know, all these cutouts that they
42:30
have for for people now now they're actually talking about the Supreme Court's not but
42:36
I'm just saying it. I've seen it in the Wall Street Journal where they're
42:38
talking about the legacy admissions to places like Yale and Harvard and things. You
42:44
know, my father went there and my grandfather went there, Therefore I have
42:46
a right to go there. That's been going on for years too. Um,
42:50
I'd like to see that stop. But yeah, affirmative action being overturns
42:52
good. Um, the whole website case, Um, that was good.
42:57
What was the other one? There was one? The College Long Forgiveness.
43:00
Oh college? Yeah, I mean, let me come on. You know,
43:01
if you if you take out a loan, you got to pay it
43:04
back. Why should I, uh, you know, someone who lives a
43:07
debt free lifestyle or you. Why should I have to pay for someone else's
43:13
decisions on how their financial decisions. I don't don't. I just don't understand
43:15
it. So anyway, I was glad to see this and an argument to
43:19
that, and we'll do do this. Going to break the argument to that
43:20
has been a lot of people have even texted the show and I've read other
43:22
things that have said, well that should that should go for corporate America too.
43:27
Uh that if they've taken these loans, and I don't disagree with that
43:30
either, you know, stand on your own two feet, whether you're a
43:32
corporation or you're an individual. Yeah, that makes logical sense. I mean,
43:37
I've got a couple of texts here before breaks sad to say, this
43:38
is going back to the prosecutors. Very sad to say. But in a
43:40
few years there won't be a local prosecutors. Legislators are trying to do away
43:45
with local control. That's something you know a little bit about being the state
43:49
party chair. Would you have a comment on that. I don't think we're
43:51
trying to get rid of the prosecutor. I think that's well. I think
43:52
they were talking about in general about local control. There's there's been some criticism
43:57
of the current legislature that they don't want things on the local level, they
44:00
would rather have things run out of Charleston. That was a frequent criticism.
44:05
Fair or unfair? Yeah, I think it's unfair. I mean you got
44:07
to take everything on a case by case basis, having a blanket statement over
44:12
a blanket ideological statement over every single item. I think son Wise Tech says
44:17
common decency is protecting children from these lut events. If these groups would have
44:21
received approval, then each year the shows would have become more lewd and obscene.
44:24
Well, they did receive approval, and I mean to do the talking
44:28
about the Putnam private they did. They did receive approval, asked Tony.
44:35
I think I know the answer to this. If he's taken his kids to
44:37
Hooters. Also, this bigot easy with a name called doesn't care about kids.
44:42
He's warned kids about the sex abusers at the Baptist, Catholic of the
44:45
churches. What about schools and boy Scouts or how about youth sports? I
44:49
think you answered that. Yeah, of course I answered that. I'm always
44:52
in favor of protecting the children. As far as the name calling a bigot,
44:57
I don't know why a lot of people have to sink to that low.
44:59
All right, we're gonna take a break. We're back after this from
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just in off the Twitter machine. I understand Ah and Jeff and Hoppy will
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have more on this, but I understand it has just been announced with him
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well sometimes since I was on the air that Cannock County Commissier Ben Selango will
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not be running for governor. He had said on the show that he probably
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wouldn't run if his friend Steve Williams, the Huntington mayor, ran for governor,
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and I don't know whether that actually paid played into that decision or not.
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I worked to get Ben on the show in the future, but Ben
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Selango is not going to run for governor. That is being widely reported,
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according to release from him. Credit to Ben, I think you know he's
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a different party than I am, but wise move because it would be a
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certain loss. Texas Tony Hodge is most definitely turned on by drag shows,
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hence he thinks they're so sexually tempting. It's actually pretty funny, Dave,
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did you ever look into the hypothetical situation of the gay website ruling? The
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court used a situation that wasn't true. The man's name they used is a
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gay has been married for fifteen years. It's a website developer himself and didn't
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know his name was being used as he was contact for comment. Not to
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mention the lower courts throughout the case talk about an activist court tex says,
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I think all these rock and roll records you radio DJs are playing these days
49:19
are corrupting the morals of our sweet innocent angels. And all these hot,
49:22
sweaty, half naked muscled professional wrestlers running around their tights talk about loot and
49:28
permisculeous. Now, that's too far, too far on too wrestling fans here,
49:31
right, Name, I never refused as a texture to serve Tony Hodge.
49:37
I just tell him I don't serve religious fundamentalist zealous with unhealthy obsessions with
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drag shows. Texas, I'm paying to bail out power plants and other businesses.
49:47
They need to pay their own way. That's sort of what I what
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I said earlier too, Texas, says name Callie, means they have no
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substance in their arguments today. So so far, I've been a bit at
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Anna zeloid. Dave, you can answer the issue of who decides what is
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loot or pornographic? Just keep it away from it if it saves us one
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child. You know the same argument that Left makes regarding their attacking the Second
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Amendment. It's saving the innocent of children. Dave. About student loan forgiveness,
50:15
what about students who start college next year? And the years after they
50:19
would demand their loans to be forgiven. Also, then what once you go
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down the rabbit hole, it's almost impossible to call your way back out in
50:24
regards to PPP loans. Most of those businesses were destroyed to force to close
50:28
because of the government. There is a big difference. Glad the Putnham Commission
50:34
block miners were attending those lout drag shows. Common sense Dave according to a
50:37
texture, Well, again, they're following the law and they couldn't attend drag
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shows anyway. They can still come to Putnam Pride though, because it's not
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a lot and I'm seeing drag show. They had permission to do it,
50:47
and they're going to do it again next year. Well, and I'll say
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to the County Commission in Putnam County voted unanimously to pass that ordinance, and
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a lot of the people who spoke there weren't from Putnam County. The room
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was completely full. There was standing room only. There was a lot of
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that. Rooms are very very large, it holds a lot of people.
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But I'll say this, I talked to somebody who was speaking that was there
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promoting the pride events Putnam County. They had no idea who one of those
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people was. They said that to me, they said, one of the
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people that spoke, They said, we have no idea who that person was.
51:16
He was not part of our group. I mean, and this happens
51:20
frequently. Unfortunately, they were busting people in from Charles and Huntington, all
51:23
these places other than but the organizers weren't. I mean, that's according to
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one of the organizers I talked to. This person said, I have no
51:30
idea who that person was. Well, they came in from everywhere. I
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mean, you can go on YouTube and watch and watch it and see how
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many people were not from Putnham County. Of course, most of the Putnam
51:37
County residents, vast, vast majority were obviously for the ordinance. I want
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to quickly ask you this. We kind of ride out of time here,
51:45
hobbies got a flash pole up. Would you be willing to vote for a
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third party candidate in the twenty twenty four presidential election? Forty nine percent of
51:52
all the people said yes, Tony, that they would am a fan of
51:55
the Grand Old Party Republican Party, and I will main that way. So
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what do you think about what do you think? I mean, because there's
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a lot of people that don't like Biden or Trump. What do you think
52:06
people are jaded? I mean people don't like the division in the country.
52:08
They want normalcy, they want drag shows to you know, whatever, they
52:13
want normal. That's what people want. And anything they can reach for for
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normal, they're gonna reach for, of which Trump or Biden not what I
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would consider to be normal either one. All right, we gotta go.
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Thanks a lot, Ip, he's coming up with the news. I will
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see you tomorrow. Till then, have fun and love somebody. C HSA
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