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05/21/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Kevin Jennings, Cody Tomblin & Vincente Cruz · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 2: you go to the bank. Ken Jennings, VP of Marketing
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Speaker 2: and Human Resources, Poke Valley Bank, How are you, sir?
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Speaker 2: Good to have you.
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Speaker 3: Gat this morning.
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Speaker 2: Thrilled to have you a lot of people worried about
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Speaker 2: finances this day, a lot of people talking about money.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people want to know about their money.
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Speaker 2: Just brief history though places. People have institutional concerns about places,
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Speaker 2: but Poke Bank, it's been around a while.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. We started in nineteen oh eight in a
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Speaker 3: little place called Walton, West Virginia, and now we have
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Speaker 3: branded out to nine branches. We have two in Rown County,
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Speaker 3: we have Walton and Spencer. We now have five Canal County.
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Speaker 3: We have Clinton and Elkview, Cisonville, Canal City, and our
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Speaker 3: latest and greatest is Choir Street here in downtown Charleston.
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Speaker 3: We just did a soft opening with that yesterday. And
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Speaker 3: then we also have two in Putnam County, Poka and Winfield.
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Speaker 2: And you've expanded out corporately. You have financial services, you
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Speaker 2: have accounting services. It's its own little business. It's very impressive,
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Speaker 2: that's correct.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just really excited just with the opportunity to grow,
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Speaker 3: the opportunity to come into Charleston. We've been around Charleston
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Speaker 3: for one hundred and fifty seventeen years. It's good to
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Speaker 3: finally be here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk about your new location, but like I'm
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Speaker 2: old enough to remember, like One Community Farmers Bank Farmers
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Speaker 2: and Merchants became One Valley, which became bbn T, which
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Speaker 2: got bought out by Wells Fargo, on and on and on.
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Speaker 2: Do you see a difference in a big national brand,
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Speaker 2: not that there's anything wrong with those, to a bank
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Speaker 2: that is locally, local sourced, it's local people. What do
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Speaker 2: you think the most important different because there's going to
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Speaker 2: be trade offs. Big banks can do bigger things, But
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Speaker 2: what's the advantages of a local bank do you think.
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Speaker 3: Well, we're a community bank, so We're very involved in
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Speaker 3: our communities and we truly go with the slogan relationships matter,
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Speaker 3: and they do to us. The main differences you're going
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Speaker 3: to find we offer the same services of the big banks.
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Speaker 3: What you're going to find is that personal customer service,
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Speaker 3: and you're going to find people that are willing to
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Speaker 3: work with you. Decisions are made locally rather than you
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Speaker 3: have to wait to get an answer back from Virginia
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Speaker 3: or Ohio or wherever their corporate office is. Our decisions
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Speaker 3: are made right here in the state of West Virginia,
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Speaker 3: and which helps us with turnaround time and making those
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Speaker 3: decisions as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so talk about the new location because you know,
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Speaker 2: even for people that grew up, if you've got a
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Speaker 2: downtown location, that usually says something. Right. I know everybody's
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Speaker 2: used to the suburbs now, but downtown Charleston. Is that
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Speaker 2: a big deal for you all? As people might think?
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Speaker 3: It is huge deal, huge deal in a little while coming.
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Speaker 3: We were ready to build in right before COVID hit,
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Speaker 3: and then when COVID hit, the price of everything went high. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we want to be here. We have a I call
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Speaker 3: it a state of the art facility. It's a beautiful
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Speaker 3: branch right over there on the corner of Clintonon and
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Speaker 3: Virginia Street or Clintonon and Charrier, and it's just an
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Speaker 3: awesome place. We invite people to stop by to check
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Speaker 3: us out. We are open. We're doing a grand opening
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Speaker 3: in June, but we're open now. So if anybody out
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Speaker 3: there is listening wants to stop in and see us,
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Speaker 3: we would love to see you there.
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Speaker 2: What's the biggest difference between Walden and Courier Street from
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Speaker 2: one hundred years ago to today? Do you think traffic
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Speaker 2: building people? Yeah, traffic people Walton. You know, when we
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Speaker 2: started in Walton in nineteen oh eight, there was an
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Speaker 2: oil and gas boom in Rome County. That's why we
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Speaker 2: started the bank. And you know, Walton is still our
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Speaker 2: bread and butter that's we started uh. But Coarrier Street
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Speaker 2: opens the door for the future for us. Uh and
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Speaker 2: we're just we're just so excited. That sounds good. Let
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Speaker 2: people know, though, if they're not going downtown to actually
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Speaker 2: physically see it, you're all over the internet. A lot
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Speaker 2: of people do their banking virtually now. Obviously, let folks
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Speaker 2: know where they can find you and keep up with
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Speaker 2: what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find us at Poke Valleybank dot com.
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Speaker 4: UH.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, people see the interest rates is a bad thing,
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Speaker 2: but if you're saving money, interest rates can be a
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Speaker 2: good thing with your banker, right, that's correct, that's correct.
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Speaker 2: I know my daughter has one of those high yield
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Speaker 2: savings accounts the last couple of years. He's happy. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I'm not happy. You're happy. Kevin Jennings, Poka Valley Bank.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time, sir, Thank you so much for coming in.
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Speaker 3: I really appreciate the opportunity and thank you anytime.
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Speaker 2: Make sure you go check them out down there. A
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Speaker 2: quick review of some of the local highlines that's going
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Speaker 2: on with the headlines and other things that have been happening.
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Speaker 2: People are still very very upset about these data centers.
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Speaker 2: And I want to point out if you have something
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Speaker 2: like a platform privilege, you get a right, you get
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Speaker 2: to get on talking heading like I get to do
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Speaker 2: things like this. I think it's very important that we
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Speaker 2: don't just get into a habit of bashing our leaders
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Speaker 2: all the time. We need to praise them when we
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Speaker 2: do really good things. And I think Chris Morris did
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Speaker 2: something really important. He held up his hand and said
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Speaker 2: the messaging in the communication on this data center has
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Speaker 2: not been good. And he's speaking on behalf of the government,
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Speaker 2: and he's speaking on behalf of a lot of the
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Speaker 2: citizens that are concerned. And I think this is a
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Speaker 2: very fair point to bring up that the communication is bad.
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Speaker 2: So if the government is going to start out with
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Speaker 2: we're going to do these data centers, they need to
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Speaker 2: communicate better why. And that goes for the administration, that
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Speaker 2: goes for supporters, that goes for outside groups bringing it up,
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Speaker 2: that goes for everybody, doesn't matter if it's the Putnam
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Speaker 2: County one or the one going in the Panhandle or
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Speaker 2: wherever else. So there's a couple of things here to
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Speaker 2: bring up on this that I think is important to say.
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Speaker 2: On the communication part, issue number one is everybody's going
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Speaker 2: to the extremes and that doesn't help anything. So is
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Speaker 2: it doom and gloom that we're all getting data centers
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Speaker 2: and the creature are all going to dry up and
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Speaker 2: we're going to run out of water. No, that's not true.
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Speaker 2: Is there legitimate environmental concerns?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 2: There is. Is it true that these are going to
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Speaker 2: get built no matter what somewhere so we should try
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Speaker 2: to get a piece of it. Yes, it is. This
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Speaker 2: is the future because part of the problem is the
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Speaker 2: people on the text lines and the people with emails.
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Speaker 2: You want your free Gmail, you want to have unlimited
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Speaker 2: folk online. You want to have your Facebook and your
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Speaker 2: Instagram's guess what all that needs? They need data centers
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Speaker 2: to make those work. Especially if you want to continue
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Speaker 2: to have a lot of free stuff like free storage online,
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Speaker 2: You're going to have to have data centers. But the
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Speaker 2: devils in the details. Are we going to have agreements
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Speaker 2: and guardrails where the people get good tax revenue from it.
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Speaker 2: It's the people going to have infrastructure investment based on
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Speaker 2: it is there other things going into it that is
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Speaker 2: important enough that folks can feel good about it. And
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Speaker 2: that goes back to the communication part of it. So
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Speaker 2: it's one of those things in the headlines that is
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Speaker 2: blowing up. But when we have an official and Chris
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Speaker 2: did this, and I greatly appreciate him doing it, I
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Speaker 2: think we need to praise him, and he puts his
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Speaker 2: hand up and goes, the communication has been bad. Let's
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Speaker 2: try to dial it back down and talk through the
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Speaker 2: policy and try to talk through what's actually happening with
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Speaker 2: these things, because there's important things to hash out. The
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Speaker 2: word data centers on it. But a lot of these
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Speaker 2: are the same arguments we've been having over roads. It's
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Speaker 2: the same arguments we have over gizmo factories. I call it.
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Speaker 2: The factory comes in and the governor and the Senator
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Speaker 2: and the congress people come in and go, oh, we're
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Speaker 2: going to have this thing and it's going to be
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Speaker 2: economically great, and sometimes it pans out and sometimes it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: It's the same thing with gas exploration. It's the same
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Speaker 2: thing with the old coal mines. Yeah, there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of things it could be. Are we going to set
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Speaker 2: in the place the guardrails so that the people around
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Speaker 2: it benefit from it, the government benefits from it, and
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Speaker 2: the companies put them in. And that's all the devil
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Speaker 2: in the details that we need to get into. And
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Speaker 2: it starts with improving that communication, not just trying to
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Speaker 2: strong arm people, but also normal people. You don't need
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Speaker 2: to go online and just doom and gloom everything. Let's
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Speaker 2: find out what's actually going to be involved here. Because
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Speaker 2: all those things you're using to complain online about it,
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Speaker 2: that's what those data centers feed and that's one of
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Speaker 2: those things that's really important to stay ahead of and
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Speaker 2: to pay attention to. A couple other things going on.
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Speaker 2: There was severe weather throughout the area. It looked like
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Speaker 2: it wasn't too bad. Some people had hailed damage, some
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Speaker 2: people have wind damage. Folks, we just know when you're
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Speaker 2: going to have those days where you have those weird
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Speaker 2: hot days in May, there's going to be a storm
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Speaker 2: coming right behind. It's somewhere in there. A couple other
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Speaker 2: things we're going to cover on the show today. We're
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Speaker 2: going to have in from a Bridge Valley Community and
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Speaker 2: Technical College, Cody Tomlins here going to talk some education,
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Speaker 2: which I'm very excited to talk about a couple layers
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Speaker 2: to this. One is as a parent of college students.
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Speaker 2: My youngest just graduated here in a couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: looking forward to that, and she's off to college. But
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Speaker 2: she's been going to community college while she was in
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Speaker 2: high school. Her older sister did that, went to community
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Speaker 2: college while in high school and then went to community
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Speaker 2: college after that. I went to community college. It changed
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Speaker 2: my life. And on top of all that, I'm in
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Speaker 2: community college right now because I went back to community
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Speaker 2: college last week. So we're going to talk about community college.
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Speaker 2: Where does that fit into all this wider discussion and
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Speaker 2: the wider blowback that we're having about the changing face
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Speaker 2: of higher education. A lot of us older people, I'll
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Speaker 2: put myself in that category, since I'm forty five, almost
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Speaker 2: forty six. Now. The people older than me, they want
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Speaker 2: to talk about them darn kids and all the things
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Speaker 2: wrong with the kids. I've been in class for those
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Speaker 2: kids for a year. The kids are all right. We're
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Speaker 2: going to use that as an entryway to look at that.
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Speaker 2: Then we're going to also have some fun. Vicente Cruz local,
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Speaker 2: my father would call him a character, and that is
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Speaker 2: a high, high compliment. One of the real interesting guys
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Speaker 2: started all the way through the restaurant industry. We're going
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Speaker 2: to talk some food. We're going to talk some eating
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Speaker 2: out some of the good things in life. So learning
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Speaker 2: more things is good things in life. Eating food, that's
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Speaker 2: one of those good things in life. We're going to
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Speaker 2: go through all them. And there's a couple things also
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Speaker 2: about when we talk politics and we talk local stuff,
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Speaker 2: we need to take time for things like the education,
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Speaker 2: and we need to take time for things like the
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Speaker 2: food and the good things in life because those better
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Speaker 2: our life. So I somebody that has to do politics
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Speaker 2: all the time, I greatly appreciate the opportunity to do that. Also,
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Speaker 2: while we're on the topic of West Virginia radio and
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Speaker 2: getting to do it and the privilege of getting to
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Speaker 2: do it, the changing shape of media is something that
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Speaker 2: a lot of people have talked about. IEO was doing
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Speaker 2: and we were just talking with the other guests about
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Speaker 2: a few things, was how media changes and why do
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Speaker 2: you still do local media? And he made a comment
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Speaker 2: to me, he goes, hey, you're doing more local writing
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Speaker 2: than national writing lately. And I said yes for a
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Speaker 2: couple of reasons. One is you can get burnout and
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Speaker 2: your soul starts hurting doing national media after so long.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, two. West Virginia's where my heart is,
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Speaker 2: It's where my family is. There's real issues there that
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Speaker 2: people don't talk about, and because I'm from there, I
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Speaker 2: national pattern of something that's going on. And if you
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Speaker 2: don't engage locally and you know more about what's going
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Speaker 2: on nationally or internationally, or you know something that's going
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Speaker 2: in the state legislature, but you know the inner workings
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Speaker 2: it is incumbent on all of us. And I'm guilty too,
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Speaker 2: people like me, because I is one, and that goes
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Speaker 2: a platform too with your friends and family, and do
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Speaker 2: a better job of engaging locally and spend a little
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Speaker 2: less time on the national stuff, because the local stuff
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Speaker 2: is what affects us a whole lot more. The national
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Speaker 2: stuff's easier because you're spectating. But what we need to
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Speaker 2: our families, and then let that trickle up to make
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Speaker 2: a little bit better nation and a little bit better world.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to talk some community college and education
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Speaker 2: But then they think technical. They're thinking the trades. Things
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Speaker 2: like that. Society kind of evolved past the term itself,
17:49
Speaker 2: because tech really does mean something different for technical colleges now,
17:52
Speaker 2: because all this AI stuff, all the computer stuff that
17:56
Speaker 2: is exploding at the community college level right now.
17:58
Speaker 10: It is and I think to your point, we have
18:02
Speaker 10: really evolved past what people traditionally think of for community
18:05
Speaker 10: and technical colleges. I think a great example for US
18:09
Speaker 10: is our Advanced Manufacturing Program and our FAME partnership. So
18:13
Speaker 10: for those that don't know, FAME stands for the Federation
18:15
Speaker 10: of Advanced Manufacturing Education and Bridge Valley Services, the Canall
18:20
Speaker 10: Valley Chapters education provider, to my knowledge, the states first
18:24
Speaker 10: and still only chapter. So for that, students come to
18:28
Speaker 10: the college, they learn in a really state of the
18:30
Speaker 10: art Toyota Manufacturing lab, so really state of the art,
18:34
Speaker 10: cutting edge equipment. They do that two days a week,
18:38
Speaker 10: and in three days they are an employee of companies
18:40
Speaker 10: like Toyota, Newcore, Service Wire, NATA, so they're sort of
18:46
Speaker 10: interchangeably learning on that hands on equipment, taking it back
18:50
Speaker 10: to their employer, earning a living wage, taking what they
18:54
Speaker 10: learn on the job sete bringing that back to the classroom.
18:57
Speaker 10: So really cool, cutting edge way to provide that education
19:00
Speaker 10: for folks.
19:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the job market stuff is interesting because and
19:04
Speaker 2: I've heard this from because I'm a community college student
19:06
Speaker 2: right now and my daughter's finishing up community college because
19:09
Speaker 2: she did the split program throughout all of high school.
19:12
Speaker 2: I hate her schedule. She went to high school half
19:13
Speaker 2: the day. I'm like, you have no idea how easy
19:15
Speaker 2: you have it. But one of those things is all
19:18
Speaker 2: those big companies we hear about the Googles, the Amazons,
19:22
Speaker 2: all those big tech companies. They love those two year
19:25
Speaker 2: tech degrees. They're just pipeline and all those kids they
19:29
Speaker 2: can possibly get, aren't they. And people don't think of
19:31
Speaker 2: it that way as like, oh, I can go to
19:32
Speaker 2: the community college and that gets me into a big
19:34
Speaker 2: company because you used to be you had to go
19:35
Speaker 2: to a big name school and then you network into
19:37
Speaker 2: a big company. That's not how the world works anymore.
19:40
Speaker 10: No, No, definitely not. We offer a Bixi. I think
19:44
Speaker 10: we're the state's only Bixi certified provider.
19:47
Speaker 2: Explain what that is, so fiber.
19:49
Speaker 10: Optic installation and you can come to us. It's a
19:51
Speaker 10: couple of weeks, really short term, but like you said,
19:55
Speaker 10: really in demand job. So that's another really great example.
19:59
Speaker 10: And you think of you know, all of the providers
20:01
Speaker 10: that need that type of skill set. We can get
20:03
Speaker 10: you in and out in just a few weeks through
20:05
Speaker 10: our workforce division.
20:07
Speaker 2: Yeah. I get tickled because I'll go to community college.
20:10
Speaker 2: I'm in culinary because I went back to culinary school.
20:12
Speaker 2: But I go past where they're doing the truck driver training.
20:15
Speaker 2: I used to manage a truck driving company here in
20:17
Speaker 2: the valley over in Huntington, and I see the guys
20:21
Speaker 2: climbing the poles to learn how to do the optic
20:23
Speaker 2: stuff and the power company stuff. You see all those
20:26
Speaker 2: trades things, but all those trades are going to get
20:29
Speaker 2: sucked into all this tech stuff at the same time.
20:30
Speaker 2: So it really goes all together. Part of what you're
20:33
Speaker 2: trying to do when you're pitching these things and you're
20:35
Speaker 2: talking about workforce because let's all be honest, we're going
20:37
Speaker 2: to college, try to get a.
20:38
Speaker 10: Good job, right.
20:39
Speaker 2: Absolutely, when you're piecing all those things together, that's the
20:43
Speaker 2: world you're trying to explain to people, and people maybe
20:45
Speaker 2: don't see that world even though that's the world we
20:47
Speaker 2: live in.
20:48
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a really good point. The
20:51
Speaker 10: College of Slogo is slogan is find your path and
20:56
Speaker 10: we take that really seriously. I think it's really representative
20:58
Speaker 10: of how respond we are to industry or advisory boards.
21:03
Speaker 10: The companies can come in and tell us, you know,
21:04
Speaker 10: this is what we see as a trend emerging, what
21:07
Speaker 10: we need from our workforce, and we can stand that
21:09
Speaker 10: up for them relatively quickly. So, yeah, great point.
21:14
Speaker 2: When you talk about the community college stuff, the old
21:19
Speaker 2: version of it was people. I was like, oh, well,
21:21
Speaker 2: it's a little lesser than it. But WHW, we're seeing
21:23
Speaker 2: higher ed. It's no secret we see it in the headlines.
21:26
Speaker 2: They're having money problems, they're having overhead problems, a lot
21:29
Speaker 2: of them have massive debt. The community college level as
21:34
Speaker 2: an entry way. Talk about it not only as an
21:37
Speaker 2: educational thing, but as a financial opportunity. Is like, look,
21:40
Speaker 2: every credit hour you take locally at whatever the current
21:44
Speaker 2: rate is, that's a fraction of what it costs you. There.
21:46
Speaker 2: You're not only saving money, you're really investing money in yourself. Yeah.
21:50
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I'm a first generation student. I started at a
21:54
Speaker 10: community college myself, and something that I that's why I
21:59
Speaker 10: ended up in community college is a career, like you said,
22:03
Speaker 10: at much cheaper rate than a lot of the other
22:06
Speaker 10: providers out there, get in, get those same credits that
22:10
Speaker 10: you need, and back to that find your path slogan.
22:13
Speaker 10: You can come do one of those short term trainings
22:15
Speaker 10: with us like CDL, like fiber optic installation, be done,
22:18
Speaker 10: go into the workforce. You can pursue to your associates
22:22
Speaker 10: with us and be done. Maybe something like our nursing program,
22:25
Speaker 10: which is phenomenal, or maybe you you know, get your
22:29
Speaker 10: two year degree and transfer that to a four year
22:31
Speaker 10: But however you've done it. You have saved time and
22:34
Speaker 10: you've saved a significant amount of money, especially with something
22:37
Speaker 10: like the state's West Virginia invest Grant for you know,
22:40
Speaker 10: free tuition at community colleges in the state and a
22:43
Speaker 10: lot of the other financial aid programs that are out there.
22:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cody Tomlin join us from Bridgehew Valley. What do
22:51
Speaker 2: you see kind of the future going forward? Because there's
22:54
Speaker 2: obviously there's the college level, in the high school level
22:56
Speaker 2: that we're talking about, there's also a lot of adult
22:59
Speaker 2: continuing edu that goes through. That's something that's becoming more
23:02
Speaker 2: and more because one of the realities we see in
23:05
Speaker 2: West Virginia specifically or broadly as well, tech changes things.
23:08
Speaker 2: People talk like, well, AI is going to kill all
23:10
Speaker 2: these jobs. Well I think that's overblown. But jobs do
23:14
Speaker 2: change things, and that's where the continuing education piece comes in,
23:17
Speaker 2: and community college is one of the ways you do that.
23:19
Speaker 2: Talk about that for us old people like me that
23:21
Speaker 2: go back to school because I'm not the oldest in there.
23:25
Speaker 2: We've had people in their sixties, it's sixteen to sixty.
23:27
Speaker 2: Talk about the adult part of that, because that's where
23:29
Speaker 2: it really becomes a community force multiplier.
23:32
Speaker 11: Yeah.
23:33
Speaker 10: Actually, for us, the largest number of our students are
23:36
Speaker 10: what is termed a non traditional student or an adult student,
23:41
Speaker 10: so folks that are over the age of twenty four
23:43
Speaker 10: to twenty five. That makes up the bulk of our students,
23:45
Speaker 10: and we want to be really responsive to their needs.
23:48
Speaker 10: You know, people don't stop being parents or caregivers or
23:52
Speaker 10: having jobs, you know, the everyday demands of life whenever
23:55
Speaker 10: they register. So we want to be cognizant of that
23:59
Speaker 10: and work to those needs. But to your point, we
24:04
Speaker 10: take that very seriously and we work to meet those
24:09
Speaker 10: needs and make sure that they can get in and
24:11
Speaker 10: whether it's more traditional pathway like nursing or some of
24:15
Speaker 10: those cutting edge areas like cybersecurity or computer science. Community members,
24:22
Speaker 10: our employer partners play a big role in shaping what
24:25
Speaker 10: our curriculum looks like. Each of our programs has an
24:29
Speaker 10: advisory board, so they come in and they tell us
24:31
Speaker 10: this is what we see as an emerging trend, AI
24:34
Speaker 10: being a huge one right now. So we're doing some
24:37
Speaker 10: work to become what is known as a Department of
24:39
Speaker 10: Defense recognized Center of Excellence in cybersecurity. So you can
24:44
Speaker 10: come to us fingers crossed. If all goes well, come
24:47
Speaker 10: to us, get that degree and also have an opportunity
24:51
Speaker 10: to interern through the Department of Defense.
24:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cody Tomlin, Director of Strategic Initiatives, That sounds important
24:57
Speaker 2: at Bridgeview, like from because one thing for people to say,
25:01
Speaker 2: and then we'll end on this, but I know my
25:04
Speaker 2: youngest daughter got into her school that she chose up
25:07
Speaker 2: in New York City. They expressly told her like, hey,
25:10
Speaker 2: the program you're getting into. Normally you get into the
25:12
Speaker 2: school and you have to do a year and then
25:14
Speaker 2: you get into your program. You're getting straight into your
25:16
Speaker 2: program because you did this engineering track in community college.
25:20
Speaker 2: Talk for just a minute for parents who might be like, oh,
25:22
Speaker 2: I want my kid to go to the View or
25:24
Speaker 2: Marshall or Glenville or wherever, these big schools and they're like,
25:27
Speaker 2: I don't want them to just go to community college.
25:30
Speaker 2: Some of the older people have that Statement's like, no,
25:32
Speaker 2: this will help you get into those big name schools,
25:35
Speaker 2: even big nationally known schools. If they're recognizing the value
25:38
Speaker 2: of community college, we need to as parents and as
25:41
Speaker 2: students recognize it.
25:43
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely, I think that to your point, there's still
25:49
Speaker 10: sort of a misconception that community college is kind of
25:54
Speaker 10: considered less than but that's absolutely not the case. You
25:57
Speaker 10: can come in, you can get those industry recognized crew dentials,
26:01
Speaker 10: and you know, whatever your goals are, we want to
26:04
Speaker 10: be able to help you meet those goals. So whether
26:06
Speaker 10: that's another short term workforce thing like CDL or fiber
26:09
Speaker 10: optic installation, diesel mechanic, you can come in and get
26:13
Speaker 10: that much quicker, much cheaper than you know, any of
26:17
Speaker 10: the other providers out there. Or if your goal is
26:21
Speaker 10: to go to a four year institution, those classes will transfer,
26:25
Speaker 10: so you know, again saving time, saving a lot of money,
26:27
Speaker 10: get started close to home and save money.
26:31
Speaker 2: Yep, Cody, Tom'll appreciate your time. Bridge Vali let folks
26:34
Speaker 2: know where they can find that and get more information
26:35
Speaker 2: on Bridge Valley.
26:36
Speaker 10: Yeah, check out Bridge Valley dot ADU.
26:39
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Tom sir, thank you so much for
26:41
Speaker 2: coming in.
26:41
Speaker 10: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: talking about food. I assume you've probably made a pizza too.
30:02
Speaker 2: I believe my friend Vicente Cruz, known restaurant tour, known
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30:10
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30:11
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Speaker 14: I'm doing well.
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Speaker 2: You've done a pizza too?
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Speaker 7: Right? Correct?
30:17
Speaker 2: What do you Because there's the debate is it neapolitan?
30:20
Speaker 2: Is I went to Chicago for a while back and
30:22
Speaker 2: we got into that debate with a casserole pizza. What
30:25
Speaker 2: do you do?
30:27
Speaker 6: Uh?
30:27
Speaker 14: Well, we do the traditional. You don't have several restaurants
30:30
Speaker 14: over at Phaseo's. We do the traditional pizza that was
30:33
Speaker 14: made by Joe Phasio seventy five years.
30:36
Speaker 2: Ago and don't need to change it.
30:38
Speaker 14: Don't need to change it, so you do. Like then
30:42
Speaker 14: it's a pan crusted, hand crusted. You know, the dose
30:45
Speaker 14: made twice a day. We make it right at four o'clock.
30:47
Speaker 14: The restaurant opens at five, we make it again at
30:50
Speaker 14: seven o'clock, so you get the same quality pizza at
30:52
Speaker 14: eight thirty that you do right when you walk in
30:54
Speaker 14: the door at five.
30:55
Speaker 2: See, that's one of those important things that people need
30:57
Speaker 2: to understand, is like even at whether it's a change
31:00
Speaker 2: restaurant or a local mom and pop shop or something,
31:02
Speaker 2: the process is really important as far as what you're
31:04
Speaker 2: actually going to get on your plate, isn't it absolutely?
31:07
Speaker 14: Quality? Quality means everything.
31:09
Speaker 2: I know, Like when I one of the first things
31:11
Speaker 2: I learned when I did culinary school is like your
31:14
Speaker 2: prep and your processes everything, and if you start jacking
31:17
Speaker 2: that up, yes, this knife cut really matters in the
31:20
Speaker 2: final thing. So when you're running a restaurant, you're thinking
31:23
Speaker 2: about that two ways. You're thinking about the quality when
31:25
Speaker 2: you put it out on the plate, you're also thinking
31:27
Speaker 2: about the cost of it. People that don't understand that,
31:29
Speaker 2: just come and sit on what walk them through that
31:31
Speaker 2: a little bit of how all of those things get
31:33
Speaker 2: to what they see on their plate and what they
31:35
Speaker 2: enjoy and what they put on their Facebook and their Instagram.
31:38
Speaker 14: Oh, there's a lot of prep corporate excuse me, a
31:41
Speaker 14: lot of prep work that goes into pretty much everything.
31:43
Speaker 6: You know.
31:43
Speaker 14: I have Hellhouse also, Yeah, and you know, just preparing
31:47
Speaker 14: the sauces that go on top of the food, the
31:50
Speaker 14: glazes that go on a chicken, and the salmon that
31:52
Speaker 14: we put on it. You know, we prepare those stuff daily. Everything,
31:56
Speaker 14: fresh cut veggies, those things matter. You cut up a
31:59
Speaker 14: red onion a day ahead of time. The next day
32:02
Speaker 14: it's terrible, you know.
32:03
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so.
32:04
Speaker 14: Stuff you got to do every day.
32:05
Speaker 2: A little strong.
32:06
Speaker 14: Yes, absolutely.
32:07
Speaker 2: You mentioned Halhouse. That's a good example of kind of
32:10
Speaker 2: how restaurants are changed. It's very much the food's great,
32:13
Speaker 2: but it's very much built as a place for people
32:15
Speaker 2: to gather and hang out and have conversations and bring people.
32:20
Speaker 2: When you're designing a space like that, what's the balance
32:23
Speaker 2: of Okay, the ambiance is important and the food's important,
32:25
Speaker 2: But that's one of those you can just look at
32:27
Speaker 2: the pictures online and be like, oh, that just looks
32:29
Speaker 2: like a place I want to sit in for a.
32:30
Speaker 14: While, right, Well, here's a little story. I started Veno's
32:34
Speaker 14: Bar and Grill thirteen years ago, and the food at
32:37
Speaker 14: Venos at that time is the same food that I
32:41
Speaker 14: serve at Hellhouse.
32:41
Speaker 7: Now there you go.
32:43
Speaker 14: It just that side of the block on a boulevard Uncanal.
32:45
Speaker 14: Bulevard just was never known for restaurants. So when I
32:48
Speaker 14: started Venos, I thought maybe I could make it into
32:50
Speaker 14: a wine bar slash elegant food all the way up
32:53
Speaker 14: till one o'clock in the morning and serve fresh grilled salmon,
32:55
Speaker 14: fresh chicken, things like that till late night. But it
33:01
Speaker 14: just didn't go well over there because that was just
33:03
Speaker 14: an own spot for the bar. When property came available
33:06
Speaker 14: on Hail Street, I was looking for basically a bourbon
33:11
Speaker 14: beestro place. I had a love and passion for bourbon,
33:15
Speaker 14: and I kind of infuse that to all of my
33:17
Speaker 14: recipes over there. It's in my glazes, it's in my sauce,
33:20
Speaker 14: thatchoes on top of the food. So I moved the
33:23
Speaker 14: food over there, opened it up and made it more
33:25
Speaker 14: of a bourbon type atmosphere, and it kicked off very well.
33:30
Speaker 14: The same style food, just a different atmosphere, packaging absolutely
33:35
Speaker 14: And then I kind of went with the vibe and
33:37
Speaker 14: created a speakeasy in a basement that you can wait
33:40
Speaker 14: while you're waiting for your table, go down there and
33:42
Speaker 14: have a drink or two and head upstairs, and then
33:45
Speaker 14: when you finish, you can also go back to the bar.
33:47
Speaker 14: There's two bars there. You go upstairs or downstairs, so
33:49
Speaker 14: you don't have to sit at the table and keep drinking.
33:51
Speaker 14: You can kind of get up and get a different
33:54
Speaker 14: experience at the same time.
33:55
Speaker 2: How much fun did you have doing the photo shoot
33:58
Speaker 2: for the speakeasy, because if you haven't seen on the website,
34:01
Speaker 2: they're all dressed up in the thirties, the flapper clothes,
34:04
Speaker 2: the zoot suit. I think that was you were wearing.
34:06
Speaker 2: You had the two collars, shoes on. How much fun
34:08
Speaker 2: was that?
34:09
Speaker 12: That was great?
34:09
Speaker 14: We used to we were doing a every year we've
34:11
Speaker 14: been doing a prohibition party, so as a celebration of
34:14
Speaker 14: alcohol being released again, we all dress up, We close
34:18
Speaker 14: the restaurant down for a day and put a ton
34:20
Speaker 14: of food out and drinks and kind of go with
34:23
Speaker 14: that theme. It's a great time. I think everybody enjoys
34:25
Speaker 14: it every year.
34:26
Speaker 2: And to me, that's kind of the theme of food
34:28
Speaker 2: is like, especially because if you do politics, we actually
34:31
Speaker 2: start doing an online on Twitter a food group of
34:33
Speaker 2: just people pushing the photos and it's like, it's really
34:35
Speaker 2: funny watching people politically that I know if I got
34:37
Speaker 2: them in a room together, they wouldn't get along. They're like, Oh,
34:39
Speaker 2: I want that recipe?
34:40
Speaker 6: What is that?
34:40
Speaker 2: How'd you make that?
34:41
Speaker 7: Food?
34:41
Speaker 2: Is that universal thing because I don't care who you are,
34:44
Speaker 2: wherever you are, you have to eat. And especially growing
34:47
Speaker 2: up in West Virginia, course, food is just kind of
34:49
Speaker 2: ingrained into our culture. But that's really the part of
34:51
Speaker 2: food that I enjoy, whether it's the business side or
34:53
Speaker 2: the cooking side or the family side, is this is
34:55
Speaker 2: one of just one of the few universal things all
34:57
Speaker 2: people have.
34:58
Speaker 14: I agree, you can when it comes to meals, it
35:03
Speaker 14: makes you happy every single day. You could eat out
35:05
Speaker 14: three days a week and if you get three great meals,
35:07
Speaker 14: you feel great about it. You know, when you buy
35:08
Speaker 14: a new car, good car. A new car is great
35:11
Speaker 14: for about a month, but when it comes to food,
35:13
Speaker 14: you could have that same great feeling every day.
35:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, that brings us to the business side. Look, the
35:17
Speaker 2: economy is tough, the food industry is on a good economy.
35:21
Speaker 2: The food industry is a high fail especially a restaurant business.
35:24
Speaker 2: It's a tough business to do. It's very thin margins.
35:27
Speaker 2: A lot of people have trouble. What do you what
35:30
Speaker 2: is your outlook? Because people look, when the economy contracts,
35:33
Speaker 2: people stop spending money and discretionary income gets tight and
35:36
Speaker 2: going out to each one of those things. What is
35:38
Speaker 2: it that you're seeing just from folks coming in, folks
35:41
Speaker 2: talking to you from the business end of it, of
35:43
Speaker 2: where the business is right now. Of like, people still
35:45
Speaker 2: want to spend money to get that experience, it gets
35:48
Speaker 2: more expensive, but also in hard times they want that
35:51
Speaker 2: feeling and they want to go out for that special
35:53
Speaker 2: occasion or they want to go out with friends. You
35:56
Speaker 2: see that every day in your places of business. Just
35:58
Speaker 2: talk people through that thing. Because I'll talk about it
36:00
Speaker 2: from the policy side or the headline side, you're seeing
36:03
Speaker 2: it from the people's side.
36:04
Speaker 10: Right.
36:05
Speaker 14: I believe people want to don't They don't want to
36:08
Speaker 14: have to cook, they don't want to have to clean
36:09
Speaker 14: up after themselves. And the prices of food right now
36:13
Speaker 14: is outrageous. You go to a grocery store, it's four
36:16
Speaker 14: hundred dollars, you know, so it's almost cheaper to go
36:18
Speaker 14: out to eat it at certain points, and it's a
36:21
Speaker 14: lot easier especially with families and the on the go
36:25
Speaker 14: that everybody you know with kids and everything else. You know,
36:27
Speaker 14: you could just pick up a meal and take it
36:29
Speaker 14: home faster than you can cook it yourself and save
36:31
Speaker 14: a little bit of time. So you think that's still
36:35
Speaker 14: something that people really look forward to.
36:37
Speaker 2: I have a running joke with my family. I was like,
36:39
Speaker 2: for what all y'all Starbucks orders costs, we could get
36:41
Speaker 2: down to the Italian joint and have a nice meal.
36:44
Speaker 1: Right, exactly what do.
36:46
Speaker 2: You have coming up? Just tell people real quick while
36:49
Speaker 2: we have you your various places where they can go to
36:51
Speaker 2: get some of that good food if they want that
36:53
Speaker 2: bourbon experience, if they want to hang out at the
36:55
Speaker 2: speak easy, walk people through some of your locations and
36:57
Speaker 2: what you got going on so they know where they'd
36:59
Speaker 2: find them.
37:00
Speaker 14: Okay, I have two bars on a boulevard. Whiskey Glasses
37:02
Speaker 14: is only open on Friday and Saturday. It's more like
37:05
Speaker 14: country karaoke boulevard grill. It has more or less bar food.
37:10
Speaker 14: Probably the best Monte Cristo in town.
37:13
Speaker 2: Monte Cristo I haven't had one of them in a while.
37:15
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, same recipe as Bennegan's.
37:17
Speaker 2: I was getting ready in my head to make the
37:19
Speaker 2: Benegan joke because we'd go to the mall in Benigans.
37:22
Speaker 2: That's the only place I'd ever seen in Monte Cristo
37:24
Speaker 2: when I was growing up.
37:25
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's still legendary from there, so we still making
37:27
Speaker 14: people come in every day for it. You know, the
37:29
Speaker 14: Boulevard Grill. Not only does it has great bar food
37:32
Speaker 14: late night, you can get it all the way up
37:34
Speaker 14: till one in the morning, but there's plenty of entertainment
37:36
Speaker 14: and games to do. We've got everything from basketball, big
37:39
Speaker 14: screen TVs, pool tables, dart boards, so there's entertainment. Then
37:43
Speaker 14: you head over to the restaurant side. I have Hall House,
37:46
Speaker 14: which is based around Bourbon, so pretty much all of
37:51
Speaker 14: our recipes kind of have that in it or cooked
37:54
Speaker 14: through it. And then we have a speakeasy there you
37:57
Speaker 14: can go downstairs and enjoy that. It's a quiet, intimate atmas,
38:00
Speaker 14: we have a full bar upstairs. Then the restaurant that
38:03
Speaker 14: does really well, and then Phasio's has been the newest
38:08
Speaker 14: restaurant that I took over for Danny Fasio. We bought
38:12
Speaker 14: that out from him and he was ready to retire,
38:15
Speaker 14: and the guy was legendary, worked with us for a
38:17
Speaker 14: couple months in the kitchen and made sure we kept
38:20
Speaker 14: every recipe of the same. And so we took that
38:22
Speaker 14: restaurant and basically upgraded it, put a brand new bar
38:27
Speaker 14: inside of it, which it never had, computer systems, changed
38:31
Speaker 14: it a little bit, and it's doing really well.
38:33
Speaker 15: Now.
38:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a different thing too than like, you know,
38:36
Speaker 2: some like Halehouse, where that's your baby and I want
38:38
Speaker 2: to do this business. Did you feel the responsibility of
38:41
Speaker 2: it or was that just a challenge You're like, oh,
38:43
Speaker 2: I want to bring this back to life. How did
38:45
Speaker 2: you approach it? Because that's a name that everybody knew.
38:48
Speaker 14: I wanted to bring it back to life. I didn't
38:49
Speaker 14: want to see it go away. Danny was ready to
38:52
Speaker 14: retire and I we didn't want to see it close.
38:57
Speaker 14: And not only did I wanted to stick around, but
39:01
Speaker 14: I still wanted the food be just as good, if
39:03
Speaker 14: not better. And that's what our focus has been, you know,
39:07
Speaker 14: keeping it where it needs to be and adding a
39:09
Speaker 14: bar to it. I think not a lot of people
39:12
Speaker 14: even knew that they had a bar in the kitchen.
39:13
Speaker 14: You couldn't see it. If you don't see it, you know,
39:15
Speaker 14: it's not top of mind. Now when you work, when
39:17
Speaker 14: you walk in the front door, there's a bar rate
39:19
Speaker 14: to the right, and that's the first thing you see
39:20
Speaker 14: when you walk into the restaurant. So you still got
39:22
Speaker 14: that old school nostygia feel in the dining part of
39:25
Speaker 14: the restaurant, but then you have a new modern bar
39:29
Speaker 14: that you can sit at and have dinner or just
39:31
Speaker 14: get a drink or two before you go sit down
39:33
Speaker 14: and mingle with the rest of your guests. And PHASEOS
39:35
Speaker 14: is huge, so if you want to have a large party,
39:39
Speaker 14: that's the place to go. There's three different dining rooms,
39:42
Speaker 14: so we do large parties all the time. And then
39:44
Speaker 14: while you're sitting at your large party, if the rest
39:46
Speaker 14: of them leave and you want to continue to have
39:47
Speaker 14: a beverage, you can now sit at a bar and
39:49
Speaker 14: do that over there.
39:50
Speaker 2: This is the time of the year for large parties.
39:51
Speaker 2: You got graduations going on, you got wedding season coming up.
39:54
Speaker 2: Absolutely tell them where they can call you and find you.
39:57
Speaker 2: If they want to do that large party thing.
39:58
Speaker 14: You could just call over to Phaseas any time after
40:00
Speaker 14: two speak to the manager. They'll get your set up
40:03
Speaker 14: and let you know what we have available. But you
40:06
Speaker 14: do need to book ahead of time because we've got
40:09
Speaker 14: stuff all the way through June as of right now.
40:12
Speaker 14: Same thing with Hell House. The big days fill up
40:14
Speaker 14: so fast.
40:15
Speaker 2: That's a good problem to have, though, Yeah, a good
40:17
Speaker 2: problem to have. Not complaining, but Sentai cruise. I could
40:19
Speaker 2: talk food for the rest of the day because that's
40:21
Speaker 2: way more interesting than some of this other stuff. Appreciate
40:23
Speaker 2: your tom sir, thank you so much for coming in.
40:25
Speaker 14: I thank you, appreciate it.
40:26
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Speaker 7: I think I'm the only one, almost not. How many
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Speaker 7: days do we have here?
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Speaker 6: Now?
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Speaker 7: I've lost count? I think maybe five. Legion is Legion Legion.
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Speaker 7: because no one knows who you're talking about it. I
44:10
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44:20
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44:22
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44:25
Speaker 2: said something profound on the radio yesterday. I wanted to revisit. Okay,
44:28
Speaker 2: now this was actually good. You did good.
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Speaker 7: Book here soon.
44:32
Speaker 2: It's something I've been attacking in some of the writing
44:35
Speaker 2: I want to do about West Virginia as somebody that's
44:37
Speaker 2: grew up here diasporas coming back working. And I think
44:41
Speaker 2: it gets to the core because look, partisan politics, we
44:44
Speaker 2: love it. It pays the bills is what everybody wants
44:46
Speaker 2: to talk about. That's also in the big scheme that's
44:49
Speaker 2: kind of the JV League money power, power structures. That's
44:52
Speaker 2: the important part. And you said something that very distinctly
44:56
Speaker 2: got to something that I want to spend a lot
44:58
Speaker 2: of my time going forward. Is we have a problem
45:01
Speaker 2: in the say to West Virginia specifically but broadly as well,
45:04
Speaker 2: that we want to take keep taking political and economic
45:07
Speaker 2: problems and solve them culturally. And then what happens is
45:10
Speaker 2: we warp our economic and political policies to fit the culture,
45:14
Speaker 2: and that's going to end in tears. Disappointment and human
45:17
Speaker 2: suffering one hundred out of one hundred times.
45:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, we and kind of like you, born raised here,
45:24
Speaker 7: lived here my entire life, but have worked all across
45:26
Speaker 7: the United States and spent a lot of time out
45:28
Speaker 7: of West Virginia. So you can't help but see how
45:32
Speaker 7: other people do things, and I think it's good, count
45:34
Speaker 7: eye opening and one of the things I have learned.
45:37
Speaker 7: And look, I'm guilty too, and I wanted to be
45:39
Speaker 7: better at this. We look for a way to say
45:42
Speaker 7: no before we look for a way to say yes. Yeah,
45:47
Speaker 7: and that that becomes part of this repetitive cycle. I
45:53
Speaker 7: think that puts us into some of the situations that
45:55
Speaker 7: we are in. I'm not saying, like with data centers,
45:58
Speaker 7: that there aren't problems that need to be mitigated and
46:01
Speaker 7: that we need to work on and figure out. But
46:04
Speaker 7: until we want to come together and find a way
46:07
Speaker 7: to say yes to these things and find a sweet
46:09
Speaker 7: spot where it works for everybody and also addresses everyone's concerns,
46:13
Speaker 7: I think you're spot on. We're just going to continue
46:15
Speaker 7: to see this perpetual cycle in West Virginia where we
46:18
Speaker 7: really don't move forward, and I think it's one of
46:21
Speaker 7: our biggest challenges. We are our own worst enemy in
46:24
Speaker 7: many ways. I think culturally, obviously, we have some things
46:30
Speaker 7: that are tough that we can't change. The topography. Topography
46:33
Speaker 7: of this state is incredibly challenging. When it comes to economics,
46:36
Speaker 7: you can't find flat land to really build a lot
46:38
Speaker 7: and do a lot of things right. So we've got
46:40
Speaker 7: some honest to goodness challenges that it's gonna be hard
46:42
Speaker 7: to mitigate. Why make it even harder with many of
46:46
Speaker 7: the other issues that we face that we bring on ourselves.
46:48
Speaker 2: And the answer to the rhetorical question is because it
46:51
Speaker 2: involves really hard decisions that really really hurt. Because we
46:55
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to let some things go and we're
46:56
Speaker 2: gonna have to let some things change. That's the answer,
46:59
Speaker 2: and that's the heart, and here's the thing, and here's
47:01
Speaker 2: the truth of it. Because you pride yourself on being
47:04
Speaker 2: a true tell there's not a good answer. There's not
47:07
Speaker 2: really a whole lot of wrong answers. There's a lot
47:09
Speaker 2: of give and take and just finding our way on it.
47:12
Speaker 2: But that's not how Twitter works, and that's not how
47:16
Speaker 2: Facebook works, and that's not how all the money we
47:18
Speaker 2: just saw in the primary works. Those are all We're
47:20
Speaker 2: going to do this and it's going to fix everything.
47:22
Speaker 2: Or the governor and the congressman and all of them
47:24
Speaker 2: are going to have this gizmo factory is going to
47:26
Speaker 2: fix everything. It's like, well, Webster Springs is still hard
47:29
Speaker 2: to get to. It's still hard to get to, you know, mate,
47:31
Speaker 2: Wand is still hard to get too.
47:32
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think we're at the point where if
47:35
Speaker 7: we don't grow and say yes to something that will
47:38
Speaker 7: help us grow. I talked about this yesterday. The other
47:40
Speaker 7: reality is we're going to have to give up some
47:44
Speaker 7: of these locales where people have lived for generations, where
47:47
Speaker 7: they have homesteads, and we're going to find a reality
47:51
Speaker 7: in that. Look, we're never going to have a modern
47:53
Speaker 7: infrastructure in some of these places because we can't afford it.
47:56
Speaker 7: We don't have enough of people to afford it, we
47:58
Speaker 7: don't have a golden goose that gives us money to
47:59
Speaker 7: be able to afford it. And so there are some
48:01
Speaker 7: real challenges coming on the cut side, I think, And
48:05
Speaker 7: what is sustainable if we don't figure out a way
48:08
Speaker 7: to say yes and grow the pie.
48:09
Speaker 2: I think homestead's a perfect term for it, because we
48:11
Speaker 2: can build some stuff in for people that want to
48:13
Speaker 2: do that and want to live rawly and want to
48:15
Speaker 2: have homestead farms and stuff. Yeah, have a infrastructure for
48:18
Speaker 2: them and a policy for them. And then also go, yeah,
48:21
Speaker 2: but we got to build a panhandle up to pay
48:22
Speaker 2: for it, and we got to build up the value
48:24
Speaker 2: to pay for and we got to build up Morgantown
48:25
Speaker 2: to pay for it. There's a thing in there. TJ.
48:27
Speaker 2: Meadows joining us. He'll be in the big chair with
48:30
Speaker 2: Dave here. Surely Billboard to show form. Buddy, what do
48:32
Speaker 2: you got coming up on talk line today?
48:33
Speaker 7: So today should be a pretty good show. We're going
48:36
Speaker 7: to get into a lot of things. Hoppy Kerschiwal joins
48:38
Speaker 7: us at eleven o six. We haven't talked about it yet.
48:41
Speaker 7: Hoppy happened to write about it today. So it fit perfectly.
48:44
Speaker 7: This issue with Donald Trump and the IRS and this
48:47
Speaker 7: get out of jail free card and never being able
48:50
Speaker 7: to be reprimanded again by the IRS, and where this
48:53
Speaker 7: money goes. I mean, how far is too far? I mean,
48:57
Speaker 7: how much can this man get away with the way
49:00
Speaker 7: I look at it, you know, until somebody finally says no.
49:05
Speaker 7: That's somebody, in my opinion, would have to be the Congress.
49:07
Speaker 7: But Hoppy has some takes on that, so we'll get
49:09
Speaker 7: into that coming up at eleven six. Also on the
49:12
Speaker 7: show today, may not realize I didn't until the drive
49:15
Speaker 7: in Andrew Tonight is the last Stephen Colbert Late Show.
49:20
Speaker 2: It didn't register with me either. I've seen where they're
49:23
Speaker 2: yending it up. He did the Dave Letterman thing where
49:25
Speaker 2: they threw stuff off the roof.
49:26
Speaker 7: Tonight is the last show. So Jack Loger, who hosts
49:30
Speaker 7: the morning show on our station in Morgantown, WVAQ, it's
49:34
Speaker 7: kind of our entertainment reporter as well. We're going to
49:37
Speaker 7: talk with him about that because there's a place here
49:39
Speaker 7: where entertainment meets business meets politics, I think, and what
49:43
Speaker 7: does it all mean for the future of late night.
49:45
Speaker 7: So we want to get into that just a little bit.
49:48
Speaker 7: Brad mclelhenny stops by at ten thirty. The latest in
49:51
Speaker 7: what we call the Greenbrier Resort saga, the state of
49:54
Speaker 7: West Virginia seeking to get in and protect their tax
49:57
Speaker 7: liens here in this federal case.
49:59
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.
50:00
Speaker 7: Joe Statler, Mon County Delegate, chair of the House Education Committee,
50:04
Speaker 7: A lot said in these House only interims in the
50:06
Speaker 7: last couple of days about special education, education moving forward.
50:10
Speaker 7: Joe's at a conference this morning about higher education. I
50:13
Speaker 7: believe up in Canaane Valley, So we'll talk with him
50:15
Speaker 7: and see where we go from here.
50:17
Speaker 2: I was joking because I guess hosted this program in
50:19
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and the main topic of the day
50:22
Speaker 2: was the tax lanes on the Green Brier. So the
50:24
Speaker 2: more things change, my friend.
50:26
Speaker 7: The more they say the same. It's like, at some
50:30
Speaker 7: point that's got to get fixed, right, and.
50:33
Speaker 2: It's gonna get resolved. I don't know about fixed.
50:35
Speaker 7: Very very well put. And if it depends on what
50:38
Speaker 7: the senator former governor, if he wants to be governor again,
50:41
Speaker 7: and what that's going to look like.
50:42
Speaker 1: To me, you got to get.
50:43
Speaker 7: The Greenbrier done and over with before you get into that.
50:45
Speaker 2: But layers and layers, it's just an onion of pain
50:49
Speaker 2: trying to cover this story.
50:50
Speaker 1: TJ.
50:51
Speaker 2: Meadows, make sure you stay around. Hey, thanks for being here.
50:53
Speaker 2: You've been doing a great job. Hey, I appreciate. We're
50:54
Speaker 2: going to try to come back tomorrow. We're going to
50:56
Speaker 2: get to do the best segment of the entire week,
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Speaker 2: the adopt a pet segment because I'm a big dog. However,
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Speaker 2: we got four of them at the house. Uh, so
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Speaker 2: we'll be doing that tomorrow. We're also gonna have some
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Speaker 2: of the West Virginia Watch crew in to talk about
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Speaker 2: some headlines and a few other things. So we're gonna
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Speaker 2: do the news. Metro News talk line will be up.
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Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Donson. I'll be filling in again tomorrow. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: So wherever you are, we hope you're well. We hope
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Speaker 2: you're well fed, take care of yourselves, have a wonderful day,
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Speaker 2: be careful in the rain.
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