Latest / WCHS Network Podcasts / 07/02/2026 Ask the Lawyer with Harvey and Tom Peyton
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- 0:18Speaker 1: When last, come here to Katie can Rocks. And once
- 0:30Speaker 1: again this morning, there's no reason to fight the law.
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- 0:34Speaker 1: we have in studio with this this morning. It is
- 0:36Speaker 1: the Payton Law Firm, and for I think the second
- 0:38Speaker 1: time in our history, we have Harvey and Tom in
- 0:42Speaker 1: studio with us this morning. Harvey, good morning, welcome back.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Well, it's good to be back, dude. It's uh, actually
- 0:47Speaker 2: I have I've been on a little bit of a leave.
- 0:50Speaker 2: I didn't say much about it before a laugh, But
- 0:52Speaker 2: like three weeks ago, yesterday I was up at the
- 0:54Speaker 2: Cleveland clinic for a h I had a scan and
- 0:58Speaker 2: found out that I had an a ornic and here
- 0:59Speaker 2: is I'm on the root of the order right above
- 1:03Speaker 2: my heart and the valve is a little out of whack.
- 1:05Speaker 2: So I spent last Wednesday under the night, or Wednesday
- 1:10Speaker 2: three weeks ago under the knife up in Cleveland, and
- 1:13Speaker 2: everything went well. I mean, I've got a new scar,
- 1:16Speaker 2: but other than that and gain them back a little strength.
- 1:19Speaker 2: I don't think I've lost any vigor ready to get
- 1:23Speaker 2: back in the saddle. So I told Tom yesterday, well,
- 1:26Speaker 2: let's just ride up together and then I can go
- 1:28Speaker 2: back to the office and check the emails and be
- 1:31Speaker 2: back in gear. Not fully in gear, because it takes
- 1:34Speaker 2: a while to get your strength back. You have to
- 1:35Speaker 2: be under anesthesia four hours for this procedure, and that
- 1:42Speaker 2: just SAPs you a bit. But here we are. But
- 1:44Speaker 2: the good thing about it is within the hospitality, just
- 1:46Speaker 2: away from the news cycle and every outside influence, because
- 1:51Speaker 2: all you do is sleep, so that nurses can wake
- 1:55Speaker 2: you up every two hours around the clock to ask
- 1:59Speaker 2: you if you're okay, then tell you to get some sleep.
- 2:03Speaker 2: So butnay, it's good to be back. And of course,
- 2:05Speaker 2: following the following the happenings, particularly with the United States
- 2:10Speaker 2: Supreme Court, and Tom and I talk about that and
- 2:13Speaker 2: follow that pretty closely to see there are some cases
- 2:17Speaker 2: that are meaningful. There was a search case, GEO Fence case, right, Tom.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Yeah, Thomas here too. Welcome, Welcome back.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Tom. No, probably is kind of a chauffe today. I think.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Lots of like you guys are talking about lots of
- 2:30Speaker 1: things going on. Of course, you can put the power
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- 3:51Speaker 4: There's been a not a whole lot on a well
- 3:54Speaker 4: kind of a local level dovetails into the US Supreme
- 3:57Speaker 4: Court since the State of West Virginia had a case there.
- 3:59Speaker 4: But uh, you just get these there's always kind of
- 4:04Speaker 4: a I wouldn't say a flood, but a flurry of
- 4:08Speaker 4: uh decisions towards end of the term in the spring
- 4:12Speaker 4: for the US Supreme Court. And one thing you can
- 4:14Speaker 4: say about the I think the Trump administration is they've
- 4:18Speaker 4: they've pushed the limit on on some provisions under the
- 4:24Speaker 4: law that you you know, you kind of think are
- 4:26Speaker 4: well established, pushed the envelope, I guess you would say.
- 4:29Speaker 3: So.
- 4:29Speaker 4: We got a flood of decisions now in the last
- 4:32Speaker 4: week or two that are pretty uh significant. I think
- 4:36Speaker 4: the one that of course connects back to West Virginia,
- 4:40Speaker 4: which is the uh, you know, we passed the one
- 4:45Speaker 4: three or four years ago past the I forget what
- 4:47Speaker 4: it's called Keep Girls Sports Safe Act or something like that,
- 4:51Speaker 4: which in essence, uh removed from the s s a
- 4:56Speaker 4: C discretion about boys and girls sports and whether a
- 5:02Speaker 4: transgender person could play in on the girls team, and
- 5:08Speaker 4: and the SSAC had a rule that was kind of
- 5:11Speaker 4: like a per case analysis about competitiveness and that kind
- 5:15Speaker 4: of thing. But then the legislature past the law saying,
- 5:19Speaker 4: in essence, it's based on biological sex and you can't
- 5:24Speaker 4: let biological sex boy play in girls' sports.
- 5:29Speaker 3: And it it.
- 5:31Speaker 4: That was then challenged here locally in the US District Court.
- 5:35Speaker 4: I think Judge Goodwin had it, who actually granted a
- 5:38Speaker 4: priminary injunction, which normally indicates it's a good clue, a
- 5:46Speaker 4: strong clue on how the ultimate case will turn out,
- 5:50Speaker 4: because he granted an injunction letting this letting the transgender
- 5:54Speaker 4: girl go ahead and compete in sports, but then when
- 5:58Speaker 4: it came for a final decision, he he changed his
- 6:01Speaker 4: ruling or made a final ruleing that was opposite and
- 6:03Speaker 4: said that the statute that our legislature passed was constitutional,
- 6:08Speaker 4: past constitutional muster and didn't violate Title nine. That was
- 6:13Speaker 4: then appealed to the four Circuit that reversed Judge Goodwin
- 6:16Speaker 4: and said no, that law is unconstitutional. I think they
- 6:18Speaker 4: also said it violated Title nine statute, and of course
- 6:22Speaker 4: it got appealed to the US Supreme Court. I believe
- 6:25Speaker 4: an opinion written by Justice Kavanaugh last week said no,
- 6:30Speaker 4: that that statute is constitutional. So now that's the law
- 6:34Speaker 4: in West Virginia, and these types of statutes are are legal,
- 6:40Speaker 4: and so the I guess the ramification if I don't
- 6:45Speaker 4: think there's much of a ramification. I think mostly this
- 6:48Speaker 4: was a legislation that was pushed for political reasons. I mean,
- 6:53Speaker 4: I'm only aware of one transgender person where there was
- 6:56Speaker 4: any controversy as far as girls and boys sports and Virginia,
- 7:00Speaker 4: and I thought the s SAC's rule was pretty good
- 7:03Speaker 4: because in a state as small as ours, where there's
- 7:07Speaker 4: I don't know, it could be one to three students
- 7:10Speaker 4: just whatever applied to you actually could do a case
- 7:12Speaker 4: case by case analysis. But in the grand scheme of things,
- 7:17Speaker 4: essentially the majority at the US Supreme Court said, well,
- 7:19Speaker 4: that's that's not realistic on a kind of a global level.
- 7:23Speaker 4: So it's black and white type statute is constitutional, and
- 7:29Speaker 4: so that's that's the law going forward.
- 7:31Speaker 3: I don't I know that the the girl that was.
- 7:37Speaker 4: Named as a party in that case, I think just
- 7:40Speaker 4: one she won the shot put at the state event,
- 7:43Speaker 4: I think, I don't she didn't win in any other
- 7:45Speaker 4: events that she was competing in. So I don't know
- 7:48Speaker 4: if that will stand now or what will happen with that.
- 7:51Speaker 4: Probably just leave it alone. But that statute that was
- 7:56Speaker 4: overturned by the Four Circuit is now back in place,
- 7:58Speaker 4: and so we follow the standard set by the legislature
- 8:02Speaker 4: going forward, which should be pretty black and white. I mean,
- 8:06Speaker 4: you have some biologue complicated, you know, anatomy issues with
- 8:11Speaker 4: some folks, a very small majority about how determining under
- 8:15Speaker 4: somebody what sex they are at birth. There's medical conditions
- 8:19Speaker 4: there that can release anatomical conditions that can make a difference.
- 8:22Speaker 4: But beyond that, I think it probably will be fairly
- 8:25Speaker 4: black and white going forward.
- 8:26Speaker 1: My question about this, and then there may I'll be
- 8:28Speaker 1: an answer that you guys have on this, because it's
- 8:30Speaker 1: going to be how it's implemented on the other end.
- 8:31Speaker 1: But some of the things that I've seen and have
- 8:34Speaker 1: seen in response to this would be, for example, what
- 8:36Speaker 1: triggers a investigation and can it be used like a weapon?
- 8:41Speaker 1: You know, you have somebody be you sure that's a
- 8:44Speaker 1: little girl? We better get a test. I mean, what's
- 8:47Speaker 1: the what's the barrier to keep that from happening to
- 8:49Speaker 1: virtually anyone? You lose a tournament and then you go
- 8:52Speaker 1: in and you start saying, well, I think that that
- 8:54Speaker 1: team was full of transgender girls. We better investigate all
- 8:56Speaker 1: the little kids. Those are the things that I worry about, because,
- 9:00Speaker 1: as you know, I guess we'll see what happens with this,
- 9:03Speaker 1: but uh, it doesn't seem that that measured minds usually
- 9:06Speaker 1: are the ones that that instigate these things. And I'm
- 9:09Speaker 1: just a little concerned about what's gonna happen to just
- 9:10Speaker 1: regular kids that compete, well, maybe minorities that people aren't
- 9:14Speaker 1: used through something along those lines. There's been some some
- 9:18Speaker 1: like you look at the Olympic level where they do
- 9:19Speaker 1: these types of things that's used weaponized. You know, they
- 9:21Speaker 1: take what's obviously biological women who were born that way,
- 9:25Speaker 1: and they're in controversy in other states just because of
- 9:27Speaker 1: how they present themselves. So that's the thing that that
- 9:31Speaker 1: I think we have to be aware of here in
- 9:32Speaker 1: this thing.
- 9:32Speaker 4: That's my opinion anyway, right, Yeah, and we'll see how
- 9:35Speaker 4: how it plays out, but I think it'll be you know,
- 9:39Speaker 4: normally you know, check up a Burth certificate will resolve
- 9:44Speaker 4: the issue. We should and but you're right in that,
- 9:49Speaker 4: you know, not to diminish either high school or middle
- 9:54Speaker 4: school sports or or that kind of thing or some
- 10:00Speaker 4: it has gender dysphoria and you know, diagnosed legitimate medical condition.
- 10:06Speaker 4: The percentage of folks that are affected by this, at
- 10:11Speaker 4: least the participants that are transgenderous so small that it's
- 10:17Speaker 4: not insignificant, but in proportion to what we've seen politically,
- 10:20Speaker 4: Like I mean, I think Governor Morsey had his his
- 10:23Speaker 4: ad like cocked or ready to go, because within ten
- 10:27Speaker 4: seconds I think of the ruling coming out publicly, he
- 10:30Speaker 4: already was touting how he saved boys' sports and keeping.
- 10:35Speaker 4: And I think almost universally you'll find of course you'll
- 10:39Speaker 4: find far left folks or on this issue, but I
- 10:43Speaker 4: mean almost universally, at least in West Virginia. I mean,
- 10:46Speaker 4: I think everybody agrees that, you know, somebody who is
- 10:52Speaker 4: a biological male, that you know, has those traits of
- 10:56Speaker 4: a male, should not be competing against girls.
- 10:59Speaker 3: In real sports.
- 11:00Speaker 4: I mean, it gets if you, you know, if you
- 11:02Speaker 4: try and be fair and you have somebody that's had
- 11:05Speaker 4: puberty blockers and they're effeminate and they don't you know,
- 11:09Speaker 4: they can't. They're not running faster, jumping higher, or stronger
- 11:15Speaker 4: necessarily than any other girls of the same age, you
- 11:18Speaker 4: kind of you feel for that person.
- 11:21Speaker 3: But otherwise, just.
- 11:24Speaker 4: Traditional males that competing in girls sports, I think most
- 11:28Speaker 4: all of us, most reasonab people would agree that's that's
- 11:32Speaker 4: not appropriate and should be regulated. But now there won't
- 11:36Speaker 4: really be a balancing test on fairness anymore. It'll just
- 11:39Speaker 4: be black and white, which should be you know, I
- 11:43Speaker 4: think we'll maybe alleviate some of the concerns you expressed
- 11:47Speaker 4: because It really should just be a black and white analysis.
- 11:51Speaker 4: Although I mean, you have controversies about where on birth
- 11:54Speaker 4: certificates sometimes, but you have a biological female who's stronger
- 12:01Speaker 4: than a lot of men, which happens all the time,
- 12:04Speaker 4: and so then you're gonna get a You're gonna get
- 12:06Speaker 4: accusations there needs to be investigation or whether this is
- 12:08Speaker 4: really a biological female or not. I think ninety nine
- 12:13Speaker 4: point nine percent of time it'll just be an official
- 12:16Speaker 4: birth certificate check and.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Done.
- 12:19Speaker 4: So it should be easier, more of a bright line rule,
- 12:22Speaker 4: I think going forward, whether you like the ruling or not.
- 12:26Speaker 2: One of the things about the decision, it was six
- 12:30Speaker 2: to three, which is a sort of a you know,
- 12:35Speaker 2: it's a philosophical breakdown between Kagan and Jackson Sotomayor, who
- 12:40Speaker 2: are viewed as the liberal wing of the Supreme Court
- 12:43Speaker 2: versus the other John Roberts Court members, which could subject
- 12:48Speaker 2: the Court to some criticism for partisanship. But I think
- 12:51Speaker 2: one of the important things to remember or to note
- 12:53Speaker 2: about this decision is that all night and there were
- 12:59Speaker 2: those justices who dissented from the ultimate decision in the
- 13:02Speaker 2: case concurred in part all of the justice was all
- 13:07Speaker 2: nine agreed that this did not violate Title nine, Title
- 13:10Speaker 2: nine of the Civil Rights Act, which was written specifically
- 13:14Speaker 2: in a binary sense and therefore applying the level of
- 13:19Speaker 2: scrutiny that's required, this statue did not violate that period.
- 13:25Speaker 2: So there wasn't that great, big gap. It wasn't just
- 13:28Speaker 2: a knee jerk liberal conservative ruling. What Kavanaugh said essentially
- 13:35Speaker 2: what Tom saying, Well, it's a bright line. It's it's
- 13:39Speaker 2: only subject to intermediate scrutiny, not enhanced scrutiny, because this
- 13:46Speaker 2: is not an essential constitutional right. You don't need a
- 13:49Speaker 2: compelling state interest. All you need is a reasonable relation
- 13:53Speaker 2: to a state interest, which is determined as valid. What
- 13:58Speaker 2: Justice so do my or said in dissent, in which
- 14:02Speaker 2: Jackson and Kagan concurred, was, well, wait a minute. We
- 14:07Speaker 2: dissent because we think this case should go back to
- 14:11Speaker 2: the district court. And while Justice Kavanaugh says, we know
- 14:16Speaker 2: we can't we can't reduce this to individual concern if
- 14:21Speaker 2: it involves a fundamental constitution right, we probably can, but
- 14:24Speaker 2: we don't have any evidence. Why don't we send it
- 14:26Speaker 2: back to the district court and let the district court
- 14:30Speaker 2: take testimony about the science involved. The biology involved, the
- 14:34Speaker 2: maturity involved, and treatments that are involved. How we would
- 14:39Speaker 2: distinguish this and see what the evidence is, then revisit
- 14:42Speaker 2: the case period. I mean, it wasn't I hate to
- 14:46Speaker 2: see the court disparied so much about the split between
- 14:51Speaker 2: the justices when in this case they were really I
- 14:54Speaker 2: mean the divergence was the ability of the six more
- 14:58Speaker 2: conservative justices is to say, well, look, this is a
- 15:01Speaker 2: bright line test. But that happens all the time. I
- 15:04Speaker 2: when you discriminate all the time in making bright line tests,
- 15:08Speaker 2: as opposed to the three other justices who said, well,
- 15:12Speaker 2: this may well be a denial of equal protection, but
- 15:14Speaker 2: we don't have enough evidence to rule on that. So
- 15:17Speaker 2: that's my that's my take on It's almost like the well,
- 15:21Speaker 2: it's not like the citizenship case. The citizenship case, births
- 15:27Speaker 2: birthright citizenship. We interpreting the first sentence of the fourteenth
- 15:31Speaker 2: Amendment to the US Constitution. There were two votes Alito
- 15:35Speaker 2: and Roberts that you just simply counted upon. They just blindly.
- 15:42Speaker 2: In my estimation, I read it all. Well, they're just
- 15:47Speaker 2: times have changed and we're flooded with with.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Birth tourists.
- 15:54Speaker 2: I think there's no evidence of that that it's any
- 15:56Speaker 2: significant degree. Kavanaughs said, well, I think it's birthright. Citizenship
- 16:03Speaker 2: is insured, but could be changed by Congress, as they
- 16:06Speaker 2: did in the Immigration Act in nineteen fifty one, adopting
- 16:11Speaker 2: the four member class at the Supreme Court held in
- 16:16Speaker 2: the eighteen nineties case for the person from China, while
- 16:20Speaker 2: the other five justices said, well, you know, when it
- 16:23Speaker 2: says all persons born or naturalized and within the United
- 16:29Speaker 2: States and so to the jurisdiction are of our citizens,
- 16:32Speaker 2: that's pretty plain. And that's what Roberts said, and the
- 16:35Speaker 2: other Amy Commy Barrett. It seems plain on its face,
- 16:41Speaker 2: and that's the law of the land now. I mean.
- 16:43Speaker 2: The President then immediately came out and said, well, Congress
- 16:45Speaker 2: will fix this. Well, they won't if you're worried about
- 16:51Speaker 2: If you're really worried about birthright tourism, then amend the
- 16:59Speaker 2: statue she's regarding immigration and citizenship or the regulation so
- 17:05Speaker 2: that you can screen people who want to enter the
- 17:08Speaker 2: country for a state of gestation. If you're within ninety
- 17:13Speaker 2: days of delivery, you can't come in. That's the extent
- 17:16Speaker 2: of a visitors visa, and that addresses that problem. That's
- 17:21Speaker 2: not really, which tells you that's not really the underlying
- 17:26Speaker 2: reason for the desire to abolish birth right citizenship. The
- 17:31Speaker 2: underlying reason is, to my mind, a nefarious reason. Persons
- 17:39Speaker 2: who children who were innocently born in this country by
- 17:41Speaker 2: people who had come here seeking a better life, but
- 17:44Speaker 2: got here without formal process. My mother, Anne Thompson Peyton,
- 17:52Speaker 2: became a citizen in the United States at her birth
- 17:55Speaker 2: in Raleigh, in a cold camp in West Virginia. That's
- 17:58Speaker 2: how she became a citizen. Her mother and father were
- 18:01Speaker 2: subjects of the British Crown at the time they came
- 18:04Speaker 2: here from Scotland in nineteen twenty one. My grandmother never
- 18:07Speaker 2: attained citizenship. She simply was a legal resident. My grandfather did.
- 18:14Speaker 2: But you know, birthright citizenship is an important part of
- 18:18Speaker 2: the American dream and the American ideal, and so I
- 18:20Speaker 2: think the decision is good. People say, well, it was
- 18:23Speaker 2: too close for comfort, but it is. It's a five
- 18:26Speaker 2: to four if I can give you some credit for that.
- 18:28Speaker 2: I remember a show that we did in twenty twenty five.
- 18:30Speaker 2: I think when this first started coming up, we knew
- 18:32Speaker 2: it was going to go to the Supreme Court. You
- 18:33Speaker 2: took a show where you walked through how the argument
- 18:36Speaker 2: was going to be made against birthright citizenship, and you
- 18:39Speaker 2: even predicted you wouldn't be surprised to see if I
- 18:41Speaker 2: four decision on it, and that it wasn't as tight
- 18:43Speaker 2: as you thought it would be. I thought it was
- 18:44Speaker 2: the time that you did a really great job of
- 18:46Speaker 2: walking through that. And I've seen a lot of law
- 18:48Speaker 2: fair types comment on this at the same time and
- 18:50Speaker 2: be outraged like there's just no way that they could
- 18:52Speaker 2: get here and this is just which.
- 18:53Speaker 1: It may well be. But you were able to kind
- 18:56Speaker 1: of suss out like, look that I may not agree
- 18:58Speaker 1: with this path, but this is what they're going to say,
- 19:00Speaker 1: and this is how they're going to arrive to that conclusion.
- 19:02Speaker 1: And that's basically what happened. Yeah, I mean that was
- 19:05Speaker 1: very instructive when you did that last year and not
- 19:09Speaker 1: have always had that in my pocket. And when that
- 19:10Speaker 1: decision came out, I was like, man, Harvey kind of
- 19:12Speaker 1: talked about this.
- 19:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was to me it was playing
- 19:16Speaker 2: on its face, but the argument would be a contrast
- 19:19Speaker 2: to the a strict interpretation of the fourteenth Amendment because
- 19:23Speaker 2: it's as subject to the jurisdiction thereof well, when that
- 19:27Speaker 2: arose for the Supreme Court to decide in the eighteen nineties,
- 19:32Speaker 2: who's not subject to the jurisdics in the United States
- 19:34Speaker 2: American Indians wasn't until nineteen twenty one with the Indian
- 19:38Speaker 2: Citizenship Act that members of the Indian nations were made
- 19:41Speaker 2: citizens of the United States by Congress. And they were
- 19:45Speaker 2: actually when the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in eighteen sixty eight.
- 19:48Speaker 2: Many of the nations in the West Indian names were
- 19:51Speaker 2: war with the United States. Witness this is also the
- 19:55Speaker 2: anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass or the Little
- 19:59Speaker 2: Big Worn people on ships within the jurisdics in the
- 20:05Speaker 2: United States, but foreign flagships who were foreign individuals. They're
- 20:11Speaker 2: children born aboard even though they're in the United States,
- 20:13Speaker 2: but they're in New York Harbor. The people who were
- 20:19Speaker 2: children born to people who were citizens of countries or
- 20:22Speaker 2: with the United States, or in the States that were
- 20:25Speaker 2: in insurrection against the United States, or diplomatic children people
- 20:33Speaker 2: who were here is diplomats. We are not subject to
- 20:37Speaker 2: the Russian ambassadory. We can't arrest the Russian ambassador and
- 20:40Speaker 2: convict him of spying.
- 20:42Speaker 3: I mean, you could.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Catch him handing money to CIA and in exchange for
- 20:47Speaker 2: a packet of documents, but he can't be convicted of
- 20:52Speaker 2: an offense within the United States. He can be expelled,
- 20:55Speaker 2: but he's not subject to the jurisdics in the United States.
- 20:58Speaker 2: I mean, you've got diplomats and Washington, DC walk around
- 21:01Speaker 2: with hundreds of thousands of dollars in barking tickets because
- 21:04Speaker 2: you can't prosecute them. So, I mean, I thought that,
- 21:08Speaker 2: and could that change to say that someone who crosses
- 21:11Speaker 2: the border enters the United States, not an asylum seeker,
- 21:16Speaker 2: not someone who's here on an expired visitor's visa, but
- 21:19Speaker 2: who simply crosses the waters of the Rio Grande surreptitiously
- 21:24Speaker 2: at night, it's not subject to the jurisdiction, although you
- 21:28Speaker 2: could say that that's not true. We arrest them if
- 21:31Speaker 2: they get passed a certain distance from the border, they're
- 21:35Speaker 2: not subject to media immediate expulsion. So it was pretty
- 21:39Speaker 2: plain to me what the arguments were going to be.
- 21:40Speaker 2: But I had confidence in I think it Roberts, Comy
- 21:44Speaker 2: Barrett and the other three that we were going to
- 21:47Speaker 2: have a bare minimum five four to sustain the birthright citizenship.
- 21:53Speaker 2: And that's what we had actually six to three. But
- 21:57Speaker 2: Kavanaugh did not say, or of courses did not say
- 21:59Speaker 2: it was based on the fourteenth Amendment. It was based
- 22:02Speaker 2: upon an Act of Congress that did not include, you know,
- 22:07Speaker 2: the children of folks illegally in the country within that
- 22:10Speaker 2: closed class of people who are quote not subject to
- 22:12Speaker 2: the jurisdiction. So there we get. I'm glad it was.
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- 24:30Speaker 4: Hey, we heard country rids there and we heard it
- 24:32Speaker 4: last night. That was I keep getting good publicity from countries,
- 24:36Speaker 4: right West Virginia.
- 24:36Speaker 3: So they did you watch the World Cup game last night?
- 24:38Speaker 1: I watched the highlights of well the game, I watched it,
- 24:41Speaker 1: and the uh so at the end, silly red card.
- 24:44Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I don't know, probably with a red card.
- 24:48Speaker 4: That's one of our top goal scorers got a red card,
- 24:51Speaker 4: which is equivalent to an ejection in a basketball football game.
- 24:54Speaker 4: You have to sit out the next game, which is
- 24:56Speaker 4: really too bad. But uh and then we had to
- 24:59Speaker 4: play thirty minutes. When you get kicked out in soccer
- 25:02Speaker 4: on a red card, you don't get to replace the player.
- 25:05Speaker 4: So we played a man down. You know, imagine playing
- 25:08Speaker 4: basketball four verse five, but we want to nil. And
- 25:13Speaker 4: then you know, there's some milling around for a few
- 25:16Speaker 4: minutes after the final whistle blows and the players are
- 25:19Speaker 4: shaking hands and whatnot, or the opposing team was kind
- 25:23Speaker 4: of crying since they lost. But then the announcers on
- 25:27Speaker 4: the they're in person, said let's turn it back over
- 25:30Speaker 4: to the studio.
- 25:31Speaker 3: Here's Hannah.
- 25:32Speaker 4: And then right about the time they did that, they
- 25:33Speaker 4: started playing country Roads in the background. Hannah got on
- 25:36Speaker 4: and said, wait a minute, they just started playing country
- 25:40Speaker 4: Roads in the stadium, and it's just gotten so popular.
- 25:42Speaker 4: So they just kind of like the Mountaineer basketball game,
- 25:46Speaker 4: they just instead of going back to the studio, they
- 25:48Speaker 4: didn't go back to the studio.
- 25:49Speaker 3: They said wait, and so.
- 25:50Speaker 4: Then they they played the whole Of course, the players
- 25:54Speaker 4: US men's national team, they you know, they don't do
- 25:57Speaker 4: what the Mountaineers do and put their arms around each
- 25:58Speaker 4: other and sing the song. We're singing the song, but
- 26:01Speaker 4: the whole stadium was and they just sat there without
- 26:04Speaker 4: any commentary and played the whole song from the beginning
- 26:07Speaker 4: to the end. And uh, it just really good publicity
- 26:10Speaker 4: for US. I think it's going to help help our
- 26:14Speaker 4: promote our w in our state and in general.
- 26:17Speaker 1: Somehow, gaining status is like a patriotic song, you know,
- 26:19Speaker 1: more more so than anything else, especially the gaining status that.
- 26:22Speaker 4: It's got a lot of international appeal, and so a
- 26:24Speaker 4: lot of people know it that aren't from the US,
- 26:28Speaker 4: but they the US men's national team has just adopted
- 26:31Speaker 4: it as their victory song, and uh, let's hope they
- 26:35Speaker 4: keep winning.
- 26:35Speaker 1: I think I've mentioned on the air before, but one
- 26:37Speaker 1: of the most surreal experiences of my life is I'm
- 26:39Speaker 1: one of nearly deserted desert were a western beach in
- 26:44Speaker 1: Ecuador where there's hardly anybody around, and I'm staying in
- 26:47Speaker 1: a hostel. When I wake up in the morning, it's
- 26:48Speaker 1: sweltering hot. There's a group of people outside just playing
- 26:51Speaker 1: on the beach. And what do I hear strumming? But
- 26:54Speaker 1: Country Roads? And and I go up to the people,
- 26:57Speaker 1: make good friends with the locals. There are locals that
- 26:59Speaker 1: are there that that seeing. The only two songs that
- 27:01Speaker 1: they knew in English was Country Roads and Dust and
- 27:03Speaker 1: the Wind from Kansas, and they just played them over
- 27:05Speaker 1: and over and over again. But they love the Country Roads.
- 27:08Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 27:09Speaker 4: And I know, you know, soccer is not as popular
- 27:11Speaker 4: here as it is and uh, or not as popular
- 27:13Speaker 4: as football or traditional sports, but worldwide it's significantly more
- 27:18Speaker 4: popular than any other sport. And I don't know what
- 27:20Speaker 4: the viewership was, but uh, it was great publicity. Hey,
- 27:23Speaker 4: we got a call coming in.
- 27:24Speaker 1: They we have a call this coming in here. Towards
- 27:25Speaker 1: the end of the show, I call it overhead. What's
- 27:27Speaker 1: your first name?
- 27:28Speaker 7: Bob?
- 27:29Speaker 1: Hey, Bob, what's it? What's going on this morning?
- 27:31Speaker 7: You're talking about Country Roads? So it reminded me of
- 27:36Speaker 7: a story. My son works in a and he travels
- 27:42Speaker 7: worldwide and he spends a lot of time in Dublin, Ireland,
- 27:47Speaker 7: and about three months ago he finished in Dublin. Then
- 27:52Speaker 7: he was catching a flight to Vienna, Austria, and the
- 27:57Speaker 7: cab driver picked him up take him to the airport.
- 28:02Speaker 7: He got in the cab and the guy turned out
- 28:07Speaker 7: to be a Polish fellow who had left Poland fifty
- 28:15Speaker 7: years earlier to escape communism. So he asked my son
- 28:22Speaker 7: if he cared if he played country music. My son
- 28:26Speaker 7: said no, He turned the radio on. They played a
- 28:29Speaker 7: couple of songs and Country Roads came on the radio,
- 28:34Speaker 7: and the guy reached down and turned the volume up
- 28:39Speaker 7: and he said, that is my favorite song in all
- 28:43Speaker 7: the world because it is it's about yearning to go home.
- 28:49Speaker 7: And he said, even after fifty years, he yearned to
- 28:53Speaker 7: go home to Poland, and Country Roads was his favorite
- 28:59Speaker 7: song in all the world. My son then informed him
- 29:03Speaker 7: that he was from West Virginia. So when he informed
- 29:09Speaker 7: the guy he was from West Virginia, he said, the
- 29:13Speaker 7: guy just about want bunkers over riding with someone from
- 29:17Speaker 7: West Virginia playing Country Roads. Just throw that out, thank you.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Thanks well, I appreciate that that's a great story everywhere.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and most of us that travel some
- 29:30Speaker 4: have stories like that.
- 29:31Speaker 3: You know.
- 29:31Speaker 4: It's just one of those. But yeah, and a lot
- 29:35Speaker 4: of the US soccer players are men. Are one of
- 29:39Speaker 4: our best players, you know, he's born and raised in Germany.
- 29:42Speaker 4: Thought it was a service. And so but once you
- 29:47Speaker 4: play for a real game, for the senior the main
- 29:51Speaker 4: team for the for your country, you can't switch. You're
- 29:54Speaker 4: always you can pick if you're dual citizenship, but you're
- 29:56Speaker 4: always on the team that you start playing for.
- 29:59Speaker 1: So that kind of codifies what we do here in
- 30:02Speaker 1: West Virginia, which is if you drive through the state,
- 30:03Speaker 1: we claim you you're ours man. All right.
- 30:07Speaker 4: But it was back to the Supreme Court. One of
- 30:13Speaker 4: the one things that one of the things that was
- 30:15Speaker 4: a case that had some interest maybe if you care
- 30:20Speaker 4: about privacy, was a case about geofencing. Yeah. So what
- 30:25Speaker 4: had happened in that case somebody had robbed a credit
- 30:29Speaker 4: union or a bank, something like that, and so the
- 30:32Speaker 4: government law enforcement like issues warrants and they serve him
- 30:36Speaker 4: on I think it was Google in this case. It
- 30:38Speaker 4: may have served them on Apple or something as well.
- 30:40Speaker 4: But and you know, when you use your phone, I know,
- 30:45Speaker 4: because I've had cases where there's been data downloads and
- 30:48Speaker 4: location pings and things. You know, a lot of programs
- 30:51Speaker 4: running in your background on your phone or other electronic device.
- 30:55Speaker 4: And if almost everybody has a Google account, a Gmail,
- 30:59Speaker 4: you just I don't use it for my primary email,
- 31:01Speaker 4: but I have to have it for all the different
- 31:03Speaker 4: things that I do, calendar and.
- 31:06Speaker 3: Otherwise maps maps, Yes, and so they.
- 31:12Speaker 4: Service search warnt on Google and basically do a geofence,
- 31:15Speaker 4: meaning you know, certain geographic area. They want all the
- 31:23Speaker 4: data as far as location and use and that kind
- 31:27Speaker 4: of thing. And obviously that brings in and then they
- 31:32Speaker 4: once they get that data, they try and you know,
- 31:34Speaker 4: find a suspect process of elimination. They they they actually
- 31:38Speaker 4: in this case kept issuing I think subsequent warrants for
- 31:41Speaker 4: more and more detailed information naturally that encompasses a lot
- 31:46Speaker 4: of individuals, uh, information that have nothing to do with
- 31:50Speaker 4: the robbery at a credit union in this case, Actually
- 31:52Speaker 4: they used it, I believe. I'm not sure if it
- 31:55Speaker 4: was the lynch pin that found, but they located the
- 31:59Speaker 4: person a suspect and went to the house and hope
- 32:03Speaker 4: there he is and had you know, so much US
- 32:07Speaker 4: currency that it matched the what was stolen from the
- 32:09Speaker 4: credit union, but that was challenged under the Fourth Amendment
- 32:16Speaker 4: as an unreasonable.
- 32:17Speaker 3: Search and seizure, and the Supreme Court found that.
- 32:23Speaker 4: Citizens do have an expectation of privacy, uh for information
- 32:28Speaker 4: that Google has. That was one of the issues of Well,
- 32:30Speaker 4: government argues, well, when you subscribe to Google, you waive these.
- 32:35Speaker 3: Type of privacy rights.
- 32:37Speaker 4: And the Supreme Court said, no, that's not true, and
- 32:40Speaker 4: I think found it was just overly broad. You gotta
- 32:43Speaker 4: have a more particularized probable cause to get a search warrant.
- 32:49Speaker 3: So they.
- 32:51Speaker 4: Anyway, they found that that type of search was unconstitutional.
- 32:55Speaker 3: So you know, the.
- 32:57Speaker 4: Government will not be geo fencing and and well that
- 33:01Speaker 4: they can, but it'll be illegal and they won't bet
- 33:03Speaker 4: to use any of the information they gather from it
- 33:05Speaker 4: to prosecute someone. Uh So, no, no more geo fencing
- 33:09Speaker 4: and just balk warrant requests for all data from Google
- 33:13Speaker 4: other third party electronic providers. Now they can still you know,
- 33:20Speaker 4: if it was if they had a suspect and had
- 33:23Speaker 4: some particular facts that are aimed at that person, I
- 33:27Speaker 4: think the warrant will be good. I mean, they could
- 33:30Speaker 4: subpoena or serve a warrant on Google about person a
- 33:34Speaker 4: and get their data.
- 33:38Speaker 3: But yeah, you can.
- 33:38Speaker 4: Nowadays, the State police lab has a whole you know,
- 33:43Speaker 4: multiple employees just for downloading it off the phone. I've
- 33:47Speaker 4: had a few cases where that's been involved, and you'd
- 33:49Speaker 4: be surprised. Hardly anything's ever really permanently deleted from your phone.
- 33:54Speaker 1: The government can purchase data too, right from the data
- 33:56Speaker 1: brokers that collect this stuff.
- 33:57Speaker 4: I think I think they can probablyably do that. And
- 34:01Speaker 4: that's not that's not that's how they circumvent. Yeah, so
- 34:05Speaker 4: it's it's one way to maybe circumvent that. But I
- 34:09Speaker 4: think Google would market safeguarding that, not selling off data.
- 34:15Speaker 4: But yeah, there's whole as you know, I mean, there's
- 34:17Speaker 4: whole firms that basically serve the media and marketing industry
- 34:20Speaker 4: that selluh whether in essence leads UH in a very
- 34:25Speaker 4: complicated computer based scenario.
- 34:27Speaker 1: Facebook just announced that on top of all the data
- 34:30Speaker 1: they collect on you, that they're also now purchasing that
- 34:32Speaker 1: same third party data that like other entities can buy,
- 34:35Speaker 1: and they're including that into your account digital fingerprint so
- 34:38Speaker 1: they can surface you more relevant ads, is what they say.
- 34:41Speaker 1: But imagine now what that storehouse of information that Facebook
- 34:44Speaker 1: has is they have their information and the information they're purchasing,
- 34:46Speaker 1: and then they get subpoened.
- 34:48Speaker 3: Right, I don't know.
- 34:49Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole I mean AI and that there's privacy issues.
- 34:56Speaker 4: Government should have seen this coming and we should have
- 34:57Speaker 4: a whole massive regulatory scheme to govern all this going forward.
- 35:02Speaker 4: And government's reactionary generally, So we'll see how that plays
- 35:06Speaker 4: out in the future. But yeah, I mean AI's it's
- 35:10Speaker 4: tough to decipher and figure out what's real and what's not,
- 35:14Speaker 4: and it's not really regulated in any reasonable way yet.
- 35:20Speaker 3: It will be.
- 35:20Speaker 4: Because somebody will be harmed significantly, probably somebody politically connected.
- 35:25Speaker 4: Then there'll be some act that passes and hopefully get
- 35:28Speaker 4: some regulations on it.
- 35:30Speaker 1: And interesting stuff. Wrapping up a conversation with Tom and A.
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- 35:58Speaker 2: It is, indeed, And you know, before we leave the
- 36:00Speaker 2: year today, I would like to you know, as I
- 36:03Speaker 2: mentioned when we started the show, I had a fairly
- 36:08Speaker 2: significant medical event. I had open heart surgery. I mean,
- 36:11Speaker 2: you know, they put you to sleep and they open
- 36:13Speaker 2: your chest and stop your heart, and you know, I
- 36:17Speaker 2: came through this really, really well. But you know, when
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- 36:41Speaker 2: I can last through this and next surgery, I've got
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