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06/19/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - MAYOR MONDAY: Mayor Kay Summers, Matt Paxton, and Tony Hodge · The Dave Allen Show

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basketball coach Bob Huggins. We're gonna get into that a little bit later on
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in the show. Of course Hoppy that's going to be the bulk of Hoppies
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later on in the show, Tony Hodge, who is the vice chair of
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the Republican Party for the state of West Virginia. He's in the Parmar storage
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studio. We'll talk to Tony coming up here in just a bit. But
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it's Monday, which means it's Mayor Monday, and that means we welcome in
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a different mayors we do every Monday, and today we are definitely happy to
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have our good friend the Mayor of Clindin and Kate Summers and special guest via
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the Bigley Pigley Wiggly Hotline as Matt Paxton, who was the organizer for a
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five k that's the town of Clintena has planned as part of what they are
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calling their Lucky seven celebration. Happy to this Saturday and remembrance of the tragic
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flood. Of course, this struck the area back in twenty sixteen. Mayor
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Summers, good morning, how are you? Good morning? We're feeling great,
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great to me. Have you scooped way closer to that microphone if you
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would, all right? And they've also got Matt Paxton with us via the
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Piggy Wiggily hidline. How are you, Matt. I'm doing just fine this
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morning. Thank you, I thank you great to have both of you here.
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Matt. I'll get to you in a moment, but I want to
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start with the mayor. How you been, Mayor, We're doing well.
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Thank you very much, and thank you Dave for having us on today.
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As you said, June twenty third is the anniversary of the flood seven years
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ago, and so many people from this your listening area came up and helped
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us, and I want to say thank you to them because every day that's
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a reminder of how much help they have. And we have a lot more
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to go. We're going to get into that a little bit later on.
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I want to ask you though, before we get into what you got going
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on this weekend and the remembrance and with Matt as well, what's in the
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town of Clyndmon. Now, you've always got something new going on, some
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new businesses coming in or something. What do you got Let me tell you
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first of all, we had a jeep jam two weeks ago, was a
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big success. We have we're having movies on the street, which is wonderful
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for the kids and family. We had a big car show this past weekend
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andred Cars. The trail's bringing lots and lots of people and we're really excited
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about that from in state and Alla State, and they're bringing bicycles, strollers,
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wheelchairs and just walking and running. And we had the brewery that's doing
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well. And the different the different businesses are doing really well right now.
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That's good and we're gonna get into what we have going on this weekend.
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I've got a copy of the flyer by the way which lays out everything you
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folks have going on this weekend. It's posted now a Dave Allen Radio and
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Facebook and at Day A seventy on Twitter. But you got a lot of
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stuff going on for just one day, mayor you know what, we have
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a lot of things to cram in because we have a lot of things to
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be thankful for. And we're calling to Lucky seven because this is what we've
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worked to do. We have the stage, the Harper stage, and so
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all this is going to be on the Harper stage except the fireworks employers.
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Yes, of course they'll be out in the field. And as part of
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that, there's going to be a five K. Matt, Let's bring you
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in on this. Uh Um, talk about your background, how you get
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involved in this whole thing. Oh well, I am from Clindenon. I
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graduated from Hoover Um and I ran track there to high school track across country
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years ago. I helped them organize a lot of the five ks. I've
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still got a lot of family in town. Um. Pundonna Brewery is owned
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by a friend of mine. So I really when the flood hit, you
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know, I got down there and spent weeks down there trying to help out.
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And um when missus h when K said, you know, I'm going
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to you know, i'd like toast of five K, I was like,
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well, of course, but I like to do anything I can to help
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up a town. So that's how I got in with the organization I Track.
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I coach track across the country up here in Ohio right now and Chili
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in Chili Coathee, Ohio. And I organize a lot of five case for
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different organizations. We just did one for Hoover for a fundraiser for their across
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country team last year. But he also did the Bostomerathon too, did quite
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well? Was that yeah? Very good? How did you do in the
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Boston Arathon? Um? Well, this year, I'm flowing down a little
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bit. I'm forty eight this year. But this was about the twentieth time
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I've qualified. Okay, and I've run it five I've run it five times,
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UM, but I went uh. Last year, I was lucky enough
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to run for Team Hoyt UM, which is a big charity team UM,
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which was really nice because uh, mister Hoyt was the gentleman who pushes the
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fishty son in a wheelchair for many years UM at the and I actually he
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put me on the team there, so I got to I got to actually
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compete for their team. UM. But this year was a lot of fun.
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I took up a well. Last year I took up a few of
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my seniors and they got to see Boston, and none of them have ever
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been to the East Coast. And we saw in New York and we saw
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Boston. It was just a heckful lot of fun. But I was I
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think I was right around tent them. I think, Okay, well it's
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better. It's better than I did. Man, I'll say that. Can
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people still sign up for the five k for this weekend? Yes, m
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our registrations on tristate racer dot com. Go on the website. Um,
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they can up, pointing I'll be there by an art stort sou. They're
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welcome to sign up any time now. They sign up the rest of the
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day today, they'll get a shirt and they're not guaranteed a shirt unless they
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sign up today. Okay, let's tristate Racer dot com. Is that right?
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Yes? Okay? Uh? Mayor you're gonna have music throughout the day.
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Plus you got cornhole games of all kinds inflatables, lots of great food
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and vendors and fireworks at dark, as you mentioned earlier. Sounds like it's
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gonna be a pack dame, it really is. I would like to mention
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the music if you don't mind. Yeah, I'm starting eleven o'clock where we
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have Dave mccorkill. He's called Cornhole. His band's Cornhole. Then we have
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Golden and then we have a style show on the stage. Do you give
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a break? Then we have the Mark Miller Band. Then we're gonna have
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karaoke, see some of our own talent, and then we are going to
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have the Esquires. And we're really excited about the Esquires and they're going on
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stage at seven o'clock. And then, like you say, we have Cornhole.
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All the money that was raised goes to those folks one hundred percent and
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the registration for that is forty dollars a team, plus we're raising some more
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money to that, and then we're in a face painting at no charge.
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The Clinton Library is going to have a zoo, ating zoo and pony rides
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that starts eleven, and we have inflatables, lots of food and um street
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games for the kids too as well. I mean, it's just amazing everything
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that you're going to have. And again I have the flyer posted on Dave
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Mayre and Matt two. Now, Matt, I'll bring you in on this.
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We'll go to the mayor first though. Matt, you're somebody who's from
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Clindenta, as you said, but you live up in the Chilly Coffee area
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now, but you come back here and you help with these things. You
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were there following helping with the cleanup back in twenty sixteen. Mayor, talk
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about this amazing community of Clendenon and everything the town and really the surrounding areas
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have gone through since that devastating flood in twenty sixteen. And Matt, I'll
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bring you in after the mayor go ahead. Seven years ago on June twenty
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third, twenty fourth, many many people came, and I'm gonna say from
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the whole Kenall Valley, West Virginia, different states came and helped, and
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the thing had helped me the most appreciate a lot of times you read about
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a flood and then you send money or you send a donation. In two
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days, you've forgotten about it. These folks did not forget about us,
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and like Matt said, he stayed for weeks. He lives in Ohio now,
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even though he is a hometown boy. It's a nice thing of all
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this. Herbert Hoover High School is opening this school year. It's gonna be
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a beautiful, first class school. It's gonna be great for academics, the
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sports, a band, the show choir. August eighteenth, were having our
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first scrimmage. Has everyone has heard that Brad Haisley's coming. It is not
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a concert. We want to make sure people realize that he may sing a
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couple of songs. You know. Here's the thing. Let me jump in
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here. I was at an event um last year that Brad Paisley was there,
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and it was actually a private event. It was a fundraiser type thing,
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and they kept saying, you know, when you buy a ticket,
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he's not going to perform, he's not going to Well, he got his
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guitar out and he did two songs. I'm not saying that's going to happen
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here, but I'm just saying anytime a performer has an opportunity to perform.
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They may he may grab a guitar for maybe maybe a little country roads or
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something. That's just saying. We can't tell Mike Kelly that I said this
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one radio secret, but I think Bradle's sing a couple of songs and coach
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Shoey Fields, which I think was nifty. He reached out to Brad Haisley
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UH School in Glendale and John Marshall, that's who were going on a scrimmage.
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I think ess will bring it all together because Brad Paisley dick On in
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June to visit and help support our area. And I can't thank him enough
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too. Matt. Let's go back to you. Let's talk about your memories
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of that time and the clean up and everything that even continues to this day.
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Well let's see. Well, I was in Richwood actually camping with a
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couple of my graduates and it started raining. I told my wife that I
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just came home for that that day day before and it started raining, and
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I told my wife, I said, it'll end up flooding if it keeps
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raining like this. So the next to day I said, they started the
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flood warnings came out and first I heard about Richwood, and then I started
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hearing about Clendon, and so we drove down. Well, I'll try to
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make the story as short as I can, but we couldn't get in.
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We ended up taking back roads to get into the town. We ended up
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coming in through dutch Ridge just to get to town, and the water was
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still over the bridge and stuff, and we stayed. I found my uncle,
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he had a house there in town, and we ended up helping clean
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it up for several days. Within forty eight hours, my kids at my
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school started. They found two trailers and they started loading trailers with relief,
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with things that people could use. And for like two weeks in a row,
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every day I would drive the chilkat off. They pick up the trailer,
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pull it down to pull it down, drop it off the contents,
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then come then all day work, then come back up to Chili coffee and
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took up the other trailer and drop off the empty We did that for two
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weeks right after the flood because the people here, with me being a school,
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they put it on our local stuff up here because a lot of people
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know me, and the people up here were super generous with helping out with
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my hometown because everybody I've coached, and I've coached for over twenty years up
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here was super, super generous, was trying to help out. We brought
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down groups of kids from my teams and from my former teams. But it
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was just it was amazing to see people come together try to help out.
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But man, it was just so just so hard to watch all the things
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that I saw that all the things I saw that here. But it looks
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like we're back together. He hey, man, why don't you talk about
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what it looks like today a little bit? That's why it's going. I
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said, It's so nice to see now. I mean, you've got especially
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with mayor, with the mayor there, she's been putting together so many so
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many active I mean, you've got to you've got all the runners. I've
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always I've run there my whole life. I mean I ran there in Clendenon
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every day after school for years. And to see other people getting pulled in
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with the trails, it's awesome to see, you know, the kayaking,
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to see the stalking trouts there in the stream every now and then, you
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know it, the businesses in town, you know, said we already mentioned
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Clinden and brewery, there's a there's just so many the paddlers. There's so
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many businesses that are coming in town now, and that's just a result of
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you've got a good group of people in there trying to really promote the town.
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And it's so nice to see because you know, I've always I've watched
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Clyndent and it's all the little kid and watched people leave town and it's nice
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to finally be seeing some new stuff and some stuff that we're looking forward.
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That gives you some hope that the town is going to be vibrant and the
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town is going to be the attraction that it can be, because I've always
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known it was awesome, but it never got the got the attention and got
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the development that it needed. Thank you very much, Matt, I really
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appreciate you saying that. And with a new elementary school too, Dave,
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I didn't mention that that should be ready, not this season, not this
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fall, but thanks fall and it's coming along and the views are beautiful.
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But again, we're just so excited about our schools, and you know what,
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more and more people are wanting to come back, yeah, and moving
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the community. So we're looking for houses we get calls every day. We're
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building a new senior apartment complex and people are wanting to do that, and
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there's just a lot a lot more things we have to do, though.
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Matt as an old Hoover guy, what's your take on the new school?
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I'm sure that you've had an opportunity to either take a look out and you've
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seen pictures, you read articles about it. Your take on the new school?
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Oh, my goodness, it's hadsolutely a amazing looking I've been up there
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on the on the grounds and I've seen a whole bunch of pictures. I'm
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so glad they're getting something nice for the kids up there. I mean it
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took them. I mean they were they were starting schools here in our neighboring
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district and they've had them done for three or four years, and it just
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took a long time to finally get it done. But man, those kids
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deserve that, and they're so nice. I mean, I'm a psychical teacher
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as well, so you know, I look at those pictures and I'm like,
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wow, this is this is a first class facility. It is it?
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Really to be so excited for those kids. Carrie hooda sack from a
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news team was one of a group of members of the media that had a
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opportunity to go up there and tour of the school a couple of weeks ago,
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and she and I were talking about it about how nice it was.
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You know, Clindenton is a remarkable place with an even more remarkable mayor and
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people just in the town in general. Because here's the thing about it,
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Mayor, and you know this, madam, sure it's probably no different for
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you in Chillacafee as well. We have elected officials in these towns. But
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if the public doesn't get behind what's going on, it doesn't matter what kind
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of grand or crazy ideas that mayors and council and county commissions whatever come up
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with. If you don't have the buy in from the people of not only
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the town with the surrounding areas, that doesn't work. And obviously it is
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working, Mayor, what you're doing in Clendenham, well, thank you,
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but it takes the whole l Kruver and and you mentioned the people, like
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the Canall County Commission has been fantastic to us. Like Matt said, it
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took us seven years to build a school. It took a long time.
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Other places it would have been faster, but it is worth waiting for.
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I just say, if I can't wait for you to come up and see
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it, I'm looking forward to it. All right. Now again, the
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complete list of everything going on this coming Saturday's posted on of course the town,
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social media whatever, but it's also if you want to go to mine.
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It's day down on radio and Facebook and at David seventy on Twitter.
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And by the way, Mayor, I gotta you know our texts come in
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here. We don't know who they're coming from. But this person signed their
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name and I don't think they would care for me. You mentioned it,
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says Kay is a gem an incredible mayor and a great friend, one of
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the best. Signed JB. Mccusky. JB. Mccusky, thank you very
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much. And he has been very very helpful to the town, to Clendon.
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He's been up to visit about five times. So thank you very much.
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All right, Matt, good luck with everything this weekend and uh and
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it should be a great day in Clyndenta and thanks for coming back to help
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out with this well, of course, of course it's gonna be a lot
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of fun. Now. Thanks some people to join us. All right,
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Matt, I appreciate it. Thanks, like mayor, always a pleasure to
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have you on the show as well. Take care and good luck with everything
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this weekend. Dave, thank you very much, and like I told you
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earlier, you're doing a great job. Your show's great to listen to,
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How are you? Man? Um Very well, Dave, coming off a
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great Father's Day weekend where my family treated me wonderfully and UH just had a
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great weekend, much better than you deserve. I'm sure better than I deserve.
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What exactly what's fathers they like in the Hodge family? Would you do
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well? First thing we did, we got up, went to church together
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been I got a book on aviation, got another book on teaching, and
21:47
then I got a new hat and some homemade cards. As a as a
21:52
guy, that's about all you could hope for. As a hat. You
21:55
got a new hat, right, Yeah, and you are a pilot,
21:56
so you're how long have you been fly? I know you just I mean
22:00
this is like a I mean, you told me last time you were here
22:03
that you've always had an interest in it, But how long have you actually
22:04
been flying? Yeah? I started back in the COVID time period somewhere around
22:07
in twenty twenty two, excuse me, twenty twenty and started up here at
22:11
Hanger nine Aviation at UH Yeager Airport they have locations at Yeager and over in
22:17
Huntington as well, and went through training up there. And the general aviation
22:21
community is growing. It's it's uh growing by leaves and bad. What do
22:25
you actually enjoy about it? What is it? Because I've talked to people
22:27
that are pilots and they say that there's nothing like it, just that thrill
22:30
or well, yeah, it's doing something not everybody can do, or what
22:33
it's Well, it's it's freedom. It's freedom, It's it's looking, it's
22:37
rising. It's like almost literally rising above everything you know it is yeah,
22:41
And it's also it frees your mind because anytime you get an airplane and you
22:45
have to focus on flying, you have to forget everything else around you.
22:49
Everything else it has to get left behind because it takes a lot of skill,
22:52
a lot of concentration. You can't play on your phone up there,
22:55
you know, you don't play on your phone. You have to concentrate,
22:57
you have to focus, and it really helps in that way, bringing in
23:00
your focus, and it's just freeing. Just it's it's beautiful, it's beautiful,
23:04
it's fun. Um. All those things put together just make it a
23:07
wonderful experience. We've got a text to the show, uh so say,
23:11
and I know you're a sports guy. Uh So it says, Hey,
23:14
Dave, what's wrong with through reds? They're actually winning eight in a row.
23:17
We won eight in a row, sometimes won eight games on a row.
23:19
Can you believe that? Yeah? That's uh, that's that's amazing.
23:22
I don't keep up with baseball quite as much. Yeah, of course.
23:25
Right now, what's on my mind is college basketball. Yes, it's probably
23:29
mine. I'm sure Hobby is going to talk about that when we might even
23:30
talk about it, Yeah, where I'm gonna Yeah, of course, we're
23:33
talking about the situation with coach Ubbob Huggins. Um. The news came out
23:37
Friday night, you know, late Friday night, arrested for driving into the
23:41
influence in Pittsburgh. Um. And of course the resignation happened shortly thereafter.
23:47
And I know Tony that you are a huge Mountaineer fan. Um. Your
23:52
thoughts on the whole situation, well, you know, it's uh, it's
23:55
such an unfortunate situation. I was taking my boys this morning before I came
23:59
into the stud video to drop him off. They're going to youth camp this
24:02
week, and they were talking about it on our drive over there. And
24:04
you know, for my sons or fifteen and twelve, Bob Huggins is the
24:08
only basketball coach they've ever known at WV. That's wild to think about.
24:11
It's wild. Yeah, it's the only guy they've ever known. And for
24:14
them, it's it's just devastating, you know. And to see it through
24:18
a child's eyes like that kind of brings a different perspective. Um. But
24:22
as far as my own feelings, it is so unfortunate. I mean,
24:25
I think back to all the years, all the great things that Bob Huggins
24:27
is brought to w V basketball, and not just on the basketball court,
24:30
but all the things that he does off the court. Of you I've seen
24:33
it on Twitter now people are coming forward with He's helped in this he helped
24:37
my mom with her cancer, you know, expenses, and it's just all
24:41
these different stories that he did. It's just so wonderful. And then everybody
24:45
remembers the image of him, you know, consoling DeShawn Butler when he tours
24:48
Aco, when we were playing Duke in the Final four. I mean,
24:51
just that fatherly light figure. He's done so many good things for young people
24:56
in West Virginia and other places. But you know, alcohol abuse is a
25:02
real I mean, it is a absolute it will. You know, I
25:06
put on my social media that alcohol abuse will. It'll ruin your career,
25:10
It'll ruin your family, and ultimately able to ruin your life. And abusing
25:14
alcohol. You know. Another parallel is I just sat through a pretty high
25:18
profile trial over in Putnam County this last week that kind of had our community
25:22
buzzing. And no matter how you feel about that trial, everything about what
25:26
was going on in that trial, the mishaps that happened or the different things
25:30
happened, had to do with alcohol abuse. And then now we have this
25:33
thing with Bob Huggins. It's alcohol abuse, and you know, I hope
25:37
he gets the treatment. That he that he needs. I hope he realizes
25:40
that it is a problem. I really feel bad for him. I admire
25:44
him. I admire him as a leader, as a coach, as a
25:45
West Virginian, all politics aside. You know, I'm a political personality,
25:49
so I usually come on here and talk politics. We're gonna and we are
25:52
going to do that. I don't even know where Bob Hougkins is on the
25:55
political I don't know. I don't care. And that's one thing that I
25:57
love about sports, especially W Marshall sports. You know, we can all
26:02
come together. I could go and sit down, you know, with the
26:04
game, maybe with my counterpart in the Democrat Party, and we could go
26:07
and sit and enjoy that and have fun. Because I know he's a he's
26:11
a big Mountaineer fan, as am I, and sports is something that brings
26:14
something together. And this is something that we can all rally behind. We
26:15
need a rally behind our team and our school and our state and uh and
26:19
pray for coach Huggins and all the best of him. Yeah, I agree.
26:22
And you know, I was talking to Mayor Summers before the show about
26:26
this. And there are certain things, Tony that are bigger than sports.
26:30
And I know, you know, when you're Bob Huggins and you're the highest
26:33
paid state employee that there is, and I mean, he's an icon.
26:37
And with the Beyheim retiring going into the season, he would have been coaching
26:41
as the winningness coach active coaching college basketball. And now since Beaheim is retired,
26:45
and and but there's more to it than that. And sometimes when these
26:52
things happen, it just shows a pattern of a bigger problem, and it's
26:56
decision making. I mean, the first thing that you saw with people talking
27:00
about on social media and shows like this is, you know, you're the
27:03
highest paid guy instead of West Virginia. Get a driver, you know,
27:07
get a student, you know, a graduate assistant or something like that.
27:11
And but it just goes to show it's it's a bigger problem when it comes
27:15
to things like that as opposed to it's decision making that your decision making is
27:18
obviously and it was the right decision. I mean, WVU had to cut
27:22
ties with him. I mean, I agree with you the man's legend.
27:23
I know everything that he's done, but they had to cut ties with him
27:26
at this point. And when from this point on, you know, if
27:30
he gets the help he needs. There's no reason why he couldn't be welcomed
27:33
back into the fold a WVU. I mean, I don't think that this
27:37
situation should define who he is. I don't think that's a situation from a
27:41
couple of months ago should define who he is. He need, he needs
27:44
to go and work on him, and he said that himself, you know,
27:47
whatever that is, whether it's rehab or whatever. But then welcoming back
27:51
into the program and not as a coach, necessarily, welcoming back as an
27:53
ambassador, welcoming back to the broadcast booth or something. I mean, because
27:56
he's still got a lot to give and this situation should not define who he
28:00
is. That's just my opinion. Well, I agree with you, and
28:03
really what you're saying to put very simply in one word, as you're talking
28:07
about forgiveness, and I think that's something that that everybody deserves from their fellow
28:11
man and from their fellow citizens, is uh, you know, help people.
28:15
You know, substance abuse is a real thing, and this shows that
28:17
it can affect anybody. It can affect the highest paid person in our state
28:19
all the way down to the people out here walking on the streets in Charleston.
28:22
It affects everybody that doesn't have any there's no social class when it comes
28:26
to substance abuse, and we really have to recognize that. But you are
28:30
right that we need to be graceful, and we don't really, we don't
28:34
need We always talk about cancel culture and all this stuff. Be graceful before,
28:37
be forgiving and offer people the help that they need. And man,
28:41
let's just all band together and move forward, you know, go mountaineers.
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four four zero one one zero one that I see that you when State Democratic
29:00
Party Chair and Dadley goat Mike Pushkin had a little dust up on Twitter,
29:03
on the Twitter machine recently, you know, I'll live in his head written
29:07
free. Yeah, I mean, I don't ever, I don't I don't
29:11
ever go at Mike Pushkin on Twitter, but uh yeah, he likes to.
29:15
He likes to come at me a little bit. And uh yeah,
29:17
I mean, you know, he's he's Look, when you're a Democrat in
29:21
this state, you're looking for any way you can find to be relevant.
29:23
I get that. So you know he wants me to get on there and
29:26
banter with him and maybe retweet him or talk to him or whatever. You
29:29
gotta find ways to be relevant. I mean, look, we're we are
29:32
whipping people left and right. A lot of people don't know we just have
29:34
municipal elections. Well, I should say a lot of people don't know.
29:37
A lot of people do know. It's just not getting talked about a whole
29:38
lot. We just have municipal elections all across the state of West Virginia.
29:41
Last time I was on this show, I mentioned Fayette County and how some
29:45
of the municipal elections there were looking closely at those, and uh, Fat
29:49
County has been a Democrat stronghold for a very, very long time. I'm
29:53
happy to come on here and report that in Okill, the largest city of
29:56
Fatt County, we pretty much swept the municipal there for the first time in
30:00
anyone's memory that's alive. We have a Republican mayor there. Now, we
30:04
got some of the good old boy cadre out of there some guys that have
30:10
been on that city council in Okill for a long long time. They're gone.
30:12
They're out. They all got voted out. And this is big news.
30:15
I mean, this is this is, like I said, a Democrat
30:18
stronghold for a very very long time, and we're sweeping them out. And
30:22
so people like Mike Bushkin, you know, they I get it, like
30:25
they need to find ways to be relevant. They need to get out here
30:27
and rattle their cage a little bit so they're heard. But we're the ones
30:30
running the show. Twenty three minutes. I can make that twenty two minutes
30:33
away from ten. I'll say this and then we'll go to break. And
30:36
I want to get into some other things with you. Tony Hodges here the
30:37
advice share of the State Republican Party. Well, I've had other people like
30:41
a Greg Thomas or suddenly like that on the show in the past. They've
30:45
talked about a twenty twenty four how they're going to be focusing more on things
30:48
similar to what you mentioned, like municipalities or county commissions or in Greg's case,
30:55
courthouses. As far as court rooms, I should say, judges,
30:56
and even though they're nonpartist, and it's not hard to figure out how they
31:02
are registered to vote. It's public knowledge, and it's not also not hard
31:04
to figure out how they stand on issues. You know, if you if
31:07
you do a little research, you look at their campaign literature, you tend
31:11
to meet the candidate form or you just contact them. I mean, you
31:14
know, even though we're talking nonpartisan on school boards and courts and magistrates and
31:18
things that nature, it's not hard to figure out how they stand. I've
31:22
talked to Greg about this before about that's where their focus is going to be
31:26
in twenty twenty four. Not that they're you know, taking anything for granted,
31:29
but I mean, the next governor, said to West Virginia is going
31:30
to be a Republican. You know, there's a there's a there's a strong
31:33
field there. It's next governor will be a Republican. The next US Senator
31:38
for the Joe Manchin seat will be a Republican. In my opinion, I
31:41
could be wrong, I've been wrong before. Will be a Republican, will
31:45
be a Republican. I don't see anything at all changing this red wave in
31:49
the state. And I say that to say this that that seems to be
31:52
where the Republican Party's focus maybe in twenty twenty four is on more local things,
31:59
more more more judges, seats and things of that nature. Yeah,
32:02
you're right. I mean, there's so there's strategy behind you know, everything
32:07
that's going on. But of course we start at the top. You know,
32:08
we're gonna get Joe Mansion out there, whether we beat him or retire
32:12
him whatever, Republican will hold that seat. Um at the next election.
32:15
I've come on here and said that before. It's gonna happen. So you
32:17
know, Joe Mansion's gotta go, um, gotta get a Republican in there.
32:22
But other than that, you know, we've got our governor's seat and
32:24
we're gonna keep that Republican. We're gonna keep our legislature, legislature Republican.
32:30
So you're right, h the focus is going to be on our circuit courts,
32:32
on our local municipal elections, county elections all across the state. You
32:37
know, it's not just what I do. I mean, we're the party
32:39
apparatus, you know, but there's others out here, like you you mentioned
32:43
Greg. You know, there's other operatives who have been out here working hard
32:45
a lot longer than what I've been in the game, even they're very experienced.
32:49
And it takes guys like him and guys like me, and then it
32:52
takes all of our local committees and we put all of our manpower together and
32:57
we're gonna make things happen. And if anyone wants to volunteer for the Republican
33:00
Party, my whole mean Scholar office will be glad to get you plugged in,
33:04
especially with the local stuff. We need local people on the ground who
33:07
know the lay of the land. We need that help. And you know,
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says I know Tony Hodge won't answer this directly because he doesn't have courage.
36:43
You don't have courage, man, But ask him why he's so happy to
36:45
support an adjudicated sex abuser. I'm assuming they're referned to Trump. They don't
36:52
say who they're talking about. I have no idea. All right, let's
36:57
go to Chris. You're on with Tony Hodge. Go ahead. Hey,
37:01
guys doing this morning? Doing fine? Them? Sorry, how are you?
37:05
I want to talk about the current trial of Donald Trump. Okay,
37:09
you know, when I was a kid, it was unthought of to say
37:13
that the American justice system had two separate lanes. And now on national TV,
37:20
it's become apparent to everybody that our justice system has two separate lanes,
37:23
one for the rich, the influential, and another one for everybody else.
37:30
You know, anytime some young kid makes a mistake here on the left side
37:36
Hill and they get hauled up to South Central Regional Jail, they have to
37:39
get a mug shot and they go and handcuff. You know, if we're
37:46
not going to have the same process for everybody, how dare we call our
37:51
courtrooms fair? We're stilling a lie to our children. Tony Well, I
37:58
mean, are you saying you need a picture of Donald Trump? He might
38:00
be the most photographed man in the world over the last couple of years.
38:04
I don't know, No, no, no, it's the part that he
38:06
has to go through the process like everybody else done. That's what ensures that
38:10
the system's supposed to be fair, is that we're all subject to the same
38:15
process, and some of us aren't. And that just doesn't include Donald Trump.
38:21
That includes Hillary Clinton, that includes Joe Biden, that includes other people
38:25
that have been charged with these types of crimes in the past that didn't have
38:30
to either bother with being prosecuted at all because they were well connected or were
38:37
subjected to something that was less than the process is given to everybody else.
38:43
You know, I don't know what the actual protocol is on that. I
38:45
do know that prior, you know, when they were talking about over the
38:49
weekend, prior to the Tuesday arraignment, that they said that Trump would not
38:52
be fingerprinted or handcuffed because that's they generally don't do that in these sorts of
38:58
cases. Now, I don't know that. That's just what some of the
39:00
media pundits were saying over the weekend that generally in these types and that doesn't
39:05
Please, don't read that as me try to, you know, lessen what
39:07
he's accused of. I don't mean that. I'm just saying that they generally
39:09
speaking, don't. I don't know why. I mean, I don't.
39:13
I don't disagree with what you're saying, Chris. I just I don't know
39:15
why that is. But I don't think that's the protocol. Maybe maybe it
39:20
shouldn't be. Maybe you're right, Well, did he go point I'd like
39:23
to make here, Yeah, go ahead, Okay. There are two particular
39:28
groups right now. One's called Project sixty five and the other one's called the
39:31
forty six group. These are large groups of attorneys that are basically engaging in
39:37
racketeering to prevent other attorneys from coming forward to represent Donald Trump. Whether or
39:45
not you think he's guilty. The guy needs a good lawyer. Why are
39:47
other lawyers ganging up on lawyers to intimidate them out of represent a guy that
39:55
really needs representation? You know, it gets back to the same principle that
40:00
I started the call with. There's a rule for me, and there's a
40:04
rule for me. That's not how our systems set up. We all want
40:08
to stand up and salute the flag and sing the anthem and say America is
40:13
the best country in the world. Where are we going to start acting like
40:15
it and living up to our ideals instead a line to our kids and deceiving
40:21
the public. All right, Chris, I do appreciate your phone call.
40:24
Thanks a lot. Good. I mean, I don't disagree with some of
40:28
the points that he made there, Tony, I'll be honest with you.
40:29
I don't, Yeah, I'll be honest. I don't. I don't know.
40:31
I assume that, um, former President Donald Trump had to go before
40:36
a judge. I mean, that's kind of what I read people who listen
40:38
to the show know that I don't watch television news, so I don't.
40:42
I don't get my strictly radio right, a strictly radio and in the written
40:45
word, even in here where you have a television on, and I don't,
40:49
I don't pay attention to it. I just I haven't watched television.
40:51
I watched Jerry Springer seven eight years. But Texas Trump is the adjudicated sex
40:55
abuser. I had a feeling that's who they're referring to. Keep dodging the
40:59
question. Church on Sunday with family values, then every other day promoting an
41:02
adjudicated sex abuser. I'm definitely the morals and my church going and all that
41:10
that takes precedent in my life. I don't. I can't ever recall a
41:14
time that I've ever promoted or anything like that of a sex abuser. UM,
41:20
I want to get your opinion on this one. And this is something
41:22
that I've heard you talk about, and I've seen that you post on social
41:24
media and things, and I don't want to put words in your mouth.
41:28
You have voiced your displeasure and again, jump in if I'm saying something incorrect
41:34
here. And some of the things going on as part of Pride. The
41:37
June is Pride Month, there was a children's story time featuring drag queens held
41:44
over the weekend. There was some there was it was held here in Charleston.
41:49
There was some question as to whether that actually did have I did verify
41:52
before the show that that actually did take place to talk to one of the
41:53
organizers of the event, one of the folks, and they said that it
41:59
was not a big deal. It wasn't very you know what ill ten did
42:01
this part of that. There was one. It was like a fifteen minute
42:04
type thing. They are a very pride events scheduled throughout the moth. Putnham
42:07
County even has an event coming up, which kind of took me by surprise.
42:13
Not but I'm four against. I'm just saying that just kind of I
42:15
just wouldn't expect out of Putnham County. Your take on all this, well,
42:20
you know, let me be very clear. First of all, whatever
42:23
adults want to do with their private lives or whatever they want to celebrate,
42:29
I mean that's fine. I mean, you know whatever, Just you know,
42:31
if that's what you want to do, that's what you want to do.
42:34
When you bring children into it, though, that's when because you said
42:37
expressing displeasure, that's the part I would say, I would express displeasure about
42:42
his children and the whole drag queen storytime. This is something new. I
42:45
haven't really heard of this until, you know, maybe the last year or
42:49
two. It's like this new phenomenon that's creeped up and I don't understand it.
42:53
I don't understand what the outreach to children is what you know, what
42:57
what's behind that? And only that? But are you reading to the children?
43:00
I don't know. I mean, are they're reading, you know,
43:02
about the Itty Bitsy Spider or what? What's the material here? I don't
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know because I've never attended one. Um, I would like to know.
43:09
But now, I mean, you know, do what do whatever you want
43:12
to do? I mean adults, you know, consenting adults. It's part
43:15
of our our nation. You know, you have the freedom to do these
43:16
things. Now is it healthy? Is it wise? In my opinion?
43:20
No, you know, some people would call me a bigot for that,
43:22
But um, I think that's crazy because they'll call me intolerant, They'll call
43:27
me a bigot. But at the same time, when I say, well,
43:30
what do you accept me for? Who I am. That's what me
43:31
and Mike were talking about on Twitter. Would you do you say? He
43:35
said that, he said that I should celebrate people for who they are,
43:38
and I said, or and if I don't, I'm a bigot. And
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I said, well, Mike, that means that you have to celebrate me
43:43
for who I am. Do you accept everything I do? And do you
43:45
celebrate my way of life? And if you don't, you're a bigot by
43:50
your own definition. And so that's it, you know, like all this
43:53
pride stuff and all that. We're not out here talking about this, but
43:57
all of a sudden, June comes around and it's like me and cram down
44:00
the public's throat and it's like, hey, we didn't ask for all this.
44:02
You know, y'all can do your thing or whatever. But pushing it
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on people, I mean, that's it's it's a don't you think we played
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Devil's advocate? No pun intend you say anything? But don't you think as
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a parent, And I'm not a parent, but as a parent, that
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you have the right to say, Okay, I'm going to take my child
44:20
to this particular event or I'm not. You do you do have the right
44:22
to take your child to different places, but there are certain moral guardrails.
44:28
There's certain moral things that we accept. For an example, rated to our
44:32
movies. Now Hollywood puts ratings on movies. James Dobson's not out here putting
44:38
ratings on movies. It's Hollywood. Well why do they do that, Well,
44:43
it's it's an implied notion that some movies are more appropriate for children than
44:47
others. And of course parents can. Can they take their movies and show
44:51
or take their children and show them our rated movies? Well, sure they
44:52
can. Is it wise? Is it healthy? Is it things? Does
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it have content that children's brains can process us properly? A lot of this
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material is difficult for a child to process. We're talking about drag Queen and
45:07
different things like this. For children, the process in their mind and things
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says, I guess the caller wanted Trump to be handcuffed and stuffed in a
47:49
cell, said, told you, Hodge can't answer the question. Trump was
47:53
found liabele in a jury trial for sex abuse against Egan Carroll. Now watch
47:57
Hodge promote the adjudicated sex abuser Trump, and then somebody sent me a bunch
48:04
of memes. All right, um, Tech says, maybe promoting is not
48:07
correct, not the correct word. Maybe supporting and someone found financially liable for
48:12
the sex abuser for president. I want to get your opinion of this,
48:15
Tony. Last week, the world of West Virginia politics lost one of the
48:20
true icons and the death of Warren McGraw. And of course, I mean,
48:23
you name, it'd be easier, as Hobbies said, it would be
48:27
easier to go and name offices that he didn't hold. And what's Virginia,
48:30
I mean on the local level, state level, Supreme court, you know
48:32
whatever, then it would be that that he did, you know, And
48:37
we want to be respectful and things of that nature. And you and I
48:38
were talking about this last week off the air. It's kind of an end
48:43
of an era when some of these old school politicians pass away. Yeah,
48:47
I think, well, first of all, let me say, uh,
48:51
you know, condolences to mister McGraw's family. And I want to be respectful,
48:53
you know, of you know, we've we've lost someone a life,
48:58
you know, as a guy who's served in with life in West Virginia.
49:00
So I do want to be respectful. But at the same time, you
49:02
know, I do talk politics. I want to talk on the political side
49:06
of or McGraw, and I do. I do feel like it's sort of
49:07
the end of an era. You know, he's most remembered, whether you
49:13
like it or not, He's most remembered for the rant and racene or the
49:15
screaming Racene. However you want to describe it. It's on YouTube. You
49:16
can go look it up. Look up screaming Racene. I think it is.
49:21
You know, he he came unhinged that day and really said a lot
49:25
of things. If you go back and listen to it, it really kind
49:29
of you know, it was very um almost like he was entitled, a
49:32
little bit arrogant. You know, who do they think elected me? You
49:36
know, you remember that line and all the things he said in that rant.
49:39
But it is, you know, it's it's it's him and his brother,
49:44
Darryl McGraw. You know when I was a kid in the nineteen nineties,
49:45
Darren mcgrawl, Well, when I was a kid, I was junior
49:47
high, you know round in their junior high high school. Darren McGraw was
49:52
the attorney general, and you know, you could sit down, you could
49:57
go to a school. I remember at my house. In fact, I
49:59
think I still have some because I wanted to save them. But I can
50:01
remember pencils, little pencils, and they were shaped like a judge's gavel.
50:06
So the on the eraser end there would be two erasers sticking out left and
50:08
right, and then you'd have the pencil so it looked like a gavel,
50:10
and on it it would say Judge Darryl mcgrawl, Attorney General. There'd be
50:15
pencils and notepads and all this stuff. And these things were distributed at taxpayer's
50:17
expense. The trinkets, Yeah, the trinkets everywhere, and a lot of
50:21
people forget about that. It's been a long time now, but you know
50:23
when the Republicans took over, uh you know Morrissey beat Um, Uh,
50:28
Darryl mcgrawl when when? When when the Republicans took over all the lord trinket
50:30
system. It's gone. You don't see it anymore. We got rid of
50:34
it. I got rid of it. Taxpayer funded. You know, campaigning
50:37
was what it was. And the McGraw family was very, very well known
50:40
for that. But I'll tell you it's interesting because, like I said,
50:45
it's it's it's it's an era that's gone. I was going through my archives
50:49
when when McGraw, when we found out he passed away. I had some
50:52
some things that I'd saved over the years, and one thing I was going
50:54
through, it didn't really going through. I didn't really have anything to do
50:57
with mcgrawl. But it just reminded me the changing of an era. So
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this right here, I've got it right here. I brought it in.
51:02
It's the Charleston Gazette, dated Tuesday, February second, nineteen ninety eight,
51:07
and I'll show it to you here. It's got a picture and it says
51:09
it's a billboard. There was two of them. There's one in Saint Auban's
51:13
and one in near Rock Branch. Huge billboard and it says President Clinton is
51:19
telling the truth. And it was in relation to the Monica Lewinsky thing.
51:22
Now, a very well known lawyer who everyone who listened to this station would
51:28
know out of an adjacent county. He says, right here, he paid
51:30
for these billboards and posted them around Canall Valley. President Clinton is telling the
51:35
truth. Now, we all know President Clinton was lying. You know,
51:37
we he came out and admitted it. He said he was. You know,
51:39
he didn't have an affair with Monica Lewinsky in January. He came out
51:43
in August and said that he did. And so back then they could get
51:45
away with this kind of stuff. And this is the kind of stuff they
51:47
did. This stuff is ended. President Clinton wasn't telling the truth. Junk
51:52
like this. It's a bygone era. We're moving forward, all right.
51:55
Let me read this quick text before I go, because they put a lot
51:58
of work into it. Adjudicated set subuser question mark. The selective outrage from
52:01
those who are so egotistical to believe themselves to be morally superior is disgustingly despicable.
52:07
Not one word about the disturbing air whispering, harry sniffing creepy pedophile currently
52:13
occupy occupying the Oval office. They put so much work into that I had
52:16
to read a weird people out there all right here, we gotta go,
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Tony Hot, Thank you so much, Hoppy. Of course, more on
52:22
the hugging situation coming up. I will be back tomorrow morning to do it
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all again for my producer, Hollywood, Jeff Ptty, Thank you so much.
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We'll see you tomorrow. Till that have fun. I Love somebody.
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