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05/09/2023 580 Live with Dave Allen - Dirty Birds, Ryan Weld, and Ken Reed · The Dave Allen Show

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Of course. The big story the comments made on Live radio and Cincinnati
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by WVU men's basketball coach Bob Huggins yesterday. Now, this went viral yesterday
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afternoon after the comments were made by Hugs on the Bill Cunningham Show and WLW
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Radio and Cincinnati. Coach referred to fans at Xavier University as Catholic blank slur
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for homosexuals. The fallouts hit hard. Coach released a statement apologizing for his
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comments. University did as well. Huggins then pulled out of a scheduled speaking
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engagement with other WVU folks and wheeling last night at the coach's caravan up there.
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The story is now national ESPN, Fox News, CNN, others all
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reported USA Today and others calling for the firing of coach Huggins, which could
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well happen. I'm gonna get to the story later, but we have a
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loaded up show, as you've heard me talking about yesterday, Dirty Birds home
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openers tonight. The guy manager Billy Horneaton Douglas the studio. We're going to
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talk to them here in a couple moments also have coming up a little bit
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later on Ryan Weld, state senator, who is running for Attorney General.
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He has to come on to refute the comments by state Senator Mike Stewart,
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who was also running for a GW. Mike, of course, was on
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the show last weekend. I've got Ken Reid Canada for Secretary of State coming
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up as well. Those were all set all these interviews before the Huggins situation
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yesterday. I will say this show that the text lines were open throughout the
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show at three or four nine three five five zero zero eight again into truth
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get to the Huggins story later on in the meantime, If you want to
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courtesy of Fruth Pharmacy. And also in the middle of all that,
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we got Coke on Strike two story pictures posted to that at WV metro news
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dot com. So it is a loaded up show. Folks, get the
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comments on Huggins, go ahead and textos in. We'll get them to him
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a little bit later on, and I will talk about it as well.
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But let's talk about some baseball. I got eating Douglas and I got to
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manager Billy Horne at the Dirty Birds in the studio. Morning, guys,
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how are you? Good morning, Good morning, doing well for having us?
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And you know what I told you in the green room, I said,
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guys, I gotta hit this hug and saying out. But I will
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not ask either one of you to comment on just or my other guests for
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that matter, they will not be asked to comment on. It is opening
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night, coach, How excited are right to be playing at home tonight?
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We're excited to finally be home. It seems like we had about thirty eight
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games on the road, you know, to start the season, but we're
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really excited to finally be home. Sixteen of our next nineteen games are over
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at gomart which is a nice relief for us, a lot less traveling.
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But we did have a little preview a couple of weeks ago. You know,
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we had the bananas in town. We had packed houses. We had
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a packed house both nights, excuse me, and um, you know,
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we're looking looking forward to the same the fans coming out and the rowdies,
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the toasties, the locals, and you know, hopefully we attracted some new
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more fans over the uh the offseason. You got folks like eating here and
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everyone else in the front office really working their tails off promoting and it should
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be a real fun and exciting night. And when people come out to the
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ballpark, I mean they're not only going to see a new name, We've
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talked about that, but they're also going to see if they haven't, if
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they weren't there for the bands, They're going to see new plane service even
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talk about them. Yeah, we've got artificial turf for synthetic turf now,
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and I mean the amount of extra events that we've have says enough about it.
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I mean we're hosting all of TeX's home games, some Marshall games,
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and now we've got all these Dirty Birds games. And on top of that,
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we have the MBC tournament coming up this week with it, so tripleheaders
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every single day this week. Yeah, which means long hours for the Dirty
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Birds. I mean, I'm running three shows a day now, so it's
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it's a lot, but it's awesome because we've got people coming from Frostburg Maryland
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because Frostburg's in the tournament Concord and then you season it States in it.
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So we'll have a lot of local people at the park and then they get
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to stay for the our game after or come before. Now when people come
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out for opening night and there's nothing like and by the way, the weather
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is going to be great. What they tell us. There's still a chance
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of some showers and thunderstorms like early in the day, but all the chance
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pretty much dissipates by about mid day, if even that. So uh so,
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so that's good stuff. What do people, what do you have plan
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for tonight? It's opening night? We had it's opening night. We've got
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half price beer, buy one, get one hot dogs. Truly Tuesdays is
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something new that I learned yesterday. So all truies are three dollars, so
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that's fine. We've got moonshine slushies. We've got baseball bingo presented by AARP.
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We've got Governor Jim Justice and the first Lady, Cathy Justice and baby
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dog coming to throw out the first Governor set to throw out the ceremonial first
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pitch. Have you've done? He's scouting on the Governor to see what kind
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of an army's get coach. Not bad, not bad. We had a
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chance to meet with him last year, met him a couple of weeks ago.
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But I think, you know, I'll respect him. I think everybody's
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really excited to see baby dog. Yeah exactly, the real governor of real
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of West Virginia. Just so many great things, you know, going on
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to ballparking. It is um you know, it was interesting the way the
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schedule worked out. Like you said to coach, it looked like you guests
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had like some games on the road to start the season and you didn't get
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all those games in because some were rained out. It was cold, it
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was rainy, I mean, it was just yeah, it was your typical
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Northeast you know, quote unquote spring summer weather. So but you know,
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even though you said earlier, you know, we're gonna get a little rain
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during the day, it doesn't matter. We have the turfs, right,
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Yeah, so we're gonna play some baseball to night, and it's uh,
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you know, it's good, exciting fun, you know, family fund for
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the community. And again we're excited about our our roster. We've got really
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really good baseball players and really really good young men, so really good dudes
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in that clubhouse and associated with the organization. So we're pumped to get going
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finally. And you've got a lot of different promotions throughout the year and need
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and you're on from time to time to talk about it. I know we're
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gonna be the Pepperoni Rolls one night, and we've got all this, all
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this other, all this other stuff going on as well. There's so much.
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We've got Pepperoni roles on July fifteenth, through playing as our Latin identity
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this year, which will appear in a few weeks. We're playing as the
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Charlies and the Charleston Charlies will make their first debut of the twenty twenty three
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season this Thursday. Firework every Saturday, giveaways every Friday. We'll have our
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first T shirt giveaway on Friday, sponsored by Prevent Suicide West Virginia. So
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there's so much happening this week and in the coming weeks and throughout this whole
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summer. So we want nothing but for families to come out and have a
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good time. First pitch Tonight is six thirty five, six thirty five with
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the Governor and the First Lady and baby Dog and baby dog. I'm gonna
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see if baby dog can be the first catch. Okay, I think that'll
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do it all. I see I see baby dog in TV. I don't
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know that baby dog is really into that kind of stuff. I don't know.
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It doesn't seem like much of a fetcher to me now. It just
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seems kind of just nice and relaxed and just kind of pointing the finger,
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Hey, you do this, you do this, you do that, kind
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of like Eaton does. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yep. Well,
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guys, it's great to appreciate. No, it's a busy day for you,
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and I appreciate you take a time to stop by the studios this morning,
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and we'll see everybody at the ballpark tonight. Thanks alight, guys,
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thank you, thank you. Opening night is tonight to go check it out.
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zero eight. Ken Reid, who is a candidate for West Virginia Secretary of
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State, coming up a little bit later on the show, plus more on
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the Bob Huggins situation. Republican candidate for Attorney General State Senator Ryan Weld is
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with us this morning. Good morning, sir, how are you. I'm
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well, Thanks for having me here at the Loaded up show and you're right
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in the middle of all of it today, madam. Thank you for being
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here. And I'm sure Ryan you heard the interview with your fellow fellow Senator
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Mike Stewart last week on the show Mister Tude, of course, also state
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senator, also candidate for attorney general, he called out your voting record on
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several bills, including transgender issues, unemployment, campus kerry, etc. I
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will give you the floor to respond to whatever you would like. Well,
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great, thank you. Yeah. And it's unfortunate, Dave, because you
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know, I've been in three campaigns so far, and at no point in
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time in any of those campaigns have I felt the need to call out or
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make outrageous or false claims about my opponents. Because to me, my campaigns
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have always been about me, what I've done, what I'm gonna do for
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the people that who elect me, in my background, and you know,
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and for someone to come on like that and say those kinds of things that
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you know, for the most part, weren't even true, it makes me,
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you know, I'm going to come on and I'm going to defend myself.
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And so you know, he got in the race on Tuesday and on
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Thursdays on your show attacking me like that, So so much for Reagan's eleventh
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Commandment. It's odd that you would bring that up because the very next thing
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I was going to say was I guess someone never heard of Ronald Reagan's commandment
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that you never speak ill of other Republicans. That was literally the next thing
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I was gonna say. Yep, and that's just unfortunate. And so,
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you know, one of the things, and this is the first thing that
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I want to address, and this is the thing that I think. It
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takes a lot to make me angry, but the thing that made me the
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most angry is to try to denigrate or call into question. You know the
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fact that I didn't go to law school to US thirty one, Well,
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you know why I went to law school when I was thirty one and not
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my twenties, because I was in a military. Because I spent the vast
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majority of the time in my twenties and until I was thirty one on active
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duty. Thank you for your service, thank you. I was in Afghanistan
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when I got my acceptance letter to du Kane Law. That's why I didn't
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go to law school to US thirty one. And so to try to say
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that your time sitting behind a desk for those years while I was in a
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military learning lessons on leadership, learning the importance of service before self is it's
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about as low as you can go. It's about as it Just that makes
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me more upset than anything to try to denigrate the reason and call into question
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through some sort of misnomer why it was that I didn't go to law school
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until I was thirty one. Because that's why. Because I was serving,
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because I was in DC, because I was in Germany, because I was
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in Texas, because I was in Afghanistan. You know what. I came
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back home. I went to law school and I became a prosecutor, and
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so I wasn't just the administrator of some office the prosecuted people. I actually
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prosecuted people. Now I'm a lawyer in private practice. I've been the vice
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chair of the Judiciary Committee the entire time. I've been in the Senate for
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seven sessions, now the majority whip. This afternoon, I'm going to go
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argue in front of our state Supreme Court and on behalf of a client of
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mine, because that's what I do. Do you know who's never argued in
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front of the State Supreme Court, The person making these claims about me.
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So I'm more than happy to stack up my legal experience and the experiences that
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I've had throughout my life against anyone else. In his campaign, talking with
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Senator Ryan Wild who's also a candidate for attorney general, he brought into questions
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your voting record, Ryan, on several things, from the transgender bill to
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campus carry, so on and so forth. Did you like to address any
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of those. Yeah, sure, so. A couple of years ago,
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I forget how many years ago. You know, we had a bill talking
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about, you know, transgender people in women's sports, and I fully agree
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with the fact that a man should not be playing in women's sports. You
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know, I was an athlete in high school. I was an athlete in
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college. Well, the bills that we had in the Senate pool it was
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amended and changed to include college athletics in that bill when it started out just
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in high school sports. Well, we don't have any control over the NC
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double A. They're a private entity. And as a former college athlete,
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nobody dislikes the NC double A more than me. Nobody, trust me.
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I wanted to give twenty dollars back to a parent of a kid who I
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gave swim lessons to because I violated NC double A rules. I was broke.
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I had twenty dollars back. So by including that bill or by including
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the NC double A and that bill. You know, the Governor South Dakota,
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Christiano vetoted bill a couple of years ago because it had the NC DOUBLEA
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and she was afraid what the NC DOUBLEA was going to do and be punitive
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towards South Dakota collegiate athletes. And I was concerned for the same exact reason.
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And so that's why I voted against that bill, mainly because of the
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NCAA. Is what you're saying, Yeah, you would have had no issue.
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I'm not want to put words in your mouth, but you would have
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not had an issue with it being with a similar bill being addressed if it
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did not contain the NC double A, zero issue. And I would have
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voted for it every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Okay.
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So, and then you talk about Campus Kerry A couple of years ago.
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I voted against that bill because it harmed small colleges. It only took into
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account Marshall WVU in the way that it regulated everything and some of the other
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stipulations. I represent two small scholleges in my West Liberty and West Virginia northern
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community, and it was made clear they weren't going to make any changes to
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accommodate smaller colleges. So do we come to Charleston to vote in the interest
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to those that we're supposed to represent, But do we come to Charleston just
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to say, you know what, I'm blanket just voting for everything so I
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can use it as a campaign talking point, and I don't care if it
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hurts somebody or an entity that I represent. I mean's what is our purpose
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here in Charleston. So when that bill came up this past session, and
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there had been changes that were made that made it more reflective of both big
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and small colleges, I voted for it and didn't have an issue with it.
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But I'm not just going to come down here blindly and say, well,
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it's a gun bill, and so no matter what it is or if
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it hurts people that I represent, I'm just going to vote for it.
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So and that was my top process several years ago. And when it came
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up this year and protected those smaller schools, didn't have any issue whatsoever.
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And you know, everybody likes to people and I know this word was used
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rhinos rhino it's a dirty word. Well, I don't just talk about being
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a conservative. I actually have a pretty conservative voting record. You know,
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we talk about all the things that the legislature has done throughout the past couple
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of years. When we're talking about, you know, passing right to work
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to protect West Virginia's from forest unionism, all the school choice stuff, holding
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the line on flat budgets, all these years, pro life bills that have
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gotten done, tort reform, constitutional care, dave in all these years,
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I've been in the leadership in the Senate. So all that stuff doesn't and
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I'm voted for all of that stuff. All that stuff doesn't happen in a
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vacuum. It happens because you have conservative leadership in the legislature of which I'm
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in that leadership. And all those bills happen because leadership helped make them happen.
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And I'm a part of that, and I have supported all of that.
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I've voted for that. I made sure that was part of our agenda.
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And so don't just talk about it. I have a voting record to
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prove it. And to further that, you know, there's an organization called
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the American Conservative Union and if you know anything about it, you know they
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had they give awards to legislators across the country based on their voting record,
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and so every year I've been in a legislature, I ever see the Conservative
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Achievement Award the American Conservative Union. They don't exactly hand that award out to
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rhinos, and so every year I've gotten that awards. So someone can make
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those claims about me, but I have an actual record that backs it up,
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and so I'm happy to stack mine against anybody else's. The term rhino,
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I think is and again we're talking to State Senator Ryan wild as a
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candidate for Attorney General next year's election. The term rhinos stone out a lot,
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in my opinion, and as you said, it's become a slur.
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It's with him, a dirty word, so to speak, because you're not
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Republican enough. And the only I guess, the only question that I would
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have is who sets that standard? Now, this is just me talking about
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for you, this is just meet us. Who sets that standard? Yes,
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the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party have their own platform and
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so on, and so I just I think it's an arbitrary term in my
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opinion because it depends on how you look at in my opinion, yep,
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yeah, it's it's arbitrary to to you know, are you conservative? I
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don't know who's who's making that definition, and so I think that there are
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certain things that we can look to. You know, what are the tenants
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of the Republican Party, small government, less regulation, you know, individual
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freedom? And have I voted for for things that support those tenants of the
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Republican Party? Yep, I sure have. And it's not just I voted
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for these things, and you know, to prove that I'm, you know,
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the conservative in the race, which I fully believe that I am,
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and I have a record to show it. But it's also, Dave,
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this is about getting things done and being effective in your job, you know.
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And I heard him talking about that he got four bills done this past
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session. Well I didn't know. First off, I didn't know that was
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an actual like measuring stick on how effective you were. So I went back
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and I looked at what I had done. I didn't I never kept track.
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I just wanted to get certain things done. I never counted on how
22:15
many bills I got done. And so my first session in the Senate,
22:19
I got seven of my bills signed into law, So seven seems like it's
22:23
more than four. But all I remember thinking back then was I feel like
22:26
I didn't get a whole lot done this session. So I got to come
22:30
back next session, my second one, and work harder and get more things
22:33
done. And so I did. But then I looked the overall body of
22:40
work that I've done and I had to count because I've never done this before.
22:41
I never go back through and counted my bills. So in the years
22:45
I've been in the legislature, I've had sixty six of my lead sponsor bills
22:49
be signed into law. So if four bills is your number of greatness,
22:59
then you'd have to be in the legislature for sixteen years to get done what
23:03
I've gotten done in nine years. But again, the number has never been
23:07
the important thing to me. It's what these bills do? You know?
23:11
This past session I had to build. It was signed in a law that
23:15
bands selling property at state tax sils to countries like China and Russia. We're
23:22
the first state in the country to do that, first state. That was
23:25
my bill re established the State Veterans Court Program to help veterans and service members
23:30
that are caught up in a criminal justice system created our state's criminal Narcotics Conspiracy
23:37
Law. The prosecutors all over the state now use to go after big drug
23:40
dealers, holding drug dealers accountable for deaths they cause with the product they sell.
23:45
Ensuring that all West Virginia members of National Guard Units Reserve units have in
23:52
state tuition for their service. Ensuring that all veterans in the state can open
23:56
a business without having to pay fees to the state in order to do so.
23:59
And it goes on and on, and I think that I've had quality
24:02
bills, not just about a number, it's about quality bills that affect West
24:03
Virginia's lives. We're talking about State Senator State Senator Ryan Wild who's also going
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com. It's gonna be a long battle. Uh, you know, we're
24:25
we're we're a month, I mean a year, I'm sorry, a year
24:26
away. Uh. And of course we're in a in this mode now where
24:30
campaigns are constantly going uh and and so it's gonna be it's already gotten ugly.
24:38
I think between you and Mike Stewartan, it's probably gonna get even for
24:41
no good reasons. For no good reason, we're in the Senate together,
24:45
we're both Republicans. This race could have been about the issues and talking.
24:49
Is it too late? I mean, can we can we get it back
24:52
to make a little bit more civil? In your opinion? Well, I
24:56
think you'd have to ask him that question, because moving forward, I'm going
24:59
to continue you to talk about my accomplishments, talk about who I am,
25:03
who I am as a person, who I am as a candidate, my
25:07
voting record, things that I've done and things that I will do. Is
25:11
the state's next attorney general? I mean, it's not about somebody else.
25:17
You know, you're talking about why the hurry? We got twelve months on
25:21
this campaign, and I would have to say, you know, why the
25:22
hurry? You know, my opponent, he was in the Senate for a
25:26
month before he started talking about running for another office. Four days after our
25:32
first session, four days he already filed to run for something else. I
25:36
mean, that's a pretty big slap in the face to the people that you're
25:38
supposed to represent that I mean, they just a stepping stone. I mean,
25:42
you couldn't wait to get out of that Apparently you can't wait to get
25:45
out of that office that they elected you to. So what's the rush?
25:51
Why jump into running a campaign like this when we could just be civil about
25:56
things? And I plan on moving forward and talking about again myself, things
26:02
that I've accomplished as a legislator all these years, my experiences as a legislative
26:07
leader, as a prosecutor, as an officer in the Air Force. While
26:11
that qualifies me to be this state's next attorney general. Where can people learn
26:15
more about your campaign? They can go to my website, Ryan Weld dot
26:18
com. They can go to my Facebook page, which is Ryan Weld for
26:23
West Virginia. I don't go on Facebook that much, but or remember the
26:27
name of the page. You should shouldn't have a hard time find It's not
26:32
hard to find information out about me. Yeah out there all right? Ryan.
26:36
I appreciate you taking time to be here, and and you know,
26:38
your folks reached out to me and said you wanted to come on to kind
26:41
of clear, I find some things and you're in now. I'll probably get
26:42
a call from Mike Stuart's people saying he'd like to come on. I'll just
26:45
have you both. Would you be open to a debate with Mike Stewart?
26:48
Absolutely? All right. We have a challenge, Ding ding ding, We
26:52
have a challenge. Then, I'd like to Babe do it on this show.
26:53
Would you guys be willing to do that at some point? I'm here
26:56
now, I'll be here again in the future. All right, all right,
27:00
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Hollywood. Jeff Petty as our producer Today Tech says Mike Stewart would never
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under stand service before self according to a texture, Texture says good pushback by
30:04
Weld. If you're gonna make claims, you better know what you are talking
30:10
about. What legislation has he worked to improve, change or to introduce in
30:14
regards to elections. I don't know if that was meant for welld or that's
30:18
meant for Ken Reid. Just coming up here momentarily, But okay, Well
30:22
asked Well next time, and I'll ask Ken Reid here momentarily. Text set
30:29
for Ryan Well. There's nothing complex about making sure that biological boys play male
30:33
sports and biological girls play female sports. It's pretty simple. Stuart nor Well
30:40
should be running on their success against drugs. Druggs are winning against both of
30:44
their efforts. According to a text or Texture says, the purpose of the
30:48
Republican Party is to do what's best for the Republican Party, regardless of how
30:51
it impacts the community. Mike Stewart is a grade A rubber stamp stooge for
30:56
the Republican Party. Text says wells campaign strategy of self defense not a great
31:03
strategy. Stewart's going to clean his clock. Tex says dear mister Well,
31:07
letting your opponent dictate your emotion and control the narrative is a terrible look,
31:11
and Texture says he's no different than the other guy. Well, I want
31:17
to disagree with that particular text because I think that there are a lot of
31:19
differences between Mike Stewart and Ryan Well. And I'm not picking sides. I'm
31:22
just saying there are a lot of differences. But hey, the challenge has
31:26
been issued, and who knows who else is going to run for attorney general.
31:30
Those are just the two that we know about it. But it's been
31:33
said, and I know Mike Stewart pretty well. Knew Mike Stewart would be
31:36
up to it too, So Hollywood, we may have to get the wrestling
31:37
ring out here. We'll just have those two in here together. I've got
31:41
the Huggins text to get to and I'm going to get to those here momentarily
31:45
on the Bob Huggins situation. But I want to welcome to the show now,
31:47
Republican candidate for West Virginia's Secretary of State can read. Mister read,
31:49
Good morning, and welcome to the show. Well, thank you, James.
31:53
I appreciate you have me on the show. Thank you for being here.
31:56
Before we get into the candidacy, let's talk about you. Give us
32:00
a bio on Ken Reid. Who are you? Uh? My name is
32:04
Ken Reid, and I'm a born and actually I was born in Weird in
32:07
West Virginia, and I grew up in the northern Panhandal went to Brook High
32:12
School, graduating eighty six, and moved on to college, went to Morgantown,
32:17
WU, went the pharmacy school on the pharmacist by trade, and my
32:24
wife there and then as um. My father used to tell me, you
32:30
always kind of end up where your wife's mother lives, and so here I
32:34
am an Eastern Panandal smart guy, a smart guy. Yeah, that's that's
32:42
the old those old things has come out he's pretty true. Yeah, I
32:45
moved out here. It was a good move. Um man, I've been
32:49
out here ever since, um since nineteen ninety two worked for some team pharmacy
32:55
and then then uh ninety eight, decided to try my hand, uh myself
33:00
with owning my own small business and opened up my first pharmacy in Berkeley Springs,
33:06
which is in Morten County, and then from there it just kind of
33:08
kept going. At one time I had seven pharmacies in four states, Ohio,
33:15
West Virginia, and Maryland and Virginia. Since pared that down to just
33:22
three three states, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, with a majority
33:24
of our stories being here in eastern Panandal and Morgan and Berkeley County. Um
33:31
open decided I was gonna when I was in college, I always had that
33:36
to do list, and uh, you know, I'm just all college mails
33:38
want to open a bar one time. So I opened a restaurant in Morden
33:43
County about five years ago, and I checked that off the list, Keary
33:47
Grille, And so far everything's uh kind of moving down the road way at
33:52
least I planned it to be. And uh, and I have four kids
33:55
with my wife and they're all doing well, they're all moving in different directions.
34:04
Is that kids intending to do? But in the nut shell, that's
34:07
that's me. So with all that being said, Ken, why do you
34:09
want to be secretary of State? Uh? Secretary of State? I'm I've
34:15
been in healthcare for twenty five thirty years, and I'm I'm ready. I
34:21
think I'm ready to move on. The healthcare has gotten extremely difficult to work
34:27
in, especially with how government treats us. And I've been screaming and taught
34:31
my lung for years about TIA and Medicare and all these other entities that are
34:37
out there, federal governments that kind of dictate, dictate rules to you.
34:40
And I just I'm getting to the point in my life. I'm fifty five
34:45
now, and uh I got into public service back and well, I ran
34:52
for Congress in two tho fourteen. I don't know if a lot of people
34:55
remember that, but twenty fourteen I did challenge out to Mooney and six others
35:00
while I sit, they five others for that congressional seat and I came in
35:05
seconds in that race and then run after that. My wife asked me that
35:08
you know the county commissioner job is opening up here, and she's like,
35:13
you would you would be really good at that, And so I decided to
35:19
go ahead and run for a county commissioner and won that seat. And then,
35:22
UH, that's that is definitely where the rubber meets the road. UM
35:25
in government. It doesn't get any more more intense than that. UH did
35:31
that for four years, and I ran for delegates of Berkeley and Morgan County
35:37
and won that seat. And then we got redistricted the next year, and
35:44
I kind of redistrict. I kind of jerrymanor myself out of the district.
35:47
The UH and I do it again. To be quite honest with you,
35:51
the I was I was extremely concerned about uh, Morgan County having a delegate
35:59
because that was it's a split difference between Berkeley and Morden County, and Berkeley
36:02
County is growing so much faster than other counties in this entire state. And
36:09
so we created a box that included most of Delicate Miller's voters instead of mine.
36:16
But what that did is that guaranteed that county to have a delegate for
36:22
next least next ten years. So I do it again. I wouldn't think
36:24
twice about it. Okay, So, but I mean, why is it
36:29
that that you want to be secretary of State? I mean, at this
36:30
point, you've done all these other things. Why why is it that's all
36:35
right, it's all right. Why Why do you want to be You're a
36:37
good man? Why do you want to be secretary of state? Because let
36:40
me just say this, we already let me just throw this and we already
36:43
we have at least two other folks on the Republican primary delicate. Christ Pritt
36:46
from here in Kanaga County announced his intention to run for Secretary of State,
36:50
Putnam County Clerk Bryan Wood and out statewide yesterday on Talk Client that he'd be
36:53
running for secretary of course, listeners to this show that was kind of old
36:57
news since he announced it on the show several months ago. So with Delegate
37:00
Print and Putnam County Clerk would in the race, and there could possibly be
37:04
more why do you want to do this? And what makes ken read the
37:07
better candidate? I think it's basically I want to do maybe front of my
37:10
experience. I think I'm probably one of the most experienced candidate out there,
37:15
just with my executive Secretary States in executive position, and it's it's right down
37:21
my alley. With me being accounty commissioner. We deal with We've dealt with
37:25
canvassing the elections. Also the on the business organization Division's part, that's right
37:32
down in my value. I've been healing with Secretary of State's office for probably
37:36
thirty some years on that in that area, and I just think I would
37:40
be an excellent person to follow Mac Warner, who's done a great job in
37:47
that position going forward. And you know the thing about with the secretary and
37:53
people have heard me when I talked to Brian Wood about this and to Chris
37:57
Pritt of two of your opponents. As I say, there could be more
38:00
on the show before. And I think it's interesting that you bring up business
38:05
because sometimes when people think about the Secretary of State's Office, can they only
38:07
think about elections because that's the quote unquote sexy part. But there's a whole
38:12
lot more business. The election division is one of the smaller divisions of the
38:15
Secretary of State's office. The business division, charities and things that nature is
38:19
actually actually much bigger than than what elections are. And so I know that
38:24
folks in Secretary of State's Office probably appreciate you saying that where can people learn
38:30
more about your campaignswer You can go to one line at ken read for west
38:35
Virginia dot com, or you can just catch me on my Facebook page.
38:38
They're hooking to your previous thing. We're not hard to find. If you
38:43
just type thing can read, you'll find us. All right, Well,
38:45
we'll have you on several times before the election next year. Ken, I
38:49
do appreciate it. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot, Thank you,
38:52
Good day you as well. Ken Read, Republican candidate for a secretary of
38:55
State fourteen minutes away from ten Let me knock out some ten accidents all huggins
39:00
from this point on. Text says Well is a good candidate, but his
39:05
sympathy votes to homosexuals and transgenders will cost him the AG race. That's just
39:09
how it is, and probably rightly so. According to a texture, texture
39:15
says, why do Republicans put up the forest of being independent thinkers, while
39:19
also saying any Republican who disagrees with him as a rhino the GOP can't handle
39:23
diversity of thought? Says a text texture says, what is this Dave the
39:29
runner up show? So these candidates have no shot at their races? According
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to a texture Texas, So healthcare got hard and he decided to go to
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right now to hug Well, let me knock out this text first, Texas,
42:32
Mister Reid seems like a nice man, but he doesn't have nearly the
42:36
experience that Brian Wood has. Brian Wood has been county clerk for eighteen years
42:40
and was a magistrate judge before that. He's overseen in nearly thirty elections,
42:45
and it's the chair of the County Clerk's Association. Wood stands far and above
42:47
in the Secretary of States race, according to a text. All right now
42:51
to Huggins, you know the story by now. Appearing on the Bill Cunningham
42:55
Show on WLW radio in Cincinnati, he used to slur about gaze that you
43:01
just can't use. He issued a statement of apology, as did the university.
43:08
Huggins bowed out of a schedule coach's caravan type event in Wheeling last night.
43:14
The story has gone national now, many calling for his firing, including
43:17
USA Today. You know this story, I guess first broke yesterday afternoon.
43:23
I had a rare day when I wasn't traveling yesterday, I was actually in
43:27
my office and I started seeing all of these comments coming across on Twitter,
43:31
and like most people, I was like, what the heck is this all
43:34
about? And then then I saw it. You know, here's the thing.
43:42
You simply cannot make statements, even in a joking manner like this in
43:46
the year of twenty twenty three and get by with it. You all know
43:52
me, I railed against cancel culture on an almost daily basis on here,
43:59
But that doesn't change us the fact that it is what it is. This
44:04
is simply who we are as a society in twenty twenty three. You are
44:09
simply held to a higher standard when you're a Hall of Fame basketball coach and
44:15
an icon in West Virginia. And maybe not mistake about it. The story
44:19
is not going away, especially in corporate America, when the funds to the
44:25
university at least some of them start shutting off. Companies like ESPN and others
44:35
say either he goes or we don't cover the games. Now, that may
44:38
be a bit of a stretch, but it could happen, and we have
44:45
seen it happen before. And you know, I don't know everybody. As
44:52
soon as I hit the building this morning, man, and everybody's blowing up
44:54
my phone last night. What do you think it's gonna happen? What do
44:57
I think it's gonna happen? What do I think should happen? I don't
45:00
don't know. I have no inside information at West Virginia University in the athletic
45:04
department or the administration. The administration of course release a statement quickly. And
45:08
Jeff and I, Jeff Jenkins and I were talking about the show. I
45:10
applaud Huggins and the university for getting on top of the story. I mean
45:15
almost immediately. There was a statement from Huggins of an apology. There was
45:19
a statement for the university of an apology. But it's not going away.
45:22
It's not going away anytime soon. Tech says it's sad to see people on
45:25
the right acquescing to the left wing cancel culture because of words. Huggins apologized,
45:31
stopped being but hurt and grow up. We don't cancel people for mistakes.
45:36
Well, I'm going to disagree with the Texture on that point because we
45:38
certainly do. And if you're supporting Huggins to be fired or to resign,
45:43
maybe the cancel police will come for you next. Better watch out. Huggins
45:50
as a Texture acknowledge and owned what he said and apologized for it. That
45:52
should be enough. Unfortunately, in this cancel era, we now live in
45:55
a world where people are now expected to be held accountable and apologize for things
46:00
said or done thirty years ago. The truth is an apology will never be
46:04
enough for the mob. Give them time, and along with wanting him fire,
46:07
they will demand he'd be removed from the Hall of Fame and basically shunned
46:09
from society. It's happened every time, according to a text, text says
46:17
we all make goofs I stand with Hugs. According to a Texter, guys
46:24
and Catholics or I'm sorry, he says, gazing Catholics called Xavier fans the
46:30
slur. Yeah he did. Please have people running for secretary of state on
46:39
air and have debate with candidates. Yeah, I would be more than happy
46:43
to do that in any time. Anybody wants to do that. I'm one
46:45
percent. Texas a good show, great job and giving your audience opportunities to
46:49
listen to candidates. Thank you. Text says, I can't. I don't
46:55
think I can say this word on the air. But if you know the
47:00
story and google it, but for God's sakes, don't google on a work
47:01
computer. Okay, do it on your phone or do it? Just do
47:05
it when you get home. Okay. About what caused this whole interview in
47:08
it? And you've got to know Bill Cunningham. You know, I'm a
47:10
radio geek and I've listened to Bill Cunningham for years. He's an icon in
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radio. And he's not without blame here too, because he kind of acted
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on a little bit. I mean he did. And there's an intense rivalry
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in the city of Cincinnati between the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University. And
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this all started in a comment about some see how can I say this,
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Jeff, sexual objects that were thrown on to a court years ago in a
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basketball That's what started the whole conversation. Tex says was hugs joking. He
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sounded really angry. Did you hear or read what he said? Yeah?
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I mean it's posted everywhere yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know,
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but he sounded angry about it. I mean, he sounded to me
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like he was laughing about it a little bit. But when it comes to
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words, I mean, what you what people say matter, and if especially
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when it comes to our jobs, if I would say that on the air,
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I would expect Joe Parsons Dale Cooper to have my office packed up and
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waiting for me out on the street on eleven eleven Virginia Street. Because it's
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not about free speech. You don't have free speech when you're on the job.
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The courts have proven that. I mean, if you, I mean,
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imagine another scenario. Maybe I'm just really really stretching here, but if
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I'm working at Wendy's and somebody comes to the drive through and I tell them,
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you know what, Burger King may say much better Burger, Well,
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I'm probably going to be fired for that, and I would expect to be
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If I go on this show and I say several things, I'm probably going
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to be fired and Bob Huggins is simply held to it. I'm not saying
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he should be fired. I'm not saying I'm not saying that at all.
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I'm just saying I understand if he were, but I'm not saying I support
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that at all, because I mean, this is not about it's not about
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free speech, it's about poor judgment. On one point, I mean,
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you're on WLW, which is one of the top ten talk stations. It's
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fifty one hundred thousand. What's whatever it is, it's a flamethrower of station.
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People listen to that station all. I have the app on my phone.
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I listen to it all over the country. It's not like he said
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it in a private setting somewhere. You know, you said it out and
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run of everybody. And again, I'm one that's railed against cancel culture one
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hundred percent, but I also know the effects of it and know what you
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can and can't say. My guess is he's either going to be fired or
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there's some sort of a settlement reach where he just retires or leaves, and
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I could be I have no nothing to base that on other than speculation and
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having seen things like this go down in the past. I mean, remember
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Tom Brenneman, played by play Guy for The Reds, Marty's son, my
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hero, one of my hero's sons, thought the mic was off and he
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referred to Kansas City as being a blank town, the same word that Bob
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Huggins used he got fired. He's not been heard from since now. Is
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Tom brenhaman as big a deal as Bob Huggins know? Probably not, but
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ain't nobody heard from him in some time? And that was a microphone he
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thought was off. Huggins knew the microphone was on. He knew he was
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on live radio on the Bill Cunningham Show. And when you're on the Bill
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Cunningham Show, you've got to kind of really even more so much what you
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say. And many people, including those at WVU, are probably going to
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see this as yet another black eye on a state that can't afford a whole
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lot of more black eyes. I mean, we're already portrayed as backwards Hillbillies
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and things like this don't do a heckful like to help. And that's something
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the university is going to have to look closely at when deciding what to do
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about the situation. Major companies are looking at how we handle this. Potential
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recruits are looking at we handle this. And look, I'm past a middle
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aged guy. The way I look at the world is not the way an
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eighteen year old student athlete looks at the world not at all. I agree
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we are way too sensitive and soft as a society, but we're not going
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to change that. PC is here, Cancel culture is here. It's not
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going anywhere. Tech said, do these anti cancel culture weirdos just want to
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say the N word? Or what? This is the vibe that I get
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day Florida guy here Huggins will retire or be fired by sunset today. Then
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the basketball portal will fill up from defections from the team. Dave, remember
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Howard Cosell. Yeah, fired, fired for referring using a racial term on
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a player. So whatever happens, if anything, we'll follow it, of
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course, Dave Wilsons. And for Hoppy on talk Line, he'll have that
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covered up at the top of the arm. I'm sure that's gonna be the
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bulk of the conversation. I thanks to Ryan, Well to folks from the
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Dirty Birds Home open for the Dirty Birds to night six thirty five over to
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the ballpark, go check that out. And thanks to Ken Reid's Secretary of
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State candidate as well. Coming up on the show, Brad mcahanny will stop
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