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Speaker 4: Dave Allen, the Good Wednesday Morning to you, Welcome to
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Speaker 4: the show that Amanda Barrett and I did yesterday. Just
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Speaker 4: doing a few practice runs here and there. S schedule
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Speaker 4: allows before we debut Metro News Midday on this and
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Speaker 4: other Metro News radio stations coming up on Monday. Do
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Speaker 4: hope you'll check it out. It is day two of
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Speaker 4: the boys high school basketball Tournament the College Seem the
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Speaker 4: Normally that's the way we roll throughout the tournament, however,
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Speaker 4: we have the daytime games on ESPN and then the
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Speaker 4: evening sessions on the WCCHS network. However, today we're gonna
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Speaker 4: make a bit of a switch up, as we will
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Speaker 4: have coverage of Nitro and Ripley later this morning around
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Speaker 4: eleven o'clock or so here on on WCCHS. So we'll
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Speaker 4: be breaking away from talk line as best I understand
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Speaker 4: the programming aspect of it, to go to that Nitri
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Speaker 4: riple a Nitro Ripley game, and that game has been
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Speaker 4: that'll be around eleven o'clock or so this morning and
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Speaker 4: a reminder that all four championship games can be seen
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Speaker 4: on Saturday on Metro News Television. Download that app if
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Speaker 4: you have not done so already. Coming up a little
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Speaker 4: bit later on the show, I want to talk about
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Speaker 4: a little thing called read a Palooza. It's an annual
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Speaker 4: fundraiser from the Read Aloud West Virginia folks. It's happening Thursday,
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Speaker 4: April third at the University of Charleston. Don Miller from
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Speaker 4: the Group of Joint Us to talk about that. Plus
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Speaker 4: we got news out of Morgantown. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 4: for the second consecutive day that seems to be dominated
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Speaker 4: on everyone's social media as coach Darren Derees announced late
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Speaker 4: afternoon yesterday that what had been rumored, He's going to
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Speaker 4: be heading to Indiana to be the head basketball coach
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Speaker 4: of there. This all comes following the controversy from the
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Speaker 4: press conference in WQ being left out of the tournament.
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Speaker 4: We'll talk about that a little bit later on in
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Speaker 4: the show as well. Plus your calls in text to
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Speaker 4: Welcome to big Ley Pickley Wiggly Hotline three zero four
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Speaker 4: Let's bring in our good friend now nutrition experts, all
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Speaker 4: dressed out in black today can doing the Johnny Cash? Absolutely,
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Speaker 4: look I said that when you walk in, I said,
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Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, Johnny Cash in the form of Millie Snyder.
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Speaker 4: How you doing.
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Speaker 6: I'm doing great. How are you Dad?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing fine. Thank you for being you. See, it's
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Speaker 4: great to see you as well, because.
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Speaker 6: I can only see a part of you because we
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Speaker 6: have all this stuff in between.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's not like it used to be. But
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Speaker 4: maybe perhaps, yes next next time. Yes, we'll be in
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Speaker 4: the new studio, which is the building. It's the part
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Speaker 4: of the building where the old studio was, and we
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Speaker 4: will be see I'm trying to picture it in my head.
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Speaker 4: You will be sitting to my right there and there
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Speaker 4: will be cameras and so on and so. Although I
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Speaker 4: don't think the local show is going to be on camera,
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry about that. I don't think so. Thank you.
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Speaker 6: You mean I'm missing an opportunity.
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Speaker 4: Well, no, we'll have you back when a man in
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Speaker 4: I start Metro News midday. We'll take your message to
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Speaker 4: the masses.
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Speaker 6: Oh that's even better.
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Speaker 4: The across the state of way.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, my message needs to go to
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Speaker 6: the mess it does need to go. Now I have
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Speaker 6: to say I am as serious as a heart attack,
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Speaker 6: because what my whole driving forces to help people avoid
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Speaker 6: a heart attack, avoid health problems if they would change
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Speaker 6: their eating habits for something that's not just better, but
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Speaker 6: something that is proven by time, because the Mediterranean concept.
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Speaker 6: And please everybody listen up, listen. This is not a diet,
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Speaker 6: it's a way of life. You don't have to write
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Speaker 6: anything down, you don't have to weigh your food as
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Speaker 6: long as you eat Mediterranean foods that are not processed
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Speaker 6: with chemicals and the other things that go into our foods.
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Speaker 6: In fact, tomorrow in our meeting, one of the things
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Speaker 6: we're giving out is an informational is the stuff around
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Speaker 6: ultra process foods and yeah, they taste good in your mouth,
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Speaker 6: but they do damage inside your body. And that's what
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Speaker 6: we want to address by changing our eating habits and
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Speaker 6: giving up sugar. I know right now everyone's sticking their
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Speaker 6: tongue out and saying she can't be saying that. Well,
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Speaker 6: she is saying it, and sugar is not a friend.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, I like sugar like everybody else,
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Speaker 6: but it's not a friend. And I think we should
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Speaker 6: strengthen our relationships with the ones who are friends and
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Speaker 6: not the pseudo friends. And that's what we've been doing
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Speaker 6: for a long time. Because the recipe that you love
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Speaker 6: was your mother's and she got it from her mother,
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Speaker 6: and she got it from her mother. In the meantime,
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Speaker 6: the only thing that it isn't is TNT, which is
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Speaker 6: a cute word for dynamite, and it does hurt us.
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Speaker 4: But I will say this and you can. And by
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Speaker 4: the way, I've got a couple of texts for you
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Speaker 4: ready to go here. I will say this. I think
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Speaker 4: sometimes when we compare, when you talk about sugar specifically
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Speaker 4: and things of that nature, sometimes maybe it's unfair to
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Speaker 4: compare lifestyles from one hundred years ago what they are
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Speaker 4: now because those people, yeah, they did consume a lot
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Speaker 4: of sugar, but they also did something and they didn't
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Speaker 4: have the ultra process foods.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's true too. But also, and that argument has
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Speaker 6: been given to me many many times. Sure, my grandfather
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Speaker 6: worked all day long out in the garden in the house,
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Speaker 6: but the meantime he died at age fifty four because
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Speaker 6: he ate incorrectly. Although he was active and he really
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Speaker 6: put in more than a day's work, he still put
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Speaker 6: the bad foods in his body, and it did the
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Speaker 6: same thing to his body that it does to our
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Speaker 6: bodies today. That piece hasn't been changed based on just
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Speaker 6: hard work. There are many people who do hard labor.
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Speaker 6: But if they eat wrong and they throw down fast food,
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Speaker 6: and they throw down foods that are poorly put together,
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Speaker 6: it's the same endgame. And we mustn't kid ourselves simply
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Speaker 6: by saying well because they worked hard. Yes, back literally,
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Speaker 6: they didn't have some of the conveniences that would dig
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Speaker 6: up the ground, that would fix the soil for planting,
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Speaker 6: and now there are machines that actually do the planting.
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Speaker 6: And so my argument is not just to win an argument.
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Speaker 6: I don't want to just win an argument. I want
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Speaker 6: to help people change lives. That's what I want to do.
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Speaker 4: Well, Can I read this text here? Because this is
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Speaker 4: pretty cool. This is a text that we got here,
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Speaker 4: And I'm going to only read this text because I
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Speaker 4: know that all the bosses are upstairs in a meeting
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Speaker 4: right now. All I mean, the big guys in the president.
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Speaker 4: I need to get nerds, the president of the company,
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Speaker 4: mister Pellettier's in the building today and he's there with
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Speaker 4: all of the sales weasels upstairs right now, so I
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Speaker 4: know they're not listening. So I can read this text.
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Speaker 4: It says Millie's message needs to go to the masses
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Speaker 4: before the food we eat goes to our asses.
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Speaker 6: Wow, thank you whoever you are.
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Speaker 4: See. I can say that because they're upstairs. I got
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Speaker 4: that they're not listening to me.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, people go on vacation and they go on
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Speaker 6: a cruis. A woman came over to me sometime ago
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Speaker 6: and she said, what am I going to do? The
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Speaker 6: ship that I'm going to be on serves food twenty
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Speaker 6: four hours a day. And I looked at her and
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Speaker 6: I said, so, what does that mean? Because it's available
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Speaker 6: twenty four hours.
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Speaker 4: Of food in your refrigerator twenty four hours a day.
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Speaker 6: Two exactly right. So that means that you have to
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Speaker 6: walk around with one of those feeding bags tied over
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Speaker 6: your face, so that you know, people miss a lick.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: I got a good friend of mine who is really
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Speaker 4: into nutrition. I mean, he works out, he has been
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Speaker 4: as long as I've known. He's actually a former boss
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Speaker 4: of mine. And you'll hear a cheap plug on the
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Speaker 4: on the Metro News coverage of the basketball games tomorrow,
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Speaker 4: Speedy Babins. He's as long as I've known Speedy, he
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Speaker 4: is loved that name. Yeah, well I think it's not
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Speaker 4: his real name. But Larry Speedy Bevans is a nutrition
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Speaker 4: expert and it has been. I went to work for
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Speaker 4: him in nineteen ninety three on heving. He was then
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Speaker 4: as well he may be listening today. So but but anyway, Uh,
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Speaker 4: he has always always preached about about buffets and things
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Speaker 4: of that nature because what happens is, and I'm as
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Speaker 4: guilty as anybody else.
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Speaker 6: I'm cheap.
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Speaker 4: And if I if I pay my whatever feed to
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Speaker 4: go to one of these giant trough restaurants, I feel
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Speaker 4: like I should get my money's worth. And I'm not
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Speaker 4: gonna go and just get one plate. And I'm like, well,
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Speaker 4: I may be full, but you know I've paid thirty
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Speaker 4: bucks for this. I'm getting my money's worth. And that's
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Speaker 4: and and that's why he always said stay away from buffets.
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Speaker 6: Thank you. I like him already. I don't know him,
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Speaker 6: but he's telling us the truth. And there are people
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Speaker 6: who have gone to buffets and before that plate is
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Speaker 6: even clean, it's re filled, and not just once, but
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Speaker 6: two and three times. And I promise you, Dave, they
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Speaker 6: never tasted the first plate, the second, or the third,
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Speaker 6: because they're just eating to get food in their body.
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Speaker 6: And I've seen it. I've seen it over the years
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Speaker 6: of my life. Yeah, they're fun, they're fun to go to,
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Speaker 6: but they're not fun what we do to ourselves because
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Speaker 6: the size that we have created. By the way, God
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Speaker 6: didn't do this. God didn't say, hmm, and he shall
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Speaker 6: grow up to be three hundred pounds. That's not the
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Speaker 6: way it worked.
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Speaker 4: I love some granola. Well you shall have some, Okay.
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Speaker 4: We was gonna say you could have brought me some today,
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Speaker 4: I could have, yeah, but you didn't.
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Speaker 6: I didn't, I know, But I got another day or two.
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Speaker 6: I hope, hope.
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Speaker 4: It is always a pleasure to have you on the show, now,
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Speaker 4: is wee? And to tomorrow is the first day of
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Speaker 4: spring officially it is, yeah, like six oh three. I
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Speaker 4: think tomorrow morning is the first day.
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Speaker 6: I'll probably be up.
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Speaker 4: I know I will be all right. So where might
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Speaker 4: we see you out at about? Because you've kind of
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Speaker 4: altered things, you know, I mean this summer in the spring,
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Speaker 4: will you be out out doing stuff?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I'm gonna. Well, you know, one of the things
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Speaker 6: I'm happiest about. I do have a not great back
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Speaker 6: and I've been using a cane. But i have a
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Speaker 6: great trainer that I go to at Nautilus and he
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Speaker 6: has helped me get stronger. So the good news is
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Speaker 6: I don't walk with a cane anymore. A little bit
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Speaker 6: of weakness here and there, but I got a couple
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Speaker 6: of friends every now and then they'll give me an
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Speaker 6: arm to lean on. But the fact that without a
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Speaker 6: cane and now I want to start looking at some
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Speaker 6: trips that I can take, and I don't want to
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Speaker 6: group down if I'm with them. But I'm still going
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Speaker 6: to be here and I'm going to take care of
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Speaker 6: my group, and I'm not going too far away.
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Speaker 4: All right, Millie Snyder, it's always a pleasure to talk
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Speaker 4: to you.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, and it's great for me to be with you. Dave,
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: go on Sunday night from you know, not making the
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Speaker 4: She joins us now in the Jared Construction Studios. Don,
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Speaker 4: good morning, Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, thank you for being here, Thanks for having
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Speaker 10: me back.
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Speaker 4: Did you when you were in camp read Millie Snyder
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Speaker 4: out in the hall, did you get some of that
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Speaker 4: Millie like rub it off on you about all the things,
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Speaker 4: and you know, because she's kind of a kind of
18:06
Speaker 4: a big old personality.
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Speaker 10: Millie is great. I've known her for years.
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Speaker 4: That's what I said, you said in the holiday and
18:11
Speaker 4: seen her a long time. What's what's your all story?
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Speaker 4: How do you know Millie? I mean, everybody knows Mille.
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Speaker 10: Decades ago.
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Speaker 11: I was a newspaper reporter and I interviewed Millie and
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Speaker 11: and yeah, everybody knows Millie.
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Speaker 4: Everybody knows me. I explained the program overall before we
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Speaker 4: get to the specific event Read Aloud West Virginia talk
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Speaker 4: about the program.
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Speaker 10: Sure, thank you.
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Speaker 11: Read Aloud West Virginia as a homegrown West Virginia organization,
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Speaker 11: as you know, and we motivate kids to read for
18:35
Speaker 11: fun because when kids read for pleasure, they can't help
18:38
Speaker 11: but get better at it. There's all kinds of interesting
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Speaker 11: science on this, including what we're increasingly learning to understand.
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Speaker 11: One of the biggest factors in reading comprehension is background knowledge.
18:52
Speaker 11: So if a child is interested in a subject, whether
18:54
Speaker 11: it's dinosaurs or cars or whatever, and they read books
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Speaker 11: on that subject, they build background knowledge. And then when
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Speaker 11: they go to school and they get these good lessons
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Speaker 11: at school, all that background knowledge comes to play and
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Speaker 11: they're reading scores just climb, climb, Climb.
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Speaker 4: Does it matter in your opinion whether kids are reading
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Speaker 4: actual hard books like we grew up on or if
19:16
Speaker 4: they're reading them in digitally, because there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: I say that because there's a lot of science that
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Speaker 4: says that you know, And we talked about cell phones
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Speaker 4: in the classroom. On the show yesterday, there's a lot
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Speaker 4: of science that says that it's a lot better for
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Speaker 4: them not to read it online. But then there's also
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Speaker 4: science that says, well, it really doesn't matter.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 11: It were you, and it might matter depending on the
19:38
Speaker 11: age for the kid or the kid, that's right. So
19:42
Speaker 11: the early indications are that print is better, and the
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Speaker 11: younger you are, the better it is. Screens are not
19:48
Speaker 11: good for us. And the earlier, the longer you can
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Speaker 11: delay exposing children to screens, the better for them.
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Speaker 4: Are you listening parents in restaurants right now that give
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Speaker 4: your kid a phone to keep them How much damage
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Speaker 4: you're doing?
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Speaker 6: Editorial? Okay, okay, so be easy. People have to get
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Speaker 6: through the day.
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Speaker 10: Got some grace here.
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Speaker 11: But we do know some really smart cognitive scientists have
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Speaker 11: been studying our brains and studying kids' brains and what
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Speaker 11: happens when we expose ourselves to screens. It actually changes
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Speaker 11: how our brains work, as opposed to how when we
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Speaker 11: expose babies and young children to print and pictures on
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Speaker 11: a page. Now, I have this conversation about twice a
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Speaker 11: week because I'll go do a presentation and middle schoolers
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Speaker 11: will ask me, and adults will ask me, and teachers
20:36
Speaker 11: will ask me, and parents will ask me. And the
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Speaker 11: technology is so new we have a limited amount information
20:45
Speaker 11: about it. The early indications are that babies, toddlers, preschoolers,
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Speaker 11: elementary kids do better with print.
20:53
Speaker 10: Adults also do better with print.
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Speaker 11: But I'm going to tell you I can carry more
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Speaker 11: electronic books in my bag than I can and paper books.
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Speaker 11: But I learned to read before all this technology, so
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Speaker 11: my skills are pretty well established. So that early indication
21:09
Speaker 11: is possibly that it's not as hard on us as
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Speaker 11: adults as it is on the little ones.
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Speaker 4: Where are we And I'll get to your event momentarily,
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Speaker 4: But this kind of stuff fascinates where are we on
21:20
Speaker 4: reading comprehension because we hear all these studies that come
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Speaker 4: out about how West Virginia is lagging behind other states,
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Speaker 4: and then we hear how the United States is lagging
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Speaker 4: behind other countries, not only on reading. Sometimes it tests
21:31
Speaker 4: to do with maths or science or things of that nature. Overall,
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Speaker 4: are we getting better?
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Speaker 10: We are getting better.
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Speaker 11: There's some good things happening, There was some there were
21:41
Speaker 11: some poor methods that became popular twenty thirty years ago
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Speaker 11: that have been shown to really not be good for kids.
21:49
Speaker 10: Some people who went to school forty fifty years ago.
21:52
Speaker 11: We'll be happy to know that the people in education
21:55
Speaker 11: have figured out that you really do have to have
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Speaker 11: intentional instruction that include dudes sounding outwards. There's a lot
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Speaker 11: more to it than that, but it but there are
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Speaker 11: across the state working on improving that, and it is
22:11
Speaker 11: it takes time. Things are not done at the same
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Speaker 11: pace everywhere. But I'm seeing improvements in the schools we're in,
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Speaker 11: the people we interact with. I am seeing a lot
22:21
Speaker 11: of good changes. So West Virginia actually bounced back from
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Speaker 11: the when the schools were closed during COVID and then
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Speaker 11: all the test scores tanked, which was to be expected
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Speaker 11: if they if they didn't go down, it would be
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Speaker 11: an indication that they weren't getting anything at school right.
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Speaker 11: So but the West Virginia bounced back from that, and
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Speaker 11: I think West Virginia is now poised to see reading
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Speaker 11: scores steadily climb as these improved methods become regular become
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Speaker 11: widely established at schools around the state.
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Speaker 4: It is interesting to hear you say that when you
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Speaker 4: said those of us that are not you, but I'm
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Speaker 4: older than you. But but but but those of us
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Speaker 4: that went to school in forty fifty years ago, and
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Speaker 4: I think, hey, wait, that's me. That's me. That's right,
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Speaker 4: that that they're they're starting to see that maybe the
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Speaker 4: quote unquote old ways weren't so bad after all, and
23:16
Speaker 4: that in that true of society in general. Sometimes sometimes
23:19
Speaker 4: we look back, we say, really, it wasn't as bad
23:22
Speaker 4: as what we what we thought it was. Let's talk
23:23
Speaker 4: about this event April thirty.
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Speaker 10: You see, thank you. Yes, this is Rita Palooza.
23:28
Speaker 11: This is our big fundraiser, friend raiser. It is a
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Speaker 11: nice afterwork party. Tickets are forty five dollars. We have
23:35
Speaker 11: some amazing sponsors who allow us. That makes it possible
23:38
Speaker 11: for us to put this on, so that so that
23:40
Speaker 11: the money raised we have a little wine pule. The
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Speaker 11: sponsors make this possible. At the top of the list
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Speaker 11: is in Cova, followed by Moses Auto Group, United Bank,
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Speaker 11: the Elliott Foundation.
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Speaker 10: These sponsors really understand, as.
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Speaker 11: All Read Aloud supporters do, that reading well is education,
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Speaker 11: for sure, but it's also healthcare, and it's also economic development.
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Speaker 10: And the theme this year gets to that.
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Speaker 11: It's the theme this year is a ticket to anywhere,
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Speaker 11: because reading literally can take you anywhere while you're reading.
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Speaker 10: And then also in life you.
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Speaker 4: Mentioned your sponsors there and in COVID Moses and some
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Speaker 4: of the other ones in there, are there still opportunities available.
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Speaker 10: The sponsors at this point there are there are.
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Speaker 4: Selet to us.
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Speaker 11: Our sponsors make it possible for us to have a
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Speaker 11: thousand some volunteers out around the state and manage that.
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Speaker 11: They make it possible for us to give away thirty
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Speaker 11: thousand books to children last year.
24:39
Speaker 10: And we are a lean little organization.
24:45
Speaker 11: We have four staffers and about a thousand volunteers, and
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Speaker 11: we save paper and we save I mean, we try
24:53
Speaker 11: and put as much of our resources as we can
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Speaker 11: into books for kids and getting readers and run of
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Speaker 11: kids and move pushing the mission to motivate kids to
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Speaker 11: read for fun.
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Speaker 4: And as far as you know, the needing of sponsors
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Speaker 4: and you mentioned that the big ones, but individual sponsors
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Speaker 4: are always welcome. Community organizations, your rotary Kawanas, anybody like
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Speaker 4: that could probably get involved in.
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Speaker 3: This as well.
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Speaker 10: That's right.
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Speaker 11: And if somebody wants to just get involved and see
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Speaker 11: how it goes, get to know us more, they can
25:23
Speaker 11: find us at our website read aloud wv dot org.
25:25
Speaker 11: You can buy tickets there, you can volunteer to be
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Speaker 11: a reader, you can get more information. The party should
25:33
Speaker 11: be nice. It's a couple hours after work, so it's
25:36
Speaker 11: low stress. You don't have to change clothes. You just
25:39
Speaker 11: you don't have to dress up. You just come and
25:42
Speaker 11: enjoy some fellowship with some friends. There's a wine pool
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Speaker 11: that's gotten very popular the last few years.
25:48
Speaker 4: Explain a wine pool to me.
25:50
Speaker 11: So we get volunteers, we get donors who give us
25:52
Speaker 11: bottles of wine, and each one is worth at least
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Speaker 11: twenty dollars, but many of them are.
25:56
Speaker 10: Worth thirty or forty or fifty dollars.
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Speaker 11: And then at the event, you buy a wine pool
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Speaker 11: ticket and you get a random bottle of wine. So
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Speaker 11: you're at the very least you're gonna get your twenty
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Speaker 11: dollars worth back, but you might get one of the
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Speaker 11: more expensive bottles of wine, which is always fun and
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Speaker 11: creates a nice little pardon.
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Speaker 10: The pun creates a nice little buzz there.
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Speaker 4: You said that, not me.
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Speaker 10: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 4: It's all good. It's all good. And by the way,
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Speaker 4: I will say this, if you've never had a chance
26:23
Speaker 4: to visit the Irma Bird Center there with this is
26:28
Speaker 4: being held. That's a beautiful venue.
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Speaker 10: I think it's the most beautiful room in town.
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Speaker 4: It is. It's very very I went there for the
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Speaker 4: first for an event a couple of years ago. I'd
26:35
Speaker 4: never never been there either, and I went. I was like, man,
26:38
Speaker 4: I didn't know about this. I mean, University Charleston's got
26:41
Speaker 4: a nice little gem there. They do Jim being ge
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Speaker 4: by the way right.
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Speaker 11: And all the art in that room is by women artists.
26:49
Speaker 11: And then the light that comes in the windows.
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Speaker 10: It's just so beautiful.
26:52
Speaker 11: It's the room where the old library was on campus
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Speaker 11: before they built the new one.
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Speaker 4: Well, Donna, it's always pleasure I have on the show.
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Speaker 4: is Thursday, April third, starts at five thirty will last
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Speaker 4: till seven thirty or so. Give us the contact information.
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Speaker 4: Where can people get tickets? Is there a deadline to
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Speaker 4: get tickets? Give me, give me all the stuff.
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Speaker 10: Okay, Sure.
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Speaker 11: Website is read aloud wv dot org and you can
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Speaker 11: buy tickets online there There is no deadline to buy tickets.
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Speaker 11: You can buy tickets out the door on April third
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Speaker 10: And if all else fails, just give us a call.
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Speaker 4: All right. Don always a pleasure to have you on
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Speaker 4: the show, and I could have you on the when
27:55
Speaker 4: sometime when we're not talking about a specific event. I'm
27:57
Speaker 4: always great glad to promote the event every year, but
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Speaker 4: to have you on just to talk about this whole
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Speaker 4: because I guess that I'm kind of a geek when
28:03
Speaker 4: it comes kind of a geek in general, but when
28:05
Speaker 4: it comes to this kind of stuff about sociology and
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Speaker 4: how you know, and kids learning and various things, and
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Speaker 4: that stuff really interests me.
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Speaker 10: Me too, Me too, I love those things too, Dave.
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Speaker 10: I would love to chat.
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Speaker 4: All right, anytime. All right, appreciate you being here. Give
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Speaker 4: us the website again, For more information.
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Speaker 10: Read aloud WV dot org.
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Speaker 4: All right, thank you, Don Meller. I appreciate you being here.
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Speaker 4: what's going on there. I saw their lineup today, by
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Speaker 4: Governor's on the show today and others, so I'll let
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Speaker 4: some texts here. Text says, well, looks like gas bag
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Speaker 4: I don't think that's gonna happen. Uh, Texas, Dave, could
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Speaker 4: you tell us which delegates voted to remove religious and
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Speaker 4: from the House. I'm sorry the Health and Human Resource Committee. Yesterday.
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Speaker 4: I did a little checking because this text actually came
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Speaker 4: in before the show, and I actually did a little
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Speaker 4: checking on that, and I did not have the information
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Speaker 4: in front of me, but I sent it out to
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Speaker 4: a couple of people, So we'll see if this helps.
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Speaker 4: Brad mcilhanney, friend of the program who's at the Capitol day,
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Speaker 4: talked to Brad and he said that there was Mike
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Speaker 4: Pushkin that tweeted the final committee vote in the bill,
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Speaker 4: and Brad retweeted it, but the amendment, says Brad, was
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Speaker 4: what really made that change, and there was a separate
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Speaker 4: this is Brad, that maybe Pushkin has a role call
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Speaker 4: on the amendment, but I do not. Also, another friend
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Speaker 4: call was not demanded. And this person goes on to say,
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Speaker 4: exemptions back into the bill will be fierce, says a texture.
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Speaker 4: So I hope that helped out a little bit, but
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Speaker 4: to a bottom line from what I understand. And then
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Speaker 4: Brad and the other person, my inside sources, who shall
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Speaker 4: remain animalless who I text said that that did not
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Speaker 4: Well you know, I uh, I will say yeah, I
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36:13
Speaker 4: would be me and my wife. And so we walked
36:17
Speaker 4: in it, took one step and walked right back out
36:19
Speaker 4: the door. Because I got girly lungs these days, man,
36:22
Speaker 4: I can't handle it. I cannot handle cigarette smoke at all.
36:26
Speaker 4: Little side note there in case you were wondering, if
36:27
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36:30
Speaker 4: And what's interesting about that was when I got into radio,
36:34
Speaker 4: I was the only person in the entire building in
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Speaker 4: nineteen eighty eight, at seventeen years old, at the radio station,
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Speaker 4: where I started, I was the only person that did
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Speaker 4: not smoke, right down to the janitors, to the secretary
36:47
Speaker 4: of the salespeople, all the everybody smoked. And it didn't
36:50
Speaker 4: seem to bother me then, But gosh, I cannot stand
36:53
Speaker 4: it now. So Engine, in case you were wondering, Texas Boy,
36:56
Speaker 4: the governor and the Attorney General looked bad after North
36:59
Speaker 4: Carolina one the game going away. We all know that
37:02
Speaker 4: WVU was in that game. They would have blown it
37:05
Speaker 4: and lost, says at Texas text says, why are they
37:09
Speaker 4: sniffing the seats? Okay, Texas day, We've got a solution
37:17
Speaker 4: to allow kids to work at thirteen to fourteen. Let's
37:19
Speaker 4: just be like the Amish. Let them drop out of
37:22
Speaker 4: school in the fourth grade and go to work. Because
37:25
Speaker 4: the legislature has destroyed public education and they're taking books
37:28
Speaker 4: out of libraries. They don't have internet on phones and computers.
37:31
Speaker 4: They read what they want, says a Texter. So the
37:38
Speaker 4: big story again seems to revolve around sports. Yesterday it
37:43
Speaker 4: was the comments made by Governor Morrissey and Attorney General
37:49
Speaker 4: McCuskey about WV being left out of the NCAA tournament. Now,
37:53
Speaker 4: those comments, of course were made on Monday, but you
37:56
Speaker 4: know we talked about them. The train actually had McCuskey on
37:59
Speaker 4: the show, yes, and he was also on talk Line,
38:01
Speaker 4: and Governor Morrissey will be on with the talk Line
38:04
Speaker 4: today as well. And now comes word not really that
38:09
Speaker 4: shocking that after one year, Darren Devrees is bolting Morgantown
38:14
Speaker 4: for Indiana, Greg Carey and end depth story posted about
38:18
Speaker 4: this morning wv metronews dot com. This is the third
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Speaker 4: time in twenty one months that WVU will be on
38:26
Speaker 4: the hunt for a new men's basketball coach. Now interesting
38:32
Speaker 4: were the comments that WVU Athletic Director Rind Baker made, who,
38:36
Speaker 4: in this statement said, and I've shortened it a little
38:38
Speaker 4: bit for airtime, but in this statement said quote, I
38:41
Speaker 4: made it clear to him, meaning the coach, that WVU
38:44
Speaker 4: is committed to invest in him and to provide him
38:47
Speaker 4: the resources needed to compete in the Big twelve and nationally. Ultimately, though,
38:53
Speaker 4: he decided to move on, and I want to thank
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Speaker 4: him for that, says the texture. Now did he mean
38:58
Speaker 4: I want to thank him for more be on or
39:00
Speaker 4: to thank him for his time? I think he probably
39:02
Speaker 4: met his time spent there at WU. And when I
39:06
Speaker 4: read into ren Baker's statement there, I mean to me,
39:08
Speaker 4: it says, look, we were willing to give you what
39:12
Speaker 4: you felt you needed, but you left anyway. That's the
39:20
Speaker 4: way I read it. And that's one of the things
39:21
Speaker 4: when coaches leave, whether it's West Virginia or Marshall or
39:25
Speaker 4: any other program, that they say as well, you know,
39:28
Speaker 4: or when they're wane whether they want to go to
39:30
Speaker 4: a particular school, one of the things they always look
39:33
Speaker 4: at is the facilities. You know, what kind of facilities
39:36
Speaker 4: are you going to give me? I need an indoor
39:37
Speaker 4: practice facility, I need all these other things. And the
39:41
Speaker 4: way I read it from Ren Baker was is like, hey,
39:43
Speaker 4: we were willing to give you what you want, but
39:45
Speaker 4: you left anyway. That was my read. The Mountaineers went
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Speaker 4: nineteen and thirteen and they had ten wins into Big
39:52
Speaker 4: twelve and a couple, if you'll recall, a couple of
39:56
Speaker 4: big time non conference wins over Gonzaga and Arizona, and
40:00
Speaker 4: then after being left out of the Big Dance, they
40:03
Speaker 4: declined to take part in any other postseason tournaments. The
40:09
Speaker 4: Indiana job was once one of the most coveted positions
40:15
Speaker 4: and programs in the country. I mean, you think about
40:19
Speaker 4: it's Indiana. You know Bobby Knight and all that went
40:21
Speaker 4: along with it. That's been a long time since then.
40:24
Speaker 4: As Greg Carrey's story points out at the website, the
40:26
Speaker 4: Hoosiers have made the NCAA tournament only twice since twenty
40:30
Speaker 4: seventeen and have had four Sweet sixteen appearances four since
40:35
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety four. And now to the money, Devrees had
40:41
Speaker 4: a five year deal with a salary of two point
40:44
Speaker 4: eight million dollars this season. Had he stayed, his salary
40:50
Speaker 4: would have gone up one hundred grand over the next
40:54
Speaker 4: four years. Now now that he's gone off to one
40:57
Speaker 4: big John Mellencamp video in India, Yanha, he will owe
41:02
Speaker 4: back thirty seven and a half percent of his remaining contract.
41:07
Speaker 4: So at least the Golden Blue is he is going
41:11
Speaker 4: to get something back. So I guess the question is
41:16
Speaker 4: what's next. It's been a rough couple of years for
41:19
Speaker 4: Mountaineer basketball. You know them think about it. Some have
41:23
Speaker 4: said they want John Beeline back and others, and you
41:29
Speaker 4: knew this was coming. The cries are going out to
41:34
Speaker 4: bring coach Huggins back. I don't know about that myself.
41:41
Speaker 4: I mean, I will say this. From all accounts, Huggs
41:44
Speaker 4: has done a good job of getting his head on
41:46
Speaker 4: right and he seems to be doing well. I actually
41:50
Speaker 4: ran into him at an event last year in Morgantown,
41:54
Speaker 4: and this was after he all the incident in Pittsburgh
41:57
Speaker 4: and the whole deal, and he had resigned or left
42:00
Speaker 4: the program, you know whatever. And he looked like the
42:03
Speaker 4: old Bob Huggins to me. And when I say the
42:05
Speaker 4: old Bob Huggins, I don't mean that in an derogatory way.
42:08
Speaker 4: He didn't have a drink in his hand. He was
42:10
Speaker 4: drinking a night coke. I think what I saw him
42:11
Speaker 4: at this particular function I was at, and he was,
42:14
Speaker 4: you know, jovial and kind of laughing with the crowd
42:17
Speaker 4: and so on and so forth. And so there's a
42:20
Speaker 4: lot of people that want Hugs back, make no mistake
42:22
Speaker 4: about it. I just don't know that that would be
42:27
Speaker 4: the right move in my opinion. And I was thinking
42:33
Speaker 4: about this earlier this morning. From the time that I
42:36
Speaker 4: was a kid, through my teenage years, college years into adulthood,
42:42
Speaker 4: when you talked by WVU, you automatically thought Gail Catlet
42:49
Speaker 4: and don Neelan, they and it seemed like they were
42:52
Speaker 4: there forever, you know. Like I said, I was a
42:54
Speaker 4: kid when they were both hired, and they took me
42:57
Speaker 4: through my teenage high school years. When I started working
43:00
Speaker 4: in radio and running West Virginia University ball games, it
43:05
Speaker 4: was Kneelan and it was Catlan, you know, and it
43:07
Speaker 4: seemed like they were there a long time. But I
43:09
Speaker 4: think the days of having coaches that stick around for
43:13
Speaker 4: several years maybe long gone. I'm hopeful though that with
43:20
Speaker 4: rich Rod back in Morgantown, and I didn't know whether
43:22
Speaker 4: that was the right and I still don't know. Nobody
43:23
Speaker 4: knows whether it was the right call or not. I
43:25
Speaker 4: was initially for it, but now that he's back in Morgantown,
43:30
Speaker 4: and for that matter, let me bringing the alma mater here, Marshall.
43:34
Speaker 4: Now that you've got Tony Gibson and Marshall, and I'll
43:37
Speaker 4: throw Marshall basketball coach Corney Jackson in there as well.
43:40
Speaker 4: At least now you have coaches in place that I
43:43
Speaker 4: think get the culture of their respective schools. And with
43:46
Speaker 4: Tony Gibson at Marshall, you get someone who is a
43:49
Speaker 4: West Virginia, West Virginia being from Boone County about an
43:52
Speaker 4: hour hour or so away from Huntington and Corney Jackson
43:56
Speaker 4: of o'kill and of course rich Rod and you know,
44:01
Speaker 4: you get people I think that get the culture of
44:04
Speaker 4: these schools, which I think is important. It's so hard.
44:07
Speaker 4: I mean, put yourself in their position. If you were
44:10
Speaker 4: a coach and you suddenly had to go coach in Mississippi,
44:13
Speaker 4: are you going to get it? Or a utah? You
44:15
Speaker 4: know something, especially in smaller areas. West Virginia is a
44:18
Speaker 4: rural area, you get that kind of thing, you know,
44:21
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know. Wilson and Meadows will
44:24
Speaker 4: cover this more on talk Line, and I am told
44:26
Speaker 4: an emergency edition of Three Guys was taped last night,
44:30
Speaker 4: so see what happens there. Tex says Rinn Baker was
44:33
Speaker 4: clearly disappointed in Darren DeVries as as we're almost all
44:37
Speaker 4: basketball people in West Virginia. I don't wish him ill,
44:40
Speaker 4: but I certainly do not respect him in any way,
44:43
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44:46
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44:51
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44:57
Speaker 4: you think the EXWVU coach didn't want to go to
44:59
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45:03
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45:05
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45:07
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45:10
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45:13
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Speaker 4: to the text that said that the civic center smelled bad?
48:16
Speaker 4: Why are people sniffing the seats? Says a texture. Okay,
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Speaker 4: all right, Texas, please bring back hugs to WVU. He
48:25
Speaker 4: and rich Rod will be an unbeatable combo in debauchery
48:28
Speaker 4: and m more immortality, immorality, I should say immortality. Let
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Speaker 4: me see man. I got a lot of texts on
48:35
Speaker 4: this text says we've tried the best. Now let's bring
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Speaker 4: back one of the all time breasts. Did I say breast?
48:42
Speaker 4: All time best? Best in Coach Huggins as a Texter,
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Speaker 4: tex says Huggins is one of the most approachable, outgoing
48:50
Speaker 4: big names I have ever met. And Neil Brown two
48:53
Speaker 4: both extremely kind and appreciative of the fans.
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Speaker 3: Texas.
48:56
Speaker 4: There's no loyalty as well. There shouldn't be other than
48:59
Speaker 4: Bobby through it turning down Houston for a lot of money.
49:02
Speaker 4: Find me a coach anywhere in the country that has
49:03
Speaker 4: turned down a job for more money to say I'm
49:06
Speaker 4: going to stay here with my family. It doesn't happen
49:08
Speaker 4: because the jobs are short term. My dad coached college
49:10
Speaker 4: football for thirty four years. We moved seven times before
49:13
Speaker 4: I was in college because you had to take the
49:15
Speaker 4: better pay everywhere you went. Because the jobs are short term,
49:18
Speaker 4: there are no Joe Paternos forty four years, says a text.
49:22
Speaker 4: I wonder who that text is. I'd like to know
49:24
Speaker 4: who that texture is. Texas, great to see Wester Virginia legend.
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Speaker 4: A Homer Hicim on Fox News last night during the
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Speaker 4: coverage of the Astronauts returned to Earth A great day
49:33
Speaker 4: to be an American? Has Homer hevery been on your show?
49:36
Speaker 4: Yes he has. We share the same semi agent, so yes,
49:39
Speaker 4: he has been on the show. Tex says Huggins can't recruit.
49:42
Speaker 4: Did nothing at WVU after B line players left, could
49:45
Speaker 4: never get four and five star recruits. Hall of Fame coach.
49:47
Speaker 4: Should be getting better players, it says a texture Texas, Dave.
49:52
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Speaker 4: but we can't maintain our existing bridges, says a Texter.
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Speaker 6: What's up?
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Speaker 8: Dave Allen?
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Speaker 4: Right, you know it's it's turned into sports line today
50:38
Speaker 4: because that's what most people wanted to talk about, was
50:40
Speaker 4: the WVU basketball carousel.
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Speaker 3: Has it not been a wild forty eight.
50:46
Speaker 4: Or seventy two hours or so in the world of
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Speaker 4: college basketball in West Virginia.
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Speaker 8: That would be putting it.
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Speaker 4: Mildly indeed, indeed, indeed, and.
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Speaker 17: We will continue that conversation. Brad Hell's gonna drop five.
50:59
Speaker 17: We'll get great Big Hunter on later. We'll get your
51:02
Speaker 17: reactions as well to the news of Darren Freeze is
51:05
Speaker 17: headed to Indiana. Probably the only story that got upstage
51:08
Speaker 17: the fact that we have the governor and Senator shelleymore
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Speaker 17: Capito also joining us on the show today. So lots
51:14
Speaker 17: to get to over the next couple of hours.
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Speaker 7: Day.
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Speaker 4: What is the Senator what's on her mind today? Let's
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Speaker 4: Senator a Capitol Well, you.
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Speaker 17: Know, we we might be sending in, you know, the
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Speaker 17: National Guard to Indiana to reclaim the basketball program. You know,
51:27
Speaker 17: we might go that direction and see what she thinks
51:29
Speaker 17: about that.
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Speaker 8: So I kid, of course, of course.
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Speaker 4: So what happened up there yesterday of significance?
51:39
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's not it.
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Speaker 3: That's well, that's the vaccination you go ahead.
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Speaker 17: A watered down version of the vaccination exemption bill did
51:48
Speaker 17: get through House Health Committee yesterday. We'll spend some time
51:53
Speaker 17: on that later this week, but I don't see, well,
51:56
Speaker 17: we'll see what happens when it gets to the House
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Speaker 17: floor and if it gets any consideration over on the
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Speaker 2: So that's going on.
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Speaker 4: Otherwise, you know, yeah, I know, you know, all right.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate you man, Thanks a lot. Appreciate you too, Dave.
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Speaker 8: Sorry about last night by the way.
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Speaker 4: All right, I don't know what happened last night.
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Speaker 8: So Wyoming East, Oh.
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