02/23/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Taylor Gue, JB McCuskey, Danny Jones

Marketing Director of Clay Center Taylor Gue, Attorney General JB McCuskey, and former Charleston Mayor Danny Jones.

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What we've got here is failure the Newcay.

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I have come here to chew bubble gum and check
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Speaker 4 (00:40):
Dave Allen, Well, a good Monday morning to you. Welcome
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I am going to continue to say it until it
is that. So, actually you got more snowsqualls on the way.
That laughter you hear is from meteorologist Brian Hughes is
going to join this moment momentarily also a little bit,
just a little bit. We're going to talk to our
good friend Taylor Ugh, who is the communications director for
the Clay Center in Charleston. We have a I don't
know whether she's allowed to say it yet or not,
but we have a concert announcement coming, so I want

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to get her in any kind of trouble. Don't know
whether she can say it now or not, but if
she can't, she'll tell you when you can say it.
How's that? And we'll talk about some of the other
things going at the Clay Center. Danny Jones is here
and Attorney General JB. Mccusky will join us on this
show as well. Plus lots of talk around the state,
not just about the weather, but also about this sixty
minutes piece that aired about McDowell County last night. I'm

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going to get into that with Danny coming up a
little bit later on. Plus we're definitely going to get
into it later today on Metro News Midday. All that,
plus your calls and text are always welcome. Big Lea
Pig League Wiggly Hotline three zero four three four five
fifty eight fifty eight, Tony the Taylor Text three zero
four nine three five five zero zero. Let's wellcome in
now the afore mentioned meteorronders Brian Hughes, how you know,
my friend, Well, just watching the radar.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, can't see how how things are shaping up right now,
and we've got more snow in the way. We're not
done yet, but it's not going to be two obtrusive
as we go through the rest of the day unless
we get a couple of snow squalls.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
And the snow squalls were kind of the big thing because,
like I was saying somebody earlier, my drive in on
the Interstate may have been hear me out on. This
may have been the worst morning so far as far
as interstate driving, right because there's not a lot to plow.
But I guess we had just gotten under one of
those snow squalls and it was pretty slick, you know,
about about seven clock or so, six forty five seven

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o'clock er so this morning. But then I looked out,
just walked out just now and like the street, Virginia
Street in front of the station is completely clear now
it was not when I came in this morning, correct, Yeah,
But that's what we're you know.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
The good thing is we warmed up so much, you know,
on the last in that previous week and such that
the road temperature has actually helped keep everything in check.
But what we're dealing with, you know, today is going
to be for the rest of the day, is going
to be the snow squalls that we deal with in
the lower elevations jumping the mountains. I mean, they're going gangbusters.
They've got eight nine ten inches of snow up across

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parts to Nicholas County, and you get this snowshoe and
the like, and they're looking at foot and then they'll
end up somewhere around fourteen inches or so.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Back up there.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
But for us down here in the valley, we are
definitely looking at those stone squalls this afternoon. That could again,
like you said, get on the interstate, you get one
of those pass by and you've got you know, nice
little white coating in some spots, and that'll make some
for some very slick spots. But the winds are going
to be out of the northwest to day, you know,
fifteen twenty five miles per hour on some of the cuffs.
And then tonight we're down into the low twenties, some

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upper teens, and subspons wind chills will be in the
mid teens as we head of the nighttime hours. Still
a few light flurries overnight. I'm concerned about the flash
freeze tonight because anything that is wet this afternoon late
afternoon will become frozen. So bridges and overpasses will be
a problem.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
When there's little snow going to wrap up, I mean
the possibility of the snow squalls. When do you think
on average that will wrap up here in the Canalvvalley.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
In the Canal Valley, the hr r r R our
high resolution rapid refresh model that one is incredibly accurate.
Has been spawn on with a bunch of things of late,
and also the Namtory kilometer. Those are North America model.
Those are two high resolution models, and what they look
is convection posentially storms going by or snow squalls, and
those show that all the way up to eight nine,

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ten o'clock tonight.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
We could still have those.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
By about one or two o'clock in the morning, most
of the most of the snow squalls and flurries should
be wrapping up. But again I'm concerned about the free
You know, black ice tomorrow morning is going to be
a problem.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
In a number of spots.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
And you called it about the school delays because I
know Knall applied them ended up closing today. I think
the majority of counties in the state, just almost all,
not all, but there were some, I mean just did
some sort of a delay or closure.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, we had forty one counties closed today or non
non traditional learning learning day. And then some of the
Eastern Panhandle which just stayed on delays, and then northern
panandle they most of those didn't close, and the majority
of them didn't. But I am surprised about the closures today,
especially as you get outside of the outside of the

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Canal valley back to the west, where they've only had
an inch to maybe in a spot, or to an
inch and a half. They may be out of an
abundance of caution for this afternoon with snow squalls coming
in and such.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So I was surprised.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
We've still got a ways to go, is what you're saying,
and another may maybe twelve hours.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, and the snow squalls are going to still they're
going to be limited. But here's the difference between the
snow squalls that we've had all this year and today
is today, the moisture is coming off of Lake Erie
and Lake Huron. So because we have almost a due
north wind because of the because of the the northeaster
and the blizzard that's happening across the East coast, we're

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getting a due north wind in here, so that's coming up.
So the moisture is coming off of Erie and hur
On today.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
All right, Brian Hughes, I appreciate it. I do one note, Yeah,
one note.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
A Thursday, when we get rain in here across the state,
we're going to see three quarters and inch to inch.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
That's gonna be a problem.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
With the rivers as we go into the weekend.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
All right, you have been warned, yes, and you have
been warned that winter is over. It is over.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
This is it.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
This is the second coming of winter.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
We'll have another false spring because we're gonna be it's
We're gonna be like sixty three on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Saturday. Looks great.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Oh, looks awesome.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
A great day for the beach party. Yeah, we're going
to be out over at the end. Sweets for Marsha University.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Marshall's thundering heard, let's go hurd All right, I.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Ain't get out of my studio for me REALI is
Brian Hughes appreciate it very much. Dave Island Show on
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Community Technical College. Your career starts here. Let's welcome in
now our good friend Taylor g You, the director of
communication for the Clay Center. Good morning, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (07:15):
How are you guys doing.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
I'm doing fine. Thank you for you know, hanging on
the line with this there because we had to get
a little weather in there and because of the weather.
You're at home and you're not in studio with us
this morning, like we had thought.

Speaker 8 (07:27):
Right, I think this is the second time this has happened.
But you know what, we roll with the punches.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
That's exactly right. So another another snow day here in
the Kanaw Valley. Anything in particular going on over the
Clay Center today.

Speaker 7 (07:41):
Much today is a Monday, which means that the Clay Center.

Speaker 9 (07:43):
Is closed, okay, yea.

Speaker 8 (07:45):
Our boss office is open.

Speaker 7 (07:46):
So always there to our staff is always there to
help individuals get the tickets they need for upcoming shows.
All the wonderful activities.

Speaker 8 (07:55):
Going on to Clay Center, all right.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
And speaking of which, and I don't know how much
you're allowed to say about this, if any thing at all,
but you teased a couple of weeks ago, you said
that there was going to be a concert announcement about
an upcoming show at the Clay Center. If you can't
tell us right now, I completely understand, because I know
some of our stations have said that it may be
like ten o'clock or so this morning, but we do
have a concert announcement coming up, like it at ten
o'clock or so this.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
Morning, right, Yeah, yeah, anyone who's on our email list
to follow us on social, they'll get the update at ten.
But I feel like we you know, it's now day.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
Everyone deserves a little.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
Something special, So I think we can. I think we
could tell everyone give them a little up.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
That's totally up to you. That's totally up because I
know how these things can go and I don't want
to get anybody in trouble. So you can wait till ten,
or you could, it's totally up to you.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
I think I think we're good to go on this one.
For those of you who know the amazing multi Grammy
Award winning band and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
inductee Chicago, they are going to be making their way
to Charleston this summer.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
All right, do we have a date yet?

Speaker 10 (09:01):
We do?

Speaker 8 (09:02):
We do.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
We are bringing them in on a very special day,
West Virginia Day. That's June twentieth, seven point thirty. We
are going to be celebrating the absolutely wonderful miss of
West Virginia with.

Speaker 8 (09:17):
A spectacular band that we're extremely.

Speaker 7 (09:22):
Excited to be happening.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
And this is a band that has been around for
a long time. I mean their first hits came of
the late nineteen sixties, and then they had a resurgence
in the early eighties with a little bit of a
different sound. It wasn't as much on the horns and
stuff as what it was a little bit more what
we call in the radio business adult contemporary sound, a
little bit softer sound, songs like You're the Inspiration and

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Stay the Night and Look Away later in the eighties
and songs like that. And then as they've gone back
out they've kind of kind of got that horn sound
going again with songs like twenty five or sixty four
and does anybody know what time it is? So you know,
they're a multifaceted band. Taylor, to say the least, they
really really are.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
And one of the things under that they really pride themselves.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
On is that they have toured every single year for
over fifty years.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
They have never missed a year of touring. So it's
something that I know that they really pride themselves on.
And they've thought, you know, multiple members of the original
band who are still out touring, which you know, for
a group that's been touring that long, that and amongst itself,
is a fantastic feed.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Indeed, it is all right and so listen to all
of our stations coming up with ten because we'll be
giving you specific information on these things. And as you said,
if you're on the Clay Center's email list, you'll be
getting information. It will be on your social media, so
a lot more information will come at ten o'clock this morning,
we invite you to listen to all of our stations
from you know, from from Superstar Country to be one
hundred to the Mountain. We're all going to have information,

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maybe some ticket giveaways going on some of the stations too,
So we appreciate you letting us know that. What else
is you got coming up soon at the clay Center, Taylor,
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, we are rearing up for our busy season.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
You know.

Speaker 7 (11:00):
One of the big things that I think a lot
of people are interested in. We just announced it last week,
but we are bringing back jazz and Jumbali to the
play Center, which is a really wonderful event. We've partnered
with the African American Philanthropian Action, our local organization, Friends
of play Center. They are working together to bring this

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really fantastic event. We're going to have Bob Tom from
They're performing. We're bringing in an all female brass band
from New York City that did a lot of training
and focus on brass work in New Orleans. We're going
to have fantastic food catered by ten.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
Ten, So it's going to be a beautiful evening out.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
In our sculpture guarding is really going to be something
special for those who are able to make their.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Way off of that.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
All right, And eventually we are going to be able
to make our way out of things, and life's good.
Brian Hughes tells me life is eventually going to returned
to normal.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
Right, I'm really hoping.

Speaker 7 (11:56):
I'm sticking with you.

Speaker 8 (11:57):
The it is sunny and.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
We're I'm outside, I'm speaking into That's what I've.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Been saying all the time. Ryan, our producer, blame me
for this because I've been saying for a week and
a half it was sunny in seventy five. So then
he gave me some lecture about something about a monkey's paul.
I don't know what that meant, but he sent me
some information about it, so I'm gonna have to read
up on that later. All right, Taylor, it's always a
pleasure to have you on show us have you on
here and again a couple of weeks to update us
with things we going out the Clay Center. We appreciate
you being here.

Speaker 8 (12:21):
Thanks a lot, absolutely, you guys have a good one.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
You as well. Taylor gew again, the director of communications
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Welcome to the show now, State Attorney General JB. Mccusky.
Good morning, sir, and welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Dave.

Speaker 14 (15:32):
Your promo game is on point today. Well, thank him
some elite promo reading. That was a long one.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well, you know, I got a lot of them to read,
and so you develop a certain skill set. I don't
do well in my life, do it?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
That is just as good as it gets.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
A ABS man. Always be selling. That's the motto. ABS
always be selling. So have you had enough of a
wintertime yet?

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah? Pretty much? Okay, good kids are home from school again.

Speaker 14 (16:01):
Today feels like, actually, I don't think we've had a
five day school week, and we went back and looked
a full five days since like the middle of November.
M hmm, it's February, nearly March.

Speaker 11 (16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Well, Brian, here's here's what Brian Hughes tells me. All right,
Brian says that we are going to have uh, you know,
this weekend. You know, I was talking about the beach
party over at MBC Sweets. I mean it's going to
be in the mid sixties. Sunny sky is gonna beautiful
weekend h Saturday and Sunday, and then we'll get you know,
that's what they call fall spring, and then we get
some more. Some of the biggest snows we've had in

(16:35):
West Virginia have been in March and April, you know,
so so keep that in mind. But I am calling it,
mister mccoskey. I'm saying we're done.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
This is it.

Speaker 14 (16:43):
This is it right here, this is it, this is
I feel great about it being done. I think the
groundhog was wrong, yep, as he always is. And I
think that we're going to just cruise right in the
spring and we're going to have a hell of a year.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
D you end done? All right?

Speaker 5 (16:57):
All right, that's right, all right?

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Talking to you, Attorney General JM. Mccusky. Seriously here for
a moment. You made national news last week, Sir, when
it was announced that the State of West Virginia was
going to sue Apple over child abuse materials stored and
shared on the cloud. Talk about it.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 14 (17:15):
We sued Apple because they are an outlier in the
marketplace who is not working with law enforcement and helping
to find the people who are taking and exploiting children
with photographs and helping law enforcement prosecute them. So, just
to give all of your listeners sort of an understanding

(17:37):
of the scope of this problem. In twenty twenty four,
Google and Meta produced to law enforcement somewhere in the
neighborhood of thirty five million child sexually explicit material photographs.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Right.

Speaker 14 (17:53):
They used AI to scan the photographs that were located
in their cloud, and they help law enforcement take roughly
thirty five million of these images offline. In that same year,
Apple produced two hundred and seventy eight I think was
the number.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
That's quite a disparity, sir.

Speaker 14 (18:14):
Correct. And Apple markets itself as being and this is
not a bad thing. And like I've said before, you know,
my kids use Apple products, I use Apple products. I
actually appreciate a lot of the things they do around
screen time, et cetera for parents and kids. But they're
doing nothing on the other side, right, they are, and
they market themselves as being the most secure network. Right,

(18:35):
And so that seems like it's kind of a dog
whistle if you're somebody who is out there in this
disgustingly seedy world of child sexually explicit materials and you
either want to take these materials, or you want to
own these materials, or you want to distribute these materials.
When somebody says we are the most secure, we are
the place where you can put things that no one

(18:56):
will ever find them, right, and everyone knows that Google
and Facebook and dropbox, et cetera are all doing the
opposite of that. You know, it starts to be pretty
obvious that Apple is saying, hey, this is a great
place for you if you have illgal pictures. But to
be fair, backed up, hold on one thing.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Okay, yeah, one more key fact, go ahead, This one
was really important.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (19:17):
So one of Apple's CEOs in twenty twenty three, when
presented with the evidence that Facebook and Google had produced
his thirty five million images, he said, they suck and
I quote Apple is the premiere platform for the distribution
of child's sexual explicit material. That is an exact quote

(19:39):
from a text message that he sent to his entire
executive team.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Now can I ask, I mean, I don't do anything
to jeopardize this case, but I mean, how did you
learn this about that text message?

Speaker 14 (19:51):
It's actually funny? Oh, it isn't funny. None of this
is funny. I apologize, but there was a large class
action lawsuit in California where a thousands and thousands and
thousands of victims. These are kids who had their images
distributed or taken or et cetera on the Apple iCloud right,
their parents and them. Then they sued Apple, and so

(20:13):
there's a there's actually kind of a litany of discovery
from that private cause of action, and Apple was able
to sort of, you know, manipulate their way through the
legal process there because they weren't dealing with a state.
And so this is the first of its kind lawsuit
where a state has said to Apple, we need you
to meet us halfway here. And as you know, Dave,
you know, we live in a place where there's a

(20:34):
lot of vulnerable kids, probably per capita more than any
other place in the country. We've got a we've got
a substance abuse problem, we've got a child welfare problem.
And so right here, I believe that that that we
have the most duty to protect kids, especially kids who
are vulnerable, because we have so many of them, and
it's part of my job to make sure that these
kids get a chance at a better life.

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Generations forward Seed Dealer for details. What I was going
to say a little bit earlier was to be fair.
And again I'm not trying to defend Apple in any
of this sort of thing. But and you read that
text message. Text message was absolutely violent, disgusting. They weren't
out there marketing that. Now that it makes it right, jab,
don't get me wrong. They weren't out there. They've marketed
themselves this, But you're saying that they haven't done all

(21:38):
they could in the fact that they do market themselves.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'm actually saying they were basically marketing themselves.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Okay, all right, go ahead. Ex found upon that the the.

Speaker 14 (21:47):
The advertisements still say come bring your child sexually explicit
material here, but they do say this is the this
is the one place where no one's ever going to
find this right, and so you know, when everyone knows
that there's one person not doing it and ten people
doing it, and your entire marketing strategy is we have

(22:08):
end to end encryption. You know, we can make sure
that no one from the government ever sees any picture
you put in here.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
What does that say? Right?

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah? Do you do you expect other states will get
involved in this or have they already?

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (22:20):
I am almost certain they will and they have not.
But you know, like we've talked about before, West Virginia
and our office, we lead a lot. And you know,
you don't have to be California or New York or
Texas to be a leader. And you know, we're proud
to just take the first step so frequently on these
wildly important issues. And we will see in the next

(22:43):
few weeks or a couple of months how many other
states follow suit. But I'm I'm pretty sure they will.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
What else has your office been up to?

Speaker 3 (22:50):
What else?

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Who has been taking up your time here recently?

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (22:53):
Man, we've been so we have a lot of our
briefing in those super fun cases that we've talked about before,
where New York and Vermont and Blue States have fined
West Virginia's energy producers upwards of seventy five billion dollars,
where West Virginia is again leading at twenty six state
coalition to find those laws on constitutionals. So we'll be
in New York and Vermont in the next couple of months,

(23:16):
and we have just you know, just the day to
day operation of our offices is really wild. I mean,
the Supreme Court is starting to get sort of back up,
and Adam and our office spends a lot of time
working with our Great County prosecutors in abuse and neglect
cases and all kinds of other appeals up at the
US or at the state Supreme Court. We've got several

(23:39):
appeals pending at the US Supreme Court. We would anticipate
probably being up there once or twice more in the
next year and a half or so. And you know,
it's just it's such an honor to have this job,
and there's so many amazing things that we get to do,
and I have so much. I have such a phenomenal
office that you know, every day is a joy to
go to work. Is why I wish my kids were

(24:00):
at school more often when you get there.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
More we're over the I guess now over the halfway
point of the legislature, Attorney General, each individual office at
the Capitol, you know, the Constitutional officer, your office, Secretary,
State treasurer, agg on down the line. Each has their
own respective legislative priorities. How close and I have you
been keeping on the session? And what has been your
office's priorities the session?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (24:23):
So you know, I used to be a legislator and
when I was up there, I always appreciated it when
the constitutional officers would allow us to do our work.
And so you know, I've had some conversation with some legislators,
but we don't have a big agenda.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
My office has all the power we need. You know.

Speaker 14 (24:44):
I've asked them for a little bit of money to
hire a few more lawyers, but that's really it. And
you know, our office ends up defending a lot of
the stuff that the legislature does, and so I try
to let them do their work without me getting involved
in it too much, and really respecting that this sixty
days is about them and if they need something for me,

(25:06):
they ask, and when they ask, I answered the question.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
But I.

Speaker 14 (25:10):
Like to let them do their thing during the session,
and then at the end of it we work on
the piece of the legislation that might get challenged and
how I can help them make sure that they stay law,
which is exactly what happened in the Saved Women's Sports case,
which you know we talked about a lot last few months.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Before we let you go. I want to go back
to this Apple story for a moment. Do you and
you talked about the work that the Meta and some
of these other carries have done. Do you see a
problem with any other services? I mean, you know there's
so many out there, Rumble, Telegram, Amazon, web service, I mean,
just so many out there. Do you say this as

(25:48):
being a problem toward any others or is this primarily
an Apple issue in your opinion?

Speaker 14 (25:52):
So there will be other defendants eventually. Apple is just
so ubiquitously big, Yeah, and so the scope of the
problem is so much bigger with Apple. In an environment
where you have somewhat limited resources, somewhat limited time, you
really need to take the biggest bites of the Apple
that you can at first and try to help as

(26:13):
many people as quickly as possible, and then you can
start to work on some of the smaller problems when
you get done.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Tourney, General J. M. McCuskey, always a pleasure to have
you on the show, and we will talk to this.
I would say, you know, try to enjoy the snow,
but this is just a nuisance snow. I mean, it's
basically useless snow for snowmen.

Speaker 14 (26:30):
It's not enough snow for sledding. It's really not enough
snow to cover the roads. Yeah, but it is decidedly.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Enough snow to keep me at home and make sure
my kids don't burn down my house. There you go.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
That's always a good thing. All right. We'll talking in soon.
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Pizza dot Com texts, When is JB going to sue
the Department of Justice to release the unredacted Epstein files
in their entirety and disavout any support for Trump? Come on, JB,
be consistent. All I'm thinking about the segment, JB is
where's this energy with the Epstein files?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
JB?

Speaker 4 (30:23):
Uh textis what does hold on? One second? What does
our ag have to say about Trump's name being the
Epstein files tens of thousands of times? Why does he
still support the president? Danny Jones is here, that's the
voice you heard.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Do they really want JB. Mccusky to get involved in
the Epstein files?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Well?

Speaker 4 (30:42):
I think here is what I'm thinking. This is what
I'm trying to get in the head of people here.
I'm thinking, because you know, JB talked about them. I'm sorry,
Attorney General JB. McCuskey talked about this suit he's filed
against Apple because Apples has in some cases text messages
have been turned over about their ability to hide things

(31:02):
in the cloud like child pornography and things like that.
And so I guess what the textures are trying to
say is is if he's going to go after a
national or an international company like that, that maybe he
should be as concerned about President.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Trump and maybe he has enough on plate.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, I mean it would be suicide in West Virginia
for any Republican to speak out against the general. Yeah,
against Donald Trump. I mean, I'm just saying from a
political standpoint. You can say what's right or wrong or whatever,
but I'm saying from a political standpoint, it would be
you're burning the Midnight oil Man because you were in
California yesterday. You text me yesterday You're in California, And

(31:41):
here you are in Charleston looking outside this morning. Don't
you wish you were back in California?

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Oh yeah, Oh wow. When I got in last night,
it was about eleven o'clock and it was blowing snow
up the airport. Yeah, and I thought I came back
to you.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
So I'm gonna say, you step off that plane and go.
You know, I screw this back on the plane again.
I'm going back to California.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
It was the weather out there, as it's always wonderful, Sonny.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
In seventy five, I've said every morning at the top
of the show until it is one day it will
be Sonny in seventy five, but Brian Hughes tells me
not today because we got more snow on the way.
These snow squalls are going to continue to roll through
throughout the day today. So I want to start with
the story this morning. I'm gonna get your opinion's lead
story this morning wv Metronews dot com. Judge Joseph Goodwin,

(32:26):
US District Judge of the Southern District wrote an order
that basically calls out ice. Now, let me give you
the background here in case she Hamrick read the story.
The case involves a twenty one year old guy from
El Salvador. He entered the country as an unaccompanied miner
and was placed in the care of Department of Health
and Human Services through its Office of Refugee Settlement. He

(32:48):
has a pending asylum application and is legal to work
in the US. Has a valid driver's license. He was
stopped in Western Dean last month while driving. He was
stopped apparently they said he had a plastic cover on
his license plate. Basically it was an equipment issue, not
like a traffic but like he wasn't speeding or anything
like that. Was not in a traffic violation. The guy

(33:09):
was ordered out of the car by mask men handcuffed. Now,
Judge Goodwin says the guy's constitutional rights were violated, and
you can read the entire story on the website. Bottom
line is, again, according to Judge good One, this guy's
constitutional rights were violated. I agree, And your thoughts on
the whole thing, I agree.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
What's this phobia with all these immigrants. It's there's clusters
of him and places that are causing trouble, like up
in Minnesota with Smalli's but is this a minor?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
No, he was.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
He came here as a miner. He's an adult. I
was twenty one. He came here as a miner un
a company, which probably means he came in with what
he's supposed to do with a large and well he
has about the government. US government him a valid driver's license,
gave him a work permit, and he got pulled over
by ice. Well, I don't, I don't that, I don't know.

(34:09):
I mean, but but he was here, he was here
as a documented worker, he had the work. I mean,
I'm assuming yes, I'd hate to assume things. I'm assuming yes,
he had a he had a right to be here.
As I said, the government of the US gave him
a valid driver's license, He had a work permit, you know,
to be here. And he was pulled over. Not by
deputies or not by the state police. He was pulled

(34:30):
over by ice, you know, which leads me to ask
the question, well, if he had this problem with his
license plate, as they said, wouldn't that be more along
the purview of the of the sheriff's department, city police
wherever it happened to pull him over. It wasn't a
traffic stop. It was an equipment issue, Judge Goodwin, and

(34:51):
there's Brad links it in his story wv Metronews dot com.
You can read the entire legal leads in their Danny
but basically says this was unconstitutional.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Where's the guy? Now?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Do we know? I did?

Speaker 4 (35:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
I'd have to read the entire it's a long story.
It's a long but he was legally here, right and
he came here as a minor. And you know that
advertisement that Christy Noan did and she said go back
to Mexico and we'll put you in line for to

(35:24):
get in here. Well, see me, I believe in that.
I believe in immigration, and especially Mexico because out west,
you know, they don't gather at home depot anymore like
they used to. And you wait the price of the
lettuce when it comes to not having these people to

(35:51):
pick the lettuce.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's just it's ridiculous for those who don't know the
home depot reference. And I saw this for the first
time a couple of years ago in Greensboro, North Carolina. Uh,
my brother in law made a trip to and I
went out to a home depot and there were groups
of I mean, I'm presuming immigrants that were just standing there.
And I asked my brother in law, I said, what
what's the deal here? And he said they they basically

(36:13):
they show up at your low's home depot or whatever,
and a guy will come up and say you you
you not you kind of a thing, getting the truck
kind of a thing, sure, and uh and take them
out to work and then and then bring them back.
That's that's what Deven Kese you're wondering. That's what Danny's
referring to.

Speaker 16 (36:29):
Now.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
George w said that they're doing work that we don't
want to do. That's exactly what's going on here, right.
I'm I just my views on that are just totally
out of.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Are your views on that because you spend time in
California or were you your views like it? Would your
views be like that? Because I mean, let's I mean,
Danny here, you and I agree on a whole lot politically.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
Are they Are they a thread here?

Speaker 4 (36:51):
And that's I mean apparently if you know, apparently they're
if you're illegally making Kso, yes, that's Caso, the chief
New Mexican restaurants.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
I know.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
They went to Miguel's down there in Nitro. Yeah, they
were on the roof. That's a roof I put on
that building, by the way, on the roof of that building.
And I called mcguil to see if he needed me,
you know, to come down speak for him or anything.
And he said no, that I had to go back

(37:26):
to work. Yeah, yeah, you know, he's in the sixties
now he has so he has start cooking again.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
But I think here and the majority of the the
majority of people have said in America, regardless of political
it's not a great number, but it is a majority,
regardless of political persuasion, regardless of your party, the majority
of people in America do not like this administration's stance

(37:55):
on immigration. I mean, that's Republican, Democrat, rich, poor, red state,
blue state. Well, it's over sixty percent according to the
latest poll that they don't agree with the way that
the Trump administration is had. They also didn't agree with
the way that Biden opened up the border.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
So they that was ridiculous, absolutely, and that's why we
we have what we have now with the flood of immigrants.
And they weren't they weren't just coming from Mexico. They
were coming from Red China, and they were coming from Iran.
I mean, they were coming from everywhere.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
Yeah, I mean, so to be consistent, this is a
greater number of people had an issue with the way
Biden handled the border than they do with the way
that Trump is.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
Handled with Trump I believe gets an a plus on
handling the border.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Yeah, I'm a lot of people agree with that.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
We got a call.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Let's go to don You're on with Danny Jones.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
Go ahead, Hey, how are you all today?

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Don't find sir?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
How are you? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (38:52):
Pretty good? Hey, Danny, you're conflating illegal immigrants with immigrants.
You said you don't see what all the problem is
with the immigrants now other people like it or not.
The illegal immigrants skew our national elections. And it's not
through voting, it's through census. Now, if you want to say, hey,
you've got to be a citizen before you're counted in

(39:12):
the census, then everything's fine. Of course, the blue areas,
blue states will go broke supporting their illegal immigrants without
getting federal tax dollars. That wouldn't they That includes your
precious California.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Coming from a state that gets a disproportionate amount of money, yes,
from the federal government, and that's not due to illegal Now,
don you asked me a question. You and I and
Dave come from a state that gets a disproportionate amount
of money federal money, more per capita than California or

(39:50):
any of these other states. And so i'm it just
doesn't worry me that just and bother me. I understand
it's not perfect and nothing is.

Speaker 9 (40:03):
But uh, once again, it skews our national elections. Michigan
wouldn't have the number of people in the House of
Representatives they would California wouldn't if it weren't for the
large population of illegal immigrants.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Now surely you know that, and your answer is what.

Speaker 9 (40:25):
Just stop counting them in the census and we'll see.
We'll see how quickly they start getting deported, the illegal ones.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
They answered, the immigration problem?

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Is this.

Speaker 9 (40:40):
Talking about immigration? We're talking about illegal immigrants.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
And I'm talking about that too. There was a bill
in two thousand and six by George W.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Bush.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
I talked to Nick deverray all about this the other
day because he remembered it to take all the immigrants
legal immigrants and let them have green cards and that
registers them. And if you when you register them, then

(41:11):
you can do a background on them, and if they
got a criminal record, then you deport them. But if
they don't have a criminal record and they're here, even
if it's illegal, give my green curtain. Let I'm going
to work.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
What was it that?

Speaker 9 (41:25):
Also other stipulations that the border would be locked down, Well,
I think I think the same thing happened under the
reagular administration. He agreed to that if the border was secure,
and the border never got secured.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Well, the borders secure now, and I just gave your
president an A plus.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Hold on, hold on now.

Speaker 9 (41:46):
I've never voted for Trump, not voted for G. W.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Brush.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
So if you can't. Don't hang me either, one of
them on me?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Who can?

Speaker 9 (41:56):
I ask you?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
You don't have to tell me. But if you didn't
vote for Trump, who did you? And if you don't
want to tell me, that's fine.

Speaker 9 (42:03):
I didn't vote, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
I voted for the the last three the last three
presidential elections, and I voted for the libertarian candidate. And
I was on a podcast and we were talking about
the issues of gay rights and everything, and I said,
I voted for the libertarian candidate in twenty twenty four

(42:27):
and I didn't realize he was gay.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
I mean, so doing what didn't make a difference to me.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
It doesn't now I'm a city guy.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Stop that again, DONALDO. What I'm gonna do. What we
gotta go, but I'm gonna give you the last thirty seconds.
Go ahead.

Speaker 9 (42:43):
He's not my president. He is our president. And if
you don't like it, Danny, you know where you can go.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
All right, don all.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Right, don We appreciate your phone call. Don Thanks for
the call, Thank you, don O. MG Trump Trump Trump
Once again, tds on staate heeroids. These people still cannot
mentally and psychologically get over the fact that the majority
elected Trump again, seek professional help people.

Speaker 5 (43:07):
No, you're the people you're going to be seeking. You
Trump backers who are going to be seeking psychological help
after the twenty twenty sixth elections because they're going to
take over the House. I mean Trump will be frozen
solid and he may they may take the Senate if
they take the Senate. You know, at the TSA in

(43:30):
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and I can go through the fast line. Not now,
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through not now all right?

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talk to Joe. You're on with Danny Jones.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Go ahead, yes, guys, I'll make it real quick, sir,
I can yeah, And Danny glad to hear your voice
on here, buddy, Thank you, Joe. West Virginia resident Charles scenario.
Residents don't know how much I want to be affected.
Let us picking and all this stuff and illegals. Most
produced in the US is produced mechanically. But let's talk

(47:04):
about something effects West Virginia. Everybody relate to this. Hire
bills going up and up, up, electric bills going up
and up and up. It ties into illegal immigration. And
I'm all for legal immigration, don't get me wrong, but
I can tell you firsthand what's going on. They say
they want they're doing jobs that Americans won't do. I
disagree with that wholeheartedly. All right call because the pier

(47:29):
company put in a four hundred and forty million dollars
five year surcharge for clearing right aways. It is all documented,
and I talk firsthand some of the guys that were
doing they do it on prevailing wage. One of the
couple of companies. It's all union labor. You know, twenty
five twenty four dollars an hour they did that that

(47:52):
we paid for that twenty four dollars an hour work
Aspen come in, one the largest clear cutting company treecreaming
companies around come in and contracted that work. Brought in hundreds,
if not thousands, of illegal immigrants just been four or
five years ago, illegal immigrants on a four year contract.
They were all over Charleston area, West Virginia cutting right aways.

(48:14):
Those guys were illegal in their goods. They were getting
paid seven and eight dollars an hour.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Can I ask you just real quick. I don't want
to direct you, but can I ask you? How do
you know they were illegal immigrants? So there's a reason
I'm asking, But go ahead.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
One I stopped and talked to them.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Okay, that's fair enough, and yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Because they were in the areas where I was working,
and they told me there was only one of them
to speak English, and they're from Guatemala and Honduras, different companies.
And I don't fault those guys a bit. If there's
one hundred dollars laying on the ground and well, I
don't see if they drop it, we'll want to pick
it up. Yep. And they're trying to better themselves. And
I don't fault that one bit. But the problem is
there was a big ninety million dollar lawsuit award against

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asking for to the Department of Waiver Federal for doing
this work with the illegals and not doing it correct
and they had all these illegals working on it's all documented.
The problem is this, we always say they're doing jobs
as Americans won't work, don't do And I've talked to that.
I know personally people that work for Ashmen that were
on unemployment, put out of work and laid off. When

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they brought these illegals in here under the table, pay
them cash. They were doing it a lot of Joe.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
Let me ask you a question, how does ask them
surface what kind of money along during operations that they
have going on that they can surface cash to pay
these people in cash.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
And let's keep in mind that this is a company.
We're talking about a private company, So let's let's don't.

Speaker 9 (49:41):
Get us out.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
It's one of the largest.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
But I'm saying let's don't get us sued here. Okay,
let's keep that in mind.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Well, there was a federal lawsuit from the Federal Department
of Labor. Look it up, ask them to find ninety
billion dollars. Okay, they were, they were fined for it.
It's all documented. So that the premise that we got
people coming in here, and I mean, if you want
a cheap, cheap roof, there's all kinds of them all
over West Virginia that are working for cash. They're not

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paying wage bonds, and they're not paying any the school systems,
they're not paying taxes. And I'm all for illegal immigrations,
but what happens is you bring in all these illegals.
They're not vetted, they're not documented, so they work for cash,
and they really rob for me and you. They make
our power bills go up, they do all this stuff.
And big companies are profiting off this. Okay, corporations, all right, Joe,

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we got to leave it there. I appreciate your phone call.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Thanks lot. I will say I will say this though,
that I got to and I brought up a good
friend of mine who has a has a company here
in the Canal Valley that does employ a lot of
folks from their primarily Mexico. They're not West Virginia, they're
not US citizens. However, they're also not here illegal, Ureen card.
They have work permits and they go back home during

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the winter and come back. Then he hires them because
he can't get Americans to do the work. I'm not
discounting what that last called.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
You're saying, still let us fields in California with the
Mexicans doing the work. I think what Joe and I
are talking about maybe two different things.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
But I.

Speaker 5 (51:15):
I just think it ought to be if you have
a guy that wants to work and he's in this country,
and you can do a background on him, get him
a green cards.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Texays Okay, that's really starting to get old with trying
to justify letting all these people stay here by repeatedly spewing, well,
do you know how much this is going to cost?
You know how much it's going to cost. Let's all
just ignore the constitution and ignore the rule of law.
Look at parts of Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas Islamic communities
have taken over. That is the problem, says a Texture,
And you would say, what, Dan, We're talking about two
different things, all right, Dave and Danny. President Trump is

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keeping his promise to close the border and deport the
illegal ones, especially the criminal illegal's best president I've ever seen,
says a texture. Okay, but you said you agree with
Trump on this year plus A PLUSUS, but not necessarily
the ice part of it.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
All right, No, I'm with Judge Goodwin.

Speaker 9 (52:02):
All right.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Well, we didn't even get into talking about term limits
or for the city of Charleston. I wanted to get
into that also. I'm also also wanted to talk a
little bit about Hoppy's commentary. He's going to be on
the show later today. He's got issues with the president.
Imagine that about what was said Friday after the Supreme
Court decision on tariff. So we'll get into that on
Metro News Midday. DJ Menows and Dave Wilson coming on

(52:25):
the Metro News talk line. I'll be back flying the
ship solo today on midday till then, have fun and
love SOMEBODYSAM.

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