02/26/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Michael MacDonald, Ann Bostic, Jim Strawn, Christy Martin

South Charleston City Council candidate Michael MacDonald, Ann Bostic of HealthPath Medical and Psychiatric Care and Jim Strawn, and boxer Christy Martin.

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to keep saying until it happens coming up. Sure you

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remember Christy Martin Boxer att of Wyoming County cover Sports
Illustrated years ago, movie just made about her live starring
Sydney Sweetey. Well, she's back in West Virginia making several stops.
She'll be in our studio coming up a little bit
later on in the show. She's actually going to be
on You can hear a lot from Christy today because
she's going to be on talk Line with Wilson to
Meadows at the Capitol. She's doing some things there, and

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then she's going to come back to be on Metro
News midday during the twelve o'clock hour with me today.
Also on the show this morning, going to introduce you
to a lady by the name of Anne Bostick. She
is with Health path Medical and Psychiatric Care tell you
her story covering up Jim Strawn is going to stop
buying us the aforementioned Wilson Meadows. We'll check in with
them at the Capitol as well as they begin to
wrap up their broadcast week. There the budget, of course,

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the big topic yesterday. We'll check in with Dave and
TJ coming up as we close out this show. And
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election season and seats are up in several municipalities and

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around a state of Westternet, including the city of South Charleston.
This gentleman is hoping to get elected to South Charleston
City Council in Ward eight. His name is Mike McDonald
and he joins us now in the Generic Construction study.
Is morning, Mike, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Dave.
How are you. I'm doing fine, Thank you for being here.
So you're hoping to get elected to council from ward eight,
where exactly is Ward eight in South Charleston.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Ward eight winds up through Montrose and kind of curls
back around and goes down through over the bridge, down
where the fire station is and kind of loops back around.
It's kind of a big ward actually, So Okay, you
know it's a it's a lot of houses.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I gotta I gotta visit a lot of door knocking. Kevin, Absolutely,
That's always one of my questions. Always ask candidates about
how you get the word out in one of those ways.
I guess is you know it's still it's still safe
in West Virginia. I guess to do that, you know,
especially in South Charleston, you know, to go and knock
and knocked door to door. So when you go and
you knock on somebody's or what do you tell them?

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Well, basically, I just tell them, hey, look, I'm relatively here.
I moved here three years ago and I instantly fell
in love with this place.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Where would you move from? If you don't mind my asking.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
I was here from Utah, Okay, and Utah got a
little too crowded, a little bit too expensive, and I
wanted a place that was going to give you mountains.
Give me four seasons, give me nice people and not
terribly crowded. Okay, and Charleston kind of hit all those
bills in South Charleston was kind of the cherry on top, okay.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
And the reason I asked that is is because I
always I love to hear stories about people who choose
West Virginia.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
I didn't end up here.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I chose to come out. Okay, that's we should get
with the folks with the Chamber of Commerce, Department of
Tourism or something, you know, and get you and then
let you tell your story because we just don't have
enough of that here in West Virginia.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
And I agree, and and there's there's an untapped reality
with West Virginia in general. But Charleston area, the Kanak County,
I mean, the people here are so warm and charming.
And that was the final straw for me. That was like,
this is the place where I'm going to my next
chapter in life, so to speak. And I fell in

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love with it. In fact, the the absolute last straw
was at the Kroger on mccorkel in South Charleston. And
I sat there for an hour and people watched and
I noticed something very interesting. People were putting the carts
back in the cart.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
In the in the in the corral, Yes, in the corral, Yes,
thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
And I'm like, these people can self manage. These are
my people.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
That's that's that's it. Or or sometimes they you know,
one of the things I have noticed is what they'll
they'll take a cart for someone and help. And if
you go and I've done that, and if you go
to Ald where you have to do the quarter deposit,
many times people will just say, oh, here keep your quarter.
And I don't know whether al d likes that or not,
but here keep your quarter. Well you get it back
for sure. But I've noticed a lot of that too. Yeah,

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I kind of pay it forward.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
So's you know, I like that.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Shopping cart etiquette exactly. Know that'll be your that'll be
your platform. Mike McDonald's McDonald's here. He's a candidate for
Charleston South Charleston City Council in Ward eight. Okay, so
he told us a little bit of it. We kind
of skipped a rout of it, but give us your bio.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
So basically, my background is in sales, marketing, team building, uh,
problem solving, okay, collaboration and what I want to bring
to South Charleston is the I want to bring in
more businesses to have employment because without a selection of jobs, okay,
everything becomes a lot harder. So if there's better paying jobs,

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better paying careers, people will come get the jobs and
then start to see that, you know, South Charleston is
a really good place to start a family, raise a family,
and the stay. And that's kind of the goal of
you know, where I'm at. There's infrastructure ideas that I
want to bring uh to, like obviously the you know,

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the Ward eight area because it's it's an older neighborhood,
and those ideas that I want to pitch to, you know,
to the mayor and and and make it make it
a destination city really for not only for businesses, but
for families to grow and you know, have more more
to choose from.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Absolutely absolutely. So what are if you are elected to
city council, Because you're a part of a larger body
and you said you'd be working, you know, with with
whomever the mayor is. Uh So, so how do you
plan to go about that if you are elected? What
what's the what's day one on city council look like
for you?

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Day one I would imagine it would be for the
first little bit, just listen here, what's you kind of
get used to how things are, how things run. And
then I start meeting with my other you know, fellow
council members and start pitching ideas and this is you know,
I want to do. I want this, I want to
I like to do this. I like to see improvements here,
here and here, this is what our neighborhood needs. And

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start working with you know, putting proposals together and you know,
getting problems solved.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I'm talking about Mike McDonald again, who is a candidate
for City Council Ward eight in the City of South Charleston.
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Your career starts here. So one of the things, and
you know, I always like to keep all the interviews
we do with candidate's positive. But one of the things

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that people might say about you is, Okay, well you're
you're not from here. Okay, what does that bring to
the air, because it could be a positive as well.
So well, how would you answer that if somebody says, well,
you know, you haven't been here that long, what would
your answer that be.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
I think I have the best of both worlds because
I am an outsider. I can see all the good.
I can see where where it's room for improvement.

Speaker 7 (07:59):
Right.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
But here's the fun part. I have ancestry in Charleston
going back to seventeen ninety. Okay, I didn't know that
until I moved here.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, you know, they say there's always a West Virginia connection,
So I guess you just proved that right pretty much.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
And so I have Scottish ancestry, and they were here
when it was a Virginia colony, and my surname kind
of vanished right around eighteen seventy.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
So I am from here, just in a larger roundabout way.
It just took you while to get here pretty much,
you know, Like they say, Well it did answer why
this felt this place felt so familiar when I when
I started kind of touring the area. Okay, and I've
been to more places in West Virginia than probably a
lot of West Virginia centers.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
That you're probably not wrong about that, all right. So
you talked about growing business and things that nature. If
you had like a wish list of not necessarily just businesses,
but of things that you would bring to South Charleston's
what's lacking in South Charleston in your in your opinion.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
I'd like to see more tech. I'd like to see
more manufacturing. I'm just start kind of in the twenty
five to thirty five dollars an hour range, right, higher skilled,
more committed, and because the thing that, like South Charleston's
history is known for is manufacturing, right, I'd like to
see some more that come back in here. I'd like
to see class manufacturing come back kind of on a
larger scale.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I'd like to see.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Tech kind of come in. And I'm not talking data centers,
I'm talking actual tech manufacturing, right, And those are kind
of my two key targets. And then everything else kind
of falls under infrastructure, Okay, taking care of some of
the maintenance issues that just age comes with, you know,
comes with a state. I like to see the I
have ideas on getting the road surfaces fixed and kind

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of fixed for good in a sense. So I have
to be redone every six weeks, right, despite our lovely weather.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
So would you have a Facebook or or website or
anything you want.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
If you go to Facebook dot com, it's Mike mac
number four sc for South Charleston.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Okay, Final thirty Mike waht Should someone vote for Mike
Donald's City Council Ward eight in South Charles.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
I have a new perspective on things. I love the city.
I see the potential in it. I see the opportunities
that are here. I want to I want to grow
and make South Charleston more of that family center. That's someplace,
that's someplace special, you know. And that's where I really
want to make a difference here because it seems like

(10:23):
my entire life is kind of built up to this point.
And with my ability to collaborate, my ability to speak
to people and you know, here and listen, here's here's
what I can offer, right and just be part of
that team to make this place even better than it already.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Is Mike McDonald again. He is a candidate for City
Council Ward eight in South Charles. I appreciate you stopping by, man,
I appreciate you having me. All Right, We're going to
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So she's going to tell us her story coming up
a little bit later on. Also, we'll go live to
the State Capitol and check in with TJ and Dave
as well. I want to welcome into the show now,
Anne Bostik. She is with health Path Medical and Psychiatric Care.
Did I get it right in Yes, that is correct.
All right, welcome to the show. Thanks for being.

Speaker 12 (14:37):
Here, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Tell us overall about health Path Medical and Psychiatric Care.
Then we'll break it down from there. Just give us
the overall.

Speaker 12 (14:45):
Health Path Medical and Psychiatric Care is an outpatient psychiatric
facility located right here. In Charleston, we take care of patients, children, adolescents,
adults who struggle with mental health symptoms such as depression, anxiety, ADHD.

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We provide an integrated approach to treating mental health. We
while most practices look at primarily deal with symptoms, we
pride ourselves in that we do treat symptoms with medication
and therapy, but also focus a lot of our attention

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on looking at brain disregulation. We truly believe that mental
health symptoms such as anxiety, depression, lack of focus have
to do with brain disregulation, and we use advanced technology
such as EEG to really look at where that dysregulation
is occurring.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
In explain what you mean by disregulation.

Speaker 12 (15:52):
Well, we use EEG because yes, electro andcephalogram, and in
using the e EG, we look at how brain patterns
with a person who has a mental health who has
a lot of mental health symptoms, we look at how
those brain patterns are different than what a normal brain

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pattern looks like, and then we use advanced technologies like
transcranial magnetic stimulation to stimulate. Sometimes brain waves are underactive.
For example, when a person has depression, they have hypoactive
brainwave activity, and we look at where that is occurring

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and stimulate those areas using a personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation technique.
Patients who have a lot of anxiety or ADHD oftentimes
they have overactive brainwave activity, and so we treat based
on what we're seeing on the EEG.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
And what do I mean? I know you can't say
this is what we do for everybody, but just what
does a treatment look like on just picking average if
I don't know if there is any touching as average
or not, but on a regular person or on a
regular daily basis, what kind of thing.

Speaker 12 (17:11):
Normally with our patients. We we also take care. We
also do medication management and therapy, but for patients who
who have not obtained results with medication and therapy, that's
primarily where we really we really recommend something that's a

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little bit more advanced and integrative. So patient might come
to us who has tried a number of antidepressants and
is still struggling with severe depression or a number of
different medications for you know, ADHD or different different conditions,
and and for those patients oftentimes, really looking at the

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EEG seeing where that dysregulation is occurring and treating those
areas using TMS is much more effective. Okay, we've seen
tremendous results with it.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
And so what I'm hearing, and I don't want to
put words in your mouths, Okay, you can interrupt me
any any time you want. What I'm hearing you say
is that in some cases, and every case is different,
I get that. But in some cases medicines don't work,
or are they on this particular person, they've not been
as effective. So let's try something different that doesn't involve medications.

Speaker 12 (18:32):
Correct. And many people have tried many, many different medications
and they become extremely frustrated because when we are treating symptoms,
you know, we it's kind of trial and error with medicines.
So with the EEG, we have a more objective look
at what's going on. So it's not just a matter

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of what symptoms the patients tell us that they have.
We are we can see more objective with the EEG
where the dysregulation is occurring, how we can treat that
more more effectively.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
I think it's interesting that you talk about treat how
the community, the medical community, to certain extent, the mental
health community wants to treat symptoms and this is going
to make but it doesn't get to the to the
root of the problem it was. I mean, it's it's
kind of like, you know, you this is a very
broad analogy. You break an arm, Okay, we'll just put
a long sleeve shirt on. You know, that's not good.

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That's not going to do anything. You know, that's except
maybe if your arm is deformed. It's not it's gonna
it's gonna it's going to cover that up. Talk about
the mental health status of West Virginia because we we
frequently hear that West Virginia has got a lot of
issues when it comes to things like this. Talk about
the mental mental state of the state.

Speaker 12 (19:51):
Yes, West Virginia, and this is one of the reasons
it's so important that we have alternative options here in
West Virginia because in West Virginia we have one of
the highest rates of depression in the entire country. We also,
of course have the highest rates of substance use disorder
and overdose, so and all of these conditions. When patients

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are struggling with substance dependence, they often more than fifty
percent have a comorbid depression that goes along with that.
So you know, so West Virginia we really really have
extremely high rates of depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma, substance use disorder,

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all of those things. And when a patient comes to us,
they don't just come with one condition. They often have
a multitude of different things going on, and it's oftentimes
really difficult to you know, to determine what is the
you know, the bottom line problem with the patient.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
So, now I know you're not a sociologist, okay, but
why does it seem West Virginia has such an issue
with this is there? I mean, I know we've only
got you know, another another five minutes or so in
the five or ten minutes, but it could take all day.
But why, why, in your opinion, is West for struggle
with so much.

Speaker 12 (21:15):
We're rural, you know, we are, we are, it's just
the Appalachian Our culture is just very different and it's
a rural area there. Plus, we have a tremendous amount
of substance use problems here.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
We're going to get it that a little bit.

Speaker 12 (21:33):
And when when substance use dependence is a problem, then
all of these other mental health conditions go right along
with it. And you know, even if they didn't exist before,
they're brought on by substance use often.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
And we tend to be I think in Appalachia we
we have kind of a fatalistic view of the world
in general. We feel like that we've been part of
the pun craft on a whole lot. And and this
lead to other things. And when you talk about the
substance abuse issue, which we're going to get into again,
we're talking with ambostic with health, mathematical and psychiatric care.

(22:09):
When you talk about the substance abuse issues, a lot
of times it's not just about someone wanting to get high, Okay,
it goes beyond that. There's a reason for that. They're
trying to cover up a trauma, something happened in their childhood,
something that they're battling on a regular basis. Would you
agree with them?

Speaker 12 (22:27):
Absolutely? Absolutely? And you know, we've seen that so much
here in West Virginia, and we don't have we just
don't have a lot of solutions. And one of the
things with these advanced interventional treatments, we can give patients hope,
you know, because people lose hope when they've tried a

(22:51):
million different things and nothing's working. Once somebody loses hope,
it's really difficult, So.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
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you meant we've talked a lot in the interview and
about substance abuse. You recently got some of the opioid
settlement money to to kind of help some folks. Talk
about that, and then we'll talk about your big event
in chef coming up.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (23:38):
Yes, we recently were awarded funding through the West Virginia
First Foundation opioid Settlement money to treat patients who have
dual diagnosis that means a combination of depression and substance
use disorder. I think one of the reasons that we
were awarded this grant is because there is so so

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it is so common for patients with substance use disorder
to also have depression, So we are using TMS to
treat depression and also substance use disorder. There's much much
evidence nowadays that TMS can help with cravings. So with
this grant funding, we are going to be treating patients

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completely free of charge if they meet qualifications for it,
which is that they have a dual diagnosis of substance
use and depression. So we will be recruiting patients. Treatments
will be starting in just a couple months.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
And yes, and we're really excited about we're you physically located.

Speaker 12 (24:41):
We're physically located at Northgate at the Cottage at Northgate.
We recently moved our offices to the Cottages at Northgate
and in fact we're having a grand reopening this weekend
on Saturday, February twenty eighth, eleven o'clock. We're going to
have a ribbon cutting. After that, we have world renowned

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doctor Kevin Murphy who is the founder of personalized transcranial
magnetic stimulation and he is an expert and leader in neuromodulation.
So he is going to be speaking on these things
and talk about how neuromodulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation is

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changing the landscape of mental health across the country.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
And do you have a like where can people learn more?
You of a website, social media things of that nature
they can learn more about this.

Speaker 12 (25:34):
Yes. Our website is www dot healthpathcare dot com and
our Facebook is just health Path Care, West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
All right, and I appreciate you being here. It's been
a fascinating discussion and bossic with Healthpath Medical and Psychiatry Care.
And again, tell us about the open house, give us
to make sure everybody gets at the time.

Speaker 12 (25:54):
Open house is Saturday, February twenty eighth ribbon cutting. It
is at eleven. Doctor Kevin Murry will be speaking at
twelve o'clock on neuromodulation and personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation.

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RC media event. You remember the name and you may
have seen the movie. Now you get to meet her
in person tonight in an event at the Tap in
Saint Albans, and then the movie will be shown free
of charge at the Alburn Theater on Old Maine. It
is boxer Christy Martin. She joined us this morning in
the Jerry Construction studios. Good morning, welcome to the show.
Thanks for being here.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's always great to be home.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Home in West Virginia. Where is home these days?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Home is always West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, no matter, great An I live.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
In Florida, but home is in West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Isn't it amazing that when you travel and I hear
this a lot from folks that have done things like
you've done, Christy, You go all over people say where
are you from? They generally don't say Florida, Texas, Tennessee.
They say West Virginia, even though they may have been
gone for forty years.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Absolutely, it's a Western time. Anybody asked me where I'm from,
I'm from West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Always about West Virginia, but originally Wyoming County, right, Mullins.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Right. I graduated from Mallin's High School, which isn't there anymore?

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Back when there was a MULLINSI absolutely, the Rebels, Yes,
a Mullins High School. Yes, yeah, Mullins and Pineville became
Wyoming East.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Absolutely, And it's crazy because there were such big rivals
back in my day, and now here we are we
have to go to class with these and.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
The other side of Wyoming County did the same thing
with I guess it was Ocean and Baileysville, which became West.
All my families from Wyoming County. So that's why I
know all the all the important towns like Clear Fork
and Reedy Creek and lyn Cooe. I know all the
important towns of wo Yes were that beautiful company company story.
That's the voice of Rusty Web. By the way, as

(30:54):
if people needed an introduction to who Rusty Web is.
Uh so, talk about how you originally got into the
whole boxing thing. What was it about that that interested you?

Speaker 2 (31:05):
You know, I'm not sure. Growing up, the tough Ma
contest was a big deal in Beckley, West Virginia, and
I just they didn't allow women to do it, but
I thought, for some crazy reason they should. So I
kept talking to Jerry Thomas, who was the promoter, we
need to have women, we need to have women. He
would say, no, Christy, that's a crazy idea. So finally,
I think it was like eighty seven, eighty eight something.

(31:28):
They did have a women's division and I was probably
like the first one there to sign up, never thinking,
never in my wildest dreams, was that going to be
my career or was that going to be something that
I didn't more than that one.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Time when you stepped in that ring, Christy for the
first time, was it what you thought it would be
or was it totally different?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Or it was scary because you know, my opponent was
actually a classmate that I had at Concord, and so
I'm like, oh my god, I can't you know, Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
I'm not going to face this person that I lost to,
So that pressure was on. But you know, everybody crawls
out of the ring and it's just you and that
other person. So it was.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Did you win? I did you did well convincingly? Or
is it did like a decision?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Was it a tough fight?

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Okay, yeah, it was a tough and that's when it
kicked in. I wanted I want to do this.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
I don't know that that's what happened. I think it
took a couple of times and I was like, this
is really cool. But never, even after I had my
first professional fight down in Bristol, Tennessee, never did I
think this was going to be like a career, Yeah,
because I had never seen any other woman doing it.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, and that's what I was going to say. I mean,
we're talking about the nineteen eighties here, when it just
wasn't that big of a thing. I mean, women, just
women pretty much, with a few exceptions, women just didn't
do this.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
No, there there was no one that I could really
look to and say, oh wow, that person did it.
So they made the trail they made. You know, I
can follow this path. But that wasn't that wasn't the case.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Well now they look at you, I hope.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
So you know, the further I get away from my career,
the more important I think it was to women's box.
And I think it really opened up a lot of
eyes that hey, these women can fight and you know,
love him or hate him. Don King gave me a
wonderful opportunity. I was fighting under Mike Tyson on Showtime
on HBO at that time. No female fighter it ever got.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Had it not been for a Don King or something
like that, it probably wouldn't have happened because you got
to have somebody with that stature that comes in and
I hate Christy. I hate to use a term legitimized,
but that's almost what it did. It said, okay, it's
got the Don King suit of.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Absolutely, you're right, and because no other promoter at that
level would allow a female fighter to fight on their card.
So now Don King's done it. And then we did
a pretty good fight on the undercard of Mike Tyson
and Frank Bruno back in nineteen ninety six. I was
bloody and we were at the Jim Greend in Las
Vegas on Showtime pay per view, and I mean the

(33:51):
world saw it and they're like, wow, these women can fight.
So other promoters started putting women on their shows as well.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
And then of course you cover Sports Illustrated and all that.
But all of that and you became a international superstar.
But with that there was a downside.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
It was a tough, tough thing. I tell people all
the time that in front of the camera it looked
as though I was on top of the world, but
behind the camera, I felt like the world was on
top of me. It was a tough situation. My my
then husband, abuser, was every time something positive happened I
was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, he tried to
tell me why it was about him and not about me,

(34:29):
and how he had made that happen, not my fight
that I did with Theodore Gogerty on the Tyson card.
So every every positive thing he would he would shoot
it down.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
And a movie, of course, it, which is going to
be screened tonight at the Alban Theater in Saint Albans,
was made about you. How closely were you involved with
the movie.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I spent hours and hours on the phone with the writer,
and most everything in the movies is very accurate. There
were some characters and some some events that happened that
had to be combined, so we didn't have a nine
hour long movie.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
And that's not that's not uncommon. I mean, you have
a lot of composite characters. They call them, you know,
we're okay this this guy was actually three guys into
one because you can't employ everybody in the movie.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
And that's exactly what happened. That Rosie is a combination
of like three people. So yeah, and some of that
is tough because there are people that I felt like
deserved to be included in the movie, but the powers
that be decided, no, we're going to combine those people
and we're gonna have one character overall.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Were you happy with the way the movie turned out.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
I was happy with the movie. I think the promotion
of the movie was poor. I think it missed the
boat that this isn't a boxing movie, this is a
life movie. And then it's tough because people don't want
to hear about the messic balance. They want to go,
they want to go see, you know, people get something
doesn't really happen, you know, blowing up and this and that.

(35:52):
You know, like I don't know, it's just a very
important movie. But I do think streaming is going to
have a different life and the more people are gonna
watch it at home where they can can sit down
at their leisure and kind of take it in. I'm
getting messages from all over the world that we're giving
us a lot of inspiration. And if you know, I say,
if I can get up off the floor, anyone.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Can thinkin we're talking with Christy Martin, So in that situation,
we don't want to I want to. I only want
to talk about what you're comfortable with, okay, And if
you're not, then you jump in and say no, Dave,
and then you can you can knock me out if
you want. So how bad was the situation within your
house when all when all this famous fortune was going on,

(36:35):
How bad wasn't you know?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
It's just like if you can imagine that every time
something like you hit the ball, you know, you hit
the ball all the park here and you go home
and somebody shoots you down every time, like it's it's
didn't really happen. And then on a very routine basis,
I would be told, if ever you leave me, I
will kill you. And so at first I was young

(36:56):
when he started telling me that, and I kind of
laughed it off. But as I was married to him
for twenty years, so sometimes during that twenty year time,
I started thinking, no, I think this is real. And
then when I actually did leave, I knew it was real.
But I was also like, you know what, my life
is over. I'm not living the way I am now,
so it doesn't matter to me if I live or die.
But during the attack, after being stabbed and when he

(37:19):
was pistol whipping me, it was like the switch flipped
and I said, no, you are not going to kill me.
I'm not ready to die, not today, and he didn't,
as you know.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
And I think one of the great things would take aways.
Great may have been the wrong word. One of the
most important things I guess is that this story happened
to world renowned boxer Christy Martin. It may as well
have happened ten miles up the road, you know, because
it's the same story. The only thing that changes is
maybe maybe it was in a nicer home or something

(37:51):
like that. But I mean, it could easily have happened
ten fifteen miles of the road, or in Wyoming County orherever,
because it happens all over the world every day.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
And that's why I tell people that this movie, it
doesn't matter that it's about me. It's the story that
this movie. That's why it is important. And you're absolutely right.
And you know, people could say, oh wow, you know,
I'm physically strong, and but it can happen to anybody.
And you know, had a little bit of money. So
it doesn't matter how rich you are, how poor you are,

(38:19):
what you know, black, white, green, and purple, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat. Is
happening and and and I'm going to tell you my
thought is it's happening a lot of times in those
homes where they're there, they do have money.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
They do have power where people would probably because those
are the.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
People that are they're at least expecting. But those those
women and men sometimes are more afraid to speak out
because they feel like they have more to lose, or
they can't tarnish the husband's reputation.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
They feel ere, they feel trapped in a lot, and
the abuser likes that. They like that the that I control,
I control everything here. I just wonder when you've gotten
messages you said, you know, since the movie came out,
you're going to get even more when streaming happens, whatever.
What kind of messages do you get from people saying, Hey,

(39:13):
that's my story. I wasn't a boxer, but that's my story.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Every day, really, I'm getting a message that thank you
so much for sharing your story. It's given me strength
to share my story. Or sometimes I get a message
that I'm not there yet, but thank you for sharing
because now I don't feel alone. And I think that's
what's important too, that people, you know, you get in
these situations and it's the beatdown, the isolation, and you

(39:42):
do you feel alone and you're like, who do I
reach out to. And it's hard because a lot of couples,
you know, your friends are both your friends, so you're
afraid to let me go tell this person, but then
they might confront him, and that will only make it
worse on me. So you're just You're just in a
tough situation. But this is what's important. People have to
know that there are organizations in every city that can

(40:04):
help you, that will help you, that want to help you.
So please reach out. Don't stay one second longer.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
What's life like today for Christy Martin?

Speaker 2 (40:13):
You know, it's good.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
You know, here's what you can't see on the radio.
When I asked that question, I said, what's life like today?
You get the biggest smile on your face. Life is
good for you right now.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Life that's good. I mean, here I am in my
town with my people being recognized for the work that
I'm doing for domestic violence. As I was telling Russ,
you know, back in the nineties, I was a little
offended sometimes as a fighter, I didn't feel like I
was getting support from West Virginia. But now I'm getting
support as a fighter. But it's not a boxer, it's

(40:43):
a fighter fighting for domestic violence.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Awareness and you go into the capitol. I understand today, right, Yes,
what's your message is going to be there? What are
you doing with the cast's.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Going to be the same thing, you know, open your eyes.
West Virginia is in the top ten of the states
with domestic violence. That's just the occurrences that are getting reported.
We need help. We need help, We need help, We
need funding. We need to be able to fund these
organizations so that they can get people with housing, with food,

(41:13):
with helping prepare them for jobs. Just people don't always
they don't need a hand out. They need to hand up.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Okay, yeah we do.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
We have Christie's Champs, which at Christie's Champs, what's important
to me, we put computers. This is the number one
thing we do. We put computers in local boxing gyms.
And some people might think boxing gyms and domestic violence
and that kind of seems weird. But those kids that
are coming to boxing gyms are not coming from that
thing the houses that everything's going good in their house.
They're coming from houses that something's just not right. That's

(41:47):
why they ended up in boxing gyms. And everybody doesn't
have the internet at home, they don't have computers at home.
So here, here's a way that they can do their homework.
I had a coach call me and say that one
of the fighters had just done on his college application
on a computer that we bought. That made me very proud.
So that you know, it's important. It gives them an opportunity.
Like I said, with homework, we have tutors coming in

(42:08):
and things like that in boxing gyps all across the country.
We also anybody that's in trouble that recently. Had a
female that was in Austin, Texas, she needed to get
back here to West Virginia. It was crazy because I
actually knew some of the people that she knows, and
so we helped her. Christy Champs helped her get back home.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
We had a text here and we'll let you go.
So is thank you Christy Martin for representing yourself West
Virginia's strong women at all of humanity. So well, you're amazing.
Thank you all right, Christy Martin, I appreciate you being here.
You're going to make a return parents. I hate to
tell you what, You're coming back here later today. You're
going to the Capitol and then you're coming back here
later today. And my co host Amanda Baron is not
here today, so she is off on assignment. So you're
just gonna have to deal with me, Rusty, I'm sorry.

(42:49):
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(46:18):
A couple of things about the Christy Martin appearances around
the area today. Again, she's gonna be at the Capitol.
She's actually leaving here to go meet with lawmakers to
talk about domestic violence. And then she's gonna make an
appearance on talk Line with Wilson and Meadows, I understand,
and then she's coming back later today to revisit us
on Metro New's Midday. But what's going on in St.
Albans this evening is they at five point thirty at

(46:41):
the Tap, which is a fine establishment located on Old
Man in Saint Albans. They're going to have a kind
of a meet and greet with Christy Martin. Your opportunity
to meet and hang out with her. Also, they're gonna
have a free screening of the movie at seven o'clock
at the Alburn Theater there in Saint Albans. The movie
starring Sidney Sweeney and three. It's open to the public,

(47:02):
so a chance to meet Christy Martin at five thirty
at the Tap and then they're going to do that
screening at seven o'clock tonight at the Alburn Theater in
Saint Albans, So go down and check it out. Coming
up later today. Metro News Midday. No Amanda baron today,
and I don't think tomorrow either. She's off on television assignment.
She'll be back with us on Monday on the show
today though Senator Sheldy Moore Capito is here. The Governor

(47:24):
has an economic development announcement set for one thirty this afternoon,
and if it works out, that is the plan. We
are going to try to bring that to you. That
is the plan anyway, as is tends to be the
the way it goes sometimes in a world of politics.
It didn't always work out that way. But if it can,
if it can work out, Ryan and Stephanie can do it.

(47:46):
So we're going to try to have the Governor on
at one thirty this afternoon. Could have some major changes
coming to the high school transfer rule. We hope to
have delicate day to Farrelng to talk about that. We'd
had a scheduled for yesterday's show, but that darned old
floor session was going long, and so got him or
someone scheduled to talk about that today. We will talk
about it one way or the other, because when you

(48:06):
get to this point within the legislative session and you
get closer to crossover day next week, who knows what's
going to happen. Chris Lawrence will be here with the news. TJ.
Meadows is going to stop by. I'm told we have
some teachers coming into the studio today. I'll learn. I'll
know more about that as we get a little bit closer,
because they are also at the Capitol day and they're
going to pay us a visit here. As I said,

(48:27):
Christy Martin is going to come back to the show,
and of course open Line West Virginia Metro News, Midday
Power Advice, Slang go a lot coming up at noon
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to the Capitol and check in with the boys, Meadows
and Wilson. How we doing, guys, doing great? Wonder doing great?
All right, I'm sending Christy Martin up there. She just

(49:11):
left the studio. Uh and she and I'm just gonna
warn you ahead of time, just so you know. She
got a film crew with her. So you guys are
going to be documented. I'm just letting you know. We're
documented every day.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
I know.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
But you're gonna be documented by cameras. You don't control, Okay,
all right, So I won't pick my nose so they
won't avoid that, they won't get the bad side of you, buddy,
I don't have a.

Speaker 21 (49:34):
Bad side, well every side.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
They need to talk to my agent, Rick, if you're
listening to expect the call.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Okay, all right, so I guess the bulk of the
conversation yesterday in to the Dome Boys was about the
the about the budget. Did he get a little heated
there yesterday? I don't know if I got heated. I
think there was a whole lot of snarkiness, snarky snarkiness.

Speaker 21 (49:59):
In the discussion and in the presentation about the budget
with references to Governor Morrissey as his excellency. Vernon Chris
pointed out very bluntly that he had had no conversations
with the Governor or his staff about the budget.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
Well, there were a couple of other.

Speaker 21 (50:16):
Snarky comments I think throughout the presentation there, but I
think it was very clear that there is a let's
say that there's some tension between the executive branch and
at least the House of Delegates.

Speaker 11 (50:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
I give the governor a lot of credit, guys. I
mean he has brought Vernon Chris and Sean fleu Hardy
together in a way that I have never seen before.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Was it you, TJ that put that one on one
of our our esteem journalists. I don't know whether you
or one of the others had that picture posted on
on X of flu Hardy along with Vernon Chris and
it says that was my doing. I couldn't remember which
one of you guys it was, but because I actually
referenented on the show yesterday that said that he was able,
that the governor was able to bring together Vernon Chris

(50:56):
and Sean flu Hardy together. So I'd say, next we
send him to what Ukraine? Next? Send the governor over there?
You can figure it'd be. But I mean, you know,
you talk about the House.

Speaker 22 (51:05):
We saw a Democratic amendment yesterday ended the budget for
twenty five million dollars for flood raw restoration and possibly mitigation,
and that passed.

Speaker 6 (51:15):
So again I think the House is pretty aligned on
where they are with their budget. I mean, you had
did all the Democrats vote yes? I don't think any
Democrat voted no?

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (51:24):
Fourteen Republicans vote, fourteen Republicans voted to go. Yeah.

Speaker 21 (51:27):
Dare I say borderline functional?

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Borderline functional? Boys?

Speaker 6 (51:32):
You still House?

Speaker 3 (51:32):
I was going to say, you still got a ways
to go. Keep in mind, we still got a week
in a couple of days left to go in the
sashturn and you haven't even had crossover day yet. What's
other than budgets? What are you guys taking a look
at today.

Speaker 21 (51:42):
Well in progress? Is the House Finance Committee meeting this morning.
A couple of things there. Brad mcwhinnie's keeping a close
eye on. They are discussing House Bill four thousand and one.
That is Team West Virginia. We've talked a lot about that.
That is a priority for the speaker. Also, that Hope
Scholarship bill that rolled out last week and got a
lot of pushback from special interest groups and homeschool families

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as well, concerned about the possible changes. That is supposed
to come back up this morning, and we are anticipating
that will look a lot different than when it rolled
out last week. So those are the two big things
over in House Finance we're waiting on this morning.

Speaker 6 (52:14):
I'll go on record, if Team West Virginia doesn't get
through this session, that will be the biggest failure of
this legislative session and it will put us yet another
year behind Ohio and other states that do this.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
I agree with you. What what day is it there?
Who's who's invading the Capitol day?

Speaker 21 (52:30):
There are a lot of pharmacists here, okay, and it's
manufacturer's day okay. Bill Beisset's going to join us on
the show for see the Bill.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Bissittt the Bill Bisson my hero Bill Bissitt. All right, boys,
I appreciate it and we will be listening coming up
A ten oh six today, thanks a lot.

Speaker 23 (52:45):
All right, Brett or Day that guy all right, thanks,
thanks for spping by Marsha kavaalk I appreciate it all right.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
We are out of time. Coming up on the show tomorrow,
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