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welcome into the show now, Attorney General the Great sit
of West Virginia.
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J B.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
McCuskey, Morning Dave Mornings, Sir, How are you? I am fine.
I just like the way your your face lights up
when I say big lely piggy wiggly.
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You enjoy that?
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The number one uh ad read in probably all of
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Yeah, big lee pigly wiggly.
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Yeah it's great.
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Yeah, that's perfect. Yes, yeah, we love those folks over there,
and I've learned of perfect saying big lee pigly wiggly.
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Yes, that's correct. Everyone should have a bigley pickley wiggly.
Do you see how well I said that?
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I'm auditioning.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I mean, you know, if this political thing doesn't work out,
maybe you could take over this show. Others have done it.
It has happened before, Others have done it and done
it quite well. You ever thought about doing a podcast
because that seems to be what everybody does these days?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
No, I haven't really. I mean I think you'd be
good at that. JB.
Speaker 7 (02:59):
I think I could probably do it, but I think
I don't have a lot of free time to be
doing long form what do you.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But if you were not tied up in this whole
political thing, then you could do that.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Yeah, I think it would be super fun.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Uh huh, I think it would be fun.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
I think I probably could do it, but right now
my focus is somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, your focus has been in a lot of places.
First of all, I'm going to say I heard the
discussion that you had on talk line yesterday. I was
listen to do it in my office when you were
on with Wilson and Meadows yesterday, And in course you
came on to talk about some recent decisions, which we're
going to get to as it pertains to the Attorney
General's office. But I did think it was an interesting
discussion on the whole Charlie Kirk thing. And I'm going
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to talk about this a little bit later on the
lead story this morning. Wv Metronews dot com. They had
a vigil held on the WVU campus for Charlie Kirk
last night, and they knew it was going to be big.
They had no idea. University officials, even the folks from
turning point, which was his organization that are quoted in
the story said we had no idea it would be
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this big and that this many people would show up.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, and there's another one on Thursday at the state Capitol.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
The governor and the Executive Committee here in Kannall County
or hosting one at the Capitol. So everybody who wants
to come out and pay their respects to a great
man and celebrate the ideals of free speech, I think
should try to get there.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That was one of my takeaways. I'mst spend a whole
lot of time on this because we get other things
to get to. That's one of the takeaways that I
took from the whole thing. And look, I was not
as in tune with Charlie Kirk as what a lot
of younger people were, because quite frankly, he wasn't as
we used the term in broadcasting. He wasn't in my demo,
you know, I mean, he appealed. He was early thirties guy.
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That's who his audience was. But I do know of
the numbers that he had as far as his podcast
and the appearances that he made on television and the
speaking engagements and things of that nature. But you know,
and you guys, I think summed it up perfectly yesterday.
The ability to have free speech and to be able
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to just speak about things that maybe and listen to,
or at least tolerate things that you don't necessary not
you personally, but you don't necessarily agree with, is eroding
evermore every day.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Yeah, And I think the point that you made about
you not being in his demo is an important one.
I think he made a very intentional choice to focus
his energy on the people who were being the most
affected by social media. And I think his thought process,
which has proved to be correct, is that if we
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can keep young people from falling into these rabbit holes,
we can turn them into a new generation of people
who are tolerant of other people's views without sacrificing their own.
And I think that's that's really the key point is
that there are ways to express your opinion that enable
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you to stay true to what your beliefs are, and
you don't have to sacrifice them in order to understand
that other people disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Right, Yeah, And I agree with that, you know, And
we we seem to have gotten, you know, away from that.
And I was reading last night, doing a little bit
of reading on on Charlie Kirk, and I'm sorry, I'm
not on Charlie Kirk, on the Assassin, Charlie Kirk, the
gentleman and alleged he alleged he was somebody who pretty much,
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from what I understand, I mean this, the kid had
everything going for him. At one point thirty four act
full ride to Utah State University lasted one semester, was
in an apprenticeship program for an electrical type program, which
is great, but just became totally immersed uh. And it
actually happened before he became political. He lived his entire
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life pretty much online. Therein lies a problem with a
lot of people, and it's and it's an issue. And
I'm not going to say, JB it's an issue with
a lot of younger people, because it is. It's also
an issue with a lot of older people too. You know,
every now and then, put the phone down, touch some grass.
I think is the current terminology that people like. That
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was Charlie's phrase. Yeah, yeah, oh was I didn't know
it was his phrase.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
That's why everybody's using it these days.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I had no idea. I had no idea and his.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Point is correct.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
There's a humanity in actual interaction, and there's an inhumanity
in digital interaction. Right, And it's very, very easy to
call somebody a fascist or a bigot, or a Nazi
or a racist or any of these other things that
people untruly and unfairly said about Charlie when you've never
actually talked to him.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Right, Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
And he gave thousands upon thousands, if not millions, of
people the opportunity to talk to him. And I don't
know that I've ever seen anybody else under take a
mission of that scope.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Talking to Attorney General jam McCuskey. Now, let's go to sports.
Let's go to sports. Here's a transition time after the
sports will go to weather. But you're officely been involved
in a lot of sports here lately. But I like sports.
I love sports. I absolutely love sports. Remember I almost
died from it Sunday, that's I heard if you if
you followed me on Twitter, yeah, I almost.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Your heart rate monitor was placed on to the internet for.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm still still living that down. But no, I did
not almost die. But anyway, uh, you you're you followed
the opening brief with the US Supreme Court defending the
Save Women's Sports Act. Talk about that.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Yeah, So, the West Virginia Legislature passed the Save Women's
Sports Act a couple of years ago, and the idea
behind the the Act is that biological males should not
be playing sports against biological females. And that makes sense.
And the reason that that makes sense is that we
have laws in this country, specifically titled nine, which were
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designed to create a level playing field for women to
play sports. And there are just inherent physical differences between.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Men and women.
Speaker 7 (09:08):
And in order for those playing fields and for the
ideals of Title nine to be successful, we have to
ensure that women are playing against people that have similar
biological characteristics. That's what this bill seeks to do. That's
why we are so vehemently defending it. It's about giving
our women and girls the opportunity to play sports in
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a safe and fair environment.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And I want to continue with that as it pertains
to sports. The NCAA men's basketball chatter bread. There are
changes going forward, and those changes started with the work
really that you and Governor Morrisey yeah put together.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
So you know, everybody remembers earlier this year when w
got left out of the tournament. Wv was an obvious
tournament team. I doubt they would have won the whole thing,
but that's the point, right You don't know, And there
were some parts of the selection committee process that were
I don't know if untoward is exactly the right word,
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but there was a lack of transparency and a system
that enabled those with a a vested interest in their
own teams uh being part of the process of picking
who the teams were. And so in the aftermath of
West Virginia's snub, you know, we we undertook to to
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ask the NC Double A to change the way that
they do the process so that in the future these
problems don't occur. And and everybody remembers Bubba Cunningham was
the head of the NC Double A selection committee. He
was also the athletic director at the University of North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And the fact that his name was Bubba Bubba.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
It was yeah, I mean, it was the most on
the nose name of all time. But you know, his
team made it into the tournament and our team did not.
And it was mathematically improbable when you looked at the
resumes of the two teams for North Carolina to have
been selected ahead of WU and and so we undertook
a conversation and and you know, some of them were
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hard conversations with the NC double A, and we were
able to come to a resolution and the NC double
A actually changed their rules as it pertains to the
selection committee as a result of of the work that
that that we did and the Governor helped us do.
And I think it's really a better day today for
the NCAA tournament than it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And this is going to again. And I think you know,
there were there were there were critics of that, of
your office's involvement and the and the governor also there
were critics that because they said, well and I had
a text to the show yesterday to the afternoon. Somebody said, well,
why is this important and why why should the Attorney
General's office be involved in that? And to that, you
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would say a couple of things.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
First of all, just because something doesn't seem like it's
important to you doesn't mean it isn't important to a
lot of other people, including the university. Second of all,
we were very very successful, and third of all, we
were able to continue to do all of the incredible
work that the Attorney General's Office has to do at
the same time. Right, It isn't a binary situation. It
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isn't like because I was doing this, we weren't doing that.
We were able to do all of those things at
the same time because we have a well run group
with a bunch of great lawyers, and you know, it's
my job to make sure that we are prioritizing things
in a way to make sure that our functionality is
going properly. And I think anybody who can look back
at the last eight months of what we've done in
the Attorney General's Office and say that we haven't been successful.
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We haven't been working hard for the people of West
Virginian and we haven't been attacking all of the issues
that West Virginians expect us to, I think you'd have
a hard time doing that. And so, you know, it
is it's always a priorities thing in government, right, and
we felt that that deserved the amount of priority that
it got, and we gave it enough attention to actually
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make a real change.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And I think that's important.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Let's do in a world of pipelines, pipelines, pipelines.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Well, we need pipeline pipeline.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Actually there is, I think, and you would be more
up on this than I know. I think the Supreme
Court is taking their show on the road today. I
think it is. I heard on the morning news this morning,
and pipelines are going to be a part of the discuss.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
So pipelines have become a.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Political target of the environmental left and people that hate
the idea that we are going to be an energy
independent nation and we're going to use the God given
resources that are below our feet to fuel an American revolution.
They know that if we can't get the gas and
oil from the well to the processing facility, that it
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can't be used, and so they target these pipeline projects.
And so one of the things that our office does,
not just in West Virginia, but in the whole country,
is that we defend the ability for our natural resources companies,
the people who power our daily lives, the people who
create the oil that creates everything we do every day,
the people that create the gas and the coal that
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makes all of the electricity that powers our iPhones and
and your tesla's uh if you will. And so we
we we defend our pipeline projects from from coast to
coast because we know that the people that are building
them are doing them environmentally soundly and that they are
They're so important to the future of this country that
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you know it is incumbent upon people who are willing
to stand up to do So what else is.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
On your mind this morning?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
You know it is, Uh, it's a wonderful day to
be a West Virginian. But there's a lot of stuff
going on in the world, and you know it is
I got a ten and an eight year old at home,
and you know, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
On my mind.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
It is a I think it's a very very difficult
time to be a young person in this country.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I can't imagine being that as young as you're oughters
are and what the future And I hate to be
that guy because generally speaking, I'm a positive, upbeat guy,
but I can't imagine. It's what if we don't do
something with the world. And I don't know what that
answer is, but what it's going to be like for them.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Watching a young father get gunned down in broad daylight
during a political rally. As a young father who speaks
frequently at open air political rallies, is you know a
little concerning for me. But more than that, I'm just
so hopeful that we can use the events of the
last week or so to do better, because my kids
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deserve a country where they feel very, very free to
express whatever opinions they have. I hope my kids turn
out to be conservative, but you never know. I'd say
the chances are pretty good.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I'd say, well, you know, are you talking about your sister?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Though that's yesterday?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
That was very interesting.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
I grew up in a home where the free exercise
of political beliefs was very well promoted, and we were
allowed to be and think whoever we wanted to be.
And I think that's important, and I try really hard
to make sure my kids have the you know, to
the extent that it's possible, the freedom to become whomever
they want to be, but whomever they want to be
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needs to be protected from violence, and that whether that's
it's just terrifying to when I was at a conference
last week and they were going through the AI chatbots
and how they interacted with teenagers, and one of the
AI companies, and I won't use their name at this time,
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but the AI taught the child how to kill themselves,
down to how to tie a noose and then wrote
the suicide note for the kid that actually killed themselves.
And when you start to look at what's happening from
human to human, but also what's happening from computer to human,
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it's just an intent densely dangerous time to be a
young person in this country. And it's concerning as a parent,
it's concerning as a person who has the ability to
try to stop some of these evils and these ills,
and you know, we work every day to try to
do it, and sometimes it just feels a little bit
like you're playing whack a mole. But we're going to
wake up every single morning and we're going to do
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our best to deliver a world for our kids that
is safe, that has abundant, abundant love and respect for
each other. And I hope we can get there, and
I'm confident we can. But at the first first couple
steps of any really long journey, it seems like a
herculean task.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Attorney General JB. Mcusky, it's always a pleasure to have
you on the show.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Thanks Dave, thank you.
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months ago about some of the work being done here
in Charleston by the Canalla Valley Fellowship Home expanding. Now
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and Dick Daughtry and John Jarret Jared Construction joined us
to talk about Dick, good morning, Welcome to the show, sir,
Good morning Dave.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I am doing fine, mister Jared. It's always a pleasure
to have you in here too as well.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Thank you, Dave. Good to see.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Maybe a turn that microphone just a little bit more
towards you. There, there you go, there you go. Mister
contractor over here, he got to make sure he knows
how to use his hands turn the microphone. I want
to ask you John, real quick before we get into this.
We had John metrom Metrows midday last weekend. Your company
on Friday did an event to honor first responders up
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in Morgantown. I thought it was a fantastic idea.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
How did it go?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It went?
Speaker 12 (21:06):
It was fantastic. Dave had several first responders from the
Morgantown area to visit our site. One lucky Morgantown area
police lady policewoman won two tickets to the pit game
and got to see a wonderful Mountaineer victory Saturday. So
the event was well well done. And appreciate you having
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us on last week to talk about it to recognize
first responders, and you know, it was that September eleventh
that just brings first responders and what they do for
us home, and we were glad to be able to
do it and appreciate you letting us talk about it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Absolutely sound like it was gonna be a fantastic event.
And I know it was held in Morgantown because your
county does a lot of work up there, but it
wasn't just limited to Morgandown people. I think you get
all kinds of people there. So's and somebody got the
tickets to what turned out to be a great game.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
Guess yes, indeed, yes, it was great.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
All right, So let's first talk about Dick. I'll start
with you, for those who may not have heard you
of the last time you were on the air, talk
about this fellowship Home and what it is that home is.
Speaker 13 (22:11):
Yeah, I'm well, I'm Dick Doroty. I'm the executive director
of the Canava Fellowship Home where your neighbor across the
parking lot of eleven twenty one Virginia Street. We are
the oldest sober living facility in the state of West Virginia.
We were established in nineteen sixty seven as an originally
has an outreached mission of our church next door in
same block too, first Presbyterian Church, and so over the
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years it was originally a kind of a halfway house
or a respite for men suffered from alcohol problems, and
that men in the church that had been gotten sober
in alcoholics anonymous got together and rented a house and
had a place where men could get better from drinking
for a period of time. So it's morphed into a
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sober living program that is a three phase program that
we work with people that have opiate addictions and the
substance use just sort of the flavor of the day
what men are addicted to call on meth and fetamen
and alcohol and all those sorts of things. And so
we've been we've expanded over the years. We currently have
thirty five beds, and we recently purchased months before last
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we bought the Johnstone building or the law office next
door to us on the corner of Brooks.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
And Virginia Street.
Speaker 13 (23:28):
And I met John about a year and a half ago,
I say and told him, what was you know, what
we were doing?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And we were We.
Speaker 13 (23:37):
Got together and we hit kind of hit it off,
and he introduced me to Poke Valley Bank and we
we made a deal to buy the building and it's
and John's going to help us with the construction, with
the chair construction, and so it's coming to fruition. We
closed on the building. We are now in the building.
We've we're going to add twelve more sober living beds,
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private beds for men and suffering for in our face
too part of our program, and we hope that so
we'll ultimately we'll have forty seven beds.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
In total.
Speaker 13 (24:09):
We have turned away twelve hundred people in the last
five years since I've been the executive.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And that's what you hear a lot from the experts
in this field, guys, is that you hear somebody may
want to get better, but they're just not enough beds available,
And tragically, we hear worst case scenario. We hear a
lot of stories where someone died waiting on a bed,
not necessarily at your facility, but I mean, in general,
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we hear those stories all the time.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
There is a huge need in our community locally and
in the state of West Virginia and the opioid response
the big fund that under Governor Morrissey that now our
Attorney General JB. Mccusky it was just here, is in
charge of. They set up a foundation called the West
Virginia First Foundation, and there's a lot of money available
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through that in part is going to help us fund.
We've applied for a grant or going to apply for
another grant with them, and we've made it an application
through the Federal Home Own Bank for a forgivable loan
that's going to hopefully fund a big part of this project.
But we were here today to talk about our mission
and about the fact that we have a two million
dollar campaign fundraising campaign to try to pay for this
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and get it, get it infruition. We want to be
in business this time next year. I want to fill
those beds with men that need our help, all.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Right, and talk about this project, talk about this, the
whole fundraising aspect of this thing.
Speaker 13 (25:34):
Well, we have, of course, we have since we've been
around for a long time. We have we the United Way,
the Greater Kanalvai Foundation, the Jacobson Foundation, the day Would Foundation.
We have a lot of different people that help us,
and we have an annual fundraiser, and we have a
lot of grateful alumni people that have done well after
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they've gotten sobered up through our program, that come back
and give to us. So we have odd community support.
And we just did a mailing that I gave you
a copy of that came out kind of talks about
the details of the plan, but the plan was to
purchase the building, add the sober living. They're basically studio
apartments for in their private rooms with shared baths, and
(26:18):
they are really really nice. They're air conditioned, they they'll
have Wi Fi, they'll have laundry service, they'll have everything
that's needed, and we'll offer food we'll offer meals next
door at our main facility at eleven twenty one Virginia Street,
and so that's the first phase of our program. But
it's expensive because the building was built. It was originally
the bone and joint surgeons. The doctor Giz and doctor
(26:40):
Sale and doctor Bengani practiced medicine there and then they
moved up up on the hill and then it became
a law office. But it's got good bones. But it
has because we're going to have people who live there.
We have to sprinkle it. We have to basically gut
the entire building and start over again with a structure.
And that's where mister Jarrett Can comes in. And we
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had my friend Tom Potts at Selling Associates, architect is
also a friend that is a friend of Recovery and
is helping us with some of the design aspects of it.
But John has a personal story that was really interesting.
I thought might come to light that helps that God
works in mysterious ways, and it's just strange. How it's
(27:22):
not strange, it's prophetic how it happened. But John told
me a story and I'd like him to kind of
share that.
Speaker 12 (27:27):
Sared Dick, thank you buddy, and it has been a
blessing to be able to connect with you. When I
received that call from you, I guess it was about
this time last year, maybe a little bit longer, and
brought back a bunch of memories for me. My dad,
Klein Jarrett was a resident of Canawh Valley Fellowship Home
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when it was the old house next to the Presbyterian Church.
And Dad fought his demons for many years and was
there and with some of the best years of his
life is when he was sober at your facility. And
I think low Smith had your job at right time.
(28:08):
And Uh I got to meet Lou a time or
two and and uh and Dad, Uh, Dad did the
best he could. Unfortunately, fortunately my dad wasn't able to
overcome his addiction and uh he he passed away at
uh uh in a in a shelter. And so the
(28:29):
opportunity for me to help you and help your calls
and help the men at Canall Valley Fellowship Home, well
that's just something God is put in front of me,
and I'm I'm thankful for that and we're looking forward
to being able to help help the program, help the mission.
Uh that's your own.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And What I like about having you both of you
on the show is because I mean, look, the you know,
the cause is great, the need is great, we all
know that. But but you, but you two, Dick and John,
I mean you you got You've got stories as well
about the personal things that in your case, John, that
your that your father went through, Dick, and things that
you've seen you've gone through. And I think that's I
(29:08):
think that adds another layer to the story.
Speaker 13 (29:11):
Absolutely, and it is uh, you know. I I've volunteered
at the at the Fellowship Poem for the last thirty
plus years and I've been blessed to be the executive
director for the last five years. And they're great. We
have a volunteer board of directors that most of them
are in recovery themselves, and they they believe in our
what we do one hundred percent, and so we over
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the years, we've morphed into a program that we've proven
that the longer men that are addicted, that have addiction
issues stay in structured sober living, the better their chances are.
We want to get them involved in a recovery community
here in Charleston that the longer we keep them and
let their brains heal and let their let their you know,
learn about their addictions and learn about you know, get
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sponsors and worksteps, and make amends to people for things
they've done wrong. We believe we're treating men that are
sick with a disease that need to get well, not
bad men that need to get good. Men sick men
do bad things, need to get in trouble, and they
have to pay the price, They have to make amends.
And ultimately, though, we get to the point where they
get well enough that they start carrying that message to
(30:14):
the next guy that comes along that there's hope and
that they can get better from an addiction and that
they can have a fruitful life, a happy, fulfilled, you know,
wonderful life with free from alcohol drugs. And that's basically
our mission is is to provide that time, which is
from six months to three years. We've proven that if
you stay with us six months, you have a one
(30:37):
in three chance, if you stay with us a year,
you have a seventy percent chance, and if you stay
with us three years and you stay active in recovery
in the recovery community, you have better than eighty percent
chances stand sober for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
And so that's what has it been your experience because
I've talked Dick to other people that do similar type things,
and they have said that the top counselors, I don't
know if that's the word you want to use, or
the people that are the best at this at reaching
people are people that have been there themselves, because I mean,
(31:11):
I mean, let's think about your own experience. It's just
like you know, I mean, you go to an institution
of higher learning and you're being instructed by somebody who's
never actually done this sort of thing. You know, It's
been my experience of talking to these people that the
people that have actually lived those lives are the better,
are just much better at absolutely and helping, for lack
(31:34):
of a better term.
Speaker 13 (31:34):
That's our house manager of My assistant director, Jay Webb
has been He's a product of our home. He's been
sober and clean and sober for busting his anemity. But
he's been he's been sober for nineteen years. He's a
product of the Fellowship Home. I'm in, you know, I'm
in recovery. I've been sober. It'll be thirty eight years
on January third. This coming year. You know all the
(31:59):
men that I work with and what it's lived experience.
We employee people. We have a peer recovery support specialist,
it's in recovery. That's a product of our program. We're
going to have to hire another one when we get
done with with the expansion project here. And we have
lots of volunteers that come into our home. Our addiction
professional that does the counseling. He's a product of our
(32:21):
program too, and he went on to get he didn't
have a college degree. He got a college degree and
a master's degree in addiction counseling. He's now he's counseling
our men. So it is that lived experience that you know,
the experience strength and hope and that we get through
the program, through the twelve step programs.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What we all right, people are listening right now. How
can they get involved? How can they help out with
this capital project?
Speaker 13 (32:41):
You can well, we have a website kV f H
Cannaw Value Fellowship Home SOLCI. Our initials kV F H
dot O RG. My telephone number is three O four
three four two eight five one. I would invite anybody
that's interested to come and talk to us. I can
mail you of one of our little brochures that we have.
(33:03):
There'll be more stuff on Facebook, social media and marketing
that sort of thing, and so we're it's it's going big.
But I'd love for people to come and visit us.
We have a Beans and cornerbread lunch and every the
last Thursday of every month, you're invited on at noon.
This month it'll be on the twenty fifth at noon.
Well you may I'm on the air. Then you may
have to send me some down here. John, it's a
(33:25):
good job for you.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I got you.
Speaker 13 (33:28):
But but we're we're really blessed and thank you and
the station and John for for being a part of it.
So it's a whole community. I've left a lot of
people out, our mayor, the Conall County Commission, all all
the people are behind us. They've they've all we've been
blessed and they're they're helping us financially and prayerfully, and
(33:49):
we believe that we're going to make our community better.
We want to make our We want to put men
back to work, we want to add to the tax base.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
We want to save.
Speaker 13 (33:56):
When men get better, their families get better, our communities heal.
So we want to heal. We want to heal the
addiction problem. We want it to get better. And that's
it's my mission and my passion that I want to
be a big, you know, a player in that part
of that.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
I'm proud, proud to do it.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Well, guys, it's always a pleasure to have you on
the show. You're doing great work out there, Dick and
John of Jerry Construction. I appreciate you being here as well.
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three zero four nine three five five zero zero eights Okay, now,
Tex says Dave had to stop to send this. It
was great that our Attorney General said mister Kirk has
a right to free speech, and that is correct. Had
I been able to ask, I would have asked about
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all of the people who have committed or I'm sorry
I commented unfavorably on the shooting. While tasteless and not needed,
those comments are also free speech. He also needs to
defend those comments and should say that seeking revenge on
those people is also not rights. Do some have free
speech and not others. I can't speak for mister mccusky.
(40:08):
I can tell you that I'm the ultimate free speech person.
You know that if you've listened to my show, you
should probably know that. I don't always get to all
the text because sometimes I don't. I don't think that
they add anything to the show, but I try to
get to as many as I can. But I'm the
ultimate free speech guy, no matter whether I agree or disagree.
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Tex says, Okay, that was from yesterday, Texas, Dave, I've
had some introspection about Charlie kirks murder, and I understand
the grief of Kirk's followers. They felt a personal connection
to him as he was in their homes most of
the night. He was one of their thought leaders and
a leader of thought for his followers. I can emphasize
(40:51):
with Kirk's followers, they no longer know what to think
or how to think. They're kind of like ruddless ships
in a storm. They need a hug and they need
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at the Kirk Memorial for exercising their free speech if
it goes against what Kirk preached? I can't speak for that, Uh,
but I will say what I would do as long
as what they are doing if there are if people
(41:40):
do show up to protest, as long as what they
are doing is within the confines of the law, they
should not be It's remember the whole thing with the
Westboro Baptist Church years ago. Uh, these were these idiots
that showed up and protested fewunerals of coal miners and
(42:01):
things of that nature. Uh, you know, a off an
alt right group, and that was a lot of controversy
and people said, you know, they shouldn't be allowed to
do that. Actually they should because it's America. You may
not like it, you may have to deal with the
consequences if you go into certain areas of West Virginia
to do that. But absolutely they should be able to
(42:25):
dex says Well. Pambondi went on air and threatened an
office Depot employee with prosecution for not printing to Charlie
Kirk Poster. Office Depot fired the employee. Is it authoritarian
to threaten prosecution over First Amendment rights? I don't know
the particulars of this case. I will say that a
(42:45):
private business has right, has a right to turn down
any business that they want to if your office depot,
that's a pretty dumb decision, but you know you can
a private business can refuse service to anybody that they want.
But again, they also have to be willing to deal
with the fallout, whether it's a court case, whether it's
bad publicity or whatever. Text says Dave. We need to
(43:14):
hold our elected officials accountable with this legislation session. No
more social issues and hate legislation. Need to focus on
the economy, healthcare, roads, jobs, Enough of dividing communities and
our people. Well, I agree, Good luck with that Texas
Florida guy.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Again.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Day funny, isn't it The Left invents cancel culture weaponizes
it for years against conservatives, and now it's being used
against them. They're suddenly clutching pearls about fairness. Clean Up
in Isle America is going, says a Texture Texas. God
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of things in the news where we close it out.
Lead story from Joe Nelson this morning wv metronews dot com.
A much larger crowd than expected at the Life Sciences
Quad WVU last night for the Charlie Kirk service. The
candlelight vigil was organized by the WVU branch of Kirk's
(47:06):
Turning Point USA. Well over one thousand people showed up
last night, and I don't think, really, I do not
think they anticipated that many people would show up to
honored life and work with Charlie Kirk. I mean it
was well over a thousand people. We have a story
in pictures posted at wv metronews dot com. Now, as
(47:29):
we talked about earlier, there is going to be one
in Charleston Thursday on the Capitol Grounds Governor Morrissey making
that announcement, and the governor is expected to speak at
that event. President Trump will attend one in Arizona this week,
and in the meantime, The Wall Street Journal over the
weekend had an op ed that was written by a
professor of political science from California who uncovered some disturbing facts.
(47:55):
According to a new poll, I'm sorry, ninety three percent
of baby boomers think political violence in any form is wrong.
Ninety three eighty six percent of my generation Gen X
thinks it's always wrong, but only fifty six percent of
(48:16):
the young'ins gen Z, defined as those born between nineteen
ninety seven and twenty twelve, only fifty six percent think
political violence is always wrong, meaning meaning that a large
percentage of members of Gen Z, again those born between
ninety seven and twenty twelve, are okay with political violence
(48:42):
as what we saw with Charlie Kirk that my friends
to me, is very scary, and it's only getting scarier
as we head toward the future.
Speaker 5 (48:55):
And I have.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
I don't know what to say. I have made my
feelings known about about Charlie Kirk. You may or may
not have agreed with him. I did not on many fronts,
some of the things I did. But he did not
deserve to die any more than anyone who may have
been had a similar passion but was on the other side.
(49:20):
I just I don't I just have a hard time wrapping,
you know, my head around this that someone is so
filled with anger over words that they would go to
that level. And again, I don't care whether they're on
the left or the right, you know. I also also
and you've heard me talk about this on the show
before too, I also don't see how anybody could be
(49:42):
as angry to do what they did on January sixth.
And I felt that anybody that entered that capital on
January sixth should have been prosecuted, and many were. Many
were also pardoned to the fullest extent of the law. Now,
I know, talking about maybe two different things here, but
are we really those people were radicals, the people that
(50:03):
went into the capitol in January sixth, the ones that
did the destruction. Okay, I'm not talking about people that
showed up and just protested, which was stupid and pointless
in my eye, But they had the right to do that.
Once they entered that capital and they started breaking things,
and they started doing what they did game over, game over,
(50:24):
and I agree. My feelings on this situation would have
been the same had it been Charlie Kirk or the
most liberal of speakers. I've been very clear about that.
I make no differences between the two.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
It may have.
Speaker 3 (50:38):
Well, you find me somebody on the left that is
a Charlie Kirk and has in his gun down for
his words, taking a father and a husband. You find
me somebody on the left that does that, and I
will say the exact same thing. I will condemn it
and say that it was wrong. But Dave Alan showing
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employee was fired as office depots should have done. In
a story. Why does a federal government need to threaten involvement?
Do they need to be authoritarian? Once again, propose a
violation of the constitution. Federal government should not get involved
in adult It's none of their business. It's none of
(51:21):
their business what a private company does. Okay, no, we're
not going there. What do you call the person who
pardoned them, says the text're talking about January sixth. I
call him president because he's a president of the United States,
So I also don't support him. I want him to
do well because I'm an American. I'm funny that way.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
But I.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
You ask me what I call President Trump by calling
president because he's my president. I may not agree with
him on everything. It may not agree with him on
a lot of things, but some things I do agree
with him on I call him president. That's what I
call him. Tex says Dave. All for prayer, visuals, all
for political rallies, not in favor of political rally prayer,
(52:05):
vigils of any race creator nationality, especially in American especially
in the steps of our state capitol. All Right, we'll
leave it there. Coming up on the show tomorrow again,
we're going to be talking about one of my favorite subjects.
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