12/15/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Taylor Gue, Amelia Knisley, Bryan Hughes

Taylor Gue from the Clay Center, Amelia Knisley from WV Watch, and meteorologist Bryan Hughes on the weather.

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to the Monday edition of the show. And I don't
know about you, but I'm about over winner to be
honest with you. And it hasn't officially started yet. Five
degrees when I left my house this morning. I think
our Jeff just said, I think it was nine or
ten or so right now in the Capital City. It
is going to warn up nicely though later in the week,

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snow did you get Saturday night in the Sunday morning,
I heard Jeff on the news to say that the
Buffalo area of Putnham County seems to be one of
the areas got to hit the hardest with about five
inches out about three at my house in Day's Valley.
Wasn't so much the snow as it was the ice.
But that's going to be all gone as we're gonna
warm up today. Probably not gonna be gone today, but

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by Wednesday and Thursday, we're't looking at temperatures near sixty
by the time Thursday rolls around. Of course, there was
no school today for Kanar. Putnham County's main roads were
in good shape. Interstate was fine, a couple of the
ex sits on rams little dice and of course the
side treets and back roads are a little rough. But
as I said, it is going to get better. And
speaking of the weather, someone who knows a little bit

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about the weather is meteorologist Brian Hughes. And if you've
tune in the last couple of weeks to see him
on television, he hasn't been there on something to that.
Brian's going to join us to talk about that coming
up a little bit later on Aloso Amelia Nicely from
West Virginia. Watch will be stopping by and your calls
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zero zero. I want to get a check in on
some things going on with the folks of the CLAYSA.
Taylor Gow joins us right now. Taylor, good morning, welcome
to the show.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Good morning. How are you doing?

Speaker 5 (03:14):
I'm doing fine. So I got to ask you, you're
a fan of this weather or no?

Speaker 6 (03:19):
Well, I like a lot of folks. I've got a
youngster in the school system. So this is day four
of being home in last week and a half, so
I am about ready for this sort of go away.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, well, you know the what. And I'm not a parent,
but what parents have told me. They say, hey, the
first day is really fun, and then the second day comes,
and then the third day doesn't mean doesn't mean you
don't love your kids all right, by any stretching the imagination,
We're not going to go that far. Okay, but uh cool,
but they need to get some of them edumacations and
hopefully they'll be able to get back in school. So

(03:52):
so what's on your mind this morning? What do you
want to talk about from the Clay Center.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Well, you know, it actually had a lot to do
with this weather going on. I mean, I have a youngster,
so I mean I take him to the Clay Centers
just happens to be an extra bonus for me that
I get to work there. But on these snow days,
on these days where it's just too cold to be outside,
I have so much joy in taking my son over
to the Clay Center and letting him run and play,

(04:18):
and I feel like it's a safe environment for him,
it's educational at the same time, and we have so
many holiday events coming up this over the next two
weeks or so, and it's just a really great time
for everyone to get their little ones over to the
Clay Center. And it's special bonus because we have a
new program called the Wonder Season Passport, and it essentially

(04:40):
gives back rewards everyone for coming to the Clay Center.
So we have a bunch of really cool prizes that
you come, you get your little Passport program. You get
stamps every time you come, and you earn prizes along
the way, so it's a nice little, nice little give
back during the holiday season.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
And I think that's really interesting that parents, if they
can safely get out, that they choose to do that
at the Place Center, you know, to bring their kids
over there. And for the kids, it's probably it's not
quite like learning because it's fun, but you're going to
fold them into and teaching them something anyway.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
Right exactly. And we've got so many new things open
up at the Clay Center over the last couple of months.
I mean, we've had a new permanent exhibit outside of
our planetarium called Space Lab. We have a new facility
in the back of my town on the lower floor
called Maker Space, and we always have tons of different
like three D printing, cardboard activities. Yesterday when I took

(05:33):
them over there, we made little elf hats. So there's
always fun stuff going on. We even actually have a
TV studio that opened up at the end of the summer,
so it's always fun seeing the kids go in there
and get behind the camera, read a script, tell their
own breaking news, and then pop out and see the
video themselves. So there's just so much fun to do
at the Clay Center.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Well, look if they're already interested in internships. We'll talk
to them here because we're always looking for people.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
You know, listen, I'll I'll let my little guy know
he loves the TV studio.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Okay, all right, well that's a how does he feel
about radio?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Uh? You know what?

Speaker 6 (06:08):
He loves the Yeah, well.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
That's how I got here. So so one hundred and
eighty eight years ago, that's that's how I ended up
here again. Is your your last name?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Taylor?

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Am I pronouncing it right?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Is it you?

Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Gui?

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Okay, Well that's uh. I knew some people with that
with that last name, so uh, I'm glad I was
able to get it right. But Dave Island Show on
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(06:44):
don't know can hurt you. Is that one of the
little ones we hear in the background, now, Taylor, it is?

Speaker 6 (06:49):
It is? He got tired of watching some type of pigs.
So it's about time to hit back up to play.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Well, look, if he wants to come on the air
right now, we'll put him on the air right now.
Or should Is that something I probably shouldn't do?

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Okay, sir, you want to stay hi? He said, no, okay,
all right.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Well that's thanks you early for that. That's what most
people say when I asked him if they want to
talk to me. All right, so I want to talk
about some other things. What else she got going on
to Clay Shaer that you want to tell the people
about today?

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Oh my goodness. So we've got a wonderful set of
performances with the Children's Deer of Charleston. They're doing a
production of The Grinch that's coming up this weekend. Those
tickets are selling really fast, so a lot of people
will buy their tickets at the door, So I really
recommend people who want to see that show get their
tickets early. We also have our Winter wonder Labs, our

(07:34):
Noon Year's Eve event, which is a huge you know,
countdown to noon on New Year's Eve, so the kids
have that fun experience about having to stay up until midnight.
So many wonderful things going on at the Clay Center.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
I mean, that's always a cool thing. Every year at
the Clay Center. I hear people talking about that where
they have basically like the Midnight Celebration, but they do
it twelve hours.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Sooner, right exactly.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
You know, we do the big countdown, you have a
little explosion, the safe leap, you know, done the explosion
for the kids, Balloons, confetti, tons of activity. So it's
it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
I was talking last week with one of your counterparts,
but we were talking about more along the lines of
some of the productions that were coming to the Clay Center.
But one of the things I love about talking about
the Clay Center and what a gym it is for
not only the Kanawa Valley Taylor, but for all of
West Virginia is the amount of things that they have
going on at one time that a lot of people
may say, well, what's going on to Clay Center, and

(08:28):
you guys, you and Sierra and those folks may say, well,
how much time.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Have you got?

Speaker 6 (08:32):
It really really is And anytime someone asks what we've
got going on, I said, you know, you where do
you want me to start? Because you know, there's so
many things that are you know, big and flashy, that
we have out there all the time. But we also
have everyday programming. You know, we have events called Storytime
Theater and book Buds, story Time in studio art Hours.

(08:54):
You know, there's all of these programs that are designed
for children that happen on an on most daily basis,
as well as all of our films and shows in
our planetarium. I mean it's literally endless.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
All right. Hey, Taylor, where's the best place for people
to learn about things going on to the Clay Center.
I know you got social media and you got a website,
but where where's the best place for all the above
to check out what's going on with the Clay Center.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
Absolutely, I will always direct people to our website www
dot Klaycenter dot org. We've got everything listed there. If
you go up to the top right corner, there should
be a tickets button that will bring you to every
single activity and event that's going on at the Clay
Center on a daily basis.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
All right, Taylor, appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
Now go take care of that young and.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
Okay, I will you have a good one, all.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
Right, you as well, Taylor? Do you again from the
Clay Center?

Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:40):
It is, uh there's always something going on at the
Clay Center.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
I know that sounds like the oldest cliche in the
advertising world, but there really is.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
There's always something.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Going on over there. And you know, the uh with
these with these snow days that we've had, the I mean,
I'm sure if it gets bad enough, they will take
a snow da at the clay Center. But they're open.
So if you want something for your kids to do,
this is you know, when you look at the snow
I know we had. Depending on where you live, I
don't know, especially with as cold as it is, whether
it's necessarily conducive to getting out and you know, playing
in the snow, or whether it's the right kind of snow,

(10:08):
or even if you got enough to make a snowman.
But think I'm on down to the Clay Center. Bigley
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if you are traveling today, like I said, I think
schools are I know schools are out and it is
extremely cold out there, but it is gonna warm up
a little bit. But you know, the my here's my

(12:59):
official traffic report and the interstate. My drive in this morning,
and there were some slick spots here there. Of course,
I came in really early this morning, but but not horrible.
Getting out of my neighborhood was a little bit dicey
in some of the back roads and some of the
excits and non ramps are going to be a little
slick this morning. But by the time Thursday rolls around
and we're in the sixties, you're gonna be saying what
happened to that snow? And I well, no, anytime I

(13:20):
say anything negative about snow, I get in trouble with
Joe Stevens in the Ski Areas Association. So I'm not
gonna say anything negative about snow.

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I'm just gonna say you know how I feel.

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bit later on the show. Want to welcome into the
show now, Amelia Nicely from West Virginia. Watch, good morning,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 12 (13:46):
Good morning, How are you?

Speaker 5 (13:47):
I am fine? What's the weather report from where you
are calling today?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Amelia?

Speaker 12 (13:53):
H kids already running around because of the snow day?
Can that be the weather report?

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Well, you know, I was talking with Taylor from the
Clay Center in the first segment, and that's pretty much
what she said too. She was scheduled to be here
and got a text from her last night that said
she would have to reschedule because of being a snow
day here in Kanawa County because she's on kid duty today.
So hey, you can always load them up, take them
to the Clay Center. That's what she was here to
talk about.

Speaker 11 (14:16):
So there's that.

Speaker 12 (14:17):
We love the player, all right.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I want to go back to a story that you
did last week, and it seems to me like it's
the same old story. No pun intended issues with the
foster care system in West Virginia. Particularly last week during interims,
some of the legislators in this particular committee learned that
the Department of Human Services, which oversees foster care in
the state, is still struggling to pay foster care providers

(14:43):
on time, which in turn impacts a lot of kids.
You're somebody who writes about a variety of things, but
you know, kid issues, child issues take up a lot
of your time. Your take on that story that you wrote,
what you.

Speaker 12 (14:55):
Learned from it, well, I think you're kind of lead
into that saying it seems like the same old story
is how I've felt writing it. You know. I think
from my perspective, we're about a year into the Morrissey administration,
and so Governor Morrissey and Human Services Secretary Alex Mayor
really inherited a very broken foster care system that came

(15:16):
from Governor Gym Justice right, thousands of kids, not enough money,
not enough DPS workers, etc. So I think my mentality
has been this year to still cover it, but give
them a grace period to settle in because they've vowed
a lot of changes. But what we heard in this
committee meeting was very reminiscent of the Justice years. That

(15:37):
we have multiple child welfare providers. I'm talking people who
drive foster kids to see their biological parents, people that
run group homes because we don't have enough foster homes
in our state. These people are not being paid on
time and it is really affecting their finances. And part
of the reason that I'm not being paid on time
are technology issues at DUHS, but also they're saying, no

(16:00):
one is responding to my emails, no one is helping me,
and so this did feel like a very similar story
to what I've written before. But I do think lawmakers
are probably I don't want to speak for them, but
my take is they feel similar to me that you know,
we've given you a year to kind of get things rolling,
and some things are some changes are in motion, but

(16:22):
we can't have a situation where the people that are
taking care of six thousand vulnerable kids could potentially shut
their doors because they're not getting paid. Because we cannot
stand to lose another child welfare provider.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
And Amelia I don't want to come off like, you know,
everybody is blaming the Justice administration, But the facts are
it didn't matter who was in that particular office. That
a lot of these issues that they're looking for now
stem from the previous administration. And it's not a slap
against Jim Justice. It could have been whoever was holding
that office. It just happened to be Jim Justice.

Speaker 12 (16:54):
Yes, I mean I would maybe have a different take
than you a little bit.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Well, you're the expert, so go ahead.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
No, I'm really not. No, No, I'm not.

Speaker 12 (17:02):
My opinion is and this is time reporting on it. Yes,
I think the foster care system has been completely overwhelmed,
largely due to substance abuse crisis and poverty over the.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Least exod Yeah, yes.

Speaker 12 (17:16):
So you are right that you know, whoever whatever governor
was an office was going to be dealing with a tragedy, right,
But there were so many instances under Justice where CPS
was not to the level of staffing that needs to
be because it needs money, right, and things were not

(17:38):
being carried out, investigations, et cetera. And at the end
of the day, the executive branch runs foster care and
so I agree with you very overwhelmed system. But I
think we saw tragedy after tragedy that showed missteps were made,
there was a lack of funding, etc. That could have
been dealt with, And I fear that we're continuing that

(17:58):
trajectory under Morrisy. And I think Secretary Mayor, I mean,
he's laid out very clear things he wants to change, technology,
uniform treatment of CPS workers for cases across the state,
things that really need to be fixed. I hear a
lot of things from Secretary Mayor that are things that
we've been reporting on for years that need to be fixed.

(18:19):
I think one of the key things, though, is going
to be you have to have money to make some
of these changes, and you have to have buy in
from the department, And some of those people have been
there for years, and so I think, you know, what
I hear from lawmakers constantly is the Department doesn't want this,
they don't want this oversight, they don't want this bill.
So I just hope we're not continuing another four years

(18:41):
of blaming. You know, Dohs blames the lawmakers. Lawmakers blame Dohs,
the governor blames the reporters for being mean, to him.
I hope we're not continuing that trajectory because at the
end of the day, six thousand kids need us to
make sure the system is taking care of them.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
And Amelia, when you say that, we've had people that
have been in and I don't mean the kids, I'm
talking about the employees there now. I mean and please
don't take this the wrong way. I am not trying
to throw shade on I mean, these are some of
the hardest working people in many cases, and it's a
thing I can't imagine doing that job. I really really can't,
and I have nothing but the utmost respect for them.

(19:16):
But when you say that there are those in the
system that have maybe I think the words you use
been there for a while and they tell longmakers. So
we don't want this, you know, with all due respect
to those workers, this sounds like what you have a
lot of times in a lot of businesses, even outside government,
when you've had people that have been there. This is

(19:37):
the way we've always done it, this is the way
we're always going to do it. And we hope that's
not the case, because unlike at Ford or unlike at
Taco Bell, you're talking about kids here.

Speaker 12 (19:48):
Yes, and I think, you know, I don't have a
what's a clows herd of everyone who's stayed at DUHS
after Justice left. So this is just the conversations I've
had with lawmakers. But it's not so much the CPS
workers who are out in the field because traditionally that
job has a high turnover rate, and you can imagine
it's more people in the upper level that I think
lawmakers have had concerns about. You know, we have a

(20:12):
new secretary and we have some new people in leadership,
but just making sure that it's not the same, all same,
all out of CPS and DHS moving forward.

Speaker 6 (20:20):
And.

Speaker 12 (20:23):
Just also making sure that it's not dis blaming the
Justice administration. You know, this federal audit just came out
that said that do Justice and handle ninety percent of
child abuse investigations correctly under Justice, and Secretary Alex Mayor
has already outlined changes from that, but you know, a
year from now, how do we make sure those changes

(20:45):
actually go through. I think that's a big concern for
lawmakers is like we do feel like we have a
leader in place who wants to fix it, but also
we heard this song and dance before under Justice and
we're still getting bad news from the Justice Administration in
foster care, like it's still coming out. So I think
I definitely felt foster care was a big theme of interims.
I had plenty to write about, but there was definitely

(21:08):
a grow. There was already attention in the room and
we're not even to the session yet.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
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(21:36):
Your career starts here. And you know somebody again who
covers this on a on an almost daily basis. And
what we're seeing now is a direct offshoot of the
opioid crisis that we've had. And of course, you know,
we had the pain pill issue and then that transition
into this and that began this and so on and
so forth. Are the numbers Amelia getting any better at all?

(22:00):
Or are we making any kind of headway about the
numbers of the kids.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
And this is not talking about that. I'm not talking
about the officials.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
I'm talking about the single bottom line number of kids
in the system.

Speaker 12 (22:12):
No, we're not. And I think what really stood out
to me over the last couple of weeks is we
have more than five hundred kids out of state. You know,
I've written about sending kids out of state facilities for
five years now and I checked the data pretty regularly
and it usually hovers around three hundred. So I was
really surprised to see that we were now over five

(22:33):
hundred kids out of state and back to the it
takes money. One of the bills that lawmakers are going
to propose this year is setting up a fund that
would be used to open up beds in state or
build a group home to bring these kids from out
of state. We lose a lot of oversight of these kids.
We are paying astronomical amounts to send them out of state,

(22:57):
and so that's a big push this year is to
bring these kids closer to their home communities. But it
will take money. And last year we spent seventy one
million dollars sending kids out of state and that was
about I think two hundred and fifty kids or something
around that. And the lawmakers say, look, we already have
the money. We can just reallocate it. But that's going

(23:19):
to take department buy in, so that'll be something to
watch well.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
And it's interesting that you say that because last week
on Metro News Midday we had on state Senator Eric
Tarr and he talked about that. I don't know whether
you heard the interview or not, but Senator Tarr said,
and I'm very much paraphrasing here, he said, we just
keep throwing money at this and throwing money at this.
We've we can't. You know, money is not going to
cure everything. And to a certain extent, I agree with that.

(23:45):
There are all the money in the world, is what
you're saying is true, and I have no reason to
doubt it. Amelia Ween. There are all the money in
the world. We wanted it, But if we don't have
department buy in, then what do we really have.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
Right and having just accountability on the system, I thinking
that has been I don't know, just difficult for me
the last week is seeing pushed back from the executive
branch all my reporting, but that was something that was
really difficult under the Justice years. They did not want
any negative headlines, right and so at the end of

(24:16):
the day, this is a very broken system. Nobody is
expecting more see to fix it overnight, but we do
have to be able to ask questions, hold people accountable
for fixing it because again, these are six thousand kids
who don't have lobbyists, they don't have a voice at
the state House. We have to make sure that the
system is working for them because so often they do

(24:37):
not have anyone to advocate for them.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Talk to begin with Amelia Niceley from West Virginia. Watch
all to switch gears here for a moment. Last week,
there was a press event held by House Speaker Roger Hanshaw,
and he was surrounded by the Republican legislators and they
are sane that they don't want to get bogged down
by social issues in the upcoming session, that it's about jobs,
it's about the economy, me so on and so forth.

(25:01):
This is what we are focused on. There was talk
of UH proposed pay raises UH for for teachers and
school service personnel. The governor then comes out and says
that he would also support all state workers, if I'm correct,
all state workers getting to pay raise. I want to
with and we all and we all know that Roger
Hanshaw is a man of his word and somebody who's

(25:24):
almost above reproach. But what we want to believe, or
at least I do, this is just me speaking for
me Emilia. I want to believe what he is saying.
I want to believe what those other legislators are saying.
But at the same time, there's a track record, you
know what I mean, not from Speaker Handshaw, but there
is a track record of all we are going to

(25:45):
go do this jobs, jobs, jobs, economy, economy. Oh but
let's let's let people ride motorcycles while standing up.

Speaker 12 (25:55):
I how do elect This is going to be an
election year session, and I don't like covering electioneer sessions
because they affect the billmaking process and people trying to
get information to put on mailers, like oh, you didn't
vote for.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
This, right.

Speaker 12 (26:10):
So there's a lot of things that I think threaten
his agenda. However, I think that the House could very
well do what they laid out this week. I think
the wild card is the Senate. For me, It's like,
by all means, the House could pass these bills, but
they could very well never see the light of day
in the Senate. They could also not get signed into

(26:33):
law by the governor. All the relationships are so fraught
right now. Yeah, So I think that's what I do.
Expect that much of what Speaker Hanshaw laid out will
at least be up for debate, probably will pass the House.
Seems like he has a lot of buy in from people.
I don't know that I buy that we won't see
any social issue bills this year because every year the

(26:54):
last few years I come into session, I'm like, what
more could they do on transgender issues? And they always
find something or like, you know, I didn't expect a
four hour debate on standing up on a motorcycle, right Like,
they always find something that is like a wild cards do.
But I think a lot of Speaker Henshaw's agenda will
move forward. I just I think it's we can't be

(27:17):
too optimistic about what its life will look like once
it leaves the House.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Well, and it's an election year, as you said, all
the House seats are up, some of the Senate seats
are going to be up, and it's that it's that thing,
and and and uh. This is when uh, members of
the media like yourself and Metro News and others, we
find ourselves out there because mailers will go out and
they'll say things like this was said, this was reported

(27:42):
by a million iceley and you're like, Okay, well, I
didn't know I was going to be in a campaign ad,
but there you go. You know, it's public record.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Yeah, yes, yes, But then they get mad, like last
year there was, especially after the motorcycle debate, several lawmakers
were you know, saying to Brad or myself or whomever, like.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
You made us look.

Speaker 12 (28:00):
It's like, okay, but you really did debate standing up
on a motorcycle for four hours, Like these quotes are
things you guys did say happen.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
All right, Hey, Amelia, what are you working on the
next couple of days other than chasing kids around the house.

Speaker 12 (28:16):
Yes, you know, I'm just trying to follow up on
some school closings.

Speaker 6 (28:19):
And I think.

Speaker 12 (28:21):
Schools are the things we hear the most about from readers.
That's one of the biggest concerns, along with jobs and
utility rates. So I'm just really trying to get ready
for session, hopefully do some stories really showing what's at
stake for our schools moving forward and what if anything
lawmakers might do on the school funding formula in the
upcoming sixty days. So that's really what I'm focusing on

(28:43):
as we get dangerously close to going back to session.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
I love that dangerously close. Yes, all right, Amelia, we'll
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(32:56):
here in our Charleston studios at ten oh six this morning.
Senator Shelley more Capito, she'll be in studio here and
as you heard Jeff doing the news there there, she's
made an official that she is running for re election,
so she's going to come in studio and talk to
mister Wilson about it. Well, they say, you can always
talk about the weather when you can't find anything else

(33:16):
to talk about, or you could talk about the weather people.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Meteorologist Brian Hughes is here. He you doing man, I'm
doing good.

Speaker 14 (33:22):
I slept a couple couple of mornings in Welcome at
eight o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Wow, I've been able to do that on Monday.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
What time when?

Speaker 12 (33:31):
When?

Speaker 5 (33:31):
What time did you get up? What was your normal
con You know, that's the number one question you probably get.

Speaker 14 (33:35):
It always been, always been a number one question one
thirty in the morning when you got up, because you know,
I made sure and I've worked from home for the
most part. So i would get up, boson a dog,
she would go out, she'd come back in, she'd eat,
I'd go upstairs, and then I'd start working from home,
all going on, all the computers at working, and.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I'd start from there.

Speaker 14 (33:56):
And then, uh, I didn't actually get into the building
to it like four am, okay, but that's because I
did everything at home, finish it all up, got dressed,
showering up, and I'd get in the end the building
between four sometimes four or fifteen. But then literally it
was just put on the tie and go in the air.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Do you have a guy that like when you walked
in that had the tie, you just ducked your head
under it.

Speaker 11 (34:18):
I did.

Speaker 14 (34:19):
And then and then the ladies there there were three
ladies that were making sure my hair and makeup was
all on the right place.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Same same thing here. You have the same thing here
every day.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's amazing. Yeah, they're wonderful in the purple room. You know.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
It is funny because it's always interesting to me when
you talk about people that do mornings, whether it's radio
or telephone, because everybody's on a different schedule. I knew
a lot of mourning people that did morning shows, which
are you know, on average six to ten, some five
to ten or whatever that would actually stay up all
night and so basically they were on twelve hour reversals. Yeah,

(34:53):
so what they would do is they would they would,
you know, go do their grocery shopping if you know,
somebody was open twenty four hours. They would do all
that that stuff, then go to work and do the
morning show, then come home and sleep in the afternoon,
get up at five or six, and you know, everybody's different.
I didn't do that when I did more.

Speaker 14 (35:07):
Well, here's what's interesting. Most of your network television morning
shows are produced in the afternoon and evening. Everything is
done during the day, they're scheduling everything, putting it all together.
Then anything that happens after midnight, they just kind of
plug that in the shows, but all your morning shows
produced the day before.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, so you're letting all the secret money. I gang
tell you so many secrets that's observed.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Well, so can I got radio. Well where we're gonna
carry it. So I am going to address quickly. I'm
going to address the elephant in the room. Yeah, you've
not been on TV lately.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
No, okay, it's been kind of refreshing.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Okay, all right, and we know we're not going to
go into all the dollege. Yeah, we don't have to
get at all that. But but but you're no longer there.

Speaker 14 (35:50):
I and just so we're queer. I don't know where
everybody got this idea. I did not retire.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
I quit. I resigned. I resigned.

Speaker 14 (35:58):
Literally it was fourteen years to the day, December twelfth
of my anniversary. But uh, you know, here's the deal.
Contracts in the media world have changed dramatically. In the
old days. Old days really loves a handshake. I mean, yes,
you signed paper, but it was a handshake. And now
and now the the contracts are so complicated, and uh,

(36:19):
you don't own your own name. Uh in some instances,
and Dad really wanted to own my own name.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
I mean, I do own it, but uh, but morning.

Speaker 14 (36:28):
But I'll tell you what my best friend Josh told me,
uh told me the other day, goes, you know, like the.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Last four years, you've just been tired.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
And I said, yes, And in all fairness, it's not
just that job. I mean because you were I mean
you got that whole boat thing that you're doing.

Speaker 14 (36:45):
This too, and and and yes, and and and there's
the regatta.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
That's what I was referring.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, well there's the boat thing.

Speaker 5 (36:54):
And then I was trying to make it really yeah
about it being a little boat thing, a little boat
that little boat festal, a little festival, and listen that
that is that I did take that on and that
was it was a lot of it on my shoulders.

Speaker 14 (37:07):
I think we were to spread some of that out.
But yeah, that I'll tell you what, I've never had
more satisfaction in my life than being able to put
that together with the mayor, Jane, Josh, the entire board.
And I mean there's so many and let me tell

(37:28):
you something, city workers can't thank them enough. Oh yeah,
but but yeah, I put I put that on my
shoulders and that that probably is what helped tire me out,
but I got more satisfaction on it. But what I
what I want to do more than anything, was try
and find something I've always except for the last fourteen years,
I've always sort of reinvented myself. I've turned a new

(37:48):
leaf over, done something different, relatively in the same field.
But meteorology, I will tell you this. The more data
that we get these days, and we're getting larger and
larger data sets, the more we to delve into things
and research things. We're finding new information, We're finding new
ways to forecast things. I mean, the AI, while it's

(38:10):
going to do a lot of work for us, what
it's doing is helping us find the minute details on
you know, how tornadoes spin up. How can long in
the future, can we predict these things. I mean, there's
technology that we're going to have within the next year.
It's going to tell us that we have a forty
five percent chance of seeing the tornado within the next hour,

(38:32):
you know, and it's it's going to be in this area,
that's that's coming to spring, and that is something that's fascinating.
So what we need more now than anything, are meteorologists
to help because companies universities. Everybody is making decisions now
based on the forecast. You have us new superintendent here

(38:55):
and go on, kindy school, who're saying we need to
make more decisions based on the weather. I mean, look
at what's happened here in the last few weeks. And
it wasn't I know that parents go, wouldn't they? Hell,
just happened here? We're out for two inches of snow. Yeah,
you're right, because guess how many recks we had And
it was about when it was falling.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
It's not about really how much.

Speaker 14 (39:18):
Although the majority of accidents happened with two inches or
less of snow, if you get three to five inches,
it's much easier to handle.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
And why is that?

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Does it most people just stay home? Or or is
it just easier to drive on? Why is that right?
Or maybe they're not suspicted. They don't see the giant
snow banks. They're not expecting it.

Speaker 14 (39:32):
Maybe right, Well, it is a lot of it is
the packing of the snow. And plus, as you know
that you can only drive in ruts, you're going to
stay in those ruts. Whereas an inch that's kind of
blown around, or two inches he is kind of here
there you're going to take all three lanes of the
three lane highway. There's going one direction, and somebody's going
to hit a patch. Bam bam rack. Greg Craig quick, right.

(39:54):
But if you're driving in ruts, guess what you're following,
the lead or the leader. And so that's the difference.
There's a big difference there. But what you're seeing and
you're going to see now more than anything. Industry taking
the advice of meteorologists that if you do this, you're
going to save money. Do this, you're gonna make more money.

(40:15):
And and we're able to do that.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
We will.

Speaker 14 (40:18):
The proof is in the pudding, and the more data
we get, you're going to see it. And that's why
we actually need more meteorologists do more things.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
So it's the.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Exact opposite of what people might think.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
People might think, well, now that we have AI, we
don't we don't need meteorologists anymore.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
And it's the exact opposite. It's the exact opposite.

Speaker 14 (40:34):
AI is going to help us do the basic things,
the monotonous things, and that and that is what I'm
looking forward to. I'm looking forward to any next opportunity
that allows me to go Okay, ay, I is going
to do this, this and this.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
That's fine.

Speaker 14 (40:49):
Well, now we're going to get in the rest of
this stuff, and we're going to get deeper into the forecast.
We're going to because listen, when disasters happen a lot
of times, and I'm talking outside of natural disasters, when
human disasters happen imediately, guess who's on standby actually in
the background for TV response, for a radio response, all this.
It's a meteorologist who can tell you the wind's blowing
this direction, this chemical does this, and therefore you have

(41:12):
to evacuate this, you have to take care of that.
So there are so many things that a metiaorriologists can
do and is good at. And it's not just the
exact is it going to be cold today of warm tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (41:25):
At a radio programer one time that told me, he said,
people don't this was, you know, granted thirty years ago. Yeah,
sold me. One of my bosses said, people don't want
to know if it's going to rain, They want to
know if it's going to rain on me. Yeah, that's
that's basically. And he was always real big on driving
that home is like okay, all right, it's going to rain. Okay,
why is this important? Because we got Live on the
Levee tonight, right, because we got outdoor graduations at Systantville

(41:47):
High School or whatever. That's that's what people want to know.

Speaker 14 (41:49):
I have been a part of Live of the Levee
uh weather decisions literally for the last decade and almost
every single every single time Marshall Baseball, dirty Birds. I
mean I get phone calls all right, you know for
the longest time, I got phone calls all the time.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Hey, this event's going on. Can you help me out?
Spencer Atkins, we are great friends.

Speaker 14 (42:13):
By the way, Just so you know, Spencer Atkins, he
does weather across the country for these marching band contests,
Lightning decisions have to be made. It's it's about safety,
but it's also about again making money and losing money.
And there are more job opportunities that are coming up
for media orologists for these companies. You never would imagine
NW mediorologists or consulting for them, and there's opportunity out there.

(42:38):
The state has contracts with weather companies, multiple contracts in fact,
I so and we found out we found out what
was it ten years ago, the Canon County Schools had
a contract with Aci Weather and they were consulting, you know,
and they're they're they're making decisions based on that.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
I mean, I could tell you last week a majority
of my time I'm and I appreciate I'm not you know,
crapping on or whatever. But but there's people upset about
the school situation either, as you said, you know, and
I had Doctor Potter on the show last week, John
County School swimped in, who did a masterful job of explaining, Hey,
we went with the data that we had. It's not

(43:18):
always perfect. Now, it's not always no matter what kind
of technology you have, it's not always going to do.
It's a whole lot better than what it was, you know,
in eighteen sixty five. And no I wasn't there, but
it's not going to be perfect. And the parents, and
like you said at the beginning of this, but you know,
the parents need to know, I mean, because it's dake.
I mean, back when I was a kid and everybody's

(43:40):
you know, I'm not trying to be sexist, but it was,
in fact, everybody and my mother was the only mother
in the community that worked. Everybody else's mom stayed home.
So it's snow day it's no big deal, you know,
exactly a bigger deal now.

Speaker 14 (43:51):
But more than anything, meteorology is becoming more and more important,
and there are opportunities out there and listen, if I
can up away and relaxed, even even if it is
even it's for a week, and can you know, kind
of get my bearings again. There's jobs that I'm going
to be there out there that I'm going to be
able to. But we've got a huge regarded plane. Yeah,

(44:13):
it is twenty. It's it's a two hundred and fiftieth
birthday of America. It's a fiftieth birthday of the American
Sterminal Association.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
I'm the president of that.

Speaker 14 (44:22):
We also have the one hundredth birthday of the roof
of Speed two, which is one of the Stirmo boats.
It's owned by Lou Windele and Lou Wendell Marine. And
then you also have the Miss Sterling turning one hundred
years old. There are a lot of things that are
going to happen as the we're out of the cheer
and let me tell you something, it's going to be
rocking because we've got a rock.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Thing that's gonna be and part of it, all right,
and we're getting a little early scoop here.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
I will tell you something. Hold that thought, Hold that thought,
and we'll take a break.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
How's that? Has that only perfect? We're going to sell
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huge rise and online mediaorrologists now YouTube and whatnot that
you can watch while out of the home. Do you
see a time when they will fully overtake TV news
weather segments. I don't think that's too far off. So

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as a texture, yes, and no. I mean, listen, we
have Ryan Hall. We've worked with him.

Speaker 14 (48:19):
You know when I was at thirteen, we worked with him.
But here's also the thing. I'm afraid of the TikTok mediaologist.
Oh good God, bless America because and guess what they're
ninety five percent of them are not a mediaurologists. And
when I say not in media orologists, they haven't had
a weather course. Hell, half of them haven't been to college.
And it's not that you got to go to college.

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I have some smarts, but here's the deal. Calculus of
who dynamic And you're a scientist.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Yeah, I mean you're you're, you're you're a real science.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
I mean I might, I might be a joke for
most of my life.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
But you know stuff, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
I know stuff.

Speaker 14 (48:54):
And here's I have in as far as weather is concerned.
I have twenty six years of experience. And now you
have some kid going, there's a hurricane on three hundred
and sixty hours out.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Now there's not. Now there's so.

Speaker 14 (49:11):
But yes, there is that online rise. Am I a
part of the online meteorology brigade?

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Yes I am. Yes.

Speaker 14 (49:21):
I do get paid by Facebook. And when I say
get paid, they pay me to produce content. And and
I've quietly done not much content of late, but that's
going to ramp up because here's the deal. People are clamoring.
There's a void, there's a gap. People are clamoring for
more weather content. And it's when I said weather content,

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people get scared of the extremes. And I'll tell you
I just posed a little while ago. This is the
second coldest morning in history on this date. We hit
three degrees this morning in Charleston. The record low is zero,
so we just three degrees. Shy of a record. It
was number two in the record books. This one is
that cold.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
Okay, it's rough. But see, I'm old enough to remember
when the weather on television was like a throwaway segment
almost you would have never have led with. As a
matter of fact, back when I was a kid of
a boy, it was news, and it was sports and.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Then and then.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
And sports has even changed too, because I mean, it's
not so much about the scores anymore because everybody gets
them on their phone, and so you tell stories, right,
you know, and and uh and and that's all right.
Let's get back to regatta here for a moment. You
tease something there, mister Hughes.

Speaker 14 (50:30):
You will see. Well, first of all, it's going to
rock like you wouldn't believe. You're also going to see
the largest fireworks spectacle in the state of West Virginia.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
Ever ever, maybe longer it is.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah, this is going to be something.

Speaker 14 (50:46):
They're going to be more bombs bursting than air than
anything that happened ever in the Civil War around here.
So it is. It is going to be incredible. And
I wish I could tell you more.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
It's it's still early. It's but Christmas yet.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
No one else on earth has ever seen anything like this.
All right, all right, so and that was a tease
within a teas and you didn't even realize.

Speaker 5 (51:09):
I understand one hundred percent of this works. I know,
I know some stuff.

Speaker 14 (51:12):
Hey listen, there's gonna be some girls with guitars. It's
gonna be some guys with guitars and and all kinds
of things.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
It's gonna be fun.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
Looking forward to it, looking forward to keeping up with
you and whatever your next uh uh step.

Speaker 14 (51:23):
Maybe give me a little time, we'll figure something out,
and then uh, we'll figure something out. But I'll tell
you this, uh huh. Boson is kind of like, can
you please leave the dog? My dog, the most the
second most popular dog in the state of West Virginia.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
It's like, can you please go?

Speaker 17 (51:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (51:38):
I do, actually rely, we'd like to have we'd like
to have you out here. So Boson can do bos right.
But Boson's is an awesome dog.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
It really really is.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Love Meteorologist Brian Hughes have a happy and safe merry Christmas,
uh and all the things. Uh, we'll be talking soon.
I really appreciate you taking time on your schedule because
I mean a lot of people you know, had wondered
that you're not you know that you're not there anymore,
and and that you giving us a good enough explanation
to say that you're not there anymore.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
I'm not there, but let me tell you some naps
are good.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
All right, quick text, any chance will ever be a
drone show as part of the.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Regatta Drone Show will be back.

Speaker 14 (52:09):
Okay, He's gonna be exciting, all right, and just say
you know there'll be bombs bursting in there.

Speaker 5 (52:13):
Bomb's bursting in there, all right, Brian Hughes, I appreciate it. Man,
Thanks a lot, all right.

Speaker 6 (52:18):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
Senior producer Ryan Nicholson, thank you so much.

Speaker 10 (52:22):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
Talk line coming up at ten o six. Senator Shelley
Moore Capito will lead us off. She's in the studio
here in Charleston Meadows on vacation this week. So it's
Wilson and Capito coming up at ten oh six. I'll
be back on the show again tomorrow. Attorney General G. B.
Mccuskey's going to be here, and we's Holden, who will
be a candidate for State Senate. We'll stop by the
show tomorrow as well. See you later today. I Metro
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