12/17/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Millie Snider, Michael Mosteller

Dave talks with Millie Snider about the Mediterainian Diet and the classes then he talks with Democratic candidate for House Michael Mosteller.

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A good friend the lovely, the talented. You know where
you love her. It's Millie Snyder. How are you doing, Mellie.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
That's a lovely introduction. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
You should just hire me as your hype person engagements
and I'm going to give that some real I can
go to ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages. Would
you please make a welcome? You know that was good
that used to children of all people of all ages,
all weights, all uh all all eating habits. Your eating
habits are about to change.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I hope so, because right now, this time of the year,
this is the this is the time that I often
think about with the true reckless abandon that everybody else
has because if it is I think I said it earlier,
if it is a nail down and not crawling, people
will eat it because they have said to themselves, I'm

(02:52):
going to do what I want until New Year's and
then I'm going to start my diet right again and
again and again, and then by January.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I think the optimal day I read one time is
like January the tenth.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Why is that after Supervilla?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
No, No, that's before the supermol. Most people that make
New Year's resolutions about eating or exercise. They make it
to somewhere between January the fifth and the tenth, and
something happens, and that's that's about as far as it goes.
I mean, that's overall.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
What we should just explore is what is that something
that happens? Yeah, that would be a very interesting commentary.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
They get hungry, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
And you know, over the years of my devoting myself
to helping people help themselves, in the years of weight Watchers,
I absolutely loved what I did. I absolutely loved teaching
the Mediterranean. But the point that I want to make
there are a lot of people who think that they
are on the Mediterranean, but it's their version of the Mediterranean.

(03:52):
And one of the examples that I want to share
is years ago when I was the franchisee for weight Watchers,
this woman yelled at me across the street and she said, hey, Millie,
she said, I'm on your program. I said, great, I said,
what meeting do you go to? She says, I don't
go to the meetings. I just buy the dinners in

(04:12):
the supermarket. And so my point is there are so
many people who think that they're doing it because they
saw it in a magazine or they saw it on
the internet, but they really and truly are not doing
the true essence of what the Mediterranean lifestyle is truly
all about, and it is about improving the quality of

(04:34):
your life. Yes, you lose weight, but you also get healthier.
And you know, we can refer back to that incredible
story that you shared with me that was in the
Wall Street Journal, that woman who made it to one
hundred and seventeen. And there are people who've given me
an argument about that, I don't want to live to
one hundred and seventeen. Why because there won't be anybody

(04:56):
to talk to. I understand that too, But the fact
that you could get to that age is pretty powerful,
and it comes from in her case and all the
things that make her who she was healthy.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
And this particular case, this wasn't a person who'd said
I'm going to go all Mediterranean. That was just that's
what people ate, you know, around where she where she lived,
was a normal that was a normal.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Diet, that was the lifestyle where she lived. And if
more people would do that here, we would have a
much healthier West Virginia. And that's true. If I can,
I mean, I'm always looking for, you know, former weight
Watchers who could open up more Mediterranean groups who are

(05:43):
no longer associated with weight Watchers. It would be so
wonderful to make our meetings available to that many more people,
because right now we only have a Thursday morning and
a Thursday evening and two different people teach that I
teach the Thursday morning and Carmela crawl For teaches Thursday night.
But I hope to get some more open and we will.

(06:05):
But it's nice to find people who have that mentality
and are sympathetic but not feeling sorry for but to
the issue of obesity. And it's nothing, not even for
a half second to laugh at or joke about. It's
a very serious problem and we want to help people

(06:26):
the right way. We want to help them help themselves.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
You brought up about the weight Watchers dinners, and I'm
not specifically speaking of weight watch I'm talking about the
quote unquote healthy meals that you see in the frozen
in the frozen food section and you know, the lean
cuisines and stuff like that. Go look at the ingredients
of those. Yeah, they may not have as many calories,
or they may not have this or that, but look

(06:51):
at what is in it it Sometimes maybe the calories
might be better for you when you look at the
chemicals that are in those things.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
And that's the point has to be made because all
of that, and even in the days of my weight
watcher's life, which was only forty seven years, so I
don't want to say I did it too long. Yeah,
the highly processed content is what we ate. But we
didn't pay attention to that during the time of weight Watchers.

(07:19):
But boy, do I pay attention to that now that
I am doing the Mediterranean And by the way, I've
been teaching Mediterranean now a little over eight years and
I'm excited about that.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
And you get those we're going to get to your classes.
And you mentioned earlier a little bit later on, but
you know it is this is the final time we'll
have you on the on the air in this year.
And you mentioned it is the holiday season. Happy Honkah
to you, by the way, way, Happy Honikah, Merry Christmas,
all the things to everybody. It is difficult, though, there's
no question because when.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'm not going to make a joke about that, it
is you.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Get to gatherings and this is the baking season, and
you know, everybody's bringing in.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Everybody has to bring their newest recipe.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, everybody's got this, and everybody's got that, and so
on and so forth. But how do you how do
you maintain that? Because you you know, you you want to.
I know moderation is the key. Everybody talks about matter
and you're right, moderation is the key. But but but
how do you balance that? You know that tightrope if
you have a giant family gathering and you don't want
to you want to make an aunt maud mad you

(08:22):
know when she brings on.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
I don't want to be on her bad list for sure.
But the way to do that is do the very
best you can and do a little bit of tasting
small portions, move your food around and try to avoid
picking up those things that you absolutely know are just
overloaded with sugar and fat. And believe me, the fat

(08:47):
wasn't the healthy kind.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Now not to help, but.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
You do the best you can. You don't want to
sit there and say, oh my good ecluse I'm trying
to lose on. This is not the time to try
to lose weight. This is the time to be a
good friend to yourself and do the very best that
you can, and know that when you get to your
breaking point and you know you're ready to start again,
make sure you do some homework. Make sure the ingredients

(09:14):
are pure and clean. And that's what Mediterranean is all about.
It's like a woman said to me, uh, and this
is when I was just starting Mediterranean. She stopped me
in Kroger's and she said, Millie, I really like you,
but I cannot come to your Mediterranean group. I said why,
She said, because I don't eat homess.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You told me that story before I did. I. Yeah, yeah,
I love it. I love that story because there's a.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Lot because homas is the only thing you eat on.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, that's all a day, that's all you get.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's exactly right. And so there's so many there's so
many misconceptions. I met someone the other day while doing
some grocery shopping, and a lot of people know that
I teach Mediterranean, and this person chose to tell me
that he is doing it on his own. And I said, well,
tell me what you eat, and what he told me

(10:03):
he eats is not the Mediterranean lifestyle. But that's what
he told me he's doing. And he told me that
the reason he looked up the Mediterranean is because he
has some health issues. So now that we've addressed the
fact that there's some health issues, I think we owe
it to ourselves to come to a group learn how
to do it because group support is a major factor.

(10:27):
It is, and you don't always learn it from the leader.
Sometimes you learn it from another member who shares an
experience and other people chime in. Group support is very,
very valuable and it's used in so many different modality.

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next couple of weeks, maybe when you have your family
gathering or whatever, Well.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
We will tonight. We're going to have a honic of celibrator.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I was going to say, what's that look like from
a food standpoint.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Well, we're having potato lotkes, okay, And that's simply as
potatoes that are going to be fried in olive oil, okay,
and then having some chicken and some vegetables and a
ginormous salad. And my grandson is baking a cake. He's
got that gift. And probably I will say how pretty

(11:39):
it is, but cake is no longer my thing. I
don't eat sugar anymore. But we'll have plenty of fresh
fruit and I will dive into that almost head first.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Got a text here says, oh, I just got out
of the shower and heard Milly coming on. I love
when Milly's on. Maybe she can turn a few more
people away from eating all the crap that they do
added sugars, greasy salty foods, et cetera. Amen, appreciate the text.
We could have done without the without the added detail
that they just got out of the shower. But that's okay.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
So now I'm trying to get a vision of all that,
and I don't want to discuss.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
All right, all right, So New Year's resolutions, and we
talked about it at the beginning of the Segmentally, everybody,
well I honestly everybody makes them, but a lot of
people do. They always say that if you're going to
start something, whether it's a healthy eating or exercise, the
tide they do it is now not to set a
date and completely gorge yourself up. Unto that point, go
January first, I'm done, you know, midnight, December thirty first,

(12:32):
I'm done. But what if people wanted to set out,
whether it's January first, whether it's June first, if they
wanted to set out on a healthy lifestyle with exercise
and eating where you know, obviously coming to your meetings,
But where's a good place to start? I mean, what
do they need to do? Obviously coming to your meetings
is number one, but what else?

Speaker 4 (12:52):
They need to have an about them self attitude, knowing
that they're worth the time and the energy that it
takes to learn a new way of eating, and they
need to feel good about who they are, not just
having this added I'm fat, I'm miserable. If I don't
lose weight, I'm going to die. All of those factors

(13:12):
may be true, but you need to feel good about
yourself and not see yourself in the worst possible image.
Because negativity and negative self talk doesn't help us bridge
a gap, it helps us stay in that place. So
we need to say, Okay, I've got a weight problem,

(13:33):
and I'm going to begin taking the steps and learn
how to do old things differently. We don't want you
to stop eating. In fact, you'll probably eat more and
better on Mediterranean than you've ever eaten. And it's an
amazing concept to learn.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
And it tastes good.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Oh my goodness, everything everything, love.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
It everything, all right. Tell remind people we.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Need Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. It's sixteen hundred Canal Boulevard
at Elizabeth Street, plenty of parking, and the folks at
Trinity are just wonderful to work with and they open
their church to so many different groups throughout the Canal Valley.
So there it's a good place to be. And we

(14:17):
do that Thursday morning at ten o'clock. And also the
way in is at nine thirty. The meeting starts at
ten and then we have a second class on Thursday
evening that's five thirty, and the meeting begins now.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
What will you do next week with it being the
Christmas home Oh.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
And that's a very great thank you. We're going to
move our Thursday for our Christmas Day meeting to Tuesday,
and we're going to do the same thing in New
Year's week because we believe that group support when the
going gets tough. And you know, all the prehistoric animals
are on top of you because it's all the ants

(14:55):
and relatives to say, but I made that for you,
and you know you've got a taste just a love. Yeah,
So that's it's an important time to come and.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Just refocus pregaming too, you know, to getady you, get
your attitude, get your head right.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Get your your you hat all right.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
On final text says thank you Millie Snyder for always
helping people live healthier lives. You are a treasure.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
All Right, we'll take you well, we'll talk to you
next month, okay, yes, all right, and I wish you
of a merry Christmas and all who are listening and
a happy healthy New Year. All right. Sounds good. Nine
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Mosteller he's democratic Candidate for House in district. Twenty one

(18:09):
how you, Doing man welcome to.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
The show, I'm good thanks for having.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Me today thank you for. Being here and you're working
with me on the pronunciation of Your Name, Moss, teller,
yes sir emphasis On The, Moss, teller.

Speaker 8 (18:18):
YES sir a lot of people. Butcher it.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Everybody does it's it's really not that difficult when you look,
at it, you know, written out but for some reason
people you.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
Have to look at it for. A, second people people.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Like me kind of screw it. UP sometimes i want
to welcome you into the show and you are running
for a House in district. Twenty one give us. Sure
bio just tell us. About.

Speaker 8 (18:39):
Yourself, OKAY well i grew Up In lincoln COUNTY and i,
got married raised, two, kids well started to raise two kids,
out there and that's when the opioid epidemic kind of.
Took over so we moved to near closer to my
wife's Parents In, putnam county and it's a much better place.
To live and so we we we continued to, you

(19:01):
know build, our family and we started noticing, some things,
you know after, you know around twenty sixteen, or so
AND then, i decided, you know enough. IS enough i
want to.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Step in what were? Those things if youet on? My
mask what did you what do?

Speaker 8 (19:15):
You know infrastructures crimely like my. Daughter is she just
started driving within the, last year and there are several
areas on the Roads In putnam county where the potholes
will swallow. Your cars she hits that and does almost
one thousand dollars worth of damage to. Her CAR so
i called the. Doh had they said they have no funding,
for it and SO basically i, told, THEM well i

(19:38):
WILL put i will plant flowers, in them give them
Their own, facebook page and get all kinds of attention,
to it and, next thing, you know within twelve hours
they were. Paved over that's a.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
True story you actually, Did.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
That, yes yes And the news actually did a piece
on it because they thought it was kind.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Of funny, All, right well you know you got. The
attention don't know that that's something everybody. Should do but.
It worked worked in, your, case right it worked in.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
My, CASE yeah i. Couldn't help, but notice you know
You Had britta aguire on here not too. Long ago
she wanted to show you she's one hell Of an,
american patriot and that's kind of ONE thing i wanted to.
Talk about, You know patriotism it's displayed, through actions not worship.
Of symbols, you know it's a desire to make your.
Country better it's not loyalty to a politician or. A

(20:22):
person it's loyalty to. Our countrymen and so we owe
It To west virginians to fix our infrastructure that's. Been
crumbling we owe It To west virginians to undo the
Cuts to Medicare and medicaid that not only did they
do at the, national level but at the state legislature

(20:43):
they cut almost a billion DOLLARS from i believe It
was medicaid and. The economy have you gone out and
bought a bag of?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Chips, lately yeah. Six DOLLARS since i Just Had mellie
snyder on the show talking, About, NUTRITION no i did
not go out and buy a bag, of chip. THAT'S
right i want bought a bag of. Healthy SOMETHING gott
i get.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
The, idea well LAST time i went out to buy
just one bag of, potato chips it was, six dollars
and that's that's. Just, unacceptable so, you, Know sixty i've
got some stats here and on. The economy, you know
monthly household inflation costs are through. The roof we have
the second lowest income per capita and the second lowest

(21:25):
workforce participation in. The nation THAT'S from wv policy. Dot
org we've got the fourth highest poverty rate in the
nation at. Seventeen percent That's From West virginia news one
of let's See The west virginians we're feeling, the pain
and we need to get federal funding for infrastructure projects
that will create jobs and then those would be good,

(21:47):
paying jobs so we could then be able to afford
that bag. Of chips, You know but that's that's just
one of, my issues, you know moving on. To healthcare
due to that, big bill we're gonna lose thirteen year.
Old hospitals one of Them, is backley A rh i
go there a lot with, my work and that is

(22:09):
A very all of these hospitals that are closing are
extremely important and if, they close we're talking hours long
waits in ers at. Other hospitals we're talking hours long drive.
TO hospitals i used to BE an emt and there's
a thing called the golden hour from the time that
an injury or, something happens you get them to the

(22:31):
hospital within. That hour that's not going to Happen In
west virginia anymore when those, hospitals close and that's gonna.
Be unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Talking To michael, musteller again who is running for a
house a district, twenty one explain the DISTRICT to us.
Twenty one so it's it's a.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Bit weird it runs along the train tracks in, a
hurricane and so it's north of The or, i'm sorry
it's south of the. Train tracks it includes a lot
of the really good restaurants in. The valley it's so
it's just West Of, sleepy hollow includes the main Town.

(23:08):
Of hurricane We've Got whiskey taco. In there We've. Got,
barberino's yeah all the good all the.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Good.

Speaker 8 (23:14):
Spots yeah and ONE thing i spoke on. Many times
we've Got The Meeks Mountain, trail system which is my
favorite place. To be it's actually the largest trail system
that's in the nation that's been totally volunteer and built.
By hand i'm a coach on the mountain bike team
there for, the kids AND so i just loved. That
place THAT'S where i held my campaign kickoff party. Last

(23:35):
time but there there's a lot of great things and
a lot of great people in.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
My district i'm going to say the same thing to
YOU that i said yesterday to another gentleman who was
running For state senate As a democrat on the. Show
yesterday it can be an, uphill clive to say, the
least For a democrat to try to get Elected In
west virginia, right now particularly in the area that that that.

(24:00):
You serve what's your strategy for that direct?

Speaker 8 (24:04):
Voter CONTACT because i spoke with somebody who had crunched
some numbers and just in, my district just counting the
votes that were cast in my district from my race
all the way up. TO president i won the most
votes out of all, of them AND so i didn't
do as much direct voter CONTACT as i would have.

(24:25):
LIKED to i, knocked on, you know maybe. Fifty doors.
THIS time i want to go through a knock and
talk to everyone because, you know we all have the.
Same fears we all want the. Same things we want
to be left alone by, our government but we also
don't want our government to fail us with the basic
services that it's supposed. To provide, you know we all

(24:47):
want to be able to raise. Our families we all
want to be able to. Afford groceries we all want
to be Able to i'll give you a. QUICK example
i had an injury where a rock kicked up from
a lawnmower hit me in the ear here and cut,
it open and the whole, Way there, I'm, thinking wow HOW?
Am i i've, got insurance, but man this is going to.

(25:07):
Bankrupt me and every one of us have. That fear
so we can actually we can do something, about healthcare
we can do something. About infrastructure and it's. Really simple
it's staring us right in. The face legalize cannabis for
recreational use and. Tax it we can bring in a

(25:29):
ton of money, that way and then we can help
with help Cover The West Virginia medicaid. MEDICARE costs i
would even like to see a single payer system Here In.
West virginia we could. Do it we could have the
money to.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Do that do, you, think though getting back to legalization, Of,
cannabis michael do you think that there is enough support
from other members of the legislature to get? That done,
because listen this is not Necessarily A republican, democrat THING
because i have talked To several republicans that are all
for it based on the economics of. It, alone yes but,

(26:04):
you know you got to have a huge. Buy in,
you know you can't just Have. The democrats you're going
to have to Have those republicans that would that would
agree to that as well if you even get. It
out and where do You Think west virginia is or
maybe your constituents are in the legalization. Of cannabis i'd say.

Speaker 8 (26:17):
My constituents are all. For it you know a, lot
WELL when i was, growing up a lot of the
PEOPLE that i knew from that area were, you know the,
skateboarder stoners but they've all grown. Up NOW but i
would say that they're all, for it and as far
as the legislature after this, next ELECTION when i win
and hopefully a Few more, democrats Win, the republicans, you

(26:39):
know like, you said there's quite A few republicans that
are already on board.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
With it, You're right you're right. About that it's twenty
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some sort of debate et or meet the candidates forums
or things of. That nature, oh.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
Yeah absolutely a matter, OF fact i reached out To
THE hurricane vfw last night to see if they would
host a meet the canaidate event and, they said as long,
as that, you know they have to have all.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
The.

Speaker 8 (27:13):
Candiders, Yeah So jared CANADONAN and i we talked back
and forth through, last election, very cordial. Very kind he's a.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Great guy he's a person that's in that. Seat, now
yes he's in the.

Speaker 8 (27:23):
Seat now and we actually had to have a. Good
relationship he's a super nice GUY and i don't have
a bad thing to say about him other than He's.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
A republican well, but well it's it's good that you
can have conversations with people that are that. Are, ADVERSARIES
here i will say this about to meet the. Candidate's
thing i'm sure they'll do it. This year, every year
sometime in, the Spring The Putnam County rotary club along
with in conjunction With The Putnam county Chamber, of commerce
they always have. An event usually it's a sleepy hollow,

(27:51):
golf club so you can Get with after the first
year Get with ashley offered glance With the chamber and
the folks With The Putnam County rotary club because they.
Normally hostos i'm sure they will this year.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
As.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
WELL yeah i went to the, last ONE but i
wasn't able. To debate just what they said was you
had to have, a challenger and this was during, the
primaries AND then i guess a debate just didn't happen
for the for the.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
General so anybody else running As a democrat or you
you it as far AS you, i mean, still early people's.

Speaker 8 (28:17):
Still early but as FAR as, i know it's just
me and, you know we've we've got an effort to
to Put a democrat on, every Ballot no. Republican unopposed
and the thing that how's, that going it's actually going.
PRETTY well i mean we've we've just.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
A statewide thing from The state Democratic.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
Bo, well yeah it's it's one of. My projects i'm
working with. The leadership, but uh, you know we've picked
up a lot. Of candidates and one of the THINGS
that i keep telling people is nobody's going to come
in and run. For you, You know That's what. Republicans
did they brought they shipped in candidates from out of
state and. Ran THEM and i remember one, in, particularly
well one one of them sitting in the capital or

(28:57):
in the Sorry the governor's mansion, right now come down
Here From. New jersey but there was a man who
was in the, State Legislature. MICHAEL moffatt i remember when he.
WAS here i used to give him hell on social
media about being out. Of state and there was a
contentious election. Coming up it was looking like he was going,
to LOSE and, i said how much do you love?

(29:19):
This state, he, SAID oh i. LOVE it, i said
are you going to stay here if? You lose, he,
SAID oh i. ABSOLUTELY will, i said you know your
family Lives in texas, right Now so i'm going to
be willing to bet that you're going to be Living
in texas as soon as. You lose, sure enough, he
lost moved Straight. To texas, so unfortunately That's what. Repolkeins
did they bust them in and. Ran, them well this

(29:40):
is a true. Grassroots effort We're Running west virginia candidates
who grew Up In.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
West virginia where can people learn more about? Your campaign they.

Speaker 8 (29:47):
Can Go to mosteller FOR. W v IT'S M O
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on and helping the homeless. And poor we'll be gathering
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so anyone who wants to bring those items is more.
Than welcome we'll be glad to, have you.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
All right AND what i normally do with every candidate, We,
have michael and you've done it because you've run for
office in. THE past i DO what i call the. Final,
thirty yes give you, thirty seconds not on, the clock
it's not, actually time but give me thirty seconds why
people should consider voting for You for House in district.
TWENTY one i can't.

Speaker 8 (30:38):
BE bought i have. A conscience AND whenever i see
these people go into, the capital they make decisions and,
you wonder why would they? Do that and, you know
there have been so many pieces of legislation advanced that
help the billionaire class more than they help the, working

(31:00):
CLASS and i think. That's wrong and anytime that you
advocate for the, working people they scream socialism and they
don't even know what that. Word MEANS but i want
to make things easier for the. WORKING class i want
people to not have to, worry about, you know living paycheck.
TO paycheck i don't want people to have to be

(31:22):
worried whether or not they're going to go bankrupt when
they go to. THE hospital i want people to drive
on roads without their cars getting the hell beat out,
of them, you know and YOU know i want to
make the government work, for us which is what it's supposed,
to do not work for the big corporations and.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
The Billionaires, michael masseller who Is a democratic Candidate for
House in district, Twenty one which are the best?

Speaker 8 (31:46):
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have never funded our child welfare programs well enough and
continue this error, even now which causes multiple problems that
we continue. To ignore ranking us at best forty seventh
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COMMUNITIES healthcare va benefits go to drive utilities to the
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This situation acording To, a texter coming up on the,
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mike pushkin will be here to co host, with me not.
Talking politics we do. No politics he'll be banging Out
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(37:37):
don't care because the more guests we have on THE
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(37:59):
And our republican friends just jamming To some, christmas tunes
Even though i'm not a huge Fan of. Christmas music,
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athletic Director Of West Virginia, State University, david hicks about
the death of Basketball Player. Ismael smith what a what a.
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(39:21):
junior guard on the team and he was found dead
in his Dorm. Rooms sunday no cause of death has
been given as. Of yet he was the leading scorer
on the team and on the, show Yesterday the Athletic
Director david hicks said that the team was scheduled to
Fly to hawaii for, a tournament but after but after all,

(39:42):
THIS happened i mean their their, teammates says you can
rightfully understand just were not up.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
To it.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Completely understandable Head Coach brian porr Was on Hotline With
dave Weekly. On monday it's just just a. Sad story
Athletic director hicks On The midday show yesterday said that
once the students are all back on camp after the
first of, the year there there'll be some memorial services.
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as they've, always been but now they are a buck
fifty more than what they. Should be i'm Hoping That
millie snyder is not listening to this, right now because
you know everything, in moderation, All RIGHT but i will
tell you a. Quick Story, Last, friday uh my WIFE
and i called in. A pizza i went to pick
it up on the way home, from WORK and i

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ran into a local convenience store and her a couple of.
Diet sodas there's like sixteen and a, HALF ounce i
guess is what they are something, like that and a
bag of. Potato chips and it was. Twelve dollars the

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cokes were two. For, four okay it was over twelve
dollars for two sixteen and a half sixteen point nine
whatever it is ounce bottles of soda and a regular
size bag of. Ruffles chips it was over twelve dollars
and something is you. Can buy but perhaps this is

(41:38):
why alcoholism is, Going up actually it's actually. Going down beer,
relatively speaking beer is cheaper.

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people federal unemployment rate went up Again under trump four point.
Six percent there's a headline In The Wall street journal.
THIS morning i have it in my hands. Right now

(46:13):
unemployment rises despite. Job gains the rate of four point
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money will go into the system improvements and not into.
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sarcasm i will. Say that so so people are still
talking about the president's response to the death of Actor
Director rob reiner and. His wife now getting somebody else involved.

(46:55):
IN it wwe sports Entertainment Legend mick foley, is involved
and despite what you may have, read online mcfoley is
Not From. West. VIRGINIA there i don't know where that story,
got started. It is he's Not From. West virginia he
was Born in indiana and was Raised On long Island In. New,
york now knowing a little something about the wrestling BUSINESS

(47:16):
that i spent a part of for so, many years
some of his first matches Were In, west virginia but
that's pretty much Where His west virginia. Lineage Ends so
i'll get to. THE story i just wanted to dispel
the rumor that somehow Mcfoley's From. West virginia he.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Is not.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
He released a statement yesterday that he's parting ways WITH.
The wwe here's. The Quote while i've been concerned about
the WWE's close Relationship With donald trump for, several months
especially in light of his administration's ongoing cruel and inhumane

(47:52):
treatment of immigrants and pretty much anyone who looks like,
an immigrant Reading the president's incredibly cruel comments in the
Wake of rob ryan death was the final straw. FOR
me i no longer wish to represent a company that
coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he
marches our country. Toward autocracy, last night this is. Mcfoley talking,

(48:21):
LAST night I Informed Wwe talent RELATIONS that i would
not be making any appearance for the company as long
as this man remains. In, OFFICE additionally i will not
be signing A new. Legends deal i'll explain that in
a moment when my current one Expires. IN june I,

(48:42):
love wwe he goes on, to say and will always
treasure my time, with them and am deeply appreciative for
all the opportunities they afforded. To me, but then in
the Words of Popeye, the sailor and by, the way
not necessarily a, mcfoley FAN but i will say anybody
That quotes By, The sailor. I'm in. He says the exact,

(49:04):
QUOTE was i STANDS all i can STANDS and i
can't stand. No more. End, quote now a talent a
legends deal in the world of. Sports, ENTERTAINMENT remember i
don't call. It wrestling what they do now is. Sports
entertainment it's a. Legends, deal basically they sign, you, know
uh once, great wrestlers well not mc foley was not a,

(49:29):
great wrestler but But A, mick Foley A, rick flair,
you know somebody, like that to go and just basically
be as as. Company ambassadors, that's that's that's what that
that's what that whole. Thing means, and again if you,
go Back and i'm not turning trying to turn this
into a sports entertainment or, wrestling Story But donald trump
has been long associated with the ww long before he ever.

(49:52):
Became president he's IN The wwe Hall. Of, fame okay
he was at the first Couple, of WrestleMania's the big,
you know large pay per view events that they do.
Every spring so this isn't. Something new it is making,
headlines though Because It's, mick Foley And, mick foley for
those that, don't know was a guy who is considered

(50:13):
to be. A legend he was not. A wrestler he
was not a good wrestler by any stretch of. The
imagination he got by because he's a, glorified stuntman because
he would allow himself to be thrown off, you, know
buildings hit, by cars you. Know whatever that famous photo
of him from a match where his tooth got knocked
out of through his mouth and is sticking out of
his nose and he's smiling with no where the tooth

(50:37):
used to be in front and he's got his tooth in.
His nose That's Who mick. Foley was outside, of, that
though he is considered to be a really. Nice. Guy
now my time in a, WRESTLING business i met a lot,
of PEOPLE and i traveled a lot with. These People
mick foley WAS one i never met BECAUSE when i
was doing the majority, of this he was big TIME and.
I WASN'T but i never. Met mcfoley he is genuinely

(50:59):
considered be a nice, guy THOUGH and i just thought
it was interesting That That, mick foley who always has
this reputation as a. Crazy guy that was this. Thing
again he would allow, himself to, you know practically be
shot out of a cannon if if the situation. Warranted
that he he walked away From a legends contract WITH

(51:22):
the ww because of their Relationship With, donald trump and
that certainly is his right to. Do that but for,
SOME reason I just i found. THAT story i found
that's very, very interesting pretty bad when you go Make
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