12/19/2025 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Angie Gillenwater, Dr. Casey Sacks, JB Akers, Susie Salisbury

Angie Gillenwater from the Kanawha Charleston Humane Association with this week's "Adopt Me Please" Pet of the Week, Dr. Casey Sacks from BridgeValley, Delegate JB Akers, and Susie Salisbury from the Charleston Area Alliance on the Christmas window decorating contest.

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the end of the week. What a stormy night in
parts of West Virginia, including the Canal Valley. Now at
one point there are about eighty two thousand people in
West Virginia without power, and Jeff just told us on
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without power. Story posted about it wv Metronews dot com.
Apparently I slept through the entire thing because I knew
nothing of it until I woke up this morning. The
City of Charleston did put out a statement saying there
were down power lines and trees in various areas, loud
in the Heights North Charleston, among other places. So we'll
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again we do have information available about it at wv
metronews dot com. There were several schools closed in Canawan
County as well, So just yeah, stormy night, very rare
for this time of year to have those kind of
storms roll through. Coming up on the show a little
bit later on, down a Good jb Acres is going
to be stopping by it and as you know, the
Charleston Area Alliance has been doing this holiday window decorating contest.

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Alliance and one of the winners, also, doctor Casey Sacksonbridge Valley,
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But before we got an Angie gill in water stand to
buy for the Cannal Charleston Humane Association with this week's
Adopt Me Please pet of the Week. Before we do that,
I do want to get to this first. Yesterday on
the show, we had former legislator Chris Pritt on who
announced on the show but he'd be running for State
Senate in District seventeen. Your host here failed to ask
him which seat he was running four. Those seats are
currently held by doctor Tom Tacubo and Anne Sharknock, respectively.

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Someone called the show inquiring about which seat Chris was
going to be running for, and I promised the caller
I would get the answer from Chris. So here it is.
Chris Pritt is running for the seat currently held by
Tom Tacubo. So there is your answer. And I apologize
for not asking him that on the air. To be
honest with you, I simply forgot Chris. Chris Prett will
be running for State Senate in District seventeen for the

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seat that's currently held by Tom Tokubo. Now that we
have that taking care of, let's welcome to Angie Gillen
Water from the Canneal Charleston Humane Association with this week's
Adopt Me Please of the Week. Angie, Good morning, and
welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
You mean gooda morning.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Gooda morning. I've already made that joke. I've already made
Ryan roll his eyes in the production booth this morning,
because we're going we get to Gooda here in a moment.
Anything to report on your end as far as the
storms at the shelter or in your personal dwelling. What
can you tell us?

Speaker 5 (04:21):
I'm in the same boat as you, and I think
I just slept everything last night. I had no idea
there was a storm. But surprisingly we all of us
at the shelter, we finally got a win. The power
was on and there was no damage to the building.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Very good, Very good. I did get to hang out
with you a little bit last Saturday at Valley Park
and Hurricane were you guys, and also the shelters and
Putnam can There were actually several that came together with
this big group adoption event held last week in the
Valley Park. How did it go?

Speaker 5 (04:52):
So across all the shelters that were attending, there were
around twenty five adoptions and we actually had ten of
them as ten of our Kha dogs were adopted. Was
very exciting.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
It was a it was a great event, and you
held it, you know, before the snow arrived. You know,
I know you were a little concerned about that. But
I will say this, I've never been to an adoption
event that had that many dogs in one place. Of course,
you had an all inside kind of a little tent thing.
It was a little loud in there.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah, I was gonna say I can still kind of
hear about one hundred dogs all barking at one time.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
So well, it was a good event and hats off
to you and everybody for taking part in that. All right,
let's get to our adopt me. Please put it the week.
As always, the pet has posted picture posted Dave Island
Radio on Facebook and also at the WCCHS Network Facebook page,
as well as at Dave A seventy on X. You
mentioned the name earlier, It's Guda. Tell us about Guda.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
So Guda actually came to Kha as a puppy. When
she was about two to three months old. She was
adopted and recently she has found her way back to
Kha sadly, and she is very, very very scared in
the shelter right now. She doesn't really like to walk
on the leash. She has to be carried everywhere, which
would be fine, but she's you know, close to thirty

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forty pounds, so it's a little difficult to carry her everywhere.
She's about almost two years old. She's already been stayed,
she's up to dated on her vaccines, and she does
great with other dogs. They kind of bring her out
of her show a little bit, and she also does
great with kids. We don't know about cats, however, with
how shy she is, she'll probably be afraid of cats

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in your home.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
So and we don't know what her story was. As
far as you know, you said that she came to
the shelter when she was a puppy and somehow found
her way back, So we don't We don't know what
the story is, right correct.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
I do know that the person that adopted her brought
her back to the shelter, but I don't know exactly
what happened as if you know, they couldn't take care
of her anymore, they were moving.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
I'm not sure exactly what happened there, but they had
her for almost two years, so I assume it was
something pretty serio.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
It happen, well it and it happens. But but you know,
it is also sad, you know, when a pet gets
attached to a family or an individual like that and
they suddenly get brought back and they you know, they
don't understand why or anything like that. So we don't know.
I don't want to throw any shade on the people
because we don't know what happened, and they did do
the right thing by at least bringing it back, as
opposed to like a lot of people do, just you know,

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setting it out somewhere or just going off and leaving it.
That happens, unfortunately. So but what you're telling me about
the behavior of the dog though it, I mean, how
good a girl she is, I can't imagine it would
have been based on what you're telling me behavior related.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
No, I know, it definitely was not Guda's fault. I
think it was something going on in their life as
to why they brought her back. So but Guda is
a great dog, that's what. Like I said, these behaviors
that she's showing at the Shelter of Fear will go
away once she gets comfortable in a home. But yeah,
that's so we're thankful that they came in and discussed

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bringing Guda back with us rather than you know, tying
her to the fen r in the parking lot.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Don't get me started on that. Don't get me started
on that.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Any idea.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
What kind of dog gooda is?

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh? So she she's interesting looking she I would say,
maybe like a shepherd mix, but West Virginia brown dog
all the way, all the way.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's the first thing I thought of. The Dave Allen
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Speaker 5 (08:32):
I'm at the starting at the Blue Parrot. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 3 (08:41):
Actually, so, I mean this was the employees of the shelter.
You're gonna bring any of the pets with you, let
them do a little howling.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
So there will be no pets attending just because they're
not going to be allowed in some of the establs.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
There will be there will be shelter staff, there will
be volunteers, there'll be everybody here.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
It's gonna be a great time. And again the weather,
it's going to be cool, but it is Christmas. That's
what it's supposed to be. You know, as as you
head out to do a little Christmas Caroly the night,
are you a decent singer.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Hanjie No, But the audience in my car absolutely think well.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
And the fact that the event sponsored by Tito's, I mean,
you know, it's just it'll all be good rhythm in
a bottle, as they say, it's going to be a
great great. Now, somebody, if you go to these businesses
downtown tonight and you're out, Carolyn, somebody wants wants I
know you're not doing it for this purpose, but if
somebody wants to make a donation or something like that
to you, I'm sure you're not going to turn it down.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Absolutely. Amanda, who is pretty much in charge of all
of our donations, will be at that event. She has
spoken about tuxes and tails on this show before. She'll
be there and she'll gladly take donations and make sure
they go to the right place.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
All right, now, let's get back to adoptions just for
a moment. I did read on your social media that
you've got a law firm that's stepped up to kind
of help out covering the cost of some adoptions.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Right, yes, West Law Firm. They make Christmas magic for us.
Every year they sponsor adult dog at option fees so
that hopefully they can find a home before Christmas. Adult
dogs are six months and older, so anybody six months
and older will be free to adopt until Christmas. Thanks
the West Law Firm.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Big shout out to those folks. Anything else going on
in the next couple of days as we get ready
to head toward the Christmas holiday, you guys out and
about anywhere else over the weekend and get anything else
going on.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
So we're actually not going to be out this weekend
for an option event. However, we do desperately need fosters
for some mommy dogs in our care, moms and puppies.
So if that sounds interesting, please come up and see
us to do that.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
There you go, There you go, Angie. It's always a
pleasure of you on the show. Now, I'm not going
to be here next Friday, and I'm not sure at
this point whether we're doing a local show next Friday,
I will not be there. So if I'm not here,
more than likely you'll be talking to Dale Cooper next week.
I'm sure he'll take care of you.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Okay, all right, I think that sounds good.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
All right, Great Christmas. We'll talk soon. Thanks a lot, Angie,
Gilla water Knaw Charleston. You made an association. Guda, as in
the cheese is our adopt me please put of the
week picture posted Dave Island Radio on Facebook and at
Dave A seventy on X and also the WCCHS network
Facebook page. Guda around thirty pounds, about two years old.
Great with other dogs, great with kids. Don't know about

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cats yet, but as Angie said, with Guda's behavior shouldn't
be a problem. You never know, but shouldn't be a problem.
She came to the shelter at about two or three
months old, was adopted. And again it doesn't to me
sound like a behavior issue. The people had had her
for a couple of years and then brought her back

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for one reason or another. And if it was something
going on in their life, like I said, you know,
they were, they were moving, They're somewhere they could have
pets or whatever, then I applaud them for doing that.
But Guda is very, very confused, very scared in the shelters.
She won't walk on a leash. But Angie says, once
you get her with other dogs, she will be fine.
So you're looking for a great pet this holiday season,

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here's your dog, classic West Virginia brown dog with a
little bit of shepherd. Beautiful, beautiful dog. I've got the
picture again, posted Dave alland Radio and Facebook, the WCCHS
network Facebook page and at Dave a seventy on X.
It's Gudah. So go get Guda, all right, dot me
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Sachs a Bridge Valley. Good morning, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
Than Allen. How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (14:49):
I'm find Casey Sacks. How are you? We're gonna call
everybody by both names now, so all right, Casey Sachs, great,
got have you on the show. I want to talk
a little bit about the Win Academy. You spend a
lot of time on the show when we have on
talking about the Win Academy. Got a little love in
Got a little love in DC. I understand, Doctor Sachs.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
It's really lucky. So my dean for the Win Academy,
Jennifer Hurt, is just fabulous and she has gotten You
may remember a couple of years ago we won recognition
from the ass Family. They gave us a cash prize
for being one of the most innovative schools in the
country and they've paid They've now paid for our dean
to come to DC to get to meet with various

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dignitaries and governors from across the country and tell them
what's going on in West Virginia so that they can
try and replicate it in their states.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
And again, you do it every time we're on. But
I want to make sure people understand what a great
thing this WIN Academy is and exactly what it is.
Explain it.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
So the WIN Academy is an early college high school
at Bridge Valley. So when students are in eleventh or
twelfth grade, they come to Bridge Valley, they go into nursing,
they go into advanced manufacturing technology, and we completely sequence
their coursework so that they're doing something that's consistent with
the major they and currently can graduate with a high
school diploma and an associate's degree and go right into

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the workforce if that's what they want, or transfer to
a four year school and only have two years left
to do.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
And want to talk a little bit about veterans, because
I know you guys at Bridge Valley always go above
and beyond for our veterans, including an event that you
had I think it was last weekend. Talk about that.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
Oh, so we at Bridge Valley love our veterans. We're
really lucky to have such a terrific group. And this
last weekend they participated with lots of other folks at
the John L. K Memorial Cemetery and did the reeps
across America. I don't know if you've ever had the
opportunity to do that, Dave, but you really should get out.
It's a special event where they bring in reaps and

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put them on everybody's grave. It's really cool and it's
so fun that we had students being able to do
it right here in West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
And you've got at Bridge Valley, Doctor Sachs, You've got
a pretty big chunk of of your enrollment that are veterans.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
We do.

Speaker 6 (16:55):
We love our veterans, We love our veteran families. We
try really hard every year to make sure we get
recognized as a veteran friendly college. It's very important to us.
We have dedicated veterans lounges on both of our campuses.
We have dedicated staff for our veterans students so that
they don't have to negotiate the financial aid process alone.
We're really interested in helping our families be successful. All

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of our families be successful, but we're especially dedicated to
our veteran families.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
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some cyber scholarships. Talk theme to talk about that.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
A great So Microsoft is interested in getting more people
into cybersecurity. They see that a rising tide lifts all boats.
They really want to get people into the field of cybersecurity.
So even if what you decide you're going to do
is go work at Moses Automotive and help them with
their cybersecurity, Microsoft is committed to getting more people into
the field, and so they've reached out to Bridge Valley

(18:18):
and are doing targeted scholarships and trying really hard to
get students to apply for these Microsoft scholarships so that
you can go to school and study cybersecurity.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
And cybersecurity is all the rage right now, doctor Sachs.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
I mean, it really is. That paired with AI, there's
a lot going on, and certainly it's a booming field.
So it's one of those areas where you can get
some training in a pretty short amount of time if
you have any inclination towards computers, and find a good
job in any number of fields that everybody from the
state auditor's office to a school, they all need cybersecurity experts.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, and I mean there's companies that specialize in that's
what they do is on a contract basis for other
companies as they do cybersecurity. But you're right, I mean,
no matter what the industry is, there there's a cybersecurity
job available somewhere, because we've seen in every industry there
can be issues with cybersecurity, and now that you know

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it's getting it's getting more and more prevalent every day.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
It's right, that's absolutely right, and it's a field where
I would certainly tell the young people in my life
or people who want to change jobs who are in
my life, if you're inclined to work with computers and
really help protect a whole system, that this is a
great thing to look at.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Indeed, it is kind of going on all of the
things that are making the news these days. You mentioned AI,
We talked about cybersecurity. There's a lot of talk in
West Virginia and other areas too, doctor Sacks about data centers,
and there aren't a lot of and analyts. It can
be a very controversial issue. We're not going to get
into all that, but bottom line is is data centers

(19:52):
are being built in a lot of places around America
and there's you know, and possibly West Virginia as well.
Talk about some of the jobs that come along with
data centers and what Bridge Valley is offering relating to that.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
That's such a good question, Dave. Well, there's actually two
areas that we have at Bridge Valley that are terrific
jobs that could support data center operations. One is electrical
engineering and the other is HVAC technician. And so of
course cybersecurity. Of course, it sort of would think of
those when you're thinking about a data center, but the
technology that supports the infrastructure. So if you're building a

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big building and you have to keep all of this
stuff running, computers can't run hot, so they really need
advanced age fact technicians. They're going to end up trying
to get all of our really talented HVAC technicians out
of our programs. And it's an area that if you're thinking, gosh,
I like to work with my hands or fix things,
it's a terrific time to study that because there's more

(20:48):
jobs than ever that are starting to emerge in the
market because of these data centers.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Talk with doctor Ksey sachs Bridge Valley Spring classes, Doctor
Sacks are going to start what January the twelfth, I think,
and and well, you know, people would say I need
to go back to school. There's a lot of people
that have said that about it.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
You're always welcome.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So there's still time to register though right there is.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
You can register all the way until the eighth of January.
I would certainly recommend sooner the better. Then you can
have some planning and go see where your classes are
going to be. But absolutely come to campus. Let's get
you registered for school.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
So if I take you up on your offer, and
I come back to classes. What course of study? I
know you're not a guidance counselor, but what course of
study would you suggest for a fifty five year old
disc jockey and radio announcer.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Well, so I would probably start with what kind of
job do you want to do next? And then we could.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Back into well, I don't know. I mean, I'm kind
of I'm kind of enjoying this one. I've done it
for thirty seven years, so I'm kind of enjoying this one.
But I'll let you I'll take an assessment and you
can place me in a program. How's that?

Speaker 6 (21:53):
When you're ready for a career team? Do you let
me know?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
D Well, you might want to talk to the bosses upstairs.
They might be more ready for me to have a
career change than I am. That's so, that's the way
it works sometimes, Doctor k cy sacks the Bridge Valley.
It's always a pleasure to have you on the show
and remind people where they can check out more of
the things going on at Bridge Valley.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
It's all at Bridge Valley dot edu.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
All right, you have yourself a great Christmas season. We'll
talk in the new year. Thanks a lot. You all right,
doctor Ksey Sachs of Bridge Valley. If I were going
to at this point in my life, and I've done
a few different things, but I've never even when I
was doing other jobs that was still doing radio on
the side, and so if I were going to go
into something else, Ryan, we need to work on that.
What what can my next career be? We need to

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work on that. To think about that. Uh, there was
a text and I didn't really know if it's for
doctor Sachs or not. Talking about cybersecurity for senior citizens,
organizations and communities. That is something that has that's really
been in the news a lot when it comes to
especially scams and things as that. As a matter of fact,
coming up later on on Metro News Midday to Day

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among our guest today, Secretary of State Chris Warner is
going to join us and he's gonna spend a little
bit of time talking about things right along those lines.
We're going to talk to a Delegate jb Acres when
we come back after the break, and also Susie Salisbury
from the Charleston Airy Allons is going to stop by.
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to be rescheduled. It's good that he's speeding up the
process that Biden started in twenty twenty two. Only thing is,
according to the Controlled Substances Act, the DEA has to
reschedule cannabis. Maybe if it gets rescheduled, Shelley Capito will

(24:00):
stop her blockade on the thirty four million dollars in
tax money that West Virginia can use. Yeah. I spent
a lot of time on the pot yesterday, so to speak,
talking about it anyway on Metro News Midday, especially yesterday
and there are just some people in the Republican Party
that aren't very happy with President Trump right now because
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the reclassification of marijuana and the majority of the text
that we got on Open Line West Virginia yesterday. We're
all about marijuana, either pro or con. And there's many
of us that really don't have an opinion either way
because I don't use it, so it doesn't really affect me,
and I'm kind of like you do you on it?
You know so? But it's a it's a hot button

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want to give you a quick programming notes on Wednesday show? Wednesday,
of course is Christmas Eve, so we will be doing
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third or fourth year that we've done this something like that.
State Democratic Party Chair of Delegate Mike Pushkin not talking politics.
He'll leave his politics at the door. He changes his
politics for guitar. He'll be in studio with us. He's
bringing in several other musicians, I know the aim of
Steel Band by Man. Tony the Taylor's Band is going
to be in studio as well, and we're just going

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to have a Christmas jam session, play a little music,
tell little stories, you know, like we've done in years past.
And I have sent out the invitation to our frequent
guests to the program that want to stop by that
they're more than welcome to. And a big shout out
to Richard Lindsay who is sponsoring the show yet again
this year. So if you're if you're one of my

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frequent guests and you like to I just want to
get all these different personalities in one place at Christmas.
I want to get Greg Thomas, and I want to
get Mike Pushkin, and I want to get Eric Tarr
and Kaylee Young, and I want to get him all together,
as we would say growing up in the Free Will
Baptist Church, hugging neck and love somebody. So a man
can wish, can he not? Jewish Christmas Spectacular coming up

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we're gonna take a break and Delicate. Jb Acres is
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Speaker 11 (30:15):
I'm doing great man. Married Christmas to you and everybody
who's listening. It's my favorite time of the year.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
I love it. Are you a Christmas person? Oh my gosh,
I love Christmas? What is it about? I Mean, here's
what I've learned about Christmas. There's three types of people JB.
There's people that love it. There are people that don't
like it so much, and that there are people that
just want to get through it. And that's usually people
in retail or or people in radio or so they
just want to get through it. But you're a lover
of Christmas. I love it.

Speaker 11 (30:41):
The main reason why is my wife and I, like
we just can't be luckier. We have three outstanding kids.
So like Christmas Day for us is like a dream,
Like just be in the house with the kids and
like we just like make it relax and chill out,
and you know, we just enjoy spending time with them.
They're all getting older, oldest daughters in college now she
still comes home, Thank goodness, in our twins or seniors
in high school.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
But we still have them.

Speaker 11 (31:01):
But like we're just trying to enjoy these last you
know kind of Christmases where they're still with us and
our families all together as much as we can, and
of course seeing our parents and all this stuff too.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
But I and I love the season like that, you know.

Speaker 11 (31:11):
Again, not to get you know, too deep into it,
but like the whole reason for Christmas. You know, I
love going to church during the Christmas season, and I
just you know, a lot of people just seem really
happy this.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Time of year.

Speaker 11 (31:23):
You know, we drove in the Christmas prey, My wife
and I drove our youngest daughter's high school soccer team
and the Christmas prey last week in Charleston, and like
you know, you're just driving, people were waving at you
and yellow Merry Christmas, and they're smiling, and like, I
just I like to see people happy. I mean, I'm
a people person us, you know, the main reason I
got involved in politics is actually enjoy being around people.
I like to talk to people. I like to try

(31:43):
to help them if I can. And you know, a
lot of folks are just happy this time here. Like
I love seeing some mad say Mery Christmas.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
They say it back. I just I love it. Talking
again with Delegate to jam Bakers, we do want to
dive into the political realm here for a moment. The
agenda that was announced last week by House Speaker Roger
Hands shyall big oni, big on business, big on commerce,
not so much on on social issues. That's something that
Delegate Speaker A. Hanshaw said last week.

Speaker 11 (32:09):
Your thoughts, Yeah, so this is actually something that on
the House Republican side, we had been working on this
for several months. We had in the leadership team, you know,
led by Speaker Hanshaw, who does a great job. He
had asked members and he had tasked members of his
leadership team to ask members of the House Republican Caucus
to give priorities. And those priorities could have been whatever

(32:29):
people said.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
It could have been.

Speaker 11 (32:30):
You know, it could have been taxes, could have been jobs, schools, roads,
you know, it could have been whatever they wanted to say.
It could have been social issues. You know, there was
no limit what you could prioritize. And when our member
survey came back overwhelmingly the Republican Caucus in the House
said we want to focus on jobs and economic issues.
And so the Speaker took that and he said, well,
that's what we're going to emphasize in this press conference

(32:53):
is what our members said they wanted based upon what
our constituents tell us. I mean, our job is to
represent the people who vot us office. So this is
a reflection I think of what our voters want. We're
doing this as representatives of the people who put us
in office. And then the speaker came out and I
think did a fantastic job at that press conference, surrounded
by you know, a huge number of the Republicans in

(33:14):
the House. Where they're with him during that presentation is
a sign of support. And those are things he emphasized.
And you know, I've got a whole list of things
here that he talked about we can touch him on.
But you know, just generally speaking, I don't have time
to getting all the details I wish I did.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
I wish you.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
I always say I wish you had a long form
podcast and we could talk for sure three hours.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
But you know it's it's a dumb talk line thing
that gets in the way. If we could just get
rid of rid of Wilson the meadows, we'd be all right.
Just locked the door and don't let him in. Well
one of them's in Morgan, Hey, real quick, I do
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Congratulations Jeff Fleck of Charleston. He was our winner of
the WVU tickets for that Monday night game at the
Kyle cum So he's not only going to get four tickets,

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but he's also going to get to the Little Clark
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appreciate Pinnacle Consultants for hooking us up with those tickets.
All right, let's go over some of those things that
you want to talk about. Merry Christmas.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
Jeff leg a job buddy, so that their overall emphasis,
Dave and everybody listening is there's like three main or
three legs of the school school or stool. Basically, it's
workforce ready education initiatives, it's a job creation or job
creating business climate initiatives. And then the third the third
leg of the stool is just kind of broadly, it's
responsible economic growth is what we're calling it. So some

(34:27):
of those things I wish I could talk about them all,
but one thing we're going to do is we're going
to you know, really emphasize what we call upscilling, which
is we will incentivize companies that are existing, you that
exist in West Virginia now to provide more on the
job training for their employees. Continuing education for employees, give
people a chance to advance within their own company and

(34:48):
you know, keep them here in West Virginia with better
economic opportunities for themselves and their families. And then also
with the advance within the company that creates you know,
whatever their prior position was, that creates an opening for
somebody else. And this is part of what we're also doing, Dave,
is you know, we work really hard to try to
attract new businesses to the state of West Virginia, and
that's something I spent a lot of time on personally,

(35:08):
but we also want to make sure the businesses that
are here that have been fighting, you know, side by
side with us, you know, to make things work and
have you have been dedicated to this state sometimes for
decades or maybe even one hundred years or more, that
we're also going to make sure that they're taken care
of as well. So this upscaling is part of that.
We're going to provide incentives for better training for existing
employees in the state. We're also going to do things

(35:30):
like try try to provide opportunities for people who are
still in high school to go ahead and get on
a job track. Doctor Casey Sachs is one of your
guests a little while ago, and let me tell you
she does a fantastic at the top a Bridge Valley.
That school has just propelled forward under her leadership in
the past couple of years. She's she's a superstar.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
I mean to the point I'll give a big to
your point there. She didn't like to talk about it
that much, but other institutions similar to hers out of
state are coming in and looking at what Bridge Valley
is doing, especially with that Win Academy. She has done
a phenomenal job.

Speaker 11 (36:01):
And one of the things she does with one academy
is she puts those kids on a path to you know,
graduate and be workforce ready as soon as they finish
high school or being more advanced than their four year career.
What she talked about with you, and that's one of
the things we want to emphasize as well. It's I'm
not going to say it's based upon her model, but
it's very similar to give these kids the opportunity to
go ahead and get work ready while they're still in
high school. Uh, So we're going to emphasize that as well.

(36:23):
We have some other things on here, Dave. We're going
to allow, you know, try to increase our energy.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Capacity in the state. It's a big issue right now.

Speaker 11 (36:31):
You talked about data centers with doctor Sachs a little
while ago, you know, regardless of that issue, which I
wish I could talk more about data centers individually, but
we absolutely need more energy in the state for a
lot of different reasons. One of those to provide you
more capacity and which will it will help our rate payers,
the people who live here.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
So we're going to do some things emphasize that.

Speaker 11 (36:51):
We're going to do some stuff like we're going to
try to push a statewide construction sales tax credit for homebuilders.
We have you know, so there's a shortage of housing
in West Virginia, but it's really nationwide problem, but it
certainly exists here. So we're gonna try to do some
things and make housing more affordable on the front end,
to create more housing stock, which will hopefully draw more

(37:13):
folks in or just create better housing opportunities for people
who live here. And then we're also going to do
some things to try to emphasize we're incentivize more capital
for small businesses in the state of West Virginia. Again,
some of this will be large business focused, but we're
doing a heck of a lot of stuff to also
focus on small businesses.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
In West Virginia as well.

Speaker 11 (37:32):
And then another thing the speaker talked about is a
teacher pay raise, teacher in school personnel that was part
of his agenda or our agenda that he announced on
our behalf. That is the most expensive part of this
a lot of what we're talking about. The best thing
about it, Dave, is some of these things won't cost anything.
Some are very low cost. The teacher in school service
personnel race. If that gets through, that'll be you. That's

(37:54):
an expensive thing, but I think worth it. I support it.
So and then I think the governor actually came out
last week and said he supports a pay raise for
state employees across the board, So we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Was that would that be something that you'd be in
support of or I will?

Speaker 11 (38:08):
Yeah, I mean I think that we you know, you
got to be economically responsible and financially responsible, but the
numbers work.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
I supported, Our state employees deserve it, and this again,
we're talking with delicate jb Acres about their legislative agenda
going forward to Speaker Hanshaw talked about, you know, with
the with these surveys that came out from the legislators.
Now this is the house we're talking about. Haven't heard
anything out of the Senate on whether they're going to
grow along with this. How confident are you that, jb

(38:35):
that that these things can be accomplished.

Speaker 11 (38:37):
Have a high level of confidence. And that doesn't mean
every single one of these will get passed. Obviously, we've
got a lot of stuff on our agenda here, but
I'm very confident that we will have a jobs and
economic first agenda that gets through. Is the primary thing
that we accomplished this next session. I'll say this too quickly.
You said that there was no emphasis on social issues,
and there certainly wasn't in that press conference that the

(38:58):
Speaker gave. But there will be some of those bills
this year. And I will say, respectfully, there are a
lot of voters in West Virginia who do.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Care about those issues. Dave.

Speaker 11 (39:06):
I mean, that's not the main thing that I campaign on.
I'm always a jobs and an economy first guy. You've
had me on before, I think you would agree. That's
why I always emphasize personally. But I'm not going to
tell someone that something that individually matters.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
To them doesn't matter at all, we shouldn't address it.

Speaker 11 (39:21):
So you'll see some of those bills, I'm sure day,
but the primary focus, at least in the House side
will be this economic agenda. Affordability will be part of
what we look at. Also, that's a huge issue across
the country right now, and I think the Senate will
get on board, or at least I'm hopeful that they
will with this.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
We had a text here for you said, why a
tax credit if we plan to remove income tax?

Speaker 11 (39:40):
Well, it's a tax credit on building construction materials. Is
how that one will work? If that's what the caller is, right?
I think I think that's what they say. So that
one to the caller that is, you know, we want
to make the construction and building materials more affordable. And
I'll tell you if you don't know this, a lot
of people probably do. That's been one of the main
drivers of the increase in housing costs is just the
cost of the materials that use to build a house.

(40:02):
So we're trying to make that more affordable and not
tax people on the materials you actually have to use
to build your residents, which will hopefully make the housing
more affordable.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
So that's what that's from. It's been a week Delegate
where people are announcing what they're doing. In twenty twenty six,
three straight days of people coming on the show announcer
that they're running for office. I had two Democrats and
one Republican, two for state Senate, one running for a House.
It's a future look like for JBA.

Speaker 11 (40:28):
Well today came on mainly to talk about what we're
going to do this next session. But I'm all in.
I'm going to run again. I've already filed pre candidacy,
and man, I love doing this. I mean social media,
We've said this before, that can be kind of a
hard thing to deal with sometimes, but face to face
conversations with constituents and voters or just people in general,
like I like to try to make things better for
the entire state. I mean, my primary focus is on
my district, but I love to do things that just

(40:51):
improve the quality of life from West Virginia. And you know,
my family has been extremely fortunate. I like to see
other people succeed as well. So I'm back in. I'm
going to run again. I will be honored and privileged
if the people in my district will vote for me
again and put me back in office to keep.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Working for him.

Speaker 11 (41:06):
So that's I'm definitely gonna be on ballid again this
spring day.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
All right, Dell A good jb Acres. I appreciate you
being here as always, my friend.

Speaker 11 (41:14):
Hey, thank you, and Merry Christmas to everybody. I love
it so right, so you can.

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Speaker 16 (45:31):
I took advantage of your invitation to come back when
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All right, we'll announced who we got here already.

Speaker 16 (45:38):
So this morning we are very very happy to announce
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(45:58):
and she's got a couple of students with her as well.
They were our Best and Show. That's the award where
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we also have five People's Choice awards, and I'll just
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Speaker 3 (46:16):
I don't really even need to be here for this,
so I'm gonna just turn it over to you and
Meghan and I can just leave you go get go,
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Speaker 16 (46:23):
All right, the Downtown winner, and again this is people's choice.
This is we had an actual voting system where you
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They did a beautiful display. As you enter the Secretary
of State's office. In Kanaul City, it's Tim Hogan's Design Gallery.
South Hills is Charlie Boutique, and on the west side
it's Capital Business Into. So again, these are the folks
in the community selected who would win those awards. But

(47:06):
I'd like to have Megan talk a little bit about
the Children's Theater Best in Show because it was just
it was a fabulous display created by kids, done my kids,
and ties into the show that they're hosting this weekend
at the Clay Cup.

Speaker 9 (47:20):
Right, thank you, Sezy. We're super excited.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
So that window display was depicting up the Grinch, which
is our show this weekend at the Clay Center. And
it was actually a free hand drawn by Gabriel Rashid,
who is one of our amazing kids in the Children's Theater.
He's a student at Charleston Catholic High School. And then
some of the other teens came in and helped color
in and it was really a team effort. It was

(47:43):
done by the teens and some of some of the adults.
We always try to comment and rally and help them out.
But you know, we're so excited. Were new Keno City residents.
We've only been there a few months when we bought
our brand new, beautiful building.

Speaker 9 (47:55):
So yeah, very excited.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
All right, you talk about who you've got here with.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
So I brought with me today two very special young ladies,
Malia Sar and Emma Grace Hutchinson, and they are graduates
of George Washington High School and they have both went
off to college and they came back during the Christmas
break to help us with our show. Malia, do you
want to say where you are and what you're doing now?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
So?

Speaker 11 (48:18):
I am currently at Ohio University studying acting and I
really have children's theaters.

Speaker 9 (48:22):
Think for that.

Speaker 11 (48:23):
They sparked my passion and let me know that if
I have a passion, I can follow it to the.

Speaker 9 (48:28):
End, right and immigrat I'm.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
At University of Charleston studying Elementary and Special Education.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
CGFC has been a huge part of my life. They
really have to thank them for everything. That's awesome. That's awesome.

Speaker 7 (48:42):
So they're helping us backstage this weekend at our show
with the branch of which I'm gonna have to say again,
we are having The Grinch all weekend. Three public shows tonight,
two shows tomorrow, two and seven, and the tickets.

Speaker 9 (48:52):
So this is going to be a record breaking show.

Speaker 7 (48:55):
And we have had to open the second balcony, so
it's super exciting.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
That's good stuff. It's good stuff. I appreciate you, you
ladies for being here now. University of Charleston and Ohio
University being a Marshall person, you know, I'm going to
give you a little bit of junk about. Ohio University
is the alma mater of my co host in the afternoon,
Amanda Baron, so hopefully we can get you in a
better school. I'm kidding, I'm kiddy. So I want to
go back to you here just for a moment. I

(49:20):
want to talk about this the window decorating contest, and Megan,
I'm going to close out with you with another little
spot for the for the for the production, talk about
the overall participation this year in the window decorating content.

Speaker 16 (49:31):
We had thirty businesses, businesses slash organizations that registered, and
I'm happy to see that Metro News here was a
participant as well. It's a lot of fun. And I
think how like I mentioned last week, is you know,
this is just a real team building effort. You're mean,

(49:51):
Meghan mentioned that, but a lot of businesses use it
as a team building effort as well of their staff
and their employees. And it's a way to you know,
really participate in. You know, what's become Charleston the Christmas town.
Many of the businesses are going to decorate anyway, so
why not sign up and become part of the competition.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
And look, Charleston has become like the Christmas City. I
mean it's there's always been a buy in from the
businesses and the individuals. But now if you look at
what's going on over at the Selango Lall Light, the
night over at Go Mark Ballpark, what's going on Holly
Jolly Brawley, and all of these other you mentioned things,
that Clay Center, all these it's excuse me, Capital Market

(50:33):
as well. It's become Charleston is like the Christmas City now.

Speaker 16 (50:36):
And as far as entertainment, you know, last weekend was
the Nutcracker Charleston Ballet and the Symphony. Now this weekend
we have the Children's Theater, so there's just always something
going on.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
All good stuff. All right, give me another commercial here
for you for your production.

Speaker 9 (50:49):
Yea, The Grinch is going on at the Clay Center
with the Children's Theater. Charleston.

Speaker 7 (50:53):
Super excited. We have some of the Symphony coming and
doing the live music. It's amazing. It's going to be
an incredible show. We've had three we're working on our
third school show right now. They're actually doing it over
at the Clay Center seven o'clock tonight too and seven
tomorrow Saturday.

Speaker 9 (51:06):
Again. You can still get tickets, but they.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Are going quick, get them, get them quickly, hacked house
because they are. They're going quickly. You've even had to
open up, like you said, a second level, right.

Speaker 9 (51:15):
Yeah, and it's so and it's a show for kids.

Speaker 7 (51:17):
It's only about an hour and a half long run,
about ninety minutes, so you don't have to worry about
them coming in for a two and a half three
hour show. We're gonna have a fun different merchandise in
the lobby, a lot of little photo ops. So yeah,
come on down one more Christmas function before the crazy
week next week.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Susy appreciate you being here. Thanks you so much, and
Megan always pleasure to you and you girls. I'm sorry
what I said about Ohio University. I'm a Marshall guy.
You know, we got to do that sort of thing.
Thank you. Thank you girls as well. I know you
guys are gonna do great things in your career. Thanks
a lot. All right, we are gonna head out of here.
I was going to say we're taking a break, but
we're pretty much out of time. Coming up later today
Metro News, mid Day thirteen News and Tonight Live anchor

(51:54):
Amanda barn and me on the show today. I'll be
back on Monday with the local show again. Danny Jones,
back from his tour of California, is on the show,
and Charleston Mayor Amy sure Goodan will be on the
show on Monday as well. Have yourself a great weekend, folks,
and for those that are without power, hope your power
comes back on soon. I'll see you later till then,
have fun and love somebodys.

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