Talkline | Friday, Sept. 26

Kaitlin McCormick, with Next Era Transmission, discusses the proposed route for the MARL transmission line. Brad Howe previews WVU's matchup with Utah. Plus, STEAM RELEASE!

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
We might we might have a deal on TikTok. You
know who's thrilled about that. Also James Coby indicted and
a proposed route for the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link. We
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Speaker 3 (02:21):
Good morning Dave Wilson. Am I the one that's supposed
to be excited about this TikTok deal? I take it
is that who we were talking about there?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, that was a little little joke, a little jab
little jab.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Hey, you know what, honestly, I mean honest when Oracle
popped because they were taken over the algorithm part of this,
or the security part of this, I actually made a
decent amount of money, so maybe I'm pretty happy with it.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, you know, if the US is in control of TikTok,
will you join TikTok?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I wouldn't be opposed to joining TikTok. Honestly, even if
the US didn't control it, I'm not sure I would
be opposed to joining it. My problem with this whole
deal was we didn't follow the law. We just ignored
law for how for what year was? Any year?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Feels like it?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
We just ignored it. I'll save it for later.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
But yeah, we will get into that and much much
more as the hour unfolds again. Brad Howe going to
stop by. I'll talk a little Mountaineer. We'll get ready
for the weekend with Mountaineer football, big high school football
slate of games to tell you about as well. So
earlier this morning, TJ and I we actually got in
a bit early today. Next Era Transmission released its preferred

(03:35):
route for the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link. That's one hundred
and five mile transmission line running from Pennsylvania to Virginia,
traversing four counties along the way. Four counties in West Virginia, Montagelia, Preston,
Mental Hampshire Counties. This route that was selected comes after
some public pushback, county commissions that have come out and
publicly opposed the plan and public but members of the

(03:59):
public who have come out in opposition to the route.
So earlier this morning we came in to talk to
Caitlin McCormick, Next ERA Transmission senior director, about how the
route was selected and its possible impacts. Join us this
morning as senior director with next ERA Transmission, Caitlin McCormick. Caitlin,
good morning, Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Good morning, Thank you for having me today.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
So next ERA has decided on its preferred route for
the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link. Of course, that's the high
voltage transmission line running from Pennsylvania to Virginia, crossing four
West Virginia counties. How did you arrive at this proposed route?

Speaker 6 (04:40):
So we have done quite an extensive amount of external engagement.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
And research with the community, working.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
With external agencies, whether that's at the state or federal level,
and holding eight open houses where we had nearly twelve
hundred attendees and we received over twelve hundred comments between
in person at ten needs at those meetings or an
online survey that both the company the open houses and
the earlier online survey about the study corridor.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Caitlin, what's your process for notifying land owners of this
final proposed route that you'll take to the commission for approval.

Speaker 6 (05:17):
So we have a team of land agents that's working
across the project area and they are reaching out to
individuals to have a one on one conversation with them
about their property and the proposed route. And we're going
to continue to have extensive conversations with them, and they'll
have a single point of contact that they can reach
out to individually.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
How much of the proposed route follows existing high voltage
transmission lines?

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Probably about I don't have the number right in front
of me, but about sixty to seventy percent is within
a thousand feet or so of an existing transmission line.
Roughly half of it parallels and abuts existing transmission line corridors.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Why is that important for this project?

Speaker 5 (05:59):
So we to this proposed route to do a couple
of things.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
The first is to minimize impacts to landowners, to minimize
impacts of communities, and to minimize environmental impacts. And by
paralleling and abutting existing transmission lines, You're going to minimize
the visual impacts and minimize any sort of new disturbance.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
In an area.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Senior Director Next Area Transmission Caitlin McCormick joining us here
on Metro News talk line. They have chosen the company
has chosen its proposed route preferred route for the mid
Atlantic Resiliency Link. What is the benefit to West Virginia
counties along this route to be Montagelia, Preston, Hampshire and
Mineral counties. What's the benefit to those counties along the route.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, there's a couple of benefits.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
First, landowners individually will be compensated for an easement on
their property at or above market value. The second is
there's a substantial tax benefit to each of the county
is located along the route. In West Virginia, up to
four hundred million dollars in tax revenue would be coming
into the state. And of that, and it varies by county,
about sixty five to seventy percent of that would go

(07:03):
into the public school district in the schools which would
help fund teacher salaries, maintenance, or whatever priorities those districts have.
And third, there's electrical benefits here. First, the line is bidirectional,
and that means it's going to go in both directions.
And while West Virginia does export energy every year, there

(07:23):
are periods during the year where it does import energy
into the state. Additionally, anybody could apply to interconnect. It's
a network line. We've had a couple of misconceptions that
it would subscribed, there was no capacity. It's part of
the system, and there's ability for future interconnections there.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
So let's double click into that for a second. So
the fact that there will be additional capacity on the
line if there's a large scale economic development project, one
would assume that if it has a large energy need,
it would be able to work with you and work
with other regulators in order to procure energy from that line.
Is that accurate.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, So there's a multi step process that go through
working with US and the local utility that they get
their electric bill from, and then depending on the size
of the user, they needed an additional study with PJM
to make sure that there's not any unintended consequences on
the system that affects some other users.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
That's already there.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Talking to Caitlin McCormick, next Era transmission the mid Atlantic
resiliency link the one hundred and five mile transmission line
from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Are there any plans for additional
substations along the line so that would directly benefit say,
Montingalia or Preston County.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah, so we are looking at options. PGM has its
bid window open right now and we're looking at some
opportunities there depending on how they choose to proceed based
on their over one hundred submissions, that could potentially include
an additional substation in Preston County, West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
What are the chances that this proposed route will actually
end up being the final route and how will you
continue to work with stakeholders as a shoes that may
not have emerged yet start to emerge.

Speaker 5 (09:04):
So we go through a lengthy process with each of
the states.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
In West Virginia it's the Public Service Commission, So this
route is what we're intending to submit with our applications.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
Later listenear to the West.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Virginia Public Service Commission and the equivalents in the other
states where will have facilities. Throughout that process, they may
make adjustments or modifications to that. There's opportunities for stakeholder
input on that process and for individuals to engage.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
We expect that process to take about one to two years.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
How did you take it? You said you take into
consideration the public comments and concerns of the residents. Can
you give some specific examples how you address concerns of
residents who don't want this line coming through their property.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, we've got extensive feedback.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
We looked at quite a bit of different areas throughout
the route, and not everybody's feedback was the same. Trying
to balance the environmental impacts, landowner impacts, and impacts to
communities and throughout the entire process, we had extensive stakeholder
input and what we're going to do is present all
that in great details part of the robbing study filed
with the CPC and application.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I want to circle back to the need for the
line for just a second. Many folks, this can get
very complicated, Caitlin, As you know, it's a process, but
this I don't think it's fair to just say this
is a line next stra wants to build. There's a
reason that you're coming forward to build it, and someone
has identified that cause. Walk us through that origin and

(10:29):
how this came to be and why the need is there.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Yeah. PJM is the regional transmission organization and they're the
ones who operate the electric grid in this region and
their job is to make sure electricity is getting from
where it's produced and it's serving all their sixty five
million customers throughout the region. As part of that long
term planning process, they put out their electric system modeling
and they did that in twenty twenty three and we

(10:54):
responded to that solicitation, and that was based on increased
power demand throughout the red as well as changing patterns
of generation, whether that is new generation coming on or
retirements happening throughout the system. And as part of that,
we and others responded to that and they selected our
mid Atlantic Resiliency Link as part of a portfolio of
solutions that they had in order to long term keep

(11:17):
those lights on and pretent prevent the potential for our
brownouts or blackouts in the future.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Talking to Kaylein McCormick Next Era in Next Era Transmission
talking about the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link, sell me, if
I'm a property owner at Montegalia, Preston, Mineral Hampshire Counties,
I'm a farmer. It's family owned property. Had it forever.
Sell me on why this is a good idea.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
So, this is going to be an investment in West
Virginia and in the region, and it's going to provide
increase access to lower cost generation sources throughout the region.
It's going to strengthen the regional electric grid and that's
going to benefit everyone, and it's going to enhance reliability
for homes and businesses and support economic growth throughout three
including here in West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
If I'm hearing you this morning and I'm listening now,
is there a website? Is there some resource I can
go to perhaps to learn more if I would be
an affected property owner before you reach out to me.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
Yeah, we have a website. It's at mid Atlantic resiliencylink
dot com. We've got the updated route map with our
proposed route that is along the line.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's there.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
We look forward to having conversations with any landowner along
the route.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
We've already started reaching.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
Out to those individuals and have made an effort to
reach all of them, and we'll be talking with them
about compensation for the easement on their property.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Why not build a transmission or a build a generation facility.
If Virginia needs power. Why are we not building generation
facilities over there? Why are we cutting a highway through
West Virginia.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
So part of this project is to serve West Virginia.
I can't comment to Virginia and what is happening there,
but PJAM has identified a need for more transmission to
strengthen electric grid and help bolster the economy here. West
Virginia has an anticipated growth of about ten percent additional
energy demand in the coming years, and there are times

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of the year when West Virginia imports power, and this
line is going to be bidirectional and help serve West
Virginians here and support the West Virginia energy economy.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Anything else you want to add, Caitlin, We appreciate.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
The opportunity to be here.

Speaker 6 (13:24):
We've had extensive engagement as part of our effort to
select the proposed route. We appreciate everybody that participated in
our open houses and provided feedback. Our proposed route does
minimize the environmental impacts, impacts to communities, and impacts to landowners,
and we are really happy to be part of bolstering
the energy economy here in West Virginia and increasing access

(13:47):
to lower cost, reliable power, strengthening the regional electric grid
and supporting homes and businesses in the region.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Thank you very much, Robin on this morning. Kaylen, we
appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate you
taking the time.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, Thank you. Caitlin McCormick, Senior director with next
Era Transmission. If you want to take a look at
the preferred route being proposed by next Era, you can
head to their website, check it out and see if
you could be possibly impacted. All right, we'll share a
couple of thoughts. Gotta take a break. We're back in
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Speaker 1 (15:43):
Brad mclhenny has a story at Wvmetionnews dot com this
morning detailing that proposed route for the mid Atlantic Resiliency Link.
Let's bring Tjmadows back into the conversation. TJ thoughts on
the marl Maral I hate that name, the Middlelantic Resiliency Link.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I think at the Marlborough Man every time I hear it.
At any rate, Look, not everybody's going to be happy
with this. There's no way to make everyone happy. I
know some of the opponents of this have talked about
efforts in the past, and they have been successful in
stopping lines like Path was another one back twenty years

(16:21):
ago that was going to be built that people didn't like.
Here's the difference. At that time, you didn't have the
kind of load demand on the system that you have
now with AI quantum computing, everything that's coming. We just
do not have enough energy in this country. If I
were asked to handicap it, I would say, this line
gets built. There's just no way this gets stopped. I

(16:43):
understand the Commission has to approve it. There are compelling
interests as to why this gets done. Your question about
she didn't want to comment on it, I can appreciate that.
I can comment all day long. Your question about why
not build a plant in Virginia? The inser of a
date on this line answers that they need this by
I think it was twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty. It

(17:04):
needs to be in date. You can't build a plant
that quick, and the grid, like it or not, is interconnected,
and people are like, well, let Virginia black out. Here's
the problem. Remember that tree back in what was it
South northeast Ohio got on a transmission line, caused outages
all the way it blacked out New York City. That's
how interconnected the grid is at the transmission level. So

(17:28):
if there's a demand issue, you got to fix it,
and if you don't fix it, it can affect a
lot more than just where that issue and where that
load is located. My two cents on it, for what
it's worth, I'm probably not making people happy either with
my comments.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, I think next Era deserves some credit. It certainly
responded to the public comments that it is received, because
that route has changed from the last time I'd seen
a proposed route, specifically in Montingalia County. It has changed
quite dramatically from where that was going to come through
Cheap Lake and part of that area of Montegue County.

(18:05):
So credit to that for listening. You're right, you cannot
make everyone happy. Somebody is going to be impacted and
they are not going to like that. I understand that.
If it's coming through my land, if it's my family farm,
or if it's my family, you know, Christmas tree business,
I totally get that. So get a little bit of
credit there for responding to the comments. This still has
to go through the Public Service Commission and what is

(18:26):
it four states?

Speaker 9 (18:27):
Three?

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Four states? Yeah, every state it touches, the local commission
will have to approve the route. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
So this has a long way to go. It may
it may change again between now and then. But I
am on the same page with you. There is there
is a need for it for the grid overall, and
there's interest here in West Virginia. If we're going to
be this energy leader, I don't think you start off
by nixing an energy project, do you fair? That's not

(18:56):
a good look, right.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
No fair? Point that fifty to fifty plan that Governor
Morrissy is talking about to build all these merchant plants, Well,
these developers are keenly aware and watch how states and
other jurisdictions react to transmission Because if they can't get
their product to market and they need transmission lines to
do it, they'll build it somewhere where they can easily
get those transmission lines permitted. Capital will go to the

(19:18):
point where it is least restricted and most able to flow.
It's like any other business anything else, and so it
sends a bad signal to your point.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Let me pose a question to you, j If okay,
we want data centers in West Virginia, we want microgrids, right,
Does this help or hurt West Virginia's pitch to locate
data centers here. If we've got this transmission line going
from point A to point B and you can put
your data centers over on point B in Northern Virginia

(19:48):
at the end of this line, does it help or hurt?
Or Am I over thinking a very nebulous question.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
No, I think it depends on what you want to do.
If you're building a micro grid solely to power your
out of facilities and you're not interested in selling access
back to the grid, or you want to sell it
at a local level and not necessarily put it on
the wholesale market, then I don't know that you're worried
about transmission one way or the other. If you do
want to take your access energy that you're not using

(20:15):
and sell it at the wholesale level, very much matters.
And here's where a project like this also comes into play.
Now that you have that capability, Let's say someone wants
to put a data center somewhere in mad or Preston County,
and they've got the available land and it happens to
be near that transmission line. She talked about interconnection. That's
one hurdle down. You can tap into that line and
get access to the wholesale market. If you're an economic

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development person, you like that because if you've got land
but you don't have high voltage electricity, and this is
going to give you high voltage electricity, you just got
another selling point to being able to develop a piece
of land for economic development purposes. So again that doesn't
make everyone happy. Everybody has different motivations. Back to your
point about the family farm, totally get where those people
are coming from too. Just depends on what perspective and

(21:00):
what kind of opportunity you see or don't see in
these kinds of developments in these lines.

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Well, good morning, guys, Good morning with you.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
So the quarterback question Jalen Henderson in for the injured
Mark youll Well.

Speaker 9 (25:52):
I think that's the logical choices we sit here on
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What do you want to see in order for the
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Yeah, I think you start CJ or TJ excuse me,
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for me, the biggest key for this team, I feel
like the defense is going to show up and be solid.
You feel like you've got a receiver in Cambaugh and
you can go to and Grayson Barnes if the passing
game can come along, But all of that is credicated
on the running game working and finding some level of success.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Is the defense enough to carry this team until the
offense can figure it out?

Speaker 9 (27:26):
Brad?

Speaker 1 (27:26):
The defense gets pressed from the quarterback, it creates turnovers.
I like the defense, Brad, but can it keep the
offense in the game.

Speaker 9 (27:35):
Yeah, I think there's degrees of that, Dave. So I
do think yes, that's going to be the key for
the rest of the season. I think we've seen that
this defense is going to have to play well and
keep West Virginia in it, but the offense has to
do something to help you out. We saw at Ohio
you and the KU games, that offense just stalled so
much that you really were never able to break through,
especially in that Kansas game. So yeah, I think the

(27:57):
defense will show up and play, especially at home. I
think the whole unit, every unit will look better at home.
That's just how the Mountaineers usually react home in a way.
But yes, I think the defense is the critical component
for this group moving forward, but the offense has to
do enough to take advantage of the opportunities that the
defense gives it.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Brad, I'm struggling on the call with Edwards. It's still
pretty early in the season. No one knows where he's at.
I'm not inside the locker room. You're more inside than
I would be. But you bring him back too early
and your risk further injury for the rest of the season.
I'm not sure that's a tough call to make.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Yeah, I just think it's one of those teaj you're
either cleared or you're not cleared, and if you're cleared,
you got to go, and you got to play right.
The players have to be on the field, and I
think at that particular position, you don't have the luxury
of not playing him. So if he's able to go,
he's got to be in there. That's just a difference
maker in terms of running back. With the size and
speed we saw and given the struggles we've seen from

(28:52):
that offensive line, is it's still finding its way as
it's still getting some experience under its belt. You've got
to have a running back that can create its own
hole or get through the holes are around the corner.
Edwards showed an ability to do that, So I just
I think that's a big part of this offense is
getting him back and available.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Mester sports Mens doing sports Line three guys before the game.
Brad Holland joining us here mention his talk line Mountaineers
taking on at Utah tomorrow at Mylein Pushcar Stadium. Scout
out the utes, Brad, what does Utah bring to Morgantown.

Speaker 9 (29:20):
Yeah, I'm interested to watch this team because you don't
know exactly what you're going to get a lot of
people had them as one of the preseason favorites to
win the league. They lost a tough one last week
at home two Texas steps in what was an early
preview of what many thought could be the Big twelve
championship game. What's their health coming into this game? And
I think you start there. They have a talented transfer
quarterbacks and Devin dan Pierre can throw it and can

(29:42):
run it. Was nursing an ankle injury in the game
last week. How far has he progressed this week? How
close to one hundred percent is he? Because if he
is limited a little bit and you have an opportunity
to pressure him and he can't scamper like he normally does,
obviously that helps West Virginia. The best thing to watch
with these youths is the off defensive line. They have
two tackles that are projected as first round NFL picks,

(30:04):
one of them projected at the top fifteen picks. So
you mentioned that defensive one of the best in the
country so far, and getting pressure on the quarterback and
turning those into sacks. Are they able to do that
going against what many feel is the best offensive line
in the country. Your hope is, guys, again West India
playing better at home and a team in Utah that

(30:25):
is taking this travel stuff. Really seriously, they were so
worried about this trip. They came yesterday in a decade
with a team coming into Morgantown a day before. You
normally do so long trip Utah. Hopefully you get them
off to a slow start and you can jump out
in front of these guys.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Did they have to take multiple planes? I mean, I
don't know.

Speaker 14 (30:45):
It was odd.

Speaker 9 (30:46):
Again, you haven't seen it since Oklahoma State in twenty
thirteen came in with Mike Gundy. They arrived on a Thursday,
and Gundy was complaining about the trip the whole time,
and they made it a big deal. Wester Dinia ended
up knocking them off that day, the Cowboys who came
in as nearly three touchdown favorites in that game. So
maybe that's can we get a little history repeating itself
with this trip.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
You never know, you never know. Hey, I'm looking at
some stats here that that Jed Dranning had online. When
it's third down and they've got one to three yards
to go, makes up forty percent of their overall third downs,
they're eighty three to eighty seven percent successful. I mean,
that's that's powerful.

Speaker 9 (31:23):
Yeah, they're number three in the country. TJ and average
distance to go on third down, and that's been part
of their success. West Virginia on the other side, so
that they're averaging about four and a half yards per
third down to gain, so they're in great shape.

Speaker 14 (31:37):
They've got their whole playbook available.

Speaker 9 (31:38):
West Virginia's offense, on the other side of that, is
about eighty eight to ninetieth nationally in average third yard distance.
They're averaging closer to eight yards per third down. So
you can see why those third down success rates are
different between the two teams. It's based on how many
yards you have to go in third down. West Virginia
has been in way worse situations than you has so far,

(32:01):
so that's critical here for zach Ally's defenses. Can they
keep Utah in check on first and second down, creating
a longer third down, giving you an opportunity for some pressure.
So that's certainly a key to this game will be
third down performance. There's no doubt.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Brad how mentioning Sports three guys before the game mentioned
new sports line joining us. I just want to get
your thoughts, sir, Brad before I let you go. You
mentioned Mike Gundhy. He's now unemployed. Did did it just
fizzle out? I mean, Oklahoma State's bad this year? Brad
go up to Oregon get thumped like that. Had the
stick just worn itself out? What's going on at Oklahoma State?

Speaker 14 (32:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (32:35):
Obviously I'm not inside that program, but I think outside
looking in. You start with guy had an unbelievable run
for twenty years plus in that program, and that just
doesn't happen anymore. And we know times have changed, and
we've seen a lot of coaches of Gundhy's age and
experience just say all right, this, I'm not dealing with
this transfer portal anymore. And that crosses over into basketball
as well, and it seems like that's just what happened.

(32:57):
Was slow to adapt to the nil world in the
trans for portal was Oklahoma State, and ultimately looks like
it caught up to them because the last couple of
years something was clearly wrong. Last year they brought back
enough guys they should have not been as bad as
they were last year, and then it continued on to
this year. So I think it was clear they just
needed a change, and it was. It was a heck
of a run for Mike Gundy, but time for replacement

(33:19):
there in Silwater.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
I threw you another curve. We haven't had a chance
to talk the Virginia Tech situation. What were your thoughts there.

Speaker 9 (33:25):
Yeah, again, they've got to get it right on this
next round. And you see what happens if you go
through a couple hires and it doesn't work. Now, they
received the benefit of the school jumping on board now
and dedicating tens of millions of dollars, almost fifty million
dollars into the athletic department budgets to help with some
of those things to help get the NIL and the
portal stuff under control. So that'll certainly help. That was

(33:47):
not what they had been doing previously. But yeah, this
next hire is critical for Virginia Tech to get.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
It right, Brad. In today's modern college football, Virginia Tech
is going to be a tough place to recruit where
that there's no major business located down in Blacksburg. I
think NIL and I think fundraising is going to be
tough in that part of the country, down in Blacksburg,
and that's just an unfortunate reality of this world we
live in.

Speaker 9 (34:10):
Well, I think that's why you're seeing universities become more
involved not just athletic departments. When we've seen out at
West Virginia, the board here has jumped on and said listen,
they're dedicated to making sure West Virginia is in the
top four or five of the Big twelve in terms
of spending tech. Now doing that, I think that's just
the part that's coming.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Well.

Speaker 9 (34:27):
You've got more cooperation between universities seeing how visible athletics
are and how much it makes sense for the universities
from a branding and pr perspective to have good teams,
especially football, and that's what it's going to have to do.
You're going to have to get some university help because
the money is just so big.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Now, I think, do you make a good point, Brad,
You've waited on this too. I'm thinking about Ronoke. I mean,
I think it's Ronoke, but not necessarily a metroplex, no
large airport. I mean, if you're coming to WVU, you
can fly in Pittsburgh and be there in an hour.
You don't really have that option in Blacksburg. Wonderful community,
great place, but it's just it's an infrastructure game too.
I don't know how you make up for some of

(35:04):
that stuff.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
Yeah, and some of that, guys, is it gets the point.
That's that's why the winning just becomes critical and what
comes first the money or the winning. But you've got
to get back to wins and that's what changes brands
and that's what attracts players in there. So now with
the ability to pay and there is some sort of
salary crab structure in place that now some of that

(35:26):
stuff is about the brand and the winning, but you've
got to have that that comes with it, or the
money's not going to help you as much. So that's
why it's just critical. They've got to get it back.
And un listen, we've seen teams all over the country
be able to compete in those environments. So before and listen,
people were paying, paying even though you don't want to miss,
and they were able to figure out how to win
at a really high level. So it's not like they

(35:48):
can't get it back. But man, you've got to make
a really good hire because you've been down for a while.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Metro New Sports three guys and Metro New Sports line
Brad Hell always appreciated brand and enjoy the game. We'll
catch up next week.

Speaker 9 (35:59):
Okay, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
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Former FBI director James Comy has been indicted by a
grand jury on two counts to lect false statements within
jurisdiction of legislated branch and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
Fox News Radios Jared Halpern has the latest from Washington
and he joins us on Metro News talk Line. Jared,
good morning, Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 17 (38:04):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
So what's the latest. James Comy has been indicted and
reactions have been rampant across the spectrum.

Speaker 17 (38:12):
Yeah, I mean, listen. I think that obviously a lot
of the reaction is going to run down partisan lines.
That's not unexpected, and this is a case that now
will go through the regular process. There will be an
arraignment that has been set for October ninth. We don't
expect much between now and then, but certainly is raising
questions about the very public pressure that the President put

(38:34):
on the Attorney General. The Justice Department, the US Attorney
in the Eastern District of Virginia to bring a case
against not just James Comy, but against other people he
is publicly named, like the New York Attorney General Letitia James,
like the California Senator Adam Schiff. He was asked just

(38:56):
a few minutes ago, as he was a boarding marine one,
who is next on his list? And he said, well,
there's not necessarily a list, but there'll be others. That's
my opinion. They weaponized the Justice Department. There will be others,
so we'll see.

Speaker 14 (39:10):
I guess what.

Speaker 17 (39:12):
You do with that information. But listen, I think when
you look at the case against Comy, certainly there have
been allegations for a while that he lied, he misstated
the facts when he had this congressional hearing back in
twenty twenty, by the way, and that's notable because the
statute of limitations was fast approaching on bringing charges against Tomy.

(39:34):
This was a hearing that happened nearly five years ago.
There is a five year statute of limitations that would
have expired I think on Tuesday of next week. Earlier
this week, there was a big shuffle in the Eastern
District of Virginia. The US attorney either resigned or was fired,
depending on who you ask, but largely over a disagreement

(39:54):
about bringing some of these charges. There are reports that
career prosecutors did not think that there was a strong
enough case to seek an indictment against James Tomy. The
new US attorney brought in by the President disagreed with
that assessment, brought that indictment to a grand jury, and

(40:15):
yesterday that grand jury handed up an indictment on two counts.
It's unclear how many counts maybe had been sought, but
the indictment is on two counts. It deals with the
same statement, the same answer that the former FBI director
gave to Ted Cruz at that hearing over whether or
not Comy authorized the leak of information, and go.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Deeper on that statement to Cruise, if I have it right,
Andy McCabe had said one thing and Comy said another,
and Cruz was pointing out the difference. Is that correct?

Speaker 17 (40:49):
That's no, that's exactly what it is.

Speaker 18 (40:51):
Right.

Speaker 17 (40:52):
Andy McCabe had sort of said, well, this was authorized
to be released by.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Tomy.

Speaker 17 (41:00):
Me said it wasn't. And I think the the question
that tried to be nailed down by Cruz was have
you ever authorized the leak of or release of unauthorized
I don't remember exactly how he phrased, but basically it was,
have you ever authorized the leak of information? Income We

(41:21):
said no.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Fox News Radios Jared Halpern joining us here on Metro
News talk line. So, Jared, is is this just the
way it's going to be? I mean, from from here
on out, I'm going to come after you.

Speaker 17 (41:37):
I mean, listen, this was something that that the President
Trump and others kind of warned about, right the President
didn't make secret on the campaign trail, uh, that there
was retribution that was going to be had, accountability that
was going to be had. He even talked today that
the question was asked to the president, Uh, well, you know,

(41:58):
do you worry now that you know a democratic administration
may charge your FBI director, may charge your officials with crimes?
And he said, they already did it. They tried to
put me away. So yeah, I mean, it certainly seems
like this door has been opened and it will take
one side or the other I guess to close it.

(42:18):
But I think the President's correct in his assessment that
we can anticipate former Biden and Obama administration officials facing
charges over the next several days, weeks, months, perhaps years.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
I mean, is it fair to say the political optics
are just completely out the window too? Because you mentioned
that former district attorney US attorney in eastern Virginia, you know,
fired that person didn't get what they want, called out
Pambondi on Twitter, and now we're seeing what we see.
It just it seems like there's not even I mean, hey.

Speaker 17 (42:52):
Yeah, I don't know enough about whether or not that's
like a legal art. I would imagine that if you
are Comey's legal team, you present that to the job
and you file a motion to the Smiths. You know,
the Trump team tried to get cases the smith saying
that they had been politicized, that Letitia James a campaign
on getting Trump, and that the civil suit brought against

(43:14):
him was political. That case was allowed to move forwards.
So now that it's kind of in the hand of
a judge, I imagine these arguments don't fall down political lines,
but largely on legal lines and kind of the burden
that has to be met to bring a charge, and

(43:35):
the burden is a grand jury has to agree to
bring charges at least twelve members of a grand jury
in the federal system, and that has happened. It's not
My point is it's not as that there is just
a unilateral decision by a use attorney that says we're
charging this person. You still have to bring that to
a grand jury. And a grand jury the burden of

(43:56):
proof is not nearly as high as it is in
a trial, right, but there is a hurdle that has
to be that has to.

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What state was the grand jury from that indicted comy.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Virginia seated in Alexandria, Eastern District of Virginia. Federal grand jury.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
There's your answer.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Three or four.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Talk three or four. The person that I talked to
the teachers at college, teaches at the college level and
has a law degree, says it's a ham sandwich, says
the Texter, TJ. You almost said it. I knew you
were about to say it. But we just found that, remember, Yeah,
just a couple of weeks ago, we found out you,
in fact cannot indict a ham sandwich. The dude that
threw the sandwich. Yeah, just tell you MythBusters man. No, well,

(46:40):
you know that's a good point. That is a good point.
I do ask this though, indictments are so casual. I
don't know if that's good or bad. But this is
why good people on both sides of the aisle don't
get in public service. Oh they don't want the headache,
they don't want this.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
That's why they forego and I can only imagine we
are missing out on some dible talent in the future
by how we act today.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
In in a podcast with our buddy Matt Lewis, the
Utah governor Spencer Cox several years ago, and I'm gonna
butcher this quote, but he said something along the lines
if we need more people to run for office who
don't want the job. If you get what he's trying
to say, there, I think the same thing, all right.
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Good morning.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
I'm excited about this TikTok thing. Okay, again, I go
back to can we can we just follow the law?
Just follow the law.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
So there is an economic side to this, Okay, Look, sure,
I social media is what it is. It's a necessary
evil in this business. I don't care for If I
could hire anybody to do anything TJ, it would be
to hire somebody to do social media for me, so
I didn't have to worry about it. But people, people
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(49:10):
you know, even small businesses who use that as a
means of advertising. So there is an actual economic impact
to having that app available and not shutting it down.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
So the law or not, you know, absolutely. All I'm
saying is, then let's change the law and not use
an EO. Think about it like this, and maybe I'm
missing something quite possible. Say the next president, whoever they are, Republican, Democrat, whatever, says,
you know what, we didn't follow the law. We still
haven't changed the law. The law says we had to

(49:41):
sell this thing, get rid of it, ban it. We
didn't do that. What then? What then we're just going
to ignore the law forever? Sure?

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Okay, I don't have a good answer for you.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
I know you don't. I'm asking rhetorically. I don't have
to get answer either. I'm just I'm just saying though
that that kind of bothered me a little bit. That's
what the soap box was all about. Hey, if the
kids want to be on tic tac or whatever.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Tech Uh yeah, tic tack. Oh you know insta face
that thing right, yeah, that thing?

Speaker 3 (50:14):
All right?

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Are you a Ryder Cup fan?

Speaker 21 (50:17):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, ryder Cup underway?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Beth pay Is it a Beth Page black not so
up in New York?

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Right, Yes, it's it's at black yeap so.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
USA versus Europe? The president is has he arrived. He
was leaving a little bit ago.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
He was leaving the White House. I don't know if
he's gotten there yet, but yeah, he was on his
way up to New York for the Ryder Cup.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
If you're the Ryder Cup captain, the President comes up
to you and says, let me play this hole. Do
you let him on the course.

Speaker 21 (50:41):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (50:42):
I think you have to. I mean, have you seen
him play with the shambo?

Speaker 1 (50:48):
No?

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Like the guy or not? Man, he gets it in
the fairway. He carried to shambo on that round they played.
Deshambo hit a long one, but I think it ended
up in a bunker. Trump had one nice, pretty safe
right down the fairway, made the putt, sunk the putt. Guys.
President of the United States. Yeah, I'd let him. I'd
let him play.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
My wife got super into the Ryder Cup a couple
of years ago, and in fact, I think she's got
some Ryder Cup gear because of it. But hey, anytime
we are playing or competing against another nation or in
this case, an entire continent, I'm all in. I'm all
in for something like that home course advantage in New York.

(51:28):
I guess the crowd's going to be rowdy is what
I picked up from ESPN earlier this morning.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Yeah, rowdy. They played country Roads this morning, Dave? How
cool is that? Did they? They played country Roads this morning?
I guess what the CEO of the PGA, I think
is a WVU alum. I think was the connection. Michael Benson,
president of WVU, had put it on X That's where
I saw it. You can watch it. I re exed
it is that the word? I don't even rex it

(51:54):
reaction retweeted, I said, want to call it twitter? I'm
trying to get with it, folks, But yeah, it's pretty cool.
Watch the entire crowd right there singing country roads. Yeah,
we're getting kicked right now. Somebody just sent it.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
What is he? I haven't been able to watch.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
I mean, it's Europe's three to oero right now.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
That's early.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
It's early. It's day one. It's I mean, it's it's
day one.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
So I'm sorry, I'm doing a Trump impression in my head,
like you better let me play. We're getting a butts
kicked better, Iwalt, they better play better to j They
may all get in dieted if they don't win this though.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Well, I know Styrwalt is a big fan of Rory.
I just I've never been down with Roy Michaelroy. I
just I think he complains, I think he whinds. I've
just never been a fan. So anytime we have a
chance to kick that contingent, Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Three or four talk three four is the text line
eight hundred seven sixty five eight two five five the
phone number. So I brought this up right there at
the end of the conversation with Jared Halper and to
j Chris Diwaltz brought this up. We've talked about it before.
This never ending whether it's you want to call an
infinite loop or never ending spiral of you did it
to us, so we're going to do it to you,
only harder or now I think we've broke through the

(53:09):
wall of well, you might do this to us when
you get the majority or you're in power. So we're
going to do this now, and within reference to what
the president's doing, well, not the president, but the indictment
to Comy. But here's what I think President Trump has
done to YOUJ. If there are legitimate charges, there is

(53:29):
kmy broke the law legitimately, if there are legitimate charges,
hasn't he undercut any possible investigation, or at least you
can now call into call into question the legitimacy of
any investigation, because he's already been out on truth or
wherever he likes to post, putting pressure on the United

(53:51):
States Attorney General to bring these charges. Yes, we're going
to go after these people. I am going to get retribution. Well,
even if there are legitimate charges, legitimate things that need
to be resolved and held accountable, the president's undercut his
own case already before you ever get an opportunity to
look into him. Hasn't he?

Speaker 3 (54:09):
I think he has. Let's play a hypothetical game, which
is dangerous, but let's play it. Let's say a local
county commissioner somewhere here in West Virginia, and I understand
that prosecuting attorneys in this state, in these counties that
we enjoy and love and live in, are elected, but
let's just say that they were somehow appointed by the
county commission Can you imagine the uproar in this state

(54:32):
if a prosecutor refused to bring charges against someone that
a county commissioner did not like and thought there should
be charges brought. If a county Commissioner were to try
to unseat and put a new prosecutor in because of that.
Can you imagine the uproar that we would have here, Yes,
I could ballpark it, Yeah, it would be it would

(54:54):
be through the roof. So the optics of this, and
I was trying to bring that up with Jared as well,
the optics of this in a normal situation I think
would infuriate people. They don't now, I mean, the White
House doesn't seem to care about those optics. To your point,
I think they make a strong defense in court. I'm
not a comeopologist. If he broke the law, he should
face the consequences. And oh, by the way, that's why

(55:14):
they had to do it so quickly, because he's up
against the statute of limitations, or that infraction is up
against the statute of limitations. That into business I think
today it was. But yeah, the optics are just horrid
that you would replace a prosecutor that did not want
to bring charges, a USA United States attorney that didn't
see a case, put someone else in, and at the

(55:37):
same time publicly on social media call out the Attorney
General for not taking action on ABC individuals. It just
it seems an American to me. But in this day
and age in which we live, political damage today is
worth more than political damage tomorrow. And it's all about
what you can do to your enemy today and this, Oh, well,

(55:57):
you know they should take the higher road. Yeah, they should,
But the problem is Democrats don't do it, Republicans don't
do it. One of these days, maybe we will have
someone on one side or the other that will take
the high road and stop this cycle, but they ain't today.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Unfortunately, well unfortunately taking the higher road. I'll use a
baseball metaphor here. Think back to the steroid era when
you know McGuire, Sosa, Bonds. They're juicing, right, and what
are they doing. They're crushing pictures, So what do the
pictures do? Do they take the higher road? No, they
started juicing as well, because I mean, these guys are cheating.

(56:30):
So if we're going to beat them, then then we
have to do the same thing or we're going to
get crushed. And my point is, in the world of politics,
it seems if one side takes the high road and
one side doesn't, and then I'm not going to call
out either side right at the moment, because quite frankly,
they're both taking the low road and continuing to go lower.
But if one side's doing it, the other side is not.
Are you going to get crushed and try to take

(56:52):
the high try to take the moral high ground and
say no, we're not going to do that but get crushed,
or are you going to go Well, they did it,
so we're going to do it, and you just it's
mutually a short destruction. I guess through that point, it's
not a how do you stop it?

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Are we responsible? We eat it? Up to your analogy,
I like seeing people hit dingers, I like seeing them
go deep, and I like seeing pictures throw faster. So
am I responsible because I watch it, because I talk
about it, because I consume it. I'm not innocent, I suppose.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Well, if you want to take that analogy a couple
of steps further, Yet, nobody was complaining. Nobody was questioning
steroids when they were, you know, blasting home runs. Major
League Baseball took advantage of that. So you know, if
you want to push that metaphor ahead, yeah, yeah, I
suppose so, I suppose so. But I mentioned this quote
by Spencer Cox quickly there at the very end of
the hour and TJ. You hit the nail on the

(57:44):
head if you are going to stop that spiral. Spencer
Cox to Utah Governor, and this was four or five
years ago when Matt Lewis interviewed him on his podcast,
said something to the effect of more people who don't
want these jobs need to run for these jobs because
the people who do want them oftentimes are willing to.
You know, juice if you will, if you want to

(58:05):
combine all of the weird metaphors we've just used in
the last three minutes.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
I'd like to see some survey data. And I'm sure
somebody's done it. I'll have to google. But today's youth,
whatever that is, Let's say I'm eighteen to I don't know,
mid twenties, right, They're starting their lives figuring out what
they want to do. I wonder how many of them
would say they want to seek public office or public
service even as a part time venture, or if they

(58:31):
see this as so corrupt, so fallible, so just so
screwed up. Let's call it what it is that they
don't even want any part of it. That not many do,
and that's sad.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Do you would you? I mean, I would never run
for office.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
There was a time I would have, If I'm being
completely honest the way I was raised in my interests,
there is a time that I would have today. I
don't think so. I don't think so because there will
be something that someone will try to make something out
of and if they don't find it, let's just be honest,
at certain levels, they'll invent it. And I've got a family,

(59:14):
I got three small kids. I don't want to drag
them through that.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
You see that even at the local level, teju. I
mean you don't even have to run for you know,
state level office. You see that at the local level
when they're and I've seen it, I've covered it where
there's a disagreement between local government, you know, entities, or
there's a disagreement between local elected officials, and the things
that get said and thrown around and quite frankly made
up on local social media, local message message boards, but

(59:41):
you know Facebook groups, it makes you go, yeah, why
am I doing this? Because you're certainly not getting rich
if you're a county commissioner or a city council member.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
You know, your conversation here, to your point, is making
me think of a conversation rather that I had with
someone a few months back. I'm not going to divulge
details on who this person is. Respected, smart, conscientious, wants
the best for all people. And this person said to me,
I can do more as someone who works in the government,

(01:00:12):
whether that's an appointed position, an agency capacity, even lobbying.
I can do more good for the people of West
Virginia in that role than I can as an elected official.
And I think part of what we're seeing here and
the part of the way politics is trending, I think
that holds up. I think that holds water, and I

(01:00:32):
believe that thought would resonate with a lot of people mine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Do three or four talk three or four. That's the
text line eight hundred and seven to sixty five eight
two five five the phone number we've given up on
Evan Brown. He's on the list we have. We were ebbed.
We were ebbed.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
I was ready to tell him why this was a
bad thing and about the algorithm being controlled by China.
You can't get that away. Well, look, we'll dive into
the all jokes aside. I do think that's a serious topic.
I'm not sure that even selling this, selling TikTok would
really comport with what the law says that we have
to do. Do you really ever get China out of
the algorithm? Dave, correct me if I'm wrong. I read

(01:01:10):
I thought the algorithm is really supposed to be owned
by the US, But based on some reading I did
on Bloomberg, you may know better. The Chinese are just
leasing us the algorithm we're not gonna own. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
The part that makes me, I don't know, raise an eyebrow.
Anything that Chinese agree to agrees to makes you a
little bit suspicious.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Doesn't it. I can't imagine they would.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Yeah, I can't imagine they would do anything that is
against their agenda and where they want to go, so
at least makes raise an eyebrow.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
There have been several companies here that have went to
China related to the cold business put their technology there. Again,
I don't want to get into names. I'm not going
to do that, but they have talked about how their
technology is ripped off, and they actually make a business
on fixing the ripped off technology that China couldn't get right.
They are not an honest counterparty, They're not an honest broker.

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That's a fair statement, I believe. Oh opinion Okay, that's
a fair about fair on my.

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He's got a story up at WV metro news dot
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of kind.

Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Of Sarah Jane Moore, Charleston native who tried to assassinate
President Gerald Ford in nineteen seventy five, has died.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
She lived to be ninety five years old. That is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
That's not amazing, but you know what I mean, for
lack of a better word, yeah, ninety five. He also
has a link to the New York Times story that
originally broke all this also, I think a link to
something the Washington Post did on it. Died in a
nursing facility in Franklin, Tennessee. Her death occurred two days
after the fiftieth anniversary of her attempt on Ford's life.

(01:05:32):
I have to take a look at my history there.
Admittedly I don't know as much about that as I
probably should.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Over at WDV Metronews dot com. All right, let's get
a couple of texts in while we can have a dialogue.
Three or four talk three or four guys, grow us
at what I'm hearing from you two is Republicans go
to jail, but it's okay for Democrats. Do the same
thing and not get punished. No, that's not what I'm saying.

(01:06:00):
I believe what I was referencing at least was just
this downward spiral of if you do it, we do it,
and we continue to do it over and over again.
That's not going to That's not sustainable. It's kind of
was my point of that conversation. No, I don't think
one shot should go unpunished in one side shouldn't. But
we are in a downward spiral. I don't know how
we break the infinite loop at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
I don't care if you're Republican, Democrat, independent, break the law.
There are consequences. You do bad things, there are consequences.
We need someone to step up. What was it I
said the other day, we need a statesman, Show me
a statesman. I don't see one on either side.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Three or four talk through before you too think America
is fair. Look how much we spend on our military
and how many people we have in prison while tens
of trillions of dollars in debt. You two are so
high on your opinions of yourselves and our great nation.
It's amazing, y'all. Don't pass out mid show China's kicking
our butts, and you think it's because we're playing by
the rules. Face emojis afterward, No one. I don't think China.

(01:07:07):
I don't think everything is as great in China as
China makes it out to be. Number they lie, Yeah,
they lie. How many times have you said that to teach?

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
Look at their books. They lie. They manipulate numbers, they
manipulate the currency. Trust them if you want. We're in
a battle with them, Dave, we are.

Speaker 14 (01:07:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Secondly, find me a better country, just where look? Just
find me a better one. Find me a better one,
Dave and TJ. Law enforcement officers must be held to
the highest standard. They are not politicians, says the text
they have and TJ. People in West Virginia need affordable energy.
That should be the main focus in the energy process.

(01:07:46):
How does this help West Virginians? I think the text
is referencing the moral transmission line with that thirty seconds, TJ,
can you up?

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
I think I went back to it. I get it
may not feel like it. I'll acknowledge that. But again,
I go back to the example I gave about that blackout.
I think it was in eight that started with a
tree limb touching a transmission line in northeastern Ohio and
blacked out New York City. We are interconnected, like it
or not, folks, and this load growth has to be managed.

(01:08:20):
And if it's not managed, even if the load is
in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, you could see issues in other
states in which we share an electric grid with. That's
the easiest way I can explain it in the time
we have.

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Made it to a Friday. You know what that means.
This is the opportunity each week where we turn the
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Speaker 23 (01:12:48):
I want all of you to get up out of
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Speaker 18 (01:12:57):
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Yes, all week long, you've had to listen to us,
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Maybe you're watching the Ryder Cup right now, reconsidering your
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(01:13:24):
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Let us commence eight hundred seven sixty five Talk in
three or four Talk three oh four. Let's begin on
the phones in Barbersville. Dave, you're batting lead off. What's
your steam?

Speaker 21 (01:14:16):
Let's tell you sit down in the restaurant and get
your coffee and ice water so you can put some
cubes dinner and keep from stalling yourself with the first
sip and Inevert to believe they'll start by giving you
a staw. Then it will be a while before you
catch the spoon that you really need.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
Dave, have a great weekend. Appreciated. Eight hundred and seven
sixty five Talk eight hundred and seven sixty five eight
two five five Junior, what's your steam?

Speaker 18 (01:14:44):
Buddy, morning, Dave, not a guy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
You boys doing down there doing great?

Speaker 18 (01:14:50):
Junior, Great. I tell you what, it's been one good
year in your garden. We're still cannon maders. Hey, what
I really called about? I never got to call last week?
You know. You know that Howie Monroe up here in Wheeling.
He mentioned on his show the Three People will listen. Hey,

(01:15:10):
you got to keep them boys from Wheeling off your show.
Dave and t Gate it just rolling your show?

Speaker 24 (01:15:16):
Are you gonna let him.

Speaker 18 (01:15:16):
Tell you what to do? I think not, Howie?

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Hang it up, Junior, appreciate it. Have a great weekend.
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Talk three or four. The text line Anthony, you're on
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Speaker 14 (01:15:32):
Yeah, hope.

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for us to pay for them to get their luxury
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Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Thank you, You're welcome, Anthony, eight hundred and seven sixty five,
Talk eight hundred seven sixty five eight two five five. Oh,
we just lost him. We had a caller call back,
you got cut off. We'll get you on steamerly. All right,
let's get some text teams TJ.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Text TJ should never say quote. Let's double click into that.
It's cringey. Texter says. On the PGAM route, none of
that is what I'm hearing from the property own. There's
somebody is not telling the truth. Texter says, pretty sure.
Jack Smith is next. They've helped me out with this.

(01:16:35):
I'm not a Harry Potter guy. If I get the
pronunciation wrong to quote Dumbledore? Is that right? Dumbledore? Is
that right?

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Do you know something like that?

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Okay? AnyWho? Uh, those who are best suited to power
are those who have never sought it. Textter says, Wow,
you guys really go to all ends to just not
come out and state the obvious. We are watching our
country slowly drift into authoritarian The Trump situation was summed
up by the ancient Greeks who had this proverb. Character

(01:17:06):
is destiny. No one can doubt Trump's character. He is
a felon, a serial liar, probably a pedophile, a tax cheat,
and one who tried to overthrow democracy an act of treason.
You guys just nailed at HOPPYTJ and Dave would all
make better politicians than what we currently have. At the
same time, I understand why no one would be interested.

(01:17:27):
Sad times textra Acts asks how many users will migrate
from TikTok to Trump Talk A very minuscule amount. Most
will be going to Redfin or whatever. The other Chinese
social media app is called three four Talk. Three to
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we don't lie, You both are delusional, Texter says with
a meme Dave. Every time I hear President Trump say beautiful,
I hear breath taking that from phil As If you
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national scandal. This texture says, if voting made any difference,

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feet from the roadway, which wastes millions of dollars. Now
in the Western area, they are increasing the size of
these areas. My cutting brush and tree to make the

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Mike, Okay dave AND. PJ i hope you're ready for this,
one BECAUSE i don't see how you, guys or any
of us Poor West virginians out there will support a
guy Like DONALD. J. Trump he thinks he's a. King
he's not going to do anything for any poor middle
Class West Virginian and for him to get up at

(01:21:16):
That Charlie kirk funeral after his widow said that she
forgives the man that killed her husband in cold. Blood
and he gets up there and, SAYS i hate my. Enemies, Sorry,
CHARLIE i know you won't like. THIS i hate my
enemies AND i hate what they stand, for And i'm
proud of. It what kind of man is? That and

(01:21:39):
how can, anybody anybody in this country who Loves, america
who loves democracy and considers themselves A? Christian how can
you support a guy like?

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
That, mike appreciate a Good steam eight hundred and seven
to sixty five talk eight hundred seven sixty five eight
two five. Five the text line is three or four,
talk three or four, talk and of course we may not. Respond,
bill you're On steam. Release HEY.

Speaker 25 (01:22:04):
TJ i just came out Of Golf galaxy up here At.
Robinson i'm visiting my. Granddaughter, yeah, MAN i didn't have
not One pineapple golf shirt my. SIZE i look all
through the. Store So i'm, SORRY. TJ i still feel
your love over section two. THIRTY i do feel, It
YES i.

Speaker 3 (01:22:23):
Do editor's, Note billy send me a. Text i'll tell
you where to procure those.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Online appreciate, It, Bill thanks for The steam eight one
hundred and seven sixty Five talk three or Four talk
three or four more text. Teams Mister, MEADOWS.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
I am always entertained by the Devout trump cultists who
says they can overlook the horrible human being he is
by changing to the. Quote but he keeps his. Promises
talking Point trump says a. Lot IF i promise one
hundred things and two of them come, true AM i
keeping my? Promises trumper's set the bar very low and
make it easy for the most corrupt politicians to take

(01:23:00):
advantage of our country for their own personal. Gain the
pendulum will. Swing remember that very low bar and maintain your.
Forgiveness texter says the transgender laughter mentally ill and causing
so much harm To. America there is no quote middle
ground with. Them how can civil debate possibly be had
with those who with those who make prideful decisions to

(01:23:22):
turn Against, god make themselves in their own image life
or live life rather of self, worship and adopt a
new name just Like satan three oh Four talk three oh,
Four happy THAT wv is making the money comment for
sports to be, Competitive texter, SAYS i agree with The
steam about Hope. Gas we can have data centers in

(01:23:45):
local economic. Development with the existing transmission lines that already
run through our, counties we don't need new transmission to
power our local. Economy the problem is that new transmission
extension cords will continue to power that. Industry In, virginia
where the data centers get huge tax, breaks data centers
will have no incentive to come. Here if we build
these electric extension, cords we would be shooting ourselves in

(01:24:09):
the foots text Hope gas should cut our rates if
they have extra money to name the coliseum, boys Tell
hoppy he's retired and stay off the. Air let's get
some new young blood and hop take your Bff Howie
monroe with, you saying quote they both. Do it is pure, Laziness.
Fellas President trump just ordered his attorney general to indict

(01:24:32):
three of his, enemies whether they did anything or. Not
can you give a single example of Any democrat doing?
That steam, Release we don't, Respond. Texter it bugs me
WHEN i accidentally buy scented trash. Backs just take out the,
trash no one or. Not everyone wants to smell, lavender
says This. Texter this one in and includes a. Meme it,

(01:24:55):
says don't WORRY. TJ i didn't FORGET i just took a.
Break but if you do show me a pay stub
for seventy two thousand, DOLLARS i will quit my job
today and work for. You it's a meme Of Donnie
azoff From The wolf Of Wall, street where he wants
to see the pay stub to quit his. Job texter,
says nobody would start a business if from the beginning

(01:25:16):
there would be a twenty percent, Loss so why would
you build a power line with the same. Results germany
is so far ahead of us with micro grids and
new construction required to produce fifty percent of its own. Power,
Dave i'm listening in Central West. VIRGINIA i think it's
For Dave. Allen, actually, well never, mind that's a different.
One not going to go, There, Uh dave AND. Tj

(01:25:37):
President trump has done more to strengthen this economy than
any other president in my. Lifetime he keeps his promises
for the gun control. Folks claiming guns kill people is
like saying cars drive drunk and spoons make people.

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steams Mister, Meadows this texter Says. Dave i'm Sorry Charlie

(01:28:23):
kirk got, murdered but what burns my? Butt And i'm
not sure of my. Numbers charlie had a net worth
of twelve million dollars and his widow gets a GoFundMe
for around a. Million, Really TJ's excitement to compete Against
europe in The Ryder cup is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Palpable too. Bad he isn't equally as excited to compete
Against europe in. Healthcare dave AND. Tj america is, great
better than the rest of the. World maybe our ego.
Is but the problem these days is a wanna me
king has taken over a once great political party to
use it as a club against democracy in the name

(01:29:03):
of greed and. Corruption Bring hoppy back on the. Air
editors note this is a text. OPINION i want to be,
clear it's not. Mine texter says baptism is essential for.
Salvation three oh Four, talk three oh. Four i'm so
angry that every TIME i close my, EYES i can't
see and EVERYTHING i eat turns to. Crap everyone can

(01:29:24):
GISs it for those who like to refer To Charlie
kirk as a, Fascist just so you, know assassinating people
who think differently than you is peau. Fascism how can
you be A christian and Bash. Trump he's not afraid
to say he believes In God. Almighty you don't see

(01:29:45):
A democrat, ever admit that three oh Four talk three
oh four is the text. Line While i'm okay With
Jimmy kimmel's, Return i'm steamed that he didn't appear dressed
up Like Oprah winfrey and jumping onto trampoline during his.
MONOLOGUE i agree with the previous Text scented trash bags
are an abomination for the virtue Signaling trump hating lefties

(01:30:07):
who Advanced marxism in THE, usa all while claiming That
trump is somehow a. Dictator can you name one freedom
you have lost in Either trump? TERM tj thank you
for your well thought out call out of the scandalous
indictment Of James comy three ah four talk three all?
Four AM i a grand? Jury? In? Oh excuse? Me

(01:30:29):
AM i? WRONG a grand jury indictment requires evidence and
a decision from a grand. Jury how Is trump responsible with?
This is he the grand? Jury let's. SEE i want
to read this BEFORE i say. It text. Meme trump
could rescue a drowning child from the ocean And democrats
would accuse him of starving the. Sharks Dave.

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
Texter, Says hoppey used to be in the Band. Divo
you can picture it, now can't? You text line three
or four talk three or. Four still time to get
a couple of text in also maybe a phone call
or two eight hundred seven to sixty five talk eight
hundred and seven six five eight two five. Five you,

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know we had some pretty big shoes to, FILL. Tj
taking over for The hobster here still a, show BUT
i would just want to let you know you have
even bigger shoes to, fill and you don't even realize
it because as you may or may not, o It's
buckwheek festival time up here over In Preston county And
kingwood and former co host this morning brought me buckwheat

(01:31:36):
cakes and. Sausage SO i mean the bar's pretty, high my.

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
Man that's that's really nice of someone to do.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
There Dave, man my former former co Host sunshine used
to do the local show Of morgantown with me. Unsolicited
it brings me buckwheat cakes and.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Sausage probably made him herself. Too, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
That ain't. Happening Uh. FELLASVILLE i Believe Fellawsville Volunteer Fire
department is where she picked those. Up shout out to.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
Them tis the. Season So i'm just.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Uh you, KNOW. Tj you gotta raise your game buck
week cands some. SAUSAGE i know you did bring uh
the hot?

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
Dogs oh, Yeah i'll do that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Again he brought the, page you did bring those of the,
capital you bring the, pastries you get credit, Man but
but it ain't no no bookweek, Cake, buddy let's get
let's get hit a Call, tim what's your? Steam?

Speaker 26 (01:32:27):
YEAH i got a thing to say. Here you know
Well trump was in, office call Me obama chip ball
after him just non stop with, things trying to make
his life, miserable with, impeachment just on and. On this
went on for years and. Years Now trump is going after.
Them so for the, saying what's good for the, goose

(01:32:49):
good for the?

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Gander, tim have a great. Weekend appreciate, it, buddy three
or four talk three oh? Four uh Text, Steam dave AND.
Tj americans better wake up and respect each other's. Rights
watch a YouTube video On North korea and you may feel. DIFFERENTLY.
U this is A Javier melee. Quote the underlying values

(01:33:11):
of leftism are, envy, hate, resentment unequal treatment under the,
law and, violence says The STEAMER. TJ i miffed That
bracado called, YOU. Cj actually that Was Brad howe calling
you Cj.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Ana CAN i? See?

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Yes i've been called a lot, worse so no. Worries
high school football tonight across The Mountain. State you can
see all the. Scores you can see the schedule right
now over at the WEBSITE wv Metro news dot. Com
got some good ones. Tonight class FOUR a game of
the week Is morgantown At Spring. Mills i'll behead of
that direction here in a couple of. Hours Also Fairmont Senior,

(01:33:52):
university you've got Oak, Kill, Greenbrier, East nitro At ripley At.
Nitro that One saucy In Class TRIPLE. A. Uh who
else we got on the schedule? Tonight Alkins Philip, Barber
that game could be. Interesting scrolling Down class SINGLE a
game of the Week wahama And Work. County that game
will be played In, elizabeth so you can see the entire.

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Schedule you can see all of the scores later tonight
over at the website Wv metronews dot. Com Fred personing
Or Dave jacklin will be a long after coverage of
your local game With Metro. News High School Game night.
Four the entire. Crew Sophia wasik on the, Phones jake
link our video producer AND. Tj meadows down In, Charleston
Dave wilson, saying have a great. Weekend we'll talk to

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you On. Monday this is Talk line On Metro. News Metro,
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