Talkline | Nov. 14, 2025

Michele Craig, the keynote speaker of the Marshall Fountain Ceremony, shares her experiences following the Marshall Football plane crash in 1970. Nick Preservati talks energy policy. Chris Stirewalt stops by to chop up politics and the mishandling of the Epstein Files. Plus, STEAM RELEASE!!!

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Walt will stop by. We'll get into the whole hog politics,
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visit with Michelle Craig. She will be the keynote speaker

(01:56):
at the Marshall University Fountain ceremony coming up later today.
Hear from her in the next segment, But first say
good morning to mister TJ. Meadows, who is in the
seat the hot seat. Is that a hot seat down
in the Charleston studios morning, sir.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
It is fairly cozy. It's a nice seat, So I'll
leave it at that. Dave, I'm kind of like pop
by this morning. I've had all I can stand. I
can't stands no more. I gotta tell you, man, these tariffs,
I don't know if you've seen this, the White House
saying they're going to walk back tariffs things like coffee,
coffee prices up forty one percent year over year, by
the way, gonna walk it back on bananas, all these

(02:34):
other things over affordability and what happened last Tuesday.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Here's an idea.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Don't do stupid things like ad taxes, which is what
tariffs are to begin with, and then you won't have
affordability problems. There was a time in this country when
being a conservative mint sound fiscal policies, sound economics. I
don't know what happened to that, but the Trump administration
sure as heck forgot the lesson. So now what do
we do. We come out, we start walking all these

(03:01):
things back. I thought tariffs were going to be paid
by these other countries, by the importers. It wasn't gonna
affect to be an Edith because someone else was going
to pay for What happened to that?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I mean, I don't understand how come coffee and banana
production hasn't come back to the US. Good point? Did
the tariffs force coffee and banana production back to the
United States? I don't get a TJ.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
When you do dumb things, you get dumb results.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
You are wound a bit tight this morning. You are,
I mean, you are at the boiling point. It makes
me a little mad. And then we have a bunch
of senators, eight of them. I guess I don't know
which one of them actually did it. John Thune allowed it.
They decided to make a legal class all their own
so that they could sue the American people over some
guy that subpoenaed phone records and take five hundred thousand

(03:48):
dollars a pop. And Lindsey Graham's like, full steam ahead.
You know what you just did, speaking of steam, You
released your steam. Do you feel better?

Speaker 5 (03:58):
I do feel a little better.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Thank you have that opportunity coming up at eleven thirty
three this morning to release your esteem. You can do
just what TJ did. He gets do that every day.
We give you a half an hour each week. All right,
Coming up, we're gonna talk to Michelle Craig. She's the
keynote speaker today during the Fountain Ceremony at Marshall University.
We'll hear from her next.

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Speaker 1 (05:09):
Coming up at noon today, they'll turn off the memorial
fountain at the center of Marshall University's campus, honoring the
seventy five who were lost in the nineteen seventy playing crash.
Michelle Craig is the keynote speaker this year. Her father,
Michael pristerra was among the seventy five who lost their
lives from the plane crash just shy of Huntington Tri
State Airport. We had the opportunity yesterday to speak with

(05:31):
Michelle about today's ceremony, her father, and the impact on
the Marshall and Huntington community. Coming up later this afternoon
at the Memorial Student Center Plaza on Marshall University's campus,
the memorial Fountain will be shut off at an annual
ceremony commemorating the seventy five lost in the nineteen seventy
plane crash. Joining us on Metro News talk Line is

(05:53):
the keynote speaker of the annual ceremony This morning, Michelle Craig,
whose father was on the plane Michael Pristeria on that
night in nineteen seventy. Michelle joins us So Much News
talk Line. Michelle, good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 8 (06:10):
Good morning to you, Thank you for having us.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
What went through your mind when you were approached to
be the keynote speaker at this ceremony today?

Speaker 8 (06:20):
Oh, well, I've done it one other time, and I
thought they must be desperate. But it's an honor to
do it, and it's not an easy thing, as you
might guess, but it's always an honor and it's a
wonderful thing to be with the Marshall family that day.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Tell us a little bit about your father.

Speaker 8 (06:47):
Well, I don't know how much time you have, but
Tino daughters are pretty proud of their daddies. He was
the son of Italian immigrants who lived in Pennsylvania, and
he ended up with a scholarship to the University of

(07:08):
Alabama and went there to school, and he always wanted
to go to medical school that he needed a scholarship
to go and it just never seemed to materialize.

Speaker 9 (07:25):
But he had worked.

Speaker 8 (07:27):
For a congressman. Also one of his extra jobs he
worked for a congressman from Louisiana on the Alabama campus.
So it was just an occasional job that he would
distribute his newsletter to Louisiana's students, and then during campaigns,

(07:50):
of course he'd do some campaign materials, but it was
just always Eddie Aber was that congressman's name, and he
always encouraged Daddy. He said, you just concentrate on your
studies and work hard and you'll get it done. But
it was just always a dream of his that didn't materialize.

(08:10):
And about ten years later he was in Washington and
went to Congressman Avier's office and the congressman said, doctor
prestera and Dad told him that unfortunately he had not
gotten the scholarship. Well, unfortunately for my father, he had

(08:32):
gotten a scholarship. Congressman Aber had seen to it through
the times becune that they saw his record of leadership
at the University of Alabama and had sent him a scholarship.
And at the end of school, Daddy'd thrown a bunch
of mails into a trunk and sent it home to

(08:54):
his parents. And when he recovered that letter, it was
on his office wall forever, and we had to open
every piece of scrap mail that ever came dark outs
as a result that he always wanted to do that.
And the night of the plane crash, there was an

(09:16):
early morning addition to the Washington Post. It was the
first edition, and you know from your career how everybody
scrambles to get facts, and that was such a difficult situation.
The early edition went through and it listed the fans

(09:39):
and some of the people who had died on the
plane quickly, but it didn't really list many people, but
it said among those who died were several prominent Huntington physicians,
and it listed doctor Chambers and doctor Proctor, doctor Preston,
doctor Hagley, and it said doctor Michael Presteria. So we said,

(10:02):
you know, he may never have gotten that degree, but
a late night reporter convert it to him. But anyway,
he was very involved in community affairs in Huntington, loved
Huntington and learned to love Marshall as much as he'd
loved University of Alabama, and was always a good volunteer,
chier community organizations, and worked hard at his little business,

(10:30):
eventually made it into a much bigger one.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Michelle Craig is joining us here on Metro News talk Line.
She's the keynote speaker at the annual fountain ceremony where
the fountain'll be shut off later today. Our father, Michael Pristira,
was on the plane in nineteen seventy. Michelle, you were
twenty five years old when this tragedy occurred, one of
the older children to be impacted. What kind of responsibility

(10:57):
did you bear being one of the older children during
this tragedy.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
I was probably one of the most fortunate of all
the children who lost parents that day, because, on top
of everything else, I've been able to visit with my
father a good bed. I'd been away from Huntington for
seven years, but I worked in Washington.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
D c.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
And he was there frequently, and ironically had been there
the day before they left on the trip for Greenville,
and my mother wasn't on the plane. So my responsibilities
were so much less than so many other young people
in Huntington. But I ended up with more, you know,

(11:48):
family work responsibilities, and I was pretty much lost in
most of them. But we learned as we went. And
there were a couple of companies. My father had sold
his main company, but there were a couple of smaller
ones in West Virginia, that you know, needed attention, and

(12:09):
so mostly it was just business responsibilities, and we felt
I felt just responsibility for encouraging my younger siblings. I
was five years older than the next one who was
already at Marshall, and ten years older than the youngest

(12:30):
one he was still in high school. So we just
tried to encourage everybody to continue their education and work life.

Speaker 9 (12:39):
The best we could.

Speaker 10 (12:42):
But as I said, I was the.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
Most fortunate to have my mother and have her share
all those responsibilities, or she shouldered the greatest part of them.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Obviously, I don't know that you ever fully recover from
some like this, But in terms of the football program,
you know, you rebuilt. The football program went on to
great accolades after this particular incident. But talk about a
little deeper of the community aspect. Has the community ever
fully been able to recover from losing all those prominent leaders.

(13:19):
I mean not only kids who lost parents, but just
you know, Huntington moving forward as a city. I'm not
sure you ever fully get over that.

Speaker 11 (13:29):
You know, it affects you.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
I think there's a recent book, and I hope I
get the name right, but I think it's called a
Paradise built in hell, and it talks about trauma building greatness.
And you know what happened is the community rallied like crazy,

(13:55):
and that's what happened. That's what this book says is
thick goodness comes forth instead of all the bitterness that
people rallied. And I'm sitting here with Parker Ward, and
Parker was largely responsible for gathering the fourteen thousand signatures

(14:18):
that went on to do that. And ironically, my husband
was had been very involved in state government and at
the time was on the board of Regents and he
was able to work with Marshall University and some other
people to help get the stadium built. So it was

(14:43):
a very emotional thing for all of us that I
had to laugh.

Speaker 10 (14:48):
On the day.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Opening day, a plane flew over and it you know,
said thank you coach, and thank you Tom Craig, and
the people behind us said, who the heck is Tom Craig,
And we decided we were just going to skip introducing
ourselves to them that day. But it was a wonderful thing.
And you know, coincidence probably isn't the right word, but

(15:16):
what a wonderful thing to have come full circle. But
the community has always loved Marshall, but I think they
took that spirit that was there, of that good community
contribution to bettering everything, and particularly those people who supported

(15:40):
Marshall everybody on the plane, but people rallied and helped families.
They helped them navigate legal issues, and they helped them
get through insurance problems, and they mentored everybody. I think
there was a lot of encourage and health for the

(16:01):
families that were left.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
They were talking to Michelle Craig, a keynote speaker at
the Marshall Fountain ceremony later today on campus. Michelle I
wrote about this, and I'm second generation, obviously I wasn't
around in nineteen seventy What do you want people my
age and younger to do and to do to make
certain that we never forget and that your father's life

(16:27):
is on it and the other seventy four who were
on that plane, that we never forget their sacrifices, nor
the triumph coming out of that in seventy one and
seventy two and moving forward.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
You know, it's I don't think they'd want it to
be about them. It's I think it's about the spirit
they had and that was left and was felt that
they were, so I think it was generally a positive
group of people felt good about the community, that knew

(17:02):
they needed to participate. And I will say later today
in that speech that they were optimistic and they were determined.
And I think that's what's happened in the community that
we all rallied around Marshall. And at that time there

(17:27):
were so many places in pockets of West Virginia that
were saying Marshall just needs to give up football, and
I think nobody here was having it. I think everybody
just said, Nope, we're going to do it. And I
can tell you that day we won that first big championship,

(17:47):
there is nothing like that in.

Speaker 12 (17:50):
The world that.

Speaker 8 (17:53):
Will keep that spirit from going forward. People who remember it,
and I think now the coaches are so good it
carrying that message forward that if you keep working and
you're determined and you're dedicated to the hard work it takes,
you're going to be a success. And I think that's

(18:13):
what Marshall is doing and I think that's what they'll
get to continue to do.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
I'm curious, do you ever go buy that very modest
memorial almost kind of looks like a deck painted Kelly
green there by the side of the road. You go
by there, and if you do, wondering what reflections pop
in your mind.

Speaker 8 (18:36):
I'm not sure which memorial you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
What does the site the site where it happened there.

Speaker 8 (18:47):
I don't know why that. I have never gone to
that site, but I have never felt moved to go
to that site.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Why is that? Why do you suppose.

Speaker 8 (19:07):
I'm not sure. I'm sure it's some kind of sadness
that you don't want to come out.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Michelle Craig is joining us keynote speaker of the Marshall
Fountain ceremony that's coming up later today on the Marshall
Student Plause. Michelle, thanks for sharing with us. We really
appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (19:27):
Thank you so much for having us, and thanks for
your interest in Marshall.

Speaker 12 (19:32):
We appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
That is Michelle Craig again. She'll be delivering the keynote
address coming up this afternoon on the Marshall University campus. Also,
if you want to check it out, I wrote a
little piece yesterday over at the website as well about
my generation, a generation removed from the plane crash, keeping
that memory alive, preserving the stories like Michelle's preserving stories

(19:57):
like Red Dawson, Jack Lingle, the guys who had to
come in in nineteen seventy one, the people who were
there and live through that, keeping those stories alive and
keeping this thing moving forward. And I brought this up
yesterday when I was on with Dave and Amanda on
Metro News Midday the Fountain ceremony. If you go back
to two thousand, two thousand and one, two thousand and two,

(20:20):
three four, when I was on campus, it was starting
to wane. It wasn't that people were not interested, but
there were some who just could not bring themselves to go.
It was still too painful. There were some, you know,
that thought maybe this had run its course, and with
the movie in six you kind of had. Really I
think that's the turning point where you started to have

(20:41):
this healing. You start to embrace it as part of
the university culture, as part of the athletics programs culture.
And I think the university has done a stupendous job
over the last two decades of honoring the victims of
nineteen seventy and the people who came in seventy one
and seventy two and onward, kept the program going and

(21:01):
that persevered through those trials, and again you can read
the story. I've got a post it for you over
at the website wvmetronews dot com. Coming up next, Governor
Morrissey was talking energy yesterday during the aptly named Energy
someone had a couple of announcements. Nick Preservadi, Deputy Commerce Secretary,
is going to join us a little bit later. Brad

(21:21):
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Speaker 13 (21:57):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Jeff Jenkins. Governor pat Si
Morrisey says the body of coal miner Steve Lipscomb is
at the State Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy. The
forty two year old Lipscomb was found inside the Rolling
thunder mine Thursday morning in Nicholas County, nearly five days
after the mine flooded. Morrisey says an official cause of
death has not been determined.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
We have more information next week. We'll relay that to you.

Speaker 14 (22:20):
We're going to now move to a new phase of this,
and I want to make sure that we're appropriately honoring
Stephen and his family.

Speaker 13 (22:27):
Lipscomb is a two thousand and one graduate of Herbert
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Andy Eatson says Lipskin had worked for Alpha since two
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and a friend of many. A Martinsburg man faces hundreds
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The jury convicted thirty three year old Brandon More on
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These were people, children that were close to him, family friends.
From what I've learned from investigating and prosecuting this case,
any unsupervised child in his presence was unsafe.

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Warn will be sentenced in February. The former mayor and
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stealing from the town. Former marriagor At Hatfield and former
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Speaker 1 (25:10):
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hundred and seven six' five eight two five. Five Governor
morrisey expressed excitements about several economic development initiatives while he
was addressing The West virginia The governor's twenty twenty Five Energy.

(25:34):
Summit The governor emphasized the goal of the fifty by
Fifty Generation, plan which aims to Increase West virginia's current
base load generation from fifteen point nine gigawatts to fifty
gigawatts by the year twenty. Fifty he ticked off several. Initiatives,
wait he didn't tick them, Off he listed them off
during yesterday's presentation to the summit to talk about that and. More,

(25:57):
please welcome to the program from Our charleston's. Studios ALONGSIDE.
Tj meadows Is Nick, Preservati Deputy Commerce Secretary. Nick good,
Morning thanks for coming.

Speaker 14 (26:06):
In good, Morning thanks for having.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Me So for folks who are not deep into the energy,
industry such as we won't mention names sitting next to
you down In. Charleston why do these? Announcements why should
the Average West virginian be excited about some of the
things that the governor brought up, yesterday including that new
gas fire plant that is planned For Harrison.

Speaker 14 (26:26):
County the reason they should be excited is we're seeing
things In West virginia and opportunities In West. Virginia we've
never seen there is such a demand for energy In
West virginia and none of the states around us can
provide that. Energy so now where we, are the country
Needs West. Virginia they need our, energy they need our,

(26:46):
power and we're seeing people come in and saying we
want to be In West virginia and help develop and
generate that power In West. Virginia so these. Announcements the
governor had a tremendous, month a tremendous week announcing two
gas fired power plants In West virginia in a week
when we've never had a base load generation gas plant
In West virginia and we announced. Two and the real

(27:08):
reason people should be excited about this is it's going
to be, jobs thousands of construction. Jobs it's going to
be property tax revenue for the, counties it's going to
be severnce tax revenue for the, counties and it's going
to help lower. Rates so it's a fantastic announcement in
something that when the governor announced just two months, ago
he announced his fifty by fifty. PLAN i never imagined

(27:31):
that we'd already start making announcements of new generation less
than two months. Later so it's they should be, excited
not just for the, announcement but what it signals that
there's going to be tremendous amount announcements to come in
the future as.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
Well so let's unpack this new power plant that was
announced yesterday In Harrison, county six hundred and twenty five.
Megawatts check me If i'm wrong on that is WHAT i,
heard natural gas. Fired as you, said give me some
of the players behind who are going to be doing,
this and this is going to be a merchant, Plant,
nick explain what that is for people who may not.

Speaker 14 (28:00):
Know, yeah so it's it's a merger. Planet what it,
means it's not being built by one of the two.
Utilities it's Not First, energy it's NOT. Aep It's Kendle, Energy,
BLACKSTONE GeV. Verona those are the. Players and when you,
Understand kendall operates generation in six states soon to be,
Seven West. Virginia blackstone's the world's largest alternative asset manager

(28:22):
in the. World they have over a trillion dollars of.
Assets so we're talking about some of the world's largest
financial institutions coming in To West. VIRGINIA GeV verrona is another.
Partner their technology is involved in twenty five percent of
the world's, Electricity so we're talking about global players coming
To West. Virginia so that's very. Significant so to have

(28:47):
them come in as. Tremendous but the point is this
electricity is going to be going To, Maryland, Virginia, delaware
so it's not going to affect our. Rates we get
the benefits of the construction, jobs we get the benefits
of using our energy. Here they're not going to be
competing with our existing, plants and this is not going
to be put onto the right payers at. All SO i,

(29:10):
mean it's just a tremendous, opportunity and that's the vision
of The governor's fifty by. Fifty it's not just utility,
generation it's independent power, producers merchant, plants. Etc so this
is it's a tremendous opportunity for.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Us nick the Location Harrison, COUNTY. Tj AND i talked
a little bit about this. Yesterday it makes sense because
you have the gas, wells you have natural gas that's
already being developed and drawn out of the Ground Doddridge,
County Tyler, county north Central West. Virginia there this makes.
Sense so is that already the works to tie those

(29:42):
two things.

Speaker 14 (29:42):
Together, yeah that's the entire philosophy of the fifty by
fifty plan is we have the resources In West, virginia
don't go looking for, places go to where the resources.
Are we've worked with some of the companies to develop
there's five locations In West virginia areas that we think
are the prime areas In West virginia for gas development

(30:05):
and economic, development and this is one of. Them you,
know this area In West, virginia when you take, it
it's one of the largest natural gas reserves in the,
World so it makes sense to go. There so, absolutely
one hundred. Percent we're looking for more opportunities in this
same region In West virginia to put more, production more.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Generation and if you talk about that compounding, effect you,
know one of the things that if you talk to
folks in the gas industry that they've been trying to
do over the years is the product we bring out
of the ground, here it goes on the interstate pipeline,
system it goes down, south the gas the end of
use is somewhere else with a plant, here and who

(30:42):
knows if you're, successful more to. Come, obviously trying to
get to fifty. Gigawytes that energy that comes out of
the ground here is being used, here and as that
demand goes, up that's the potential for more, rigs more,
development more roughnecks in the gas. Industry so it's an
upstream a, downstream it's more, severance, TAXES i, mean all
the way. Around it really generates this compounding, effect, right

(31:05):
that's absolutely.

Speaker 14 (31:05):
Correct one of the biggest issues when the governor came
in and started looking at the energy policy is ninety
over ninety percent of the natural gas In West virginia's
exported out of the state with no. Benefit so that's
one of our priorities is increasing state demand of natural,
gas and these two plans are going to do that
tremendously so That West virginians get the benefit of its natural. Resources.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Absolutely Nick preservani is joining us a Deputy commerce secretary
The governor announcing several energy initiatives during yesterday's energy summit In.
CHARLESTON i want to go up to the Northern panhandle
for it just a. Moment the four hundred million dollar
expansion By ergon And newell And Bidwell Gas compression weird
and expanding their facility The Northern, panhandle especially the Northern Northern,

(31:49):
panhandle when you get up into That weird And Hancock county,
area nick Once weird And steel was no Longer weird And.
Steel it's crushed the economy. There it's starting to make
a rebound and it seems like, energy natural gas production
like these facilities is going to be key to.

Speaker 14 (32:04):
That that's absolutely, right and again it's the focus of
using what you have where you have. It there's a
lot of infrastructure in The Northern, panhandle there's a lot
of opportunity with the river in The Northern. Panhandle there's
a lot of opportunity with the gas reserves in The Northern.
Panhandle so it only makes sense to focus on bringing
in industries that need that, gas that need those, locations

(32:28):
and that can use the river to assist. Them you,
know the way the governor looks at, it it's not
that difficult use what you have and take advantage of.
It and we're doing that statewide of looking at the
advantages we have in different areas of the state and
see how we can maximize those regionally within the state
to make announcements like.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
THIS i talk all the time about the, grid and,
Look i've been a clear advocate of whatever the grid,
does you, know it does it for economic. Reasons that's
how economic dispatch. Works we have a lot of coal
fired plants here in the. State talk to me about
this initiative for federal dollars that we heard. YESTERDAY i
think it was well over a billion dollars that would

(33:08):
be on the table from the federal government to help
modernize some of these coal, plants WHICH i would think
would make them more cost efficient and better able to
compete in the. Market.

Speaker 14 (33:16):
Yeah, no, absolutely the fifty fifty, approach it's a two step.
Approach we're not only looking at new, generation but we
have to take care of what we. Have and the philosophy,
is if you can refurbish these plants for another fifteen
to twenty, years that's ten point five gigawatts per year
that we're. Extending that is the cheapest generation that we can.
Get it's much cheaper to do this than it is

(33:38):
to build new. Generation we're doing. Both but the question,
is and we get this a lot of why why
are you doing this if you, know the narrative is
that coal is not as economical to generate as gas,
is and that's just not the. Case it is sometimes
it's it's more expensive than. Gas sometimes it's cheaper than gas,
sometimes and that changes on a, weekly, daily and even hourly.

(33:58):
Basis we need the coal generation because at times it's very,
economical and there's actually models out that are projecting but
by the end of twenty twenty, six coal is going
to be substantially cheaper and more economical to. Run so
you're seeing the utilities building multimillion dollars hundreds of millions
of dollars of transmission from our coal plants that they

(34:21):
wouldn't be doing if coal was not going to be
economical in the very short. Term so that's the part
of the. Reason but we also look at this as
what is the cheapest way that we can upgrade these,
plants refurbish these, plants and going through The Loan Program
office with the THE Us department Of, energy we're first looking at,
grants and the des put out substantial. Grants there's going

(34:43):
to be more, coming so we want to first take
the grants the money that doesn't have to be repaid
to upgrade. These then we've been working with the utilities
fourteen units at six, plants spent significant time getting the
upgrades to the, boilers, precipitators, turbines cooling. Towers look at
all these things that we need to do to upgrade
to get those plans to continue. Running and then when

(35:05):
you do these, upgrades they become more. Efficient and when
they become more, efficient they're more economical to, run they're.
Cheaper if it costs less to run, them it's going
to reduce. Rates so there's a lot of thought that's
been put into this.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Process Nick breservani joining us A Deputy commerce. Secretary with these,
initiatives the governor was talking about yesterday how much in
taxpayer money is being used in these.

Speaker 14 (35:29):
Initiatives so the four announcements, yesterday actually there's five announcements
that have been made over the last month that we've
made and it's about four point two billion dollars of.
Announcements and of those five, announcements one million dollars from
state funds were used in a performance based, loan which
means those funds will be repaid to the. State so

(35:49):
when you look at that, number about zero point zero
two percent of these investments involve state. Funds it's a tremendous,
number and it goes back to The governor's. Point good
businesses with good business plans want to come To West.
VIRGINIA i think that these announcements are bearing that.

Speaker 17 (36:05):
Out.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
Good give me a little sneak peak what's coming?

Speaker 14 (36:08):
NEXT i, could BUT i think the. Anticipation let's let
that anticipation.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
Grow can't blame me for. Asking.

Speaker 14 (36:15):
NO i can tell you, this there are things coming
in the near. Future the size of the announcements that
were made and, larger and there's a lot of momentum,
coming AND i think we're going to start seeing some
really great. Things, hey good after, It good, luck appreciate.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
It Nick, Breservadi Deputy Commerce, Secretary thanks for stopping. By Thanks,
Nick thank you very. Much coming Up Brad Hall mountaineer's
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Speaker 1 (39:19):
Want, yeah last, Night Backyard Brawl basketball, Version mountaineers were
behind early but then went on a roll outscored pit
after trailing in the first half fifty seven to twenty,
eight dominating the one hundred ninety second edition of the,
rivalry winning seventy one forty. Nine Brad howe was providing
expert analysis last. Night he joins us On Metro news talk, Line,

(39:40):
brad good, morning and this is a good win For
Ross hodge in this early five game homestand to begin the, Season.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Good, morning.

Speaker 15 (39:48):
Fellas and Yet dave perfectly said. There it was a
really good win For ross that establishes this. Team AND
i thought you saw last night what this can be
in some. Form the defense was just absolutely a, lead
and you're, right had to come back from some early
adversity With pitt taking that. Lead but it didn't last, long,
guys thirty one, minutes thirty seconds of control For West

(40:08):
virginia leading in that, game so pretty much a start
to finish domination of The. Brawl and that's always a
good night when that.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Happens So i'm looking at the box score Here brad
who stood out to you ON wvu. Side let's start.

Speaker 15 (40:21):
There, yeah a bunch of guys and we could spend
four hours going through, this So i'll try and keep
this as brief as possible because there were a ton
of individual, performances But i'll give you two that were
really above and. Beyond harlan Obi, oha the big seven,
footer was dominant inside and that was great to see
in a game going Against pitt that could match his
side and match his, athleticism and yet he remained the

(40:44):
best player on the. Floor nineteen, points six, rebounds eight
of nine from the, floor and three of four from
the free throw. Line so Obi oha controlled the paint
and was just absolutely. Outstanding and THEN i thought the
other one that really stood out was point Guard Jasper.
Floyd looked like a guy that had been in this
situation a million times at thirteen, points seven, assists five,
rebounds three assists and just two, turnovers and really even

(41:08):
more than the stat line as good as, that just
was controlled the pace of this, game and that's what
the difference. Was this was two contrasting styles in terms
of how you want to. Play West virginia's style one
out on both ends of the, floor and a lot
of that is thanks To Jasper floyd expert expert execution
of that. Offense in, Particular.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Brad howse joining us on one of the Three guys
before the. Game by The way podcast just posted this
morning breaking down last night's win over pip Obi oha seven. Footers,
brad you've seen. Them sometimes you get the ones who
condominated the paint to our Physical how is his game
going to translate once we get to conference play a

(41:47):
little bit later on the. Season do we know? Yet
do you haven't?

Speaker 24 (41:49):
Eye?

Speaker 15 (41:49):
Yeah, No, no you don't totally know, Yet. Dave BUT
i thought that's why last night was such an important
game for, him because he'd been dominant in the first three,
games but that.

Speaker 11 (41:57):
Was to be.

Speaker 15 (41:57):
Expected there wasn't anybody that could match his, size and
last night it. Could pitt was actually the bigger team
through a couple of different seven, footers and there tried
to play them at the same, time And harlan flat
dominated those. Guys AND i think what's interesting is it
sets up now as you move forward and start to
play some of these powerful. Teams when we get into conference,
play you have to make your decision, defensively and the

(42:19):
decision early for, teams AND i understand this was to
try and stick To West virginia's wings and perimeter. Shooters
you've got two really good ones In trace And Eagles
staff and on Our huff in. Particular so the deal
was to leave the inside Players laureent and harl And
obioha on islands going one on. One, well Obi al
has made people pay all year on. That you're talking

(42:39):
about a guy In Harlan fellas that is now thirteen
top thirteen percent nationally in terms of offensive, rating and
that's over twenty three hundred players that have been graded
at this, point so he's been absolutely. ELITE i think
now as you start to scout This West virginia, team
you've got a tough decision to. Make you want to
try and double and dig down and leave some shooters
wide open or are you going to continue to play

(43:02):
and see if he can beat? You so far he, can,
SO i think if nothing, else you don't know what's
coming down the, line but it certainly makes teams have
to think and prepare their.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Defense, Accordingly huff must.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Be spending some time at the. Line he did well
nine for Twelve, yeah he.

Speaker 15 (43:16):
Was really, good and that's where you want and best,
shooter one of the best shooters in this league got
into the line and a lot of nine to twelve
is actually. Surprising i'm always shocked when he misses, one
especially from the free throw. LINE a lot of those
team LATE tj When West virginia was assaulting that game. Away,
yeah And pitt came absolutely. Undone they got two player.
Technicals Jeff caple got a third from the. Bench the
pit head coach probably should have had another. ONE i

(43:38):
almost looked as if he was trying to get kicked
out of the, game and the officials showed some great
restraint by not teeing up a second. Time so it
was a parade to the free throw line late for
on our, huff and that's where a lot of those came.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
From Brad hallen JOINING Us mountaineers role in The Backyard
brawl basketball edition last. Night we've got a recap highlights
Wv metronews dot. Com brad give me forty. Seconds mountaineers
headed To eras to take on the Sun devils this. Weekend,
yeah see.

Speaker 15 (44:03):
If West virginia can keep it. Rolling two really good
performances in wins in one before that in a loss
where you played pretty, well so getting a little momentum
stability at the quarterback. Position and even Though Arizona state's
coming off a bye with an extra week to, prepare
they're coming into this without their starting quarterback and one
of the best receivers in the country In Jordan. Tyson
So West virginia now playing with a little bit of

(44:24):
house money after the last couple of weeks defense has
been really. Good you roll Into arizona and again long,
trip but you take your shot with an early kickoff
there in Sun Devil stadium at eleven am local, time
let it, fly see what you.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Got two of the three guys are breaking down the
win Over pitt last night and previewing The mountaineer's trip
To arizona at podcast posted over wv metronews dot com this.
Morning brad always appreciate. It have a great, weekend.

Speaker 15 (44:48):
Buddy all, right, guys you, too thanks for having me.

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(45:12):
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(48:19):
off your chest once. Again say good morning TO tj In.
Charleston good, MORNING. Tj good.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Morning i'm proud of. YOU i thought you were going
to get a cup of coffee or. SOMETHING i, Mean,
styrwalt he wrote about The epstein. FILES i figured you'd
rather go to the dentist and get a root canal
than talk about. That, well, yes in The Hull hok,
politics but he wrote about, them but not about.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Them if that makes make, sense at least that's HOW
i interpreted. It, okay let's bring In Chris Stirewald, t of,
course is politics editor For The hill And News, nation
host Of The Hill sunday On News, Nation senior fellow
at The American Enterprise, institute and best selling Author chris Good.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
Morning corn And, fellas how you do it doing pretty?

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Well you you didn't maybe right necessarily about my favorite,
subject but you wrote around my favorite, subject he, said
joking The Epstein.

Speaker 27 (49:11):
Files i'll tell.

Speaker 12 (49:13):
You the president makes it awful, hard doesn't it when
you don't want to talk about and like sex trafficking
is nobody's favorite topic at any.

Speaker 15 (49:26):
Point.

Speaker 12 (49:27):
Uh AND i especially don't like conspiracy, theorizing AND i
especially don't like the way in which critics of the
president are making wild. Claims they're they're just basically they're
doing To trump What trump did to, them and they're

(49:48):
making stuff, up they're stretching the, truth they're making all
kinds of lurid allegations with no respect for the facts
because they want to hurt him. Politically AND i understand
if you're A, democrat you're going to, say, well that's
what he did To Hillary, clinton that's what he did,
before so turn about his share. Play that's all. FINE
i just don't like to be part of, it. Right

(50:09):
that's something for partisans that they're going to, do AND
i can't stop them from. Doing BUT i don't usually
play their reindeer. Games BUT i must say, that, well
the comparison that The trump folks keep making to The
russia investigation is an apt. One now they say it's

(50:30):
apps because they say there was nothing there and it
was a witch, Hunt and there is truth to that.
Claim but there's also this for a person who was
ultimately not quite exonerated in The muller, report but basically a, shrug,
right like he didn't do anything, Wrong he wasn't actively,

(50:53):
colluding he wasn't doing any of. That he wasn't some
puppet Of. Putince for if for that to be, true
he acted insanely. Guilty. Right do you remember when The
president said that he Fired Robert muller at THE fbi
because of The russia. Investigation he said it To Lester

(51:14):
hold on. Camera they're, like, well what are we supposed
to do with?

Speaker 16 (51:16):
That?

Speaker 12 (51:18):
Like what are we supposed to? Do AND i have a,
Theory AND i don't know whether this holds any, water
but my theory is that in twenty sixteen and twenty,
Seventeen Donald trump did not want to admit an obvious,
truth and the obvious truth was That russia had tried

(51:40):
to interfere in the, election and they wanted him to,
win Not Hillary. Clinton if they had if they had a,
preference it was for him and Not Hillary. Clinton certainly
they were Against Hillary clinton and probably just more for.
Chaos but the Chaos trump was the chaos choice For.
RUSSIA i don't Think russia did very much TO i

(52:04):
Think russia's was effective in amplifying and pumping up sent
in division in The United states on social, media but
they didn't change the outcome of any. Votes they didn't
hack a single, ballot they didn't do. Anything but, yet
insofar As russia was, involved they were on the side
Of trump, winning Not Hillary clinton. Winning Donald trump didn't

(52:26):
want to say, that AND i understand why he wouldn't
want to say, it but also likes pretty obvious and
he didn't want to admit. IT i think on The epstein,
stuff AND i don't know, anything but there's an obvious,
truth which is that in the nineteen Nineties Donald trump
was a gross human right and that all the way

(52:47):
up to the Excess hollywood tape and all that, stuff
he was a. Cad he was a grossling who hung
out with gross, people and he would go On Howard
stern and brag about. It he was famous FOR i,
mean he planted a story in The New York post
about his sex having like he was that, guy and

(53:11):
he was friends With Jeffrey epstein and they ran in
the same. Circles he didn't want to talk about, that
so he went to full. Denial and the full denial
has just turned weirder and weirder and weirder and made
him look more and more, guilty even of things that
he did not.

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Do how would things have played, Out chris if he
would have done the opposite With russia or the opposite
With epstein and just, said here's what it, is put
his ego, aside laid it out, there how would he
have a different presidency?

Speaker 12 (53:43):
Today do you, Think, well here's the thing is that
we don't know what we don't, know and when people are,
evasive and let's be, CLEAR i have never seen a
relatively small whole thing so badly mishandled and, amplified amplified

(54:05):
and blown up as this series of errors and just
head snapping confusion around The fstein. Files we don't know
what we don't know About Donald trump's. Life we don't
know What Donald trump doesn't want us to know about his.
Life everybody's got, secrets you, KNOW i. HAVE i have

(54:27):
seen powerful people destroyed because they were. Hiding people were
looking for something, else and they came upon what was
a seemingly unrelated, problem and then that thinks of, right
this Is this is the thing about having a president

(54:49):
who is, old almost eighty years, old and has led
a wild and sometimes debauched life is we don't know
What Donald trump is worried. About we don't know what
are the things that he does not want to experience
a proctological examination by a special. Counsel but a special

(55:10):
counsel would have been the logical choice if you, said
there's a lot of questions about. This the matter is.
Serious we're talking about, sex trafficking of. Miners we're talking about,
important powerful. People we should find a human being we can,
trust and we should say go and go wherever the truth.
Leads you find this, elliot mess dude or lady and

(55:32):
say go get. Them But trump did not do. THAT
i do not know why he did not do, That
and there are a variety of, explanations but we don't
know because now no one can trust what the administration
says on this case because they've contradicted themselves so often
in so many.

Speaker 27 (55:49):
Ways it's just.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Weird chris Dar walt is joining us a politics editor
For The hill And News, nation host Of The Hill
sunday On News. Nation, chris you also wrote ABOUT ai
partisanship political scores this. Week what are we to do
with all of this?

Speaker 12 (56:07):
Data, well we're going to do a, lot but question
will it be any?

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Good?

Speaker 12 (56:12):
Well AND i am hardly an artificial intelligence. CATASTROPHIST i
THINK i just talked to a physician guy who runs
the neuro who's The huntington's disease guy At. Vanderbilt he's
like a world a global leader in Treating huntington's. Disease

(56:36):
and we were talking about HOW ai sequenced the drugs
that achieved the first major breakthrough in the cruel and
Devastating huntington's. Disease big data can do a lot of
really good, stuff and as we move into quantum computing
and all of, that the world is going to change.
Radically BUT i tend to think that it's going to

(56:56):
be pretty. Awesome in a lot of one of the
ways that it's going to be challenging for us is, that,
look if you can guess how your neighbors vote and
you can guess what their politics. Are but as more
and more data become, available it's going and the mining

(57:17):
of the data is going to be more and more.
Efficient it's going to be possible to know basically a
political score for Every. American, right AND i don't, vote
So i'm. Cool but the political, score which is based
on your publicly available voter, files plus data about, you

(57:39):
what you, like what you like to, do and it
won't be an exact, science but people will have a.
Score and when you score, something then people tend to
want to use. It and the concern here is that
maybe the best way for me to say it is
a little miss like, romance a little mystery is, helpful,

(58:00):
Right you don't want to know everything about everybody all
of the. TIME a little mystery gives us space to,
breathe room to breathe with each other as. CITIZENS i
have no idea how you two people, vote and AS
i have already told, YOU i do not, vote AND
i can guess, maybe BUT i don't really need, to

(58:21):
and it would be impolied for me to ask, you
and so we can sort of leave it in that.
Space the more we know about each, other the harder
it will be to find the patriotic, grace the space
in between to let people live their.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
Lives why are The democrats so hell bent On epstein,
when in my Opinion trump's reversal on, tariffs the guy who, said,
oh somebody else is going to pay for, it not,
you is having to reverse his tariff position because of affordability.

(58:56):
Issues why aren't they doubling down on? That is it
because they have no plan for the economy.

Speaker 12 (59:00):
Themselves are you, suggesting, sir that politicians are deploying salacious
effects handles to try to harm their opponents rather than
digging in on the meaty issues of the, Day i'd be.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
CORRECT i don't.

Speaker 12 (59:18):
Know we've never seen that, before but maybe this is
the first. Time come, on what are you talking? About
When Donald trump Had Bill clinton's accusers come sit in
the front row at his debate With Hillary clinton In
Saint louis in twenty, sixteen would he focused on the
matters of? State, no he was, saying these people are

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rotten all of the. Things this is the problem about overten.
Windows Donald trump has succeeded where everyone believed he would.
Fail it's an amazing story of. Success it's an amazing.
Story he survived an assassination, attempt he was, indicted he

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would all of this, stuff and and he won. Again,
anyway his first victory was this astonishing. Win he broke
all the rules. Right one of the rules he broke was,
SAYING i will say. ANYTHING i will say That Ted
cruz is the son of a man who was involved
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That Ted cruz's wife is. UGLY i will say anything
anything THAT i want nearest weapon to, HAND i. WILL
i will use any. Tool and WHEN i when it
is revealed that WHAT i said was, UNTRUE i will. Shrug,
basically do you remember When Harry reid Said Mitt romney
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so that he couldn't be sued for, it and then
when it was revealed that he was, lying basically he
shrugged and he, said, well he's.

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Not he.

Speaker 12 (01:00:49):
Won he didn't, win did? He Barack obama? Won so
what do you? Want trump did not invent being awful
and telling untruths and doing that. Stuff but he's certainly
demonstrated that if you can keep your supporters in lockstep behind,
you if they both love you and fear, you then

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you can get away with a lot and you can
do a. Lot SO i Think democrats are just doing
To trump What trump did to.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Them He's chris Star wall and He's politics editor For
The hill And News, nation host Of The Hill sunday
On News. Nation what's coming Up sunday, Morning, Chris.

Speaker 12 (01:01:24):
Well we got politicians that are going to talk about the.
Shutdown they're going to do all that, stuff so it's
gonna be. Great we got the head of The Intelligence,
Committee we've got Ranking democrat on. Approbes it's all. Fine
but you know What i'm excited about is we Have Alan,
gelzo the pre Eminent Abraham lincoln historian in These United.
States we're coming up on the anniversary Of, gettysburg and
we keep doing these segments about the two hundred and

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fiftieth anniversary of our, founding and we're going to Fit
gettysburg And lincoln into the continuum of the. Founding AND
i am such a dork AND i am hugely excited about.

Speaker 5 (01:01:57):
This that sounds.

Speaker 12 (01:01:58):
Wonderful, well you're as big a nerd AS i.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Am, WELL i.

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TIME i don't take. Assignments i'm too old for.

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That i'm.

Speaker 12 (01:02:11):
NOT i. Don't i'm past. That i'm past.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
That, well Maybe i'll know about.

Speaker 12 (01:02:17):
It then you know what you'll get from. Me and
For thanksgiving Is Adam, Kelly West Virginia. Zone Adam, kelly
father of my Mentor Bob, kelly The country editor From.
SISTERSVILLE i every year For THANKSGIVING i revisit His thanksgiving
Let me Of, gratitude which they published every year in The,
intelligencer AND i love so.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Much Chris, well politics editor For The Hill News, nation
host Of The Hill Sunday On News, Nation Senior fellow
An American Enterprise, institute and best selling. Author chris always, appreciated,
buddy have a great. Weekend boo. Yah coming, Up Rin
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he continues to play THE gop lap. DOG i wish
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corrupt politicos who are running our. NATION i would Call
Chris starwald a lot of, things maybe not to his,
face behind his back, Possibly uh gop lap dog is
not one of, them Nor trump apologist would not call
either one of those. Things.

Speaker 5 (01:04:58):
Uh so he called himself a, nerd so we can
call him.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
That, yeah, WELL i mean if he is, ONE i,
mean what do you?

Speaker 12 (01:05:05):
Do?

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Uh texter says Sty walls complete scum talking about setting
presidents the way he, did sitting president the way he.
Did he still Tick fox fired. Him stop having him
on Every. Friday we don't care that he's From West.
Virginia was he?

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
DISRESPECTFUL i never heard him be personally pejorative Of Donald.
Trump he referred to him as the, president Mister, trump et. Cetera,
look whether you like it or, not understand. Something it's
our job as citizens in this country to critique and
question our. Leaders and when we stop doing that is
when the whole experiment. Fails SO i disagree wholeheartedly with.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
That Take Steamer lely's coming, up your opportunity to vent
and let it all. Out. UH i was watching. SOCCER
i told you that the other. DAY i was watching.
Soccer you can't say that very, often BUT i was
watching the other night And marshall scores the game winning
goal AND i turned my. ATTENTION i THINK i was
playing with the dogs or whatever on the. Floor my wife, goes.

Speaker 10 (01:06:03):
Did you see?

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
THAT i, said DID i see? What so we rewound
the video and as The marshall team was CELEBRATING tj
they ran toward the. Stands there was a cluster Of
marshall fans that did the. Stands they jumped up on the.
Railing they're, celebrating and WHAT i would describe as a
dude comes down out of the, stands shoves one of
The marshall players off the off the fence, there takes

(01:06:24):
a swing at, him and then a little frakus. ENSUES
Espn plus cameras capture all of. It Rin baker issued
an apology. YESTERDAY Wwa athletics Director Wren, baker apologizing for
the incident involving a soccer fan and A marshall player
that happened after the. Game baker, said fans coming in
contact with visiting student athletes is, unacceptable AND i want

(01:06:45):
to apologize To, Marshall it's men's soccer program and it's.
Fans the game was ultra competitive between two excellent soccer
teams on the behalf OF. WVIE i want to congratulate
The Marshall's marshall team on the victory and wish them
continued to success in the. Postseason can we not just have? It,
look it was a great. Game it was. Competitive Anytime

(01:07:06):
West Virginia marshall play each, other there's that fan rivalry
that makes that much. Better and then some more on
has to go and do, that and now the ad
has to address. It and by the, WAY i noticed this,
morning it's starting to get picked up outside Of West
virginia now by the uh Barstool AND i don't know
if barstool pick it, up but those types serventities are
starting to pick it up as a story outside Of West.

(01:07:28):
Virginia well done.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
Well SO i don't know what happened to the, Fan
but LAST i, checked when you enterdict The lesque soccer,
stadium the laws of the state Of West virginia do
not cease to, exist and the pains and penalties of
those laws are still in the. Fact what you just
described sounds like battery to, Me.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Well you can make a case there. WAS i didn't
catch all of it because the cameras did eventually pan,
Away but, yeah there was a little there's a little
fracas that broke out after that because then ANOTHER i
think A marshall fan responded there were shoving and you,
know gnashing of teeth and. Shouting, kip just go to
the ball. Game watch The these are twenty some year
old young adults who are out there. Playing cheer them,

(01:08:08):
on boo, them make fun of. Them It's i'm cool
with all of. That you don't make contact with, them
even when they're coming over to celebrate with their fans
in the. Stands AND i would say the same thing
of the roles were completely reversed as.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Well, well they ought not let him come to or
her whoever it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Was the fan should get a lifetime, ban, Right, yeah,
EXACTLY i think. So and good On. Baker, yeah good
for the.

Speaker 5 (01:08:29):
APOLOGY i get.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
It THE i can't Believe i'm saying these. Things the,
Soccer as far AS i, KNOW i don't know, SOCCER.
Tj you could pretty well convince me of. ANYTHING i
have no idea what's going. ON i know when the
ball goes in the. Net that's a good. Thing, yeah
for your. Team it was a competitive it was. Great
it was one of the best matches of the year
with the conference game on the, line and you, know
it was great right up till that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
Point one bad apple buddy ruins it for. EVERYBODY a.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Dude it was a.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
DUDE a, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
All, right coming up At Steamer, Lanes teach AND i are.
Done we will take the biggest risk and broadcasting and
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in the Flooded Mind. Thursday company officials say he was
last seen working to get everybody out of the mind.
Safely all of whom did except for. Him Governor Patrick
morrissey said that was true.

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Speaker 29 (01:10:28):
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today a day of remembrance on The Marshall. Campus it
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Anymore. Yes all week, long you've listened to this program and,
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we turn it all over to, you and What rush
used to call the biggest risk in broadcasting in a
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the weekend aggravated and agitated and all. Itchy this is
your opportunity to vent and let it all. Out you
have a couple of ways to do. That many of
you have already started to text your, steams and you're
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at eight hundred seven sixty five talk eight hundred seven
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Fired those two things usually go hand in. Hand we'd
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in an exclamation. Point enough, said once upon a time
we were a proud, country land of the free and
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convicted felon who has done everything he can to destroy
our two hundred and fifty year legacy of our democratic.
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going to send the cheap gas power out to other
states so we don't get any of. It, well that's just,
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Me why don't we.

Speaker 5 (01:16:02):
Get dividend checks since we're providing the capital for them
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wish the state would give me a low interest billion
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Speaker 9 (01:17:30):
Hello how are you shout out To, sophia a cool.
Lady WHAT i want to quickly say is that you,
Know i'm so sick and tired of things that have gone.
On the shutdown has gotten everybody a nervous. Wreck but more,
Importantly democrats should not have to discuss tariffs the. WORLD
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bill's insurances or what have. You but the thing is
what people faily realizes That trump will say something vibe
fifteen twenty, times people start believing, it even if it's a,
lie just like he said he would open those epsteam
valves when he become. President why is he dodging that
butt he's in.

Speaker 12 (01:18:12):
There he's, Guilty, victoria have a great.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
Weekend appreciate the phone. Call shout out To sophia there as.
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Speaker 27 (01:20:28):
Tj, first an editor's. Note did the governor, say and
he's press release that the the foreman from the coal
mine was a marine and then we worked In. Colvis
did the governor say That.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
I'll break the. RULES i don't know that the governor said,
that BUT i know it was reported he is a military.
Veteran i'm not, sure, Man.

Speaker 27 (01:20:56):
I'm pretty SURE i heard the governor say that he
was a. Marine. REASON i want to go back to
The tuesday WHEN i, said when you take the oath
to be in the, military, okay and the military has
its own, Discipline and when you had the lieutenant general
on there the other day about how we got where he's.
At only the family knows if the military was helping that.

(01:21:19):
Person that mister lifts him to shape his character sets
that he did the heroic thing that he did in
that coal. Mine i've been underground many, hours many. Times
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United states shows for all the veterans out, there not just.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Him bill appreciate, it, well, Said let's go To. Greg
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Speaker 6 (01:21:49):
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Speaker 10 (01:21:50):
Greg rally from. ON i got a couple of quick.
Things first of, all WHEN i shout out To victoria
from down In, sophie what a great comic she made,
early she saixactly, right when somebody can.

Speaker 27 (01:21:59):
Can he used to.

Speaker 10 (01:22:00):
Say the same thing over and over and over. Again
people will just fall for. It that there were below
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last five or six, years that's for. Sure anywhere things that.
Nature but here's my new one on our fearless. Leader this,
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Speaker 5 (01:22:45):
Tj ALTHOUGH i always don't agree With, steyerwalt he's a
welcome voice On Metro, news which he was a more frequent.
Guest be critical of those elected to. Office question, mark
did you forget where you? Are this Is West. Virginia
the state bends, over says thanks and asks for more.
Abuse my theme is THAT tj never puts the toilet

(01:23:07):
paper on the roller the right. Way just, okay, Okay
can you guys just stick to political state news on your.
Show i'm tired of hearing sports commentarily a, commentary particularly from, You.
Dave all the rest of your radio shows deal with.
Sports let this one Be steyrwalt calling himself a nerd

(01:23:29):
is an insult to other. Nerds why a wild soccer
is a popular, Sport it's not important to big, schools
says The. Texter texter, asks Is hoppy going to be
on your show? Again just a yes or?

Speaker 28 (01:23:42):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:23:43):
Please editor's, Note, yes he's just been taking some time.
Away why Does steiirwalt ever have an actual, opinion or
why doesn't he ever have an actual opinion that makes?
Sense says the. Texture here we go, again Using West
virginia tax dollars to build a power plant for someone else.
Steam President trump saying That epstein files that he promised

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to release are fake news is Like President Richard nixon
Saying i'm not a crook after His watergate. SCANDAL A texter,
says please don't Let donald call. IN i commanded an
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soldiers had attacked a non threatening civilian the WAY ice

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attacks defenseless civilians in our, CITIES i would have lost my.
Job how much training do THESE ice guys? Have apparently not.
Much what kind of leadership do THESE ice guys? Have
apparently not? Much this performative cruelty is a stain on
our great. Nation i've seen More christmas decorations going up

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earlier this. YEAR i think people want something hopeful and
joyful to help them forget all the ignorant bs plaguing
everyone In? Washington are there no honorable statesman? Left only
political hacks? Guys here we go again for the thirtieth consecutive.
Year we're starting into winter and into the season with

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mine filled potholes BETWEEN i sixty eight And round one.
Nineteen here In Mond, county they, passed they patched a
few this. Summer but here we, go starting into, winter
and there's jawbreakers out there right, now which they can't
seem to. Find even though SOMEBODY i see has painted
yellow circles around them with the word doh in, air

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pointing at, them they still don't SEEM i believe they
met with an. ARROW i Think siri got them there
a little. Bit why are we removing? Tariffs does this
MEAN i will no longer get my two thousand dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
Check is it?

Speaker 5 (01:25:49):
Me or is it? Crazy how Mister chris can give
his opinion on the problems with the government but then
states he doesn't. Vote if you can't find the time to,
Vote shut the hell, up says The. Texter thank You DONALD.
J trump for Putting americans first and for Putting america
or Making america great. Again Both democrats and the national

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media are missing what Nine democratic senators figured Out the
president and leader of the Ultra Christian Republican party was
fighting in Court withhold already appropriated emergency funds for Snap
did you hear? This President trump was willing to starve
the poor rather than negotiate affordable. Healthcare eight hundred seven

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HEY. Tj another, guy it's your Pal. Daly that texture
was right last TIME i was in the. Studio the
toilet paper was on the wrong. WAY i BET tj
also leads EMPTY ca cups in the coffee. Machine keep
it up and you won't be getting saws From Uncle
dale On. Christmas from one swifty to.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Another appreciate the phone Called. Dale how did that this?
MORNING i left the cake. CUP i just remembered you're that.
Guy eight hundred and seven sixty five talk eight hundred
and seven six five eighty two five five more text
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Speaker 5 (01:29:31):
Martinsburg when are these politicians going to do something to
apply common sense with this outrageous storm water or rain
tax that exists here and not in neighboring. Counties change
dot org petitions made online are a. Joke No West
virginia elected official is under any obligation to respond to,
them says The. Texter auto pen blanket pardons for people

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who haven't been convicted of crimes yet four years of
a demented puppet Being biden not running the, country and
Now democrats are worried about our democratic. Republic Hey, democrats
who did you vote for the? Primary my? Steam your
electric bill is so high because of The Democrats Green
New deal. Scams your health insurance is high mainly because Of.

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Obamacare in the term threat to democracy is actually anything
that is contrary to democratic, Policy dave AND. Tj The
Affordable Care act needs. Replaced it's bankrupting the government and.
Families it's. Unaffordable health insurance should not pay for in my,
opinion for birth, control hair, restoration, men and women's sexual performance,

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aids on and on A dave AND. Tj The democrats
made The United states suffer for forty three. Days thankful
a Few democrats couldn't torture the citizens anymore and voted
to open up the. GOVERNMENTS. Tj did you see How
Donald trump began his support of bringing back. Slavery trump's
first step in bringing back slavery is stopping production of the.

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Penny lincoln is on the, penny And lincoln was anti.
Slavery this will plant in people's minds that slavery is,
good and then he will. Pounce this is the kind
of thing we hear when you. Commentate if The epstein
files are so important to The, democrats why didn't they
release everything during The biden? Administration says the Text let's

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get another, Call, jim what's your?

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Steam?

Speaker 23 (01:31:22):
Jim?

Speaker 32 (01:31:23):
Yeah you, know about about a year, Ago i'd go
home from work AND i sitting WATCH. Tv that' see
a steady stream of you legals coming across the, border
and it was. Steady he wouldn't just one or. Two
it was, steady and then My, orcus the head man
Of Home, masecurity come on about a half hour later
to say our border is. Posed how in the heck

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could he do? That it was just that was insane
to watch. Him you, know he should have been hauled
off to jail for telling a lie like. That it
was terrible and he's probably getting a pension. Now thank, You.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
You are, Welcome, jim have a good. Weekend eight one
hundred and seven to sixty five. Talk got a couple more.
Hunt's we could squeeze in another call or. Two phone
lines are, open three or four talk three oh. Four
kudos to the mainstream media for pretending the Redacted epstein
emails released this week weren't released unredacted in twenty. Eleven
way to recycle, Nothing, uh get, off snap you bums and.

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Work my grandpa went to work at nine years, old
and you won't feed your six kids or get out
of your lazy boy with your. Duvet If President trump
had been criminally involved in The epstein, files why Did
biden sit on them for four, years drove all away
To delaware and still didn't Get starbucks barista Mug barrista Mug.

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Man it's a long drive coming back from The south
this week gas and With, Ville. Virginia it's two forty
one WHEN i get back to town at Sheets South,
charleston it's three, nineteen says The. TEXTER i seventy nine
Between bridgeport And morgantown looks like The Ho Chi Ming
trail In. Vietnam great, Job, Dot you're, awesome Says. Jim

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the mean girls are still RUNNING. Wvu sure the mean
girls Are, nope can't read. That release all The epstein
files and let the chips fall where they. May on that,
note If trump was criminally involved With, epstein the previous
administration would have released that, Information no, Brainer, roger keep it.
Tight what's your? Steam, Hey? Roger, hello go, ahead keep it.

Speaker 12 (01:33:29):
Tight, yeah yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:33:31):
Yeah instead Of trump giving twenty billion dollars To, argentina
why couldn't even given that?

Speaker 17 (01:33:36):
Money said who Will?

Speaker 12 (01:33:37):
Ukraim they need the money better, More.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Roger appreciate the steam and have a good, weekend. Sir don't.
Forget high school football playoffs start tonight across the state
Of West. Virginia we've got the full schedule for. You
posted AT Wdv metro news Dot com got a handful
of games coming up tomorrow on the schedule as. Well
we've got coverage on The Metro television app of a
handful of. Games of, course many of these local radio

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stations also have your local, coverage and we'll Have Fred
persinger And Dave jacquelin coming up Tonight Metro News High
School Game. Night they'll have scores and recaps Of round
one of the high school football playoffs this. Weekend big
plans for the, Weekend Mister, meadows.

Speaker 5 (01:34:20):
Play it as it, Comes, Buddy let's Go, Mountaineers. Rolltide
that's it all.

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Night high school football, tonight college football. Tomorrow it's your
typical weekend for me this. Fall big thanks To Jake,
link our video, producer and of Course Sophia, wasick our audio. Producer,
today we'll talk to You monday morning at ten oh.
Six this is Talk line On Metro news for forty,
years the voice Of West. Virginia