Talkline | Nov. 21, 2025

Steven Allen Adams, with Ogden Newspapers, reports on a possible Morrisey Tax Reform plan. Gov. Morrisey talks about the approval of the state's BEAD application and the possible tax plan. Chris Stirewalt stops by to talk politics. Chris Lawrence talks the start of deer season. Joe Brocato sets up the quarterfinal round of the HS Football Playoffs. 

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it In Trump. What about the latest coming from the
White House regarding Democrats and the military and orders. We'll
get into all of that with Ryan Schmel's. Governor Morrissey
will join us at the bottom of the hour. The
state's bead application approved. We'll talk to him about that.
Joe rostops By. We'll also talk a little deer hunting

(02:18):
with Chris Lawrence. Chris Stiwaldt will not talk deer hunting,
but he'll join us in the second hour as well.
So busy show before we get to steam release. At
eleven thirty three yesterday, briefly talked about the article from
Stephen Allen Adams in Ogden newspapers about Governor Morrisey's tax
plan and the thought of a special session in December.

(02:42):
According to several sources, Morrisey wants to present lawmakers a
tax reform package that could include a three point eight
eight percent flat personal income tax rate and A and
do away with the one hundred percent income tax credit
rebate for property taxes payal motor veles put in place
by the legislator Sure Legislature in twenty twenty three. Steven

(03:06):
Allen Adams went into detail in that story earlier this week.
You can read it over in the newspaper's websites or
the Oggden newspapers across the state. Steven Allen Adams joins
us now from Charleston.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Steven, good morning, Good morning, Dave, Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I went through the cliff notes there. But the governor
wants to tackle tax reform, it looks like before we
get to the regular session in January. So what's the
governor proposing based on what you've been able to gather?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Sure, and of course I have heard several things that
could be ultimately in a tax reform packaged that Governor
Patrick Morrissey would want to present to lawmakers, perhaps in
a special session, probably more likely it's going to come
into regular session. I keep hearing that there's not a
whole lot of interest from lawmakers and trying to rush

(03:57):
through something like that. But the stuff I was able
to confirm specifically, is the three point eight eight percent
flat personal income tax rate. As most people know, to pay,
taxes are tax structures broken into five different brackets based
on how much you earn per year, So there's different
percentages for that. If you make less than ten thousand,

(04:21):
you're going to be paying a two point two percent rate.
If you earn a forty thousand or more or sixty
thousand or more, you're going to be paying at a
four point eight two percent rate. And keep in mind
that's after several personal income tax went into effect over years.
You know, you have the twenty one point two five
percent that went into effect in twenty twenty three, and

(04:44):
since then, you've had a four percent cut that went
into effect due to a trigger formula that's in place,
and then you had a two percent cut that went
into place in the final special session under Governor Jim Justice.
Former Governor Jim Justice, so he was able to get
that out the door. So several tax cuts have already
been in place the lower lost rates, but the governor

(05:09):
is seeing what's happening in other states and he wants
to stay competitive. So apparently three point eight eight percent
flat tax is what they're thinking about, which is I
don't know how they've come to that number. I don't
know if that's a good number a bad number. And
I think that's some of the problem the lawmakers have too.
They need to kind of break down why this is

(05:31):
the number, and maybe a special session is not the
best way to do that in December when obviously people
are thinking about Christmas and thinking about the next legislative session.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
We'll get into some of the reactions here in just
a moment, but from what you've been able to gather
again three reporting, what's the benefit of the taxpayer here
under the Morrissey plan.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
That's a very good question. I mean, that's part of
the thing that we don't really really know because a
lot of this is sort of behind the scenes discussions
and talks, so we don't really know how that is
the number that they've really kind of come to and
why they think that is the sweet spot on that.
And of course, you know right now, if you look

(06:12):
at some of our tax competitive rankings, we're not that
bad compared to our neighboring states. Kentucky has a better
ranking in the tax Foundation rankings than we do, but
we're still below for every other surrounding state around US.
So if that makes this competitive or not, I just
don't know how that works. And I haven't talked to

(06:35):
anybody or heard from anybody that can really explain that
to me. But that's sort of I think the concern
again from wallmakers is trying to figure out exactly why
that is the number. And keep in mind, if you're
talking about a three point eight eight percent flat tax
trade your two lowest tax rates, the percentages that they

(06:57):
pay will have to go up. Obviously if you're in
the higher brackets than those would come down. But that
means people earning less than say twenty five thousand dollars
per year, are going to have to pay more in taxes.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Steven Aden Adams joining US columnist and capitol reporter for
Oggen the newspapers. This has been floating around. I've heard
it rumored for some time. At this point, Steven, you
were able to talk to some of the leadership on
both sides of the aisle. What are they saying? First
of all, it doesn't seem like there's a special session
going to happen in December. That seems very unlikely. But

(07:35):
what about the tax plan or the reported tax plan
in general.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, well, I've talked to both our finance chairs on
the Senate and House sides. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Jason
Barrett out of Berkeley County, he is a little bit
more vague. I mean, it's gonna be hard to go
to particularly Republican lawmakers and get them to say they
don't want to cut taxes. I think everybody wants to
be able to cut taxes, but they will all tell

(08:02):
you they want to do it responsibly, they want to
do it the right way. So Senator Barrett was a
little more guarded in his response because again there's a
lot of information that we don't know about how they've
come up with this plan. I mean, again, as you mentioned,
part of that would involve getting rid of the motor
vehicle personal property tax rebate, which I'm told is really

(08:25):
kind of utilized about by sixty percent of residents. Because
of the way it's set up, it's a little cumbersome.
You got to pay everything up front, so maybe it's
not quite getting the purchase that everybody thought it might.
So there might be room for cutting some stuff, cutting
that out, and that would provide you in between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred million dollars that could
go towards a cut, and in that three point eight

(08:48):
eight percent cut at least from what I'm hearing, would
return about two hundred and seventy seven million dollars the taxpayers.
Now on the other end of things, you got House
Finance Committee Chairman Vernon Chris, who, as we know, is
not afraid to be very harshly critical of the governor,
and he just says it's dead on arrival. There's already

(09:09):
a mechanism in place, the trigger mechanism that was put
in the law in twenty twenty three to slowly phase
out the personal income tax rate a few percentage points
at a time based on how well our economy is doing.
He thinks that's a responsible way to phase out the
personal income tax, and trying to more quickly do it,

(09:29):
he just thinks that's a bad idea. Now, why he
didn't think that was a bad idea with two percent
cup a couple of years ago, I or last year,
actually I don't know, but apparently he's very much against
trying to phase that out more quickly than what they're
trying to do now.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
And that was about to be my next question when
I'm sure, well, I'm not sure, but you probably don't
have an answer. How would this new tax package, this
tax reform jive with the previous tax package where the
income tax is phased out over time? Do we start
to phase out the three point eight eight percent? Does
it drop? How does that?

Speaker 5 (10:02):
I think I.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Think that's absolutely why lawmakers would much rather deal with
this in the regular session. There's no rush to do
this in December. And you can make the argument that, well,
if you're only focused on this issue, then then you
can probably come up with a good plan, because I've
been asked that before. So if you're going to go

(10:26):
ahead and do this new plan, then don't you have
to make changes to that trigger formula? And that's a
good question, and that's a question some lawmakers have as
to how that would work. So I think lawmakers would
feel more comfortable looking at it in a regular session.
We've done tax reform, the twenty twenty three tax reform package.

(10:46):
We did in the middle of a sixty day legislative session.
It can be done, and I think giving lawmakers more
time to kind of review those specific questions, because I mean,
if you change one thing here. You got to change
some other things down the road here, and I think
they need time to look at that. And you know
that get batted around in the Finance Committee. So I

(11:08):
think that's ultimately what's going to happen now.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Steve Allen Adams joining us on to newspapers Capitol reporter
and columnist. Two things jumped out to me, Stephen. One,
this would have to be a tremendous sales job by
the governor to get the House on board, because obviously
from Vernon Cris's comments to you, it's going to be
a tough sell. But also, we just got the rebate
on personal property Texas. We just got it. Obviously, if

(11:35):
only sixty percent sixty five percent is the number that
I heard of, people are utilizing it. Folks are still
just trying to figure it out. Yeah, And in my experience,
it's a tough sell to take that away and then
try to convince somebody. But really, you're coming out ahead
because and we all know if you're explaining you're losing.
I think this would be a really this would be

(11:57):
a really hard sell. And if the governor can do it,
good on him. But I think it's going to be
a tough sell all the way around.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yeah, there just has to be more information, and we
don't know that much information. I mean a lot of
this was just being talked about behind the scenes. I
mean several of us that covered a State House store
hearing rumors about the special session Friday and we were
being asked about it, and like, well, like we don't
we don't know, So a lot of us started asking around.

(12:25):
It's how I ended up writing my story for me,
at least a couple of details. I think there's going
to be more things in this tax perform package that
Morrissey wants to do, and which means there could be
some sweeteners in there that could bring some people to
the table. But without knowing the economics of how they
came to some of these numbers, it's really hard to say.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
And again that's the problem that the lawmakers have, I think,
is not having that information. So, yeah, it's going to
be a salesman job for sure. But I mean we've
seen Morrissey, you know, keep working on issues. He's stubborn
and I don't mean that in a negative way. He's
just naturally stubborn, persistent, And you saw it, well, you

(13:10):
sell this with the Data Center bill. I mean that
could have died many deaths, and no, most did die
many deaths during a session, but it got over to
finish one because they did work it pretty hard. And
I think Morrises is going to have to do something
similar to that type of negotiating.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Steven Alan Adams, Hogg's newspaper's capital reporter and columnist. Governor
was at the podium at nine o'clock. He'll be at
the podium at noon today. He's going to join us
in between there. What was he talking about this morning?

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Sure, well, he was doing a little touchdown dance, deservedly
so for the acceptance of our application for the broad
End Equity Access Deployment Program. That's the program where we
were rewarded up to one point two billion dollars to
connect unserved and underserved people in West Virginia the high
speed broadband Internet. Now, of course that went through some

(14:00):
processes a pause with the incoming administration, but we submitted
an application for about six hundred and twenty five million
back at the beginning of September, and the federal government
approved it at least up to five hundred and forty
six million, which should connect about seventy three thousand unserved
and underserved residents and businesses in the state of West Virginia.

(14:22):
So that's why he was celebrating today at nine o'clock.
You know, Senator Capito first announced that last night. Former
Governor and current Senator Jim Justice, who kind of got
the ball started on all this but the Office of
Broadband when he was governor. He has an announcement out today.
A lot of people celebrating us. This will be good
and if we can get the money out the door

(14:42):
to the companies that got these projects ready to rock
and roll, I mean you could CBC movement. I mean,
as we reported and you all reported, I mean, we
are one of the most improved states in the nation
for how quickly we're getting people connected. Even though we're
still ranked near last for the number of people, we
are improved. So this will help us accelerate that.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Stephen Allen Adams Ogden Newspapers, capitol reporter and columnist. You
can read his story on any one of the fine
publications across the state of West Virginia. Steven always appreciate
you stopping by. Thank you, buddy, Thank you, sir. See
it coming up. We'll go to DC Fox News Radios.
Ryan Schmells, the New York City Mayor elect is coming
to town. Plus is there a rift between the House

(15:22):
and the Senate. We'll talk about it next.

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Speaker 1 (16:48):
Busy sports weekend coming up high school football quarterfinals on tap.
Joe Bercato will stop by to set the table in
just a little bit. Yesterday, Senate Republicans and Democrats squared
off on the Senate floor or blocking attempts after attempt
to repeal or change a controversial law that slipped into
the bill that reopened the government earlier this month. That

(17:09):
bill would allow senators to target the Biden led Department
of Justices Arctic frost probe and sue the federal government
for five hundred one thousand dollars. That got through the House.
A bill to repeal that got through the House for
twenty seven to nothing, and then it was on to
the Senate. Yesterday. Fox News Radios Ryan Schmels joins us
and Ryan We knew that this was not going to

(17:29):
have an easy track or any type of track really
through the Senate, but they went back and forth yesterday.

Speaker 9 (17:36):
They did, and this has probably been one of the
few things that has really kind of maybe driven a wedge.
I don't have a total edge, but it's definitely driven
some frustration between House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority
Leader John Boone, where Republicans in the House were furious
that this provision was included and allows these small group
of Republican lawmakers to essentially sue the federal government.

Speaker 11 (17:59):
Now.

Speaker 9 (18:00):
Uh so far though, the Senate has refused to move
on this, and it appears that Leader Spoon is not
planning to bring this stuff anytime soon, and there's even
talk on the Senate side about making it even bigger
and increasing the pool for people who can who can
who can sue?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Any explanation yet how this got tucked into that bill
that reopened the government.

Speaker 9 (18:22):
We have an idea, you know, we frore understanding is
that Leader Spoon and Leader Schumer were aware of it.
Lindsay Graham as in some Wady has said that he
was pushing for it, and you know, but but ultimately
the the the exact way in which this got put
in there, we're still trying to figure that out now.
Which by note that this was a part of the

(18:43):
appropriations process. So this was a part of a funding
bill to fund the legislative branch through the next fiscal years.
So the bill that deals with members of Congress pay,
Capitol police pay, you know, maintenance of the capitol and
staff and whatnot. And you know when we talk about

(19:04):
these these big funding bills, right, you know, do you
ever heard of the you know, you ever heard of
an omnibus or a minibus. You know, this was a
part of a minibus, which was they packaged three of
the appropriations bills together and pass them all once. Well,
you know, this was just three of the twelve bills.
Usually it's all twelve at one time, and in just
the three of them, there was something that caused a

(19:24):
lot of division and a lot of scrutiny. So imagine
what would happen what could happen as these appropriations bills
start getting brought up in the future.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yes, and those are obviously two big letters there. If
this bill were to come to the floor in the state,
are the Republicans who would back repealing it?

Speaker 9 (19:42):
Yes? I believe so.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Enough enough that could go through.

Speaker 9 (19:46):
That's that's the big question. Possibly, you know, you'd have
every Democrat voting for it, So that's upwards of what
to close to fifty right there. Then you probably needed
like anywhere between thirteen to fifteen Republicans to to vote
to repula. I think those votes would be there. So
if Lead three were to put this on the floor,
it's very likely it could pass.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Ryan Schmells, Fox News Radio, joining us in a meeting
made for cable news television. Ryan, New York City Mayor
elect zoron Bondami, we'll meet with President Trump today. Is
everybody just kind of sitting around waiting to see what
happens in DC today?

Speaker 9 (20:22):
Well, there's a vote on socialism happening literally right now
on the House floor. It was a vote to condemn socialism.
And you know, as we've seen at the House this week,
nothing can ever be easy. The floridabate has come to
a screeching halt because Congressman's from Florida told Maxine Waters
and ripped her for being allegedly a personal friend with

(20:44):
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. And and so you know, Maxine
Waters is trying to get those words taken down. And
so now the House has come to a delay. Oh nope,
that's stucking out.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
But this is what we do with Are we sure
it's the Fidel Castro? Maybe it's just a Fidel Castro?

Speaker 10 (21:02):
Are we sure?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I mean, we got to make sure we make to make.

Speaker 9 (21:05):
The distension the Hey Jeffree Epstein, Well, I mean all
this stuff about Jeffrey Epstein is reminding me that there
was a sportscaster or a sportscasting legend still does the
Ravens play by play every week named Jerry Sandusky with
a G.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
That's rough, That is rough.

Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Fox News, there's only one. Fox News Radios, Ryan Schmells. Ryan,
always appreciate it. Have a great weekend and I'll be
out next week. Happy Thanksgiving as well.

Speaker 9 (21:32):
Hey, Happy Thanksgiving to you. I'm very thankful for you
guys and being allowed to come on the show. So
we'll do it again soon.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Absolutely, Fox News Radios, Ryan Schmells, coming up, Governor Morris,
you will join us to beat application approve. This is
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Speaker 12 (21:55):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Jeff Jenkins. Faith County Shares
definitely say a man's in cust after an investigation linked
him to a man's body found in the Gali Bridge
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Speaker 8 (22:23):
West Virginia, State Trooper ZD. HoTT tells the Panhandle News
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(22:43):
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Speaker 12 (22:48):
Other state residents are speaking out about the future of
the Public Employees' Insurance agency that runs health insurance for
state workers. PEIA held its final public hearing last night
on the proposed plan changes for next fiscal year. It
was a virtual hearing. A lot of the comments were
aimed at STAY lawmakers, calling on them to do something
to provide more funding for the agency. The PI Finance
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(24:45):
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Speaker 1 (25:12):
Speaking of the high school football playoffs schedule. Joe Bricato
will join us about ten minutes from now and we
will set the table for the quarterfinal round of the
high school football playoffs. Chris Starwald Top of the Hour,
Lots to get into with Chris Starwald. Last night, US
Senator Shelleymore Capitot announced that West Virginia's proposal for federal
funding under the broad Band Expansion Program had been approved,

(25:35):
that is, the BEAD program. Governor Morrissey was talking about
it during a news conference earlier this morning, and he
joins us right now on Metro News talk line. Governor,
good morning.

Speaker 16 (25:45):
Good morning, Dave, and hopefully we'll see you at a
high school football game again. It's going to be an
exciting couple games this weekend and then obviously the Semis
and the finals. But it was fun to see you
out at the game a few months back.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I saw you a couple of weeks ago doing the
coin toss there at Jones S Edward Stadium a couple
of weeks ago. You didn't come to the radio booth though.

Speaker 16 (26:08):
I tried to generally to come over and say lo o.
But it's been you know, look, it's been a lot
of fun getting out to the games and spending some
time with people. Folks love college and high school sports
in our state, as you well know, and I do
as well as someone who played high school in college sports.
You know, there's nothing better than a Friday night or

(26:29):
a Saturday taken in college football.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
All right, Governor. When this came out last night, I
got a text that said big news, and then it
was that the bead application had been approved. How significant
and why is this significant for West Virginia?

Speaker 16 (26:43):
Yeah, guys, thanks for having me on This is actually
one of the most significant announcements in twenty and twenty five,
and for this reason, we know that there's been effort
for many, many years on the part of many many people,
and credit goes to so many different places to better
connect West Virginians to the Internet. And there are a

(27:04):
lot of unserved and underserved West Virginians who really didn't
have the ability to access broadband in the past, well
a number of years ago, and it's been fitting for many,
many years. There were efforts to facilitate the build out
across the country and this was a national plan. A

(27:25):
lot of people involved from across the country, and West
Virginia uniquely benefits because historically it's had one of the
worst connectivity rates in America. And so today we've been
able to announce with the details and the information that
because of the Trump administration in their program, we are

(27:48):
going to be able to serve over seventy three thousand
unserved and underserved West Virginia locations high speed internet. It's
going to need some immediate jobs. Based upon Marshall University research,
that's fifteen hundred immediate jobs beginning as the build starts.

(28:08):
Over seven thousand jobs over a period of time as
you start to connect it to other industries. So West
Virginia is going to be connecting to the Internet and
a much faster clip than ever before. Practically, what does
that mean. It means families get to stay home on
a Friday night and watch stream movies in a way

(28:29):
that they may not have been able to. Folks are
going to be able to access telehealth from their home
in a way they've never been able to. Leaders are
going to be able to help kids learn in a
way that they've never been able to. This is a
significant number. We spent an enormous amount of time all
year working with Secretary Lutnik, with the NTIA administrator and

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the staff help make this happen. I want to thank
the federal delegation. I want to thank the legislature our
office because we got out in front of this early
and really negotiated this. It's five hundred and forty six
million dollars. I think taxpayers really benefited when people sharpened
their pencils and gave the taxpayers the benefit of the bargain.

(29:15):
Then there's going to be a remaining amount of money
that has not been announced yet for the Trump administration,
but it's still sitting in an allocation for West Virginia.
We'll learn more about that coming up. But it's a
great way to start our broader economic development efforts, which
have been aggressive, over four point five billion dollars in

(29:36):
announcements over the last month. A lot of effort on
rural health improvements, which can turn into increase workforce participation
and productivity, and of course more big economic development. We
are being more aggressive on economic development than folks have
seen in a long time. It's very positive. I want

(29:58):
everyone to know that, and this is it's going to
be an important part of it. Broadband is a critical
part of infrastructure today and that's why this is so
good for our to day.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Governor morrisy joining us here on Metro News talk line.
How do you get this money out the door so
we can start to do the things you're talking getting
the funding is great, but how do you put it
to work now?

Speaker 16 (30:19):
Well, the goal is to begin that process. Obviously, we
submitted the application September fourth. They promised that they'd make
a decision by December fourth, So now that we have
the decision, we have to press the button and go.
I think our Broadband Office is ready for that. Guys.
This is really envisioned to be a four year build

(30:40):
out plan, and so I think work is going to
be starting on that in the next few months. But
there are details plans in place, and that was required
in order to get the federal money. So we think
we're ready to go. There's been broad cooperation with a
lot of people within industry and with folks cross West Virginia,

(31:01):
and once again, thanks go to everyone. It's a team effort,
and the legislature obviously played a critical role in the
past as well. So I think that the plan is there.
It's just a function of when the money hits the
account and we can start getting going. But that's literally
going to be in the next couple months.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
As far as economic development goes, what does this say
to perspective companies that are looking to locate to West
Virginia or existing companies that may be thinking about expanding.

Speaker 16 (31:28):
I think what it does is it shows that the
economic and infrastructure climate on in West Virginia keeps getting
better and better. When you think about whether you're going
to locate to a state, you think of the workforce
that you have and the available talent and we're investing
heavily in that. You think about energy, the kind of

(31:48):
resources that are available to power up the manufacturing needs
that companies may have, but you also think of good roads,
you think of bridges, and you think of internet, and
the stronger we are in terms of the basics, the fundamentals,
that's how our economy is going to grow, and that's
been a big part of the focus of my administration,

(32:10):
getting the fundamentals in order to lift up the standard
of living and educational attainment. Of course, we're always going
to have the right incentives to help bring people in,
but it's hard to win with the strategy that's only
based on you know, we're going to try to spend
unlimited dollars on a particular company. You want to have

(32:30):
the right financial centives to compete to get people in,
but you also want to be able to say our
broadbands is good or better than any other state, our
energy costs are as good or better than any other state,
our workers are as good or better than any other state.
And our tax code is as good or better than
any other state. Our red tape cutting is better than

(32:51):
any other state. That's what we're finding is really selling
and we're thrilled about that, and this is an important
component of it.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Governor Patrick Morrissey joined us mentioned his talk line, Governor,
one more question here before I'll let you go a
little bit off topic, but I wanted to get your take.
Friend of the show Steven Allen Adams reporting that you
and your staff working on a tax reform package. Do
you have a timeline on when you're ready to release
that proposal and what it may look like.

Speaker 16 (33:20):
So we are working on something now. I'm a big
believer that we need to return more money back to
the hardworking people of our state. We also know that
there's some real need to get going quickly on some
of these pieces because the Big Beautiful Bill has a
number of provisions, and when we conform state laws with

(33:42):
federal laws, there are some real benefits for doing the
conforming changes and other tax cuts now. Whether that means
December or early January, but we'd like to get that
done as soon as possible. That way, there's a lot
of benefit to take advantage of that Big Beautiful Bill provisions.
So I think you're going to be hearing more about

(34:03):
things very very soon. We obviously have been talking with
various members of the legislature. But the big beautiful bill,
I think is accelerating the need to get a lot
of this done so that we're not leaving any money
on the table because of the way the federal law
is structured. So this is this very compelling public policy

(34:25):
component to this and to help more people out. But
we're working on things, having good conversations, and when we're
ready to roll it out, we'll definitely let you guys know.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
All right, look forward to taking a look at it
and talking about it in the not too distant future.
Governor congratulations on getting the BEAT application approval and also
look forward to the broadband expansion around the state. Appreciate
you stopping by.

Speaker 16 (34:49):
Thank you, guys, Appreciate.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
It absolutely, Governor Patrick Morrissey. You can read more on
the BEAT application approval over at the website wdvmetronews dot com.
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Yesterday was a busy sports day in the Mountain State.
W women's basketball beat Appalachian State yesterday morning. Marshall men
won yesterday on the court, and then men's soccer WV

(36:47):
one in a shootout or excuse me, overtime one in
overtime to advance in the NCAA Tournament. Marshall men's soccer
team one to advance to the second round. W women
lost in the second round to Georgetown. That was all yesterday.
Now we've got the high school football playoffs coming up
this weekend. Quarterfinal action today and tomorrow. The hardest working
man in sports media, Joe Bracado, will be on call

(37:11):
all weekend. He joins us on Metro News talk line Joe,
Good morning, Dave.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
When you get into the last show before vacation as
you currently are, is it kind of like having senior
isis in high school, where you're physically there but being
mentally focused as a bit of a challenge.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
You know, That's why I got you. I got Chris
Lawrence coming on in the next hour. You know, I
lean on my people, Joe's that's.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
A great company for me to be in.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I mentioned, by the way, just yesterday, yesterday busy day.
There was basketball in the morning, soccer in the afternoon,
basketball at night. All in one day. I had about
four sporting events there.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
Yeah, we're in the We've been in overlap season with
the fall and winter sports converging for a while now,
but this is kind of a super mega overlap season
within the season, if you will, because we've got some
pretty success soccer programs in the state, as you are
well aware.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Right, we'll get more into soccer at a later date
as both Mountaineers and Marshall. Moving on a round two,
let's talk high school football quarterfinals, Joe, let's start in
Class Quad A. What's the matchup that intrigues you the most.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
Probably the one I'll be at tonight with George Washington
and Jefferson. And we've got a couple of rematches in
Class Quade from the regular season Spring Mills Morgantown being
one of them. But GW and Jefferson played a great
game back in Week seven. It was a Saturday afternoon
game in Charleston, and Jefferson picked up what at the
time was their second win of the season, defeating GW

(38:36):
thirty four to thirty three. And Jefferson started the season
zero to four, but they have not lost since. They've
won their last seven games. They're taken on a George
Washington team that is actually making a multi day trip
out of it. They left Charleston yesterday and they're also
staying overnight. So the Patriots kind of going with a
college road trip vibe for this one in the hopes

(38:57):
of being able to boocus on my final spot.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah, that game is very intriguing. That win over George
Washington starts that run for Jefferson. I think George Washington
very good football team. That'll be an interesting to watch. Well,
I'll be watching it tonight because Morgantown could potentially get
the winner of that game. If the Mohigans ken beat
Spring Mills again, I think that'll be an interesting matchup.
Not because you know I'm on the call for that one.
I just think those two teams are very very good.

(39:21):
Class triple A Joe Robert C. Bird pulled the big
upset the fourteen beat three Fairmont Senior. It has to
go to Spring Valley to take on the Timberwolves tomorrow.
That's a tough place to go play.

Speaker 6 (39:34):
Yeah, if you go according to the seedings.

Speaker 9 (39:37):
Robert C.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
Bird pulled the biggest upset in round one, knocking off
the third seed in Fairmont Senior Polar Bears last week,
and Bird certainly does have a difficult challenge. It's a
long road trip to face the Spring Valley team that
is very strong at home, has a very powerful ground attack,
they won a defensive slug fest last week. He gets
Elkins thirteen to ten to move on to the quarter

(39:58):
final round. But and you know, I think that's maybe
one of the more unlikely matchups that we're seeing if
you were based off of what we expected going into
the playoffs. The other three matchups maybe ones that we
expected to see.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeah, Nitro ten and one North Marion ten and one
that'll be saucy out in Rachel.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
No question about it. And you got a couple of
teams that Nitro got to the quarterfinal round a year ago.
North Marion. If you go over the last five years,
I believe they've won eight postseason games. They're one of
the best teams in recent vintage of making long runs
through the postseason. Both teams at ten and one, and
and I think there's not a lot separating those two teams.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
All these four or five matchups really had me intrigued.
I mean, it's kind of makes sense, Joe. Those teams
are usually very closely aligned Class Double A. You got
undefeated Doddridge County at ten to one Independence the four
or five matchup again.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
Yeah, and the only loss for Independence was they lost
to an unbeaten Tria team in Princeton, So you can
make the argument that both of those teams by rights,
certainly in class are undefeated against their opponents receiving and
Dodders County is a team that they've had postseason success
in recent years. But this team may have the ability
to get back to the level that they achieved back

(41:13):
in twenty nineteen when they got to the state championship game. Certainly,
a great challenge awaits to whichever team gets out of
that quarter finals tonight next week in the Semis. But
Independence has been one of the top teams in the
state all year long. Had to kind of battle through
some injuries late in the season, but the Patriots were
able to defeat Lincoln in the opening round. So that's
gonna be a good one tonight in.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Cole City Class single. Who you watching?

Speaker 6 (41:37):
We got the rematch of last year's state title game
Cameron and Whammad, and that game will be played at
Point Pleasant High School. But of course Whama won a
very competitive state final a year ago. They've won twenty
five consecutive games to going back to last season, and
the game I'll be at tomorrow afternoon. East Hardy and
Pendleton County a couple of teams that met back in
Week two, Pendleton County won and East Hardy. Similar to Jefferson,

(41:58):
they lost their first three games to start the season,
but they play as good as a difficult, as tough
of a schedule as anybody in the state. So don't
be fooled about the six and five record. I think
there's a lot of confidence that He's Hardy can possibly
get back to the semi final round. And they had
a difficult opponent last week at Sherman and we're able
to pass that test. Penilton County has got a dynamic

(42:20):
offense in one of the state's top quarterbacks in Colton Robertson,
so it should be a good one tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Metter New Sports Joe Ricotta. Joe, when you're traveling all
over the state, you're getting a little tired, what's your
go to? Are you a black coffee guy? Do you
go for the iced coffee? What's your go to?

Speaker 6 (42:34):
See? This is not a first world problem type thing,
but it's very difficult if you're making the drive between
Charleston and Clarksburg to find good coffee. So that's a
little bit of a challenge. But I usually go with
the Sheep's iced coffee, which has not failed me yet.
That's always a good go.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
To the pilot in flat Woods. They claim to have
the strongest coffee on the interstate, and it hasn't let
me down in that trip between Charleston Clarksburg, and that's
about the only place.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
This sounds like something I need to investigate.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
If you're well, you won't have to go that way
to point pleasant. But next time you make that trip, Joe,
it's it's about the only place to stop in between
those two points. But just my recommendation, Joe, safe travels.
We look forward to the coverage. Of course, you will
be out, Greg Carey. I assume Tara Malone will be
out somewhere, So we'll have all kinds of coverage across
the state this weekend.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
Busy weekend, and know we've got some basketball too to
keep an eye on, and of course those WU and
men's soccer teams playing on Sunday in the second round
of the n C Doble A tournament.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
We'll have all the scores up over at the scoreboard
at wv metronews dot com. And of course Fred and
Dave will be along tonight with Metro News High School
game night after your local coverage. Joe Safe travels. Appreciate it, Buddy.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Thanks GeV.

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(49:03):
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good morning. Good to talk to you again, buddy, weirdos.

Speaker 9 (50:00):
How are we doing?

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Doing pretty well? The subject of coffee came up with
Joe Ricado just before the top of the hour. What
is the best? What is your go to? You're on deadline,
eyes are getting weary. What's your go to? Straight?

Speaker 16 (50:14):
Black?

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Yeah, come on, grow up, grow up, drink black coffee.
Become ungovernable if you can so. Bob Kelly, the Great
Bob Kelly, who was my mentor in the news business
in the afternoons, would have a cup of black coffee
out of the vending machine and a handful of peanuts
out of a kind of like gumball dispenser had full

(50:38):
of peanuts. When I was young, I was like gross,
And now I'm like, oh you were. You were taking
your power back because if you can, if you can
make it on medium, stale peanuts and black coffee. They can't.
They can't control you, they can't defeat you.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Chris Well, join us, Chris. There was some new polling
out this week, the generic for the generic congressional ballot,
but Democrats fourteen points ahead of Republicans. And if you
look back at previous generic polling data leading up to
a midterm, this bodes well for Democrats, doesn't it. I mean,
obviously it looks good, but this bodes well even when
you start to slotting candidates.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
You'd always like to be fifteen points ahead. That would
be good. Now that poll right now looks like it
might be an outlier, but the average is almost six
points right when you look across all the polls, and
that's significant. Democrats need to win. There is no national
popular vote for the House, but for Democrats to win

(51:39):
the House, they need to win about three points more
than Republicans nationally in order for that to shake out
to a majority of more than two hundred and eighteen seats.
Because Democrats for a lot of reasons, but one is
that Democrats are an urban and suburban party and Republicans

(51:59):
are rural and small town Republicans are spread out, but
how big the districts in West Virginia are so for
a variety of reasons, Democrats need to lead in the
generic ballot by a substantial number. Democrats have not led,
had not led in the generic ballot by a statistically
significant number since at least two thousand and four. And

(52:22):
then depending on how picky you are about your polls
and four twenty twenty four, and how picky you are
in your polls, you could take that back to twenty three.
And that's a very long way of saying right now,
Republicans are getting housed, They are getting they are the
Republican brand. And this is something I think that Republicans forgot.

(52:47):
They won in twenty four by not being the Democrats,
and they forgot that the people who voted, who were
voting against the Democrats and not for the Republicans, would
be just as happy to vote against the report Puplicans.
It's like somebody with when the TV is not working,
have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?
I don't want this, Okay, I don't want this. Back

(53:08):
and forth, click clack, Well.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
There's Chris. We just keep swinging the pendulum back and forth.
It feels like where one side says, well, the economy's
broke affordability, we need to fix it. Give us the
power American people, give them the power. That doesn't work.
We swing it back the other way. They don't do anything.
We keep just it just swings back and forth. Over
the last but at least two decades, it feels.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Like neither party wants to act like a majority party,
and there's a bunch of incentives for why they don't.
You obviously, are our terrible, terrible, terrible experiment in parties
in primary elections is a big part of that, because
the incentives are wrong. We have the wrong incentives for

(53:50):
members of Congress. But to be a majority party, a
lasting majority party, you have to take things away from
the other party. So take for example, tariffs. That was
a good issue for Democrats of working class voters. Republicans

(54:11):
took that issue and they're not quite unified on it,
but they have taken this issue and said we're going
to start a trade war, which when you talk about it,
it's popular. Once it's in place, it's not very popular
because the prices go up. But that's an example of
like how you build a bigger coalition, Think of Bill
Clinton doing welfare reform, right, like, Okay, I see you

(54:35):
have something that will help me. I'm going to take
it and make it part of my coalition. Donald Trump
represented a big move in that direction for Republicans, but
now there's no seam right the Republican Party. What's the
theme of the Republican Party in twenty twenty four, It
was the woke stuff is bad, inflation is high, Joe

(54:58):
Biden is a fossil. And it was good enough, right,
It was good enough for the first Republican win in
the national popular vote since two thousand and four. It
was good for a House majority. It was good to
have the Senate. But it's not good enough. And Democrats,

(55:19):
of course, are falling into a similar trap, which is
back to Orange man is bad, which will work, right,
it will continue to work because Trump is increasingly unpopular.
But once you get once the dog catches the car,
he can't drive.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Chris dyre Well joining us a news editor or politics
editor for the Hill and News Nation, host of The
Hill Sunday. James Abram Garfield Chris.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Heck yeah, brother, heck yeah, brother.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
You had me well, now I have a new show
I have to go watch on Netflix. By the way,
just based purely on your recommendation, But what can we
learn from the presidents that could have been or what
have been?

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I will say it is definitely the dirtiest show that
I've ever recommended this enthusiastically. It's it's filthy, but it
is wonderful. And I've been a big James Garfield fan
my whole even as a very young man, really appreciated

(56:22):
because it was the story of what might have been
very noble, very decent, very good, very patriotic man cut
down shots three months into his presidency, and it was
what could have been stories. But Nick Offerman stars in
this and it's based on the Candice Millard book Destiny
of the Republic, and Nick Offerman plays Chester Arthur, and

(56:44):
he plays Chester Arthur in a way that I had
not appreciated him in the past. Chester Arthur was a
corrupt person from the New York political gang who was
there as a nod to the spoil system. He was
in the vice presidency. The remarkable story of Chester Arthur, who,

(57:06):
after Garfield is killed by a deranged office seeker by
he's killed out of the fruits of this corrupt system
of the Gilded Age. And it wasn't that Chester Arthur
was bowing to political pressure. It was that Garfield had
showed the right way to be. And even Chester Arthur,

(57:28):
who had been so corrupt, acknowledged the power of Garfield's example.
And I think it's really important for us in this
time of widespread corruption, widespread distrust, and institutions brain dead partisanship,
and where when people talk about patriotism in a non
cynical way they get an eye roll. It is really

(57:48):
good for us to have examples not of perfect men.
Garfield was a nearly perfect kind of man. Chad Arthur
was a dirt bag, and he found patriotic gris and
decency to put love of country ahead of himself and
ahead of the interest of his party. And that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Is there anyone I know the answer to this question,
Is there anyone out there today who's willing to do that?

Speaker 3 (58:14):
There there are many people who are out there who
are who are willing to do that out there, and
they're all around us. If if you look right, if
you squint, take now, I don't know what's going to
happen with Marjorie Taylor Green on her current odyssey. But
there's a person who said it was the Epstein File

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seemed to kick it off, who said, I've had it.
This is ridiculous. I can't I can't stand aside and
let a bad thing happen because it's just because it
will hurt my party. So I'm going to do it.
I don't know. I'm not going to judge her motives,
but you see it. How about John Setterman in Pennsylvania.
Here's a guy who says, you know what, I'm a

(58:56):
Democrat and everything, but this is ridiculous. A lot of
this stuff is ridiculous, and he says it. It doesn't
make you right or good just to be contrary, but
it can point us in the direction of people who
love their country more than their party and more than
their own success and enrichment.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
I think I saw I think it was Joe Manchin
may have tweeted earlier this week, either he said it
and somebody tweeted, or maybe Mantion tweeted. The easiest vote
in Congress or the Senate of the House is a
no vote because it's easy to be an instructionist. You
don't have to go back and explain yourself, and you
don't really have to be accountable for anything. It's the
easiest vote to just get in the way, and that

(59:33):
seems to be the political strategy on both sides, just just.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Get in the waysiest. The easiest vote is to be
part of the herd. Right, the easiest vote is to
say what are we doing on this? And we'll all
jump together. And Andrew Jackson said that one man with
courage makes a majority. And it's not always true, but
it's sometimes true. Right, It's sometimes true that when a

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person says something outd and well, I guess the simple
way to say it is we innately, instinctually admire courage,
and when people do things that are risk to themselves,
we admire it. And when somebody is willing to do
something and it costs them, we are more willing to

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listen to them and hear from them. And what we
need are more people in public life with courage. We
need more people in public life who say, you know what,
I know that it would be in my narrow interest
to vote yes or to vote no, or to obtain
or to miss that vote or whatever. You know, you're
not going to escape this conversation without a Calvin Coolidge quote,

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and the Calvin Coolidge line that I love in this
is I have never had a political strategy except to
try to do the right thing and to sometimes succeed.
Nobody knows what really works. So you ought to do
what you want to do. You ought to do what
you think is right. Get in there, rip it and
rip it and see what happens. And the worst thing

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they can do is not reelect you. And that's okay.

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He's Chris diar Walty as Politics editor for The Hill
and News Nation, host of The Hill Sunday on News Nation,
Senior Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, and of course,
best selling author. Chris, you know the best part of
this show is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
In my opinion, you're going to say steam relief.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Well, actually, I'm going to go from Chris Diarwalt talking
about James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge to Chris Lawrence
and we're going to talk deer hunting on the other
side of this break. That's the best part of this show,
A buddy, the wide range.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
We cover Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, Chris, and
we'll catch up soon. Buddy. Thanks Chris Lawrence. On the
other side of the break, deer season starts Monday. Back
in a moment.

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Eight hundred seven to sixty five Talk eight hundred seven
sixty five, eight two, five, five and three or four
talk three oh four Chris Lawrence joining us from the
studios in Charleston. Monday, unofficial holiday in West Virginia at
the start of bucks season. Hunters, it's headed to the woods. Well,
headed to the cabins.

Speaker 21 (01:03:20):
Hey, Chris, it's actually the official holiday. The rest of
them are unofficial.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
All right. I've been listening, Chris, listen to out West
Virginia Outdoors on Saturdays, the Outdoors segments through the week.
Here's what I've learned from you this couple of weeks, Chris,
that I'm taking to the woods with me. Ay, there's
a whole lot of acrons around, so dear aren't moving
all that much. And for me personally in Midehio Valley,
it's been hit by the EHD and that's had some impact,

(01:03:46):
although it varies, I guess on where you are in
what county you're in, but those will have some impacts
as hunters go out to try to find the big
one this Monday.

Speaker 21 (01:03:54):
Yeah, the the EHD impact is is pretty widespread over there,
although the dn R will tell you they didn't get
all of the deer that in localized areas. It will
probably the harvest is going to be down, but they
said that likely is because of folks like you who go, well,
there's no deer, I'm not going to hunt there, and
so they're thinking that participation will drive it down even

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further than the EHD would have. But you're exactly right,
that's probably going to have an impact. As for the
mask conditions, you might hear the mask did very well,
so the ever got plenty to eat. That's not necessarily
a good thing for hunters because if they have plenty
to eat, that means they don't need to move very
far to find something to eat, and they're just going
to stay put. So unless you're hunting a flat of

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oak trees, you're probably going to struggle to see very many.
If you hunt, like a lot of people I know,
hunt the edge of the field, that's probably not where
they're going to be eating.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
This year, Chris. For the state economically, I mean, this
is a big week not only for the guys those
of us who live here in the state, but there
are people who will come in from a high Pennsylvania, Virginia,
over from Kentucky. This this draws people in annually.

Speaker 21 (01:05:04):
Yeah, I think I think it's a pretty much a
billion dollar industry that it brings into West Virginia. I
don't have those figures in front of me, but but yes,
it is a huge economic driver to the state, particularly
in places that don't necessarily get very many economic bumps
throughout the year because this happens in rural locations. But
a lot of those small businesses in the rural counties

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get a lot of business from hunters who come in
here to camp and buy gas and to eat and
so forth. So that's yes, it represents a huge economic
boom for those areas.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Chris Deersey obviously deer seasons about you know, getting the
big rack, filling the freezer, maybe putting something up on
the wall. But man, when I think about it, I'm
sure you do too, and everybody else listening. That almost
becomes secondary. You start to think about spending time out
at the cabin, spending time with granddad patpall. You know,

(01:05:59):
the hunts that didn't go so well, the time you
left your gun on the bumper and fell asleep in
the truck. All of those stories come back to mine,
and really, yes, it's fun to kill a wallhanger. Yes
the tenderloin is delicious later in December, but man, are
those are irreplaceable, and that is what I think about.

Speaker 21 (01:06:17):
Yeah, you're exactly right. The exchange of stories that have
lived in legend of your hunting camp will go on
for many generations to come. You'll still be telling stories
about Granddad, who's long since died, but we're still going
to bout laugh about the time that you know, he
was in the outhouse and the buck was standing right
behind the hot house and he had no idea. So

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things like that get told and retold, and it's one
of the joys of hunting season for sure. I'm pretty
excited because I'm going to get some time to spend
next week with my brother, who I never get to
spend much time with, and one of my sons is
going with me as well, so that'll be a lot
of fun, and honestly, that's what I'm looking forward to
more than the hunting itself. I have not scouted a

(01:07:01):
lick on the farm back home. I kind of know
that place by the like the back of my hand,
and they're either going to be there or they're not
going to be, so that there's not much I can
do about it. If there, if they're on the neighbor's property.
So that's that's kind of what I look forward to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
By the way, the deer was actually in front of
the outhouse in full view. Is the way that story
goes on our family legend. My palpal he would stay
back at the cabin in the later years, he would
go out walk a little bit, but he would make dinner.
He'd make dinner for you. So when the sun would
start going out, we had a there is a dinner bell.
He would go out ring the dinner bell. You could

(01:07:34):
hear it. It would just ring across the hallers and
that was your signal dinner was ready. It's time to
come in, and he expected you to come in and
have dinner.

Speaker 21 (01:07:43):
I understand. My dad did the cooking too at our
deer camp. But after a while we got to where
they were actually deer on our farm. When I was
growing up, there were no deer on our farm. So
we'd have to go up into the middle part of Virginia,
or as we said growing up up there on the
West Virginia border, because that's where all the deer were.
We would go up to one of the like Bland
County or With County, or somewhere up in there, and

(01:08:04):
we would hunt there. But as we got older, there
were enough deer at home that you really need to
go anywhere. So Dad started hunting and had him a
tree stand in the woods of our own farm and
killed a few deer there. But the funny thing was,
I remember going home one time and the season had
already opened, and I'm walking down the trail toward where

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he hunts, and he's sitting up in his tree. And
as he got older, he had hearing problems, and he's
got Rush Limbaugh cranked up listening to Rush during while
he's hunting. It didn't matter if he was if he
was going hunting, he wasn't gonna miss Limbaugh. So I
hear Rush Limbaugh coming up the holler as I'm walking down,
and I'm just grinned to myself, like, man, you ain't

(01:08:46):
gonna kill no deer with that radio turned up that high.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
How about twenty seconds, Chris, I assume this is what
you're talking about. Tomorrow tomorrow morning.

Speaker 21 (01:08:53):
Yeah, we'll have a representative on from the Natural Resources
Police and we'll focus mainly on game laws and thanks
to keep in mind and what those conservation officers or
Natural Resources Police do when the season opens.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Happy hunting Chris, you too, Bud talk a lot of
mention is the voice of West Virginia. It's eleven thirty
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Speaker 21 (01:09:18):
West Virginia Metro and News.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
I'm Chris Lawrence.

Speaker 21 (01:09:21):
US Senator Shelley Moore Capital says the state's application for
a substantial federal funding for broadband expansion on the BAD
program has been approved. The senator says it means the
state will be a step closer to connecting its homes, businesses,
and classrooms across the state. State Broadband Officer Kelly Workman
said earlier this week that she was confident in the
state's proposal.

Speaker 8 (01:09:41):
Looking forward, you know, to securing that approval.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
Soon.

Speaker 21 (01:09:48):
Governor Patrick Morrissey spoke about the BAD announcement and a
press conference earlier today. Now the Governor has another announcement
at noon today from the Capitol, and then the same
afternoon we'll cut the ribbon on the new Apple Grove
Sewit's treatment planned Mason County near New or Steel. That'll
be a two. A settlement is on the table for
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Speaker 14 (01:10:04):
Police mediation is likely complete for a wide ranging case
against the West Virginia State Police stemming from the discovery
of a hidden camera inside the women's locker room area
at the State Police Academy and Institute. During a scheduling
and status hearing before Judge Kenneth Ballard on Thursday, attorneys
stated that a quote mediator's proposal was delivered to both
parties on Wednesday and is currently under consideration by both

(01:10:26):
the defense and plaintiffs. More than eighty women are suing
the state Police in connection with the hidden camera, and
several trials were scheduled for twenty twenty six. During the hearing,
Judge Ballard ruled in September that the policy limits for
the State Board of Risk and Insurance Management could reach
up to one million dollars for each plaintiff. I'm Daniel
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Fay County Sheriff's Deputy say a man is in custody
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found in the Golli Bridge community earlier this summer. Fay
County Sheriff Jess mcmullins is forty two year old Calvin
Lee Foster has been charged with concealment of a deceased
human body and drug delivery resulting in death failure to
render aid. McMullan said they were able to link the
person found dead into Foster at a Nicholas County residence

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in the hours before the body was left in a
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I'm Chris Lawrence.

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Mention his talk line from the Encova Insurance Studios. We've
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secret to deer hunting. The more beer I drink, the
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eight two five five the phone number. What's the name
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(01:17:38):
the Deer season discussion. It sounds like an interesting show.
I just missed that part of the discussion. Editor's note,
It's on Netflix, and make sure I get it correct here.
It is called Death by Lightning. It's on Netflix. Death
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Robert Day, Good morning, Hope you're doing well.

Speaker 22 (01:18:08):
The less than twelve hours after the Democrats lost the
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Trump and that was a big fail. And yesterday they
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if at all, at that time in history. How about
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is due to no income taxes, but he asked for
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Last call for phone calls eight hundred and seven sixty five,
eight hundred and seven sixty five eight two five five,
Text your steam two three oh four talk three oh four.
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is sixty million, So go ahead, play today. Back to
the text, teams texter says, I'm so sick of the
media and the Democrats crying about every single thing President
Trump does. It's really getting old. Should the Democrats win
the House mid terms, their agenda will be impeach, complain, impeach, cry, impeach,
conspiracy theories, impeach and peach, impeach. I would say something

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about the video producer, but you said I can't, so
there I won't. Now I'm steamed, says the texter. I'm steamed.
Signed Rice, well done, well done. I got so much team,
I'm ready to explode. But money won't make it any better.
Hopefully spreading a little happiness will. Good luck and safety

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to all hunters next week, and Dave, hope you kill
a record to everyone else, Happy Thanksgiving, safe travels to
everyone enjoy time with family. You can also do positive steams,
just as the Texter did three oh four Talk three
oh four, my steam. Who is going to pay for
issuing a lawyer to each person in the military to
tell them when the crap hits the fan? What's illegal?

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Did we recently witness thirteen flag draped Coffin's return because
of such military and political paralysis from Aaron from Air
a adult stand up comedy in Magic with Bo Vance
and Joey Stepp at the Albin Theater in Saint Albans
eight pm tonight. These guys do a great show. Uh.

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Texter says, thanks for the reply, Good luck with the
hunt next week. I'll be looking forward to hearing more
deer stories whatever. Here's hoping we have some h And
by the way, I'll say it again just in case
you missed it, because several of you have asked. Stywalt
and I were talking about the Netflix series. It's I
think it's four episodes, Death by Lightning. Check it out

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three or four Talk three or four, my steam. I
am tired of the president not acting like a president.
Language to women is appalling. His ignoring of the Constitution
drives me nuts. He needs to stop being a bully
and act like a president. Three or four Talk three
or four eight hundred seven to sixty five Talk eight
hundred seven to sixty five eight two five five. That's

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the phone number and the text line to the guy
who called hunting culture stupid. Don't worry, little buddy. Society
needs boys like you to mend dresses, cook dinner for
your boss wife, and do the shopping all less real
men enjoy the outdoors three or four Talk three or four.
When minimum wages are less than thirty percent of what

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is considered a living wage in West Virginia, socialism looks
attractive to struggling people. The cost of living has to
be reduced to save our democracy. Text team three or
four Talk three or four Steam the CDC change their
statement on infant vaccines and association to autism. The new
panel of doctors and scientists are not paid for by

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pharma and have zero to gain from looking at actual science.
No coverage from you guys, Why not? Could the DOH
please get a new traffic light engineer. Route one nineteen
coming from Charleston is a nightmare until Oakwood Road Republicans
three Peas Party, I Heart Putin will pardon every and

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all scumbags. I heart pedophiles, including my cult leader who
is the deep state, drain the swamp Party. Now, oops,
shouldn't say this, but Republicans Uh, nope, Yeah, you're right.
You shouldn't say that, and I can't say that back
to the guidelines. Please don't get me sued and or
fired three or four to three O four. If the

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taxpayer is upset about bailing out Florida, wait till he
finds out about that Minnesota has been funneling billions of
dollars back to Somalia to fund terrorism using autism and
federal food dollars. Look it up. Sad Republicans don't know
what sedition means and they want to do away with
the Education Department. What exactly are the illegal orders being given?

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If you play Barry Manilo brings in the ten points,
says the Texter had no idea this Texas For TJ,
who's off today? What did you learn yesterday about being
over enthusiastic about a sudden huge rise in the stock market?
Since it went way down just as quickly in the afternoon.
Many who have obeyed unlawful art orders have gone to prison.

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How is it that Trump can be commander in chief?
He's a disgrace to the office. Dave, Where were all
the reporters who demanded demanded answers from Trump when Biden
was president? That seems partisan to me as to keep
the American people in the dark on what was going
on with his policies. I'd rather have a president get
out there in front of them, at least I know

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what he's thinking. This texter says Happy Thanksgiving and sends
along the Seinfeld gift of when Newman thought Kramer was
a Turkey steam Dave and TJ. The high speed Internet
is all well and good, but both federal and state
governments need to do more on the homeless students and
building them student housing and life skills to get them

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out on their own a hand up, not not sweep
it under the rug. Do better. Also address the CPS problem.
When you are steamed, just remember Jesus loves you. The
Ohio State University football team rules, says the texter. Trump
looks sick like he might be Trump looks sick like

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he might be choking on the asbestos from the East
Wing demolition. I've been real close to getting a buck
with my car, says the Texter. Communism. We don't need
no stinking communism. Are you shadow banning Donald? Let the
people hear him, says the Texter. Three or four talk

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three four, Please give us an example of an illegal
order from the president. All right, coming up this weekend,
you got high school football quarter final action games tonight
and tomorrow. We've got the schedule posted for you right
now over at the website WV Metro News. We will
have coverage from games around the state. We'll have all
of the scores from games tonight, preview of games tomorrow

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when Fred Persinger and Dave Jecklin we'll be with you
on Metro News high School game Night tonight after your
local coverage here on the Metro News radio network. They'll
be in this very studio later on this evening, starting
nine to thirty Tonight's that mysterious nine to thirty segment
and going until midnight. Of course, games tomorrow as well.
We'll have scores, we'll have highlights, we have pictures, the

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whole nine yards recaps all over at the website Wdvmetronews
dot com. Have a happy Thanksgiving. I'll be out all
next week. TJ. Will be in Give him your undivided attention.
Talk to you later. Talklin on Metro News, the voice
of West Virginia,