Talkline | Nov. 7, 2025

Was the Omnis $50 million EDA loan a good deal? Former Senate President Craig Blair discusses. Joe Brocato sets up the final week of HS football. Chris Stirewalt weighs in on the politics of the day. Plus, STEAM RELEASE!!!

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Speaker 5 (01:58):
Good thing we can drive to Beckley's the moving we
don't have to fly.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
When I was talking to Stirewallt earlier this week, we
tried to get him a couple of times, thought, man,
maybe we can squeeze him on talking about the elections.
He was taking the train from DC to New York,
which I know a lot of people do, but smart
man to try to avoid airports.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yeah. Oh I actually I used to do that quite
a bit, jump between New York, Philly and Washington for work.
I love the Asella work on the train. Nice. Stirewalt's
probably up in first class too.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know, well, you know it. You know he's not
back with us commoners. Yeah no, no, no, sir, not Chris.
He gets his WiFi free. I had to pay for
my he'll join us coming up eleven oh six. Lot
to jump into with Chris this morning, Tej and I
will get into the school consolidation issue again. Last night
Rome County Schools voting on the consolidation. There the Board

(02:49):
of Education voting for consolidation. We'll get into that discussion
and coming up just a bit. I believe Barber County
has a vote next week, and there are other school
closures being considerabile dive into that about ten minutes from now,
so follow me here. This takes just a second to
set up. Last year, Michelle Christian fought a lawsuit federal
lawsuit against Omnius Energy, claiming the Omnis companies committed sexual

(03:13):
and religious discrimination against her when she served as a
company executive. Now, there was an amended filing in that
case submitted last week, and that filing there's information there
that made some folks eyebrows rays a little bit. It
makes detailed accusations that the owner of the company misled
state officials in his pursuit for funding, including that fifty

(03:35):
million dollars forgivable loan Omnius received from the West Virginia
Economic Development Authority. Now Omnus purchased the Pleasants Power Station
up in Pleasants County with the hopes of retro fitting
that plant with new technology that would convert that to
a hydrogen plant. But was it all smoking mirrors? Were

(03:55):
the owners of OMNIS misrepresenting financial backing, misrepresents where that
technology was in pursuit of all this funding and state dollars. Well,
Craig Blair, his former State Senate president, was serving in
the center when OMNIS officials were making their pitches and
we're granted that loan from the Economic Development Authority and
he joins us on Metro News talk Line this morning. Craig,

(04:17):
good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Good morning, Dave TJ. Thank you for having me on. Hey,
before we get gone here, I want to actually make
sure that you understand something. I'm going to do it
a little disclaimer here. I'll tell you what I know.
I'll probably give opinion along with that, but if I
don't know something not aware of it, I'm going to
say that also. And so now we can have the

(04:40):
conversation on this. And by the way, that's a smart
reports read like a divorce really does.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Let's just start here, Craig did West Virginia get snoockered
on this deal.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Look, it's still too early to tell on that. My
bet is no to be snook it. You'd actually have
to lose money on the deal. And right now I
would argue that the state of West Virginia hasn't done that.
Let's go back in time a little bit. West Virginia
passed a piece of legislation that made it so that

(05:15):
you couldn't close any of the coal fire plower pants
and that passed, but First Energy had actually commissioned a
company to off for about twenty five million dollars to
be able to bring that plant down, tear it down
and bring it back to original contour and clean up
the site. But then they couldn't do that, so they

(05:38):
were losing money because of the law. They actually came
to my office and was asking me to repeal it,
and I printed out the roll calls and I slid
it over to him. I said, let's look at this,
and I said, it's going to be impossible to repeal
this because it was overwhelmingly supported. And I told him,

(05:59):
I said, Gods, if I was you, i'd be looking
at a way to actually sell it. And I said,
are there any potentials for being able to do that,
and they go, well, mompire possibly, And I said, are
there any others? And then they told me that Omnus.
I said, well, if I was you guys, I just
off lay days. Now that's exactly what they did. Omnis

(06:21):
ended up buying it. And look, it's the first time,
my understanding is in history that we've taken a coal
plant that was actually shut down, brought it back, restoring
the one hundred and fifty good paying jobs us there,
and they're generating electricity with coal. Now, I've also been

(06:42):
to that site and toward it, and I had questions
about it because you know, for this conversation, there's three
states of matter, and you got, you know, a solid
liquid and a gas. And I was curious on how
you actually strip hydrogen off of coal and turn it

(07:06):
into a gas or liquid that can be used to
generate electricity, and the byproducts being graphite and rare earth minerals. Well,
you know, that's very, very appeeling, but three thousand degrees celsius,
that's a high temperature and the only way that you're
going to be able to control that is with ceramics.

(07:28):
But then I got told something that really piqued my interest,
and that was they used a pulse technology to where
the temperature was real high and it dropped down and
you were able to control that. And if you remember right,
Newcore has invested into a company that's doing fusion and
they're doing exactly the same thing of a pulse fusion,

(07:52):
and that makes it say that you can actually do
a better job of controlling the temperatures to be able
to do that. But look at the opportunity, the game
changer that could come from this plant that revitalizes the
co industry and makes it say that it's not a
disrupted industry and you're producing clean energy with hygen stripped

(08:16):
from coal, and then you're getting graphite, which is the
twenty first century of commodity, of for manufacturing for all
the different things. And then the rare earth we don't
need to even talk about that. Rare earth is at
the front of everybody's conversation of in the last six

(08:36):
months to year, maybe even longer than that. But China
was into it back in the early nineteen nineties. I've
talked a lot there. Let me have one last thing,
and that is is that even if the fifty million
dollars would evaporate. These are taxpayer dollars. But we've done

(08:58):
something when I was in office, and that is is
that we took and reduced taxes on the people West
Virginia by a third. We put a third of it
in savings, and then we did another third investment. And
you make no mistake about this. The coal industry and
the fossil fuel through seven tax alone has generated those taxes,

(09:19):
and so this is a reinvestment to being able to
make sure that we could keep that industry thriving in
West Virginia. It's an asset, and this is totally different.
It's not like we're trying to convert coal into diesel fuel.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
All right, So a lot to unpack there, Craig, like
you talked about. Yes, but let's go. Let's go with this,
I'm told and I'm wondering if you can confirm that
I'm still has at least a couple of years left
before they have to produce certain results, tangible results per
the deal. Is that the case? Do they still have
a runway or have they passed that?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
No, No, they still have a runway. And I'm not
a exactly sure what it is. I thought that run
Rowy ran through twenty twenty six, but there are certain
metrics that have to be met for it to become
a forgivable line. I can't remember what those metrics are
that was taken care of in the development office, but

(10:18):
they're up there and they are still producing energy and
working on getting this and I've I'm hoping and I'm
vetting one I would bet on that they are going
to produce the results that are necessary. That's my gut.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Former Center of President Craig Blair is joining us here
on Metro News talk line. How was it? Do you
know how the company was vetted and the decision was
ultimately made to grant this fifty million dollar loan from
the DA.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
That's a tough one for me to answer because I
didn't deal with the EDA a whole lot. But they
did go through a vetting process to get there. But
you have to keep in mind that, you know, the
governor of give them Justice at the time, I believe
was supportive of the I know he was. He was
supportive of what was going on. But look, I've sat

(11:17):
in meetings before and again I had reservations about technology
and how to be able to go about doing this.
But I can't tell you a whole lot about the vetting.
That doesn't that took place on that. One thing that
I will tell you this though, and it came from this,

(11:40):
is why Ohio has this organization that's called Jobs Ohio
and West Virginia needs to get the politics out of
the investment in what we do by creating a Jobs
West Virginia. We were actually working on doing that in
my final year as the Senate President, to be able

(12:02):
to get something like that across the finish nine because
it would pay huge dividends for being able to take
have the private sector come in, do the vetting, do
the things that need to be done to be able
to qualify them. Then you bring them to the state
agencies to be able to work it out. There is
a real potential for that that still needs to be

(12:22):
done if we want to get out of these quandaries
like what we're talking about here.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
But Job's Ohio and I agree it's a fabulous program.
I mean, look, Craig, they've stolen some business from us,
they moved people across the river recently within the last year.
But what makes them successful is their independence. They don't
have a bunch of legislators looking over their shoulder, their
quasi independent. I guess you should say there's some oversight,
but not that much. That's what I just don't know
that you get that done here in West Virginia if

(12:48):
I'm being honest.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah, yes, you can certainly get it done here. And
how they did it in Ohi. And by the way,
that was a great commercial that you just played for
job to Hire. What you need to do is we
need to identify a funding stores source and do just

(13:09):
like O Hi I did. Their liquor industry was in
a train wreck situation and they take and created jobs
hide and inside a job behind the liquor. The high
actually pays jobs high to manage the liquor industry over there,
and there's an efficiency there. We could do something like

(13:29):
that in the West Virginia to be able to give
them a revenue stream to be able to go in
and to attract those businesses. And keep in mind, there
is nothing wrong with having partnerships with our surrounding states
because lots of times economic development happens regionally, and so
that it makes it so that you've got this ability

(13:49):
to have a partnership to be able to get things
across the finish line. So I'm sorry if I'm sitting
here pitching jobs West Virginia at the same time, but
that it is some thing that really really needs to
be followed through with and get across the finish line
for West Virginia to get us out quanders like what
we're dealing with here. But I'm still betting on Ominous.

(14:10):
I'd still put money on omnans is going to come
across the finish line and we're going to see a
technology that's going to take place that will actually move
out of way past the perimeters of West Virginia's borders
and have opportunities that doesn't disrupt. Imagine the coal industry

(14:31):
and how they put it's not just the jobs that
are bringing the coal out of the ground, but the equipment,
manufacturing and all the different resources to go along with
that that if you shut it down, it is devastating
to the economies of given areas. This is the ability

(14:53):
to place a fifty million dollar bet and bring back
those the opportunities and have coal fired plants that are
burning clean energy.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
So Craig, let me jump in on that. We're up
against the clock. A bit, But let me jump in
on it. You just talked about fifty million dollar bet.
I've been railing lately about government picking winners and losers.
Sell the public on why West Virginia, as constrained as
we are, the challenges we have, should we be making
fifty million dollar bets.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well, okay, the first of all that we're not really constrained.
We are in better shape than we've ever been in
our life. The Rainy Day Fund has one point four
billion dollars in it. There's another five hundred million dollars
setting into the Personal Income Tax Reserve Fund. We have
reduced taxes on the people of West Virginia thirty percent,

(15:40):
while we gave out pay raises for five out of
six years of five percent to the state employees. But
you have to invest in yourself. We don't have a
job's West Virginia or our job so high. What we
do have, though, is the infrastructure of the past. We
need to be able to have the foresight into the future,
to be able to utilize some of our resources, to

(16:03):
bake bets into the future, to give job opportunities. Because
that's exactly what Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia are doing,
and we cannot afford to set and wait and hope
for something to come to West Virginia. You have to
be in the game and playing it or you're not
going to win anything at all, and we'll continue to

(16:25):
decline like we were. At least we've been on the
upswing here in the past or in the recent past.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Former State Senate President Craig Blair. Craig, good to catch up,
Good to talk to you again, buddy, Appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Hey, it's a pleasure and I probably won't ever be
back on here between the end of the year. But
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to everybody. This is a
wonderful state and I love.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
It, Craig.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
That's my first Merry Christmas so this season. Thanks Craig.
Appreciate about it. Take care all right, you two, buddy
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Speaker 1 (18:19):
All right, got a couple of minutes here. We will
get into school consolidation, but looks like it's going to
be pushed back just a little bit. Got a couple
of minutes here TJ A couple of thoughts after that
conversation with Craig Blair. I hope he's right. I hope
Omnis is able to take this concept and turn it
into industrial scale and that brings in new jobs and

(18:41):
new life blood, especially to that local economy in Pleasant's
County where I'm from, that's my hometown. However, I am
much more pessimistic about that from anecdotal evidence of some
of the claims that I have heard, and I don't
want to put anything out there publicly, but look, I
have heard stories from people who work there, who have

(19:03):
worked there, and look, Omnos was delinquent in paying or
quantum Pleasants, whatever the name of the subsidiary era. They
were delinquent in paying property taxes in Pleasants County, to
the point where it was getting noticed in the local paper,
to the point where people started asking questions and eventually
they paid up.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
But I.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Don't see a thriving business there at the moment. And
you drive up and down Route two, more often than not,
you're not going to see anything coming out of those
cooling towers or those smoke stacks. And that means what
they're not producing any power.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
I am not.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
As optimistic as Craig Blair about the future of that facility.
That's all.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
I don't know what their capacity payments are. I don't
know what they're getting paid for that. I don't know
how much energy they're producing. It's an uphill battle. Two things.
I was told the runway was closer to two more years.
I'll have to check on that. That may or may not be.
If that's the case, you got to give them time
to perform if you agreed to it. Two, I don't
know what the specifics of the deal are. I mean,
if there's any kind of ip upside for the state

(20:01):
here or anything beyond just fifty million dollars for the plants,
et cetera. You know, the specifics of the deal will
warrant how good it was and what kind of upside
that you really have. I'm not privy to that. Two
or three. This is what happens when you make bets.
And I don't mean that pejoratively. You have some winners
new Core, you got a lot of losers, but you

(20:21):
need the one big winner. It's just the way the
game is done in portfolio, and people are going to
take your losers. They're going to judge you very hard
on your losers and not judge you so fairly on
your your winners. So we'll see what happens. I think personally, Dave,
as I read this, he talked about he hit it.
It reads like a divorce. I think it's more personal

(20:42):
than business.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
But that's me.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I think. I'll add fourth that at the end of
the day, we will have delayed the inevitable. And what
that is is that plant goes away and that site
is redeveloped for something else. We'll just have delayed that
five or ten years. That's all.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
It's a concept I think. I don't think it's to
run long term. I think it's a concept to be
able to commercialize elsewhere. That's why I say, do we
have upside in the deal in terms of ip oor
first right of refusal on new plants. I don't know.
I'd have to get the specifics three or.

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(21:33):
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Last night, Rohan County School Board voting to close two
of their elementary and middle schools. Board members voted four
to one to close Geary Elementary Middle School Walton Elementary
Middle School. We'll get into that discussion coming up in
just a moment. Dave Wilson TJ Meadows here and Jake
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he would never lie to us live radio. All right, Jake,
were we good? We ready? Jake actually can't talk to me.
I just realized. Three or four. Three or four is
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There.

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I haven't seen her yet. Take a chance, Christy, Are
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Speaker 3 (26:19):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Apparently not all right?

Speaker 5 (26:21):
Well, I'm sure it has something to do with the
government shutdown somewhere, you know what.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Let's blame the shutdown. In the meantime, Back to Rome
County schools. The vote comes after the County super the
county experienced significant decrease in student enrollment and placed under
a state of emergency. I wrote about consolidation this week.
You wrote about it this morning to Jay, and then
you looked at the data and unfortunately, the data is
just undeniable.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
It's undeniable when you take a look at what the
board faced last night. This is just a small snapshot,
Dave of what they're dealing with. Population has fallen more
than ten percent since the year two thousand in Rome County.
Projection show another two to three percent decline by twenty
twenty eight, minus some kind of reversal. The county sixty
five plus population grown by nearly forty three percent forty

(27:10):
three percent one in five, one in five residents live
in poverty. What can you do? Population density? I've harped
done that a lot lately. Twenty nine people per square mile.
Simply no way to operate that school system and continue
to maintain the amount of schools you have, given the
declining resources that you have to manage them.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
And you know when it comes to consolidations, teach you.
I do think this sounds a little bit crazy, but
your local school is worth fighting for, and it may
not make business sense, but it is worth the fight.
It is worth the investment. Here comes to however, however,
you also cannot strictly rely on the state to provide

(27:56):
that funding. You can also not expect a state aided
four emula change or adaptation to be the cure all
and you pointed that out very well. That's when it
comes down to bond levees, excess levees. Are is it
that important to your local county to support that so
that you have a small elementary school in your hometown,

(28:20):
so that you have more rural schools that are closer
to smaller population. If that's important, you can put that
to the voters.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
And ask absolutely. And I listened to the meeting last night,
and the treasurer of the school system made outstanding points,
and I thought of your piece. When she said this,
she said, if we were talking about a couple hundred
thousand dollars or even up to a million dollars in deficit,
I think we can figure out how to do that.
But when she ran the performance and she looks they're

(28:53):
facing a three million dollar deficit coming up in the
next round by the end of the year. But as
she forecasts out deficit after deficit after deficit that are
just too large to overcome. And to her point and
your point, they don't have an excess levy, right, what
are you gonna do? And just to add on to

(29:13):
the pile, and a lot of this also you factor
in the age of facilities, buildings that were all built
around the same time. They're all getting old, they all
are out of date, they all need updating. When you're
talking about building a building in this part of the
county and another one that part of the county, another
one in that part of the county, that's when the
numbers really start to add up. And then you have

(29:33):
to go to the School Building Authority, which had what
one hundred and seventy one million dollars in requests and
forty three million dollars to dole out this year.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, that the numbers are just stacked against you. I
hate it. I hate to see school clo clothes. I
hate to see them consolidate. I'd hate to see a kid.
I'd hate to have my kid on a bus for
an hour. But I don't know how you escape those realities,
given the demographics, given the the financial situation of many.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
Of these districts, and these are all symptoms of much
larger economic problems. And the board could have taken the
easy way out last night, Dave. They could have voted
to buck this. They're already under emergency status from the
state Department of Education. It would have kicked up eventually
to the Board of Education at the state level, and

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then you don't have a seat at the table. So
I think it was very smart last night, very courageous
for them to do what they needed to do vote
yes on this not popular at all. Parents were there
last night pleading for another way, fight Charleston, fight them
on the school aid formula. I get the passion, but
leadership is tough. They did the right thing last night
by voting yes on the plan, and now they can

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continue to have a seat at the table as they
frame their future, rather than having Charleston tell them exactly
what they will do.

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Speaker 5 (33:52):
It's grant. Did this come up in your research? I
was going to ask her about this. Read a piece
talking about Don King was kind of on the fence
with her, made her shadow box in his office in
order to prove herself.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Did you read that?

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I did? There was a documentary. Netflix did a documentary
Untold to deal with the devil on her life story.
I think it was twenty one two something like that.
So and that's still available if you want to go
watch that and get the documentary there. But fascinating career,
fascinating life, and I was looking forward to that. But again,

(34:27):
technology it's great until it's not. You know, it still
works old fashioned phones. Joe Ricotto joins us On'm not
sure his talk line this morning. Good morning, Joe.

Speaker 13 (34:38):
I acknowledge that it's a big letdown that everybody was
hoping to hear from Christy Martin, and yet here I am.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Yeah, he really sold you there, didn't he?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Joe did not intend that. Joe, you're the hardest working
man in sports media.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
I'm just grateful.

Speaker 13 (34:54):
I'm just grateful you had me on before Chris Stirewall
because he's a very, very difficult act to follow and
really only Steam release can do that.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Well, if you would like to dive into the Federalist
papers or you know, talk about James Madison for a
few months, well, not that James Madison coming to Huntington,
by the way, I would.

Speaker 13 (35:12):
Say, that would be in my lane. I could take
care of that.

Speaker 16 (35:15):
Not as good as you.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
But they're good. There's my quick analysis, Joe. They're good
coming to Huntington tomorrow. All right, let's talk some high
school football final week of the regular season, Joe. Which
games do we need to keep an eye on for
teams who might be playing for their playoff lives tonight,
might be playing for home field advantage.

Speaker 13 (35:33):
Well, let me start with a game that probably you
have your particular eye on, and it's a Class A
matchup between Wark County and Saint Mary's. Right now, Wark
County is number nine in the SA Stacy playoff waitings
in Saint Mary's is number eight, so this likely gives
home field to the winner at least in the first
round of the playoffs, and there's still a distinct possibility
that this could also be an eight versus nine game

(35:55):
next week, So there's the possibility that these two teams
could end up facing each other and executive weeks. So
that's the number one that really jumps off the page.
I think there's a big game that's a Class Double
A versus Class Triple A matchup in Mineral County Frankfort,
the defending Double A state champions nine to zero on
the year, they've won twenty three games in a row.
They're taking on Kaiser, who is seven and two overall

(36:17):
and a Class Triple A team. Kaiser is still in
the mix to possibly get home field advantage in the
opening round of the Triple A playoffs if they're able
to pull off an upset victory tonight. So those are
just a couple of the matchups off the top that
really stand out this week.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
So Joe, I'm going to go back to Single A.
I'm going to go to my alma mater. Can my
Sherman Tide beat PoCA.

Speaker 13 (36:39):
Sherman's had a heck of the season and they were
very close to being They's stand at seven to two
right now. They were a couple of seconds away from
defeating Clay to Tell two weeks ago. Clay Totel now
number three in.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
The SSAC ratings.

Speaker 13 (36:52):
Sherman's having a heck of a year. So that's a
big game for them for the Tide to possibly get
into the top four, which would give them hosting grudges
for the opening two rounds of the playoffs. They hosted
one playoff game last year. They're able to get into
the top four, that would be a big lift for them.
So you know, certainly Sherman's having a heck of a year.
One of the most outstanding at electrifying senior playmakers in

(37:12):
the state. And Trey Lester dynamic running back and receiver.
He's a big factor in their return game for them.
Sherman the fun team to watch, no question.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Metrin New Sports Joe Bricado. Final week of the high
school football season coming up this week. Team's playing for
home field advantage, Teams playing to get in on those
final slots into the playoffs. Joe, who's on the bubble
in each of the four classes? Can you give us
a quick rundown?

Speaker 13 (37:37):
So there's an interesting game that is a double a
versus triple a matchup with a couple of bubble teams
right now. In Triple A. The number seventeen team is
Pipe View. They're going to play host to a Double
A team in Buffalo. Buffalo right now has the last
spot in the Class Double A field, So the winner
of that one likely gets into the playoffs in their

(37:58):
respective class. The loser probably has this wet out some
other results, But in terms of bubble teams, that's probably
the biggest matchup of teams that need to win to
get in, otherwise they're sweating out some results from other games.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
Tonight looks like the few games from last night. Princeton
had their way with South Charleston.

Speaker 13 (38:17):
Yeah, and there's a couple of games that had been
moved up because of anticipated weather in the Canala Valley
this afternoon that was originally scheduled as a Friday game,
but Princeton was able to complete an undefeated regular season
with a fifty five to nineteen victory at South Charleston.
And right now it looks like the two strongest favorites
in the Class TRIAA division are Bridgeport and Princeton. Certainly

(38:39):
Chapmanville is in the mix with a nine to zero record,
but right now it looks like Princeton and Bridgeport will
go into the playoffs as number one and number two
in some combination matindating sports.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Joe Riccado joining us, have you been doing the math?
Have you got all the scenarios figured out? Joe?

Speaker 13 (38:56):
Well, the one flying the ointment is we do have
two Saturday Games games to be played tomorrow Hurricane and Martinsburg,
Huntington and Lyndsley, so we can't officially close the book
on any of the at least class quad pairings tonight.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
We hope to be.

Speaker 13 (39:11):
Able to get a good look at the other three
classes and where things stand by the time we get
all the scores into our scoreboard tonight. The SSAC will
release the official pairings late tomorrow, and then the times
and dates for the opening round games will be released
throughout the day on Sunday. So that's kind of the
timeline we're on. But to answer your question, Dave, yes,

(39:34):
I diligently have the necessary highlighters sharpies in the spreadsheets
at the ready to do some fast masks, which I
would argue maybe join me in this or disagree with
me on this, that West Virginia High School should offer
a mathematics course that specializes in computing the SSAC ratings,

(39:56):
so that each school would have at least one representative
at the ready to be able to provide this information
in a timely fashion on the final friday of the
regular season.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
I think you know what, TJ, add that to our
list of bills. Yeah, we're getting the list together for January.
We're going to go in guns of blazing in the
Senate and just start introducing this stuff.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
I never understood. Maybe it's changed, Joe, why you didn't
have the kids that were smart in math on the
sideline doing the stats. Honestly, you don't see that a
lot do You.

Speaker 13 (40:27):
Hadn't thought of that. That does make a lot of sense.
They could provide instant analysis for the coaches from a
mathematics perspective, But if you're trying to, you know, find
practical applications for mathematics, there's no more practical application than
doing all the fast math to get the ratings done
on the final friday.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
Oh absolutely, absolutely, he forgive me. Did you say, who
do you have tonight?

Speaker 13 (40:49):
Where you at head to Greenbrier easton Nitro And that's
one of those games that has been moved up an
hour So that's a six o'clock kick. And like I said,
there's a couple of other games the Charleston area that
had been moved up because of anticipated weather.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
You want to golf beforehand, got your clubs.

Speaker 13 (41:07):
I leould say that there's probably enough time to get
nine in the That's not the worst idea I've had.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
You know, come on, we'll go, We'll go.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Joe, will you attempt to get a selfie with Coach
Prime tomorrow at Mountain Airfield?

Speaker 4 (41:22):
See?

Speaker 13 (41:22):
I would hazard a guess that Coach Prime will be
well flanked by many, either Colorado State troopers or personal
security as he's coming into the stadium. That might be
a difficult task to try to make happen.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Well, if anybody could do it, it would be Joe Bricado.

Speaker 13 (41:44):
I know they're not having a great year, but people
are actually talking about Colorado football. And I had a
good year last year, winning nine games. But people are
actually talking about Colorado football, which for a long stretch
of time before he got there was not the case.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
He's put him on the map. Definitely done that, but
those programs headed in two different directions. At least this year.
I think the Mountaineers we got thirty seconds too. I
think Brad Howell said it yesterday pretty well, going different directions,
Mountaineers have momentum in Colorado's searching for answers at this point.

Speaker 13 (42:14):
Yeah, mean, Colorado's allowed one hundred five points in their
last two games. It's been a struggle since mid season
for them. For West Virginia, yeah, you are obviously encouraged
by the victory you had last week at Houston, but
also the better performance that you had against a pretty
good TCU team the last time they've played in Morgantown.
So you know, certainly you want to try to hang

(42:35):
on to the hopes of being able to close out
the season strong for the Mountaineers, and they have a
great opportunity tomorrow against Colorado.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Metro News Sports Joe Ricado hardis working man in sports media.
We'll have all the scores for you at WDV metronews
dot com. Tonight, of course, Dave and Fred with mention
News high school game night after your local broadcast, and
by hopefully Saturday night we'll know who's playing, and then
Sunday we'll know when they're playing. Always appreciate it, buddy, Thank.

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You, you got it.

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the Board of Governors has approved initial steps for premium
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(45:08):
seating project at Hope Colisseum that is happening. Money's already
available for that. Ad Rent Breaker making a presentation to
the Board of Governors this morning. So and this was
part of the plan. Baker has talked about this as
part of that revenue generation plan for the Mountaineers and
maximizing that potential premium seating part of that plan, and

(45:30):
the first steps there for new premium seating at Myleon
push Car Stadium.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Compete or Die. It's that simple, Mike, It's that simple.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
I'm looking at Mike Casaza has some renderings, pictures of
the renderings posted on the Twitter machine or x or
whatever it's called. It's pretty impressive, at least the renderings
pretty impressive over on the West Tower, which would be
the press box side of the Milon push Car Stadium
pretty much.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
Do you think they pay for that? I mean when
people like Hope donate money for the coliseum, I mean
that money goes somewhere, right. I have one to do.
The other the TJ. Meadows Premium seating Tower. Just think,
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The TJ. Meadows Premium handrail about is that?

Speaker 19 (46:20):
Well?

Speaker 5 (46:21):
I gotta tell you, my favorite charity, as much as
I love the Mountaineers, is not the Mountaineers. So MLP my.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Left pocket somewhere. There's somebody at the foundation right now.
I'm going, huh cross them off the list. Chris Tirewald's
going to join us coming up, we'll get his take
on this week's elections. Is there a deal or is
there not a deal? Or Democrats warming up to maybe
ending the government shutdown or Republicans into negotiating. Are we
just going to keep doing the same thing over and over?

(46:53):
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in Charleston. Good morning. TJ.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
Meadows, Good morning. I'm gonna get nine in. After talking
with Bricado.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
You gotta what.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
I'm gonna get nine in, he inspired me. I'm gonna
go off after this.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
You got to get it in. Weather's coming today right,
supposed to be raining later this afternoon, to see I
got a jacket. I'm just picturing the uh caddy shack.
The guy gets struck by lightning. Oh, the priest, Yeah,
but it was his best round ever. Well, if you're
having your best round ever and the lightning's coming, man,
just just be aware, be carefully.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
Let me tell you something. I can think of worse
ways to go. If I'm having the best round ever,
I can think of worse ways to go.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Chris Starwalts politics editor for The Hill and News Nation,
host of The Hill Sunday on News Nation, and a
senior Fellow at American Enterprise INSE too, well as a
best selling author, and he joins us on Metro News
talk Line this morning. Chris, good morning.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Nobody tells a navy man when he's had too much
to drink. That's what that's Bishop pickering. That'll be you
out there, that'll be you out there.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Nice Chris, We're trying to get Chris a couple times
this week. Very busy man. You're on the train going
to New York and coming back from New York keeping
an eye on all things elections on Tuesday. Let's just
start the conversation there. What do we take away or people?
Are we taking too much away from what happened Tuesday?
Not enough from what happened? What are you taking away?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
You know that what they always tell you, They always
tell you this time is different, right, They always tell
you this this this time is different, and they're coming
for me. The Democrats told me in twenty twenty one
that this time is different, and then the Republicans told
me in twenty twenty five that this time is different,

(49:57):
and it ain't different. It ain't different you get elected,
So think about it this way. In two thousand and eight,
Barack Obama didn't win a landslide, but he won big
ley right. He won Indiana, He won Virginia for the
first time since nineteen sixty four for the Democrats, and

(50:17):
he won North Carolina, three red states. It was a
new map. Everything was going to be different, and then
it wasn't.

Speaker 19 (50:25):
Right.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
A Republican won the governorship in Virginia and New Jersey,
and the backlash began and continued through twenty ten. Obama
put his coalition back together in twenty twelve. It changed
it in some ways, expanded it in some ways. One
reelection by a smaller margin than he won the first time,
and then the Democrats got pansed in the twenty fourteen election.

(50:50):
It wasn't different. It wasn't different. And this time Republicans,
you know, we flattery is the sin that we are
most apt to have forgiven our friends. And this time
Republicans were like, oh, it's different. We have these Hispanic voters,
and we have young men, and we have black voters
and larger numbers, and it's going to be different this time.

(51:13):
And it ain't different. You get elected. Donald Trump won
the national popular vote by a point and a half,
which is substantially less than Joe Biden won it four
years before that. And it's definitely less way less than
Barack Obama's victory in two thousand and eight. What do
they all have in common? They overread their mandates. They

(51:34):
did too much, They did more than people wanted, and
they didn't address the core concerns that had led to
their success, and in so doing got repudiated by voters.
It's it's a tale as old as todd.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
Why can't we learn? Then that's the question. If it's
as old as time, why can't we see it?

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Because we love ourselves because when we when it okay. So,
when you go out today and you play golf and
you roll up a five iron to three feet, your
brain is going to tell you I've solved the problem
with my mid irons. That I don't know whether you

(52:21):
have a problem with your mid irons. You may have
beautiful mid irons, you may be able to spin, you
may be able to spin a three iron. I don't know.
But when you roll that five iron up to three feet,
you're going to say I've solved it, and your brain
will say, I'm glad that's over. I'm glad we don't
have to worry about our mid irons anymore. And then

(52:43):
the next hole, when you chili dip a six iron
into the lake, you will say, how did it happen?
I thought I had defeated this. We overstate, it is
the nature of our species to overstate the durability and
significance of positive things. And we are very much disinclined

(53:07):
to attribute our successes to things outside of our control.
We attribute our successes to the things that we did.
We attribute our failures to the things that other people did. Right,
when we succeed, we say it is because we figured
it out. We finally figured it out, and now we
know how to do it. When it goes wrong, right,

(53:27):
it was that somebody coughed in your back swaying. When
you go wrong, you can think of ten million reasons
why it's not your fault that you just chili dipped it.
But when you spin one and roll it right up
on the cup, you only think about you, right, You
only think about your part in that. So this is
just human nature.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Chris tarre Well joining us see as politics editor for
The Hill News Nation, host of The Hill Sunday on
News Nation. Who's the face of the Democrat Party coming
out of this Tuesday's elections? Is it Momdani? Is it Newsome?
Is it aoc? Who?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
It's Donald Trump? The unifying So Donald Trump has done
amazing things that Democrats got themselves into a problem in
twenty twenty four because they believed that Trump was enough.
Trump was sufficient that America's dislike for Donald Trump and

(54:23):
his bevy of criminal and ethical problems was sufficient, and
it was not sufficient because Democrats had failed in their
time in power. Democrats had unified control of Congress, quite
thanks to Donald Trump's insertion of himself into George's runoff
elections in twenty twenty one. But Democrats had unified control

(54:45):
of Congress, and they screwed up. And it took the
Democrats until twenty twenty four, which is too late to
start addressing immigration questions, get serious on a number of
things that were killing them with voters. They even finally
dumped Joe Biden. It wasn't enough that to say, but
Trump bad, Orange Man bad, and voters persuadable voters not

(55:10):
unreasonably said you're not so great yourself, You're no picnic.
The party of the million year old president, the party
of inflation, the party of immigration chaos. No thanks, And
so it wasn't enough. But for now, in lower turnout elections,

(55:31):
in these off off year elections, and next year, Donald
Trump is a sufficient face of the Democratic Party right
so that they can say what are we for and
the answer can be in midterms, not him, we are
for him. Not having the power to do the things
that he wants to do.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
What does Trump need to start doing, and what do
Republicans need to start doing to win back the idea
that they are focused on the economy. I mean, affordability
seems to be everything. There was a piece this morning
in the journal I had to laugh talking about oh, maha,
embrace maha, that's going to be the savior of the midterms,
and I'm buzzed it out laughing. My wife is like,

(56:10):
what are you laughing about it? And I'm like, these
people are crazy.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
That's great laughing. The announcement yesterday of bringing down people
with government insurance, getting lower costs on GLP ones, That's
that's good. That's like, that's concrete. That's that they're not
wrong about that part. I don't know that. It's like,
you know, you're not going to give the economy ivermectin

(56:35):
and have have it come roaring back to life. But yes,
that is a concrete thing giving you know what people like?
They love free stuff, Yeah, free stuff. They are crazy
about free stuff. Brother. But let me just say the
bad thing. I'll say the bad thing that will make
everyone unhappy, because that is my job. When people talk

(56:56):
about affordability, I just laugh, because what we're doing currently
is debasing our currency to deal with the debt that
we have already racked up in the past forty years.
We're running we're going to run like a one point

(57:18):
eight trillion dollar deficit in the coming federal fiscal year,
if not more, if the current jobs numbers are right.
The Federal Reserve is pumping and dropping interest rates and
doing everything. So we have this big puffed up economy.
Stock market's doing great, and we have this big puffed
up economy. But what we're doing is debasing our currency. Right,

(57:40):
We're making money worthless because people, there's never a good
time to have a recession. So what we do is
we just keep pushing, inflating, pushing and inflating, and over
time the consequences that your money is just worth less.
So we have both inflation going on, plus these tariffs
that are adding extra costs on top of the inflation,

(58:04):
and giving people free bus rides, giving people free drugs,
giving people free things. Those things aren't free, they're unpriced,
and the price is real, and it's absorbed by the
larger economy. And the solution that both parties have for
dealing with it is just printing money. That's their solution
for it is just to debase the currency. So nobody

(58:26):
is the person who says we're going to have to
We're going to have to get serious like America had
to do in the early nineteen eighties. We're going to
get serious and it's going to hurt. I love the
people who talk about the tariffs and the pain of tariffs,
but then when the pain arrives, they're like, no, there's
no pain. I don't know what you're talking about with pain.
They are still held back. A lot of people are

(58:48):
holding them back to save market share. Wait till they
really turn loose. We'll see what the Supreme Court does.
But this is just a very long way of saying
the quote unquote affordability crisis takes its roots to a
Congress that will not do its job and a fiscally
incontinent bipartisan consensus that there's never a good time to

(59:09):
do the right thing because there's always another election that
has to be one. Listening to the Republicans talk about
what they got to do for midterms, stop thinking about yourself,
Quit thinking about yourself, think about the country. This is,
and I use the word advisedly a crisis. It's time
to be real. It's time for somebody to start leveling

(59:30):
with the American people that this level of borrowing and
this this conduct is reckless, dangerous and is e miserating
future generations. But they're not going to do that. They're
going to look for ways to get free stuff, to
give more free stuff away so that they can try
to limp through the next election. And that's a real bummer.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Brother visiting with Chris Stirewaltz.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Chris stirewalt I.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Think it took Bill Murray less time in the movie
groundhol Day to figure out what he needed to do
to get to February third. Is Congress going to figure
out what it needs to do so we can get
this thing in the past.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
The shutdown. Look, they're working on it now. I'm waiting
till we're waiting to hear whether are they willing to
work through their Veterans' Day break, which of course would
get them up close to their Thanksgiving break, which would
be really bad. But I think the acknowledgment from the
President that and I actually disagree with his assessment. I
don't think the shutdown was that bad, was that big

(01:00:34):
A part of what went wrong for Republicans. But the
President has concluded that the shutdown is bad. His solution
is to end the filibuster, which would be a psychotic
choice for Republicans to make right now, be good for
Donald Trump, be bad for his party. I think this
is where we are close here to a package coming

(01:00:56):
out of the Senate. Now the question is is it
a package that Donald Trump will tell the House of
Representatives to eat and just do it. I don't know,
and I don't know how willing Republicans will be. Now
what is the new incentive for Republicans? Ask Marjorie Taylor Green?
What the new incentive for Republicans is to be dissident
within a party that has spent a year being really

(01:01:19):
really lockstep. So I don't know. It's a long way
of saying I wish.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
I knew Marjorie Taylor Green as the sensible voice of
the Republican Party. Now there's something for you. Chris is
the Supreme Court our saving grace backstop on Tariff's there.
We're talking yesterday about making the Congress irrelevant if they
allow this to stand. I mean, thank god somebody's talking
about it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
John Roberts is a John Marshall kind of Supreme Court
Chief justice. He's looking for the answer that will preserve
the Court's power. He is a jurist and a politician,
and I would have to imagine that he is the
swing vote on his own. Court is looking for a
way to have a half a loaf situation right, and

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can some of these be allowed to stand and others?
Can they craft a decision? Because they can, they use
legal ledger domain to find a way to not eviscerate
presidential power, but to get the country out of the jam.
If you're a Republican, of course, what you want is
for the Supreme Court to strike all these down so

(01:02:28):
that the economy comes roaring back, and that helps you
for next year. If you're a Democrat, you probably would.
If you're being cynical, you probably prefer that Trump win
because that means that when you take your party takes
the White House back, the power is all preserved. Number
one and number two, it will speaking of in miseration

(01:02:50):
will make the economy worse. And you'll see that, as
you said, all of the people who have been holding
off passing on tariff costs will say, okay, well, this
is life and the butt kicking that the economy will
get will be profound.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Chris, Before I let you go, I've been watching the
coverage of the supposed civil war within the rights, the
mega movement.

Speaker 20 (01:03:12):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
You've got Tucker Carlson, he was glossing over with Nick
fuint has been. Shapiro calls him out. Everybody's way in somewhere.
What do you make of all of it? What are
we to make of that? Is there a fracture in
the MAGA movements?

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Well, look, I think there's a difference between conservatives and nationalists.
And we've talked about it before, and there is. There's
just a difference. And my four box is you have
progressives and you have liberals, and you have nationalists, and
you have conservatives. And the liberals and the conservatives are

(01:03:47):
alike in the sense that they believe basically in the
Enlightenment ideas about how what people are like, and what
the government's role is and the Constitution, the heights of individuals,
limits on government power and all that stuff. They like
different amendments in the Bill of Rights, but they'll both

(01:04:09):
take it. Then you have progressives and you have nationalists
who say basically that the Enlightenment was a mistake, and
that the Constitution is in the way of doing what
is necessary in this most dangerous time, because of course,
remember this time is different, so we'll just have to
do these things. And I think the division that we're
talking about among Democrats between say Zoron Mamdani and Abigail

(01:04:31):
Spanberger is a mirror image of the division between say
the Heritage Foundation and you know, normal conservative I work
for AI. I think that's reflective of the same division,
which is do you believe in the Constitution, do you
believe in the Enlightenment? Do you believe that the way

(01:04:52):
out of our current predicament is back or is it
to go into a bold, brave, new future. Unfortunately, we're
both Zoron Mamdani and Tucker Carlson. It's hard to keep
a coalition together and with you once you start talking
about the Jews, once you start saying the things that

(01:05:12):
make people uncomfortable, because dog whistles work in both directions.
It works in the direction of if you want to
gather people around you, you call people globalists and you
call them a venomous coalition, and you say those things,
and the white supremacist weirdos will say Ahaha, he's speaking
our language. But the other people will hear you too.
And you know, this is just this is the time

(01:05:35):
that we live in. Is a division on the ideas
of what a human being, what is a human being?
And what is the right relationship between a human being
and the government. And if you think that you have
natural rights, then you're on one side of that line,
which is probably more significant than the left right line.

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Oh four let's go to the Northern, outposts bill what's?
Your STEAM.

Speaker 16 (01:27:36):
HEY tj i little civix lesson here because you're analysis
Of this tuesday's. Past election dave knows About where i'm
at up Here In. Amish country matter, of fact couple
years ago we drove by about fifty miles fifty miles
FROM where. I live so REST assured TJ that i

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live four hours from From The, greater well actually about
two and a half Hours From. WEST virginia i live
about eight Hours. From manhattan there won't be any government
run grocery stores that sell milk and the fruit of the. Maple,
tree yes they will not be Up Here. INAMIS. Country

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dj So hopefully dave followed, his instructions and your mighty
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Bill, appreciate. It buddy let's Go to Doug. In, Wheeling,
hey doug what's?

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Your?

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Steam hey islam is a religion.

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Of pieces.

Speaker 13 (01:28:39):
Thank you you, Are.

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Welcome doug have a. Great weekend eight hundred and seven to.
Sixty five talk the. Phone number textas three Or four
talk three. Or four let's get some more of those
text Teams, in Texas says.

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Donald needs i'm going to, Edit this dave to, female
companionship and we'll leave it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
At that.

Speaker 5 (01:28:56):
My steam is they can't finish one BRIDGE on i
seventy nine before they start the. Next One dangerous Texter
says donald is. An idiot republicans elected a dictator even
after he said he wanted to be one on. Day
one i'm sixty two, years old Says. The texter and
the Mayor Of new york has never had any effect on.
My life probably won't change with this. Election either it's

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not my responsibility to take care of. Your children so
for The socialist dems who are riding the, slow bus,
this means don't have kids if you can't take care
of them and pay. For them stop depending on my
hard work to take care of. Your problems the Voters
Of New york city just pissed on nine hundred and.

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Seventy seven graves Says, That, Texter, hey donald you're The
Reason west virginia keeps. Losing population eighteen years old is
smart enough to die for. The country change selective service to.
Twenty One then muslims are committing Genocide on Christians. In
nigeria Crickets, from congress Says. The texter Remember when Maga

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and Maga. And republicans conservatives claimed they. Weren't, racist well
it took an Election In New york city to prove.
That wrong eight.

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Hundred and seven to, Sixty five talk the phone number
back to. The Phones, hey jerry what's? Your Steam.

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Hey DAVE.

Speaker 19 (01:30:20):
And tj, you know it's a dangerous world we're living in.
Right now we've got twenty million illus the alien invaders
in our country breaking, into houses killing people and. So
forth but it's always, been dangerous, You know like back,
IN seventies i used. TO hitchhike i got picked up.

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This guy it kind of looked Like A James Earl, ray,
democrat like, you know, smoking CIGARETTES white. T shirt after,
a while he looked at me and, he said aren't
you kind of? Scared hitchhiking you know there could be
serial killers. OUT there, i, said nah out the two

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serial killers been in one car or very.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
Very, slam jerry appreciate. This team eight hundred and seven to.
Sixty five talk the phone number three, Or four talk three.
Or four the, Text, line uh LET'S see Tj and
donald get their values from the, same book telling Says.
The texter does the president have the right to. Negotiate
Tariffs The supreme court could say no because it's, A

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tax but How Did president biden forgive billions of dollars
of college loans that does not raise Taxes. On americans
somebody has to pay if you give. IT away i
don't know why so many of your callers think that
they have any business telling the People Of New york
city what to do about running. Their city we have
enough trouble running our. OWN states i would also like
to remind them that the majority of the nine to

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eleven Terrorists were saudi who are currently big Buddies with
trump and the rest of. The Team Mister mom donnie
had nothing to do with the attack and the allegations
to the contrary. Are Ridiculous New york city will remain
the multicultural and multi racial place that has. Always been
these folks will just have to like it. Or lumpets
Says the texter. TEXT team I love starwalt's multiple. Golf

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metaphors any apply, TO. YOU tj i never EVER thought
i cured my five iron problems with one great five.
Iron Shot. Text, team, HI there i have a family
member that is an. Essential employee he is lucky that
he has a large, support system we can hold. Him
up most don't have. THAT support i worry for them

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and all of those affected by. SNAP issues i worry for,
our country a country that is so blinded by hard
right and. LEFT politics i pray we will have a
good weekend and that we can spend reflecting the way we,
see fit Knowing that monday we'll be back at each
other's throats because no one can cool. The temperature have a, good,
weekend gentlemen you. As well three or four talk. Three

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four the mayor Elect Of, New York new york Is
an american do speaking to his demographic about opportunities for,
their future not, getting there not getting? That, here maga no,
food too you bend over and let us cut your? Healthcare. Sign,
maga hey why aren't we hearing anything About how trump
is apparently heavily featured in One of epstein's photo layouts

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for officient audos of the age. And appropriate that's the
real reason the government. Isn't open and if you can't,
SEE that i feel bad.

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For You.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
Tech steam why aren't conservatives Complaining about trump taking Billions from,
muslim countries a four and a million dollar aircraft and
Allowing a muslim country to build an air Base, In idaho,
text team if in a folks from if folks from
out of state are driving through the state listening to
this great program on, statewide radio really isn't going to

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buy the Trope That west virginians are the friendliest and
most great people in. The nation after Listening to, steam
release hate to break it to the race Bad or
islam is not. A race i'm not sure Driving to
beckley To See sydney sweeney movie is worth the gas
just to see her assets because that's the Only. Entertainment

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sydney In A sydney, sweeney movie Says. The texter, well
done not bad on.

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The.

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Fly huh we have to stop giving oxygen to, the
lunatics Says. THE texter i don't know if that applies,
to us but. We're done we're out. Of Time Metro
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