Talkline | Oct. 10, 2025

Brad McElhinny recaps court proceedings regarding vaccination requirments and parents seeking religious exemptions. The latest on the government shutdown. Chris Stirewalt stops by and STEAM RELEASE!

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oh four. Yesterday, in a courtroom in Raleigh County, a

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multi day, high profile hearing over religious exemptions and vaccination
laws ended with a cliffhanger mech A New state wide correspondent,
Brad McIlhenny was in the courtroom. He joins us on
the show this morning. Brad, Good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh Hi, good morning, Dave. If you are keeping a
whiteboard on this legal issue about religious exemptions and West
Virginia's school vaccine laws, just write in big letters, t b.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
D tb D two be determined. So yesterday when you
and I spoke, we thought no might get a ruling,
probably not, And then there was an indication maybe there
would be a ruling. But at the end of the day,
Judge Frobull decided the Circuit judge there in Raleigh County,
Judge Michael Froble decided what Brad.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, so I mean with the overall ruling by Judge
Froebel in the Raleigh County courtroom, we're looking at a
ruling and writing in late November. The judge now says
he had flirted with the idea of issuing a ruling
verbally from the bench. That's what he was feeling yesterday morning.

(02:52):
But the judge as the day went on, thought better
of it, had some cautions set in because we all
know the judge even knows that this is eventually.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Headed for the State Supreme Court. That's the ballgame.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
So Judge Frobil made an assessment that there is additional
material for him to consider, including filings in writing from
each of the six sets of attorneys in the case.
And Judge Frobile assessed the risk and determined that he
really needs to take into account everything, including those materials

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in writing, and not risk the State Supreme Court sending
everything back to him on a technicality, saying, Judge, you
didn't really consider everything.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
So we.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Brad, Dave, everyone else lack the immediate gratification of the
final say so from Judge Frobile, but he was being
cautious and again, even he knows that the final ballgame
is with the state Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Who took the stand yesterday. Oh buddy, didn't realize that
was such a load up question. Oh oh oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
So the judge himself called doctor McDaniel, the state's new
public health officer, who has only been on the job
for six weeks, and I say, oh, buddy, because he
is the acting health officer and hasn't even put his
paper clips in his desk yet, doesn't know the people

(04:23):
who are surrounding him at that office, like literally hasn't
made connections yet, doesn't hasn't asserted his authority. So the
judge questioned doctor McDaniel, as did other lawyers.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
And.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
This is the this is the radio show pregame, right,
We're not we're not out there talking to the people.
They got almost nothing out of him. So that's why
I said, oh buddy, because this is this is really
a dead end of conversation. I'm sorry to report to everyone.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, I mean the testimony is what the testimony is, Brad,
I mean he was called brand new, and how much
of the conversation I.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Will say, if you're more curious about the new state
public health officer knowing almost nothing about West Virginia public
health and not having a role in the determination of
whether people deserve religious exemptions to the required school vaccinations.

(05:23):
Lori Cursey of West Virginia Watch has a much more
thorough story this morning about that angle. I ignored it
because I thought it was a cul de sac. I
thought it went nowhere.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
So how much of the conversation over these two days
of testimony dealt with just what you're talking about there,
the process of evaluating and granting religious exemptions. How much
of the conversation was actual real world impact on if
these religious exemptions are granted, then if they're rejected.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Well, in fairness, the actual hearing was two days in
September and two days this week, and the September hearing
included testimony from a former state health officer, Kathy Slimp,
and she went into significant detail about how her immunity
could be at risk in West Virginia depending on the

(06:12):
number of religious exemptions granted. There was a human element
of the testimony over the past couple of days in
the form of parents are who filed a lawsuit through
the ACLU of West Virginia, a Mountain state justice against

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the Morrissey administration, saying that it that the governor's executive
order put their children at risk and in their legal
opinion and of their lawyers, was a matter of overreach.
Those parents took the stand to describe.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
The day to day lives of.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Their children and their potential vulnerability to communicable disease. One
of them, honestly, was particularly heart wrenching. It was a
young boy who has a very rare disorder that has
caused him to be in my understanding, nearly blind, to

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have some developmental disorders, and the mother is worried that
if he were to be exposed to classmates who you know,
don't know to uh to keep their distance from him,
or if they have a cold, don't don't have the
self awareness to keep their distance, that his breathing could be.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
At risk.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
So, you know, the role of those people in this
set of hearings was to demonstrate potentially from their point
of view, that there could be real harm to some
immunal compromise or vulnerable children in West Virginia, and that
extended beyond, you know, some of the processes and uh

(07:59):
lee goal theories that that you know, whether whether the
religious protections law affects the vaccines law. This was this
was real families picking the stand to try to demonstrate
that from their point of view, if the laws is

(08:19):
broadly opened up, their children could be a risk.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
We've got a story post it over at the website
wv Metro news dot com and fingers crossed get a
ruling out of Raleigh County by Thanksgiving, I guess about
six weeks from now. That'd be about Thanksgiving time.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving. And you know, in the meantime, the
Supreme Court is lined up potentially, uh there's there's not
a full schedule yet, but it's it's looking like the
Supreme Court may hear oral arguments sometime next spring based
on the appeal schedule that we've seen so far.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
You can read that story over wv metro news dot com.
Brad also has a story this morning. Several hundred lots
owned by Justice Holdings are up foreclosure sale. Brad, what
gives where? What's going on?

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Well, Dave, if you are interested in property in the
Glade Springs area, this could be your moment look toward.
I expect to see you at the sale nine am,
October twenty ninth. So, you know, we had a flurry
now and then over the last decade of financial disputes

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involving the companies led by then Governor and now Senator
Jim Justice, and then you know they kind of went
quiet over the last year or so. But there's been
a little bit popping up here and there. This is
the subject of a long standing dispute between Justice Holdings,
which is the governor's family's company, in the homeowners association

(09:52):
at Glade Springs. To boil it down for you, it's
over whether the justices have appropriate and properly paid the
homeowner's fees that go toward things in the common good,
the roads, the tennis courts, the golf club that are
shared equally by the by the property owners at Glade Springs.

(10:14):
That dispute generally has gone on for years, but this
is the latest incarnation of it. The Glade Springs homeowners
went to court to fight to get those to get
to make good somehow on those assessed fees, and the
end result is going to be, according to a judge's order,

(10:37):
the sale of almost four hundred properties owned by Justice
Holdings on October twenty ninth, and you Dave could wind
up the owner. So it's potentially of interest to people
who might want to buy property, but also it's it's
a resurgence of another sign of a financial dispute involving

(10:59):
the most problem and the businessman and politician in West Virginia.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
We'll go half seas, Brad, We'll go half seas. We
can split it.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
We can.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
You know, we'll have a vacation home there. We'll split
the costs. We'll make sure to pay to pay our
HOA fees. You know, we'll be good.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
You know, who has the time and maybe the interest
in having a second home is uh is host emeritus
Hoppy Kerchival and we can go visit him and uh,
you know, sit out and enjoy some beverages in Pizza.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Metro New state Wide correspond at Brad macwhney. Those stories
are posted up over at the website wv Metronews dot com. Brad,
appreciate it. Have a great weekend, buddy, Hey, thanks you too.
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(13:30):
Ryan Schmells as we are now into day ten of
the government shutdown. Ryan, good morning, Thanks for joining us, of.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Course, thanks for having me on Happy Friday.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Happy Friday to you. Has anything changed, Ryan? Are we
still at where we were nine days ago?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Kind of?

Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean, you know, what a great Friday for all
the people who are waiting on their next check and
don't know when it's going to come because the Senate
decided to leave town for the week. And yeah, I'm
saying at sarcastically because it's a really dire situation here
where uh they're not going to be coming in back
in until Tuesday. So if there's any end in sight, uh,

(14:10):
we're not going to find out until next week. And
a lot of Pharaoh employees, especially service members, are supposed
to get their next check on Wednesday, So it looks
like they're guaranteed now to miss the next pay period.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Was there yesterday in the Senate? Did they even come
to vote yesterday in the Senate?

Speaker 3 (14:26):
They did, Yeah, they did yesterday. They actual we actually
late last night they passed the NDAA, which is a
huge piece of legislation every year for that sets the
military policy for the next fiscal year. Uh so they
at least have had some type of production during the
shutdown showdown. But yeah, they once again voted on those

(14:47):
bills that would have you know, funded the government for
the next fiscal year. It didn't work.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Is the GOP of the Republicans are they considering changing
strategy at all? Or is the is the strategy moving
forward to just continue to bring these votes to the
floor and continue to hold its ground.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, I think I think. I don't think they're they're
budget you know, they're Yesterday I asked the GOP congress
member who's kind of involved with some bipartisan talks, and
he just said, uh no, you know, there's no taught
negotiations going on. So it doesn't appear that there's a
path forward. It looks like there's some maybe a little
bit of talks going on about a possible offer that
the GOP could make uh to Democrats to try to

(15:27):
get least some of them on board. I don't know
if that's really materialized in anything just yet.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Did some minority leader Chuck Schumer step in it by
making the comments? I think it's the punch bowl news
saying every day this goes on, it gets better for us. Yep.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
And uh, you know, I've been watching this GOP press
conference that's happening right now where they have just been
every Yeah, they got like four opening speakers for this,
and and they've just been hammering Schumer for for the
there's comments. So I think he has given Republicans a
new line of attack for him and more reason for

(16:01):
them to call it the Schumer shutdown.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Talking to Fox News Radio is Ryan Smells. What about
Mike Johnson over the other side? Because the House passed
the bill, everybody, well not everybody, but most of them
went home from there. Is there any pressure building on
Speaker Johnson because you know, obviously some of these House
districts have a lot of federal employees, have military service members.
Any pressure there.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
There is, you know, you got Marjorie Taylor Green saying
that Speaker Johnson should call the House back. You've got
Kevin Kyleie doing the exact same thing. That's a congressman
from California. One of their justification is that the GOP
should come back and start working on healthcare because that's
now become a big issue again. Or you know, there's
this thought that maybe they should start or continue working

(16:44):
on the appropriations bills, which are the twelve bills that
would fund the government for the entire fiscal year. You know,
the whole point of the cr was the punt so
that they could have more time to work on those.
So I think there's some GOP members who are saying,
if we stay out of session for another week, you know,
we we're that's a valuable week that could have been
spent on trying to get the fool budget done.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Talking to Fox News Radio is Ryan Schmell's Washington d C.
Senator Capitol joined us yesterday, and I asked her whether
or not President Trump should get involved in this and
try to apply some pressure, and she said her answer
was interesting. I thought, Ryan, in that certainly President Trump
can apply pressure. Wields a lot of power. But also
when he gets involved, there's the opposite reaction to him

(17:31):
that no matter what the issue is, they're going to
be people who will dig in and do the opposite
just because he is now involved. So does he help
or hurt the situation from what you've seen there, if
he gets involved in this showdown, that's.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Hard to figure out. I mean, he could help in
terms of he could probably get Republicans to budget and
maybe go a different direction. That's one thing that could happen.
He could I mean, look, Democrats are calling President Trump
the voice of reason because you know, he's given them.
They think he's given them a better chance to talk
about healthcare, say with Marjorie Taylor Green. So it's kind

(18:05):
of funny watching the Democrats kind of leaning in on
President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green in a way that
they normally would not. So, yeah, but I think there
is still that that that thought that, yeah, maybe that
could rally up Democrats to oppose anything Republicans do even
more President Trump gets involved, So there's I mean, there's
a lot of angles you can look at there. It's
hard to really figure out what his involvement ultimately would do.

(18:27):
But I think there are people who think that he's
going to have to weigh in at some point or
get involved in this at some point too.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Are you running out of new ways to tell the
same story.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
A little bit? Yeah, it's getting a little I will
you know when when they decided to break yesterday. I
mean that kind of a kid in the story is
that this is?

Speaker 9 (18:43):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Is that you know now we know that we're not
going to be probably getting a resolution till at least Tuesday,
So this thing is dragging on.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Who the Ravens have this week?

Speaker 3 (18:55):
The Rams? Yeah, Matthew Stafford might for four hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I was trying to be more optimistic than that.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
I've not seen the fan base this down in a
long time. It is, uh, it's pretty rough right now.
I mean, you know a lot of people think John
Harbaugh's coaching for his his his his career right now,
because you know, this is not a good look. I mean,
two straight blowouts in a row, and then I've got

(19:26):
one of the best offenses in the NFL come into
town and you know, Lamar Jackson might not play, and
the defense has just been terrible. I mean, there there
is a lot of reasons to be concerned.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Ryan, just take some solace in the fact that at
least they're not the Bengals.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
And I just probably irritated half my audience in the
Charleston Huntington area this morning. Bengal fans down, Well, Hey,
you know, the truth hurts sometimes, Yeah, it does, Ryan
Smells Fox News read Ryan, thanks for playing long, appreciate it.
Have a nice weekend, budd Buddy. All right, Fred Persinger
coming up. We're going to talk some high school football
in just a moment. I'm sorry, Bengal fans. I'm sorry,

(20:11):
but it's it's true. And this is coming from a
guy who grew up as a lifelong Washington Redskins fan.
Three or four talk three or four odd, You did
not ask if the Dems should change their strategy just
the GOP. Why was that odd? Three or four talk

(20:33):
threeh four. I'd seen something and read some things where
they there might be a shift in the messaging strategy.
That's kind of what I was driving at with the
GOP and the Republicans shifting the messaging, focusing in on
the statements that Chuck Schumer had made. That's where I
was going with that question. The Dems needed. I've talked

(20:54):
about that they need to change their strategy. Three or
four Talk three or four text line, We'll talk to
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the text line eight hundred seven sixty five eight two
five five. The number Texter says Charleston area here Steelers

(24:57):
fan and I laughed out loud at the Bengals comment.
Have a great weekend since the Texter, I mean, sorry,
Bengals fans. I hope it didn't offend you. But you
know they traded for Joe Flacco. If you're trading for
Joe Flacco, you know it's not going well. High school
football is going well going into the seventh week of
the season this week. Later tonight on many of these

(25:19):
same Metro News radio stations, Bred Persinger and Dave Jacquelin
will take to the air for Metro News High School
Game Night with all the scores, recaps, interviews from around
the states, and with a preview of week seven. Metro
News Sports and the voice of high school sports in
West Virginia, Fred Persinger joins us this morning morning, Fred.

Speaker 16 (25:38):
You have something against older quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I guess not older quarterbacks. I'm just saying, you know.

Speaker 16 (25:44):
Can you imagine can you imagine Joe Flacco and Aaron
Rodgers on the field the same.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Time like an ARP meeting.

Speaker 16 (25:53):
Well, that's what I'm saying, you know, but who knows,
Joe Flacco may be just what the Bengals need.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yep, Yeah, let's go with that. Let's go with that answer, Fred, Sure,
all right, I've already irritated the who Day nation there,
so that's all right. Sorry, So both of them are managing,
all two of them, all right, all right?

Speaker 16 (26:17):
You know what we went with the obvious game. I mean, honestly,
Morgantown at Martinsburg. Martinsburg is Martinsburg. Morgantown has proven to me.
And I was a doubter, I'll be honest, and I've
said this state wide. I was a doubter when they
were four and o because the combined record of the
four teams they beat was one and eleven, So you

(26:38):
didn't really know. You knew because you see them every week.
I had not seen them really for a whole game,
so I didn't know. And then they went and shut
out Spring Mills. All right, I'm a believer. And then
they put a herding on Wheeling Park. I'm a believer.
So six and oh on the road at Martinsburg. I

(27:01):
know Morgantown's not healthy. I understand that. I understand what
Martinsburg is. So I think he's gonna be a heck
of a football game tonight.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I really do. And I'd love to see I would
I will say the same thing for this week as
I said last week. I would have liked to have
seen Morgantown and Wheeling Park at full strength, both teams
without their starting running backs. Brinton whacked and not play
in that game. There were several other players, at least
on Morgantown's sideline. I know we're not one hundred percent.
There's gonna be several guys tonight who are not one

(27:28):
hundred percent. I would like we always want to see
these teams with everybody healthy, at their very very best
and Morgantown's not. But you know what, Shaun Buiser's already said, Hey,
we're next guy up. We got to get the next
guy to plug in. We're going to make adjustments, we'll
do what we need to do. And I think this
is going to be a very good game tonight.

Speaker 17 (27:46):
I agree.

Speaker 16 (27:46):
And it is week seven. You expect this, you know,
and you get a bye week coming up, so that's
going to help. But again it's week seven and you
got to get ready for the playoffs, and it is
next man up. But there's a couple of other really
I think real good games in Quada. I think Fairmont's
Senior out of Triple A going to Wheeling Park. If
Brenn and Wack is ready to go tonight, that will

(28:07):
be a tough, tough one for Fairmont Senior on the
road or four and one, so they want to bounce
back in a big way. I think you've got a really,
really good one. And I went the other way this
week as trying to get the games of the week.
It was obvious we were going to go with Morgantown Martinsburg.
But my thought process is quite simple. You've got sixteen
teams in each field's going to make the playoff in Quada.

(28:30):
You've got four that's not and I'm going to be
interested to see who those four are. I know you,
your partner in crime, John Hallbreder is with me on this.
But you know it's going to be interesting. I think
I think Parkers work South at Hurricane. It's going to
be a real interesting game tonight, one and five, one
and four, and you know they don't want to be
in that bottom four, so it's gonna be interesting. I

(28:52):
think it's gonna be fun. It's it's getting to that
time of the year. But without that, without a doubt,
we've picked the best game in Quada and maybe the
best game of the state.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think the good game over in Class Triple A
Princeton and Green Briar East. The Tigers are five and
oh fred Greenbriar East four and one, and this is
a Princeton team that again has continued to play the
type of ball we now expect out of them down
in the southern part of the state.

Speaker 16 (29:13):
Yeah, this year they lost Dom Collins, heck of a
quarterback last year, and they had a brand new coach,
even though of course Nate Tanner has been a coach
for a while and was at Parkersburg South, so he
knows what he's doing. But still five and oh, I
think maybe a little bit of surprise. Green Briar East
four to one. They lost one game to Alleghanty High
School out of Virginia from Covington and they are still

(29:33):
Alleghany's still five and o right now, So that was
a legit loss. The only thing I have going here.
Princeton last year came to Green Briery's, went to Fairley
and beat Green Briar East eighty one to six. Now,
if you got any kind of memory at all, if
you're Green Brier East, you remember that the most points
ever scored in fifty eight years on a Green Brier's

(29:56):
football team was scored by Princeton last year eighty one.
So a little chip on their shoulder probably, But Greenberg
Ace has got to go down and they know, they
know they got to play a perfect game. They really
do to beat Princeton at Princeton, So we'll see how
that score goes.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
What else are you watching for here in week number seven?

Speaker 16 (30:13):
Fred, Well, I think when you get over to Class
double A, I think that's going to be a really
good football game between Petersburg and Philip Barber. Both of
those teams have lost a couple. I have lost two
games for Philip Barber, one game for Petersburg that maybe
they would like to have back. Petersburg lost to an
undefeated team Doddridge County. Doddridge County is legit. Nothing you
can be ashamed of about that.

Speaker 17 (30:32):
Philip Barber.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
I think Nick.

Speaker 16 (30:33):
Male's got it is doing a really really good job
with the Colts. That game at Philip Barbara Knight in Phillippy.
I'm looking for that one. I think that's going to
be a really good one. Then when you look at
Class Single A, really there's not a lot of there's
not there's not any competitive you know, one loss team's
going after one another this week in Single A. But
we did pick a game that's got a nice rivalry

(30:55):
tone to it. It's also the National Guard grid Iron
Series game. They're in Single A, and that's a Gamesman
Road John the Stains Crew going to Kelly Vaughn's Greenbrier
West Cavaliers and Charmco. And that's always just a blue
collar type of football game when you get together.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
You mentioned this earlier when we were talking about Class
Quade but this applies all through FRED Week seven. I
know coaches, they all tell us we don't look at
the points, we don't look at the schedule. It's next
game up, blah blah blah. Yeah whatever. They're doing the math,
and they're starting to look at where they could fall
in playoff seedings. How do you get in some cases
home field advantage in some cases, how do you get

(31:31):
yourself in position to just get a home game? All
of that starts to become a factor in these last
you know, three four games of the season.

Speaker 16 (31:39):
No doubt, you talk with Sean Byser, you talk of
Morgantown or X Night, or your university or Billy Seals
of Huntington or Steve Edwards Junior, on and on and
on it goes. They know what the ratings are each
week before they're ever released. Simple, they know they've done
their math already. Week seven, to me is the week

(31:59):
that the teams that are going to make the playoffs
they probably know now we're in.

Speaker 17 (32:04):
We're good.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
We're good.

Speaker 16 (32:05):
Now we're playing for seeding and trying not to get
anyone hurt. Those that are on the bubble, they're the
ones that have to really start to play football and
play it correctly this week because some teams have four
games left, some games, some teams have five games left.
Just depends where your bye week is falling. So we're
more than halfway. It's been a good year so far
and going by fast once again. So I know Dave

(32:28):
and I in game night tonight are looking forward. We've
got fifty three games this weekend, and for the first time, Dave,
in three weeks, we actually have a couple of games
on a Saturday. We haven't had Saturday games for the
last three weeks. So now we get two and the
ones at one thirty tomorrow with George Washington playing host
to Jefferson. So that'll be a good one.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
That will be a pretty good ball game. Don't sleep
on Jeffers. Jefferson's played a brutal schedule.

Speaker 18 (32:49):
Start here.

Speaker 16 (32:50):
You're exactly right, and I know Steve Edwards Junior is
not sleeping on, but boy, I tell you, Steve Edwards
Junior has got a heck heck of a backfield.

Speaker 17 (32:58):
The young Black, he's.

Speaker 16 (33:01):
Sheldon Black, I believe is his name? Escape through right now.
It's ninth grader, heck of a ballplayer. And then they
got Cypers singer at quarterback. Heck of a quarterback, so
he's doing an outstanding job there. They're undefeated, They've played
some tough teams, but they're looking really, really good. I
like GW this year just because of what they have
coming back from last year and what Steve Edward Junior

(33:24):
has been able to do at that ball club. Right now,
they're sitting at six and oh.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
And in Class four A. There you throw GW, Morgantown, Martinsburg,
Spring Mills, Huntington. Yeah, I mean that's four a's is why.
I know we've only had four A for a couple
of years, but four A, going back to when it
was Triple A, it's about as wide open as I
can remember it in the last five to ten years. Fred.
Usually you know, you got Martinsburg and then there was

(33:49):
a drop off. But now I think you can throw
a blanket over all these teams, you can, indeed.

Speaker 16 (33:53):
And one quick thing too to note is a team
that is one in four but is ranked number two
well right now in Class quad A is muscleman. That
tells you they played a real tough schedule because they're
getting some bonus points from teams that have beaten them.
That's how tough their schedule is. So they are one
and four ranked number twelve. Don't sleep on Brian Thomas's

(34:14):
ball club either. And now Eastern Panel's got some good
teams and that wins over a very good Wheeling Park
team at Wheeling Park at Wheeling Park, and they were
full strength then because early in the year Fred per Singer.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
He'll be along with Dave Jecklin later tonight's on Metro
News High School Game Night. What's the what's on the
menu tonight? Keep you too sustained throughout well.

Speaker 16 (34:34):
We have our scholar athlete of the Week, zeelm Milm
Scholar Athlete of the Week, coming from a shady spring.
We're interesting to talk to that young man. Also something
that you need sometimes you slap yourself on the back
a game light.

Speaker 17 (34:45):
Of course.

Speaker 16 (34:46):
In our twenty fourth year, and earlier this week, we
were notified we won for our fourth, our fourth national
award for the best high school program in the country.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Congratulations Frez.

Speaker 16 (34:56):
Yeah, kind of honored about that. We won seventeen or
eighteen of the state wide awards and we won our
fourth national one.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
This week I was asking about the literal menu. I
know you guys have a buffet down here. Oh on
Friday nights.

Speaker 17 (35:07):
Oh you mean food?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, yeah, I never know. You never invite me over.
I'm two blocks away most nights.

Speaker 16 (35:14):
Go to the go to the second floor and ask Kelly.
She's the one takes care of the figure.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
She takes care of all of us.

Speaker 16 (35:24):
She's Yeah, she's Kelly, and that's en. That's said, She's Kelly.
She takes care of it.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yes, Fred, all right, save travels. Look forward to game
Night tonight. Hard to believe will be through seven weeks.
Night tonight, You are right, Fred Persinger, voice of high
school sports in West Virginia. He'll be along with Dave
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a couple days off, the responsibility to write the commentary today,
and I thought, okay, it's Friday. It's been a heavy week.
We talk about a lot of very important issues, very
heavy issues. So I just thought had crossed my mind
when I was working last weekend, doing some maintenance workout
in the on the vehicles out in the driveway, listening
to a podcast, and it was actually Mike Rose podcast,

(38:20):
if you remember, the guy who used to host Dirty
Jobs's got a great podcast, interviews interesting people. It's a
good listen and he brings up during the course of
the conversation the question of what happened to everybody's hobbies,
and he kind of riffs on from that point, people
don't have hobbies anymore like we used to. And I

(38:43):
kind of thought about that, and I that can't be true.
Here I am, I'm out, you know, piddling around working
on the truck, doing some maintenance work, and I got
some other things to do today, and I kind of thought, well,
maybe we don't have the hobbies like we used to.
I don't have a workshop or the type of garage
maybe where you work on cars. Maybe there's something to that. So,
like any good millennial, I'm an old millennial, but like

(39:05):
any good millennial, took to the Internet, did some Google
searching round and found several articles from just the last
couple of months, and many more from the last couple
of years of younger millennials and Gen z ors lamenting
the fact they don't have any hobbies, that they can't
complete applications for academic programs because they don't know what

(39:27):
to list for hobbies. And I thought, surely this can't
be true, right, Well, dig around found some polling data.
As a matter of fact, apparently we don't have the
hobbies that we used to. And I kind of thought
about that and thought, how did that happen? Maybe it's
just an outgrowth of the fact that our jobs have changed.

(39:48):
A lot of people who used to do things on
the side for fun also utilized the same skills that
they did for the job. So if you were a mechanic,
you probably peddled around with cars on the side. If
you were a farmer, that certain set of skills you
might collect and restore old tractors. Carpenters did board working
on the side. If you were a skilled tradesman, maybe
jack of all trades, maybe you did a little bit

(40:09):
of everything, kind of like my dad does these days
in retirement, builds cabinets, build shelves. Sometimes we'll just make
up projects to give them to keep him busy. Technology
actually was supposed to make leisure We're supposed to have
more leisure time. Thinkers in the twentieth century thought, you know,
technology is going to be so great by the twenty

(40:33):
first century, we'll have fifteen hour work weeks because technology
will be able to do that, we'll be able to
do leisure time. Well, that hasn't worked out either, And
of course, the ease escapegoat is the ever present smartphones
and social media where you might do something productive with
your hands. Maybe a puzzle, even a puzzle, a crossword puzzle,

(40:56):
build a cabinet. You got to do some problem solving skills.
Maybe go for a maybe go biking, maybe go hunting,
fishing something. Do a lot of doom scrolling these days,
do a lot of doom scrolling. I tell this. One
of my very good friends, who considers himself to be
a bit of a politico, often will send me articles
more often than not, videos of information that I need

(41:17):
to know, and I constantly tell him, like, dude, get
a hobby, get a hobby. He's got a motor so
take your motorcycle out for a ride, enjoy the day.
Quit doom scrolling. So go get a hobby. Go get
a hobby, find something to do. Put down the phone
this weekend. It's gonna be really nice this weekend. Buck

(41:38):
the trend. And if you do, I am interested because
I know this audience. You are a renaissance audience, and
I'm interested. If you do have hobbies, what do you do? Woodworking,
quilt and crafting. I know a lot of you like
to hunt and fish. I like to hunting fish. I
just can't get out to do it as many and

(42:00):
there's a time. Time is a factor as well. One
of my favorite things do is also during the middle
of football season, and I chose a career path that
keeps me occupied Friday nights and Saturdays. Three or four
talk three or four anyway you can read the commentary
if you like, or if you have a hobby in
better things to do, I understand as well. Three or

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Speaker 2 (43:47):
Let's get in some text here before the tab of
the hour three or four Talk three or four Dave.
Fred Persinger and his associates are class acts. Always look
forward to hearing Fred on the air. He's the best
there is in broadcast. Let me tell you here's my
thought on Fred. Since you asked, Yes, he is very good.

(44:08):
But you know what makes Fred so good is he
has a And I'm not saying this because you know
I believe this. I've seen him at work. He has
a passion for what he does, especially when it comes
to high school sports in West Virginia, highlighting and promoting
the accomplishments of high school student athletes, whether that's on

(44:29):
the football field, the basketball court, the baseball field, talking
to the student Athletes of the Week on Metro News
high School Game Night. He has a true passion for it.
He'll do it for free. I mean, the doesn't exactly
pay the bills. We would all probably do it for free.
But he has a passion for that. That's what makes
him so good. And you can see that it comes

(44:50):
out in when he does. You know, when he's calling
a basketball games at the state tournament, when he's doing
game Night, when he's talking about the game's coming up
here on this show, you can see that. I think
that's what makes him so good. We're lucky. We're lucky
to have guys like him. Three or four talk three
oh four. Fred can pay me later. By the way, Dave,
didn't Trump say he had a medical plan that would

(45:12):
he would announce in his first administration after five years.
It should be the greatest plan ever conceived. He says
a lot of things, and I'm sure he did. I'm
confident he probably said something like that, Dave. I'm bowling alone.
It's a very big Labowski ish of you. Hey, Dave,
how about Trump's agriculture policies. Donald Trump is going to

(45:34):
bankrupt the US trying to chase China out of South America.
He's given twenty billion dollars to prop up the failing
libertarian Argentinean government. What's the next country that gets billions
in US tax dollars to keep China away? You know,
twenty billion could really help veterans or whoever else. Conservatives
say they could help if money wasn't being wasted elsewhere.

(45:55):
The story the Texter is referring to from the Associated Press,
the US directly purchased Argentine pesos on Thursday and finalize
a twenty billion dollar currency swap line with Argentina's Argentina's
Central Bank. Treasury Secretary Scott Business said on a social
media post, it's a rare move to and at stabilizing

(46:16):
turbulent financial markets in the cash strapped Latin American. Ally,
the text goes on, bessn't under fire from the US
farmers and Democratic lawmakers has insisted that the credit swap
is not a bailout. Farmers are angry though, about the
idea of rescuing Argentina, whose farmers have also benefited from

(46:36):
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(47:50):
Guard and wanted to let citizens know about their safety,
constitutional rights, private property rights, and civil liberties not being infringed.
You go, yeah, that sounds about like something happened in Illinois.
What if I told you that happened ten years ago
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(48:11):
Hill Sunday on News Nation, and a senior fellow at
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Speaker 15 (48:20):
Don't you know that the Chinese government was working with
the Obama administration and FEMA to put American dissenters into
Walmart detention camps? Who's being naive? Dave, Who's being naive?

Speaker 2 (48:37):
You know, it's right there in front of us, Chris,
It's so obvious. I don't know how we've missed it.

Speaker 15 (48:43):
The you know, one of one of the amazing things
I noticed, Kevin Stitt, who's the governor of Oklahoma, finally
said the conservative thing out loud. He's a conservative Republican.
Oklahoma is maybe more mega even than West Virginia. Certainly

(49:05):
they're in the elite tier. And Kevin Stitt said, what
would we say if JB. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, was
dispatching his guardsmen and guards women into Oklahoma. We would
freak we would freak out. And he was explaining why

(49:28):
he was not going to send any Oklahoma troops into Illinois.
And it's very hard for people to think about things
outside of partisan which team it's good for. But we
have a bigger concern in America these days than which

(49:50):
team wins, which party wins. Which is which institutions are
strengthened and which institutions are weakened. During the Obama Administrationublicans
were very clear and very clearly understood the power of
states was essential. It's important to have the states as
a bulwark against federal overreach. It is important to have

(50:10):
the states stand up against the pushes and desires of
what presidents want to do. And Republicans got it very clearly.
And Democrats said, well, these guys states rights sounds like
Jim Crow talking about states rights. Well, flip it around,
and now the Democrats are the ones who are talking

(50:30):
about states rights. And now the Democrats are the ones
who are concerned about federal overreach and abuses of power
by presidents. And while the partisanship balance has changed, the
priorities should not have changed. Because all Americans, whether you're
a Republican or whether you're a Democrat, should care about
the separation of powers, and the state versus federal separation

(50:50):
of powers is one of the most essential ones, Chris.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yesterday, Hoppy was on the show and had a commentary
yesterday at ww metro news dot com. We were talking
about normalizing seeing military troops, national guard troops, whatever the
case may be, but seeing them on American streets, seeing
them in the cities, and what that could lead to.
And I'll admit, first time I read the commentary coming yeah, okay, yeah,

(51:15):
I see where he's going here. But then I thought
more about it, and I said, flip the scenario. Say
we're eight years down the road, and Okay, now we're
used to it, and now I say, President AOC is
using that type of authority to do whatever. Would I
feel differently? Would I think differently? How would we react
differently to that? And then I kind of started to
see the point Hopey was trying to make that this

(51:37):
is a bit of a this is a dangerous game
we're playing here normalizing these things that before would offend
the senses.

Speaker 15 (51:47):
That is true, but if we think about it this way,
what the president is saying to democrats, democratic governors, and
democratic mayors is do what I'm asking. Deploy the national Guard.
Support my deployment of the National Guard in your state,
or I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act and I

(52:10):
will send the regular military. I will deploy forces in
the United States against protesters and rioters or wherever we
are at that point, I will invoke this dubious act
to bring the regular military. So if you don't want

(52:34):
the very bad thing to happen, you will give me
what I want. And it's a credible threat, right, credible threat.
That the president definitely has the power, and there's an
argument to be made that the president needs to have
that power. The Constitution sets aside some authority for the
president in times of insurrection, and certainly we saw Abraham

(52:57):
Lincoln exercise those during the Civil War. But that you
would say, we're not being invaded, and there isn't an
organized insurrection, this isn't a civil war per se. But
we're going to mobilize the regular military to go and
fight and I guess kill, certainly detain Americans who are

(53:19):
clashing with federal authorities. This is of course a nightmare scenario.
This is how this is the very bad place. And
it's it's a threat that democratic governors and mayors are
wrestling with, right if they fail in the courts, if
the courts say, now, actually, you know the National Guard

(53:41):
and the president has the power and he can do
this because they're not actually engaging in law enforcement activities,
are actually just supporting the supporting federal officials. So I
think this can go on. And the Supreme Court does that,
and democrats resist even still right, so the president is
saying this, not just demo credits, but also to the courts,

(54:02):
give me what I want. Allow these National Guard deployments
to continue, or I will push it and I will
go to the Alien Enemies Act. And we think about
the constitutional stakes here, about what happens once we sort
of break the seal on that. Again, it's not about
your team versus the other team. It's about what happens

(54:25):
to the separation of powers, what happens to our concept
of federal authority. And for Republicans, perhaps it is helpful
to think of Barry Goldwater's old proviso. A government that
is big enough to give you everything that you want,
is powerful enough to take it all away.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Christ I won't join US Metro News talk line. And
this may be just mine naivete, my ignorance speaking here, Chris,
but and I think I know the answer. But if
you're one of these democratic mayors, why just diametrically oppose
anything the president says? Why not go, Hey, you know
you're right, we've got a crime problem. Here's how you
could help us, maybe diffuse the situation a little bit

(55:03):
rather than I guess you're playing to your base as
you're you're standing up, you're playing to you know, the
the paranoia you talk about in your column this week.

Speaker 15 (55:13):
Well, look, so there's a there's a NATO kind of
argument here Donald Trump and Republicans say Donald Trump strengthened
NATO by threatening to destroy NATO. And there's a lot
of truth in the argument. Now, certainly Vladimir Putin gets
the most credit for strengthening NATO. Europe's more bellicos footing

(55:36):
and increased defense spending is more than anything else due
to Russia's aggression. But it certainly helped it along that
Donald Trump proved to be a credible threat that the
United States would unplug from NATO and they would that
Western Europe would be left defense less essentially, so they've
had to build up. There's an argument like that to

(55:57):
be made about blue states and blue cities, which is
that the threat of federal incursion is causing these places.
If you look at what happened in DC, where the
President obviously has the authority in DC. It's not a state,
federal territory. The president has the authority in DC to
police DC. And you looked at what happened, which was

(56:20):
that the mayor and the city council, which had been
drifting toward we don't know if we can enforce the
laws to becoming much more law and order. I think
you are seeing that in other places, is that Democrats
are trying to get it together on crime after the
George Floyd moment and the long period where people talked

(56:40):
about defunding the police and talked about community policing, all
this Jazz. I think it's certainly true. If we get
out of this scrape and we don't have the Marines
firing on people in the streets, and we get out
of this scrape without a disaster, what will happen, I
assume is that Republicans will say it worked. Donald Trump

(57:02):
threatened to do something unthinkable and people freaked out and
they responded and they did the right thing, and it worked.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Chris dar Well, joining US Metro News talk line, explain
the Rosio O'Donnell shut down.

Speaker 15 (57:18):
Oh well, if you remember when Donald Trump his question
in his presidential debate and Megan Kelly said to him,
you've called women pigs and dogs, and all of the
started lifting off the thing, and he, in a perfectly
timed comedic repost, says, only Rosie o'donald and a crowd

(57:39):
I was in that arena, and a crowd that was
not immediately well disposed to Trump loved it. And what
he did was he he chose a common enemy. It
wasn't let me talk about women in the abstract. He
made it a concrete example of a person who had
spent the past decade antagonizing Republicans. Republicans hate Rose o'donald.

(58:01):
Roseo O'Donnell hates Republicans, and he picked a good enemy
in that moment, and in the shutdown, Donald Trump is
picking enemies, right. He says, we're going to take care
of our people. Talking about federal employees, We're going to
take care of the federal employees we like and we're not,
so we're going to take care of the other ones
in a different way. Bad news for Democrats. He said,

(58:21):
we're only going to shut down your programs. We're going
to keep the programs that Republicans like, which is a
good way to keep Republicans on board with the shutdown,
because he suggests the possibility that there's a shutdown in
which certainly everybody suffers, but Democrats are the ones who
really suffer, and they lose the things that they care about,
and Republicans are advantaged because Democrats lose their stuff.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
So, Chris, but we got about ninety seconds here before
I got to cut you loose. But we talk about
all of this, and then on the other hand, we're
on the precipice of a peace deal in the Middle East.
It's hard to make it all make sense.

Speaker 15 (59:00):
Well, here's the thing. Americans, and I say this with
love for Americans don't really care patiform policy. If they
don't really care about a piece in the Middle East.
I know some people do deeply. And this is a
great accomplishment. If this comes together, it's a great accomplishment,
something that eluded all of his predecessors, and it would

(59:20):
be an amazing accomplishment, but the domestic political always takes
priority in the minds of voters. But we're very lucky
to have If this works and those hostages come home,
we're very lucky to be at the end of this
awful conflict.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Chris dar waltch you can read his work over at
The Hill, and of course he's the host of The
Hill Sunday on News Nation, Senior Fellow American Enterprise. It's
to best selling author, Chris. Appreciate it. Have a nice weekend.

Speaker 15 (59:45):
Man, Thanks brother, Happy Friday.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Happy Friday to you as well. Coming up, we'll check
in with Jeff Bonasso. There was a court ruling regarding
those National Guard troops poised to go into Chicago. We'll
get the details on that, then we'll turn the show
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Text line is three oh four Talk three oh four.
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eleven thirty three. I don't know how many of you
were watching the end of the Dodger Philly game last night.
I was because I'm a baseball junkie. Felt horrible for

(01:02:04):
the Phillies. Picture cookering basses, loaded two outs, dribbler back
to the mound and kind of fumbled with it and
then panicked. Instead of getting the out of first, he
throws it home, throws away game winning run, scores Philly
season over, Dodgers move on to the NLCS. I watched
that and I just stared at the television. My wife

(01:02:24):
watching with me. She knowd why did you do that?
Pressure tough, That's tough to watch. And that's the thing
that makes sports great and also tough to watch, is
that that kind of instant, instant dry And you could
see it on his face, that instant drama, that instant emotion.

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Just felt horrible for him because any other play, if
it's it's the seventh inning, he throws to first, you
get the out. If it's a random game in June,
he probably takes his time gets the out at first.
But this was the season on the line, and he panicked,
and to see that emotion on his face. It's the
best and worst parts of covering sports. Then you got
to go talk to the guy afterward, and and to

(01:03:10):
his credit, he spoke to the media last night and
that's tough. That's tough. Let's talking about hobbies earlier. Seems
like a lot of us don't have them anymore, maybe
my generation, and then as you start to get younger,
and that may have something to do with the fact
that growing up a lot of kids these days are
it's very structured. There's not a lot of time, or

(01:03:31):
it doesn't seem like there's a lot of time to
just kind of go out on your own and develop
these interests. You know, you've you've got soccer practice and
based t ball practice, and then you've got this and
it's all very structured. I don't know. I just heard
a conversation and another podcast about how hobbies had kind
of gone by the wayside. I wrote about it a
little something lighter on a Friday. Texter says, I have

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lots of hobbies. I cook, garden and travel. I like
to read. Swimming is a thing I do for enjoyment,
probably best of all, like learning new things and developing skills.
That is why I'm planning on running for a House
of Delegates in the fifty eighth district. Politics has become
my passion these days, says the Texter. Not to rain

(01:04:13):
on your parade, but politics may not be the best
hobby to get into. In fact, there was an article
I came across I don't have it in the stack
of stuff. It was from The Atlantic, and the author
of that article talked about hobbies and the fact that
too many Democrats don't have hobbies outside of politics, and

(01:04:38):
that hurt them in the twenty twenty four presidential race
because they were hyper focused on politics and political issues
could not connect with everyday people. That was the theme
of the article. It went on much deeper than that,
but that was the general idea of that article that
was in The Atlantic. Nothing wrong with being well rounded,

(01:04:58):
having some interest. I just don't know if we do
like we used to. A lot of that was an
outgrowth of the occupation. And then one hobby kind of
you know, spurs another. If you're a car guy and
you mechanically inclined, you may also have to learn to
do some welding. You may I also have to learn
to do some other things. You might have to fabricate
your own parts because that part doesn't exist, or you're

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creating something that you know no manufacturer ever conceived of.
I know car guys like that. Three or four Talk
three four. Called my federal representative and asked for a
copy of the US Constitution. They agreed to send me one.
But it's been two months and no constitution because I
believe they don't have one, says the Texter w three

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point dog tomorrow versus open. Oh, now, that's it's not nice,
not nice at all. Marshall's a home dog tomorrow. The
last I checked it was two touchdowns. Jake, I haven't
checked the line. It's it's not my thing. That's a
Brad Howe thing. That is not my thing. But I
do know they're a home dog. To ODU. Odu is

(01:06:05):
really good. Yeah, I've done a lot of homework on
ODU this week. I know more about them than you
care to know. I'm sure really good, good quarterback, very
experienced offensive line. Marshall's gonna have to play well on
Saturday three or four Talk three or four. I'll get

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to that in Steam release. That is a Steam release.
Dave Houston found its sixteenth body in the Bayou in
the last year. It's a Democrat run city in a
red state. If a red state governor and legislator can't
get their own cities in order, what makes them think
the National Guard can get there? You can get other
cities in order. None of their choices makes sense. Okay, Yeah,

(01:06:50):
get your own house in order before you mobilize and
go to Chicago or Portland. Sure, I'm okay with that.
I'm okay. What to the Texters quote. I can't read that.
I can't read that on the air. The answer is no,
but I can't read that on the air. Look, we

(01:07:12):
don't have very many rules on this program. Obviously, not
getting sued is one of them. Not getting fired is
one of them. I just can't read it. Can't read
it on the air. By the way, I was reading
this this morning. Since the peace deal, or at least
the ceasefire deal has been announced in Gaza. Remember all
of the protesters, the pro Palestinian protesters calling for peace,

(01:07:36):
peace and Gaza in the genocide. Guess what they do
not like I know, you're going to be shocked. You're
going to be shocked to find out the peace deal.
Reading an article this morning. The same people who were
critical of the war, calling it a genocide, are also
critical of the ceasefire deal. So you wanted to cease fire,
but apparently not this ceasefire deal. Shocked? Shocked?

Speaker 6 (01:08:02):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Perhaps you're only interested in chaos? Question mark? All right,
three or four talk three or four. That's the text line.
It is time for Steam release. It is your weekly
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West Virginia Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence. There is more
evidence of the shrinking enrollment in West Virginia public schools.
The Randolph County Board of Education is voted to close
the Harmon K twelve school and North Elementary amid budget concerns.
Those students will be split between Jennings Randolph Elementary, Elkins
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fearing it's a dangerous ride from Harmon to Elkinson back
each day. Randolph County Superintendent Sean Dilley said though we're
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necessary with the school system in a state of emergency
declared by the state Department of Education over its finances
and facing a multimillion dollar deficit. Closing those schools will
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Deputies continue to leave the department for better paying jobs
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U SEE President Marty Roth says that only enhances their
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One of the things that we work very hard to
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Yes, all week you've had to listen to this show
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Let's start on the phones. Let's start in Randolph County. Tom,
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Speaker 9 (01:13:46):
Yesterday. In Hope's commentary, his Trump derangement cinnum is showing
again as he's complaining about President and Trump sending troops
into these democratic calm infested cities, but he fails to
mention that Beckham not nineteen sixty eight President Johnson blah
blahized about fourth Allis and nice Guard troops and Gis Wilson,

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DC and other cities to twelve unrest, Arson mooning and
so forth by Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Jackson, Mississippi. And I
believe at one time he gave the orders some hut
looters and so forth. I guess the Happy's way of thinking.
I guess it's all right the Democrats do it.

Speaker 6 (01:14:28):
Tom.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Appreciate the call. Good start eight hundred and seven to
sixty five. Talk. That's the phone number three or four
Talk three or four. The text line Greg in ONWA.
What's your steam?

Speaker 14 (01:14:38):
Greg, Greg Hey, Greg Rally and Ona, how are you
guys doing?

Speaker 6 (01:14:41):
Great show?

Speaker 14 (01:14:42):
By the way, I'll I'll do the point counterpoint to
the first caller. If you recall those riots in Detroit
which I had visited not long after those riots occurred
as a child. It was one hundred square blocks in riding. Portland,
Oregon has one corner. That's it. It's a corner of
one building that is quote riding with maybe thirty people

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every other night. It's they're not burning in a city.
The people in Portland don't even know what's happening.

Speaker 6 (01:15:09):
Comical.

Speaker 14 (01:15:10):
This morning, I watched Fox News for one hour.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
It was hilarious.

Speaker 14 (01:15:13):
I actually counted because in one hour, when they were
on the air for forty nine and a half minutes,
including other stories but without commercials, they actually said the
word Donald Trump or the word Trump three hundred and
forty nine times. Divide that out. That's like six point
two times per minute. If you think I'm crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
Watch it.

Speaker 6 (01:15:32):
That's exactly what they do.

Speaker 14 (01:15:34):
Second thing, real quick. Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty two
made one phone call in twenty minutes to monock them
began the Prime Minister of Israel, and they stopped shelling
Beirut twenty minutes later. It was that fast and that
quick easy to do. Also, somebody companies call out Donald
Trump that more on he says, we're collecting trillions and trullions.
We've collected trullions on his.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
Tariffs.

Speaker 14 (01:15:57):
We've collected so far as of the finish of school
year September thirty one hundred and ninety two billion dollars
for the entire year, which he wasn't in office the
first thirty days or so. And now we're going to
have to start paying soybee farmers soybeing from eleven billion
in subsidies because they're getting killed because China's not buying
our soybeans anymore. They're getting from Brazil. So it's a

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net net gonna end up being a loss.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Thanks, you are welcome, Greg, have a great weekend. Eight
hundred and seven sixty five Talk. That's the phone number
if you would like to release your steam. You can
also text your steam to three or four Talk three
oh four Text Steam. I was listening to the CBE
Old Howie Monroe Show this morning and he started singing, Lordy, Lordie.

(01:16:41):
My old bigle heard it and took off, headed back,
headed for the back forty dang and Howie old Brownie
still ain't back. Junior from Fish Creek, have a good day, boys.
I have two hobbies painting, painting land and seascapes. I would.
I also do would turning, but I'm not great at that,

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says the Texter. Oh, you may normalize things like men
acting like men, people realizing that they shouldn't be teaching
young children. I can't say that on the air. These
mayors and governors have failed to the tune of thousands
of US lives a year, fight crime, not Trump. Crime

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rates in Chicago, d C. And Portland, Oregon are lower
than in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is in Mike Johnson's congressional district.
Why didn't Johnson request that Trump send the National Guard
to his district? Does he actually know that sending the
guard is a bad idea? Since Trump wants to pick
winners and losers in this shutdown, maybe Blue States need

(01:17:47):
to stop sending federal money to DC. I'm a Dodger
fan and couldn't get as excited as I would as
I would like because I felt bad for Kokering and
would much rather win because of performance, not an error,
says the Texter. Text steam did President Trump accidentally or

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inadvertently self submit the evidence needed to indict himself for
selective or malicious prosecution with his open media post to
Pam Bondy listing the three people James Comey, Letitia James,
and Adam Schiff that the President wanted her to indict.
Asks the Texter. Since the FBI is giving fifty thousand

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away and no crimes committed, as said by BONDI can
Westerrginia citizens get the same deal. Look how I came
to help the local economy with fifty thousand dollars? Says
the text off to a good start. Got a couple
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Just please don't get me fired. Let's go to Bill Bill.
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Speaker 6 (01:21:18):
Hey, Northern Outpost Dad's Workshop LLC retired. First, the local
church down here has asked me to refurbish their titchen
cabinets over the winter, and I'll do that job. But
I think it's a subtle way for the church members
to get me to attend church more often. I think
that's what they're trying to do. A second to your

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previous callers and stirewall I was in the military Lyndon
Johnson President Democrat mar did Marshall law in Alabama with
Governor George Wallace, Democrat. Governor to let the first black
woman walk in the front door of the University of Alabama,
so it works both ways. Finally, yesterday Tuesday this week,

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about about ten minutes still three on Fox Business Network
with Charles Payne, they interviewed the governor of Mississippi and
thank God from Mississippi. Remember how West Virginia used to
say that he was on there. And he listed the
fourth grade test scores this year of the Mississippi students,

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they are number ten in the country. He listed the
workforce participation rate, they are in the top twenty five
percent in the country. He listed and I think this
number is right, forty five million new investments in the
state of Mississippi just this year. And he expects that
number to grow very large next year. So thank God

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for Mississippi, and maybe the state legislature of West Virginia
ought to learn something.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Bill appreciate it. Gets church, Bill, get those cabin stuffed.

Speaker 6 (01:23:04):
I need to go. I'm getting closer to the end
of my decision making about taking my last breath.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Bill appreciate the phone call Bill on the Northern Outpost.
Let's go to Roger and Charleston. Hey, Roger, what's your steam?

Speaker 5 (01:23:17):
Yeah, after some gut his maggot people to assault the
Capitol building and change the name of the department from
Department of Defense to the Department of War, and he
thought he was actually entitled to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 9 (01:23:31):
That is playing Roger.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
List appreciate the call Roger enjoy your weekend. Good Steam
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that knows no public health what a joke? Doesn't the

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First Amendment protect? You must be tough, not being Jimmy Kimmel, Dave.
I'm asking for more steam from your listeners. We need
term limits for public office in West Virginia and in Congress.
Let's all call for term limits to get out of
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The Golden Gate Bridge was completed on four years, less
time than the bridge at the I seventy nine sixty
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up by Mount Morris that were up four years after
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Your program allows too much political kool aid to be
served out by both parties, says the Texter Dave, remind me,
are they called democrats or democrat? Yo? TJ, how's the
golf game going? Have you threw any clubs into the
woods today? Asks the Texter. Let's go back to the phones,

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Jim and morgantown what you got, Jim?

Speaker 26 (01:25:14):
Why are people so upset that RFK Juniors trying to
figure out what's causing autism? We should really be asking
why the establishment is trying so hard not to find
the cause of autism. Change the word autism to cancer, diabetes, O, BCD,
or any other major health issue and see if you'd
still feel the same way. If RK Junior were investigating
the causes or the increasing rates of cancer, would you

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be angry about that? The real question should be who's
telling you to be upset that RFK Junior is trying
to figure out what's causing autism? Now ask yourself where
do these outlets get their funding from?

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Pretty easy, Jim, appreciate the phone call eight hundred and
seven to sixty five talk eight hundred seven six five
eight two five five. At Steam release you can steam
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says Dave, you shouldn't be so brazen that's my Steam
three or four talk three or four. The peace process

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that has stalled for so long in Gaza isn't especially
fair to the Palestinians. That's why we who have protested
against Israel and the war are disappointed. Israel has continued
to bomb and kill folk in Palestine indiscriminately up to
this point. I hope fingers crossed. It really is a
lasting piece. Ouch. The Nobel Peace Prize went to a

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Spanish speaking female. Hide the ketchup, says the texter. I
hate steam release. Besides, I want you to respond so
I can rebuttal your asinine logic. Says the texter. I'm
not sure why everyone is crying about the awesome woman.
In public schools, We've been talking about a teacher at

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shortage for many years, and now there is an excellent
school choice program in West Virginia. Students and families can
choose to go where they know they will receive an
excellent education. And if that means some schools close and
less teachers are needed, I would think that teachers' unions
would be happy. Oh a texter corrects auto correct apparently

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failed them. It's loss of enrollment that makes more sense.
I'm not sure why everyone is crying about the loss
of enrollment in public schools. Gotcha makes more sense. Thanks
for the correction. Eight hundred and seven sixty five talks.
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Hey Gig, you're on Steam release.

Speaker 22 (01:29:44):
Hey Gig, Hey Dave. Great to talk to you. I
haven't talked to you a long time. I just want
to thank you for what you do, for what you
do to allow everybody to voice their opinion. I just
want to thank and praise God for a president that
is fulfilling all of his campaign promises and making sure
that America is safe.

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God bless you, Dave. We appreciate you.

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Thank you very much. Gig. Have a great weekend. Three
or four talk three oh four. I'm trying to figure
out why people hate Donald Trump. He's done more for
the American citizen than any president. He only wants to
get rid of criminals, illegals, criminal illegals who have killed
thousands of innocent Americans. Do these people not realize how
happy they could be if they self cure their tds?

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Proven fact, if it's not safe to walk in your
city in broad daylight and you refuse federal help, you
might be a Democrat. I have just one question for
all the Democrats that are crying around. Who is the
president's texter sends a meme At two hundred pounds, baby

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elephants are the second biggest babies in the world, right
after liberals Trump getting Argentina twenty billion dollar and American
farmers filing bankruptcy and coal miners losing their jobs. Republicans
call it progress. Watching the daily drama unfolded in our
nation's capital reminds me of the nineteen seventy five movie

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The famous line from
that movie captures what's going on at the White House quote,
all I know is this in the first place, And
it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life
tearing everybody down. This is not the way to lead
our two hundred and fifty year old United States of America.
Keep it tight, Bill Trump twenty twenty eight, says the

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Texter Dave, why do you follow up questions by saying
question mark out loud? You're not dictating a text message.
You're hosting a statewide talk radio program. Roger Sure sounded hoppy.
Roger Sure sounded like hoppy disguising his voice. They gave
Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for breathing. That's when the

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accomplishment became to mean nothing. Text Team, It's so incredibly
ironic and mind boggling to realize that the person who
invited and incited the January sixth, twenty twenty one insurrection
is once again inviting and inciting yet another insurrection. So
he convenues our insurrection law to announce what he himself

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again invited and incited an insurrection. Who will who will
fall for this this time? Robert just said a good
on the prize winner. My esteem is that people don't

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know how to merge onto the interstate, get into the gas,
or get out of the gas. But It's not my
job to move over to let you occupy the same
space I am, and it will And was it just
me or did Jim sound like al or oh ai?
That's Ai? Apologies. There are term limits. It's called elections.

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We need to get money out of politics and elections.
One person's vote should not mean more than another's because
they have more money. Public school behavior issues. Give them
a Hope scholarship and send them on their way. The
same for anti VAX's parents. Hope scholarships, stay home and
spread germs. Yay for term limits and reading and voting

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on bills and appropriations line by line, love the show
and steam release. I may not always agree, but you
all do a great job. Oh thank you. Why has
the brush been cut down along the rail trail in
the Manila Park area this summer? It's over your head
right up to the trail. Peace Prize for the guy

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who started or at least could have stopped an insurrection
that injured one hundred and seventy four law enforcement officers
from the US Capitol and Metro DC Police and then
pardons twenty twelve hundred convicted criminals. Kind of blew it,
don't you think? Good Show Good Steamer Lace. High school
football coming up tonight. Have a great weekend. This is
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