Talkline | Sept. 19, 2025

Del. Jonathan Pinson joins the show after Thursday night's vigil for Charlie Kirk at the state capitol. More on the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and the 1st Amendment. Joe Brocato recaps a tremendous performance in HS football and previews this week's matchups. Chris Stirewalt stops by and STEAM RELEASE. 

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Do we have a First Amendment crisis brewing?

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more on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension or was he fired?
People have been using those terms intermingled. We'll talk more
about that. Break it down in a couple of different ways. One,
we're gonna talk talk about the entertainment, the comedy side. Later,
Chris Stirewalt will join us eleven oh six, we'll get

(02:04):
into this question of do we have a First Amendment
crisis brewing. We'll do that with Chris coming up at
eleven o six. You may have missed it last night.
We've got highlights atu WDV Metronews dot com an incredible
performance by Nicholas County running back Devon Nash almost five
hundred yards rushing in last night's win over Lincoln. Joe

(02:27):
Bracato Metro New Sports will join us. We'll get a
recap of that game, plus preview the high school and
college games coming up this weekend as well, and of
course Steam release at eleven thirty three this morning. But
we begin in Charleston last night, where several thousand people
gathered outside the state capitol to honor and remember conservative
activist commentator Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Of course,

(02:50):
he was killed more than a week ago now at
Utah Valley University. Mason County Delegate Jonathan Pinson among the organizers.
He was there and he joins us on Meta News
talk line this morning, Deliga Penson, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Good morning, Dave. Thank you so much for having me on.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I appreciate you joining us. Can you set the scene
for us a little bit. What was the atmosphere like
last night?

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Well, our event last night was geared toward recognizing and
memorializing the life of Charlie Kirk, and that's exactly what happened,
as you mentioned, such a massive crowd of West Virginians
coming out not just to remember his life, but also
many of them stated that they were coming out to

(03:35):
further his legacy and a tremendous opportunity for West Virginians
to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, not just in
an attempt to recognize the tragic and senseless assassination of
this gentleman, but also to stand in unity that this

(03:59):
is not going to be the America that we tolerate.
This is not going to be something that is acceptable
that a man would be publicly executed in front of
three thousand onlookers and then millions others who will watch
that online, all because of his faith, all because of
his conviction. That's not the America.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
That we want.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Why do you suppose so many people who more than
likely there are a few people here in West Virginia
who had met Charlie Kirk and interacted with him, but
who have never met him, don't have any personal connection
to him, but yet they feel that personal connection.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Why do you so many people? Why do you suppose
so many people have that?

Speaker 6 (04:42):
Well, that's an excellent question, and I believe what you
find is there's a twofold answer. Really, I believe Americans
are mourning the loss of a good man and a
life that was cut short. They're mourning for a widow
and for children who will not know their father growing up.

(05:04):
So there's a sense of mourning that has taken place
both here in West Virginia in the event last night
and other events that have happened and will happen. But
also I believe that there is a desire to stand
and to take action, that Americans want to do whatever

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they can to ensure that they are going on record,
as it were, even if it's just in their attendance,
that they're going on record to state that this is
not okay, this is not something that is acceptable, that

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a man who had political opinions based on his biblical
belief and relationship with the Lord should be executed publicly
for that. So I believe that there's a drawl an
American draw, a patriotism draw, to stand and to take

(06:10):
the action that we can. And sometimes that's as simple
as showing up. Sometimes it's as difficult as speaking up
or serving. And I think that's what is motivating people
in part during the day that we live in today.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Mason County Delegate Jonathan Pinson joining us the vigil last night,
a call to courage honoring the life and legacy of
Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
We've heard a lot this week.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Delegate, from commentators, from elected officials about we need to
tone down the rhetoric, lower the temperature in the room.
And honestly, a lot of that sounds like hollow platitudes
unless you actually put some action behind it. So what's
the first step to actually putting some action to that
idea of lowering the temperature or bringing down on the

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rhetoric on both sides.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
Well, that's an excellent question, very fair question. I think
we find the answer to that question embodied in the
legacy that Charlie Kirk had lived and ultimately ended up
dying for. And that's bringing people together, bringing people together
so that voices can be heard, not violence play out.

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And that's what he was phenomenally successful at. Charlie Kirk
was phenomenally successful at bringing crowds of individuals, many of
which vehemently disagreed with one another, but he heard them
out and he debated them with dialogue, and in doing that,

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he was bringing the left and the right together. And
his position was not we need better politics or we
need better policies. His position was it is incumbent upon
Americans to use their brains and to think and to

(08:07):
use their hearts to lead them and to guide them.
Charlie Kirk wanted to see this country turn back to God.
And I'm reminded of what my favorite president said. My
favorite president's Abraham Lincoln, and he said that we have
forgotten God, We've forgotten his graciousness. We've forgotten his peace

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that has multiplied and enriched us. And Charlie Kirk was
trying to point people back to convictions that then led
to morals that led to political belief systems. And that's
what we still need to do today, if now more
than ever, in the wake of his death. We need

(08:48):
to bring people together and get back to the place
to where it's okay to disagree, but you ought to
be able to defend your position, and you ought to
be able to do it with the right dispositions.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
And we're talking to Mason County Delegate Jonathan Pinson that
Jonathan and I've thought about this over the last week.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
That doesn't mean you have to.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Go out on the street corner or go on to
a college campus and draw thousands of people. These are
conversations that Jonathan, I think we shy away from in
everyday life with our friends, with our close associates, our friends,
where we ought to be able to have a conversation,
disagree and then.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Go get some ice cream afterward. We ought to be
able to do that, But I'm.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Not so certain we can even do that with our
with our closest friends, let alone a stranger.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Well, you're exactly right, Dave, And there's a reason for that,
because we've grown up in a society and for a generation,
or maybe two generations, we've lived under the old adage
that there's two things you don't talk about. You don't
talk about religion, and you don't talk about politics. So
how many times have I heard my parents, adopted parents,
how many times have I heard my grandparents say that,

(09:57):
you know, you don't discuss those things at the workplace,
you don't discuss those things that family functions. So is
it any surprise then that we do not know how
to have those conversations in a way that is robed
in civility. So you're absolutely right. These are conversations that

(10:18):
we should have. These are conversations that we should welcome.
And that's not to say that everybody's going to agree,
But what we can do is discuss.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
And you know what, Jonathan, and part of the thing
that we have lost, many of us, when we do
have a disagreement, is to go back after that disagreement,
After you know you've had a conversation with someone and
you've agreed to disagree, go back and go, well, wait
a minute, what did they say, reevaluate their points of
reevaluate yours. Maybe maybe you're wrong, maybe maybe you're right.

(10:51):
You just didn't have a good argument. What we don't
do that. We just get mad and the other side's wrong,
and the other sides, you know, we call them the
name and we go the other direct. We've lost that ability,
or maybe we never had it this generation. I don't know,
but we've lost that ability to reevaluate and either improve
your argument or go, you know what, you were right?
I was wrong on that one, and change your mind.

(11:14):
We're too maybe we're too stubborn.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Jonathan well I.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
Had a college professor and he started every class every year,
had him for several different courses. He started every class.
His name was mister Keaton, and he stood in front
of our class paramilitary gentleman, and he would pace back
and forth lecturing our class. Each year he would start

(11:38):
to class the same way. He would say, I don't
care what you think, so long as you think, And
that was never lost on me. Unfortunately, we're raising a generation.
We're facing a time where the ability to think, the ability.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
To have some.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
Beliefs and some convictions, that that has devolved. And if
someone has some convictions about what they believe, or their
desire to pursue their faith, or their desire to have
a certain position, and some political conversation that it's theirs.

(12:26):
They're in defense of it, and they should be. But
we also need to be willing to communicate with one another.
And when we can't communicate, well, then we can't tolerate. Well.
That's what Charlie Kirk was trying to do, is to communicate.
And I think a lot of people are in a

(12:46):
sense of despair that as a result of his desire
to communicate, his life was cut short. So we find
those who are deeply concerned about the day and age
that we live in. I think what we're seeing sweep
across the nation in the amount of people who have

(13:08):
asked for a turning Point chapter to be started at
their school or place of education, in the reports that
we're seeing nationwide of individuals attending church for the very
first time, in the thousands that pour out for visuals
like what we had last night in Charleston. I think

(13:28):
what we're seeing right now in America is a turning point.
And that's what Charlie Kirk was looking for in this
country and Unfortunately he did not live to see the impact,
the full impact of his life. But I believe those
around him, his precious wife, and one day his children

(13:50):
will grow up in America that is different because of
his life and because of his legacy.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Mason County Delegate Jonathan Penson. We have pictures and coverage
from last night's visual at the state capital over at
the website Wvmetronews dot com. Appreciate the conversation. Thanks for
joining us this morning.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Thank you, Dave.

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Absolutely coming up more on the Jimmy Kimmel's suspension question mark.

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Speaker 2 (15:41):
Coming up, dozens of overdoses in Charleston yesterday at bat
Bats Drugs in town. We'll check you in with the
City of Charleston find out what's happening there. Is there
a First Amendment crisis brewing after the Jimmy Kimmel suspension
unless you've totally been off social media the last day
or so, which if you have, congratulations, Good on you.

(16:02):
The late night host was suspended from ABC after making
comments referencing Charlie Kirk's murder and the alleged accused charged gunman.
The Trump administration. Is it trying to control dissenting views.
We'll dive into those topics with Chris Tirewall coming up
eleven oh six. Now, there are several layers of this situation.

(16:23):
Certainly there's the politics, but there's also the reality of
late night talk shows not drawing audiences like they once
did the content. For that part of the conversation, we
turned to Jack Loger, morning show host on WVAKEW and Morgantown,
student of comedy with a master's in late night television.

Speaker 12 (16:41):
Jack, Good morning, Dave Wilson, thank you for having me
back on the program Sir.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
First of all, has he been fired? Suspended? What is
his status with ABC?

Speaker 12 (16:49):
He is suspended. And just like when Stern the story
broke a few weeks ago and we were on here
talking about this, everybody's saying, as Stern was fired, let's celebrate,
it's the same thing here with Jimmy Kimmel. He's not fired,
he's just suspended indefinitely. And what's interesting is there's actually

(17:09):
some speculation that he may return as soon as next week.
So I was looking into his story here and his ratings,
and they are on the slide, and it looks like
he's been dropping like a stone this year. Since January,
viewership for Jimmy Kimmel Live has dropped from one point
eight two million viewers down to about one point two million,

(17:30):
So he's lost like six hundred thousand viewers just this year. Now,
there is a theory, and I'm not saying I'm buying
into this, but there's a theory that they want to
correct the slide without firing him. They like him, they
want to keep him, So what they're doing is suspending him.
Then he'll come back at some point, maybe next week,

(17:51):
maybe a little later, once the heat dies down. He'll
come back with an apology, and then moving forward, he'll
correct course and stop being as partisan in kind of
pull back on that stuff, and maybe the audience will
trickle back in and that's a way to actually save
the show.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Okay, we talked about this when we discussed Stephen Colbert
and his show being canceled next after the end of
the current season, he still got a show going on
late night talk shows. Jack, I have been on a
slide for a long time now. Add to that, the
content has changed dramatically since even when you and I
were kids and we grew up watching Letterman and Leno.

(18:27):
Content is drastically different. The ratings are down, there are
many more options now.

Speaker 12 (18:31):
Oh yeah, there's no question about it, and it's really
interesting that if you look at what's happened with late
night television and how it's become so partisan, you can
kind of pull this back into the Howard Stern thing,
because there are a couple of theories here as to
why it's like this now. You know, with Stern, the
argument was that he got in with the cool kids.
You know, he started out he was a rebel and

(18:53):
he was ridiculing and tearing down, and then once he
started to get some acceptance with the cool kids, the
Hollywood stars, He's going to their parties, he's going to
their homes. Well, he can't keep attacking them and be
friends with them. So he had to make that adjustment
and that's how he ended up where he is now.
And then the other thing about it is, listen, let's
be honest when it comes to media, when it comes

(19:15):
to television and certainly radio, we're all a bunch of narcissists.

Speaker 10 (19:19):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (19:19):
I mean, if you have even a comedy show and
people are paying attention to you, you start to feel special,
you start to buy into your own pr It's really
hard for most people to just go out there and
do comedy and not use that platform to start influencing
people and start bleeding their own political views in. It's
very difficult to do that because it's kind of a

(19:40):
natural outcropping of fame.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Right, But this guy previously hosted The Man Show.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
He was funny. He was funny.

Speaker 12 (19:48):
His Carl Malone bit was pretty good. I mean, it's
a massive Carl Malone was great. He's done some funny stuff.
I think honestly that he's just kind of maybe been
ideological captured and he's just kind of moved into that camp.
But one of the things I wanted to mention to you,
and I know you're tight on time here. One thing
that I see that really stands out to me is

(20:09):
back in the day, the comedians used to portray politicians
in a funny way. They just wanted it to be funny.
Look at like Dana Carvey and how he was with
George Bush Senior and Pruden right, and Phil Hartman did
President Reagan. I mean, even Johnny Carson would throw on
a wig and portray at Ronald Reagan in skits on

(20:30):
The Tonight Show. And it wasn't hateful. He wasn't calling
Reagan hitler. He was just kind of making some jokes
at his expense for being a forgetful old man. But
now when you have people portraying these politicians who genuinely
hate the politician, that bleeds through. Look at Alec Baldwin's
portrayal of Trump on Saturday Night Live. He clearly hates

(20:51):
Trump and it shows.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Do you remember Will Ferrell portraying Janet Reno showing up
on Saturday Night Live?

Speaker 12 (20:59):
Yeah, walking through walls.

Speaker 10 (21:02):
Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 12 (21:03):
I mean again, there's lighthearted, there's ribbing, there's fun, but
you have to look at the goal. Are you trying
to be funny here when you're portraying these politicians or
are you trying to make some kind of point? Are
you trying to bury them? And it used to just
be about being the funny, being funny, And that's why
I'd love to see you go back to that.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Jack Loger, you can hear weekday mornings over on WVAQ
in Morgantown, host of the Jack and Nicki Morning Show.
Jack appreciate it, Thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Coming up, there were several dozen overdoses in Charleston yesterday.
We'll get into that story. Stiwald at eleven o six,
your thoughts are welcome as well. We'll get to the
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Sixty thousand West Virginias have coverage through the exchange and
benefit from premium subsidies. The shortened life of conservative political
activist Charlie Kirk being remembered in West Virginia. Large crowd
turned out the state capitol last night for a vigil
and service. Kirk was gotten down by an assassin on
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Talk is the phone number. The text line is three
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backup on the mile Ground in Morgantown this morning. One
of the main arteries, mile Grounds, one of the main
arteries getting into town at Easton Hill, had a traffic
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fault of the Morgantown Steak, the Saberton Snake, as a
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You heard Jeff in the news update. Authorities in Charleston
reported nearly three dozen drug overdose cases in less than
twenty four hours that may have been caused by what's
called the zombie drug. Matt Sutton is chief of staff

(25:56):
for Charleston Mayor Amy Schuler Good when he joins us
on Metro News talk Line this morning. Matt, good morning,
thanks for joining us.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
Absolutely good morning. Yeah, good to talk with you.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Can you give us an update.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Have there been any more situations or is this this
episode hopefully over?

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Well?

Speaker 5 (26:13):
We are certainly hopeful that it's over. There were a
couple of additional overdoses yesterday morning, but it has slowed down,
and I don't believe at least that I was told
that there were any last night, at least not any
related to this particular drug last night. I think that
the efforts, you know, between everyone in town, including our

(26:37):
Care office and our fire department and all our social
service agencies who are working hard to get dark hand
UH into people's hands, certainly made sure that we saved lives.
And if there was any issues last night, that would
have been helpful. And then and then the great work
of the Charleston Police Department who have been who have
been working diligently to I had to make sure anybody
who was associated with this UH in dealing these drugs
has brought to justice. That all cared last night and

(26:59):
seemed to slow things down pretty good.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
So at what point do you realize there is a
problem and what are the steps taken at that point
in the situation.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
So we're very fortunate in Charlson that Charleston Police Department, O,
Charleston Fire Department in our care office who are coordinated
very closely together and communicate on a regular basis, not
just when there are issues like the other night, but
just on a daily basis. So that process was already
put in place. So they began to see between the
calls the fire department was getting and calls the care

(27:31):
office was getting. They began to see a pattern form
in pretty early in the night, and all went to
work making sure not only that we were responding to
keep people alive, but that we were gathering as much
information as possible to make sure we could figure out
what was going on. So I would say after a
couple of overdoses, that stood out not only the locations,

(27:51):
the pairings of them together, but also the reaction that
folks were having to the narkan, which we were thankful
was successful, but did lead to a little bit different
reaction with people who were coming out of the narking.
Once they started to see that early in the night
and early in the day they started to communicate with
each other and really begin to put together a plan
to make sure that we could figure out what was

(28:12):
going on. First step in all in this, in every
point in time, is to keep people alive. That is
the very first step in everything that we do, and
that was done with great success. And then right after
that begins gathering information, and then right after that it
is it's working with the police department to hold anybody
accountable and talent who wants to pedal drugs in our
city and try to hurt our families and our citizens.

(28:35):
They're going to be brought to justice. It's just a
matter of time and working closely together with everybody. But
the police Department feels very confident that they will they
will have this issue and underhand real quick.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Matt Sutton joining US Chief of Staff for at Charleston
may Or Amy Shulder a good one and the fact, Matt,
that there were no overdose deaths associated with this really
a testament to the first responders, social workers and the
plan in place to deal with this that everyone was
able to act quickly. Narcan was available for everyone to

(29:08):
help ensure that. Again, fortunately nobody died this. This situation
could have gone really bad, really quick.

Speaker 18 (29:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Absolutely, And I think that's the one thing obviously we
would we will hope this never happens again. We would
hope that it would never happen in the first place,
and certainly hope it would never happen again. But the
promotion of the the reaction to this, and the success
in keeping people alive was years in the making. I mean,
the fire Department, the police, Department, of Care Office had

(29:38):
been working together for years. People have been throughout the
social service agencies, not only in Charleston but throughout the state,
have been working hard to get narkann in the hands
of everybody in our community, not just the folks who
might need it directly, but also to local businesses, to
people who have it in their car. I mean, I
have NARCAN in my car just in case I might
happen to need it, and so that people were trained

(29:58):
and ready to go in of these type of situations.
But then also just the quick and utter rapid communication
amongst our agencies together. Not only, like I said, we're
able to keep people alive in a very very difficult,
scary and stressful moment, but also to make sure that
we were gathering information to put an end of this
very quickly, because that's the key to this. We will,

(30:21):
like I said, first and foremost, we will work to
keep people alive. But then the next step is to
immediately bring anybody to justice who wants to try to
put this type of stuff into Charleston, because what we
know for certain in West Virginia is that if we
can stop it quickly before it starts, that it won't
spread other parts of the state. And that's the goal
in all of this is to make sure that anybody
who wants to bring these type of drugs that could

(30:45):
have killed several people is quickly brought to justice so
that not only they held accountable for their actions, but
that they can't harm anybody else, not only in Charleston,
but throughoutcohol counting throughout the entire state.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
And Matt Finnel is scary enough, but this Nilazine, this
is this is some major stuff.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yes, I mean, you know, we've we've seen it pop
up a couple of times and most in those times
have gotten it off the streets very quickly. And that
that is the goal here and the belief that that
that's what will occur here. But it is scary stuff.
I mean, I think that it is one of those
things that you know, we we not only you know,
the Care Office not only works hard to make sure
that they're providing nar canda folks, but we also have

(31:26):
fennel test trips that are available not only to us,
but through a variety of organizations in town, so that
people if they are going to if they are going
to use, if they're in the throes of addiction, that
they can be as safe as they possibly can be.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
And that and that is the key to this and
finding out what they're using. But really, when we start
to see a drug like this, the most important thing
is information gathering, information sharing, and that's what occurred very
quickly on Thursday, uh and into Friday morning and will
allow us to make sure that we can we can
put a stop to this real quick and get the
folks help who need it and who want it. But

(32:01):
if you're in Dralston trying to cause problem and trying
to kill our community members, we're going to find you
and hold you accountable real quickly.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
If you're in the Charleston area and someone needs help there,
they're seeking help they want to try to, you know,
quit the drug habits, or hey, they just need social
service they ain't help. Is there a number to reach out?
Where can they reach out?

Speaker 18 (32:19):
So?

Speaker 5 (32:20):
You can always call two one one with the United
Way if you're in draw so you can always called
two one one Unit Away can help connect you with
services that you may need. You can also call our
Care Office directly, the Charleston Care Office. They're good informed.
The Care Office back in twenty nineteen with its original
purpose and continue purpose to focus on the opioid epidemic,
though it has expanded into mental health services and homeless

(32:41):
outreach services as well. But you can call them directly
and they can help connect you to services not only
in Charleston but through out the state. Their number is
three oh four nine six two six one oh three,
and they can call the Care Office directly. Somebody will
pick up the phone, most likely twenty four to seven.
If not, they'll get back to you real quick. When
you're ready for help and you want it, you can
get it at any point in time in the City

(33:02):
of Dress, not only through the Care Office, but through
our major amazing social service agencies like the United Way
that can all Value Collective, Covenant House, and all the
others who are working hard, Prostera, Thomas Hostiles, everybody who
is working hard to solve this problem. But at the
same time, if you also know folks who are here
to cause problems and here to try to continue to

(33:24):
allow the opioid epidemic into our communities. If you know
people who are trying to here, trying to commit cos,
call the Trust Police Department, call No. One One and
tell them We'll use that information as soon as we can.
And I think that's one thing that we saw on
Thursday was is that we had a lot of people
who were sharing information because they know how deadly this
stuff can be, and they know they can trust the
Trust Police Department to take care of it as fast

(33:46):
as possible. And we're very thankful for that. We've built
relationships over the years that have led to be able
to do this successfully and quickly. Never want to have
to do it, but if we have to, we feel
confident that we have the team in place they can
not only care of keeping people alive, but can also
hold folks accountable who are trying to cause problems in
our city.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Matt Sutton, chief of staff for Charleston Mayor Amy Schuler,
good one, Matt, give our best to the care team,
all the first responders in Charleston. Good work and best.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Of luck to you.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
I appreciate it that take care.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
You as well.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Coming up an incredible performance last night on the high
school football front. Plus, we'll preview w at Kansas. Got
a slow of text to get to I promise I
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Coming up, mentioning your sports, Joe Bracado will join us.
An incredible performance last night in high school football. We've
got a slew of games to get to tonight and
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versus Lincoln, Devin Nash rush for four hundred eighty two
yards seven touchdowns as the Grizzlies beat the Cougars, and
Joe Briccado was there. He joins us on at Metro
News talk line this morning.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Joe, good morning, Good morning day. What an incredible performance.
You ever see anything like that.

Speaker 21 (36:54):
It's been a while since it's something you've seen something
in that realm. Give the young man a ton of
credit because for all the offensive snaps and defensive snaps
that he played, he hardly ever came off the field.
And Devin Nash is a senior for Nicholas County and
played obviously with four hundred and eighty two yards and
seven touchdowns, you talk about his offensive exploits, but he

(37:14):
really had the key defensive play in the game. In
the fourth quarter, teams are going back and forth putting
long touchdown drives together and Nash recovers a fumble on
Nicholas County's own two yard line. Really, that was the
stop that allowed the Grizzlies to kind of run out
the clock and secure the victory.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
You know, for Lincoln, the senior quarterback A J. Bart,
he ends up with a five touchdown performance. Usually that's
a pretty good night, but Nash one uped him there
on the offensive side.

Speaker 21 (37:41):
Yeah, certainly. You know, both of these teams have great
offensive skill players, and they had shown that in some
of their games so far this season. But you have
to be impressed with what aj Bart was able to do.
You know, this was a game where, really for a
while you thought whichever team had the ball last would
ultimately win the game. That is how it ended up finishing,
with Nicholas running out the final the least four minutes

(38:03):
of the clock in the final game winning drive. But yeah,
every once in a while, you get a game like
this where there's just you know, it resembles a pinball scoreboard,
and you know, everybody leaves highly entertained seeing combined sixteen
touchdowns on the board.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
We have highlights from that game posted up over at
the website wv Metronews dot com. Week four of the
high school football season underway. Joe, what are the games
to keep an eye on tonight?

Speaker 21 (38:30):
A couple in particular the one. I'll be at North
Marion at Fairmount Senior. And this is a rivalry that
has been tilted heavily in favor of the Polar Bears
in recent years. They've won twenty two consecutive games in
the series, despite North Marion having some excellent teams over
the last couple of years. And of course they had
that tremendous contest in the Class Double A state championship
game back in twenty twenty three where the Polar Bears

(38:52):
won by a point over North Marion. So that's an
excellent matchup. Tucker County and Frankfort a pair of unbeaten
teams and a pair of teams that are carrying lengthy
winning streets. Tucker County has won twenty three consecutive regular
season games Frank for the course last year's DOUBLEA champs,
they've won seventeen in a row overall going back to
last season and then up in the Northern Pain handled
Greg Kerry, we'll cover University and Wheeling Park. We thought

(39:16):
that this might be a three and O versus three
and OH matchup. Muscleman upset Wheeling Park last week twenty
one to fourteen, handing the Patriots their first loss, but
University comes in with a three and oh record and
always great games when those two teams meet up in
week four.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, University tends to play well over on the Island.
And now I'm confused by the Wheeling Park team because
they go, you beat spring Mills, that you lose to
Muscleman Universities? Are you beaten Muscleman one time or once
this season earlier on? So I'm really intrigued to see
how this one plays out.

Speaker 21 (39:48):
Yeah, and no question, we'll find out a lot about
then tonight about the Patriots. Deid how they bounce back
and if they were able to put that loss to
Muscleman behind them. University, on the other side, I mean,
they've been able to score on every opponent they defeated
so far this year, Musselman, Parkersburg South, and last week
putting a great performance up against Cannon Upsher. So I
think you could probably expect some points to be on

(40:09):
the scoreboard and Wheeling Island tonight, and it'll be interesting
to see how the Patriots response from their first loss.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Joe Bricando, Metro News Sports joining us. We'll have, of course,
all the scores from high school football tonight at the website.
Fred and Dave will be along with Metro News High
School Game Night on all as far as I know
these Metro News radio stations tomorrow. Joe w versus Kansas.
Last week wv's run game breaks out. Ty Edwards had
a big day. Kansas struggled defending the run against Missouri

(40:37):
advantage West Virginia question.

Speaker 21 (40:39):
Mark in theory. I think the one key defensively for
the Mountaineers is that they're finally going to have Jamuri
Robinson be able to play. He has had eligibility held
up for essentially the first three weeks of the season.
But Rich Rodriguez said earlier this week that he expects
that Robinson, who was the prized prospect to come in

(41:00):
through the transfer portal during this past offseason and the
fact that he's going to be on there and we
don't know how many plays he may actually get. I mean,
he's probably not going to be out there for seventy
eighty plays. It'll be, you know, in all likelihood a
smaller number as he's trying to get acclimated and get ready.
But you know, as a player of his reputation that

(41:22):
was the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year ago.
It'll be very interesting to see what he's able to
how he's able to help dis match your defense against
one of the top dual threat quarterbacks in the nation
in Jalen Daniels, who's now in his sixth year in
the Kansas program, in his fifth year leading that offense.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, Jalen Daniels, Joe. Last year he turned the ball over,
he could get he could get forced into turnovers. Can
a mountain your defense do that this week?

Speaker 21 (41:50):
Yeah, And that's one thing they have done very well.
They were able to force three turnovers in the Ohio game,
and they were able to They have been able to
get a lot of negative plays in terms of quarterbacks,
and they're the number four team in the nation enforcing
quarterback sacks. So if wes Virginia, the defense is able
to force a number of negative plays, whether that be
turnovers or being able to get the Jayhawks behind the

(42:11):
sticks in terms of quarterback sacks. Obviously, Daniels has tremendous
mobility and is able to usually wiggle out of trouble
a lot, and we've seen that in the times that
he has played against West Virginia, including that twenty twenty
two game in Morgantown where Kansas won in overtime. But
if Wes Virginia's able to get a number of negative
plays defensively, that that's gonna be key for them tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Does Nico Marcio go the whole way quarterback?

Speaker 18 (42:36):
I would think that.

Speaker 21 (42:40):
It's difficult to say, because there have been substitutions in
each of the three West Virginia games so far, so
that's difficult to say with certainty. I would say that
the performance that he put up in the fourth quarter
in overtime probably buys him, you know, a little bit
more time if the offense is not clicking, as it
was not during the first half of the Pick game.

(43:01):
But that's a good question. It'll be interesting to see
how it plays out, regardless of what the game situation is.
Does Rich Rodriguez want to stay with Marcy all throughout
the entire way? Where does he go with the pattern
that he's had the last couple of weeks, and sticking
to what he was saying throughout the course of the
preseason that he likes multiple quarterbacks and wouldn't be surprised
to see multiple quarterbacks play in any game situation.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Mountaineers at Kansas tomorrow will have postgame coverage over at
the website dou WDV Metronews dot com. Marshall on the
road this weekend as well at Middle Tennessee tomorrow night.
Tony Gibson looking for win number two in his head
coaching career. Joe always appreciate it, Safe travels, travels and
great work as always, Thanks the Joe.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Briccado Metro News Sports.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
You can see his work, of course over at the
website doubledv metro News dot com. All the scores from
high school football tonight on the Metro News Scoreboard and
Metro News High School Game Night on many of these
same Metro News radio stations. After your local games tonight
with Fred and Dave coming up, a couple of texts
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three zero four. Charlie Kirk did not deserve to die,
but he also does not deserve to be compared to
the likes of MLK and JFK like I am hearing.
Listen to some of his speeches and look up some
of his quotes. There is a reason many outside the
MAGA movement did not know who he was, because many

(46:17):
outside the MAGA movements still have common decency and common sense.
Charlie Kirk, reject feminism. Submit to your husband, you're not
in charge. The Democrat Party hates this country. They want
to see it collapse. They love it when America becomes
less white. I could go on all day. He did
not deserve what he got, but he also does not
deserve the praises he has received since his death, says

(46:37):
the Texter. I think you make part of a point there,
I'll give you a part of a point in that. No,
he's certainly not MLK or JFK. However, we have not
seen a politically motivated assassination like what we saw last
week in Utah. Since MLK JFK the sixties, Robert F.

(47:02):
Kennedy Jr. Some have compared it to Lennon's assassination. We've
not seen anything like that since the nineteen sixties. Since
those figures were killed in plain public view, the way
they were killed, that's where the comparisons are being drawn.
All right, Good first hour, Second hour coming up talk
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Solo in the Encode Insurance Studios in Morgantown, joining us
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The Hill and News Nation, host of The Hill Sunday
on News Nation, Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,
and of course, the author of Broken News, Why the
media rage Machine divides America and How to fight Back.
Chris Diarwaltz joins us. Chris, good morning, Good to talk

(48:43):
to you again.

Speaker 10 (48:44):
Too many jobs.

Speaker 23 (48:45):
When you list the jobs, bums me out, man, it's
too too many jobs.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Yeah, but if you didn't have all that to do,
then you would get bored.

Speaker 23 (48:53):
Well, you know, I have this disadvantage that I have
these smart children who I think will be able to
get into good colleges. And it's a I'd be a lot,
I'd be a lot better off if they were in
different students, but there they are. So we'll just have
to We're going to do it all if I if
I ever I promise you this, if I ever get rich,
the Good Lord, the Good Lord very wisely has never

(49:15):
allowed me to be a rich person. But I mean, yes,
by world historical standards, I'm extraordinarily blessed, it is true.
But if I were ever rich rich, no one would
ever have to worry about hearing anything that I thought
about anything ever again, and no one would ever be
victimized by my opinions or analysis. I would I would vanish,

(49:36):
and it would be great. You They'd say, who is
that guy? I remember there was that guy, and be like,
I don't know. We haven't heard from him in six months.
And I'd been very happy with that.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
I would be I've always said, if I ever hit
the power ball, I don't play the power ball, but
I've ever wonted. Uh, you'd never hear from me. I
would be somewhere, probably up on a mountaintop and Tucker
County somewhere.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (49:55):
You just It's the thing that is always amazing to me.
I under stand why people are act thirsty and crave
engagement and attention and act terribly in the public space
if you're trying to get rich. But when people are
already rich, and they act crazy and act terribly. I think,

(50:15):
what happened to you?

Speaker 10 (50:16):
Who?

Speaker 8 (50:17):
Like?

Speaker 23 (50:17):
Were you dropped on your head? Did something bad happen?
Life is full of so much good. There's so much
wonderful thing things to do in life, so many people
to love, in places to be and enjoy and do
all of that stuff. And I see these people and
they're famous and they're rich, and they can't stop. They
can't stop. I want you to know I would stop,

(50:38):
I promise.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Chris tarr Well joining us here mentioned News talk line.
Do we have a First Amendment crisis brewing on our hands?

Speaker 24 (50:45):
Here?

Speaker 23 (50:45):
Chris Well, we have a Bill of Rights because not
because the liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights are popular,
but because they are unpopular. Cynthia Loomis, the senator from

(51:08):
I want to I want to get it right, she said.
She was talking to Semaphore, I believe, and she said basically,
I used to be for free speech, and now I'm
not because this it's different now. People shouldn't be allowed
to just say these things to each other. It's different now.

(51:30):
And I think about sort of the astonishing historical ignorance
that it would take to say that now it's it's
different when on the day that Pearl Harbor was bombed,
the American Nazi Party had hundreds of thousands of members, right,
They weren't neo Nazis adjasent not. These were actual Nazis

(51:53):
and they that's that's what they were about. The conflict
over civil rights in this country. In nineteen twenty six,
nineteen twenty I think nineteen twenty six, I'm here in Washington, DC,
one hundred thousand members of the ku Klux Klan marched

(52:15):
up Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that we are in some
especially dangerous time and that it's different now is just hogwash.
It's just hogwash. It has been. Our dialogue in this
country has been much worse and much more dangerous at
different times in our history. We have come out of it.

(52:39):
We had one civil war, we had a lot of
domestic violence, internal violence, and terrorism in the United States
in the nineteen sixties and seventies. We've had a lot
of really bad stuff happen. We have a First Amendment
not because it makes life easier. We have a First

(53:00):
Amendment because free speech is unpopular and the temptation to
restrict it is eternal. The reason we have it is
the reason we have that Bill of Rights is to
say these things are unpopular. Second Amendment, Right, why do
we have a second amendment? Because it would be easier

(53:20):
to have a society without armed citizens. It would just
be easier if you could do what they did in
Australia confiscate all the guns. It would be a lot easier.
But the founders, the framers It's Constitution Week said I
know you think that, and I know you're gonna think that,
and I know the government's going to think it, and
we know that they'll be popular when the government says it.

(53:43):
But you can't do it because freedom is so rightful.
Government is a balance between freedom and order. If you
don't have enough order, right, you live in chaos, and
you live in destruction, and you end up tearized by
the mob, which eventually becomes direct tyranny under authoritarian rule. Right,

(54:05):
anarchy gives way to authoritarianism. So if you have if
you have un disordered liberty, you end up oppressed. Conversely,
if you have too much order, then you will crush
the people. Right then that's Russia, that's China, That's that's
the problem. So rightful government balances freedom and order. Well

(54:30):
when but when freedom and order are in conflict, which
they always are. But when you reach the end point
where you say, okay, it's freedom or order, we choose freedom.
And the point of the Bill of Rights is to say,
when you come down to the end of it, on
questions like these, you must choose freedom, because freedom is

(54:52):
the point right liberty is the point of the American enterprise.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Free markets.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
We're taking care of the problem, if you will, over
the last week, right people who were posting a celibratory
post on social media, they were getting fired from their companies.
Then Pambondi steps in and says we're going to place
hate speech. Well, way to step into its Strike two
I said earlier this week where she's really stepped into it.

(55:20):
The first being you know, I got the list on
my desk.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Right here, right here. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
But and then FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, he leans on
next Star in Sinclair and ABC. They didn't have to
do that, Chris. The problems were kind of being taken
care of without the administration needing to involve itself. Yet
it involved itself, which they seem to not be able
to stop themselves from doing well.

Speaker 23 (55:45):
The I people talk a lot about the vibe shift
right and the vibe shift nationally, the backlash. So it's
it's the backlash against the backlash against the backlash against
the backlash right. And we had and this is what
I wrote about for The Hill Today, which is four

(56:09):
years ago. Democrats believe that there had been a vibe
shift right after January sixth, after Donald Trump tried to
steal an election or steal a second term, after all
of that, after the pandemic, Democrats thought, it's different now,

(56:30):
right now we can start forcing other people to do
what we tell them. And guess what they guess what
they found out. They found out that if you make people,
if you say, not only must you accept the fact
that some people are transgender, but you must have you

(56:50):
must allow transgender women, trans women to compete in women's sports.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
You must.

Speaker 23 (56:57):
It is the law, and we demand that you do it.
And if you enforce speech codes, and if you push
on people, they will push back. That's what happens. So
the idea, if we're talking Constitution week, we're talking Constitution Day,
we're talking about the idea of the framework, the idea
of the framework is that no one is one hundred

(57:20):
percent right one hundred percent of the time. So we
hold intention people's ideas right. So we divide power between
the states. We do all of this stuff because the
whole idea is no one knows exactly what to do.
So we want everybody trying their own thing, and in
some places it will work out, and in some places

(57:40):
it won't. It may work out in this city, it
may work out, in the state, it may work out whatever.
But dictating to other people how they should live, what
they should say, what they should think, causes the backlash
now right now, on the left, there is a lot
of I would say, hysterical thinking, this is the Reichstag fire,

(58:00):
this is the assassination of Charlie Kirk, is a pretext
for the blah blah blah blah blah. That is hogwash.
I don't think that's at all what's going on here.
What I think is going on here is is that
the American right feels entitled to lash the backlash even harder.

(58:22):
Right that because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we
can go even harder at our enemies, and we can
punish them more, and we can grind them down and
we can do this. Who did the Democrats of twenty
twenty one, and who are the Republicans of twenty twenty
five forgetting about? They're forgetting about the people who made

(58:42):
their majorities. They're forgetting about the normal people who are
not engaged in this question. It's people who didn't really
know who Charlie Kirk was, or didn't think about Charlie
Kirk that much, didn't really care that much about what
Jimmy Kimbel said, didn't really care about that, didn't really
care about that right. The people who punished Democrats in

(59:02):
twenty twenty four were voters who were beset by problems
that came from inflation, which was caused by in large part,
by excessive government spending by too much and by substantially
unchecked refugee numbers of refugee asylum seekers flowing into the

(59:26):
United States, huge disruption, and people who aren't very political, right,
who don't think of themselves as political, People who had voted,
many of them for Joe Biden in twenty twenty said nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope,
flip it back. Republicans imagine somehow. You look at the
Republicans' numbers. You look at the president's numbers right now

(59:48):
on key questions, look at his number with Hispanic voters.
Look at what's going on, and you see those same
voters who told Democrats too much, it's too much, are
saying in an even louder voice to Republicans, it's just
it's all just too much. And so we have a
problem in the country because we don't have a functional middle,

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we don't have a functional moderate right now, we have
extremes lashing and backlashing and lashing and backlashing because of that,
because we can't There is an incredible power from the
middle of the country, and we can talk anytime you
want about how bad our primary election system is. But
because of that, we just go back and forth and
back and forth, and every lash creates a bigger backlash,

(01:00:35):
which then creates the next bigger one. So this seismic
tsunami of trying to force other people to live the
way that you want them to do and tell them
what to do. You see it happening over on the
left right Zor Mamdani, Radical democratic socialism is churning up
on the far left and right now. Republicans imagine they'll

(01:00:58):
be in the majority forever and that this is a majority. Well,
I'm here to tell you that it is no more
unthinkable that there would be a president Alexandria Casio Cortes
now than it would have been that Donald Trump if
we were in twenty thirteen, that Donald Trump would one

(01:01:18):
day be president. It is no more unthinkable that that
is true. And Republicans had better get hip to the
fact that if this keeps going, we will end up
in worse and worse and more and more radical places.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Well, you've talked about it before. We're in this what
seems like an unending spiral. They did this, so we're
going to do it too, but we're going to do
it more. And then the next time whoever wasn't in
power when they're back in the majority, Well they did this,
now we're going to do it more. We never get
to the point. I think it was Jonah Goldberg who
tweeted up I saw this morning, Chris, you're very familiar

(01:01:54):
with him. He's my dog basically, and I paraphrase because
I don't have it. Pulled up the argument that well,
we shouldn't do something because the other side is going
to do it back to us plus more. That's okay,
but that's not the argument. The argument is you should
not be doing it in the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
We never have that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
We just go, okay, well you canceled us, now we're
going to cancel this plus that, and then it'll get
turned around or whatever the issue is in twenty twenty eight,
when you have President AOC in office, As you.

Speaker 23 (01:02:24):
Say, the postmodern way of being suggests that there is
no strict code, right, everything is situational, and we don't
have basic standards about that. My favorite line from Seinfeld

(01:02:45):
George Costanzas complaining to Jerry about how he has combined
amorous interludes with eating and he has brought food into
the boudoir and is enjoying that at the same time,
and he is talking about this to Jerry, and Jerry says,
do you mind. We're trying to have a civilization here?

(01:03:08):
And what the postmodern way of thinking is is that
we are not trying to have a civilization here, and
that that's behind us. And here's the problem. As the
institutions and norms that make civilization pleasant and livable and
good are eroded, right, the premise becomes well, things are

(01:03:32):
worse than they've ever been before, so we should just
do whatever we need to do, while in fact what
we should be doing is returning to Western civilization, constitutional principles,
and most of all, most of all humility, right enough
humility to say, I probably don't know all the answers,
I probably shouldn't try to run other people's lives. And

(01:03:55):
I will be the one there to tell Democrats when
they are back in charge, you don't want a government.
I will quote Barry Goldwater to them, and I will
say that a government that is big enough to give
you everything that you want is powerful enough to take
it all away. And we just have to remember that
this Constitution Day week, we just have to remember that

(01:04:19):
the reason for limits on government power is because human
beings are always and ever shall be human and weak
and fallible. And we do not put humans in a
position over other people to rule over them. And it's
worth it. The disorder and disruption that comes from liberty

(01:04:40):
is worth liberty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Chris Stywaltz. You can see him Sunday Morning on the
Hill on the Hill Sunday on News Nation. Of course,
you can read his work over the Hill dot Com
Are you a are you a seinfeldt boff?

Speaker 23 (01:04:53):
I mean who You're not as old as I am.
But there's a period of time where what you watch
that was on television was what was on television and
Seinfeld reruns in the back the Mike Cherry would put
him on in the back room at the Daily Mail
and we would stand in the sports section and we
would watch Seinfeld because it was on and just like

(01:05:15):
real Americans, what did we watch? We watched what was on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Then you'll understand why I have a hunker and for
a Postromi sandwich now because of you, exactly exactly, Chris
Tyer Waltz.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
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Texter says, you know what you've done Caligula, Yeah, I had.
I did not know Starwalt was. He's at least a
Seinfeld fan fan. I don't know if he's a buff.

(01:07:12):
You know that's that's a pretty high threshold. I know
one guy that's a buff, Biff wants to be a buff.
If I had known that, I would have been dropping
a lot more uh Seinfeldian references on him during these segments.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
I thought he just like sat at home and read
the Constitution every night. Three or four talk three oh four, Dave,
I suggest you name a Hoppy's commentary column, Hoppy's weekly
Republican bashing commentary. Come on, hop relax, your liberal bs,
be happy, Go hug a tree go Tobedvu, says the Texter.

(01:07:49):
President AOC Stirewall is a clown and a Trump hater.
Same old blah blah blah from him. Get another guest,
says the Texter. You guys are fear mongering about AOC
becoming president. You guys can rest easy. She won't make
it because she doesn't take money from corporate donors. Unless
she starts doing that. You guys can keep your pennies
unwadded and comfy around your pearls, says the texture. Look again,

(01:08:15):
go back to twenty fifteen. Did you think in twenty
fifteen Donald Trump would be the president of the United States?
Did you believe did you believe on election night until
the returns were done that he was going to beat
Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen. The point he is making

(01:08:37):
and using AOC as the example Republicans, if you are
over confident, if the Republicans think they can never lose
another election again, that they have this unbeatable plan, you
can very well end up with President AOC. As crazy
as you think that may sound, that is certainly possible,
because well, we did end up with President Donald Trump.

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SAM release coming up next eight hundred and seven and
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happening across the great state of West Virginia.

Speaker 24 (01:09:16):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence. Several thousand turned
out on the steps of the Capitol Building last night
remembering Charlie Kirk, the conservative influencer who was killed by
an assassin's bullet last week in Utah. Paul Smith is
pastor of Tays Valley Baptist Church in Putnam County and
says Kirk's sudden death created a vacuum that he believes

(01:09:36):
ought to be filled.

Speaker 10 (01:09:37):
My immediate reaction was, of course shock.

Speaker 22 (01:09:41):
But then right after shock, I thought, well, then who's
gonna stip in his place?

Speaker 10 (01:09:50):
My whole thinking is he had a movement.

Speaker 8 (01:09:53):
That we need to keep that movement alive.

Speaker 24 (01:09:55):
It was the largest gathering yet in West Virginia to
pay tribute to the well known Kirk. The men accused
in separate murders and Wheeling and in Clarksburg. Now I
have trial dates after their arrangments. On Thursday, Fairmont's Dennis
Evans is alleged show killed forty nine year old Christine
King on Whealing Island. He'll go on trial December second. Meanwhile,
in a separate case, eighteen year old Toenail Thompson of Akron, Ohio,

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is set to stand trial in January. In the February
twenty twenty four Clarksburg murder of Dallian Lewis, both men
have pleaded not guilty. Two men face charges of setting
fire to a couch after last weekend's victory by Double
VU in the Backyard Brawl in Morgantown. The students, one
from DOUBLEVU, one from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania
face fines of a couple of thousand dollars if convicted

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The Charleston Stern Will Regatta another home run for the
capital city in twenty twenty five. City leaders say the
total economic impact was forty point one million dollars. That's
slightly higher than the previous year, but Mayor Amy Goodwin
said even better was a lot of folks weren't from
here that came.

Speaker 9 (01:11:58):
What is significant about the numbers this year, though, or
the seventy eight percent of the visitors were from out
of state.

Speaker 20 (01:12:03):
A man o day, that's what we want.

Speaker 24 (01:12:05):
City also announced the twenty twenty sixth. We got it
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Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Made it to a Friday. It's going to be another
nice fall? Are we in the fall this weekend? Officially
it's gonna be a nice weekend either way. You don't
want to get into it all crabby and grumpy. That's
why we offer this to you each week.

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Speaker 26 (01:12:58):
Your head out.

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And yeah, I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna
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Yes, all week long, you listen to this show and others.
You watch the news, you read the news. You probably
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You may not steam about Jake the video producer, or
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Speaker 4 (01:15:06):
Yes.

Speaker 27 (01:15:07):
I believe something awry is taking place at Turning Point.
I believe it was a big mistake to put Erica
Kirk as the CEO CEO of Turning Point. And the
reason why is I believe it is a sin against God,
the God of the King James Bible, to put a

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woman in a position of authority over a man. And
that's everywhere taught in the Bible, and that's also taught
by all our founding fathers believed in that.

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Don appreciate the steam eight hundred and seven to sixty
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five five. You can text your steam to three or
four Talk three oh four, Dave. My gripe is people
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Is not the responsibility of the person driving down the
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the one stuck in the left lane now holding up
five cars looking like a jerk, says the Texter.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Dave.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Charlie Kirk was a martyr for his faith in Jesus Christ.
Nothing but evil which is in our world. Charlie was
a hero that made a huge difference now and in
the future. Texter says, so Biff wants to be a
buff and several laughing face emojis.

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Yes, Dave, I did believe Trump would win.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
He was grateful ratings AOC would be blacked out by
the media due to her economic beliefs. Remember back in
twenty two thousand and three, when your President of the
United States wrote on a birthday card to the world's
most famous pedophile in the shape of a neck and
woman and signed his name Donald in the place of
her pubic hair on the card.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
Let us not.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Forget the signature looks identical to Donald Trump's many other
Donald signatures from two thousand and three, was written many
years before anyone could have known to frame him as
a future president, and included the following discusting quote to
Jeffrey Epstein, we don't need to read that happy birthday, uh,
and may every day be another wonderful secret. A power
is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday, and may every day

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be another wonderful secret. That is the text Steam eight
hundred seven to sixty five Talk eight hundred seven sixty
five eight two five five the phone number text Steam
Kemel wasn't fired because of ratings or saying anything about Kirk.
He got fired over the showing the callousness of Trump.
When he asked about his friend being killed, Trump went

(01:17:35):
right to how great the ballroom is going. Truly a
man of grief or like a man using Kirk's life
now death for his self interest. Wake up people, says
the texter eight hundred seven to sixty five. Talk is
the phone number eight hundred seven sixty five eight two
five five. Text your steam to three oh four talk

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Speaker 26 (01:20:08):
Hey, I was very nice to Sofia when she answered
the phone. That's number one. Two. In my opinion, it's
okay for TJ to talk to the golf guards golf
gods when he's sneaking out for nine holes to play golf.
It's okay for him to talk to the golf guards. Third,
my apologies to the audience, I sent you a correction.

(01:20:28):
Randy Weiningardner, who is a National president of the AFT.
Book is titled why Fascist Fear Teachers Okay? And finally,
most important, I was in the army when Martin Luther
King was assassinated, and in all of his speeches and
where he went to go speak, he had a following

(01:20:50):
of how good he was as a speaker. What Joe
Manchins the book is all about is get involved, Charlie
Cook and where he went to get people to get involved.
And now we got to Jimmy Kimmel's story and all
the media is talking about it now. This is one
of the best things that could happen for not my
age group, the boomers, but the millennials and the children

(01:21:14):
of the millennials. That's what it takes to run a country
is to be involved in getting good speakers to deliver
a message. God bless America.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
Thank you, Bill.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Have a great weekend. It's go to lewis Burg. Benny,
you're on steam release what do you got?

Speaker 11 (01:21:32):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:21:32):
The Wicked Witch of the North, Kathy Hochel, said that
so called assault rifles were weapons of mass destruction designed
to kill people on the battlefield. I would love for
her to show me that battlefield.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
Benny, appreciate it. Have a great weekend. Eight hundred and
seven sixty five talk. That is the phone number eight
hundred seven six five eight two five five. You can
text the show at three or four time three oh four.
TEXTA says, yes, I believed in Donald Trump three h
four talk three or four as an independent voter. I
wonder if the Democrats get their wish and ban guns,

(01:22:12):
what will they use? Come on, guys, come on, Yes,
I will censor some text that are highly inappropriate. TEXTA says,
I don't know if you still look at this number.
Just wanted to applaud your September nineteenth commentary to spot on.
I'm afraid of where the free fall will stop. Keep writing, bro,

(01:22:34):
there is no First Amendment crisis. Freedom of speech is
not freedom from consequences. Fabruar listener sends ten bucks no
more Stylewalt, do you prefer PayPal or the cash app?
Star warts intro is way too wordy. He was a
great generational speaker for the present, not sixty years ago.

(01:22:57):
Things must be put into proper perspective, says the text,
referencing Charlie Kirk. Regarding the previous quotes you read from
a listener, I think you missed the point. The things
he said were not unifying. Are you seeing any Are
you seeing any black people rallying around the tragedy of
his death? Let's consider perspective, says the Texter. It's a

(01:23:19):
shame our society has wrote it to the point that
people have to carry Narcan in their car. After listening
to your previous guests concerning the drug overdose, I agree
people selling drugs should be arrested, but also the illegal
drug users. They committed a crime as well. There's no
reason for taking illegal drugs. Guys, it's all about the dollar.

(01:23:41):
Next Star is courting the FCC to get approval of
a six point two billion dollar deal. Kimmel was told
by his bosses to issue an apology. He refused, that's
not a First Amendment issue. Eight hundred and seven to
sixty five Talk is the phone number three oh four?
Talk three oh four is the text line to release
your dem Texter says Johnny Carson said it best, and

(01:24:05):
then he sent me a link. Well, I can't watch
the link. During the show eight hundred and seven to
sixty five Talks the phone number three or four Talk
three or four of the text line back to the phones.
Jim and Martinsburg, what's your steam?

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Jim?

Speaker 26 (01:24:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:24:17):
This week Hoppy Kerswill came out on this radio station
and he criticized charump for speaking out about Jim Mkimmel
being punished for saying things about Charlie kirk Uh. You know,
kim OL's rady's been going down for a long time.
We don't need him anymore. Hoppy is try and foul
about free free speech. Yes, we have free speech, but

(01:24:38):
you have to use your common sense about how to
use that. Kim O got hisself punished.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Hoppy, Jim, appreciate it. Have a nice weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
Eight hundred seven sixty five Talk eight hundred seven six
five eight two five five. If you'd like to call
to release your steam, you can text your steam as well.
Three or four Talk three zero. Oh, you've got to
get off your both sides fantasy. It just gives one
side a license to kill. This Kimmel thing has zero
with free speech. No one has the right to be

(01:25:11):
on radio or TV. No one is keeping Kimmel from talking,
says the Texter. Three or four Talk three to four, Well, Dave,
talking disparaging about Trump is hate speech. Monday the TJ Show,
l Ol, says the Texter. Okay, people, if you think

(01:25:32):
ABC Disney has suddenly become a less liberal group, think again.
The timing of the kimmel firing is to make Trump
look like what they already think. He is a fascist dictator.
It's ammunition to the Democrats to use against him. I'm
so tired of these people talking about the firing of
Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert's free speech. There is no
free speech at your job. According to the Texter, three

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or four talk three oh four is the text line
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Text your steam at three oh four Talk three four
text Steam. Charlie Kirk was not MK or JFK, but
he could have been. Another great twentieth century engineering feet
completed faster than the I seventy nine I sixty eight
Bridge Interchange. The Golden Gate Bridge was completed in four years,

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an engineering marvel to rival any Dave. Today is September nineteenth,
twenty twenty five, and thank the Lord. Donald J. Trump
is President of the United States text team wise Fox
News reporter who called for the killing of a homeless
of homeless people by involuntary lethal injection, still on TV,

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TJ said the shooter of Kirk was a grouper, and
you said the shooter was a leftist, and Ronnie Moore
said he was trans You guys are the three stooges?

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Three or four? Talk?

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Three or four is the text line? Eight hundred seven
to sixty five talk. Let's go to Tucker County, Donnie,
what's your steam?

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Hey, Dave Coe starwalls with a suit. Now you said
no supper, you.

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Will do Donning eight hundred and seven sixty five talk
eight hundred and seven sixty five eight two five five.
My steam is no football on Tuesdays and Wednesdays? What
are we expected to do? Interact with our families, cut
the grass, go to the grocery store. I demand football reform.

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No one silenced Jimmy Kimmel or even Stephen Colbert. They
can still speak freely and practice their First Amendment rights.
They're just not promised or entitled to a public, nationwide
platform to spew their nasty, hateful rhetoric. If hear of
those nuts were as popular as leftists claimed they were,
then there should be no hesitation by any one of
the other Marxist media networks to grab them right up

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and give them each brand new shows. Right, question mark,
let's go to Parkersburg. Didn't catch a name there? Who's this?

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This is ear Earl? What's your steam? Buddy?

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Well, I'd like for every to open their eyes to
what is going on around well with the Charlie Kirk thing.
Ignore all the press, all those stories and everything, because
the wound where the blood comes gushing out of his

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neck is an exit wound. It's not an entrance wound.
He was shot from the back.

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All right, I appreciate it, but we're not doing conspiracy
theories eight hundred and seven to sixty five Talk eight
hundred and seven sixty five eight two five five. I
drive to West Virginia State Capitol daily. Why are the
streets around it broken and considered stagecoach worthy? Jerry manning,
jerry mandering congressional districts, and using government power and money

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to influence company decisions and intimidate individuals is nothing new.
Trump is just too arrogant to resist publicizing it and
makes the most of his extreme and makes it his
most extreme supporters happy. When Trump is going to stop?
When is Trump going to stop wearing that stupid Golf
of America. Cap doesn't even know it's been called Golf

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of Mexico since the seven hundreds. Why are liberals so
angry about Jimmy Kimmel being fired? They weren't angry about
conservatives being fired. Jimmy Kimmel said, Charlie Kirk's killer was
a maga. That's a lie. He was losing money, and
the company can fire him if he's hurting their business.
Texter Steam three or four Talk three or four phone

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seven six' five eight two five. Five my steam Is
West virginia. Swings they're, dangerous to say the. Least there
are pages On facebook and TikTok about Epic West virginia swing.
Failures my wife fell backwards off one On Droop. Mountain
she's had issues ever, since and she's had to get
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is very slick and dangerous when wearing certain.

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Clothing.

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Beware my steam is about the abandoned dogs and lit
are On route ten Where mercer And Wyoming counties. Meet come, on,
people just stop. It, also The County commission can't afford
to send the dog catcher out, here much less the litter,
Patrol so please stop throwing your garbage out, here or
at least wait till you get somewhere that The commission cares.

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About Text, team you gotta sound. Ridiculous today here we
are living in a state that is practically last in.
Everything our country is battling a war on drugs and
trying to re establish law and. Order trump's doing a great,
job even though few of us totally agree on the.
Methods results aren't always logical or. Popular the fact that

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the backbone of discussions are still of the separation of
political parties In america and not just humanely characterized as
sad or tragic in deaths of people which Include Charlie
kirk Or Trey, reid is still. Astonishing you're, Guilty Jimmy
kimmel is. Guilty anyone who holds the discussion of politics
over the loss of life is. Guilty thank you for your, show,

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though says The, Texter, Yes kimmel is about the. Money
it's also about the bad faith of the federal regulators
using power to stop, speech protect The First. Amendment it protects.
Us kimmel suffered consequences from his, employer not the. Government,
However President trump consistently sticks his nose in and comments
on things which are below the office Of presidents.

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Steam When democrat liberals say both sides need to turn
down heated, words they really mean we need to turn
down our heated words as a cover for the admission of.
Guilt it's just too easy for them to Blame republicans for.
Everything never, ever forget This. America. Dave what a large
crowd at the visual for The Patriot Charlie kirk yesterday

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Great place to live and raise a.

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Family, dave do you remember When, twitter a private, company
Kicked trump off the platform for inciting a terrorist ride
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