Talkline for Friday, October 11, 2024

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here this morning. A couple of minutes. Way to talk
with Senate Education Committee Chair Amy Nicole Brady. She's in

(01:45):
a unique position. She is a school teacher, so she
is a public employee technically accounting employee. She's a school
teacher and she's a member of the legislature, so she
has a particular point of view on this proposal that
is out there from the Public Employee Insurance Agency to
raise premiums by an average of fourteen percent and to

(02:10):
increase deductibles by about forty percent. It's not sitting well
with school teachers and staff and public employees. Will get
her take on that coming up here in just a
couple of minutes. Also coming up here at Halpern Fox
News Radio, on what is happening in the presidential race.
In a lot of developments, we see Barack Obama emerging

(02:30):
now as a player, a more public player in the
presidential campaign on behalf of Kamala Harris, and he is
called on and trying to motivate black men to ensure
that they vote and in a close election that could
make a big difference. So Obama getting more directly involved
in the presidential campaign. Meanwhile, Donald Trump was in Detroit

(02:52):
and said bad things about Detroit. We'll get here at
Halpern's take on that. Tony Creed is going to join
us in just a bit and fill us in on
Tomorrow night's cold Rush as West Virginia takes on Iowa State,
should be an incredible atmosphere. I rate this as a
five on the opportunity scale. As a five, this is

(03:13):
a scale It made up zero to five as a
five on the opportunity scale because it's all there for
West Virginia. Tomorrow. You have a home game where you're
a home dog, but not by much like a couple
of points, three or four points. You have a game
that is winnable. Yes, Iowa State's the favorite here, but
it's certainly a winnable game. You're coming off a game

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where you played extremely well, the best you've played all year.
Iowa State. Yes they're five and zero, but some of
that is opponent adjusted. Yes they beat Iowa quality win
on the road, but still West Virginia has had the
tougher schedule in my opinion, And you got this big
blackout tomorrow night. I mean, the crowd is going to

(03:55):
be into it tomorrow night. And with that blackout, the
black uniform, it's going to be an incredible atmosphere for
tomorrow night. Tony will talk about that. Also coming up
is a special event coming up this weekend in Harper's
Ferry and it has to do with John Brown. John
Brown's raid, of course significant in the history of this country,

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and it happened right here in West Virginia. And Harper's
Ferry is going to be an event this weekend where
experts will talk about John Brown's raid and John Brown
will get caught up on that. Also, we will discuss
the latest on Jim Justice family finances. I wrote about
that today and some of you push back. I get that,

(04:37):
that's fine, and some of you pushed back on this
saying the fact that there is a legal ad that
the Greenbrier could be sold at a public auction but
probably won't be. The fact that there is a legal
ad on that is not a big deal is not news.
That's been the pushback by some of you. And I
get that because I don't think there will be a

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public auction, okay, And I think that a Beltway Capital
posted that legal ad about the possibility of an auction
about an auction just to cover its basis in case
it does not get paid the amount that it's due,
which principal and interest is about forty million dollars by
the Justice family businesses. So Beltway Capitol, which is owed

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this money, is saying, look, we just want to make
sure that if we don't get paid by the deadline
October twenty fourth, that there could then be a public auction.
We know that Governor Justice and his family, probably his
son Jim Jay, are working on trying to secure financing,
secure a loan, and that if they could get that loan,

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they could then satisfy the debt, and as the governor says,
all would be right in the neighborhood. Would be good
in the neighborhood. But there's another question here which needs
to be addressed, and I've just started to think about it,
and some of you have already texted me about this
or push back on this. Is that Governor Justice never
put his assets into a blind trust. And maybe that's

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impossible to do for Justice because he's personally guaranteed a
lot of these loans. So maybe you can't since you
have personally guaranteed the loans, maybe you can't put it
in a blind trust and separate yourself from it. I
don't know that. However, there is a reason why that

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members of Congress typically not always, but typically put their
assets into a blind trust. They're not required to do so.
They are not currently required to do so, even though
it has suggested that they do it, but they're not
required to do so. I was looking at a report
this morning and the report came from the Congressional Research Service.

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Proposals to limit financial activities of Members of Congress, Background
and analysis, so and so forth. This is from the
Congressional Research Service, which has been informing legislative debate for
over one hundred years, and this is what they said
about blind trusts by members of Congress. Federal government officials
and employees, including members of Congress, when taking official action,

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are expected to place loyalty to the Constitution, laws, and
ethical principles above private gain above private gain, and so
ethics programs that are in place are there, quote to
preserve and promote the integrity of public officials and institutions
and the quarter to scholars saying, the Ethics at Government

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Act of nineteen seventy eight is a reflection of one
of our nation's most fundamental aspirations for government, and that
is that official decisions should be made in the interests
of the common good, not the narrow self interest of
individuals in power. Now, I am not let me be clear,
I am not suggesting that Jim Justice, if he's elected

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to the United States Senate, would do something unethical or
not in the best interests of the country. I'm not
for a minute suggesting that. But the reason that these
ethics laws are in place, and the reason why there
is an emphasis on trying to require members of Congress
to put their assets into into a blind trust is
so they will not be tempted and so there is

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not a perception that they are subject to temptation. I
think that's a subject that needs to be explored as
we get closer to this election. All Right, we're gonna
take a break and come back. When come back, we're
gonna talk with a chair of the Senate Education Committee
who is also a school teacher and get her take
on this proposed increase in peia premiums. That's next. One

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Speaker 1 (12:45):
Amicle gat Amenicle Brady Great is a State Senator from
Mason County. Amenicle Grady is a state Senator from Mason
County and she is chair of the SIN Education Commie. So,
school teacher, Sarah, good morning, How are you?

Speaker 21 (13:03):
Good morning, copy, I'm great?

Speaker 12 (13:04):
How about you?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Well, thank you, welcome in. What does your take on
the proposal to raise PI premiums your school teachers? So
this would affect you and all your cohorts and staff
to raise PI premiums fourteen percent and also increase out
of pocket by forty percent.

Speaker 21 (13:19):
Well, I'm frustrated, just as everybody else probably is. And
my perspective not only as a policyholder but also as
a legislator. When we passed the Senate Bill two sixty
eight that was the eighty twenty split, it was my
understanding that that was needed to be done to prevent
large increases like this in premiums and deductibles and out
of pocket maximums, that bringing it back to solvency with

(13:42):
the eighty twenty split would prevent these things from happening.
And here we are less than what less than two
years later, and they're saying that they need these huge increases.
It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
What do your fellow teachers say about this? Fellow teachers
and staff members where you teach.

Speaker 21 (13:58):
You know, we haven't really had a lot of conversations
about it yet, but I know everybody is worried about it.
I mean, right now, you know, with inflation the way
it is and costs are crazy anyway, people are having
a hard time making things, making things work, and to
put an increase on them right now what actually, you know,
would make it ten times worse. What frustrates me the most,

(14:18):
so happy, I think is that you know, every time
we turn around, whenever they're meeting, they're trying to say
that we need to increase this or that, And I
think maybe we need to look at is this partly mismanagement?
You know that that could be part of the issue,
is at mismanagement. There are a lot of other things
that I have questions about on what they could change
instead of changing you know, the policy holders and putting

(14:39):
all the money on them or all the increases on them,
there are some things they could change from the inside
that maybe could make things.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Better and save that Satra senat Amy Nicole Grady from
Mason County is with us and also chair of the
sended Education Committee. What do you mean mismanagement? You have
specific instances of where you think there's been mismanagement.

Speaker 21 (14:59):
Or poor management with well, well, I'd like to look
into this weight loss drug trial and exactly how much
that costs, because it sounded like it was really really
expensive to see. I'd like to see that information, and
I haven't received it yet. But of course I've been
in the classroom, I've been teaching. Actually I'm on a
field trip right now, so I've been teaching all day.
But there's there's an issue that was brought up to

(15:19):
us last year that that I think needs to be
looked in a lot into a lot more. You know,
they're they're specialty drugs. Their their PBM sends those to
their own specialty pharmacy. I think somewhere like in Nebraska
when we could have them field cheaper in state, and
the law I think needs to be changed on that.
But that end up ends up costing PEIA more, the
policy holder more out of pocket, and it also hurts

(15:40):
our local independent pharmacies and so you know, any of
those little those kind of changes can make a difference
to where we're not putting it on the policy holders.
And so I think that we need to really look
at things that can change from the inside rather than
automatically saying, you know, healthcare costs have gone up. Well,
when we asked in twenty twenty three about the AD
twenty split for Centate Bilt two six, the anticipated costs

(16:02):
of healthcare going up was included in that. So that's
why we went ahead and pass that bill. And that's
why I voted for that bill, was because I didn't
want to kick the can down the road, and I
looked at it and said, you know, we need to
fix it now so we don't see large increases in
the future, because this is the information they provided us.
And now they're saying, well, sorry, that didn't take care
of the problem, even though we told you that it would. So, yeah,

(16:23):
I'm frustrated. I know a lot of other legislators are frustrated,
and I am certain that the public employees who have
PI are frustrated, and they should be.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Do you think there will be a turnout of public
employees at these hearings that will be held around the state.

Speaker 21 (16:37):
You know, I hope, so, I hope. I think that's
really the only way to really get the point across this,
for people to show up at the public hearings because
they need to hear how it really truly affects you.
You know, you need to you need to express to
the board how this affects you, and just you know
the fact that people can't afford it right now and
we need to find another way. And I think diving

(16:59):
into the financial records would really maybe maybe show us
a lot of stuff that we.

Speaker 22 (17:03):
Need to see.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Senator Amy Nicole Grady, Republican, Mason County Chair of c
and Education Committee, also a school teacher on the on
the draft proposal that would raise PI premiums out of
pocket cost. Thanks Senator, good to speak with you. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 21 (17:17):
Hey, thank you. Happy you two.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
You have a good day, are you too, lem We
go to Jared halperin Fox News Radio. Jared, good morning,
Thanks for joining us. Get us caught up on the
presidential campaign. A couple of things stand out to me.
But where do you want to start?

Speaker 18 (17:28):
Well, I think it's notable how this focus now is
on the West right. You have the first lady making
her first trip on behalf of the now Harris campaign.
Let's going old school, five states, five days. It starts
in Arizona, goes to Nevada before hitting those three blue
wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But I think

(17:52):
it is a again indication of how important Arizona Nevada
are for both campaigns here on this path the two seventy.
Harris has been out west as well this past week,
and again I think that's because as you look at
the map, you know you need to use every opportunity

(18:12):
here to see if you can expand your pathways to
two hundred and seventy. Obviously the easiest for Harris is
just when you know those three upper Midwest blue wall
states Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. But getting a win in Arizona,
getting a win in Nevada, North Carolina, even Georgia makes
a lot of pathways open up that currently seem pretty

(18:33):
closed off for the Democrats.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
How about Barack Obama taking a much more public approach
now to this campaign and making a direct appeal to
black men.

Speaker 18 (18:41):
Yeah, so he spoke at a big rally in Pittsburgh,
and that was kind of vintage Obama. I think getting
next to Bob Casey. I watched it last night, but
before that, You're right, a much more smaller engagement at
black men, and that is because polling has shown that
the support among black men in particular has slipped from
where it was four years ago for Joe Biden. And listen,

(19:05):
I thought it was notable that Obama kind of hinted
that there could be a little bit of sexism play.
He said, you know, I worry that this is because
you don't want to vote for a woman, and you're
kind of coming up with other reasons for that. And listen,
if you're going to deploy these top tier surrogates like
Barack Obama, you got to put them where they make

(19:26):
the most difference. That certainly was an audience that few
other Democrats I think could go into and kind of
give that kind of assessment, and we'll see if it
pays off. But listen, you're going to see I think
Obama play a big role here in the closing weeks.
You're going to see I think President Biden play a
big role where he can make the most use. Again,
I think it is in that upper Midwest of those

(19:47):
kind of you know, traditional union working class kind of
cities in the Upper Midwest. But boy, you're going to
have to deploy the assets where they can make the
most difference. For the case of the first lady is
she's hitting the suburbs, right, She's going to those swing states,
but she's spending a lot of time in suburbs and
trying to appeal to suburban women in particular. We have

(20:09):
seen that gap increase now, boy, almost the historic levels
between Trump and Harris.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Jared Albins with his Fox News radio I see two
narratives that have almost solidified. One is that Trump is
going to give rambling at times incoherance speeches and a
Kamala Harris is going to do some word salads and
not take tough questions to do tough interviews. That's the
generalize narrative. What are you have?

Speaker 18 (20:36):
I think sixty minutes is always a tough interview. But
you're right, she's going to also go to places the
media landscape has changed, right, you don't need to go
I guess if you're a campaign to kind of the
traditional big three networks and do that big fit down interview,
and you look what Harris has done right. I know
people kind of mocked that she goes on kind of
these safe space but there are areas that have big audiences.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Like Howard Stern. Like Howard Stern.

Speaker 18 (21:01):
Howard Stern's a huge audience, right, And I listened to that,
and she was on for more than an hour. I
listened to all of it, and I thought that it
was an opportunity, if you're Harris, to kind of have
kind of personalized things.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Right.

Speaker 18 (21:15):
It's not all policy. So much of this, I think
is still kind of trying to get voters who may
not love Trump but also like haven't loved this administration
to get more comfortable perhaps with somebody like Kamala Harris.
And so it's a struggle, right, because they have put
together a campaign in a record short amount of time,

(21:35):
and I do wonder if they are concerned or worried
that there is still a lot that voters don't know
about the sit and vice president going on a show
like Howard Stern or Charlemagne. That God helped you with
those those big audiences, Jared.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Meanwhile, I'm not going to say the saying because it's crude,
but it has to do with you don't blank, where
you eat and Donald Trump in Detroit, and he says,
quote and speaking to auto execs, says, the whole country
is going to be like he's talking about the problems
in the country. He is, the whole country is going
to be like, you want to know the truth, It'll
be like Detroit.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Our whole country will end up being like Detroit.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
If she's your president, you're going to have a mess
on your hands speaking in Detroit.

Speaker 18 (22:17):
Well, well, I mean, listen, I think again the base
understands that. But you're right, I think that's, you know,
a risky strategy. I wouldn't go to ann Arbor and say,
you know, roll tide.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
But so that was that's intended to go beyond that
particular audience, beyond.

Speaker 18 (22:39):
That road, Okay, right, I mean I think any time, listen,
any anything that is uttered by a candidate at this
stage is not just for that audience in front of them, right,
It is a much bigger audience. And but you're right,
it's a I mean, and again I think it was
off the cuff. I think, yeah, I don't think it

(22:59):
was scripted, like at the Detroit Economic Club to make
a despaired and comment about Detroit. But you have also
heard Trump kind of talk about how he believes that
he can turn these cities around.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
You know, So yeah, that's I mean, and that's well,
I got a break, but I get it. So like,
these are the problems, but I can fix them. These
are the problems. I can fix them. I got it.
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What's the story tomorrow night?

Speaker 17 (27:37):
Oh my goodness? About fifty two stories?

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 17 (27:42):
This is not just a one story game. You've got
all these different elements that are coming into the game.
But on the field, I think what you have is
you've got a very high flying Ihiowa State football team
that has shown incredible balance and both running and passing
the football. In its last three games. They're averaging and
have run for over two hundred yards and thrown for

(28:03):
over two hundred yards in each the last three against
a Mountaineer team that, as we've all seen, has progressively
gotten better as the season has gone on, and now
they've got a tremendous opportunity to try in hand. Iowa
stated its first defeat of the season, and then side
of the story off of the field is all of

(28:24):
this obvious excitement about dedicating the game to the coal
mining industry, paying homage to it. With the debut of
the black coal black uniforms, and so put it under
the lights, put it on national TV. And so there's
a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
And you have rock O Beck the quarterback for Ioway State,
his father Anthony Beck, to former stand out of West
Virginia going into the WV Guy's gone into the WV
Sports Hall of Fame. So there's that.

Speaker 17 (28:53):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, there's a bunch of angles.
So obviously it's his first time. West Virginia did him.
Iowa State got on him early and he opted to
go for Iowa State. Rocco came in during the same
class that West Virginia took Nico Markiel and so yeah,
I'm sure that it's a huge game for him. His

(29:13):
mom is from you know, Clarksburg, Harrison County, and obviously
Anthony played here. So you know, so many different ways
you could kind of structure story and narrative about this game.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Tony Creedy is with us. Tony Gary Green took a
hard hit on that right shoulder in last week's game. Miraculously,
he came back in was effective. How's how's he doing.

Speaker 17 (29:33):
He's good to go, He's practiced, and he's all lubed
up and ready to go. I checked on that last night.
So Neil Brown says he's all good.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Now, what else did you pick up from Neil Brown
during the show last night? Any good intel?

Speaker 17 (29:46):
Well, you know, I think that again, I think they've
had a good week of practice, just like he said
going into the Oklahoma State game, hoppy. They feel good
about their practice, They feel good about you know, where
they are and who they are right now. But again,
you know, practice and then actual game comes in. I
would I would say this, you know, on the on
the concern O meter would be to me. The last

(30:09):
time West Virginia was put into a situation of excitement
and anticipation for a game would be Week one against
pat State, and they did not handle that well. They
did not to their level of efficiency. I think the
game got too big. And so now we go a
month later and you ask yourself the question, because you

(30:32):
know everyone has been chirping about this game. You know,
will they handle it? Can they handle it better? You know?
Neil addressed it Monday during his press conference, saying that,
you know, they don't think that they did a good
job distraction wise in that first game, and they were
going to you know, keep it to a very much
of a minimum this week inside the building and not

(30:53):
allow them to, you know, get engaged in any hype
that goes along with it. So we'll see how that
goes to.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
The same could be said for the Cyclones because they're
five and oh for the first time since nineteen eighty
and they're looking to go six and oh for the
first time since nineteen thirty eight, So you could ask them,
how are they going to handle it?

Speaker 17 (31:11):
No, absolutely, hop I mean, that's that's what makes this
game exciting. You know, there are those that kind of
wonder if Iowa State has played a competition, really good
competition to this point. We know, you know, West Virginia's
played and it's non conference schedule. They've played two teams
that are in the top twenty five and both Penn
State and pitt And I think the big tests so

(31:33):
far for Iowa State was their game at Iowa in
which they hit a huge path late and kick the
field goal to walk off to win. And so you
could certainly make that case. And you know, you could
also make the case that they have not seen a
defensive front so far this season that's as good as
West Virginia's is. Going to be which you just kind

(31:53):
of add that all into the mix of ingredients and
you stir them up and you say, hey, guess what,
this is going to be really good? Yeah, you know
one another. If you're Bob in Burlington, Vermont, you sit
down tomorrow and you watch this game, you're gonna go like,
this is really good, and I think it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, I agree with you. It's going to be a
great atmosphere. Tony CRETI, thanks, Tony, have a great call
tomorrow night with a ballgame.

Speaker 17 (32:16):
Okay, how thank you?

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One of the seminal events of the Civil War era
occurred in Harper's Ferry. Was one hundred and sixty five
years ago that John Brown and his faithful followers crossed
the Potomac into Harper's Ferry on their crusade to free
Their thought was to try to free four millian enslaved
people that they would rise up. Since then, generations of

(39:42):
student scholars and biographers have written about John Brown and
his mission. This coming Sunday in Harper's Ferry, there will
be a special gathering of authors and journalists and rangers
to explore the topic of the Voices of Harper's Ferry.
Generations of perspective on John Brown's raid. Catherine Baldeaux as
director of the Harper's Ferry Park Association. Catherine, good morning.

Speaker 29 (40:04):
How are you, good morning, hop Thanks so much for having.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Me, great, thanks for coming on. So what do you
hope to accomplish here Sunday? So much has been written
and said about John Brown's raid. You all live it
there in Harper's Ferry. What are the perspectives that you
hope to hear or the people who turn out Sunday
hope to hear?

Speaker 29 (40:26):
You know, It's funny because you're right, so many things
have been written about John Brown and the raid and
been talked about. So what we're trying to do is
sort of span that whole, you know, one hundred and
sixty five years, starting with Osborne Perry Anderson, who actually
was you know, a raider who wrote about it too,

(40:47):
survived the raid and wrote about it. So we're starting
with his words, and we have all the way up
to a descendant of John one of John Brown's Raiders
Dangerfield movie. So what we're hoping people will see is
that there are new you know, in a civil war
emerging civil war scholar author, We're hoping that people will

(41:11):
get a new, fresh idea of what it was like
and what happened during the raid.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Catherine beldeu is with his director of Harpers Fury Park Association,
is gathering Sunday to revisit the part the John Brown raid.
And I guess, and this is not uncommon given in
the in the society in which we live now, that
there continue to be different perspectives. Was John Brown a
terrorist to some because he raided the armory and tried

(41:42):
to inspire an uprising? Or was he a freedom fighter
for slaves or a combination thereof, And you know, that's.

Speaker 29 (41:52):
What the National Park Service does, and people seem to
think that the Park maybe, you know, I don't want
to say worships John Brown. But what the parts of
this does and what we try to do and these
authors do is really tried to present both sides of
the story. And what's interesting now is that with a

(42:13):
descendant of one of John Brown's raiders who wrote a
fabulous memoir, Brianna Wheeler, she talks about she puts it
into perspective of today's time. And she always knew that
she was a descendant. She didn't really, you know, engage
that much with her heritage until her grandmother died in

(42:36):
twenty twenty, and then COVID struck, and then she was
stuck in her apartment in Portland, and then following the
George Floyd riots which were right outside her door, it
made her take a step back and really look at
her history and her heritage and the ancestor of hers
who died one hundred and sixty five years ago. You

(42:58):
know what was he fighting for? And what has changed
since then? And here we are again one hundred and
sixty five years you know later, what was John Brown
fighting for? What did he die for? And have things changed?

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah? And there I grew up near Harper's Ferry. I've
been there many many times. I've been to the quote
unquote fort which is the old firehouse. I've been there
many many times and walk those streets, and it is
one of the more incredible places in West Virginia to
walk through the history of Harper's Ferry, which is not
exactly obviously been very much like it was one hundred

(43:37):
and sixty five years ago, except the armories along gone.
But you all have done a wonderful job really trying
to recreate what it was like then. So not much
of a question, just an observation to you well and exactly.

Speaker 29 (43:49):
And another observation, I don't know if you were able
to see the northern lights last night, you know.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I missed that. I wish I.

Speaker 29 (43:56):
Had, but they were, you know, brilliant here in Harper's Ferry.
And actually in eighteen fifty nine there was another solar
phenomenon where it was in August September, late August, early September,
so a month before the raid, where the northern lights
were visible in Harper's Ferry and much you know in Baltimore,

(44:18):
New York, and many newspapers were writing about it, and
you know New York Times in Baltimore's Sun, and Walt
Whitman wrote about it and connected it to John Brown,
you know, was that you know, those brilliant skies. You know,

(44:39):
people say it's a sign of something that come. I
hope it's not today. But it's interesting that that you know,
those two events, you know, and in Harper's Fury is
much like it was in eighteen fifty nine. It's been
kind of incredible to think about that.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Catherine. I'm not gonna be there Sunday night. I wish,
I wish I could. But do you do you think
that the experts that you're having, will will they describe
or from your knowledge as being the an official there
in Harper's Fury. Would the raid have been considered simply
a precursor to what was, what was inevitable, or a

(45:20):
lighting of the fuse that inspired what came next?

Speaker 29 (45:27):
Well, you know what women called John Brown a medior
of the war. And Frederick Douglass, you know, he said
Crown did not end the war that ended slavery, but
he did at least begin the war that ended slavery.
So many scholars could argue that what happened here in
Harper's Fury was really the start of the war.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
When folks go to Harper's Fury, and I'm embarrassed to
admit I did not do this early on when I
went there many many times, not to aydan life is
you should obviously you need to do that. The point
there were the Potomac and the shado A meet where
the shadow empties into the Potomac, and see how the
area has been recreated. But you need to go up
on the hill too and see Storer College and the

(46:10):
great history that's at Storer up on the hill, which
sometimes candidly people forget about they're just focused on Harper's Ferry.
Can you speak to that exactly?

Speaker 29 (46:19):
In the quote I just gave you from Frederick Douglass,
he actually said that at the campus of Store College
in eighteen eighty one. And it's interesting that, you know,
five years, five or six years after John Brown was here,
the college opened in eighteen sixty seven and did exactly

(46:40):
what he wanted for all Americans, for the enslaved. You know,
it was against the law for them to read or
write when John Brown was alive. But you know, here
we are, you know, in eighteen sixty seven. You know
his mission I would say, you know, came through or

(47:00):
with sort of ful fill It's still a work in progress,
but Store College is definitely an important place to visit.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Sunday night, Sunday is it? What time is it Sunday?
I'm sorry, Sunday during the day.

Speaker 29 (47:13):
Yes, actually starts at nine point thirty And.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Oops, I just lost her. It is Sunday. I just
lost her. But it's all day Sunday. Voices from Harper's Ferry.
Generations of Perspective on John Brown's Raid. That'll be in
Harper's Ferry. That's Catherine Baldeaux director of the Harper's Ferry
Park Association. Thanks. Sorry, we lost her at the very end.
We'll be right back.

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Chalkline from the NCOVA Insurance Studios in the Miller Building
text topy healthcare for all. If the rich don't want
to get your own private plan, state workers need to
shut the state down, says the Texter, till something is done.
Big and dollars in the Rainy Day Fund. It belongs
to the people, not to the Republicans. Well, the Rainy
Day Fund should not be touched unless you have an emergency.

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That's why it is there. One you have an emergency,
you can go into the Rainy Day fun Number one
number two. It also keeps your bond rating very high,
so the interest that you pay on bonded debt is
manageable or low because you're in good financial shape. So
I get it. I mean, I get the whole idea
of returning money to the people. I'm all in on that. However,

(52:22):
it's good to have a reserve, and so the rainy
Day Fund makes makes sense. I'll be just remember when
Obama passed Obamacare. It was so good that Congress exempted
themselves from it. Kamala Harris wants to do a single
payer healthcare plan. Well, who knows where she is on it?
I mean, Kamala Harris said she was for single payer

(52:43):
or was signed on to Bernie Sanders single payer. Now
she's not for single payers. So it's like a lot
of things with Harris, she has migrated to other positions.
So how do you really know how do you really
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Number one. Number two is that the Republicans campaigned for
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they couldn't do it. And they also found out that
a lot of people like it happy where we see
the northern lights again tonight. I checked on this just
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I just quickly saw, But correct me if I'm wrong.

(53:25):
I haven't done a lot of research on that. I'm
sick I missed it last night. Well, I was watching
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Alrighty hour number two talk line on the Metro News
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Text me three h four Talk three h four coming
up at eleven thirty three. It's Friday. That means Steam release.
You're a chance to vent and get it off your chest.
Based on some of the texts and emails I've gotten
this week, a number of you want to release Steam
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not respond. I may during another time and defend myself
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the neighborhoods during steam release, so you can vent at
me during that time and whatever you want to vent
about for the most part. But first so, for the
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(54:48):
the West Virginia Daily News in Greenborough County setting a
date for a public auction of the Justice family owned
Greenbrier Resort. The first auction, it was scheduled for all
August to satisfy and unpaid loan to Beltway Capital, was canceled.
The Justice family announced it had acquired the money to
pay the debt. Here's what the Justice Family said at

(55:10):
that time. Quote. Under the agreement, Beltway will receive a
specific amount to be paid in full by October twenty fourth,
twenty twenty four, which I'm quoting here, Justice has already secured.
So that was the statement at that time. But now
there's a second forced auction scheduled for October twenty fifth,

(55:33):
and Justice was asked about that yesterday several times during
a briefing. He said, this is nothing but a procedural matter.
So evidently the debt owed to Beltway, which is forty
million dollars of principal interest, has not been paid yet.
Even though Justice did say last August we acquired the funds.
That's a quote. We acquired the funds. So let's get

(55:55):
to this because, for examples, we got pushed back on
it when I wrote about it. Here's what Mark said
on the website today. Why is this news? Hoppy? They
have until October twenty fourth to pay. This notice is
required by law and is tied to the original issue.
Running a required notice is only news because certain media
people in the state want to influence voters choice in

(56:17):
this Senate race. I'm looking at you, Brad. If they
don't pay by Friday, October twenty fifth, then it will
be news. Until then, it is not news. Let me
bring it. I have a perspective on this. Obviously, I
may bring in Brad mclinny, and Brad, you've been following
this story as closely as anyone. So Brad, I'll begin
with the rhetorical question, why is this news?

Speaker 35 (56:38):
Oh, hello Hoppy and hello steam releasers.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
Well, you know, the.

Speaker 35 (56:45):
Governor is prominent, and it is fair to think that
people may judge this politically. How they judge it politically
is not up to me, certainly, that's up to the
individual interpreter. Secondly, the Greenbrier is a jewel of West Virginia,
an icon. Even if you haven't stayed the night there,
you can take pride in it. Finally, this particular instance

(57:11):
that the reintroduction of a legal advertisement to say that
it is possible that the green Brier will be sold
on the courthouse steps reintroduces uncertainty. And certainly the governor
and his representatives are correct to say this is a
procedural matter. Legally, the potential auctioner of the Greenbrier would

(57:36):
have to place this kind of public notice a couple
of weeks before the auction actually occurs. On the other
side of that, though, is it is due diligence. And
I think it's self evident that it demonstrates that the
credit collection company isn't necessarily taking Justice for his word,

(57:59):
that they want a backup plan in case they don't
receive the rest of the money they By making this move,
they are saying that it's necessary just in case.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Brad, there's a disconnect here, and but I agree, obviously
there's a disconnect here between these points. One is when
the Justice family says in August, justice has already secured.
Justice has already secured the funding necessary to satisfy the

(58:37):
debt to Beltleeyh Capital, which is forty million dollars principle
and interest, and then Justice says himself at a briefing
that we acquired the funds. So if you take Justice
at his word that the financing has been secured to
pay the debt, that the funds, that they have the funds,

(59:00):
then why are we even at this point. Why is
there even this point of Beltwegh which is owed the money,
believing that it's necessary to do their due diligence and
post this legal ad that the Greenbrier could be sold
if the public promise has been Justice has the money.

(59:23):
There's a disconnect there.

Speaker 35 (59:26):
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that the Justices don't
have the money on hand. And what we interpret and
what we hear from sources close to the matter is
that the justices are seeking one loan to pay off
another loan. What the governor himself said yesterday is that

(59:47):
the Justices, who together own the Greenboro Hotel Corporation, have
paid one payment of five hundred thousand dollars half a
million dollars and then paid another of one point two
million dollars one point three million dollars. The Governor kind
of ballparked that, so all together so far have paid

(01:00:08):
a little less than two million dollars on it. On
the principle what the Governor said yesterday, what remains to
be owed is twenty two point three million dollars, you know,
still far more than what has been paid and been
made good on so far. So it's that that is
a large amount. It doesn't really appear to be secured.

(01:00:33):
To use that word. I asked the Governor about that yesterday,
because you know, I think words have meaning. We work
in words, and to me, secured means guaranteed, slam dunk,
We got it. So I asked, you know, when your
company said it was secured, did you mean right now
or you're working to secure it. The Governor took umbrage

(01:00:57):
at that, said, why should I disclose use my name?
Why should I disclose to Brad whether the amount is
secured or being secured, or more details about the Greenbrier?
He said, all I can tell you without any question
is the balance of the amount will be paid. It'll
be paid in full. But our understanding is that the
justices are are still looking for the money. Pretty good

(01:01:19):
chance that they will get it, you know, I'll give
them that, but but also uncertainty. It remains to be seen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
So what we believe to be so is that the
Justice families and discussions with Fortress Investment Group. Fortress Investment Group,
what do we know about Fortress Investment Group, And why
might that entity, which is a private equity from why
might they be interested in doing business with the Justices.

Speaker 35 (01:01:47):
Yeah, all this is over my head and over my experience.
I literally just do the bank and my four oh
one k maybe a mutual fund. So this is a
way above me. But you know, they are pros. They
are They're an enormous equity company. They are pure capitalists.
They are in the business of making money. Sometimes they

(01:02:07):
scoop up distressed assets red Lobster for example, and then
you know they expect to make money on that kind
of gamble. So the Justices would be if they were
to move forward with this hopping out of one set
of debt a credit collection company, but wouldn't be steering
clear of it. They would still owe this this other

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company that is enormous and serious.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Justice said yesterday again when you and others asked him
about it, and he tagged in as he has frequently
when this has come up. I believe without question it
meaning all this is one politically driven I have not
seen any evidence anywhere maybe you have, that this is
specifically politically driven other than I think Steven Allen Adams

(01:02:58):
raised this point. It's a good point, other than the
idea that, well, this guy may be a senator soon,
so we better try to clear all this up before
he becomes a member of the United States senator. And again,
I'm just kind of speculating wildly on that, but I
haven't seen or heard anything that suggests that some Democrat

(01:03:19):
somewhere is trying to engineer all the issues associated with
this with these bad debts.

Speaker 35 (01:03:27):
No, I mean, I think there is a political aspect
in the sense that West Virginia voters are going to
decide soon whether Jim Justice should be a US Senator,
and you know, personal character and financial habits can be
a part of that decision making. So there is that,
But whether it is a political hit job that stems

(01:03:51):
from when this was raised in August, the governor suggested
that this debt was originally held by JP Morgan Chase,
which is another financial giant. Justice had specifically suggested that
JP Morgan Chase's chief executive officer, Jamie Diamond, had orchestrated

(01:04:11):
the sale of this debt to the credit collection company
for political reasons, because and this part is true, very
well could be the tipping point of the US Senate.
That seat is held right now by former Democrat Joe Manchin,
who still caucuses with the Democrats. If it lands with

(01:04:33):
Jim Justice, it'll be a Republican seat. That's a very
narrowly constructed US Senate, essentially fifty to fifty. You know
why Jamie Diamond would necessarily be thinking of Jim Justice's race.

Speaker 23 (01:04:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 35 (01:04:48):
There's been a lot of talk about Donald Trump, friend
of Jim Justice, and the Republican nominee for president, considering
Jamie Diamond as Treasury Secretary. So I would need more
evidence to buy into that theory that it is a
political machination to get Jim Justice by JP Morgan Chase,

(01:05:09):
the former holder of this debt.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
It would be more it would be more believable or
potentially credible if this were just a one off. Okay,
if this was the first time that there had been
an issue with a default loan but there has been
a consistent pattern over Justice's business life of non payment,

(01:05:36):
slow payment, beings to default, et cetera, et cetera. So
because of that, this is not and certainly all those
weren't politically motivated. So if it was one off now
week months before the election, you might go, well, hmm,
that's kind of weird this comes up now. But the
fact that this has been a pattern, an established pattern

(01:05:57):
for years also, I think underminds the argument that it's
politically motivated, along with the fact there's really no evidence
of that. All right, Brad Mack when he met your
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Why do you not apply the same standards to Harris
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coming up in ten minutes. Ten minutes text Avy. I
think it's politically motivated in Justice's favor. He's going to
be a senator and probably a good friend of the
next president. So finance companies may be willing to work
with Justice. Yeah. I don't travel in the world of

(01:11:17):
high finance. I think mostly that finance company big finance
companies want to get paid. I strongly suspect the Wilderness
Volunteer Fire Department of Nicholas County. After Helene hint Hit
went to Tennessee, went to Jonesborough and helped with flood relief,

(01:11:39):
they're back now. Noah Allen is the fire chief of
Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department. He joins us this morning. Chief,
good morning, thank you for joining us. Were you all
called down there or did you just volunteer to go chief, Good.

Speaker 13 (01:11:51):
Morning, thanks for having me on your show. So one
of our members actually reached out to a public safety
agency in Tennessee. Like everybody else, we've seen how catastrophic
the damage was and I missing persons there was in
those hurricane areas, so we felt like we had to
do something. Back in twenty sixteen, we got hit with

(01:12:12):
major flooding in West Virginia and we had a lot
of people come up and help us out, so we
felt like we had to do something to return a
favor to them.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Well, good for you. What did you see? What did
your folks see? When you got there?

Speaker 13 (01:12:25):
It was just unreal. On the way down there, we
found out what area we're going to be into the
next week. So I started doing research on the news
and social media, and I'd seen some pictures of the
disaster area before I went down there, But when we
got there, the pictures intent that justice after seeing it

(01:12:45):
in person. There's houses completely gone, all kinds of vehicles, cars, trucks,
trackers just floating down the river, took out thousands of trees.
There's these massive debris houses everywhere down there is just
unreal how castrophic it was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
What were you all able to do while you were there?

Speaker 13 (01:13:08):
So we assisted with search and rescue. When we first
got there, there were still hundreds of people possibly missing.
The Tennessee Beer of Investigation was trying to track those
leads down. So when we first got there, there was
other agencies already doing what we call primary searches. The
Mullichucky River runs through that part of Tennessee that we

(01:13:30):
were in, and every rescue team was assigned a grid
and the zion to search. So the first couple of
days we were there, we assisted to other agencies was
searching those grids, and in the rest of our time
down there, we'd done what we call secondary search, So
we had targets of interest and other spots that we

(01:13:51):
tried to know the searches down to to try to
find some of these missing people.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Were you able to be successful and to find any
of the missing people.

Speaker 13 (01:14:02):
So our efforts assisted with the recoveries of some of
the missing persons.

Speaker 36 (01:14:07):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (01:14:08):
So we found, like I said before, these targets of interests.
So we might have a massive debris pile. Uh we
we would delayer the pile, so we would slowly take
off parts of the pile to remove it the sea
thing they was in them. And then we also had
K nine teams from all over the country there, so

(01:14:28):
we were assigned a canine team. Every day. The canine
teams would smet through the piles and then if they
smelled something of interest, we would have another canine team
come over to try to confirm it. And then afterwards
if we weren't able to take these piles apart by ourselves,
and we would ask for heavy equipment to come in later.

(01:14:50):
Pretty grim job, yeah, it was. I've never experienced the
disasters mayor before. Uh, there's just all kinds of missing
people down there, so we did what we could do.
We want to help provide closure to the families of
the missing persons down there, so we did. We played

(01:15:11):
our small role in it our last two days. We
spent our last two days there looking for one missing
person in particulars ain't a Steve Kloyd, and I was
hoping that we would be able to find him before
we left, but we searched vyler we could and I
just checked the local news this morning before I come

(01:15:34):
on here for the interview, and he's still missing. So
I'm really hoping that they can find him sometimes saying
to get pleasure to the family.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
M M, my goodness, Well, props do you all for
going there and stepping up. And again, I think because
you all and others in West Virginia been involved in
flood recovery, you know what it's like and what it
means to those folks to show up there, So good
for you all to do.

Speaker 13 (01:15:59):
That is it's just an unreal experience out in my
house to describe it. Everybody has asked me this week
about what it was like down there. I just keep
using the word unreal. It is absolutely catastrophic the of
the damage down there, and it's just something that you
have to see in person to be able to appreciate
and understand what's going on down there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Well, you sent us some pictures. We've been showing those
on our video stream here and they're just it's just
as you said, you really have to see the pictures
if you're not able to see it in person. Noah Allen,
Fire Chief of the Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department, Nicholas County
team from the fire department went into Tennessee in the
Jonesboro area and helped with the recovery efforts following Hurricane Colleen,

(01:16:44):
Helene Chief, just props to you all and your team
and glad you're back safe and appreciate what you all did.
And I know the folks there did too, so thank
you so much. Thank you all right, Yeah, West folks
in West Virginia know what it's like and uh they've
seen it, so good for them for helping out. Wait

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West Virginia Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence in Nicholas County.
The school board is moving students from Cherry River Elementary
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Since they can get in, they'll be able to get
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Brian said.

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The Panther Creek School, which is about twelve miles away,
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It's Friday, eleven thirty three. It's time for ye old
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I want you to get up now. I want all
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Your head out and yell.

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Take this anymore, folks. I know the steam builds up.
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So that's my metaphor. And uh, we're like this, I
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four talks three or four, keep it tight in all instances,
and I'll get to as many as I can. Let's
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lead off Hitter, what's your steam? John?

Speaker 38 (01:23:00):
Good morning?

Speaker 16 (01:23:00):
Hop the legislator who is also a teacher, who called
very concerned about as well she is, and other state
employees of which I am one, are also. But my
recollection is that Governor Justice a number of years ago
put together a Blue Ribbon task force or a Blue

(01:23:23):
Ribbon commission, one of those blue ribbon things that he
was quite fond of, to find a funding source for PEIA.
My recollection is that that group either never met or
met once but never again. Maybe he didn't pay the
bill on the blue ribbons.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Hoppy got it, John, you got your steam on Let's
go to Tammy. Hi, Tammy, what's your steam?

Speaker 17 (01:23:49):
Hi?

Speaker 9 (01:23:49):
My steam is about childcare. Child Care funding for our
providers and families is very important so families continue to work.
I've owned my own daycare facility for twelve years. Within
the past two years, I've been forced to get two
other jobs to meeke ends meet for my facility and
to meet my payroll for my staff.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
Got it. Thanks. Let's go to Harold. Hi, Harold, thanks
for calling. What's your steam? Harold?

Speaker 38 (01:24:15):
I have a message for those that are transit just
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daughter's locker room while she's there, you're better have that
transition completed, or my friends and I are gonna hunt
you down and do it for you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
Let's go to Tom. Hello, Tom in Randolph County. What's
your steam? Tom?

Speaker 36 (01:24:38):
Hop?

Speaker 28 (01:24:39):
When you were interviewing some of your friends of color,
like the gentleman you had on yesterday, I'd like for
you to ask them two questions. First, what has the
Democratic Party done for you? Is it the fact that
they freed the slaves all wait that was leaking in
the Republicans? Is it because the opposed to KKK no
the Democrats were the KKK. Is it the fact that

(01:24:59):
they passed the Civil Rights Bill in sixty four? No,
I think the Democrats far hardly against that. Now that
we have destroyed the number of statues, removed names from
syrup bottles and pancake mixes, and change the names from
sports teams, I'd like to ask the second question for
you or anyone, how has your life improved? I'll wait,
got it?

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I guess the MAGA cult does support suppression of free speech,
says the texture Hoppy. This is Grace from Wheeling. Just
wanted to say that forty cents a week and tax
credits won't help when childcare costs more than a year
at WVU. Text team leaders do not mislead Texter, says

(01:26:03):
Donald Trump continues to give false and misleading information about
femas preparations for and response to hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Governors in the affected states have praised the bid administration's
responds to these two almost back to back hurricanes. Says
the Texter text team Hoppy Maga. People need to buy
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Speaker 39 (01:27:02):
Hiopey Hi. The past couple of years, you've vowed not
to use the term existential, and you were very true
to that. Then you vowed not to use the term
game changer, and you've been very true to that. Please
add to the list I get it. We til it.
I get it. Other than that you've done a great job, because.

Speaker 38 (01:27:24):
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Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
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to Donald. Hello, Donald, what's your steam?

Speaker 40 (01:27:34):
Yes, I'd like to talk about childcare. I believe childcare
can be solved by promoting traditional homes with the husband
going off to work and the wife's staying home to
be a homemaker and to raise the children. The government
needs to recognize this. Now natural law, moral law, God's

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three a crime, divorce a crime, remarriage after divorce a crime,
same sex marriage a crime. Allowing women to vote is
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office that involves ruling over men is also a crime.
I also believe Donald Trump is much better than Kamala Harris.

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Rolling along on Steam release with you at one eight
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seven sixty five THLK text me three or four, talk
three or four back to the phones. Hi, Jennifer, thanks
for calling. What is your Steam?

Speaker 42 (01:33:05):
Hi?

Speaker 43 (01:33:05):
Hoppy?

Speaker 18 (01:33:06):
Hi?

Speaker 43 (01:33:06):
So what aggrevates me is that a handful of legislators
said that a two hundred dollars childcare tax credit incentivises
women to go to work. Do they not realize that
in the current economic climate, it takes both parents working
to make ends meet.

Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
Jennifer, you got your steam on. You'll have a good weekend.
Let's go to Mariah in Wheeling. Hello, Mariah, what's your steam?

Speaker 9 (01:33:28):
Hi there?

Speaker 44 (01:33:29):
My steam is the same as Jennifer is.

Speaker 21 (01:33:31):
But the fact that our state.

Speaker 44 (01:33:33):
Is not recognizing the value of childcare providers and who
were the ones that were there on the front line
when our state was shut down for a pandemic. Those
childcare providers were the first ones there to make sure
that our children had a safe place this day, every day,
and wanting we need to have those childcare providers and
our family supported.

Speaker 1 (01:33:51):
You got it. You got your steam on a lot
of childcare steam today. Here's another one, Hoppy. My frustrations
with Governor Justice his response to childcare. We've told him
what will help, and he refuses to listen. He said
this week that he would do something when it becomes important. Really,
is he living under a rock? Stop kicking the can, Governor.
We know you care about children. It's time to show it,

(01:34:12):
says Christy. Let's go to Paul. Hi, Paul, what's your steam?

Speaker 45 (01:34:17):
My steam is about the entities that want to do
away with our nation state that so many have sacrifice for.
You got the global economic oligarchs that want the one
world government used in the Commune's Chinese. And you got
the Vatican who is getting hundreds of millions of dollars
by flooding our southern border with you know, their voters,
at most all in the Central America Catholics, and I

(01:34:38):
would point out that the Vatican was responsible a lot
for the ratline that sent the Nazis to South America,
which is where now the next generations are coming from.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
Thank you, You're welcome, Paul. You got your team on full.
Lines are open at one one hundred and seven sixty
five eight two five five, Text to meet, three oh four,
talk three oh four. Let me do some text teams.
Happy you Your experts said JD. Vance was the worst
vice presidential selection of all time. You guys had a
big laugh. Who's laughing now, says Todd in inwood text.

(01:35:14):
Justice will pay all his bills after he becomes a senator.
They'll all mysteriously become super rich fast. Hang in there, Justice,
You're almost there, Hobby. Why would anyone want to be
a teacher? No respect, low pay? The best reason for
career in teaching was the benefits. Now that's not the case.

(01:35:34):
It's like we're trying to be the worst in everything
in our state, Hobby. I'm sick and tired of hearing
about the greenbriar. Sell the dang thing, and let's get
some real news on the air. Jim Justice has got
to be the poorest billionaire I've ever heard of. I
wish I had someone else to vote for, says the Texter.

(01:35:59):
I'll be any on the opioid settlement money text team
for all my West Virginia friends. If you wonder whether
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a son. Mary the mother was pregnant with Jesus. Thank you,

(01:36:19):
says the Texter. I think the punishment is too harsh
for football players who are charged with unintentional charging. Sitting
out the half in which the penalty occurred is plenty
not the whole game. I'm not sure they meant charging
mightavnant targeting man. I just want to say I'm proud

(01:36:41):
of the people of West Virginia. I don't really have
a something, but they go multiple times trips down state
to help the hurricane victims with donations. I just want
to give a shout out to West Virginians. I love
this place. Go Trump. Either you love him or you
hate him, but he is better than what we have now,

(01:37:02):
says the text. Let's go back to the phones and Weston. Hello, Tim,
what's your steam? Tim?

Speaker 46 (01:37:09):
Thanks for having me, hop my steam is there are
some bills that have just been signed to spend millions
and billions across the Atlantic Ocean to other countries. When
we have people that are hurting in our country, in
North Carolina and down in Florida and on the East Coast,
and we need to take care of our residents. We

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need to take care of our people, and that also includes.

Speaker 16 (01:37:32):
Our homeless veterans.

Speaker 36 (01:37:34):
Come on, government, get.

Speaker 46 (01:37:35):
With it and take care of the people, because those
are the ones that voted for you. If not vote
them out on election day.

Speaker 1 (01:37:42):
Thanks hop You're welcome. Hello Larry in Lumberport, Larry, what's
your steam?

Speaker 17 (01:37:50):
Sarah?

Speaker 36 (01:37:50):
I thank, y'all need to be voting for the party
that controls the hurricanes. Vote down or else. The hurricanes
are common.

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
Got it? Jim your next? Hi, Jim, what's your steam?

Speaker 36 (01:38:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 47 (01:38:07):
Hop uh?

Speaker 26 (01:38:08):
You know?

Speaker 47 (01:38:08):
Inflation is skyrocket under Baden and Kamala Harris watched and
if they have a plan to reduce prices, they haven't
told us. I don't think they plan to reduce prices.
Second thing, Kamala Harris run to make sit on TV
during it to bagatate events. It was okay for social
media companies to center US citizens. That is not acceptable.

(01:38:32):
It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:38:33):
Got it? Thank you, sir tech Steamy, I've reached researched
history to find out how a country could lose their democracy. Answer,
give one person too much power? Abby? What is it
with these right wingers saying people are eating cats and dogs?
The government is controlling the weather. I thought God controlled
the weather. Trump is the second coming of Christ Christians

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bowing to golden statue of Trump. What Bible are they reading?
I guess the Trump Bible, says the text text Team
Trump wins West Virginia two thousand childcare subsidies will probably
expire in December. Justice at Wednesday that when they think

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childcare is a real problem and it warrants absolute consideration,
we'll do something about it. So instead he wants to
send twenty million dollars to account Lilifornia based company to
what's already done here. Stop kicking working families down the road,
says the Texture Hobby. Jim Justice's enormous debt makes him

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a liability in the US Senate. He is compromised, and
that is an understatement, Hobby. Do you think Morgantown could
handle two thousand Haitian squatters? Any room at your house?
It's all there, voodoo, bad drivers, age and crime. Be compassionate, man,
and that beautiful French language, says the texture Hoppy. My

(01:40:01):
hope is that Steam Release does not listened to by
anyone looking to locate in West Virginia. I was going
to argue that you can't have a traditional marriage when
it takes two incomes to pay taxes and make a living,
but then he went full crazy theocratic authoritarian honess. All right,

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in Weird and Hi, Tiffany, what is your steam.

Speaker 42 (01:45:07):
Hi Happy's thirty seven percent of families in West Virginia
live in single parent household and so if the West
Virginia legislature wants those parents to stay at home with
their children instead of fun childcare, then we need to
be helping those parents quit the workforce and stay at
home with their children.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
Got it, Thank you, Text Team Hoppy. The guy who
said women voting as a crime is totally out to lunch.
To put it politely, Christianity, of all major religions, has
done more to treat women with dignity than any other religion,
says the texture. That's a big, big long when that's

(01:45:45):
I'm sorting through her ip. You tell the guy that
said women should stay home and women shouldn't vote in
adultery that it goes against the Bible that in Trump,
he's supporting a twice divorced adulterer who is a cheater, liar,
and the snake oil salesman taken advantage of his fellow
man his entire life. Open your eyes, says the Texter Habi.

(01:46:07):
When President Trump went to Arlington National Cemetery to one
of the fallen soldiers lost in Afghanistan, a caller asked
why he was there and had done nothing for them,
You stated because it looked good. Will you now apologize
after warning? The families invited him and he honored them. Habi,

(01:46:28):
I think the last male caller misspoke. I think he
was reading the King Trump version of the Bible text. Team.
It's not the state or anybody in society to take
care of anybody's kids. It's one hundred percent the parents
only to provide for them. If you can't afford them,

(01:46:51):
then abstinence works every time it is tried, says the
Texter Steam. Which real billionaire will bail Governor Justice out
of this Greenbrier Hotel financial nightmare? Sorry we did not
get to all the steams. It always works out that way,
but appreciate everybody who did. Thanks for listening this week.

(01:47:12):
Remember we will join you for pregame coverage of West
Virginia and Iowa Stay beginning at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Until then, be safe, We'll see you then. This has
been talk Line on Metro News, The Voice of West
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